3 papers
quant-ph2025
Quantum simulation of bubble nucleation across a quantum phase transition
De Luo, Federica Maria Surace, Arinjoy De +8
The liquid-vapor transition is a classic example of a discontinuous (first-order) phase transition. Such transitions underlie many phenomena in cosmology, nuclear and particle phys…
quant-ph2024
Observation of string-breaking dynamics in a quantum simulator
Arinjoy De, Alessio Lerose, De Luo +10
Spontaneous particle-pair formation is a fundamental phenomenon in nature. It can, for example, appear when the potential energy between two particles increases with separation, as…
astro-ph.HE2019
Dark matter heating of gas accreting onto Sgr A
Elizabeth R. Bennewitz, Cristian Gaidau, Thomas W. Baumgarte +1
We study effects of heating by dark matter (DM) annihilation on black hole gas accretion. We observe that, for reasonable assumptions about DM densities in spikes around supermassi…