Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We discuss anomalous spin polarization on the surface of nuclear pasta in a neutron star, driven by a nuclear spin-orbit interaction. We present an effective two-band model of surface-localized neutrons near the nuclear pasta. The central point is the emergence of a Rashba-type spin-orbit hybridization generated by the neutron–nucleus spin-orbit […]
Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | Summary:Recent vision-language model (VLM)-based approaches have achieved impressive results on image vectorization tasks. However, they are typically evaluated on synthetic benchmarks, where clean SVGs are rasterized at high resolution and then re-vectorized. As a result, these methods generalize poorly to real-world scenarios, such as images with unknown rasterization methods or […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We identify an intrinsic zero-temperature relaxation channel for near-surface spins gyromagnetically coupled to Rayleigh-wave vorticity. This surface-mode contribution requires no thermal phonons, unlike Raman relaxation, and is fixed by Rayleigh vorticity rather than material-specific $g$-factor modulation. The Rayleigh-vorticity bath is super-Ohmic and evanescent with depth, producing field and depth scalings […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:Compensated ferrimagnets enable ferromagnet-like spin transport without net magnetization. We study the spin Seebeck effect in a compensated ferrimagnet/normal-metal junction using a four-sublattice model in which sublattice inequivalence arises from differences in exchange couplings, in contrast to the previously studied anisotropy-based mechanism. Within the nonequilibrium Green’s function framework, we show […]
Kavli Affiliate: Biao Huang | Summary:We develop and analyze a class of matrix-valued spherical-convolution kernels stemming from scaled zonal functions on $mathbbS^2,$ the unit sphere embedded in $mathbbR^3$. The construct of these kernels utilizes the Legendre differential equation and requires less stringent regularity conditions on the original zonal kernels. The induced integral operators are simple […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We formulate a generalized continuum theory of phonon angular momentum in crystals by introducing a local SO(3) material frame in addition to the macroscopic displacement field. The local frame represents rotational optical degrees of freedom of the unit cell and brings acoustic displacement modes and optical rotational modes into a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Leon Balents | Summary:We study an effective low-energy Kondo model on the triangular lattice in which itinerant electrons occupy a valence pocket at $Γ$ and three conduction pockets at the $M$ points of the Brillouin zone. This construction has a Fermi-surface nesting structure that favors triple-$Q$ magnetic order while only assuming the low-energy […]
Kavli Affiliate: Matthew Fisher | Summary:Symmetry-based classification of quantum phases of matter is one of the most foundational organizing principles in physics; however, an analogous framework for mixed, decohered quantum states has only begun to emerge. A central new concept is strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW-SSB), a sharp transition in mixed quantum states that is […]
Kavli Affiliate: Biao Huang | Summary:In process operations, it is desirable to manage the sensitivity of the system output against external disturbance in the form of finite $mathcalL_2$-gain stabilization. This matter is, however, nonsensical for stochastic systems because the stochastic uncertainties in the control input almost always lead to an unbounded $mathcalL_2$ gain from the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Leon Balents | Summary:We present a systematic classification and variational study of chiral quantum spin liquids on the pyrochlore lattice based on fermionic parton constructions. Focusing on chiral $mathrmU(1)$ and $mathbbZ_2$ spin-liquid Ansätze, we characterize their symmetry properties, flux structures, and low-energy spinon spectra within a projective symmetry group framework, and incorporate gauge […]