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Flagship journal of the nonprofit APS. The most cited physics journal, publishing Letters which substantially move physics forward.
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PRL has selected 1 issue's worth of Letters from last year's 52, spanning all of our sections, to create our first annual PRL Collection of the Year 2024. Happy exploring to our readers, congratulations to authors, and thank you to referees!. #PRLcoty2024
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Dropped plastic bottles containing swirling water bounce significantly less than bottles containing standing still water after impacting the floor.Letter: Focus:
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Droplets of different liquids bounce off each other several times on a hot plate until they coalesce when the droplet that evaporates faster reaches a certain critical size dictated by the capillary length.Letter: Video:
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In the Scientific Background of the Physics @NobelPrize for Giorgio Parisi, 5 PRLs & 1 RMP were cited. We've made them all free to read:.
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BINARY-NEUTRON-STAR MERGER SEEN VIA GRAVITATIONAL WAVES & EM RADIATION.@LIGO-@ego_virgo, #ManyTelescopes.#OpenAccess
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A measurement @Fermilab of the muon magnetic moment agrees with a longstanding @BrookhavenLab result, boosting tension with the standard-model #gminus2 theory prediction to 4.2 standard deviations. Letter: #openaccess
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Navier-Stokes equations are shown to emerge from a generalized hydrodynamics description for nearly integrable 1D quantum many-body systems
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Structure and Rheology in Vertex Models under Cell-Shape-Dependent Active Stresses #biophysics #CoolVideo
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Quantum squeezing has for the first time been used, by @LIGO & @ego_virgo, to improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors, increasing their detection rate by up to 50%. Letters: #OpenAccess.Focus:
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Experiments with colloidal particles have uncovered conditions where an intermediate layer that separates a crystallizing liquid from its solid forms #CoolVideo.Letter: Synopsis:
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Congratulations to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger on being awarded the 2022 @NobelPrize in Physics “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” ➡️ 🧵.
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Congratulations to 2020 @NobelPrize in Physics recipients Roger Penrose @UniofOxford, Reinhard Genzel @UCBerkeley, & Andrea Ghez @UCLA. These papers cited by the Nobel Committee are now free to read:.
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We will not publish or tweet any papers on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia.
APS will be closed for business on Wednesday, June 10 to stand in support and solidarity with the Black community #Strike4BlackLives #ShutDownSTEM #ShutDownAcademia
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Volume 127, Issue 24.Cover: Breakup of a liquid jet by a continuous-wave laser into periodic drops (right two panels) over about 100 milliseconds #coolvideo
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Until our servers are back online (we're adding more capacity now) here is figure one from the paper #LIGO
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Ignition of controlled thermonuclear fusion has finally been achieved—an important step on the road to fusion energy production.Letter: #plasma #renewables.@PhysRevE: Viewpoint:
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A neural network based on a representation of the wave function guided by the quantum mechanical variational principle without reference to experimental data predicts electronic ground states in condensed matter without a priori knowledge of the system
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There is an infinite family of one-dimensional models exhibiting spontaneous breaking of a U(1) symmetry at zero temperature whose order parameter does not commute with the Hamiltonian
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Mathematical similarities between electrodynamics and weak-field gravity allows for the derivation of metrological constraints based on gravitational analogs of the Josephson and quantum Hall effects. Letter: Focus:
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Using a simple approach that relies only on the statistical properties of jammed packings, the random close packing volume fraction of hard spheres in two and three dimensions can be analytically derived
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Nonlinear waves can compute as artificial neural networks.Letter: Viewpoint:
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Condensate droplets on a thin oil film exhibit self propulsion driven by the interfacial energy released during droplet merging #CoolVideo.Letter: Synopsis:
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Accepted for publication in PRL:. Evidence for superconductivity above 260 K in lanthanum superhydride at megabar pressures. #Story @sciencenews
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The interaction of Doppler-boosted light with matter at intensities approaching the Schwinger limit is explored in numerical simulations showing the creation of electron-positron pairs forming high-density relativistic attosecond jets
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The addition of polymers to fluids leads to the emergence of a new kind of turbulence in fluid jets.Letter: Viewpoint:
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Two years ago today, we published this @LIGO paper that began the field of gravitational wave astronomy, leading to the 2017 @NobelPrize in Physics. It’s very clearly written and #openaccess.
Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger.
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Congratulations to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier on being awarded the 2023 @NobelPrize in Physics "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter" 🧵1/3
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Magnetically driven rotors suspended in a viscoelastic fluid self organize into emergent zig-zag patterns.Letter: Focus:
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Adding more server capacity. In the meantime, here is the title and abstract. Note, the paper is Open Access #LIGO
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A relativistic model of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) has been constructed that can explain the observed cosmic microwave background power spectrum, gravitational lensing, & gravitational-wave speed measurements. Letter: Focus:
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The equivalence between minimizing the energy cost and finding the geodesic path solves the optimization problem in thermodynamics through methods developed in Riemannian geometry
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Volume 128, Issue 2.Cover: Certain chiral liquid crystals confined to quasi-two-dimensional curved shells (cholesteric shells) support topological phases that are absent in flat geometries
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"Entanglement and Superposition Are Equivalent Concepts in Any Physical Theory".In general probabilistic theories, superposition, in the form of what the authors define as strong incompatibility, is equivalent to entanglement.
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In a fully classical continuous system, the second law of thermodynamics can be violated locally while being preserved on average
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The interaction of a spin with its environment, modeled as a bath of harmonic oscillators, generically induces inertia in its dynamics
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Ions, trapped in two buildings separated 230m apart, have been entangled. Letter: Synopsis:
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An active nematic vertex model predicts that cells of different types will sort due to asymmetry between extensile and contractile activity, a mechanism that is not captured by conventional continuum active nematic models #CoolVideo.
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The flow of active nematics induces persistent motion of particles at short and intermediate timescales whose defect-boundary interactions can be used to power persistent rotational motion.Letter: Focus:
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A carefully designed fluid-flow experiment provides the final explanation of Feynman’s sprinkler paradox by showing clear reverse rotation of a lawn sprinkler’s head when water flows back into it.Letter: Focus:
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A phase transition in out-of-equilibrium dynamics can occur with a rather simple mechanism: a small change in a parameter can force the system to explore completely different configurations during the relaxation process
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Researchers use a laser to excite and precisely measure a long-sought exotic nuclear state, paving the way for precise timekeeping and ultrasensitive quantum sensing. #OpenAccess.Viewpoint: Letter:
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Today we announce a new initiative, called End Matter, to allow up to about two pages at the end of a Letter of appendixes or other content that specialists will want or need to read
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#OTD 60 years ago, Physical Review Letters was born. Here is the first issue, which contains an inaugural editorial by Editor Sam Goudsmit, and a Letter reporting the discovery of a new element, later named nobelium.
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Volume 132, Issue 22.Cover: 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.
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A new type of thermodynamic uncertainty relation provides a thermodynamic trade-off between current fluctuations and the static linear current response, rather than the current itself
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A minimal cell-based computational model demonstrates that fluid-like epithelial tissues become rigid above a critical applied strain, a process similar to shear-driven rigidity in other soft matter systems #biophysics
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THIRD BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER SEEN!.19+31 solar masses.880 megaparsecs.#GravitationalWaves #OA.@LIGO & @ego_virgo.
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Analysis of the gravitational waves from a black hole merger (GW200129) suggests that the final black hole received a kick that will send it out of its galaxy. Letter: Viewpoint:
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A proof-of-principle demonstration suggests that holographic correspondences may be simulated in electrical circuits
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AFM imaging shows how hexagonal ice forms on the surface of gold
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There is a 4.5σ discrepancy between QED predictions and a 7-fold improvement in the measurement of the n=2 positronium fine structure.Letter: Synopsis:
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Using a quantum inverse scattering framework, it is shown that the non-Hermitian one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is integrable
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The growth of a leaf under stress free conditions is determined by the time evolution of a conformal mapping, a model that accounts for many planar leaf shapes, the growth distribution around veins and near tips.Letter: Synopsis:
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Machine learning can be employed to to optimize extraction of information from trajectory data in deterministic chaos
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In systems of 3D active Brownian spheres, gas-liquid phase coexistence can decay into crystal-fluid phase coexistence through spontaneous nucleation that is enhanced with increasing particle activity #coolvideo.Letter: Focus:
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A generalized fluctuation theorem is derived for quantum systems undergoing continuous measurement and feedback
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Bounds on the entropy production of physical and living systems can be calculated directly from waiting time distributions, as demonstrated with data measured in a variety of biological processes #biophysics.Letter: Viewpoint:
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A low-intensity Raman probe shows enhanced coupling between electrons and Brillouin zone boundary optical phonons in graphene near the Dirac point
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In a cold-atom analog of the expanding Universe, with phonons in place of cosmological scalar fields, non-zero 'Hubble friction' has been measured
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For 12 years in a row, research published in PRL has been recognized by the @NobelPrize committee as leading to a prize in Physics or Chemistry.
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The analogue of Penrose superradiance is observed in a nonlinear photonics platform
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2020 #NobelPrize in Physics.Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez.one half to Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”.
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Two Letters report new world-leading quantum computers from overlapping groups.Superconducting Qubits: Gaussian Boson Sampling: Viewpoint:
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Turing patterns that are static on a flat surface can propagate on a curved surface
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Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger.
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A theoretical model shows that de Sitter geometries may emerge locally in globally anti-de Sitter spacetimes via unstable fluctuations
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Numerical simulation of a glycerol-water sessile droplet showing that Marangoni flow near the surface has an opposite direction to the gravity-driven flow.
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Experiments confirm that a light beam’s polarization rotates when it travels through a gas of spinning molecules, a phenomenon predicted by Enrico Fermi almost a century ago.Letter: Synopsis:
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Klaus von Klitzing writes about how the quantum Hall effect, discovered 39 years ago*, plays a central role in a new definition of the kilogram that is being adopted today, #WorldMetrologyDay. Essay: * #FreeToRead:
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PUBLISHED #OpenAccess:.First triangulation by @LIGO-@ego_virgo.4th binary black hole merger.#gravitationalwaves.
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“Random Language Model”.Sentences in a random language model undergo a phase transition from noise to information-carrying #linguistics.Letter: Focus:
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Congratulations to Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, & Barry Barish for winning the 2017 @NobelPrize in Physics #gravitationalwaves @LIGO
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Observation of a Higgs boson produced with a top quark-antiquark pair, by @CMSexperiment @CERN. This directly probes the Higgs-top coupling, which is consistent with the Standard Model prediction within 1σ. #OpenAccess
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Supercomputer simulations of the weather on a hot Jupiter #exoplanet reveal a previously unseen storm pattern in which cyclones are repeatedly generated and destroyed #OpenAccess
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A continuum model predicts a fingering instability at the leading front of a growing cell collective due to the feedback between pressure and growth rate, which could provide an evolutionary advantage #biophysics
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Water droplets can be made to emit coherently from two neighboring potential wells, demonstrating a hydrodynamic analog to the quantum superradiant emission effect involving photons.Letter: Synopsis:
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Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Rydberg atom arrays with kinetic constraints reveal a quantum slush state: A heterogeneous liquid and glass mixture with quasi-long-range order
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Nonlinear chiral Luttinger liquid theory is able to describe the dynamics of a fractional quantum Hall fluid even on the small lattices that are available to experiments
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Stress propagation in active solids induces spontaneous actuation of floppy modes without exciting vibrational modes.Letter: Focus:
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A generalization of the dimensionality reduction of an array of Riccati equations enables the consideration of a whole new class of complex oscillatory models.Letter: Viewpoint:
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Packing prolate and oblate spheroids into cylinders creates new types of packings not seen for perfect spheres
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Volume 120, Issue 4.Cover: A polystyrene particle in an acoustic trap that can levitate objects larger than the sound's wavelength
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The world’s premier physics letter journal, PRL remains the most-cited journal in physics and the highest-impact letters journal in the Physics, Multidisciplinary category.
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#GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 Solar Masses.@LIGO-@ego_virgo #gravitationalwaves #IntermediateMassBlackHole #IMBH.Letter: #openaccess.ApJL: Viewpoint:
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We are launching a series of concise Essays which envision future directions for a given area The first Essay is by M. Lisa Manning (@ManningResearch) on the potential for deformable particles in soft matter & biological physics:.
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Quantum Inequalities for Quantum Black Holes.Refined versions of the quantum Penrose and reverse isoperimetric inequalities are proposed, valid for all known three-dimensional asymptotically anti–de Sitter quantum black holes
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"Learning the Physics of Pattern Formation from Images".Pixels in 2D video data provide information regarding the physics of pattern formation via an extension of the inversion problem applied to still images. Letter:
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High-speed imaging captures the impact of a water droplet on a superhydrophobic surface and uncovers the effects of a time-delayed secondary force that lifts the droplet off the surface
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A growing cell colony can develop concentric wavelike patterns in cell size due to purely mechanical processes such as the inevitable collisions between cells
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We encourage joint submissions with Physical Review. You can write a Letter for our broad readership and a longer paper for a more specialized audience. Here is our 2017 Editorial:
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The spin and parity of the X(2370) exotic hadron has been measured and found to be consistent with the predictions for a pseudoscalar glueball #OpenAccess
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Quantum field theory techniques are employed to compute the conservative scattering dynamics of a pair of black holes to the fifth order in Newton’s constant #OpenAccess
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