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

Tailoring Ultrathin Magnetic Multilayers at Terraced Topologically Insulating Interfaces for Perpendicularly Magnetized Domains

This paper demonstrates the optimization of Bi2_2Se3_3/buffer/[Pt/CoB/Ru]×N_{\times N} heterostructure growth via molecular beam epitaxy and sputtering, revealing that a critical buffer layer thickness is essential to suppress Bi2_2Se3_3 terracing and achieve uniform perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with well-defined domains suitable for spintronics applications.

Benjamin A. Brereton, Soumyarup Hait, Ahmet Yagmur, Christy J. Kinane, Francesco Maccherozzi, Michele Conroy, Satoshi Sa (…)2026-07-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Quasiperiodicity-induced non-Hermitian skin effect from the breakdown of scale-free localization

This paper investigates a one-dimensional non-reciprocal lattice with tunable boundary coupling and quasiperiodic disorder, revealing that quasiperiodicity can induce a breakdown of scale-free localization, leading to either the non-Hermitian skin effect or an extended regime depending on the boundary conditions.

Kazuma Saito, Ryo Okugawa, Kazuki Yokomizo, Takami Tohyama, Chen-Hsuan Hsu2026-07-01
🔬 optics

Room-temperature, continuous wave lasing in planar microcavities with quantum dots

This paper reports the achievement of room-temperature, continuous-wave lasing at 956 nm in high-quality planar microcavities containing quantum dots, characterized by a low threshold power density of 4.2 kW/cm² and a quality factor that increases to at least 19,000 above the lasing threshold due to efficient lateral heat dissipation.

Andrey Babichev, Mikhail Bobrov, Alexey Vasilev, Sergey Blokhin, Nikolay Maleev, Ivan Makhov, Natalia Kryzhanovskaya, Le (…)2026-07-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Experimental Realization of Synthetic Magnonic Lattice via Floquet Engineering

This paper demonstrates the experimental realization of a reconfigurable synthetic magnonic lattice in a single yttrium iron garnet device by using Floquet engineering to couple multimode resonances, thereby enabling scalable, high-dimensional magnonic dynamics without increasing the physical footprint.

Amin Pishehvar, Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair, Zhaoyou Wang, Zixin Yan, Yu Jiang, Liang Jiang, Benedetta Flebus, Xufeng Zhang2026-07-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Floquet Majorana flat bands and emergent Cooper pair symmetries in pp-wave magnet$-$superconductor heterostructure

This paper investigates a periodically driven pp-wave magnet–ss-wave superconductor heterostructure, revealing that the interplay of inter-orbital hopping and Floquet engineering induces seven distinct topological phases with robust Majorana flat bands and generates a unique nonequilibrium class of odd-Floquet Cooper pair symmetries absent in static systems.

Subhendu Kumar Patra, Gaurab Kumar Dash, Manisha Thakurathi2026-07-01
🔬 mesoscale physics

Beating micromagnetic limits on skyrmion stability by long-range frustration

This paper demonstrates that long-range exchange frustration can significantly enhance skyrmion stability and collapse energy barriers beyond traditional micromagnetic limits by leveraging noncollinear saddle point textures, offering a new engineering route for highly stable nanoscale skyrmions in ultrathin films and van der Waals magnets.

Shiwei Zhu, Moritz A. Goerzen, Changsheng Song, Dongzhe Li2026-07-01