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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 demonstrates that relative motion between two boundary subsystems coupled to a common structured environment activates a kinematic threshold for irreversible correlated decoherence by enabling Doppler-shifted spectral overlap, thereby establishing a direct link between motion-induced excitation production and excess correlated dephasing.
This paper develops a general quantum theory of Sondheimer oscillations in thin films, demonstrating that unlike Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations where topology affects only the phase, band topology directly modifies the oscillation frequency, thereby establishing quantum Sondheimer oscillations as a robust probe for the full Landau level spectrum.
This paper investigates local topological markers in Chern insulators with partial translational symmetry, demonstrating their effectiveness in characterizing boundary behaviors and disorder in ribbon geometries while successfully extracting critical scaling exponents for the Kibble-Zurek mechanism.
This study employs first-principles calculations and tight-binding models to investigate the magnetization-induced gap, sidewall states, and half-quantized anomalous Hall conductance in three specific ferromagnet/topological insulator van der Waals heterostructures, while also analyzing the factors that may hinder exact half-quantization in realistic systems.
This study utilizes Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy to map the stacking-dependent work function and local photoresponse of CVD-grown MoS2 bilayers, revealing how interlayer coupling, substrate-induced photogating, and surface particulate trapping collectively govern their nanoscale optoelectronic behavior.
This paper demonstrates that sample-and-hold multiplexed cryo-CMOS control can reliably bias and pulse an isolated silicon double quantum dot at 0.5K, confirming its compatibility with the stability and speed requirements necessary for scalable spin-qubit processors.
This study demonstrates that applying x-y strain to monolayer graphene induces topological curvature that energetically stabilizes the system, modifies its electronic structure to create promising features for thermoelectrics, and reduces lattice thermal conductivity by enhancing phonon scattering through the transition of flexural acoustic modes from quadratic to linear dispersion.
This paper reports the discovery and theoretical verification of a giant longitudinal domain-wall Hall magnetoresistance in the magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2, which arises from an electric field distribution induced by the transverse giant anomalous Hall effect and offers potential for advanced multi-resistance-state modulation.
Using a charge self-consistent tight-binding method, this study reveals that junctions between Bernal and rhombohedral graphite half-crystals universally host localized electronic states, with most configurations involving rhombohedral stacking supporting flat bands that suggest the emergence of strongly correlated and topological phenomena.
This paper predicts that step edges on the surface of three-dimensional topological metals exhibit a robust, non-integer quantized conductance determined by bulk topology, extending the bulk-boundary correspondence to gapless systems and aligning with recent experimental observations of enhanced density of states at such edges.