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Chemical Taxonomy of $\omega$~Centauri: Ten Populations Reveal a Multi-Phase Enrichment History

Furkan Akbaba, Olcay Plevne, Timur Sahin, Sena Aleyna Senturk ยท 2026

$\omega$~Centauri, the most massive globular cluster in the Milky Way, exhibits a level of stellar population complexity that has long resisted a unified chemical characterisation. We exploit high-resโ€ฆ

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Polar Topologies in a Ferroelastic Metal Membrane

Rahil Haria, Noah Schnitzer, T. Ben Britton, Yaqi Li, Tom J. P. Irons, Sophia Linssen Pitsaros, Ella Banyas, Geri Topore, Annabel Hoyes, Mariana Palos, Sinead M. Griffin, Katherine Inzani, Michele Shelly Conroy ยท 2026

Polar metals, materials in which electric polarisation and metallicity coexist, are exceptionally rare because itinerant electrons screen long-range dipoles and favour centrosymmetric structures. Engiโ€ฆ

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Rotation-Induced Pressure Anisotropy in Newtonian White Dwarfs: Sequences and Applicability Criteria

Aray Muratkhan, Saken Toktarbay, Hernando Quevedo ยท 2026

We introduce a fast, one-dimensional Newtonian {reduced model} to capture uniform rotation in cold white dwarfs, encoding centrifugal support as an effective pressure anisotropy. Using $\Delta_{\rm roโ€ฆ

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Explicit Quantum Search Algorithm for the Densest k-Subgraph Problem

Yu.A. Biriukov, R.D. Morozov, I.V. Dyakonov, S.S. Straupe ยท 2026

This paper addresses the problem of finding the densest $k$-vertex subgraph in an arbitrary graph. This problem is NP-hard and has important applications in social network analysis, fraud detection, rโ€ฆ

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Blazar flares from plasma blobs crossing the broad-line region

Sebastien Le Bihan, Anton Dmytriiev, Andreas Zech ยท 2026

The blazar 3C 279 is well known for its rapid and large-amplitude variability. On 20 December 2013, the source exhibited an orphan {\gamma}-ray flare characterized by a flux-doubling timescale of a feโ€ฆ

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Quarkonium $p_{\rm T}$ spectra in heavy--ion collisions at LHC energies within a hydrodynamic core--corona framework

Biswarup Paul ยท 2026

We present a systematic study of the transverse momentum ($p_{\rm T}$) spectra of charmonium (J/$\psi$, $\psi(2S)$) and bottomonium ($\Upsilon(nS)$) states in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = โ€ฆ

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Phase-Space Contractions of Carrollian Black-Hole Thermodynamics

Yingnan Xu, Shuangshuang Chu ยท 2026

We study Carrollian limits of Schwarzschild-AdS black-hole thermodynamics using covariant phase space. Allowing the cosmological constant to vary, we derive the extended Iyer-Wald identity and identifโ€ฆ

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X-Ray Diagnostics Analysis Verification and Exploration (xDAVE) Code for the Prediction and Interpretation of X-Ray Thomson Scattering Experiments

Hannah M. Bellenbaum, Dave A. Chapman, Maximilian P. Bohme, Thomas Gawne, Sebastian Schwalbe, Willow M. Martin, Michael Bussmann, Dirk O. Gericke, Uwe Hernandez Acosta, Jan Vorberger, Tobias Dornheim ยท 2026

X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) is a common diagnostic used in the warm dense matter (WDM) regime to estimate plasma parameters like density, temperature and charge state. Experimental analysis typicaโ€ฆ

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Light-Cone Structure of Propagation of Entanglement

Israel Michael Sigal ยท 2026

For a wide class of bipartite systems with localized couplings, we establish existence of an effective light-cone for propagation of entanglement. This result yields a hard lower bound on the time it โ€ฆ

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Simulating dynamics of RLC circuits with a quantum differential-algebraic equations solver

Arkopal Dutt, Anirban Chowdhury, Kristan Temme, Hari Krovi ยท 2026

We introduce a quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of electrical circuits consisting of resistors, inductors and capacitors (aka RLC circuits) along with power sources. Given oracle access tโ€ฆ

