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Feng Ye

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RoboTwin-Phys: Do WAMs and VLAs Understand the Physical World?

Physical-condition diversity is largely missing from current benchmarks for robot manipulation. While large-scale simulation benchmarks increasingly incorporate variations in object appearance, scene layout, and visual observations, they typically keep the underlying physical parameters fixed. As a result, important sources of real-world variability, such as changes in mass, friction, and joint dynamics, remain largely untested. We introduce RoboTwin-Phys, a physics-diverse benchmark that treats physical-condition diversity as an explicit dimension of robot manipulation evaluation. The benchmark continuously varies 13 physical attributes within physically plausible ranges, providing a unified setting for evaluating policies across diverse physical operating conditions. We further release more than 5,000 expert demonstrations with ground-truth physical parameters, enabling physical-attribute estimation, condition-aware modeling, and physics-conditioned policy training. Evaluations of representative WAMs and VLAs reveal a substantial robustness gap: models that remain effective under existing visual and layout randomization can degrade markedly under changes in physical conditions. RoboTwin-Phys provides the benchmark, data, and evaluation protocol needed to systematically measure and improve robustness to physical-condition diversity in robot manipulation.

cs.RO

Twinning of domains and spin anisotropy in K$_5$Fe$_4$Ag$_6$Te$_{10}$

The Fe-based superconductors are derived from metallic parent compounds with nematic and stripe magnetic orders, which lead to two types of magnetic domains. Recently it was found that K$_5$Fe$_4$Ag$_6$Te$_{10}$ (KFAT), an Fe-based semiconductor, exhibits similar nematic and stripe magnetic orders, and is thus an analogue to the Fe-based superconductors in the limit of localized electrons. In this work, the superstructure and magnetic domains of KFAT are elucidated by fully mapping the reciprocal space using time-of-flight single crystal neutron diffraction. In KFAT, Fe and Ag atoms order to form a $\sqrt{5}\times\sqrt{5}$ superstructure containing $2\times2$ Fe blocks, which leads to two superstructure domains with identical main Bragg peaks but distinct superstructure peaks. Below $T_{\rm N}\approx35$~K, magnetic and nematic orders break in-plane rotational symmetry of the tetragonal $\sqrt{5}\times\sqrt{5}$ superstructure, and further give rise to two magnetic domains. These four equally populated domains account for the complex scattering pattern observed in our time-of-flight elastic neutron scattering measurements. Using polarized neutron scattering, we demonstrate a prominent spin anisotropy with an easy-plane spanned by the $c$-axis and the intra-block antiferromagnetic Fe-Fe bond direction. Such an anisotropy at ${\bf q}\neq0$ persists well above $T_{\rm N}$, accounts for the in-plane ${\bf q}=0$ magnetic anisotropy observed in uniaxial-strained KFAT, and offers an indicator for discovering similar piezomagnetic effects in other materials.

cond-mat.str-el

ECO-COMM: An Ultra Low-Latency Event Camera based Optical Communication System

Ultralow-latency communication is critical for emerging next-generation applications such as XR, real-time control, and distributed sensing. We present ECO-COMM, an event-camera-based optical communication system for ultra-low-latency device association and lightweight information exchange. By exploiting the asynchronous sensing and microsecond-level temporal resolution of event cameras, ECO-COMM captures high-frequency optical signals without frame-based acquisition delays. We identify and analyze key hardware-induced challenges in event-camera communication, including timestamp inconsistency, readout contention, trailing effects, and the inevitable refractory period, and develop hardware-aware mitigation techniques to address them. Focusing on a single transmitter-receiver optical link, ECO-COMM establishes the feasibility of practical ultra-low-latency event-camera communication using commercially available hardware.A prototype implementation using an eight-LED transmitter and an off-the-shelf event camera achieves device association within 15 microseconds, symbol latency as low as 100 microseconds, and end-to-end latency below 8 milliseconds for 32-byte payloads at 0.1% bit error rate. ECO-COMM establishes a practical and complementary communication paradigm for ultra-low-latency systems where responsiveness and temporal precision are paramount.

cs.NI

ECO-ID: Event-Camera based Optical System for Secure Multi-User Ultra-Low Latency Identification

Time-critical interactive systems increasingly require ultra-low-latency device identification for multiple users, yet prevailing approaches such as passwords, QR codes, and RFID/NFC are constrained by human input, frame-based sensing, or near-contact range. This paper presents ECO-ID, an event-camera-based optical system for multi-user, ultra-low-latency identification over visible light communication (VLC). Leveraging microsecond-resolution, asynchronous observations of brightness transitions, ECO-ID employs a spatiotemporal coding design: disjoint LED subsets provide spatial separation among users, while user-specific timing delays encode identities without inter-user synchronization. The optical channel and event-driven sensing reduce full-scene capture relative to frame cameras and limit the RF attack surface, while enabling rapid token verification with freshness and replay protection. We implement a prototype and demonstrate that ECO-ID can practically achieve approximately 99.8\% localization and 98.7\% identification with 0.64 ms mean latency, while theoretically supporting identification at the scale of tens of concurrent users. Overall, ECO-ID provides a fast, privacy-conscious, and security-aware alternative for scalable multi-user identification in time-critical interactive environments.

eess.SP

Emergent hidden order in ice: frustration and glassiness from slow hydrogen dynamics

Frustrated systems can host hidden order, in which weak interactions select correlated structure from a highly degenerate manifold. Water ice Ih is the canonical example of such a manifold, yet whether its hydrogen disorder conceals local structure beyond the Bernal-Fowler ice rules has remained controversial. Here, using high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering on single-crystal heavy ice, we identify strongly anisotropic librational phonons dispersing uniaxially along the crystallographic c axis - a spectroscopic signature inaccessible to bulk-averaging probes. A physics-guided analysis reveals that these excitations encode a hidden partial order: correlated polar armchair chains driven by a shallow stereochemical bias that creates an imperfectly flat energy landscape. This bias promotes nanoscale polar domains, yet frustrated topology prevents their straightforward coarsening into the ice XI ground state, trapping the system in a rugged configurational landscape that, within the experimentally constrained model, retains finite residual entropy even in the limit of infinitely slow cooling. These findings show that ice Ih is not a simple disordered solid, but a frustrated, partially ordered hydrogen network with glass-like arrest on a crystalline lattice, providing a microscopic framework that reconciles thermodynamic theory with spectroscopic observations.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Spin nematic liquid crystal and scalar spin chirality in tetragonal lattice YbMnBi$_2$

A spin nematic order, analogous to the nematic liquid crystal, characterizes the spontaneous breaking of spin-space rotational symmetry while preserving time-reversal ($T$) symmetry. In contrast, scalar spin chirality (SSC), a composite three-spin order, breaks $T$ symmetry and is known to induce an anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Although a spin nematic phase has been suggested in frustrated magnets and the square-lattice iridate, how it might affect magnetotransport properties is unknown. Here we use polarized neutron scattering to show that tetragonal $A$MnBi$_2$ ($A$ = Ca, Yb) is a strictly $c$-axis-aligned collinear antiferromagnet (C-type), with $T_N \approx 270$ K and 290 K, respectively. On cooling from 450 K to $T_N$, low-energy spin excitations in YbMnBi$_2$ spontaneously change from isotropic to anisotropic in spin space within the tetragonal plane, forming a dynamic spin nematic phase around 400 K due to heavy Yb-induced spin-orbit coupling, before gapping out below $T_N$. Similar measurements on CaMnBi$_2$ reveal isotropic paramagnetic scattering without a spin nematic phase above $T_N$. Under an in-plane magnetic field, the Yb$^{3+}$ moments may interact with the dynamic spin nematic phase to induce nonzero SSC, giving rise to AHE and an anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) in YbMnBi$_2$ that are absent in CaMnBi$_2$ above $T_N$. A symmetry-based Ginzburg-Landau analysis shows that coupling terms between the nematic order and SSC are allowed under an external magnetic field, which could explain the rapid increase of AHE with field in YbMnBi$_2$. Our results provide compelling evidence for dynamic SSC-induced AHE and ANE in the paramagnetic phase of a compensated collinear antiferromagnet, opening a new avenue for the physics of composite spin orders and room-temperature spintronics without magnetic order.

