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.

Solving the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation with Quantic Tensor Trains: Ground States and Nonlinear Dynamics

This paper introduces a quantic tensor train (QTT) framework that efficiently solves the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensates by adapting variational and gradient descent methods, achieving high-resolution simulations of ground states and nonlinear dynamics with significantly reduced computational costs compared to conventional grid-based approaches.

Qian-Can Chen, I-Kang Liu, Jheng-Wei Li, Chia-Min Chung2026-03-18🔬 cond-mat

Direct energy dissipation measurements for a driven superfluid via the harmonic-potential theorem

This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates a method to directly measure energy dissipation in a linearly driven superfluid by leveraging a perturbed harmonic-potential theorem to convert center-of-mass motion into internal energy, thereby enabling the quantitative determination of dissipation and the observation of critical velocity behavior in a driven Bose-Einstein condensate.

Clara Tanghe, Senne Van Wellen, Kobe Vergaerde, Karel Van Acoleyen2026-03-18⚛️ quant-ph

Two-Body Contact Dynamics in a Bose Gas near a Fano-Feshbach Resonance

This paper investigates the real-time buildup of short-range correlations in a nondegenerate ultracold Bose gas near a narrow Fano-Feshbach resonance by using rapid optical quenches to track two-body contact evolution, revealing long-lived atom-molecule coherence that is accurately described by a dynamical two-channel zero-range theory.

Alexandre Journeaux, Julie Veschambre, Maxime Lecomte, Ethan Uzan, Jean Dalibard, Félix Werner, Dmitry S. Petrov, Raphael Lopes2026-03-18⚛️ quant-ph

From Lasers to Photon Bose--Einstein Condensates: A Unified Description via an Open-Dissipative Bose--Einstein Distribution

This paper presents a unified mean-field description of photon Bose-Einstein condensation in dye-filled microcavities, derived from a Lindblad master equation, which reveals how driven-dissipative parameters shape an open-dissipative Bose-Einstein distribution and distinguish photonic condensates from both atomic BECs and lasers.

Joshua Krauß, Enrico Stein, Axel Pelster2026-03-18🔬 cond-mat

Dispersive shock waves in periodic lattices

This paper systematically investigates the generation of dispersive shock waves in nonlinear Schrödinger equations with periodic potentials by employing a tight-binding approximation to reduce the system to a discrete model, where Whitham modulation theory is used to analyze rich non-convex dispersive hydrodynamic phenomena arising from the evolution of piecewise smooth initial data.

Su Yang, Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis2026-03-18🌀 nlin

Shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates: Dynamics, excitations, and thermodynamics

This paper synthesizes two decades of theoretical research on shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates to comprehensively analyze their dynamics, collective excitations, and thermodynamics, while highlighting recent experimental breakthroughs such as microgravity realizations on the International Space Station.

Brendan Rhyno, Kuei Sun, Jude Bedessem, Naceur Gaaloul, Nathan Lundblad, Smitha Vishveshwara2026-03-18🔬 cond-mat

Gorkov algebraic diagrammatic construction for infinite nuclear matter

This paper introduces a novel many-body truncation for Gorkov self-consistent Green's function theory that combines first-order pairing correlations with third-order particle-number-conserving dynamical correlations to accurately predict the equation of state and spectral properties of infinite nuclear matter using modern chiral effective field theory Hamiltonians.

Francesco Marino, Carlo Barbieri, Gianluca Colò2026-03-18⚛️ nucl-th