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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 establishes an exact analytical relation showing that the time-independent areal rate of Zitterbewegung in two-dimensional Dirac systems is directly determined by the Berry curvature, thereby linking interband quantum dynamics to topological band geometry independent of the initial state.
This paper investigates how engineered dissipative and dephasing environments can activate work extraction (ergotropy) in interacting spin-chain quantum batteries, revealing that purely dissipative dynamics can induce transient Mpemba-like advantages and temperature-dependent steady states via dark subspaces, whereas dephasing channels generally suppress such extractable work.
This paper reports the synthesis and characterization of covalently linked spin-1/2 and spin-1 triangular nanographenes that form tunable heterospin systems with robust ferrimagnetic interactions, enabling the engineering of both compensated and uncompensated ground states for potential applications in qudit-based quantum technologies.
This paper introduces a new Wannier-function-based approach grounded in the modern theory of orbital magnetization to accurately quantify orbital angular momentum by capturing both local and itinerant contributions, thereby revealing significant non-local corrections to the orbital Hall conductivity that are missed by traditional atom-centered approximations.
This paper demonstrates all-optical control of many-body exciton interactions in monolayer WSe phototransistors by utilizing valley-selective excitation to induce helicity-dependent exciton renormalization and nonlinear photoresponse, thereby establishing the valley degree of freedom as a tunable parameter for valleytronic applications.
This review article examines the fundamental mechanisms and diverse functionalities of light-controlled van der Waals tunnel junctions, highlighting their potential to probe nonequilibrium dynamics in quantum materials and enable advanced applications in computing, sensing, and memory.
This paper demonstrates that dynamically tuning non-Hermitian coupling between two sub-threshold photonic crystal nanolasers via asymmetric optical pumping enables the generation of Q-switched optical pulses by controlling collective modal losses in an indium phosphide platform.
This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates a chiral van der Waals metasurface that enables selective strong coupling with circularly polarized light and reveals polariton-driven third-harmonic generation, establishing a versatile platform for advanced chiral polaritonics and non-reciprocal photonic devices.
This paper introduces a pseudo-unitary Floquet quasicrystal model with non-reciprocal hopping that simulates Bloch electrons in a magnetic field, revealing a sharp mobility edge between metallic and insulating phases and a unique discrete-time topological transition characterized by -symmetry breaking and spectral winding.
This paper reports the first experimental realization of a fermionic Laughlin state on IonQ's Aria-1 trapped-ion quantum computer, utilizing a scalable Hamiltonian variational ansatz and symmetry-verification error mitigation to successfully characterize key topological features like correlation holes and chiral edge modes.