arXiv preprints from January 1, 2026 through September 19, 2026 — 06:25:35 EST
Cyclic cosmologies replace inflation's single creation event with an eternal sequence of smooth turnarounds, but three problems have historically stood in their way: singular bounces, the blue tilt generic to single-field ekpyrotic contraction, and Tolman's observation that entropy production should make successive cycles longer and...
We adapt the Jaynes-Cummings model to study the interface of cavity quantum electrodynamics with strong field and attosecond physics. We show how multi-photon resonances in the Jaynes- Cummings system driven by a strong low-frequency classical light field lead to the generation of highly non-classical, quantum-correlated harmonics of...
The Shastry-Sutherland compound SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$ has attracted considerable interest as a platform for exploring quantum phases and quantum phase transitions driven by magnetic frustration. The pressure-induced structural and magnetic phase transitions in SrCu$_2$(BO$_3$)$_2$, however, remain controversial. To address this issue,...
Continuous-variable quantum processors scale with the modes they can transform, and each transformation adds loss. We demonstrate optoelectronic quantum information processing, moving the mixing into radio-frequency electronics after homodyne detection. Squeezed vacuum falls on a large-scale integrated photonic-electronic circuit, a...
The Navier-Stokes equation for a compressible Newtonian fluid is reassessed, in view of recent investigation results on the foundations of aeroacoustics. In the process, the role and necessity of the so-called Stokes' hypothesis is reconsidered, which in its current practice omits the bulk viscosity. In contrast, the relevance of a...
Attosecond soft-X-ray pulses at kiloelectronvolt photon energies would provide direct access to the L-edges of transition metals, enabling element-specific studies of charge, spin, and orbital dynamics on their intrinsic timescales. However, attosecond emission in this spectral region has remained elusive because the only...
Density-wave (DW) orders are considered as competing orders to unconventional superconductivity and are commonly seen in a variety of superconductors including but not limited to the recently discovered Ruddlesden-Popper-phase nickelates. By utilizing $^{139}$La nuclear quadrupole resonance, we systematically investigate into the...
We present an approach to analyze long-timescale kinetics of molecular dynamics simulations - meta-stable states and transition timescales - by a tensor-based approximation of the infinitesimal generator. We start from the variational approximation of low-lying generator eigenvalues, and discretize the associated eigenvalue problem...
The dielectric function is central to describing many-body screening effects in dark matter (DM) direct detection with condensed matter targets. Current superconducting detector analyses employ the free-electron Lindhard dielectric function to model in-medium effects, an approximation whose validity in the superconducting state...
Electromagnetic shielding materials play a pivotal role in both aerospace applications and daily life. However, their design and manufacturing still face persistent challenges. Machine learning demonstrates significant potential in accelerating material development and compositions optimization. Furthermore, laser additive...
We consider a system of $N$ interacting bosons in a rotating harmonic trap in $\mathbb{R}^2$, where the two-body interaction is attractive and scaled as $N^{2α}U(N^αx)$ with $0<α<1/12$, and the three-body interaction is repulsive and scaled as $N^{4β}W(N^βx,N^βy)$ with $0<β<1/24$. In the mean-field limit, the ground state energy is...
We report transmitted conductance measurements between a source and reflection-less contacts connected to a compressible quantum Hall fluid with filling fraction $ν$. We observe that total sum of transmitted conductances universally approaches Hall conductance $ν(e^2/h)$. The universality of this sum rule is established experimentally...
Random unitaries are fundamental to quantum information and many-body physics, with widespread applications ranging from quantum learning and metrology to device benchmarking. A central pursuit is to minimize the space and circuit depth required to generate them. However, existing methods for generating low-depth random unitaries rely...
A nonlinear EM inversion method regularized by $\ell_1 / \ell_2$-norm of the model gradient is proposed. The $\ell_1 / \ell_2$-norm, defined as the ratio of $\ell_1$-norm to $\ell_2$-norm, exhibits a scale-invariant property that enables it to more accurately characterize sparsity in the solution compared with the conventional...
Active quantum matter has very recently emerged at the intersection between bio- and quantum many-body physics, combining the self-organization of living systems with the coherence of the quantum world. Active quantum systems have been shown to exhibit flocking - a collective phenomenon with no precedent in equilibrium quantum...
A time fractional extension of the Hunter Saxton equation is examined, in which the temporal derivative of u_x is replaced by a Caputo derivative of order 0 < alpha <= 1. This modification introduces memory effects into a model traditionally associated with director field dynamics in nematic liquid crystals. By employing a fractional...
Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide whose persistence and toxicity in aquatic and terrestrial environments demand efficient removal strategies. Here we employ GFN2 xTB calculations with implicit ALPB aqueous solvation and automated docking to investigate the adsorption of all five pH dependent ionized forms of glyphosate (G1-G5) on...
Non-reciprocal interactions are ubiquitous in active, biological, and disordered systems, generically driving them out of equilibrium. Here, we introduce a hierarchy of non-reciprocally interacting Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (NROU) models governed by a tunable non-reciprocity parameter $g$. At a special point $g=g^*$, the drift matrix becomes...
Advanced optical quantum technologies demands high quality quantum light generation at very high rates. Here, we report on a deterministic single-photon source that simultaneously combines high excitation rates with high system efficiency to reach over 500 MHz of in-fibre single-photon flux. The source delivers optical power of over...
The advancement of spintronic nanoscale devices hinges on the ability to flexibly engineer magnetic spin structures in thin-film stacks with precision and control. Meeting this demand remains a challenge for stable non-collinear spin configurations and, more specifically, vertical spin spirals in thin films. Innovative methods are...
Three-photon states generated via cascaded spontaneous parametric downconversion provide a direct route to multipartite entanglement. However, current implementations require careful spectral matching between successive nonlinear stages, which constrains the choice of downconversion sources. In this work, we show that...
Third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave detectors will observe binary-neutron-star inspirals for nearly a day, so Earth's rotation becomes part of the signal rather than a negligible correction. This destroys the usual separation between intrinsic and extrinsic parameters and creates a major computational bottleneck for Bayesian...
We develop a method to extract the shear viscosity of a lipid membrane from equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The method characterizes the rheology of general interfacial systems embedded in three-dimensional media; we term it molecular interfacial rheology. In our simulations the planar bilayer and surrounding water are...
Hints of planet formation have been independently reported within the gap of the disc around 2MASS J16120668-301027 from millimetre continuum, infrared, and H-alpha observations. In this work, we present new evidence for ongoing planet formation based on Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Band 7 observations,...
Remote epitaxy through a monolayer two-dimensional material-covered substrate establishes a crystallographic registry across the van der Waals (vdW) surface that enables the epitaxial growth, lift-off and transfer of single-crystalline films. A central belief in remote epitaxy is that the substrate facilitating the phenomenon must be...