Skip to Content

Most Recent

  • Article
  • Open Access

A Method for Precise Measurement of Dispersion Energy at Distances Below 50 nm

  • Aleksander V. Postnikov,
  • Pavel S. Shlepakov,
  • Ilia V. Uvarov and
  • Vitaly B. Svetovoy
Physics2026, 8(4), 82;https://doi.org/10.3390/physics8040082 
(registering DOI)

3 November 2026

Measurement of Casimir–Lifshitz forces with high enough precision at separations below 50 nm is problematic due to the snap-in instability. The method of the adhered cantilever is not influenced by this problem. This method has demonstrated a r...

(This article belongs to the Section Classical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
Physics2026, 8(4), 81;https://doi.org/10.3390/physics8040081 
(registering DOI)

3 November 2026

We report the results of a study of orbital and stellar parameters of the short-period eclipsing binaries TIC 53847727 and TIC 29914740 using TESS data and Gaiadatasets. The photometric transit data was analyzed in a two-stage process, first with the...

(This article belongs to the Section Astrophysics and Astronomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Views
14 Pages

Time Reversal of Complex Evolution on a Quantum Computer

  • Mahdi Kourehpaz and
  • Dima L. Shepelyansky

30 October 2026

The Boltzmann–Loschmidt dispute in 1876–1877 concerned the problem of the time reversal of thermalization in time-reversible classical equations of motion. Here, 150 years later, we revisit this problem in the context of quantum computing...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2026

We reconsider the vacuum (Casimir) energy of a massive scalar field obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions inside a spherical cavity. Using zeta-function regularization, we carefully recalculate the analytic part of the zeta function via the uniform a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Quantum Field Theory: From Graphene Physics to Gravitation and Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
183 Views
16 Pages

26 October 2026

In this paper, we investigate the thermodynamics of an ideal gas of classical particles with continuous helicity in three-dimensional Minkowski space. Using the one-particle distribution function for a particle with continuous helicity, we derive exp...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
110 Views
19 Pages

22 October 2026

We investigate the Casimir energy between a magnetodielectric plate and a metallic plate in a liquid and show that the Casimir repulsion is enhanced compared with that in vacuum when the metal is described by the plasma model. This enhancement occurs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Quantum Field Theory: From Graphene Physics to Gravitation and Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2026

We present a phenomenological study of a hypothetical compact object with a traversable Kerr-type wormhole geometry connecting two asymptotically distinct regions. One mouth of the wormhole is assumed to reside in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) env...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Quantum Field Theory: From Graphene Physics to Gravitation and Cosmology)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
119 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2026

In this paper, a numerical investigation of an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) based on a bilayer architecture is presented, with particular emphasis on the influence of ZnO nanoparticles (ZNPs) concentration on charge transport, recombination dy...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation for Multidisciplinary Engineering Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Views
23 Pages

7 October 2026

We investigate interacting spinless electrons on finite molecular networks described by a tight-binding Hubbard Hamiltonian. The interplay between network geometry, Coulomb interactions and discrete symmetries is analysed for rings with L=3,4,5, and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
24 Pages

1 October 2026

This paper presents a quantized dynamic lattice model for space–time from which is derived a higher-derivative, gauge-invariant Lagrangian which belongs to a class of actions known to admit perturbative renormalization and which yields the Eins...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Accelerated Expansion of the Universe as Phenomenon of Quantum Gravity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
363 Views
23 Pages

Theory of Dispersion and Exchange Interactions Subjected to Surface Roughness in Application to Signal Transmission Through a Nanoswitch

  • Galina L. Klimchitskaya,
  • Alexander S. Korotkov,
  • Vera V. Loboda and
  • Vladimir M. Mostepanenko

28 September 2026

We present the theoretical description of a resistive nanoswitch designated for a change-over between the two operation modes by calculating the electric, elastic, dispersion (van der Waals and Casimir), and also exchange repulsive forces in its conf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Quantum Field Theory: From Graphene Physics to Gravitation and Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
424 Views
16 Pages

25 September 2026

A method for reconstructing dynamical systems from a scalar time series is proposed, based on replacing delay coordinates with jet-space coordinates—the signal and its time derivatives. A theorem is proved establishing a Lie algebra isomorphism...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics and Mathematical Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
367 Views
27 Pages

Matrix Analysis and Design Study of Rotatorlike Gantry Optics

  • Márius Pavlovič,
  • Ivan Strašík and
  • Mauro T. F. Pivi

19 September 2026

Modern ion-therapy facilities are commonly equipped with rotating gantries to achieve higher dose conformity to the tumor. The gantry is the terminating part of the beamline from the accelerator to a gantry treatment room. The gantry is mechanically...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
20 Pages

19 September 2026

We investigated the electronic structures of the wide-bandgap semiconductor Ta2O5 in the presence of oxygen vacancies using standard density functional theory. The emergence of flat bands is observed in certain structural phases due to these vacancie...

