566 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 introduces and experimentally demonstrates a dynamic rephasing protocol for telecom-band warm vapor quantum memories that counteracts Doppler dephasing to extend storage time by 50-fold while preserving high bandwidth and enabling the on-demand storage of multiple time-bin modes.
By combining a newly developed Krylov theory with optimal cavity modulation, the authors demonstrate a method to significantly extend the coherence time of qubits stored in inhomogeneous spin ensembles, achieving an order-of-magnitude improvement over losses caused by inhomogeneity and cavity decay.
This paper introduces a Krylov space-based theoretical framework to model inhomogeneous spin ensembles, deriving exact expressions for information spreading metrics like Lieb-Robinson velocity and quantum speed limit to reveal how statistical frequency distributions critically influence quantum information flow for the design of quantum technologies.
This paper investigates parity-mixing quantum interference in helium photoionization driven by high-order harmonics and a laser field, identifying four distinct pathways where parity is not conserved, in contrast to traditional parity-conserving two-photon processes.
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the polyatomic molecule RaOH to axion-mediated , -violating electron-nucleon interactions and concludes that molecular vibrations affect this long-range interaction similarly to how they impact short-range scalar-pseudoscalar interactions.
This paper demonstrates that artificial intelligence, when used as an interactive "scientific collaborator" through iterative prompting and correction, can effectively solve complex quantum optics problems, thereby democratizing access to sophisticated modeling and accelerating research from days to minutes.
This paper presents a numerical simulation and experimental proposal for laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of Group IV atoms, with a specific focus on tin (Sn) as a promising candidate for precision measurement applications due to its accessible Type-II transition.
This paper presents a fully analytic multi-Yukawa screening model that extends bremsstrahlung cross-section calculations to partially ionized high- species, enabling accurate characterization of electron-ion interactions in high-energy environments up to tens of MeV.
This paper presents a watt-class injection-locked diode laser system operating at 399 nm that combines high output power with the frequency stability of a seed laser, demonstrating its effectiveness for atomic physics applications through ytterbium beam spectroscopy.
This paper proposes a statistical model combining random matrix theory and quantum defect theory to simulate ultracold molecular collision complexes, finding that while it aligns with RRKM predictions in the dense resonance limit, it reveals that sparse resonance physics is governed by threshold behavior, suggesting that traditional close-coupling calculations alone may be insufficient to explain the mystery of long-lived "sticky collisions."