Chun-Ying Huang

Abstract Ordered phases give rise to collective modes and quasiparticles, such as spin waves and magnons emerging from magnetic order. Extending this paradigm to ferroelectrics suggests the existence of polarization waves and their fundamental quanta, ferrons. A coherent ferron—that is, a polarization wave—modulates the magnitude of the electric polarization and is thus an amplitude (Higgs) mode of the ferroelectric order.

Abstract The IVS4+919G>A mutation in the GLA gene, prevalent in East Asian populations, causes cardiac-type Fabry disease by creating an abnormal splice site. This results in the insertion of a 57-nucleotide segment between exon 4 and exon 5, introducing a premature stop codon and leading to a truncated, non-functional α-Gal A protein.

Abstract The exfoliation and stacking of two-dimensional van der Waals crystals have created unprecedented opportunities in the discovery of quantum phases. A major obstacle to the advancement of this field is the limited spectroscopic access due to a mismatch in the sample sizes (10−6–10−5 m) and the wavelengths (10−4–10−3 m) of electromagnetic radiation relevant to their low-energy excitations.