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{"title":"Flat-Band (De)localization Emulated with a Superconducting Qubit Array","authors":"Ilan T. Rosen, Sarah Muschinske, Cora N. Barrett, David A. Rower, Rabindra Das, David K. Kim, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Meghan Schuldt, Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Jeffrey A. Grover, William D. Oliver","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021091","url":null,"abstract":"Arrays of coupled superconducting qubits are analog quantum simulators able to emulate a wide range of tight-binding models in parameter regimes that are difficult to access or adjust in natural materials. In this work, we use a superconducting qubit array to emulate a tight-binding model on the rhombic lattice, which features flat bands. Enabled by broad adjustability of the dispersion of the energy bands and of on-site disorder, we examine regimes where flat-band localization and Anderson localization compete. We observe disorder-induced localization for dispersive bands and disorder-induced delocalization for flat bands. Remarkably, we find a sudden transition between the two regimes and, in its vicinity, the semblance of quantum critical scaling. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144304494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fault-Tolerant Logical Measurements via Homological Measurement","authors":"Benjamin Ide, Manoj G. Gowda, Priya J. Nadkarni, Guillaume Dauphinais","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021088","url":null,"abstract":"We introduce homological measurement, a framework for measuring the logical Pauli operators encoded in Calderbank-Shor-Steane stabilizer codes. The framework is based on the algebraic description of such codes as chain complexes. Protocols such as lattice surgery and some of its recent generalizations are shown to be special cases of homological measurement. Using this framework, we develop a specific protocol called edge expanded homological measurement for fault-tolerant measurement of arbitrary logical Pauli operators of general quantum low density parity-check codes, requiring a number of ancillary qubits growing only linearly with the weight of the logical operator measured, and guarantee that the distance of the code is preserved. We further benchmark our protocol numerically in a photonic architecture based on Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubits, showing that the logical error rates of various codes are on par with other methods requiring more ancilla qubits. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Long-Range Interacting Fermions","authors":"T. Zwettler, G. Del Pace, F. Marijanovic, S. Chattopadhyay, T. Bühler, C.-M. Halati, L. Skolc, L. Tolle, V. Helson, G. Bolognini, A. Fabre, S. Uchino, T. Giamarchi, E. Demler, J. P. Brantut","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021089","url":null,"abstract":"A fundamental problem of out-of-equilibrium physics is the speed at which the order parameter grows upon crossing a phase transition. Here, we investigate the ordering dynamics in a Fermi gas undergoing a density-wave phase transition induced by quenching infinite-range, cavity-mediated interactions. We observe, in real time, the exponential rise of the order parameter and track its growth over several orders of magnitude. Remarkably, the growth rate can exceed the Fermi energy by an order of magnitude, consistent with predictions from a linearized instability analysis. This case contrasts with the ordering process driven by short-range interactions. We then generalize our results to linear interaction ramps, where deviations from the adiabatic behavior are captured by a simple dynamical ansatz. Our study offers a paradigmatic example of the interplay between strong short- and long-range interactions in quantum nonequilibrium dynamics. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144260070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nonlocal Moments and Mott Semimetal in the Chern Bands of Twisted Bilayer Graphene","authors":"Patrick J. Ledwith, Junkai Dong, Ashvin Vishwanath, Eslam Khalaf","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021087","url":null,"abstract":"Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) has elements in common with two paradigmatic examples of strongly correlated physics: quantum Hall physics and Hubbard physics. On one hand, TBG hosts flat topological Landau-level-like bands which exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effects under the right conditions. On the other hand, these bands are characterized by concentrated charge density and show signs of extensive entropy usually attributed to local moments. The combination of these features leads to a question: Can decoupled moments emerge in an isolated topological band, despite the lack of exponentially localized Wannier orbitals? In this work, we answer the question affirmatively by proposing a minimal model for the flat topological bands in TBG that combines topology and charge concentration at the AA sites, leading to analytic wave functions that closely approximate those of the Bistritzer-MacDonald model with realistic parameters. Importantly, charge concentration also leads to Berry curvature concentration at Γ&lt;/a:mi&gt;&lt;/a:math&gt;, giving rise to a small parameter &lt;d:math xmlns:d=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"&gt;&lt;d:mi&gt;s&lt;/d:mi&gt;&lt;/d:math&gt; that makes the model analytically tractable. We show that, rather surprisingly, the model hosts nearly decoupled flavor moments without invoking any extra degrees of freedom. These moments are nonlocal due to topology-enforced power-law tails, yet have parametrically small overlap. We develop a systematic diagrammatic expansion in which the self-energy can be computed exactly to leading order in &lt;f:math xmlns:f=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"&gt;&lt;f:msup&gt;&lt;f:mi&gt;s&lt;/f:mi&gt;&lt;f:mn&gt;2&lt;/f:mn&gt;&lt;/f:msup&gt;&lt;/f:math&gt; in the fluctuating moment regime and predict momentum-resolved spectral functions for future experiments to verify. Our key discovery is a charge-neutrality state we refer to as the “Mott semimetal” characterized by high flavor entropy and a Mott gap that exists throughout most of the Brillouin zone but closes at the &lt;h:math xmlns:h=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"&gt;&lt;h:mi mathvariant=\"normal\"&gt;Γ&lt;/h:mi&gt;&lt;/h:math&gt; point. At &lt;k:math xmlns:k=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"&gt;&lt;k:mi mathvariant=\"normal\"&gt;Γ&lt;/k:mi&gt;&lt;/k:math&gt;, the spectral function contains a single Dirac cone per spin per valley and responds to perturbations in an exotic manner that is distinct from any other theoretical picture of TBG. Away from neutrality, the Mott semimetal gaps out in a spectrally imbalanced manner, with one Mott band having zero quasiparticle residue at the &lt;n:math xmlns:n=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"&gt;&lt;n:mi mathvariant=\"normal\"&gt;Γ&lt;/n:mi&gt;&lt;/n:math&gt; point. The model accurately reproduces results from finite-temperature thermodynamic measurements, leads to new experimental predictions, and resolves the problem of the emergence of Hubbard physics in isolated topological bands. &lt;jats:supplementary-material&gt; &lt;jats:copyright-statement&gt;Published by the Ame","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144252030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Emergent Dimer-Model Topological Order and Quasiparticle Excitations in Liquid Crystals: Combinatorial Vortex Lattices","authors":"Cuiling Meng, Jin-Sheng Wu, Žiga Kos, Jörn Dunkel, Cristiano Nisoli, Ivan I. Smalyukh","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021084","url":null,"abstract":"Liquid crystals have proven to provide a versatile experimental and theoretical platform for studying topological objects such as vortices, skyrmions, and hopfions. In parallel, in hard condensed matter physics, the concept of topological phases and topological order has been introduced in the context of spin liquids to investigate emergent phenomena like quantum Hall effects and high-temperature superconductivity. Here, we bridge these two seemingly disparate perspectives on topology in physics. Combining experiments and simulations, we show how topological defects in liquid crystals can be used as versatile building blocks to create complex, highly degenerate topological phases, which we refer to as “combinatorial vortex lattices” (CVLs). CVLs exhibit extensive residual entropy and support locally stable quasiparticle excitations in the form of charge-conserving topological monopoles, which can act as mobile information carriers and be linked via Dirac strings. CVLs can be rewritten and reconfigured on demand, endowed with various symmetries, and modified through laser-induced topological surgery—an essential capability for information storage and retrieval. We demonstrate experimentally the realization, stability, and precise optical manipulation of CVLs, thus opening new avenues for understanding and technologically exploiting higher-hierarchy topology in liquid crystals and other ordered media. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144236905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phase Diagram of Extensive-Rank Symmetric Matrix Denoising beyond Rotational Invariance","authors":"Jean Barbier, Francesco Camilli, Justin Ko, Koki Okajima","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021085","url":null,"abstract":"Matrix denoising is central to signal processing and machine learning. Its statistical analysis when the matrix to infer has a factorized structure with a rank growing proportionally to its dimension remains a challenge, except when it is rotationally invariant. In this case, the information-theoretic limits and an efficient Bayes-optimal denoising algorithm, called the rotational invariant estimator, are