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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Phonon interference induced by defect pairs

This paper proposes a theoretical model demonstrating that defect pairs with strong local electron-phonon coupling generate coherent phonon interference patterns whose intensities and topological structures can be controlled by internal parameters and directly measured via the Huang-Rhys factor, offering a novel platform for exploring nonequilibrium quantum phenomena.

Ran-Bo Yang, Ming-Hao Li, Chun-Yu Cai, Yue-Wen Wang, Zhi-Qing Li, Li-Xia Zhao, Zi-Wu Wang2026-10-02
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Hyperbolic lattices with mass disorder: Phases and phase transitions

This study investigates the impact of mass disorder on nearest-neighbor tight-binding models across three distinct hyperbolic lattices, revealing that while the Dirac liquid phase remains stable against weak disorder before undergoing sequential semimetal-to-metal and metal-to-insulator transitions, the other two systems exhibit only the latter transition, with critical exponents closely resembling those found in on-site potential disorder scenarios.

Sheersh Sen, Christopher A. Leong, Bitan Roy2026-10-02
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Tomographic identification of all molecular orbitals in a wide binding energy range

This study demonstrates that photoemission orbital tomography can experimentally identify all molecular orbitals of bisanthene on a Cu(110) surface across a 10 eV binding energy range, providing a rigorous benchmark that reveals the range-separated hybrid functional HSE performs best and suggests Kohn-Sham orbitals approximate Dyson orbitals more accurately than previously thought.

Anja Haags, Dominik Brandstetter, Xiaosheng Yang, Larissa Egger, Hans Kirschner, Alexander Gottwald, Mathias Richter, Ge (…)2026-10-01
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Ferroelectric Hysteresis in Superconducting Bilayer Td-MoTe2

This paper proposes that the displacement-field-driven hysteretic switching of superconductivity in ferroelectric bilayer Td_{\textrm{d}}-MoTe2_2 arises from the suppression of intralayer pp-dd orbital pairing by ferroelectric polarization, establishing a specific condition for switching and predicting anisotropic pairing gaps and potential pair density wave transitions.

Yanfang Li, Xin-Zhi Li, Wen-Yu He2026-10-01
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Gyrotropic Fingerprints of Magnetic Topological Insulator-Unconventional Magnet Interfaces

This paper proposes that the displacement component of the linear intrinsic gyrotropic magnetic response in magnetic topological insulator-unconventional magnet interfaces serves as a high-fidelity, experimentally measurable fingerprint for identifying and distinguishing the symmetry of unconventional magnetic orders through its unique angular harmonics and sign-reversal patterns.

Neelanjan Chakraborti, Snehasish Nandy, Sudeep Kumar Ghosh2026-10-01