🔬 physics

Structural, Electrical and Optical Properties of Zno and Zno:co Nanostructures Thin Films for Optoelectronic Applications

This study demonstrates that incorporating cobalt into ZnO thin films via DC magnetron co-sputtering induces lattice disorder, narrows the optical band gap, and enhances bipolar resistive switching capabilities, thereby establishing these nanostructures as promising candidates for multifunctional optoelectronic applications.

Cristian E. Patiño, Daniel E. Nuñez, Johann E. Fonseca, Jorge A. Calderón, Heiddy P. Quiroz, A. Dussan2026-10-21
🔬 physics

Attosecond correlation interferometry

This paper demonstrates the generation and characterization of correlated attosecond extreme-ultraviolet emissions by transferring infrared quantum correlations from two-mode bright squeezed vacuum to high-harmonic generation, enabling the sub-cycle resolution of amplitude and phase correlations through even-harmonic interferometry and revealing a transition to near-silence in joint fluctuations within 30 attoseconds.

Chen Mor, Assaf Shonfeld, Keren Deutsch, Noa Yaffe, Michael Birk, Matan Even Tzur, Barak Dayan, Oren Cohen, Nirit Dudovi (…)2026-10-21
🔬 physics

Effective band structure control for single-atom-thick arsenic chain via strain manipulation by single-walled carbon nanotubes

This study demonstrates that filling narrow-diameter single-walled carbon nanotubes with arsenic creates asymmetric zigzag chains whose electronic properties can be effectively tuned from metallic to semiconducting states through strain manipulation, as revealed by experimental spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations.

Lixing Kang, Xu Zhang, Ziyi Hu, Dawid Janas, Lin Geng, Ya-Tong Wang, Xinxin Gao, Hao Yan, Haddou Ourada, Rahmani Abdelha (…)2026-10-21
🧬 biology

The Shot Gap: Bloch-Sphere Geometry and the Hidden Measurement Budget of Single-Qubit Quantum Classifiers

This study reveals a significant "shot gap" between the high thresholded accuracy and the lower single-shot accuracy of single-qubit quantum classifiers, demonstrating that the embedding geometry, rather than measurement choice or boundary nonlinearity, is the primary driver of this discrepancy and arguing that accuracy reports must explicitly state the number of shots used per prediction.

Alfredo Merlet2026-10-21
🔬 physics

Physics-guided auxiliary multi-task learning for temperature-dependent thermoelectric 𝑧𝑇 curve prediction

This paper presents a physics-guided auxiliary multi-task learning framework that accurately predicts temperature-dependent thermoelectric performance curves (including zTzT, SS, σ\sigma, and κ\kappa) from material composition, achieving high accuracy on both internal and external validation datasets to facilitate efficient materials screening and operating window selection.

Jie He2026-10-21
🔬 physics

The two-dimensional O(3) sigma model: a volume-uniform mass-gap certificate and the one inequality that remains

This paper establishes a finite, volume-uniform criterion for the mass gap in the two-dimensional O(3) sigma model, which is rigorously verified via certified computer-assisted computations at several couplings and reduced to a single explicit inequality regarding free-energy defects that holds for the model but fails for gapless control cases.

Andrei - Sebastian Ursachi2026-10-21