(This article belongs to the Section Condensed Matter Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
18 Pages

Experimental Detection of ∆x Variations on the Complex s-Plane Based on a Michelson Interferometer

  • Romel Rubicel Flores Gámez,
  • José Trinidad Guillen Bonilla,
  • Héctor Guillen Bonilla,
  • Alex Guillen Bonilla and ,
  • Cuauhtémoc Acosta Lúa,
  • Maricela Jiménez Rodríguez,
  • Mónica Vázquez Gutiérrez and
  • María Eugenia Sánchez Morales
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

17 September 2026

In this paper, a Michelson interferometer was employed to generate interference patterns, the modulated function was extracted by digital filtering and the Laplace transform was subsequently applied to obtain the complex function F(s)=F(σ+&omeg...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
318 Views
25 Pages

Relatively Undistorted Solutions to the Wave Equation: A Review

  • Aleksei P. Kiselev and
  • Alexandr B. Plachenov

16 September 2026

A review of simple solutions to the linear wave equation in three spatial variables, involving arbitrary functions, is given. Physicists’ interest in these solutions is primarily motivated by the need for a convenient description of spatiotempo...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics and Mathematical Methods)
  • Article
  • Open Access
994 Views
18 Pages

A Low-Cost Arduino-Based Falling-Ball Viscometer as an Educational Apparatus for Physics Laboratories

  • Jarunee Sanongkhun,
  • Ekkachai Martwong,
  • Daengdesh Naenkieng and
  • Akom Hayeeuma

8 September 2026

Low-cost and accessible laboratory experiments remain important in physics education, particularly in school and undergraduate laboratories where sophisticated commercial instrumentation is not always available. This study presents the development of...

(This article belongs to the Section Physics Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
293 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2026

The paper investigates the possibility of small hydrogen (SH) formation in the early Universe during an interval of about 10–80 s after the Big Bang. Assuming that SH exists as proposed by the author earlier, the current study examines the cosm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
441 Views
39 Pages

27 August 2026

The description of the internal spaces of fermion and boson fields with “basis vectors”, which are the superpositions of odd and even products of the operators γa, with the index a running in internal and external space-time, sugges...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
534 Views
16 Pages

Performance of Monolithic CMOS Pixel Sensors Under X-Rays

  • Mohammad Mobassir Ameen,
  • Ganapati Dash,
  • Anushree Vijay,
  • Theertha Chembakan and
  • Prafulla Kumar Behera

21 August 2026

Recent developments in particle physics require cost-effective pixel detectors capable of operating under increased energy and luminosity conditions foreseen in future collider experiments. In response, monolithic CMOS pixel sensors incorporating mod...

(This article belongs to the Section Detectors and Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
12 Pages

X-Ray Spectral Diagnostics of Relativistic Laser Plasma of High-Z Nanoscale Clusters

  • Igor Yu. Skobelev,
  • Sergey N. Ryazantsev,
  • Sergey S. Makarov,
  • Roman K. Kulikov and ,
  • Maxim V. Sedov,
  • Hui-Tong Zhai,
  • Xi-Chen Hu,
  • Ming-Yang Zhu,
  • Bing-Zhan Shi and
  • Li-Ming Chen
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

13 August 2026

Relativistic interaction of ultra-intense laser pulses with cluster targets is of particular interest for high-energy-density physics, compact X-ray source development, and laboratory astrophysics. Understanding the dynamics of such plasmas requires...

(This article belongs to the Section Astrophysics and Astronomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
856 Views
13 Pages

4 August 2026

The role of Chapman’s hydrostatic solar wind model (based on a hydrostatic force balance condition) in Parker’s hydrodynamic solar wind theory is investigated by invoking the de Laval nozzle analogy for the production of flow acceleration...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Lennart Stenflo on the Occasion of His 85th Birthday: Plasma Physics and Nonlinear Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
823 Views
14 Pages

19 July 2026

The dynamic critical exponent z describes the divergence of correlation times near a continuous phase transition. Obtaining accurate estimates of z from noisy time series is complex, especially when computational resources are limited. We compare mac...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,419 Views
16 Pages

