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.

Geometry-controlled magnon-polariton excitations in a bilayer planar cavity

This paper introduces a theoretical framework for bilayer planar cavities, demonstrating that the geometric placement of two magnetic films and their symmetry properties enable precise control over collective magnon-polariton excitations by modulating coupling strength, activating dark modes, and organizing multimode interactions through exchange-driven hierarchies.

S. Solihin, Ahmad R. T. Nugraha, Muhammad Aziz Majidi2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

First-principles study of dispersive readout in circuit QED

This paper employs first-principles simulations of the full unitary dynamics in circuit QED to demonstrate that the observed drop in qubit T1T_1 and readout fidelity at high drive amplitudes is critically sensitive to the microscopic details of the bath spectrum, revealing limitations in standard Lindblad and effective master equation approaches.

Angela Riva, Prakritish Gogoi, Nicolas Gheeraert, Serge Florens, Alex W. Chin, Alain Sarlette, Alexandru Petrescu2026-04-14🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Magnetic switching of self-hybridized exciton-polaritons in CrSBr photonic crystal slabs

This study demonstrates that CrSBr photonic crystal slabs enable active magnetic control over self-hybridized exciton-polaritons, where a small external magnetic field of 40 mT triggers a spin-flip transition that reverses the polariton group velocity and switches its propagation direction.

T. D. Gorelkina, I. E. Kalantaevskii, A. N. Abramov, K. A. Gasnikova, P. A. Alekseev, X. Zeng, D. Huang, T. Jiang, I. V. Iorsh, I. Y. Chestnov, V. Kravtsov2026-04-14🔬 physics.optics

Surmounting potential barriers: hydrodynamic memory hedges against thermal fluctuations in particle transport

This study demonstrates that while finite temperatures can completely quench particle transport over high potential barriers at intermediate ranges for both Langevin and Basset-Boussinesq-Oseen (BBO) dynamics, hydrodynamic memory in BBO systems uniquely mitigates this effect by sustaining initial momentum, thereby enabling transport even in regimes where thermal fluctuations would otherwise halt it.

Sean Seyler, Steve Pressé2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Magnetic moment of electrons in systems with spin-orbit coupling

This paper investigates relativistic corrections to the electron magnetic moment operator in systems with spin-orbit coupling, introducing the concept of an "abnormal magnetic moment" to highlight ambiguities in conventional decompositions and challenges to standard orbital magnetization theories, while deriving a Kubo formula for the kinetic magnetoelectric effect rooted in the noncommutation of position and magnetic field derivative operators.

I. A. Ado, M. Titov, Rembert A. Duine, Arne Brataas2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall