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Pulsed Electron Lenses for Space Charge Mitigation
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024

3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50%.

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Closed-Form Propagator of the Calogero Model
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170201 (2024) – Published 25 April 2024
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Fast Quantum State Preparation and Bath Dynamics Using Non-Gaussian Variational Ansatz and Quantum Optimal Control
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Dynamics of a Quantum System Interacting with White Non-Gaussian Baths: Poisson Noise Master Equation
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170402 (2024) – Published 25 April 2024
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Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding in Continuous Modal Variables of Single Photons
Éloi Descamps, Arne Keller, and Pérola Milman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170601 (2024) – Published 26 April 2024
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Separability Transitions in Topological States Induced by Local Decoherence
Yu-Hsueh Chen and Tarun Grover
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170602 (2024) – Published 26 April 2024
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Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation
Experimental Limits on Solar Reflected Dark Matter with a New Approach on Accelerated-Dark-Matter–Electron Analysis in Semiconductors
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171001 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024
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Cosmological Background Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data
Daniel G. Figueroa, Mauro Pieroni, Angelo Ricciardone, and Peera Simakachorn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171002 (2024) – Published 26 April 2024
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Analytic Solutions for the Motion of Spinning Particles near Spherically Symmetric Black Holes and Exotic Compact Objects
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171401 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Nonperturbative Second Law of Black Hole Mechanics in Effective Field Theory
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171402 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Nuclear Physics
Virtual Photons Shed Light on the Early Temperature of Dense QCD Matter
Jessica Churchill, Lipei Du, Charles Gale, Greg Jackson, and Sangyong Jeon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 172301 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024
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Emergence of Long-Range Angular Correlations in Low-Multiplicity Proton-Proton Collisions
S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 172302 (2024) – Published 26 April 2024
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Spin Rotations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Driven by Counterflow and Spin-Independent Interactions
David C. Spierings, Joseph H. Thywissen, and Aephraim M. Steinberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173401 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Engineering Mixing Properties of Fluids by Spatial Modulations
Abid Ali and Hiroki Saito
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173402 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Breakdown of Temporal Coherence in Photon Condensates
Yijun Tang, Himadri S. Dhar, Rupert F. Oulton, Robert A. Nyman, and Florian Mintert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173601 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Single-Shot Intensity- and Phase-Sensitive Compressive Sensing-Based Coherent Modulation Ultrafast Imaging
Chengzhi Jin, Yingming Xu, Dalong Qi, Yunhua Yao, Yuecheng Shen, Lianzhong Deng, Ruozhong Han, Zhen Pan, Jiali Yao, Yilin He, Zhengqi Huang, Xingchen Pan, Hua Tao, Mingying Sun, Cheng Liu, Junhui Shi, Jinyang Liang, Zhiyong Wang, Jianqiang Zhu, Zhenrong Sun, and Shian Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173801 (2024) – Published 24 April 2024
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Super Bound States in the Continuum on a Photonic Flatband: Concept, Experimental Realization, and Optical Trapping Demonstration
Ngoc Duc Le, Paul Bouteyre, Ali Kheir-Aldine, Florian Dubois, Sébastien Cueff, Lotfi Berguiga, Xavier Letartre, Pierre Viktorovitch, Taha Benyattou, and Hai Son Nguyen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173802 (2024) – Published 24 April 2024
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Reducing Effective System Dimensionality with Long-Range Collective Dipole-Dipole Interactions
Ashwin K. Boddeti, Yi Wang, Xitlali G. Juarez, Alexandra Boltasseva, Teri W. Odom, Vladimir Shalaev, Hadiseh Alaeian, and Zubin Jacob
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173803 (2024) – Published 25 April 2024
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Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate
Turbulent Properties of Stationary Flows in Porous Media
Florencia Falkinhoff, Alexandre Ponomarenko, Jean-Lou Pierson, Lionel Gamet, Romain Volk, and Mickaël Bourgoin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 174001 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024
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Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams
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Pulsed Electron Lenses for Space Charge Mitigation
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024

3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50%.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175002 (2024) – Published 24 April 2024

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Condensed Matter and Materials
Superlattice Quantum Solid of Dipolar Excitons
Camille Lagoin, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, and François Dubin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176001 (2024) – Published 25 April 2024
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In Situ Observation of Field-Induced Nanoprotrusion Growth on a Carbon-Coated Tungsten Nanotip
Guodong Meng, Yimeng Li, Roni Aleksi Koitermaa, Veronika Zadin, Yonghong Cheng, and Andreas Kyritsakis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176201 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Distinguishing Quasiparticle-Phonon Interactions by Ultrahigh-Resolution Lifetime Measurements
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176202 (2024) – Published 24 April 2024
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Origin of Pinning Disorder in Magnetic-Field-Induced Wigner Solids
Matthew L. Freeman, P. T. Madathil, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, Y. J. Chung, R. Winkler, M. Shayegan, and L. W. Engel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176301 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024

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Higher-Order Topological In-Bulk Corner State in Pure Diffusion Systems
Zhoufei Liu, Pei-Chao Cao, Liujun Xu, Guoqiang Xu, Ying Li, and Jiping Huang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176302 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Tunable Superdiffusion in Integrable Spin Chains Using Correlated Initial States
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176303 (2024) – Published 24 April 2024
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Supercurrent in the Presence of Direct Transmission and a Resonant Localized State
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176304 (2024) – Published 25 April 2024
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Electric Polarization from a Many-Body Neural Network Ansatz
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176401 (2024) – Published 25 April 2024
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Numerically Exact Simulation of Photodoped Mott Insulators
Fabian Künzel, André Erpenbeck, Daniel Werner, Enrico Arrigoni, Emanuel Gull, Guy Cohen, and Martin Eckstein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176501 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Chern-Simons Modified RPA-Eliashberg Theory of the 
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176502 (2024) – Published 26 April 2024
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Experimental Observation of the Yang-Lee Quantum Criticality in Open Quantum Systems
Huixia Gao, Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Masaya Nakagawa, Norifumi Matsumoto, Dengke Qu, Haiqing Lin, Masahito Ueda, and Peng Xue
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X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Altermagnetic 
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176701 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024
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Picosecond Spin Current Generation from Vicinal Metal-Antiferromagnetic Insulator Interfaces
B. Yang, Qing Ji, F. Z. Huang, Jiacong Li, Y. Z. Tian, B. Xue, Ruxian Zhu, Hui Wu, Hanyue Yang, Y. B. Yang, Shaolong Tang, H. B. Zhao, Y. Cao, J. Du, B. G. Wang, Chunfeng Zhang, and D. Wu
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Mirror Symmetry Broken of Sound Vortex Transmission in a Single Passive Metasurface via Phase Coupling
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Dynamics and Topology of Symmetry Breaking with Skyrmions
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 178101 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024
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