Physicists have directly visualized the fundamental electronic building blocks of flat-band quantum materials, a class of systems in which electron motion is effectively quenched and strong ...

A team of scientists led by Qimiao Si predicts the existence of flat electronic bands at the Fermi level. In a study published in Nature Communications June 19, a team of scientists led by Rice ...

Molding the flow of light—whether confined to localized regions or propagating in free space—remains crucial for modern integrated photonics. The advancement of the multi-channel, programmable optical ...

Researchers uncovered a powerful new way to engineer exotic quantum states, revealing a robust and tunable three?dimensional flat electronic band in an ultrathin kagome metal, an achievement long ...

Wafer-scale AI accelerators vs. single chip GPUs; machine intelligence on wireless edge networks; topological flat-band-driven metallic thermoelectricity; all-in-one analog AI HW; centralized HPC ...

We consider a sign-problem-free, time-reversal symmetric model with isolated Chern bands, involving both spin and valley degrees of freedom in the presence of a class of repulsive electronic ...

Scientists predict the existence of flat electronic bands at the Fermi level, a finding that could enable new forms of quantum computing and electronic devices. In a study published in Nature ...

In a study recently published in Nature Physics, Qimiao Si’s group at Rice University collaborated with researchers from the Weizmann Institute to visualize the building blocks of flat band quantum ...