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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Spin-State Engineering of Single Titanium Adsorbates on Ultrathin Magnesium Oxide

This study demonstrates that the spin state of single titanium atoms adsorbed on ultrathin magnesium oxide films can be engineered between S=1/2S = 1/2 and S=1S = 1 by controlling the local adsorption site and film thickness, offering a tunable platform for atomically precise quantum architectures.

Soo-hyon Phark, Hong Thi Bui, We-hyo Seo, Yaowu Liu, Valeria Sheina, Curie Lee, Christoph Wolf, Andreas J. Heinrich, Rob (…)2026-03-05
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Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity with electronic glass in nickelate (La, Pr, Sm)3Ni2O7 films

This study reports the discovery of an unprecedented time-reversal symmetry breaking superconducting state accompanied by electronic glass dynamics in epitaxially strained (La, Pr, Sm)₃Ni₂O₇ bilayer nickelate films, evidenced by unconventional magnetoresistance hysteresis, zero-field non-reciprocity, and logarithmically slow resistance relaxations.

Haoran Ji, Zheyuan Xie, Yaqi Chen, Guangdi Zhou, Longxin Pan, Heng Wang, Haoliang Huang, Jun Ge, Yi Liu, Guang-Ming Zhan (…)2026-03-05
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Ultrathin bismuth-yttrium iron garnet films with tunable magnetic anisotropy

This study demonstrates the epitaxial growth of high-quality, ultrathin bismuth-substituted yttrium iron garnet (BiYIG) films with tunable magnetic anisotropy and low damping via strain engineering and growth parameter optimization, highlighting their potential for advanced spin-orbitronic and magnonic devices.

Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, Davit Petrosyan, Min-Gu Kang, Emir Karadža, Hiroki Matsumoto, Richard Schlitz, Michaela L (…)2026-03-05
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Granular aluminum induced superconductivity in germanium for hole spin-based hybrid devices

This paper demonstrates that depositing granular aluminum on Ge/SiGe heterostructures induces a hard superconducting gap with exceptional magnetic field resilience, enabling the observation of Zeeman-split Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states and tunable g-tensors essential for hole spin-based hybrid quantum devices.

Giorgio Fabris, Paul Falthansl-Scheinecker, Devashish Shah, Daniel Michel Pino, Maksim Borovkov, Anton Bubis, Kevin Roux (…)2026-03-05
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Impact of the out-of-plane conductivity on spin transport evaluation in a van der Waals material

This study demonstrates that accounting for out-of-plane conductivity in layered materials like PtTe2_2 is crucial for accurate spin transport evaluation, as conventional isotropic assumptions significantly overestimate key parameters such as the out-of-plane spin diffusion length and spin Hall conductivity.

Ryoya Nakamura, Futo Tokuda, Yoshinobu Ono, Nan Jiang, Hideaki Sakai, Masayuki Ochi, Hiroaki Ishizuka, Yasuhiro Niimi2026-03-05