Volume 123, Issue 10

6 September 2019

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Color maps of an athermal assembly of repulsive soft particles quenched from infinite temperature. Vertical columns: successive times; top row: particle speeds; middle: thresholded nonaffine deformation rate; bottom: thresholded rate of change of particle energy. The assembly displays "hot spots." Selected as an Editors' Suggestion.

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Slow Coarsening in Jammed Athermal Soft Particle Suspensions
R. N. Chacko, P. Sollich, and S. M. Fielding
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 108001 (2019)

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Remote Blind State Preparation with Weak Coherent Pulses in the Field

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Interference in a Prototype of a Two-Dimensional Ion Trap Array Quantum Simulator

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Experimental Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution through Sending or Not Sending

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Two independent studies demonstrate the practicality of twin-field quantum key distribution—a promising approach to perform quantum cryptography over long distances.

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Proof-of-Principle Experimental Demonstration of Twin-Field Type Quantum Key Distribution

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Slow Coarsening in Jammed Athermal Soft Particle Suspensions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 108001 (2019) - Published 4 September, 2019

Instead of gradually dispersing after release, a densely jammed athermal system of particles forms clusters that disappear and reform.