429 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 reports the experimental observation and numerical verification of discrete one-dimensional solitons formed by balancing discrete diffraction and self-focusing in an optically induced photonic lattice within warm rubidium atomic vapor, offering a versatile platform for exploring non-Hermitian nonlinear dynamics and parity-time-symmetric systems.
This paper presents a new stripline measurement method combined with full-wave modeling to extract the complex permittivity and conductivity of commercially available Rydberg vapor cells across the 10–300 MHz range, thereby quantifying packaging-induced field distortions to enable precise corrections and optimized sensor designs.
This paper demonstrates that geometrically ordered, spatially extended 2D atom arrays with subwavelength spacing enable a new regime of collective light-matter interaction where photon-mediated interactions drive extensive superradiance and subradiance, revealing their underlying magnetic-like correlations and establishing a programmable platform for dissipative many-body quantum physics.
This paper introduces a new algorithm utilizing analytical derivatives within the method of continued fractions to accurately compute eigenvalues for generalized spheroidal wave equations with real and complex parameters, demonstrating its efficacy through applications to quasimolecular systems like , , and .
This paper investigates immiscible-to-miscible quenching instabilities in two-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensates of rubidium isotopes, revealing that the transition dynamics are driven by vortex production and sound waves, exhibit a bottleneck effect deviating from classical Kolmogorov turbulence scaling, and ultimately stabilize into a linear relationship between the miscibility parameter and the initial configuration.
This paper outlines a modern, transparent, and methodologically robust effort to improve the precision and reliability of nuclear charge radii determinations by integrating complementary experimental techniques with advanced theoretical frameworks.
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.
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.