Quantum mechanics is among the most successful physical theories, yet its formulation and empirical testing rely on classical structures. Following Lev Landau and Niels Bohr, this reliance is not merely pragmatic: quantum observables acquire empirica...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
608 Views
16 Pages

The general problem of describing quantum states not only by wave functions and density operators but also by probability distribution functions is discussed in this paper. The qubit-state density-matrix elements expressed in terms of probability dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Viktor Dodonov—55 Years in Quantum Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,192 Views
22 Pages

Piezoelectric and Thermoelectric Analysis of a Multilayer Structure for a Hybrid Energy-Harvesting Application

  • Imane Salhi,
  • Yassine Tabbai,
  • Abdelhadi Mortadi,
  • Hajar Rejdali and ,
  • Fouad Belhora and
  • Abdelowahed Hajjaji
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

A significant amount of mechanical and thermal energy is lost when typing on a laptop keyboard. To address this, hybrid energy harvesters must increase the generated power density and mitigate energy fluctuation issues. This paper explores the potent...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,374 Views
56 Pages

It has been known for about hundred years that the universe is expanding, but an impressive discovery came at the end of 20th century, when it was found that the universe is expanding with acceleration. Since then, many models have been developed in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond the Standard Models of Physics and Cosmology: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
715 Views
20 Pages

A formal thermodynamic mapping is established between the attractive Fermi–Hubbard model and the repulsive Bose–Hubbard model at finite temperature and at imaginary chemical potential μ=iθ. By utilizing a large N-expansion, it is...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
727 Views
22 Pages

11 June 2026

Deep gas emissions in volcanic and tectonic environments are commonly interpreted as the surface expression of localized deep emitters. This representation is adequate for first-order description, but it is not physically complete. Deep degassing is...

(This article belongs to the Section Classical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
462 Views
11 Pages

11 June 2026

Possible violations of the no-signaling constraint in Weinberg-type nonlinear extensions motivate the question of whether entanglement could, under suitable conditions, become a resource for operational signaling. A minimal binary model is introduced...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
946 Views
27 Pages

Thermal Treatment-Induced Coercivity Modulation in Magnetodielectric LaFe0.7Ni0.3O3

  • Ximena Jocelyn Téllez-Tovar,
  • Félix Sánchez-De Jesús,
  • Claudia Alicia Cortés-Escobedo,
  • María Isabel Reyes-Valderrama and
  • Ana María Bolarín-Miró

This study investigates the modulation of coercivity and magnetodielectric coupling in heat-treated, nickel-substituted lanthanum ferrite. LaFe0.7Ni0.3O3 samples were synthesized by high-energy ball milling and sintered at temperatures between 1073 a...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
22 Pages

Quantum bianisotropy and chirality are fundamental concepts in light–matter interaction that describe how materials with broken symmetries respond to electromagnetic fields at the level of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics. In quantum bianiso...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
872 Views
32 Pages

We investigatewhether a finite local information capacity of spacetime can account for the gravitational phenomena commonly attributed to cold dark matter. Starting from a covariant effective-field-theory description, we modelcoarse-grained entropy d...

(This article belongs to the Section Astrophysics and Astronomy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
945 Views
20 Pages

We construct the strong energy conditions (SECs) for both massive and massless stringy extended objects in the higher dimensional cosmology (HDC) with cosmological constant Λ. Exploiting these conditions, we find the equation of state (EoS) pa...

(This article belongs to the Section Gravitation and Cosmology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,047 Views
24 Pages

Inclination-Driven Thin-Film Dynamics: Geometry-Induced Regime Ordering in the (Bo, Pe, Da) Space

  • Helena Cristina Vasconcelos,
  • Reşit Özmenteş and
  • Maria Meirelles

We develop a leading-order continuum framework for thin-film hydrodynamics on inclined solid substrates, integrating capillarity, intermolecular forces, gravitational symmetry breaking, confined transport, and stochastic wetting into a single formula...

(This article belongs to the Section Classical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
513 Views
14 Pages

This study investigates the thermodynamic consequences of substitutional doping in bilayer graphene using a minimal tight-binding model in which doping is encoded as a reduction in the intralayer hopping amplitude α in one sheet. The interlayer...

(This article belongs to the Section Condensed Matter Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,369 Views
22 Pages

This paper examines whether a compact electron–proton configuration (“small hydrogen”) with a characteristic radius of a few femtometers is excluded by basic relativistic kinematics and simple stationarity constraints. Motivated by...

