Publications by authors named "J A Miwa"

Superlattices from twisted graphene mono- and bilayer systems give rise to on-demand many-body states such as Mott insulators and unconventional superconductors. These phenomena are ascribed to a combination of flat bands and strong Coulomb interactions. However, a comprehensive understanding is lacking because the low-energy band structure strongly changes when an electric field is applied to vary the electron filling.

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  • Most 2D materials studied are hexagonal, but researchers have successfully created a metastable pentagonal 2D material called monolayer pentagonal PdTe.
  • This material was synthesized using symmetry-driven epitaxy and characterized through scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, showing stable low-symmetry atomic structures.
  • Theoretical analyses suggest that monolayer pentagonal PdTe is a semiconductor with a 1.05 eV indirect bandgap, paving the way for future pentagon-based 2D materials and their potential applications in nanoelectronics.
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Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) is a technique used to map the occupied electronic structure of solids. Recent progress in x-ray focusing optics has led to the development of ARPES into a microscopic tool, permitting the electronic structure to be spatially mapped across the surface of a sample. This comes at the expense of a time-consuming scanning process to cover not only a three-dimensional energy-momentum (E, kx, ky) space but also the two-dimensional surface area.

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Harnessing electronic excitations involving coherent coupling to bosonic modes is essential for the design and control of emergent phenomena in quantum materials. In situations where charge carriers induce a lattice distortion due to the electron-phonon interaction, the conducting states get "dressed", which leads to the formation of polaronic quasiparticles. The exploration of polaronic effects on low-energy excitations is in its infancy in two-dimensional materials.

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