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IRG 2: Layered Quantum Materials

IRG 2 is creating and studying new forms of quantum matter in atomically layered materials and controlling novel topological and excitonic phase transitions within these materials, with potentially disruptive impact on energy and information technologies.

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  1. Chirality selective magnon-phonon hybridization and magnon-induced chiral phonons in an atomically thin antiferromagnet

    Cui, Jun; Boström, Emil Viñas; Ozerov, Mykhaylo; Wu, Fangliang; jiang, Qianni; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Li, Changcun; Liu, Fucai; Xu, Xiaodongl Rubio, Angel; Zhang, Qi
  2. Anomalous Second Harmonic Generation from Atomically Thin MnBi2Te4

    Jordan Fonseca, Geoffrey M. Diederich, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Jiaqi Cai, Chong Wang, Jiaqiang Yan, Di Xiao, and Xiaodong Xu
  3. Microwave response of type-II superconductors at weak pinning

    B. V. Pashinsky, M. V. Feigel'man, A. V. Andreev
  4. Every-other-layer Dipolar Excitons in a Spin-Valley locked Superlattice

    Yinong Zhang, Chengxin Xiao, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Jiayi Zhu, Xi Wang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu
  5. Spectroscopic evidence of flat bands in breathing kagome semiconductor Nb3I8

    Sabin Regmi, Tharindu Warnakulasooriya Fernando, Yuzhou Zhao, Anup Pradhan Sakhya, Gyanendra Dhakal, Iftakhar Bin Elius, Hector Vazquez, Jonathan D Denlinger, Jihui Yang, Jiun-Haw Chu, Xiaodong Xu, Ting Cao, Madhab Neupane
  6. Hydrodynamic magnetoresistance in graphene Corbino devices

    Alex Levchenko, Songci Li, and A. V. Andreev
  7. Dynamical criticality of spin-shear coupling in van der Waals antiferromagnets

    Zhou, Faran; Hwangbo, Kyle; Zhang, Qi; Wang, Chong; Shen, Lingnan; Zhang, Jiawei; Jiang, Qianni; Zong, Alfred; Su, Yifan; Zajac, Marc; Ahn, Youngjun; Walko, Donald A.; Schaller, Richard D.; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Gedik, Nuh; Xu, Xiaodong; Xiao, Di; and Wen, Haidan
  8. Topological current divider in a Chern insulator junction

    Ovchinnikov, Dmitry; Cai, Jiaqi; Lin, Zhong; Fei, Zaiyao; Liu, Zhaoyu; Cui, Yong-Tao; Cobden, David H.; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Chang, Cui-Zu; Xiao, Di; Yan, Jiaqiang; and Xu, Xiaodong
  9. Gate-Tunable Proximity Effects in Graphene on Layered Magnetic Insulators

    Tseng, Chun-Chih; Song, Tiancheng; Jiang, Qianni; Lin, Zhong; Wang, Chong; Suh, Jaehyun; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; McGuire, Michael A.; Xiao, Di; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Cobden, David H.; Xu, Xiaodong; Yankowitz, Matthew
  10. Understanding External Pressure Effects and Interlayer Orbital Exchange Pathways in the Two-Dimensional Magnet─Chromium Triiodide

    Beck, Ryan A.; Sun, Shichao; Xu, Xiaodong; Gamelin, Daniel R.; Cao, Ting; and Li, Xiaosong
  11. Light-Induced Ferromagnetism in Moiré Superlattices

    Wang, X.; Xiao, C.; Park, H.; Zhu, J.; Wang, C.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Yan, J.; Xiao, D.; Gamelin, D. R.; Yao, W.; Xu, X.
  12. Electric control of a canted-antiferromagnetic Chern insulator

    Cai, Jiaqi: Ovchinnikov, Dmitry: Fei, Zaiyao; He, Minhao; Song, Tiancheng; Lin, Zhong; Wang, Chong; Cobden, David; Chu, Jiun-Haw; Cui, Yong-Tao; Chang, Cui-Zu; Xiao, Di; Yan, Jiaqiang; Xu, Xiaodong
  13. Surface photogalvanic effect in Weyl semimetals

    Steiner, J. F.; Andreev, A. V.; Breitkreiz, M.
  14. Long-range transport of 2D excitons with acoustic waves

    Peng, Ruoming; Ripin, Adina; Ye, Yusen; Zhu, Jiayi; Wu, Changming; Lee, Seokhyeong; Li, Huan; Taniguchi, Takashi; Watanabe, Kenji; Cao, Ting; Xu, Xiaodong; Li, Mo
  15. Hydrodynamic thermoelectric transport in Corbino geometry

    Li, Songci; Levchenko, Alex; Andreev, A., V.
  16. Defect Induced Magnetic Skyrmion in Two-Dimensional Chromium Tri-Iodide Monolayer

    Beck, Ryan. B.; Lu, Lixin.; Sushko, Peter. V.; Xu, Xiaodong.; Li, Xiaosong.
  17. Hydrodynamic electron transport in graphene Hall-bar devices

    Songci Li, A. V. Andreev, Alex Levchenko
  18. Correlation-driven electronic reconstruction in FeTe1−xSex

    Jianwei Huang, Rong Yu, Zhijun Xu, Jian-Xin Zhu, Ji Seop Oh, Qianni Jiang, Meng Wang, Han Wu, Tong Chen, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Sung-Kwan Mo, Makoto Hashimoto, Matteo Michiardi, Tor M. Pedersen, Sergey Gorovikov, Sergey Zhdanovich, Andrea Damascelli, Genda Gu, Pengcheng Dai, Jiun-Haw Chu, Donghui Lu, Qimiao Si, Robert J. Birgeneau & Ming Yi
  19. Reversible strain-induced magnetic phase transition in a van der Waals magnet

    John Cenker, Shivesh Sivakumar, Kaichen Xie, Aaron Miller, Pearl Thijssen, Zhaoyu Liu, Avalon Dismukes, Jordan Fonseca, Eric Anderson, Xiaoyang Zhu, Xavier Roy, Di Xiao, Jiun-Haw Chu, Ting Cao & Xiaodong Xu
  20. Evidence for equilibrium exciton condensation in monolayer WTe2

    Bosong Sun, Wenjin Zhao, Tauno Palomaki, Zaiyao Fei, Elliott Runburg, Paul Malinowski, Xiong Huang, John Cenker, Yong-Tao Cui, Jiun-Haw Chu, Xiaodong Xu, S. Samaneh Ataei, Daniele Varsano, Maurizia Palummo, Elisa Molinari, Massimo Rontani, David H. Cobden
  21. Direct visualization of magnetic domains and moire magnetism in twisted 2D magnets

    Song, Tiancheng; Sun, Qi-Chao; Anderson, Eric; Wang, Chong; Qian, Jimin; Taniguchi, Takashi; Watanabe, Kenji; McGuire, Michael A.; Stohr, Rainer; Xiao, Di; Cao, Ting; Wrachtrup, Jorg; Xu, Xiaodong
  22. The transport–structural correspondence across the nematic phase transition probed by elasto X-ray diffraction

    Joshua J. Sanchez, Paul Malinowski, Joshua Mutch, Jian Liu, J.-W. Kim, Philip J. Ryan & Jiun-Haw Chu
  23. Chirality-dependent topological states in twisted double bilayer graphene

    He, M.; Cai, J.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Li, Y.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Cobden, D. H.; Yankowitz, M.; Xu, X.
  24. Strongly anisotropic antiferromagnetic coupling in EuFe2As2 revealed by stress detwinning

    Sanchez, Joshua J.; Fabbris, Gilberto; Choi, Yongseong; Shi, Yue; Malinowski, Paul; Pandey, Shashi; Liu, Jian; Mazin, I. I.; Kim, Jong-Woo; Ryan, Philip; Chu, Jiun-Haw
  25. Observation of Giant Optical Linear Dichroism in a Zigzag Antiferromagnet FePS3

    Qi Zhang, Kyle Hwangbo, Chong Wang, Qianni Jiang, Jiun-Haw Chu, Haidan Wen, Di Xiao, and Xiaodong Xu
  26. Determination of the Spin Axis in Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Candidate Monolayer WTe2

    Zhao, Wenjin; Runburg, Elliott; Fei, Zaiyao; Mutch, Joshua; Malinowski, Paul; Sun, Bosong; Huang, Xiong; Pesin, Dmytro; Cui, Yong-Tao; Xu, Xiaodong; Chu, Jiun-Haw; and Cobden, David H
  27. Spin photovoltaic effect in magnetic van der Waals heterostructures

    T. Song, E. Anderson, M. Wei-Yuan T, K. Seyler, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. A. McGuire, X. Li, T. Cao, D. Xiao, W. Yao, X. Xu
  28. Giant magnetoconductivity in noncentrosymmetric superconductors

