1. 1 Oct 2025 Journal Article Physical Review Research

    Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa unitarity deficit reduction via finite nuclear size

    Ben Ohayon
    Mikhail Gorchtein, Vaibhav Katyal, Ben Ohayon, B K Sahoo, Chien-Yeah Seng
    Abstract

    We revisit the extraction of the

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  2. 28 Sep 2025 Preprint arXiv

    From Quasiperiodicity to a Complete Coloring of the Kohmoto Butterfly

    Ram Band, Siegfried Beckus
    Abstract

    The spectra of the Kohmoto model give rise to a fractal phase diagram, known as the Kohmoto butterfly. The butterfly encapsulates the spectra of all periodic Kohmoto Hamiltonians, whose index invariants are sought after. Topological methods - such as Chern numbers - are ill defined due to the discontinuous potential, and hence fail to provide index invariants. This

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  3. 26 Sep 2025 Journal Article Physical Review Letters

    Probing New Hadronic Forces with Heavy Exotic Atoms

    Hongkai Liu, Ben Ohayon, Omer Shtaif, Yotam Soreq
    Abstract

    We explore the potential of precision spectroscopy of heavy exotic atoms where electrons are substituted by negative hadrons to detect new force carriers with hadronic couplings. The selected transitions are unaffected by nuclear contact terms, thus enabling highly accurate calculations using bound-state QED, provided that the nuclear polarization is under control

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  4. 22 Sep 2025 Preprint arXiv

    Superluminal Correlations in Ensembles of Optical Phase Singularities

    Tomer Bucher, Alexey Gorlach, Arthur Niedermayr, Qinghui Yan, Harel Nahari, Kangpeng Wang, Ron Ruimy, Yuval Adiv, Michael Yannai, Tom Lenkiewicz Abudi, Eli Janzen, Christina Spaegele, Charles Roques-Carmes, James H Edgar, Frank H L Koppens, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Shai Tsesses, Ido Kaminer
    Abstract

    Phase singularities are universal features found across diverse wave systems. Their ensembles exhibit distance correlations governing exotic material phases. However, the full correlations in phase-space have remained unexplored and experimentally inaccessible. Here, we directly measure the ultrafast dynamics of optical singularity ensembles, capturing their phase-space

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  5. 14 Sep 2025 Preprint arXiv

    A fiber-loop laser with a cooled erbium-doped section

    Eyal Buks, Boris A Malomed
    Abstract

    An optical comb featuring an unusual structure has been recently observed in a fiber-loop laser running at cryogenic temperatures. In the present work, the effect of optical polarization on the operation of the laser is explored. Multi--mode lasing with a relatively high degree of inter--mode coherency is experimentally demonstrated. The setup can be used for applications

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  6. 4 Sep 2025 Preprint arXiv

    Microwave Spectroscopy of the Muonium $2S_{1/2}-2P_{3/2}$ Fine Structure Interval

    Ben Ohayon
    Philipp Blumer, Gianluca Janka, Svenja Geissmann, Iren Ignatov, Marcus Mähring, Zaher Salman, Andreas Suter, Edward Thorpe-Woods, Thomas Prokscha, Ben Ohayon, Paolo Crivelli
    Abstract

    We report a microwave spectroscopy measurement of the muonium $2S_{1/2}-2P_{3/2}$ fine structure transition, yielding a transition frequency of $9871.0 \pm 7.0~\mathrm{MHz}$, in agreement with state-of-the-art QED predictions within one standard deviation. In combination with the recent Lamb shift result, the $2P_{1/2}-2P_{3/2}$ splitting is determined, improving the

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  7. 3 Sep 2025 Preprint arXiv

    Cavity-Controlled High Harmonic Generation

    Abstract

    Employing non-Hermitian Floquet theory, the strong-field process of high harmonic (HH) generation by a classical continuous-wave field irradiating ground-state atom is discovered to be controllable by placing the irradiated atom inside a single-mode quantum cavity initiated even with a single photon. Judicious cavity coupling of cavity-free photo-induced atomic Floquet

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  8. 3 Sep 2025 Preprint arXiv

    Programmable control of the spatiotemporal quantum noise of light

    Jamison Sloan, Michael Horodynski, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Yannick Salamin, Michael Birk, Pavel Sidorenko, Ido Kaminer, Marin Soljacic, Nicholas Rivera
    Abstract

    Optoelectronic systems based on multiple modes of light can often exceed the performance of their single-mode counterparts. However, multimode nonlinear interactions often introduce considerable amounts of noise, limiting the ultimate performance of these systems. It is therefore crucial to develop ways to simultaneously control complex nonlinear interactions while also

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  9. 2 Sep 2025 Journal Article Physical Review Letters

    Mixing of Surface and Bulk Optical Nonlinearities via Surface Plasmon Polaritons

    Abstract

    We present controlled interplay between the surface second-order and bulk third-order nonlinearities of gold, utilizing wave mixing between surface plasmons on the metal-air interface and free-space photons. By tuning the nonlinear interactions, we demonstrate experimentally that photons emerging from these inherently different mechanisms can interfere, while both their

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  10. 1 Sep 2025 Journal Article Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open

    Continuous-flow electron spin resonance microfluidics device with sub-nanoliter sample volume

    Oleg Zgadzai, Nir Almog, Yefim Varshavsky, Moamen Jbara, Benoit Driesschaert, Aharon Blank
    Abstract

    This paper presents a novel continuous-flow electron spin resonance (ESR) microfluidic device designed for both continuous-wave (CW) and pulsed ESR measurements on sub-nanoliter liquid samples. The system integrates a planar surface microresonator (ParPar type) operating at ∼9.4 GHz with a precision-fabricated quartz microfluidic chip, enabling spatial confinement of

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