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Schwinger-Keldysh Path Integral for Gauge theories

Greg Kaplanek, Maria Mylova, Andrew J. Tolley ยท 2026

We develop the Schwinger-Keldysh path-integral formalism for open non-Abelian gauge theories that are gauge-fixed via the BRST method in covariant gauges. We focus on generic initial states, pure and โ€ฆ

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Gaseous forms of $^{76}$Ge, $^{82}$Se, $^{96}$Zr, $^{100}$Mo, $^{124}$Sn, and $^{130}$Te: new avenues to future $0\nu\beta\beta$ time projection chambers

Aneesha Avasthi, Benjamin Monreal, Ivana Moya ยท 2026

Searches for neutrinoless double beta decay are growing larger, with tonne-scale targets in several nuclides still far from exhausting the discovery space. What's beyond ton scale? Time projection chaโ€ฆ

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Solve Crude Oil Scheduling Problems by Using Quantum-Classical Hybrid Algorithms

Jian Yang, Bohang Wang, Lina Wang, Jiacheng Chen, Gaoxiang Tang, Zihan Deng, Wending Zhao, Xianfeng Cai ยท 2026

The optimization of front-end crude oil scheduling is a critical determinant of refinery profitability and operational stability. However, the coupling of discrete logistics events (e.g., vessel berthโ€ฆ

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Iterative warm-start optimization with quantum imaginary time evolution

Phillip C. Lotshaw, Titus Morris, Stuart Hadfield, Ryan Bennink ยท 2026

Approximate combinatorial optimization is a promising use case for quantum computers. The quantum optimization algorithms often employ a fixed ansatz that evolves an unbiased initial state towards staโ€ฆ

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QAOA Parameter Transfer for Hypergraphs

Lucas T. Braydwood, Phillip C. Lotshaw ยท 2026

Variational Quantum Algorithms, including the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA), have shown promise in solving optimization problems but rely on costly variational loops that can themsโ€ฆ

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A new diffuse reflector filament for additive manufacturing of 3D printing finely-segmented plastic scintillator

A. Krech, A. Boyarintsev, B. Grynyov, N. Karavaeva, S. Minenko, T. Sibilieva, M. Sibilyev, T. Dieminger, U. Kose, B. Li, A. Rubbia, D. Sgalaberna, T. Weber, J. Wuthrich, X. Zhao, S. Berns, E. Boillat, S. Hugon, A. De Roeck ยท 2026

This study presents the development and the characterization of novel white reflective filaments suitable for additive manufacturing of finely segmented plastic scintillators. The filament is based onโ€ฆ

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Revisiting Turner Window Axions: The Untapped Potential of NaI Dark Matter Detectors

W. C. Haxton, Xing Liu, Anupam Ray, Evan Rule ยท 2026

The "Turner window" corresponds to axions with masses $\gtrsim$ 1 eV that have sufficiently strong couplings to matter to evade limits from the cooling of SN1987A. This window, through which the trajeโ€ฆ

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Collisional energy loss distribution of a fast parton in a hot or dense QCD medium

G. Jackson, S. Peigne ยท 2026

We compute the probability distribution for collisional energy loss of an ultrarelativistic parton crossing a quark-gluon plasma. This collisional quenching weight has not been determined previously, โ€ฆ

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Thermodynamic Identification of the Internal Superconducting Phase Boundary in UTe$_2$ for $H \parallel b$

Michal Valiska, Tetiana Haidamak, Andrej Cabala, Petr Proschek, Andreas Hausprug, Sergei Zherlitsyn, Vladimir Sechovsky ยท 2026

The $H$--$T$ phase diagram of UTe$_2$ for magnetic field along the hard $b$ axis contains an unresolved internal boundary near $\mu_0H \sim 14$--15~T, previously inferred from ac susceptibility and trโ€ฆ

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Coherent deeply virtual Compton scattering on helium-4 beyond leading power

Victor Martinez-Fernandez, B. Pire, P. Sznajder, J. Wagner ยท 2026

Coherent hard exclusive reactions on light nuclei provide access to their quark and gluon structure and enable three-dimensional tomography of these complex systems. We study deeply virtual Compton scโ€ฆ

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