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.

Nonlinearity-driven Topology via Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

This paper demonstrates that a chain of parametrically driven quantum resonators coupled solely by weak cross-Kerr interactions can undergo a spontaneous symmetry-breaking transition into a non-trivial topological phase, where the topology is dictated by the nonlinear interaction structure rather than quadratic tunneling, resulting in distinct effective models and observable edge modes depending on boundary conditions.

Alessandro Coppo, Alexandre Le Boité, Simone Felicetti, Valentina Brosco2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Electric-field control of two-dimensional ferromagnetic properties by chiral ionic gating

This study demonstrates that chiral ionic gating enables handedness-dependent electric-field control of two-dimensional ferromagnetism in FeSi(111) thin films by biasing magnetic domain populations through chirality-induced symmetry breaking, offering a novel strategy for chiral spintronics.

Hideki Matsuoka, Amaki Moriyama, Tomohiro Hori, Yoshinori Tokura, Yoshihiro Iwasa, Shu Seki, Masayuki Suda, Naoya Kanazawa2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Light-induced pseudo-magnetic fields in three-dimensional topological semimetals

This paper demonstrates that spatially varying linearly polarized light can dynamically generate and control pseudo-magnetic fields in three-dimensional Weyl semimetals via Floquet engineering, offering a reversible and non-invasive alternative to strain-induced gauge fields with distinct experimental signatures in optical and transport properties.

Arpit Raj, Swati Chaudhary, Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Maia G. Vergniory, Roni Ilan, Gregory A. Fiete2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Gate-tunable Josephson diodes in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

This paper reports the observation of gate-tunable Josephson diode effects in adjacent magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene junctions, demonstrating that microscopic inhomogeneities drive non-uniform supercurrent distributions that enable the efficient tuning and polarity reversal of nonreciprocal supercurrents.

A. Rothstein, R. J. Dolleman, L. Klebl, A. Achtermann, F. Volmer, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Hassler, L. Banszerus, B. Beschoten, C. Stampfer2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Spin and orbital-to-charge conversion in noncentrosymmetric materials: Hall versus Rashba-Edelstein effects

This paper establishes a general macroscopic formalism to distinguish between Hall and Rashba-Edelstein contributions to spin- and orbital-to-charge conversion in noncentrosymmetric materials, demonstrating through a case study of ferroelectric GeTe that the Rashba-Edelstein effect is the dominant mechanism driving charge current generation.

Diego Garcia Ovalle, Aurelien Manchon2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Tunneling in multi-site mesoscopic quantum Hall circuits

This paper demonstrates that multi-site mesoscopic quantum Hall circuits with four or more sites exhibit interaction-driven non-Fermi liquid physics and unique quantum-critical points due to higher-order backscattering processes, establishing them as a versatile platform for simulating quantum critical phenomena that can be experimentally controlled and restored to a boundary sine-Gordon description via multichannel channel looping.

D. B. Karki2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall