Volume 132, Issue 1

5 January 2024

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Fingering instability at the leading front of a growing cell collective. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Fingering Instability Accelerates Population Growth of a Proliferating Cell Collective
Yiyang Ye (叶毅扬) and Jie Lin (林杰)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018402 (2024)

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Fingering Instability Accelerates Population Growth of a Proliferating Cell Collective

Yiyang Ye (叶毅扬) and Jie Lin (林杰)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018402 (2024) - Published 3 January, 2024

A continuum model predicts a fingering instability at the leading front of a growing cell collective due to the feedback between pressure and growth rate, which could provide an evolutionary advantage.

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Randomness-Enhanced Expressivity of Quantum Neural Networks

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Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Particles and Fields

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Number Density Interpretation of Dihadron Fragmentation Functions

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Generalized Scaling and Model for Friction in Wall Turbulence

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 014001 (2024) - Published 2 January, 2024

A new theoretical framework allows scientists to accurately estimate the friction a surface experiences in a turbulent flow, such as an airplane wing flying through the sky.

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Nonlinear and Negative Effective Diffusivity of Interlayer Excitons in Moiré-Free Heterobilayers

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016202 (2024) - Published 4 January, 2024

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fully Ab Initio Approach to Inelastic Atom-Surface Scattering

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016203 (2024) - Published 3 January, 2024

The interactions of helium atoms with crystalline surfaces are so gentle and subtle that it has been challenging to describe them from first principles.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Terahertz Spin Hall Conductivity Spectrum in GaAs with Optical Spin Injection

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016301 (2024) - Published 4 January, 2024

Spin Hall conductivity is observed in GaAs at room temperature via a circularly polarized terahertz pump-probe setup.

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Light-Induced Ideal Weyl Semimetal in HgTe via Nonlinear Phononics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016603 (2024) - Published 3 January, 2024

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Fracton Self-Statistics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016604 (2024) - Published 5 January, 2024

By way of an algebraic basis for their computation, fracton self-statistics is shown to be a key factor in the characterization of fracton order.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 017002 (2024) - Published 5 January, 2024

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Schramm-Loewner Evolution in 2D Rigidity Percolation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018201 (2024) - Published 2 January, 2024

New theoretical work explores the onset of rigidity in granular materials and other disordered systems by mapping out the edges of rigid regions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fingering Instability Accelerates Population Growth of a Proliferating Cell Collective

Yiyang Ye (叶毅扬) and Jie Lin (林杰)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018402 (2024) - Published 3 January, 2024