Disciplines / Research questions
Physics
691 research topics · 2739 questions
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Unusual finite-correlation-length corrections to block entanglement in massive one-dimensional systems: dominant primaries and amplitudes, validity beyond integrability, crossover, and other measures
Entanglement-entropy program for Forrester–Baxter RSOS models beyond regime III: universality classes of the remaining regimes, logarithmic-limit entropy normalization, finite-interval lattice methods, and integrable extensions to coset models and multipartite measures
Momentum-resolved entanglement spectra from corner transfer matrices
The Physical Nature of Dark Energy and the Mystery of Antimatter Loss6 questions
Microscopic foundation and late-time dynamics of the Schwarzian-ensemble cosmological constant
Open for less than 1 yearDoes the highly suppressed detection probability of primordial antimatter survive a complete quantum-field-theoretic treatment and quantitatively explain the matter-antimatter asymmetry?
Open for about 4 yearsRealistic multi-flavor completion and full experimental testability of quasi-Dirac leptogenesis
Open for about 6 yearsLeptogenesis from low-energy violation alone: naturalness, -matrix classification, and predictive –observable relations
Open for about 24 yearsIs dark energy evolving? Robustness, functional form, and model selection for the DESI DR2 + Pantheon+ + cosmic-chronometer preference for dynamical dark energy
Open for about 28 yearsSurvival and collapse of primordial antimatter domains into antistars, and their observable annihilation signatures
Open for about 33 years
Properties of dark matter1 questions
Multiwavelength detection of dark matter annihilation signals6 questions
Can dark matter annihilation jointly explain the Galactic Center and M31 gamma-ray excesses? Identification or exclusion under controlled systematics
Open for about 5 yearsUnmeasured magnetic fields and electron transport in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: the limiting systematic for radio dark-matter searches in Reticulum II
Open for about 13 yearsThe survival of the dark-matter interpretation of the Fermi-LAT Galactic center excess under consolidated gamma-ray, antiproton, and positron constraints
Open for about 5 yearsSensitivity optimization of the dark-matter Hα recombination-line search in gas-rich dwarf galaxies: matched filtering, Balmer-line discrimination, and stacked ELT forecasts
Open for less than 1 yearViability of annihilating dark matter as the origin of the cosmic-ray positron excess under quantified multi-messenger constraints
Open for about 17 yearsRobustness of annihilating dark matter constraints from radio continuum spectra of star-forming dwarf galaxies
Open for about 5 years
The eight-vertex model and XYZ quantum chain correspondence2 questions
Explicit form factors of local operators for generic eigenstates of the XYZ chain: solving the cascade system for imbalanced scalar products in the generalized algebraic Bethe ansatz
Open for about 6 yearsRigorous foundations of Baxter's relation for the generic periodic spin- XYZ chain: , completeness, and singular solutions
Critical singularities of the eight-vertex model2 questions
Symmetry of the Eight-Vertex Model3 questions
Multicritical structure and emergent symmetries of the interacting Majorana chain with competing interactions
Open for about 3 yearsCritical behavior of the eight-vertex model in a field beyond the c=d subspace: robustness of weak universality and the electric critical exponents
Open for about 10 yearsSymmetry operators generalizing the Chevalley generators, and the underlying symmetry algebra, of the eight-vertex model at elliptic roots of unity
Lattice supersymmetry in the eight-vertex model3 questions
Prove the inhomogeneous eigenvalue formula for the supersymmetric eight-vertex model on a strip (Hagendorf–Liénardy Conjecture 5.1)
Open for about 6 yearsThe inhomogeneous eigenvalue conjecture for the periodic supersymmetric eight-vertex model
Ground state of the supersymmetric XYZ spin chain: unconditional proof of the Bazhanov–Mangazeev, Razumov–Stroganov and Zinn-Justin eigenvector, sum-rule and positivity conjectures
The phase diagram of the eight-vertex model3 questions
Phase diagram and optimal threshold of the random alternating eight-vertex model for the toric code under depolarizing noise
