Quantum frontiersPub Date : 2022-09-23DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00008-8
Qikun Xue
{"title":"Interface between condensed matter physics and quantum information science","authors":"Qikun Xue","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00008-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00008-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48534962","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 : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00019-5
G. Cheng, Diego Fallas Padilla, Tao Deng, Yu-Yu Zhang, H. Pu
{"title":"Chiral quantum phases and tricriticality in a Dicke triangle","authors":"G. Cheng, Diego Fallas Padilla, Tao Deng, Yu-Yu Zhang, H. Pu","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00019-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00019-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42076762","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 : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00023-9
Shiyong Wang, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Carlo A Pignedoli, Xuelin Yao, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Yan Zhao, Akimitsu Narita, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen, Pascal Ruffieux, Roman Fasel
{"title":"Steering on-surface reactions through molecular steric hindrance and molecule-substrate van der Waals interactions.","authors":"Shiyong Wang, Tomohiko Nishiuchi, Carlo A Pignedoli, Xuelin Yao, Marco Di Giovannantonio, Yan Zhao, Akimitsu Narita, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen, Pascal Ruffieux, Roman Fasel","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00023-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00023-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>On-surface synthesis is a rapidly developing field involving chemical reactions on well-defined solid surfaces to access synthesis of low-dimensional organic nanostructures which cannot be achieved via traditional solution chemistry. On-surface reactions critically depend on a high degree of chemoselectivity in order to achieve an optimum balance between target structure and possible side products. Here, we demonstrate synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with a large unit cell based on steric hindrance-induced complete chemoselectivity as revealed by scanning probe microscopy measurements and density functional theory calculations. Our results disclose that combined molecule-substrate van der Waals interactions and intermolecular steric hindrance promote a selective aryl-aryl coupling, giving rise to high-quality uniform graphene nanostructures. The established coupling strategy has been used to synthesize two types of graphene nanoribbons with different edge topologies inducing a pronounced variation of the electronic energy gaps. The demonstrated chemoselectivity is representative for n-anthryl precursor molecules and may be further exploited to synthesize graphene nanoribbons with novel electronic, topological and magnetic properties with implications for electronic and spintronic applications.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s44214-022-00023-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":"1 1","pages":"23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9809985/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9156902","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 : 2021-11-06DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00022-w
Wenyao Liu, Quanxin Hu, Xiancheng Wang, Y. Zhong, Fazhi Yang, Lingyuan Kong, Lu Cao, Geng Li, Yi Peng, K. Okazaki, T. Kondo, C. Jin, Jinpeng Xu, Hongmin Gao, H. Ding
{"title":"Tunable vortex Majorana modes controlled by strain in homogeneous LiFeAs","authors":"Wenyao Liu, Quanxin Hu, Xiancheng Wang, Y. Zhong, Fazhi Yang, Lingyuan Kong, Lu Cao, Geng Li, Yi Peng, K. Okazaki, T. Kondo, C. Jin, Jinpeng Xu, Hongmin Gao, H. Ding","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00022-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00022-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49324786","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 : 2021-08-03DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00002-0
R. Arouca, E. Marino, C. Morais Smith
{"title":"Non-Hermitian quantum gases: a platform for imaginary time crystals","authors":"R. Arouca, E. Marino, C. Morais Smith","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00002-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00002-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41820879","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 : 2020-12-21DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00001-1
Zheshen Gao, Xue-Jian Gao, Wen-Yu He, Xiao Yan Xu, T. Ng, K. T. Law
{"title":"Topological superconductivity in multifold fermion metals","authors":"Zheshen Gao, Xue-Jian Gao, Wen-Yu He, Xiao Yan Xu, T. Ng, K. T. Law","doi":"10.1007/s44214-022-00001-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00001-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42778504","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 : 2020-02-21DOI: 10.1007/s44214-022-00011-z
Jiangtao Wu, Jianshu Li, Zheng Zhang, Changle Liu, Y. Gao, E. Feng, G. Deng, Q. Ren, Zhe Wang, Ruiyuan 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":"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, Ruiyuan 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/s44214-022-00011-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s44214-022-00011-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74629,"journal":{"name":"Quantum frontiers","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44315466","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}