Volume 121, Issue 6

10 August 2018

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A conducting 2D crystal sandwiched between two insulating ferromagnets forms a so-called Van der Waals spin valve. Magnetization of the top ferromagnetic layer can point in either direction while the bottom one is pinned, resulting in two different in-plane conductances. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Van der Waals Spin Valves
C. Cardoso, D. Soriano, N. A. García-Martínez, and J. Fernández-Rossier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 067701 (2018)

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Dislocation defects are often a nuisance in semiconductors, but theoretical work shows they might offer an improved route to producing spin currents.

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Van der Waals Spin Valves

C. Cardoso, D. Soriano, N. A. García-Martínez, and J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 067701 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

A new spin valve design consists of stacked van der Waals layers of graphene and ferromagnetic insulators.

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Coulomb-Gas Electrostatics Controls Large Fluctuations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation

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Controllable Non-Markovianity for a Spin Qubit in Diamond

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Fast and Unconditional All-Microwave Reset of a Superconducting Qubit

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Parity-Engineered Light-Matter Interaction

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 061102 (2018) - Published 8 August, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Testing Dark Decays of Baryons in Neutron Stars

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Neutron Stars Exclude Light Dark Baryons

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SENSEI: First Direct-Detection Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark Matter from a Surface Run

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Measurements of Radiation Pressure Owing to the Grating Momentum

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A mechanical analogue to the Purcell effect is proposed, for which elastic radiation from a localized emitter is modified by generic resonant microantennas.

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S. R. Giblin, M. Twengström, L. Bovo, M. Ruminy, M. Bartkowiak, P. Manuel, J. C. Andresen, D. Prabhakaran, G. Balakrishnan, E. Pomjakushina, C. Paulsen, E. Lhotel, L. Keller, M. Frontzek, S. C. Capelli, O. Zaharko, P. A. McClarty, S. T. Bramwell, P. Henelius, and T. Fennell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 067202 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

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Van der Waals Spin Valves

C. Cardoso, D. Soriano, N. A. García-Martínez, and J. Fernández-Rossier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 067701 (2018) - Published 7 August, 2018

A new spin valve design consists of stacked van der Waals layers of graphene and ferromagnetic insulators.

Electrical Reservoirs for Bilayer Excitons

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Volume 121, Issue 6

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From the article:

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General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics