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Ok, this is hilarious. https://www.yankodesign.com/2025/06/27/worlds-narrowest-fiat-panda-is-one-anorexic-19-inch-wide-ev-destined-for-the-record-books/

Collins, Murkowski vote with Democrats on striking Planned Parenthood provision from GOP megabill (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5377830-collins-murkowski-planned-parenthood/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p133#a250630p133

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
TARRANT: Not that it'll do us much good without bracelets to get us up to the Liberator.
DAYNA: Could be. If they've somehow found out about Servalan's urge to breed.
VILA: But how?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/536

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General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Santeri Huhtanen, Yousef Mafi, Ali G. Moghaddam, Teemu Ojanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22430 https://

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Sharing entangled pairs between non-signaling parties via entanglement swapping constitutes a striking demonstration of the nonlocality of quantum mechanics and a crucial building block for future quantum technologies. In this work, we generalize pair-swapping methods by introducing a many-body entanglement swapping protocol, which allows two non-signaling parties to share general many-body states along an arbitrary partitioning. The shared many-body state retains exactly the same Schmidt vecto…

woo! #FuckAndrewCuomo

Exceptional thermoelectric properties in Na$_2$TlSb enabled by quasi-1D band structure
{\O}ven A. Grimenes (Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Ole M. L{\o}vvik (SINTEF Sustainable Energy Technology), Kristian Berland (Norwegian University of Life Sciences)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22167

Exceptional thermoelectric properties in Na$_2$TlSb enabled by quasi-1D band structure
Quasi-low-dimensional band structures in bulk high-symmetry materials can exhibiting density of states (DOS) profiles akin to those of low-dimensional materials. A particular striking example is the full-Heusler compound Na$_2$TlSb, with valence band energy isosurfaces consisting of intersecting 2D-dimensional pockets forming a box-like structure, with the sides individually akin to the energy isosurfaces arising in one-dimensional (1D) quantum wells. The combination of high velocities and rapi…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
TARRANT: Not that it'll do us much good without bracelets to get us up to the Liberator.
DAYNA: Could be. If they've somehow found out about Servalan's urge to breed.
VILA: But how?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/536

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Quantum-geometric dipole: a topological boost to flavor ferromagnetism in flat bands
Lei Chen, Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Jennifer Cano, Valentin Cr\'epel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22417

Quantum-geometric dipole: a topological boost to flavor ferromagnetism in flat bands
Robust flavor-polarized phases are a striking hallmark of many flat-band moiré materials. In this work, we trace the origin of this spontaneous polarization to a previously overlooked quantum-geometric quantity: the quantum-geometric dipole. Analogous to how the quantum metric governs the spatial spread of wavepackets, we show that the quantum-geometric dipole sets the characteristic size of particle-hole excitations, e.g. magnons in a ferromagnet, which in turn boosts their gap and stiffness.…

woo! #FuckAndrewCuomo

That Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.
Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Brad Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and hi…

Among the many things I don't understand, one particularly striking gem is why Ansible' systemd support only provides the bare minimum.

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Well, who the hell else are you talking to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here.

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Enantiosensitive locking of photoelectron spin and cation orientation
When electrons pass through chiral molecules, their transmission is strongly influenced by the orientation of their spin: molecules with opposite handedness preferentially transmit electrons with oppositely aligned spins. The underlying nature of this striking phenomenon, known as chirality-induced spin selectivity (CISS), remains controversial: its observed strength far surpasses predictions based on the typically weak spin-orbit interaction. A significant fraction of CISS phenomena are driven…

I've always written short blog posts but now I'm doing a whole lot of post updates (the many syntax highlight plugins over the years eventually caught up with me), it's even more striking that there's content in a format that you rarely see these days (although yes I do read Seth Godin). 208 words in this post, I should try to go back to writing like this even if "the algorithm" doesn't like it :)

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/marriott-wins-us-appeals-order-striking-down-data-breach-class-action-2025-06-03/
Marriott wins US appeals order striking down data breach class action

That Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.
Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and his mot…

If the US starts participating in striking Iran the danger for further escalation is great. Because why would Iran in that case not attack oil fields, US bases in the Gulf states? Close the strait of Hormuz? It could then also try to unite everything that is extreme/radical in the muslim world against the US. What is missing is a scenario for de-escalation, also because Netanyahu is not interested in that is my impression.

❝Police on horseback charged at the crowd, striking some with wood rods and batons as they cleared the street in front of the federal building. Officers then fired teargas and crowd control projectiles at the large group, sending demonstrators, hotdog vendors and passing pedestrians fleeing through the street. Some have since regrouped, ignoring an LAPD dispersal order.
‘It was a total 100% over-reaction. We weren’t doing anything but standing around chanting peaceful protest,’ said Samantha Edgerton, a 37-year-old bartender.”❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/14/trump-birthday-military-parade-no-kings-protest-live-updates?page=with:block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2#block-684e0b918f08be826d571aa2

If my bio didn’t make it obvious, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist who’s bisexual, gender-fluid, and autistic!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

Striking Back At Cobalt: Using Network Traffic Metadata To Detect Cobalt Strike Masquerading Command and Control Channels
Cl\'ement Parssegny, Johan Mazel, Olivier Levillain, Pierre Chifflier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08922

Striking Back At Cobalt: Using Network Traffic Metadata To Detect Cobalt Strike Masquerading Command and Control Channels
Off-the-shelf software for Command and Control is often used by attackers and legitimate pentesters looking for discretion. Among other functionalities, these tools facilitate the customization of their network traffic so it can mimic popular websites, thereby increasing their secrecy. Cobalt Strike is one of the most famous solutions in this category, used by known advanced attacker groups such as "Mustang Panda" or "Nobelium". In response to these threats, Security Operation Centers and other…

Sooo... I was in town and this guy looked at me funny. I'm pretty sure he was planning something.
So I shot him dead.
What do you mean I was the aggressor? What do you mean 'murder is illegal, you striking first is not self defence?'
He was blatantly shifty.
^ THE ENTIRE WESTERN MEDIA TODAY

Live updates: US intervenes in war between Israel and Iran by striking 3 Iranian nuclear sites (Cara Anna/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/israel-iran-war-updates
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p22#a250622p22

A corresponding relationship between nonlinear Hermitian systems and linear non-Hermitian models
Yu-Hao Wang, Yan-Hong Qin, Jie Liu, Li-Chen Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19649 …

A corresponding relationship between nonlinear Hermitian systems and linear non-Hermitian models
We note that the non-orthogonality of states and their coincidence at the degeneracy point are both admitted by nonlinear Hermitian systems and linear non-Hermitian systems. These striking characteristics motivate us to re-investigate the localized waves of nonlinear Hermitian systems and the eigenvalue degeneracies of linear non-Hermitian models, based on several well-known Lax integrable systems that have wide applications in nonlinear optics. We choose nonlinear Schrodinger equation integrab…

Listening to #NPR #FreshAir: Terry Gross interviewing Brian Wilson in 1988.
The most striking thing about the interview is his schizoaffective disorder. Careening rapid-fire speech with random branches punctuated by yawns.

This is a sad evening. By the time this posts, my WoW sub will have expired. I will not be renewing it.
I have played WoW since 2006. I have played it almost as long as all my relationships combined. (There's been a couple sizable gaps between 'ships, yo.) I have dozens of alts. 2 years played time (yeah, not THAT much considering, but I also play other games and have taken a couple year long breaks.)
WoW had always been there as an excellent escape from reality when I …

Steelers 'lowballing' NFL teams in trade talks for offensive playmaker after Aaron Rodgers signing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steeler

The Cosmological Constant from a Quantum Gravitational $\theta$-Vacua and the Gravitational Hall Effect
Stephon Alexander, Heliudson Bernardo, Aaron Hui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14886

The Cosmological Constant from a Quantum Gravitational $θ$-Vacua and the Gravitational Hall Effect
We provide a new perspective on the cosmological constant by exploring the background-independent Wheeler-DeWitt quantization of general relativity. The Chern-Simons-Kodama state of quantum gravity, a generalization of the Hartle-Hawking and Vilenkin states, has a striking structural similarity to the topological field theory of the quantum Hall effect. As a result, we study the gravitational topological $θ$-sectors in analogy to Yang-Mills theory. We find that the cosmological constant $Λ$ i…

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Senate Democrats are increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump is considering striking Iran without seeking authorization from Congress
— or even filling them in on his plans.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Virginia) is mounting a last-ditch push to force a vote as soon as next week
to restrain Trump from attacking Iran without Congress’s approval.

Other Senate Democrats say the White House has not briefed them on its plans for a potential strike.
And some are warn…

Democrats raise war powers concerns as Trump mulls Iran strike
The pushback follows Trump’s encroachment on almost every congressional prerogative — from taking control of the power of the purse to threatening tariffs.

R-CARLA: High-Fidelity Sensor Simulations with Interchangeable Dynamics for Autonomous Racing
Maurice Brunner, Edoardo Ghignone, Nicolas Baumann, Michele Magno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09629

R-CARLA: High-Fidelity Sensor Simulations with Interchangeable Dynamics for Autonomous Racing
Autonomous racing has emerged as a crucial testbed for autonomous driving algorithms, necessitating a simulation environment for both vehicle dynamics and sensor behavior. Striking the right balance between vehicle dynamics and sensor accuracy is crucial for pushing vehicles to their performance limits. However, autonomous racing developers often face a trade-off between accurate vehicle dynamics and high-fidelity sensor simulations. This paper introduces R-CARLA, an enhancement of the CARLA si…

A Tale of Two Mobile Generations: 5G-Advanced and 6G in 3GPP Release 20
Xingqin Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11828 https://arxiv.or…

A Tale of Two Mobile Generations: 5G-Advanced and 6G in 3GPP Release 20
As the telecommunications industry stands at the crossroads between the fifth generation (5G) and sixth generation (6G) of mobile communications, the 3rd generation partnership project (3GPP) Release 20 emerges as a pivotal point of transition. By striking a balance between enhancing 5G-Advanced capabilities and setting the stage for 6G, Release 20 provides the crucial foundation upon which future mobile communication standards and deployments will be built. This article examines these dual obj…

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics
Rebecca Loubet, Pascal Zittlau, Marco Hoffmann, Luisa Vollmer, Sophie Fellenz, Heike Leitte, Fabian Jirasek, Johannes Lenhard, Hans Hasse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09822

Superstudent intelligence in thermodynamics
In this short note, we report and analyze a striking event: OpenAI's large language model o3 has outwitted all students in a university exam on thermodynamics. The thermodynamics exam is a difficult hurdle for most students, where they must show that they have mastered the fundamentals of this important topic. Consequently, the failure rates are very high, A-grades are rare - and they are considered proof of the students' exceptional intellectual abilities. This is because pattern learning does…

Ramanujan's partition generating functions modulo $\ell$
Kathrin Bringmann, William Craig, Ken Ono
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06101 https://

Ramanujan's partition generating functions modulo $\ell$
For the partition function $p(n)$, Ramanujan proved the striking identities $$ P_5(q):=\sum_{n\geq 0} p(5n+4)q^n =5\prod_{n\geq 1} \frac{\left(q^5;q^5\right)_{\infty}^5}{(q;q)_{\infty}^6}, $$ $$ P_7(q):=\sum_{n\geq 0} p(7n+5)q^n =7\prod_{n\geq 1}\frac{\left(q^7;q^7\right)_{\infty}^3}{(q;q)_{\infty}^4}+49q \prod_{n\geq 1}\frac{\left(q^7;q^7\right)_{\infty}^7}{(q;q)_{\infty}^8}, $$ where $(q;q)_{\infty}:=\prod_{n\geq 1}(1-q^n).$ As these identities imply his celebrated congruences modulo 5 …

When Comic Mono is my favorite font, you know I’m all about that serious fun vibe, like comical meetings meets anarchist chaos at @….
Clear, straightforward, and quietly striking in its beauty.
Read more here: https://ns…

So Ukraine defends itself, striking primarily military targets, while Russia continuously strikes civilian targets.... and then Trump is outraged ?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/ukraine-russia-trump-drones/683043/

Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory. Trump Is Not Happy.
The president has fumed that Kyiv’s drone strike could prolong a war that he’s desperate to end.

On many issues, Americans are deeply polarized.
War with Iran isn’t one of them.
An Economist/YouGov poll of U.S. adults taken in the days after Israel’s attack last Friday found that Democrats opposed entering the conflict by a margin of 50 points and Republicans opposed entering it by a margin of 30 points.
Given these numbers, you might think Democratic leaders would be doing everything they can to prevent President Trump from striking Iran without the approval of Cong…

Opinion | Schumer and Jeffries Need to Step Up and Challenge Trump on War Powers
Failing to aggressively defend Congress’s role in authorizing war would be a serious blunder for Democrats.

High-Accuracy Dispersion Surfaces Measurement Unlocks Photonic Crystal Slabs Topology
Karen Caicedo, Fabrizio Sgrignuoli, Adam Schwartzberg, Scott Duehy, Silvia Romano, Gianluigi Zito, Ivo Rendina, Vito Mocella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10214

High-Accuracy Dispersion Surfaces Measurement Unlocks Photonic Crystal Slabs Topology
Characterization of dispersion surfaces (DS) in photonic crystals (PhCs) can predict striking topological features, such as bound states in the continuum (BICs). Precise measurement of dispersion, particularly near the Γ-point, is crucial since even subtle geometric deviations significantly impact the distribution of topological charges and associated polarization singularities. Here, we propose a novel technique to measure DS of PhC slabs with high angular accuracy of up to 3 x 10^(-4) radian…

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Deconstructing Obfuscation: A four-dimensional framework for evaluating Large Language Models assembly code deobfuscation capabilities
Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in software engineering, yet their effectiveness for binary analysis remains unexplored. We present the first comprehensive evaluation of commercial LLMs for assembly code deobfuscation. Testing seven state-of-the-art models against four obfuscation scenarios (bogus control flow, instruction substitution, control flow flattening, and their combination), we found striking performance variations--from autonomous deobfuscation to complete failure. We…

Extremal Magic States from Symmetric Lattices
Misaki Ohta, Kazuki Sakurai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11725 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Extremal Magic States from Symmetric Lattices
Magic, a key quantum resource beyond entanglement, remains poorly understood in terms of its structure and classification. In this paper, we demonstrate a striking connection between high-dimensional symmetric lattices and quantum magic states. By mapping vectors from the $E_8$, $BW_{16}$, and $E_6$ lattices into Hilbert space, we construct and classify stabiliser and maximal magic states for two-qubit, three-qubit and one-qutrit systems. In particular, this geometric approach allows us to cons…

Correlation of Burst Behaviour with Magnetar Age
Ozge Keskin, Samuel K. Lander, Ersin Gogus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05910 https://…

Correlation of Burst Behaviour with Magnetar Age
We analyze a wide set of historical magnetar burst observations detected with five different instruments, calibrating these to the energy range of Fermi-GBM observations for consistency. We find a striking correlation between a magnetar's characteristic age and both its typical burst energy and its burst activity level. Arguing that this bursting behaviour also correlates with true age, we interpret it as the result of a reducing high-stress volume of the crust in an aging magnetar: previous gi…

Aging of amorphous materials under cyclic strain
Dor Shohat, Paul Baconnier, Itamar Procaccia, Martin van Hecke, Yoav Lahini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08779

Aging of amorphous materials under cyclic strain
Amorphous materials driven away from equilibrium display a diverse repertoire of complex, history-dependent behaviors. One striking feature is a failure to return to equilibrium after an abrupt change in otherwise static external conditions. Instead, amorphous materials often exhibit physical aging: an ever-slowing, nonexponential relaxation that can span a huge range of timescales. Here we examine the aging behavior of three different amorphous materials subjected to slow periodic driving. The…

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A large-scale ring galaxy at z = 2.2 revealed by JWST/NIRCam: kinematic observations and analytical modelling
A unique galaxy at z = 2.2, zC406690, has a striking clumpy large-scale ring structure that persists from rest UV to near-infrared, yet has an ordered rotation and lies on the star-formation main sequence. We combine new JWST/NIRCam and ALMA band 4 observations, together with previous VLT/SINFONI integral field spectroscopy and HST imaging to re-examine its nature. The high-resolution H$α$ kinematics are best fitted if the mass is distributed within a ring with total mass $M_{\rm{ring}} = 2 \t…

The Hippocampal Place Field Gradient: An Eigenmode Theory Linking Grid Cell Projections to Multiscale Learning
Shujun Zhou, Guozhang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04943

The Hippocampal Place Field Gradient: An Eigenmode Theory Linking Grid Cell Projections to Multiscale Learning
The hippocampus encodes space through a striking gradient of place field sizes along its dorsal-ventral axis, yet the principles generating this continuous gradient from discrete grid cell inputs remain debated. We propose a unified theoretical framework establishing that hippocampal place fields arise naturally as linear projections of grid cell population activity, interpretable as eigenmodes. Critically, we demonstrate that a frequency-dependent decay of these grid-to-place connection weight…

Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
JARRIERE: Even if he cannot be trusted?
SERVALAN: Oh, he can be trusted to do anything for money. He'll deliver Travis.
JARRIERE: And Docholli?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/155 B7B4

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Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday,
striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever.
The operation, code-named "Spider's Web," required months of preparation and the smuggling of drones into Russian territory
Using 117 drones, Ukraine was able to reach regions thousands of kilometres from the front,
w…

What We Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attacks in Russia
Ukrainian security services conducted a massive drone attack against Russian military airbases on Sunday, striking thousands of kilometres from the front line in what President Volodymyr Zelensky said was their longest-range operation ever.

Complete universal scaling of first-order phase transitions in the two-dimensional Ising model
Yuxiang Zhang, Fan Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00515 ht…

Complete universal scaling of first-order phase transitions in the two-dimensional Ising model
Phase transitions, as one of the most intriguing phenomena in nature, are divided into first-order phase transitions (FOPTs) and continuous ones in current classification. While the latter shows striking phenomena of scaling and universality, the former has recently also been demonstrated to exhibit scaling and universal behavior within a mesoscopic, coarse-grained Landau-Ginzburg theory. Here we apply this theory to a microscopic model -- the paradigmatic Ising model, which undergoes FOPTs bet…

I feel the call of home...

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A Proof of The Changepoint Detection Threshold Conjecture in Preferential Attachment Models
We investigate the problem of detecting and estimating a changepoint in the attachment function of a network evolving according to a preferential attachment model on $n$ vertices, using only a single final snapshot of the network. Bet et al.~\cite{bet2023detecting} show that a simple test based on thresholding the number of vertices with minimum degrees can detect the changepoint when the change occurs at time $n-Ω(\sqrt{n})$. They further make the striking conjecture that detection becomes im…

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Striking the Balance: Life Insurance Timing and Asset Allocation in Financial Planning
This paper investigates the consumption and investment decisions of an individual facing uncertain lifespan and stochastic labor income within a Black-Scholes market framework. A key aspect of our study involves the agent's option to choose when to acquire life insurance for bequest purposes. We examine two scenarios: one with a fixed bequest amount and another with a controlled bequest amount. Applying duality theory and addressing free-boundary problems, we analytically solve both cases, and …

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High-Field Superconducting Halo in UTe$_2$
Heavy fermion UTe$_2$ is a promising candidate for topological superconductivity that also exhibits multiple high-field superconducting phases. The SC$_{\rm{FP}}$ phase has only been observed in off-axis magnetic fields in the $bc$ plane at fields greater than 40 teslas, a striking scale given its critical temperature of only 2 kelvins. Here, we extend measurements of this unique superconducting state outside of the $bc$ plane and reveal its core structure. The SC$_{\rm{FP}}$ phase is not confi…

I had no idea that seeing institutions like the family and marriage as authoritarian was actually a core anarchist principle for thinkers like Rudolf Rocker.
Realizing this now, it’s striking how my own instincts since my early childhood have always lined up with anarchism’s rejection of all forms of social coercion and imposed authority, even in the most intimate parts of life.
Guess that’s another layer peeled back, the more you learn, the clearer it gets.

The use of cross validation in the analysis of designed experiments
Maria L. Weese, Byran J. Smucker, David J. Edwards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14593 htt…

The use of cross validation in the analysis of designed experiments
Cross-validation (CV) is a common method to tune machine learning methods and can be used for model selection in regression as well. Because of the structured nature of small, traditional experimental designs, the literature has warned against using CV in their analysis. The striking increase in the use of machine learning, and thus CV, in the analysis of experimental designs, has led us to empirically study the effectiveness of CV compared to other methods of selecting models in designed exper…

Conclusive Local State Marking: More Nonlocality With No Entanglement
Samrat Sen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09415 https://arxiv.org/p…

Conclusive Local State Marking: More Nonlocality With No Entanglement
Nonlocality exhibited by ensembles of composite quantum states, wherein local operations and classical communication (LOCC) yield suboptimal discrimination probabilities compared to global strategies, is one of the striking nonclassical features of quantum theory. A variant of this phenomenon arises in conclusive local state discrimination, where the correct state must be identified with zero error, albeit allowing for inconclusive outcomes. More recently, the notion of local state marking has …

Zigzagging Diffusion and Non-Standard Transport in Particle-laden Nanopores Under Extreme Confinement
A. Baer, P. Malgaretti, K. Hoellring, J. Harting, Ana-Suncana Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09191

Zigzagging Diffusion and Non-Standard Transport in Particle-laden Nanopores Under Extreme Confinement
Understanding transport subject to molecular-scale confinement is key to advancing nanofluidics, yet classical hydrodynamic laws often fail at these scales. Here, we study a model system: transport of toluene as a solvent and small fullerenes as model particles confined within alumina slit nanopores using molecular dynamics simulations. We find that toluene organizes into discrete layers whose commensurability with the pore width leads to a striking, non-monotonic, zig-zag dependence of transpo…

Ukraine detonated a massive underwater blast t
argeting the key road and rail bridge connecting the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula to Russia,
damaging its underwater supports.
The operation, claimed by Kyiv’s SBU security service, is the second high-profile operation by Ukraine in days striking significant Russian assets after a sophisticated drone raid on Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet on Sunday

Ultrafast Orbital-Selective Photodoping Melts Charge Order in Overdoped Bi-based Cuprates
Xinyi Jiang, Qizhi Li, Qingzheng Qiu, Li Yue, Junhan Huang, Yiwen Chen, Byungjune Lee, Hyeongi Choi, Xingjiang Zhou, Tao Dong, Nanlin Wang, Hoyoung Jang, Yingying Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04697…

Ultrafast Orbital-Selective Photodoping Melts Charge Order in Overdoped Bi-based Cuprates
High-temperature superconductivity in cuprates remains one of the enduring puzzles of condensed matter physics, with charge order (CO) playing a central yet elusive role, particularly in the overdoped regime. Here, we employ time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant X-ray scattering at a free-electron laser to probe the transient electronic density of states and ultrafast CO dynamics in overdoped (Bi,Pb)$_{2.12}$Sr$_{1.88}$CuO$_{6+δ}$. We reveal a striking pump laser wavelength …

Colloid-like scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse
Suman Majumder, Saikat Chakraborty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06801 https://

Colloid-like scale-free cluster-cluster aggregation during polymer collapse
An extended polymer collapses to form a globule when subjected to a quench below the collapse transition temperature. The process begins with the formation of clusters of monomers or ``pearls''. The nascent clusters merge, resulting in growth of the average cluster size $C_s$, eventually leading to a single globule. The aggregation of the clusters are known to be analogous to droplet coalescence. This suggests a striking resemblance between such an aggregation and cluster-cluster aggregation in…