{"id":197872,"date":"2024-10-17T23:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T04:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/physicists-report-emergence-of-ferromagnetism-at-onset-of-kondo-breakdown-in-moire-bilayer-lattices"},"modified":"2024-10-17T23:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T04:26:47","slug":"physicists-report-emergence-of-ferromagnetism-at-onset-of-kondo-breakdown-in-moire-bilayer-lattices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/physicists-report-emergence-of-ferromagnetism-at-onset-of-kondo-breakdown-in-moire-bilayer-lattices","title":{"rendered":"Physicists report emergence of ferromagnetism at onset of Kondo breakdown in moir\u00e9 bilayer lattices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-report-emergence-of-ferromagnetism-at-onset-of-kondo-breakdown-in-moire-bilayer-lattices3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their previous research, Mak and his colleagues engineered a highly tunable moir\u00e9 Kondo lattice system based on MoTe<sub>2<\/sub>\/WSe<sub>2<\/sub> moir\u00e9 bilayers. This material offers a unique opportunity to examine the Kondo destruction transition in a continuous manner, which has proved highly challenging in bulk heavy fermion materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this background, our <i>Nature Physics<\/i> paper studied the fate of the heavy fermions by continuously tuning the density of the itinerant carriers in the system, which tunes the effective Kondo coupling strength,\u201d said Mak. \u201cNear a critical density, we observed a destruction of the heavy fermions and the simultaneous emergence of a ferromagnetic Anderson insulator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of their new study, the researchers examined the Kondo lattice physics emerging in the moir\u00e9 semiconductor: angle-aligned MoTe<sub>2<\/sub>\/WSe<sub>2<\/sub> heterobilayer presented in their previous paper. Their results highlight the promise of moir\u00e9 Kondo lattices for studying the Kondo destruction transition using a tunable platform, as well as the possibility of realizing other exotic states of matter near such transition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their previous research, Mak and his colleagues engineered a highly tunable moir\u00e9 Kondo lattice system based on MoTe2\/WSe2 moir\u00e9 bilayers. This material offers a unique opportunity to examine the Kondo destruction transition in a continuous manner, which has proved highly challenging in bulk heavy fermion materials. \u201cWith this background, our Nature Physics paper studied [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}