In an electronic system with various interactions intertwined, revealing the origin of its many-
body ground state is challenging and a direct experimental way to verify the correlated …

Chiral materials have attracted significant research interests as they exhibit intriguing
physical properties, such as chiral optical response, spin-momentum locking, and chiral …

Measurements of optical activity can be readily performed in transparent matter by means of
a rotation of transmitted light polarization. In the case of opaque bulk materials, such …

Proximity-induced fine features and spin-textures of the electronic bands in graphene-based
van der Waals heterostructures can be explored from the point of tailoring a twist angle …

The microscopic origins of thermopower have been investigated to design efficient
thermoelectric devices, but strongly correlated quantum states such as charge density …

The influence of intrinsic defects of 1T-TaS2 on charge density waves (CDWs) is studied
using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM, STS), angle-resolved …

Charge and thermal transport in a crystal is carried by free electrons and phonons
(quantized lattice vibration), the two most fundamental quasiparticles. Above the Debye …

The photoelectron momentum microscope (PMM) in operation at BL6U, an undulator-based
soft x-ray beamline at the UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, offers a new approach for μm-scale …

While the prototypical quasi-two-dimensional charge density wave system of 1 T-TaS 2 has
been known as a Mott insulator with a possibility of quantum spin liquid, recent band …

The electronic evolution of doped Mott insulators has been extensively studied for decades
in search of exotic physical phases. The proposed Mott insulator 1 T-TaS2 provides an …