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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Below are the most recent papers in this dynamic area of condensed matter physics, ready for you to explore.

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Comment on "Topography of Fermi arcs in t-PtBi2_2 using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy" arXiv:2503.08841 (cond-mat)

By reanalyzing the complete deposited data from O'Leary et al., this study demonstrates that their independent ARPES measurements actually confirm the existence of a strongly anisotropic superconducting gap in t-PtBi2_2 and reveal that low-energy suppression persists up to 19 K, thereby resolving previous contradictions regarding surface superconductivity in this Weyl semimetal.

Sergey Borisenko2026-09-22
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Sub-Thermionic Switching in a Negative-Capacitance Bandgap-Change Field-Effect Transistor

This paper proposes and models a negative-capacitance bandgap-change field-effect transistor (NC-BCFET) utilizing bilayer graphene and AlScN ferroelectric to amplify the electric field-induced bandgap opening, achieving a subthreshold swing of 15 mV/dec at room temperature—significantly surpassing the Boltzmann limit—while highlighting the potential for deep subthermionic switching in materials with larger tunable bandgaps.

Rahul B Awale, Mike Klymenko, Yuefeng Yin, Nikhil V Medhekar, Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Michael S Fuhrer2026-09-22
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Multiscale Modeling of Ion Transport in Nanopores: Fitting Implicit-Water Radial Diffusion Profiles to Explicit-Water Molecular Dynamics

This paper presents a multiscale modeling approach that fits radially varying effective diffusion coefficients from explicit-water molecular dynamics simulations into an NP+LEMC framework, successfully capturing complex ion transport behaviors and selectivity in charged nanopores that constant-diffusion models fail to reproduce.

Mónika Valiskó, Salman Shabbir, Eszter Molnárné Lakics, Zoltán Ható, Dezső Boda2026-09-22
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Scalable Multiple Electron Transport Architectures for Feedback Traceable Current Sources

This paper presents a scalable, floating-gate-based Multiple Electron Transport (MET) architecture that utilizes controlled charge injection and non-destructive readout to generate stable, programmable, and electron-traceable current sources with noise reduction scaling to the square root of parallel measurements.

Agustin Javier Lapi, Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Fernando Chierchie, Fabricio Alcalde Bessia, Miqueas Ezequiel Gamero, B (…)2026-09-22
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Enhanced thermal conductivity of (010) (AlxGa1-x)2O3 epitaxial films utilizing indium-catalyzed molecular beam epitaxy

This study demonstrates that indium-catalyzed molecular beam epitaxy enables the growth of high-quality, single-phase (010) (AlxGa1-x)2O3 films with a thermal conductivity twice that of previously reported values by suppressing defect scattering, while also characterizing the subsequent decline in thermal properties due to alloy scattering and interface stiffening.

Shivashree Gowda, Stephen Schaefer, Ethan A. Scott, Samreen Khan, Patrick E. Hopkins, M. Brooks Tellekamp2026-09-22
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Carrier-mediated spin helices in low-dimensional systems: Josephson-interference features and correlation renormalization

This paper theoretically investigates carrier-mediated spin helices in coupled-wire systems, demonstrating how interchannel correlations stabilize a collective quasi-two-dimensional texture and predicting that field-tunable Josephson interferometry in anisotropic superconductor-normal-metal-superconductor junctions can serve as a distinct transport probe for this spatial spin texture.

Yung-Yeh Chang, Chen-Hsuan Hsu2026-09-22
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Corbino-Enhanced Supersonic Acoustic-Emission Threshold in a GaAs Two-Dimensional Electron System

This study demonstrates that a high-mobility GaAs two-dimensional electron system in a Corbino geometry exhibits a polarity-selective threshold in differential resistance at zero magnetic field, which is interpreted as a local Cherenkov-like condition for supersonic acoustic phonon emission driven by radial current concentration and modulated by Peltier heating near the inner contact.

A. D. Levin, A. S. Jaroshevich, Z. D. Kvon, V. A. Chitta, M. S. Aksenov, D. V. Dmitriev, A. K. Bakarov, G. M. Gusev2026-09-22