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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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This study demonstrates that chlorine alloying in the van der Waals antiferromagnet CrSBr systematically localizes excitonic wavefunctions and tunes magneto-excitonic coupling, establishing compositional engineering as a viable strategy for controlling light-matter interactions in magnetic semiconductors.
This study uses non-equilibrium molecular dynamics to demonstrate that while rough, deformable contacts induce plug flow and cavitation in single-component water and hydrocarbon lubricants, an immiscible two-fluid mixture uniquely minimizes friction and material transfer while sustaining plug flow to lower velocities, despite occasionally forming transient wear particles.
This study identifies a Wigner crystal phase as the origin of highly insulating states in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene and demonstrates how this phase drives the emergence of competing magnetic-field-stabilized superconductivity and unconventional reentrant quantum Hall states.
This paper proposes a theoretically exact framework for describing two-level systems in the strong coupling regime and outlines a feasible experimental protocol using solid-state quantum dots to determine the previously unknown parameters governing this interaction.
This paper demonstrates that coupling conventional superconductors to spatially varying altermagnetic textures induces spin-triplet superconductivity and supercurrent-driven torques, particularly within domain walls, thereby revealing a pathway for local Cooper pair engineering and the detection of altermagnetic order.
This paper proposes a scheme for achieving long-range, steady-state entanglement between two distant nitrogen-vacancy centers by driving them with microwaves and coupling them to a synthetic antiferromagnet as an equilibrium dissipative environment, predicting a steady-state concurrence of approximately 0.28 for centers separated by 100 nm.
This paper establishes a scaling law that expresses the second-order nonlinear Hall conductivity as a polynomial of the linear longitudinal conductivity, where distinct "weight fingerprints" for each mechanism allow for the quantitative disentanglement of quantum-geometric contributions from disorder-induced backgrounds in experimental data.
This paper establishes a symmetry-guided, mechanism-resolved framework that identifies and quantitatively distinguishes 20 distinct mechanisms of third-order nonlinear transport in disordered materials by combining magnetic point group analysis with characteristic scaling laws between nonlinear and linear conductivities.
This paper uncovers a class of dissipationless nonlinear odd viscoelastic effects in three-dimensional quantum systems, where geometric distortions in orthogonal directions generate momentum flow in a third direction, a phenomenon rooted in multiband Hilbert-space geometry and scalable by topological invariants.
This paper proposes that large-angle twisted van der Waals multilayers can realize intrinsically three-dimensional, non-foliated fractional quantum Hall phases with irrational anyons by suppressing interlayer tunneling while preserving Coulomb interactions, thereby overcoming the traditional obstruction to 3D topological order.