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.

Thermodynamic Geometry of Classical and Quantum Statistics in the Relativistic Regime

This paper investigates the thermodynamic geometry of relativistic ideal gases across classical and quantum statistics, demonstrating that while the characteristic signs of thermodynamic curvature persist, relativistic effects introduce mass-dependent shifts in curvature singularities and corrections to the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature.

Hosein Mohammadzadeh, Zahra Ebadi, Omid Yahyayi Monem, Mohammad Hossein Naghizadeh Ardabili2026-02-24🔬 cond-mat

High-resolution spectroscopy of 162Dy Rydberg levels

This paper reports the first high-resolution spectroscopy of over 700 Rydberg states in 162Dy, achieving a tenfold improvement in the precision of its ionization potential and utilizing multichannel quantum defect theory to characterize perturbing states, thereby establishing a foundation for dysprosium-based quantum architectures and benchmarks for ab-initio calculations.

G. Ferioli, P. Lombardi, P. Sekhar, E. Sole Cardona, N. Preti, C. Drevon, N. Antolini, L. Tanzi, G. Modugno, C. Gabbanini, F. Robicheaux, A. Fioretti2026-02-24🔬 physics.atom-ph

Three-dimensional Bose-Fermi droplets at nonzero temperatures

This paper employs numerical methods combining quantum hydrodynamics and Hartree-Fock models to demonstrate that self-bound three-dimensional Bose-Fermi droplets can exist at nonzero temperatures in both free space and box potentials, with their stability and properties governed by interspecies attraction strength, total atom number, and initial condensate fraction.

Maciej Lewkowicz, Mirosław Brewczyk, Mariusz Gajda, Tomasz Karpiuk2026-02-24🔬 cond-mat

Reformulating Chemical Equilibrium in Reacting Quantum Gas Mixtures: Particle Number Conservation, Correlations and Fluctuations

This paper reformulates the canonical-ensemble description of reactive quantum gas mixtures by replacing the conventional equality of chemical potentials with a single global particle-number-conservation constraint, thereby naturally incorporating Fermi-Dirac or Bose-Einstein correlations and concentration fluctuations while smoothly reducing to the classical ideal gas limit.

Diogo J. L. Rodrigues2026-02-23⚛️ quant-ph

Families of localized modes of Bose-Einstein condensates enabled by incommensurate optical lattice and photon-atom interactions

This paper investigates the formation, bistability, and stability of localized modes in a Bose-Einstein condensate within a one-dimensional optical cavity featuring incommensurate potentials and photon-atom interactions, demonstrating how these systems enable matter-wave localization without two-body interactions and can function as XOR logic gates.

Pedro S. Gil, Vladimir V. Konotop2026-02-23🌀 nlin

Simulating Quantum Field Theories with Boundaries in Curved Spacetimes Using Open Spin Systems

This paper presents a framework for simulating (1+1)(1+1)-dimensional quantum field theories with boundaries in curved spacetimes using open spin systems, demonstrating that by deriving and implementing specific boundary conditions for Majorana fermions, these lattice models accurately reproduce continuum QFT dynamics, spectra, and responses.

Shunichiro Kinoshita, Keiju Murata, Daisuke Yamamoto, Ryosuke Yoshii2026-02-23⚛️ gr-qc