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.

Effect of pulse duration on current-induced selective oxygen migration in high-Tc superconductors

This study demonstrates that reducing the pulse duration in YBCO bridges from milliseconds to nanoseconds significantly increases the onset current for oxygen electromigration by lowering local temperatures, thereby shifting the process toward an athermal regime with important implications for memristor operation and thermomagnetic stability.

Fridrich Egyenes, Daniel Stoffels, Stefan Marinkovic, Bernd Aichner, Huidong Li, Anna Palau, Milan Tapajna, Wolfgang Lang, Alejandro V. Silhanek2026-03-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Simulating the Open System Dynamics of Multiple Exchange-Only Qubits using Subspace Monte Carlo

This paper proposes a Subspace Monte Carlo method that efficiently simulates the open system dynamics of multiple exchange-only qubits by tracking individual spin projection quantum numbers to reduce computational complexity, demonstrating its accuracy under randomized compiling and its utility in analyzing measurement correlations in multi-qubit stabilization circuits.

Tameem Albash, N. Tobias Jacobson2026-03-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Flat-Band Generation in InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells through Vertically Engineered Heterostructures

This paper demonstrates a reproducible and scalable method for generating flat bands in InAs/GaSb quantum wells through vertically engineered III-V semiconductor heterostructures grown by molecular beam epitaxy, overcoming the twist-angle disorder and scalability limitations of conventional tear-and-stack fabrication techniques.

Zachery A. Enderson, Jiyuan Fang, Wei-Chen Wang, Li Xiang, Mykhaylo Ozerov, Dmitry Smirnov, Zhigang Jiang, Samuel D. Hawkins, Aaron J. Muhowski, John F. Klem, Wei Pan2026-03-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Probing the Penetration Depth of Topological Surface States by Magnetic Impurity Scattering in V-doped Sb2_2Te3_3

This paper introduces a direct method to measure the sub-nanometer penetration depth of topological surface states in bulk V-doped Sb2_2Te3_3 crystals by utilizing sparse magnetic impurities at varying depths as scattering probes to observe the gapping of Dirac states and Landau level shifts.

Yidi Wang, Zeyu Ma, Pengcheng Chen, Shiang Fang, Yu Liu, Yau Chuen Yam, Christopher Eckberg, Joshua Samuel, Johnpierre Paglione, Mohammad Hamidian, Cyrus Hirjibehedin, Daniel T. Larson, Efthimios Kaxi (…)2026-03-17🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Scalable Sondheimer oscillations driven by commensurability between two quantizations

This study reveals that Sondheimer oscillations in cadmium single crystals are governed by a scalable quantum mechanism arising from the commensurability between Landau quantization and the thickness-induced discretization of momentum, a phenomenon absent in copper and distinct from traditional semiclassical explanations.

Xiaodong Guo, Xiaokang Li, Lingxiao Zhao, Zengwei Zhu, Kamran Behnia2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Aharonov-Bohm Interference in Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States

This study reports the observation of coherent Aharonov-Bohm interference in high-mobility bilayer graphene at even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states, revealing oscillation periods consistent with e=1/2ee^*=1/2e quasiparticles while demonstrating that controlled deviations in filling factor induce phase shifts confirming the presence of fundamental e=1/4ee^*=1/4e non-Abelian anyons.

Jehyun Kim, Himanshu Dev, Amit Shaer, Ravi Kumar, Alexey Ilin, André Haug, Shelly Iskoz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David F. Mross, Ady Stern, Yuval Ronen2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall