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Order by disorder up to arbitrarily high temperature

Ravish Mehta ยท 2026

We prove that a class of classical lattice models on $\mathbb{Z}^d$ ($d \geq 2$) with on-site space $\mathbb{N}_0$ exhibits long-range checkerboard order at sufficiently high temperature. The model haโ€ฆ

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Electronic structure and oxidation states in high-pressure synthesized isostructural CeCN$_5$ and TbCN$_5$

Amanda Ehn, Florian Trybel, Talha Bin Masood, Leonid V. Pourovskii, Igor A. Abrikosov ยท 2026

Understanding the behavior of 4$f$ electrons in materials containing rare earth elements is one of the fundamental questions within condensed matter physics. In this work the electronic properties of โ€ฆ

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Organosilane-functionalized hydrothermal-derived coatings on titanium alloys for hydrophobization and corrosion protection

S. Rahimipour, B. Rafiei, E. Salahinejad ยท 2026

This work focuses on the structure, wettability and corrosion behaviors of Ti-6Al-4V alloy after roughening treatments in different concentrations of NaOH aqueous solutions followed by low surface eneโ€ฆ

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If at First You Don't Succeed, Trispectrum: I. Estimating the Matter Power Spectrum Covariance with Higher-Order Statistics

Samuel Goldstein, Kendrick M. Smith, Utkarsh Giri, Moritz Munchmeyer ยท 2026

We present a method to estimate non-Gaussian power spectrum covariance matrices by directly measuring the response of the small-scale power spectrum to long-wavelength perturbations via bispectrum andโ€ฆ

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Persephone's Torch: A 15th Magnitude Quadruply-Lensed Quasar From the Couch Discovered with SPHEREx and the LBT

Frederick B. Davies, Eduardo Banados, Sarah E. I. Bosman, Arpita Ganguly, Silvia Belladitta, Jennifer Power, Jon Rees ยท 2026

Here we report the spectroscopic and geometric confirmation of an extremely bright ($i=14.77$) and compact (Einstein radius of $\sim0.45''$) quadruply-lensed quasar at $z=2.22$, J1330$-$0905, which weโ€ฆ

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Classical and Quantum Speedups for Non-Convex Optimization via Energy Conserving Descent

Yihang Sun, Huaijin Wang, Patrick Hayden, Jose Blanchet ยท 2026

The Energy Conserving Descent (ECD) algorithm was recently proposed (De Luca & Silverstein, 2022) as a global non-convex optimization method. Unlike gradient descent, appropriately configured ECD dynaโ€ฆ

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Protein-Ligand Free Energy Perturbation on Quantum Hardware

Zhen Li, Milana Bazayeva, Thaddeus Pellegrini, Mario Motta, Subhamoy Bhowmik, Susanta Das, Danil Kaliakin, Fangchun Liang, Akhil Shajan, Kenneth M. Merz Jr ยท 2026

The use of free energy perturbation (FEP) methods to study protein-ligand complexes is one of the most important tools in structure-based drug design. Because FEP methods typically rely on force fieldโ€ฆ

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Observing complementary Lucas sequences using non-Hermitian zero modes

Li Ge ยท 2026

The Lucas sequences are integers defined by a homogeneous recurrence relation. They include the well-known Fibonacci numbers, which appear abundantly in nature. The complementary Lucas numbers, defineโ€ฆ

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Molecular Excited States using Quantum Subspace Methods: Accuracy, Resource Reduction, and Error-Mitigated Hardware Implementation of q-sc-EOM

Srivathsan Poyyapakkam Sundar, Prince Frederick Kwao, Alexey Galda, Ayush Asthana ยท 2026

Problems in quantum chemical simulations, especially achieving accurate excited-state potential energy surfaces, are among the primary applications to achieve quantum utility. On near-term quantum harโ€ฆ

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Engineering Electrochromism in Ni-Deficient NiO through Defect, Dopant, and Strain Coupling

Katarina Jakovljevic, Ana S. Dobrota, Igor A. Pasti, Natalia V. Skorodumova ยท 2026

The electrochromic response of Ni-deficient NiO is governed by vacancy-mediated electronic processes that can be strongly influenced by dopant chemistry and lattice deformation. Using density functionโ€ฆ

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Towards Chemically Accurate and Scalable Quantum Simulations on IQM Quantum Hardware: A Quantum-HPC Hybrid Approach

Anurag K. S. V., Ashish Kumar Patra, Manas Mukherjee, Alok Shukla, Sai Shankar P., Ruchika Bhat, Radhika T. S. L., Jaiganesh G ยท 2026

We present a large-scale experimental study of quantum-computing-based molecular simulation carried out on IQM's Sirius 24-qubit superconducting processor, utilizing up to 16 operational qubits. The wโ€ฆ

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Blobel's Regularized Unfolding: Eigenmode Decomposition and Automatic Smoothing for Inverse Problems in Particle Physics

Vincent Alexander Croft ยท 2026

This document presents a self-contained treatment of regularized unfolding based on cubic B-spline representations and eigenmode filtering, following the original formulation by Blobel and direct tranโ€ฆ

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Certifying and learning local quantum Hamiltonians

Andreas Bluhm, Matthias C. Caro, Francisco Escudero Gutierrez, Junseo Lee, Aadil Oufkir, Cambyse Rouze, Myeongjin Shin ยท 2026

In this work, we study the problems of certifying and learning quantum $k$-local Hamiltonians, for a constant $k$. Our main contributions are as follows: - Certification of Hamiltonians. We show thaโ€ฆ

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How much of persistent homology is topology? A quantitative decomposition for spin model phase transitions

Matthew Loftus ยท 2026

Point-cloud persistent homology (PH) -- computing alpha or Rips complexes on spin-position point clouds -- has been widely applied to detect phase transitions in classical spin models since Donato et โ€ฆ

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HAMMR-L: Noise Reduction in Quantum Outcomes Using a Richardson-Lucy Deconvolution Algorithm for Quantum State Graphs

Jake Scally, Austin Myers, Ryan Carmichael, Phat Tran, Xiuwen Liu ยท 2026

Current quantum computers present significant noise, especially as circuit depth and qubit count increase. Prior work has demonstrated that erroneous outcomes exhibit some behavior in Hamming space, eโ€ฆ

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Cracking donuts and sorting lipids: Geometry controls archaeal membrane stability and lipid organization

Felix Frey, Miguel Amaral, An{dj}ela Saric ยท 2026

Cells are defined by lipid membranes that differ in their structure across the tree of life. While the membranes of most bacteria and eukaryotes consist of single-headed bilayer lipids, the membranes โ€ฆ

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Searching for Life-As-We-Don't-Know-It: Mission-relevant Application of Assembly Theory for Exoplanet Life Detection

Sara Walker, Estelle Janin, Evgenya Shkolnik, Louie Slocombe, Leroy Cronin ยท 2026

This white paper introduces a framework for applying Assembly Theory (AT) to planetary atmospheres as a biosignature framework suitable for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO). AT quantifies the miโ€ฆ

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Capillary filling of star polymer melts in nanopores

Jianwei Zhang, Jinyu Lei, Pu Feng, George Floudas, Guangzhao Zhang, Jiajia Zhou ยท 2026

Topology of polymer profoundly influences on its behavior. However, its effect on imbibition dynamics remains poorly understood. In the present work, capillary filling (during imbibition and followingโ€ฆ

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The effect of fluorine or chlorine substitution on mesomorphic properties of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Martin Cigl, Natalia Podoliak, Dalibor Repcek, Pavlo Golub, Marta Lavric, Vladimira Novotna ยท 2026

Ferroelectric nematic phase (NF) represents an attractive and foremost field of liquid crystals, combining fluidity with ferroelectricity. NF materials exhibit large polarization values and remarkableโ€ฆ

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Decoupling Intrinsic Molecular Efficacy from Platform Effects: An Interpretable Machine Learning Framework for Unbiased Perovskite Passivator Discovery

Jing Zhang, Ziyuan Li, Shan Gao, Zhen Zhu, Jing Wang, Xiangmei Duan ยท 2026

Rational design of interface passivators for perovskite solar cells is hindered by the entanglement of intrinsic molecular efficacy with extrinsic platform-dependent performance - a confounding factorโ€ฆ

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