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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 theoretically demonstrates that a charge current flowing through graphene can induce both charge-neutral Majorana and heat currents in an adjacent Kitaev magnet via Kondo-type coupling, thereby establishing a mechanism for the electronic control of Majorana fermions.
This paper utilizes high-resolution X-ray nano-structural mapping to demonstrate how growth-induced lattice defects and crosshatch patterns in Intel Si/SiGe heterostructures propagate through the device, creating permanent strain that directly impacts the energy spectra and performance of silicon-germanium qubits.
This paper introduces a Lippmann-Schwinger framework to model two-magnon scattering from weak defect potentials, demonstrating that the scattering is determined by the overlap between effective field perturbations and degenerate spin-wave states, thereby linking crystallographic orientation to magnetic linewidth broadening in iron garnet films.
This paper demonstrates that simple local constraints in two-dimensional ice- and dimer-type models induce robust, tunable subdiffusion of defects through dynamical caging and an emergent entropic logarithmic potential, resulting in a fractal frontier dimension of 5/4 characteristic of loop-erased random walks.
This paper establishes a symmetry-based framework for Dirac fermions on two-dimensional hyperbolic lattices by incorporating spin-curvature coupling via a discrete spin connection, demonstrating through both continuum theory and numerical simulations that this interaction leads to a robust, nonvanishing low-energy density of states which enhances susceptibility to interaction-driven instabilities.
This paper reports the fabrication of high-quality microwave resonators on Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructures that achieve record-breaking internal quality factors at low power and demonstrate robust performance in high magnetic fields, overcoming previous limitations of photon losses in such hybrid quantum devices.
This paper reports the microwave spectroscopy of epitaxial Al/InAs Josephson junction chains that exhibit superinductance and high plasma frequencies up to 12 GHz, while identifying a sharp frequency-dependent decrease in internal quality factors potentially linked to intrinsic losses in the superconductor-semiconductor junctions.
This paper formulates minimal and dissipative Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) dynamics within the functional Schrödinger representation for a non-relativistic bosonic field, demonstrating how sector projection recovers standard nonlinear stochastic behavior while revealing that dissipative extensions introduce non-reducible collective momentum shifts and pair-mixing terms that lead to non-extensive stationary kinetic energy in many-body systems.
This paper derives a generalized Kirchhoff's law for linear time-varying Floquet media, demonstrating that thermal emissivity at a specific frequency equals a weighted sum of harmonic-resolved absorptivities in the adjoint system, thereby enabling near-maximal violations of the conventional law where strong emission occurs with negligible same-frequency absorption.
By combining scanning photocurrent microscopy and ultrafast transient photovoltage measurements on bulk-insulating Bi2Se3 nanoribbons, this study demonstrates that anomalously long-range photocarrier transport at cryogenic temperatures is mediated by charge-neutral excitonic states rather than free carriers, as evidenced by the high electric fields required for dissociation and diffusivity values exceeding those predicted by the Einstein relation.