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{"title":"Engineering and harnessing long-range interactions for atomic quantum simulators","authors":"Javier Argüello-Luengo","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06782-3","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06782-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Interactions between quantum particles, such as electrons, are the source of important effects, ranging from superconductivity, to the formation of molecular bonds, or the stability of elementary compounds at high energies. In this article, we illustrate how advances in the cold-atom community to further engineer such long-range interactions have stimulated the simulation of new regimes of these fundamental many-body problems. The goal is twofold: first, to provide a comprehensive review of the different strategies proposed and/or experimentally realized to induce long-range interactions among atoms moving in optical potentials. Second, to showcase various fields where such platforms can offer new insights, ranging from the simulation of condensed matter phenomena to the study of lattice-gauge theories, and the simulation of electronic configurations in chemistry. We then discuss the challenges and opportunities of these platforms compared to other complementary approaches based on digital simulation and quantum computation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037486","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":"Modeling global asymptotic stability of malaria dynamics with structured infectious population","authors":"Kashif Ali,&nbsp;M. A. Abdelkawy,&nbsp;Ali Raza,&nbsp;S. F. Abimbade,&nbsp;Syed T. R. Rizvi,&nbsp;Ibtehal Alazman,&nbsp;Aly R. Seadawy","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06818-8","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06818-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the last few decades, malaria has become a serious risk to public health, particularly in tropical and sub-tropical areas where the climate is favorable for mosquito breeding. These insects are the primary carriers of the disease, transmitting it to humans through their bites. Here, we have formulated a mathematical framework that explores malaria transmission, incorporating a structured infectious population. Numerous dynamical system methodologies are instrumentalized in studying the malaria model in human-vector interacting populations. Firstly, we have proved that the model state variables has non-negative and bounded solutions throughout time. Then, we have obtained the threshold parameter <span>({mathcal {R}}_m,)</span> by employing the next generation operator approach. We have proved that the proposed malaria model is stable locally and globally in an asymptotic manner by calculating the Jacobian matrix and Lyapunov function theory if <span>({mathcal {R}}_m&lt;1)</span>. The malaria model is shown to have a unique endemic equilibrium point whenever the basic reproductive number <span>({mathcal {R}}_m&gt;1)</span>. Consequently, the unique malaria-endemic steady point of the proposed malaria model is proven to be globally stable provided that <span>({mathcal {R}}_m&gt;1)</span>. Sensitivity analysis is conducted to capture the most significant parameter causing malaria transmission and controlling in the human population. Furthermore, simulations are performed to support the qualitative results of the study, and the results are graphically presented.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037409","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":"Hybrid compton-PET imaging for ion-range verification: a preclinical study for proton, helium, and carbon therapy at HIT","authors":"Javier Balibrea-Correa,&nbsp;Jorge Lerendegui-Marco,&nbsp;Ion Ladarescu,&nbsp;Sergio Morell,&nbsp;Carlos Guerrero,&nbsp;Teresa Rodríguez-González,&nbsp;Maria del Carmen Jiménez-Ramos,&nbsp;Jose Manuel Quesada,&nbsp;Julia Bauer,&nbsp;Stephan Brons,&nbsp;César Domingo-Pardo","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06817-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06817-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Enhanced-accuracy ion-range verification in real time shall enable a significant step forward in the use of therapeutic ion beams. Positron-emission tomography (PET) and prompt-gamma imaging (PGI) are two of the most promising and researched methodologies, both of them with their own advantages and challenges. Thus far, both of them have been explored for ion-range verification in an independent way. However, the simultaneous combination of PET and PGI within the same imaging framework may open-up the possibility to exploit more efficiently all radiative emissions excited in the tissue by the ion beam. Here, we report on the first preclinical implementation of an hybrid PET-PGI imaging system, hereby exploring its performance over several ion beam species (H, He and C), energies (55–275 MeV) and intensities (<span>(10^7)</span>-<span>(10^9)</span> ions/spot), which are representative of clinical conditions. The measurements were carried out using the pencil-beam scanning technique at the synchrotron accelerator of the heavy ion therapy center in Heidelberg utilizing an array of four Compton cameras in a twofold front-to-front configuration. The results demonstrate that the hybrid PET-PGI technique can be well suited for relatively low energies (55–155 MeV) and beams of protons. On the other hand, for heavier beams of helium and carbon ions at higher energies (155–275 MeV), range monitoring becomes more challenging owing to large backgrounds from additional nuclear processes. The experimental results are well understood on the basis of realistic Monte Carlo calculations, which show a satisfactory agreement with the measured data. This work can guide further upgrades of the hybrid PET-PGI system toward a clinical implementation of this innovative technique.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06817-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037414","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}

{"title":"Coriolis-induced modifications to thermosolutal instability in Navier–Stokes–Voigt fluids","authors":"V. Tejaswini,&nbsp;S. B. Naveen Kumar","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06806-y","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06806-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The competing influences of rotation-induced Coriolis force and solutal buoyancy on thermal convection in a Navier–Stokes–Voigt fluid layer are investigated. Analytical expressions are derived for the thresholds of both stationary and oscillatory instabilities. A notable outcome is the emergence of closed oscillatory neutral curves, detached from the stationary branches under certain parameter regimes. Unlike the conventional single-threshold criterion, these curves necessitate three distinct thermal Rayleigh numbers to fully delineate the stability boundary. The analysis further reveals instability behaviors not previously reported in either thermosolutal convection or rotating thermal convection of Kelvin–Voigt fluids. Interestingly, under specific parametric conditions, rotation and a stabilizing solute gradient—each suppressing convection in isolation—can together hasten the onset of oscillatory instability, thereby uncovering a counterintuitive destabilizing interaction. The Kelvin–Voigt elasticity parameter exerts an additional decisive influence, alternately amplifying or mitigating instability depending on the regime. The established results for thermosolutal convection and rotating thermal convection are recovered in the appropriate limiting cases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145028201","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":"Compact-like pulses along a low-pass reaction–diffusion electrical network with second-neighbor interactions effects","authors":"Désiré Ndjanfang,&nbsp;Muluh Fombu Andrew,&nbsp;William Kamgaing Mabou,&nbsp;Nkeh Oma Nfor,&nbsp;David Yemélé,&nbsp;Timoléon Crépin Kofané","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06792-1","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06792-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analytically and numerically explores the effects of second-neighbor interactions on the propagation and on the compact parameters of a compact-like wave packet in a low-pass reaction–diffusion electrical transmission line with the intersite circuit elements acting as nonlinear resistances. For the small amplitude signals in the network, the model equations are derived using Kirchhoff laws, which are eventually transformed to a family of nonlinear Burgers equation via the continuum limit approximations. Cusp, peak and compact-like solitary wave solutions of the equation have been derived, depending on the sign of the product of the nonlinearity coefficients. The width is related to the coefficients of the nonlinear dispersive terms and independent of its wave amplitude. The second-neighbor couplings generally well influence the wave width, increase the bandwidth frequencies of the network, modify group velocity and energy transmission of the wave during propagation. It is obvious that the second-neighbor interactions may equally trigger the simultaneous propagation of two nonlinear waves with the same frequency and minimize the dissipative effects on the compact-like pulse voltage signal of the nonlinear electrical transmission line. Our proposed electrical circuit has potential applications in high-speed electronic devices.