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 new technique for sympathetically cooling arbitrary charged particles in Penning traps using self-cooled electrons from a distant trap that decay to their motional ground state via cyclotron radiation, enabling ultra-low temperature tests of fundamental physics with initial results from the ELCOTRAP experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics.
This paper demonstrates the first 3D-printed glass atomic vapour cell using vat polymerisation, showcasing its ability to achieve ultra-high vacuum and support advanced quantum applications like laser frequency stabilisation through integrated multi-material architectures and surface functionalisation.
This paper establishes a general framework for quantizing light-matter theories with time-dependent constraints, demonstrating that the irrotational gauge is uniquely suited for such scenarios while showing that the Coulomb gauge is not generally irrotational and thus lacks a special status in time-dependent interactions.
This study experimentally investigates Rydberg-mediated photon-photon interactions in cold-atom EIT systems, revealing distinct nonlinear spectral behaviors in three- and four-level configurations that are explained by conditional superatom and dephasing models respectively, thereby advancing the understanding of many-body physics and the development of unbiased microwave sensors.
This paper reports the experimental observation and theoretical confirmation of several high partial-wave magnetic Feshbach resonances in K Bose-Einstein condensates, which are induced by dipolar spin-spin interactions and offer significant potential for studying many-body physics dominated by high partial-wave pairing.
This paper demonstrates a field-deployable hybrid gravimetry system that uses an on-site atomic gravimeter to provide daily quantum-level calibration for mobile spring gravimeters, effectively suppressing instrumental drift to achieve high-precision, drift-free gravity mapping across a challenging 24 km² remote terrain.
This study experimentally demonstrates that matter-wave four-wave mixing in K Bose-Einstein condensates can be optimized by tuning atomic interactions via Feshbach resonances, revealing that the yield is maximized near the critical gas-droplet phase boundary in two-spin configurations.
The paper demonstrates that Lagrangians differing by a total derivative, while physically equivalent for closed systems, can lead to inequivalent reduced dynamics in open quantum systems, and uses this insight to resolve discrepancies in deriving the master equation for bremsstrahlung in QED.
This paper demonstrates a highly efficient and reversible optical-to-spin conversion process in using an atomic frequency comb memory, achieving up to 96% efficiency for a 500 s storage time by using a magnetic field to prevent Zeeman transition interference.
This paper develops and validates a series of analytic models to describe how recycled neutral atoms penetrate plasma and contribute to fueling, demonstrating that charge exchange can be simplified as a loss term to create a practical closed-form solution.