566 papers
The subatomic world is a realm where matter behaves in ways that defy our everyday intuition, and this category explores the fundamental building blocks of our universe. From the intricate dance of quarks inside a proton to the strange properties of electrons, these studies reveal the deep rules that govern everything from the smallest particles to the largest stars.
At Gist.Science, we track every new preprint in this field as it appears on arXiv, ensuring you stay ahead of the curve. For each discovery, we provide both a clear, plain-language explanation of the core ideas and a detailed technical summary for those who want to dive deeper into the mathematics and methodology.
Below are the latest papers in Atom-Ph, offering fresh insights into the structure and behavior of the atomic scale.
This paper experimentally characterizes the trap radio-frequency-induced a.c. Zeeman shift in highly charged ions using quantum logic spectroscopy with a co-trapped ion, confirming the shift's negligible impact on optical clock accuracy while demonstrating techniques applicable to other multi-level atomic systems.
This paper introduces a universal, tree-structured coarse-grained framework enhanced by a Transformer-based propagator that accelerates protein dynamics simulations by 10,000 to 20,000 times while achieving sub-angstrom reconstruction accuracy and generalizing across diverse multi-chain systems.
This paper reports the coherent excitation of the clock transition in Yb, revealing a nuclear spin-induced quenching effect that significantly shortens the excited state lifetime and enables a 20-fold suppression of the AC Stark shift, thereby facilitating the development of scalable multi-ion optical clocks and quantum computers.
Using state-of-the-art tensor network methods, this study demonstrates that long-range interacting quantum spin chains exhibit robust, long-lived Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) superdiffusive spin transport despite lacking integrability, a phenomenon attributed to their proximity to the integrable Inozemtsev family and observable in various experimental platforms like Rydberg atom arrays.
This paper establishes a comprehensive framework for quantifying quantum advantage in latency-constrained distributed decision-making by incorporating realistic hardware constraints like finite operation times and entanglement rates, and proposes a time-multiplexed trapped-atom network architecture capable of meeting these stringent operational criteria for applications such as financial markets and power grids.
This paper presents an experimental scheme for a programmable, dynamic two-dimensional quasiperiodic optical lattice with ultracold atoms that achieves significant phase noise suppression and high modulation bandwidth, enabling full translational and phasonic control to explore complex quantum dynamics in quasicrystals.
The authors developed and demonstrated a vacuum-ultraviolet spectropolarimeter capable of measuring linear polarization with an absolute uncertainty of approximately 0.01, successfully determining the polarization of the Li-like N 124 nm emission line excited by an electron beam.
This paper theoretically investigates the coherent propagation of resonant Bessel beams through Th-doped CaF crystals, demonstrating that their unique orbital angular momentum and non-uniform profiles can enhance excitation control and reveal the spatial distribution of nuclear quantization axes via nuclear forward scattering.
This paper reports relativistic KRCI calculations of parity-odd and time-reversal-odd interaction constants, along with first-time determinations of hyperfine structure constants, for the ground electronic states of YbCu, YbAg, and YbAu molecules.
This paper presents a novel, scalable Fresnel zone plate design that combines the high resolution of static plates with the dynamic reconfigurability of spatial light modulators to generate versatile atomic waveguides ideal for ultracold atom Sagnac interferometry.