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.

🔬 materials science

Generation of an anomalous linearly dispersing spin-polarized band in Bi-based topological insulators

This paper reports the reproducible generation of an anomalous, spin-polarized linearly dispersing band with opposite helicity to the topological surface state in Bi-based topological insulator thin films, induced by soft Ar-ion bombardment and annealing.

Matthias Kronseder, Thomas Mayer, Jan Minár, Magdalena Marganska, Hedwig Werner, Florian Schmid, Rebeca Diaz-Pardo, Ivan (…)2026-05-22
🔬 mesoscale physics

Spintronic Neuromorphic Hardware Using Domain Wall Based Neurons and Quantized Synapses

This paper presents a spintronic neuromorphic hardware simulation utilizing domain wall dynamics in heavy metal/ferromagnet heterostructures to emulate neurons and quantized synapses, achieving high accuracy on MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets while demonstrating the feasibility of sparse, low-memory artificial neural networks.

Sakshi Kiran Bandekar, Arnab Ganguly, Debanjan Polley, Debasis Das2026-05-22
🔬 mesoscale physics

A new skyrmion topological transition driven by higher-order exchange interactions in Janus MnSeTe

This study reveals a novel "ferric" topological transition in single-layer Janus MnSeTe driven by higher-order exchange interactions that specifically modify the Bloch point while leaving skyrmion stability largely governed by Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, establishing the material as a robust platform for 2D skyrmionics with exceptionally high energy barriers.

Megha Arya, Moritz A. Goerzen, Lionel Calmels, Rémi Arras, Soumyajyoti Haldar, Stefan Heinze, Dongzhe Li2026-05-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Morphological evolution of a semiconductor surface driven by irradiation-induced anisotropic plastic flow

This paper proposes a generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky-type equation based on irradiation-induced anisotropic plastic flow ("ion-hammering") to provide a comprehensive theoretical model that quantitatively and qualitatively explains the formation of nano-patterns on irradiated silicon surfaces across various ion species and energies.

Tyler P. Evans, Scott A. Norris2026-05-21
🔬 applied physics

Mie-tronics supermodes and symmetry breaking in nonlocal metasurfaces

This paper demonstrates that controlled symmetry breaking in finite-size Mie-resonator arrays can paradoxically enhance optical confinement and Q-factors by strengthening nonlocal coupling pathways, thereby unifying scattering and diffraction theories to enable advanced light manipulation and polarization conversion in nonlocal metasurfaces.

Thanh Xuan Hoang, Ayan Nussupbekov, Jie Ji, Daniel Leykam, Jaime Gomez Rivas, Yuri Kivshar2026-05-21