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Advertisement | Early bird registration is officially open for March Meeting 2023–one of the largest and most exciting conferences in physics! Witness groundbreaking physics research, network with potential employers, and prepare for career success at March Meeting 2023. Register today » | | | | | | Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists. | | | | Jessica Thomas and Michael Thoennessen Phys. Rev. X 12, 040001 (2022) – Published 11 October 2022 | | | Featured in Physics L. Gavassino Phys. Rev. X 12, 041001 (2022) – Published 3 October 2022  | A fluid dynamics theory that violates causality would always generate paradoxical instabilities—a result that could guide the search for a theory for relativistic fluids. | | | | | | Utkarsh Agrawal, Aidan Zabalo, Kun Chen, Justin H. Wilson, Andrew C. Potter, J. H. Pixley, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Romain Vasseur Phys. Rev. X 12, 041002 (2022) – Published 7 October 2022  | In a model of quantum spins, the identification of phase transitions triggered by differing measurement rates provides new insight into the scrambling of quantum information in systems with symmetry. | | | | | | Vivekanand Shukla, Yang Jiao, Jung-Hoon Lee, Elsebeth Schröder, Jeffrey B. Neaton, and Per Hyldgaard Phys. Rev. X 12, 041003 (2022) – Published 10 October 2022  | A new exchange-correlation energy functional approximation—key for density-functional theory predictions of atomic-scale properties—proves highly accurate for a broad range of problems. | | | | | | Aprem P. Joy and Achim Rosch Phys. Rev. X 12, 041004 (2022) – Published 12 October 2022  | A new theoretical study unravels the dynamic properties of a vison—the elementary excitation of an emergent gauge field—and may help detect them in real materials. | | | | | | Jing Liang, Dongyang Yang, Jingda Wu, Jerry I. Dadap, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Ziliang Ye Phys. Rev. X 12, 041005 (2022) – Published 14 October 2022  | Optical spectroscopy reveals that a unique switchable spontaneous electric polarization in a type of transition-metal dichalcogenide arises from an asymmetric interlayer coupling. | | | | | | Dejia Kong, Wei-Ren Chen, Ke-Qi Zeng, Lionel Porcar, and Zhe Wang Phys. Rev. X 12, 041006 (2022) – Published 17 October 2022  | Short-lived elastic regions in colloidal supercooled liquids under shear flow provide the mechanism for nonlinear viscoelasticity in these fluids, shedding light on more general flow behavior of soft condensed matter. | | | | | | Gabriel Koch Ocker Phys. Rev. X 12, 041007 (2022) – Published 19 October 2022  | A new theory of neural population dynamics incorporates biophysical nonlinearities not included in other models, bridging the gap between the complex biophysics of single neurons and simplified population-level models. | | | | | | Mark A. I. Johnson, Mateusz T. Mądzik, Fay E. Hudson, Kohei M. Itoh, Alexander M. Jakob, David N. Jamieson, Andrew Dzurak, and Andrea Morello Phys. Rev. X 12, 041008 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022  | A new method for initializing an electron spin qubit in its low-energy state achieves a 20-fold reduction in preparation error by using a digital "Maxwell's demon" to effectively cool the electron far below its initial temperature. | | | | | | Featured in Physics Andreas Gritsch, Lorenz Weiss, Johannes Früh, Stephan Rinner, and Andreas Reiserer Phys. Rev. X 12, 041009 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022  | Improved fabrication methods for qubits made from erbium-doped silicon waveguides give these qubits the key prerequisites for becoming a contender for future quantum computers. | | | | | | Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński, Viktor Svensson, and Benjamin Withers Phys. Rev. X 12, 041010 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022  | The derivative expansion is a key organizational principle of relativistic hydrodynamics. A collective excitation lurking in the high-order terms of this expansion offers a new conceptual approach to exploring this subject. | | | | | | Michele Simoncelli, Nicola Marzari, and Francesco Mauri Phys. Rev. X 12, 041011 (2022) – Published 31 October 2022  | A formulation for heat conduction discusses how particle- and wavelike thermal transport mechanisms can emerge and coexist and provides a criterion to assess their relative strength and the crossover where one or the other dominates. | | | | | | Featured in Physics Tuna Demircik, Christian Ecker, and Matti Järvinen Phys. Rev. X 12, 041012 (2022) – Published 31 October 2022  | Thermodynamic phases governed by the strong nuclear force have been linked together using multiple theoretical tools. | | | | | | Yi Zhang, Yuhao Gu, Pengfei Li, Jiangping Hu, and Kun Jiang Phys. Rev. X 12, 041013 (2022) – Published 2 November 2022  | Josephson diodes, in which current flows with no resistance in one direction but normally in the other, come in two types based on whether a voltage or a current realizes this unique diode effect. | | | | | | Featured in Physics James O'Sullivan, Oscar W. Kennedy, Kamanasish Debnath, Joseph Alexander, Christoph W. Zollitsch, Mantas Šimėnas, Akel Hashim, Christopher N. Thomas, Stafford Withington, Irfan Siddiqi, Klaus Mølmer, and John J. L. Morton Phys. Rev. X 12, 041014 (2022) – Published 7 November 2022  | A new quantum random-access memory device reads and writes information using a chirped electromagnetic pulse and a superconducting resonator, making it significantly more hardware-efficient than previous devices. | | | | | | Mingjie Zhang, Xuan Zhao, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zheng Zhu, Fengcheng Wu, Yongqing Li, and Yang Xu Phys. Rev. X 12, 041015 (2022) – Published 9 November 2022  | Tuning a moiré heterostructure across quantum phase transitions unveils a rich and exotic quantum phase diagram controlled by electric and magnetic fields. | | | | | | Featured in Physics F. M. Foerster et al. Phys. Rev. X 12, 041016 (2022) – Published 10 November 2022  | A new type of plasma accelerator combines two previous methods of producing an electron beam into one compact design. | | | | | | V. Yashunsky, D. J. G. Pearce, C. Blanch-Mercader, F. Ascione, P. Silberzan, and L. Giomi Phys. Rev. X 12, 041017 (2022) – Published 14 November 2022  | Cancerous human fibrosarcoma cells undergo collective migration at the edge of their colony by combining mesoscale self-organization and intrinsic handedness, showing how physical interactions alone can lead to biological functionality. | | | | | | Yuriel Núñez Fernández, Matthieu Jeannin, Philipp T. Dumitrescu, Thomas Kloss, Jason Kaye, Olivier Parcollet, and Xavier Waintal Phys. Rev. X 12, 041018 (2022) – Published 16 November 2022  | A new approach to solving physics problems described by high-dimensional integrals or sums avoids catastrophic issues that arise when doing so with commonly used Monto Carlo techniques. | | | | | | Featured in Physics J. S. Ochs, D. K. J. Boneß, G. Rastelli, M. Seitner, W. Belzig, M. I. Dykman, and E. M. Weig Phys. Rev. X 12, 041019 (2022) – Published 18 November 2022  | Experiments show that a frequency comb can be generated by just one resonantly driven nanomechanical mode, rather than two or more, opening a new route to comb generation and novel technological applications. | | | | | | L. Fuchs, D. Kochan, J. Schmidt, N. Hüttner, C. Baumgartner, S. Reinhardt, S. Gronin, G. C. Gardner, T. Lindemann, M. J. Manfra, C. Strunk, and N. Paradiso Phys. Rev. X 12, 041020 (2022) – Published 21 November 2022  | Spin-momentum coupling in unconventional superconductors drastically alters the structure of fluxons, suggesting a path to manipulating these quanta of magnetic flux. | | | | | | Shivani Semwal, Cassandra Clowe-Coish, Ivan Saika-Voivod, and Anand Yethiraj Phys. Rev. X 12, 041021 (2022) – Published 23 November 2022  | The introduction of two interactions—one induced by polymers, the other by an electric field—to a colloidal system provides fine control over its phase transitions and tunable control over transformation kinetics. | | | | | | Gregory Boyd and Bálint Koczor Phys. Rev. X 12, 041022 (2022) – Published 28 November 2022  | A new approach to a classical optimization procedure that is able to overcome noise in quantum computers offers superior performance, paving the way for practical, near-term quantum advantage. | | | | | | Featured in Physics Vatshal Srivastav, Natalia Herrera Valencia, Will McCutcheon, Saroch Leedumrongwatthanakun, Sébastien Designolle, Roope Uola, Nicolas Brunner, and Mehul Malik Phys. Rev. X 12, 041023 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022  | Researchers demonstrate a loss-tolerant method for so-called quantum steering, a phenomenon that could give quantum communication networks complete security. | | | | | | | |
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