{"title":"Pressure-induced concurrent amorphization and superconductivity in topological material NbNiTe5","authors":"Lingxiao Zhao, Yi Zhao, Bangshuai Zhu, Qi Wang, Cuiying Pei, Juefei Wu, Jin-Ke Bao, Wen-He Jiao, Yanpeng Qi","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3019-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3019-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We have systematically studied the structural and electronic properties of a topological material NbNiTe<sub>5</sub> under high pressure. The evolution of the normal state resistance shows a non-monotonic trend from 0.7 to 5.1 GPa, in accordance with the second-order transition along the inter-layer direction observed in X-ray diffraction and Raman spectra. At around 10 GPa, the sample starts amorphization, which is concurrent with the emergence of superconductivity. Upon further compression, the structural disorder enhances and the superconducting transition becomes clearer, suggesting that the superconductivity is modulated by the degree of disorder in NbNiTe<sub>5</sub> under high pressure. Within 45.7 GPa, the superconducting transition temperature (<i>T</i><sub>c</sub>) slowly rises from 0.6 K at 9.5 GPa to 1.4 K at 45.7 GPa. Our findings extend the family of transition metal chalcogenide superconductors and shed new light on understanding superconductivity in disordered systems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752369","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}
{"title":"A template-based search for large-scale-structure-correlated anisotropy in the nanohertz gravitational-wave background using the public NANOGrav 15-year data set","authors":"Yun Fang","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3001-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3001-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent PTA analyses reporting evidence for a nanohertz common-spectrum process motivate targeted tests of whether any anisotropic component of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is correlated with the nearby large-scale structure (LSS), as anticipated for an astrophysical background dominated by supermassive black hole binaries. We present the first Bayesian PTA likelihood analysis that embeds an externally observed, full-sky galaxy-survey LSS template directly as an overlap-reduction-function (ORF) component. Using the 2MASS photometric redshift (2MPZ) galaxy catalog, we construct low-multipole LSS-correlated ORF templates in two redshift slices (0 < <i>z</i> ⩽ 0.1 and 0.1 < <i>z</i> ⩽ 0.2) and model PTA cross-correlations as <span>(Gamma_{ab}=Gamma_{ab}^{text{HD}}+Sigma_{i}epsilon_{i}Gamma_{ab}^{text{LSS}(i)})</span>, where <i>ϵ</i><sub><i>i</i></sub> quantifies the amplitude of an SGWB component whose angular correlations project onto the fixed 2MPZ LSS templates. Applying this framework to the NANOGrav 15-year dataset, we find no evidence for an LSS-correlated component: the inferred <i>ϵ</i><sub><i>i</i></sub> values are consistent with zero in both single-bin and two-bin analyses (e.g., <span>(epsilon_{1}=0.20_{-1.66}^{+1.68})</span> and <span>(epsilon_{2}=-0.11_{-1.83}^{+2.04})</span>; 68% credible intervals), and Bayes factors favor the isotropic Hellings-Downs hypothesis (<span>({cal{B}}_{text{HD+LSS}_{1},text{HD}}=0.40, {cal{B}}_{text{HD+LSS}_{2},text{HD}}=0.43, {cal{B}}_{text{HD+LSS}_{1+2},text{HD}}=0.11 )</span>). We therefore place upper limits on any 2MPZ-traced, LSS-correlated contribution to the SGWB at <i>z</i> < 0.2. More broadly, our framework provides a reproducible pathway for incorporating observed LSS information into PTA anisotropy searches and naturally motivates extensions to finer redshift tomography and next-generation PTA datasets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614220","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}
Jin-Lei Wu, Jun Wu, Pei-Yao Song, Yan Wang, Ya Gao, Xue-Ke Song, Shi-Lei Su
{"title":"Cascaded Rydberg antiblockade: Multi-atom excitation dynamics and entanglement","authors":"Jin-Lei Wu, Jun Wu, Pei-Yao Song, Yan Wang, Ya Gao, Xue-Ke Song, Shi-Lei Su","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3006-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3006-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a cascaded Rydberg antiblockade (RAB) regime via a Floquet modulation in four fully connected interacting atoms, which establishes a new synthetic dimension, Dicke-state lattice (DSL), in the space of collective spin excitations. By applying a global periodic driving, we synthesize an effective Hamiltonian that enables perfect state transfer across the five-site DSL with multiple programmable pathways from stepwise nearest-neighbor jumps to a single-step transition. This DSL platform further allows us to simulate a dynamic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, where soft quantum control is employed to achieve topologically inspired full RAB ∣0000〉 → ∣1111〉 with enhanced robustness against disorder. Moreover, by incorporating the shortcut to adiabaticity technique, we generate high-fidelity entangled twin-Fock and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states on the four atoms within sub-microsecond timescales, outperforming the speed limits of conventional adiabatic protocols. Our work demonstrates a flexible and programmable synthetic dimension for quantum simulation and multipartite entanglement engineering in Rydberg atom arrays, paving the way for the future development of quantum information processing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148628509","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}
