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Excitation of Initial Waves by Wind: A Theoretical Model and Its Experimental Verification
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 124501 (2022) – Published 21 March 2022

Laboratory water-tank experiments and model calculations reveal a complex interaction between wind and the resulting surface water waves.

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Toward a Quantum Memory in a Fiber Cavity Controlled by Intracavity Frequency Translation
Philip J. Bustard, Kent Bonsma-Fisher, Cyril Hnatovsky, Dan Grobnic, Stephen J. Mihailov, Duncan England, and Benjamin J. Sussman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120501 (2022) – Published 21 March 2022
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Elementary Particles and Fields
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 122001 (2022) – Published 21 March 2022
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
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Excitation of Initial Waves by Wind: A Theoretical Model and Its Experimental Verification
Meital Geva and Lev Shemer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 124501 (2022) – Published 21 March 2022

Laboratory water-tank experiments and model calculations reveal a complex interaction between wind and the resulting surface water waves.

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Comment on “Theoretical Paradigm for Thermal Rectification via Phonon Filtering and Spectral Confinement”
A. A. Maznev and Bai Song
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 129601 (2022) – Published 21 March 2022

Detecting Heat Leaks with Trapped Ion Qubits
D. Pijn, O. Onishchenko, J. Hilder, U. G. Poschinger, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Uzdin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110601 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Single-Crystal Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes: High Efficiency in the Ultrathin Limit
C. T. Parzyck, A. Galdi, J. K. Nangoi, W. J. I. DeBenedetti, J. Balajka, B. D. Faeth, H. Paik, C. Hu, T. A. Arias, M. A. Hines, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and J. M. Maxson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114801 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Researchers demonstrate a single-crystal photocathode that can emit electrons with higher efficiency than its predecessors.

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Projectively Enriched Symmetry and Topology in Acoustic Crystals
Haoran Xue, Zihao Wang, Yue-Xin Huang, Zheyu Cheng, Letian Yu, Y. X. Foo, Y. X. Zhao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Baile Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116802 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Acoustic Möbius Insulators from Projective Symmetry
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116803 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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M. Perdriat, P. Huillery, C. Pellet-Mary, and G. Hétet
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By tuning the magnetic properties of a tiny levitating diamond, researchers control its orientation in a magnetic field.

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Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Δ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis
P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111801 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022

The MicroBooNE collaboration rules out a promising standard model explanation for the MiniBooNE low-energy excess: ∆ baryon radiative decay.

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Nanosecond-Scale Proton Emission from Strongly Oblate-Deformed Lu149
K. Auranen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112501 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022

An isotope of Lutetium, synthesized for the first time, is found to be the most oblate deformed proton emitter.

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Magnetic-Field Effect as a Tool to Investigate Electron Correlation in Strong-Field Ionization
Kang Lin, Xiang Chen, Sebastian Eckart, Hui Jiang, Alexander Hartung, Daniel Trabert, Kilian Fehre, Jonas Rist, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Markus S. Schöffler, Till Jahnke, Maksim Kunitski, Feng He, and Reinhard Dörner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113201 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022

The role of the magnetic field of light in double ionization explains the lack of nondipole contributions from initial tunneling to recollision.

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Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117202 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in 2D electrons exhibits unexpected symmetry effects.

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Proof for Minimum Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions, a Fractal Bound, and Implications for Biology
H. Çoban and A. Kabakçıoğlu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 118101 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022

