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Space & Physics

Astronomy, quantum science, particles, matter, light, and energy.

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Matter, Light & EnergyOptics & PhotonicsPreprint

Preprint reports microscope that tracks ultrafast changes in molybdenum disulfide

An oscillator-driven femtosecond pump–probe system measured local optical dynamics in multilayer and monolayer MoS₂. The reported setup combined an estimated whole-spectrum time resolution below 100 fs with submicrometre spatial resolution and found different long-lived responses at the centre and edge of one monolayer flake.

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Matter, Light & EnergyCondensed MatterPreprint

Preprint: X-ray snapshots track hidden casein changes as milk gels

A laboratory preprint followed reconstituted skim-milk casein micelles through camel-chymosin hydrolysis and gelation. An intermediate-scale scattering feature faded before aggregation, while a second high-q peak became visible; the authors say the pattern is consistent with κ-casein having an internal structural role, but the simulations do not uniquely define the micelle.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsQuantum InformationPreprint

Preprint proposes a simpler route to precision limits in dynamical quantum measurements

A new arXiv preprint describes a matrix-free way to estimate precision limits in dynamical quantum measurements when conventional matrix methods become singular. Analytical derivations and numerical examples suggest the proposed bound can track variance changes more closely than the standard quantum Cramér–Rao bound in selected models.

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Matter, Light & EnergyCondensed MatterPreprint

Preprint model says changing pore networks can steepen stiffness scaling

A modeling preprint argues that unusually steep modulus–density relationships in open-porous solids may partly reflect how their internal networks change as density changes, rather than a different local deformation mode. The framework is analytical and illustrative, with no physical specimens, empirical dataset or independent validation reported.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsQuantum InformationPreprint

Preprint reports wide-field infrared imaging without direct infrared detection

A laboratory preprint describes quantum imaging with undetected photons, using a visible camera readout to recover information from an infrared object. The demonstrations report a broad imaging range, spatial-resolution measurements and a faster single-frame mode, but rely on simple test materials and estimated detector comparisons.

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Matter, Light & EnergyCondensed MatterPreprint

Preprint links stiff molecular constraints to different vibrations and plastic modes in model glasses

A preprint comparing stiff three-atom molecular and atomistic glass models found higher reported elastic moduli and larger quasilocalized-vibration proxies in the molecular model, along with stronger dilation-to-shear coupling in nonlinear plastic modes. The authors say effective-degree-of-freedom corrections bring some measures closer, but the simulations do not test real or polymeric glasses.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsQuantum InformationPreprint

Preprint reports lower-error approximations for quantum cloud-cover models

An arXiv preprint reports that two constructive “shadow” methods can approximate trained quantum machine-learning models used for cloud-cover prediction, sometimes with lower mean squared error under finite-sampling tests. The study is an offline computational evaluation, not evidence of a quantum advantage or improved climate simulation.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsGravitation & RelativityPreprint

Preprint Says Matter Leaves Key Features of “Freezing Gravity” Intact

A theoretical calculation coupling freezing gravity to a minimally coupled perfect fluid retains the model’s separation between background and perturbation physics and its linear large-scale freezing. It also derives analytic conditions for ghost and gradient stability, while leaving nonlinear behavior and strong coupling unresolved.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsQuantum InformationPreprint

Preprint reports adaptive key extraction on a fibre-and-free-space quantum link

Researchers tested locally generated continuous-variable quantum key distribution over a deployed hybrid channel and used adaptive post-processing to handle fluctuating transmission. The reported rates were asymptotic, and the finite-size analysis did not produce a positive composable key under the experimental parameters.

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Matter, Light & EnergySuperconductivityPreprint

Preprint: Higher helium-ion doses linked to lower YBCO junction current

A preprint analyzing three selected YBCO weak links reports an association between higher focused-helium-ion dose, lower critical current and lower IcRn, while normal resistance rose. The authors say the pattern is consistent with reduced interface transparency and fewer effective conducting channels, but those features were inferred from transport rather than directly measured.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsQuantum InformationPreprint

Preprint reports close match for a tool that transports quantum responses between models

A computational preprint tests SAKE, a local automatic-differentiation method for transporting nonlinear spectroscopic responses between nearby quantum models. It closely matches a direct benchmark and recovers synthetic controls in one four-level dimer, but the result does not establish accuracy on larger systems or measured data.

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Matter, Light & EnergyThermodynamics & Statistical PhysicsPreprint

Preprint Reports Close Matches in Non-Hermitian Quantum Quenches

A version-1 arXiv preprint reports that a conformal-field-theory construction organized several kinds of post-quench dynamics in interacting non-Hermitian quantum-chain models. Parameters fixed from static data predicted later return, local and spatial behavior, with especially close matches in the Yang–Lee benchmark. The evidence is analytic and numerical, finite-size and model-specific.

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Quantum & Particle PhysicsQuantum InformationPreprint

Preprint reports faster quantum error-correction schedules for neutral-atom arrays

A new arXiv preprint describes ONEX, a compiler built around the structure of product-based quantum error-correction codes. In computational benchmarks and noise simulations, it produced shorter execution plans and lower modeled logical error rates than the tested baselines. The work has not been validated on physical hardware, and compilation time rose sharply at larger problem sizes.

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