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A scanning tunneling microscope topography scan across a half 4H-SiC unit cell step edge shows two indenene domains (insets) that are mutually rotated by 180°. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.
Jonas Erhardt et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196401 (2024)
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The structural and segmental relaxation times in a deformed polymer glass are similar, indicating a connection between segmental mobility and structural relaxation.
Pradip K. Bera, Grigori A. Medvedev, James M. Caruthers, and Mark D. Ediger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208101 (2024)
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Clusters containing a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes para-H and D remain liquid at a temperature of 2 K and exhibit phase separation, a hallmark of quantum fluids.
Russell Sliter, Kim Hyeon-Deuk, and Andrey F. Vilesov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206001 (2024)
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A scheme utilizing tunable gate voltages in a Kitaev spin liquid and a monolayer semiconductor is proposed as a method for both generating and detecting individual Ising anyons.
Gábor B. Halász
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206501 (2024)
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Quantum fully homomorphic encryption is shown to be feasible on a compact silicon photonic chip, improving the prospects of a scalable, programmable, and stable quantum network infrastructure.
Yuan Li et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200801 (2024)
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As a crucial validation for the forthcoming electron-ion collider (EIC), an experiment at the RHIC demonstrates the ability to prepare and collide ion beams with emittance ratio of 11:1.
Y. Luo, D. Xu, M. Blaskiewicz, and C. Montag
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 205001 (2024)
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Machine learning can be employed to optimize extraction of information from trajectory data in deterministic chaos.
Kieran A. Murphy and Dani S. Bassett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197201 (2024)
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The quantum-geometric origin of out-of-plane stacking ferroelectric polarization is elucidated and shown to be compatible with the modern theory of polarization.
Benjamin T. Zhou, Vedangi Pathak, and Marcel Franz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196801 (2024)