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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A Generalized Approach to Relaxation Time of Magnetic Nanoparticles With Interactions: From Superparamagnetism to Glassy Dynamics

This paper derives a novel theoretical expression for the relaxation time of interacting magnetic nanoparticles by extending Kramers' theory with Tsallis statistics, providing a unified framework that explains both the decrease and increase of relaxation time with dipolar coupling and offers a new interpretation of glassy freezing dynamics through a cut-off temperature.

Jean Claudio Cardoso Cerbino, Diego Muraca2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Exchange-dominated frequency shift of spin-wave nonreciprocal dispersion relation in planar magnetic multilayers

This paper demonstrates that in planar magnetic multilayers without Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, interlayer exchange interactions, rather than dipolar effects, are the dominant mechanism driving the frequency shift of nonreciprocal spin-wave dispersion when counterpropagating modes exhibit distinct geometric structures along the thickness.

Claudia Negrete (Departamento de Física, Universidad Católica del Norte, Avenida Angamos, Antofagasta, Chile), Attila Kákay (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf, Institute of Ion Beam Physics a (…)2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Color Centers and Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons in Hexagonal Boron Nitride: A New Platform for Quantum Optics

This paper establishes a cavity-QED framework connecting hexagonal boron nitride color centers with hyperbolic phonon polaritons, demonstrating how single quantum emitters can serve as on-chip sources to generate, control, and mediate long-range interactions of confined mid-infrared polaritons for advanced quantum optics applications.

Jie-Cheng Feng, Johannes Eberle, Sambuddha Chattopadhyay, Johannes Knörzer, Eugene Demler, Ataç \.Imamo\u{g}lu2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph