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Evaluating the Effect of Compression on Video Temporal Consistency Using Objective Quality Metrics

This paper systematically evaluates how video compression impacts temporal consistency across multiple codecs and content types, revealing that temporal degradation follows a non-linear pattern and is disproportionately severe in sequences with unpredictable dynamics, thereby challenging the assumption that motion volume alone dictates encoding difficulty.

Peter Zsoldos2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed ⚡ eess

ac strain based thermodynamic criterion for vortex lattice in type-II superconductors

This paper establishes a new thermodynamic criterion for identifying the vortex lattice phase in type-II superconductors by discovering a dynamic magnetostrictive effect, where an alternating magnetic field induces a geometry oscillation proportional to vortex density, detectable via a piezoelectric transducer.

Peipei Lu, Mengju Yuan, Jing Zhang, Qiang Gao, Shuang Liu, Yugang Zhang, Shipeng Shen, Long Zhang, Jun Lu, Xiaoyuan Zhou, Mingquan He, Aifeng Wang, Yang Li, Wenshan Hong, Shiliang Li, Huiqian Luo, Xin (…)2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed 🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Physics in the Public Square: University Extension as a Strategy for Integrating Physics Education and Science Communication

This study demonstrates that a university extension activity involving undergraduate physics students designing and presenting low-cost didactic experiments in a public space effectively bridges the gap between academia and society by enhancing student learning, developing communication skills, and fostering scientific curiosity among the community.

Andre A. A. Marinho, Gisele B. Freitas, Camila B. C. da Silva2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed 🔬 physics

Sungrazer comets as analogs of star-planet magnetic interactions

This paper investigates whether the magnetic interaction between the sungrazing comet Lovejoy and the Sun could trigger solar activity, concluding that while the comet's Alfvén wave power is insufficient to directly cause the observed brightening, it may still act as a perturbation capable of triggering solar flares.

L-S. Guité, A. Strugarek, A. J. Finley, S. Parenti, V. Réville, A. Paul, A. S. Brun, J. de Carpentier2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Localization Transitions in a Half-Filled Helical Aubry-André Model

This paper investigates localization transitions in a half-filled, noninteracting Aubry-André model extended with NNth-neighbor hopping, utilizing a geometric Binder cumulant derived from many-body polarization to map how critical potential strengths depend on long-range tunneling and helical range while employing a Zeckendorf-shift construction for controlled thermodynamic limits.

Taylan Yildiz, B. Tanatar, Balázs Hetényi2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed 🔬 cond-mat

Emulating the Forced Response of Climate Models with Flow Matching

This paper presents a deep learning flow matching model that efficiently emulates the forced response of global climate models to various Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and simultaneous climate forcings, successfully generating unseen scenarios and demonstrating the necessity of including diverse forcings to accurately capture long-term atmospheric trends.

Graham Clyne, Julia Kaltenborn, Peer Nowack, Claire Monteleoni, Anasatase Charantonis2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed 🤖 cs.LG