Physics
Entanglement between two spatially separate matter particles can be generated via many means and often resides in the internal states of particles. Here, via Rydberg blockade in two spatially separate neutral atoms, we find that the photon…
We study the emergence of superconductivity in a quantum spin Hall insulator and identify a disorder-driven enhancement of pairing arising from quantum geometry. Using sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo simulations of the attractive…
The $\gamma$-ray sky, as observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, contains a significant number of unassociated sources that may point to new astrophysical populations or more exotic phenomena. Machine-learning methods are widely used…
We present results for the chromo-electric field generated by a static quark-antiquark pair at nearly zero temperature in lattice QCD with 2+1 dynamical staggered fermions at physical quark masses. We investigate the evolution of the…
We construct a simple equation of state of strongly interacting matter at zero chemical potentials that provides a unified description of lattice QCD thermodynamics in terms of hadronic and partonic degrees of freedom. The hadronic phase is…
Dynamical structure factors (DSF) measured with neutron-scattering experiments provide key insights into the structure of materials. Their computation requires both the preparation of an equilibrium state and the implementation of…
In this work, we investigate the formation of naked singularities for the $3+1$-dimensional Einstein-scalar field system without symmetry assumptions. We generalize the spherically symmetric and self-similar naked-singularity solution…
Surface reconstructions induced by atomic adsorption can strongly reshape metallic surface states, providing a direct pathway to tune their electronic structure. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we investigate the electronic…
Modeling the quantum dynamics of plasmonic excitations -- collective oscillations of free electrons interacting with light -- remains a significant theoretical challenge, particularly due to the need to accurately describe their quantum…
Lattice field theory is the workhorse of non-perturbative physics, used to simulate phenomena from the strong nuclear force to critical phenomena in materials. Its Boltzmann distributions are parametrized analytically by coupling constants,…
Exotic helium atoms act as unique atomic traps for heavy, negatively charged particles, protecting them from nuclear annihilation and nuclear capture on timescales long enough to enable high-precision laser spectroscopy. Such measurements…
We propose a method to create a room-temperature maser operating at approximately 2.9~GHz frequency using an ensemble of negatively charged nitrogen-vacancy electronic spins (NV) in diamond, without requiring population inversion. Our…
We study the spatially resolved relation between dust attenuation ($A_V$) and star formation rate surface density ($\Sigma_{\mathrm{SFR}}$) in galaxies from the MAGPI survey ($0.25 < z < 0.42$). Using Balmer-decrement-based attenuation maps…
Bose-Einstein-condensed (BEC) and superfluid dark-matter (SFDM) halos can contain coherent, wave-supported cores whose angular momentum is carried by quantized vortices. When vortices form a tangle, reconnections convert part of the vortex…
The gravitational lensing of multi-messenger signals from binary neutron star mergers (BNSs), including gravitational waves (GWs), short Gamma-Ray bursts (sGRBs), kilonovae, and afterglows, can serve as a unique probe to constrain the mass…
Understanding how nonequilibrium driving modifies phase-separation kinetics remains a fundamental challenge. Here we show that phase separation in a two-temperature system exhibits a striking density-induced reentrant coarsening behavior.…
Zn-metalloproteins play vital roles in numerous metabolic processes, making them high-value targets for structure-based drug design. To advance these efforts, it is useful to unravel the individual components of the intermolecular…
In electron-only collisionless magnetic reconnection (MR), a regime of growing importance in turbulent space plasmas, electrons develop strongly non-Maxwellian distributions that invalidate conventional fluid closures based on assumptions…
Tissue surfaces exhibit complex curvature during embryogenesis and oncogenesis. Evidence shows that cells can actively sense curvature to regulate behavior and fate, yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Here, we develop a vertex…
The recent discovery by the LHAASO collaboration of a variable ultra-high-energy (UHE; $E_\gamma \ge$ 100 TeV) $\gamma$-ray source associated with the microquasar Cygnus X-3, with a spectrum extending to several PeV, provides compelling…