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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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Multiphysics Modeling of Thermo-Viscoelastic Damage in Functionally Graded Abradable Coatings with Probabilistic Geometric Tolerance Analysis

This study presents a unified multiphysics-probabilistic framework that integrates temperature-dependent viscoelasticity, progressive damage, and geometric tolerances to demonstrate how periodic property modulation in functionally graded abradable coatings significantly increases damage risk and exceedance probability compared to monotonic gradients, a critical insight that deterministic analyses fail to capture.

Amjad El-Mellouhi, Yassine Adjal, Khaled Dhibi, Fedwa El-Mellouhi2026-08-11
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Magnetoelastic coupling in stripe-domain states of yttrium iron garnet

This study investigates magnetoelastic coupling in stripe-domain states of yttrium iron garnet thin films, revealing that while local coupling is strong, the overall interaction remains in the weak regime due to phase cancellation across the magnetic texture, thereby establishing magnetic domain patterns as a key control parameter for phonon-mediated magnon dynamics.

Nimisha Arora, Daniel Prestwood, Takashi Kikkawa, Eiji Saitoh, Jack Gartside, Will Branford, Hidekazu Kurebayashi2026-08-11
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Crystalline Group-IV Josephson Junction

This paper demonstrates a fully epitaxial, CMOS-compatible approach to creating crystalline Josephson junctions using gallium-doped germanium grown via molecular beam epitaxy, which achieves atomically sharp interfaces and strong coupling while offering a promising path toward low-disorder superconducting qubits.

Frederik H. Knudsen, Axel Leblanc, Patrick J. Strohbeen, Jechiel van Dijk, Yiliu Li, Logan Kusher, Arunav Bordoloi, Alis (…)2026-08-11
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High second Chern number induced by long-range hopping in a four-dimensional Dirac model

This paper demonstrates that introducing long-range hopping into a four-dimensional Dirac model enables the realization of topological phases with high second Chern numbers and facilitates the transformation of trivial insulators into topological ones, thereby establishing long-range hopping as a powerful tool for engineering unconventional 4D topological states.

Zheng-Rong Liu, Xiang Liu, Rui Chen, Bin Zhou2026-08-11
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Thermodynamic evidence for interaction-driven first-order topological quantum phase transitions

Using nanoSQUID on tip magnetometry to directly image local orbital magnetization in rhombohedral graphene, this study provides the first thermodynamic evidence that interaction-driven topological quantum phase transitions are first-order processes characterized by discontinuous magnetization changes and phase coexistence between competing correlated states.

Surajit Dutta, Nadav Auerbach, Chiho Yoon, Tonghang Han, Matan Uzan, Zhengguang Lu, Niladri-Sekhar Kander, Yaozhang Zhou (…)2026-08-11
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Interaction between Rydberg Excitons in Cuprous Oxide Revealed through Resonant Second Harmonic Generation

This study combines experimental observations of resonant second harmonic generation with a semi-classical theoretical model to demonstrate that interacting Rydberg excitons in cuprous oxide exhibit a Rydberg blockade and interaction scaling that significantly deviates from standard atomic-like van der Waals predictions, suggesting fundamental differences between excitons and atoms.

Andreas Farenbruch, Henje Stolz, Peter Grünwald, Dirk Semkat, Nikita Siverin, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, Dietmar Fröhlich, Manf (…)2026-08-11
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Relaxation-driven flat bands and topology in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

This paper demonstrates that intrinsic lattice relaxation in moiré transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers generates a pseudomagnetic field that induces topologically non-trivial flat bands with non-zero Chern numbers, overturning previous conclusions of topological triviality and establishing these systems as a new class of relaxation-driven topological materials.

Mitchell Luskin, Max Geier, Liang Fu, Ziyan Zhu2026-08-11
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Polarization engineered all 2D Graphene/Ferroelectric hybrid for persistence-free photoresponse

This paper presents a high-performance, persistence-free graphene/3R-MoS2 van der Waals photodetector that leverages the tunable polarization of sliding ferroelectrics to achieve both ultra-high sensitivity (10% internal quantum efficiency) and rapid response times, overcoming the traditional trade-off between speed and sensitivity in graphene-based devices.

Navkiranjot Kaur Gill, Shaili Sett, Saloni Kakkar, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Arindam Ghosh2026-08-11