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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Enabling Electrical Readout of Néel vector reversal in a van der Waals Antiferromagnet

This paper reports the first experimental demonstration of electrical readout for 180-degree Néel vector reversal in atomically thin van der Waals antiferromagnetic CrSBr films by utilizing spin-dependent tunneling magnetoresistance in a heterostructure coupled to a spin-polarized layer.

Raghvendra Posti, Ravi Kumar Bandepalli, Wenhao Liu, Anshuman Sahoo, Pratyush Saud, Zixin Zhai, Aswin L. N. Kondusamy, Z (…)2026-06-24
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Neural information processing and time-series prediction with only two dynamical memristors

This paper proposes and demonstrates a novel information processing scheme that leverages the dynamical properties of memristors rather than their multi-level resistance states, enabling complex tasks such as autonomous neural spike detection and high-accuracy time-series prediction using circuits composed of only two memristors.

Dániel Molnár, Tímea Nóra Török, János Volk, Roland Kövecs, László Pósa, Péter Balázs, György Molnár, Nadia Jimenez Olal (…)2026-06-23
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Beth-Uhlenbeck equation for the thermodynamics of fluctuations in a generalised 2+1D Gross-Neveu model

This paper derives and numerically explores a momentum-dependent Beth-Uhlenbeck equation for Gaussian fluctuations in a generalized 2+1D Gross-Neveu model, revealing significant deviations from previous Lorentz-boosted approximations, including the resurrection of pseudoscalar bound states and substantial contributions from Landau modes to fluctuation pressure.

Biplab Mahato, David Blaschke, Dietmar Ebert2026-06-23
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Heavy fermion phase diagram in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene

This paper demonstrates an electrically tunable heavy fermion phase diagram in magic-angle twisted trilayer graphene, where a displacement field controls Kondo hybridization to drive a continuous quantum phase transition from an antiferromagnetic semimetal to a paramagnetic heavy fermion metal, marked by effective mass divergence and Fermi surface reconstruction at the critical point.

Le Zhang, Wenqiang Zhou, Xinjie Fang, Zhen Zhan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Yi-feng Yang, Shuigang Xu2026-06-23
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Observation of momentum dependent charge density wave gap in EuTe4

This study combines first-principles DFT calculations, angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, and low-temperature heat capacity measurements to characterize the momentum-dependent charge density wave gap and construct the magnetic phase diagram of the rare-earth chalcogenide EuTe4.

Iftakhar Bin Elius, Nathan Valadez, Gyanendra Dhakal, Volodymyr Buturlim, Sabin Regmi, Dante James, Peter Radanovich, Ma (…)2026-06-23
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Memristor-Driven Spike Encoding for Fully Implantable Cochlear Implants

This paper presents a low-power, biomimetic auditory front-end for fully implantable cochlear implants that utilizes a piezoelectric MEMS cantilever coupled with a VO2_2 memristor oscillator to achieve FFT-free, frequency-selective sensing and direct neuromorphic spike generation, thereby reducing energy consumption and system footprint compared to conventional solutions.

Tímea Nóra Török, Roland Kövecs, Ferenc Braun, Zsigmond Pollner, Tamás Zeffer, Nguyen Quoc Khánh, László Pósa, Péter Rév (…)2026-06-23
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Disorder-Induced Topological Phases in a Two-Dimensional Chern Insulator with Strong Magnetic Disorder

This paper demonstrates that strong magnetic disorder in a two-dimensional Chern insulator can fundamentally drive the emergence of novel topological phases, including a disorder-induced transition mediated by Green's function zeros and a nontrivial C=0C=0 phase characterized by a distinct spin-configuration Chern number that vanishes in the clean limit.

Devesh Vaish, Michael Potthoff2026-06-23