Volume 133, Issue 19

8 November 2024

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Stitched photographs of a cylinder sequentially coated with curable elastomer while being rotated to grow stalactitelike elastomeric structures. The number of coatings increases clockwise. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Stacked Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities Grow Drops into Soft Stalactitelike Structures
Barath Venkateswaran, Trevor J. Jones, Grace Kresge, Joel Marthelot, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, and P.-T. Brun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 198201 (2024)

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The actions of noninvertible symmetries on local operators can be better understood in terms of quantum operations which include unitary evolutions and measurements.

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Pt inert-marker experiments combined with first-principles calculations reveal the ionic diffusion mechanism in CO $_{2}$ adsorption by Li $_{4}$ SiO $_{4}$ .

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 198201 (2024) - Published 6 November, 2024

By repeatedly applying coats of a hardening polymer to a surface, researchers have created rubbery stalactite-like formations that could be useful in soft robotics.

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