The authors show that short-pulse alignment of room-temperature acetone molecules can be improved by rotational echoes.

The authors show that, for a thermal machine composed of a quantum dot in contact with two reservoirs, the optimization of the interaction time between system and reservoirs is enough to get an quasi-optimal power output.

The authors show that electrons in a particular lattice model behave the same way as relativistic particles near a black hole horizon.

The authors show that plasma electrons under petawatt laser light exhibit a random walk in a self-generated field resulting in electron confinement and efficient ion acceleration.

This article explains the auxetic behavior of a liquid crystalline elastomer, which occurs at a molecular level, by deducing the strain-induced changes in order parameters and interpreting them as out-of-plane rotations of the molecules.

The authors present ultrafast phase-contrast X-ray imaging of nanosecond-pulsed plasma phenomena in water.

The authors propose a method for coherently controlling the rotation-axis direction in asymmetric top molecules, revealing how to spin a molecule about two different axes at the same time.

The authors devise a method for the simulation of generic local open quantum systems on quantum computers and verify experimentally the existence of a hierarchy of decay timescales.

The authors predict the nematic phase transition of Majorana particles in Kitaev magnets which drives the system into the toric code phase.

The authors obtain linear response inequalities for the strength of selection acting on a phenotypic trait in the context of biological branching processes.

The authors study the nonlinear response of the superconducting kinetic inductance in capacitively shunted NbTiN microstrip transmission lines.

This paper investigates the change of the mode structure of a parametric process as the gain changes and finds that the fields will spread out across many modes and the mode functions are broadened as the gain increases.

The authors show that nanoscale patterns of gain and loss in plasmonic metasurfaces can produce rings of exceptional points which couple to circularly polarized light, resulting in different amplification of left- and right-handed optical fields.

The authors characterize chiral symmetric quantum walkswith their anomalous Sinai diffusion and the net spin polarization ata critical phase.

The authors study the fundamental band gaps of liquid water and hexagonal ice using many-body perturbation theory and nonempirical hybrid functionals.

This paper explores the interplay between different electronic orderings in quasicrystals using a real space truncated unity functional renormalization group approach.

This work shows that weak chemical substitution in BaCuSi${}_2$O${}_6$ causes a structural transition that restores the spin model of stacked dimer bilayers.

The authors observe a ferromagnetic ground state with strong uniaxial anisotropy in Co-intercalated 2H-Co0${}_{0.22}$TaS${}_2$ van der Waals single crystals below T${}_c$ ∼ 28 K.

This paper shows that bistable mechanical metamaterials respond with multiple, topologically distinct hysteresis cycles when driven by single, textured periodic boundary forcing.

This work explore the fermion sign problem utilizing the output of a density functional theory simulation as a basis in the path integral for electrons in a semiconductor nanoparticle.

The authors show that a nanocrystal matter-wave interferometer can be used to create a state-of-the-art quantum sensor to detect low accelerations and discuss how it can be used to probe quantum aspects of gravity in a laboratory.

This paper studies the design and performance of mirror coatings for gravitational wave detectors based on quarter-wavelength layers made of three materials.

The authors study the spectral form factor for Floquet random quantum circuits and analytically identify the onset of quantum chaos in many-body systems subject to local constraints, showing that systems with conserved higher moments display subdiffusive dynamics.

The paper shows that the quench dynamics of an ensemble of spins coupled to a single bosonic oscillator features classical and quantum dynamical critical points.

The authors present a neutron optical experiment and explore its performance in projective measurements with regards to information gain and disturbance tradeoff in successive spin measurements.

This paper shows that the CeRh${}_2$As${}_2$ phase diagram - which exhibit two superconducting phases - can be described within an extended Ginzburg-Landau theory combining even and odd-parity Cooper pairing states within the staggered non-centrosymmetric crystal structure.

The authors generalize the theory of excitation-inhibition balance to recurrent networks with arbitrary low-rank connectivity structure and show incomplete alignment between the row-space and column-space of that connectivity leads to an emergence of macroscopic, low-dimensional fluctuations.

The authors show that chaotic switching between two losing quantum coin toss for a quantum walker can result in a larger win margin than random switching.

The authors show that the minimization of search times for stochastic processes with power law memory to find randomly distributed targets depends on the variation of many control parameters.

The authors present a quasi-two-dimensional tensor network architecture to simulate quantum systems simultaneously exposed to two structured reservoirs with non-Markovian system-reservoir interactions.

The authors investigate two members of transition metal diarsenide family and reveal the cleaving plane dependent electronic structure.

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