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691 research topics · 2739 questions
Quantum states and their teleportation4 questions
Which graphs are suitable for quantum teleportation: graph-structural characterization of teleportation resources in quantum-walk protocols
Open for about 9 yearsTeleportation-based quantum state tomography: the continuous-variable extension and minimal resources for structured states
Open for less than 1 yearA coincidence-time-loophole-free criterion for certifying quantum teleportation: the Clauser-Horne analogue beyond averaged fidelity
Open for about 5 yearsMinimal classical communication cost for non-classical quantum teleportation fidelity
Open for about 14 years
Some unresolved issues in quantum phase transitions and quantum entanglement5 questions
Local relaxation, persistent memory, and the entanglement barrier after interacting quantum quenches
Open for about 18 yearsCorrelated fractional-quantum-Hall-like phases in artificial-gauge-field optical lattices: formation, preparation, and detection in the many-body regime
Open for about 21 yearsKibble–Zurek scaling for slow quenches across an extended gapless region between two quantum phase transitions
Open for about 18 yearsPair superfluidity in pair-hopping Bose-Hubbard models: two-particle correlator asymptotics, insulator-to-pair-condensate criticality, and phase boundaries beyond mean field
Open for about 19 yearsScalable, noise-robust generation and certification of multipartite entanglement in optical lattices using only local interactions and lattice driving
Open for about 6 years
Quantum chip3 questions
Processor-scale photonic links for superconducting-qubit control and readout: optical dissipation, cryogenic multiplexing, link noise, and background thermal occupancy
Open for about 6 yearsOn-demand entangling exchange in every unit cell of foundry-fabricated SiMOS spin-qubit arrays and coherent operation beyond one dimension
Open for less than 1 yearOn-chip cryogenic multiplexed readout of Si/SiGe quantum-dot arrays: switch speed, magnetic-field robustness, fabrication yield, and validated readout fidelity at scale
Open for about 1 year
Quantum channel4 questions
Classical capacity and Gaussian-encoding optimality of the lossy bosonic channel with non-Markovian memory
Open for about 18 yearsWhether the coherent channel-discrimination bias is a metric on the space of quantum channels
Open for about 6 yearsChoi capacities of quantum channels: entanglement-generation equality, single-letter collapse, and higher-order hierarchy gaps
Open for about 1 yearCovert quantum capacity of the lossy thermal-noise bosonic channel: closing the achievability–converse gap
Open for about 2 years
Fundamental issues in manipulating quantum states in solid systems inspired by quantum information5 questions
Scalability and time–coupling trade-offs of quantum-Zeno-assisted shortcut-to-adiabaticity state transfer in strongly coupled spin chains
Open for about 8 yearsSimultaneous high-fidelity universal control, initialization, and readout in semiconductor quantum-dot spin-qubit arrays beyond a few qubits
Open for about 4 yearsScalable suppression of control-line radiative decay in superconducting-qubit architectures while transmitting strong control pulses for fast high-fidelity gates
Open for about 6 yearsControl, readout, and realistic-decoherence certification for the protected current-mirror superconducting qubit
Open for about 20 yearsProgrammable coherent Floquet control of Hubbard excitons: achieving azimuthal SU(2) and multi-pulse control beyond uniaxial pi/2 rotations of the Sr2CuO3 Hubbard exciton
Open for less than 1 year
Fundamental problems of quantum state manipulation inspired by quantum information6 questions
Capability and limits of measurement-based quantum feedback beyond eigenstate preparation: general objectives, adaptive channels, and non-Markovian dynamics
Open for about 15 yearsGlobally optimal measurement-based feedback beyond a single qubit: multi-qubit purification and Bell-state generation under finite measurement efficiency
Open for about 9 yearsChaos-assisted full quantum state controllability by weak perturbations in many-body systems with embedded random-matrix statistics
Open for less than 1 yearOptimal information–disturbance trade-off for unknown quantum operations beyond the Haar-covariant unitary case
Open for about 18 yearsOptimal weak-measurement feedback control beyond the single-qubit dephasing model: general noise channels and multi-qubit state stabilization
Open for about 20 yearsQuantitative accuracy limits on quantum measurement and state preparation under a Hamiltonian bounded from below
Open for about 2 years
Mathematical problems in quantum information6 questions
The general quantum simultaneous smoothing conjecture: a single state realizing all smooth one-shot marginal divergences of a multipartite quantum state
Open for about 13 yearsUnconstrained non-von-Neumann-type entropy inequalities: is the quantum entropy cone strictly smaller than the von Neumann cone?
