In Landau's celebrated Fermi liquid theory, electrons in a metal obey the Wiedemann-Franz law at the lowest temperatures. This law states that electron heat and charge transport are linked by a constant L, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSpin-orbit coupling (SOC) has significant effects on the superconductivity and magnetism of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) at the 2D limit. Although 2D TMD samples possess many exotic properties different from those of bulk samples, experimental characterization in this field is still limited, especially for magnetism. Recent studies have revealed that bulk misfit layer compounds (MLCs) with (LaSe)(NbSe) exhibit an Ising superconductivity similar to that of heavily electron-doped NbSe monolayers.
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The search of quantum spin liquid (QSL), an exotic magnetic state with strongly fluctuating and highly entangled spins down to zero temperature, is a main theme in current condensed matter physics. However, there is no smoking gun evidence for deconfined spinons in any QSL candidate so far. The disorders and competing exchange interactions may prevent the formation of an ideal QSL state on frustrated spin lattices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe discovery of several electronic orders in kagome superconductors AVSb (A means K, Rb, Cs) provides a promising platform for exploring unprecedented emergent physics. Under moderate pressure (<2.2 GPa), the triple-Q charge density wave (CDW) order is monotonically suppressed by pressure, while the superconductivity shows a two-dome-like behaviour, suggesting an unusual interplay between superconductivity and CDW order.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElectronic nematicity, in which rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken by electronic degrees of freedom, has been demonstrated as a ubiquitous phenomenon in correlated quantum fluids including high-temperature superconductors and quantum Hall systems. Notably, the electronic nematicity in high-temperature superconductors exhibits an intriguing entanglement with superconductivity, generating complicated superconducting pairing and intertwined electronic orders. Recently, an unusual competition between superconductivity and a charge-density-wave (CDW) order has been found in the AVSb (A = K, Rb, Cs) family with two-dimensional vanadium kagome nets.
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