Doubly Metastable Synthesis for Accelerated Quantum Materials Discovery
Abstract
New physics emerges from new materials, which in turn rely on the development of new synthesis techniques. Identifying the enlargement of metastable synthesis window as enabling for realizing novel materials, we develop diffusion-activated epitaxy, a technique which combines two metastable synthesis methods of diffusion and epitaxy. We observe that within a narrow window of investigated synthesis space we can experimentally identify the stabilization of four distinct phases, three of which show X-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy characterization data that are incompatible with the crystal structures registered in experimental and computational inorganic structure databases. These results suggest an enlarged metastable synthesis window is enabled by this synthesis approach, identifying doubly metastable synthesis as a promising method for exploration of quantum materials.
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BibTeX
@misc{lee2026doubly,
title = {{Doubly Metastable Synthesis for Accelerated Quantum Materials Discovery}},
author = {Kyuho Lee and Berit H. Goodge and Soonhyun Kwon and Yash Anand and Theo Manev and Maximilien F. Debbas and Weiliang Luo and Takehito Suzuki and Heather J. Kulik and Joseph G. Checkelsky},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.13859},
eprint = {2610.13859},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13859},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Doubly Metastable Synthesis for Accelerated Quantum Materials Discovery
AU - Kyuho Lee
AU - Berit H. Goodge
AU - Soonhyun Kwon
AU - Yash Anand
AU - Theo Manev
AU - Maximilien F. Debbas
AU - Weiliang Luo
AU - Takehito Suzuki
AU - Heather J. Kulik
AU - Joseph G. Checkelsky
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.13859
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13859
AB - New physics emerges from new materials, which in turn rely on the development of new synthesis techniques. Identifying the enlargement of metastable synthesis window as enabling for realizing novel materials, we develop diffusion-activated epitaxy, a technique which combines two metastable synthesis methods of diffusion and epitaxy. We observe that within a narrow window of investigated synthesis space we can experimentally identify the stabilization of four distinct phases, three of which show X-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy characterization data that are incompatible with the crystal structures registered in experimental and computational inorganic structure databases. These results suggest an enlarged metastable synthesis window is enabled by this synthesis approach, identifying doubly metastable synthesis as a promising method for exploration of quantum materials.
ER -