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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Disorder averaging in random lattice models with periodic boundary conditions: Application to models with uncorrelated and correlated disorder

This paper develops disorder averaging techniques within the modern theory of polarization to calculate polarization cumulants and delocalization indicators for random lattice models with periodic boundary conditions, validating the method on fully localized Anderson and power-law correlated de Moura-Lyra models while highlighting significant pairwise degeneracies in the latter.

Balázs Hetényi, Luís Miguel Martelo, András Lászlóffy2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat

Topochemically-engineered coexistence of charge and spin orders in intercalated endotaxial heterostructures

This study demonstrates that topochemically engineered, metastable T/H-Fex_xTaS2_2 endotaxial heterostructures successfully stabilize the rare coexistence of room-temperature commensurate charge density wave order and ferromagnetism by utilizing Fe intercalants to simultaneously tune competing spin and charge degrees of freedom in 2D materials.

Samra Husremovic, Wanlin Zhang, Medha Dandu, Berit H. Goodge, Isaac M. Craig, Ellis Kennedy, Matthew P. Erodici, Karen C. Bustillo, Chengyu Song, Jim Ciston, Sinéad Griffin, Archana Raja, D. Kwabe (…)2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat

Cholesteric Fingers from a Magnetic Perspective: Topology, Energetics, and Interactions

This paper establishes a unified continuum framework linking chiral liquid crystals and chiral magnets to characterize cholesteric fingers (CF-1 and CF-2) as composite meron-based topological solitons, detailing their structural evolution, repulsive or attractive interactions, and thickness-dependent stability under varying anchoring and background conditions.

Takayuki Shigenaga, Andrey O. Leonov2026-04-09🔢 math-ph

Magnon harmonic generation in antiferromagnets: Dynamical symmetry enriched by symmetry breaking

This paper theoretically and numerically demonstrates that THz-laser or GHz-wave driven magnon harmonic generation in antiferromagnets exhibits distinct spectra and selection rules determined by the material's magnetic order and dynamical symmetries, offering a novel probe for investigating symmetry breaking in these systems.

Yuto Jita, Minoru Kanega, Takumi Ogawa, Shunsuke C. Furuya, Masahiro Sato2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Directional Andreev-Reflection Signatures of Inter-Orbital Pairing in Sr2_2RuO4_4

This paper reports a reversal of the expected directional Andreev-reflection signatures in Sr2_2RuO4_4, where pronounced in-gap bound states appear on out-of-plane surfaces rather than in-plane edges, a phenomenon attributed to inter-orbital pairing that offers new constraints on the material's superconducting order parameter.

G. Csire, Y. Fukaya, M. Cuoco, Y. Tanaka, R. K. Kremer, A. S. Gibbs, G. A. Ummarino, D. Daghero, R. S. Gonnelli2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Exact Solution for Current-Driven Domain-Wall Dynamics Beyond Lorentz Contraction in Antiferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

This paper presents an exact analytical solution for current-driven domain-wall dynamics in antiferromagnets with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction, revealing unconventional width behaviors that deviate from standard Lorentz contraction and predicting constant velocities and steady tilt rotations in synthetic antiferromagnets.

Mu-Kun Lee, Rubén M. Otxoa, Masahito Mochizuki2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Resolving Single-Peptide Phosphorylation Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanopores using Physics-Informed Bi-Path Model

This paper introduces a physics-informed deep learning framework that combines multiple-instance learning with spatiotemporal modeling to overcome signal stochasticity and background interference, enabling the robust, label-free detection of single-peptide phosphorylation events using particle-in-pore plasmonic nanopores.

Mulusew W. Yaltaye, Yingqi Zhao, Kuo Zhan, Vahid Farrahi, Jian-An Huang2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Self-Assembled Telecom Color Centers in Silicon and Their Growth Environment

This paper investigates how ultra-low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy growth pressure and substrate temperature influence the self-assembly, optical properties, and crystal quality of telecom-relevant color centers in silicon, demonstrating that optimized vacuum conditions are critical for suppressing background luminescence and enabling high-quality quantum photonic devices.

Jacqueline Marböck, Enrique Prado Navarrete, Merve Karaman, Oliver E. Lang, Thomas Fromherz, Maciej O. Liedke, Andreas Wagner, Moritz Brehm, Johannes Aberl2026-04-09🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall