Physics
Disordered materials such as glasses exhibit complex structural dynamics that are challenging to probe with conventional spectroscopies. We demonstrate that terahertz-driven four-wave mixing (FWM) at glass surfaces provides direct access to…
The Hessian of the ring polymer spring potential in the standard Trotter path integral is a $P\times P$ symmetric circulant matrix with a centroid eigenvalue of zero. All such matrices commute and are diagonalised by the same bead to normal…
Unitary encoding of a single parameter provides quadratic enhancement in precision, with the quantum Fisher information scaling quadratically with the encoding time. However, when estimating multiple parameters simultaneously, this…
This paper investigates the N-elliptic localized solutions of the Foka-Lenells equation. Based on the corresponding Lax pair, the Weierstrass elliptic functions are adopted to construct the elliptic function solutions and the fundamental…
Bright dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provide chip-scale sources of ultrashort pulses and frequency combs. Their properties are defined by the cavity dispersion for which fundamentally conflicting requirements exist:…
Bosonic quantum error correction (QEC) relies on non-Gaussian bosonic encodings whose preparation cost is a central practical constraint. In this work, we use stellar rank as a resource measure to design and benchmark bosonic codes under…
When a system is brought out of equilibrium by an external excitation, its relaxation to thermodynamic equilibrium generates phonons. These non-equilibrium phonons degrade via cascaded anharmonic decay processes, progressively leading to a…
Attosecond metrology is the ability to measure ultrafast optical light-wave oscillations, yet its approach has been limited to classical fields. Hence, the influence of the fluctuations of a quantum field on attosecond measurements has…
Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) is a key technique to study galaxies, stellar and planetary systems, and transients, by spatially splitting the scene and dispersing this light onto the detector. This technique is now central for many…
We show that relaxation of the charge-imbalance potential plays a key role in the retarded dynamics of Abrikosov vortices in a type-II superconducting sample carrying a microwave current. Starting from the time-dependent Ginzburg--Landau…
We propose an inverse biomechanical design framework for sectorial customized corneal crosslinking in keratoconus. The cornea is modeled as an anisotropic reduced shell with spatially varying crosslinking-induced stiffening, enabling the…
We construct a correspondence between a broad class of unitary matrix models and vacuum correlation functions in quantum spin-chain Hilbert spaces. The key step is to lift symmetric functions to operators acting on the $N$-magnon sector in…
Price-based mean-field models of battery storage coordination usually assume that each agent responds to the true population-average charging power. Under that assumption, communication topology is irrelevant because the broadcast price…
Characterization of the decomposition products of energized Criegee intermediates is essential for assessing their impact on the chemical evolution of the atmosphere. Here, a generic and microscopically resolved approach is used to…
Mathematicians have embraced interactive theorem provers with growing enthusiasm -- building large shared libraries and machine-checking a string of landmark results. Theoretical physics is different: most of its results are not theorems…
Membrane-deforming protein lattices play a key role in essential and pathogenic biological processes, including endocytosis and viral budding. Attaining the necessary length- and time-scales in simulation can be difficult for such…
An intermediate scale R-axion faces an immediate obstruction from the Dine-Festuccia-Komargodski (DFK) bound on the superpotential, $2|\langle W\rangle|\leq f_R F$, since for a nearly Minkowski vacuum it typically follows that $f_R\gtrsim…
The majority of potentially habitable planets detected to date are likely quite different to Earth, for example, being larger in radius and mass, differing rotation rates and with host star spectra unlike the Sun. Therefore the first alien…
We discuss a recent proposal for constructing ``syzygy solutions'', which play a crucial role in integration-by-parts reductions for multi-loop scattering amplitudes. We highlight a relationship between syzygies and the leading Landau…
We investigate the effect of a high concentration (32.5 g.L$^{-1}$) of sodium chloride (NaCl) on TTAB (tetradecyltrimethylammonium bromide) vertical soap films also called foam films, pulled out of a bath under controlled humidity…