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.

🔬 optics

Measuring non-Abelian quantum geometry and topology in a multi-gap photonic lattice

This paper pioneers the direct experimental measurement of the non-Abelian quantum geometric tensor in a six-band photonic lattice using a novel orbital-resolved polarimetry technique, thereby enabling the characterization of non-Abelian quaternion charges, Euler curvature, and quantum metrics to unlock the study of complex multi-gap topological phases.

Martin Guillot, Cédric Blanchard, Martina Morassi, Aristide Lemaître, Luc Le Gratiet, Abdelmounaim Harouri, Isabelle Sag (…)2026-04-09
🔬 mesoscale physics

Interplay between Superconductivity and Altermagnetism in Disordered Materials and Heterostructures

This paper utilizes quantum kinetic and quasiclassical theories to demonstrate that the interplay between superconductivity and altermagnetism in disordered systems generates competing magnetoelectric effects and proximity-induced magnetization, leading to novel phenomena such as spin-texture induction and $0$-π\pi transitions in Josephson junctions.

Rodrigo de las Heras, Tim Kokkeler, Stefan Ilić, Ilya V. Tokatly, F. Sebastian Bergeret2026-04-09
🔬 mesoscale physics

Nonparabolic dispersion of charge carriers in CsPbI3_3 in the orthorhombic phase

Using density functional theory with spin-orbit coupling, this study reveals strong nonparabolicity in the dispersion curves of charge carriers in orthorhombic CsPbI3_3 at specific energy thresholds and proposes a quadratic model to accurately describe these dependences across the Brillouin zone.

O. S. Sultanov (Spin Optics Laboratory, St.Petersburg State University), D. K. Loginov (Spin Optics Laboratory, St.Peter (…)2026-04-09
🔬 condensed matter

Disorder averaging in random lattice models with periodic boundary conditions: Application to models with uncorrelated and correlated disorder

This paper develops disorder averaging techniques within the modern theory of polarization to calculate polarization cumulants and delocalization indicators for random lattice models with periodic boundary conditions, validating the method on fully localized Anderson and power-law correlated de Moura-Lyra models while highlighting significant pairwise degeneracies in the latter.

Balázs Hetényi, Luís Miguel Martelo, András Lászlóffy2026-04-09
🔢 mathematics

Cholesteric Fingers from a Magnetic Perspective: Topology, Energetics, and Interactions

This paper establishes a unified continuum framework linking chiral liquid crystals and chiral magnets to characterize cholesteric fingers (CF-1 and CF-2) as composite meron-based topological solitons, detailing their structural evolution, repulsive or attractive interactions, and thickness-dependent stability under varying anchoring and background conditions.

Takayuki Shigenaga, Andrey O. Leonov2026-04-09
🔬 mesoscale physics

Directional Andreev-Reflection Signatures of Inter-Orbital Pairing in Sr2_2RuO4_4

This paper reports a reversal of the expected directional Andreev-reflection signatures in Sr2_2RuO4_4, where pronounced in-gap bound states appear on out-of-plane surfaces rather than in-plane edges, a phenomenon attributed to inter-orbital pairing that offers new constraints on the material's superconducting order parameter.

G. Csire, Y. Fukaya, M. Cuoco, Y. Tanaka, R. K. Kremer, A. S. Gibbs, G. A. Ummarino, D. Daghero, R. S. Gonnelli2026-04-09
🔬 mesoscale physics

Resolving Single-Peptide Phosphorylation Dynamics in Plasmonic Nanopores using Physics-Informed Bi-Path Model

This paper introduces a physics-informed deep learning framework that combines multiple-instance learning with spatiotemporal modeling to overcome signal stochasticity and background interference, enabling the robust, label-free detection of single-peptide phosphorylation events using particle-in-pore plasmonic nanopores.

Mulusew W. Yaltaye, Yingqi Zhao, Kuo Zhan, Vahid Farrahi, Jian-An Huang2026-04-09