Rohit Kumar, D. Session, R. Tsuchikawa, Mario Homer, Harrison Paas, Kenji Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, V. Deshpande
2D materials such as graphene and hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN), to name a few, when layered on top of each other offer a class of metamaterials with interesting properties. For example, the twisting degree of freedom between two layers has started the field of twistronics. The exceptional attributes of 2D materials like ultra-low mass, robustness, and high tunability make them very suitable for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Yet the mechanical properties of these heterostructures in the form of NEMS have not been studied extensively. Such 2D NEMS hold promise for various technological applications, namely, ultrafast sensors, actuators, etc. We report fabrication and characterization of h-BN graphene heterostructure-based circular nanoelectromechanical resonators on sapphire substrates. The devices are measured at cryogenic temperatures and exhibit multiple mode frequencies, which are highly tunable with gate voltage. A continuum mechanics model is employed to analyze the transmission (S21) data of the fundamental mode. Parameters like built-in tension obtained from the fit are used to identify the indices (m, n) of higher mechanical modes observed for the device, providing further device characterization. Such 2D NEMS could offer a way to study diverse electronic phenomena such as superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) heterostructures.
{"title":"Circular electromechanical resonators based on hexagonal-boron nitride-graphene heterostructures","authors":"Rohit Kumar, D. Session, R. Tsuchikawa, Mario Homer, Harrison Paas, Kenji Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, V. Deshpande","doi":"10.1063/5.0024583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0024583","url":null,"abstract":"2D materials such as graphene and hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN), to name a few, when layered on top of each other offer a class of metamaterials with interesting properties. For example, the twisting degree of freedom between two layers has started the field of twistronics. The exceptional attributes of 2D materials like ultra-low mass, robustness, and high tunability make them very suitable for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). Yet the mechanical properties of these heterostructures in the form of NEMS have not been studied extensively. Such 2D NEMS hold promise for various technological applications, namely, ultrafast sensors, actuators, etc. We report fabrication and characterization of h-BN graphene heterostructure-based circular nanoelectromechanical resonators on sapphire substrates. The devices are measured at cryogenic temperatures and exhibit multiple mode frequencies, which are highly tunable with gate voltage. A continuum mechanics model is employed to analyze the transmission (S21) data of the fundamental mode. Parameters like built-in tension obtained from the fit are used to identify the indices (m, n) of higher mechanical modes observed for the device, providing further device characterization. Such 2D NEMS could offer a way to study diverse electronic phenomena such as superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) heterostructures.","PeriodicalId":9375,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Physical Society","volume":"105 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79229357","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}
Pub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b08893.s001
Hao Dong
{"title":"Principles governing catalytic activity of self-assembled short peptides","authors":"Hao Dong","doi":"10.1021/jacs.8b08893.s001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08893.s001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9375,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Physical Society","volume":"75 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141225421","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}
Pub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.102.104509
Abdulrhman M. Alsharari, S. Ulloa
{"title":"Superconducting pairing symmetry and spin-orbit coupling in proximitized graphene","authors":"Abdulrhman M. Alsharari, S. Ulloa","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.102.104509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.102.104509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9375,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Physical Society","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76487789","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}
Pub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.014407
Yu-Hang Li, R. Cheng
Topological electronics has extended its richness to nonelectronic systems where bosonic quasiparticles can play the role of spin and heat carriers. In particular, topological magnons can be enabled by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which acts as an effective spin-orbit coupling. We show that, besides DMI, an alternating arrangement of Heisenberg exchange interactions critically determines the magnon band topology, realizing a magnonic analog of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. On a honeycomb ferromagnet with perpendicular anisotropy, we calculate the topological phase diagram, the chiral edge states, and the associated magnon Hall effect with tunable relative strength of exchange interactions on different links. Including weak phonon-magnon hybridization does not change the result. Candidate materials are discussed.
{"title":"Magnonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model in honeycomb ferromagnets","authors":"Yu-Hang Li, R. Cheng","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.014407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.014407","url":null,"abstract":"Topological electronics has extended its richness to nonelectronic systems where bosonic quasiparticles can play the role of spin and heat carriers. In particular, topological magnons can be enabled by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which acts as an effective spin-orbit coupling. We show that, besides DMI, an alternating arrangement of Heisenberg exchange interactions critically determines the magnon band topology, realizing a magnonic analog of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. On a honeycomb ferromagnet with perpendicular anisotropy, we calculate the topological phase diagram, the chiral edge states, and the associated magnon Hall effect with tunable relative strength of exchange interactions on different links. Including weak phonon-magnon hybridization does not change the result. Candidate materials are discussed.","PeriodicalId":9375,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Physical Society","volume":"181 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73039076","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}
Pub Date : 2020-03-02DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.054419
L. Xiang, E. Gati, S. Bud’ko, S. Saunders, P. Canfield
We present the pressure-temperature phase diagram ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ up to $ensuremath{sim}5$ GPa, which was constructed from magnetization, resistivity, and specific heat measurements. At ambient pressure, ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ is an itinerant ferromagnet with a Curie temperature ${T}_{text{C}}ensuremath{sim}$ 4 K. Upon increasing pressure up to $ensuremath{sim}1.7$ GPa, ${T}_{text{C}}$ is suppressed down to $ensuremath{sim}3$ K. Upon further increasing pressure, our results suggest that ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ enters a different low-temperature ground state. The corresponding transition temperature ${T}^{*}$ has a nonmonotonic pressure dependence up to $ensuremath{sim}5$ GPa. Our results demonstrate that the ferromagnetic quantum critical point in ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ is avoided by the appearance of a different, likely magnetically ordered, state that has an antiferromagnetic component.
{"title":"Avoided ferromagnetic quantum critical point in pressurized \u0000La5Co2Ge3","authors":"L. Xiang, E. Gati, S. Bud’ko, S. Saunders, P. Canfield","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.054419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.054419","url":null,"abstract":"We present the pressure-temperature phase diagram ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ up to $ensuremath{sim}5$ GPa, which was constructed from magnetization, resistivity, and specific heat measurements. At ambient pressure, ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ is an itinerant ferromagnet with a Curie temperature ${T}_{text{C}}ensuremath{sim}$ 4 K. Upon increasing pressure up to $ensuremath{sim}1.7$ GPa, ${T}_{text{C}}$ is suppressed down to $ensuremath{sim}3$ K. Upon further increasing pressure, our results suggest that ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ enters a different low-temperature ground state. The corresponding transition temperature ${T}^{*}$ has a nonmonotonic pressure dependence up to $ensuremath{sim}5$ GPa. Our results demonstrate that the ferromagnetic quantum critical point in ${mathrm{La}}_{5}{mathrm{Co}}_{2}{mathrm{Ge}}_{3}$ is avoided by the appearance of a different, likely magnetically ordered, state that has an antiferromagnetic component.","PeriodicalId":9375,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin of the American Physical Society","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87509433","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}