cond-mat.str-el

Rethink Before You Execute: Adaptive Execution for World Action Models

World Action Models (WAMs) jointly predict future actions and the evolution of the environment. At each inference, a WAM generates a chunk of actions and the robot executes a fixed prefix before replanning. We argue that this fixed execution horizon is poorly matched to execution dynamics: the chunk reliability varies across task stages, so when to replan depends on the result of accumulated execution, not on the step counts. We propose TempoWAM (Timing Execution by Monitoring Progress Online), a lightweight plug-and-play execution scheme for WAMs. A Recurrent Progress Monitor first estimates task progress from the current observation, task instruction, remaining actions, and execution history; and an Adaptive Execution Protocol then evaluates whether the chunk is advancing the task to decide if replanning is needed. To bridge the training-deployment gap, the protocol is calibrated by a task-dependent calibration factor with online adaptation. Experiments on LIBERO, RoboTwin, and real-world tasks show that TempoWAM consistently improves the efficiency-success trade-off of WAM execution. On real robots, it reduces WAM inferences by 26.9% on easy tasks while maintaining success, and improves success by 13.3 points on difficult tasks.

cs.RO

The self-organized vacancy order in Pr$_9$Ge$_{16}$

In this work, we report the discovery of a new crystal structure on the Ge-rich side of the Pr-Ge binary phase diagram. Using a high-temperature flux technique, we grew single crystals of $Pr_9Ge_{16}$, which adopt a previously unreported orthorhombic $Fdd$2 structure type featuring ordered Ge vacancies. We present the anisotropic magnetic properties and identify the crystallographic $b$ axis perpendicular to the crystal plane as the magnetic easy axis. Temperature-dependent resistivity measurements reveal metallic behavior with a distinct anomaly at $T_{\mathrm{C}}$ = 14.3 K. Hall resistivity data indicate that electron-like carriers dominate, with a carrier concentration on the order of $10^{27}~\mathrm{m}^{-3}$. The magnetic order is readily suppressed by a magnetic field of approximately 0.4 T applied along the easy $b$ axis.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci

Enhancing Adversarial Transferability through Block Stretch and Shrink

Input transformation-based attacks improve adversarial transferability by aggregating gradients over transformed inputs. Existing analyses mainly explain their efficacy from image diversity, semantic preservation, attention variance or hypothesis space augmentation, yet overlook the critical role of model frontend responses. In this paper, we revisit transformation-based attacks from an implicit ensemble perspective: each transformation can be viewed as a pre-processing operator before the surrogate model, inducing a distinct frontend response for gradient aggregation. Based on this view, we propose FRO, a Frontend Response-Oriented input transformation method that enriches such responses through two complementary operators. The Local Scaling Operator perturbs local content sampling via block-wise stretch-and-shrink operations, while the Projection Operator modifies global spatial organization through coherent perspective deformation. Together, they produce structured transformed views to optimize transferable adversarial perturbations. Experiments on an ImageNet subset show that FRO consistently improves black-box transferability across diverse CNN and Vision Transformer models. We further analyze the effect of implicit ensemble size and evaluate different transformation-based methods under a unified ensemble scale, demonstrating the superiority of designing input transformations from the perspective of front-end response ensembles.

cs.LG

Shape Ultrasound with Dynamic Microfluidic Lenses

Dynamic shaping of ultrasound into prescribed spatial patterns underlies a broad range of biomedical and engineering applications. However, existing modulation strategies face fundamental limitations: single element transducers paired with acoustic lenses lack reconfigurability, whereas phased arrays require large numbers of independently driven elements, leading to substantial hardware complexity, cost, and rigidity. Here we introduce a microfluidic ultrasound lens system that enables reconfigurable spatial modulation of ultrasonic fields using two orthogonal layers of soft microfluidic channels. Each channel is selectively filled with one of two liquids with distinct sound speeds via an FPGA controlled array of micropumps, generating programmable binary phase patterns. Integrating a 20-row-by-20-column microfluidic lens with a single element transducer, we demonstrate three-dimensional ultrasound focusing with approximately one second reconfiguration time and spatial resolution comparable to that of a 400-element transducer array. The system provides 400 addressable pixels through parallel control of 80 pumps, allowing hardware complexity to scale with the square root of the pixel count. Building on this platform, we demonstrate dynamic ultrasound heating, as well as remote particle manipulation. Furthermore, we demonstrate a cylindrical lens that manipulates ultrasound propagation in the azimuthal direction. Owing to its liquid based, soft architecture, the microfluidic lens offers design flexibility, scalable operation across ultrasound frequencies, low acoustic transmission loss, and stable performance under high acoustic power. Together, these results establish microfluidic phase modulation as a compact, scalable, and flexible approach for dynamic ultrasound field control.

physics.app-ph

From Blueprint to Reality: Modeling and Applying Putnam's Social Capital Theory with LLM-based Multi-agent Simulations

