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.

🔬 mesoscale physics

Exploring non-trivial band structure and spin polarizations in dd-wave altermagnets tailored by anisotropic optical fields

This theoretical study demonstrates that off-resonant, anisotropic optical fields can induce finite bandgaps and enable fine-tuning of spin polarizations in dd-wave altermagnets through second-order perturbation effects, offering significant potential for advancing spintronic applications.

Andrii Iurov, Liubov Zhemchuzhna, Tiyhearah Danner-Jackson2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Layer-selective hydrogenation and proton transport in twisted bilayer graphene

This paper demonstrates that applying a strong electric field to twisted bilayer graphene with fixed charge density induces layer-selective hydrogenation and proton transport, enabling the creation of configurable logic gates through independent control of the decoupled electronic systems in each layer.

J. Tong, G. Chen, H. Li, E. Hoenig, M. Alhashmi, X. Zhang, D. Bahamon, G. R. Tainton, S. Sullivan-Allsop, Y. Mayamei, D. (…)2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Quantum transport reveals spin glass correlations in a 2D network of TbPc2_{2} single-molecule magnets grafted on graphene

This study demonstrates that a 2D network of TbPc2_2 single-molecule magnets grafted on graphene induces long-range, 2D Ising spin-glass magnetic correlations in the graphene substrate, as evidenced by the analysis of low-temperature magnetoresistance, 1/f noise, and universal conductance fluctuations.

Nianjheng Wu, Jules Lefeuvre, Andrew Mayne, Stéphane Campidelli, Jérôme Lagoute, Cyril Chacon, Sophie Guéron, Richard De (…)2026-04-01
⚛️ quantum physics

Junction-Intrinsic Dissipation in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Gatemon Qubits

By co-fabricating hybrid gatemon and standard SIS transmon qubits with identical circuit layouts, researchers demonstrate that gatemon relaxation times are limited by an order of magnitude more than theoretical predictions due to an unidentified, temperature-independent, junction-intrinsic dissipation mechanism rather than external circuit losses or quasiparticle effects.

Zhenhai Sun, David Feldstein-Bofill, Ksenia Shagalov, Amalie T. J. Paulsen, Casper Wied, Shikhar Singh, Brian D. Isakov (…)2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Fano Resonances in Mismatched C3_3N Nanoribbon Junctions

This paper demonstrates that mismatched C3_3N nanoribbon junctions serve as a tunable platform for engineering Fano resonances in electron transport by using an external gate potential to couple edge states with localized interface states, thereby enabling precise control over the number and line shapes of the resulting interference-driven resonances.

Andor Che Papior, Van-Truong Tran, Roberto D'Agosta, Stefan Kurth2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Theory of quantum decoherence and its application to anomalous Hall effect

This paper introduces a quantum master-equation framework to quantitatively analyze decoherence in spin-orbit-coupled ferromagnets, revealing a crossover between intrinsic and extrinsic anomalous Hall regimes and identifying a previously unrecognized, significant extrinsic contribution arising from second-order scattering processes tightly linked to quantum decoherence.

Xian-Peng Zhang, Yan-Qing Feng, Haiwen Liu, Wanxiang Feng, Yugui Yao2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Angular anisotropy landscape of vortex ensembles in polarized small-angle neutron scattering

This paper presents a symmetry-resolved classification framework for polarized small-angle neutron scattering patterns from magnetic vortex ensembles, demonstrating that their angular anisotropy organizes into four distinct regimes governed primarily by rotational symmetry and the statistical distribution of vortex axes rather than detailed core structures.

Michael P. Adams, Elizabeth M. Jefremovas, Andreas Michels2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Negative Electronic Friction and Non-Markovianity in Nonequilibrium Systems

This paper demonstrates that the nonequilibrium mechanism responsible for negative electronic friction in molecular nanojunctions inherently generates significant non-Markovian effects that critically influence vibrational dynamics and the stability of Langevin descriptions, as verified by comparison with numerically exact quantum simulations.

Riley J. Preston, Samuel L. Rudge, Daniel S. Kosov, Michael Thoss2026-04-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Phononic Switching of Magnetization by the Ultrafast Barnett Effect

This study demonstrates that the ultrafast Barnett effect, induced by resonantly exciting circularly-polarized optical phonons in paramagnetic substrates, can be harnessed to selectively and permanently reverse the magnetization of a nearby magnetic heterostructure, establishing a new method for ultrafast non-local magnetic control.

C. S. Davies, F. G. N. Fennema, A. Tsukamoto, I. Razdolski, A. V. Kimel, A. Kirilyuk2026-03-31