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Abstract Structural superlubricity (SSL) at layered material interfaces is an exciting and vibrant field of research, offering vast opportunities to achieve ultralow friction and wear with numerous potential technological applications. At increasing length‐scales, new physical and chemical energy dissipation pathways emerge that threaten to push the system out of the superlubric regime. Physical inhibitors of SSL are primarily associated with in‐plane elasticity, out‐of‐plane corrugation, moiré superlattices, grain boundaries, and lattice defects. Chemical mechanisms that may suppress superlubric behavior include interlayer bonding, wear, and external contaminants. In this article, these and other challenges are reviewed facing the scaling‐up of structural superlubricity, as reflected in recent experimental and theoretical studies. Further perspectives are offered on future directions for realizing and manipulating macroscale superlubricity, outlining technological opportunities that it entails. 

A<sc>bstract</sc> In this work, we report a lattice calculation ofx-dependent valence pion generalized parton distributions (GPDs) at zero skewness with multiple values of the momentum transfer −t. The calculations are based on anN_f= 2 + 1 gauge ensemble of highly improved staggered quarks with Wilson-Clover valence fermion. The lattice spacing is 0.04 fm, and the pion valence mass is tuned to be 300 MeV. We determine the Lorentz-invariant amplitudes of the quasi-GPD matrix elements for both symmetric and asymmetric momenta transfers with similar values and show the equivalence of both frames. Then, focusing on the asymmetric frame, we utilize a hybrid scheme to renormalize the quasi-GPD matrix elements obtained from the lattice calculations. After the Fourier transforms, the quasi-GPDs are then matched to the light-cone GPDs within the framework of large momentum effective theory with improved matching, including the next-to-next-to-leading order perturbative corrections, and leading renormalon and renormalization group resummations. We also present the 3-dimensional image of the pion in impact-parameter space through the Fourier transform of the momentum transfer −t. 

We present a lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD) calculation of the $x$-dependent pion and kaon distribution amplitudes (DA) in the framework of large momentum effective theory. This calculation is performed on a fine lattice of $a=0.076\mathrm{fm}$at physical pion mass, with the pion boosted to 1.8 GeV and kaon boosted to 2.3 GeV. We renormalize the matrix elements in the hybrid scheme and match to $\overline{\mathrm{MS}}$with a subtraction of the leading renormalon in the Wilson-line mass. The perturbative matching is improved by resumming the large logarithms related to the small quark and gluon momenta in the soft-gluon limit. After resummation, we demonstrate that we are able to calculate a range of $x\in [x_0,1-x_0]$with $x_0=0.25$for pion and $x_0=0.2$for kaon with theoretical systematic errors under control. The kaon DA is shown to be slighted skewed, and narrower than pion DA. Although the $x$-dependence cannot be direct calculated beyond these ranges, we estimate higher moments of the pion and kaon DAs by complementing our calculation with short-distance factorization. Published by the American Physical Society2024 

A<sc>bstract</sc> In this work, we present a lattice QCD calculation of the Mellin moments of the twist-2 axial-vector generalized parton distribution (GPD),$$ \overset{\sim }{H}\left(x,\xi, t\right) $$ $\tilde{H}\left(x,\xi ,t\right)$, at zero skewness,ξ, with multiple values of the momentum transfer,t. Our analysis employs the short-distance factorization framework on ratio-scheme renormalized quasi-GPD matrix elements. The calculations are based on anN_f= 2 + 1 + 1 twisted mass fermions ensemble with clover improvement, a lattice spacing ofa= 0.093 fm, and a pion mass ofm_π= 260 MeV. We consider both the iso-vector and iso-scalar cases, utilizing next-to-leading-order perturbative matching while omitting the disconnected contributions and gluon mixing in the iso-scalar case. For the first time, we determine the Mellin moments of$$ \overset{\sim }{H} $$ $\tilde{H}$up to the fifth order. From these moments, we discuss the quark helicity and orbital angular momentum contributions to the nucleon spin, as well as the spin-orbit correlations of the quarks. Additionally, we perform a Fourier transform over the momentum transfer, which allows us to explore the spin structure in the impact-parameter space. 

We report the first lattice QCD computation of pion and kaon electromagnetic form factors, $F_M\left(Q^2\right)$, at large momentum transfer up to 10 and $28{\mathrm{GeV}}^2$, respectively. Utilizing physical masses and two fine lattices, we achieve good agreement with JLab experimental results at $Q^2\lesssim 4{\mathrm{GeV}}^2$. For $Q^2\gtrsim 4{\mathrm{GeV}}^2$, our results provide QCD benchmarks for the forthcoming experiments at JLab 12 GeV and future electron-ion colliders. We also test the QCD collinear factorization framework utilizing our high- $Q^2$form factors at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbation theory, which relates the form factors to the leading Fock-state meson distribution amplitudes. Comparisons with independent lattice QCD calculations using the same framework demonstrate, within estimated uncertainties, the universality of these nonperturbative quantities. Published by the American Physical Society2024