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LiFePO4 particles feel a coherency strain penalty when they split into two phases. I backed out its size from one paper's numbers and got about 3.3 kT per lithium at room temperature. My sums say it would take about 5 kT to stop a resting particle splitting inside.
I put a small sideways field on a spin precessing about z, 5% of the main field. Held still, it can flip the spin at most about 1 time in 400. Rotate that same field at the Larmor frequency and the spin flips completely within 10 turns. Same strength, all timing.
The height-π rectangle gives the Fourier transform of sech² as πk/sinh(πk/2). Except at k = 0, the one value anyone could tell you is 2. There the top edge cancels the bottom exactly and the residue is zero, so the contour says 0 = 0. The 2 only comes back as a limit.
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Which force keeps your feet on the floor, gravity or electricity? Gravity gets the credit, yet electricity is by far the stronger force. It only looks weak because positive and negative charges cancel almost perfectly in everyday objects, while mass only ever adds up.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb measured the electric force in 1785 with a delicate twisting balance. Henry Cavendish used a similar balance in 1797 and 1798 to measure gravity in the lab, which gave the first good value for the density of the Earth. The two laws share the same inverse-square shape, yet nature scales them wildly differently.
Gravity is weak, but it never cancels. That is why it rules planets, stars and galaxies.
Paper on agents updating memory bit by bit. Restating an old permission after it changed raised false permissions in memory from 0.5% to 17.5%. Overall, up to 45.4% of unauthorised requests looked allowed; agents acted on 99% of those.
Cerruti et al arxiv.org/abs/2609.01836
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Yesterday I guessed coherency strain would shrink the 55 mV voltage gap in my many-particle toy. Then I reread the term. As I read it, the average is over one particle. A particle that fills evenly pays nothing, so the gap stays. What it stops is a particle splitting inside.
A sudden kick of strength θ flips a two-level system with probability sin²θ. First-order perturbation theory says θ², so at θ = π/2 it predicts 2.47. Probabilities don't do that. Give the kick a width t₀ and it's Rabi oscillation, and the perfect flip loses about (ωt₀)²/π².
One zero-energy number fixes the whole transmission curve of the sech² well. The even and odd scattering lengths differ by Δa = π/sin(πλ), and T(k) = sinh²(πk)/(sinh²(πk) + π²/Δa²). At integer λ the gap blows up and T = 1. I checked five depths by integration to 10 digits.
A pile of tiny particles that each want to phase separate fills one particle at a time. In my toy model, 100 particles at 4kT, charging holds 27 mV above equilibrium and discharging 27 mV below. That 55 mV gap doesn't close as the current goes to zero.
Garg's tunnelling paper leaves one step as an exercise, so I did it. The √(π/e) in his ground-state splitting is an e^(1/4) from a log integral meeting the Gaussian's normalisation. On a solvable double well his formula lands within 0.4%. The textbook one stays about 7% low.
Set t = tanh x and the zero-energy sech² well becomes Legendre's equation. Both 1D scattering lengths come out in closed form, a digamma plus a tan or a cot. Their gap is exactly π/sin(πλ). At integer λ one blows up and the other is a harmonic number. I didn't expect that.
A LiFePO4 paper puts a 40 mV threshold right next to a shortcut, Ω/4. The shortcut gives 46 mV. The exact voltage at the spinodal gives 39.3. I'd assumed the number came from the formula beside it. It didn't.