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 demonstrates that a Rydberg atom array can simulate false vacuum decay and bubble nucleation, experimentally verifying the exponential dependence of decay rates on symmetry-breaking fields predicted by quantum field theory while revealing how minor deviations from metastability disrupt this universal scaling and enabling the study of resonant nucleation in discrete quantum systems.
Using a broadband radio-frequency atomic magnetometer, researchers conducted a search for axion-like dark matter in the mass range of to , finding no significant signals but establishing improved upper limits on ALP-proton couplings and complementary constraints on ALP-neutron and ALP-electron interactions.
This paper demonstrates high-fidelity (>99.9%) and nondestructive imaging of single Yb atoms in shallow clock-magic tweezers using alternating dual-tone narrowline cooling, a technique that enables scalable quantum systems and highly repeatable tweezer clocks.
This paper proposes utilizing trap-induced resonances in arrays of ultracold polar molecules within optical tweezers to transform motional dephasing from an obstacle into a resource for implementing efficient state-dependent quantum gates and sensing.
This paper critically evaluates spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates as analogues for cavity quantum electrodynamics, demonstrating that while they can faithfully simulate single-atom light-matter interactions like the quantum Rabi model, they fundamentally fail to reproduce the collective many-body entanglement effects characteristic of the Dicke model.
This paper demonstrates a compact, single-chamber strontium magneto-optical trap that directly loads up to atoms from a thermal beam without Zeeman slowing or differential pumping, offering a robust platform for field-deployable and spaceborne optical lattice clocks.
This paper demonstrates that implementing -enhanced gray molasses cooling on the D line of Rb atoms in optical tweezers achieves a record-low temperature of 4.0(2) K and extends hyperfine clock qubit coherence time by 1.5 times compared to standard polarization gradient cooling, a result validated by a semi-classical four-level numerical model.
Using first-principles path-integral Monte Carlo calculations with highly accurate pair and nonadditive many-body potentials, this study determines the third and fourth density and acoustic virial coefficients of neon across a wide temperature range (10–5000 K) with uncertainties significantly smaller than existing experimental data.
This paper presents a structured-light magnetometry technique that maps magneto-optical rotation onto the spatial displacement of a petal-shaped intensity pattern in a radially polarized Laguerre-Gaussian beam interacting with cold atoms, thereby enabling direct, polarizer-free magnetic field sensing through topological spatial readout.
This paper proposes and theoretically validates a route to stabilize a chiral spin liquid on a breathed Kagome lattice with long-range dipolar interactions, supported by large-scale numerical simulations and outlining experimentally viable signatures in Rydberg atom and polar molecule arrays.