Kavli Affiliate: Rudolf Podgornik | Summary:Viruses are among the most highly charged objects in biology, and electrostatic interactions permeate nearly every stage of their life cycle. At the same time, an empty icosahedral capsid is almost isotropic as far as the surrounding electrolyte is concerned—its charge distribution is anisotropic only at high multipole order, and […]
Kavli Affiliate: Huajia Wang | Summary:In theoretical physics, finding connections between problems that appear in distinct contexts is an important way to leapfrog progresses, often by illuminating deep aspects that may otherwise seem obscure. In this paper, we consider in 2d CFTs the phenomenon of forbidden singularities in auto-correlation functions — a key signature of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Huajia Wang | Summary:As phase transitions in isolated quantum systems remain elusive, here we show how a thermodynamic-like phase transition, falling into the Lee-Yang paradigm, can arise in systems displaying eigenstate thermalization. Specifically, we show that in holographic conformal field theories, the eigenstate expectation of the auto-correlation function can be mapped to the […]
Kavli Affiliate: Biao Huang | Summary:We develop and analyze a family of divergence-free kernel interpolation methods for tangential vector fields on the unit sphere. Starting from scalar radial kernels in Euclidean space, we construct tangent-valued, surface divergence-free matrix kernels without repeatedly applying surface differential operators. The construction separates the geometric enforcement of the divergence-free constraint […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We propose programmable spin conversion in ultracold gases as gradient quantum matter, whose spin-dependent self-energy varies in space. Quantum kinetic theory shows that a dissipative self-energy curvature turns a force-driven scalar anisotropy into a spin source with mixed longitudinal-transverse momentum parity. Spin-resolved time-of-flight imaging can reveal a transverse spin texture […]
Kavli Affiliate: Biao Huang | Summary:Tissue motion correction through image registration is essential for ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM). Parametric image registration is commonly formulated as an optimization problem where motion parameters are iteratively updated to maximize image similarity, and used optimization algorithms typically rely on gradient information, the explicit evaluation of which can become computationally […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shenghan Jiang | Summary:How do we detect topological phases from a single ground state? Entanglement entropy and spectrum have long been the standard tools — but the reduced density matrix (RDM) itself contains far more information. We show that the RDM of a 2D topologically ordered system, expressed at the entanglement cut, realizes […]
Kavli Affiliate: Shenghan Jiang | Summary:How do we detect topological phases from a single ground state? Entanglement entropy and spectrum have long been the standard tools — but the reduced density matrix (RDM) itself contains far more information. We show that the RDM of a 2D topologically ordered system, expressed at the entanglement cut, realizes […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:Twisted carbon nanotubes support phonons involving not only torsion, naturally associated with microrotation, but also radial breathing, which requires a scalar stretch degree of freedom. We derive an effective microstretch theory for these modes starting from nonlinear elasticity on a cylindrical surface. By linearizing the equation of motion around a […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mamoru Matsuo | Summary:We show that Hall viscosity in lattice bands is governed by a band-projected electric quadrupole encoded within the quantum geometry: Berry curvature sets the projected-coordinate algebra, while the quantum metric determines the quadrupolar spread of a wave packet. The same structure enters the quadratic wave-vector coefficient of the nonlocal Hall […]