Blending Superconductivity and Magnetism to Create Composite Quantum Excitations Christos Panagopoulos and Alexander Petrović The team of Professor Christos Panagopoulos recently created a novel "hybrid" material in which superconductivity and magnetism interact via their respective topological solitons:vortices and skyrmions. This interaction is achieved by experimentally coupling chiral magnetism and superconductivity in [IrFeCoPt]/Nb heterostructures. They also detected a thermally tunable R

Tailoring Topological Phases in Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Feng-Chuan Chuang Recently, topological materials and two-dimensional materials have attracted a significant amount of research interest in condensed matter physics. In particular, topological insulators (TIs) have been intensively studied for the past decade due to their interesting electrical, optical, and mechanical properties. In addition, two-dimensional topological insulators (2D TIs), also known as quantum s