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    Covalently bridging graphene edges for improving mechanical and electrical properties of fibers

    Assembling graphene sheets into macroscopic fibers with graphitic layers uniaxially aligned along the fiber axis is of both fundamental and technological importance. However, the optimal performance of graphen...

    Ling Ding, Tianqi Xu, Jiawen Zhang, **peng Ji, Zhaotao Song in Nature Communications (2024)

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    Towards understanding the magnetic properties of the breathing pyrochlore compound Ba3Yb2Zn5O11through single-crystal studies

    Ba3Yb2Zn5O11 is exceptional among breathing pyrochlore compounds for being in the nearly-decoupled limit where inter-tetrahedron interactions are weak, hosting isolated clusters or molecular magnet-like tetrahedr...

    Sachith Dissanayake, Zhenzhong Shi, Jeffrey G. Rau in npj Quantum Materials (2022)

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    Discovery of quantum phases in the Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2 under extreme conditions of field and pressure

    The 2-dimensional layered oxide material SrCu2(BO3)2, long studied as a realization of the Shastry-Sutherland spin topology, exhibits a range of intriguing physics as a function of both hydrostatic pressure and m...

    Zhenzhong Shi, Sachith Dissanayake, Philippe Corboz in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Phase diagram of YbZnGaO4 in applied magnetic field

    Recently, Yb-based triangular-lattice antiferromagnets have garnered significant interest as possible quantum spin-liquid candidates. One example is YbMgGaO4, which showed many promising spin-liquid features, but...

    William Steinhardt, P. A. Maksimov, Sachith Dissanayake in npj Quantum Materials (2021)

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    Magnetic field reveals vanishing Hall response in the normal state of stripe-ordered cuprates

    The origin of the weak insulating behavior of the resistivity, i.e. \({\rho }_{xx}\propto {\mathrm{ln}}\,(1/T)\) ...

    Zhenzhong Shi, P. G. Baity, J. Terzic, Bal K. Pokharel in Nature Communications (2021)

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    Pair density wave at high magnetic fields in cuprates with charge and spin orders

    In underdoped cuprates, the interplay of the pseudogap, superconductivity, and charge and spin ordering can give rise to exotic quantum states, including the pair density wave (PDW), in which the superconducti...

    Zhenzhong Shi, P. G. Baity, J. Terzic, T. Sasagawa in Nature Communications (2020)

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    Emergent bound states and impurity pairs in chemically doped Shastry-Sutherland system

    Impurities often play a defining role in the ground states of frustrated quantum magnets. Studies of their effects are crucial in understanding of the phase diagram in these materials. SrCu2(BO3)2, an experimenta...

    Zhenzhong Shi, William Steinhardt, David Graf, Philippe Corboz in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Current-Voltage Characteristics and Vortex Dynamics in Highly Underdoped La2−x Sr x CuO4

    The temperature dependence of the nonlinear current-voltage (IV) characteristics in highly underdoped La2−x Sr x CuO4 (x = 0.07 and 0.08) thick films has...

    Zhenzhong Shi, P. G. Baity, Dragana Popović in Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Mag… (2016)