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Enhancing Gravitational Interaction between Quantum Systems by a Massive Mediator
Julen S. Pedernales, Kirill Streltsov, and Martin B. Plenio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110401 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022
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Decoherence-Induced Exceptional Points in a Dissipative Superconducting Qubit
Weijian Chen, Maryam Abbasi, Byung Ha, Serra Erdamar, Yogesh N. Joglekar, and Kater W. Murch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110402 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Efficient Bipartite Entanglement Detection Scheme with a Quantum Adversarial Solver
Xu-Fei Yin, Yuxuan Du, Yue-Yang Fei, Rui Zhang, Li-Zheng Liu, Yingqiu Mao, Tongliang Liu, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Dacheng Tao, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110501 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Stabilizing a Bosonic Qubit Using Colored Dissipation
Harald Putterman, Joseph Iverson, Qian Xu, Liang Jiang, Oskar Painter, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, and Kyungjoo Noh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110502 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Universal Unitary Transfer of Continuous-Variable Quantum States into a Few Qubits
Jacob Hastrup, Kimin Park, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Radim Filip, and Ulrik Lund Andersen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110503 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022
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Calibrated Decoders for Experimental Quantum Error Correction
Edward H. Chen, Theodore J. Yoder, Youngseok Kim, Neereja Sundaresan, Srikanth Srinivasan, Muyuan Li, Antonio D. Córcoles, Andrew W. Cross, and Maika Takita
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110504 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Probabilistic Transformations of Quantum Resources
Bartosz Regula
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110505 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Random Postselection
Feihu Xu, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110506 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Detecting Heat Leaks with Trapped Ion Qubits
D. Pijn, O. Onishchenko, J. Hilder, U. G. Poschinger, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Uzdin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110601 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Global Quenches after Localized Perturbations
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110602 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Finite-Time Dynamical Phase Transition in Nonequilibrium Relaxation
Jan Meibohm and Massimiliano Esposito
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110603 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Gravitation and Astrophysics
Searching for New Physics with a Levitated-Sensor-Based Gravitational-Wave Detector
Nancy Aggarwal, George P. Winstone, Mae Teo, Masha Baryakhtar, Shane L. Larson, Vicky Kalogera, and Andrew A. Geraci
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111101 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022
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Destabilizing the Fundamental Mode of Black Holes: The Elephant and the Flea
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Kyriakos Destounis, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, Emanuele Berti, and Vitor Cardoso
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111103 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Detecting Subsolar-Mass Primordial Black Holes in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals with LISA and Einstein Telescope
Susanna Barsanti, Valerio De Luca, Andrea Maselli, and Paolo Pani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111104 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Quantum Hair from Gravity
Xavier Calmet, Roberto Casadio, Stephen D. H. Hsu, and Folkert Kuipers
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111301 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Elementary Particles and Fields
Kramers-Wannier-like Duality Defects in (3+1)D Gauge Theories
Justin Kaidi, Kantaro Ohmori, and Yunqin Zheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111601 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022
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Folding Amplitudes into Form Factors: An Antipodal Duality
Lance J. Dixon, Ömer Gürdoğan, Andrew J. McLeod, and Matthias Wilhelm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111602 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022
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Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current Δ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis
P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111801 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022

The MicroBooNE collaboration rules out a promising standard model explanation for the MiniBooNE low-energy excess: ∆ baryon radiative decay.

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Novel Coupled Channel Framework Connecting the Quark Model and Lattice QCD for the Near-threshold Ds States
Zhi Yang, Guang-Juan Wang, Jia-Jun Wu, Makoto Oka, and Shi-Lin Zhu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112001 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Mixed Leptonic and Hadronic Corrections to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon
Martin Hoferichter and Thomas Teubner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112002 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Nuclear Physics
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Nanosecond-Scale Proton Emission from Strongly Oblate-Deformed Lu149
K. Auranen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112501 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022

An isotope of Lutetium, synthesized for the first time, is found to be the most oblate deformed proton emitter.

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Measurements of Strong-Interaction Effects in Kaonic-Helium Isotopes at Sub-eV Precision with X-Ray Microcalorimeters
T. Hashimoto et al. (J-PARC E62 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112503 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Energy, Momentum, and Angular Momentum Transfer between Electrons and Nuclei
Chen Li, Ryan Requist, and E. K. U. Gross
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113001 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Magnetic-Field Effect as a Tool to Investigate Electron Correlation in Strong-Field Ionization
Kang Lin, Xiang Chen, Sebastian Eckart, Hui Jiang, Alexander Hartung, Daniel Trabert, Kilian Fehre, Jonas Rist, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Markus S. Schöffler, Till Jahnke, Maksim Kunitski, Feng He, and Reinhard Dörner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113201 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022

The role of the magnetic field of light in double ionization explains the lack of nondipole contributions from initial tunneling to recollision.

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Tunable Directional Emission and Collective Dissipation with Quantum Metasurfaces
D. Fernández-Fernández and A. González-Tudela
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113601 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Realizing Distance-Selective Interactions in a Rydberg-Dressed Atom Array
Simon Hollerith, Kritsana Srakaew, David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Daniel Adler, Pascal Weckesser, Andreas Kruckenhauser, Valentin Walther, Rick van Bijnen, Jun Rui, Christian Gross, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113602 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
Chern Number Governs Soliton Motion in Nonlinear Thouless Pumps
Marius Jürgensen and Mikael C. Rechtsman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113901 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Navier-Stokes Equations Do Not Describe the Smallest Scales of Turbulence in Gases
Ryan M. McMullen, Michael C. Krygier, John R. Torczynski, and Michael A. Gallis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114501 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Universality and Intermittency of Pair Dispersion in Turbulence
Shiyong Tan and Rui Ni
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114502 (2022) – Published 17 March 2022
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Plasma and Beam Physics
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Single-Crystal Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes: High Efficiency in the Ultrathin Limit
C. T. Parzyck, A. Galdi, J. K. Nangoi, W. J. I. DeBenedetti, J. Balajka, B. D. Faeth, H. Paik, C. Hu, T. A. Arias, M. A. Hines, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and J. M. Maxson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114801 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Researchers demonstrate a single-crystal photocathode that can emit electrons with higher efficiency than its predecessors.

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Enhancement of the Nonresonant Streaming Instability by Particle Collisions
A. Marret, A. Ciardi, R. Smets, J. Fuchs, and L. Nicolas
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115101 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
Pascal’s Triangle Fractal Symmetries
Nayan E. Myerson-Jain, Shang Liu, Wenjie Ji, Cenke Xu, and Sagar Vijay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115301 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Quantum-to-Classical Crossover in Many-Body Chaos and Scrambling from Relaxation in a Glass
Surajit Bera, K. Y. Venkata Lokesh, and Sumilan Banerjee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115302 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Experimental Demonstration of Bulk-Hinge Correspondence in a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Acoustic Crystal
Chu-Hao Xia, Hua-Shan Lai, Xiao-Chen Sun, Cheng He, and Yan-Feng Chen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115701 (2022) – Published 16 March 2022
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
Imaging the Spatial Distribution of Electronic States in Graphene Using Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy: Prospect of Orbital Mapping
M. Bugnet, M. Ederer, V. K. Lazarov, L. Li, Q. M. Ramasse, S. Löffler, and D. M. Kepaptsoglou
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116401 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Hidden k-Space Magnetoelectric Multipoles in Nonmagnetic Ferroelectrics
Sayantika Bhowal, Stephen P. Collins, and Nicola A. Spaldin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116402 (2022) – Published 18 March 2022
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Anderson Localization in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Songyang Pu, G. J. Sreejith, and J. K. Jain
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116801 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Projectively Enriched Symmetry and Topology in Acoustic Crystals
Haoran Xue, Zihao Wang, Yue-Xin Huang, Zheyu Cheng, Letian Yu, Y. X. Foo, Y. X. Zhao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Baile Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116802 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Acoustic Möbius Insulators from Projective Symmetry
Tianzi Li, Juan Du, Qicheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Xiying Fan, Fan Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116803 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Thermal Hall Effect of Magnons in Collinear Antiferromagnetic Insulators: Signatures of Magnetic and Topological Phase Transitions
Robin R. Neumann, Alexander Mook, Jürgen Henk, and Ingrid Mertig
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117201 (2022) – Published 14 March 2022
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Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity
Hanqing Liu, Emilie Huffman, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Ribhu K. Kaul
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117202 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in 2D electrons exhibits unexpected symmetry effects.

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Angle Locking of a Levitating Diamond Using Spin Diamagnetism
M. Perdriat, P. Huillery, C. Pellet-Mary, and G. Hétet
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By tuning the magnetic properties of a tiny levitating diamond, researchers control its orientation in a magnetic field.

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Stochastic Single-Shot Polarization Pinning of Polariton Condensate at High Temperatures
Y. C. Balas, E. S. Sedov, G. G. Paschos, Z. Hatzopoulos, H. Ohadi, A. V. Kavokin, and P. G. Savvidis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117401 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022
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Enhancement of the Magnetoelectric Effect Using the Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in a Transition-Metal Complex
Yasunao Otsuki, Shojiro Kimura, Satoshi Awaji, and Motohiro Nakano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117601 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022
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Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics
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Proof for Minimum Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions, a Fractal Bound, and Implications for Biology
H. Çoban and A. Kabakçıoğlu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 118101 (2022) – Published 15 March 2022

Nested canalizing functions are shown to be the minimum-sensitivity Boolean functions for any activity ratio, a result relevant for explaining the robustness of biological networks.

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