Magnetic properties and charge transport mechanisms in oxygen-deficient HfxZr1-xO2-y nanoparticles

This study demonstrates that ultra-small oxygen-deficient HfxZr1-xO2-y nanoparticles synthesized via solid-state organonitrate methods exhibit superparamagnetic and superparaelectric behaviors driven by oxygen vacancy-induced defect centers and flexo-electro-chemical strains, resulting in colossal dielectric permittivity and posistor effects suitable for advanced silicon-compatible electronic applications.

Oleksandr S. Pylypchuk, Eugene A. Eliseev, Andrii V. Bodnaruk + 12 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Cavity modification of magnetoplasmon mode through coupling with intersubband polaritons

This study demonstrates that coupling a multi-mode metal-insulator-metal cavity to a two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field creates hybrid magnetoplasmon-polariton modes where the inhomogeneous nature of the TM mode activates observable non-local Coulombic effects, offering a new pathway to probe Coulomb interactions in ultrastrongly coupled systems through cavity mode engineering.

Lucy L. Hale, Daniele De Bernardis, Stephan Lempereur + 12 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

iDART: Interferometric Dual-AC Resonance Tracking nano-electromechanical mapping

This paper introduces iDART, an interferometric dual-AC resonance tracking technique that achieves over a 10-fold improvement in signal-to-noise ratio for piezoresponse force microscopy, enabling reliable quantitative imaging and spectroscopy of both strong and weak nanoscale electromechanical systems while mitigating artifacts associated with high-voltage excitation.

J. Bemis, F. Wunderwald, U. Schroeder + 3 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Valley physics in the two bands kp\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p} model for SiGe heterostructures and spin qubits

This paper presents a computationally efficient two-band kp\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p} model for SiGe heterostructures that accurately reproduces atomistic tight-binding results for valley splittings and captures essential valley-orbit mixing effects, thereby enabling realistic simulations of spin qubit devices and electron-phonon interactions.

Tancredi Salamone, Biel Martinez Diaz, Jing Li + 2 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Controlling Spin-Mixing Conductance in KTaO3_{3} 2DEGs by Varying Argon-Ion Irradiation Time

This study demonstrates that the spin-mixing conductance in Ar+^+-irradiated KTaO3_{3} 2DEGs can be significantly enhanced by increasing the irradiation time, a result attributed to the higher concentration of oxygen vacancies that boost 2DEG conductance and facilitate efficient spin-to-charge conversion for oxide spintronics.

Yasar K. Arafath, Vaishali Yadav, Nidhi Kandwal + 3 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Orbitally resolved single-photon emission from an individual atomic vacancy center in a semiconductor

This paper demonstrates the generation of orbitally resolved single-photon emission from individual atomic vacancy centers in a semiconductor by utilizing a scanning tunneling microscope to achieve sub-nanometer spatial resolution and electrical addressability, thereby advancing the development of solid-state spin-photon interfaces.

Gagandeep Singh, Xiaodan Lyu, Bi Qi Chong + 11 more2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Coherent Biexciton Transport in the Presence of Exciton-Exciton Annihilation in Molecular Aggregates

This paper presents a theoretical framework demonstrating that the transport and fluorescence dynamics of biexcitons in molecular aggregates are critically governed by the initial state's coherence and momentum composition, revealing distinct transport behaviors for standing versus traveling waves and significant differences between J and H aggregates driven by band structure-dependent interference.

Rajesh Dutta, Chern Chuang2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Ge as an orbitronic platform: giant in-plane orbital magneto-electric effect in a 2-dimensional hole gas

This paper demonstrates that germanium 2D hole gases exhibit a giant in-plane orbital magneto-electric effect driven by heavy-light hole transitions, generating orbital angular momentum densities significantly larger than the Rashba-Edelstein effect and positioning Ge as a promising material for energy-efficient orbitronic devices.

James H. Cullen, Dimitrie Culcer2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Markovian quantum master equations are exponentially accurate in the weak coupling regime

The paper demonstrates that for open quantum systems coupled to Gaussian environments, the evolution can be described by a Markovian quantum master equation with an error that decreases exponentially with the inverse system-bath coupling strength, achieved through a generalized Born-Markov approximation that can be iterated to arbitrarily high orders.

Johannes Agerskov, Frederik Nathan2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Thermodynamic Phase Transitions in Finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Chains: Metastability and Heat Capacity Anomalies

This study investigates the thermodynamic properties of finite Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains, revealing a distinct metastable phase marked by heat capacity anomalies that emerges from hopping asymmetry and finite-size effects, thereby uncovering a rich bulk phase structure separate from topological boundary-driven transitions.

Carlos Magno da Conceição, Julio César Pérez-Pedraza, Alfredo Raya + 1 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Unified Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effects from Boundary-Induced Edge-State Quantization

This paper proposes a unified microscopic mechanism for both integer and fractional quantum Hall effects by demonstrating that boundary-induced quantization of edge states, through specific boundary conditions and weak parity-breaking interactions, naturally generates the observed hierarchy of Hall plateaus within standard quantum mechanics without requiring separate theoretical frameworks.

Pedro Pereyra2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Long-Lived Mechanically-Detected Molecular Spins for Quantum Sensing

This paper introduces the SQUINT framework, which integrates molecular electron spins with ultrasensitive mechanical readout and a modified XYXY decoupling sequence to achieve long coherence times and enable direct, chemically tunable quantum sensing of local magnetic fields and nuclear-spin ensembles.

Sahand Tabatabaei, Pritam Priyadarsi, Daniel Tay, Namanish Singh, Pardis Sahafi, Andrew Jordan, Raffi Budakian2026-03-06⚛️ quant-ph

Spectroscopic evidence of disorder-induced quantum phase transitions in monolayer Fe(Te,Se) superconductor

This study demonstrates that controllably introducing disorder via iron cluster deposition in monolayer Fe(Te,Se) drives a superconductor-insulator transition, revealing a disorder-induced quantum phase transition characterized by the evolution from superconducting to insulating U-shaped gaps attributed to localization-enhanced Cooper pair correlations.

Guanyang He, Ziqiao Wang, Longxin Pan + 5 more2026-03-06🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall