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Ergodicity Breaking Provably Robust to Arbitrary Perturbations
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Exact Universal Bounds on Quantum Dynamics and Fast Scrambling
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Dynamical Transitions from Slow to Fast Relaxation in Random Open Quantum Systems
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Experimental Realization of Nonunitary Multiqubit Operations
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Exotic Dark Matter Search with the Majorana Demonstrator
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041001 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043201 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024
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Metasurface-Based Hybrid Optical Cavities for Chiral Sensing
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Experimental Investigation of the Thermal Emission Cross Section of Nanoresonators Using Hierarchical Poisson-Disk Distributions
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Interferometer for Dispersive Measurements
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Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields for Non-Hermitian Systems
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043804 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024
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Backscattering-Induced Dissipative Solitons in Ring Quantum Cascade Lasers
Lukas Seitner, Johannes Popp, Ina Heckelmann, Réka-Eszter Vass, Bo Meng, Michael Haider, Jérôme Faist, and Christian Jirauschek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043805 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024
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Generation of Spatiotemporal Vortex Pulses by Resonant Diffractive Grating
Zhiyuan Che, Wenzhe Liu, Junyi Ye, Lei Shi, C. T. Chan, and Jian Zi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044001 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024
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Manipulation of Contact Angle Hysteresis at Electrified Ionic Liquid-Solid Interfaces
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044002 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024
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Centrifugal Flows Drive Reverse Rotation of Feynman’s Sprinkler
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Generation of Ultrabrilliant Polarized Attosecond Electron Bunches via Dual-Wake Injection
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 045001 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024
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Constrained Motions and Slow Dynamics in One-Dimensional Bosons with Double-Well Dispersion
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046001 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046002 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024
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Tailoring Magnetism of Graphene Nanoflakes via Tip-Controlled Dehydrogenation
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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics in the Density Fluctuations of Localized Two-Dimensional Wave Packets
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046301 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024
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Anomalous Temperature Effect in Weakly Coupled Superlattices: Carrier Transport in a THz Quantum Cascade Laser
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046302 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024
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Odd Nonlinear Conductivity under Spatial Inversion in Chiral Tellurium
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Spectroscopic Evidence of Kondo-Induced Quasiquartet in 
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Non-Abelian Topological Bound States in the Continuum
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046601 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024
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Role of Topology in Relaxation of One-Dimensional Stochastic Processes
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Quantum Transport through Partial Barriers in Higher-Dimensional Systems
Jonas Stöber, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047201 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024
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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
Programmable Potentials Choreograph Defects in a Colloidal Crystal Shell
Guolong Zhu, Lijuan Gao, Yuming Wang, Tsvi Tlusty, and Li-Tang Yan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048201 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024
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Quasicrystal of Binary Hard Spheres on a Plane Stabilized by Configurational Entropy
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Long Timescales, Individual Differences, and Scale Invariance in Animal Behavior
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