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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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🔬 mesoscale physics

Parity-Resolved Quantum Capacitance and Quantum Inductance in Topological, Trivial, and Normal Nanowire Interferometers

This study demonstrates that parity-resolved quantum capacitance and inductance measurements in flux-threaded nanowire interferometers cannot uniquely identify topological superconductivity, as similar Majorana-like signatures can arise from trivial Andreev bound states and even normal nanowires, necessitating additional criteria to distinguish between these distinct physical origins.

Viktoriia Pinchenkova, Valerii K. Kozin, Maximilian Hünenberger, Daniel Loss, Jelena Klinovaja2026-08-11
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Noisy Braiding of Majorana Modes: A Comparison of Nanowire Trijunction and Quantum-Dot-Assisted Architectures

This paper microscopically compares nanowire trijunction and quantum-dot-assisted Majorana braiding architectures, demonstrating that the dot-assisted design achieves lower errors over shorter timescales due to its localized exchange mechanism, while also revealing distinct noise sensitivities that inform the design of more robust topological quantum gates.

Dibyajyoti Sahu, Suhas Gangadharaiah2026-08-11
🔬 materials science

Time-resolved study of carbonization and growth of ultrathin 3C-SiC on Si(111) under ultra-high vacuum

This study utilizes time-resolved XPS, microscopy, and depth profiling to characterize the kinetic evolution of ultrathin 3C-SiC nucleation and coalescence on Si(111) under ultra-high vacuum, revealing that the carbidic phase saturates at approximately 80% after 180 minutes of ethylene exposure at 800°C, thereby providing critical insights for optimizing SiC/Si templates for subsequent heteroepitaxial growth.

Pranjali Jadhao, Mojdeh Fallahpour, Josef Polčák, Eva Kolíbalová, Michal Horák, Jan Michalička, Petr Bábor, Stanislav Vo (…)2026-08-11
🔬 mesoscale physics

Topological phase rectification via Aharonov-Bohm interference in a Majorana--quantum-dot interferometer

The paper proposes and theoretically demonstrates a robust topological superconducting rectifier based on a quantum-dot–Majorana interferometer, where Aharonov-Bohm interference between trivial and topological channels induces a unipolar supercurrent and provides a model-independent signature for distinguishing topological from trivial rectification mechanisms.

Jia Liu, Hao-Yuan Yang, Yuan Hong, Li Ma, Feng Chi, Zi-Chuan Yi, Li-Ming Liu, Zhen-Guo Fu2026-08-11
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Cell Natural Orbitals in Interacting Topological Bands

This paper introduces Cell Natural Orbitals (CNOs) as a geometry-based framework that decomposes band-projected interactions into a hierarchical series of local orbitals, enabling efficient and faithful modeling of topological bands like magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene by identifying a dominant channel requiring dynamical treatment while treating subdominant channels at the mean-field level.

Nishchhal Verma, Harshitra Mahalingam, Daniel Muñoz-Segovia, Raquel Queiroz2026-08-11
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Ideal Optical Flux Lattices

This paper proposes a new paradigm for realizing robust fractional quantum Hall states in cold atomic gases by engineering "ideal" and essentially flat Chern bands in optical flux lattices using only two internal states and an additional scalar potential, which enables the creation of an exact Aharonov-Casher dark-state Hamiltonian to stabilize both Abelian and non-Abelian topological phases with existing experimental capabilities.

Ophelia Evelyn Sommer, Nigel R. Cooper2026-08-10
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Emergent electronic insulating states in a one-dimensional moiré superlattice

This study demonstrates the emergence of moiré-engineered electronic insulating states in one-dimensional armchair carbon nanotube/hexagonal boron nitride heterostructures, revealing that while single-particle effects explain gaps at full and charge neutrality fillings, interaction-driven mechanisms are likely responsible for the insulating behavior observed at half-filling.

Jianfeng Bi, Masaki Minamikawa, Ruige Dong, DongJun Kang, Zihan Weng, Shaoqi Sun, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ryo (…)2026-08-10
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Anderson Orthogonality as Measurement Backaction in Coupled Quantum Dots

This paper demonstrates that measurement backaction in coupled quantum dots can arise from intrinsic many-body correlations via the Anderson Orthogonality Catastrophe, where a charge sensor's reorganization of electrons suppresses resonant tunneling and enables energy-exchange processes that are tunable from negligible to dominant.

Will Grant, Sarath Sankar, Elena Cornick, Vahid Movahed, Johann Drayne, Silvia Lüscher, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardn (…)2026-08-10