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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 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.
This study demonstrates a scalable method for tuning the optoelectronic properties of WSe films by selenizing VO/WO bilayers to achieve controlled vanadium doping, which significantly enhances hole conduction and induces an insulator-to-metal transition.
This paper reports the experimental observation of two distinct Berry phases ( and ) on a triangular Möbius microwave resonator, where the phases arise specifically from resonant modes lacking rotational symmetry and are confirmed via frequency shifts compared to mirror-symmetric counterparts.
This paper proposes and numerically analyzes a transmon-based multilevel quantum battery that achieves remarkable energy storage and extraction control through sequential interactions with coherent ancillary two-level systems, demonstrating performance within the reach of current quantum circuit technology.
This paper proposes using nitrogen-vacancy center spin-qubit noise magnetometry to detect distinctive magnetic noise signatures that characterize the dynamical transition between algebraic spin correlations and vortex proliferation in two-dimensional XY magnets, thereby enabling the quantitative study of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless physics.
This paper presents a combined time-dependent density functional theory and quantum electrodynamics model to accurately predict the optical response and population dynamics of hydrogen-saturated graphene quantum dots, demonstrating strong agreement with experimental results.
This paper pioneers the direct experimental measurement of the non-Abelian quantum geometric tensor in a six-band photonic lattice using a novel orbital-resolved polarimetry technique, thereby enabling the characterization of non-Abelian quaternion charges, Euler curvature, and quantum metrics to unlock the study of complex multi-gap topological phases.