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Nikita Lebedev

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Quaternary Legendre Pairs of Lengths 42, 46, 52, 58, 66, 72, and 80

A quaternary Legendre pair of length $\ell$ is a pair of sequences over the fourth roots of unity whose periodic autocorrelations sum to $-2$ at every nonzero shift. Each such pair yields a quaternary Hadamard matrix of order $2\ell+2$ and a binary Hadamard matrix of order $4\ell+4$. Fourteen even lengths up to 100 remained open in the 2025 tables of Kotsireas, Koutschan and Winterhof and of Jedwab and Pender. We settle seven of them --- the four smallest open lengths, 42, 46, 52, and 58, together with 66, 72, and 80 --- and print every pair in full. Checking one takes a few lines of code and exact arithmetic over the Gaussian integers, so the main results can be confirmed without running any of our software. Each search writes a pair as four binary sequences under a Gray map, restricts to reflection-symmetric rows, imposes an exact spectral constraint at the midpoint frequency, and matches candidates meet-in-the-middle on their autocorrelation vectors; from length 52 onward, exact compression along divisor chains shrinks the search before any candidate is lifted. Everything is deterministic: no seed, heuristic stopping rule, or floating-point value enters an acceptance decision. At lengths 64, 70 and 76 the same machinery ran to exhaustion and found nothing: the reversible four-block queue built at each length contains no pair. These are exhaustions of a specific recorded queue, not nonexistence results, and the certificates do not by themselves establish that the queue captures every reversible object of its length. A closing section sorts every claim in the paper by what a reader must accept in order to believe it, and states exactly how far the accompanying artifacts support each one.

math.CO

Critical behavior of isotropic systems with strong dipole-dipole interaction from the functional renormalization group

We compute the critical exponents of three-dimensional magnets with strong dipole-dipole interactions using the functional renormalization group (FRG) within the local potential approximation including the wave function renormalization (LPA$^\prime$). The system is governed by the Aharony fixed point, which is scale-invariant but lacks conformal invariance. Our nonperturbative FRG analysis identifies this fixed point and determines its scaling behavior. The resulting critical exponents are found to be close to those of the Heisenberg $O(3)$ universality class, as computed within the same FRG/LPA$^\prime$ framework. This proximity confirms the distinct yet numerically similar nature of the two universality classes.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Tuning Rashba spin-orbit coupling at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces by band filling

The electric-field tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface shows potential applications in spintronic devices. However, different gate dependence of the coupling strength has been reported in experiments. On the theoretical side, it has been predicted that the largest Rashba effect appears at the crossing point of the $d_{xy}$ and $d_{xz,yz}$ bands. In this work, we study the tuneability of the Rashba effect in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 by means of back-gating. The Lifshitz transition was crossed multiple times by tuning the gate voltage so that the Fermi energy is tuned to approach or depart from the band crossing. By analyzing the weak antilocalization behavior in the magnetoresistance, we find that the maximum spin-orbit coupling effect occurs when the Fermi energy is near the Lifshitz point. Moreover, we find strong evidence for a single spin winding at the Fermi surface.

cond-mat.mes-hall

New insights into the electron trapping mechanism in LaAlO_3 / SrTiO3 heterostructures

In LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures, a commonly observed but poorly understood phenomenon is that of electron trapping in back-gating experiments. In this work, by combining magnetotransport measurements and self-consistent Schroedinger-Poisson calculations, we obtain an empirical relation between the amount of trapped electrons and the gate voltage. We find that the trapped electrons follow an exponentially decaying spatial distribution away from the interface. However, contrary to earlier observations, we find that the Fermi level remains well within the quantum well. The enhanced trapping of electrons induced by the gate voltage can therefore not be explained by a thermal escape mechanism. Further gate sweeping experiments strengthen our conclusion that the thermal escape mechanism is not valid. We propose a new mechanism which involves the electromigration and clustering of oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3. Our work indicates that electron trapping is a universal phenomenon in SrTiO3-based two-dimensional electron systems.

cond-mat.mes-hall

Hybrid cold and hot-wall chamber for fast synthesis of uniform graphene

We introduce a novel modality in the CVD growth of graphene which combines the cold-wall and hot-wall reaction chambers. This hybrid mode preserves the advantages of a cold-wall chamber as the fast growth and low fuel consumption, but boosts the quality of the growth towards conventional CVD with hot-wall chambers. The synthesized graphene is uniform and monolayer. The electronic transport measurements shows great improvements in charge carrier mobility compared to graphene synthesized in a normal cold-wall reaction chamber. Our results promise the development of a fast and cost-efficient growth of high quality graphene, suitable for scalable industrial applications.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci