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cond-mat.mes-hall

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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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Boltzmann-Bloch Equation Approach to the Theory of the Optical Inter- and Intraband Response in Noble Metals

This paper introduces a momentum-resolved Boltzmann-Bloch equation framework that incorporates many-body interactions and anisotropic electronic dispersion to provide a microscopic description of the temperature-dependent linear optical response in gold, offering deeper insight into the interplay of intra- and interband processes than traditional phenomenological models.

Robert Lemke, Matthias Rössle, Holger Lange, Andreas Knorr, Jonas Grumm2026-03-20
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Cavity Control of Strongly Correlated Electrons Beyond Resonant Coupling

This paper presents a non-perturbative, first-principles framework demonstrating that off-resonant cavity coupling can significantly enhance the magnetic exchange interaction in correlated electron systems via a generalized Purcell factor, provided that both static Coulomb screening and dynamical vector potential effects are consistently accounted for in the presence of dielectric substrates.

Lukas Grunwald, Xinle Cheng, Emil Viñas Boström, Michael Ruggenthaler, Marios H. Michael, Dante M. Kennes, Angel Rubio2026-03-20
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Active Quantum Particles from Engineered Dissipation

This paper introduces and characterizes various models of active quantum particles driven by engineered dissipation, demonstrating that despite diverse microscopic mechanisms, they universally exhibit a crossover from diffusive to active-diffusive motion and a strong sensitivity to boundary conditions via the Liouville skin effect, while also discussing their quantum fluctuations, experimental realizations, and many-body implications.

Jeanne Gipouloux, Matteo Brunelli, Leticia Cugliandolo, Rosario Fazio, Marco Schirò2026-03-20
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Continuum Landau surface states in a non-Hermitian Weyl semimetal

This paper reveals that in non-Hermitian Weyl semimetals, the non-Hermitian chiral anomaly inflow is mediated by continuum Landau modes—special eigenstates with both spatial localization and a continuous spectrum—resulting in a unique volume-scaling of surface modes that contradicts traditional area-based expectations and can be probed via metamaterials.

Shuxin Lin, Rimi Banerjee, Zheyu Cheng, Kohei Kawabata, Baile Zhang, Y. D. Chong2026-03-19
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Spatially focused magnetic hyperthermia: comparison of MRSh and sLLG equations

This paper compares the Martsenyuk-Raikher-Shliomis (MRSh) and stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (sLLG) theoretical frameworks for spatially focused magnetic hyperthermia using magnetic viscosity concepts, ultimately proposing the use of perpendicular AC and DC magnetic fields to enhance image-guided thermal therapy.

Zs. Iszály, A. Husztek, B. Mehmeti, Z. Erdélyi, Á. Szöőr, M. Béres, J. Korózs, V. Bacsó, I. Nándori, I. G. Márián2026-03-19
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Re-evaluating photoluminescent defects in Cu2_2O

Using density functional theory with rigorous convergence and consistency checks, this study refutes the long-held assignment of specific photoluminescence lines in Cu2_2O to copper and oxygen vacancies, demonstrating instead that oxygen interstitials, copper interstitials, and a specific split copper vacancy are the only native defects responsible for robust in-gap states.

Alistair Brewin, Matthew P A Jones, Stewart J Clark2026-03-19
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Qubit Noise Spectroscopy of Superconducting Dynamics in a Magnetic Field

This paper demonstrates that magnetic noise spectroscopy using a proximate single spin qubit serves as a powerful, non-invasive probe to quantitatively characterize superconducting dynamics in a magnetic field, successfully distinguishing between critical pairing fluctuations and various vortex phases while extracting key physical parameters like oscillation frequencies and diffusivity.

Jiajie Cheng, Jaewon Kim, Oriana K. Diessel, Chong Zu, Shubhayu Chatterjee2026-03-19