Volume 133, Issue 2

12 July 2024

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On the Cover

Ficus religiosa leaf (left) and zoomed-in image of its vein network (right). The scale bar is 0.5 cm.

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Universal Hyperuniform Organization in Looped Leaf Vein Networks
Yuan Liu, Duyu Chen, Jianxiang Tian, Wenxiang Xu, and Yang Jiao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028401 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez, James M. Cline, and Caitlyn Dewar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021401 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Dark matter that interacts with itself could extract significant momentum from a binary supermassive black hole system, causing the black holes to merge.

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First Measurement of $ν_{e}$ and $ν_{μ}$ Interaction Cross Sections at the LHC with FASER’s Emulsion Detector

Roshan Mammen Abraham et al. (FASER Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021802 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Electron neutrinos produced by proton–proton collisions at the LHC have been experimentally observed.

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Clock with $8 \times 10^{- 19}$ Systematic Uncertainty

Alexander Aeppli, Kyungtae Kim, William Warfield, Marianna S. Safronova, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023401 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

An optical lattice clock with a 19-digit frequency accuracy results from the precise evaluation of the dynamic component of the clock transition’s blackbody radiation shift.

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Mechanical Detection of Nuclear Decays

Jiaxiang Wang, T. W. Penny, Juan Recoaro, Benjamin Siegel, Yu-Han Tseng, and David C. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023602 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

A levitating microparticle is observed to recoil when a nucleus embedded in the particle decays—opening the door to future searches of invisible decay products.

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Thermal Properties of Athermal Granular Materials

Kasra Farain and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028203 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Experiments on a bed of plastic beads reveal a temperature-dependent stiffening over time, which appears to be related to molecular-scale deformations.

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Physical Running of Couplings in Quadratic Gravity

Diego Buccio, John F. Donoghue, Gabriel Menezes, and Roberto Percacci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021604 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

A theoretical analysis suggests that higher derivative gravity theories display signs of UV completeness.

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Abyss Aerosols: Drop Production from Underwater Bubble Collisions

Xinghua Jiang, Lucas Rotily, Emmanuel Villermaux, and Xiaofei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 024001 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

The flapping instability of the film squeezed between underwater colliding bubbles is the primary mechanism for submicron droplet formation.

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Time-Dependent Variational Principle with Controlled Bond Expansion for Matrix Product States

Jheng-Wei Li, Andreas Gleis, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026401 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

A controlled bond expansion approach to simulate quantum dynamics resolves the numerical difficulty of the standard time-dependent variational principle method for matrix product states, where dominant projection errors spoil the numerical accuracy.

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Exchange Energy of the Ferromagnetic Electronic Ground State in a Monolayer Semiconductor

Nadine Leisgang, Dmitry Miserev, Hinrich Mattiat, Lukas Schneider, Lukas Sponfeldner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Martino Poggio, and Richard J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026501 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

The large exchange energy observed when flipping a spin in the ferromagnetic phase of MoS $_{2}$ , as determined from the optical emission spectrum, suggests very stable ferromagnetic ordering.

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Quantum Criticality with Emergent Symmetry in the Extended Shastry-Sutherland Model

Wen-Yuan Liu, Xiao-Tian Zhang, Zhe Wang, Shou-Shu Gong, Wei-Qiang Chen, and Zheng-Cheng Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026502 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Identification of a continuous phase transition between the plaquette valence-bond solid phase and the antiferromagnetic phase accompanied by an emergent O(4) symmetry strongly suggests a deconfined quantum critical point in the ground state phase diagram of the extended Shastry-Sutherland model.

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Irreversible Monte Carlo Algorithms for Hard Disk Glasses: From Event-Chain to Collective Swaps

Federico Ghimenti, Ludovic Berthier, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028202 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

An irreversible algorithm utilizing collective particle swaps outperforms known Monte Carlo methods for configuration space sampling during the glassy slowing of dynamics in disordered systems.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Single-Photon Interference over 8.4 km Urban Atmosphere: Toward Testing Quantum Effects in Curved Spacetime with Photons

Hui-Nan Wu, Yu-Huai Li, Bo Li, Xiang You, Run-Ze Liu, Ji-Gang Ren, Juan Yin, Chao-Yang Lu, Yuan Cao, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020201 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Energetic Cost for Speedy Synchronization in Non-Hermitian Quantum Dynamics

Maxwell Aifer, Juzar Thingna, and Sebastian Deffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020401 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Versatile Fidelity Estimation with Confidence

Akshay Seshadri, Martin Ringbauer, Jacob Spainhour, Rainer Blatt, Thomas Monz, and Stephen Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020402 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Bell Sampling from Quantum Circuits

Dominik Hangleiter and Michael J. Gullans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020601 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

Shallow Shadows: Expectation Estimation Using Low-Depth Random Clifford Circuits

Christian Bertoni, Jonas Haferkamp, Marcel Hinsche, Marios Ioannou, Jens Eisert, and Hakop Pashayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020602 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Vacuum Beam Guide for Large Scale Quantum Networks

Yuexun Huang, Francisco Salces–Carcoba, Rana X. Adhikari, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020801 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Single-System-Based Generation of Certified Randomness Using Leggett-Garg Inequality

Pingal Pratyush Nath, Debashis Saha, Dipankar Home, and Urbasi Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 020802 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Primordial Black Holes from Null Energy Condition Violation during Inflation

Yong Cai, Mian Zhu, and Yun-Song Piao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021001 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

Inhomogeneous Kinetic Equation for Mixed Neutrinos: Tracing the Missing Energy

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Georg G. Raffelt, and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021002 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Successful Freeze-Out of Strongly Interacting Dark Matter with Even-Numbered Interactions

Xiaoyong Chu, Marco Nikolic, and Josef Pradler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021003 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Gravitational Wave Symphony from Oscillating Spectator Scalar Fields

Yanou Cui, Pankaj Saha, and Evangelos I. Sfakianakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021004 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

First Scan Search for Dark Photon Dark Matter with a Tunable Superconducting Radio-Frequency Cavity

Zhenxing Tang, Bo Wang, Yifan Chen, Yanjie Zeng, Chunlong Li, Yuting Yang, Liwen Feng, Peng Sha, Zhenghui Mi, Weimin Pan, Tianzong Zhang, Yirong Jin, Jiankui Hao, Lin Lin, Fang Wang, Huamu Xie, Senlin Huang, and Jing Shu (SHANHE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021005 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

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Self-Interacting Dark Matter Solves the Final Parsec Problem of Supermassive Black Hole Mergers

Gonzalo Alonso-Álvarez, James M. Cline, and Caitlyn Dewar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021401 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Dark matter that interacts with itself could extract significant momentum from a binary supermassive black hole system, causing the black holes to merge.

Inflationary Cosmology from Anti-de Sitter Wormholes

Panos Betzios and Olga Papadoulaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021501 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Particles and Fields

Logarithmic Corrections to Kerr Thermodynamics

Daniel Kapec, Ahmed Sheta, Andrew Strominger, and Chiara Toldo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021601 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Cyclic Products of Higher-Genus Szegö Kernels, Modular Tensors, and Polylogarithms

Eric D’Hoker, Martijn Hidding, and Oliver Schlotterer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021602 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Fracton Infrared Triangle

Alfredo Pérez, Stefan Prohazka, and Ali Seraj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021603 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

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Physical Running of Couplings in Quadratic Gravity

Diego Buccio, John F. Donoghue, Gabriel Menezes, and Roberto Percacci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021604 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

A theoretical analysis suggests that higher derivative gravity theories display signs of UV completeness.

Constructibility of AdS Supergluon Amplitudes

Qu Cao (曹趣), Song He (何颂), and Yichao Tang (唐一朝)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021605 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Quantum Enhancement in Dark Matter Detection with Quantum Computation

Shion Chen, Hajime Fukuda, Toshiaki Inada, Takeo Moroi, Tatsumi Nitta, and Thanaporn Sichanugrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021801 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

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First Measurement of $ν_{e}$ and $ν_{μ}$ Interaction Cross Sections at the LHC with FASER’s Emulsion Detector

Roshan Mammen Abraham et al. (FASER Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021802 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Electron neutrinos produced by proton–proton collisions at the LHC have been experimentally observed.

Field Theory of the Fermi Function

Richard J. Hill and Ryan Plestid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021803 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Measurements of Normalized Differential Cross Sections of Inclusive $η$ Production in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at Energy from 2.0000 to 3.6710 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021901 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Quasiclassical Gluon Fields and Low’s Soft Theorem at Small Momentum-Fraction $x$

Ming Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021902 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Medium-Induced Yield Enhancement and Acoplanarity Broadening of Low- $p_{T}$ Jets from Measurements in $p p$ and Central Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 022301 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Observation of the $ϒ (3 S)$ Meson and Suppression of $ϒ$ States in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 022302 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Emergence of High-Order Deformation in Rotating Transfermium Nuclei: A Microscopic Understanding

F. F. Xu (许方方), Y. K. Wang (王亚坤), Y. P. Wang (王一平), P. Ring, and P. W. Zhao (赵鹏巍)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 022501 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Measurement of the Isolated Nuclear Two-Photon Decay in ${}^{72}{Ge}$

D. Freire-Fernández et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 022502 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Formation of Doubly and Triply Charged Fullerene Dimers in Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Lisa Ganner, Stefan Bergmeister, Lucas Lorenz, Milan Ončák, Paul Scheier, and Elisabeth Gruber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023001 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

Image-Current Mediated Sympathetic Laser Cooling of a Single Proton in a Penning Trap Down to 170 mK Axial Temperature

C. Will, M. Wiesinger, P. Micke, H. Yildiz, T. Driscoll, S. Kommu, F. Abbass, B. P. Arndt, B. B. Bauer, S. Erlewein, M. Fleck, J. I. Jäger, B. M. Latacz, A. Mooser, D. Schweitzer, G. Umbrazunas, E. Wursten, K. Blaum, J. A. Devlin, C. Ospelkaus, W. Quint, A. Soter, J. Walz, C. Smorra, and S. Ulmer (BASE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023002 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Ultrafast Picometer-Resolved Molecular Structure Imaging by Laser-Induced High-Order Harmonics

Lixin He, C. H. Yuen, Yanqing He, Siqi Sun, E. Goetz, Anh-Thu Le, Yu Deng, Chengqing Xu, Pengfei Lan, Peixiang Lu, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023201 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

New Classes of Magnetic Noise Self-Compensation Effects in Atomic Comagnetometer

Yushu Qin, Zhenhan Shao, Taizhou Hong, Yuanhong Wang, Min Jiang, and Xinhua Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023202 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

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Clock with $8 \times 10^{- 19}$ Systematic Uncertainty

Alexander Aeppli, Kyungtae Kim, William Warfield, Marianna S. Safronova, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023401 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

An optical lattice clock with a 19-digit frequency accuracy results from the precise evaluation of the dynamic component of the clock transition’s blackbody radiation shift.

Loss-Assisted Anomalous Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Based on Nonunitary Multilayer Graphene

Ling Hong, Yuning Zhang, Yuanyuan Chen, and Lixiang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023601 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

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Mechanical Detection of Nuclear Decays

Jiaxiang Wang, T. W. Penny, Juan Recoaro, Benjamin Siegel, Yu-Han Tseng, and David C. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023602 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

A levitating microparticle is observed to recoil when a nucleus embedded in the particle decays—opening the door to future searches of invisible decay products.

Nonlinear Quantum Photonics with a Tin-Vacancy Center Coupled to a One-Dimensional Diamond Waveguide

Matteo Pasini, Nina Codreanu, Tim Turan, Adrià Riera Moral, Christian F. Primavera, Lorenzo De Santis, Hans K. C. Beukers, Julia M. Brevoord, Christopher Waas, Johannes Borregaard, and Ronald Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023603 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Abyss Aerosols: Drop Production from Underwater Bubble Collisions

Xinghua Jiang, Lucas Rotily, Emmanuel Villermaux, and Xiaofei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 024001 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

The flapping instability of the film squeezed between underwater colliding bubbles is the primary mechanism for submicron droplet formation.

Lagrangian Irreversibility and Energy Exchanges in Rotating-Stratified Turbulent Flows

S. Gallon, A. Sozza, F. Feraco, R. Marino, and A. Pumir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 024101 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Laser Proton Acceleration from a Near-Critical Imploding Gas Target

Omri Seemann, Yang Wan, Sheroy Tata, Eyal Kroupp, and Victor Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 025001 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Intrinsic Toroidal Rotation Driven by Turbulent and Neoclassical Processes in Tokamak Plasmas from Global Gyrokinetic Simulations

Hongxuan Zhu, T. Stoltzfus-Dueck, R. Hager, S. Ku, and C. S. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 025101 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Hydrodynamics of Borromean Counterfluids

Egor Babaev and Boris Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026001 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Enhanced Quantum Metric due to Vacancies in Graphene

Quentin Marsal and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026002 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Viscous Current-Induced Forces

Vladimir U. Nazarov, Tchavdar N. Todorov, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026301 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

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Time-Dependent Variational Principle with Controlled Bond Expansion for Matrix Product States

Jheng-Wei Li, Andreas Gleis, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026401 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Group Theory on Quasisymmetry and Protected Near Degeneracy

Jiayu Li, Ao Zhang, Yuntian Liu, and Qihang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026402 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Improved Dielectric Response of Solids: Combining the Bethe-Salpeter Equation with the Random Phase Approximation

Amalie H. Søndersted, Mikael Kuisma, Jakob K. Svaneborg, Mark Kamper Svendsen, and Kristian S. Thygesen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026403 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Tilted-Plane Structure of the Energy of Finite Quantum Systems

Andrew C. Burgess, Edward Linscott, and David D. O’Regan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026404 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

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Exchange Energy of the Ferromagnetic Electronic Ground State in a Monolayer Semiconductor

Nadine Leisgang, Dmitry Miserev, Hinrich Mattiat, Lukas Schneider, Lukas Sponfeldner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Martino Poggio, and Richard J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026501 (2024) - Published 8 July, 2024

The large exchange energy observed when flipping a spin in the ferromagnetic phase of MoS $_{2}$ , as determined from the optical emission spectrum, suggests very stable ferromagnetic ordering.

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Quantum Criticality with Emergent Symmetry in the Extended Shastry-Sutherland Model

Wen-Yuan Liu, Xiao-Tian Zhang, Zhe Wang, Shou-Shu Gong, Wei-Qiang Chen, and Zheng-Cheng Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026502 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

Algebraic Hastatic Order in One-Dimensional Two-Channel Kondo Lattice

Milan Kornjača and Rebecca Flint

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026503 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Universal Entanglement Spectrum in One-Dimensional Gapless Symmetry Protected Topological States

Xue-Jia Yu, Sheng Yang, Hai-Qing Lin, and Shao-Kai Jian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026601 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Multiferroicity and Topology in Twisted Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Emil J. Bergholtz, and Shubhayu Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026801 (2024) - Published 11 July, 2024

Dephasing of Strong-Field-Driven Excitonic Autler-Townes Doublets Revealed by Time- and Spectrum-Resolved Quantum-Path Interferometry

Yaxin Liu, Bingbing Zhu, Shicheng Jiang, Shenyang Huang, Mingyan Luo, Sheng Zhang, Hugen Yan, Yuanbo Zhang, Ruifeng Lu, and Zhensheng Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 026901 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Predictive Power of a Bayesian Effective Action for Fully Connected One Hidden Layer Neural Networks in the Proportional Limit

P. Baglioni, R. Pacelli, R. Aiudi, F. Di Renzo, A. Vezzani, R. Burioni, and P. Rotondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 027301 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Field Theory for Mechanical Criticality in Disordered Fiber Networks

Sihan Chen, Tomer Markovich, and Fred C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028201 (2024) - Published 9 July, 2024

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Irreversible Monte Carlo Algorithms for Hard Disk Glasses: From Event-Chain to Collective Swaps

Federico Ghimenti, Ludovic Berthier, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028202 (2024) - Published 10 July, 2024

An irreversible algorithm utilizing collective particle swaps outperforms known Monte Carlo methods for configuration space sampling during the glassy slowing of dynamics in disordered systems.

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Thermal Properties of Athermal Granular Materials

Kasra Farain and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028203 (2024) - Published 12 July, 2024

Experiments on a bed of plastic beads reveal a temperature-dependent stiffening over time, which appears to be related to molecular-scale deformations.