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We worked with the Roy Research Group to develop a sacrificial-intercalant strategy that tunes carrier density and electronic phases while preserving the van der Waals structure. The work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Ilia, working with Tobias Holder, shows how disorder can generate perfect screening in an electrically insulating state. The preprint is available on arXiv.

Raquel gave two lectures at the 2025 Topological Matter School in San Sebastián, introducing quantum geometry and topology in crystalline systems.

Daniel worked with Andrew Millis and Valentin Crépel to map the twist-angle evolution of the intervalley-coherent antiferromagnet in twisted WSe2. The work is published in Physical Review B.

We worked with the Roy Research Group to show how orbital arrangement creates frustrated electron hopping, dispersive Dirac-like bands, and nearly flat bands in Pd5AlI2. The work is published in Nature Physics.

We contributed to a community roadmap coordinated by F. Javier García de Abajo, Dmitri Basov, and Frank Koppens, including a section on nonlinear optical generation of entangled quantum light in two-dimensional materials. The roadmap is published in ACS Photonics.

We worked with the Basov Laboratory to identify flat-band excitons in three-dimensional supertwisted WS2 using photoluminescence and electronic-structure calculations. The preprint is available on arXiv.

We worked with Yasutomo Uemura’s group to use muon spin rotation and relaxation to map magnetism across the kagome-metal series (Fe1−xCox)Sn. The work is published in Physical Review B.

Nish presents the group’s work on quantum geometry in correlated systems at the New Platforms for Topological Quantum Matter workshop. Watch his recorded talk from 37:40.

Peter’s work with Valentin Crépel is out in Physical Review X. They identify a topological mechanism that protects exceptionally flat bands in chiral moiré heterostructures.

We worked with Sivan Refaely-Abramson and Roni Ilan to show how band topology changes excitons bound to a single-site defect: ring-shaped defect states lower their binding energies and give their wavefunctions distinct orbital structure.

We worked with the X. Y. Zhu Group to use time-resolved optical spectroscopy to reveal hidden states and distinct relaxation timescales at fractional fillings in twisted MoTe2. The work is published in Nature.