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.

🔬 optics

Localization in microcavities revealed by phase-space non-Hermitian skin effect

This paper resolves the long-standing mystery of resonance localization in open chaotic spiral microcavities by demonstrating that geometry-induced momentum drift and refractive escape combine to produce a generalized non-Hermitian skin effect in phase space, which drives the accumulation of chiral resonances along the critical line for total internal reflection.

Jung-Wan Ryu, Yong-Hoon Lee, Muhan Choi, Chang-Hwan Yi, Martina Hentschel2026-09-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Universal tuning of Förster resonance energy transfer in gate-programmable conductor-dielectric-conductor heterostructures

This paper develops a quantum-electrodynamical theory for a gate-tunable conductor-dielectric-conductor heterostructure that enables universal control over spontaneous emission and FRET rates by manipulating the reflection amplitudes of the bounding sheets to transition between bulk-like, exponentially screened, and logarithmically enhanced coupling regimes.

Alexis J. Agosto, Daniel Gunlycke, Michael N. Leuenberger2026-09-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Evanescent-mode Casimir-Josephson force and gate-controlled resonances in ballistic graphene Josephson junctions

This paper develops a microscopic scattering theory to describe the gate- and phase-dependent Casimir-Josephson force in ballistic graphene Josephson junctions, revealing how charge neutrality yields an evanescent-mode force while gate doping induces propagating channels that cause large oscillations and sign reversals in the mechanical response.

Shahrukh Salim2026-09-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Exact fluctuation relations in voltage- and temperature-biased Laughlin-edge constrictions

This paper establishes that exact non-equilibrium fluctuation-dissipation relations connect experimentally accessible current correlations to tunneling noise and conductance in voltage- and temperature-biased Laughlin edge states, proving their validity for arbitrary tunneling strengths and biases while enabling the reliable reconstruction of local tunneling noise from downstream measurements.

Gu Zhang, Gabriele Campagnano, Domenico Giuliano, Igor Gornyi, In`es Safi2026-09-01