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May 28, 2024
Fluorescence microscope image from a video showing the dynamics of active nematics confined to a cardioid along with the tracks of three defects, which form a braid. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.
Fereshteh L. Memarian et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 228301 (2024)
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D-TRILEX calculations unveil details of the crossover region in Mott transitions between the weakly and strongly correlated regimes for a half-filled 2D Hubbard model.
Maria Chatzieleftheriou, Silke Biermann, and Evgeny A. Stepanov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236504 (2024)
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A new measurement of the cross section from the CMD-3 experiment points to a larger hadronic contribution to muon than previous such measurements, which, if confirmed, would ease the tension between theory and experiment for that magnetic moment.
F. V. Ignatov et al. (CMD-3 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 109, 112002 (2024)
F. V. Ignatov et al. (CMD-3 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231903 (2024)
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Interatomic Coulombic decay is experimentally observed in a doubly excited atom despite its extremely short lifetime.
B. Bastian et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233001 (2024)
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In a system where a standard antiferromagnet coexists with a second, ordered phase, which breaks the sublattice rotational symmetry spontaneously, altermagnetism may emerge as an electronic instability.
Valentin Leeb, Alexander Mook, Libor Šmejkal, and Johannes Knolle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 236701 (2024)
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A mechanism for strong-coupling superconductivity based on the electron-phonon interaction, quadratic in phonon displacements suggests a new route to high-temperature superconductivity.
Zhaoyu Han, Steven A. Kivelson, and Pavel A. Volkov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226001 (2024)
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Polarization-gated attoclock technique allows the observation of electron-electron interaction in nonsequential photoionization events.
YanLan Wang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223202 (2024)
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Observation of a heavy Fermi surface of charge-neutral spinons in BaNbRuO provides experimental evidence for a robust quantum spin liquid that features an extraordinarily large entropy and a linear heat capacity extending into the milli-Kelvin regime.
Hengdi Zhao et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226503 (2024)