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.

Topological Magnon-Phonon Hybrid Bands in Ferromagnetic Skyrmion Crystals

This paper demonstrates that coupling magnons to lattice vibrations via Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction fluctuations in a two-dimensional ferromagnetic skyrmion crystal reconstructs the low-energy spectrum to generate topological magnon-phonon hybrid bands with nontrivial Chern numbers and robust edge states, even when the underlying bare magnon bands are topologically trivial.

Doried Ghader, Bilal Jabakhanji2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Interplay of disorder and interactions in quantum Hall systems: from fractional quantum Hall liquids to Wigner crystals and amorphous solids

This paper investigates the interplay of disorder and interactions in two-dimensional quantum Hall systems, revealing a disorder-driven phase transition sequence from incompressible fractional quantum Hall liquids to locally ordered solids and finally to amorphous states, a progression that qualitatively aligns with recent scanning tunneling microscopy experimental observations.

Ke Huang, Sankar Das Sarma, Xiao Li2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Half-quantized anomalous Hall conductance in topological insulator/ferromagnet van der Waals heterostructures

This study employs first-principles calculations and tight-binding models to investigate the magnetization-induced gap, sidewall states, and half-quantized anomalous Hall conductance in three specific ferromagnet/topological insulator van der Waals heterostructures, while also analyzing the factors that may hinder exact half-quantization in realistic systems.

Shahid Sattar, Roman Stepanov, Alexander Tyner, M. F. Islam, A. H. MacDonald, C. M. Canali2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Structural Reconstruction Induced d-wave Altermagnetism in V2X2\mathrm{V_{2}X_2} (X=S,SeX = \mathrm{S, Se}) monolayer

This study demonstrates that introducing chalcogen cluster vacancies into trigonal VX2\mathrm{VX_2} (X=S,SeX=\mathrm{S, Se}) monolayers induces a structural reconstruction into an inverse Lieb lattice, which realizes two-dimensional d-wave altermagnetism characterized by momentum-dependent spin splitting and zero net magnetization.

Geethanjali S, Sasmita Mohakud2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Nanoscale mapping of stacking-dependent work function and local photoresponse in CVD-grown MoS2 bilayers by KPFM

This study utilizes Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy to map the stacking-dependent work function and local photoresponse of CVD-grown MoS2 bilayers, revealing how interlayer coupling, substrate-induced photogating, and surface particulate trapping collectively govern their nanoscale optoelectronic behavior.

Anagha Gopinath, Faiha Mujeeb, Subhabrata Dhar, Jyoti Mohanty2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Multiplexed cryo-CMOS control of an isolated double quantum dot

This paper demonstrates that sample-and-hold multiplexed cryo-CMOS control can reliably bias and pulse an isolated silicon double quantum dot at 0.5K, confirming its compatibility with the stability and speed requirements necessary for scalable spin-qubit processors.

Mathieu Darnas, Mathilde Ouvrier-Buffet, Antoine Faurie, Jean-Baptiste Casanova, Benoit Bertrand, Candice Thomas, Jean Charbonnier, Jean-Philippe Michel, Bruna Cardoso Paz, Yvain Thonnart, Franck Bade (…)2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

A new helical InSeI polymorph: crystal structure and polarized Raman spectroscopy study

This study reports the crystal structure of a new helical InSeI polymorph and utilizes polarized Raman spectroscopy to map its lattice dynamics and chain orientation, revealing that despite its helical structure, the material lacks chiral phonons.

Lucía Olano-Vegas, Davide Spirito, Evgeny Modin, Pavlo Solokha, Sergio Marras, Marco Gobbi, Fèlix Casanova, Serena De Negri, Luis E. Hueso, Beatriz Martín-García2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall