Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
The recent discovery that electrons in nano-scale conductors can act like a highly viscous liquid has triggered a surge of research activities investigating consequences of this surprising fact. Here we demonstrate that the electronic…
We show how crystalline inversion symmetry can be dynamically broken by optical phonons with generic, hardening Kerr-like non-linearities. The symmetry-broken state is reached through a parametric instability that can be accessed by driving…
Cavity polaritons, the elementary excitations appearing in quantum microcavities in the strong-coupling regime, reveal clear signatures of quantum collective behavior. The combination of unique spin structure and strong nonlinear response…
Studies of electronic transport in width-restricted channels of PdCoO$_2$ have recently revealed a novel `directional ballistic' regime, in which ballistic propagation of electrons on an anisotropic Fermi surface breaks the symmetries of…
Non-diffusive, fluid-like transport of charge and heat has been observed in several materials, raising the question of whether they can emerge simultaneously and how they are related to bi-component electron-phonon fluids. Here we introduce…
In this paper we introduce momentum-resolved metal Boltzmann-Bloch equations (MBBE) for the combined description of electronic intra- and interband processes in noble metals. This microscopic framework incorporates a full treatment of…
Local composition fluctuations in random alloys become crucial when one or more dimensions are reduced to the nanoscale. Using extended H\"uckel theory, we study the semiconductor random alloy SiGe sandwiched between Si due to its relevance…
We fabricated a quantum dot coupled laterally to a two-dimensional electron gas and vertically to a three-dimensional electron gas in order to investigate the eigenstate dependence of tunneling rate to these gases. We observed a…
Understanding and manipulating nanoscale domain wall (DW) dynamics is a central topic in magnetism and spintronics for its promising applications in logic and memory devices. In most magnetic systems, inertia affects only transient DW…
Achieving long-lived nanoscale magnetic solitons remains a central challenge, as their lifetimes typically decrease rapidly with temperature. Here, we demonstrate that anisotropic Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (aDMI) enables spatially…
We investigate the emergence of topological superconductivity and Majorana zero modes in the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (001) interface. Using a realistic multiband tight binding model that incorporates…
We analytically study the orbital response of alternating-twist graphene systems with four and five layers to an in-plane magnetic field, using the unitary transformation introduced by Khalaf et al. (Phys. Rev. B 100, 085109 (2019)). This…
A recent paper, Phys. Rev. Research 8, 013261 (2026), claims that the polaromechanical normal-mode splitting (NMS) measured in Nat. Commun. 16, 5652 (2025) is not true based on their two results: $i$) there is no true splitting in the…
Owing to their relevance for spintronics, electronic band splitting and spin-polarization textures in magnets are active areas of research. In non-collinear magnets, alternating spin textures can arise both for isolated bands and for…
Phononic Crystals provide a versatile platform for controlling phonons in applications such as waveguiding, filtering, and sensing. To minimize dissipation, cavity resonators are often embedded within the bandgap of phononic crystals and…
We investigate magnetotransport in a time-reversal symmetry-broken, untilted Weyl semimetal in the simultaneous presence of momentum-space Berry curvature and real-space topology arising from a skyrmion-induced emergent magnetic field…
Despite the success of Landau-level theory and edge-state transport formalisms, a direct microscopic link between bulk quantization and the observed hierarchy of quantum Hall plateaus has not been established. In particular, no unified…
Magnetic hopfions are three-dimensional topological solitons -- knotted, vortex-like spin configurations. In chiral magnets, hopfions can appear as isolated structures or they can be linked to skyrmion strings. Previous studies employed a…
In altermagnets, the magnon bands are anisotropically spin-split in reciprocal space without relativistic or dipolar spin-spin interactions. In this work, we theoretically study magnons and phonons coupled by spin-lattice interaction in a…
We present a path-integral Monte Carlo estimator for calculating the dipole polarizability of interacting Coulomb plasma in the long-wavelength limit, i.e., the optical region. We present comprehensive details and method validation studies…