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.

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

Fractional quantum Hall states by Feynman's diagrammatic expansion

Using diagrammatic Monte Carlo with combinatorial summation, this study demonstrates that Feynman's diagrammatic expansion applied to fundamental electronic degrees of freedom can reliably describe the emergence of fractional quantum Hall states, specifically confirming the incompressible 1/3-filled state and the pseudogapped behavior at 1/2-filling in the thermodynamic limit.

Ben Currie, Evgeny Kozik2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Concurrent Skin-scale-free Localization and Criticality under Möbius Boundary Conditions in a Non-Hermitian Ladder

This study reveals that weakly coupled non-Hermitian Hatano-Nelson chains under Möbius boundary conditions exhibit a unique coexistence of skin effect and scale-free localization, where eigenstate localization characteristics can exchange between chains depending on their eigenenergies due to critical behaviors enhanced by the boundary conditions.

Shu Long, Linhu Li2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Tunable interplay of orbital and spin magnetization in trigonal tellurium

This study provides systematic experimental evidence and a theoretical framework demonstrating the tunable coexistence of current-induced spin polarization and orbital magnetization in trigonal tellurium, thereby establishing a pathway for advancing orbitronics and spintronics in chiral crystals.

Zhenqi Hua, Chang Niu, Sandeep Joy, Pukun Tan, Gang Shi, Haoyang Liu, Jiaxing Guo, David Graf, Peide Ye, Cyprian Lewandowski, Peng Xiong2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Exploring Many-Body Quantum Geometry Beyond the Quantum Metric with Correlation Functions: A Time-Dependent Perspective

This paper establishes a general time-dependent framework for many-body quantum geometry by treating external fields as coordinates on the space of density matrices, utilizing the Bures distance to derive a generalized metric and connection that unify linear response theory and reveal how higher-order correlation functions probe nonlinear geometric structures.

Yuntao Guan, Barry Bradlyn2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall