Low-Dimensional Quantum Materials: Synthesis, Properties, and Potential Applications
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 February 2026 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: MBE growth and interfacial controlling of novel 2D materials and their heterostructures; ARPES studies on the electronic structures of 2D materials; construction, characterization and engineering of novel correlation quantum states in 2D limits
Interests: MBE growth and characterization of low-dimensional magnetic quantum nanomaterials; the surfaces, interfaces and electronic structures of low-dimensional organic semiconductive molecular thin films
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Reducing the dimensionality of materials can endow them with many new correlation effects, and thus constitutes an innovative way to explore novel quantum states and phenomena, which show great potential for application in next-generation quantum technologies. Recent advances in controlled epitaxial growth, mechanical exfoliation, and chemical solution-phase synthesis have enabled the fabrication of low-dimensional quantum materials in the form of zero-dimensional quantum dots, one-dimensional nanowires, two-dimensional thin films, and heterostructures. The extraordinary properties of low-dimensional quantum materials—including topological quantum states, charge density waves, unconventional superconductivities, magnetic orders, quantum critical phases, excitonic effects, novel band structures, etc.—have the potential to revolutionize quantum technologies.
This Special Issue welcomes submissions of original research articles and reviews in research areas that may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- The fabrication and development of low-dimensional quantum materials and related heterostructures.
- The characterization of the structural phases, surfaces, and interfaces of low-dimensional quantum materials.
- The observation of novel quantum states and phenomena in low-dimensional quantum materials.
- Understanding the correlation effects and quantum states in low-dimensional quantum materials.
- Fine-tuning the properties of low-dimensional quantum materials for various applications.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Yi Zhang
Dr. Can Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- quantum dots
- nanowires
- 2D materials
- atomically thin crystals
- moiré superlattices
- van der Waals heterostructures
- topological quantum states
- topological insulators
- Dirac semimetal
- Weyl semimetal
- nodal-line semimetals
- Majorana fermions
- quantum spin Hall effect
- charge density wave
- excitons
- valleytronics
- quantum magnetism
- superconducting interfaces
- monolayer semiconductors
- quantum confinement
- quantum criticality
- molecular beam epitaxy
- chemical vapor deposition
- scanning tunneling microscopy
- scanning tunneling spectroscopy
- angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
- scanning tunneling electron microscopy
- quantum transport
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