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By combining atomic manipulation and scanning tunneling spectroscopy, researchers construct a cluster-decorated Lieb lattice that can precisely tune flat band energy to the Fermi level while preserving graph connectivity. Check out the Letter: go.aps.org/47r81X5
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Researchers have detected individual collisions of Kr, Xe, and SF6 with an optically levitated nanoparticle, validating theoretical predictions and providing a proof-of-principle for primary pressure sensor designs. Read more: go.aps.org/4yXKaKD
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#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Planck CMB temperature data from 25 galaxy clusters showing a dipole signal from rotating intracluster gas. Check out the complete issue: go.aps.org/4B85MFr
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Leveraging rotation-anisotropy second harmonic generation, researchers successfully track and control nanoscale polar islands in a quantum ferroelectric metal and probe the transition’s order-disorder nature. Learn more: go.aps.org/4jF4VpN
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Researchers show that orbital relaxation is incredibly short range — about 1 nm — in Ni/(Pt)Ti/Au heterostructures. The results settle an intense debate about orbital currents. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4B7Mgck
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Using the RABBIT technique, researchers recast attosecond photoelectron interferometry as a phase-sensitive detector of quantum light — tackling a gap in the emerging field of quantum attosecond optics. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4B2HBIH
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Scientists report the first robust evidence for the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect in galaxy clusters, according to an analysis of cosmic microwave background photons scattered off intracluster gas. 🔗 go.aps.org/4zmYxbc
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Helicon waves can provide supplemental currents to tokamaks to sustain the high performances required for fusion power plants. New work provides the first demonstration of this current, a step toward steady-state tokamak operation. Read the paper: go.aps.org/4AVWLPN
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#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Snapshot of a general relativistic particle-in-cell simulation of a collisionless plasma accreting onto a central spinning black hole, showing number density on the right and out-of-plane magnetic field on the left: go.aps.org/4rVDM3C
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Scientists have reconstructed planar extensional viscosity properties of an unknown material using only steady shear measurements — a finding that tackles longstanding experimental challenges in fluid mechanics and rheology. Read more: go.aps.org/3TqVNKI
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Researchers discovered ultrafast magnetoelectric coupling in rare-earth iron garnets — a finding that may enable sub-100-nm THz magneto-optical readout for faster magnetic data storage and information processing. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4jdLtQy
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An “acoustic drumstick” experiment generates acoustic modes in HBARs and couples them with a silicon nitride membrane. The energy dissipation is nonlinear and 20 times stronger than dispersive interactions, offering unprecedented sound control. 🔗 go.aps.org/4AOiid7
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Researchers used a bright squeezed vacuum to drive strong-field ionization and showed that the light’s photon-number fluctuations can be imprinted onto electrons emitted by atoms. The results offer a new way to probe ultrafast electron dynamics. 📄 go.aps.org/4j5tGek
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Congratulations to @NobelPrize in #Physics winner Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to @uw_icecube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin." Read the prize-winning research from our journal: go.aps.org/4yuL693 go.aps.org/4yFFKIk
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Materials falling into black holes are collisionless plasmas. Researchers modeled black hole accretion using plasma simulations for the first time, enabling new discoveries — like the role of pair discharge in black hole jets. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4rKAb8A
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Scientists studied a porcine mitral valve and a conical shell model and found that flow fluctuations triggered buckling and sealing. High-speed imaging and a stochastic model captured the transition. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4dnvyeO
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With a gravity-stretched liquid jet, researchers demystify spinning dynamics for liquid-to-solid transitions and gather insights about fast solidification kinetics and fiber radius that could inform predictive control. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4j2j9Az
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Radiowave-induced resistance oscillations are a newly discovered type of 2D electron gas oscillations that occur at frequencies much smaller than the cyclotron frequency, with wave properties that depend only on the radiation electric field. Read more: go.aps.org/4zgI4oZ
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#OnTheCover: Morphologies of droplet-encapsulated gels (DEGs) for different values of the liquid fraction (horizontal) and elastocapillary number (vertical). 🔗 go.aps.org/3U2zLy0
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Since 2000, around 30% of all research leading to the @NobelPrize in Physics has been published in Physical Review Letters. As we look to the 2026 award, swipe through the research published in our journal that helped pave the way to some of the most recent #NobelPrize wins.
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