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quant-ph2026

Quantum jumps of sound

Takuma Makihara, Erik Szakiel, Matthew P. Maksymowych +7

Quantum mechanics predicts that a vibrating object's energy comes in discrete packets, yet no measurement of its position reveals this discreteness. Resolving individual energy lev…

physics.med-ph2026

Clinical Commissioning of the First Ultra-Compact Gantry-less Upright Proton Therapy System

Serdar Charyyev, Adam Johansson, Zhuoran Jiang +17

This study reports the comprehensive clinical commissioning and benchmarking of a novel ultra-compact, gantry-free, upright PT system.

cs.RO2026

Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability for Hybrid Systems: Unified Goal-Driven Control with Safety Guarantees

Javier Borquez, Shuang Peng, Somil Bansal

Hybrid dynamical systems provide a powerful modeling framework for robotic systems, particularly in contact-rich environments. However, ensuring safety and performance in such syst…

cs.SD2026

Orukeet: Multilingual ASR with Frozen Gabor Kernels

Nathan Roll, Irene Yi, Büşra Marşan +6

Orukeet replaces half of an adapted Parakeet encoder's temporal filters with 12,288 fitted Gabor kernels, freezes these replacements, and trains the remaining parameters on multili…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Neutral Atomic Hydrogen in the solar neighborhood (NeAtHood) project I. Ghost in the shell: Neutral atomic hydrogen in the extended Orion nebula

J. D. Soler, H. Beuther, S. C. O. Glover +15

The Orion Nebula is the nearest site of ongoing and recent high-mass star formation. It is a unique laboratory for studying the mass, energy, and momentum input from high-mass star…

cs.CL2026

Contamination Inflates Scores but Rarely Reorders Large Language Model Leaderboards

Xingyao Xiao, Yihong Cheng

Benchmark contamination, the leakage of test items into training data, is widely described as a threat to the reliability of large language model (LLM) leaderboards. We argue that…