From Vintage Mythology to Topological Physics: Unveiling a Universal Structural Attractor in Alcoholic Beverage Aging
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| author | Jiang, Xinyue Yang, Heng Jiu, Zhiyin Luo, Youxi Chen, Lin Xie, Yuqun |
| author_facet | Jiang, Xinyue Yang, Heng Jiu, Zhiyin Luo, Youxi Chen, Lin Xie, Yuqun |
| contents | Alcoholic beverage properties are increasingly understood through ethanol-water structural states rather than empirical labels such as alcohol content and vintage. Yet whether chronological vintage similarly reflects an intrinsic structural state remains unclear. Here, we apply persistent homology to map the topological evolution of self-assembled molecular aggregates in strong-aroma Baijiu aged 1-10 years. The resulting fingerprints reveal a three-stage maturation pathway: rapid scaffold consolidation (B0), population-level channel stabilization (B1), and non-monotonic cavity reorganization (B2). These coupled trajectories converge toward a mature topological state rather than passively tracking chronological age. We therefore propose a universal topological attractor, in which optimal aging is defined by a system's position in persistence space relative to a mature structural domain. This framework reframes beverage aging as navigation through structural state space, providing a physical basis for quality evaluation and accelerated maturation. |
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| spellingShingle | From Vintage Mythology to Topological Physics: Unveiling a Universal Structural Attractor in Alcoholic Beverage Aging Jiang, Xinyue Yang, Heng Jiu, Zhiyin Luo, Youxi Chen, Lin Xie, Yuqun Atomic Physics Alcoholic beverage properties are increasingly understood through ethanol-water structural states rather than empirical labels such as alcohol content and vintage. Yet whether chronological vintage similarly reflects an intrinsic structural state remains unclear. Here, we apply persistent homology to map the topological evolution of self-assembled molecular aggregates in strong-aroma Baijiu aged 1-10 years. The resulting fingerprints reveal a three-stage maturation pathway: rapid scaffold consolidation (B0), population-level channel stabilization (B1), and non-monotonic cavity reorganization (B2). These coupled trajectories converge toward a mature topological state rather than passively tracking chronological age. We therefore propose a universal topological attractor, in which optimal aging is defined by a system's position in persistence space relative to a mature structural domain. This framework reframes beverage aging as navigation through structural state space, providing a physical basis for quality evaluation and accelerated maturation. |
| title | From Vintage Mythology to Topological Physics: Unveiling a Universal Structural Attractor in Alcoholic Beverage Aging |
| topic | Atomic Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25472 |