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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 introduces a universal thermodynamic framework for strongly coupled quantum systems that defines consistent thermostatic properties and entropy while utilizing experimentally accessible variables to formulate general first and second laws.
This paper demonstrates that the alpha-relaxation dynamics of various glass-formers across different temperature regimes can be universally described by a two-parameter model derived from the two-state, two-scale (TS2) theory, which connects to the Hall-Wolynes elastic relaxation framework.
This paper demonstrates that rhombohedral 3-, 4-, and 5-layer graphene spontaneously hosts a doubly degenerate, interaction-driven non-Abelian Chern band with at filling , characterized by an emergent gauge structure driven by Fock exchange interactions.
This study reveals that replacing Rh with Ir in ternary tellurides TaXTe induces an orbital-driven topological phase transition from hybrid to type-II Weyl semimetals, which significantly enhances planar Hall responses through velocity-modulated effective mass anisotropy.
This study employs a combined first-principles and Wannier-based model to reveal that the direct-to-indirect bandgap transition in layered MoS is driven not only by interlayer - coupling but also critically by previously overlooked - and - orbital interactions between neighboring sulfur atoms.
This paper presents an improved analytical model for metallic tunnel junctions that offers greater accuracy than the traditional Simmons model by deriving new formulas for tunneling current and conductance at finite voltage and temperature, which align more closely with the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation and demonstrate significant practical differences when fitted to experimental data.
This paper proposes a protocol to probe magnetization dynamics in flat-band ferromagnets by investigating the nucleation and growth of magnetic bubbles, revealing how non-trivial quantum geometry governs dynamics in itinerant ferromagnets and how chiral edge modes can be accessed in quantum Hall ferromagnets, with specific relevance to twisted MoTe and graphene-based systems.
This paper establishes a theoretical framework demonstrating that in spin-orbit-free compensated magnets, geometric constraints imposed by zero net magnetization can protect unconventional spin degeneracies even in the absence of conventional symmetry protection.
This paper demonstrates that exciting nitrogen-vacancy (NV) ensembles at the NV0 zero-phonon line (575 nm) induces spin-selective electron tunneling that converts NV- to NV0 while preserving spin polarization, thereby enabling the previously discarded NV0 fluorescence to contribute to the measurable spin contrast and improve sensing sensitivity.
This study employs a comprehensive Molecular Dynamics framework to demonstrate that magnesium ion doping at surface sites significantly enhances the chemical stability of hydroxyapatite, offering optimized guidelines for developing advanced dental materials to combat tooth decay.