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QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
This paper does not present a new physics result so much as it documents and motivates a major piece of scientific infrastructure: QUANTUM ESPRESSO,...
Fast unfolding of communities in large networks
This paper addresses a core problem in network science: how to detect community structure in very large graphs quickly, while still producing...
<i>Colloquium</i>: Topological insulators
This Reviews of Modern Physics “Colloquium” article by M. Zahid Hasan and C. L. Kane addresses a broad research question rather than a single narrow...
Canonical sampling through velocity rescaling
This paper addresses a central problem in molecular dynamics (MD): how to generate trajectories that sample the canonical (constant number of...
Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces
This paper addresses a central problem in density functional theory (DFT) for solids: common generalized gradient approximations (GGAs), especially...
Community detection in graphs
Santo Fortunato’s Physics Reports review, “Community detection in graphs” (2009), addresses a deceptively simple research question: how can one...
Double-slit photoelectron interference in strong-field ionization of the neon dimer
This Nature Communications paper asks whether the classic “molecular double-slit” idea—interference between electron wave packets emitted coherently...
Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices
This Nature paper asks whether magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene (TBG)—a two-dimensional moiré superlattice formed by stacking two graphene sheets...
THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE): MISSION DESCRIPTION AND INITIAL ON-ORBIT PERFORMANCE
This paper describes the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission and reports its initial on-orbit performance. The central “research...
Well-Tempered Metadynamics: A Smoothly Converging and Tunable Free-Energy Method
This paper addresses a central problem in molecular simulation: how to compute the free-energy surface (FES) as a function of a small set of...
The Banana Bridge - The Unitary Kinematic Solution to the Hubble Tension and the 1.618 x 137 Master Law
This paper addresses a central problem in observational cosmology: how to convert geometric distance measurements in the Milky Way into an accurate...
DESI 2024 VII: cosmological constraints from the full-shape modeling of clustering measurements
This DESI Collaboration paper asks how well cosmological parameters can be constrained when one goes beyond the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO)...
Extended dark energy analysis using DESI DR2 BAO measurements
This paper asks whether the late-time acceleration of the Universe is consistent with a cosmological constant (ΛCDM) or instead requires dynamical...
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon in the Standard Model: an update
This Physics Reports white paper update addresses a central question in precision particle physics: what is the Standard Model (SM) prediction for...
Exploring superconductivity under strong coupling with the vacuum electromagnetic field
This paper investigates whether superconductivity can be enhanced when the relevant lattice vibrations of a superconductor are placed in the...
New constraints on interacting dark energy from DESI DR2 BAO observations
This paper asks how new Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) measurements from DESI Data Release 2 (DR2) constrain models in which dark energy (DE) and...
KiDS-Legacy: Cosmological constraints from cosmic shear with the complete Kilo-Degree Survey
This paper asks how well the completed Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) can constrain late-time structure growth and cosmology using cosmic shear,...
Cosmology in Extended Parameter Space with DESI Data Release 2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A 2<i>σ</i>+ Detection of Nonzero Neutrino Masses with an Update on Dynamical Dark Energy and Lensing Anomaly
This paper asks whether recent large-scale-structure measurements from DESI Data Release 2 (DR2) BAO, when combined with CMB, supernovae, and...
A remarkable ruby: Absorption in dense gas, rather than evolved stars, drives the extreme Balmer break of a little red dot at <i>z</i> = 3.5
This paper investigates the origin of the extreme rest-optical spectral feature known as the Balmer break in a compact, red, high-redshift galaxy...
Orthogonal splitting of the Riemann curvature tensor and its implications in modeling compact stellar structures
This paper asks how to quantify “complexity” inside compact stellar objects when gravity is modeled not by standard general relativity (GR) but by...
Challenging the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>Λ</mml:mi></mml:math>CDM model: 5<mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>σ</mml:mi></mml:math> evidence for a dynamical dark energy late-time transition
This paper addresses a central question in modern cosmology: is dark energy (DE) consistent with a cosmological constant ( \(w=-1\)) or does it...
Towards a non-singular paradigm of black hole physics
This paper, “Towards a non-singular paradigm of black hole physics” (J. Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2025), is not a single new theoretical...
Constraints on neutrino physics from DESI DR2 BAO and DR1 full shape
This paper asks how well current large-scale structure (LSS) measurements can constrain neutrino properties—specifically the sum of neutrino masses...
exoALMA. III. Line-intensity Modeling and System Property Extraction from Protoplanetary Disks
This paper addresses a practical but scientifically central question in protoplanetary disk spectroscopy: how can we reliably extract the physical...
exoALMA. XII. Weighing and Sizing exoALMA Disks with Rotation Curve Modelling
This paper addresses a central problem in protoplanetary disk physics: how to measure fundamental disk properties—stellar mass, gas (disk) mass, and...
exoALMA. II. Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline
This paper, “exoALMA. II. Data Calibration and Imaging Pipeline” (Loomis et al. 2025), addresses a practical but scientifically central question: how...
Modified Gravity Realizations of Quintom Dark Energy after DESI DR2
This paper asks whether the “quintom” form of dynamical dark energy—specifically an equation-of-state (EoS) parameter that crosses the phantom divide...
Independent connection in action during inflation
This paper asks whether the inflationary epoch can be explained without introducing an ad hoc inflaton sector, by instead using a dynamical affine...
Enhancement of primordial curvature perturbations in <i>R</i> <sup>3</sup> -corrected Starobinsky-Higgs inflation
This paper studies whether a higher-curvature correction to the Starobinsky-Higgs (Higgs–\(R^2\)) inflation model can simultaneously (i) fit CMB...
Krylov complexity as an order parameter for quantum chaotic-integrable transitions
This paper asks whether a specific feature of Krylov complexity—its “Krylov complexity peak” (KCP)—can serve as an order parameter for the transition...
exoALMA. VI. Rotating under Pressure: Rotation Curves, Azimuthal Velocity Substructures, and Gas Pressure Variations
This paper asks whether small-scale deviations from Keplerian rotation in protoplanetary disks—measured with ALMA at high angular and spectral...
From a Different Star: 3I/ATLAS in the Context of the Ōtautahi–Oxford Interstellar Object Population Model
This Astrophysical Journal Letters paper asks how the newly discovered third interstellar object (ISO), 3I/ATLAS (“3I”), fits within a physically...
-dual quintessence, the Swampland, and the DESI DR2 results
This paper asks whether a specific class of quintessence dark-energy models—constructed to respect an “S-duality” symmetry—can simultaneously (i)...
Neutrino Electromagnetic Properties
This Annual Review article, “Neutrino Electromagnetic Properties” (Giunti, Kouzakov, Li, Studenikin, 2025), addresses a central question in neutrino...