Physical Review Letters - Week ending 2 February 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online Volume 132, Issue 5 Week Ending 2 February 2024 On the Cover Measured (left) and calculated (right) surface acoustic wave transmission signal as a function of frequency and external magnetic field. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Strongly Coupled Spin Waves and Surface Acoustic Waves at Room Temperature Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, Kouta Kondou, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Hironari Isshiki, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Liyang Liao, Fa Chen, Wei Luo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056704 (2024)     View Issue   Advertisement Apply for the TEAM-UP Together Scholarship Program The TEAM-UP Together Scholarship Program supports African American students in the pursuit and attainment of bachelor's degrees in physics and astronomy. These awards of up to $10,000 aim to reduce the financial barriers that prevent Black students from completing their undergraduate degree programs in physics and astronomy. The application deadline is March 8. Apply today!     Advertisement New from Physical Review Materials: Self-Assembly of Complex Phases in Block Copolymer Materials Collection Highlighting one of the most exciting fields in polymer science, this Collection of papers, guest-edited by Kevin Dorfman from the University of Minnesota and Chris Bates from the University of California - Santa Barbara, presents research covering block copolymers, which offer an excellent model system for comprehending symmetry breaking in soft matter, as well as a unique platform for designing nanostructured materials. Read the first published papers in the Collection.     Advertisement Physical Review Applied seeks a new Lead Editor The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Physical Review Applied, our premier journal for Applied Physics Research. The Lead Editor is the lead scientific advisor to the journal and chairs the Editorial Board. They provide community oversight of the journal's content and direction, strategically advising the journal's Chief Editor in a consultative capacity. The role is key in helping to shape the journal's long-term goals, and growing and elevating the journal within the community. Learn more.     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 Water-Wave Vortices and Skyrmions Daria A. Smirnova, Franco Nori, and Konstantin Y. Bliokh Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054003 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024 Viewpoint:Water Can Host Topological Waves Interference in plane-wave combinations of water waves is predicted to give rise to structures that are usually found in optical, elastic, and quantum systems.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Characterization of Defect-Induced Phonon Lifetime Shortening Boyao Liu, Jack Kelsall, David J. Ward, and Andrew P. Jardine Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056202 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024 Synopsis:Surface Defects Affect Heat Transport The scattering of helium atoms off a crystal surface reveals how defects in the crystal's lattice influence its ability to transport heat.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Integrability of a Globally Coupled Complex Riccati Array: Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons, Phase Oscillators, and All in Between Rok Cestnik and Erik A. Martens Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057201 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024 Viewpoint:Quasi-integrable Arrays: The Family Grows A new approach to solving arrays of two-dimensional differential equations may allow researchers to go beyond the one-dimensional oscillator paradigm.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Emergent Collective Motion of Self-Propelled Condensate Droplets Marcus Lin, Philseok Kim, Sankara Arunachalam, Rifan Hardian, Solomon Adera, Joanna Aizenberg, Xi Yao, and Dan Daniel Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058203 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024 Synopsis:Droplets Dance After They Merge Water droplets can exhibit complex collective motions when they condense on a thin oil film.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion How a Soft Rod Wraps around a Rotating Cylinder Marie Tani and Hirofumi Wada Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058204 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024 Focus:Transition During Winding of a String As a string winds around a cylinder, a switch occurs from tight winding to looser winding, a behavior that could be relevant for natural phenomena.     