Volume 129, Issue 21

18 November 2022

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Natural leaves (above) compared with leaves simulated (below) using conformal maps. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

From the article:

Minimizing the Elastic Energy of Growing Leaves by Conformal Mapping
Anna Dai and Martine Ben Amar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 218101 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Crossing $N = 28$ Toward the Neutron Drip Line: First Measurement of Half-Lives at FRIB

H. L. Crawford et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 212501 (2022) - Published 14 November, 2022

Researchers have discovered the heaviest-known bound isotope of sodium and characterized other neutron-rich isotopes, offering important benchmarks for refining nuclear models.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discovery of ${}^{39}{Na}$

D. S. Ahn et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 212502 (2022) - Published 14 November, 2022

Researchers have discovered the heaviest-known bound isotope of sodium and characterized other neutron-rich isotopes, offering important benchmarks for refining nuclear models.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman- $α$ Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter

James S. Bolton, Andrea Caputo, Hongwan Liu, and Matteo Viel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 211102 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

Spectra from quasars suggest that intergalactic gas may have been heated by a form of dark matter called dark photons.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Minimizing the Elastic Energy of Growing Leaves by Conformal Mapping

Anna Dai and Martine Ben Amar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 218101 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Physicists have shown that a mathematical transformation called a conformal map can be used to predict how leaves grow.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Fermi Acceleration in Magnetized Turbulence

Martin Lemoine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 215101 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

A newly developed first-principles description of particle acceleration in magnetized turbulence connects particle energization with the intermittent nature of the velocity gradients of magnetic field lines.

LETTERS

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

On-Demand Storage of Photonic Qubits at Telecom Wavelengths

Duan-Cheng Liu, Pei-Yun Li, Tian-Xiang Zhu, Liang Zheng, Jian-Yin Huang, Zong-Quan Zhou, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 210501 (2022) - Published 15 November, 2022

Imaging Stars with Quantum Error Correction

Zixin Huang, Gavin K. Brennen, and Yingkai Ouyang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 210502 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Conformal Boundary Conditions of Symmetry-Enriched Quantum Critical Spin Chains

Xue-Jia Yu, Rui-Zhen Huang, Hong-Hao Song, Limei Xu, Chengxiang Ding, and Long Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 210601 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Critical Probability Distributions of the Order Parameter from the Functional Renormalization Group

I. Balog, A. Rançon, and B. Delamotte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 210602 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in Interacting Many-Body Systems

Timur Koyuk and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 210603 (2022) - Published 17 November, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dark Solar Wind

Jae Hyeok Chang, David E. Kaplan, Surjeet Rajendran, Harikrishnan Ramani, and Erwin H. Tanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 211101 (2022) - Published 15 November, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Comparison of Low-Redshift Lyman- $α$ Forest Observations to Hydrodynamical Simulations with Dark Photon Dark Matter

James S. Bolton, Andrea Caputo, Hongwan Liu, and Matteo Viel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 211102 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

Spectra from quasars suggest that intergalactic gas may have been heated by a form of dark matter called dark photons.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Pure Anti–de Sitter Supergravity and the Conformal Bootstrap

Luis F. Alday and Shai M. Chester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 211601 (2022) - Published 17 November, 2022

Axion Wind Detection with the Homogeneous Precession Domain of Superfluid Helium-3

Christina Gao, William Halperin, Yonatan Kahn, Man Nguyen, Jan Schütte-Engel, and John William Scott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 211801 (2022) - Published 15 November, 2022

Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering from Reactor Antineutrinos

J. Colaresi, J. I. Collar, T. W. Hossbach, C. M. Lewis, and K. M. Yocum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 211802 (2022) - Published 17 November, 2022

All Order Resummed Leading and Next-to-Leading Soft Modes of Dense QCD Pressure

Loïc Fernandez and Jean-Loïc Kneur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 212001 (2022) - Published 17 November, 2022

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction and Decay Asymmetry of $Λ \to n γ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 212002 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

Nuclear Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Crossing $N = 28$ Toward the Neutron Drip Line: First Measurement of Half-Lives at FRIB

H. L. Crawford et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 212501 (2022) - Published 14 November, 2022

Researchers have discovered the heaviest-known bound isotope of sodium and characterized other neutron-rich isotopes, offering important benchmarks for refining nuclear models.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discovery of ${}^{39}{Na}$

D. S. Ahn et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 212502 (2022) - Published 14 November, 2022

Researchers have discovered the heaviest-known bound isotope of sodium and characterized other neutron-rich isotopes, offering important benchmarks for refining nuclear models.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Optical Fingerprint of Flat Substrate Surface and Marker-Free Lateral Displacement Detection with Angstrom-Level Precision

Shupei Lin, Yong He, Delong Feng, Marek Piliarik, and Xue-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 213201 (2022) - Published 15 November, 2022

Control of Electron Wave Packets Close to the Continuum Threshold Using Near-Single-Cycle THz Waveforms

Simon Brennecke, Martin Ranke, Anastasios Dimitriou, Sophie Walther, Mark J. Prandolini, Manfred Lein, and Ulrike Frühling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 213202 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

Distillation of Indistinguishable Photons

Jeffrey Marshall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 213601 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

First Observation of New Flat Line Fano Profile via an X-Ray Planar Cavity

Zi-Ru Ma (马子茹), Xin-Chao Huang (黄新朝), Tian-Jun Li (李天钧), Hong-Chang Wang (王洪昌), Gen-Chang Liu (刘根长), Zhan-Shan Wang (王占山), Bo Li (李波), Wen-Bin Li (李文斌), and Lin-Fan Zhu (朱林繁)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 213602 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Femtosecond-Terawatt Hard X-Ray Pulse Generation with Chirped Pulse Amplification on a Free Electron Laser

Haoyuan Li, James MacArthur, Sean Littleton, Mike Dunne, Zhirong Huang, and Diling Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 213901 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Absorption and Transport Effects Induced in Plasmas by the Interaction of Electrons with Laser Speckles

M. Sherlock and P. Michel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 215001 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Direct Measurement of Ice-Ablator Interface Motion for Instability Mitigation in Indirect Drive ICF Implosions

Alexandre Do, Christopher R. Weber, Eduard L. Dewald, Daniel T. Casey, Daniel S. Clark, Shahab F. Khan, Otto L. Landen, Andrew G. MacPhee, and Vladimir A. Smalyuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 215003 (2022) - Published 15 November, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Fermi Acceleration in Magnetized Turbulence

Martin Lemoine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 215101 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nonmonotonic Dynamical Correlations beneath the Surface of Glass-Forming Liquids

Hailong Peng, Huashan Liu, and Thomas Voigtmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 215501 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Experimental Realization of Nonreciprocal Adiabatic Transfer of Phonons in a Dynamically Modulated Nanomechanical Topological Insulator

Tian Tian, Yichuan Zhang, Liang Zhang, Longhao Wu, Shaochun Lin, Jingwei Zhou, Chang-Kui Duan, Jian-Hua Jiang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 215901 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

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

Coexistence of Active and Hydrodynamic Turbulence in Two-Dimensional Active Nematics

C. Rorai, F. Toschi, and I. Pagonabarraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 218001 (2022) - Published 18 November, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Minimizing the Elastic Energy of Growing Leaves by Conformal Mapping

Anna Dai and Martine Ben Amar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 218101 (2022) - Published 16 November, 2022

Physicists have shown that a mathematical transformation called a conformal map can be used to predict how leaves grow.

Volume 129, Issue 21

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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