Volume 123, Issue 2

12 July 2019

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Spatial propagation of local actuation can be studied in the Miura-ori tube, a common unit cell in tessellated origami.

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Strain Reversal in Actuated Origami Structures
Steven W. Grey, Fabrizio Scarpa, and Mark Schenk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025501 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of $M 87^{*}$

Hooman Davoudiasl and Peter B. Denton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021102 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

An interpretation of the black hole image taken by the Event Horizon Telescope hints of new constraints on the mass of dark matter.

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Thermal Forces from a Microscopic Perspective

Pietro Anzini, Gaia Maria Colombo, Zeno Filiberti, and Alberto Parola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 028002 (2019) - Published 11 July, 2019

Physicists develop a theory to make the seemingly random, thermal-driven motion of clumps and colloids in fluids predictable.

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Topologically Protected Quantization of Work

Bruno Mera, Krzysztof Sacha, and Yasser Omar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020601 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Using ideas from topological materials, researchers propose a way to quantize work.

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Superwalking Droplets

Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, and Tapio Simula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 024503 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Liquid droplets bouncing on a vibrating liquid surface can execute a surprising cycle, alternating between moving and standing still.

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One-Shot Operational Quantum Resource Theory

Zi-Wen Liu, Kaifeng Bu, and Ryuji Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020401 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

A wide class of resource theories are considered for the practical case where one has only one or a few copies of the quantum state.

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Can Three-Body Recombination Purify a Quantum Gas?

Lena H. Dogra, Jake A. P. Glidden, Timon A. Hilker, Christoph Eigen, Eric A. Cornell, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020405 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Three-body recombination in a cold Bose gas reduces entropy, providing a novel way to cool the gas efficiently.

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Order-Disorder Phase Transition in Black-Hole Star Clusters

Jihad Touma, Scott Tremaine, and Mher Kazandjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021103 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Star clusters surrounding a black hole can undergo an order-disorder phase transition leading to an increase in transient events such as flares from tidally disrupted stars.

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Radiative Thermal Memristor

Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Younès Ezzahri, Jose A. Tiburcio-Moreno, Karl Joulain, and Jérémie Drevillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025901 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Thermal hysteresis in a phase change material makes it possible to build a radiative thermal memristor, a fast thermal circuit element whose response is dependent on its history.

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Excited States in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

A. Kurzmann, M. Eich, H. Overweg, M. Mangold, F. Herman, P. Rickhaus, R. Pisoni, Y. Lee, R. Garreis, C. Tong, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026803 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Measurements of spin and valley relaxation and decoherence times in quantum dots of graphene encapsulated by edges and back gates may lead to implementations of qubits.

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

When Random Walkers Help Solving Intriguing Integrals

Satya N. Majumdar and Emmanuel Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020201 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

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One-Shot Operational Quantum Resource Theory

Zi-Wen Liu, Kaifeng Bu, and Ryuji Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020401 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

A wide class of resource theories are considered for the practical case where one has only one or a few copies of the quantum state.

Quantum Hypercube States

L. A. Howard, T. J. Weinhold, F. Shahandeh, J. Combes, M. R. Vanner, A. G. White, and M. Ringbauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020402 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Coherence and Asymmetry Cannot be Broadcast

Matteo Lostaglio and Markus P. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020403 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

No-Broadcasting Theorem for Quantum Asymmetry and Coherence and a Trade-off Relation for Approximate Broadcasting

Iman Marvian and Robert W. Spekkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020404 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

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Can Three-Body Recombination Purify a Quantum Gas?

Lena H. Dogra, Jake A. P. Glidden, Timon A. Hilker, Christoph Eigen, Eric A. Cornell, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020405 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Three-body recombination in a cold Bose gas reduces entropy, providing a novel way to cool the gas efficiently.

Cellular-Automaton Decoders with Provable Thresholds for Topological Codes

Aleksander Kubica and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020501 (2019) - Published 8 July, 2019

Characterizing a Statistical Arrow of Time in Quantum Measurement Dynamics

P. M. Harrington, D. Tan, M. Naghiloo, and K. W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020502 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

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Topologically Protected Quantization of Work

Bruno Mera, Krzysztof Sacha, and Yasser Omar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020601 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Using ideas from topological materials, researchers propose a way to quantize work.

Multiple Exclusion Statistics

Julian J. Riccardo, Jose L. Riccardo, Antonio J. Ramirez-Pastor, and Pedro M. Pasinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020602 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Energy Current Rectification and Mobility Edges

Vinitha Balachandran, Stephen R. Clark, John Goold, and Dario Poletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020603 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Loop Corrections in Spin Models through Density Consistency

Alfredo Braunstein, Giovanni Catania, and Luca Dall’Asta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 020604 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Infinite Towers of Supertranslation and Superrotation Memories

Geoffrey Compère

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021101 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

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Ultralight Boson Dark Matter and Event Horizon Telescope Observations of $M 87^{*}$

Hooman Davoudiasl and Peter B. Denton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021102 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

An interpretation of the black hole image taken by the Event Horizon Telescope hints of new constraints on the mass of dark matter.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Order-Disorder Phase Transition in Black-Hole Star Clusters

Jihad Touma, Scott Tremaine, and Mher Kazandjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021103 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Star clusters surrounding a black hole can undergo an order-disorder phase transition leading to an increase in transient events such as flares from tidally disrupted stars.

Stringent Limit on Primordial Magnetic Fields from the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Karsten Jedamzik and Andrey Saveliev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021301 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Probing Axionlike Particles and the Axiverse with Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavities

Zachary Bogorad, Anson Hook, Yonatan Kahn, and Yotam Soreq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021801 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Magnetic Monopole Search with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV $p p$ Collisions Interpreted in Photon-Fusion and Drell-Yan Production

B. Acharya et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 021802 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Studies of Beauty Suppression via Nonprompt $D^{0}$ Mesons in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 022001 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Strong Absorption of Hadrons with Hidden and Open Strangeness in Nuclear Matter

J. Adamczewski-Musch et al. (HADES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 022002 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Beam Energy and Centrality Dependence of Direct-Photon Emission from Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 022301 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Measurements of Nonsinglet Moments of the Nucleon Structure Functions and Comparison to Predictions from Lattice QCD for $Q^{2} = 4 {GeV}^{2}$

I. Albayrak et al. (E06-009 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 022501 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Updated Summation Model: An Improved Agreement with the Daya Bay Antineutrino Fluxes

M. Estienne, M. Fallot, A. Algora, J. Briz-Monago, V. M. Bui, S. Cormon, W. Gelletly, L. Giot, V. Guadilla, D. Jordan, L. Le Meur, A. Porta, S. Rice, B. Rubio, J. L. Taín, E. Valencia, and A.-A. Zakari-Issoufou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 022502 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Evidence of Extreme Ultraviolet Superfluorescence in Xenon

L. Mercadier, A. Benediktovitch, C. Weninger, M. A. Blessenohl, S. Bernitt, H. Bekker, S. Dobrodey, A. Sanchez-Gonzalez, B. Erk, C. Bomme, R. Boll, Z. Yin, V. P. Majety, R. Steinbrügge, M. A. Khalal, F. Penent, J. Palaudoux, P. Lablanquie, A. Rudenko, D. Rolles, J. R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and N. Rohringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023201 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Temperature-Controlled Entangled-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy

Roberto de J. León-Montiel, Jiří Svozilík, Juan P. Torres, and Alfred B. U’Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023601 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Optomechanically Induced Birefringence and Optomechanically Induced Faraday Effect

Robert Duggan, Javier del Pino, Ewold Verhagen, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023602 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Generating Maximal Entanglement between Spectrally Distinct Solid-State Emitters

David L. Hurst, Kristoffer B. Joanesarson, Jake Iles-Smith, Jesper Mørk, and Pieter Kok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023603 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Quantum Synchronization in Dimer Atomic Lattices

Albert Cabot, Gian Luca Giorgi, Fernando Galve, and Roberta Zambrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023604 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fourier-space Diffractive Deep Neural Network

Tao Yan, Jiamin Wu, Tiankuang Zhou, Hao Xie, Feng Xu, Jingtao Fan, Lu Fang, Xing Lin, and Qionghai Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023901 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Bound States in the Continuum through Environmental Design

Alexander Cerjan, Chia Wei Hsu, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 023902 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Focusing and Mode Separation of Elastic Vector Solitons in a 2D Soft Mechanical Metamaterial

Bolei Deng, Chengyang Mo, Vincent Tournat, Katia Bertoldi, and Jordan R. Raney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 024101 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Self-Similar Relaxation of Confined Microfluidic Droplets

Margaux Kerdraon, Joshua D. McGraw, Benjamin Dollet, and Marie-Caroline Jullien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 024501 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Critical Conditions for Jumping Droplets

Quoc Vo and Tuan Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 024502 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

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Superwalking Droplets

Rahil N. Valani, Anja C. Slim, and Tapio Simula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 024503 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Liquid droplets bouncing on a vibrating liquid surface can execute a surprising cycle, alternating between moving and standing still.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser Amplification in Strongly Magnetized Plasma

Matthew R. Edwards, Yuan Shi, Julia M. Mikhailova, and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025001 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

First Observation of a Stable Highly Dissipative Divertor Plasma Regime on the Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator

D. Zhang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025002 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Persistence of Ion Temperature Gradient Turbulent Transport at Finite Normalized Pressure

A. Ishizawa, D. Urano, Y. Nakamura, S. Maeyama, and T.-H. Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025003 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Modification of the Coulomb Logarithm due to Electron-Neutral Collisions

G. J. M. Hagelaar, Z. Donko, and N. Dyatko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025004 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

One-Dimensional Quasicrystals with Power-Law Hopping

X. Deng, S. Ray, S. Sinha, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025301 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Strain Reversal in Actuated Origami Structures

Steven W. Grey, Fabrizio Scarpa, and Mark Schenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025501 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radiative Thermal Memristor

Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Younès Ezzahri, Jose A. Tiburcio-Moreno, Karl Joulain, and Jérémie Drevillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 025901 (2019) - Published 12 July, 2019

Thermal hysteresis in a phase change material makes it possible to build a radiative thermal memristor, a fast thermal circuit element whose response is dependent on its history.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Supersymmetry in the Insulating Phase of a Chain of Majorana Cooper Pair Boxes

Hiromi Ebisu, Eran Sagi, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026401 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Flatbands and Perfect Metal in Trilayer Moiré Graphene

Christophe Mora, Nicolas Regnault, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026402 (2019) - Published 11 July, 2019

Freely Flowing Currents and Electric Field Expulsion in Viscous Electronics

Michal Shavit, Andrey Shytov, and Gregory Falkovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026801 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Zeeman-Effect-Induced $0 − π$ Transitions in Ballistic Dirac Semimetal Josephson Junctions

Chuan Li, Bob de Ronde, Jorrit de Boer, Joost Ridderbos, Floris Zwanenburg, Yingkai Huang, Alexander Golubov, and Alexander Brinkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026802 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

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Excited States in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

A. Kurzmann, M. Eich, H. Overweg, M. Mangold, F. Herman, P. Rickhaus, R. Pisoni, Y. Lee, R. Garreis, C. Tong, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026803 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Measurements of spin and valley relaxation and decoherence times in quantum dots of graphene encapsulated by edges and back gates may lead to implementations of qubits.

Dissipative and Hall Viscosity of a Disordered 2D Electron Gas

Igor S. Burmistrov, Moshe Goldstein, Mordecai Kot, Vladislav D. Kurilovich, and Pavel D. Kurilovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026804 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Charge Transfer and Built-in Electric Fields between a Crystalline Oxide and Silicon

Z. H. Lim, N. F. Quackenbush, A. N. Penn, M. Chrysler, M. Bowden, Z. Zhu, J. M. Ablett, T.-L. Lee, J. M. LeBeau, J. C. Woicik, P. V. Sushko, S. A. Chambers, and J. H. Ngai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 026805 (2019) - Published 11 July, 2019

Experimental Determination of Momentum-Resolved Electron-Phonon Coupling

Matteo Rossi, Riccardo Arpaia, Roberto Fumagalli, Marco Moretti Sala, Davide Betto, Kurt Kummer, Gabriella M. De Luca, Jeroen van den Brink, Marco Salluzzo, Nicholas B. Brookes, Lucio Braicovich, and Giacomo Ghiringhelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027001 (2019) - Published 8 July, 2019

Quasiparticle Evidence for the Nematic State above $T_{c}$ in ${Sr}_{x} {Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Yue Sun, Shunichiro Kittaka, Toshiro Sakakibara, Kazushige Machida, Jinghui Wang, Jinsheng Wen, Xiangzhuo Xing, Zhixiang Shi, and Tsuyoshi Tamegai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027002 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Quasi-1D Topological Nodal Vortex Line Phase in Doped Superconducting 3D Dirac Semimetals

Shengshan Qin, Lunhui Hu, Congcong Le, Jinfeng Zeng, Fu-chun Zhang, Chen Fang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027003 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Novel Strongly Spin-Orbit Coupled Quantum Dimer Magnet: ${Yb}_{2} {Si}_{2} O_{7}$

Gavin Hester, H. S. Nair, T. Reeder, D. R. Yahne, T. N. DeLazzer, L. Berges, D. Ziat, J. R. Neilson, A. A. Aczel, G. Sala, J. A. Quilliam, and K. A. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027201 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Femtosecond Laser-Excitation-Driven High Frequency Standing Spin Waves in Nanoscale Dielectric Thin Films of Iron Garnets

Marwan Deb, Elena Popova, Michel Hehn, Niels Keller, Sébastien Petit-Watelot, Matias Bargheer, Stéphane Mangin, and Gregory Malinowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027202 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Novel Magnetic Block States in Low-Dimensional Iron-Based Superconductors

J. Herbrych, J. Heverhagen, N. D. Patel, G. Alvarez, M. Daghofer, A. Moreo, and E. Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027203 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Spin Dynamics in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Ising-Like Antiferromagnet ${BaCo}_{2} V_{2} O_{8}$

Quentin Faure, Shintaro Takayoshi, Virginie Simonet, Béatrice Grenier, Martin Månsson, Jonathan S. White, Gregory S. Tucker, Christian Rüegg, Pascal Lejay, Thierry Giamarchi, and Sylvain Petit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027204 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Negative Thermal Expansion in the Plateau State of a Magnetically Frustrated Spinel

L. Rossi, A. Bobel, S. Wiedmann, R. Küchler, Y. Motome, K. Penc, N. Shannon, H. Ueda, and B. Bryant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027205 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Localized Magnetic Excitations in the Fully Frustrated Dimerized Magnet ${Ba}_{2} {CoSi}_{2} O_{6} {Cl}_{2}$

Nobuyuki Kurita, Daisuke Yamamoto, Takuya Kanesaka, Nobuo Furukawa, Seiko Ohira-Kawamura, Kenji Nakajima, and Hidekazu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027206 (2019) - Published 11 July, 2019

Gate Tunable Dark Trions in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Erfu Liu, Jeremiah van Baren, Zhengguang Lu, Mashael M. Altaiary, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Dmitry Smirnov, and Chun Hung Lui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027401 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

Scanning Tunneling Microscope-Induced Excitonic Luminescence of a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor

Delphine Pommier, Rémi Bretel, Luis E. Parra López, Florentin Fabre, Andrew Mayne, Elizabeth Boer-Duchemin, Gérald Dujardin, Guillaume Schull, Stéphane Berciaud, and Eric Le Moal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027402 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Lattice Dynamics Coupled to Charge and Spin Degrees of Freedom in the Molecular Dimer-Mott Insulator $κ − (BEDT − TTF)_{2} Cu [N (CN)_{2}] Cl$

Masato Matsuura, Takahiko Sasaki, Satoshi Iguchi, Elena Gati, Jens Müller, Oliver Stockert, Andrea Piovano, Martin Böhm, Jitae T. Park, Sananda Biswas, Stephen M. Winter, Roser Valentí, Akiko Nakao, and Michael Lang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 027601 (2019) - Published 10 July, 2019

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Dynamics of Active Filaments in Porous Media

Zahra Mokhtari and Annette Zippelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 028001 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019

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Thermal Forces from a Microscopic Perspective

Pietro Anzini, Gaia Maria Colombo, Zeno Filiberti, and Alberto Parola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 028002 (2019) - Published 11 July, 2019

Physicists develop a theory to make the seemingly random, thermal-driven motion of clumps and colloids in fluids predictable.

Patterns of Polar Domains in a Spatiotemporal Model of Interacting Polarities

Maryam Aliee and Arezki Boudaoud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 028101 (2019) - Published 9 July, 2019