Physical Review Letters - Week ending 6 October 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 14 Week Ending 6 October 2023 On the Cover Numerically simulated cell condensation patterns with repeated branching arising from a homogeneous cell-ECM mixture. From the article Contractility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Solids Sifan Yin and L. Mahadevan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148401 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics APS congratulates the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics recipients Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter." More from APS News     Advertisement Nobel Committee cites PRL for the 13th Consecutive Year APS is delighted to note that in their announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Nobel Committee once again cited published articles in PRL authored by the Nobel Laureates. 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Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Lossless Monochromator in an Ultrafast Electron Microscope Using Near-Field THz Radiation Michael Yannai, Yuval Adiv, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Tal Fishman, Michael Krüger, and Ido Kaminer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145002 (2023) – Published 4 October 2023 Synopsis:Narrower-Energy Electron Pulses without Electron Loss Researchers demonstrate a method to reduce the energy spread of electrons used in electron microscopes, opening the door to time- and energy-resolved studies of quasiparticles such as phonons and plasmons.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Lifting, Loading, and Buckling in Conical Shells Daniel Duffy, Joselle M. McCracken, Tayler S. Hebner, Timothy J. White, and John S. Biggins Phys. Rev. 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