The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 6 June, 2020)

June 6th, 2020

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

Hot Hydride Superconductivity above 550 K

The Prospects of Quantum Computing in Computational Molecular Biology

Aquatic Biospheres On Temperate Planets Around Sun-like Stars And M-dwarfs

Through-Bottle Whisky Sensing and Classification using Raman Spectroscopy in an Axicon-Based Backscattering Configuration

The Darkweb: A Social Network Anomaly

Towards Satellite-Based Quantum-Secure Time Transfer

Energy Self-Sustainability in Full-Spectrum 6G

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 4 April, 2020)

April 4th, 2020

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

A Survey of Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery

Possibility of Disinfection of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) in Human Respiratory Tract by Controlled Ethanol Vapor Inhalation

Water and Air Consumption Aboard Interstellar Arks

A Survey on Edge Intelligence

Local Facial Makeup Transfer via Disentangled Representation

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The Best of the Physics arXiv Blog 2019

December 27th, 2019

The most popular arXivblog stories of 2019 …

1. A quantum experiment suggests there’s no such thing as objective reality

2. After 4000 years, mathematician discovers a simple proof for solving any quadratic equation

3. Sorry, graphene—borophene is the new wonder material that’s got everyone excited

4. “Magic: The Gathering” is officially the world’s most complex game

5. The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same

6. Neural net solves three-body problem 100 million times faster than conventional solvers

7. Machine learning reveals exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else

8. A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometers away

9. First sighting of a natural biomolecule behaving as a quantum wave

10. Neural net reads and then automatically deciphers lost language Linear B

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 22 December, 2019)

December 22nd, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

Origin of Earth’s Water: Sources and Constraints

Can We Travel to the Past? Irreversible Physics Along Closed Timelike Curves

Tools for Mathematical Ludology

Applications of Near-Term Photonic Quantum Computers: Software and Algorithms

Rethinking Superdeterminism

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 8 December, 2019)

December 9th, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula

Quantum Gravity in the Lab: Teleportation by Size and Traversable Wormholes

Relative contributions of Shakespeare and Fletcher in Henry VIII: An Analysis Based on Most Frequent Words and Most Frequent Rhythmic Patterns

Spotting Insects from Satellites: Modeling the Presence of Culicoides Imicola Through Deep CNNs

Time Travel Paradoxes and Multiple Histories

Quantum-Chemistry Based Design of Halobenzene Derivatives With Augmented Affinities for the HIV-1 viral G4/C16 Base-Pair

Experimentally Demonstration of the Repulsive Casimir Force in the Gold-Cyclohexane-PTFE System

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 23 November, 2019)

November 22nd, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

The 3D Genome Shapes the Regulatory Code of Developmental Genes

Dynamical Heart Beat Correlations as a Measure of Exercise Intensity

Scale-Up of Room-Temperature Constructive Quantum Interference From Single Molecules to Self-Assembled Molecular-Electronic Films

Chemical Cloaking

Emergence of Life in an Inflationary Universe

A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula

Chip-to-Chip Quantum Teleportation and Multi-Photon Entanglement in Silicon

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 9 November, 2019)

November 11th, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

Making an Invisibility Cloak: Real World Adversarial Attacks on Object Detectors

How Parasites Expand the Computational Landscape of Life

Very Early Warning Signal for El Niño in 2020 With a 4 in 5 Likelihood

Printing Flowers? Custom-tailored Photonic Cellulose Films with Engineered Surface Topography

AttoSats: ChipSats, other Gram-Scale Spacecraft, and Beyond

Planck Evidence for a Closed Universe and a Possible Crisis for Cosmology

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 2 November, 2019)

November 2nd, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

Quantum Effects in The Brain: A Review

Metamath Zero: The Cartesian Theorem Prover

Magic Continuum in Twisted Bilayer WSe2

Grand Unified Neutrino Spectrum at Earth

Detection of a Water Tracer in Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

Beyond Fortune 500: Women in a Global Network of Directors

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 19 October, 2019)

October 19th, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

Experimental Realization of an Intrinsically Error-Protected Superconducting Qubit

What Would Happen if We Were About 1 pc Away From a Supermassive Black Hole?

Resilient Habitability of Nearby Exoplanet Systems

Restoring Ancient Text Using Deep Learning: a Case Study on Greek Epigraphy

Random Forest Model Identifies Serve Strength as a Key Predictor of Tennis Match Outcome

A Dual-Hormone Closed-Loop Delivery System for Type 1 Diabetes Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Dialog On a Canvas With a Machine

Machine Truth Serum

The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending 28 September, 2019)

September 30th, 2019

This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv

Coherence as Witness for Quantumness of Gravity

Topological Wormholes

3D Printed Actuators: Reversibility, Relaxation and Ratcheting

Pattern Formation by Droplet Evaporation and Imbibition in Watercolor Paintings

Virtual Guide Dog: Next Generation Pedestrian Signal for the Visually Impaired

Towards Large-Scale Quantum Networks

Digital Beings as an Option to Study Gut Flora Evolution and Adaptation