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.

Chiral Magnetism and Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in a Low-energy Kondo Model on the Triangular Lattice

This paper demonstrates that a low-energy Kondo model on a triangular lattice with nested Fermi surfaces at Γ\Gamma and MM points naturally stabilizes robust non-coplanar chiral magnetic orders, which can induce a quantized quantum anomalous Hall effect with σxy=4e2/h\sigma_{xy}=4\,e^2/h without relying on specific tight-binding details.

Kai Vylet, Xingkai Huang, Leon Balents2026-04-21🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Crystallography, Lorentz violation, and the Standard-Model Extension

This paper establishes a theoretical framework connecting the electromagnetic sector of the Standard-Model Extension (SME) for Lorentz violation with crystallography, demonstrating how crystal symmetries parametrize optical media properties and enabling the use of specific materials as condensed-matter analogs to rediscover and propose novel optical effects.

Marco Schreck, Rogeres A. da Silva Magalhães2026-04-21🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Dynamical spin-nematic order in a transverse field Ising chain with non-Hermitian Gamma interaction

This paper investigates a transverse field Ising chain with non-Hermitian Gamma interaction, demonstrating that parity-time symmetry breaking induces a gapless phase with long-range and dynamical spin-nematic order, thereby revealing a rich quantum phase diagram and offering a scheme for generating such order through non-equilibrium dynamics.

Yu-Hong Yan, Ran Wang, Kun-Liang Zhang2026-04-21🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

0π0-\pi transitions in non-Hermitian magnetic Josephson junctions

This paper demonstrates that coupling a magnetic Josephson junction to a dissipative environment induces spin-dependent broadening of Andreev levels, which shifts the 0π0-\pi transition to higher magnetic fields and enables its control via the relative angle between the external field and reservoir magnetization, thereby establishing non-Hermiticity as a novel resource for engineering superconducting current-phase relations.

Roberto Capecelatro, Marco Marciani, Claudio Guarcello, Gabriele Campagnano, Procolo Lucignano, Roberta Citro2026-04-21🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Generic skyrmion phase diagram in ferrimagnetic films

This paper introduces a unified framework and a new dimensionless parameter, ζeff\zeta_{eff}, to characterize how variations in inter-sublattice exchange coupling govern the stability and configuration of ferrimagnetic skyrmions, revealing a transition from strong-coupling regimes where DMI-free skyrmions can be stabilized to weak-coupling regimes where standard effective models fail.

M. V. Wijethunga, X. R. Wang2026-04-21🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Davies-Morris-Shore Framework for Multilevel Quantum Batteries: Dark and Funnel States in Interacting Qutrit Systems

This paper introduces a Davies-Morris-Shore framework for interacting multilevel quantum batteries, demonstrating that two coupled qutrits can utilize exchange interactions and anharmonicity to generate robust dark and funnel states that enable long-lived energy storage by directing decay into protected manifolds.

Yi\u{g}it Perçin, Özgür E. Müstecaplıo\u{g}lu2026-04-21🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall