Search Results - "ZHI-XUN SHEN"
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Role of the orbital degree of freedom in iron-based superconductors
Published in npj quantum materials (18-10-2017)“…Almost a decade has passed since the serendipitous discovery of the iron-based high temperature superconductors (FeSCs) in 2008. The fact that, as in the…”
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Strong correlations and orbital texture in single-layer 1T-TaSe2
Published in Nature physics (01-02-2020)“…Strong electron correlation can induce Mott insulating behaviour and produce intriguing states of matter such as unconventional superconductivity and quantum…”
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Strongly Cavity-Enhanced Spontaneous Emission from Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Published in Nano letters (14-02-2018)“…Quantum emitters are an integral component for a broad range of quantum technologies, including quantum communication, quantum repeaters, and linear optical…”
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Mobile metallic domain walls in an all-in-all-out magnetic insulator
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (30-10-2015)“…Magnetic domain walls are boundaries between regions with different configurations of the same magnetic order. In a magnetic insulator, where the magnetic…”
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Synergistic enhancement of electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to C2 oxygenates at nitrogen-doped nanodiamonds/Cu interface
Published in Nature nanotechnology (01-02-2020)“…To date, effective control over the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 to multicarbon products (C ≥ 2) has been very challenging. Here, we report a design…”
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Giant bandgap renormalization and excitonic effects in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductor
Published in Nature materials (01-12-2014)“…Transition metal dichalcogenides are attracting widespread attention for their appealing optoelectronic properties. Using a combination of numerical and…”
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Incoherent strange metal sharply bounded by a critical doping in Bi2212
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (29-11-2019)“…In normal metals, macroscopic properties are understood using the concept of quasiparticles. In the cuprate high-temperature superconductors, the metallic…”
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Electronic Structure, Surface Doping, and Optical Response in Epitaxial WSe2 Thin Films
Published in Nano letters (13-04-2016)“…High quality WSe2 films have been grown on bilayer graphene (BLG) with layer-by-layer control of thickness using molecular beam epitaxy. The combination of…”
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Evidence for quantum spin liquid behaviour in single-layer 1T-TaSe2 from scanning tunnelling microscopy
Published in Nature physics (01-10-2021)“…Two-dimensional triangular-lattice antiferromagnets are predicted under some conditions to exhibit a quantum spin liquid ground state with no energy barrier to…”
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Characterization of collective ground states in single-layer NbSe2
Published in Nature physics (02-11-2015)“…Layered transition metal dichalcogenides are ideal systems for exploring the effects of dimensionality on correlated electronic phases such as charge density…”
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Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2
Published in Nature nanotechnology (01-02-2014)“…Quantum systems in confined geometries are host to novel physical phenomena. Examples include quantum Hall systems in semiconductors 1 and Dirac electrons in…”
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Spin-polarized surface resonances accompanying topological surface state formation
Published in Nature communications (14-10-2016)“…Topological insulators host spin-polarized surface states born out of the energetic inversion of bulk bands driven by the spin-orbit interaction. Here we…”
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Modification of Transition-Metal Redox by Interstitial Water in Hexacyanometalate Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries
Published in Journal of the American Chemical Society (20-12-2017)“…A sodium-ion battery (SIB) solution is attractive for grid-scale electrical energy storage. Low-cost hexacyanometalate is a promising electrode material for…”
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Fast vacancy-mediated oxygen ion incorporation across the ceria–gas electrochemical interface
Published in Nature communications (09-07-2014)“…Electrochemical incorporation reactions are ubiquitous in energy storage and conversion devices based on mixed ionic and electronic conductors, such as…”
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Visualization of an axion insulating state at the transition between 2 chiral quantum anomalous Hall states
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (16-07-2019)“…Quantum-relativistic materials often host electronic phenomena with exotic spatial distributions. In particular, quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators…”
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Observation of topologically protected states at crystalline phase boundaries in single-layer WSe2
Published in Nature communications (24-08-2018)“…Transition metal dichalcogenide materials are unique in the wide variety of structural and electronic phases they exhibit in the two-dimensional limit. Here we…”
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Traces of electron-phonon coupling in one-dimensional cuprates
Published in Nature communications (30-05-2023)“…The appearance of certain spectral features in one-dimensional (1D) cuprate materials has been attributed to a strong, extended attractive coupling between…”
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Generation of Tin-Vacancy Centers in Diamond via Shallow Ion Implantation and Subsequent Diamond Overgrowth
Published in Nano letters (11-03-2020)“…Group IV color centers in diamond have garnered great interest for their potential as optically active solid-state spin qubits. The future utilization of such…”
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Cavity-Enhanced Raman Emission from a Single Color Center in a Solid
Published in Physical review letters (21-08-2018)“…We demonstrate cavity-enhanced Raman emission from a single atomic defect in a solid. Our platform is a single silicon-vacancy center in diamond coupled with a…”
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Unexpected edge conduction in mercury telluride quantum wells under broken time-reversal symmetry
Published in Nature communications (26-05-2015)“…The realization of quantum spin Hall effect in HgTe quantum wells is considered a milestone in the discovery of topological insulators. Quantum spin Hall…”
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