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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 reveals that water fills nanoscale capillaries in discrete molecular layers when the walls are flexible, whereas rigid walls lead to abrupt filling, demonstrating that wall compliance governs the transition between these regimes through the competition between deformation energy and oscillatory wall-water interactions.
This paper establishes a first-frequency-moment optical Hall absorption sum rule for time-reversal-breaking systems, demonstrating that it vanishes for zero-field moiré topological bands while taking a universal value determined by magnetic flux in Hofstadter models, thereby providing a rigorous framework to link low- and high-frequency spectral contributions and diagnose Landau-level mixing.
This paper establishes an exact analytical relation showing that the time-independent areal rate of Zitterbewegung in two-dimensional Dirac systems is directly determined by the Berry curvature, thereby linking interband quantum dynamics to topological band geometry independent of the initial state.
This paper investigates how engineered dissipative and dephasing environments can activate work extraction (ergotropy) in interacting spin-chain quantum batteries, revealing that purely dissipative dynamics can induce transient Mpemba-like advantages and temperature-dependent steady states via dark subspaces, whereas dephasing channels generally suppress such extractable work.
This paper reports the synthesis and characterization of covalently linked spin-1/2 and spin-1 triangular nanographenes that form tunable heterospin systems with robust ferrimagnetic interactions, enabling the engineering of both compensated and uncompensated ground states for potential applications in qudit-based quantum technologies.
This paper demonstrates all-optical control of many-body exciton interactions in monolayer WSe phototransistors by utilizing valley-selective excitation to induce helicity-dependent exciton renormalization and nonlinear photoresponse, thereby establishing the valley degree of freedom as a tunable parameter for valleytronic applications.
This review article examines the fundamental mechanisms and diverse functionalities of light-controlled van der Waals tunnel junctions, highlighting their potential to probe nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum materials and enable advanced applications in computing, sensing, and memory.
This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates a chiral van der Waals metasurface that enables selective strong coupling with circularly polarized light and reveals polariton-driven third-harmonic generation, establishing a versatile platform for advanced chiral polaritonics and non-reciprocal photonic devices.
This study demonstrates a scalable method for tuning the optoelectronic properties of WSe films by selenizing VO/WO bilayers to achieve controlled vanadium doping, which significantly enhances hole conduction and induces an insulator-to-metal transition.
This paper reports the experimental observation of two distinct Berry phases ( and ) on a triangular Möbius microwave resonator, where the phases arise specifically from resonant modes lacking rotational symmetry and are confirmed via frequency shifts compared to mirror-symmetric counterparts.