Open for about 14 yearsUniversality classes and electric critical exponents of the eight-vertex model in external fields beyond the subspace
Open for about 10 yearsCritical behaviour of the planar Ashkin–Teller model: rigorous critical exponents and the order of the transitions
Star–triangle and Yang–Baxter relations in the eight-vertex model2 questions
The free energy of the eight-vertex model4 questions
Commuting transfer matrices for the odd eight-vertex model with asymmetric weights: the free-fermion manifold and the staggered two-Lax-operator product
Open for about 8 yearsLow-lying excited states of the eight-vertex model with an odd number of lattice sites
Open for about 20 yearsProof of the inhomogeneous eigenvalue conjecture for the supersymmetric eight-vertex model on a strip with open boundary conditions (Hagendorf–Liénardy Conjecture 5.1)
Open for about 6 yearsRigorous proof of the Baxter–Kelland spontaneous-polarization formula of the eight-vertex model
Spectral structure model and experimental validation of semiconductor lasers6 questions
Microscopic origin of the gain-saturation parameters governing longitudinal mode competition in (Al,In)GaN laser diodes
Open for about 11 yearsSystematic mode-truncation control and noise-driven mode dynamics in longitudinal-mode analysis of multisection semiconductor lasers
Open for about 22 yearsGeneralizing the revisited semiconductor-laser linewidth theory: carrier noise, gain coupling, and power-profile fluctuations
Open for about 5 yearsCompleting the Wigner-function quantum-Boltzmann model of quantum-well semiconductor lasers: microscopic scattering and carrier capture, stochastic spontaneous emission, dynamical operation, and experimental validation
Open for about 21 yearsDirect experimental verification of the predicted semiconductor-laser line forms and extension of the amplitude-fluctuation line-form model to VCSEL and microcavity lasers
Open for about 14 yearsSidemode coupling and fiber-dispersion corrections to model-based delayed self-heterodyne linewidth measurement of Littrow external-cavity diode lasers
Open for less than 1 year
Electronic States and Luminescence Behavior in Semiconductor Nanocomposite Structures3 questions
Origin of the infrared-excitation-induced red shift of two-photon luminescence in CdTe quantum dots embedded in porous silicon oxide
Open for about 15 yearsRestoring the stoichiometry of ZnSe quantum dots in melt-quenched glass by selenium-rich processing and determining the role of the Zn/Se ratio in band-gap formation
Open for about 11 yearsMicroscopic origin and energetic assignment of the in-gap defect states underlying broadband photodetection in bicrystalline (GaN)1-x(ZnO)x solid-solution nanowires
Open for about 21 years
All-optical buffer containing address information4 questions
Network-scale analysis of WDM loop-buffer optical packet switches: multi-hop circulation budgets, regeneration placement, and end-to-end loss, delay, and cost
Open for about 19 yearsScaling and error-rate quantification of four-wave-mixing-based all-optical recognition of double 2D-OOC labels for optical packet switching
Open for about 15 yearsPerformance envelope of power-encoded variable all-optical packet buffering based on self-phase-modulation-induced spectral broadening: power budget, coherence, delay granularity, and selector alternatives
Open for about 15 yearsFully all-optical operation of the polarization-bistable-VCSEL header-recognition packet switch: replacing the electrical control path with SOA-MZI elements and experimentally characterizing multi-bit OSNR and extinction-ratio degradation
Open for about 11 years
Boundary Bethe Ansatz3 questions
Nested algebraic Bethe ansatz for open gl(m|n) spin chains beyond NABA couples: general boundary matrices and the Bethe-vector structure theory
Baxter Q-operator for the open -model with arbitrary boundary fields
Rigorous completeness of the boundary-parameter Q-system for the open Heisenberg spin chain: the open-chain analogue of the Mukhin–Tarasov–Varchenko theorem
Boundary bound states2 questions
Interacting edge zero modes, the boundary-field phase diagram, and the status of branch-mixed boundary strings in the sine-Gordon/massive Thirring model with Dirichlet boundaries
Complete Bethe-ansatz classification of localized many-body bound states and their bound-states-in-the-continuum windows in the interacting open lattice
Boundary free energy3 questions
Generic-weight thermodynamics of the six-vertex model in an L-shaped domain
Quenched surface disorder at the two-dimensional critical Ising surface: proving marginal irrelevance and the exact logarithmic correction structure of surface free energies and critical Casimir quantities
Rigorous derivation of the conjectured surface and corner free energies of the anisotropic triangular-lattice Ising model, and resolution of the corner-factor gauge ambiguity
Surface plasmons and quantum information6 questions
Extending surface-plasmon-polariton-mediated quantum teleportation beyond single-qubit polarization transfer
Open for about 6 yearsStrong coherent coupling between single NV-centre spins and single surface plasmon polariton modes at room temperature
Open for about 17 yearsCompleting the microscopic Power-Zienau-Woolley quantum theory of surface plasmon polaritons: dissipation, gauge consistency under modal truncation, layered geometries, open-system emitter dynamics, and ultrastrong-coupling phenomenology
Open for less than 1 yearComplete quantum theory of surface-plasmon polariton scattering at metal–dielectric interfaces: evanescent-mode observables, reciprocity, and multimode wave packets
Open for about 16 yearsQuantum decoherence of surface plasmon polaritons in the near-plasmon-resonance regime: testing the linear uncorrelated Markovian loss model
Open for about 14 yearsOptical opacity of a single quantum emitter to individual plasmons: the quantum-nonlinear regime and integrated quantum devices from emitter–metallic-nanowire coupling
Open for about 19 years
Study on the kinetic processes of ice surface melting7 questions
Microscopic foundations and experimental validation of the mesoscopic kinetic theory of ice growth from premelting films and condensing droplets
Open for about 5 yearsCold self-lubrication of sliding ice: is displacement-driven amorphization the dominant liquefaction mechanism in realistic sliding, and what is its quantitative domain of applicability?
Open for about 2 yearsModel-robust transition dynamics and metastable states during premelting and freezing of ice Ih surfaces
Open for about 3 yearsDynamical inhomogeneity of quasi-liquid layers on ice: characteristic domain scale, vapor-pressure dependence, temperature-robust classification, and fast solid-like/liquid-like switching
Open for about 2 yearsComplete versus partial wetting of ice by brine at the ice-brine-vapor three-phase line: the open-ensemble fate of salt-enhanced premelting films
Open for less than 1 yearMass-transfer kinetics, molecular structure, and ice–vapor interfacial energetics of the two kinetically formed quasi-liquid layers (α- and β-QLLs) on ice crystal surfaces
Open for about 10 yearsLayer-resolved dynamics, transport, and dynamical arrest of the quasi-liquid layer on the surface of ice
Open for about 7 years
Ice Rule3 questions
Exact residual entropies of hexagonal and cubic ice: largest eigenvalues of the layer transfer matrices , , and
Open for about 90 yearsGround-state manifold and residual entropy of the checkerboard-lattice Ising model with crossing and four-spin interactions beyond its three integrable points
Open for about 41 yearsUniversal validity of Pauling's residual entropy estimate for regular graphs with growing degree
Open for about 2 years
Does environmental dephasing of a wavefunction saturate at low temperatures?5 questions
Origin of the anomalously weak temperature dependence of the magnetic dephasing rate of Kondo impurities in AgFe wires below
Open for about 19 yearsMicroscopic origin of the saturated low-temperature electron dephasing rate in indium tin oxide thin films, with the companion spin-orbit and granular weak-localization anomalies of low-carrier-density conducting oxides
Open for about 29 yearsNonperturbative long-time Cooperon behavior for a purely diffusive (non-Markovian) bath in disordered quasi-one-dimensional fermion systems
Open for about 6 yearsApparent low-temperature saturation of the electron dephasing time from trapping in non-uniform disordered conductors: solving and testing the virtual-electron-trap mechanism
Open for about 24 yearsMicroscopic origin of the anomalous low-temperature dephasing in a disordered AlGaN/GaN two-dimensional electron gas grown on Si(111)
Open for about 13 years
Glassy dynamics and mechanisms of the glass transition3 questions
Parameter-free validation of stochastic beta-relaxation theory for realistic supercooled liquids
Open for about 3 yearsCan the eigen microstate entropy identify and characterize dynamical arrest in glass-forming systems?
Open for less than 1 yearRandom pinning and the glass transition: finite-dimensional fate and universality of pinning-induced singularities in thermodynamic versus purely kinetic glass formers
Open for about 14 years
Parameterized star–triangle relations3 questions
Systematic classification of singular limits of the Bazhanov–Sergeev master solution of the star-triangle relation
Open for about 13 yearsStrong-coupling parent of the lens elliptic star-triangle relation and the pentagon interpretation of its limit
Open for about 11 yearsAuxiliary-weight elimination and the general Yang–Baxter equation in the spin-to-vertex embedding of integrable lattice models
Open for about 1 year
Physical implementation of superconducting qubits and solid-state quantum computing4 questions
Microscopic decoherence budget of the high-coherence fluxonium qubit: dielectric loss, quasiparticles, and chain-mode thermalization
Open for about 7 yearsQuasiparticle two-level systems from superconducting gap fluctuations: quantitative strength, dirty-limit trap theory, microscopic origin, and population dynamics
Open for about 6 yearsMicroscopic origin, prevalence, and elimination of Sisyphus defects (Coulomb-blockaded metallic grains) in superconducting quantum circuits
Open for less than 1 yearMicroscopic origin and elimination of single two-level-defect (TLS/TLF) decoherence in superconducting transmon qubits
Open for about 7 years
Challenges in SQUID applications and ultrahigh-density photons3 questions
Low-frequency noise scaling in SQUID arrays beyond the ideal (20,20) homogeneous benchmark: array size, junction disorder, and microscopic origin
Open for about 2 yearsBEC, BKT, or KPZ: classifying the condensed phase of the electrically pumped semiconductor photon gas in a planar microresonator
Open for about 6 yearsMicroscopic origin of low-frequency excess flux noise and its anomalous temperature dependence in dc SQUIDs with sub-micrometer Josephson junctions
Open for about 39 years
The Mystery of Supersymmetric Dark Matter1 questions
Does supersymmetry exist?3 questions
Origin of the muon anomalous magnetic moment (g−2) discrepancy: Standard Model hadronic uncertainties or TeV-scale new physics?
Open for about 25 yearsIs maximal , supergravity ultraviolet finite to all orders of perturbation theory?
Open for about 19 yearsOrigin of the suppressed high-scale GUT threshold corrections required by precision gauge-coupling unification, and explicit unified-model embedding of its superpartner spectra
Open for about 2 years
Ultra-high-density photons1 questions
Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray neutrino experiment searching for evidence oscillating to -type neutrinos2 questions
Energy-Resolved Three-Flavor Composition of the TeV-PeV Astrophysical Neutrino Flux: Enlarging the Tau-Tagged Sample and Testing Energy Dependence in IceCube
Open for about 15 yearsBreaking the primary-versus-secondary tau-neutrino degeneracy in ultra-high-energy neutrino flavor measurements
Open for about 4 years
Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray neutrino search3 questions
The origin of the ultra-high-energy neutrino event KM3-230213A and the diffuse flux it implies
Open for about 1 yearAngular distribution of secondary neutrinos in tachyonic three-body decay and its impact on ultra-high-energy neutrino–photon coincidence
Open for about 2 yearsOrigin of the emerging neutrino flux above 5 PeV: single power-law continuation or ultrahigh-energy-cosmic-ray production, and the high-rigidity proton population it requires
Open for about 1 year
New physics in hypernuclei8 questions
Consistent N²LO determination of charge symmetry breaking in the ΛN interaction from the ⁴_ΛHe–⁴_ΛH mirror system, its experimental inputs, and its few-body consequences
Open for about 5 yearsPrecision Λ-separation energies of light hypernuclei (A ≤ 16): settling the hypertriton binding energy and mapping charge-symmetry breaking of the ΛN interaction
Open for about 10 yearsEmpirical and microscopic determination of universal hyperonic many-body repulsion: fixing the -wave degeneracy and the / three-body force from joint hypernuclear, scattering, and neutron-star constraints
Open for about 9 yearsRobustness and microscopic origin of the single- to double- binding-deviation correlation calibrating interaction energies
Open for less than 1 yearUnambiguous identification of the MINO double-Λ Be hypernucleus and statistical determination of the ΛΛ interaction from the J-PARC E07 emulsion event sample
Open for about 7 yearsValidating the LO pionless-EFT N+NN hypernuclear Hamiltonian beyond the shell: -shell binding, the dense-matter potential, and EFT systematics
Open for about 8 yearsThe hypertriton binding-energy puzzle: a definitive and a consistent / interaction set for the -shell hypernuclei
Open for about 68 yearsConsistent chiral hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-nucleon-nucleon forces for predictive ab initio spectroscopy of p-shell hypernuclei
Open for about 11 years
The superintegrable chiral Potts model3 questions
Coupled Temperley-Lieb algebra route to the superintegrable chiral Potts chain: exact spectrum (open boundaries), representations, diagrammatic completeness, and Baxterization
Exact finite-distance correlation functions of the superintegrable chiral Potts spin chain and the Fabricius–McCoy nearest-neighbour conjecture
One-determinant form factors for the Weyl generators and finite-lattice derivation of the order-parameter formulae in the Bazhanov–Stroganov and chiral Potts models
The BCS–BEC crossover in ultracold Fermi gases8 questions
Bias-controlled nonperturbative benchmarks for the two-dimensional Fermi gas across the BCS-BEC crossover and their quantitative mapping to quasi-2D experiments
Open for about 15 yearsConfinement-induced modifications of many-body observables in the strongly interacting quasi-2D BEC-BCS crossover
Open for about 11 yearsFermi-liquid breakdown in the BCS-BEC crossover normal state: temperature dependence of the vanishing quasiparticle residue, the incoherent spectral background, and the balanced-gas-Fermi-polaron similarity
Open for about 11 yearsThe pseudogap regime of the BCS-BEC crossover: pairing temperature versus the superfluid transition in the two-component Fermi gas
Open for about 22 yearsPair condensation of the trapped spin-polarized Fermi gas across the BCS–BEC crossover: beyond-mean-field condensate fraction and superfluid–normal phase boundary with an interacting normal shell
Open for about 12 yearsPairing-gap discrepancy and Goldstone-mode–pair-breaking coupling in the BEC-BCS crossover of a homogeneous ultracold Fermi gas
Open for about 5 yearsQuantum-fluctuation corrections to the finite-temperature phase diagram of the two-dimensional mass-imbalanced Fermi-Fermi mixture
Open for about 8 yearsGround-state pairing structure and equation of state of the mass-imbalanced resonant Li--K Fermi gas across the BCS--BEC crossover
Open for about 17 years
Color superfluidity in ultracold Fermi atoms6 questions
Finite-Dimensional Fate of the Color-Superfluid–Trion Transition in the Attractive Three-Component (SU(3)) Hubbard Model
Open for about 19 yearsFinite-density and finite-temperature phase diagram of the three-dimensional three-component Fermi gas near the in-medium triatomic resonance
Open for about 5 yearsRobustness of the color-selective Mott transition and the repulsion-driven color superfluid of three-component fermionic atoms under harmonic trapping and finite-dimensional lattice geometry
Open for about 16 yearsUnresolved extensions of color superfluidity in three-component ultracold fermions with color-orbit and color-flip fields: Efimov trimers, nonuniform (LOFF) phases, fluctuation corrections to the critical temperature, trap effects, and unequal interactions with finite detuning
Open for about 8 yearsStability and realizability of quintuplet-paired color superfluidity in three-color Fermi gases beyond mean field
Open for about 7 yearsRobustness and observability of the unpaired-color pseudogap in strongly coupled three-component color superfluids
Open for about 13 years
Ultracold polar molecular gases4 questions
Phase identity, inter-droplet coherence, and stabilization mechanism of self-bound droplets in strongly dipolar microwave-dressed molecular gases
Open for about 2 yearsResidual two-body loss and the road from microwave-shielded degeneracy to topological -wave superfluidity in fermionic polar-molecule gases
Open for about 4 yearsPauli suppression of atom–molecule collisions and atom-bath evaporative cooling in the quantum degenerate NaK–K mixture
Open for about 4 yearsOpen problems in microwave shielding of ultracold polar molecules on the n = 1 → 2 rotational transition: the high-Rabi non-universal regime, extension to higher transitions, robustness to imperfections, and experimental realization
Open for less than 1 year