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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Hybrid magnon -- Nambu-Goldstone excitations in topological superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator thin-film heterostructures

This paper predicts a novel dynamical proximity effect in topological superconductor/ferromagnetic insulator heterostructures where spin-momentum locking facilitates the coupling of ferromagnetic magnons and superconducting Nambu-Goldstone modes into hybrid excitations, enabling the interconversion of spin and spinless signals for advanced superconducting spintronics.

T. Karabassov, I. V. Bobkova, A. M. Bobkov, A. S. Vasenko, A. A. Golubov2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Continuous-wave, high-resolution, ultra-broadband mid-infrared nonlinear spectroscopy with tunable plasmonic nanocavities

This paper presents a continuous-wave, high-resolution, ultra-broadband mid-infrared nonlinear spectroscopy platform utilizing tunable dual-resonant plasmonic nanocavities to enable scalable, chip-level, label-free sensing and single-molecule studies through coherent vibrational sum- and difference-frequency generation under ambient conditions.

Zhiyuan Xie, Nobuaki Oyamada, Francesco Ciccarello, Wen Chen, Christophe Galland2026-03-24🔬 physics.optics

Breaking conservation law enables steady-state entanglement out of equilibrium

This paper demonstrates that breaking conservation laws in system-environment interactions creates competing nonequilibrium dissipation channels that, when combined with long-range environmental correlations, enable the generation of steady-state entanglement in thermal environments without the need for fine-tuned coherent control.

Vince Hou, Eric Kleinherbers, Shane P. Kelly, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Terahertz radiation induced attractive-repulsive Fermi polaron conversion in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

This theoretical study demonstrates that terahertz radiation can induce transitions between attractive and repulsive Fermi polaron states in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers through both a direct optical conversion process governed by many-body correlations and an indirect mechanism driven by electron gas heating.

A. M. Shentsev, M. M. Glazov2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Revisiting dissipation-driven phase transition in a Josephson junction

Through systematic experiments on Josephson junctions in a true resistive environment, this study resolves the long-standing debate on the Schmid-Bulgadaev transition by confirming that the crossover from superconducting to insulating behavior occurs at the theoretically predicted quantum resistance of h/(4e2)h/(4e^2), even at non-zero temperatures.

Diego Subero, Yu-Cheng Chang, Miguel Monteiro, Ze-Yan Chen, Jukka P. Pekola2026-03-24🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Magnon squeezing near a quantum critical point in a cavity-magnon-qubit system

This paper proposes a method to generate magnon squeezed states in a hybrid cavity-magnon-qubit system by engineering an effective Rabi-type interaction and operating near a ground-state superradiant quantum critical point, demonstrating that moderate squeezing is achievable with current experimental parameters despite dissipation and thermal noise.

Gang Liu, Gen Li, Rong-Can Yang, Wei Xiong, Jie Li2026-03-24🔬 physics.optics

Purcell-enhanced single-photon generation from CsPbBr3_3 quantum dots in in-situ selected Laguerre-Gaussian modes

This study demonstrates the direct generation of Purcell-enhanced single photons in Laguerre-Gaussian modes carrying orbital angular momentum by integrating individual CsPbBr3_3 quantum dots into a tunable open Fabry-Perot microcavity with a nanofabricated deformation.

Virginia Oddi, Darius Urbonas, Etsuki Kobiyama, Ioannis Georgakilas, Ihor Cherniukh, Kseniia Shcherbak, Chenglian Zhu, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Rainer F. Mahrt, Gabriele Rainò, Thilo (…)2026-03-24🔬 physics.optics