(This article belongs to the Section Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
878 Views
18 Pages

Transverse Dynamics of Strange Hadrons in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

  • Diana Deară,
  • Oana Ristea,
  • Cătălin Ristea and
  • Alexandru Jipa

We present a study of the mean transverse momentum pT of identified strange hadrons (KS0,Λ,Λ¯,Ξ−,Ξ¯+,ϕ,Ω−,Ω¯+) produced in Au+Au collisions at RHIC-BES energies (the nucleon–nucleo...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
654 Views
16 Pages

JefiFast: Accelerating Jefimenko’s Equations with Memory-Centric Optimizations and Multi-GPU Parallelism

  • Bing He,
  • Shengyu Peng,
  • Nan Sun,
  • Guoliang Li and ,
  • Xiaofei Zhu,
  • Peng Xu and
  • Xiaowei Shen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

As a foundation for numerical solvers in computational electromagnetics, particularly for multiphysics and electromagnetic compatibility applications, Jefimenko’s equations offer a generalized solution to Maxwell’s equations, enabling the...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation for Multidisciplinary Engineering Systems)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,174 Views
7 Pages

General relativity is often perceived by undergraduate and advanced high-school students as conceptually and mathematically inaccessible. This paper does not provide new results in gravitation but rather introduces a lucid pedagogical framework for u...

(This article belongs to the Section Physics Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,063 Views
13 Pages

Albedo-Induced Perturbation in the Sitnikov Three-Body Problem

  • M. Shahbaz Ullah,
  • M. Javed Idrisi and
  • Sergey Ershkov

13 April 2026

In this paper, the circular Sitnikov three-body problem is studied under the combined influence of radiation pressure and albedo. The model consists of two equal-mass primaries moving in circular orbits about their center of mass and an infinitesimal...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Physics and Mathematical Methods)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1,783 Views
16 Pages

Casimir Effect with Dielectric Matter in Salted Water and Implications at the Cell Scale

  • Larissa Inácio,
  • Felipe S. S. Rosa,
  • Astrid Lambrecht,
  • Paulo A. Maia Neto and
  • Serge Reynaud

10 April 2026

The Casimir interaction in salted water contains a universal contribution of electromagnetic fluctuations that makes it of a longer range than previously thought. The universal contribution dominates non-universal ones at the distances relevant for a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,962 Views
19 Pages

First- and Second-Order Raman Scattering and Photorefraction in Nonlinear Optical Crystal LiNbO3:Y3+(0.46 wt%)

  • Nikolay V. Sidorov,
  • Mikhail N. Palatnikov,
  • Alexander Y. Pyatyshev and
  • Alexander V. Skrabatun

9 April 2026

It is found that the speckle structure of the photoinduced light scattering indicatrix of the LiNbO3:Y3+(0.46 wt%) crystal and its behavior with the time of crystal irradiation with a laser undergo an atypical behavior caused by the features of the d...

(This article belongs to the Section Condensed Matter Physics)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
656 Views
16 Pages

8 April 2026

The evolution of the flow of a viscous, electrically conductive, incompressible fluid on a rotating wall in the presence of a magnetic field is studied. The wall forms an arbitrary angle with the axis of rotation. The unsteady flow is induced by long...

(This article belongs to the Section Classical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,126 Views
34 Pages

8 April 2026

The Wigner quasiprobability, along with some of its essentialproperties, is introduced and discussed in two versions, first covering real canonical variables such as W(q,p) and second a pair of complex conjugate coordinates such as W(α,α*...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Viktor Dodonov—55 Years in Quantum Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,130 Views
12 Pages

3 April 2026

This paper investigates the control of magnetic energy confinement in one- and three-dimensional magnetic systems by systematically accounting for magnetic interactions. The analysis provides new insight into magnetic behavior at the nanoscale and in...

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
699 Views
14 Pages

2 April 2026

The relationship between states obtained by the non-commutative integration method of the Schrödinger equation on Lie groups and generalized coherent states is investigated. It is shown that such solutions belong to the class of generalized cohe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Themed Issue in Honor of Professor Viktor Dodonov—55 Years in Quantum Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,116 Views
10 Pages

2 April 2026

We investigate the effects of Lorentz symmetry violation (LSV) on a scalar particle via a non-minimal coupling in the Klein–Gordon equation within the charge–parity–time CPT-odd gauge sector. Through an analytical approach, we deriv...

(This article belongs to the Section High Energy Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,451 Views
23 Pages

1 April 2026

We consider the Casimir force in configurations with magnetic metal plates and analyze the reasons why the predictions of the Lifshitz theory using the dielectric permittivity of the Drude model are inconsistent with the measurement data. For this pu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Theory 100 Years Later: Advances on Foundations and Applications)
XFacebookLinkedIn
Physics - ISSN 2624-8174