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.

Experimental observation of exact quantum critical states

This paper reports the unambiguous experimental realization of exact quantum critical states using a programmable superconducting qubit system, demonstrating that quasiperiodic zeros in hopping couplings protect these states and revealing anomalous mobility edges through the observation of coexisting delocalized dynamics and incommensurately distributed coupling zeros.

Wenhui Huang, Xin-Chi Zhou, Libo Zhang, Jiawei Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Bing-Chen Yao, Zechen Guo, Peisheng Huang, Qixian Li, Yongqi Liang, Yiting Liu, Jiawei Qiu, Daxiong Sun, Xuandong Sun, Zilin Wang, Ch (…)2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Non-Hermitian Multipole Skin Effects Challenge Localization

This paper demonstrates that while quenched disorder can induce a transition from a non-Hermitian skin effect to many-body localization in systems conserving only U(1) charge, the skin effect remains robust against arbitrary disorder in systems with conserved dipole or higher multipole moments, ensuring delocalization regardless of disorder strength.

Jacopo Gliozzi, Federico Balducci, Taylor L. Hughes, Giuseppe De Tomasi2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Large critical current density Josephson ππ junctions with PdNi barriers

This paper reports the achievement of record-high critical current densities in Nb/Pd89_{89}Ni11_{11}/Nb Josephson π\pi junctions, demonstrating that the Pd89_{89}Ni11_{11} barrier's perpendicular magnetic anisotropy enables zero-field operation and establishing it as a promising material for superconducting digital logic and qubit applications.

Arjun Sapkota, Pukar Sedai, Robert M. Klaes, Reza Loloee, Norman O. Birge, Nathan Satchell2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Anisotropy-Driven Anomalous Inverse Orbital Hall Effect in Fe Films

This study demonstrates that strong uniaxial anisotropy in iron films enables an anomalous inverse orbital Hall effect, where orbital dynamics mediated by high orbital Hall conductivity facilitate efficient orbital-to-charge conversion in out-of-plane configurations, offering new avenues for controlling spin and orbital currents in orbitronics devices.

E. Santos, U. Borges, J. L. Costa, J. B. S. Mendes, A. Azevedo2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Type-II Antiferroelectricity

This paper introduces a new class of antiferroelectrics called type-II AFEs, characterized by opposite polarizations in momentum space across symmetry-decoupled subspaces, which intrinsically coexist with antiferromagnetism and exhibit unique magnetoelectric phenomena such as spin current generation and localized spin polarization.

Yang Wang, Zhi-Ming Yu, Chaoxi Cui, Yilin Han, Tingli He, Weikang Wu, Run-Wu Zhang, Shengyuan A. Yang, Yugui Yao2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall