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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🔬 mesoscale physics

Fourth-order closure obstruction and chiral nonlocality in circular kinetic magnetotransport

This paper identifies a "fourth-order closure obstruction" in circular kinetic magnetotransport, demonstrating that truncating the angular momentum hierarchy at the stress level neglects a critical back-action from higher Fermi-surface harmonics that generates a fourth-order q4q^4 term in the current eigenvalue, which becomes chiral and can induce Hall sign reversal under magnetic fields.

P. Shubham Parashar2026-07-28
🔬 mesoscale physics

Theory of Andreev reflection spectroscopy with anisotropic spin-dependent scattering

This paper presents a generalized theoretical framework for Andreev reflection spectroscopy that incorporates spin-dependent anisotropic scattering to accurately interpret spin polarization and conductance in various magnetic materials, thereby resolving limitations of isotropic models and enabling robust spin-polarized current generation for advanced spintronic and quantum technologies.

Zhiyue Li, Guoping Zhang, Tingyong Chen2026-07-28
🔬 applied physics

Janus-induced atomic reconstruction amplifies twist-angle modulation of interlayer thermal transport in moiré bilayers

The study demonstrates that introducing Janus-induced mirror-symmetry breaking in MoSSe/MoS2 bilayers promotes atomic reconstruction into distorted aperiodic patterns, which significantly weakens interlayer coupling and amplifies the twist-angle dependence of thermal conductance by nearly an order of magnitude compared to conventional twisted bilayer MoS2.

Bin Xu, Rulei Guo, Jie Sun, Hiroo Suzuki, Takuma Yoshida, Ichiro Nakaya, Koki Sawasaki, Yasuhiko Hayashi, Shohei Chiashi (…)2026-07-28
🔬 optics

Quantitative infrared nanoscopy: Probe-cavity eigenmodes and nano-gap polaritons for strongly coupled nanoscale optics

This paper introduces a robust "EigenProbe" formalism based on probe-cavity eigenmodes and nano-gap polaritons to quantitatively describe and accurately predict non-perturbative near-field interactions in optical nanoscopies, thereby enabling the precise inversion of local optical constants and advancing the field toward precision metrology and strong coupling applications.

Benjamin Allen, Brayden Lukaskawcez, Alyssa Bragg, Nitzan Hirshberg, Leo Fan Bowen Lo, Michael Fogler, Dimitri N. Basov (…)2026-07-28
🔬 mesoscale physics

Hidden topology and strong quantum metric bounds in trivial systems

This paper establishes a dimension-reduction framework that reveals nonzero lower bounds on the quantum metric integral in trivial 2D systems by linking them to one-dimensional topological obstructions and higher-order topological invariants, thereby generalizing the fundamental relationship between quantum geometry and topology beyond conventional Chern number constraints.

Chang-An Li, Yulin Qin, Bo Fu, Jian Li2026-07-28