31 papers
Atmospheric clustering explores how tiny particles in the air group together to form clouds, fog, and even influence our weather patterns. This fascinating intersection of physics and meteorology reveals the invisible dance of molecules that shapes everything from a gentle breeze to a massive storm system. Understanding these microscopic interactions is key to predicting climate change and improving air quality forecasts for communities worldwide.
On Gist.Science, we track every new preprint published in the atmospheric clustering category on arXiv. Our team processes each submission to provide both a clear, plain-language explanation and a detailed technical summary, ensuring that complex research is accessible to students, policymakers, and curious minds alike.
Below are the latest papers in atmospheric clustering, updated daily directly from the source.
This study investigates interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) in helium ion–argon dimer collisions using a coupled-channel two-center basis generator method, revealing that electron excitation to the state is the dominant ICD pathway and that lower-energy He projectiles significantly enhance this decay process.
This study utilizes SpookyNet machine-learning force fields and density-functional theory to demonstrate that aminobenzene-functionalized Janus graphene serves as a high-capacity, structurally defined anode for sodium-ion batteries, offering a low-voltage plateau, negligible volume change, and significantly faster ion diffusivity compared to conventional hard carbon.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that fidelity susceptibility serves as a robust probe for Dirac exceptional points in diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers, revealing a distinct anisotropic divergence along the non-reciprocal coupling direction that contrasts with the omnidirectional behavior of conventional exceptional points.
Through first-principles calculations and machine learning, this study reveals a previously unrecognized hydrogen-atom roaming reaction mechanism in water clusters, identifying the reactant dipole moment as the key factor governing this unique pathway that complements the fundamental understanding of water reactivity.
This paper details the theory of double microwave shielding, a technique using two microwave fields to suppress inelastic collisions and three-body recombination while enabling flexible tuning of dipolar interactions, thereby facilitating the creation of Bose-Einstein condensates and advancing the study of many-body physics in ultracold polar molecules.
This study employs pump-probe numerical simulations to investigate the light-induced nonadiabatic photodissociation of the NaH molecule, revealing how the interplay between multiple electronic conical intersections, electron-rotation coupling, and rotational motion governs ultrafast dissociation probabilities, kinetic energy release, and fragment angular distributions.
This paper reports the first experimental observation of quantum interferences in room-temperature rotational energy transfer between CO and H molecules, demonstrating excellent agreement with 4-D close-coupling quantum calculations and providing a critical benchmark for modeling CO emissions in warm astrophysical environments.
This paper introduces a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation with logarithmic density-dependent coupling to model 2D attractive Bose systems, enabling the theoretical analysis of quantum droplets, breathing modes, quench dynamics, and universal excited states while providing a robust framework for future experimental investigations.
This paper reveals that the (PsH)₂ molecular complex is stabilized by a unique "two-positron gluic bond" driven by quantum correlations between positrons, which manifests as an anomalously strong "super" van der Waals interaction that cannot be explained by mean-field or standard electron-correlation models.
This paper theoretically investigates the polarization-dependent dynamics of laser-assisted (e,2e) ionization of atomic hydrogen by twisted electron beams, revealing that circularly polarized fields yield larger cross-sections and distinct angular distributions compared to linear polarization, while also demonstrating that the triple differential cross-section is highly sensitive to the orbital angular momentum and phase differences in coherent superpositions of twisted projectiles.