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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Probing orbital currents through inverse orbital Hall and Rashba effects

This paper experimentally demonstrates that orbital-to-charge conversion via the inverse orbital Hall and Rashba effects dominates over spin-related mechanisms in metallic and semiconductor heterostructures, revealing significant signal enhancements in oxidized copper and distinct orbital diffusion behaviors in titanium and germanium to advance the field of orbitronics.

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

Cubic magnetic anisotropy in BB20 magnets: Interplay of anisotropy and magnetic order in Fe1x_{1-x}Cox_{x}Si

This study systematically quantifies the cubic magnetocrystalline anisotropy in MnSi and Fe1x_{1-x}Cox_{x}Si single crystals, revealing that specific low cobalt concentrations in Fe1x_{1-x}Cox_{x}Si generate sufficient anisotropy to controllably stabilize a low-temperature skyrmion lattice, thereby identifying it as the first chiral metallic system where such a phase is induced by cubic anisotropy.

G. Gödecke, A. O. Leonov, J. Grefe, S. Süllow, D. Menzel2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Hysteretic Excitation in Non-collinear Antiferromagnetic Spin-Torque Oscillators: A Terminal Velocity Motion Perspective

This paper establishes a unified Poisson Bracket framework for non-collinear antiferromagnetic spin-torque oscillators that utilizes a Terminal Velocity Motion perspective to analytically resolve rapid transient dynamics and hysteretic excitation, while identifying a "Rigid-Body Breaking" mechanism to explain sub-critical current mismatches.

Hao-Hsuan Chen, Ching-Ming Lee2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

2D abrupt nano-junctions blending sp-sp2 bonds on atomically precise heterostructures

This study demonstrates the on-surface synthesis of atomically precise 2D lateral heterostructures combining graphene nanoribbons and graphdiyne networks via sp-sp2 hybridization, revealing a bromine-mediated formation mechanism and showing that the resulting junction enables voltage-tunable spatial current separation for next-generation all-carbon nanoelectronics.

Alice Cartoceti, Simona Achilli, Masoumeh Alihosseini, Adriana E. Candia, Enrico Beltrami, Paolo D'Agosta, Alessio Orbelli Biroli, Francesco Sedona, Andrea Li Bassi, Jorge Lobo Checa, Carlo S. Casari2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Characterization and Comparison of Energy Relaxation in Fluxonium Qubits

This paper investigates the dominant energy relaxation mechanisms in fluxonium qubits using a circuit-based capacitive dielectric loss model, revealing that while a fluorine-based wet treatment slightly improves the effective capacitive quality factor by reducing metal-substrate interface loss, it does not address the primary source of loss in these devices.

Kate Azar, Lamia Ateshian, Mallika T. Randeria, Renée DePencier Piñero, Jeffrey M. Gertler, Junyoung An, Felipe Contipelli, Leon Ding, Michael Gingras, Kevin Grossklaus, Max Hays, Thomas M. Hazard (…)2026-03-26⚛️ quant-ph

Theoretical Prediction of Three-Dimensional sp2sp^2-free Graphyne-Based Nanomaterials via Density Functional Theory

This study theoretically predicts the existence of stable three-dimensional carbon allotropes derived from β\beta- and γ\gamma-graphyne via interlayer acetylene bridging, which form fully $sp$-sp3sp^3 hybridized networks with distinct anisotropic mechanical, electronic, and optical properties confirmed by density functional theory and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations.

Djardiel da S. Gomes, Alexandre F. Fonseca, Marcelo L. Pereira Jr2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Quantum-classical dynamics of Rashba spin-orbit coupling

This paper introduces and validates the "koopmon" method, a novel quantum-classical Hamiltonian model based on Koopman wavefunctions that successfully captures correlation effects and accurately reproduces fully quantum dynamics in Rashba spin-orbit coupling systems, outperforming conventional Ehrenfest approaches particularly in orbital dynamics and harmonic potential scenarios.

Paul Bergold, Giovanni Manfredi, Cesare Tronci2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Investigating spin and orbital effects via spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance

This study experimentally investigates spin and orbital torque phenomena in various normal metal/ferromagnet bilayers using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance, successfully extracting torque components and providing compelling evidence for orbital torque driven by the orbital Hall effect, including the demonstration of an out-of-plane torque attributed to interfacial mechanisms.

J. L. Costa, E. Santos, A. Y. M. Tani, J. B. S. Mendes, A. Azevedo2026-03-26🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall