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.

Universal Description of Decoherence in Scale-Invariant Environments

This paper proves that under fundamental physical principles, any quantum system coupled to a scale-invariant environment decoheres uniquely as an "unparticle bath" characterized by a single scaling dimension, a framework validated by experimental data and unified across diverse physical regimes from condensed matter to cosmology.

Carlos Argüelles, Gabriela Barenboim, Gonzalo Herrera, Tanvi Krishnan, Héctor Sanchis2026-04-20⚛️ hep-ph

Holographic Stirling engines and the route to Carnot efficiency

This paper computes the efficiency of reversible Stirling engines across diverse working substances, identifying that regeneration can drive the efficiency toward the Carnot limit when the fixed-volume heat capacity is volume-independent, while demonstrating that for holographic CFTs dual to AdS black holes, the efficiency asymptotically approaches the Carnot value in the large-potential limit.

Nikesh Lilani, Manus R. Visser2026-04-20⚛️ hep-th

Coupled-channels method for the scattering hypervolume in ultracold atomic three-body collisions

This paper introduces a novel, numerically exact coupled-channels method for calculating the complex three-body scattering hypervolume in ultracold identical bosonic systems by utilizing realistic multichannel molecular potentials and off-shell transition matrices, demonstrated through a benchmark application to spin-polarized potassium-39.

P. J. P. Kersbergen, J. van de Kraats, D. J. M. Ahmed-Braun, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans2026-04-20🔬 cond-mat

Observation of Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a Dephased Fermi Gas

This paper reports the first experimental observation of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW-SSB) in a dephased Fermi gas, utilizing a machine-learned quantum-classical estimator to detect long-range Rényi order and demonstrate how decoherence drives a sharp phase transition that extends Landau's symmetry paradigm to open quantum systems.

Si Wang, Thomas G. Kiely, Dorothee Tell, Johannes Obermeyer, Marnix Barendregt, Petar Bojovic, Philipp M. Preiss, Abhijat Sarma, Titus Franz, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Cenke Xu, Immanuel Bloch2026-04-20🔬 cond-mat