Open for about 22 yearsExhibiting a non-sofic or non-hyperlinear group: the soficity problem sharpened by MIP* = RE
Open for about 27 yearsVon Neumann entropy inequalities beyond strong subadditivity: the quantum entropy cone and balanced inequalities for Gaussian states
Open for about 23 yearsSharp Pinsker-type trace-norm bounds on conditional mutual information from Petz reconstruction and the self-commutator (Zhang–Kim conjectures on approximate strong subadditivity)
Open for about 13 yearsNecessary and sufficient saturation conditions and constructive optimal POVMs for the multiparameter quantum Cramér–Rao bound at the single-copy level for general rank-deficient states
Open for about 29 years
Quantum internet4 questions
Optimal LOCC strategies and entanglement thresholds for entanglement percolation in random (heterogeneous) quantum networks
Open for about 19 yearsGeneral placement of quantum switches and optimal resource allocation in arbitrary entanglement-based network topologies
Open for about 1 yearOperational-regime delineation for sequential entanglement generation with error detection (SEG-ED) quantum repeaters
Open for about 1 yearEntanglement routing with GHZ-measurement (n-fusion) swapping under heterogeneous, resource-constrained, and decentralized quantum networks: algorithms, guarantees, and the fate of distance-independent rates
Open for about 3 years
Key issues in direct secure quantum communication7 questions
Formal security proofs, detection-threshold analyses, and overhead-minimal countermeasures for semiquantum secure direct communication under active adversaries
Open for about 7 yearsComposable finite-key security and optimal active attacks for ultrabroadband two-way quantum-secured communication (FL-QKD/QSDC)
Open for about 11 yearsReal-life secrecy capacity of quantum secure direct communication in the Wyner wiretap framework: finite block lengths, imperfect devices, and capacity-approaching forward codes
Open for about 6 yearsDevice-independent security proof of quantum secure direct communication against general coherent attacks
Open for about 7 yearsFinite-size secrecy-capacity analysis for the generic security framework of quantum secure direct communication
Open for about 5 yearsLow-complexity phase-basis measurement for high-dimensional time/phase quantum secure direct communication
Open for about 2 yearsRigorous security characterization and secure-rate bounds for quantum secure direct communication using continuum coherent states (Guerra–Rios–Ramos protocols)
Open for about 10 years
Quantum mass standard4 questions
Mutual consistency of independent kilogram realizations and the end of consensus-value dissemination (CCM Phase 3 transition)
Open for about 8 yearsExactness of the Josephson and quantum Hall relations and convergence of independent kilogram realizations in the revised SI
Open for about 19 yearsQuantifying the equivalence-principle test implied by the agreement between atom-counting and Kibble-balance realizations of the kilogram
Open for about 4 yearsSuppressing alignment-dominated type-B uncertainties to reach a -level realization of the kilogram with the KRISS Kibble balance
Open for about 6 years
Column transfer matrices2 questions
Finite-size structural relation between corner-transfer-matrix-derived and finite-system DMRG-optimized matrix product states
Open for about 16 yearsRow–column transfer-matrix inversion relations and inhomogeneous generalizations for vertex models of canonical Grothendieck polynomials and their duals
Open for about 5 years
Critical Ising magnetic field perturbation and mass spectrum1 questions
Critical Ising conformal field theory ()2 questions
Exact solution of zero-field 2D Ising model3 questions
Complete geometric parametrization of the Fisher zeros of the planar Ising model (the complexification conjecture for the Livine–Bonzom–Lis immersion formula)
Open for about 7 yearsRigorous status of the claimed exact solution of the two-dimensional Ising model with next-nearest-neighbor interactions at zero field
Open for less than 1 yearCritical behavior near of the boundary-row spin-spin correlation function of the finite-size two-dimensional Ising model with periodic-free boundary conditions
Open for less than 1 year
The evolutionary dynamics mysteries of influenza virus5 questions
Population-Level Contribution of Receptor-Binding-Avidity Selection to Human Influenza A Virus Antigenic Drift: Quantification, Mechanism, and Epidemiological Consequences
Open for about 16 yearsMechanism of serum-antibody escape by conserved influenza H3N2 hemagglutinin trimer-interface mutations and the biophysical basis of phenotype-specific epistasis in HA evolution
Open for about 1 yearRobustness of canalization in human influenza A(H3N2) antigenic evolution: original antigenic sin, joint HA-NA antigenicity, and deep bifurcations
Open for about 14 yearsMechanistic determinants of the global source–sink circulation of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) and the surveillance design required to extend the vaccine-strain prediction horizon
Open for about 18 yearsMechanistic link between immune epidemiology and clonal interference in seasonal influenza A/H3N2 evolution
Open for about 14 years
Six-vertex—XXZ spin chain correspondence2 questions
Parity-induced logarithmic term in the min-entropy of the critical XXZ chain: prove or refute that the prefactor equals throughout
Open for about 1 yearModified operators and off-shell relations beyond the rational six-vertex model: the trigonometric anti-periodic, reflection-algebra, and higher-rank extensions of the linear-system method
Open for about 2 years
Critical singularity of six-vertex model4 questions
Off-critical deformation and full discrete holomorphicity of the quantum-group conserved currents in the six-vertex and trigonometric solid-on-solid models
Open for about 9 yearsExact two-point correlation functions of the six-vertex height field with domain-wall boundary conditions at generic anisotropy, and the antiferroelectric mesoscopic crossover
Open for about 5 yearsGeneric singularities of six-vertex limit shapes and the fluctuation processes at them
Undetermined multiplicative constants in the large- asymptotics of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions
Six-vertex model1 questions
Six-vertex transfer matrix2 questions
Scaling limit of the -invariant inhomogeneous six-vertex model for and for non-periodic inhomogeneities: identification of the continuum conformal field theories
Open for about 5 yearsSingular parameter regimes and localisation hypotheses in the asymmetric six-vertex model construction of quantum cohomology of Grassmannians
Open for about 7 years
Six-vertex free energy3 questions
Boundary-condition dependence of the six-vertex bulk free energy: extending the density-only (n-equivalence) classification beyond periodic matched patterns
Open for about 20 yearsBoundary-condition dependence of the ice-point six-vertex entropy: classification of boundary conditions, merged-boundary entropies, and the Néel partition function
Open for about 11 yearsThermodynamic limit of the six-vertex model with a reflecting end beyond the disordered regime: ferroelectric and antiferroelectric free energies and phase separation
Open for about 12 years
Spiral wave dynamics and fibrillation control10 questions
Generalization of stochastic birth-death termination of spiral-wave dynamics in cardiac tissue to patient-specific 3D atrial geometry, remodeling substrate, and persistent atrial fibrillation
Open for about 4 yearsExtending the particle model of spiral defect chaos to boundary annihilation, angle-resolved encounters, and the ionic dependence of tip attraction
