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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 article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor qubits, highlighting their gate-tunable Josephson coupling, diverse architectures ranging from Andreev bound states to Majorana zero modes, and their potential for scalable, low-crosstalk, and topologically protected quantum information processing.
This study demonstrates that in a Photosystem II reaction center modeled as a nonequilibrium molecular junction, cotunneling redistributes extractable nonequilibrium energy among various electronic states and can induce microscopic passive-state rearrangements that are often concealed by the thermodynamic smoothness of ergotropy and energetic capacitance.
By employing machine-learned potentials to enable extensive sampling against the high-accuracy random-phase approximation (RPA), this study evaluates various density functional theory (DFT) approximations for the graphene-water interface, identifying six reliable functionals and establishing a transferable scoring framework to guide the selection of models for simulating solid-liquid interfacial properties.
This study demonstrates that 250 keV oxygen ion irradiation of ZnO nanorods enables reversible exciton switching and tunable exciton-phonon coupling through defect engineering, offering a pathway for defect-programmable nanophotonic and optoelectronic devices.
This study reveals that in gapless HgTe quantum wells, the coexistence of degenerate massless Dirac electrons and nondegenerate thermally activated heavy holes creates a hybrid three-component plasma where short-range electron-hole interactions drive a -dependent resistivity, contrasting sharply with the temperature-independent behavior of symmetric Dirac systems.
This paper investigates hybrid metal-semiconductor quantum circuits to demonstrate that coupled Kondo anyons can form robust non-Fermi liquid phases with tunable transport and susceptibility exponents, which eventually transition into a screened Fermi liquid under stronger inter-site coupling.
This paper establishes a theorem proving that thermal conductance alone cannot distinguish between topological and kinetic origins of fractional thermal transport at topological insulator–superconductor interfaces, demonstrating that the observed half-integer plateau in recent experiments arises from full equilibration of co-propagating modes rather than non-Abelian topology, and proposing that charge-sector measurements like anomalous Lorenz ratios and shot noise are required to resolve this ambiguity.
This paper demonstrates that in circularly driven two-dimensional lattices of stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains, the physical construction of the constituent chains—despite being unitarily equivalent in the static limit—decisively determines the resulting Floquet topological phases, including distinct Chern numbers, gap-resolved winding numbers, and chiral edge states, due to construction-dependent Peierls phases induced by the driving field.
This paper demonstrates the implementation of geometric heat pumping on a superconducting quantum processor using a collision model, where a driven qubit exchanges energy with thermal ancilla reservoirs to verify that the resulting heat transfer depends solely on the driving contour in parameter space and converges to the geometric limit in the slow-driving regime.
This study demonstrates that phonon-enabled collective strong coupling between multiple hexagonal boron nitride quantum emitters and a plasmonic cavity at room temperature can be achieved and controlled through vibronic transitions, as evidenced by spectrally resolved hybridization observed via complementary cathodoluminescence and photoluminescence spectroscopy.