The Quest for Flavor: Fifty Years of Particle Physics
A personal journey through the landscape of flavor physics reveals the evolution of our understanding of fundamental particles and forces from 1976 to 2026.
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Hunting Ripples and Hidden Particles with Nanoscale Precision
A new optomechanical detector design promises a simultaneous search for high-frequency gravitational waves and elusive vector dark matter candidates.
Warped Spacetime: A New Geometry for Lorentz Violation
A novel framework utilizing Finsler geometry suggests that violations of Lorentz invariance may be a fundamental property of the universe, offering a path to testable predictions.
Entanglement’s Endurance: How Acceleration Fails to Unravel Quantum Links
![The interplay between acceleration and a fixed effective coupling parameter of [latex]\nu^{2}=0.01[/latex] defines the resulting [latex]1−31−3[/latex] tangle of the [latex]CL_{4}[/latex] state.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.02976v1/x3.png)
New research reveals that certain entangled states remain remarkably stable even when subjected to the relativistic effects of uniform acceleration.
Unlocking Binary Secrets: A New Era of Stellar Pair Studies
A comprehensive strategy for advancing our understanding of how binary stars evolve is proposed, emphasizing the power of systematically observed stellar pairs.
Beyond the Standard Model: The Quest to Understand the Higgs
A new generation of colliders and advanced detector technologies are crucial to unlock the full potential of Higgs boson studies and reveal potential physics beyond our current understanding.
Twisted Physics: Exceptional Points Collide on a Klein Bottle
New research reveals an unusual interaction of degenerate states in a non-Hermitian system defined on a nonorientable surface, potentially reshaping our understanding of topological phase transitions.
Beyond the Visible: Hunting for Hidden Dimensions at the LHC
A new analysis reveals that subtle interactions between the Higgs boson and a potential particle from an extra dimension could dramatically improve the chances of detecting these hidden realms.
The Unexpected Link Between Randomness and Order
![Numerical simulation reveals that two overdamped Brownian particles, subject to feedback control of their joint statistics, exhibit finite-time entanglement evidenced by a cross-covariance that grows logarithmically with time-specifically, [latex]\mathrm{Cov}[x\_{1},x\_{2}]=2\kappa\sqrt{D\_{1}D\_{2}}\ln(t/t\_{0})[/latex]-demonstrating how outcome-space feedback can induce correlations even in systems governed by random motion.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.02388v1/x2.png)
New research reveals how feedback within stochastic systems can drive statistical convergence, blurring the lines between chance and predictability.
Spooky Action at a Distance, Confirmed by Gravity?
![The theoretical setup explores how a mass [latex]A[/latex], existing in a past superposition, recombines at a distinct spacetime point from a similar process affecting mass [latex]B[/latex], with the propagation of which-path information - encoded in phases [latex]\varphi^{\textsc{b}}\_{\textsc{a}s\_{\textsc{a}}}[/latex] - and decoherence-inducing radiation (quantified by [latex]\Gamma_a[/latex] and [latex]\Gamma_b[/latex]) both adhering to causal limits defined by a hypersurface Σ.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.03214v1/x1.png)
New research explores the conditions under which gravitational entanglement could reveal the existence of the elusive graviton particle.