• Physics 18, s69
Drawing on an analogy with superconductivity, theorists have proposed a dark matter candidate that could have left observable signatures in the cosmic microwave background.
As searches for the leading…
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Uncloaking a Dark Molecular Cloud
• Physics 18, 102
The warm margins of a nearby molecular cloud fluoresce in the far ultraviolet, providing a way to find these shadowy stellar progenitors.
Adapted from B. Burkhart et al. [1]The molecular cloud Eos shows… Continue Reading
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Physics – Speed Control for Microwaves
• Physics 18, 101
Researchers have demonstrated the direction-dependent slowdown of microwave pulses, with potential applications in signal processing and quantum computing.
C. Hohmann/Munich Center of Quantum Science and…
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Lightning-Fast Alchemy: CERN Just Turned Lead Into Gold – Then Watched It Vanish
An experiment has measured gold formation from lead nuclei during near-miss collisions in the Large Hadron Collider. These high-speed interactions trigger electromagnetic processes that occasionally eject three protons, yielding gold atoms….
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Unconventional domain tessellations in moiré-of-moiré lattices
Frenkel, Y. I. & Kontorova, T. The model of dislocation in solid body. Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 8, 1340–1348 (1938).
McMillan, W. L. Theory of discommensurations and the…
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Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering
Integrand generation and integral family
We use the WQFT formalism11,57,63 that quantizes the worldline deflections \({z}_{i}^{\mu }(\tau )\) and graviton field hμν(x) arising in the background field expansions \({x}_{i}^{\mu }(\tau…
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Ultrahigh-pressure crystallographic passage towards metallic hydrogen
Pickard, C. J. & Needs, R. J. Structure of phase III of solid hydrogen. Nat. Phys. 3, 473–476 (2007).
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McMahon, J. M., Morales, M. A., Pierleoni, C. & Ceperley, D. M….
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Tunable vacuum-field control of fractional and integer quantum Hall phases
In the newly emerged field of cavitronics5, research has been leveraging the ultrastrong light–matter coupling regime7, aiming to modify molecular structures8, enhance electron–phonon couplings9 and facilitate the emergence of new electronic…
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A numerical method for designing topological superconductivity induced by s-wave pairing
BdG Hamiltonian in slab system
A widely used and efficient method for constructing tight-binding (TB) Hamiltonians for real materials is the maximally localized Wannier functions (MLWFs)47, as implemented in the Wannier90 software package48. This…
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Proton transport from the antimatter factory of CERN
Precision measurements in low-energy quantum systems are used to explore the limits of the Standard Model of particle physics (SM)15, providing an opportunity to understand the nature of dark matter16 and the baryon asymmetry in the universe17….
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