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1367 papers reviewed by authors · 1341–1350 / 1367

🔭 astrophysics

Predicting Gaia astrometry's ability to constrain the populations of circumbinary planets

This paper predicts that upcoming Gaia data releases will detect tens to hundreds of circumbinary planets, revealing a yield significantly lower than pre-launch estimates but highly sensitive to the underlying mass and orbital period distributions, while also offering the potential to validate or refute candidates around post-common-envelope binaries.

Thomas A. Baycroft, Amaury H. M. J Triaud, Johannes Sahlmann2026-03-04✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Dynamics of planetary rings under thermal forces

This paper introduces the Eclipse-Yarkovsky effect, a thermal torque arising from asymmetric particle emission during planetary eclipses, and demonstrates through a continuum framework that it drives outward ring transport and can form sharp inner edges, while a competing planetary-Yarkovsky effect may cause inward migration in close-in rings.

Wen-Han Zhou, Eiichiro Kokubo, Harrison Agrusa, Gregorio Ricerchi, Aurelien Crida, David Vokrouhlicky, Yun Zhang, Ronald (…)2026-03-04✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ quantum physics

Quantum Theory of Functionally Graded Materials

Addressing the breakdown of Bloch's theorem in spatially varying composites, this paper establishes a foundational ab initio quantum theoretical framework for functionally graded materials that derives effective field equations for modulated Bloch states, revealing non-tensorial electromagnetic properties and enabling the predictive design of optimized electronic devices such as graded p-n junctions.

Michael J. Landry, Ryotaro Okabe, Chuliang Fu, Mingda Li2026-03-03✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
⚛️ quantum physics

Recovery-Induced Erasure Attack on QKD Systems

This paper experimentally demonstrates a novel Quantum Key Distribution attack, termed Recovery-Induced Erasure (RIE), which exploits the count-rate-dependent recovery dynamics of single-photon detectors to covertly convert detection errors into erasures, thereby suppressing the observed quantum bit error rate below the protocol's abort threshold.

Hashir Kuniyil, Asad Ali, Syed M. Arslan, Muhammad Talha Rahim, Artur Czerwinski, Saif Al Kuwari2026-03-03✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Planet-forming disks and their environment across regions and time from the full NIR census

This study presents the largest near-infrared census of 268 planet-forming disks, revealing that environmental factors like ambient material significantly influence disk morphology, brightness evolution, and accretion processes, thereby playing a fundamental role in disk evolution and planet formation.

Antonio Garufi, Christian Ginski, Myriam Benisty, Miguel Vioque, Andrew Winter, Jane Huang, Carlo Felice Manara, Carsten (…)2026-03-03✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
🔭 astrophysics

Assessing the Robustness of the CPL Parametrization to Basis and Prior Variations: Insights from DESI DR2 BAO Data

Using DESI DR2 BAO data, this study demonstrates that while ratio-only analyses can artificially inflate apparent shifts in dark energy parameters due to degeneracies, joint fits in a distance-basis representation confirm that the equation of state remains consistent with a cosmological constant, providing no significant evidence for dynamical dark energy.

Seokcheon Lee2026-03-02✓ Author reviewed ⓘ