Dissipation- versus Chaos-Induced Relaxation in Non-Markovian Quantum Many-Body Systems

This paper investigates an open Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model coupled to a pseudogapped fermionic bath using the Keldysh formalism, revealing a rich dynamical phase diagram where non-Markovian dissipation competes with internal chaos to produce distinct regimes of power-law and exponential relaxation, as well as an intermediate crossover phase.

Gabriel Almeida, Pedro Ribeiro, Masudul Haque, Lucas SáThu, 12 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Probing the ergodicity breaking transition via violations of random matrix theoretic predictions for local observables

This paper demonstrates that violations of random matrix theory predictions for local observables, specifically regarding quantum Fisher information dynamics and fluctuation-dissipation relations, can serve as effective witnesses for detecting ergodicity-breaking transitions in quantum many-body systems across integrability, many-body localization, and quantum many-body scars.

Venelin P. Pavlov, Peter A. Ivanov, Diego Porras, Charlie NationThu, 12 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Uncovering statistical structure in large-scale neural activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines

This paper demonstrates that Restricted Boltzmann Machines can effectively model large-scale neural activity from approximately 1,500 to 2,000 simultaneously recorded neurons, capturing complex higher-order statistics and revealing anatomically structured interaction networks that align with visual behavior and global dynamics.

Nicolas Béreux, Giovanni Catania, Aurélien Decelle, Francesca Mignacco, Alfonso de Jesús Navas Gómez, Beatriz SeoaneThu, 12 Ma🧬 q-bio

Symmetric localization of νtot=4/3\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3 fractional topological insulator edges

Motivated by recent twisted MoTe2_2 experiments, this paper develops a disordered interacting edge theory for a νtot=4/3\nu_{\text{tot}}=4/3 fractional topological insulator, revealing distinct conductance phases and an interaction-induced insulating state that demonstrates the insufficiency of two-terminal transport measurements for identifying such systems.

Yang-Zhi Chou, Sankar Das SarmaThu, 12 Ma🔬 cond-mat

Continuum field theory of matchgate tensor network ensembles

This paper establishes a continuum field theory description for random ensembles of two-dimensional fermionic matchgate tensor networks, demonstrating that their disorder-averaged physics corresponds to a nonlinear sigma-model of symmetry class D with a topological term, thereby linking these discrete networks to the thermal quantum Hall problem and revealing a phase structure that includes localized phases, quantum Hall criticality, and a thermal metal.

Maksimilian Usoltcev, Carolin Wille, Jens Eisert, Alexander AltlandMon, 09 Ma🔬 cond-mat

One-sided large deviations for the ground-state energy of spin glasses

This paper establishes a large-deviation principle for the maximal energy of a spin glass with ±1\pm 1 spins by deriving a Parisi-type formula for fractional moments and leveraging convex duality to show that the rate function is asymptotically quadratic near its minimum if and only if an external magnetic field is present.

Hong-Bin Chen, Alice Guionnet, Justin Ko, Bertrand Lacroix-A-Chez-Toine, Jean-Christophe MourratMon, 09 Ma🔢 math

Online unsupervised Hebbian learning in deep photonic neuromorphic networks

This paper presents and experimentally demonstrates a purely photonic deep neuromorphic network that achieves 100% accuracy on a letter recognition task by utilizing a local optical feedback mechanism with non-volatile phase-change material synapses to enable online, unsupervised Hebbian learning without inefficient optical-electrical-optical conversions.

Xi Li, Disha Biswas, Peng Zhou, Wesley H. Brigner, Anna Capuano, Joseph S. Friedman, Qing GuMon, 09 Ma🔬 physics.optics

Density of reflection resonances in one-dimensional disordered Schrödinger operators

This paper develops an analytic approach linking the density of complex resonance poles to the distribution of reflection coefficients at complex energies, yielding explicit formulas for the crossover from narrow to broad resonances in both semi-infinite and short one-dimensional disordered samples, and validating these results against numerical simulations of the Anderson tight-binding model.

Yan V. Fyodorov, Jan MeibohmMon, 09 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Rare Trajectories in a Prototypical Mean-field Disordered Model: Insights into Landscape and Instantons

This paper presents a landscape-agnostic study of rare dynamical events in mean-field disordered systems that reveals a rich diversity of instanton structures beyond classical nucleation theory, thereby identifying the point of irreversibility and clarifying the landscape features governing activated relaxation in the RFOT universality class.

Patrick Charbonneau, Giampaolo Folena, Enrico M. Malatesta + 2 more2026-03-10🔬 cond-mat

Strong zero modes in random Ising-Majorana chains

This paper investigates the robustness of topological strong zero modes in random Ising-Majorana chains using SZM fidelity as a diagnostic, revealing that while these modes persist throughout the topological phase, the infinite-randomness critical point exhibits distinctive, ensemble-dependent fidelity distributions that suggest an intrinsically stronger topological character and a boundary manifestation of average Kramers-Wannier duality.

Saurav Kantha, Nicolas Laflorencie2026-03-06🔬 physics