    M. Smith, A. V. Andreev, and B. Z. Spivak
  29. Moiré Trions in MoSe2/WSe2 Heterobilayers

    Xi Wang, Jiayi Zhu, Kyle L. Seyler, Pasqual Rivera, Huiyuan Zheng, Yingqi Wang, Minhao He, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Daniel R. Gamelin, Wang Yao, Xiaodong Xu
  30. Defect-Induced Magnetic Skyrmion in a Two-Dimensional Chromium Tri-Iodide Monolayer

    Ryan A. Beck, Lixin Lu, Peter V. Sushko, Xiaodong Xu, Xiaosong Li
  31. Anomaly-Induced sound Absorption in Weyl Semimetals

    Ohad Antebi, D. A. Pesin, A. V. Andreev, Roni Ilan
  32. Unraveling Strain Gradient Induced Electromechanical Coupling in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene Moiré Superlattices

    Li, Y., Wang, X., Tang, D., Wang, X., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Gamelin, D. R., Cobden, D. H., Yankowitz, M., Xu, X., Li, J.
  33. Magnetic Domains and Domain Wall Pinning in Atomically Thin CrBr3 Revealed by Nanoscale Imaging

    Qi-Chao Sun, Tiancheng Song, Eric Anderson, Andreas Brunner, Johannes Förster, Tetyana Shalomayeva, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Joachim Gräfe, Rainer Stöhr, Xiaodong Xu & Jörg Wrachtrup
  34. Imaging Graphene Moiré Superlattices via Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy

    Junxi Yu, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Yuhao Li, Kaichen Xie, Jiangyu Li, Ting Cao, Xiaodong Xu, and David S. Ginger
  35. Intertwined Topological and Magnetic Orders in Atomically Thin Chern Insulator MnBi2Te4

    Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Xiong Huang, Zhong Lin, Zaiyao Fei, Jiaqi Cai, Tiancheng Song, Minhao He, Qianni Jiang, Chong Wang, Hao Li, Yayu Wang, Yang Wu, Di Xiao, Jiun-Haw Chu, Jiaqiang Yan, Cui-Zu Chang, Yong-Tao Cui, Xiaodong Xu
  36. Highly Anisotropic Excitons and Multiple Phonon Bound States in a Van der Waals Antiferromagnetic Insulator.

    Kyle Hwangbo, Qi Zhang, Qianni Jiang, Yong Wang, Jordan Fonseca, Chong Wang, Geoffrey M. Diederich, Daniel R. Gamelin, Di Xiao, Jiun-Haw Chu, Wang Yao & Xiaodong Xu
  37. Bismuth-doping Alters Structural Phase Transitions in Methylammonium Lead Tribromide Single Crystals

    Erin Jedlicka, Jian Wang, Joshua Mutch, Young-Kwang Jung, Preston Went, Joseph Mohammed, Mark Ziffer, Rajiv Giridharagopal, Aron Walsh, Jiun-Haw Chu, and David S. Ginger
  38. Surface Modification of Black Phosphorus with Group 13 Lewis Acids for Ambient Protection and Electronic Tuning

    Daniel Tofan, Yukako Sakazaki, Kendahl Walz Mitra, Ruoming Peng, Seokhyeong Lee, Mo Li, Alexandra Velian
  39. Competing Correlated States and Abundant Orbital Magnetism in Twisted Monolayer-Bilayer Graphene

    Minhao He, Ya-Hui Zhang, Yuhao Li, Zaiyao Fei, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz
  40. Imaging Topological Spin Structures Using Light-Polarization and Magnetic Microscopy

    Till Lenz, Georgios Chatzidrosos, Zhiyuan Wang, Lykourgos Bougas, Yannick Dumeige, Arne Wickenbrock, Nico Kerber, Jakub Zázvorka, Fabian Kammerbauer, Mathias Kläui, Zeeshawn Kazi, Kai-Mei C. Fu, Kohei M. Itoh, Hideyuki Watanabe, and Dmitry Budker
  41. Experimental Measurement of the Intrinsic Excitonic Wavefunction

    Michael K. L. Man, Julien Madéo, Chakradhar Sahoo, Kaichen Xie, Marshall Campbell, Vivek Pareek, Arka Karmakar, E Laine Wong, Abdullah Al-Mahboob, Nicholas S. Chan, David R. Bacon, Xing Zhu, Mohamed Abdelrasoul, Xiaoquin Li, Tony F. Heinz, Felipe H. da Jornada, Ting Cao, Keshav M. Dani
  42. Surface Functionalization of Black Phosphorus with Nitrenes: Identification of P=N Bonds Using Isotopic Labeling

    Kendahl Walz Mitra, Christine H. Chang, Michael P. Hanrahan, Jiaying Yang, Daniel Tofan, William M. Holden, Niranjan Govind, Gerald Seidler, Aaron J. Rossini, Alexandra Velian
  43. Directly Visualizing the Momentum-Forbidden Dark Excitons and Their Dynamics in Atomically Thin Semiconductors

    Julien Madéo, Michael K. L. Man, Chakradhar Sahoo, Marshall Campbell, Vivek Pareek, E. Laine Wong, Abdullah Al-Mahboob, Nicholas S. Chan, Arka Karmakar, Bala Murali Krishna Mariserla, Xiaoqin Li, Tony F. Heinz, Ting Cao, Keshav M. Dani
  44. Conductivity of Superconductors in the Flux Flow Regime

    M. Smith, A. V. Andreev, M. V. Feigel’man, B. Z. Spivak
  45. Electrically Tunable Correlated and Topological States in Twisted Monolayer-Bilayer Graphene

    Shaowen Chen, Minhao He, Ya-Hui Zhang, Valerie Hsieh, Zaiyao Fei, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, David H. Cobden, Xiaodong Xu, Cory R. Dean & Matthew Yankowitz
  46. Symmetry Breaking in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

    Minhao He, Yuhao Li, Jiaqi Cai, Yang Liu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Xiaodong Xu, Matthew Yankowitz
  47. Hydrodynamic Electron Transport Near Charge Neutrality

    Songci Li, Alex Levchenko, and A. V. Andreev
  48. Suppression of Superconductivity by Anisotropic Strain near a Nematic Quantum Critical Point

    Paul Malinowski, Qianni Jiang, Joshua J. Sanchez, Joshua Mutch, Zhaoyu Liu, Preston Went, Jian Liu, Philip J. Ryan, Jong-Woo Kim & Jiun-Haw Chu
  49. Hierarchical Nanosheets Built from Superatomic Clusters: Properties, Exfoliation and Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Intercalation

    Jonathan A. Kephart, Catherine G. Romero, Chun-Chih Tseng, Kevin J. Anderton, Matthew Yankowitz, Werner Kaminsky and Alexandra Velian
  50. Nematic Fluctuations in an Orbital Selective Superconductor Fe1+yTe1−xSex

    Qianni Jiang, Yue Shi, Morten H. Christensen, Joshua Sanchez, Bevin Huang, Zhong Lin, Zhaoyu Liu, Paul Malinowski, Xiaodong Xu, Rafael M. Fernandes, Jiun-Haw Chu
  51. The Spontaneous Elastoresistivity Coefficient within the Nematic Ordered Phase of Iron Pnictides

    J. J Sanchez, P. Malinowski, J. Mutch, J. Liu, J-W. Kim, P. J. Ryan, J.-H. Chu
  52. Metasurface Integrated Monolayer Exciton Polariton

    Yueyang Chen, Shengnan Miao, Tianmeng Wang, Ding Zhong, Abhi Saxena, Colin Chow, James Whitehead, Dario Gerace, Xiaodong Xu, Su-Fei Shi, and Arka Majumdar
  53. Signature for Non-Stoner Ferromagnetism in the van der Waals Ferromagnet Fe3GeTe2

    X. Xu, Y. W. Li, S. R. Duan, S. L. Zhang, Y. J. Chen, L. Kang, A. J. Liang, C. Chen, W. Xia, Y. Xu, P. Malinowski, X. D. Xu, J.-H. Chu, G. Li, Y. F. Guo, Z. K. Liu, L. X. Yang, and Y. L. Chen
  54. Microscopic Model of Stacking-Fault Potential and Exciton Wave Function in GaAs

    Durnev, M.; Glazov M. M.; Linpeng X.; Viitaniemi M. L. K.; Matthews B.; Spurgeon S. R.; Sushko P. V.; Wieck A. D.; Ludwig A.; Fu K.-M. C.
  55. Magnetic Proximity and Nonreciprocal Current Switching in a Monolayer WTe2 Helical Edge

    Zhao, W.; Fei, Z.; Song, T.; Choi, H. K.; Palomaki, T.; Sun, B.; Malinowski, P.; McGuire, A. M.; Chu, J.-H.; Xu, X.; Cobden, D. C.
  56. Apparatus Design for Measuring of the Strain Dependence of the Seebeck Coefficient of Single Crystals

    Qian, T.; Mutch, J.; Wu, L.; Went, P.; Jiang, Q.; Malinowski, P.; Yang, J.; Chu, J.-H.
  57. Valley Phonons and Exciton Complexes in a Monolayer Semiconductor

    He, M.; Rivera, P.; Tuan, D. V.; Wilson, N. P.; Yang, M.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Yan, J.; Mandrus, D. G.; Yu, H.; Dery, H.; Yao, W.; Xu, X.
  58. Coupling of Photonic Crystal Cavity and Interlayer Exciton in 2D Heterobilayer

    Rivera, P.; Fryett, T. K.; Chen, Y.; Liu, C-H.; Ray, E.; Hatami, F.; Yan, J.; Mandrus, D.; Yao, W.; Majumdar, A.; Xu, X.
  59. Switching 2D Magnetic States via Pressure Tuning of Layer Stacking

    Song, T.; Fei, Z.; Yankowitz, M.; Lin, Z.; Jiang, Q.; Hwangbo, K.; Zhang, Q.; Sun, B.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; McGuire, M. A.; Graf, D.; Cao, T.; Chu, J.-H.; Cobden, D. H.; Dean, C. R.; Xiao, D.; Xu, X.
  60. Visualizing Electrostatic Gating Effects in Two-Dimensional Heterostructures

    Nguyen, P.; Teutsch, N. C.; Wilson, N. P.; Kahn, J.; Xia, X.; Graham, A. J.; Kandyba, V.; Giampietri, A.; Barinov, A.; Constantinescu, G. C.; Yeung, N.; Hine, N. D. M.; Xu, X.; Cobden, D. H.; Wilson, N. R.
  61. Evidence for a Strain Tuned Topological Phase Transition in ZrTe5

    Mutch, J.; Chen, W-C.; Went, P.; Qian, T.; Wilson, I. Z.; Andreev, A.; Chen, C.-C., Chu, J.-H.
  62. Atomically Thin CrCl3: An In-Plane Layered Antiferromagnetic Insulator

    Cai, X.; Song, T.; Wilson, N. P.; Clark, G.; He, M.; Zhang, X.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; Yao, W.; Xiao, D.; McGuire, M. A.; Cobden, D. C.; Xu, X.
  63. Imaging Quantum Spin Hall Edges in Monolayer WTe2

    Shi, Y.; Kahn, J.; Niu, B.; Fei, Z.; Sun, B.; Cai, X.; Francisco, B. A.; Wu, D.; Shen, Z. X.; Xu, X.; Cobden, D. H.; Cui, Y. T.
  64. Voltage Control of a van der Waals Spin-Filter Magnetic Tunnel Junction

    Song, T.; Tu, W. Y.; Carnahan, C.; Cai, X.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; McGuire, M. A.; Cobden, D. H.; Xiao, D.; Yao, W.; Xu, X.
  65. Gate-Induced Superconductivity in a Monolayer Topological Insulator

    Sajadi, E.; Palomaki, T. A.; Fei, Z.; Zhao, W.; Bement, P.; Olsen, C.; Luescher, S.; Xu, X.; Folk, J. A.; Cobden, D. H.
  66. Ultrathin van der Waals Metalenses

    Liu, C-H.; Zheng, J.; Colburn, S.; Fryett, T. K.; Chen, Y.; Xu, X.; Majumdar, A.
  67. Deterministic Positioning of Colloidal Quantum Dots on Silicon Nitride Nanobeam Cavities

    Chen, Y.; Ryou, A.; Friedfeld, M. R.; Fryett, T.; Whitehead, J.; Cossairt, B. M.; Majumdar, A.
  68. Two-Dimensional Itinerant Ising Ferromagnetism in Atomically thin Fe3GeTe2

    Fei, Z.; Huang, B.; Malinowski, P.; Wang, W.; Song, T.; Sanchez, J.; Yao, W.; Xiao, D.; Zhu, X.; May, A.; Wu, W.; Cobden, D. H.; Chu, J.; Xu, X.
  69. Ferroelectric Switching of a Two-Dimensional Metal

    Fei, Z.; Zhao, W.; Palomaki, T. A.; Sun, B.; Miller, M. K.; Zhao, Z.; Yan, J.; Xu, X.; Cobden, D. H.
  70. Giant Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Spin-Filter van der Waals Heterostructures

    Song, T.; Cai, X.; Tu, M. W.; Zhang, X.; Huang, B.; Wilson, N. P.; Seyler, K. L.; Zhu, L.; Taniguchi, T.; Watanabe, K.; McGuire, M. A.; Cobden, D. H.; Xiao, D.; Yao, W.; Xu, X.
  71. Encapsulated Silicon Nitride Nanobeam Cavity for Nanophotonics using Layered Materials

    Fryett, T. K.; Chen, Y.; Whitehead, J.; Peycke, Z. M.; Xu, X.; Majumdar, A.