630 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 presents a theoretical study demonstrating that nuclear-structure corrections significantly influence polarization dynamics in elastic muon scattering off high-magnetic-moment nuclei like Bi, thereby establishing scattered muon polarization as a sensitive probe for determining nuclear charge radii and magnetic dipole moments.
This paper reports the first simultaneous sub-Doppler laser cooling and optical trapping of K-Cs and K-Cs mixtures, achieving temperatures of K and utilizing the K-Cs samples to discover nine previously unobserved heteronuclear Feshbach resonances while characterizing the faster nonexponential loss dynamics that currently limit systematic spectroscopy in the K-Cs mixture.
This paper develops a self-consistent theoretical framework describing Rydberg electrons orbiting polarizable liquid cores, such as superfluid helium droplets, which breaks angular momentum degeneracy non-perturbatively and offers a method to probe droplet properties, including crystallization, via stimulated electron transitions.
This paper investigates the resonant dipole-phonon coupling between the rotational states of trapped thorium fluoride molecular ions and the vibrational modes of a co-trapped ytterbium ion crystal, fully accounting for hyperfine structure to identify conditions for quantum control and detection via sideband spectroscopy.
This paper experimentally validates the fundamental prediction of universal scaling in ultracold lattice Bose gases by demonstrating that microscopic details can be captured by just two scale factors to collapse order-parameter cumulants and correlations onto universal functions, thereby simultaneously determining critical exponents , , and across the superfluid transition.
This paper develops a theoretical framework for the transverse spatial dynamics of interacting Rydberg polaritons, revealing that transverse photon correlations are governed by diffraction and the blockade radius, while longitudinal correlations are driven by diffusion and bandwidth, thereby establishing transverse Rydberg blockade as a distinct mechanism for measuring the blockade radius.
This paper establishes a finite-temperature Gaussian-state framework for quantum energy teleportation in a one-dimensional harmonic chain, demonstrating that while extracted energy is exponentially screened by thermal correlation lengths at finite temperatures, it follows a distinct power-law scaling in the zero-temperature critical limit, with squeezed measurements modifying the extraction efficiency without altering the large-distance scaling behavior.
This paper derives finite-range coordinate-space potentials for massive spin-1 and spin-2 bosons with various couplings to Dirac fermions, including novel mixed tensor interactions, and maps these results onto the standard sixteen-potential basis to translate existing experimental limits into constraints on the corresponding coupling products.
This paper reviews the physics, current capabilities, and future outlook of neutral atom qubits, a leading approach for large-scale quantum computing that has rapidly advanced from early proposals over 25 years ago to recent demonstrations of quantum algorithms and logical qubits.
This paper proposes a superatomic hydrogen model (H13) that achieves electron delocalization and metallic properties at pressures approximately two orders of magnitude lower than required for conventional metallic hydrogen, thereby offering a more feasible pathway for controlled nuclear fusion.