2D van der Waals magnets: From fundamental physics to applications Scientific discovery is often described as walking into a dark room and turning on the light. The discovery of 2D magnetism in van der Waals materials in 2016 was one such leap forward, removing one spatial dimension from macroscopic materials. The stud...

Single-mode termination of phage transcriptions, disclosing bacterial adaptation for facilitated reinitiations Prof. Sungchul Hohng's lab and other groups have recently found that the transcription termination mode is dual with decomposing and recycling terminations compatible at a single terminator in bacteria ...

“Broken Kramers Degeneracy in Altermagnetic MnTe” Altermagnetism is a newly identified fundamental class of magnetism with vanishing net magnetization and time-reversal symmetry broken electronic structure. Probing the unusual electronic structure with nonrelativistic spin splitting would be a...

The thermal Hall effect in magnetic insulators has been considered a powerful method for examining the topological nature of charge-neutral quasiparticles such as magnons. Yet, unlike the kagome system, the triangular lattice has received less attention for studying the thermal Hall effect because the scalar spin chira...

Inversion symmetry breaking is critical for many quantum effects and fundamental for spin-orbit torque, which is crucial for next-generation spintronics. Recently, a novel type of gigantic intrinsic spin-orbit torque has been established in the topological van-der-Waals (vdW) magnet iron germanium telluride. However, i...