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Generation and Coherent Control of Dark-State Spatial Modes
Huai-Che Shia, Siang-Wei Shao, Wu-Cheng Chiang, Yu-Hung Kuan, I-Kang Liu, Teodora Kirova, Gediminas Juzeli\=unas, Yu-Ju Lin, Wen-Te Liao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00558

Generation and Coherent Control of Dark-State Spatial Modes
The generation and dynamic control of the spatial mode of the dark-state polarization using electromagnetically induced transparency are theoretically investigated. We demonstrate that a combination of synthetic scalar and vector potentials can be employed to engineer discrete spatial modes of the dark state polariton, enabling quantum interference among these modes. We verify this concept by showing the Rabi oscillation between two spatial modes and stimulated Raman adiabatic passage among $Λ…

What an exciting WWDC25! Liquid Glass. Foundation Models. iPad windows.
After WWDC, we like to take a moment. To quote one of the great philosophers of the '80s, Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Today, we share our post-WWDC roadmap update for @…

$g$-mode oscillations of dark matter admixed neutron stars
Swarnim Shirke, Debarati Chatterjee, Prashanth Jaikumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18892 https:/…

$g$-mode oscillations of dark matter admixed neutron stars
We investigate $g$-mode oscillations in dark matter admixed neutron stars employing a relativistic mean field model to describe hadronic matter and a model for self-interacting fermionic dark matter motivated by the neutron decay anomaly. Following the construction of such admixed configurations, we derive the equilibrium and adiabatic speeds of sound therein, leading to a computation of the star's $g$-mode spectrum in the Cowling approximation. In particular, we explore the effect of dark matt…

No dark mode for SSMS?
SQL Shades to the rescue!
Free version adds plain dark mode to the IDE (fine by me.) Paid version supports additional themes.
This solution is cleaner than the rather hacky approach of modifying ssms.pkgundef to restore a half-finished dark theme commented out by SSMS developers apparently at the last moment.
"Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!"

Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!
Free add-in bringing a complete dark theme to SSMS.

UPDATES:
1. My site (https://innig.net/) now offers high-contrast theme if the OS / browser is set to high contrast mode. Works in both light and dark mode! Further accessibility improvements to come.

My random PR of the day https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114673699086891556
"Auto/light/dark mode" for jointhefediverse.net …

Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
Attached: 1 image Huge thanks to @cheeaun@mastodon.social for his amazing work on adding automatic dark/light mode to https://jointhefediverse.net!! #fediverse #JoinTheFediverse

I added texture to the background of my #website...and it makes me feel like I can touch it.
I love the idea of holding the pages of a website like a #book...what kind of "wear" would a beloved website show with repeat readings?
Would favorite pages have dog-eared corners instead …

If the Finder icon looks reversed to you in macOS 26, then my guess is that you aren’t using Dark Mode…

I know as a developer just how hard it is to actually make it work, but perhaps the lesson of the Liquid Glass public reaction fiasco is for Apple to just give users •much• more control over the UI theme.
Between the retina transition, iOS 7, accessibility improvements like variable text size, dark mode support, and the long migration away from hard-coded layouts, we developers have grown used to making more adaptable UIs. Lots of the building blocks for OS-level theming are there, both in SwiftUI and in UIKit.
If Apple said “Themes are coming!” at WWDC 26, developers would adapt.
Assuming we still have a functioning society at that point.
From @…:
https://mastodon.social/@realmacdan/113792374380828124

Spatial and Pulse Efficiency Constraints in Atom Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Patrik Schach, Enno Giese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09511 ht…

Spatial and Pulse Efficiency Constraints in Atom Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
Currently planned and constructed terrestrial detectors for gravitational waves and dark matter based on differential light-pulse atom interferometry are designed around three primary strategies to enhance their sensitivity: (i) Resonant-mode enhancement using multiple diamonds, (ii) large-momentum-transfer techniques to increase arm separation within the interferometer, and (iii) very-long baseline schemes that increase the distance between the two interferometers. Both resonant-mode enhanceme…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.04241 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepe…

Search for hadronic decays of feebly-interacting particles at NA62
The NA62 experiment at CERN has the capability to collect data in a beam-dump mode, where 400 GeV protons are dumped on an absorber. In this configuration, New Physics particles, including dark photons, dark scalars, and axion-like particles, may be produced in the absorber and decay in the instrumented volume beginning approximately 80 m downstream of the dump. A search for these particles decaying in flight to hadronic final states is reported, based on an analysis of a sample of $1.4 \times …