This category explores the fascinating world of quantum gases, where scientists cool atoms to temperatures near absolute zero to create exotic states of matter. In these extreme conditions, individual atoms begin to behave like a single giant wave, revealing strange quantum effects that are usually hidden in our everyday warm world. These experiments help researchers understand the fundamental rules governing matter and could one day lead to revolutionary new technologies like ultra-precise sensors or quantum computers.

On Gist.Science, we process every new preprint in this field directly from arXiv to make these complex discoveries accessible to everyone. Our team provides both plain-language overviews for the curious mind and detailed technical summaries for experts, ensuring you get the full picture without getting lost in the jargon. Below are the latest papers from arXiv in Cond-Mat — Quant-Gas, freshly summarized and ready for you to explore.

Coherent transport in two-dimensional disordered potentials under spatially uniform SU(2) gauge fields

This paper investigates the transient interference dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle in a two-dimensional disordered potential under uniform SU(2) gauge fields, revealing a unique momentum-offset backscattering peak that coexists with a coherent backscattering dip and providing a perturbative framework to explain its buildup, decay, and dephasing time.

Masataka Kakoi, Christian Miniatura, Keith Slevin2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall

Immiscible to miscible quenching instabilities in two-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensates

This paper investigates immiscible-to-miscible quenching instabilities in two-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensates of rubidium isotopes, revealing that the transition dynamics are driven by vortex production and sound waves, exhibit a bottleneck effect deviating from classical Kolmogorov turbulence scaling, and ultimately stabilize into a linear relationship between the miscibility parameter and the initial configuration.

Lauro Tomio, S. Sabari, Arnaldo Gammal, R. K. Kumar2026-04-13🔬 physics.atom-ph

Ultrafast All-Optical Switching via a Supersolid Phase Transition of Light

This paper proposes an ultrafast, all-optical switching and memory platform that exploits a bistable phase transition between a photon superfluid and a supersolid in a driven-dissipative microcavity, where tunable nonlocal interactions engineered by a drifting 2D electron gas enable high-contrast, sub-femtojoule operation with reconfigurable spatial ordering.

J. L. Figueiredo, J. T. Mendonça, H. Terças2026-04-13🔬 physics.optics

Many-body dynamical localization in Fock space

This paper investigates many-body dynamical localization in a periodically driven interacting two-mode bosonic system, demonstrating how quantum interference suppresses transport in Fock space and induces a spectral crossover from random-matrix to Poisson statistics, analogous to Anderson localization and linked to discrete time crystals.

Nathan Dupont, Bruno Peaudecerf, David Guéry-Odelin, Gabriel Lemarié, Bertrand Georgeot, Christian Miniatura, Nathan Goldman2026-04-13🔬 cond-mat

Kubo-Martin-Schwinger relation for energy eigenstates of SU(2)-symmetric quantum many-body systems

By leveraging a recently proposed non-Abelian eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, this paper derives a Kubo-Martin-Schwinger relation for SU(2)-symmetric quantum many-body systems, revealing that finite-size corrections to the fluctuation-dissipation theorem can be polynomially larger than usual in certain cases, a finding supported by numerical simulations of Heisenberg chains.

Jae Dong Noh, Aleksander Lasek, Jade LeSchack, Nicole Yunger Halpern2026-04-10🔬 cond-mat