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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

3.4k citations

1,390 papers

cond-mat.soft2026★ 18 cited

Investigating the Nature of Discontinuous Shear Thickening: Beyond a Mean-Field Description

Jetin E. Thomas, Abhay Goyal, Deshpreet Singh Bedi +3

Dense suspensions can undergo a dramatic increase in viscosity at a critical value of the shear stress. This phenomenon, termed discontinuous shear thickening (DST), has been attri…

cond-mat.soft2026

Preserving elastic anisotropy with tessellations of granular packings

Annie Z. Xia, Dong Wang, Catherine La Riviere +3

Multiscale periodic metamaterials have been designed for numerous applications, such as impact absorption, acoustic cloaking, photonic band gaps, and mechanical logic gates. This p…

physics.optics2026★ 6 cited

Emission of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond shaped by topological photonic waveguide modes

Raman Kumar, Chandan, Gabriel I. López Morales +6

As the ability to integrate single photon emitters into photonic architectures improves, so does the need to characterize and understand their interaction. Here, we use a scanning…

astro-ph.HE2025

Through the Heliospheric Lens: Directional Deflection of High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons

Stefano Profumo, Aria Koul, Anika Malladi +1

We investigate how the large-scale heliosphere alters the arrival directions of high-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons and ask if and when this "heliospheric lens" can be i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Topological Pseudospin Hall Effect and Multi-frequency Corner Modes in Kagome-based Lattices

Shenglong Guo, Qinhui Jiang, Yuma Kawaguchi +2

Topological phases and modes, including pseudospin-Hall-selective edge transport and corner states, provide robust control of wave propagation and modal confinement in classical wa…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Droplet Breakup Against an Isolated Obstacle

David J. Meer, Shivnag Sista, Mark D. Shattuck +2

We describe combined experiments and simulations of droplet breakup during flow-driven interactions with a circular obstacle in a quasi-two-dimensional microfluidic chamber. Due to…

eess.SY2025

Further Results on Safety-Critical Stabilization of Force-Controlled Nonholonomic Mobile Robots

Bo Wang, Tianyu Han, Guangwei Wang

In this paper, we address the stabilization problem for force-controlled nonholonomic mobile robots under safety-critical constraints. We propose a continuous, time-invariant contr…

q-bio.GN2025

SCUDDO: An unsupervised clustering algorithm for single-cell Hi-C maps using diagonal diffusion operators

Luka Maisuradze, Corey S. O'Hern, Mark D. Shattuck

Motivation: Advances in high-throughput chromatin conformation capture have provided insight into the three-dimensional structure and organization of chromatin. While bulk Hi-C exp…

cond-mat.soft2025

Energy-Conserving Contact Dynamics of Nonspherical Rigid-Body Particles

Haoyuan Shi, Christopher J. Mundy, Gregory K. Schenter +1

Understanding the contact dynamics of nonspherical particles beyond the microscale is crucial for accurately modeling colloidal and granular systems, where shape anisotropy dictate…

physics.class-ph2025

Approaching the Thermodynamic Limit of an Ideal Gas

Prabal Adhikari, Brian Tiburzi, Sona Baghiyan

For a gas confined in a container, particle-wall interactions produce modifications to the partition function involving the average surface density of gas particles. While such cor…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025

Adjoint ferromagnets

Joaquín López-Suárez, Alexios P. Polychronakos, Konstantinos Sfetsos

We derive the phase structure and thermodynamics of ferromagnets consisting of elementary magnets carrying the adjoint representation of and coupled through two-body quadra…

cond-mat.soft2025

Shear jamming and nonlinear rheology of chocolate suspensions

Michel Orsi, Veeraj Shah, Mahesh Padmanabhan +2

We experimentally investigate the rheology of dark chocolate pastes in both industrially relevant pre-refined form and simplified model systems. Steady and oscillatory shear experi…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 642 cited

Robustness and resilience of complex networks

Oriol Artime, Marco Grassia, Manlio De Domenico +5

Complex networks are ubiquitous: a cell, the human brain, a group of people and the Internet are all examples of interconnected many-body systems characterized by macroscopic prope…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 1 cited

The role of the density of states in Bose-Einstein condensation

Alexios P. Polychronakos, Stephane Ouvry

The onset of Bose-Einstein condensation in systems with { various} densities of states is examined, with particular attention to the role of the behavior of their {energy} spectrum…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Holes in Sheets: Double-Threshold Rupture of Draining Liquid Films

Ayush K. Dixit, Chunheng Zhao, Stéphane Zaleski +2

Classical rupture is attributed to molecular (van der Waals) forces acting at nanometric thicknesses. Nonetheless, micron-thick liquid sheets routinely perforate far above the scal…

physics.optics2025★ 4 cited

Directional Flow of Confined Polaritons in CrSBr

Pratap Chandra Adak, Sichao Yu, Jaime Abad-Arredondo +8

Nanoscale control of energy transport is a central challenge in modern photonics. Utilization of exciton-polaritons hybrid light-matter quasiparticles is one viable approach, but i…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Particle-scale origin of quadrupolar non-affine displacement fields in granular solids

Evan P. Willmarth, Weiwei Jin, Dong Wang +4

In this work, we identify the local structural defects that control the non-affine displacement fields in jammed disk packings subjected to athermal, quasistatic (AQS) simple shear…

math.GR2025

Two-sided homological properties of special and one-relator monoids

Robert D. Gray, Benjamin Steinberg

A monoid presentation is called special if the right-hand side of each defining relation is equal to 1. We prove results which relate the two-sided homological finiteness propertie…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Erbium-implanted WS2 flakes with room-temperature photon emission at telecom wavelengths

Guadalupe García-Arellano, Gabriel I. López Morales, Zav Shotan +4

Optically addressable spin impurities in crystals along with device engineering provide an attractive route to realizing quantum technologies in the solid state, but reconciling di…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Nonabelian ferromagnets with three-body interactions

Alexios P. Polychronakos, Konstantinos Sfetsos

We study the thermodynamics of nonabelian ferromagnets consisting of atoms in the fundamental representation of and interacting with two-body and three-body interactions. U…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

Nitrogen-Vacancy Magnetometry of Edge Magnetism in WS2 Flakes

Ilja Fescenko, Raman Kumar, Thitinun Gas-Osoth +15

Two-dimensional (2D) magnets are of significant interest both as a platform for exploring novel fundamental physics and for their potential in spintronic and optoelectronic devices…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 74 cited

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145

Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 6 cited

Magnetic Interactions between Nanoscale Domains in Correlated Liquids

Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh, Giovanna Ricchiuti, Andrew J. Ritchhart +6

The formation of nanoscale domains (NDs) in correlated liquids and the emerging collective magnetic properties have been suggested as key mechanisms governing ion transport under e…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Predicting Magnetic Janus Particle Assembly with Differential Evolution Algorithm

Eric A. McPherson, Kenneth Kroenlein, Ilona Kretzschmar

Magnetic Janus particles allow access to complex, nonlinear assembled structures that may enable interesting new magnetorheological (MR) fluids with uniquely engineered field respo…