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Perturbative Confinement in Thermal Yang-Mills Theories Induced by Imaginary Angular Velocity
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Nearly Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Estimating Multiple Expectation Values
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Distributed Quantum Error Correction for Chip-Level Catastrophic Errors
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Quantum Metrology of Noisy Spreading Channels
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Crosstalk Suppression in Individually Addressed Two-Qubit Gates in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer
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Gravitation and Astrophysics
Irreducible Axion Background
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241101 (2022) – Published 5 December 2022
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Toroidal Flux Loss due to Flux Emergence Explains why Solar Cycles Rise Differently but Decay in a Similar Way
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241102 (2022) – Published 7 December 2022
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Gravitational Waves from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Systems in Astrophysical Environments
Vitor Cardoso, Kyriakos Destounis, Francisco Duque, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, and Andrea Maselli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241103 (2022) – Published 7 December 2022
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Search for Ultralight Dark Matter from Long-Term Frequency Comparisons of Optical and Microwave Atomic Clocks
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241301 (2022) – Published 7 December 2022
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Elementary Particles and Fields
Chiral Approach to Massive Higher Spins
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Sauter-Schwinger Effect for Colliding Laser Pulses
Christian Kohlfürst, Naser Ahmadiniaz, Johannes Oertel, and Ralf Schützhold
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241801 (2022) – Published 5 December 2022
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Nuclear Modification of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Functions by a Global QCD Analysis
Mishary Alrashed, Daniele Anderle, Zhong-Bo Kang, John Terry, and Hongxi Xing
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242001 (2022) – Published 7 December 2022
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Perturbative Confinement in Thermal Yang-Mills Theories Induced by Imaginary Angular Velocity
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Dissipative Reactions with Intermediate-Energy Beams: A Novel Approach to Populate Complex-Structure States in Rare Isotopes
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Imprinting Chirality on Atoms Using Synthetic Chiral Light Fields
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243201 (2022) – Published 7 December 2022
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Symmetry Breaking in Sticky Collisions between Ultracold Molecules
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Imaginary Gauge Transformation in Momentum Space and Dirac Exceptional Point
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New Measurement Resolves Key Astrophysical Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem
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Predicting Scaling Properties from a Single Fluid Configuration
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Crystal Polymorphism Induced by Surface Tension
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Hyperbolic Topological Band Insulators
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Modulated Rashba-Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling for Topology Control and Analog Simulations
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Quasiparticle Interference as a Direct Experimental Probe of Bulk Odd-Frequency Superconducting Pairing
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Signature of Cascade Transitions between Interlayer Excitons in a Moiré Superlattice
Qinghai Tan, Abdullah Rasmita, Zhaowei Zhang, K. S. Novoselov, and Wei-bo Gao
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Structural Chirality of Polar Skyrmions Probed by Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering
Margaret R. McCarter, Kook Tae Kim, Vladimir A. Stoica, Sujit Das, Christoph Klewe, Elizabeth P. Donoway, David M. Burn, Padraic Shafer, Fanny Rodolakis, Mauro A. P. Gonçalves, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Jorge Íñiguez, Pablo García-Fernández, Javier Junquera, Stephen W. Lovesey, Gerrit van der Laan, Se Young Park, John W. Freeland, Lane W. Martin, Dong Ryeol Lee, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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Charge-Noise-Induced Dephasing in Silicon Hole-Spin Qubits
Ognjen Malkoc, Peter Stano, and Daniel Loss
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247701 (2022) – Published 8 December 2022
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