Imaging and Spectral Fitting of Bright Gamma-Ray Sources with the COSI Balloon Payload by Jarred M. Roberts, Steven Boggs, Thomas Siegert, John A. Tomsick, Marco Ajello, Peter von Ballmoos, Jacqueline Beechert, Floriane Cangemi, Savitri Gallego, Pierre Jean, Chris Karwin, Carolyn Kierans, Hadar Lazar, Alex Lowell, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Sean Pike, Clio Sleator, Yong Sheng, Hiroki Yoneda, Andreas Zoglauer

“…The model that best fits the COSI-Balloon data combined with measurements from NuSTAR and Swift-BAT is a broken power law with a measured photon index Γ = 2.20 ± 0.02 above the 43 keV break. …”
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An Iterative Method for Solving of Coupled Equations for Conductive-Radiative Heat Transfer in Dielectric Layers by Vasyl Chekurin, Yurij Boychuk

“…In the case of optically thick layer, when its thickness is much more of photon-free path, the problem becomes a singularly perturbed one. …”
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Detection of the Extended γ-Ray Emission around TeV Source 1LHAASO J0249+6022 with Fermi-LAT by Yunlu Gong, Liancheng Zhou, Qi Xia, Shan Chang, Jun Fang, Li Zhang

“…The results show that its γ -ray spectrum can be well fitted by a single power law with an index of 1.54 ± 0.17, and integral photon flux is (4.28 ± 1.03)  × 10 ^−11 photons cm ^−2 s ^−1 . …”
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PHENIX highlights: Recent results from PHENIX by Shimomura Maya

“…Additionally, forward rapidity J/ψ and v2 measurements show a result consistent with zero, in contrast to LHC findings. (2) Precise direct photon yields obtained via large statistical datasets, spanning a wide range of transverse momentum (pT) and centrality bins have the scaling behavior across various large systems, and non-prompt direct photon results reveal temperature (Teff) dependence on pT. (3) Charged hadron production was examined in collision systems of varying sizes, revealing that RAA is primarily dependent on the overlap volume (Npart). …”
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Terahertz Metamaterials Inspired by Quantum Phenomena by Ziheng Ren, Yuze Hu, Weibao He, Siyang Hu, Shun Wan, Zhongyi Yu, Wei Liu, Quanlong Yang, Yuri S. Kivshar, Tian Jiang

“…For on-chip THz waves, quantum physics-inspired topological metamaterials, as photonic analogs of topological insulators, can ensure robust, low-loss propagation with suppressed backscattering. …”
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Bottom-up fabrication of 2D Rydberg exciton arrays in cuprous oxide by Kinjol Barua, Samuel Peana, Arya Deepak Keni, Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Yong P. Chen, Alexandra Boltasseva, Hadiseh Alaeian

“…These results lay the groundwork for the deterministic growth of Cu2O around photonic structures, enabling substantial light-matter interaction on integrated photonic platforms and paving the way for scalable, on-chip quantum devices.…”
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Surface Texturing with Hemispherical Cavities to Improve Efficiency in Silicon Solar Cells by D. W. de Lima Monteiro, F. P. Honorato, R. F. de Oliveira Costa, L. P. Salles

“…The latter implies a higher probability of photon collection, contributing to the improvement of the conversion efficiency of the device. …”
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Photophysics of O-band and transition metal color centers in monolithic silicon for quantum communications by Murat Can Sarihan, Jiahui Huang, Jin Ho Kang, Cody Fan, Wei Liu, Khalifa M. Azizur-Rahman, Baolai Liang, Chee Wei Wong

“…However, only a limited number of O-band color centers have been thoroughly explored in silicon hosts as spin-photon interfaces. This study explores and compares two promising O-band color centers in silicon for high-fidelity spin-photon interfaces: T and *Cu (transition metal) centers. …”
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Designs of Biomaterials and Microenvironments for Neuroengineering by Yanru Yang, Yuhua Zhang, Renjie Chai, Zhongze Gu

“…Photonic crystal materials, known as a novel concept in nerve substrates, have provided a new avenue for neuroengineering research because of their unique ordered structure and spectral attributes. …”
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Photo-Induced Cell Damage Analysis for Single- and Multifocus Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy by Takeo Minamikawa, Yoshinori Murakami, Naokazu Matsumura, Hirohiko Niioka, Shuichiro Fukushima, Tsutomu Araki, Mamoru Hashimoto