known. Beyond this setting, few results can be found. The reason is that the model is not a usual spin system because of the growing rank dimension, nor a matrix model (as appearing in high-energy physics) due to the lack of rotation symmetry, but rather a hybrid between the two. In this paper, we make progress toward the understanding of Bayesian matrix denoising when the hidden signal is a factored matrix X</a:mi></a:mrow>X</a:mi></a:mrow>⊺</a:mo></a:mrow></a:msup></a:mrow></a:math> that is not rotationally invariant. Monte Carlo simulations suggest the existence of a denoising-factorization transition separating a phase where denoising using the rotational-invariant estimator remains Bayes-optimal due to universality properties of the same nature as in random matrix theory, from one where universality breaks down and better denoising is possible, though algorithmically hard. We also argue that it is only beyond the transition that factorization, i.e., estimating <e:math xmlns:e=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><e:mrow><e:mi mathvariant=\"bold\">X</e:mi></e:mrow></e:math> itself, becomes possible up to irresolvable ambiguities. On the theoretical side, we combine mean-field techniques in an interpretable multiscale fashion in order to access the minimum mean-square error and mutual information. Interestingly, our alternative method yields equations reproducible by the replica approach of Sakata and Kabashima. Using numerical insights, we delimit the portion of phase diagram where we conjecture the mean-field theory to be exact and correct it using universality when it is not. Our complete matches well the numerics in the whole phase diagram when considering finite-size effects. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144236906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup for an Abelian Hidden Subgroup Problem","authors":"Phattharaporn Singkanipa, Victor Kasatkin, Zeyuan Zhou, Gregory Quiroz, Daniel A. Lidar","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021082","url":null,"abstract":"Simon’s problem is to find a hidden period (a bitstring) encoded into an unknown 2-to-1 function. It is one of the earliest problems for which an exponential quantum speedup was proven for ideal, noiseless quantum computers, albeit in the oracle model. Here, using two different 127-qubit IBM Quantum superconducting processors, we demonstrate an algorithmic quantum speedup for a variant of Simon’s problem where the hidden period has a restricted Hamming weight w</a:mi></a:math>. For sufficiently small values of <c:math xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><c:mi>w</c:mi></c:math> and for circuits involving up to 58 qubits, we demonstrate an exponential speedup, albeit of a lower quality than the speedup predicted for the noiseless algorithm. The speedup exponent and the range of <e:math xmlns:e=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><e:mi>w</e:mi></e:math> values for which an exponential speedup exists are significantly enhanced when the computation is protected by dynamical decoupling. Further enhancement is achieved with measurement error mitigation. This case constitutes a demonstration of a bona fide quantum advantage for an Abelian hidden subgroup problem. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catalog of C -Paired Spin-Momentum Locking in Antiferromagnetic Systems","authors":"Mengli Hu, Xingkai Cheng, Zhenqiao Huang, Junwei Liu","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021083","url":null,"abstract":"Antiferromagnetic materials (AFMs) have been gaining lots of attention due to their great potential in spintronics devices and the recently discovered novel spin structure in the momentum space, i.e., C</a:mi></a:mrow></a:math>-paired spin-valley or spin-momentum locking (CSML), where spins and valleys or momenta are locked to each other due to the crystal symmetry guaranteeing zero magnetization. Here, we systematically study CSMLs and propose a general theory and algorithm using little cogroup and coset representatives, which reveals that 12 elementary kinds of CSMLs, determined by the geometric relation of spins and valleys and the essential symmetry guaranteeing zero magnetization, are sufficient to fully represent all possible CSMLs. By combining the proposed algorithm and high-throughput first-principles calculations, we predict 38 magnetic point groups and identify 142 experimentally verified AFMs that can realize CSML. Besides predicting new materials, our theory can naturally reveal underlying mechanisms of CSMLs’ responses to external fields. As an example, two qualitatively different types of piezomagnetism via occupation imbalance or spin tilting are predicted in <c:math xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><c:mrow><c:mrow><c:msub><c:mrow><c:mi>RbV</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mn>2</c:mn></c:mrow></c:msub></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:msub><c:mrow><c:mi>Te</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mn>2</c:mn></c:mrow></c:msub></c:mrow><c:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">O</c:mi></c:mrow></c:math>. The