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⚛️ general relativity

Nonlinear electrodynamics in magnetars: systematic effects on radius constraints and timing analysis

This paper demonstrates that nonlinear electrodynamics significantly alters photon propagation in magnetars, causing approximately 10% errors in inferred stellar radii and inducing systematic timing delays of ~350 ns that exceed current mission resolutions, thereby necessitating corrections for high-precision neutron star mass and radius measurements.

Gabriel A. Porto, Jonas P. Pereira, Eduardo Bittencourt, Elda Guzmán-Herrera2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed
⚡ electrical engineering

UrduSpeech: A 156-Hour Urdu Speech Corpus with 12-Dimension Paralinguistic Annotations

This paper introduces UrduSpeech, a large-scale, high-fidelity Urdu speech corpus containing 156 hours of audio with 12-dimensional paralinguistic annotations and a standardized benchmark, developed through an LLM-driven pipeline to address the language's under-resourced status in speech technology.

Attia Nafees ul Haq, Zeyu Zhu, Jingbin Hu, ChunJiang He, Lei Xie2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed
⚡ electrical engineering

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
🔬 materials science

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 (…)2026-05-19✓ Author reviewed
🔬 physics

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
🔭 astrophysics

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
🔬 condensed matter

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
🤖 machine learning

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