Physics
Molecular passivation of surface defects is key to improving the optoelectronic performance of hybrid halide perovskite materials, but the underlying atomistic mechanisms are incompletely understood. While machine-learned interatomic…
High-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) made with III-nitride materials are of potential use in high-temperature electronic applications including power electronics, communications, aerospace and space exploration. However, the demands…
Parametric resonance in a Higgsed Abelian sector provides an efficient mechanism for producing vector dark matter, but its viability depends crucially on the origin of the initial dark-Higgs displacement that seeds the resonance. In this…
We introduce the notion of an Ising emulator for two-dimensional Ising models: flat, unit-edge-length lattices can be represented as site- or bond-diluted supercells of a single host lattice, for which the Feynman--Vdovichenko/Kac--Ward…
A core task in quantum anomaly detection is to compute an anomaly score that quantifies how strongly a test quantum state deviates from a given quantum dataset assumed to be normal. Classically, principal component analysis (PCA) for…
At equilibrium, the ratio of two steady-state probabilities is a Boltzmann factor, set by a free-energy difference. Such ratios are the natural, normalization-independent readouts of both thermodynamics and information processing, and are…
This self-contained theoretical study treats incompressible, free-boundary flows in a gravitating, ideal hydromagnetic star abutting vacuum, centered on the steady field-aligned flows of Chandrasekhar, Prendergast and Tsinganos, together…
Grain-refined metals typically exhibit high strength, yet their engineering applications are often constrained by grain coarsening under thermo-mechanical loading. Recent experiments have revealed abnormal grain growth (AGG) in…
Phonon scattering selection rules are known to control heat flow through bulk solids. Here we show that these selection rules also modulate heat flow through nanoscale semiconductor films, although through a previously-unexplored mechanism.…
Probing the chemical content of the interstellar medium (ISM) in nearby galaxies provides key insight into their chemical evolution and informs our interpretation of galaxies at higher redshift. However, nonlinear structure in the ISM,…
State Krylov, or spread, complexity is a property of a pair $(H,\ket{K_0})$ rather than of the Hamiltonian alone. Thus, changing the initial state at fixed $H$ generally changes the Lanczos coefficients and the ordered Krylov basis. We…
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are highly energetic, millisecond-duration radio transients. A significant fraction of repeating FRBs are found in magneto-active environments significantly different from typical interstellar medium, offering…
Despite compelling observational evidence for dark matter (DM), its fundamental physical properties remain poorly understood. In this report, we propose a three-step light-shining-through-walls (LSW) experimental scheme utilizing the…
NaRuO$_2$ forms a delafossite-like structure that contains triangular sublattices of edge-sharing RuO$_6$ octahedra. It shows no evidence of magnetic order down to 100 mK and persistent spin fluctuations, suggestive of a quantum disordered…
For a class of polaron-type models, we establish a lower bound on the energy-momentum relation in terms of the vacuum overlap and the spectral gap of the total momentum zero Hamiltonian. We show convergence of the rescaled mean square…
The Payload for Ultrahigh Energy Observations (PUEO) is a NASA balloon-borne instrument for the detection of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos with energies above $10^{17.5}~\textrm{eV}$ via either the Askaryan effect or geomagnetic…
Present-day quantum computing is cloud-based, where a user submits a circuit to a service provider's proprietary backend hardware. While providers may wish to hide implementation details, scheduling choices, or even which physical device…
We study the internal spin polarization of Proca stars formed by gravitational Bose--Einstein condensation of a three-component nonrelativistic vector field. In idealized periodic-box simulations, we decompose the aperture-averaged spin…
Circumbinary disks are commonly observed around post-asymptotic giant branch (post-AGB) star binaries, yet their formation and especially their long-term evolution remain unclear. We investigate this process using smoothed-particle…
Classical Be stars exhibit mass ejection events that feed their viscous decretion disks. Recent TESS space photometry and simultaneous spectroscopy revealed that these flickers are localised, short-lived, and associated with near-Keplerian…