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.

Cold source field-effect transistor with type-III band-aligned HfS2_2/WTe2_2 heterostructure

This paper proposes a novel cold source field-effect transistor (CSFET) utilizing a type-III aligned 2D WTe2_2/HfS2_2 heterostructure to eliminate Schottky barriers, achieving a high on/off ratio of \sim1010^{10} and a sub-thermal subthreshold swing of 41.3 mV/dec through first-principles quantum transport modeling.

Shujin Guo, Qing Shi, Deping Guo, Fei Liu, Xianghua Kong, Yonghong Zhao, Hong Guo2026-03-13🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Guidelines for interpreting microfocused Brillouin light scattering spectra

This paper establishes guidelines for interpreting microfocused Brillouin light scattering spectra by analyzing how spin wave dispersion relations and mode profiles shape spectral features in three distinct magnetic materials, demonstrating that accurate interpretation requires exact dispersion and profile data, especially when mode hybridization occurs.

Nessrine Benaziz, Thibaut Devolder, Stéphane Andrieu, Jamal Ben Youssef, Jean-Paul Adam2026-03-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Hybrid Analog Teleportation-Direct Transmission in Noisy Bosonic Channels

This paper introduces a hybrid analog teleportation-direct transmission protocol that replaces digital error correction with analog feedforward through a noisy quantum channel, demonstrating that while standard quantum teleportation is superior when the channel degrades entanglement, this hybrid approach is optimal otherwise and particularly effective for coherent-state transfer in optical and superconducting microwave systems.

Uesli Alushi, Simone Felicetti, Roberto Di Candia2026-03-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Phase stiffness in flat-band superconductors with nodal pairing

This paper investigates a two-band system with momentum-dependent hybridization between a dispersive and a flat band, demonstrating that the interplay of interband mixing and intraband pairing can create parabolic nodes in the quasiparticle spectrum, leading to a quadratic temperature dependence of superconducting phase stiffness and revealing the system's sensitivity to nonmagnetic disorder through Machida-Shibata resonances.

A. A. Zyuzin, A. Yu. Zyuzin2026-03-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Ferromagnetic resonance modes in trilayer artificial spin ices subject to interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

This study numerically demonstrates that interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction induces non-reciprocity in strongly coupled trilayer square artificial spin ices, leading to frequency-split edge modes whose interference patterns are governed by the interplay between DMI magnitude, external magnetic fields, and stray fields.

V. Vanga, G. Alatteili, E. Iacocca2026-03-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Quantum interference in a twisted high-Tc SQUID senses emergent interfacial order

By fabricating SQUIDs from twisted Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ\mathrm{Bi_2Sr_2CaCu_2O_{8+\delta}} interfaces, researchers detected a π\pi phase shift and time-reversal symmetry breaking indicative of chiral superconducting order, while also demonstrating high-temperature flux sensing capabilities that open new avenues for studying unconventional superconductivity.

Amit Basu, Samrat Ash, Ritajit Kundu, Neha Bhatia, Sakshi Nema, Tejaswini Gawade, Khushabu Agrawal, Abhishek Das, Joydip Sarkar, Amit Shah, Ruta Kulkarni, Digambar A. Jangade, Arijit Kundu, A. Thamizh (…)2026-03-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall