Jakob Gollwitzer, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Y. Eren Suyolcu, Guru Khalsa, Rylan C. Fernandes, Oleg Gorobtsov, Sören Buchenau, ChanJu You, Jayanti Higgins, Ryan S. Russell, Ziming Shao, Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Takahiro Sato, Matthieu Chollet, Giacomo Coslovich, Mario Brützam, Christo Guguschev, John W. Harter, Ankit S. Disa, Darrell G. Schlom, Nicole A. Benedek, Andrej Singer
{"title":"Picosecond Expansion in LaAlO3 Resonantly Driven by Infrared-Active Phonons","authors":"Jakob Gollwitzer, Jeffrey Z. Kaaret, Y. Eren Suyolcu, Guru Khalsa, Rylan C. Fernandes, Oleg Gorobtsov, Sören Buchenau, ChanJu You, Jayanti Higgins, Ryan S. Russell, Ziming Shao, Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Takahiro Sato, Matthieu Chollet, Giacomo Coslovich, Mario Brützam, Christo Guguschev, John W. Harter, Ankit S. Disa, Darrell G. Schlom, Nicole A. Benedek, Andrej Singer","doi":"10.1103/vzkw-n2bm","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/vzkw-n2bm","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145043087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ilka Brunner, Daniel Roggenkamp, Christian P. M. Schneider
{"title":"Defects and phases of higher rank abelian GLSMs","authors":"Ilka Brunner, Daniel Roggenkamp, Christian P. M. Schneider","doi":"10.1007/s11005-025-01989-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11005-025-01989-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We construct defects describing the transition between different phases of gauged linear sigma models with higher rank abelian gauge groups, as well as defects embedding these phases into the GLSMs. Our construction refers entirely to the sector protected by B-type supersymmetry, decoupling the gauge sector. It relies on an abstract characterization of such transition defects and does not involve an actual perturbative analysis. It turns out that the choices that are required to characterize consistent transition defects match with the homotopy classes of paths between different phases. Our method applies to non-anomalous as well as anomalous GLSMs, and we illustrate both cases with examples. This includes the GLSM associated to the resolution of the <span>(A_N)</span> singularity and one describing the entire parameter space of <span>(N=2)</span> minimal models, in particular, the relevant flows between them. Via fusion with boundary conditions, the defects we construct yield functors describing the transport of D-branes on parameter space. We find that our results match with known results on D-brane transport.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":685,"journal":{"name":"Letters in Mathematical Physics","volume":"115 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11005-025-01989-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Natalia A. Gutierrez Andrade , Koen Vanmol , Yunfeng Nie , Wendy Meulebroeck , Heidi Ottevaere
{"title":"Microplastics analysis through a surface plasmon resonance microscopic system tailored for polymers detection","authors":"Natalia A. Gutierrez Andrade , Koen Vanmol , Yunfeng Nie , Wendy Meulebroeck , Heidi Ottevaere","doi":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.optlastec.2025.113908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Microplastic pollution is a major global environmental concern owing to its pervasive presence and impact on human and ecological health. Achieving a reliable method for analysing microplastics is crucial for mitigating this issue. However, current microplastic detection and characterisation approaches are often time-consuming and limited to certain polymers. Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) is a promising alternative that offers real-time, high-sensitivity measurements. While existing SPR methods typically focus on single-parameter measurements, this study introduces an SPR-based microscopic system that uses surface plasmon resonance to detect three distinct polymer types individually, while simultaneously determining their particle size and quantity. We designed a specialised prism for the SPR imaging of each polymer (IP-Dip2, IP-PDMS, and polypropylene (PP)) and incorporated it into an SPR imaging optical system. The corresponding polymer images were processed for noise reduction and distortion correction, enabling particle size and quantity estimation. Initial tests on IP-Dip2 and IP-PDMS microplastics validated the optical setup and image-analysis procedures, confirming consistent system performance and yielding lateral resolutions of 22.76 µm and 14.64 µm, respectively.. Experiments on PP microparticles further demonstrated reliable measurement of particle parameters with a lateral resolution of 18.98 µm, indicating the feasibility of this integrated approach for analysing various polymer samples. The results of this study highlight the potential of SPR imaging to address multiple crucial parameters in microplastic samples, thereby overcoming several current methodological constraints and contributing to the development of SPR for microplastic analysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":19511,"journal":{"name":"Optics and Laser Technology","volume":"192 ","pages":"Article 113908"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145044087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Umut Kayikci, Furkan Gocer, Damla Akcaoglu, Kutay Kisadere, Mustafa Sivasligil
{"title":"Comment on “Narrow-band infrared radiation characteristics of rocket exhaust plume by using correction function related to thermodynamic state”","authors":"Umut Kayikci, Furkan Gocer, Damla Akcaoglu, Kutay Kisadere, Mustafa Sivasligil","doi":"10.1016/j.infrared.2025.106092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infrared.2025.106092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13549,"journal":{"name":"Infrared Physics & Technology","volume":"151 ","pages":"Article 106092"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145044188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power of the cosmic web","authors":"James Sunseri, Adrian E. Bayer, Jia Liu","doi":"10.1103/grx3-hj7w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/grx3-hj7w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145043265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charmonium-nucleon femtoscopic correlation function","authors":"Zhi-Wei Liu, Duo-Lun Ge, Jun-Xu Lu, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng","doi":"10.1103/3bdh-blwh","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/3bdh-blwh","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates the femtoscopic correlation functions of charmonium-nucleon pairs, utilizing the lattice QCD phase shifts provided by the HAL QCD Collaboration. A “model-independent” formalism is employed to transform scattering phase shifts directly into momentum correlation functions, thereby circumventing the approximations inherent in traditional methods, such as the Lednický-Lyuboshits model. The J</a:mi>/</a:mo>ψ</a:mi>−</a:mtext>p</a:mi></a:mrow></a:math> correlation functions, including spin-averaged and partial-wave results, are predicted using near-physical pion mass lattice results. The <c:math xmlns:c=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" display=\"inline\"><c:mrow><c:msub><c:mrow><c:mi>η</c:mi></c:mrow><c:mrow><c:mi>c</c:mi></c:mrow></c:msub><c:mtext>−</c:mtext><c:mi>p</c:mi></c:mrow></c:math> correlation function is calculated for the first time. The derived correlation functions provide critical references for future experiments, such as those at the LHC, where high-precision measurements of charmonium-nucleon correlations could unveil valuable insights into nonperturbative QCD dynamics.","PeriodicalId":20167,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review D","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145043267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential 4.35-year quasi-periodic oscillation in (gamma )-ray emission from BL Lac J0811.4(+)0146","authors":"Min Jin, Feng-Rong Zhu, Bing-Kai Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s12036-025-10094-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12036-025-10094-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) observations reveal a significant population of blazars, and recent astrophysical research has focused on exploring flux variations in blazars. Up to now, Fermi-LAT has discovered a significant number of blazars, displaying quasi-periodic behaviour. In this study, Fermi-LAT data is utilized to construct the <span>(gamma )</span>-ray light curve for blazar J0811.4<span>(+)</span>0146 spanning from August 2008 to November 2024, covering 16 years of observations. Four distinct methods, namely, Lomb–Scargle periodogram (LSP), Weighted wavelet Z-transform (WWZ), discrete correlation function (DCF) and Jurkevich (JV), are employed to investigate <span>(gamma )</span>-ray emissions from this blazar in detail. The analysis reveals quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) behaviour with a period of <span>(4.35 pm 0.34)</span> years. Significance of this QPO is assessed using Monte Carlo simulations, which indicate a significance level of 4.5<span>(sigma )</span>. This study suggests that the detected QPO can be plausibly explained by Newtonian-driven jet precession associated with a supermassive black hole binary system (SMBHB). Utilizing this model, we estimate, mass of the primary black hole to be <span>(7.3 times 10^9 textrm{M}_{odot })</span>, mass of the secondary black hole to be <span>(2.1 times 10^9 textrm{M}_{odot })</span> and <span>(frac{R_{1}}{R_{2}})</span> to be 0.27, resulting in an orbital period of the secondary black hole (<span>(P_{M_2})</span>) of 1.15 years and a precession period of the jet of <span>(sim )</span>42.49 years.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthias Thamm, Harini Radhakrishnan, Hatem Barghathi, C. M. Herdman, Arpan Biswas, Bernd Rosenow, Adrian Del Maestro
{"title":"Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Renormalization Group Flow at a Quantum Phase Transition","authors":"Matthias Thamm, Harini Radhakrishnan, Hatem Barghathi, C. M. Herdman, Arpan Biswas, Bernd Rosenow, Adrian Del Maestro","doi":"10.1103/4xdz-5vq7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/4xdz-5vq7","url":null,"abstract":"We present a controlled numerical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling, providing evidence of the characteristic logarithmic finite-size scaling of the BKT transition. Employing density matrix renormalization group and quantum Monte Carlo simulations under periodic boundary conditions, together with a systematic finite-size scaling analysis of bipartite particle number fluctuations, we resolve boundary-induced complications that previously obscured critical scaling. We demonstrate that a suitably chosen central region under open boundaries reproduces universal renormalization group signatures, reconciling earlier discrepancies. Finally, leveraging a nonparametric Bayesian analysis, we determine the critical interaction strength with high precision to be U</a:mi></a:mrow>c</a:mi></a:mrow></a:msub>/</a:mo>J</a:mi>=</a:mo>3.275</a:mn>(</a:mo>2</a:mn>)</a:mo></a:mrow></a:math>, establishing a benchmark for BKT physics in one-dimensional quantum models.","PeriodicalId":20069,"journal":{"name":"Physical review letters","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145031746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
QuantumPub Date : 2025-09-11DOI: 10.22331/q-2025-09-11-1855
Dilip Paneru, Francesco Di Colandrea, Alessio D'Errico, Ebrahim Karimi
{"title":"Nonlocal transfer of high-dimensional unitary operations","authors":"Dilip Paneru, Francesco Di Colandrea, Alessio D'Errico, Ebrahim Karimi","doi":"10.22331/q-2025-09-11-1855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-09-11-1855","url":null,"abstract":"Highly correlated biphoton states are powerful resources in quantum optics, both for fundamental tests of the theory and practical applications. In particular, high-dimensional spatial correlation has been used in several quantum information processing and sensing tasks, for instance, in ghost imaging experiments along with several quantum key distribution protocols. Here, we introduce a technique that exploits spatial correlations, whereby one can nonlocally access the result of an arbitrary unitary operator on an arbitrary input state without the need to perform any operation themselves. The method is experimentally validated on a set of spatially periodic unitary operations in one-dimensional and two-dimensional spaces. Our findings pave the way for efficiently distributing quantum simulations and computations in future instances of quantum networks where users with limited resources can nonlocally access the results of complex unitary transformations via a centrally located quantum processor.","PeriodicalId":20807,"journal":{"name":"Quantum","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145031855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TAMOJEET ROYCHOWDHURY, HARSH CHOUDHARY, VARUN BHALERAO, DAVID O. COOK, VIRAJ KARAMBELKAR, MANSI M. KASLIWAL, HARSH KUMAR, SURHUD MORE, GAURAV WARATKAR
{"title":"Efficacy of galaxy catalogues for following up gravitational wave events","authors":"TAMOJEET ROYCHOWDHURY, HARSH CHOUDHARY, VARUN BHALERAO, DAVID O. COOK, VIRAJ KARAMBELKAR, MANSI M. KASLIWAL, HARSH KUMAR, SURHUD MORE, GAURAV WARATKAR","doi":"10.1007/s12036-025-10097-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12036-025-10097-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The detection of gravitational waves (GW) by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network has opened up a new era in astrophysics. The identification of the electromagnetic counterparts of GW sources is crucial for multi-messenger astronomy, one way of which is to use galaxy catalogues to guide optical follow-up observations. In this paper, we test the utility of a galaxy-targeted approach with mass prioritised galaxy ranking for the ongoing LIGO O4 run. We have used the simulated results for the expected LIGO O4 events and the NED-LVS galaxy catalogue, and based our study on small field of view telescopes, specifically the GROWTH-India Telescope (GIT). With the increase in sensitivity of LIGO/Virgo in the ongoing observing run O4, the expected number of total detections have gone up, but most of these are also now poorly localised. We show that a larger volume covered in the same field-of-view (FoV) on the sky results in a large increase in the total number of galaxies in each FoV. A significant top-heaviness is observed in the mass-ranked list of galaxies, which still numbers a few thousand in most cases. At larger distances, such high numbers of deep follow-up observations are infeasible in most cases, rendering galaxy catalogues useful in limited cases. However, these are still useful at lower distances where LVK detectors are currently sensitive and where galaxy completeness is higher. We also explore the effect of mass-filling to account for galaxy catalogue incompleteness at large distances. If mass-filled probabilities are considered as the metric for ranking and coverage, we find that the conventional 2D probability search performs better than a 3D galaxy catalogue (without mass-filling) based search at distances larger than 300 Mpc (up to which NED-LVS is <span>({sim } 70)</span>% complete), and using 3D mass times probability in each tile performs better for nearby events.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy","volume":"46 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145028339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}