Quantum frontiersPub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.1007/s44214-023-00027-z
Yi-Wen Liu, Lin He
{"title":"Recent progresses on graphene-based artificial nanostructures: a perspective from scanning tunneling microscopy","authors":"Yi-Wen Liu, Lin He","doi":"10.1007/s44214-023-00027-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-023-00027-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42880700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quantum frontiersPub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s44214-023-00026-0
S N Kempkes, P Capiod, S Ismaili, J Mulkens, L Eek, I Swart, C Morais Smith
{"title":"Compact localized boundary states in a quasi-1D electronic diamond-necklace chain.","authors":"S N Kempkes, P Capiod, S Ismaili, J Mulkens, L Eek, I Swart, C Morais Smith","doi":"10.1007/s44214-023-00026-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-023-00026-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Zero-energy modes localized at the ends of one-dimensional (1D) wires hold great potential as qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, all the candidates known to date exhibit a wave function that decays exponentially into the bulk and hybridizes with other nearby zero-modes, thus hampering their use for braiding operations. Here, we show that a quasi-1D diamond-necklace chain exhibits an unforeseen type of robust boundary state, namely compact localized zero-energy modes that do not decay into the bulk. We find that this state emerges due to the presence of a latent symmetry in the system. We experimentally realize the diamond-necklace chain in an electronic quantum simulator setup.</p>","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":"2 1","pages":"1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9974525/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10847908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quantum frontiersPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1007/s44214-023-00036-y
Hanying Deng, Zhihao Qu, Yingji He, Changming Huang, Nicolae C Panoiu, Fangwei Ye
{"title":"Topologically enhanced nonlinear optical response of graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions.","authors":"Hanying Deng, Zhihao Qu, Yingji He, Changming Huang, Nicolae C Panoiu, Fangwei Ye","doi":"10.1007/s44214-023-00036-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s44214-023-00036-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study the nonlinear optical properties of heterojunctions made of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) consisting of two segments with either the same or different topological properties. By utilizing a quantum mechanical approach that incorporates distant-neighbor interactions, we demonstrate that the presence of topological interface states significantly enhances the second- and third-order nonlinear optical response of GNR heterojunctions that are created by merging two topologically inequivalent GNRs. Specifically, GNR heterojunctions with topological interface states display third-order harmonic hyperpolarizabilities that are more than two orders of magnitude larger than those of their similarly sized counterparts without topological interface states, whereas the second-order harmonic hyperpolarizabilities exhibit a more than ten-fold contrast between heterojunctions with and without topological interface states. Additionally, we find that the topological state at the interface between two topologically distinct GNRs can induce a noticeable red-shift of the quantum plasmon frequency of the heterojunctions. Our results reveal a general and profound connection between the existence of topological states and an enhanced nonlinear optical response of graphene nanostructures and possible other photonic systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":"2 1","pages":"11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10533637/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41165189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quantum frontiersPub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00024-8
Jiangtao Wu, Jianshu Li, Zheng Zhang, Changle Liu, Y. Gao, E. Feng, G. Deng, Q. Ren, Zhe Wang, Rui Chen, J. Embs, F. Zhu, Qing Huang, Z. Xiang, Lu Chen, Yan Wu, E. Choi, Z. Qu, L. Li, Junfeng Wang, Haidong Zhou, Yixi Su, Xiaoqun Wang, Gang Chen, Qing-ming Zhang, Jie Ma
{"title":"Correction: Magnetic field effects on the quantum spin liquid behaviors of NaYbS2","authors":"Jiangtao Wu, Jianshu Li, Zheng Zhang, Changle Liu, Y. Gao, E. Feng, G. Deng, Q. Ren, Zhe Wang, Rui Chen, J. Embs, F. Zhu, Qing Huang, Z. Xiang, Lu Chen, Yan Wu, E. Choi, Z. Qu, L. Li, Junfeng Wang, Haidong Zhou, Yixi Su, Xiaoqun Wang, Gang Chen, Qing-ming Zhang, Jie Ma","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00024-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00024-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48293024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Quantum frontiersPub Date : 2022-11-23DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00016-8
Zhongjie Wang, Lu Liu, Meng-Qiang Zhao, Haoran Zheng, Ke Yang, Chunzheng Wang, Fang Yang, Hua Wu, Chunlei Gao
{"title":"Identification of the compressive trigonal crystal field and orbital polarization in strained monolayer α-RuCl3 on graphite","authors":"Zhongjie Wang, Lu Liu, Meng-Qiang Zhao, Haoran Zheng, Ke Yang, Chunzheng Wang, Fang Yang, Hua Wu, Chunlei Gao","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00016-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00016-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43061987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}