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  1. Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit (2017)
    Bevin Huang, Genevieve Clark et al. Nature
  2. Coupled Spin and Valley Physics in Monolayers ofMoS2and Other Group-VI Dichalcogenides (2012)
    Di Xiao, Gui‐Bin Liu et al. Physical Review Letters
  3. Valley polarization in MoS2 monolayers by optical pumping (2012)
    Hualing Zeng, Junfeng Dai et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  4. Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (2014)
    Xiaodong Xu, Wang Yao et al. Nature Physics
  5. Valleytronics in 2D materials (2016)
    John R. Schaibley, Hongyi Yu et al. Nature Reviews Materials
  6. Valley-Contrasting Physics in Graphene: Magnetic Moment and Topological Transport (2007)
    Di Xiao, Wang Yao et al. Physical Review Letters
  7. Electrically tunable excitonic light-emitting diodes based on monolayer WSe2 p–n junctions (2014)
    Jason Ross, Philip Klement et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  8. Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures (2015)
    Pasqual Rivera, John R. Schaibley et al. Nature Communications
  9. Electrical control of neutral and charged excitons in a monolayer semiconductor (2013)
    Jason Ross, Sanfeng Wu et al. Nature Communications
  10. Optical generation of excitonic valley coherence in monolayer WSe2 (2013)
    Aaron M. Jones, Hongyi Yu et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  11. Electrical control of 2D magnetism in bilayer CrI3 (2018)
    Bevin Huang, Genevieve Clark et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  12. Giant tunneling magnetoresistance in spin-filter van der Waals heterostructures (2018)
    Tiancheng Song, Xinghan Cai et al. Science
  13. Signatures of moiré-trapped valley excitons in MoSe2/WSe2 heterobilayers (2019)
    Kyle L. Seyler, Pasqual Rivera et al. Nature
  14. Valley-dependent optoelectronics from inversion symmetry breaking (2008)
    Wang Yao, Di Xiao et al. Physical Review B
  15. Three-band tight-binding model for monolayers of group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (2013)
    Gui‐Bin Liu, Wen-Yu Shan et al. Physical Review B
  16. Magnetic control of valley pseudospin in monolayer WSe2 (2015)
    Grant Aivazian, Zhirui Gong et al. Nature Physics
  17. Single quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors (2015)
    Yuming He, Genevieve Clark et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  18. Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds (2015)
    Sanfeng Wu, Sonia Buckley et al. Nature
  19. Van der Waals Engineering of Ferromagnetic Semiconductor\n Heterostructures for Spin and Valleytronics (2017)
    Ding Zhong, Kyle L. Seyler et al. arXiv (Cornell University)
  20. Valley-polarized exciton dynamics in a 2D semiconductor heterostructure (2016)
    Pasqual Rivera, Kyle L. Seyler et al. Science
  21. Electrical tuning of valley magnetic moment through symmetry control in bilayer MoS2 (2013)
    Sanfeng Wu, Jason Ross et al. Nature Physics
  22. Electronic structures and theoretical modelling of two-dimensional group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (2014)
    Gui‐Bin Liu, Di Xiao et al. Chemical Society Reviews
  23. Massive Dirac fermions and spin physics in an ultrathin film of topological insulator (2010)
    Hai‐Zhou Lu, Wen-Yu Shan et al. Physical Review B
  24. Moiré excitons: From programmable quantum emitter arrays to spin-orbit–coupled artificial lattices (2017)
    Hongyi Yu, Gui‐Bin Liu et al. Science Advances
  25. Electrical control of second-harmonic generation in a WSe2 monolayer transistor (2015)
    Kyle L. Seyler, John R. Schaibley et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  26. Interlayer valley excitons in heterobilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (2018)
    Pasqual Rivera, Hongyi Yu et al. Nature Nanotechnology
  27. Signatures of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in twisted MoTe2 (2023)
    Jiaqi Cai, Eric Anderson et al. Nature
  28. Observation of fractionally quantized anomalous Hall effect (2023)
    Heonjoon Park, Jiaqi Cai et al. Nature

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Wang Yao 34821 13927 17530 203 40.2k
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Di Xiao 32094 16592 13990 182 40.1k
M. I. Katsnelson 25345 12858 9003 223 32.8k
Jie Shan 29262 9053 16430 150 35.2k
Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero 29131 19293 9673 177 38.1k
Kin Fai Mak 34568 10194 17829 92 39.7k
N. M. R. Peres 34775 20541 12417 198 43.5k
Michael F. Crommie 21880 13937 11462 238 31.7k
Vladimir I. Fal’ko 24618 14001 10280 388 30.0k
Yuanbo Zhang 39908 14290 16679 75 45.3k

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