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A van der Waals material exhibiting room temperature broken inversion symmetry with ferroelectricity
Fabia F. Athena, Cooper A. Voigt, Mengkun Tian, Anjan Goswami, Emily Toph, Moses Nnaji, Fanuel Mammo, Brent K. Wagner, Sungho Jeon, Wenshan Cai, Eric M. Vogel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03977

A van der Waals material exhibiting room temperature broken inversion symmetry with ferroelectricity
Since the initial synthesis of van der Waals two-dimensional indium selenide was first documented in 1957, five distinct polymorphs and their corresponding polytypes have been identified. In this study, we report a unique phase of indium selenide via Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) analysis in the synthesized large-area films -- which we have named the $β^\text{p}$ phase. The quintuple layers of the $β^\text{p}$ phase, characterized by a unique zigzag atomic configuration wit…

A fast powerful X-ray transient from tidal disruption of a white dwarf
D. -Y. Li, J. Yang, W. -D. Zhang, the Einstein Probe collaborations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25877 https…

A fast powerful X-ray transient from tidal disruption of a white dwarf
Stars captured by black holes (BHs) can be tore apart by strong tidal force, producing electromagnetic flares. Some 100 tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been observed, involving invariably normal gaseous stars whose debris falls onto the BH fueling the flares over years. White dwarfs (WDs)-the most prevalent compact stars a million times denser and thus tougher than gaseous stars-can only be disrupted by intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) of 10^2-10^5 solar masses. WD-TDEs are predicted t…