Putnam's Social Capital Theory is a foundational framework for collective action and community prosperity. However, traditional empirical methods face practical limits on control and replication. Meanwhile, LLM-based social simulations are typically behavior-driven and lack theory-aligned environments for modeling Putnam's core propositions. To address these gaps, we introduce SocaSim, an LLM-based multi-agent simulation framework to study Putnam's Social Capital Theory from theoretical blueprint to simulated reality. Specifically, we build an environment integrating social network evolution, trust dynamics, and norm propagation, where agents engage in repeated collective-action experiments, and then apply the three dimensions to analyze adaptation challenges in smart elderly care. Our simulations reproduce Putnam's macro-level patterns and exhibit strong human-agent alignment at the group level. Unlike traditional methods, SocaSim traces micro-level causal pathways of social network, trust, and norms via round-by-round simulations and counterfactual interventions, enabling process-level interpretability. Taken together, these capabilities establish a research paradigm that leverages LLM agents to bridge social science and computer science.

cs.CL

Exploiting RIS Optimization Limits for Multi-User Beamforming and Signal Suppression

This paper presents a unified framework for exploiting the boundaries of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) joint optimization in multi-user wireless systems, where a single RIS accommodates diverse objectives.We first propose an adaptive gradient-scaling mechanism that accelerates the convergence of the underlying optimization algorithm while maintaining stable performance across varying channel and system parameters. The proposed mechanism enables the solver to reach a reasonably good solution rapidly without requiring manual tuning of step sizes or algorithmic hyperparameters when system inputs change. We then propose a low-complexity beamformer recovery method tailored for single-user scenarios, which circumvents the full matrix decomposition required by traditional approaches, thereby significantly reducing computational overhead. Building on these foundations, we develop an element allocation strategy that enables user-specific prioritization through assignment of RIS subsets. This is further extended by a modular add-drop mechanism that supports partial-panel optimization in general multi-user settings. The framework is evaluated across three representative scenarios: (i) signal amplification for all users, (ii) signal suppression for all users, and (iii) selective amplification and suppression. To characterize performance limits, we derive power trade-off boundaries using scalarized joint optimization, which closely align with Monte Carlo simulations. Our unified joint optimization method consistently yield solutions near these boundaries, confirming its near-optimality. Extensive simulations under realistic channel models demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms conventional semidefinite relaxation techniques, offering a scalable and effective RIS control strategy for cooperative and competitive multi-user environments.

eess.SP

Hidden Density-Wave Instability in the Trimer Ruthenate Ba$_4$Ru$_3$O$_{10}$

We report a hidden density-wave instability in the trimer-based ruthenate Ba4Ru3O10, previously regarded as a pure antiferromagnet with a phase transition at TA=100 K. This transition is manifested in lattice parameters, transport, thermodynamics, and magnetic susceptibility, yet remains remarkably insensitive to magnetic fields up to at least 14 T, indicating an electronically driven reconstruction. At much lower temperatures T*= 20 K, charge transport becomes strongly nonlinear, exhibiting distinct depinning thresholds, negative differential resistance, pronounced current- and frequency-dependence, and slow collective dynamics in the Hertz range. While each feature is characteristic of density-wave transport, their simultaneous occurrence in an antiferromagnetic oxide is unprecedented. All nonlinear signatures vanish upon only 3% Ir substitution, which preserves the crystal structure and insulating state, ruling out Joule heating or extrinsic artifacts. The wide separation between the electronic reconstruction at TA and the emergence of nonlinear dynamics at T* identifies Ba4Ru3O10 as a rare correlated system hosting a strongly pinned collective electronic state intertwined with antiferromagnetism.

cond-mat.str-el

TG-DIN: Theory-Guided Demand Inference Network for Generalizable QoS Measurement and Prediction

In this paper, we introduce TG-DIN, a theory-guided demand inference network that infers latent user demand from observable network quality-of-service (QoS) measurements. Rather than directly predicting QoS outcomes using black-box models, TG-DIN explicitly models latent demand as an intermediate variable and links it to observable behavior through a differentiable theory layer grounded in scheduling and queuing principles. This design yields an interpretable, mechanism-consistent representation of user demand that is directly applicable to downstream tasks such as congestion diagnosis, resource allocation, capacity planning, and policy evaluation. The theory layer further enables a principled randomized training regime that exposes the model to diverse yet physically meaningful operating conditions without requiring labeled demand data. Extensive synthetic experiments show that TG-DIN generalizes robustly across capacities, demand levels, and traffic patterns, substantially outperforming purely data-driven baselines under distribution shift. Moreover, when trained exclusively on synthetic data and applied directly to real packet traces, TG-DIN accurately recovers per-user allocation structure in shared-link scenarios. Together, these results demonstrate the effectiveness of theory-guided inductive biases for achieving transferable, deployment-ready inference in dynamic network environments.

cs.NI

Inductance Meets Memory in the Quantum Magnet Mn3Si2Te6

Orbital degrees of freedom offer a largely untapped route to emergent dynamical phenomena in correlated quantum materials. However, it remains unclear whether collective orbital states can intrinsically generate both reactive and memory functionalities in a bulk system. Here we show that in the ferrimagnet Mn3Si2Te6, nonequilibrium reconfiguration of chiral orbital currents produces both emergent inductance and nonvolatile memristance as intrinsic properties of a single crystal. At low frequency and under a magnetic field along the c axis, coherent orbital-current domains generate robust clockwise inductive I-V loops. At higher frequency and low field, current-driven first-order reconfiguration leads to incomplete reversal and metastable trapping, producing an intrinsic electromotive force and a finite remanent voltage at zero current. These results establish orbital currents as a class of quantum state variables that encode both reactive and memory functionalities, opening routes toward intrinsically reconfigurable and energy-efficient electronic systems.

cond-mat.str-el

Magnetism and magnetoelastic effect in 2D van der Waals multiferroic CuCrP2S6

We report a magnetic and neutron diffraction study on the ground state magnetism and field evolution of single crystal van der Waals multiferroic CuCrP2S6. The ordered moments align along the b axis in the A-type antiferromagnetic configuration with a spin-flop transition along the same direction. Field application along a introduces a smooth transition to a fully-polarized ferromagnetic state via in-plane spin rotation. These findings resolve the ambiguity of the ground state magnetization direction in CuCrP2S6 and uncover its field responses, providing a firm basis for future magnetoelectric study. A magnetoelastic coupling effect connecting the interlayer spacing and the magnetic order was further revealed, highlighting the out-of-plane strain as an effective control knob for tuning magnetism both in this system and in related van der Waals magnets.

cond-mat.str-el

Evidence for itinerant electron-local moment interaction in Li-doped $α$-MnTe

We use inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the impact of Li doping on the semiconducting altermagnet $α$-MnTe. Introducing Li results in a spin reorientation from in-plane to out-of-plane direction and increases the density of itinerant carriers. While our ARPES measurements do not indicate any notable doping-induced changes in the electronic band structure or the magnitude of the altermagnetic band splitting, our INS measurements reveal an abrupt carrier-induced decrease in the spin wave lifetime near the zone boundary at high energies. This finding is consistent with a new magnon decay channel driven by doping-induced subtle changes in the band structure and enhanced interactions between Mn$^{2+}$ local moments and itinerant electrons. By extracting the local dynamic susceptibility from INS spectra and applying the total moment sum rule, we find that both undoped and Li-doped $α$-MnTe exhibit the full expected Mn$^{2+}$ local moment of $\approx5.9~μ_\mathrm{B}$ with $S=5/2$. These findings suggest that $α$-MnTe hosts robust local-moment altermagnetism which shows a breakdown at high energies upon addition of itinerant carriers, highlighting the importance of carrier-spin coupling in magneto-transport and spin dynamic properties of altermagnets even in the dilute-carrier limit.

cond-mat.str-el

Fine-Grained Network Traffic Classification with Contextual QoS Profiling

Accurate network traffic classification is vital for managing modern applications with strict Quality of Service (QoS) demands, such as edge computing, real-time XR, and autonomous systems. While recent advances in application-level classification show high accuracy, they often miss fine-grained in-app QoS variations critical for service differentiation. This paper proposes a hierarchical graph neural network (GNN) framework that combines a three-level graph representation with an automated QoS-aware assignment algorithm. The model captures multi-scale temporal patterns via packet aggregation, time-window clustering, and session-level behavior modeling. QoS priorities are derived using five key metrics (bandwidth, jitter, packet stability, burst frequency, and burst stability), processed through logarithmic transformation and weighted ranking. Evaluations across 14 usage scenarios from YouTube, Prime Video, TikTok, and Zoom show that the proposed GNN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in service-level classification. The QoS-aware assignment further refines classification to enhance user experience. This work advances QoS-aware traffic classification by enabling precise in-app usage differentiation and adaptive service prioritization in dynamic network environments.

cs.NI