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145037408","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":"Quantum Prisoners’ Dilemma in massive scalar field","authors":"Zhiming Huang,&nbsp;Xiangfu Zou,&nbsp;Minjing Peng,&nbsp;Tianqing Wang","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06822-y","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06822-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the Quantum Prisoners’ Dilemma (QPD) played in the environment of a massive scalar field. The study models the qubits of the two players as two-level Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting weakly with a quantum field in an accelerating reference frame. This paper analyzes the effects of the detectors’ acceleration and the scalar field’s mass on player payoffs, symmetry and the game’s equilibrium. It is found that the system eventually evolves to a thermal equilibrium state determined by the Unruh temperature, which is independent of the initial state, field mass, and inter-detector distance. The results show that the detectors’ acceleration affects the players’ payoffs depending on the strategy profile, and increasing acceleration causes the payoff to decay faster. The field’s mass, however, influences the timescale for reaching this steady state, with a more massive field slowing down the rate of payoff decay. A key finding is that the symmetry of the game is broken due to the Unruh effect, and the quantum strategy profile which resolves the dilemma in the ideal case is no longer always a Nash equilibrium in this environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145028398","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":"Correction: Proof of the Nernst theorem","authors":"José-María Martín-Olalla","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06754-7","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06754-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06754-7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145021740","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}

{"title":"Unraveling nipah virus transmission among bats, pigs, and humans: dynamics and control optimization","authors":"Shimli Dutta,&nbsp;Protyusha Dutta,&nbsp;Guruprasad Samanta","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06719-w","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06719-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Understanding the complex transmission dynamics of Nipah virus (NiV), a highly lethal zoonotic pathogen, requires robust mathematical models that accurately reflect its multi-host nature. This study develops a comprehensive compartmental model that explicitly incorporates the bat-to-pig-to-human transmission pathway, a critical yet often overlooked route in the existing literature. Given that fruit bats are the natural reservoirs of NiV and pigs serve as intermediate amplifiers, capturing these interactions is essential for predicting outbreak potential and devising effective control strategies. The proposed model also includes human-to-human transmission and infections arising from the handling of deceased individuals, thereby offering a holistic view of NiV spread. A rigorous theoretical analysis is conducted to examine the stability of disease-free, infected bat-and-pig-free, infected bat-free, and endemic equilibria. Also, sensitivity analysis is carried out in order to identify parameters with the greatest influence on transmission dynamics. The study further investigates transcritical bifurcations to understand how small changes in key parameters can qualitatively alter system behavior. Also, two-parameter bifurcations characterize critical threshold conditions and delineate regions where stability transitions. Lastly, optimal control theory is applied to assess the efficacy of hospitalization and safe burial interventions, revealing that their joint implementation markedly curbs the infection burden. Altogether, the study underscores the role of ecological and behavioral drivers, such as seasonal transmission variability and safe burial practices in shaping outbreak trajectories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145028400","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":"Multiphonon interactions and anisotropic thermal transport in GaXCl (X = S, Se, Te) monolayers","authors":"Xianzhe Zhu,&nbsp;Xinghua Li","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06798-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06798-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate phonon thermal transport in GaXCl (X = S, Se, Te) monolayers using density functional theory combined with Boltzmann transport equation by considering three- and four-phonon scattering. Our results reveal that three-phonon scattering is not sufficient to describe the anharmonic scattering of GaXCl. Particularly under high-temperature conditions, four-phonon scattering significantly suppresses their thermal transport properties, decreasing by more than 50% compared to the three-phonon baseline. The strong four-phonon scattering stems from the presence of large bandgap and quasi-flat band. Furthermore, GaXCl exhibits thermal anisotropy, which is especially pronounced in GaSCl. The room-temperature thermal conductivity <span>(left( {{upkappa }_{yy}^{4ph} } right))</span> of GaSCl along the yy direction is 7.62 W/mK, while that along the xx direction <span>(left( {{upkappa }_{xx}^{4ph} } right))</span> is 2.97 W/mK, with an anisotropy ratio as high as 2.65. The thermal conductivity of GaXCl gradually decreases as the X atom transitions from S to Se to Te. Such reduction of thermal conductivity stems from synergistic effect of low group velocity and strong phonon anharmonic scattering. Our study comprehensively sheds light on the anisotropic phonon thermal transport behavior of GaXCl (X = S, Se, Te) monolayers and emphasizes the importance of multiphonon transport in lattice anharmonicity of two-dimensional materials.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145021737","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":"Quantum information meets high-energy physics: input to the update of the European strategy for particle physics","authors":"Yoav Afik,&nbsp;Federica Fabbri,&nbsp;Matthew Low,&nbsp;Luca Marzola,&nbsp;Juan Antonio Aguilar-Saavedra,&nbsp;Mohammad Mahdi Altakach,&nbsp;Nedaa Alexandra Asbah,&nbsp;Yang Bai,&nbsp;Hannah Banks,&nbsp;Alan J. Barr,&nbsp;Alexander Bernal,&nbsp;Thomas E. Browder,&nbsp;Paweł Caban,&nbsp;J. Alberto Casas,&nbsp;Kun Cheng,&nbsp;Frédéric Déliot,&nbsp;Regina Demina,&nbsp;Antonio Di Domenico,&nbsp;Michał Eckstein,&nbsp;Marco Fabbrichesi,&nbsp;Benjamin Fuks,&nbsp;Emidio Gabrielli,&nbsp;Dorival Gonçalves,&nbsp;Radosław Grabarczyk,&nbsp;Michele Grossi,&nbsp;Tao Han,&nbsp;Timothy J. Hobbs,&nbsp;Paweł Horodecki,&nbsp;James Howarth,&nbsp;Shih-Chieh Hsu,&nbsp;Stephen Jiggins,&nbsp;Eleanor Jones,&nbsp;Andreas W. Jung,&nbsp;Andrea Helen Knue,&nbsp;Steffen Korn,&nbsp;Theodota Lagouri,&nbsp;Priyanka Lamba,&nbsp;Gabriel T. Landi,&nbsp;Haifeng Li,&nbsp;Qiang Li,&nbsp;Ian Low,&nbsp;Fabio Maltoni,&nbsp;Josh McFayden,&nbsp;Navin McGinnis,&nbsp;Roberto A. Morales,&nbsp;Jesús M. Moreno,&nbsp;Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova,&nbsp;Giulia Negro,&nbsp;Davide Pagani,&nbsp;Giovanni Pelliccioli,&nbsp;Michele Pinamonti,&nbsp;Laura Pintucci,&nbsp;Baptiste Ravina,&nbsp;Alim Ruzi,&nbsp;Kazuki Sakurai,&nbsp;Ethan Simpson,&nbsp;Maximiliano Sioli,&nbsp;Shufang Su,&nbsp;Sokratis Trifinopoulos,&nbsp;Sven E. Vahsen,&nbsp;Sofia Vallecorsa,&nbsp;Alessandro Vicini,&nbsp;Marcel Vos,&nbsp;Eleni Vryonidou,&nbsp;Chris D. White,&nbsp;Martin J. White,&nbsp;Andrew J. Wildridge,&nbsp;Tong Arthur Wu,&nbsp;Laura Zani,&nbsp;Yulei Zhang,&nbsp;Knut Zoch","doi":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06752-9","DOIUrl":"10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06752-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Some of the most astonishing and prominent properties of Quantum Mechanics, such as entanglement and Bell nonlocality, have only been studied extensively in dedicated low-energy laboratory setups. The feasibility of these studies in the high-energy regime explored by particle colliders was only recently shown and has gathered the attention of the scientific community. For the range of particles and fundamental interactions involved, particle colliders provide a novel environment where quantum information theory can be probed, with energies exceeding by about 12 orders of magnitude those employed in dedicated laboratory setups. Furthermore, collider detectors have inherent advantages in performing certain quantum information measurements and allow for the reconstruction of the state of the system under consideration via quantum state tomography. Here, we elaborate on the potential, challenges, and goals of this innovative and rapidly evolving line of research and discuss its expected impact on both quantum information theory and high-energy physics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":792,"journal":{"name":"The European Physical Journal Plus","volume":"140 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06752-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145011862","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}