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.

🔬 materials science

Investigation on the temperature dependence of substrate-induced in-plane uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in Ni thin films grown on 128{\deg} Y-cut LiNbO3

This study demonstrates that post-deposition annealing of Ni thin films on 128° Y-cut LiNbO3 substrates induces a temperature-dependent uniaxial magnetic anisotropy driven by magnetoelastic coupling from residual strain, whereas as-grown films remain isotropic with unconventional hysteresis behavior at low temperatures.

Kalani Perera, Morton Greenslit, Luke Doucette, Mauricio Pereira da Cunha, Nicholas S Bingham2026-06-26
🔬 mesoscale physics

Strong coupling between propagating spin wave and microwave photons in a superconducting resonator

This paper demonstrates strong coupling between propagating spin wave modes and microwave photons in a superconducting resonator-magnetic thin film hybrid circuit, achieving coupling strengths that exceed damping rates and revealing nonreciprocal spin wave radiation to advance the integration of spin-wave magnonics with quantum information science.

Yi Li, Jinho Lim, Xingzhi Wang, Tomas Polakovic, Carissa Kiehl, Moojune Song, Phuoc Cao Van, Ralu Divan, Ulrich Welp, Ch (…)2026-06-26
🔬 mesoscale physics

Specific absorption rate of uniaxial single-domain nanomagnets: stochastic spin dynamics versus linear response theory

This paper demonstrates that while linear response theory and stochastic spin dynamics yield equivalent specific absorption rates for uniaxial single-domain nanomagnets at small field amplitudes, linear response theory can significantly underestimate heating efficiency (by up to ~70%) in the blocked regime, with the deviation governed by the dimensionless product of frequency and Néel relaxation time.

H. Kachkachi2026-06-26
🔬 optics

Accessing both electrochemical SEIRA and SERS with ultrasensitive metamaterials for enhanced molecular identification

This paper presents a reusable, electrochemically-cleanable metamaterial that enables simultaneous, ultrasensitive real-time SEIRA and SERS detection in flow, thereby advancing multimodal spectro-electrochemistry for studying interfacial dynamics and molecular transformations.

Nicolas Spiesshofer, Tabitha Jones, Sarah May Sibug Torres, Zoltan Sztranyovszky, Caleb Todd, Shijie Zhu, Yeeun Roh, Rak (…)2026-06-26
🔬 mesoscale physics

Magnon-phonon coupling of synthetic antiferromagnets in a surface acoustic wave cavity resonator

This study demonstrates that a synthetic antiferromagnet (SAF) trilayer serves as an ideal platform for investigating magnon-phonon coupling within a surface acoustic wave cavity resonator, where field-dependent spectral linewidth modulation reveals a coupling strength of approximately 15.6 MHz and a cooperativity of 0.66.

Hiroki Matsumoto, Isamu Yasuda, Motoki Asano, Takuya Kawada, Masashi Kawaguchi, Daiki Hatanaka, Masamitsu Hayashi2026-06-25
🔬 mesoscale physics

Cross-Platform Autonomous Control of Minimal Kitaev Chains

This paper demonstrates the successful cross-platform autonomous tuning of Poor Man's Majorana zero modes in minimal Kitaev chains by employing a transfer learning approach that trains a convolutional neural network on theoretical models and refines it on experimental data to rapidly converge on optimal electrochemical potentials.

David van Driel, Rouven Koch, Vincent P. M. Sietses, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Chun-Xiao Liu, Francesco Zatelli, Bart R (…)2026-06-25