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.

Nonlinear magnetoelastic wave dynamics and field tunable soliton excitations in hexagonal multiferroic media

This paper presents a theoretical framework demonstrating that hexagonal multiferroic media support electrically tunable nonlinear magnetoelastic solitons and breathers, where strong magnon-phonon hybridization leads to coherent, bounded dynamics rather than chaos, enabling precise control over soliton properties via external electric fields.

Saumen Acharjee, Kallol Kavas Hazarika, Rajneesh Kakoti2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Riemannian geometric classification and emergent phenomena of magnetic textures

This paper proposes a refined classification of magnetic textures using differential geometry by introducing geodesic and torsional scalar spin chiralities to fully characterize noncoplanar states, and demonstrates that the geodesic scalar spin chirality induces novel emergent band asymmetry and nonreciprocal responses as a purely orbital quantum geometric effect.

Koki Shinada, Naoto Nagaosa2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Tight-Binding Device Modeling of 2-D Topological Insulator Field-Effect Transistors With Gate-Induced Phase Transition

This paper presents a tight-binding and nonequilibrium Green's function-based device simulator for 2-D topological insulator field-effect transistors, demonstrating how channel length affects performance and elucidating nontraditional switching mechanisms driven by gate-induced topological phase transitions.

Yungyeong Park, Yosep Park, Hyeonseok Choi, Subeen Lim, Dongwook Kim, Yeonghun Lee2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Absolute negative mobility in a one-dimensional overdamped system driven by active fluctuations

This paper demonstrates that absolute negative mobility, a paradoxical phenomenon where a system moves opposite to an applied force, can occur in a minimal one-dimensional overdamped system driven by active Poisson shot noise within a symmetric periodic potential, offering new insights into biological transport and microscopic separation strategies.

K. Białas, P. Hänggi, J. Spiechowicz2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Long-Lived Interlayer Excitons and Type-II Band Alignment in Janus MoTe2/CrSBr van der Waals Heterostructures

This study employs first-principles calculations to demonstrate that the MoTe2/CrSBr van der Waals heterostructure features a stable type-II band alignment and a built-in electric field that collectively enable the formation of interlayer excitons with significantly extended lifetimes (18–45 ps), positioning it as a promising platform for next-generation optoelectronic applications.

Mohammad Ali Mohebpour, Peter C Sherrell, Catherine Stampfl, Carmine Autieri, Meysam Bagheri Tagani2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Phase-resolved imaging of coherent phonon-magnon coupling

This paper utilizes a direct phase-resolved optical technique to image the coherent excitation of spin waves in a Co40_{40}Fe40_{40}B20_{20} waveguide driven by surface acoustic waves via resonant magnetoelastic coupling, successfully separating the two signals through their distinct polarization dependencies.

Yannik Kunz, Florian Kraft, David Breitbach, Torben Pfeifer, Matthias Küß, Stephan Glamsch, Manfred Albrecht, Mathias Weiler2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Long-range mid-infrared energy transfer mediated by hyperbolic phonon polaritons

This paper presents a theoretical framework demonstrating that hyperbolic phonon polaritons in anisotropic 2D materials, such as α\alpha-MoO3_3, can mediate and enhance long-range, highly directional mid-infrared energy transfer between dipoles at room temperature, extending interactions far beyond the near-field limits of conventional platforms.

Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Simone De Liberato, Huatian Hu2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Spin Inertia as a Source of Topological Magnons: Chiral Edge States from Coupled Precession and Nutation

This paper demonstrates that spin inertia, when coupled with angular-momentum-breaking interactions like pseudodipolar forces in a honeycomb ferromagnet, hybridizes precessional and nutational magnons to open topological gaps and generate chiral edge states, establishing a new route for engineering topological phases in magnetic materials.

Subhadip Ghosh, Mikhail Cherkasskii, Ritwik Mondal, Alexander Mook, Levente Rózsa2026-03-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall