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.

Scaling behavior of dissipative systems with imaginary gap closing

This paper investigates the quantum dynamics of dissipative systems with imaginary gap closing, revealing that while trivial point-gap systems exhibit a single power-law decay determined by saddle-point order, nontrivial systems display a distinct two-regime behavior transitioning from short-time exponential decay to long-time power-law decay as the dynamics shift from saddle-point dominance to control by imaginary gap-closing points.

Jinghui Pi, Xingli Li, Yangqian Yan2026-02-12🔬 physics.optics

Cascade of topological phase transitions and revival of topological zero modes in imperfect double helical liquids

This paper demonstrates that realistic imperfections, such as pairing/interaction asymmetries and magnetic disorder, do not merely degrade topological properties in proximitized double helical liquids but instead drive a cascade of topological phase transitions and enable the revival of Majorana zero modes through the tuning of electrical screening.

Anna Ohorodnyk, Chen-Hsuan Hsu2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Electrostatic Screening Modulation of Graphene's Electronic Structure and the Helical Wavefunction Dominated Topological Properties

This study utilizes a modified Bond Charge model to demonstrate how electrostatic screening modulates graphene's electronic structure, specifically showing that exponential potential decay can induce a band gap while preserving the topological helical wavefunctions essential for advanced device engineering.

Yaorui Tan, Xiang Chen, Yunhu Zhu, Xiaowu Yang, Zhongkai Huang, Chuang Yao, Maolin Bo2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Coherence Protection for Mobile Spin Qubits in Silicon

This paper demonstrates several noise mitigation strategies—including passive gradient reduction, motional narrowing, dynamical decoupling, and dressed-state shuttling—to significantly enhance spin coherence during the transport of mobile qubits in silicon quantum dot devices.

Jan A. Krzywda, Yuta Matsumoto, Maxim De Smet, Larysa Tryputen, Sander L. de Snoo, Sergey V. Amitonov, Evert van Nieuwenburg, Giordano Scappucci, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Atomically-sharp magnetic soliton in the square-net lattice EuRhAl4_{4}Si2_{2}

The researchers demonstrate that the square-net rare earth compound EuRhAl4Si2\text{EuRhAl}_{4}\text{Si}_{2} hosts atomically-sharp, field-driven one-dimensional magnetic solitons arising from the competition between frustrated exchange interactions and magnetic anisotropy.

Kevin Allen, Juba Bouaziz, Yichen Zhang, Kai Du, Sanu Mishra, Gustav Bihlmayer, Yiqing Hao, Victor Ukleev, Chen Luo, Florin Radu, Yuxiang Gao, Marta Zonno, Sergey Gorovikov, Christopher Lane, Jian-Xin (…)2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall