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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 quantum corrections to electron dynamics in a circularly polarized electromagnetic field generate an anomalous radiation reaction force acting perpendicular to the electron's velocity, a phenomenon arising from one-loop QED effects that has no classical analog.
This paper demonstrates that in a disordered Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain near the topological delocalization transition, the hybridization of topological domain wall zero modes with stretched-exponential spatial decay drives an anomalous logarithmic scaling of ac conductivity at criticality.
This paper proposes topological altermagnetic Josephson junctions that overcome the orbital field limitations of conventional planar junctions by utilizing altermagnets' intrinsic spin-polarized band splitting and zero net magnetization to robustly host Majorana end modes, with their existence and spin properties tunable via crystallographic orientation and compatible with high- platforms.
This paper proposes that aligning twisted bilayer graphene with specific commensurate insulating substrates induces intervalley coupling and spin-orbit interactions, transforming the system into a geometrically frustrated four-band model that hosts topological flat bands with high spin Chern numbers near the magic angle.
This paper presents concise analytical expressions and existence criteria for higher-order topological corner, edge, and bulk states in two-dimensional continuum grid-like frames, demonstrating their robustness and enabling direct engineering applications despite complex spectral overlaps.
This paper investigates AC-driven transport in nanofluidic channels to reveal how capacitive coupling between channel wall electrons and electrolyte ions creates distinct frequency-dependent signatures, modifies electro-osmotic flows, and establishes a comprehensive transport matrix linking ionic, electronic, and hydrodynamic phenomena.
This study employs comprehensive first-principles computations to reveal that significant electron-phonon coupling effects, combined with nanostructuring, substantially enhance the thermoelectric figure of merit in LiZnAs and ScAgC half-Heusler compounds, achieving peak $zT$ values of 1.53 and 1.0, respectively.
This paper presents a semi-pedagogical overview and an efficient time-dependent Pfaffian-based numerical toolbox for simulating universal topological quantum computation in Majorana nanowire networks, highlighting how projective parity measurements and hybridization extend computational capabilities beyond braiding alone.
This paper proposes and analyzes an all-mechanical scheme using a localized atomic force microscope actuator to achieve coherent control, Rabi oscillations, and full quantum-state tomography of the fundamental flexural mode in suspended carbon nanotubes, thereby enabling the reconstruction of Wigner functions and measurement of decoherence without optical heating or dedicated on-chip microwave lines.
This paper demonstrates that coupling a chiral molecule to an electron reservoir locks its spin configuration enantiospecifically through dissipative spin-orbit coupling, thereby breaking time-reversal symmetry and Onsager reciprocity to provide a theoretical foundation for the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect.