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330 papers, from 31 August 2026 to 5 November 2026: 301 arXiv preprints and 29 OpenAlex records.
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Entanglement Sudden Death in Gapped Ground States
Spatial sudden death of entanglement refers to the disappearance of quantum correlations between subsystems after a certain distance called the entanglement length.Turning a superconducting diode into a Feynman ratchet to realize a nanoscale heat engine
Feynman's ratchet illustrates how work can be extracted from thermal fluctuations in the presence of two heat baths at different temperatures.On the Statistical Mechanics of Attention
We revisit the statistical mechanics of Transformer attention via modern Hopfield models.Noise-Induced Restoration of Entropy Concavity Near Gaussian Equilibrium
We study a quantitative form of noise-induced restoration of entropy concavity for one-dimensional nonequilibrium states relaxing toward a Gaussian thermal equilibrium.Thermodynamics of coupled electromagnetic and mass fields
We formulate a unified thermodynamic framework for chemical, mechanical, and electromagnetic transport by extending the Gibbs--Duhem relation to include kinetic free-energy contributions associated…Breakdown of thermalization in quantum spin systems with long-range interactions
Quantum thermalization of closed systems -- i.e. the relaxation of local properties to their thermodynamic value along the Hamiltonian evolution -- is generically expected in non-integrable systems…Ergodicity breaking transition beyond qubits
The local Hilbert space dimension is a fundamental parameter in quantum many-body systems, but its role in controlling the ergodicity-breaking transition remains less explored.Eigenstate transitions and critical transport in 3D Aubry-André model
We numerically study spectral and wave-function properties, as well as time evolution, in finite-size commensurate approximations of the 3D Aubry-André model.Active Neural Matter: A Finite-Window Response Framework for Physical Systems and Distributed AI Workflows
Physical systems and distributed AI workflows can retain past information, receive delayed feedback and combine conflicting signals.The Rényi area law conjecture is false below $α=1$ in high dimensions
Area laws express the expectation that entanglement in gapped quantum ground states scales with a boundary rather than a volume.An Instability of the Quantum Markov Length
The Markov length, the length scale governing the exponential decay of conditional mutual information (CMI) in a quantum many-body state, has proven useful for characterizing mixed-state phases of…When irrelevance governs: dissipation-regression scaling in open quantum criticality
The real-time dynamics of quantum phase transitions in open systems coupled to finite-temperature environments sits at the heart of contemporary condensed-matter and quantum-information science.Percolation of Data Constraints and Reorganization of Boolean Function States in Parity Learning
We study how a neural network reorganizes its learned function as training proceeds and as previously unseen parity data accumulate.Locality-Preparation Time Tradeoffs in Dissipative Quantum Systems
Dissipative state preparation engineers quantum many-body states as steady states of an open-system dynamics.Replica Transition at Measurement-Altered Ising Criticality
Performing measurements on gapless quantum ground states can give rise to new universal phenomena, whose origins remain poorly understood even for the paradigmatic Ising critical point.A Warped Born Rule Turns an Observer into a Maxwell's Demon
Quantum mechanics seems to be an incredibly delicate theory.Competitive scaling of small-subsystem-optimization heuristics for LABS
The low autocorrelation binary sequences (LABS) problem, often formulated as a spin-lattice energy-minimization problem, is a combinatorial optimization problem with a very rugged energy landscape.TheoPhysEval: Assessing AI agents at autonomous theoretical physics problem solving
We present a suite of 50 unpublished research-level theoretical physics problems with verifiable answers.General relativity and its modifications as effective field theories of $GL(4)$ breaking
We discuss General Relativity and some of its modifications as effective field theories of the breaking of the affine general linear group using the coset approach and the Maurer-Cartan form.Markov length can diverge in systems whose universal physics is spatially Markovian
Conditional mutual information (CMI) probes spatial non-Markovianity and plays a central role in a recently developed framework for defining mixed-state phases based on local reversibility.