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.

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Hybrid Monte Carlo for Fractional Quantum Hall States

This paper introduces a significantly faster hybrid Monte Carlo method utilizing global updates and double stereographic projection to efficiently simulate large-scale fractional quantum Hall systems (N>1000N > 1000), enabling high-precision calculations of topological shifts and non-Abelian braiding matrices that surpass previous results.

Ting-Tung Wang, Ha Quang Trung, Qianhui Xu, Min Long, Bo Yang, Zi Yang Meng2026-06-09
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Detecting Exciton Condensation through Charge Transport in Semiconductor Heterostructures

This paper proposes using charge transport measurements in doped transition-metal dichalcogenide heterostructures to detect exciton condensation by identifying distinct signatures such as reduced resistivity due to suppressed scattering and a sign reversal of Hall resistivity caused by condensate-induced hybridization near a solid-state Feshbach resonance.

Caterina Zerba, Léo Mangeolle, Michael Knap2026-06-09
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Fidelity susceptibility and geometric response in flux-tuned Dirac systems: exact results from a low-energy two-level reduction

This paper derives an exact closed-form expression for the ground-state Bures metric of massive Dirac fermions under Aharonov-Bohm flux, revealing a universal Lorentzian profile controlled by the Dirac mass that diverges in the chiral limit and serves as a geometric counterpart to thermodynamic critical behavior, independent of topological invariants.

C. A. S. Almeida2026-06-09
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Chiral-Angle-Controlled Altermagnetic Spin Splitting in Nanotubes

This paper demonstrates that rolling a two-dimensional dd-wave altermagnet into a nanotube transforms its momentum-dependent spin splitting into a chiral-angle-controlled one-dimensional splitting following a cos(2θ)\cos(2\theta) dependence, thereby establishing dimensional projection as a general strategy for engineering spin-split quantum states in low-dimensional magnetic materials.

Ersoy Sasioglu, Tom. G. Saunderson, Börge Göbel, Ingrid Mertig, Samir Lounis2026-06-09
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Valley Engineering in Bilayer WSe2_2 Gate-All-Around Transistors

This paper demonstrates that bilayer WSe2_2 is the optimal channel for valley-engineered gate-all-around transistors because its near-thermal K-Γ\Gamma valley degeneracy at room temperature enables simultaneous enhancement of on-current and suppression of off-current via strain, while maintaining a subthreshold swing near the thermionic limit.

Katsunori Wakabayashi, Souren Adhikary, Kazuhito Tsukagoshi2026-06-09
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Order parameters and ground-state phase diagram of the interacting topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with extended-range hoppings

This paper investigates the interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with extended-range hoppings, revealing a rich ground-state phase diagram comprising topological, superconducting-like, and charge-density-wave phases, and derives order parameters that demonstrate how interactions enable non-unidirectional hoppings distinct from the non-interacting case.

Tsz Hin Hui, Pedro D. Sacramento, Wing Chi Yu2026-06-09
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Strain-Induced Tuning of Third-Harmonic Generation in Monolayer Black Phosphorene

This study utilizes a tight-binding model and semiconductor Bloch equations to demonstrate that strain engineering, particularly along the out-of-plane direction, effectively tunes the third-harmonic generation in monolayer black phosphorene by synergistically modulating its bandgap and Berry connection, thereby enabling dynamic control of nonlinear optical responses for reconfigurable infrared photonic devices.

Yan Meng, Kainan Chang, Wei Song, Yuwei Shan, Jin Luo Cheng, Luxia Wang2026-06-09
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Layer-parity-defined surface polarization in Nb3_3Cl8_8 for excitonic modulation at van der Waals interfaces

This study demonstrates that the layer-parity-dependent surface polarization in Nb3_3Cl8_8, arising from its intrinsic breathing kagome lattice symmetry breaking, enables direct control over adjacent excitonic emission in van der Waals heterostructures through tunable interfacial band alignment and charge transfer.

Xinyue Huang, Hansheng Xu, Yuchen Gao, Yushen Zhou, Zhijie Ma, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zuxin Chen, Jianqi Hua (…)2026-06-09