Scientists have taken a major step toward ultra-secure quantum communication by demonstrating a remarkably stable quantum encryption system that worked across more than 120 kilometers of optical fiber
Physicists may have just cracked open a hidden side of the quantum world. For decades, every known particle was thought to belong to one of two categories — bosons or fermions — but researchers have n
Researchers have developed a sensor about the size of a grain of rice that can measure forces and twisting motions in all directions using light instead of traditional electronics. The new sensor coul
Over the past few decades, some physicists worldwide have been investigating unusual particle-like magnetic structures known as topological solitons. These structures could potentially be leveraged to
Scientists may have uncovered a surprising secret behind why life exists at all. A new study suggests that the Universe’s fundamental constants — the deep physical rules that govern everything from at
In a process analogous to how solids melt into liquids, the electrons in many different metals form crystal-like patterns that can deform and melt, opening new pathways for neuromorphic computing and
Researchers have developed, for the first time in the world, incoherent dielectric tensor tomography (iDTT), a technology that can read complex three-dimensional optical fingerprints inside materials
For years, quantum computers have lived under a huge bubble of hype, promising to revolutionize numerous fields, from medicine and battery design to materials science and cybersecurity. But realizing
Lidar systems use pulses of infrared light to measure distance and map a 3D scene with high resolution, allowing autonomous vehicles to rapidly react to obstacles that appear in their path. But tradit
The IceCube Upgrade, an extension designed to enhance the IceCube Neutrino Observatory's detection of neutrinos with energies between 1 GeV and 500 GeV, will markedly improve IceCube's sensitivity to low-mass dark matter scenarios. In this study, we present sensitivity projections for the IceCube Up
In this paper we revisit, from a different perspective, a long-standing question: ``Is the systematic deficit observed in all branching ratios mediated by a $b\to s μμ$ transition due to New Physics, or to a hypothetical constant unknown universal hadronic contribution that mimics New Physics?'' The
The singlet axial form factor of the nucleon provides essential input for a complete understanding of the nucleon axial structure. Together with the isovector and isoscalar octet channels, in the forward limit it forms the basis for a full flavor decomposition of the proton spin. In this work we pre
The interpretation of the SN1987A neutrino data continues to be hindered by significant absolute timing uncertainties and a well-known tension in the angular distributions. We perform a quantitative, high-precision alignment of the Kamiokande-II and Baksan data with the IMB clock, using for the firs
We investigate freeze-in production of light dark matter through the quark flavor-changing operator $(\bar{s}γ_μd)(\barχγ^μχ)$ in a low-reheating cosmology. For reheating temperatures below the QCD crossover, kaon decays and scatterings generate the dark matter abundance through $K\toπχ\barχ$ and $K
The primary objective of this work is the determination of fluences and characteristics of fast neutrons, other hadrons, and highly ionizing particles in the environment of the MoEDAL experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. These particles constitute an experimental background for the passive Nucle
NANOGrav and various pulsar timing array experiments recently reported evidence for a common red noise signal across millisecond pulsars. This signal exhibits Hellings-Downs inter-pulsar correlation patterns, providing compelling evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signal.
We study the doubly heavy open-flavor tetraquarks $T_{bc}^{(0)}$ ($J^{P}=0^{+}$) and $T_{bc}^{(1)}$ ($J^{P}=1^{+}$) in the dynamical diquark model, describing the system as a heavy antidiquark--light diquark pair interacting through the lattice-QCD $Σ_g^+(1S)$ Born--Oppenheimer potential. Solving th