cond-mat.mes-hall papers

Explore the fascinating intersection where quantum materials meet the complexity of everyday environments in the Cond-Mat — Mes-Hall section. This field investigates how tiny particles behave when caught between the orderly world of single atoms and the chaotic nature of bulk matter, revealing the hidden rules that govern electricity, magnetism, and heat in novel substances.

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🔬 mesoscale physics

Hidden Singularity and Fractal Dimensions for Extended Harper Operators

This paper establishes that the spectra of extended Harper operators in the zero-measure regime possess finite $1/2$ -dimensional Hausdorff measure and a lower box dimension of at most $1/2$ (improving to $1/3$ on the isotropic critical boundary) by utilizing a family of unitary transformations to map these operators to singular Jacobi representatives, thereby enabling the construction of specific interval covers that yield these fractal dimension bounds and demonstrate cases where the box-counting dimension fails to exist.

Simon Becker, Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Igor Krasovsky2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

Charge state and hydration of vacancies in silicon and silicon carbide in contact with water: A grand-canonical first-principles stability map

This study employs grand-canonical first-principles calculations to map the stability of silicon and silicon carbide vacancies in contact with water, revealing that their charge states and hydration levels are jointly determined by pH and electrode potential, with hydrogen binding cooperatively to silicon vacancies but failing to passivate carbon vacancies without cathodic bias.

Abhirup Patra2026-10-27

🔬 materials science

OpenFerro: a unified framework for mesoscale ferroic dynamics and enhanced sampling

OpenFerro is a unified, GPU-accelerated lattice-field framework that leverages automatic differentiation and enhanced sampling to simulate ferroic dynamics at mesoscopic scales with atomistic resolution, bridging the gap between microscopic fluctuations and collective phenomena.

Pinchen Xie2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

Wrinkling dynamics of thin crystalline sheets and its dependency on topological defects

Using a Surface Phase-Field-Crystal-Helfrich model, this study reveals that while crystalline defects do not alter the scaling laws of wrinkling coarsening, they significantly influence the onset, wavelength, and pattern irregularity of wrinkles by promoting a higher density of wrinklons and modifying long-term morphological evolution.

Emma Radice, Ingo Nitschke, Marco Salvalaglio, Axel Voigt2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

High-Q, high-power spin Hall nano-oscillators with thick NiFe layers enabled by SiC substrates

This study demonstrates that utilizing high thermal conductivity SiC substrates enables spin Hall nano-oscillators with thick NiFe layers to achieve record-high simultaneous output power and coherence, overcoming the thermal limitations that typically degrade performance in such devices.

Maha Khademi, Akash Kumar, Martina Ahlberg, Artem Litvinenko, Xiaotian Zhao, Saroj P. Dash, Johan Åkerman2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

Momentum-selective graphene spectroscopy of moiré excitons

This paper proposes using graphene proximity as a momentum-selective near-field spectroscopy tool to characterize moiré excitons in WSe $_2$ /MoSe $_2$ heterobilayers, revealing that energy transfer rates to graphene differ significantly from far-field optical selection rules and can uniquely identify chiral dark states based on their transition dipole textures.

Katsunori Wakabayashi2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

Emergent parafermions with tunable localization in a quantum circuit network

This paper proposes a triangular triple-dot quantum circuit network where geometric frustration generates tunable, robust $\mathbb{Z}_3$ parafermions that can be relocated via gate voltages, establishing a scalable platform for manipulating non-Abelian excitations.

D. B. Karki, Andrew K. Mitchell2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

Dephasing-powered open quantum-dot battery

The paper proposes and analyzes an autonomous open quantum-dot battery that utilizes local dephasing to efficiently charge a high-energy storage state, demonstrating near-unity ergotropic efficiency and offering two distinct protocols for extracting the stored energy in experimentally accessible mesoscopic systems.

Alok Nath Singh, Rafael Sánchez, Andrew N. Jordan2026-10-27

🔬 mesoscale physics

New Materials, New Functionalities: Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Ultra-High Conductivity Oxides

This review highlights the critical role of molecular beam epitaxy in synthesizing ultra-high conductivity oxide thin films, enabling the discovery of novel electronic properties essential for advancing future technologies like low-loss interconnects, spintronics, and quantum devices.

Gaurab Rimal, Tanzila Tasnim, Brian Opatosky, Ryan B. Comes, Debarghya Mallick, Simon Kim, Rob G. Moore, Seongshik Oh, M (…)2026-10-26

🔬 mesoscale physics

Kagome goldene with flat bands and Dirac nodal line fermions via line-graph epitaxy

This paper introduces "line-graph epitaxy" as a novel method to synthesize a single-atomic-layer kagome lattice of gold (goldene), which exhibits strong electron correlation effects via a flat band and hosts dual Dirac nodal lines through proximity effects with its substrate.

Qiwei Tian, Sahar Izadi Vishkayi, Chen Zhang, Jiang Zeng, Bo Li, Li Zhang, Long-Jing Yin, Yuan Tian, Meysam Bagheri Taga (…)2026-10-26