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.

Symmetry-protected control of Liouvillian topological phases via Hamiltonian band topology

This paper establishes a symmetry-protected correspondence between the band topology of coherent Hamiltonians and the spectral winding of open quantum systems, demonstrating that Hamiltonian topology can actively control Liouvillian topological phases, the skin effect, and non-equilibrium dynamics in dissipative lattices.

Shu Long, Hong-Sen Yin, Chao Yang, Sen Mu, Jia-Wei Zhang, Linhu Li2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Parity and time-reversal invariant Ising spin ordering

This paper introduces a new class of coplanar antiferromagnets that exhibit parity and time-reversal invariant Ising spin ordering, demonstrating that their spin-rotational symmetry breaking enables unique non-relativistic spin transport phenomena and tunable spin splittings, with sixteen candidate materials identified to validate these emergent responses.

Yue Yu, Jin Matsuda, Hikaru Watanabe, Ryotaro Arita, Daniel F. Agterberg2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat

Zero-field superconducting vortices and Majorana zero modes pinned by magnetic islands in correlated Rashba systems

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for generating zero-field superconducting vortices and pinning Majorana zero modes in correlated Rashba systems by leveraging the inhomogeneous magnetization gradients induced by exchange-coupled magnetic islands, offering a viable experimental route to trap these composite excitations without external magnetic fields.

Panagiotis Kotetes, Brian M. Andersen2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat

Absence of Charge Offset Drift in a Transmon Qubit

The authors report that a tantalum-based transmon qubit exhibits exceptional stability with a charge offset pinned at zero for nearly three months due to a fragile, inadvertently formed parallel superconducting layer caused by incomplete etching, offering a potential route to eliminating charge-offset drift in superconducting circuits.

Adria Rospars, Hector Hutin, Yannick Seis, Cristóbal Lledó, Réouven Assouly, Romain Cazali, Rémy Dassonneville, Ambroise Peugeot, Alexandre Blais, Audrey Bienfait, Benjamin Huard2026-03-16⚛️ quant-ph

Doppler-induced tunable and shape-preserving frequency conversion of microwave wave packets

This paper presents a novel, tunable, and shape-preserving method for converting microwave frequencies in superconducting circuits by utilizing a dynamic Doppler effect induced by a propagating phase-velocity front, which offers advantages over conventional mixing techniques such as the absence of spurious products and the ability to imprint arbitrary frequency patterns.

Felix Ahrens, Enrico Bogoni, Renato Mezzena, Andrea Vinante, Nicolò Crescini, Alessandro Irace, Andrea Giachero, Gianluca Rastelli, Iacopo Carusotto, Federica Mantegazzini2026-03-16🔬 physics.optics

Advanced architectures for coupling III-V nanowires to photonic integrated circuitry

This paper demonstrates a hybrid device using a quantum dot embedded in a nanowire to bridge a curved waveguide, enabling the efficient evanescent coupling and collection of single photons from various excitonic complexes at multiple output facets to pave the way for multi-directional on-chip quantum integration.

Edith Yeung, Kataryna Sorensen, David B. Northeast, Maziyar Milanizadeh, Philip J. Poole, Robin L. Williams, Dan Dalacu2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Annihilation of Dirac points and its topological obstruction in a photonic Kagome lattice

This study experimentally demonstrates the annihilation of Dirac points in a photonic Kagome lattice and the associated topological obstruction, revealing how non-Abelian frame rotations and quaternionic charge conversions govern the transition between different topological phases characterized by the Euler number.

Zhaoyang Zhang, Matthieu Finck, Changchang Li, Shun Liang, Jerome Dubois, Yumin Tian, Jiahao Wen, Yanpeng Zhang, Guillaume Malpuech, Dmitry Solnyshkov2026-03-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall