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BNMusic: Blending Environmental Noises into Personalized Music
Chi Zuo, Martin B. M{\o}ller, Pablo Mart\'inez-Nuevo, Huayang Huang, Yu Wu, Ye Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10754

BNMusic: Blending Environmental Noises into Personalized Music
While being disturbed by environmental noises, the acoustic masking technique is a conventional way to reduce the annoyance in audio engineering that seeks to cover up the noises with other dominant yet less intrusive sounds. However, misalignment between the dominant sound and the noise-such as mismatched downbeats-often requires an excessive volume increase to achieve effective masking. Motivated by recent advances in cross-modal generation, in this work, we introduce an alternative method to…

Aesthetic experiences across visual perception and mental imagery: Behaviorally indistinguishable, neurally distinct https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)00849-1 "Alternating between visually perceiving and reimagining encountered stimuli&qu…

Optimal protocol for collisional Brownian engines
Gustavo A. L. For\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05078 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.0…

Optimal protocol for collisional Brownian engines
Collisional Brownian engines have recently gained attention as alternatives to conventional nanoscale engines. However, a comprehensive optimization of their performance, which could serve as a benchmark for future engine designs, is still lacking. In this work, we address this gap by deriving and analyzing the optimal driving protocol for a collisional Brownian engine. By maximizing the average output work, we show that the optimal protocol consists of linear force segments separated by impuls…

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Cavity-Altered Superconductivity
Is it feasible to alter the ground state properties of a material by engineering its electromagnetic environment? Inspired by theoretical predictions, experimental realizations of such cavity-controlled properties without optical excitation are beginning to emerge. Here, we devised and implemented a novel platform to realize cavity-altered materials. Single crystals of hyperbolic van der Waals (vdW) compounds provide a resonant electromagnetic environment with enhanced density of photonic state…

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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/09/entertainment/sly-stone-death

Sly Stone, pioneering funk musician, dead at 82
Sly Stone, the influential but enigmatic funk-rock star whose soulful, socially conscious recordings altered the course of popular music before he abruptly retreated from the spotlight and became the J.D. Salinger of rock, has died, his family announced Monday.

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Polarization Measurements as a Probe of Axion-Photon Coupling: a Study of GRB 221009A
Axion Like Particles (ALPs) can be produced in Gamma Ray Bursts, altering the polarization of the electromagnetic emission in these events. For the first time, we derive bounds on the axion-photon coupling from polarization measurements of GRB 221009A, performing a full calculation of the Stokes parameters, as it is typically done in the astrophysics community. Within astrophysical uncertainties, our limits on the axion-photon coupling are competitive with complementary probes in the axion mass…

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Pablo Cova Fari\~na, Daniel Jirovec, Xin Zhang, Elizaveta Morozova, Stefan D. Oosterhout, Stefano Reale, Tzu-Kan Hsiao, Giordano Scappucci, Menno Veldhorst, Lieven M. K. Vandersypen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08663

Site-resolved magnon and triplon dynamics on a programmable quantum dot spin ladder
Quasi-particle dynamics in interacting systems in the presence of disorder challenges the notion of internal thermalization, but proves difficult to investigate theoretically for large particle numbers. Engineered quantum systems may offer a viable alternative, as witnessed in experimental demonstrations in a variety of physical platforms, each with its own capabilities and limitations. Semiconductor gate-defined quantum dot arrays are of particular interest since they offer both a direct mappi…

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Engineering Altermagnetism via Layer Shifts and Spin Order in Bilayer MnPS$_3$
We investigate how stacking configuration and magnetic ordering determine the magnetic phases of bilayer MnPS$_3$, using density-functional theory and spin-Laue symmetry analysis. While monolayer MnPS$_3$ is a collinear antiferromagnet with no spin splitting, our calculations show that the bilayer can host either Type II (AFM) or Type III (altermagnetic) phases depending sensitively on stacking and spin alignment. We focus on two representative stackings: AA, where the top layer sits directly a…