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Helical Topological Superconducting Pairing at Finite Excitation Energies
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Emerging Spin-Orbit Torques in Low-Dimensional Dirac Materials
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Nematic Metal in a Multivalley Electron Gas: Variational Monte Carlo Analysis and Application to AlAs
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Transient Localization from the Interaction with Quantum Bosons
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Exceptionally Slow, Long-Range, and Non-Gaussian Critical Fluctuations Dominate the Charge Density Wave Transition
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Intriguing Low-Temperature Phase in the Antiferromagnetic Kagome Metal FeGe
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Mott-Insulator State of FeSe as a Van der Waals 2D Material Is Unveiled
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Weyl Points on Nonorientable Manifolds
André Grossi Fonseca, Sachin Vaidya, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Taylor L. Hughes, and Marin Soljačić
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Topological Network Modes in a Twisted Moiré Phononic Crystal
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Bath-Engineering Magnetic Order in Quantum Spin Chains: An Analytic Mapping Approach
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Spontaneous Inversion Symmetry Breaking and Emergence of Berry Curvature and Orbital Magnetization in Topological 
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Overcoming Temperature Limits in the Optical Cooling of Solids Using Light-Dressed States
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Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems
Direct Numerical Solutions to Stochastic Differential Equations with Multiplicative Noise
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 267101 (2024) – Published 25 June 2024
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Transient Amplification of Broken Symmetry in Elastic Snap-Through
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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
Thermodynamics of Growth in Open Chemical Reaction Networks
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Unified Understanding of Nonlinear Rheology near the Jamming Transition Point
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Yielding Is an Absorbing Phase Transition with Vanishing Critical Fluctuations
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Dynamic Scaling of Two-Dimensional Polar Flocks
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Biological Rhythms Generated by a Single Activator-Repressor Loop with Inhomogeneity and Diffusion
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