“…We found lower uptake of DAPI fluorophores into HeLa cells during the multifocus excitation compared with the single-focus excitation scheme in both the one- and the two-photon fluorescence examinations. This indicates a reduction of photo-induced cell damage in the multifocus excitation. …”
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Response to: Comment on “Does the Equivalence between Gravitational Mass and Energy Survive for a Composite Quantum Body?” by A. G. Lebed

“…This perturbation results in the appearance of a finite probability for an electron to be excited at higher energy levels and to emit a photon. The experimental task is to detect such photons from the ensemble of the atoms. …”
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Influence of Neutral Currents on Electron and Gamma Polarizations in the Process e+N→e′+N+γ by N. V. Samsonenko, Adamou Ousmane Manga, Almoustapha Aboubacar, Aboubacar Moussa

“…We performed the analysis of the angular and energy dependence of the degree of electron and photon polarization which can yield information on values of weak neutral currents parameters.…”
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High Quality–Factor All–Dielectric Metacavity for Label–Free Biosensing by Yuqiao Zheng, Jiacheng Sun, Yaqing Ma, Hongyong Zhang, Zhen Cui, Giannis G. Paschos, Xixi Song, Ying Tao, Pavlos Savvidis, Wei Kong, Liaoyong Wen, Sumin Bian, Mohamad Sawan

“…Abstract High sensitivity and high quality‐factor are crucial for achieving outstanding sensing performance in photonic biosensors. However, strong optical field confinement and high light–biomolecule interactions on photonic surfaces are usually contradictory and challenging to satisfy simultaneously. …”
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Shadows and accretion disk images of charged rotating black hole in modified gravity theory by He-Bin Zheng, Meng-Qi Wu, Guo-Ping Li, Qing-Quan Jiang

“…Interestingly, as $$\alpha $$ α increases, the flat edge of the BH’s shadow gradually becomes more rounded, the size of shadow enlarges, and the deviation rate ( $$\delta s$$ δ s ) correspondingly decreases. By tracing the photon around BH, we observe that the trajectory of photon exhibits distortion behavior, i.e., the formation of two “tails” near the Einstein ring, which elongate as a increases. …”
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On the Electromagnetic Vacuum Origins of Dark Energy, Dark Matter, and Astrophysical Jets by Stuart Marongwe

“…We use a semiclassical version of the Nexus paradigm of quantum gravity in which the quantum vacuum at large scales is dominated by the second quantized electromagnetic field to demonstrate that a virtual photon field can affect the geometric evolution of Einstein manifolds or Ricci solitons. …”
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Robust nonlinear isolators based on frozen mode exceptional point degeneracies by Serena Landers, William Tuxbury, Ilya Vitebskiy, Tsampikos Kottos

“…We introduce a class of imperfection-protected nonlinear isolators designed to operate at exceptional point degeneracies (EPDs) of the Bloch modes of periodic photonic structures. These Bloch EPDs are responsible for slow light and the emergence of a scattering frozen mode regime (FMR). …”
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Solution-Based Ultraviolet Photodiode with ZnO Nanoparticle/Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Polystyrene Sulfonate Heterojunction and Negative Capacitance by Jin Li, Xin Chang, Shunpu Li, Yi Zhang, Daping Chu

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Differential expression and localization of expansins in Arabidopsis shoots: implications for cell wall dynamics and drought tolerance by Darina Balkova, Katerina Mala, Jan Hejatko, Jan Hejatko, Klara Panzarova, Lamis Abdelhakim, Barbora Pleskacova, Marketa Samalova, Marketa Samalova

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Deterministic approach to design passive anomalous-diffraction metasurfaces with nearly 100% efficiency by Fang Zhening, Li Haipeng, Chen Yan, Sun Shulin, Xiao Shiyi, He Qiong, Zhou Lei

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PWR Containment Shielding Calculations with SCALE6.1 Using Hybrid Deterministic-Stochastic Methodology by Mario Matijević, Dubravko Pevec, Krešimir Trontl

“…The sources of ionizing radiation included fission neutrons and photons from the reactor and photons from the activated primary coolant. …”
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