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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Localization and universality of three-dimensional pseudospin-ss fermions

This paper establishes a unified theory showing that while the Drude conductivity of three-dimensional disordered fermions depends on pseudospin, their leading quantum interference correction exhibits a striking universality where the sign of localization or antilocalization is determined solely by the parity of the pseudospin, though interband scattering can suppress antilocalization in specific cases like s=3/2s=3/2.

Arpan Gupta, Gargee Sharma2026-04-22🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Large Scale Optimization of Disordered Hubbard Models through Tensor and Neural Networks

This paper demonstrates that a vision-based neural network trained on tensor-network-generated data can efficiently tune large-scale disordered 2D quantum-dot arrays by leveraging a sliding-window approach that infers critical disorder parameters from local 3×33\times 3 regions, thereby bypassing the computational intractability of simulating the full system's exponentially large Hilbert space.

Jacob R. Taylor, Sankar Das Sarma2026-04-22🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Asymptotic Metrological Scaling and Concentration in Chaotic Floquet Dynamics

This paper investigates quantum sensing protocols utilizing Haar random unitary gates within Floquet chaotic dynamics, demonstrating that while asymptotic precision scales linearly (shot-noise limit) in large Hilbert spaces, non-asymptotic regimes offer quantum advantages, and it further establishes that Floquet random quantum circuits effectively mimic global unitary operators in the limit of large local dimensions.

Astrid J. M. Bergman, Yunxiang Liao, Jing Yang2026-04-22🔢 math-ph

Ultrafast Light-Induced Magnetoelectric Effect in van der Waals Magnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures

This study demonstrates that ultrafast optical excitation in a WS2_2/CrGeTe3_3 van der Waals heterostructure induces an opposite-sign magnetic torque compared to isolated films, driven by interface charge transfer altering magnetic anisotropy and spin current injection, thereby enabling new pathways for ultrafast magnetization manipulation.

Wenyi Zhou, Ravi Kumar Bandapelli, Hari Paudyal, Bangzheng Han, I-Hsuan Kao, Ziling Li, Yuqing Zhu, Durga Paudyal, Jyoti Katoch, Simranjeet Singh, Roland K. Kawakami2026-04-22🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Coherent Microwave Driving of Domain Wall Depinning in a Ferrimagnetic Garnet

This paper demonstrates that coherent microwave driving can resonantly excite localized domain wall oscillations in a ferrimagnetic garnet, enabling efficient depinning and manipulation of magnetic textures through nonlinear dynamics at reduced external magnetic fields.

Hanchen Wang, Laura van Schie, Adam Erickson, Lauren J. Riddiford, Davit Petrosyan, Christian L. Degen, Richard Schlitz, William Legrand, Pietro Gambardella2026-04-22🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Optical conductivity of topological semimetal Nb2n+1_{2n+1}Sin_nTe4n+2_{4n+2}

This paper analytically investigates the optical conductivity of the layered topological semimetal Nb2n+1_{2n+1}Sin_nTe4n+2_{4n+2}, revealing strong anisotropy in the Drude weight at zero temperature while demonstrating that interband conductivity exhibits a universal linear frequency dependence in both directions, with these findings remaining valid up to experimentally relevant temperatures.

Seongjin Ahn2026-04-22🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall