Phenotype bias determines how natural RNA structures occupy the morphospace of all possible shapes

Authors:

Kamaludin Dingle, Fatme Ghaddar, Petr Šulc, Ard A Louis

Pole skipping from universal hydrodynamics of (1+1)d QFTs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11024

Authors:

Richard A. Davison, Hanzhi Jiang

Abstract:

(1+1)d QFTs provide a tractable arena for understanding the emergence of hydrodynamics in thermal states. At high temperatures this process is governed by the weak breaking of conformal symmetry, and so in this limit many features of the hydrodynamic theory that emerges have been argued to be universal. In this paper we study aspects of the stress tensor thermal two-point function in holographic QFTs of this kind and show that they are consistent with the universal hydrodynamic theory proposed to apply at late times. Specifically, we identify the locations of the `pole skipping' points in momentum space at which there is an intersection of poles and zeroes of this two-point function in holographic QFTs. Although these points lie outside the regime where the hydrodynamic theory is controlled, we show that their locations are consistent with those found by resumming the hydrodynamic derivative expansion near the lightcone. For example, this resummation of the universal hydrodynamics correctly predicts the butterfly velocity of holographic theories.

Predicting phenotype transition probabilities via conditional algorithmic probability approximations

Authors:

Kamaludin Dingle, Javor K Novev, Sebastian E Ahnert, Ard A Louis

Predicting the topography of fitness landscapes from the structure of genotype-phenotype maps

Authors:

Malvika Srivastava, Ard A Louis, Nora S Martin

Quantum oscillations in the zeroth Landau Level and the serpentine Landau fan

Physical Review Letters American Physical Society

Authors:

T Devakul, Yves H Kwan, SL Sondhi, SA Parameswaran

Abstract:

We identify an unusual mechanism for quantum oscillations in nodal semimetals, driven by a single pair of Landau levels periodically closing their gap at the Fermi energy as a magnetic field is varied. These `zero Landau level' quantum oscillations (ZQOs) appear in the nodal limit where the zero-field Fermi volume vanishes, and have distinctive periodicity and temperature dependence. We link the Landau spectrum of a two-dimensional (2D) nodal semimetal to the Rabi model, and show by exact solution that across the entire Landau fan, pairs of opposite-parity Landau levels are intertwined in a `serpentine' manner. We propose 2D surfaces of topological crystalline insulators as natural settings for ZQOs, and comment on implications for anomaly physics in 3D nodal semimetals.