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.

Strong Charge-Photon Coupling in Planar Germanium Enabled by Granular Aluminium Superinductors

By integrating a wireless ohmmeter to precisely control the kinetic inductance of granular aluminium films, researchers achieved strong charge-photon coupling between a germanium double quantum dot and a high-impedance superinductor resonator, overcoming fabrication challenges to enable novel qubit architectures and high-fidelity gates.

Marián Janík, Kevin Roux, Carla Borja Espinosa, Oliver Sagi, Abdulhamid Baghdadi, Thomas Adletzberger, Stefano Calcaterra, Marc Botifoll, Alba Garzón Manjón, Jordi Arbiol, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni I (…)2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Room-temperature cavity exciton-polariton condensation in perovskite quantum dots

This paper reports the first demonstration of room-temperature cavity exciton-polariton condensation in a tunable optical resonator containing colloidal CsPbBr3_3 perovskite quantum dots, evidenced by characteristic superlinear emission, reduced linewidth, blueshift, and extended temporal coherence.

Ioannis Georgakilas, David Tiede, Darius Urbonas, Clara Bujalance, Laura Caliò, Rafał Mirek, Virginia Oddi, Rui Tao, Dmitry N. Dirin, Gabriele Rainò, Simon C. Boehme, Juan F. Galisteo-López, Rainer F. (…)2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Automated tuning and characterization of single-electron and single-hole transistor charge sensors

This paper presents an automated protocol for tuning and characterizing single-electron and single-hole transistors as high-sensitivity charge sensors, demonstrating its effectiveness across a wide temperature range (including 1.5 K) to reduce operator overhead and support scalable spin-qubit architectures.

Benjamin Van Osch, Andrija Paurevic, Ali Sakr, Tanmay Joshi, Dennis van der Bovenkamp, Quim T. Nicolau, Floris A. Zwanenburg, Jonathan Baugh2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Dependency of quantum time scales on symmetry

Using spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, researchers discovered that quantum photoionization time scales are directly dependent on the symmetry and dimensionality of the material, with quasi-1D and quasi-2D systems exhibiting significantly longer delays (150–200+ attoseconds) compared to 3D copper (26 attoseconds).

Fei Guo, Dmitrii Usanov, Eduardo B. Guedes, Mauro Fanciulli, Kaishu Kawaguchi, Ryo Mori, Takeshi Kondo, Arnaud Magrez, Michele Puppin, Hugo Dil2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Quasi-1D Coulomb drag between spin-polarized quantum wires

This study experimentally validates theoretical predictions for Coulomb drag in spin-polarized quasi-1D quantum wires by demonstrating distinct power-law temperature dependencies, spin-splitting signatures, and a connection between electron-hole asymmetry and negative drag, thereby confirming Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid physics in both reciprocal and nonreciprocal regimes.

Mingyang Zheng, Rebika Makaju, Rasul Gazizulin, Alex Levchenko, Sadhvikas J. Addamane, Dominique Laroche2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Space Group Symmetry of Chiral Fe-deficient van der Waals Magnet Fe3-xGeTe2\text{Fe}_{\text{3-x}}\text{GeTe}_{\text{2}} Probed by Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction

Using convergent beam electron diffraction, this study identifies the room-temperature space group of chiral Fe-deficient Fe2.9GeTe2\text{Fe}_{2.9}\text{GeTe}_{2} as P63mcP6_3mc, demonstrating that it arises from the parent P63/mmcP6_3/mmc structure through the breaking of mirror symmetry along the six-fold rotation axis.

O. Zaiets (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany, Institute of Solid State and Materials Physics, TU Dresden, Germany), S. Subakti (Leibniz Institute for Solid Stat (…)2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall