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.

Electrically switchable ferron upconversion in a van der Waals ferroelectric

This paper demonstrates that electrically switchable nonlinear ferron upconversion in the van der Waals ferroelectric NbOI2 enables nonvolatile, coherent control of lattice dynamics through the manipulation of the ferroelectric order parameter, establishing a new platform for programmable phononic information processing and quantum transduction.

Sujan Subedi, Wuzhang Fang, Fan Fei, Zixin Zhai, Jack P. Rollins, Carter Fox, Alaina Drew, Bing Lv, Yuan Ping, Jun Xiao2026-03-23🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Programmable, Spontaneous Superlattice Memory in a Monolayer Topological Insulator

This paper reports the discovery of a programmable, nonvolatile memory effect in monolayer TaIrTe4, where electrostatic tuning of quantum spin Hall electrons couples with lattice instabilities to spontaneously generate and switch a robust, few-nanometer superlattice that encodes information through dramatic changes in structural periodicity.

Jian Tang, Thomas Siyuan Ding, Shuhan Ding, Jiangxu Li, Changjiang Yi, Tianxing Tang, Zumeng Huang, Xuehao Wu, Zhiheng Huang, Birender Singh, Tiema Qian, Vsevolod Belosevich, Mingyang Guo, Anyuan Gao (…)2026-03-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Spin transport analysis for a spin pseudovalve-type L_l/SC/L_r trilayer for L = {FeCr, Fe, Co, NiFe, Ni} and SC = {GaSb, InSb, InAs, GaAs, ZnSe}

This theoretical study employs the Slonczewski approach within the Landauer-Büttiker formalism to analyze spin transport in 125 possible ferromagnetic/semiconductor/ferromagnetic trilayer configurations, revealing that the FeCr/GaSb/FeCr system yields the highest tunnel magnetoresistance of 83.60% with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling playing a more significant role than Rashba coupling.

Julián A. Zúñiga, Arles V. Gil Rebaza, Diego F. Coral2026-03-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Ultrastrong Coupling and Coherent Dynamics in a Gate-Tunable Transmon Qubit

This paper demonstrates ultrastrong light-matter coupling in a gate-tunable InAs nanowire transmon qubit coupled to a superconducting resonator, revealing non-Jaynes-Cummings spectral features while maintaining coherent time-domain control and coherence times comparable to conventional gatemons.

I. Casal Iglesias, F. J. Matute-Cañadas, G. O. Steffensen, A. Ibabe, L. Splitthoff, T. Kanne, J. Nygard, V. Rollano, D. Granados, A. Gomez, R. Aguado, A. Levy Yeyati, E. J. H. Lee2026-03-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Energy renormalizations of resident carriers and excitons in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

This paper theoretically investigates energy renormalizations in electrostatically-doped WSe2_2 monolayers under strong magnetic fields, demonstrating that dynamical screening significantly affects resident carriers while exchange interactions explain the surprisingly weak energy shifts observed in tightly bound excitons.

Dinh Van Tuan, Junghwan Kim, Hanan Dery2026-03-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

First principles characterization of spinterfaces between magnetic Cobaltocene molecule and 2D magnets (CrI3_3, Fe3_3GeTe2_2)

This study utilizes first-principles calculations to characterize stable spin-polarized interfaces between cobaltocene and 2D magnets (CrI3_3 and Fe3_3GeTe2_2), revealing strong directional anisotropy in magnetic interactions, enhanced intralayer exchange, and 100% spin polarization at the Fermi level in the cobaltocene/CrI3_3 system, which highlights its potential for spin-transport applications.

Nikola Machacova, Biplab Sanyal2026-03-23🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci