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

Effect of interatomic repulsion and quasi-degenerate states on a Kitaev-transmon qubit based on double quantum dots

This paper investigates how interatomic Coulomb repulsion and previously overlooked quasi-degenerate states influence a Kitaev-transmon qubit based on double quantum dots, demonstrating that "poor man's Majorana" states persist at sweet spots while revealing a flux-dependent double degeneracy and initial-state sensitivity in the system's microwave spectrum.

Clara Palacios, Armando A. Aligia2026-02-02
🔢 mathematics

Antiferromagnetic domain walls under spin-orbit torque

This paper theoretically investigates the tunable dynamical behaviors of antiferromagnetic domain walls under spin-polarized currents, revealing distinct regimes of precessional, propagating, and oscillatory motion depending on current polarization, characterizing their velocity and asymmetric profiles, and discussing the impact of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and large induced magnetization for potential experimental detection.

George Theodorou, Stavros Komineas2026-02-02
🔬 optics

Gate-tunable single terahertz meta-atom ultrastrong light-matter coupling

This study demonstrates the first electrically tunable ultrastrong light-matter coupling between a single terahertz complementary split ring resonator and a two-dimensional electron gas in a GaAs quantum well, where gate bias controls electron confinement to modulate the normalized coupling strength from 0.46 to 0.18.

Elsa Jöchl, Anna-Lydia Vieli, Lucy Hale, Felix Helmrich, Deniz Turan, Mona Jarrahi, Mattias Beck, Jérôme Faist, Giacomo (…)2026-02-02
🔬 mesoscale physics

Accurate and efficient simulation of photoemission spectroscopy via Kohn-Sham scattering states

This paper introduces an efficient, first-principles framework that computes photoelectron states as Kohn-Sham scattering solutions to enable accurate, transparent, and widely compatible simulations of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), as demonstrated by excellent agreement with experimental data for graphene and WSe2_2.

Gian Parusa, Sotirios Fragkos, Samuel Beaulieu, Michael Schüler2026-02-02
🔢 mathematics

Spin quantum Hall transition on random networks: exact critical exponents via quantum gravity

This paper solves the spin quantum Hall transition on random networks by mapping it to classical percolation and utilizing two-dimensional quantum gravity tools to derive exact critical exponents that satisfy the KPZ relation, thereby confirming the relevance of geometric randomness and supporting numerical simulations of the integer quantum Hall transition.

Esteban Macías, Ilya Gruzberg, Eldad Bettelheim2026-02-02