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Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 5 Week Ending 4 August 2023 On the Cover X-ray–regenerative–amplifier free-electron-laser scheme with electron-beam-based Q switching. From the article Active Q-Switched X-Ray Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser Jingyi Tang, Zhen Zhang, Jenny Morgan, Erik Hemsing, and Zhirong Huang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 055001 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session September 13 | 11:00 a.m. ET: A panel discussion with Bruce Sutherland (University of Alberta), Michelle DiBenedetto (University of Washington), Alexis Kaminski (University of California Berkeley), and Ton van den Bremer (TU Delft) on the Physical Review Fluids paper "Fluid dynamics challenges in predicting plastic pollution transport in the ocean: A perspective" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Interrelated Thermalization and Quantum Criticality in a Lattice Gauge Simulator Han-Yi Wang, Wei-Yong Zhang, Zhiyuan Yao, Ying Liu, Zi-Hang Zhu, Yong-Guang Zheng, Xuan-Kai Wang, Hui Zhai, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050401 (2023) – Published 1 August 2023 Synopsis:Watching a Quantum System Thermalize Atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice can mimic how—in a basic quantum field theory—massive particles reach, or fail to reach, thermal equilibrium.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC A. Albert et al. (HAWC Collaboration) Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 131, 058301 (2023) – Published 4 August 2023 Focus:Magnetic Microdisks Don't Always Reciprocate A model system of floating disks can be tuned to execute a variety of behaviors by controlling the interactions between the disks.     Editors' Suggestion Composition Dependent Instabilities in Mixtures with Many Components Filipe C. Thewes, Matthias Krüger, and Peter Sollich Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058401 (2023) – Published 3 August 2023 A new form of demixing instability may explain the strong dependence of phase separation in biological mixtures on their composition.     COMMENTS Comment on "Identification of the Mott Insulating Charge Density Wave State in 1T−TaS2" Diego Pasquier Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 059601 (2023) – Published 3 August 2023   Shin et al. Reply: Dongbin Shin, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Jin Zhang, Mahmut Sait Okyay, Angel Rubio, and Noejung Park Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 059602 (2023) – Published 3 August 2023   ERRATA Erratum: 27Al+ Quantum-Logic Clock with a Systematic Uncertainty below 10−18 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 033201 (2019)] S. M. Brewer, J.-S. Chen, A. M. Hankin, E. R. Clements, C. W. Chou, D. J. Wineland, D. B. Hume, and D. R. Leibrandt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 059901 (2023) – Published 1 August 2023     American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2023 American Physical Society | All rights reserved   You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your preferences.