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.

Coherent Control of Nanoscale Nuclear Spin Ensembles in the Spin Noise Regime

This paper demonstrates that the contrast and interpretation of nanoscale nuclear spin dynamics in the spin-noise regime critically depend on the initial phase and orientation of the applied radio-frequency field relative to the NV center's crystalline axis, highlighting the necessity of precise calibration for reliable multidimensional NMR experiments.

Ana Martin, Roberto Rizzato, Carlos Munuera-Javaloy, Dileep Singh, Dominik B. Bucher, Jorge Casanova2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Experimental Verification of a Universal Operator Growth Hypothesis

This paper experimentally verifies a universal hypothesis regarding the growth of Lanczos coefficients using 19^{19}F nuclear magnetic resonance free induction decay data, confirming the theory and determining the growth parameter α\alpha for three crystal orientations while discussing the conditions necessary to observe a branch-point singularity in the analytic continuation of the signal.

M. Engelsberg, Wilson Barros Jr2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Steady-state phonon heat currents and differential thermal conductance across a junction of two harmonic phonon reservoirs

This paper utilizes nonequilibrium Green's functions to demonstrate that steady-state phonon heat currents across a coupled harmonic junction obey Fourier's law and exhibit direction-independent thermal conductance that peaks when phonon spectra match, though low-temperature exclusion of high-frequency modes can shift this maximum.

Eduardo C. Cuansing, Juan Rafael K. Bautista2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Unidirectional information flow in a nanomagnetic metamaterial

This paper introduces a framework for non-reciprocal influence in artificial spin ice that enables inherent unidirectional domain movement, which is experimentally demonstrated and shown to significantly enhance memory capabilities in reservoir computing.

Johannes H. Jensen, Ida Breivik, Arthur Penty, Anders Strømberg, Henrik Tidemann Kaarbø, Dheerendra S. Bhandari, Thea M. Dale, Michael Foerster, Miguel Angel Niño, Deepak Dagur, Magnus Själa (…)2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Detecting crossed Andreev reflection in a quantum Hall interferometer with a superconducting beam splitter

This paper proposes using time-domain electron interferometry in a Hong-Ou-Mandel geometry with a superconducting beam splitter to detect and characterize local and crossed Andreev reflection processes by analyzing distinct changes in current cross-correlation signals compared to normal-conducting setups.

Maxime Jamotte, Tom Menei, Manohar Kumar, Alexander Zyuzin, Thomas L. Schmidt2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

U(2)\mathrm{U}(2) Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Fractional Quantum Hall Hierarchies

This paper constructs effective U(2)\mathrm{U}(2) Chern-Simons-Ginzburg-Landau theories that successfully describe both Abelian and non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall hierarchies, reproducing known filling fractions while uniquely determining topological orders and revealing a particle-hole symmetry between Read-Rezayi sequences and their conjugates.

Taegon Lee, Gil Young Cho, Donghae Seo2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Creation Dynamics and Interference of Slow and Fast Propagating SPPs at a Temporal Boundary

This paper establishes a theoretical framework using three-dimensional Green's function analysis in the Laplace domain to demonstrate the dynamic formation and time-boundary-induced interference of slow and fast surface plasmon polaritons excited by a dipole in a material system undergoing a sudden temporal change.

Jay A. Berres, S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj, George W. Hanson2026-04-10🔬 physics.app-ph