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.

Resonances in light scattering from nonequilibrium dipoles pairs

This paper demonstrates that light scattering from pairs of point-like dipoles exhibits exact resonances when the dipoles violate the optical theorem (indicating nonequilibrium or active conditions), leading to potentially infinite scattering amplitudes, while similar but finite resonances in equilibrium systems can still yield significant amplification factors.

Vanik E. Mkrtchian, Armen E. Allahverdyan, Mikayel Khanbekyan2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Designing Extremely Low-Power Topological Transistors with 1T'-MoS2 and HZO for Cryogenic Applications

This paper theoretically proposes extremely low-power cryogenic negative-capacitance topological insulator field-effect transistors (NC-TIFETs) that combine a gate-field-induced 1T'-MoS2_2 topological channel with an HZO ferroelectric gate insulator to achieve steep-slope transfer curves and ultra-high transconductance, offering a promising solution for minimizing power dissipation in large-scale quantum computing control systems.

Yosep Park, Yungyeong Park, Hyeonseok Choi, Subeen Lim, Yeonghun Lee2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Band modulations and topological transitions in a one-dimensional periodic bead-on-string chain

This paper investigates band modulations and topological transitions in a one-dimensional periodic bead-on-string chain by combining exact transfer-matrix analysis, numerical simulations, and tabletop experiments to demonstrate that localized midgap states are topological solitons governed by the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and Dirac theory.

Haocong Pan, Wei Wang, Chunling Liu2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Terahertz-nanoscale visualization of the microscopic spin-charge architecture of colossal magnetoresistive switching

This study utilizes a custom-built cryogenic magneto-THz scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy platform to visualize the nanoscale evolution of colossal magnetoresistance in Pr2/3Ca1/3MnO3\text{Pr}_{2/3}\text{Ca}_{1/3}\text{MnO}_{3}, revealing that magnetic-field-induced spin switching initiates as 1–2 nm isolated sites that coalesce into ~15 nm conducting regions during the transition from an antiferromagnetic insulator to a ferromagnetic metal.

Samuel Haeuser, Randall K. Chan, Richard H. J. Kim, Joong-Mok Park, Martin Mootz, Thomas Koschny, Jigang Wang2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall