Volume 136, Issue 19

15 May 2026

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Chain of nanoscale metallic islands linked by quantum Hall channels, where strong electron interactions drive heat flow with no temperature gradient between the islands. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Nonlocal Response in Arrays of Nanoscale Metallic Islands: Fractionalized Entropy and Anomalous Heat Transport
Nitay Hurvitz, Gleb Finkelstein, and Eran Sela
Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 196302 (2026)

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Quasinormal Mode Content of Binary Black Hole Ringdowns

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Local Interstellar Cloud Structure Imprinted in Antarctic Ice by Supernova ${}^{60}{Fe}$

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Interacting quantum Hall metamaterials violate the Wiedemann-Franz law, with a Lorenz ratio scaling as the square root of the chain length.

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Nonlocal Response in Arrays of Nanoscale Metallic Islands: Fractionalized Entropy and Anomalous Heat Transport

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A theoretical framework for metallic-island arrays coupled by quantum Hall edge channels shows that strong Coulomb constraints endow these systems with emergent fractionalized degrees of freedom.

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Fingerprints of Preformed Pairs in Two-Electron Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

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Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Long-Range Resonances in Quasiperiodic Many-Body Localization

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Lost in Retraining: Closed-Loop Learning and Model Collapse in Exponential Families

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