Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • RESEARCH BRIEFINGS

A layered metal confines heavy electrons to two dimensions

In heavy-fermion compounds, hybridization between mobile charge carriers and localized magnetic moments gives rise to exotic quantum phenomena. The discovery of heavy fermions in a van der Waals metal that can be peeled apart to a layer a few atoms thick allows these phenomena to be studied and manipulated in two dimensions.

This is a summary of: Posey, V. A. et al. Two-dimensional heavy fermions in the van der Waals metal CeSiI. Nature 625, 483–488 (2024).

Access options

Rent or buy this article

Prices vary by article type

from$1.95

to$39.95

Learn more

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04111-1

References

  1. Wirth, S. & Steglich, F. Nature Rev. Mater. 1, 16051 (2016).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Coleman, P. & Schofield, A. J. Nature 433, 226–229 (2005).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  3. Hegger, H. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4986–4989 (2000).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  4. Mattausch, H. & Simon, A. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 37, 499–502 (1998).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Novoselov, K. S. et al. Science 353, aac9439 (2016).

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

Download references

Subjects

Latest on:

Nature Careers

Jobs

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing

Search

Advanced search

Quick links