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.

🔬 mesoscale physics

Magnetic-Field-Induced Darkening of Bright Excitons in a MoWSe2_2 Monolayer Alloy

This study demonstrates that in a Mo0.68_{0.68}W0.32_{0.32}Se2_2 monolayer alloy, a strong in-plane magnetic field induces the darkening of bright excitons by approximately 85% through field-driven level repulsion and population depletion, a phenomenon enabled by alloying which positions the system near a bright-dark crossover with strong magnetic coupling.

Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko, Artur O. Slobodeniuk, Mehdi Arfaoui, Elena Blundo, Natalia Zawadzka, Łucja Kipczak, Jan Szpako (…)2026-10-21
🔬 applied physics

Giant Spin-to-Charge Conversion by Tailoring Magnetically Proximitized Topological Dirac Semimetal

This study demonstrates that tailoring the thickness of Fe/α\alpha-Sn heterostructures leverages long-range magnetic proximity effects to suppress topological surface states at one interface while opening an exchange gap at the other, resulting in a record-high room-temperature inverse Edelstein length of -3.1 nm at a 25 nm thickness.

Masayuki Ishida, Soichiro Fukuoka, Takahiro Chiba, Yohei Kota, Masaaki Tanaka, Le Duc Anh2026-10-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Steering of topological criticality in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain via non-Hermitian substitutional impurities

This paper demonstrates that introducing non-Hermitian substitutional impurities with asymmetric hopping amplitudes in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain provides a deterministic mechanism to actively shift topological phase boundaries and induce disorder-driven universality class transitions, as validated by finite-size scaling and spectral analysis.

Juan A. Cañas, Guo-Qing Zhang, A. Martín-Ruiz2026-10-21