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.

Towards the complete description of stationary states of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice: A coding approach

This paper establishes and numerically verifies sufficient conditions for a one-to-one correspondence between stationary states of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattice and bi-infinite sequences over a finite alphabet, thereby providing a coding framework to describe these states.

G. L. Alfimov, A. P. Fedotov, Ya. A. Murenkov, D. A. Zezyulin2026-02-20🌀 nlin

Measuring spectral functions of doped magnets with Rydberg tweezer arrays

This paper introduces a spectroscopic protocol using Rydberg tweezer arrays to emulate scanning tunneling microscopy, enabling the direct real-space imaging and characterization of magnetic polarons and their binding properties within frustrated $tJ$ Hamiltonians.

Romain Martin, Mu Qiao, Ivan Morera, Lukas Homeier, Bastien Gély, Lukas Klein, Yuki Torii Chew, Daniel Barredo, Thierry Lahaye, Eugene Demler, Antoine Browaeys2026-02-20⚛️ quant-ph

Exotic critical states as fractional Fermi seas in the one-dimensional Bose gas

This paper demonstrates that cyclic interaction changes in an integrable one-dimensional Bose gas drive the system into a novel critical phase characterized by fractional Fermi seas, which exhibit correlation signatures incompatible with conventional Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid behavior.

Alvise Bastianello, Yi Zeng, Sudipta Dhar, Zekui Wang, Xudong Yu, Milena Horvath, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, Yanliang Guo, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, Manuele Landini2026-02-20⚛️ quant-ph

Realization of fractional Fermi seas

This paper reports the experimental realization of fractional Fermi seas in an excited one-dimensional Bose gas, where stable states exhibiting Friedel oscillations confirm the existence of exotic quantum states with fractional momentum occupancies predicted by generalized exclusion statistics.

Yi Zeng, Alvise Bastianello, Sudipta Dhar, Zekui Wang, Xudong Yu, Milena Horvath, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, Yanliang Guo, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, Manuele Landini2026-02-20🔬 physics.atom-ph

Mass-imbalance effect on the cluster formation in a one-dimensional Fermi gas with coexistent ss- and pp-wave interactions

This study investigates how mass imbalance influences the formation of stable two- and three-body clusters in a one-dimensional Fermi gas with coexisting ss- and pp-wave interactions, revealing that while vacuum three-body states are always more deeply bound than two-body ones, moderate interactions in the medium favor a Cooper trimer phase over pairing, accompanied by competition among different trimer configurations.

Yixin Guo2026-02-19⚛️ nucl-th