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cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Pre-Patterned Superconducting Contacts for Clean Superconductor-Topological Material Interfaces Enabling Long-Range Josephson Coupling

Yong-Bin Choi, Chang-Won Choi, Luke Holtzman +8

Phase-coherent superconducting proximity in topological materials requires clean superconductor-topological material (SC-TM) interfaces, yet conventional top-contact fabrication of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026★ 4 cited

Programmable, Spontaneous Superlattice Memory in a Monolayer Topological Insulator

Jian Tang, Thomas Siyuan Ding, Shuhan Ding +24

Memory is a foundational concept across disciplines, from neurobiology and electronics to artificial intelligence and quantum gravity. In materials, memory effects typically arise…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Theory of reentrant superconductivity in Corbino Josephson junctions

Omri Lesser, Joon Young Park, Yuval Ronen +3

Josephson junctions made of conventional superconductors display Fraunhofer-like oscillations of the critical current as a function of the threaded magnetic flux. When the supercon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026★ 1 cited

Charged moiré phonons in twisted bilayer graphene

Alejandro Ramos-Alonso, Hector Ochoa

Moiré phonons describe collective vibrations of a moiré superlattice produced by long-wavelength relative displacements of the constituent layers. Despite coming from the backfoldi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2

Yinjie Guo, John Cenker, Ammon Fischer +13

Recent observations of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe have extended the family of moiré superconductors beyond twisted graphene. In WSe two different twist angles…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Electrically driven plasmon-polaritonic bistability in Dirac electron tunneling transistors

Shuai Zhang, Yang Xu, Junhe Zhang +12

Bistability-two distinct stable states under identical parameter-is not only a fundamental physical concept but also of importance in practical applications. While plasmon-polarito…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 7 cited

Observing Differential Spin Currents by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Yanhong Gu, Joseph Barker, Jiemin Li +12

Controlling spin currents, i.e., the flow of spin angular momentum, in small magnetic devices is the principal objective of spin electronics, a main contender for future energy eff…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Purcell enhancement of photogalvanic currents in a van der Waals plasmonic self-cavity

Xinyu Li, Jesse Hagelstein, Gunda Kipp +23

Cavities provide a means to manipulate the optical and electronic responses of quantum materials by selectively enhancing light-matter interaction at specific frequencies and momen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Higher Chern bands in helical homotrilayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Jungho Daniel Choi, Nicolás Morales-Durán, Yves H. Kwan +3

We propose helically twisted homotrilayer transition metal dichalcogenides as a platform for realizing correlated topological phases of matter with higher and tunable Chern numbers…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

Dissecting intervalley coupling mechanisms in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides

Oleg Dogadov, Henry Mittenzwey, Micol Bertolotti +8

Monolayer (1L) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a unique opportunity to control the valley degree of freedom of optically excited charge carriers due to the spin-val…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 2 cited

Ultrafast dynamics of quantum matter driven by time-energy entangled photons

Giovanni Citeroni, Marco Polini, Michael Dapolito +2

We study the dynamics of quantum matter interacting with time-energy entangled photons. We consider the stimulation of a collective mode of a two-dimensional material by means of o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 13 cited

Engineering robust strain transmission in van der Waals heterostructure devices

John Cenker, Jordan Fonseca, Mai Nguyen +8

Atomically thin van der Waals materials provide a highly tunable platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena in solid state systems. Due to their remarkable mechanical streng…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Tracking the photoinduced dynamics of a dark excitonic state in single-layer WS via resonant Autler-Townes splitting

Angela Montanaro, Francesco Valiera, Francesca Giusti +10

Excitons in a monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (1L-TMD) are highly bound states characterized by a Rydberg-like spectrum of discrete energy levels. Among these, states wit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Quantum Critical Dynamics Induced by Topological Zero Modes

Ilia Komissarov, Tobias Holder, Raquel Queiroz

We investigate the low-frequency ac transport in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain with chiral disorder near the topological delocalization transition. Our key finding is that t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Unveiling Topological Hinge States in the Higher-Order Topological Insulator WTe Based on the Fractional Josephson Effect

Yong-Bin Choi, Jinho Park, Woochan Jung +3

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) represent a novel class of topological materials, characterised by the emergence of topological boundary modes at dimensions two or more…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 5 cited

Crystalline superconductor-semiconductor Josephson junctions for compact superconducting qubits

Jesse Balgley, Jinho Park, Xuanjing Chu +11

The narrow bandgap of semiconductors allows for thick, uniform Josephson junction barriers, potentially enabling reproducible, stable, and compact superconducting qubits. We study…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Magnetic injection photocurrents in valley polarized states of twisted bilayer graphene

Fernando Peñaranda, Héctor Ochoa, Fernando de Juan

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene displays a complex phase diagram as a function of flat band filling, featuring compressibility cascade transitions and a variety of competing g…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Temperature crossovers in the specific heat of amorphous magnets

Hector Ochoa

It is argued that the specific heat of amorphous solids at low temperatures can be understood to arise from a single branch of collective modes. The idea is illustrated in a model…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 6 cited

Berry Phase Dynamics of Sliding Electron Crystals

Yongxin Zeng, Andrew J. Millis

Systems such as Wigner crystals and incommensurate charge density waves that spontaneously break a continuous translation symmetry have unusual transport properties arising from th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

Imaging heat transport in suspended diamond nanostructures with integrated spin defect thermometers

Valentin Goblot, Kexin Wu, Enrico Di Lucente +8

Among all materials, mono-crystalline diamond has one of the highest measured thermal conductivities, with values above 2000 W/m/K at room temperature. This stems from momentum-con…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 12 cited

Imaging strain-controlled magnetic reversal in thin CrSBr

Kousik Bagani, Andriani Vervelaki, Daniel Jetter +9

Two-dimensional materials are extraordinarily sensitive to external stimuli, making them ideal for studying fundamental properties and for engineering devices with new functionalit…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 11 cited

Flat and tunable moire phonons in twisted transition-metal dichalcogenides

Alejandro Ramos-Alonso, Benjamin Remez, Daniel Bennett +2

Displacement fields are one of the main tuning knobs employed to engineer flat electronic band dispersions in twisted van der Waals multilayers. Here, we show that electric fields…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

Plasmonic polarization sensing of electrostatic superlattice potentials

Shuai Zhang, Jordan Fonseca, Daniel Bennett +15

Plasmon polaritons are formed by coupling light with delocalized electrons. The half-light and half-matter nature of plasmon polaritons endows them with unparalleled tunability via…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 15 cited

Quantum Metric in Step Response

Nishchhal Verma, Raquel Queiroz

Quantum geometry of Bloch wavefunctions has gained considerable interest with the discovery of moiré materials that exhibit bands flattened by quantum interference. The quantum met…