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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 utilizes a microscopic Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model to investigate how interedge backscattering in quantum spin Hall-based NS and SNS junctions, driven by factors like barrier geometry and disorder, deviates from quantized conductance and hybridizes Andreev branches to modify superconducting interference patterns.
This paper demonstrates that optical and magneto-optical spectroscopy can serve as sensitive probes for detecting altermagnet-induced Van Hove singularities and Dirac gaps in two-dimensional -wave altermagnetic topological systems, characterized by distinct signatures in joint density of states, optical conductivities, and Faraday/Kerr rotations.
This paper proposes an autonomous feedback protocol that utilizes a quantum-dot detector to dynamically optimize the performance of a quantum-point-contact-based heat engine in response to unknown external temperature and potential conditions.
This paper proposes a novel design for long-distance superlubric ferroelectricity in lateral heterojunction bilayers that enables continuously controllable vertical polarization via electrically driven sliding, achieving ultra-low switching barriers and large ion displacements ideal for artificial synaptic devices.
This paper introduces a method to derive general lower bounds on relaxation and second-order correlation times using only steady-state expectation values and their derivatives, enabling the characterization of ultrafast dynamics and complex many-body systems without requiring full time-evolution calculations.
Using low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, this study confirms robust two-dimensional surface superconductivity in the Weyl semimetal -PtBi by directly observing quantized vortices and the Josephson effect, thereby establishing macroscopic quantum phase coherence linked to Fermi arcs.
This paper presents a graphene-enabled, on-chip integrated detector-interferometer that achieves record-high responsivity and phase-sensitive (sub-)terahertz detection, enabling deep sub-wavelength thickness measurements of thin films for diverse industrial applications.
This study demonstrates a radical reconfiguration strategy that transforms a single-radical aza-triangulene into a topologically protected, frustrated spin trimer with tunable interactions and non-interacting edge spins, effectively creating a molecular analog of a three-qubit quantum register.
This paper introduces Replica Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (R-STM), a novel method that leverages periodic replica signals to efficiently bridge atomic and mesoscopic length scales, enabling the visualization of atomic-scale superconducting gap modulations over micron-sized areas in materials like UTe and FeSe.
This study characterizes the magneto-optical response of epitaxial -based Heusler thin films using MOKE and BLS, revealing that while exhibits a distinct wavelength-dependent quadratic signal and strong BLS intensity at 457 nm, other compositions respond dominantly linearly, thereby guiding the optimal probing wavelength for these materials.