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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Van Hove singularity-driven giant Nernst signal in twisted double bilayer graphene

This study demonstrates that van Hove singularities in twisted double bilayer graphene generate a giant, electrically tunable Nernst signal driven by Lifshitz transitions, establishing the effect as a sensitive probe of Fermi-surface topology and a universal thermoelectric signature of these singularities.

Ujjal Roy, Monosij Roy, Unmesh Ghorai, Arkaprava Mukherjee, Ravi Kumar, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Nandini Trive (…)2026-07-29
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Logarithmic Aging Diffusion from a Multiplicative Event Clock: Rare Event Statistics, Ultraslow Transport, and Ensemble-Time Inequivalence

This paper introduces a multiplicative event clock model that generates logarithmic aging and ultraslow transport through independent logarithmic time ratios, revealing a fundamental inequivalence between ensemble and time-averaged statistics while providing a comprehensive framework to distinguish this specific mechanism from other models that merely exhibit similar logarithmic relaxation curves.

Chunyan Li, Zheng Li, Yueyan Li, Haiwen Liu, X. C. Xie2026-07-29
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Anisotropic domain wall velocity profiles in the creep regime: the interplay of chiral damping, stiffness and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

This paper presents an extended angular creep model that incorporates dispersive domain wall stiffness and chiral damping to accurately describe the anisotropic expansion of magnetic bubble domains, thereby enhancing the quantitative extraction of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and chiral dynamical effects.

Adriano Di Pietro, Alessandro Magni, Stefania Pizzini, Frowin Dörr, Yasser Shokr, Gianfranco Durin, Silvia Tacchi, Marco (…)2026-07-29
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Tip-Tuned Renormalization-Group Spectroscopy Unmasks a False-positive Topological Superconducting Vortex

This paper demonstrates that tip-tuned renormalization-group spectroscopy can distinguish false-positive vortex zero-bias peaks from true Majorana zero modes by exploiting dynamical Coulomb blockade to drive a protected MZM flow into a zero-bias dip, thereby unmasking conventional vortex-core states in SrSn3\mathrm{SrSn}_3 thin films.

Zhenhua Zhu, Qun Zhu, Yong-Wei Wang, Gu Zhang, Jihai Zhang, Xu-Cun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue, Can-Li Song, Dong E. Liu2026-07-29
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Quantum oscillation spectroscopy of Fermi-surface topologies in tetralayer graphene

This study utilizes Shubnikov-de Haas spectroscopy on high-mobility dual-gated Bernal-stacked tetralayer graphene to quantitatively map six distinct Fermi-surface topologies and their flavor degeneracies, revealing a large orbital-Zeeman-induced valley splitting that establishes a framework for characterizing complex multiband quantum materials.

Abhijit Halder, Harsh Varshney, Snehamoyee Hazra, Santu Kumar Bera, Souvik Chakraborty, Ujjal Roy, Takashi Taniguchi, Ke (…)2026-07-29
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Scaling universal Fermi network toward ground states: A diffusion-Monte-Carlo assessment

This paper demonstrates that the universally expressive Fermi Sets neural network architecture can be systematically scaled to converge to the ground states of interacting fermionic systems, as evidenced by the diminishing energy improvements from fixed-phase diffusion Monte Carlo calculations on jellium and quantum dot models.

Yu-Sheng Li, Saskia Poldmaa, Tzen Ong, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Tay-Rong Chang, Hsin Lin, Liang Fu2026-07-29
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Exploring nonlinear dynamics in periodically driven time crystal: from synchronized to chaotic motion

By periodically modulating the polarization of a laser driving an InGaAs electron-nuclear spin system, researchers mapped its transition from synchronized time-crystalline behavior to chaotic motion, revealing complex nonlinear phenomena such as Arnold tongues, devil's staircases, and bifurcation jets that characterize the system's response to driving deviations.

Alex Greilich, Nataliia E. Kopteva, Vladimir L. Korenev, Manfred Bayer2026-07-28