Unlocking the Strong Force: Insights from the Large Hadron Collider
![In July 2025, the Large Hadron Collider achieved a world-first by successfully colliding protons with oxygen nuclei, marking a new frontier in high-energy physics research through the [latex] pO [/latex] displays and opening avenues to explore the strong force under extreme conditions.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.01217v1/ALICE_event_display-2025-proton-Oxygen_0.png)
Recent experiments at the LHC are pushing the boundaries of our understanding of Quantum Chromodynamics, revealing new details about the fundamental force governing the structure of matter.


![The quantum phase diagram of the spin-1 XXZ Heisenberg model-relevant to Na₂BaNi(PO₄)₂-reveals distinct phases-nematic supersolid, up-up-down, ferroquadrupolar, and fully polarized-determined through DMRG calculations on a 24x6 lattice with bond dimensions up to 1400, achieving truncation errors of approximately [latex]10^{-6}[/latex], and finite-size effects manifesting as stripe-like ordering are understood as transient and not representative of the thermodynamic limit.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.01890v1/x3.png)




