593 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.
The authors report the development of a simplified magneto-optical trap for dysprosium that uses a single diode-laser system to capture atoms from a thermal beam and subsequently load them into a magnetic trap via a dark state, achieving a population of atoms at a temperature of .
This paper uses a sign-consistency analysis of the helium ionization-energy anomaly to demonstrate that most exotic boson-mediated electron-electron interactions (vector, pseudoscalar, and axial-vector) are excluded, leaving only a narrowly constrained scalar interaction as a viable explanation.
This paper presents high-resolution spectroscopy of molecular ions co-trapped with to precisely determine excited-state rotational constants and to demonstrate the use of rotational transition amplitudes as an in-situ probe for measuring black-body radiation temperature.
This paper demonstrates the first practical, tunable Rydberg atomic electrometer that utilizes a second-order exceptional point in a passive thermal system to achieve a nearly 20-fold enhancement in sensitivity through non-Hermitian spectral nonlinearity.
This paper proposes a resource-efficient method for simulating 1+1D quantum chromodynamics by encoding three qubits—representing quark color—within the electronic, nuclear, and motional states of individual ytterbium-171 atoms.
The researchers theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a high-efficiency, cavity-free microwave-to-optical transducer using a Rydberg ensemble that utilizes cascaded electromagnetically induced transparency to store and convert microwave photons into optical photons for quantum repeater applications.
The researchers demonstrate an experimental method to engineer tunable thermal reservoirs in a trapped-ion system, enabling the study of open-system quantum dynamics and temperature-dependent energy transfer processes.
This paper provides a simplified conceptual model of the nuclear Schiff moment and examines how it interacts with the electric field of an atomic electron to facilitate searches for new physics that violates time-reversal symmetry.
This study demonstrates that inhomogeneous strain induced by creases in freestanding and membranes significantly suppresses local thermal conductivity by broadening phonon dispersion and enhancing scattering rates, offering a potential mechanism for developing active thermal management devices.
This paper demonstrates that two-photon-excited fluorescence spectroscopy of and atoms in a magneto-optical trap allows for the observation of sensitive spectral signatures at extremely low photon fluxes due to the negligible Doppler broadening achieved through optical cooling.