Volume 129, Issue 26

23 December 2022

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Soap film, formed by dipping a loop of thermocouple wire in a water-glycerol-soap solution, is found to cool down by as much as 8 degrees Celsius as its water evaporates. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Measurement of the Temperature Decrease in Evaporating Soap Films
François Boulogne, Frédéric Restagno, and Emmanuelle Rio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 268001 (2022)

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Measurement of the Temperature Decrease in Evaporating Soap Films

François Boulogne, Frédéric Restagno, and Emmanuelle Rio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 268001 (2022) - Published 19 December, 2022

The film surrounding a soap bubble can be up to 8 °C cooler than the environment, a finding that has implications for bubble stability.

LETTERS

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

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Detecting Entanglement in Quantum Many-Body Systems via Permutation Moments

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Restoring Ergodicity in a Strongly Disordered Interacting Chain

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Controlling Local Thermal States in Classical Many-Body Systems

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Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics and Phase Transition in a Classical Single Random Walker under Continuous Measurement

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Quantum Fluxes at the Inner Horizon of a Spinning Black Hole

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Elementary Particles and Fields

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A design for a nanopump that uses an alternating electric field could allow researchers greater control over nanoscale fluid flows.

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Measurement of the Temperature Decrease in Evaporating Soap Films

François Boulogne, Frédéric Restagno, and Emmanuelle Rio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 268001 (2022) - Published 19 December, 2022

The film surrounding a soap bubble can be up to 8 °C cooler than the environment, a finding that has implications for bubble stability.

ERRATA

Erratum: High-Temperature Superconducting Phase in Clathrate Calcium Hydride ${CaH}_{6}$ up to 215 K at a Pressure of 172 GPa [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 167001 (2022)]

Liang Ma, Kui Wang, Yu Xie, Xin Yang, Yingying Wang, Mi Zhou, Hanyu Liu, Xiaohui Yu, Yongsheng Zhao, Hongbo Wang, Guangtao Liu, and Yanming Ma

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