725 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 proposes a protocol using static and microwave electric fields to shield polar molecules from collisional losses, enabling the high-fidelity preparation of single molecules in optical tweezers via controlled spilling from small ensembles.
This paper demonstrates the simultaneous trapping and cooling of Rb, Rb, and Cs in a triple-species magneto-optical trap using a compact all-fibre laser system, characterizing interspecies losses to confirm the system's suitability for future multi-species cold-atom interferometry applications.
This paper theoretically demonstrates that electron correlation in two-electron high-harmonic generation from helium enables the synthesis of phase-coherent, one-attosecond soft-x-ray pulse trains extending to the keV range, identifying correlation as a key mechanism for achieving zeptosecond-scale waveforms.
This paper presents a universal protocol for noiseless quantum sensing that utilizes light-driven non-equilibrium criticality in an atomic ensemble to achieve a 3.3 dB metrological gain over the standard quantum limit by engineering a regime where signal susceptibility diverges while quantum noise periodically recedes.
This paper demonstrates that Maxwell's transversality constraint fundamentally locks longitudinal field gradients to transverse structured gradients in Laguerre-Gaussian modes, establishing longitudinal optical structure as an indispensable leading-order driver for electric quadrupole transitions with distinct channel-selective responses for different magnetic quantum number changes.
This paper utilizes NV-based DEER spectroscopy to characterize the evolution of paramagnetic defects, including irradiation-induced ensembles and as-grown hydrogen-related species, in CVD diamond, ultimately developing a spin bath model that explains the achievement of high T2 coherence times essential for advanced quantum sensing applications.
This paper demonstrates the detection of individual xenon atoms colliding with a levitated nanosphere in its quantum ground state, achieving 96% confidence in observing momentum kicks below 50 keV/c and distinguishing them from thermal background noise.
This paper presents the first demonstration of a free-space, optically writable atomic random access memory using warm cesium vapor as a physical substrate for optical reservoir computing, achieving successful XOR benchmark performance while highlighting memory lifetime as a key constraint for future temporal depth.
This paper demonstrates a significant advancement in quantum networking by integrating single T centers with silicon photonic crystal cavities, achieving a 6.89-fold enhancement in fluorescence decay rate and an efficient 73.3 kHz photon outcoupling rate at the telecom zero phonon line.
This white paper proposes the QTF-Backbone, a dedicated nationwide optical fibre infrastructure in Germany designed to enable the scalable, long-term distribution of quantum information and high-precision time and frequency signals to support secure communications, resilient timing, and fundamental physics research.