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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Below are the most recent papers in this dynamic area of condensed matter physics, ready for you to explore.

pp-wave superconductivity and Josephson current in pp-wave unconventional magnet/ss-wave superconductor hybrid systems

This paper demonstrates that hybrid systems combining pp-wave unconventional magnets and ss-wave superconductors induce an s+ps+p-wave-like superconducting state characterized by zero-energy flat bands, odd-frequency pairing, and tunable Josephson currents driven by the interplay between noncollinear magnetic order and singlet pairing.

Yuri Fukaya, Keiji Yada, Yukio Tanaka2026-03-27🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Topological properties of gapless phases in an interacting spinful wire

This paper identifies and characterizes two distinct topologically non-trivial gapless phases—the topological Luther-Emery liquid and the topological Mott insulator—at the boundaries of interacting spinful wires, demonstrating that despite lacking a mean-field description or local order parameter, these states can be adiabatically connected to a non-interacting topological metal with winding number ν=2\nu=2.

Polina Matveeva, Dmitri Gutman, Sam T. Carr2026-03-27🔬 cond-mat

Second-order Skin Effect in a Brick-Wall Lattice

This paper demonstrates a hybrid skin-topological effect in a non-Hermitian brick-wall lattice where the interplay of first-order band topology and non-reciprocal hopping leads to unconventional corner skin modes with dynamically stable exceptional point-like features and a distinct spatial distribution, which are experimentally visualized using a designed topolectrical circuit.

Dipendu Halder, Srijata Lahiri, Saurabh Basu2026-03-27🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Low-Field Metal-Insulator Transition in AB-Stacked Bilayer Graphene

This paper demonstrates that incorporating trigonal warping effects into AB-stacked bilayer graphene enables a low-field metal-insulator transition at approximately 10 T, a significant reduction from previously predicted requirements, by utilizing a transverse electric field to open a gap that is subsequently closed by a relatively small in-plane magnetic field.

Amarnath Chakraborty, Aleksandr Rodin, Shaffique Adam, Giovanni Vignale2026-03-27🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Robust topological BIC nanocavities for upconversion directional emission

This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a robust topological plasmonic nanocavity strategy that leverages symmetry breaking to convert bound states in the continuum into a multi-BIC regime, enabling deterministic, uniform, and highly directional upconversion emission from single-particle emitters while suppressing mode perturbations.

Yongqi Chen, Ming Zhu, Qingfeng Bian, Xiumei Yin, Wenxin Wang, Bin Dong, Yurui Fang2026-03-27🔬 physics.optics