Abdusamatjan Iskandar, Xiaofeng Wang, Ali Esamdin, Wenxiong Li, Xiangyun Zeng, Ruifeng Huang, Maokai Hu, Guoliang Lü, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Samuel Wyatt, Daichi Hiramatsu, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Craig Pellegrino, Megan Newsome, Lluís Galbany, David J. Sand, Nathan Smith, Huei Sears
{"title":"SN 2021pfs: A type Ia supernova likely affected by progenitor metallicity, as revealed by comparison with its twin counterpart","authors":"Abdusamatjan Iskandar, Xiaofeng Wang, Ali Esamdin, Wenxiong Li, Xiangyun Zeng, Ruifeng Huang, Maokai Hu, Guoliang Lü, D. Andrew Howell, Curtis McCully, Samuel Wyatt, Daichi Hiramatsu, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, Craig Pellegrino, Megan Newsome, Lluís Galbany, David J. Sand, Nathan Smith, Huei Sears","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-2999-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-2999-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present extensive photometric and spectroscopic observations of the normal type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) 2021pfs, which occurred in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 5427 at a redshift of 0.009. SN 2021pfs reached an absolute <i>B</i>-band peak magnitude of <i>M</i><sub>max</sub>(<i>B</i>) =−19.28 ± 0.40 mag and a post-peak decline rate of Δ<i>m</i><sub>15</sub>(<i>B</i>) =1.13 ± 0.06 mag. The observed properties of this nearby SN Ia closely resemble those of SN 2011fe, including the main optical spectroscopic features and photometric evolution. Despite their similar decline rates, SN 2021pfs rose more rapidly in the <i>U</i> band but more slowly in the <i>r</i> and <i>i</i> bands compared to SN 2011fe in very early phases. This photometric difference, particularly at short wavelengths, can introduce a systematic uncertainty of up to ∼12% in distance estimates. Analysis of the host galaxy’s local and global environment shows an environment consistent with producing a higher-metallicity progenitor for SN 2021pfs than that of SN 2011fe. This higher progenitor metallicity may explain the observed photometric discrepancy and the resulting distance between SN 2021pfs and SN 2011fe, though a larger sample of such “twin” SNe Ia is needed to confirm this trend and assess its impact on cosmological measurements.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148628511","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}
{"title":"Lighter Sr doping engineering the lattice anharmonicity in Ba1−xSrxSnO3−δ","authors":"Binru Zhao, Shengnan Dai, Mingfang Shu, Ranran Zhang, Qing Huang, Wei Xu, Jiangtao Wu, Jinlong Jiao, Masato Hagihala, Shuki Torii, Guohua Wang, Qingyong Ren, Zhe Qu, Haidong Zhou, Jiong Yang, Jie Ma","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3015-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3015-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The synergistic effects of the oxygen vacancies and Sr doping on the lattice dynamics of perovskite Ba<sub>1−<i>x</i></sub>Sr<sub><i>x</i></sub>SnO<sub>3−<i>δ</i></sub> (<i>x</i> = 0, 0.03, 0.06, 0.10) are systematically investigated through neutron powder diffraction, Raman scattering, specific heat capacity, and thermal conductivity measurements, combined with thermal-transport theoretical calculations. The introduction of the defects induces local distortions and unique vibrational behaviors, and has been observed by different measurements. The existence of the oxygen vacancies activates several Raman spectra that are otherwise not active in vacancy-free BaSnO<sub>3</sub>, and the Sr doping further introduces more Raman excitations. On heat capacity, the defect-induced optical phonons enhance the intensity of the Boson peak and move the peak value to a lower temperature region. Furthermore, the defects not only significantly reduce the lattice thermal conductivities (<i>κ</i><sub>L</sub>) by lowering the sound velocity and strengthening the lattice anharmonicity, but also cause the temperature-independent <i>κ</i><sub>L</sub> due to the large contribution of the coherent thermal conductivity. This work establishes a structure-dynamics-transport relationship in the defect-engineered perovskite oxides and paves the path to achieve intrinsically low thermal conductivity in other materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148628512","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}
{"title":"Spatiotemporal elastic-wave vortices enabled by symmetry-breaking metagratings","authors":"Haifei Zhu, Jiazhou Chen, Shuo Yang, Houyou Long, Jixing Qin, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3020-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3020-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Wave vortices, structures carrying helical phase fronts and orbital angular momentum (OAM), drive transformative advances in fields from super-resolution imaging to high-capacity communications. Yet in elastic wave physics, a fundamental constraint has persisted: the quasi-two-dimensional confinement of Lamb waves suppresses the out-of-plane phase helicity required for conventional vortex formation. Here, this restriction is lifted through the realization of a spatiotemporal elastic-wave vortex (STEV) carrying transverse OAM, enabled by a mirror-symmetry-broken metagrating operating on <i>A</i><sub>0</sub>-mode Lamb waves. The structure simultaneously performs spatial and temporal differentiation on the incident pulse, encoding a spiral phase in momentum-frequency space that maps to a propagating wave packet with a vanishing central amplitude and 2π phase winding. This passive platform couples dark modes to radiation and engineers a transfer function that acts as an intrinsic spatiotemporal differentiator. Laser vibrometry confirms the phase singularity and its dynamic evolution, while edge-detection demonstrations on amplitude-modulated pulses illustrate the structure’s potential for real-time ultrasonic image processing. By circumventing the geometric constraints that have long confined elastic vortex phenomena, our work establishes a compact architecture for spatiotemporal pulse shaping in solids, opening routes to contactless particle manipulation, on-chip nondestructive evaluation, and wave-based analog computing in the elastic domain.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614217","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}
{"title":"Forecast on f(R) gravity with HI 21-cm intensity mapping surveys","authors":"Yanling Song, Yu Sang, Linfeng Xiao, Bin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3009-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3009-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Modified gravity theories offer a well-motivated extension of General Relativity and provide a possible explanation for the late-time accelerated expansion of the Universe. Among them, <i>f</i>(<i>R</i>) gravity represents a minimal and theoretically appealing class, characterized by the Compton wavelength parameter <i>B</i><sub>0</sub>, which quantifies deviations from General Relativity. In this work, we explore the capability of future neutral hydrogen (HI) 21-cm intensity mapping (IM) observations to constrain <i>f</i>(<i>R</i>) gravity at low redshifts. We perform Fisher-matrix forecasts for <i>B</i><sub>0</sub> and standard cosmological parameters using upcoming 21-cm IM experiments, including BINGO and SKA1-MID (Band 1 and Band 2), both individually and in combination with Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) priors. For the phenomenological HI treatment, we obtain <i>σ</i>(<i>B</i><sub>0</sub>) = 3.73 × 10<sup>−6</sup>, 5.98 × 10<sup>−6</sup>, and 6.78 × 10<sup>−8</sup> for BINGO, SKA1-MID Band 1, and Band 2, respectively, and the tightest bound is improved to 3.95 × 10<sup>−8</sup> when Planck priors are included. We further consider a redshift-dependent HI model with fixed Ω<sub>HI</sub>(<i>z</i>) and <i>b</i><sub>HI</sub>(<i>z</i>), and find that the constraints remain of similar order, confirming the robustness of the results. In both cases, SKA1-MID Band 2 provides the strongest sensitivity, while foreground residuals degrade the constraints but do not change the main conclusion that future HI intensity mapping, especially combined with CMB data, can provide stringent tests of General Relativity on cosmological scales.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614219","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}
{"title":"A new synthetic dimension in Rydberg atom arrays","authors":"Lin Li","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3044-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3044-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614469","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}
{"title":"Revisiting the 127I photoneutron cross sections with machine learning and new experiments at SLEGS","authors":"Yi-Fei Niu","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3028-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3028-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614471","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}
{"title":"Relaxation dynamics of binary colloidal glass-forming liquids in microgravity","authors":"Zhongyu Zheng, Chen Zhang, Weibin Li, Yuren Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11433-026-3003-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11433-026-3003-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate the equilibrium dynamics of binary colloidal hard spheres in microgravity using differential dynamic microscopy (DDM), over a broad range of volume fractions (<i>ϕ</i>) from semi-dilute to highly concentrated suspensions. The intermediate scattering functions exhibit typical features of glass-forming liquids characterized by a double-stretched exponential decay. The system remains ergodic above the mode-coupling theory singularity <i>ϕ</i><sub>C</sub>, where the increase of relaxation time <i>τ</i><sub><i>α</i></sub> follows the generalized Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann law, resulting in a much higher critical density <i>ϕ</i><sub>0</sub>.. Similar phenomena have been observed in previous ground-based experiments. However, compared with the microgravity condition, the relaxation above <i>ϕ</i><sub>C</sub> is much slower under gravity. The characteristic time of the slow decay exhibits a Brownian-like dispersion with wave number, by which an effective diffusion coefficient <i>D</i><sub>S</sub> is determined. The increase of 1/<i>D</i><sub>S</sub> upon supercooling confirms again the above behavior of <i>τ</i><sub><i>α</i></sub>. Our results support the prediction of a lower glass transition density due to the dramatically accelerated aging by gravity. DDM provides a practical method for the space-based research of colloidal suspensions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":774,"journal":{"name":"Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy","volume":"69 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.2,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614472","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}