The expanding world of topological ferroelectrics
In this issue we present three papers on the topological properties or structure of ferroelectrics, which are interlinked.…
Competition between excitonic insulators and quantum Hall states in correlated electron–hole bilayers
Zeng, Y. & MacDonald, A. H. Electrically controlled two-dimensional electron-hole fluids. Phys. Rev. B 102, 085154 (2020). CAS …
Quantum oscillations in a dipolar excitonic insulator
Li, G. et al. Two-dimensional Fermi surfaces in Kondo insulator SmB6. Science 346, 1208–1212 (2014). PubMed CAS Google…
Spin-orbit coupling in van der Waals materials for optical vortex generation
Figure 1a schematically illustrates the creation of optical vortices via spin-orbit coupling in the hBN crystal. As shown…
Unconventional scaling of the orbital Hall effect
Manchon, A. et al. Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems. Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 035004 (2019).…
Flatland wakes based on leaky hyperbolic polaritons
Zhang, Q. et al. Interface nano-optics with van der Waals polaritons. Nature 597, 187–195 (2021). CAS PubMed Google…
Observation of non-Hermitian topology from optical loss modulation
Ozawa, T. et al. Topological photonics. Rev. Mod. Phys. 91, 015006 (2019). CAS Google Scholar Price, H. et…
Exploiting strained epitaxial germanium for scaling low-noise spin qubits at the micrometre scale
Heterostructure growth The Ge/SiGe heterostructure material is grown using reduced-pressure chemical vapour deposition in an ASMI Epsilon 2000…
A Hall lot of effects
The Hall effect has been a powerful probe of the physics of materials for more than a century.…
Materials design and integration strategies for soft bioelectronics in digital healthcare
Park, S., Garcia-Palacios, J., Cohen, A. & Varga, Z. From treatment to prevention: the evolution of digital healthcare.…