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April 12, 2024
Symmetry breaking in optical vortex rings generates photonic wave packets with opposite chiralities.
Wei Chen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153801 (2024)
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Strain localization in shear bands is key to the yielding and material failure of amorphous systems subject to oscillatory shear.
James O. Cochran, Grace L. Callaghan, Miles J. G. Caven, and Suzanne M. Fielding
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 168202 (2024)
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Millijoule THz emission has been experimentally observed in the backward direction of laser wakefields generated by focusing an intense femtosecond laser pulse on a gas nozzle.
Linzheng Wang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 165002 (2024)
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An exact full set of matrix product states of highly degenerate tricritical Lifshitz points in the quantum spin model with anisotropic interactions has been discovered.
Hidehiro Saito and Chisa Hotta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166701 (2024)
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A new medium-entropy alloy, TaNbHfZr, under pressure sets a record high in its class of materials at 15.3 K.
Liyunxiao Wu et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166002 (2024)
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First-principles structure predictions across a very wide range of chemical compositions suggest that the cubic MgIrH structure is dynamically stable at zero pressure, and is computed to have a of around 160K.
Kapildeb Dolui et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166001 (2024)
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An explicit analytical expression to predict the size of the depletion zone in like-charged polyelectrolyte-colloid mixtures allows for a direct comparison with experiments.
C. M. Martens, M. Vis, and R. Tuinier
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158103 (2024)