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20242026
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13 papers

quant-ph2026

Vacuum Fluctuation-Induced State Switching in Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillators

Yihao Huang, Seou Choi, Rom Simovitch +5

Bistable driven-dissipative systems near bifurcations can exhibit noise-activated switching between steady states. Here, we investigate how quantum vacuum fluctuations induce such…

physics.med-ph2026

Dosimetric characterization of a nanophotonic scintillator and applications to real-time in-vivo total body irradiation dosimetry

W. Jeffrey Zabel, Dixin Chen, Louis Martin-Monier +7

Purpose: Recent advances in metasurface photonics and manufacturing have enabled a nanophotonic surface coating to be applied to conventional scintillators, which has been shown to…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Continuum Neural Momentum Eigenstate for Variationally Solving Quasiparticles

David D. Dai, Marin Soljačić

We design the first neural quantum state for continuum particles that, for any chosen allowed momentum , is by construction an exact eigenstate of total momentum with e…

physics.optics2026

Diffractive cascades for polychromatic hard X-ray focusing

William Michaels, Simo Pajovic, Joshua Chen +2

Diffractive focusing of hard X-rays has traditionally required structures with large aspect ratios due to the limited interaction of most materials with X-rays. This has increased…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Non-Hermiticity-induced chirality imbalance of Weyl Landau levels

Sachin Vaidya, Alaa Bayazeed, André Grossi Fonseca +3

Weyl semimetals obey a global chirality constraint: the net chiral topological charge and any associated chiral spectral flow must vanish, as required by the Nielsen-Ninomiya theor…

physics.optics2026

Supercollimating photonic crystal scintillators

Seou Choi, Sachin Vaidya, Charles Roques-Carmes +1

Scintillators convert X-ray energy into visible or near-visible photons, enabling applications in high-energy particle detection and X-ray imaging. Increasing scintillator thicknes…