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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 251001 (2024) – Published 21 June 2024
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Theorists explain why cosmic inflation might appear to be driven by a single inflaton field, even if it had actually been driven by two or more such fields.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 253201 (2024) – Published 20 June 2024
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Researchers have measured a hard-to-observe electronic transition in strontium that was predicted six decades ago.

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Electrically Induced Angular Momentum Flow between Separated Ferromagnets
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Fundamental Dynamics of Popularity-Similarity Trajectories in Real Networks
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Two independent papers answer an important open question by showing that generalized measurements are not more powerful than projection-valued measurements in quantum steering with two-qubit Werner states.

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Two independent papers answer an important open question by showing that generalized measurements are not more powerful than projection-valued measurements in quantum steering with two-qubit Werner states.

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Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 251603 (2024) – Published 20 June 2024

Perturbative quantum field theoretic methods confirm the solution of the Einstein field equations in the presence of a point source to be the Schwarzschild metric.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 251901 (2024) – Published 18 June 2024

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 253601 (2024) – Published 20 June 2024

The first demonstration of a stable rotation of elongated particles around their long axis up to GHz rotational speeds with millihertz damping rates results in high (∼1012) Q factors.

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Evidence of Spin Density Waves in La3⁢Ni2⁢O7−𝛿
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A positive muon spin relaxation study of polycrystalline La3Ni2O6.92 under ambient pressure reveals static long range bulk magnetic order consistent with a spin density wave.

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X-Ray Emission from Atomic Systems Can Distinguish between Prevailing Dynamical Wave-Function Collapse Models
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Ultrahigh-Precision Hamiltonian Parameter Estimation in a Superconducting Circuit
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Quantum Nonlocality: Multicopy Resource Interconvertibility and Their Asymptotic Inequivalence
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 250401 (2024) – Published 18 June 2024
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Quantum Information Spreading in Generalized Dual-Unitary Circuits
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Universal Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in a One-Dimensional Architecture Enabled by Dual-Unitary Circuits
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Near-Optimal Performance of Quantum Error Correction Codes
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Single-Electron Qubits Based on Quantum Ring States on Solid Neon Surface
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Robust Quantum Gates against Correlated Noise in Integrated Quantum Chips
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Wide-Band Unambiguous Quantum Sensing via Geodesic Evolution
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Theory of Compression Channels for Postselected Quantum Metrology
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Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation
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Why Does Inflation Look Single Field to Us?
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 251001 (2024) – Published 21 June 2024
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Theorists explain why cosmic inflation might appear to be driven by a single inflaton field, even if it had actually been driven by two or more such fields.

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First Constraints on Compact Binary Environments from LIGO-Virgo Data
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 251401 (2024) – Published 17 June 2024
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Conservative Binary Dynamics at Order 𝛼5 in Electrodynamics
Zvi Bern, Enrico Herrmann, Radu Roiban, Michael S. Ruf, Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir A. Smirnov, and Mao Zeng
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Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders
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Semi-Inclusive Deep-Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
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Conjectures about the Chiral Phase Transition in QCD from Anomalous Multi-Instanton Interactions
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Gravitational Form Factors of the Proton from Lattice QCD
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Early-Times Yang-Mills Dynamics and the Characterization of Strongly Interacting Matter with Statistical Learning
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 252301 (2024) – Published 20 June 2024
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Long-Lived Coherence on a μ⁢Hz Scale Optical Magnetic Quadrupole Transition
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Researchers have measured a hard-to-observe electronic transition in strontium that was predicted six decades ago.

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Exceptional Nexus in Bose-Einstein Condensates with Collective Dissipation
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Mode-Symmetry-Assisted Optical Pulling by Bound States in the Continuum
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Controllable Microparticle Spinning via Light without Spin Angular Momentum
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Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate
Granular Scaling Approach to Landslide Runout
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Diffusion-Mediated Superelongation in Metal Nanorods
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Spatially Resolved Dielectric Loss at the Si/SiO2 Interface
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Heat Pulses in Electron Quantum Optics
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Spin Currents via the Gauge Principle for Meta-Generalized Gradient Exchange-Correlation Functionals
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Annealing-Tunable Charge Density Wave in the Magnetic Kagome Material FeGe
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Phase-Field Model of Electronic Antidoping
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Evidence of Spin Density Waves in La3⁢Ni2⁢O7−𝛿
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A positive muon spin relaxation study of polycrystalline La3Ni2O6.92 under ambient pressure reveals static long range bulk magnetic order consistent with a spin density wave.

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Fingerprints of Anti-Pfaffian Topological Order in Quantum Point Contact Transport
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Broadband Quasielastic Scattering Spectroscopy Using a Multiline Frequency Comblike Spectrum in the Hard X-Ray Region
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Enhanced Frequency Conversion in Parity-Time Symmetry Line
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 256902 (2024) – Published 17 June 2024
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Revealing Novel Aspects of Light-Matter Coupling by Terahertz Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy: The Case of the Amplitude Mode in Superconductors
Kota Katsumi, Jacopo Fiore, Mattia Udina, Ralph Romero, III, David Barbalas, John Jesudasan, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Goetz Seibold, Lara Benfatto, and N. P. Armitage
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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
Direct Numerical Analysis of Dynamic Facilitation in Glass-Forming Liquids
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Coexistence of Defect Morphologies in Three-Dimensional Active Nematics
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