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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Dichroism from Chiral Thermoelectric Probes: Generalized Sum Rules for Orbital and Heat Magnetizations

This paper establishes a unified theoretical framework linking orbital and heat magnetizations to experimentally accessible excitation spectra via generalized sum rules and chiral thermoelectric probes, enabling the direct measurement of these ground-state properties through dichroic measurements in quantum-engineered platforms.

Baptiste Bermond, Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Anaïs Defossez, Nathan Goldman2026-04-03🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Electrically driven plasmon-polaritonic bistability in Dirac electron tunneling transistors

This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of electrically driven plasmon-polaritonic bistability in graphene/hexagonal-boron-nitride/graphene tunneling transistors, achieved through momentum-conserving resonant tunneling of Dirac electrons and tunable via load resistance and electrostatic gating.

Shuai Zhang, Yang Xu, Junhe Zhang, Dihao Sun, Yinan Dong, Matthew Fu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Cory R. Dean, Monica Allen, Jeffery Allen, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo, Antti J. Moilanen, Lukas (…)2026-04-03🌀 nlin

Compact self-matched gyrators using edge magnetoplasmons

This paper demonstrates a compact, self-impedance matched gyrator based on edge magnetoplasmons in a GaAs 2D gas that achieves nearly lossless, unidirectional microwave transmission from 0.2 to 2 GHz without external matching networks, offering a footprint 100 times smaller and significantly lower loss than existing commercial and plasmonic devices.

Aldo Tarascio, Yiqi Zhao, Rafael S. Eggli, Taras Patlatiuk, Christian Reichl, Werner Wegscheider, Stefano Bosco, Dominik M. Zumbühl2026-04-03🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Revealing Strain and Disorder in Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides Using Hyperspectral Photoluminescence Imaging

This paper demonstrates that hyperspectral photoluminescence imaging effectively maps microscopic strain gradients and disorder in hBN-encapsulated monolayer MoSe2_2 and WSe2_2 by quantitatively analyzing spatial variations in excitonic features, thereby revealing optoelectronic heterogeneities that conventional optical methods often miss.

Adam Alfrey, Cole Tait, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Steven T. Cundiff2026-04-03🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Codimension-controlled universality of quantum Fisher information singularities at topological band-touching defects

This paper establishes that the singular behavior of quantum Fisher information near topological band-touching defects follows a universal power-law scaling determined solely by the defect's codimension, thereby unifying diverse topological phase transitions into a single geometric framework independent of spatial dimensionality or specific band structures.

C. A. S. Almeida2026-04-03🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Electrostatic transfer of sub-micron magnetic particles onto cantilevers using a focused ion beam system

This paper presents a focused-ion-beam-assisted electrostatic transfer method for precisely attaching prefabricated sub-micron magnetic particles to microcantilevers, enabling the creation of custom magnetic tips with minimal fabrication damage and broad applicability for scanning probe microscopy.

Peter Sun, George R. Du Laney, Tim M. Fuchs, Tjerk H. Oosterkamp, Malcolm G. Thomas, John A. Marohn2026-04-03🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Time-evolving matrix product operators for off-diagonal system-bath coupling

This paper extends the time-evolving matrix product operator (TEMPO) method within the process tensor framework to solve bosonic quantum impurity problems with off-diagonal system-bath coupling, providing a unified and generic approach that reveals the limitations of secular approximations in sub-ohmic baths and suggests future applications in fermionic generalizations and dynamical mean field theory.

Chu Guo, Wei Wu, Xiansong Xu, Tian Jiang, Ping-Xing Chen, Ruofan Chen2026-04-03🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall