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Experiments and numerical simulations indicate that randomly replacing a few nonmagnetic components with magnetic ones in a photonic alloy induces backscattering-free light propagation along its edge.

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Tiantao Qu et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223802 (2024)

Polarization-gated attoclock technique allows the observation of electron-electron interaction in nonsequential photoionization events.

Observation of a heavy Fermi surface of charge-neutral spinons in Ba${}_4$Nb${}_{1-x}$Ru${}_{3+x}$O${}_{12}$ provides experimental evidence for a robust quantum spin liquid that features an extraordinarily large entropy and a linear heat capacity extending into the milli-Kelvin regime.

Experiments comparing neutron-rich cadmium with previous data on a neutron-poor version prove that a key parameter in nuclear calculations depends on the neutron-to-proton ratio.

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A. Jungclaus et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 222501 (2024)

Group theory and first-principles calculations combine to predict which antiferromagnets have potentially useful net surface magnetization.

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Sophie F. Weber et al.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021033 (2024)

Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226702 (2024)

Confining active nematics in cardioid-shaped wells leads to realization of the golden braid, a maximally efficient mixing state of exactly three defects with no defect creation or annihilation.

The newly constructed pseudomagic ensembles possess low nonstabilizerness but are computationally indistinguishable from those with high nonstabilizerness, having implications for quantum scramblers, quantum cryptography, and magic state distillation.

A universal scaling law shows that thermalization can be universally achieved in sufficiently large two- and three-dimensional lattices via weak nonlinear interactions.

An explicit formula is provided for the fourth cumulant of an arbitrary single-file system.

The ratio of inclusive semileptonic $B$ meson decays into $\tau$ versus other leptons is in agreement with lepton universality.

New solar observations indicate that plasma waves are responsible for the Sun’s outer atmosphere having different abundances of chemical elements than the Sun’s other layers.

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Mariarita Murabito et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 215201 (2024)

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