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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 paper establishes a topological characterization of generic multifold band degeneracies protected solely by Altland-Zirnbauer symmetries by overcoming the obstruction of enclosing spheres through a novel framework that identifies the stability of these nodes with the linking numbers of intersecting nodal manifolds and their associated spectral gaps.
This paper reports experimental evidence of a magnetic orbital Hall effect in the altermagnet RuO, demonstrating that it generates a large, unconventional torque capable of deterministic field-free switching in adjacent ferromagnets, thereby establishing altermagnets as intrinsic sources of orbital currents.
This paper demonstrates the ultraviolet and infrared finiteness of a parity-even, massless quantum electrodynamics in three dimensions up to two loops and beyond by employing the BPHZL renormalization method combined with the Lowenstein-Zimmermann subtraction scheme to address infrared divergences arising from ultraviolet subtractions.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that correlated insulating behavior in all stable narrow-gap carbon nanotubes arises from spontaneous exciton condensation, deriving the scaling laws for exciton binding energy and calculating the fundamental transport gap using a self-consistent, first-principles-validated two-band model.
Through systematic studies of 2D semiconductors, this paper reveals a universal, non-monotonic, and anomalous thickness-dependent absorption behavior in solids at the nanoscale that deviates significantly from the Beer-Lambert law due to electromagnetic interference effects, with implications for a wide range of materials and optoelectronic applications.
This review bridges theory and experiment to explain how solid-state spin defects, particularly diamond NV centers, function as local, frequency-selective noise spectrometers for probing dynamical processes across condensed-matter physics, chemical and biological sensing, and magnetic-resonance spectroscopy.
This paper reports the observation of quasi-periodic triangular patterns of spatially indirect excitons in a MoSe/WSe heterostructure and attributes their formation to a micrometer-scale elastic wrinkling instability confirmed by Föppl-von Kármán theory.
This study provides evidence for spin swapping in magnetic heterostructures with Rashba interfaces by demonstrating that the opposite signs of transverse resistance modulation in Cu/Bi2O3 and Ag/Bi2O3 systems directly correlate with the opposing spin/charge interconversion efficiencies of their respective interfaces.
This paper develops a Lifshitz-Kosevich framework for topological flat bands, demonstrating that their anomalous Landau levels exhibit field-dependent thermal damping which directly measures the quantum metric, thereby establishing quantum oscillations as a probe for flat-band quantum geometry.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that in two-dimensional -wave magnets with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, parity-driven mechanisms induce a spatial decoupling between isotropic out-of-plane and directionally tunable in-plane exchange interactions, while a competition between nodal geometry and the Rashba gap generates an anomalous, dimension-reducing decay in the in-plane Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction.