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Microstructures can be carefully designed to reveal the quantum phase of the wave-like nature of electrons in a metal. Here, we report phase-coherent oscillations of out-of-plane magnetoresistance in the layered delafossites PdCoO and PtCoO The oscillation period is equivalent to that determined by the magnetic flux quantum, , threading an area defined by the atomic interlayer separation and the sample width, where is Planck's constant and is the charge of an electron. The phase of the electron wave function appears robust over length scales exceeding 10 micrometers and persisting up to temperatures of T > 50 kelvin. We show that the experimental signal stems from a periodic field modulation of the out-of-plane hopping. These results demonstrate extraordinary single-particle quantum coherence lengths in delafossites.
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Phys Rev Lett
August 2025
ShanghaiTech University, School of Physical Science and Technology, Shanghai 201210, China.
We report direct spectroscopic evidence of correlation-driven Mott states in layered Nb_{3}Cl_{8} through combining scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and dynamical mean-field theory. The Hubbard bands persist down to monolayer, providing the definitive evidence for the Mottness in Nb_{3}Cl_{8}. While the size of the Mott gap remains almost constant across all layers, a striking layer-parity-dependent oscillation emerges in the local density of states (LDOS) between even (n=2, 4, 6) and odd layers (n=1, 3, 5), which arises from the dimerization and correlation modulation of the obstructed atomic states, respectively.
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July 2025
Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan.
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Department of Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, D-14195 Berlin, Germany.
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July 2025
School of Basic Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, Odisha 752050, India.
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