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.

Microwave response of electrically driven spins in a three-qubit quantum processor

This study demonstrates that electrically driven Loss-DiVincenzo spin qubits exhibit a linear Rabi frequency scaling with microwave drive amplitude even under simultaneous multi-qubit driving, thereby refuting the notion that previously observed nonlinearities are a general characteristic of such systems.

Tanner M. Janda, Heun Mo Yoo, Connor Nasseraddin, Adam R. Mills, Zhaoyi Joy Zheng, Jason R. Petta2026-03-10⚛️ quant-ph

Nanoscale Conducting and Insulating Domains on YbB6_6

Using scanning tunneling microscopy, researchers discovered that YbB6_6 exhibits coexisting conducting and insulating surface domains with distinct atomic terminations and band-bending, where the insulating regions disprove its status as a strong topological insulator while the spin-polarized conducting regions suggest potential for spintronic applications.

Aaron Coe, Zhi-Huai Zhu, Yang He, Dae-Jeong Kim, Zachary Fisk, Jason Hoffman, Jennifer Hoffman2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Nonlinear Terahertz Electroluminescence from Dirac Landau Polaritons

This paper reports the observation of Dirac Landau polaritons in HgTe quantum wells via strong coupling between 2D Dirac fermion cyclotron transitions and cavity modes, demonstrating efficient nonlinear terahertz electroluminescence under electrical injection that suggests the onset of stimulated emission and paves the way for low-threshold, tunable THz polariton lasers.

B. Benhamou-Bui, C. Consejo, S. S. Krishtopenko, S. Ruffenach, C. Bray, J. Torres, J. Dzian, F. Le Mardelé, A. Pagot, X. Baudry, S. V. Morozov, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretskii, B. Jouault, P. Ballet (…)2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Quantum geometry from the Moyal product: quantum kinetic equation and non-linear response

This paper systematically derives a dissipationless quantum kinetic equation for multi-band free fermionic systems using the Moyal product formalism to fully band-diagonalize dynamics and analyze second-order gradient corrections, revealing the critical role of quantum geometric tensors in band-resolved thermodynamics, nonlinear transport, and density-density response functions.

Takamori Park, Xiaoyang Huang, Lucile Savary, Leon Balents2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Andreev bound state spectroscopy of a quantum-dot-based Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with superconducting terminals

This paper analytically and numerically demonstrates that a quantum-dot-based Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with superconducting terminals is spectrally equivalent to a simpler side-coupled system, revealing how geometric factors and side-mode competition govern Andreev bound state spectra and induce a Josephson diode effect.

Peter Zalom, Don Rolih, Rok Žitko2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Interplay of Zeeman Splitting and Tunnel Coupling in Coherent Spin Qubit Shuttling

This paper demonstrates high-fidelity (99.8%) bucket-brigade spin shuttling in a silicon MOS device and reveals that residual errors are highly sensitive to the ratio between interdot tunnel coupling and Zeeman splitting, a relationship validated by a four-level Hamiltonian model to guide future quantum architecture optimization.

Ssu-Chih Lin, Paul Steinacker, MengKe Feng, Ajit Dash, Santiago Serrano, Wee Han Lim, Kohei M. Itoh, Fay E. Hudson, Tuomo Tanttu, Andre Saraiva, Arne Laucht, Andrew S. Dzurak, Hsi-Sheng Goan, Chih Hwa (…)2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph