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.

Emergent Nodal Spheres and Weyl Fermions via Spin-Texture Coupled to Thin Film Orbital Dirac Semimetals

This paper demonstrates that coupling a thin-film orbital Dirac semimetal to a generic spin-texture can generate a wide range of topological phenomena, including Weyl semimetals with anomalous Hall and chiral magnetic effects, Lifshitz-like transitions, and the emergence of momentum-space nodal spheres under time-dependent driving.

Pritam Chatterjee, Anirudha Menon2026-04-28🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Uniform Narrow Excitonic Spectrum in Large-Area Suspended WSe2 Monolayers

This study demonstrates that gold-assisted exfoliation enables the fabrication of large-area, suspended WSe2 monolayers with highly uniform excitonic spectra and narrow linewidths, providing a clean platform for accessing intrinsic optical properties and electrically tunable potential landscapes in two-dimensional semiconductors.

Giacomo Mariani, Riccardo Lodo, Keigo Matsuyama, Yoji Kunihashi, Taro Wakamura, Satoshi Sasaki, Louis Smet, Makoto Kohda, Junsaku Nitta, Haruki Sanada2026-04-28🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Terahertz magneto-nanoscopy of encapsulated monolayer graphene

This study utilizes scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to investigate the nanoscale terahertz conductivity of encapsulated monolayer graphene, demonstrating that magnetic fields can tune the cyclotron resonance of Dirac fermions near the charge neutrality point.

Richard H. J. Kim, Sunwoong Yang, Taehoon Kim, Samuel J. Haeuser, Joong-Mok Park, Randall K. Chan, Thomas Koschny, Young-Mi Bahk, Sung Ju Hong, Jigang Wang2026-04-28🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Crystalline metal flakes: Platforms for advanced plasmonics and hybrid 2D material architectures

This review explores how crystalline noble metal flakes serve as superior, low-loss platforms for advanced nanophotonics, enabling breakthroughs in plasmonics, quantum light generation, and hybrid 2D material architectures due to their atomically flat surfaces and high structural quality.

Sergejs Boroviks, Siarhei Zavatski, Thorsten Feichtner, Jer-Shing Huang, Olivier J. F. Martin, Bert Hecht, N. Asger Mortensen2026-04-28🔬 physics.optics

Deterministic Transferable Planar Dielectric Mirrors for Investigating Strong Light-Matter Coupling

The authors developed a deterministic dry-transfer fabrication method for dielectric microcavities using SiO2/TiO2\text{SiO}_2/\text{TiO}_2 Bragg mirrors that preserves the integrity of embedded van der Waals materials and electrical contacts, successfully demonstrating strong exciton-photon coupling in a WS2\text{WS}_2 monolayer.

Atanu Patra, Subhamoy Sahoo, Johannes Düreth, Simon Betzold, Sven Höfling2026-04-28🔬 physics.optics