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Twist fields in many-body physics
Benjamin Doyon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.15064

Twist fields in many-body physics
The notion of twist fields has played a fundamental role in many-body physics. It is used to construct the so-called disorder parameter for the study of phase transitions in the classical Ising model of statistical mechanics, it is involved in the Jordan-Wigner transformation in quantum chains and bosonisation in quantum field theory, and it is related to measures of entanglement in many-body quantum systems. I provide a pedagogical introduction to the notion of twist field and the concepts at …

Google says India has emerged as the No. 1 country for Nano Banana model usage, making Gemini the top free app on both the App Store and Google Play in India (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/17/india-leads-the…

India leads the way on Google's Nano Banana with a local creative twist | TechCrunch
Indian users turning Google’s Nano Banana into a viral trend engine, from retro AI portraits to figurine-style selfies.

Form factors of composite branch-point twist operators in the sinh-Gordon model on a multi-sheeted Riemann surface: semiclassical limit
Michael Lashkevich, Amir Nesturov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12878

Form factors of composite branch-point twist operators in the sinh-Gordon model on a multi-sheeted Riemann surface: semiclassical limit
Quantum sinh-Gordon model in 1+1 dimensions is one of the simplest and best-studied massive integrable relativistic quantum field theories. We consider this theory on a multi-sheeted Riemann surfaces with a flat metric, which can be seen as a pile of planes connected to each other along cut lines. The cut lines end at branch points, which are represented by a twist operator ${\cal T}_n.$ Operators of such kind are interesting in the framework of the problem of computing von Neumann and Renyi en…

Chiral twist-bend liquid crystals
E. I. Kats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14686 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14686

Chiral twist-bend liquid crystals
Recently published preprint ( A. Ashkinazi, H.Chhabra, A.El.Moumane, M.M.C.Tortora, J.P.K. Doye, ''Chirality transfer in lyotropic twist-bend nematics'', arXiv:2508.03544v1 (2025)) has reawakened also interest to various mechanisms of chirality transfer from microscopic (molecular) level into the macroscopic chirality of the structure. In this communication we present a simple theoretical analysis how the transfer occurs for the Landau model of phase transition between cholesteric and chiral tw…

@… Nonsense, I can tell it’s not GenAI. You need to move some of the letters in the poster around and twist them a bit to really sell it.

Gluon generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions and Wigner functions of the Proton
Dipankar Chakrabarti, Bheemsehan Gurjar, Asmita Mukherjee, Kauship Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14208

Gluon generalized transverse momentum dependent parton distributions and Wigner functions of the Proton
We present a calculation of the leading-twist (twist-2) generalized transverse momentum distributions (GTMDs) for unpolarized and longitudinally polarized gluons in the proton, using a recently developed light-front gluon spectator model inspired by the soft-wall AdS/QCD prediction. We calculate the gluon GTMDs for non-zero skewness, using overlaps in terms of light-front wave functions. We also compute the gluon Wigner distributions for various polarization configurations of the proton target,…

If you've not come across Malin Lewis, and are into the music of the Scottish west coast, then here you go. They blew us all away with their second FolkEast set on Saturday, and I just have to share. Music steeped in the transitions of the isle of Skye, with a twist or two. Touring the UK this autumn.
https://www.malinlewis.co.uk/malin

Interact or Twist: Cosmological Correlators from Field Redefinitions Revisited
Donggang Wang, Xiangwei Wang, Yi Wang, Wenqi Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12856 https://

Interact or Twist: Cosmological Correlators from Field Redefinitions Revisited
In cosmology, correlation functions on a late-time boundary can arise from both field redefinitions and bulk interactions, which are usually believed to generate distinct results. In this letter, we propose a counterexample showcasing that correlators from local field redefinitions can be identical to the ones from bulk interactions. In particular, we consider a two-field model in de Sitter space, where the field space gets twisted by field redefinitions to yield a nontrivial reheating surface.…

Nun la, so überaschend kommt dies nun nicht und ist mMn sogar gut so. Mensch lernt sich so auch besser kennen.
»Überraschender Twist – Warum Firmen wieder zu klassischen Vorstellungsgesprächen einladen:
In den vergangenen Jahren sind Vorstellungsgespräche zunehmend per Videocall geführt worden. Jetzt steuern große Konzerne wie Cisco, McKinsey oder Google zurück und laden wieder zu persönlichen Gesprächen. Was das mit KI zu tun hat.«
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Überraschender Twist: Warum Firmen wieder zu klassischen Vorstellungsgesprächen einladen | t3n
In den vergangenen Jahren sind Vorstellungsgespräche zunehmend per Videocall geführt worden. Jetzt steuern große Konzerne wie Cisco, McKinsey oder Google zurück und laden wieder zu persönlichen Gesprächen. Was das mit KI zu tun hat. Virtuelle Vorstellungsgespräche sind in den vergangenen Jahren zur neuen Normalität bei der Jobsuche geworden – nicht zuletzt befeuert durch die Coronazeit. Damit […]

Tilted Material in an Optical Cavity: Light-Matter Moir\'e Effect and Coherent Frequency Conversion
Arshath Manjalingal, Saeed Rahmanian Koshkaki, Logan Blackham, Arkajit Mandal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11237

Tilted Material in an Optical Cavity: Light-Matter Moiré Effect and Coherent Frequency Conversion
Exciton-polaritons formed inside optical cavities offer a highly tunable platform for exploring novel quantum phenomena. Here, we introduce and theoretically characterize a light-matter moiré effect (LMME) that arises when a 2D material is tilted inside a planar optical cavity, in contrast to stacking multiple layers at a twist angle as is done in forming 2D moiré hetero-structures. We show that this geometric tilt produces emergent periodicity in the light-matter coupling, yielding displaced…

Fermi velocity and magic angle renormalization in twisted bilayer graphene
Miguel S\'anchez S\'anchez, Jos\'e Gonz\'alez, Tobias Stauber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12825

Fermi velocity and magic angle renormalization in twisted bilayer graphene
We discuss the Fermi-velocity renormalization in twisted bilayer graphene due to Coulomb exchange interaction within an atomistic tight-binding model. Adopting the Slater-Koster parametrization for the hopping parameters obtained from first principles, our results only depend on the effective dielectric constant $ε$ and the Hubbard-interaction $U$. The Fermi velocity of graphene increases twist-angle independent by $~25\%$ for $ε=10$ and $U=4eV$, leading to an increase by more than $100\%$ of…

Rotating twisted magnetosphere of magnetars: approximate analytical solutions
H. Tong, L. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10017 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.…

Rotating twisted magnetosphere of magnetars: approximate analytical solutions
An approximate analytical solution for the rotating twisted magnetosphere of magnetars is presented. The poloidal flux is approximated by the self-similar twisted dipole field. The toroidal field is obtained by the minimum torque model. Under this approximation, it is found that: (1) The Y-point radius decreases with the increase of twist of the magnetic field. (2) The polar cap is larger for larger twist. (3) The particle outflow luminosity is larger for larger twist. (4) The maximum accelerat…

Cowboys’ Micah Parsons Situation Comes With $130 Million Twist, per Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/micah-parsons-situation-twist-per-insider/?adt_ei=[email]

NEWSFLASH: Trump-Putin summit ends with…. sweet nothings?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/newsflash-trumpputin-summit-ends-with.html

Multi-critic Learning for Whole-body End-effector Twist Tracking
Aravind Elanjimattathil Vijayan, Andrei Cramariuc, Mattia Risiglione, Christian Gehring, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08656

Multi-critic Learning for Whole-body End-effector Twist Tracking
Learning whole-body control for locomotion and arm motions in a single policy has challenges, as the two tasks have conflicting goals. For instance, efficient locomotion typically favors a horizontal base orientation, while end-effector tracking may benefit from base tilting to extend reachability. Additionally, current Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches using a pose-based task specification lack the ability to directly control the end-effector velocity, making smoothly executing trajectori…

spherical helix as single twist coord #openscad #3dprinting

🎻 'Pathetic Excuse For a Man': Ex-Proud Boy Becomes Laughing Stock of MAGA Crowd As He Begs President to Help Him Feed His Family After Going to Jail So Trump Didn't Have To
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/07/12/ex-proud-boy-who-bragged-he-took-the-fall-for-trump-now-begs-him-for-help-feeding-his-family-but-maga-crown-turns-on-him-in-unexpected-twist/

Stable hopfions in trapped quantum droplets
Zibin Zhao, Guilong Li, Huanbo Luo, Bin Liu, Guihua Chen, Boris A. Malomed, Yongyao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10910

Stable hopfions in trapped quantum droplets
Hopfions are a class of three-dimensional (3D) solitons which are built as vortex tori carrying intrinsic twist of the toroidal core. They are characterized by two independent topological charges, \textit{viz}., vorticity $S$ and winding number $M$ of the intrinsic twist, whose product determines the \textit{Hopf number}, $Q_{H}=MS$, which is the basic characteristic of the hopfions. We construct hopfions as solutions of the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equations (GPEs) for Bose-Einstein condensates in …

Government that’s going all in on “AI” urges you to delete old emails and pictures to save water. You couldn’t make this shit up. https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115016993942039602

Natasha Jay (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image Did AI recommend this? In a new digital twist to environmental responsibility, the #UK government is now suggesting people to “Delete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought 🤪 This country ... (no words) https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-drought-group-meets-to-address-nationally-significant-water-shortfall

Transverse momentum asymmetry in the semi-inclusive electron positron annihilation process
Weihua Yang, Xing-hua Yang, Zhe Zhang, Jing Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14011 http…

Transverse momentum asymmetry in the semi-inclusive electron positron annihilation process
Hadronization, a non-perturbative process, cannot be calculated from first principles. It can be investigated either by phenomenological models or by examining the behavior of produced hadrons or through fragmentation functions. These fragmentation functions are non-perturbative quantities whose determination relies entirely on experimental data. However, higher-twist fragmentation functions present significant challenges for their determination due to power suppression. In this paper, we propo…

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Twist maps and codimension-1 spun embeddings
Shital Lawande, Kuldeep Saha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06168

Twist maps and codimension-1 spun embeddings
We study codimension $1$ embeddings preserving open book structures. In particular, we prove that every closed orientable 3-manifold admits a codimension-1 spun embedding in a finite connected sum of $S^2 \times S^2$s and $S^2 \tilde{\times} S^2$s. We discuss some explicit constructions of planar open books on 3-manifolds and their codimension $1$ spun embeddings. To construct these embeddings, we use sphere twist maps and push maps. We also give a simple proof for nontriviality of the twist ma…

at this tangle of empty delaware roads, there's a stop sign on every angle. your task is to ignore them all, drive through each twist and turn, till you locate the one that reads "pop". give it a hearty high five, and only then will it transform back into your long lost father

Generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work.
Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey,
companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.

After AI Led to Layoffs, Coders Are Being Hired to Fix 'Vibe-Coded' Screwups
Fire human, use AI, fire AI, hire human.

Double the turbines, double the power! New research shows that tiny counter-rotating wind turbines can generate 37% more energy, making them perfect for decentralized power sources. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Tiny turbines crack wind’s secret ‘twist’ for a giant 37% power boost
Researchers discover a revolutionary counter-rotating micro wind turbine system that generates significantly more power.

No dilute core produced in simulations of giant impacts on to #Jupiter: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/542/2/947/8238119?login=false -> The mystery at Jupiter's heart has taken a fresh twist – as new research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of its core: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/fresh-twist-mystery-jupiters-core

Frequency comb in twisted magnonic crystals
Minghao Li, Zhejunyu Jin, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Peng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10922 https://

Frequency comb in twisted magnonic crystals
While twisted magnonic crystals (MCs) have recently gained attention for their intriguing linear phenomena, such as magnon flat bands, their nonlinear dynamics -- particularly the generation of magnonic frequency combs (MFCs) -- have remained largely unexplored. In this work, we demonstrate the creation of MFCs in twisted MCs using two-tone microwave excitation. We find that finite twist angles significantly enhance three-magnon interactions, driven by the non-collinear ground-state magnetic co…

Tatuzawa's theorem for Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions
Gergely Harcos, Jesse Thorner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10844 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10844

Tatuzawa's theorem for Rankin-Selberg $L$-functions
Let $π$ and $π'$ be cuspidal automorphic representations of $\mathrm{GL}(n)$ and $\mathrm{GL}(n')$ with unitary central characters. We establish a new zero-free region for all $\mathrm{GL}(1)$-twists of the Rankin-Selberg $L$-function $L(s,π\timesπ')$, generalizing Tatuzawa's refinement of Siegel's work on Dirichlet $L$-functions. A crucial component of our proof is a new standard zero-free region for any twist of $L(s,π\times\widetildeπ)$ by an idele class character $χ$ apart from a pos…

New twist in bank investigator scam impersonating Ottawa Police
https://flip.it/IDkh9f

The knots people twist themselves into to defend Perplexity is super funny.
Motivated reasoning is one hell of a drug.

Correlated interlayer quantum Hall state in alternating twisted trilayer graphene
Dohun Kim, Gyeoul Lee, Nicolas Leconte, Seyoung Jin, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jeil Jung, Gil Young Cho, Youngwook Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10930

Correlated interlayer quantum Hall state in alternating twisted trilayer graphene
Trilayer graphene allows systematic control of its electronic structure through stacking sequence and twist geometry, providing a versatile platform for correlated states. Here we report magnetotransport in alternating twisted trilayer graphene with a twist angle of about 5$^{\circ}$. The data reveal an electron-hole asymmetry that can be captured by introducing layer-dependent potential shifts. At charge neutrality ($ν_{\mathrm{tot}}=0$), three low-resistance states appear, which Hartree-Fock…

Crystals and quantum twist automorphisms
Woo-Seok Jung, Euiyong Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01306 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.0130…

Crystals and quantum twist automorphisms
Let $η_w$ be the quantum twist automorphism for the quantum unipotent coordinate ring $\mathrm{A}_q(\mathfrak{n}(w))$ introduced by Kimura and Oya. In this paper, we study the quantum twist automorphism $η_w$ in the viewpoint of the crystal bases theory and provide a crystal-theoretic description of $η_w$. In the case of the $*$-twisted minuscule crystals of classical finite types, we provide a combinatorial description of $η_w$ in terms of (shifted) Young diagrams. We further investigate t…

Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions $f_{LT}(x)$ for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations
Shunzo Kumano, Kenshi Kuroki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05046

Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions $f_{LT}(x)$ for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations
Tensor-polarized twist-3 parton distribution functions (PDFs) $f_{LT}(x)$ are calculated for the spin-1 deuteron by using twist-2 relations, which are similar to the Wandzura-Wilczek relation and the Burkhardt-Cottingham sum rule in the spin-1/2 nucleon, together with tensor-polarized twist-2 PDFs $f_{1LL}(x)$. The PDFs are shown for $f_{LT}(x)$ at $Q^2 =2.5$ GeV$^2$, where the tensor-polarized PDFs $f_{1LL}(x)$ are provided. The $x$-dependence of $f_{LT}(x)$ is similar to $f_{1LL}(x)$, and the…

"When we say monumental, you had better believe it; the 500 pages of this volume, laid out with astonishing detail (and a very small font size) summarize the history and evolution of computers from 1945 to 1990. Throughout these pages, Waldrop reveals that the backbone, the axis, the arrow, the orientation, the mastermind of all that history was none other than Lick himself: he was the incarnation of the phrase “being at the right place at the right time”."

added the single twist cord style, which is what I was aiming for. Saw this at other basket makers, will add to my baskets. #openscad #3dprinting

Rotating frames from quantum deformed spacetime
Du\v{s}an {\DJ}or{\dj}evi\'c, Dragoljub Go\v{c}anin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11637 https://

Rotating frames from quantum deformed spacetime
In a sense of deformation quantization, noncommutative (NC) geometry introduces a quantum structure of spacetime. Using the twist-deformation formalism, we show that the dynamical effects of spacetime noncommutativity can amount to a transition to a rotating frame of reference. In particular, we study the dynamics of charged matter (scalars and spinors) on the background of Melvin's electric universe in the framework of NC gauge field theory. Melvin's electric/magnetic universe is a static, axi…

On $C^r$-generic twist maps of ${\rm T^2}$
Salvador Addas-Zanata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22190 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22190

On $C^r$-generic twist maps of ${\rm T^2}$
We consider twist diffeomorphisms of the torus, $f:{\rm T^2\rightarrow T^2,}$ and their vertical rotation intervals $ρ_V(\widehat{f})=[ρ_V^{-},ρ_V^{+}],$ where $\widehat{f}$ is a lift of $f$ to the vertical annulus or cylinder. We show that $C^r$-generically for any $r\geq 1$, both extremes of the rotation interval are rational and locally constant under $C^0$-perturbations of the map. Moreover, when $f$ is area-preserving, $C^r$-generically $ρ_V^{-}<ρ_V^{+}.$ Also, for any twist map $f$…

New report reveals Micah Parsons’ physical issue in surprising twist after Cowboys-Packers trade https://bolavip.com/en/nfl/new-report-reveals-micah-parsons-physical-issue-in-surprising-twist-after-cowboys-packers-trade

Elon Musk’s Secret Son in Kenya? | Man Demands DNA Test in Viral Twist 😱🧬
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZaQvG0cLtMA?si=AKhbxYNwDcPYEBHA

A refined twist on Hurwitz numbers
Rapha\"el Fesler, Marvin Anas Hahn, Maksim Karev, Hannah Markwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06188 https://arxiv.org…

The bridge index and the braid index for twist positive knots
Keisuke Himeno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23252 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23252

The bridge index and the braid index for twist positive knots
In this paper, we study the relationship between the bridge index and the braid index for twist positive knots. A knot is said to be twist positive if it admits a positive braid representative that contains at least one full twist. Motivated by a conjecture of Krishna and Morton, we investigate this relationship via the knot Floer torsion order. As a consequence, we show that the bridge index and the braid index coincide for all twist positive knots.

Update to my loftyassist product adventure, with a new twist.
At 116 users, 18 paid plans.
New twist? I might be getting hired by Lofty to do some contract work for them. Let's see what the terms look like, but if all looks good, I might be transferring over some of my lofty assist ideas onto lofty itself. Pretty funny turn of events.

Chirality transfer in lyotropic twist-bend nematics
Anna Ashkinazi, Hemani Chhabra, Anouar El Moumane, Maxime M. C. Tortora, Jonathan P. K. Doye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03544

Chirality transfer in lyotropic twist-bend nematics
Using molecular simulations and classical density functional theory, we study the liquid-crystalline phase behaviour of a series of bent rod-like mesogens with a controlled degree of chirality introduced through a twist at the centre of the particle. In the achiral limit, isotropic, uniaxial nematic, twist-bend nematic and smectic phases form as the packing fraction increases. On introducing chirality, the symmetry between the right- and left-handed twist-bend phases is broken. The phase with t…

How about we stop producing and using plastic? This is getting absurdily ridiculous..
"Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly."
These “plastivore…

These “plastivore” caterpillars can devour a plastic bag in just 24 hours
Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly.

When you dislike closed source software so much, you forget it’s #iPhone season and then September hits like a plot twist nobody asked for! 🤦 😔
#Apple #iPhone17

An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets.
https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/…

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up
Artists&Clients, a website for connecting artists with gigs, is down after a group called LunaLock threatened to feed their data to AI datasets.

Twist-angle tunable Josephson junctions in three-dimensional superconductors
Tenta Tani, Takuto Kawakami, Mikito Koshino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09551 https://

Twist-angle tunable Josephson junctions in three-dimensional superconductors
We theoretically investigate the superconducting phase and perpendicular Josephson supercurrent in twisted three-dimensional (3D) superconductors, where two layered 3D materials are stacked with a relative twist. We formulate the Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian and develop a self-consistent method to calculate the superconducting order parameter and the resulting supercurrent. Applying this framework to a toy model with Fermi surfaces located near the Brillouin zone corners, we demonstrate a p…

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Ruby Haunt:
🎵 Twist
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One-loop QCD corrections to SSA in unweighted Drell-Yan processes
Guang-Peng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11561 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11561…

One-loop QCD corrections to SSA in unweighted Drell-Yan processes
We study one-loop QCD corrections to the single transverse spin asymmetry in Drell-Yan process. The invariant mass of virtual photon and angular distributions of final lepton in Collins-Soper frame are measured. Especially, the transverse momentum of virtual photon is integrated out. Collinear twist-3 factorization formalism is adopted for the asymmetry. We use Feynman gauge in this work. To eliminate dependent twist-3 distribution functions, equation of motion for quark is used. We find that t…

Kling schreibt also auch Krimis, gefällig, eingängig und auch spannend. Wäre ich öfter zum Lesen gekommen, hätte ich sicher nicht so lange gebraucht. Der Twist war überraschend und die Gedanken dahinter beeindruckend und beunruhigend. Das Setting sehr zeitaktuell. #lesen #büchernase

An oldie, but goldie for this rainy Saturday — once going, the deep floating perma strings, hypnotic main sequence, the drops and later some minimal 303 accents add some twist/interestingness to some otherwise fairly standard deep house...
Nhar - Wisdom (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4sP0b5-UW

Quotes that have evolved over time to add a twist

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
The original first half is by Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think (1820).
The second half was made up by Twitter and then falsely attributed the entire quote to Oscar Wilde, it's still a great addition, I think.
Jack of all…

Helicity Fluxes and Hemispheric Helicity Rule of Active Regions Emerging from the Convection Zone Dynamo
V. V. Pipin, Shangbin Yang, A. G. Kosovichev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00309

Helicity Fluxes and Hemispheric Helicity Rule of Active Regions Emerging from the Convection Zone Dynamo
Using a 3D non-linear mean-field solar dynamo model, we investigate the magnetic helicity flux and magnetic twist, and tilt parameters of bipolar magnetic regions (BMRs) emerging from the solar convection zone due to the magnetic buoyancy instability. The twist and tilt of the BMR magnetic field are modeled as a result of an effective electromotive force along the rising part of the toroidal magnetic field. This force generates the poloidal field that tilts the whole magnetic configuration. We …

Spontaneous Twirls and Structural Frustration in Moir\'e Materials
Jingtian Shi, Gaurav Chaudhary, Allan H. MacDonald, Ivar Martin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10907 https://

Spontaneous Twirls and Structural Frustration in Moiré Materials
Structural twirls form spontaneously in the domain wall networks of some moiré materials. We show that in heterobilayers, neighboring twirl chiralities tend to anti-align, forming staggered patterns that are well described by antiferromagnetic lattice $ϕ^4$ theories. In moiré systems with triangular domains, this leads to frustration in the chirality configuration of the structural twirls and to hysteresis with respect to variation of the average twist angle and possibly other control parame…

Covering space maps for $n$-point functions with three long twists
Benjamin A. Burrington, Ida G. Zadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12512 https://

Covering space maps for $n$-point functions with three long twists
We consider correlation functions in symmetric product orbifold CFTs on the sphere, focusing on the case where all operators are single-cycle twists, and the covering surface is also a sphere. We directly construct the general class of covering space maps where there are three twists of arbitrary lengths, along with any number of twist-2 insertions. These are written as a ratio of sums of Jacobi polynomials with $ΔN+1$ coefficients $b_N$. These coefficients have a scaling symmetry $b_N\rightar…

Spatiotemporal dynamics of moir\'e excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
Giuseppe Meneghini, Samuel Brem, Ermin Malic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11812 https://

Spatiotemporal dynamics of moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
Heterostructures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unique opportunities in optoelectronics due to their strong light-matter interaction and the formation of dipolar interlayer excitons. Introducing a twist angle or lattice mismatch between layers creates a periodic moiré potential that significantly reshapes the energy landscape and introduces a high-dimensional complexity absent in aligned bilayers. Recent experimental advances have enabled direct observation and control of int…

I had skipped that video by Folding Ideas when it came out because I wasn’t interested in the topic. Saw it referred to in a blog post recently so I watched it. Highly recommended because *spoiler* of course there‘s a twist halfway through. Kinda like when he meticulously disproved the flat earth in another video.
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Comparison of Cohomological and K-theoretical Hall algebra
Felix K\"ung, \v{S}pela \v{S}penko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08417 https://

Comparison of Cohomological and K-theoretical Hall algebra
We give a more conceptual construction of a comparison algebra morphism from the K-theoretical Hall algebra to a twist of the cohomological Hall algebra associated to a symmetric quiver, and extend the result to quivers with potential.

Moir\'e dependent Chern insulators in twisted crystalline flatbands
Wenxuan Wang, Yijie Wang, Zaizhe Zhang, Zihao Huo, Gengdong Zhou, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, X. C. Xie, Kaihui Liu, Zhida Song, Xiaobo Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10875

Moiré dependent Chern insulators in twisted crystalline flatbands
In moiré crystals, the competition between different isospin configurations can be tuned by twist angles and stacking orders, forming various symmetry-broken states. Here we report twisted double rhombohedral-trilayer-gaphene as a new twisted crystalline flatbands system showing rich moiré dependent topological phenomena. For small twist angles, programmable Chern insulators with Chern number C = 3 at integer moiré filling v = 1 have been observed. We have further revealed multiple first-ord…

loved every counterintuitive twist in thomas gilbert's "how baseball happened," the weirdness of early #baseball set against the social/cultural worlds of 19th century #nyc/#brooklyn, a perfect complement to john thorn's "baseball in the garden of eden" & lucy sante's &quo…

A combination theorem for the twist conjecture for Artin groups
Oli Jones, Giorgio Mangioni, Giovanni Sartori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13971 https://

A combination theorem for the twist conjecture for Artin groups
We reduce a strong version of the twist conjecture for Artin groups to Artin groups whose defining graphs have no separating vertices. This produces new examples of Artin groups satisfying the conjecture, and sheds more light on the isomorphism problem for Artin groups. Along the way we also prove a combination result for the ribbon property for vertices.

Artists once worried about people downloading images. Today, AI has them so rattled that hackers are extorting them by threatening to submit their work to training datasets.
https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/02

I watched Tenet last night; it's an OK Time travelish film crossed with a spy thing.
A slight twist (which gives an opportunity for some fun special effects) With the normal mix of time confusion etc.
BBC iPlayer has it free for the next 13 days in the UK (which is how I watched it) - I'd been watching out for it since it got released during Covid and I wasn't going to go to a cinema for it.

Tenet
A hardened CIA agent is recruited into a mind-bending mystery with cause and effect ‘inverted’, so weapons can strike from the future. His suspect is a ruthless Russian oligarch.

Cowboys' offensive twist could favor KaVontae Turpin, Jadyon Blue https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-offensive-twist-could-favor-kavontae-turpin-jadyon-blue

The Moffatt-Pukhnachev flow: a new twist on an old problem
Antonio J. B\'arcenas-Luque, Mark G. Blyth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21525 https://arxiv.or…

The Moffatt-Pukhnachev flow: a new twist on an old problem
The flow of a thin viscous film on the outside of a horizontal circular cylinder, whose angular velocity is time-periodic with specified frequency and amplitude, is investigated. The constant angular velocity problem was originally studied by Moffatt (1977) and Pukhnachev (1977). Surface tension is neglected. The evolution equation for the film thickness is solved numerically for a range of oscillation amplitudes and frequency. A blow-up map charted in amplitude-frequency space reveals highly i…

This must be the ultimate #monsterdon
- monster? Check
- nuclear terror? Check
- hip soundtrack? Check
- unbearably bad acting? Check
- unbearably bad writing? Check
- unbearably bad voice-over? Check
- unbearably bad editing? Check
- long sequences of irrelevant stock footage? Check
- bizarre plot twist you didn't expect? Check
- solid inspiration to any aspiring film maker who thinks they aren't good enough or have budget enough or skills enough to gain eternal global distribution? Check
What more could you want?
"Monster a Go-Go" (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1965) - FULL MOVIE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=btJoXBIv2SI&si=nDLa-edc1VlFlerV

Supreme Court Just 'Calvinball Jurisprudence With A Twist,' Writes Justice Jackson - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/supreme-court-just-calvinball-jurisprudence-with-a-twist-writes-justice-jackson/

Bicharacter twists of quantum groups
Ian Martin, Alexander Tsymbaliuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10882 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10882

Bicharacter twists of quantum groups
We apply the general construction of a twist of bigraded Hopf algebras by skew bicharacters to obtain two-parameter quantum groups in the Drinfeld-Jimbo, new Drinfeld (for affine types), and FRT (for both finite and affine) presentations from their standard one-parameter versions. This yields new elementary proofs of the fundamental results on two-parameter quantum groups that appeared in the literature over the last two decades, and also leads to natural generalizations in the super and multip…

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.supr-con. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.supr-con/new
[1/1]:
- Ferromagnetic superconductivity with excitonic Cooper pairs: Application to $\Gamma$-valley twist...
Daniele Guerci, Liang Fu

A twist on the old Nigerian scam I hadn't seen before today

FWIW, I’ve yet to see any indication that the use of LLMs (pseudo-AI) has improved the quality of phishing as measured by how much gets past technical defenses.
LLMs are a great leveler. They produce median texts to fit their prompts. They cannot produce anything that requires creativity. They cannot produce high-quality fakes because they cannot produce high-quality anything. They are a play on the fact that 50% of people are at or below median cognitive capacity.

On a multiplicative non-Hecke twist of motivic L-functions
Heiko Knospe, Andrzej D\k{a}browski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02607 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

On a multiplicative non-Hecke twist of motivic L-functions
We investigate the twisting of motivic $L$-functions by a family of multiplicative characters $ψ$, defined on prime ideals $\mathfrak{p}$ via $ψ(p)=α^{N(\mathfrak{p})}$ for a fixed $α\in \mathbb{C}$. One can extend $ψ$ to a continuous non-Hecke character on the idele group of a number field. For $|α|<1$, the resulting $ψ$-twisted $L$-function has interesting analytic properties: an enhanced half-plane of absolute convergence, preservation of the Euler product structure, and mer…

Dispersion relations of deeply virtual Compton scattering: investigating twist-4 kinematic power corrections
V\'ictor Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez, C\'edric Mezrag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05059

Dispersion relations of deeply virtual Compton scattering: investigating twist-4 kinematic power corrections
In this paper we include kinematic power corrections up to twist-four to the deeply virtual Compton scattering dispersion relation. We demonstrate that, both for (pseudo-)scalar and spin-$1/2$ targets, the formal expression of the $n$-subtracted leading-twist dispersion relations is preserved. However, the expression of the subtracted constants is modified by the kinematic powers. Importantly, the minimal-subtracted dispersion relation for the helicity-conserving amplitude, previously thought t…

Billiards with singular invariant curves
Stefano Baranzini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08990 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08990…

Billiards with singular invariant curves
We investigate the regularity of invariant curves of rotation number $1/2$ for a special class of symplectic twist maps of the annulus, billiard maps. We construct strictly convex smooth tables close to the circle having singular (i.e. not $C^1$) invariant curves. Our method relies on a modification of the classical string construction and allows precise control over the location of singularities: they form a discrete set whose closure can contain virtually any closed subset of $\mathbb{S}^1$. …

How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog)
https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-bus…

Corruption and Control: How Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business | Tor Project
In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control. In an Orwellian twist, the people blocking access to the internet are the same ones secretly selling it back, at a price most Turkmens can't afford.

Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves in Quadratic Twist Families
Debanjana Kundu, Katharina Mueller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21339 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves in Quadratic Twist Families
In this article, we use two different approaches -- one algebraic and the other analytic -- to study the variation of Iwasawa invariants of rational elliptic curves in some quadratic twist families.

God, I loved this movie. I ugly cried so hard in the theater... especially the twist.

▶️ IF | Final Trailer (2024 Movie) - Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carrell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mb2187ZQtBE&si=uMC_d5B248gGSVyg

Glauber quark and gluon contributions to quark energy loss at next-to-leading order in the highly virtual regime
Amit Kumar, Gojko Vujanovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10743 htt…

Glauber quark and gluon contributions to quark energy loss at next-to-leading order in the highly virtual regime
The higher-twist (HT) formalism is used at $O(α^2_s)$ to compute all possible medium-induced single emission scattering kernels for an incoming highly virtual and energetic quark traversing the nuclear environment. The effects of the heavy-quark mass scale are taken into account [Phys. Rev. C 94, 054902 (2016)] both in the initial state as well as in the final state, along with interactions involving both in-medium Glauber gluons and quarks [Nucl. Phys. A 793, 128 (2007)], as well as coherence…

‘Plot twist!’ Trump admin ridiculed for hiring spree to refill purged weather service jobs - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/doge-nws/

Magnetically controlled double-twist director configuration of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals in cylinders: Energetics, topological defects, and instability
Junghoon Lee, Joonwoo Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20565

Magnetically controlled double-twist director configuration of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals in cylinders: Energetics, topological defects, and instability
We study experimentally how the double-twist (DT) configuration of cylindrically confined lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) responds to axial magnetic fields. Our director field model unveils the energetics behind the magnetic field-induced transition in the twist profile of the DT configuration. Additionally, we catalog three different types of topological defects -- residing between the DT domains of opposite handedness -- before and after the field application, and propose a new di…

Twist-angle transferable continuum model and second flat Chern band in twisted MoTe2 and WSe2
Xiao-Wei Zhang, Kaijie Yang, Chong Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Ting Cao, Di Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17673

Twist-angle transferable continuum model and second flat Chern band in twisted MoTe2 and WSe2
We develop a twist-angle transferable continuum model for twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (tTMD) homobilayers, using tMoTe2 and tWSe2 as examples. All model parameters are extracted from density functional theory (DFT) calculations at a single twist angle (3.89°) and monolayer data. Our model captures both lattice relaxation effects and the long-range behavior of piezoelectric and ferroelectric potentials. Leveraging lattice relaxations obtained via machine learning force fields (MLFFs…

Exchange and spin-orbit proximity driven topological and transport phenomena in twisted graphene/CrI$_3$ heterostructures
M. Jafari, M. Gmitra, A. Dyrda{\l}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11670

Exchange and spin-orbit proximity driven topological and transport phenomena in twisted graphene/CrI$_3$ heterostructures
We present results of comprehensive first-principles and kp-method studies of electronic, magnetic, and topological properties of graphene on a monolayer of CrI$_3$. First, we identify a twist angle between the graphene and CrI$_3$, that positions the graphene Dirac cones within the bandgap of CrI$_3$. Then, we derive the low-energy effective Hamiltonian describing electronic properties of graphene Dirac cones. Subsequently, we examine anomalous and valley Hall conductivity and discuss possible…

Rigidity of highly twisted plat diagrams
Nir Lazarovich, Yoav Moriah, Tali Pinsky, Jessica S. Purcell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07303 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Rigidity of highly twisted plat diagrams
In this paper we prove that if a knot or link has a sufficiently complicated plat projection, then that plat projection is unique. More precisely, if a knot or link has a $2m$-plat projection, where $m$ is at least four, and height at least two, and each twist region of the plat contains at least four crossings, then such a projection is unique up to obvious rotations. In particular, this projection gives a canonical form for such knots and links, and thus provides a classification of these lin…

The effects of knot topology on the collapse of active polymers
Davide Breoni, Emanuele Locatelli, Luca Tubiana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08391 https://…

The effects of knot topology on the collapse of active polymers
We use numerical simulations to study tangentially active flexible ring polymers with different knot topologies. Simple, unknotted active rings display a collapse transition upon increasing the degree of polymerization. We find that topology has a significant effect on the polymer size at which the collapse takes place, with twist knots collapsing earlier than torus knots. Increasing knot complexity further accentuates this difference, as the collapse point of torus knots grows linearly and tha…

Theoretical analysis of optical feedback-controlled emission of dual-wavelength lasers
Mathieu Ladouce, Pablo Marin-Palomo, Martin Virte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09246 https:/…

Theoretical analysis of optical feedback-controlled emission of dual-wavelength lasers
Dual and multi-wavelength lasers, i.e., lasers with the ability to emit at two or more wavelengths in a controlled fashion, represent an exciting new twist in laser physics. Harnessing the mode competition to control them better remains, however, a challenge. In this work, we numerically explore the effect of optical feedback on the emission properties of a dual-wavelength laser using a rate equation model. We focus on switching capability and investigate the impact of key laser and feedback pa…

Diverse high-Chern-number quantum anomalous Hall insulators in twisted rhombohedral graphene
Naitian Liu, Zhangyuan Chen, Jing Ding, Wenqiang Zhou, Hanxiao Xiang, Xinjie Fang, Linfeng Wu, Xiaowan Zhan, Le Zhang, Qianmei Chen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Na Xin, Shuigang Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11347

Diverse high-Chern-number quantum anomalous Hall insulators in twisted rhombohedral graphene
Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators with high Chern number (C) enables multiple dissipationless edge channels for low-power-consumption electronics. We report the realization of multiple high-C QAH insulators including C=3,5,6, and 7 in twisted monolayer-rhombohedral pentalayer graphene. In twist angles of approximately 1.40°, we observe QAH effect with C=5 at a filling of one electron per moiré unit cell, persisting up to 2 Kelvin. Furthermore, incommensurate QAH insulators with C=5,6, a…

Gravitational Photon Polarization Twist to Probe the Early Universe and the Galactic Center
Rodolfo Capdevilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05347 https://

Gravitational Photon Polarization Twist to Probe the Early Universe and the Galactic Center
It is known that gravitational wave backgrounds (GWBs) change the polarization state of photons. This letter explores the possibility of using this effect to detect GWBs. The proposed experiment features a vertically polarized laser pulse traveling through a GWB before reaching a birefringent material which separates photons by polarization. Photons that emerge the birefringent material horizontally polarized are counted as signal photons. A space-based setup of a million km (comparable to the …

Galois module structures and the Hasse principle in twist families via the distribution of Selmer groups
Alex Bartel, Adam Morgan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14026 https://

Galois module structures and the Hasse principle in twist families via the distribution of Selmer groups
We address several seemingly disparate problems in arithmetic geometry: the statistical behaviour of the Galois module structure of Mordell--Weil groups of a fixed elliptic curve over varying quadratic extensions; the frequency of failure of the Hasse principle in quadratic twist families of genus $1$ hyperelliptic curves; and the Hasse principle for Kummer varieties. The common technical ingredient for all of these is a result on the distribution of $2$-Selmer ranks in certain sparse families …

Randomly twisted bilayer graphene -- the cascade transitions
Baruch Horovitz, Pierre Le Doussal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07024 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508…

Randomly twisted bilayer graphene -- the cascade transitions
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) is known to have disorder in its twist angle. We show that in terms of a Dirac equation with a random gauge potential ${\bf A}({\bf r})$ this disorder becomes huge when the average twist angle is near the magic angle where the Dirac velocity vanishes. The density of states (DOS) then diverges at the Dirac point as $ρ(E)\sim E^{(2/z)-1}$ with $z\gg 1$ and we deduce that all electrons occupy energies very near $E=0$. We prove a sum rule on the disorder averaged eig…

Confinement Reveals Hidden Splay-Bend Order in Twist-Bend Nematics
Szymon Drzazga, Piotr Kubala, Lech Longa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21655 https://arxiv.…

Confinement Reveals Hidden Splay-Bend Order in Twist-Bend Nematics
Using extensive Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, we investigate how spatial confinement affects molecular organization within thin films of the nematic twist-bend ($\mathrm{N_{TB}}$) phase. Our simulations show that confinement markedly amplifies the otherwise elusive splay-bend order, primarily by suppressing the intrinsic three-dimensional heliconical structure characteristic of bulk $\mathrm{N_{TB}}$. Remarkably, when the $\mathrm{N_{TB}}$ phase is confined between…

The N$^3$LO Twist-2 Matching of Linearly Polarized Gluon TMDs
Yu Jiao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01703 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01703

The N$^3$LO Twist-2 Matching of Linearly Polarized Gluon TMDs
We compute the twist-2 matching of the transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) linearly polarized gluon parton distribution and fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in QCD, supplemented by next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) small-$x$ resummation for the gluon TMD fragmentation functions. These results provide high-precision fixed-order and resummed inputs to TMD phenomenology, and constitute essential theoretical ingredients for future studies of the sp…

Topological phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene as a function of the twist angle
Leonardo A. Navarro-Labastida, Pierre A. Pantaleon, Francisco Guinea, Gerardo G. Naumis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05341

Topological phase diagram of twisted bilayer graphene as a function of the twist angle
Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) hosts a rich landscape of electronic phases arising from the interplay between strong electron-electron interactions and nontrivial band topology. While the flat bands near zero energy are central to many correlated phenomena, their interaction with higher-energy remote bands remains less understood. Here, we investigate these hybridization processes as a function of the twist angle and analyze their impact on the charge distribution, topological properties such a…

The N$^3$LO Twist-2 Matching of Helicity TMDs and SIDIS $q_\ast$ Spectrum
Yu Jiao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01655 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01655

The N$^3$LO Twist-2 Matching of Helicity TMDs and SIDIS $q_\ast$ Spectrum
We compute the twist-2 matching of transverse momentum dependent (TMD) helicity parton distribution and fragmentation functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in QCD. This calculation entails the complete set of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (DGLAP) splitting functions govering the evolution of helicity-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) and fragmentation functions (FFs). Within TMD factorization framework, we qua…

Towards Large-Spin Effective Theory II: $O(2)$ model in $d=4-\epsilon$
Giulia Fardelli, A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Wei Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20160 https://

Towards Large-Spin Effective Theory II: $O(2)$ model in $d=4-ε$
We show how to construct a holographic effective theory for the leading-twist operators in the $O(2)$ model in the $4-d=ε$ expansion up to $O(ε^2)$, based on the separation of short-distance and long-distance effects that arises as a function of spin $J$. We obtain the Hamiltonian of the theory and show that it correctly reproduces all the dimensions at $O(ε^2)$ of the leading twist operators for all values of the charge $Q$ and spin $J$. The holographic Hamiltonian is given by the bulk exch…

Radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in commensurate twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers
Thomas Naimer, Paulo E. Faria Junior, Klaus Zollner, Jaroslav Fabian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10068

Radial Rashba spin-orbit fields in commensurate twisted transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers
In commensurate twisted homobilayers, purely radial Rashba spin-orbit fields can emerge. The observed in-plane spin textures are mostly radial, and the main features are successfully reproduced using a model Hamiltonian based on two effective mass models including spin-orbit coupling, and a general (spin-conserving) interlayer coupling. Extracting the model Hamiltonian parameters through fitting of several twisted supercells, we find a twist angle dependency of the magnitude of the radial Rashb…

Twist-Tunable Spin-to-Charge Conversion and Valley-Contrasting Effects in Graphene/TMDC Heterostructures
I. Wojciechowska, A. Dyrdal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00650

Twist-Tunable Spin-to-Charge Conversion and Valley-Contrasting Effects in Graphene/TMDC Heterostructures
We consider graphene deposited on monolayers of such transition-metal dichalcogenides like MoSe$_2$, WSe$_2$, MoS$_2$, and WS$_2$. Our key objective is to study the impact of relative twist angle between the monolayers on the proximity-induced spin-orbital effects and orbital phenomena in graphene. To do this we used an effective model Hamiltonian for low-energy states, taken from available literature. The Green function formalism is used to calculate analytical formula for the spin Hall effect…

Probing $a_0(1450)$-meson leading-twist distribution amplitude and its effects to $D\to a_0(1450)\ell \nu_{\ell}$
Ya-Lin Song, Yin-Long Yang, Ye Cao, Xue Zheng, Hai-Bing Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21750

Probing $a_0(1450)$-meson leading-twist distribution amplitude and its effects to $D\to a_0(1450)\ell ν_{\ell}$
In this paper, we investigate the semileptonic decay $D \to a_0(1450)\ell ν_{\ell}$ with $\ell=(e, μ)$ using QCD light-cone sum rules. For the scalar meson $a_0(1450)$, we treat it as a $q\bar{q}$ state and construct two distributed distribution schemes based on the light-cone harmonic oscillator model, then present their moments $\langleξ^{n}_{2;a_0}\rangle |_μ$ and Gegenbauer moments $a_{n;a_0}(μ)$ at $μ_0=1~\mathrm{GeV}$ and $μ_k= 1.4~\mathrm{GeV}$ for $n=(1,3,5)$. In the large r…

Dirac quantum criticality in twisted double bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
Jan Biedermann, Lukas Janssen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04561 https://

Dirac quantum criticality in twisted double bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides
We investigate the phase diagram of moiré double bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides with ABBA stacking as a function of twist angle and applied pressure. At hole filling $ν= 2$ per moiré unit cell, the noninteracting system hosts a Dirac semimetal with graphene-like low-energy bands in the moiré Brillouin zone. At small twist angles, the Fermi velocity is reduced and interactions dominate the low-temperature behavior. A strong-coupling analysis identifies insulating ferromagnetic and …