algorithm and conclusions can be directly extended to the locking between valley or momentum and any other pseudovector degree of freedom, e.g., Berry curvature, as exemplified in <f:math xmlns:f=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><f:mrow><f:mrow><f:msub><f:mrow><f:mi>RbV</f:mi></f:mrow><f:mrow><f:mn>2</f:mn></f:mrow></f:msub></f:mrow><f:mrow><f:msub><f:mrow><f:mi>Te</f:mi></f:mrow><f:mrow><f:mn>2</f:mn></f:mrow></f:msub></f:mrow><f:mi mathvariant=\"normal\">O</f:mi></f:mrow></f:math> and the new proposed piezo-Hall effect, where a strain can induce a nonzero anomalous Hall conductance. In addition, the proposed concept and methodology can be straightforwardly applied to other symmetry groups, such as spin group. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144228524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Defect Complexes in CrSBr Revealed Through Electron Microscopy and Deep Learning","authors":"Mads Weile, Sergii Grytsiuk, Aubrey Penn, Daniel G. Chica, Xavier Roy, Kseniia Mosina, Zdenek Sofer, Jakob Schiøtz, Stig Helveg, Malte Rösner, Frances M. Ross, Julian Klein","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021080","url":null,"abstract":"Atomic defects underpin the properties of van der Waals materials, and their understanding is essential for advancing quantum and energy technologies. Scanning transmission electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defect identification in atomically thin materials, and extending it to multilayer and beam-sensitive materials would accelerate their exploration. Here, we establish a comprehensive defect library in a bilayer of the magnetic quasi-1D semiconductor CrSBr by combining atomic-resolution imaging, deep learning, and calculations. We apply a custom-developed machine learning work flow to detect, classify, and average point vacancy defects. This classification enables us to uncover several distinct Cr interstitial defect complexes, combined Cr and Br vacancy defect complexes, and lines of vacancy defects that extend over many unit cells. We show that their occurrence is in agreement with our computed structures and binding energy densities, reflecting the intriguing layer interlocked crystal structure of CrSBr. Our calculations show that the interstitial defect complexes give rise to highly localized electronic states. These states are of particular interest due to the reduced electronic dimensionality and magnetic properties of CrSBr and are, furthermore, predicted to be optically active. Our results broaden the scope of defect studies in challenging materials and reveal new defect types in bilayer CrSBr that can be extrapolated to the bulk and to over 20 materials belonging to the same FeOCl structural family. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nanosecond Ferroelectric Switching of Intralayer Excitons in Bilayer 3R−MoS2 through Coulomb Engineering","authors":"Jing Liang, Yuan Xie, Dongyang Yang, Shangyi Guo, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jerry I. Dadap, David Jones, Ziliang Ye","doi":"10.1103/physrevx.15.021081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevx.15.021081","url":null,"abstract":"High-speed, nonvolatile tunability is critical for advancing reconfigurable photonic devices used in neuromorphic information processing, sensing, and communication. Despite significant progress in developing phase-change and ferroelectric materials, achieving highly efficient, reversible, rapid switching of optical properties has remained a challenge. Recently, sliding ferroelectricity has been discovered in 2D semiconductors, which also host strong excitonic effects. Here, we demonstrate that these materials enable nanosecond ferroelectric switching in the complex refractive index, substantially modulating their linear optical responses. The maximum index modulation reaches about 4, resulting in a relative reflectance change exceeding 85%. Both on and off switching occur within 2.5 ns, with switching energy at femtojoule levels. The switching mechanism is driven by tuning the excitonic peak splitting of a rhombohedral molybdenum disulfide bilayer in an engineered Coulomb screening environment. This new switching mechanism establishes a new direction for developing high-speed, nonvolatile optical memories and highly efficient, compact reconfigurable photonic devices. Additionally, the demonstrated imaging technique offers a rapid method to characterize domains and domain walls in 2D semiconductors with rhombohedral stacking. <jats:supplementary-material> <jats:copyright-statement>Published by the American Physical Society</jats:copyright-statement> <jats:copyright-year>2025</jats:copyright-year> </jats:permissions> </jats:supplementary-material>","PeriodicalId":20161,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review X","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}