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.

Probing Azimuthal Anatomy of Hyperbolic Whispering Gallery Modes in hBN

This paper introduces a decoupled excitation-detection strategy using an auxiliary cavity to overcome s-SNOM limitations, enabling the direct visualization and characterization of hyperbolic whispering gallery modes with large azimuthal momentum in hexagonal boron nitride resonators.

Bogdan Borodin, Samyobrata Mukherjee, Shivaksh Rawat, Seojoo Lee, Thomas Poirier, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James H. Edgar, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Gennady Shvets, Petr Stepanov2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Electrically tunable orbital coupling and quantum light emission from O-band quantum dot molecules

This paper demonstrates electrically tunable orbital coupling and high-quality single-photon emission at telecom O-band wavelengths (~1300 nm) from individual InAs/InGaAs quantum dot molecules, characterized by pronounced excitonic anticrossings and a second-order correlation function of g(2)(0) = 0.017(2).

P. S. Avdienko, L. Hanschke, Q. Buchinger, N. Akhlaq, I. Lubianskii, E. Weber, H. Riedl, M. Kamp, T. Huber-Loyola, S. Hoefling, A. Pfenning, K. Mueller, J. J. Finley2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Exploring non-trivial band structure and spin polarizations in dd-wave altermagnets tailored by anisotropic optical fields

This theoretical study demonstrates that off-resonant, anisotropic optical fields can induce finite bandgaps and enable fine-tuning of spin polarizations in dd-wave altermagnets through second-order perturbation effects, offering significant potential for advancing spintronic applications.

Andrii Iurov, Liubov Zhemchuzhna, Tiyhearah Danner-Jackson2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Interplay of Electric Dipole Spin Resonance and Multilevel Landau-Zener Interference in p-Type Silicon Quantum Dots

This study reveals that the complex microwave response of Pauli spin blockade leakage current in p-type silicon double quantum dots arises from the interplay between spin-orbit-mediated electric dipole spin resonance and multilevel Landau-Zener interference, a phenomenon confirmed by numerical simulations and characterized by unconventional spectral features near orbital level crossings.

Sayyid Irsyadul Ibad, Yusaku Suzuki, Masahiro Tadokoro, Tokio Futaya, Shimpei Nishiyama, Kimihiko Kato, Shigenori Murakami, Takahiro Mori, Raisei Mizokuchi, Jun Yoneda, Tetsuo Kodera2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Interplay of Antiferromagnetism and Quasiperiodicity in a Hubbard Ring: Localization Insights

This study reveals that in a quasiperiodic spinful antiferromagnetic Hubbard ring, electron correlations and staggered Zeeman fields drive a nonmonotonic localization evolution featuring an intermediate regime of enhanced localization and magnetic ordering, followed by a re-entrant delocalization, as consistently evidenced by multifractal analysis, diverse mean-field observables, and real-time wave-packet dynamics.

Souvik Roy, Ranjini Bhattacharya2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Phonon Signatures of Near-Room-Temperature Phase Transition in Quasi-One-Dimensional Bi4I4 Topological van der Waals Material

This study demonstrates that polarization-resolved Raman spectroscopy can detect subtle, stacking-driven structural rearrangements and their associated topological phase transition in quasi-one-dimensional Bi4I4 near room temperature, even in the absence of a change in global crystallographic symmetry.

Nidhish Thiruthukkal Puthenveettil, Topojit Debnath, Clayton Mantz, Zahra Ebrahim Nataj, Jordan Teeter, Md. Shafayat Hossain, Fariborz Kargar, Tina T. Salguero, Roger K. Lake, Alexander A. Balandin2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Spatiotemporal imaging of gate-controlled multipath dynamics of fractional quantum Hall edge excitations

This paper reports the spatiotemporal imaging of gate-controlled multipath dynamics of fractional quantum Hall edge excitations at ν=1/3\nu = 1/3, demonstrating tunable trajectory switching, dispersive propagation, and long-range transverse optical responses that establish a platform for engineered nonequilibrium and analog-spacetime experiments.

Yunhyeon Jeong, Akinori Kamiyama, John N. Moore, Takaaki Mano, Ken-ichi Sasaki, Yuuki Sugiyama, Tokiro Numasawa, Masahiro Hotta, Go Yusa2026-04-01🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall