Physics
In previous work we sought to address the fundamental question ``What is life?''. Building on that conceptual foundation, we here integrate traditional criteria for living systems with our recent proposals on physical identity and self, and…
The galaxy SDSS1335+0728 brightened abruptly in December 2019 (the Ansky event) and has since been confirmed as the host of extreme X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) of debated origin. We constrain the origin of its transient activity…
We present a symmetry-based framework to classify the non-reciprocal responses of multiterminal ring quantum devices. The device is modeled as a ring of $n$ vertices, where a binary variable $e_k\in\{+1,-1\}$ on each bond encodes the…
Nanoscale inhomogeneities are a defining feature of many superconducting materials, yet their local electromagnetic response has remained difficult to access experimentally. This is because their relevant energy scale lies in the terahertz…
Convective heat transfer is traditionally visualized from a Eulerian perspective using scalar temperature fields, offering limited insight into the underlying transport mechanisms. A Lagrangian view, analogous to mass transport along fluid…
Ultrafine eutectic heterostructures provide a stringent test of plasticity in high-strength materials, where deformation must be accommodated through interfaces and strain gradients. Room temperature ductility is typically limited by…
TD-Link is a custom optical communication architecture that combines high-throughput data readout and sub-nanosecond timing synchronization over a single optical fiber for large-scale detector systems. The protocol adopts a multidrop…
Recently, tantalum (Ta) has gained attention in superconducting quantum circuits due to the longer coherence times achieved when replacing niobium (Nb) in capacitor pads. Previous literature shows that surface oxides that form upon ambient…
Efficient separation of photo-excited electron-hole pairs is essential for developing the high performance photocatalysts towards light-driven water-splitting applications. To this end, pho tocatalytic performances of two-dimensional (2D)…
Nuclear moment studies carried out with spin-precession methods at and after the turn of the millennium are critically assessed. A period of about 30 years is covered, during which much of} the focus of nuclear structure research shifted…
Attosecond technologies provide unique opportunities to study electron dynamics and electron correlation on their intrinsic timescales. From a theoretical perspective, this places strong constraints as an accurate treatment of electron…
A small phreatic sand dune aquifer lies along the shore of Haifa Bay. It has been exploited for its freshwater resources since the 1930s. During this time the salinity has increased continuously, partly by seawater intrusion due to…
Current research on the disordered topological quantum phases primarily focuses on the uncorrelated and short-range correlated disorder regime. These topological Anderson insulators are typically self-averaging. However, topological quantum…
We develop a self-consistent framework based on a contact vector current-current interaction that couples the chemical potentials of both sectors through mutual mean-field shifts, with the dark matter (DM) fraction $F_D = N_D/N_B$ fixed as…
Searches for new physics at the LHC often look for localized excesses on smoothly falling background distributions. Several classes of background models have been considered, including polynomials and other parametric families; however,…
Topological string free energy has a rich collection of non-perturbative contributions which are labeled by D-brane charge vectors, and the associated Stokes constants are conjectured to coincide with BPS or DT invariants, i.e. D-brane…
Collisional ionization (CI) cross sections in dense plasmas remain difficult to constrain due to uncertainties in plasma conditions and the overlapping spectral signatures of competing atomic processes. The use of x-ray free electron lasers…
We reveal a pristine, scale-invariant 3D Kolmogorov velocity cascade ($\alpha_V^{\mathrm{3D}} \sim 2/3$) spanning $0.05$--$20$~pc in the Polaris Flare using \texttt{PPCOS} $^{12}\text{CO}$ data. A transition scale at $\sim 0.5$~pc marks a…
We give a prescription to compute a dissipative action describing the large-scale thermal stress tensor dynamics of a holographic quantum field theory dual to AdS$_4$ gravity, in the context of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. Our…
Soft and collinear limits of "celestial amplitudes" give rise to infinite dimensional symmetry algebras for two-dimensional (2D) "celestial" conformal field theories (CFTs). A small subset of these operators generates the action of the…