Parity-dependent Casimir forces and Hall currents for a confined Dirac field

This paper investigates a massless Dirac field confined between two parallel walls in d+1d+1 dimensions, demonstrating that the field's parity under midplane reflection determines whether the resulting Casimir force is attractive or repulsive and governs the symmetry of associated vacuum-induced currents, including a transverse Hall-like current in 2+1 dimensions.

Aitor Fernández, César D. FoscoTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Fractional Topological Phases, Flat Bands, and Robust Edge States on Finite Cyclic Graphs via Single-Coin Split-Step Quantum Walks

This paper reports the first realization of fractional topological phases, characterized by ±12\pm \frac{1}{2} winding numbers and robust edge states, in a fully unitary, noninteracting single-coin split-step quantum walk on finite cyclic graphs, demonstrating how step-dependent protocols enable the engineering of flat bands and unconventional bulk-boundary correspondence in small-scale synthetic quantum systems.

Dinesh Kumar Panda, Colin BenjaminTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Thermal and chemical response from entanglement entropy

This paper argues that in interacting quantum field theories at finite density, the derivative of entanglement entropy with respect to subregion size converges to the thermal entropy density in the large-subregion limit, thereby establishing a universal link between entanglement and thermodynamics that allows for the extraction of equation-of-state information, as demonstrated nonperturbatively in the three-dimensional O(4) model.

Niko Jokela, Aatu Rajala, Tobias RindlisbacherTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Stationary Particle Creation and Entanglement in the Rotating Teo Wormhole: A Quantum Mode-Mixing Approach

This paper demonstrates that massless scalar fields in a rotating Teo wormhole undergo stationary particle creation and entanglement via geometrically induced, asymmetric vacuum mode mixing, which acts as a non-dynamical analogue of the Asymmetric Dynamical Casimir Effect driven by frame dragging rather than time-dependent boundaries.

Ramesh Radhakrishnan, Gerald Cleaver, William JuliusTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Perturbative relativistic modifications to wave-packet dynamics and uncertainty relations in the quantum harmonic oscillator

This paper derives closed-form analytic expressions for leading-order relativistic corrections to the wave-packet dynamics and uncertainty relations of a quantum harmonic oscillator, demonstrating that these effects become experimentally verifiable (reaching 0.1% to 1% deviation) for electron wave packets confined within keV-scale energies.

Jian Carlo Ramos, Sujoy K. ModakTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Black-Hole Signatures in the Finite-Temperature Critical Ising Chain

This paper demonstrates that the finite-temperature critical transverse-field Ising chain exhibits quantitative signatures of black-hole physics, such as universal antipodal transport, exponential relaxation via quasi-normal modes, and a Hawking-Page-like entropy minimum, thereby establishing it as an experimentally accessible platform for probing quantum black hole dynamics within the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Zuo Wang, Liang HeTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph

Klein--Gordon oscillator with linear--fractional deformed Casimirs in doubly special relativity

This paper investigates the Klein-Gordon oscillator within a doubly special relativity framework featuring linear-fractional deformed Casimirs, deriving exact spectra and eigensolutions for timelike, spacelike, and lightlike deformations while establishing a pseudo-Hermitian formulation and comparing the spectral shifts to the Magueijo-Smolin model.

Abdelmalek Boumali, Nosratollah JafariTue, 10 Ma⚛️ quant-ph