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7 papers

hep-ph2026

Tricritical dynamics in - mixtures and QCD

Maneesha Pradeep, Johannes V. Roth, Lorenz von Smekal

In this paper we study the universal critical dynamics near the tricritical points in - mixtures and QCD with two massless quark flavors. In particula…

nucl-th2026

Theoretical Review of Critical Point Predictions

Maneesha Sushama Pradeep

This review summarizes recent theoretical progress on the QCD equation of state near the critical point and developments in the maximum entropy freeze-out framework, which provides…

nucl-th2026

Equation of state and cumulants of proton multiplicity in equilibrium near critical point from Pade estimates

Gokce Basar, Maneesha Pradeep, Mikhail Stephanov

The fluctuations of proton multiplicity in heavy-ion collisions are the key observables in the search for the QCD critical point. In this work we present an approach to constrainin…

nucl-th2026

Quantifying fluctuation signatures of the QCD critical point using maximum entropy freeze-out

Jamie M. Karthein, Maneesha Sushama Pradeep, Krishna Rajagopal +2

A key question about the QCD phase diagram is whether there is a critical point somewhere on the boundary between the hadronic and quark-gluon plasma phases, and if so where. Heavy…

astro-ph.HE2026

Critical slowing down and bulk viscosity in binary neutron star mergers

Jamie M. Karthein, Maneesha Sushama Pradeep, Rachel Steinhorst

Hydrodynamic simulations of neutron star mergers rely on the clear separation between the strong-interaction, weak-interaction, and hydrodynamic timescales. In this effective frame…

quant-ph2025

Practical limitations of the switching theorem for adiabatic state preparation

Thomas D. Cohen, Andrew Li, Hyunwoo Oh +1

The viability of adiabatic quantum computation depends on the slow evolution of the Hamiltonian. The adiabatic switching theorem provides an asymptotic series for error estimates i…