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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.

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

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October 22, 2026

Electronic bound states in the continuum now in Science

October 22, 2026

Columbia Quantum features electronic bound states in the continuum

October 21, 2026

New preprint: Ring states and the vacancy-driven topological transition

October 12, 2026

New preprint: The quantum geometry of the chemical bond

October 12, 2026

Ring states in topological materials published in Newton

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