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Non-Equilibrium Sock Dynamics: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Agitated Wash
Ahmad Darwish, Matteo Murdaca, Jami J. Kinnunen
It is a universal empirical observation that socks become unpaired in the laundry. We propose a quasiparticle theory of sock dynamics in which individual socks are modelled as boso…
Attraction of a jerk
Sini Peltonen, Laura Vasko, Inka Tenhunen +3
Jerk plays a pivotal role in the thrilling experience of many amusemement park rides. In addition to exploring the physical aspect of jerks, we tackle the empirical observation of…
Why is there no Poisson spot in a solar eclipse?
Jami J. Kinnunen
The Poisson spot is a fascinating lecture demonstration. Its simple explanation can lead to further questions, not only the one posed in the title, but also questions such as why t…
Unobserving the Moon: the spurious possibility of orbital decoupling due to solar neutrino Arago spot
Henrik Viitasaari, Oskari Färdig, Joona H. Siljander +4
The Arago spot is an intensity maximum at the center of a shadow created by constructive interference of diffracted waves around a spherical object. While the study of diffraction…
Light-induced topological superconductivity in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers
Aleksi Julku, Jami J. Kinnunen, Arturo Camacho-Guardian +1
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host deeply bound excitons interacting with itinerant electrons, and as such they represent an exciting new quantum many-body Bose…
Excitation Spectrum and Superfluid Gap of an Ultracold Fermi Gas
Hauke Biss, Lennart Sobirey, Niclas Luick +5
Ultracold atomic gases are a powerful tool to experimentally study strongly correlated quantum many-body systems. In particular, ultracold Fermi gases with tunable interactions hav…