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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🔬 mesoscale physics

Tuning quantum tunneling in WSe2_2 via strain engineering

This study theoretically demonstrates that strain engineering combined with electrostatic potentials in monolayer WSe2_2 serves as a powerful and versatile tool to controllably tune spin and valley polarizations via quantum interference and resonant tunneling, offering promising pathways for next-generation spintronic and valleytronic devices.

Rachid El Aitouni, Hasna Chnafa, Clarence Cortes, David Laroze, Ahmed Jellal2026-05-26
⚛️ nuclear theory

Thermal Spin Polarization Driven by Nuclear Spin-Orbit Coupling in Neutron Star Pasta

This paper proposes that thermal inhomogeneity at the surface of neutron star nuclear pasta, combined with nuclear spin-orbit coupling, induces anomalous spin polarization in surface-localized neutrons even in the absence of a magnetic field, thereby bridging neutron star physics and solid-state spintronics.

Hiroyuki Tajima, Yuta Sekino, Hiroshi Funaki, Shota Kisaka, Nobutoshi Yasutake, Mamoru Matsuo2026-05-26
🔬 mesoscale physics

Topological metal-insulator transitions in one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystals: beyond PT-symmetry

This paper investigates a non-PT-symmetric one-dimensional non-Hermitian quasicrystal model, demonstrating that it generally supports triple phase transitions involving localization, topology, and degeneracy breaking, while also exhibiting distinct localization-delocalization transitions without topological or degeneracy-breaking changes, thereby extending the understanding of topological metal-insulator transitions beyond PT-symmetric systems.

Guangjie Zhang, Bing Shao, Longwen Zhou, Jiangbin Gong, Weiwei Zhu2026-05-26
🔬 mesoscale physics

Non-Hermitian Twisting Theory under the open boundary condition

This paper develops a site-resolved Non-Hermitian Twisting Theory using local scaling transformations and the Zahlen-Brillouin Zone to generalize the description of the skin effect to non-periodic and disordered systems, unifying metric operators with Riemannian geometry to establish a universal paradigm for real-space localization and phase transitions.

Chen-Hao Zhao, Jia-Rui Li, Yuping Tian, Wei-Jiang Gong2026-05-26
🔬 mesoscale physics

AI-Driven SERS for Non-invasive and Label-Free Extracellular Vesicle Detection Across Cellular Origins in Tears and Sweat

This paper presents an AI-driven, label-free Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) platform that enables rapid, high-accuracy identification of extracellular vesicles from diverse cellular origins in non-invasive tear and sweat samples, offering a promising tool for personalized disease diagnosis.

Yang Li, Xiaoming Lyu, Ling Xia, Kuo Zhan, Haoyu Ji, Lei Qin, Seppo J. Vainio, Jian-An Huang2026-05-26