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.

Non-Hermitian Skin Effect Along Hyperbolic Geodesics

This paper introduces a geodesic-based framework and a corresponding geodesic-periodic boundary condition to investigate the non-Hermitian skin effect in non-reciprocal hyperbolic lattices, revealing that spectral sensitivity is governed by geodesic boundaries and non-reciprocal directionality while requiring boundary localization to distinguish skin modes due to the extensive boundary volume inherent to hyperbolic geometry.

Ruizhe Shen, Wei Jie Chan, Ching Hua Lee2026-06-11🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

DSpinGNN: A Physics-Informed Equivariant Graph Neural Network for Dynamic Magnetic Exchange Prediction in Strain-Deformed Monolayer CrI3_3

This paper introduces DSpinGNN, a physics-informed equivariant graph neural network that accurately predicts dynamic magnetic exchange couplings in strain-deformed monolayer CrI3_3, enabling large-scale simulations that reveal mesoscopic exchange textures and domain wall behaviors inaccessible to traditional first-principles methods.

Isam A. Balghari, M. Faryad, M. Sabieh Anwar2026-06-11🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Berry-phase-based Topological Charge in Quasicrystals and their Observable Features in Photonic System

This paper establishes a universal framework for Berry-phase-based topological charges in two-dimensional quasicrystals, demonstrating a unique higher charge of C=4C=4 in C8vC_{8v} systems and revealing a corresponding CC-fold winding of electromagnetic field patterns in photonic quasicrystals as a direct experimental signature.

Ziyi Chen, Jinyu Zou, Jinhua Gao, Gang xu2026-06-11🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Ferroelectric Altermagnetic Chern Insulator in magnetic field: electrical control of the Chern number

This paper proposes a theoretical model demonstrating that combining an external magnetic field, spin canting, and ferroelectric orbital hybridization in a d-wave altermagnet lifts degeneracy at the Γ\Gamma point, thereby enabling electric-field control of the Chern number and realizing a tunable Chern insulator with phases ranging from C=±1C = \pm 1 to C=±2C = \pm 2.

Meysam Bagheri Tagani, Carmine Autieri2026-06-11🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Robust Spin Logic Enabled by Generalized SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2) Symmetry in pp-Wave Magnets

This paper demonstrates that tuning the intrinsic momentum-dependent exchange field of a 3D pp-wave magnet against gate-induced Rashba spin-orbit coupling establishes a generalized SU(2)\mathrm{SU}(2) symmetry, which protects a Persistent Spin Helix to enable robust, disorder-resilient spin-logic devices with high-visibility electrical conductance oscillations.

Hao-Kun Ke, Gong Zhao, Siqing Li, Ruixiang Chen, Chui-Zhen Chen2026-06-11🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Interfacial Coupling and Sparse Intercalation of 7-Atom-Wide Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons by N-Heterocyclic Carbene Monolayers

This study demonstrates that the intercalation efficiency of N-heterocyclic carbene monolayers beneath 7-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons on Au(111) is critically governed by the molecular adsorption geometry, where flat-lying methyl-substituted dimers enable partial decoupling while bulky isopropyl-substituted monomers prevent intercalation.

Dominik Lüthi, Lin Yang, Xiuling Yu, Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Roman Fasel, Gabriela Borin Barin2026-06-11🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci