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.

Hierarchical Bayesian calibration of mesoscopic models for ultrasound contrast agents from force spectroscopy data

This paper presents a surrogate-accelerated hierarchical Bayesian calibration framework that successfully derives data-informed dissipative particle dynamics models for commercial ultrasound contrast agents by inferring their mechanical parameters from force spectroscopy data across multiple bubble diameters.

Brieuc Benvegnen, Nikolaos Ntarakas, Tilen Potisk, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, Matej Praprotnik2026-04-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Automatic Charge State Tuning of 300 mm FDSOI Quantum Dots Using Neural Network Segmentation of Charge Stability Diagram

This paper presents a deep learning-based pipeline using a U-Net CNN to automatically tune 300 mm FDSOI quantum dots by segmenting charge stability diagrams, achieving an 80% success rate in locating the single-charge regime and offering a scalable path toward high-throughput qubit automation.

Peter Samaha, Amine Torki, Ysaline Renaud, Sam Fiette, Emmanuel Chanrion, Pierre-Andre Mortemousque, Yann Beilliard2026-04-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Nonlinear Circular Dichroism Reveals the Local Berry Curvature

This paper establishes a direct link between angular momentum conservation in nonlinear optics and the electronic quantum geometry by demonstrating that nonlinear harmonic circular dichroism is proportional to the local Berry curvature, a relationship experimentally verified in an atomically thin semiconductor to enable all-optical control and read-out of this geometric property.

Nele Tornow, Paul Herrmann, Clemens Schneider, Ferdinand Evers, Jan Wilhelm, Giancarlo Soavi2026-04-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Giant Room-Temperature Third-Order Electrical Transport in a Thin-Film Altermagnet Candidate

This study demonstrates that (101)-oriented RuO₂ thin films, a candidate altermagnet, exhibit giant room-temperature third-order electrical transport responses driven by simultaneous T-odd and T-even quantum geometric quantities, providing a robust method to detect Néel order and a versatile platform for quantum spintronic devices.

Hongyu Chen, Peixin Qin, Ziang Meng, Guojian Zhao, Kai Chen, Chuanying Xi, Xiaoning Wang, Li Liu, Zhiyuan Duan, Sixu Jiang, Jingyu Li, Xiaoyang Tan, Jinghua Liu, Jianfeng Wang, Huiying Liu, Chengbao J (…)2026-04-16🔬 physics.app-ph

Experimental Quantification of Nonlinear Mode Coupling in Nanomechanical Resonators using Multi-tone Excitation

This paper introduces a multi-tone spectroscopy method combined with inverse reconstruction to experimentally quantify nonlinear coupling coefficients in nanomechanical resonators, successfully validating the approach by deriving accurate device-specific models for highly tensioned nanostrings that match finite element simulations.

Chris F. D. Wattjes, Zichao Li, Minxing Xu, Richard A. Norte, Peter G. Steeneken, Farbod Alijani2026-04-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Topological markers for a one-dimensional fermionic chain coupled to a single-mode cavity

This paper investigates how a single-mode photonic cavity modifies the topological phases of a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain in the off-resonant regime by deriving an effective interacting Hamiltonian and validating the resulting phase diagram through consistent agreement between winding number, bulk polarization, and edge correlation function markers.

Anna Ritz-Zwilling, Olesia Dmytruk2026-04-16🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall