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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 ⚛️ quant-ph

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 Dominik2026-03-03✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

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 🔭 astro-ph

Spin Vector Potential as an Exact Solution of the Yang-Mills Equations

This paper proves that the spin vector potential and a corresponding Coulomb-type scalar potential constitute a new family of exact vacuum solutions to the non-Abelian Yang-Mills equations, thereby providing a rigorous gauge-theoretical foundation for spin-dependent interactions and demonstrating that the resulting Schrödinger and Dirac equations are exactly solvable.

Jiang-Lin Zhou, Yu-Xuan Zhang, Choo Hiap Oh, Jing-Ling Chen2026-03-02✓ Author reviewed ⚛️ quant-ph

Activity-Driven Dewetting and Rupture in Thin Liquid Films

This paper demonstrates that internal activity fundamentally restructures thin-film dewetting by decoupling vertical accumulation and lateral rupture into independently regulated dynamical length scales, thereby replacing universal diffusion-limited growth with persistence-driven motion that accelerates coarsening exponents and rupture propagation.

Preethi M, Daniya Davis, Bhaskar Sen Gupta2026-03-02✓ Author reviewed 🔬 cond-mat.mtrl-sci

A Multi-Diagnostic Observational Framework for Magnetosonic Solitary Waves During Geomagnetic Storms in Solar Cycles 24 and 25 using Cluster II Mission

This study utilizes high-resolution Cluster II mission data to develop a multi-diagnostic framework that identifies magnetosonic solitons as potential precursor signatures of geomagnetic activity during Solar Cycles 24 and 25, revealing their predominant occurrence in the early storm intervals prior to the main phase.

Murchana Khusroo, Yimnasangla2026-02-27✓ Author reviewed 🔭 astro-ph

Quantization Mapping on Dirac Dynamics via Voltage-Driven Charge Density in Monolayer Graphene: A Klein Paradox and Entropy-Ruled Wavevector Mechanics Study

This study proposes a novel framework for mapping energy quantization in monolayer graphene by linking voltage-driven charge density to differential entropy-ruled wavevector mechanics, thereby elucidating the interplay between disorder-induced electron-hole puddles, the Klein paradox, and the density of states in Dirac materials.

Karuppuchamy Navamani2026-02-12✓ Author reviewed 🔬 cond-mat.mes-hall