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 dynamics in magnonic Fabry-Pérot resonators: Low-power neuron-like activation and transmission suppression

This paper demonstrates that magnonic Fabry-Pérot resonators using YIG films and CoFeB nanostripes exhibit low-power nonlinear spin-wave dynamics, enabling frequency-selective transmission and neuron-like activation for neuromorphic computing applications.

Anton Lutsenko, Kevin G. Fripp, Lukáš Flajšman, Andrey V. Shytov, Volodymyr V. Kruglyak, Sebastiaan van Dijken2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Establishing the Magnetoelastic Origin of Spin-Wave Routing through Focused Ion Beam Patterning

This study establishes that focused ion beam patterning steers spin waves in yttrium iron garnet through irradiation-induced magnetoelastic effects, utilizing a validated framework that links lattice dislocation regimes to non-monotonic dispersion changes for engineering programmable magnonic devices.

Felix Naunheimer, Johannes Greil, Valentin Ahrens, Levente Maucha, Ádám Papp, György Csaba, Markus Becherer2026-02-12🔬 physics.app-ph

Enhanced effective masses, spin-orbit polarization, and dispersion relations in 2D hole gases under strongly asymmetric confinement

By using low-field magnetotransport in high-mobility, undoped GaAs/AlGaAs single heterojunctions, the researchers reconstructed the non-parabolic dispersion relations and spin-orbit splitting of heavy-hole subbands, discovering that many-body effects likely double the effective masses compared to single-particle Luttinger-model predictions.

N. A. Cockton, F. Sfigakis, M. Korkusinski, S. R. Harrigan, G. Nichols, Z. D. Merino, T. Zou, A. C. Coschizza, T. Joshi, A. Shetty, M. C. Tam, Z. R. Wasilewski, S. A. Studenikin, D. G. Austing, J. Bau (…)2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Pseudorotation and N-body Forces in an Optical Matter System

This paper demonstrates that an 8-nanoparticle "kite" optical matter system undergoes 2D pseudorotation driven by N-body forces, showing that these collective interactions allow the structure to maintain stability and undergo continuous rearrangement despite having inter-particle separations that would suggest instability based on simple 2-body physics.

John Linderman, Shiqi Chen, Yanzeng Li, Alexandria Hoehn, Stuart A. Rice, Norbert F. Scherer2026-02-12🔬 physics.optics

Floquet Control of Electron and Exciton Transport in Kekulé-Distorted Graphene

This paper investigates how high-frequency electromagnetic driving (Floquet control) in Kekulé-distorted graphene enables an unexpected "Klein paradox" for exciton transport—allowing near-perfect transmission across potential barriers—while simultaneously suppressing electron transmission and modifying exciton binding energies for potential applications in valleytronics and optoelectronics.

Sita Kandel, Godfrey Gumbs2026-02-12🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Two electrons interacting at a mesoscopic beam splitter

This paper demonstrates that unscreened Coulomb interactions between two individual ballistic electrons at a mesoscopic beam splitter significantly enhance coincidence counts, providing a platform for interaction-mediated energy exchange and potential single-shot quantum logic gates.

Niels Ubbelohde, Lars Freise, Elina Pavlovska, Peter G. Silvestrov, Patrik Recher, Martins Kokainis, Girts Barinovs, Frank Hohls, Thomas Weimann, Klaus Pierz, Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs2026-02-11🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall