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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🔬 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
🔬 mesoscale physics

Observation of Critical Current Minimum in Super-Honeycomb Josephson Junction Arrays

This study demonstrates that super-honeycomb Josephson junction arrays fabricated in the strong hybridization regime exhibit a unique critical current minimum at filling factor f=1f=1 under an increasing in-plane magnetic field, a phenomenon driven by the interplay between the lattice's frustrated geometry and long-range inter-junction hybridization of Andreev bound states.

Melissa Mikalsen, Alexander-Georg Penner, Samuel D. Escribano, Nadav Drechsler, Arunav Bordoloi, Jacob Issokson, Felix v (…)2026-07-21
🔬 materials science

Electrical Control of Altermagnetism in a Quasi-1D Magnet

This paper demonstrates that quasi-one-dimensional antiferromagnetic chains in the van der Waals magnet AgCrP2_2S6_6 exhibit electrically controllable altermagnetism, where an external out-of-plane electric field induces a linear, sign-reversible nonrelativistic d-wave spin splitting driven by anisotropic interchain hoppings.

Alberto M. Ruiz, Cuiju Yu, Diego López-Alcalá, Jose L. Lado, Adolfo O. Fumega, José J. Baldoví2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Chiral Entangled-State Generation through Dissipative Quantum Dynamics

This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a novel, noise-resistant protocol for generating high-fidelity chiral entangled states in dissipative quantum systems, where the final state is determined by the chirality of the evolution path, offering a scalable tool for quantum information applications.

Huixia Gao, Konghao Sun, Yiwen Han, Lei Xiao, Dengke Qu, Kunkun Wang, Xiang Zhan, Wei Yi, Peng Xue2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Symmetry-isolated magnetoelectric electro-optic effects in noncentrosymmetric metals

This paper identifies 11 space groups in noncentrosymmetric metals where the Berry curvature dipole and gyrotropic magnetic tensor vanish by symmetry, isolating the magnetoelectric electro-optic effect driven by the G\mathbf{G} tensor and proposing an oblique-incidence experimental geometry to distinguish its unique circular dichroism signature from other optical responses.

C. O. Ascencio, D. J. P. de Sousa, Seungjun Lee, Tony Low2026-07-21
🔬 mesoscale physics

Depth Determination of Individual Shallow NV-Centers via Spin-Lock NMR

This paper introduces Spin-Lock NMR as a robust, high-resolution alternative to traditional dynamical decoupling methods for accurately determining the depth of individual shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond by leveraging Hartmann-Hahn resonance to eliminate harmonic ambiguities and enable precise quantitative depth estimation.

Aaron Daniel, Beat Bürgler, Patrick Maletinsky, Patrick Potts2026-07-21