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.

Remote Moiré Modulation of Decoupled Dirac Subsystems in Twisted Trilayer Graphene

This study demonstrates that in large-angle helical twisted trilayer graphene, a moiré potential generated at the hBN-aligned top layer can electrostatically modulate a spatially decoupled, structurally unmoiréd twisted bilayer subsystem, revealing that moiré effects can extend beyond their structural interfaces through remote coupling.

Dohun Kim, Junsik Choe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Gil Young Cho, Youngwook Kim2026-04-15🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Robust realization of spin-polarized specular Andreev reflection in V2_2O-based altermagnets

This paper theoretically demonstrates that V2_2O-based altermagnets, modeled via a six-orbital framework, robustly exhibit spin-polarized specular Andreev reflection at superconductor interfaces, offering a viable platform for generating energy-entangled electron pairs through a proposed multiterminal detection setup.

Yutaro Nagae, Andreas P. Schnyder, Satoshi Ikegaya2026-04-15🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Third-order optical response in d-wave altermagnets: Analytical and numerical results from microscopic model

This paper establishes a comprehensive theoretical framework for third-order optospintronic responses in d-wave altermagnets by deriving closed-form analytical and perturbative solutions for injection and shift currents, which are shown to be governed solely by quantum geometric quantities like the quantum metric and connection, free from Berry curvature contamination.

Shihao Zhang2026-04-15🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Heating Dynamics of Mesoscopic Electron Baths at High Magnetic Field

This paper investigates the heating dynamics of a mesoscopic metallic island in a high magnetic field using noise thermometry, revealing a unique two-step thermalization process driven by the interplay between electron, phonon, and nuclear spin heat flows that extends over minutes.

F. Zanichelli, A. Veillon, C. Piquard, A. Aassime, Y. Sato, A. Cavanna, Y. Jin, J. Folk, U. Gennser, A. Anthore, F. Pierre2026-04-15🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall