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.

Fano line shape metamorphosis in resonant two-photon ionization

This paper proposes a method to determine the resonant lifetime of Fano resonances in diverse quantum systems by exploiting time-locked XUV and IR pulses to transform the characteristic asymmetric Fano line shape into a symmetric Gaussian profile once the photoelectron leaves the parent ion, thereby enabling direct measurement without requiring extremely fine energy resolution.

Vladislav V. Serov, Anatoli S. Kheifets2026-03-03🔬 physics.atom-ph

An Equation of State for Turbulence in the Gross-Pitaevskii model

This paper reports the numerical observation of a universal far-from-equilibrium equation of state in the Gross-Pitaevskii model, demonstrating that in a regime of mixed turbulence, the momentum distribution amplitude scales with the energy flux to the power of approximately 0.67, a finding that extends the concept of quasi-static thermodynamic processes to non-equilibrium steady states.

Gevorg Martirosyan, Kazuya Fujimoto, Nir Navon2026-03-03🔬 physics.atom-ph

Nuclear Schiff moment of fluorine isotope 19^{19}F

This study presents the first *ab initio* calculation of the nuclear Schiff moment for the 19^{19}F isotope using the no-core shell model, which, when combined with quantum chemistry calculations and experimental data on HfF+^+, establishes the first experimental bound on this moment and its associated pion-nucleon-nucleon coupling constants.

Kia Boon Ng, Stephan Foster, Lan Cheng, Petr Navratil, Stephan Malbrunot-Ettenauer2026-03-03⚛️ nucl-th