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.

Gist.Science brings these cutting-edge discoveries to you directly from arXiv, the leading repository for physics preprints. We process every new submission in this category as soon as it appears, offering both straightforward, plain-language explanations and deep technical summaries to help researchers and curious minds alike grasp the latest breakthroughs without getting lost in dense equations.

Below are the most recent papers in this dynamic area of condensed matter physics, ready for you to explore.

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Probing Cooper pair momentum by quasiparticle steering with planar Josephson junctions

This paper demonstrates that ballistic planar Josephson junctions enable a kinematic probe of Cooper pair momentum by steering Andreev bound states into an adjacent normal region at a phase-controlled angle that significantly exceeds conventional momentum scales, offering a distinct alternative to energy-shift-based detection methods.

Isidora Araya Day, Anton R. Akhmerov, Antonio R. L. Manesco2026-07-13
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Terahertz field-driven nonlinear Hall effect and other second order transport phenomena in two-dimensional tellurene

This paper investigates terahertz field-driven second-order nonlinear transport phenomena in two-dimensional tellurene, demonstrating that gate-tunable dc currents arising from skew scattering, side jump, and Berry curvature dipole mechanisms scale quadratically with the electric field and are strongly enhanced at low temperatures and lower frequencies.

M. D. Moldavskaya, L. E. Golub, E. Mönch, Chang Niu, Peide D. Ye, J. Wunderlich, S. D. Ganichev2026-07-13
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Complete measurement of tunnel- and valley-coupling parameters in a silicon double quantum dot

This paper presents a complete characterization of intravalley and intervalley tunnel couplings, including their complex valley phases, in a silicon double quantum dot, demonstrating how these phases govern measurable energy gaps and fill a critical gap in understanding sample-wide variations of key physical parameters like spin-orbit coupling and valley-orbit mixing.

Daniel J. King, Minyoung Kim, J. Reily, Jonathan C. Marcks, Mark Friesen, Benjamin D. Woods, M. A. Eriksson2026-07-13
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Topological Defects Induced High-Spin Quartet State in Truxene-Based Molecular Graphenoids

By utilizing atom manipulation to introduce unpaired π\pi electrons via three pentagon defects in truxene-based molecular graphenoids, researchers demonstrated that these topological defects can be engineered to form a collective high-spin quartet state (S=3/2) through ferromagnetic coupling, offering a new platform for designing magnetic spin chains and networks.

Can Li, Yu Liu, Yufeng Liu, Fu-Hua Xue, Dandan Guan, Yaoyi Li, Hao Zheng, Canhua Liu, Jinfeng Jia, Pei-Nian Liu, Deng-Yu (…)2026-07-10
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Quantum phase transition in magnetic nanographenes on a lead superconductor

This study demonstrates that atomically precise magnetic nanographenes on a lead superconductor exhibit a tunable quantum phase transition between singlet and doublet states, driven by the interplay between delocalized graphene spins and Cooper pairs, thereby offering a promising platform for exploring Majorana bound states and other low-dimensional quantum phenomena.

Yu Liu, Can Li, Fu-Hua Xue, Ying Wang, Haili Huang, Hao Yang, Jiayi Chen, Dan-Dan Guan, Yao-Yi Li, Hao Zheng, Canhua Liu (…)2026-07-10