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

A local quantized marker for topological magnons from circular dichroism

This paper proposes and demonstrates a method to experimentally access a quantized local Chern marker for topological magnons in a 2D ferromagnetic Heisenberg system by combining local driven-dissipative preparation with circular dichroism measurements, enabling the detection of bulk topological properties with single-site resolution while accounting for magnon losses.

Baptiste Bermond, Anaïs Defossez, Gregor Jotzu, Nathan Goldman2026-07-21
🔬 optics

Two-color harmonic spectroscopy of ultrafast Dirac electron dynamics

This study demonstrates that field-driven ultrafast carrier saturation in gapless Dirac semimetals, specifically highly oriented pyrolytic graphite, significantly suppresses interband high-harmonic generation and induces temporal shifts, revealing a critical mechanism for probing ultrafast electron dynamics via two-color harmonic spectroscopy.

Zhaopin Chen, Camilo Granados, Eyal Uzner, Ido Nisim, Daniel Kroeger, Ofer Neufeld, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Michael Krüger2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Link between thermodynamic correlation signatures and superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene

By combining local thermodynamic and transport measurements in twisted trilayer graphene, the study reveals that superconductivity is not directly tied to correlated insulators but instead correlates closely with the strength of compressibility sawtooth features, suggesting a shared origin linked to electron-electron interactions and twist-angle-dependent band structures.

Jesse C. Hoke, Yifan Li, Yuwen Hu, Julian May-Mann, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Trithep Devakul, Aaron Sharpe, Be (…)2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Microwave Signature of the Emerging Abrikosov Lattice Above Hc2H_{c2}

This paper predicts that the emergence of Abrikosov vortex clusters in the normal phase of type-II superconductors just above the critical field Hc2H_{c2} can be detected via a pronounced, measurable enhancement in the imaginary part of the microwave ac-conductivity, offering a new experimental signature for these previously unobservable quantum fluctuations.

Hang Zhou, Zhanghai Chen, A. A. Varlamov, Andreas Glatz, Yuriy Yerin2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Layer-engineered quantum anomalous Hall effect in twisted rhombohedral graphene

This paper demonstrates a layer-engineered platform based on twisted rhombohedral graphene where the Chern number of the quantum anomalous Hall effect can be programmatically set by the layer configuration and dynamically tuned or switched via electrical fields, enabling the on-demand design of reconfigurable topological states.

Zhangyuan Chen, Naitian Liu, Jiannan Hua, Hanxiao Xiang, Wenqiang Zhou, Jing Ding, Xinjie Fang, Linfeng Wu, Le Zhang, Qi (…)2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

An expandable kinetic Monte Carlo platform for modelling electron transport through chiral molecules

This paper presents an expandable kinetic Monte Carlo platform designed to model and compare competing theories of electron transport through chiral molecules, specifically investigating the relationship between Electronic Magnetochiral Anisotropy (eMChA) and Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) by simulating voltage-dependent spin filtering effects.

Silvia Giménez-Santamarina, Andrés Mora Martínez, Gérliz M. Gutiérrez-Finol, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Thermal and viscous contrast in quantum Hall scanning-probe images

This paper establishes a quantitative framework for interpreting quantum Hall scanning-probe images by deriving a transport operator functional that distinguishes between thermal, electrical, and viscous contrasts, revealing that thermoelectric signals are pinned by energy weighting rather than defect geometry in strong fields and that Hall-odd images in hydrodynamic regimes require careful disentanglement of mixed transport channels.

P. Shubham Parashar2026-07-21✓ Author reviewed
🔬 condensed matter

Nanowire networks' interconnection graphs from their photomicrographs

This paper presents a post-processing pipeline to extract interconnection graphs from photomicrographs of silver nanowire networks, revealing that their experimental topologies exhibit small-world and modular characteristics while also analyzing how overestimation of junctions in zenithal-view images impacts key graph metrics like clustering coefficient and path length.

Javier Tau Anzoátegui, Juan Ignacio Diaz Schneider, Eduardo D. Martínez, Pablo Levy, Oscar Filevich, Cynthia P. Quintero (…)2026-07-21