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

Long-range and steady-state entanglement of driven-dissipative nitrogen vacancy centers using microwaves as a drive and synthetic antiferromagnet as a dissipator

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.

Federico Garcia-Gaitan, Branislav K. Nikolic2026-07-17
🔬 mesoscale physics

Scaling analysis of quantum geometry in second-order nonlinear transport

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.

Zhen-Hao Gong, Z. Z. Du, Hai-Peng Sun, Hai-Zhou Lu, X. C. Xie2026-07-16
🔬 condensed matter

Three-Dimensional Non-Foliated Fractional Quantum Hall Phases with Irrational Anyons in Twisted van der Waals Multilayers

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.

Seyoung Jin, Hyeonseo Lim, Youngwook Kim, Gil Young Cho2026-07-16
🔬 mesoscale physics

Electronic properties and topological aspects of graphene nanohelicoids

This paper introduces graphene nanohelicoids as geometric analogues of nanoribbons on helicoidal surfaces, revealing through tight-binding models that their nonsymmorphic symmetry induces unique anti-chiral properties and width-dependent periodic transitions between semiconducting and metallic regimes accompanied by alternating topological Zak phases.

Xiaoqian Liu, Arsen Herasymchuk, Yaroslav Zhumagulov, Oleg V. Yazyev2026-07-16
🔬 mesoscale physics

Precision quantum simulation of magnon spectra and interactions

This paper reports the high-precision analog-digital quantum simulation of a 97-qubit 2D XY spin-1/2 magnet, successfully extracting temperature-dependent magnon spectra and lifetimes while characterizing nonlinear scattering mechanisms that exceed the predictive capabilities of classical matrix-product state methods.

Trond I. Andersen, Nikita Astrakhantsev, Jeronimo Martinez, Will Morong, Johannes Motruk, Dario Rossi, Brayden Ware, Bry (…)2026-07-16
🔬 mesoscale physics

Fractional Chern insulators in alternating twisted multilayer MoTe2_{2}

This study demonstrates that sliding layers and applying an electric field in alternating twisted multilayer MoTe2_2 can tune the quantum geometry of topological bands to stabilize fractional Chern insulators, revealing that a non-zero Chern number alone is insufficient for their formation without satisfying specific geometric trace conditions.

Xi-Hang Feng, Shi-Ping Ding, Xiang-Jian Hou, Ying-Hai Wu, Jin-Hua Gao2026-07-16
🔬 applied physics

Wireless millikelvin interconnects for superconducting quantum hardware

This paper demonstrates the feasibility of millikelvin wireless interconnects for superconducting quantum hardware by showing that wireless coupling preserves the intrinsic response of microwave resonators while identifying and characterizing parasitic electromagnetic pathways within the cryogenic environment.

Kristopher Barr, Mingyan Zhong, Euan Parry, Manoj Stanley, Qusay Al-Taai, Paniz Foshat, Kaveh Delfanazari, Martin Weides (…)2026-07-16