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Fermion Condensate Inflation, Dynamical Waterfall Mechanism and Primordial Black Holes

Stephon Alexander, Pisin Chen, Jinglong Liu, Antonino Marciano, Misao Sasaki, Xuan-Lin Su ยท 2026

Fermion condensate inflation, where inflation emerges from four-fermion interactions induced by spacetime torsion, removes the need for additional scalar fields beyond the Standard Model. In this framโ€ฆ

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Mutual Information from Modular Flow in General CFTs

Cesar A. Agon, Pablo Bueno, Adem Deniz Piskin, Guido van der Velde ยท 2026

The vacuum mutual information (MI) of subregion algebras provides a universal window into the data of general conformal field theories (CFTs). Exploiting the geometric nature of the modular flow assocโ€ฆ

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MG-NECOLA: A Field-Level Emulator for $f(R)$ Gravity and Massive Neutrino Cosmologies

J. Bayron Orjuela-Quintana, Mauricio Reyes, Elena Giusarma, Marco Baldi, Neerav Kaushal, Cesar A. Valenzuela-Toledo ยท 2026

Accurate modeling of non-linear gravitational dynamics is essential for constraining extensions to the standard cosmological model using large-scale structure observations. While high-resolution $N$-bโ€ฆ

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Multi-Fidelity Monte-Carlo Estimation of Satellite Drag in Very-Low-Earth Orbit

Jovan Boskovic, Marcel Pfeifer, Andrea Beck ยท 2026

Very-low-Earth orbit drag uncertainty quantification in the rarefied/transitional Knudsen-number regime requires estimating not only the mean drag coefficient but also higher-order moments under atmosโ€ฆ

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A search for microscopic black holes, string balls, and sphalerons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV

CMS Collaboration ยท 2026

A search for microscopic black holes, string balls, and electroweak sphalerons using proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV recorded with the CMS detector at the CERN LHC during the 2016$-$20โ€ฆ

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Gauged Q-balls in flat potentials

Julian Heeck, Yu Zhi ยท 2026

Q-balls are large bound-state systems of scalar particles, described classically through localized solutions of the equations of motion. Promoting the required stabilizing $U(1)$ symmetry to a gauge sโ€ฆ

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Multi-field oscillons/I-balls in the Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin model

Kai Murai, Tatsuya Ogawa, Fuminobu Takahashi ยท 2026

We study oscillon/I-ball solutions in a real scalar version of the Friedberg-Lee-Sirlin (FLS) model. Using the two-timing analysis, we derive the conditions for oscillon solutions and explore multi-fiโ€ฆ

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A Shakhov-based Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook model for polyatomic molecules and for atomic as well as polyatomic mixtures

Marcel Pfeiffer, Franziska Tuttas ยท 2026

The implementation of the Shakhov Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (SBGK) method in the open-source particle code PICLas is extended for modeling of polyatomic molecules, as well as mixtures including atoms and โ€ฆ

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Q-balls across dimensions

Dusty Aiello, Julian Heeck ยท 2026

Scalars carrying a conserved global charge $Q$ can form stable localized field configurations composed of a large number of particles. These non-topological solitons are spherically symmetric and are โ€ฆ

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A P-Adaptive Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Method for Electrostatic Particle-in-Cell Simulations

Tobias Ott, Stephen Copplestone, Marcel Pfeiffer ยท 2026

This paper presents a p-adaptive high-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method (HDG-SEM) for solving the Poisson equation in electrostatic plasma simulations using particle-inโ€ฆ

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Bell's Inequality, Causal Bounds, and Quantum Bayesian Computation: A Unified Framework

Nick Polson, Vadim Sokolov, Daniel Zantedeschi ยท 2026

Bell inequalities characterize the boundary of the local-realist correlation polytope -- the set of joint probability distributions achievable by classical hidden-variable models. Quantum mechanics exโ€ฆ

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Great Balls of Fire: Star Formation in Gas Clouds Accelerated by a Hot Wind

Stephanie Tonnesen, Rory Smith, Bianca Poggianti, Benedetta Vulcani, Nina Akerman, Marco Gullieuszik, Eric Giunchi, Antonino Marasco, Alessandro Ignesti ยท 2026

Satellite galaxies undergo ram pressure stripping, in which their gas is directly removed by a hydrodynamical interaction with the surrounding host halo gas. In clusters, ram pressure stripped tails oโ€ฆ

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Revealing the nature of the starburst galaxies in the $z=2.4$ overdensity HATLAS J0849

Melanie Kaasinen, Francesca Rizzo, Francesco Valentino, Cecilia Bacchini, Jianhang Chen, Takafumi Tsukui, Aristeidis Amvrosiadis ยท 2026

Today's most massive ellipticals are proposed to originate from starbursting galaxies in $z\gtrsim2$ overdensities. To discern what triggers these starbursts, and their $z=0$ descendants, we performedโ€ฆ

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Oscillons from $Q$-balls in generalized models

E. da Hora, Fabiano C. Simas ยท 2026

We study the oscillon/$Q$-ball relation in an extended model with non-canonical kinematics. The model contains a single real scalar field whose kinetic term is enlarged to include a generalizing functโ€ฆ

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Chemical radial gradients for the bulge-bar stellar populations from the APOGEE survey

J. V. Sales-Silva, K. Cunha, V. V. Smith, S. Daflon, D. Souto, R. Guerco, V. Loaiza-Tacuri, A. Queiroz, C. Chiappini, I. Minchev, S. R. Majewski, B. Barbuy, D. Bizyaev, J. G. Fernandez-Trincado, P. M. Frinchaboy, S. Hasselquist, D. Horta, H. Jonsson, T. Masseron, N. Prantzos, R. P. Schiavon, M. Schultheis, M. Zoccali ยท 2026

The Milky Way bulge-bar is composed of multiple populations. Using chemical and kinematical planes, we segregate six populations in a bulge-bar sample observed by the APOGEE survey: two with bar-driveโ€ฆ

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Possible Pairing Symmetry of BaPtAs$_{1-x}$Sb$_{x}$ with an Ordered Honeycomb Network

Tsuyoshi Imazu, Naoya Furutani, Tadashi Adachi, Kazutaka Kudo, Yoshiki Imai, Jun Goryo ยท 2026

We investigate the possible pairing symmetry of superconducting $\rm{BaPtAs}_{1-\it{x}}\rm{Sb}_{\it{x}}$ solid solution with an ordered-honeycomb network of Pt and pnictogens. A spontaneous internal mโ€ฆ

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B-fields And dust in interstelLar fiLAments using Dust POLarization (BALLAD-POL): VI. Grain alignment mechanisms in the massive quiescent filament G16.96+0.27 using dust polarization observations from JCMT/POL-2

Saikhom Pravash, Thiem Hoang, Archana Soam, Qi-Lao Gu, Tie Liu, Pham Ngoc Diep, Le Ngoc Tram, Nguyen Bich Ngoc ยท 2026

Dust polarization induced by aligned non-spherical grains acts as an important tool to trace the magnetic field (B-field) morphologies and strengths in molecular clouds and constrain grain properties โ€ฆ

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Basis-independent stabilizerness and maximally noisy magic states

Michael Zurel, Jack Davis ยท 2026

Absolutely stabilizer states are those that remain convex mixtures of stabilizer states after conjugation by any unitary. Here we give a characterization of such states for multiple qudits of all primโ€ฆ

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Compact Q-balls and Q-shells within a $CP^N$ Skyrme-Faddeev type model

E. L. Colaco, P. Klimas, L. R. Livramento, N. Sawado, S. Yanai ยท 2026

While $CP^N$ models with analytic potentials are known to support finite-energy compact Q-ball and Q-shell solutions, their behavior in more complex Lagrangian frameworks remains a subject of active rโ€ฆ

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Understanding the Quantized Angular Momentum of Rotating Q-balls

Benjamin DeVries, Fabrizio Vassallo, Christopher B. Verhaaren ยท 2026

Non-topological solitons, such as Q-balls, may contribute to the cosmological dark matter. The formation and evolution of Q-balls in the early universe requires an understanding of solitons with nonzeโ€ฆ

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