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.

🔬 materials science

Orbital angular momentum accumulation in SrVO3 thin films

This study demonstrates that epitaxial SrVO₃ thin films exhibit magnetoresistance signatures consistent with the orbital Hall effect, supported by density functional theory calculations and diffusive modeling that reveal a predominantly orbital response with a large orbital-to-spin Hall conductivity ratio, establishing narrow-band d¹ metallic oxides as a promising platform for orbital transport.

Julien Brehin, Montserrat X. Aguilar-Pujol, Dongwook Go, F. Casanova, J. Fontcuberta, E. Longo2026-09-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Floquet-spin-orbit compensation and flat- and quadratic-band contact in the α\alpha-T3T_3 lattice

This paper investigates Floquet-spin-orbit compensation in the α\alpha-T3T_3 lattice, revealing how tuning the interplay between circularly polarized light and intrinsic spin-orbit coupling induces distinct band-degeneracy conditions that enable the inverse determination of the lattice parameter α\alpha through intrinsic transverse thermoelectric responses.

Imtiaz Khan, Muzamil Shah, Reza Asgari, Gao Xianlong2026-09-21
⚛️ quantum physics

Floquet physics from quantized light-matter interaction: geometric phases, gauge consistency, and entanglement

By representing the cavity field in a large-photon-number phase basis, this paper establishes a rigorous, gauge-invariant correspondence between fully quantized light-matter interactions and classical Floquet engineering, demonstrating that the latter emerges directly from the former without mean-field approximations while encoding entanglement in matter-harmonic correlations.

Beatriz Pérez-González, Sigmund Kohler, Mónica Benito2026-09-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Impact of exciton-phonon and exciton-magnon interaction on transport in anisotropic 2D magnetic semiconductors

This paper develops a microscopic many-body theory demonstrating that the quasi-one-dimensional character of excitons in mono- and bilayer CrSBr leads to strongly anisotropic scattering and direction-dependent diffusion coefficients due to exciton-phonon and exciton-magnon interactions, while identifying distinct temperature dependencies arising from specific scattering processes.

Daniel Erkensten, Katarzyna Sadecka, Marie-Christin Heißenbüttel, Thorsten Deilmann, Ermin Malic2026-09-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Non-Hermitian impurity scattering in graphene: Boltzmann transport and thermoelectric response

This paper investigates charge and thermoelectric transport in monolayer graphene with dilute non-Hermitian impurities, demonstrating that while gain enhances carrier lifetime and thermoelectric performance, absorption suppresses them, thereby establishing non-Hermitian scattering as a tunable mechanism for controlling graphene's energy-dependent relaxation and thermoelectric response.

Juan A. Cañas, Daniel A. Bonilla, A. Martín-Ruiz2026-09-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Ultracold Mechanical Quantum Sensor for Tests of New Physics

This paper demonstrates the initialization of high-frequency mechanical modes in a high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonator to near-quantum ground states with extremely low excited-state populations, thereby establishing a versatile platform for quantum sensing and placing stringent constraints on new physics phenomena such as high-frequency gravitational waves, ultra-light dark matter, and wavefunction collapse mechanisms.

Andraz Omahen, Simon Storz, Marius Bild, Dario Scheiwiller, Matteo Fadel, Yiwen Chu2026-09-18