Open for about 2 yearsDefibrillation by teleportation beyond two-dimensional simulation: experimental realization of the designed single-stimulus protocol and the three-dimensional scroll-wave generalization
Open for about 4 yearsQuantitative dynamics of phase defect lines and surfaces in excitable media: motion, stability, interaction laws, and surface analogues of filament tension
Open for about 5 yearsElimination of scroll waves in three-dimensional cardiac-tissue models by control currents confined to a two-dimensional surface
Open for about 7 yearsUniversality of the spectral exponents and the possibility of a Kolmogorov-like scaling theory for spiral- and scroll-wave turbulence in cardiac excitable media
Open for about 9 yearsOpen problems in adjoint-optimized ultra-low-energy defibrillation: singularity-targeting costs, waveform realizability, optimization stability, and synthesis without full state knowledge
Open for about 2 yearsNonlinear stability, reduced interaction dynamics, and bifurcations of planar spiral waves beyond finite-disk truncation
Open for about 6 yearsSurface-impact termination of scroll waves: validation beyond the idealized Barkley medium, the mechanisms setting the ~1 V/cm termination threshold, and the critical depolarized-layer thickness
Open for about 7 yearsMechanism and field-orientation dependence of far-field pacing termination of spiral waves pinned to ischaemic heterogeneities in anisotropic cardiac tissue
Open for about 9 years
Mechanism of colossal magnetoresistance in manganites5 questions
Microscopic driving force and phase diagram of current-induced polaron melting and ordering in colossal-electroresistance manganites
Open for about 19 yearsMicroscopic origin of dimensionality-dependent ultrafast polaron redressing in perovskite versus layered manganites
Open for about 9 yearsGenerality and origin of nanometer-scale phase separation in the paramagnetic window of mixed-valence perovskite manganites
Open for about 19 yearsQuantum carrier mobility versus self-confinement in the arrested phase separation of double-exchange models
Open for about 5 yearsHow polaron dynamics control the magnitude of colossal magnetoresistance in ferromagnetic manganites
Open for about 10 years
Close-packed dimer model3 questions
Constructive derivation of the monomer–topological-defect correspondence from the Grassmann-integral representation of the two-dimensional classical dimer model
Open for about 3 yearsInfrared fate of the noncompact CP gauge theory: is the Coulomb-to-crystal transition of the three-dimensional classical dimer model continuous or weakly first order?
Open for about 16 yearsCentral charge of the square-lattice dimer model: reconciling the height-field and symplectic-fermion conformal descriptions
Open for about 14 years
Experimental confirmation of significantly enhanced radiative heat transfer at nanoscale9 questions
Mechanism of giant heat transfer between metallic bodies across nanometre vacuum gaps: the radiation–conduction crossover and the validity of fluctuational electrodynamics
Open for about 9 yearsHeat transfer between parallel plates at vacuum gaps below 7 nm: testing fluctuational electrodynamics and locating the photon-tunneling to non-radiative crossover in the extreme near field
Open for about 6 yearsLimits of fluctuational electrodynamics and the crossover to non-radiative heat transfer at sub-nanometre vacuum gaps
Open for about 10 yearsQuantitative, spectrally resolved, and scalable experimental characterization of near-field radiative heat transfer between parallel structures in the deep subwavelength regime
Open for about 10 yearsMicroscopic theory bridging radiative, phononic, and electronic heat transfer across atomic-scale vacuum gaps
Open for about 9 yearsModel–experiment closure for near-field radiative heat transfer between macroscale planar surfaces at large temperature differences: temperature-dependent optical constants and near-field thermophotovoltaic device losses
Open for about 9 yearsMicroscopic origin of the extreme near-field heat-transfer excess between clean gold surfaces in vacuum
Open for about 9 yearsOrigin of the giant near-field heat flux between metallic surfaces at nanometre vacuum gaps
Open for about 10 yearsExperimental verification of super-Planckian radiative heat transfer between macroscale metallic surfaces at 50-100 nm gaps with ultrathin films
Open for about 7 years
Nanostructured silicon thermoelectric materials5 questions
Phonon-mediated thermoelectric enhancement in strongly confined single-crystal semiconductor nanowires: phonon-drag crossover, transport limits, and generality across material classes
Open for about 18 yearsMicroscopic validation of pore-boundary scattering, the low-temperature Seebeck anomaly, and the ZT ≈ 1 at 1000 K projection for porous silicon nanowire thermoelectrics
Open for about 5 yearsRoom-Temperature Power-Factor Enhancement by Field-Effect Doping and Quantum Confinement in Scaled Silicon Nanowires
Open for about 12 yearsValidity of the phonon–surface roughness scattering theory for the lattice thermal conductivity of thin silicon nanowires in the sub-20-nm, low-temperature, and strong-roughness regimes
Open for about 17 yearsMicroscopic mechanism of the near-amorphous lattice thermal conductivity of rough silicon nanowires
Open for about 18 years
Can stochastic resonance improve the signal-to-noise ratio of weak signal detection?8 questions
Tuning-free generalization of stochastic-resonance weak-signal enhancement across signal classes, noise statistics, and real measurement systems
Open for about 31 yearsQuantitative theory and parameter-selection criteria for modulation-based stochastic-resonance weak-signal detection beyond the adiabatic small-parameter regime
Open for about 8 yearsStatistical detection theory for stochastic-resonance-aided spectrum sensing in the low-SNR regime
Open for about 17 yearsQuantitative weak-signal detection with stochastic resonance in Schmitt-trigger detector arrays: numerical inversion of the last-transition-time statistic, calibration with minimal detector counts, and low-frequency extension
Open for about 1 yearStochastic-resonance recovery of unknown linear frequency modulated signals in strong noise: validation beyond Gaussian-white-noise simulations
Open for about 6 yearsNon-Gaussian noise, covariance-aware weighting, and data-driven decomposition-level selection for double-threshold multiscale stochastic resonance
Open for less than 1 yearStochastic-resonance theory of the asymmetric time-delayed bistable system beyond the small-delay approximation
Open for about 6 yearsWhen does stochastic resonance improve weak-signal detection, and how can noise and system parameters be tuned in general?
Open for about 26 years
Is it possible to achieve far-field imaging beyond the diffraction limit?1 questions
Can exciton Bose-Einstein condensation be achieved?3 questions
Two-body inelastic loss and the percent-level condensate fraction of the sub-Kelvin paraexciton Bose–Einstein condensate in Cu2O
Open for about 15 yearsDark exciton Bose-Einstein condensate in semiconductor quantum wells: bright-dark exchange splitting, optical detection, and coherent dynamics
Open for about 18 yearsThe dark exciton Bose-Einstein condensate in semiconductors: definitive experimental verification and quantitative completion of the composite-boson prediction
Open for about 18 years
Can a dilute magnetic semiconductor with intrinsic room-temperature ferromagnetism be fabricated?6 questions
Microscopic origin of room-temperature ferromagnetism in vanadium-doped monolayer WSe
Open for about 6 yearsQuantitative validation of the F-centre/bound-magnetic-polaron mechanism for room-temperature ferromagnetism in Mn/Mg co-doped InO
Open for about 7 yearsIs it possible to create magnetic semiconductors that work at room temperature?
Open for about 26 yearsMicroscopic mechanism of room-temperature ferromagnetism in GaCuN nanowires: exchange pathway, role of carriers and defects, and mixed-valence effects
Open for about 18 yearsOrigin of the above-room-temperature dilute ferromagnetism in Co-substituted LaTa(O,N)3−δ oxynitride
Open for about 6 yearsRoom-temperature carrier-mediated ferromagnetism in the dilute doping regime of diluted magnetic semiconductors: attainability and quantitative enhancement routes
Open for about 15 years
Young Supernova Remnants and Titanium 447 questions
Why so few Ti detections? Quantifying nucleosynthesis-pathway effects versus exceptional explosions in core-collapse supernovae
Open for about 20 yearsMass and three-dimensional distribution of Ti in young supernova remnants: reconciling Sc K-alpha X-ray escape with gamma-ray line kinematics
Open for about 1 yearThe interior Fe/Ti ratio, three-dimensional structure, and kick-recoil connection of the Ti-bearing ejecta in Cassiopeia A
Open for about 9 yearsThe dominant source of Galactic 44Ti and 44Ca: ordinary core-collapse supernovae or rare high-yield events
Open for about 20 yearsThe Galactic population of 44Ti-decay-line supernova remnants: jointly constraining yields, rates, and progenitor spatial distributions to reconcile and predict the observed 44Ti sky
Open for about 13 yearsUnshocked interior iron or decoupled Fe/Ti production: the origin of the spatial decorrelation between radioactive Ti and iron X-ray emission in Cassiopeia A
Open for about 12 yearsSelf-consistent three-dimensional modeling of the Cassiopeia A supernova: explosion energy, Ti production and distribution, jet origin, and the connection to the remnant
Open for about 9 years
Wave-particle duality of quasiparticle in condensed matter4 questions
Microscopic origin of the two-component internal structure of a single doped hole in two-leg Hubbard and - ladders
Open for about 10 yearsQuantitative interacting-triplon theory of quasiparticle decay and binding in the frustrated spin-ladder magnet BiCuPO
Open for about 10 yearsQuantitative role of realistic interfacial imperfections and defects in coherent phonon transport in semiconductor superlattices
Open for about 1 yearPhysical status of the autolocalizon quasiparticle of localized plastic flow in deforming metals: microscopic foundations, spectral verification, and validity limits
Open for about 16 years
Newton's Law of Inverse Squares and Its Experimental Test2 questions
Extending laboratory tests of the gravitational inverse-square law to separations below 52 μm
Open for about 6 yearsExtending submillimeter tests of the gravitational inverse-square law: vibration-coupled electrostatic noise and patch potentials in torsion-pendulum experiments at shorter separations
Open for about 6 years
Even arrow constraint3 questions
Origin of the full nonuniversality of the electric critical exponents of the symmetric 16-vertex model on the square lattice
Open for about 33 yearsYang-Baxter integrability of the odd eight-vertex model, singularity completeness, and finite-torus equivalence for sixteen-vertex weight sets on the square lattice
Open for about 56 yearsIntegrability of the odd eight-vertex model with asymmetric weights: free-fermion manifolds and commutation of staggered transfer-matrix products
Coupled Ising models1 questions
Does analytic continuation in the coupling constant apply to resonant states in deformed nuclei?5 questions
Single-particle resonances in higher-multipole deformed Dirac potentials: eigenphase systematics and resonances without bound-state continuation
Open for about 16 yearsCompleting the deformed Berggren-basis program: non-axial momentum-space construction of the single-particle continuum ensemble and many-body Gamow-shell-model applications to deformed halo nuclei
Open for about 20 yearsReliability of the analytic continuation in coupling constant (ACCC) method for two-proton emitters: the 16Ne 0+ doublet avoided crossing, width-range limits, and potential-parameter sensitivity
Open for about 1 yearOpen validation and extension problems for the microscopic AMD+RGM+ACCC description of the deformed neutron halo of 31Ne
Open for about 3 yearsSelf-consistent Green's-function continuum treatment in deformed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov theory and its extension to deformed quasiparticle RPA
Open for about 8 years
The partition function as a trace: 3 questions
Root-of-unity completeness and Temperley-Lieb structure of the XXZ Bethe ansatz, and analytic limiting curves of six-vertex partition-function zeros
Complete characterization of the disorder-solution manifold of the generalized 2D Ising model with multi-spin interactions: admissible parameter region, branch stratification, and phase transitions in its vicinity
Functional equations and homogeneous limit of the determinant identity between the domain-wall six-vertex partition function and anti-periodic transfer-matrix eigenvalues