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.

Spin-wave hybridization in bismuth iron garnet Mie spheres induced by the inverse Faraday effect

This paper demonstrates that the inverse Faraday effect, driven by internal optical Mie resonances in bismuth iron garnet spheres, enables the symmetry-selective hybridization of spin-wave modes with opposite parity, resulting in controllable, intensity-dependent avoided crossings that are experimentally observable under realistic conditions.

Fedor Shuklin, Khristina Albitskaya, Alexander Chernov, Mihail Petrov2026-04-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Valley-Aware Optimal Control of Spin Shuttling Using Cryogenic Integrated Electronics

This paper presents a cryogenic integrated electronics solution for spin shuttling that combines disorder-informed co-simulation with a noise-aware optimization procedure to generate high-fidelity, valley-disorder-mitigated transport waveforms using on-chip memory and low-power circuit controls.

Pau Dietz Romero, Nermine Chaabani, Lammert Duipmans, Alessandro David, Felix Motzoi, Stefan van Waasen, Lotte Geck2026-04-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Microscopic modeling of flopping-mode quantum dot spin qubits

This paper presents a semi-analytical microscopic modeling framework that maps device geometry to qubit parameters for flopping-mode spin qubits, revealing a fundamental tradeoff between fast electrical driving and spectral purity while providing design guidelines for optimizing both single- and two-qubit control in realistic architectures.

Ashutosh Kinikar, Vukan Levajac, Kristof Moors, George Simion, Monica Benito, Bart Soree2026-04-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Memristive Switches in Rigid Conjugated Single-Molecule Junctions

This study demonstrates that voltage-driven memristive switching in rigid conjugated single-molecule junctions arises from extrinsic, mechanically mediated contact rearrangements rather than intrinsic molecular pathways, with switching stability and reproducibility critically dependent on the specific anchoring groups and molecular connectivity.

Riccardo Conte, Lucienne van der Geest, Minu Sheeja, Przemyslaw Gawel, Cina Foroutan-Nejad, Herre S. J. van der Zant2026-04-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Topological Word for Non-Abelian Topological Insulators

This paper proposes a unified framework called the "topological word," which uses an ordered sequence of non-Abelian charges to fully characterize the bulk-boundary correspondence in multigap non-Abelian topological insulators by capturing both global homotopy topology and crucial band-adjacency information, a method validated across static and Floquet systems that remains insightful even when global topology is ill-defined.

Zhenming Zhang, Tianyu Li, Wei Yi2026-04-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Toward nanophotonic platforms for solid-state 229^{229}Th nuclear clocks

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a nanophotonic platform using high-QQ fluoride resonators to embed 229^{229}Th nuclei, demonstrating a viable pathway toward compact, all-solid-state nuclear clocks by enhancing optical excitation rates and assessing implantation-induced damage.

Sandro Kraemer, Karen Mamian, Toby Bi, Shun Fujii, Jan de Haan, Harshith Babu, Arno Claessens, Rafael Ferrer Garcia, Fedor Ivandikov, Piet Van Duppen, Andreas Dragoun, Christoph E. Düllmann, Christo (…)2026-04-23🔬 physics.optics

Reflections on Quantum Reflectometry: Quantum and Tunneling capacitances as well as Sisyphus and Hermes resistances

This paper presents a rigorous theoretical framework for analyzing driven-dissipative qudit-resonator systems that extends quantum reflectometry beyond the stationary regime by strictly defining and characterizing geometric, quantum, and tunneling capacitances alongside Sisyphus and Hermes resistances across various quantum devices.

O. Yu. Kitsenko, S. N. Shevchenko, L. Peri, Franco Nori2026-04-23🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall