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

Ultrastrong Coupling and Coherent Dynamics in a Gate-Tunable Transmon Qubit

This paper demonstrates ultrastrong light-matter coupling in a gate-tunable InAs nanowire transmon qubit coupled to a superconducting resonator, revealing non-Jaynes-Cummings spectral features while maintaining coherent time-domain control and coherence times comparable to conventional gatemons.

I. Casal Iglesias, F. J. Matute-Cañadas, G. O. Steffensen, A. Ibabe, L. Splitthoff, T. Kanne, J. Nygard, V. Rollano, D. (…)2026-03-23
🔬 mesoscale physics

Micromagnetic Modeling of Surface Acoustic Wave Driven Dynamics: Interplay of Strain, Magnetorotation, and Magnetic Anisotropy

This paper presents a unified micromagnetic study of surface acoustic wave-driven spin wave dynamics in CoFeB films, demonstrating that the orientation of magnetic anisotropy acts as a tunable parameter to optimize resonant coupling, particularly when the wave propagates parallel to the external magnetic field.

Florian Millo, Pauline Rovillain, Massimiliano Marangolo, Daniel Stoeffler2026-03-23
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Kekulé spirals and charge transfer cascades in twisted symmetric trilayer graphene

This paper presents a mean-field analysis of magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene under strain and electric fields, revealing robust Kekulé spiral order and a unique commensurate variant absent in bilayer systems, alongside complex charge transfer cascades driven by band dispersion differences.

Ziwei Wang, Yves H. Kwan, Glenn Wagner, Nick Bultinck, Steven H. Simon, S. A. Parameswaran2026-03-20