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What makes diamonds pretty?

Ilia, working with Tobias Holder, showed that quantum geometry controls the intrinsic capacitance of insulators. Read the Columbia Quantum article about the work, published in Nature Communications.

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Ellen Neff
July 31, 2024
Virtual interband excitations producing an intrinsic capacitive response controlled by the quantum metric

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