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Experiments that directly probe the quantum geometric tensor in solids have not been reported. Now, the quantum metric and spin Berry curvature—dual components of the quantum geometric tensor—have been simultaneously measured in reciprocal space.

The authors report resonant soft x-ray scattering and polarimetry measurements on epitaxial thin films of La3Ni2O7. They find a diagonal bicollinear double spin stripe order, with no evidence of charge modulation.

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of CaNi₂ shows a band with vanishing dispersion across the full 3D Brillouin zone that is identified with the pyrochlore flat band as well as two additional flat bands that arise from multi-orbital interference of Ni d-electrons.

A prototypical kagome metal with magnetic and topological properties is identified.

The authors use high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy to determine the microscopic structure of three-dimensional charge order in AV₃Sb₅ (A = K, Rb, Cs) and its interplay with superconductivity.

3D fabrication via mechanically guided assembly has greatly progressed in the recent years, but has not been applicable for nanodevices. Here the authors suggest a configuration-designable 3D nanofabrication through a nanotransfer printing and design of the substrate’s mechanical characteristics.

The authors induce a nanoscale strain gradient in monolayer MoS₂ suspended on a waveguide and take advantage of propagating surface plasmon polaritons to localize hot electrons in the suspended area. They funnel excitons in the waveguide, facilitating all-optical control of exciton-to-trion conversion.

A high-resolution ARPES study on electron-doped MoS₂ reveals strong band renormalization effects near the conduction band minima, which are interpreted in terms of Holstein-type electron–phonon interactions.

Electrons in f orbitals can create localized states that interact strongly and drive strange metal and critical behaviour via the Kondo mechanism. Now a mechanism of geometric frustration enables similar phenomena with d electrons.

Tip-enhanced vibrational spectroscopy at room temperature is complicated by molecular conformational dynamics, photobleaching, contaminations, and chemical reactions in air. This study demonstrates that a sub-nm protective layer of Al₂O₃ provides robust conditions for probing single-molecule conformations.

Tip-enhanced nano-spectroscopy suffers from inconsistent signal and difficulty in polarization-resolved measurement. Here, the authors present adaptive tip-enhanced nano-spectroscopy, which enables the additional signal enhancement and near-field polarization control via dynamic wavefront shaping.

Spectroscopic measurements show how the features of the band structure related to the kagome lattice in CsV₃Sb₅ contribute to the observed strongly correlated phases.

The kagome lattice is increasingly known as a host for correlated topological electronic states. Here, Ye et al. report quantum de Haas-van Alphen oscillations of a ferromagnetic kagome material Fe3Sn2, where bulk electronic Dirac fermions are found to be modulated by rotation of the magnetic moment.

The experimental realization of lattice-born flat bands with nontrivial topology has been elusive. Here, the authors observe topological flat bands near the Fermi level in a kagome metal CoSn, with flat bands as well as Dirac bands originating from 3d orbitals in a frustrated kagome geometry.

Fe₃Sn₂ hosts massive Dirac fermions, owing to the underlying symmetry properties of the bilayer kagome lattice in the ferromagnetic state and the atomic spin–orbit coupling.

Habituation is a learning mechanism that enables control over forgetting and learning. Zuo, Panda et al., demonstrate adaptive synaptic plasticity in SmNiO₃ perovskites to address catastrophic forgetting in a dynamic learning environment via hydrogen-induced electron localization.

A new form of charge ordering is observed in a cuprate superconductor. At low doping, a fully rotationally symmetric ordering appears before becoming locked to the Cu–O bond directions at high doping. The link between charge correlations and fermiology give a perspective on the phase diagram.

In this study, a novel sensing strategy to identify gas species selectively and to estimate the concentrations of multiple gases was proposed. Highly sensitive gold NPs coated GLAD In₂O₃ was used as a gas-sensing material, and time-variant pseudorandom illumination of a single monolithic micro-LED (μLED) photoactivated (μLP) gas sensor was applied. Transient sensor signals, owing to the rapid changes in the light intensity of μLED and different reaction kinetics of various gas species, facilitate the identification of gas species. A deep convolutional neural network (CNN) was used to effectively analyze the complex frequency spectrogram of the transient sensor signals. As such, the identification of four mono-gas environments and binary gas mixtures (mixed ethanol and methanol) were successfully demonstrated with high accuracy. The total power consumption of the μLP was only 0.53 mW, one-hundredth of the conventional electronic nose (e-nose) system. Therefore, the proposed method may significantly improve the efficiency of e-nose technology in terms of cost, space, and power consumption.

We discuss the recent progress on the dynamic control of tip-induced light-matter interactions, especially for the low dimensional quantum materials. This review is divided into three parts based on the type of tip-induced control, i.e., gap control of tip-cavity, tip-pressure control, and near-field polarization control.