Editors' Suggestion Two-Pole Nature of the Λ(1405) Resonance from Lattice QCD John Bulava, Bárbara Cid-Mora, Andrew D. Hanlon, Ben Hörz, Daniel Mohler, Colin Morningstar, Joseph Moscoso, Amy Nicholson, Fernando Romero-López, Sarah Skinner, and André Walker-Loud (Baryon Scattering (BaSc) Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051901 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024 The first lattice QCD computation of πΣ−K̅ N scattering amplitudes supports the two-pole nature of the puzzling Λ(1405) resonance.     Editors' Suggestion Crystal Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic RuO2 Xiaodong Zhou, Wanxiang Feng, Run-Wu Zhang, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Yugui Yao Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056701 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024 A first-principles calculation reveals a novel class of anomalous thermal transport effects in the altermagnet RuO2.     Editors' Suggestion Theory of Defect-Induced Crystal Field Perturbations in Rare-Earth Magnets Christopher E. Patrick, Yixuan Huang, Laura H. Lewis, and Julie B. Staunton Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056703 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024 A first-principles method which quantifies the effect of defects on macroscopic properties describes accurately the magnetic anisotropy energy of rare-earth systems.     Editors' Suggestion Strongly Coupled Spin Waves and Surface Acoustic Waves at Room Temperature Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, Kouta Kondou, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Hironari Isshiki, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Liyang Liao, Fa Chen, Wei Luo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056704 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024 Strong coupling between magnons and phonons has been demonstrated using an on-chip surface acoustic wave resonator device containing a thin rectangular film of CoFeB.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Indistinguishability of Identical Bosons from a Quantum Information Theory Perspective Matthias Englbrecht, Tristan Kraft, Christoph Dittel, Andreas Buchleitner, Geza Giedke, and Barbara Kraus Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050201 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Linear Program for Testing Nonclassicality and an Open-Source Implementation John H. Selby, Elie Wolfe, David Schmid, Ana Belén Sainz, and Vinicius P. Rossi Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050202 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Virtual Quantum Resource Distillation Xiao Yuan, Bartosz Regula, Ryuji Takagi, and Mile Gu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050203 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Fractal States of the Schwinger Model Elena V. Petrova, Egor S. Tiunov, Mari Carmen Bañuls, and Aleksey K. Fedorov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050401 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Geometric Origin of Non-Bloch PT Symmetry Breaking Yu-Min Hu, Hong-Yi Wang, Zhong Wang, and Fei Song Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050402 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Continuous Sensing and Parameter Estimation with the Boundary Time Crystal Albert Cabot, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050801 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops Melissa Diamond, Christopher V. Cappiello, Aaron C. Vincent, and Joseph Bramante Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051001 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Evidence of a Hardening in the Cosmic Ray Proton Spectrum at around 166 TeV Observed by the GRAPES-3 Experiment F. Varsi et al. (GRAPES-3 Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051002 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Relativistic Perturbation Theory for Black-Hole Boson Clouds Enrico Cannizzaro, Laura Sberna, Stephen R. Green, and Stefan Hollands Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051401 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Particles and Fields Effective Theory of Classical and Quantum Particle Dynamics in Rapidly Oscillating Fields Alexander A. Penin and Aneca Su Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051601 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Axion Paradigm with Color-Mediated Neutrino Masses A. Batra, H. B. Câmara, F. R. Joaquim, R. Srivastava, and J. W. F. Valle Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051801 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Improved Measurement of CP Violation Parameters in Bs0→J/ψK+K− Decays in the Vicinity of the ϕ(1020) Resonance R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051802 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Two-Pole Nature of the Λ(1405) Resonance from Lattice QCD John Bulava, Bárbara Cid-Mora, Andrew D. Hanlon, Ben Hörz, Daniel Mohler, Colin Morningstar, Joseph Moscoso, Amy Nicholson, Fernando Romero-López, Sarah Skinner, and André Walker-Loud (Baryon Scattering (BaSc) Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051901 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024 The first lattice QCD computation of πΣ−K̅ N scattering amplitudes supports the two-pole nature of the puzzling Λ(1405) resonance.     Quark Mass Dependence of Heavy Quark Diffusion Coefficient from Lattice QCD Luis Altenkort, David de la Cruz, Olaf Kaczmarek, Rasmus Larsen, Guy D. Moore, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Hai-Tao Shu, and Simon Stendebach (HotQCD Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051902 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Sphaleron Rate of Nf=2+1 QCD Claudio Bonanno, Francesco D'Angelo, Massimo D'Elia, Lorenzo Maio, and Manuel Naviglio Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051903 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Nuclear Physics Thallium-208: A Beacon of In Situ Neutron Capture Nucleosynthesis Nicole Vassh, Xilu Wang, Maude Larivière, Trevor Sprouse, Matthew R. Mumpower, Rebecca Surman, Zhenghai Liu, Gail C. McLaughlin, Pavel Denissenkov, and Falk Herwig Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 052701 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Strongly Nonlinear Interaction between Nonclassical Light and a Blockaded Rydberg Atomic Ensemble Jan Lowinski, Lukas Heller, Félix Hoffet, Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito, Klara Theophilo, and Hugues de Riedmatten Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053001 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Probing Polaron Clouds by Rydberg Atom Spectroscopy Marcel Gievers, Marcel Wagner, and Richard Schmidt Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053401 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Quantum Phase Transitions in Optomechanical Systems Bo Wang, Franco Nori, and Ze-Liang Xiang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053601 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Signatures of Dynamically Dressed States Katarina Boos, Sang Kyu Kim, Thomas Bracht, Friedrich Sbresny, Jan M. Kaspari, Moritz Cygorek, Hubert Riedl, Frederik W. Bopp, William Rauhaus, Carolin Calcagno, Jonathan J. Finley, Doris E. Reiter, and Kai Müller Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053602 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Observation of Period-Doubling Bloch Oscillations Naveed Khan, Peng Wang, Qidong Fu, Ce Shang, and Fangwei Ye Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053801 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Quasinormal Modes of Optical Solitons Christopher Burgess, Sam Patrick, Theo Torres, Ruth Gregory, and Friedrich König Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053802 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Line Tension in a Thick Soap Film Théo Lenavetier, Gaëlle Audéoud, Marion Berry, Anaïs Gauthier, Raphaël Poryles, Corentin Trégouët, and Isabelle Cantat Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054001 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Inertial Migration in a Pressure-Driven Channel Flow: Beyond the Segre-Silberberg Pinch Prateek Anand and Ganesh Subramanian Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054002 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Water-Wave Vortices and Skyrmions Daria A. Smirnova, Franco Nori, and Konstantin Y. Bliokh Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054003 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024 Viewpoint:Water Can Host Topological Waves Interference in plane-wave combinations of water waves is predicted to give rise to structures that are usually found in optical, elastic, and quantum systems.     Suppression and Control of Bipolar Powder Charging by Turbulence Simon Jantač and Holger Grosshans Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054004 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Anisotropic Mean Flow Enhancement and Anomalous Transport of Finite-Size Spherical Particles in Turbulent Flows Alessandro Chiarini, Ianto Cannon, and Marco Edoardo Rosti Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054005 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Condensed Matter and Materials Observation of Odd-Parity Superconductivity with the Geshkenbein-Larkin-Barone Composite Rings Xiaoying Xu, Yufan Li, and C. L. Chien Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056001 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Evolution of the Magnetic Excitations in Electron-Doped La2−xCexCuO4 X. T. Li, S. J. Tu, L. Chaix, C. Fawaz, M. d'Astuto, X. Li, F. Yakhou-Harris, K. Kummer, N. B. Brookes, M. Garcia-Fernandez, Ke-Jin Zhou, Z. F. Lin, J. Yuan, K. Jin, M. P. M. Dean, and X. Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056002 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Connection between Mechanical Relaxation and Equilibration Kinetics in a High-Entropy Metallic Glass Y. J. Duan, M. Nabahat, Yu Tong, L. Ortiz-Membrado, E. Jiménez-Piqué, Kun Zhao, Yun-Jiang Wang, Y. Yang, T. Wada, H. Kato, J. M. Pelletier, J. C. Qiao, and E. Pineda Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056101 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Phonon Dispersion and Proton Disorder of Ice VII and VIII G. Radtke, S. Klotz, M. Lazzeri, P. Loubeyre, M. Krisch, and A. Bossak Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056102 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Ferroelastic Twin Angles at the Surface of CaTiO3 Quantified by Photoemission Electron Microscopy G. Magagnin, C. Lubin, M. Escher, N. Weber, L. Tortech, and N. Barrett Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056201 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Characterization of Defect-Induced Phonon Lifetime Shortening Boyao Liu, Jack Kelsall, David J. Ward, and Andrew P. Jardine Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056202 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024 Synopsis:Surface Defects Affect Heat Transport The scattering of helium atoms off a crystal surface reveals how defects in the crystal's lattice influence its ability to transport heat.     Reexamination of Damping in Sliding Friction Shuyu Huang, Zhiyong Wei, Zaoqi Duan, Chengdong Sun, Yongkang Wang, Yi Tao, Yan Zhang, Yajing Kan, Ernst Meyer, Deyu Li, and Yunfei Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056203 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Transport Anisotropy in One-Dimensional Graphene Superlattice in the High Kronig-Penney Potential Limit Tianlin Li, Hanying Chen, Kun Wang, Yifei Hao, Le Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Xia Hong Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056204 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Orbital Origin of the Intrinsic Planar Hall Effect Hui Wang, Yue-Xin Huang, Huiying Liu, Xiaolong Feng, Jiaojiao Zhu, Weikang Wu, Cong Xiao, and Shengyuan A. Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056301 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Chirality-Induced Selectivity of Phonon Angular Momenta in Chiral Quartz Crystals Kazuki Ohe, Hiroaki Shishido, Masaki Kato, Shoyo Utsumi, Hiroyasu Matsuura, and Yoshihiko Togawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056302 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Transport Study of Charge-Carrier Scattering in Monolayer WSe2 Andrew Y. Joe, Kateryna Pistunova, Kristen Kaasbjerg, Ke Wang, Bumho Kim, Daniel A. Rhodes, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, James Hone, Tony Low, Luis A. Jauregui, and Philip Kim Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056303 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Visualization of Alternating Triangular Domains of Charge Density Waves in 2H−NbSe2 by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Keisuke Sagisaka, and Hideaki Sakata Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056401 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Quantics Tensor Cross Interpolation for High-Resolution Parsimonious Representations of Multivariate Functions Marc K. Ritter, Yuriel Núñez Fernández, Markus Wallerberger, Jan von Delft, Hiroshi Shinaoka, and Xavier Waintal Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056501 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Resilient Infinite Randomness Criticality for a Disordered Chain of Interacting Majorana Fermions Natalia Chepiga and Nicolas Laflorencie Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056502 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Magic Momenta and Three-Dimensional Landau Levels from a Three-Dimensional Graphite Moiré Superlattice Xin Lu, Bo Xie, Yue Yang, Yiwen Zhang, Xiao Kong, Jun Li, Feng Ding, Zhu-Jun Wang, and Jianpeng Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056601 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Crossed Andreev Reflection and Elastic Cotunneling in Three Quantum Dots Coupled by Superconductors Alberto Bordin, Xiang Li, David van Driel, Jan Cornelis Wolff, Qingzhen Wang, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Guanzhong Wang, Nick van Loo, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, and Tom Dvir Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056602 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Crystal Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic RuO2 Xiaodong Zhou, Wanxiang Feng, Run-Wu Zhang, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Yugui Yao Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056701 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024 A first-principles calculation reveals a novel class of anomalous thermal transport effects in the altermagnet RuO2.     Giant Magnon-Polaron Anomalies in Spin Seebeck Effect in Double Umbrella-Structured Tb3Fe5O12 Films Yufei Li, Yihang Duan, Mingzhi Wang, Lili Lang, Yu Zhang, Meng Yang, Junxue Li, Weijia Fan, Ka Shen, Zhong Shi, and Shi-Ming Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056702 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Theory of Defect-Induced Crystal Field Perturbations in Rare-Earth Magnets Christopher E. Patrick, Yixuan Huang, Laura H. Lewis, and Julie B. Staunton Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056703 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024 A first-principles method which quantifies the effect of defects on macroscopic properties describes accurately the magnetic anisotropy energy of rare-earth systems.     Editors' Suggestion Strongly Coupled Spin Waves and Surface Acoustic Waves at Room Temperature Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, Kouta Kondou, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Hironari Isshiki, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Liyang Liao, Fa Chen, Wei Luo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056704 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024 Strong coupling between magnons and phonons has been demonstrated using an on-chip surface acoustic wave resonator device containing a thin rectangular film of CoFeB.     Interaction-Induced ac Stark Shift of Exciton-Polaron Resonances T. Uto, B. Evrard, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Kroner, and A. İmamoğlu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056901 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Polarization-Sensitive Photoluminescence from Aligned Carbon Chains Terminated by Gold Clusters A. Kucherik, A. Osipov, V. Samyshkin, R. R. Hartmann, A. V. Povolotskiy, and M. E. Portnoi Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056902 (2024) – Published 30 January 2024   Interplay of Andreev Reflection and Coulomb Blockade in Hybrid Superconducting Single-Electron Transistors Laura Sobral Rey, David Christian Ohnmacht, Clemens B. Winkelmann, Jens Siewert, Wolfgang Belzig, and Elke Scheer Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057001 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Microscopic Cutoff Dependence of an Entropic Force in Interface Propagation of Stochastic Order Parameter Dynamics Yutaro Kado and Shin-ichi Sasa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057101 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Oscillatory Force Autocorrelations in Equilibrium Odd-Diffusive Systems Erik Kalz, Hidde Derk Vuijk, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Ralf Metzler, and Abhinav Sharma Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057102 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Integrability of a Globally Coupled Complex Riccati Array: Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons, Phase Oscillators, and All in Between Rok Cestnik and Erik A. Martens Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057201 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024 Viewpoint:Quasi-integrable Arrays: The Family Grows A new approach to solving arrays of two-dimensional differential equations may allow researchers to go beyond the one-dimensional oscillator paradigm.     Domain Wall Dynamics in Classical Spin Chains: Free Propagation, Subdiffusive Spreading, and Soliton Emission Adam J. McRoberts, Thomas Bilitewski, Masudul Haque, and Roderich Moessner Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057202 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Finite-Time Lyapunov Exponents of Deep Neural Networks L. Storm, H. Linander, J. Bec, K. Gustavsson, and B. Mehlig Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057301 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Hydrogen Bonding Exchange and Supramolecular Dynamics of Monohydroxy Alcohols Shinian Cheng, Shalin Patil, and Shiwang Cheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058201 (2024) – Published 29 January 2024   Nature of Subdiffusion Crossover in Molecular and Polymeric Glassformers H. Srinivasan, V. K. Sharma, V. García Sakai, and S. Mitra Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058202 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Emergent Collective Motion of Self-Propelled Condensate Droplets Marcus Lin, Philseok Kim, Sankara Arunachalam, Rifan Hardian, Solomon Adera, Joanna Aizenberg, Xi Yao, and Dan Daniel Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058203 (2024) – Published 1 February 2024 Synopsis:Droplets Dance After They Merge Water droplets can exhibit complex collective motions when they condense on a thin oil film.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion How a Soft Rod Wraps around a Rotating Cylinder Marie Tani and Hirofumi Wada Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058204 (2024) – Published 2 February 2024 Focus:Transition During Winding of a String As a string winds around a cylinder, a switch occurs from tight winding to looser winding, a behavior that could be relevant for natural phenomena.     Chromatin Remodeling Due to Transient-Link-and-Pass Activity Enhances Subnuclear Dynamics Rakesh Das, Takahiro Sakaue, G. V. Shivashankar, Jacques Prost, and Tetsuya Hiraiwa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058401 (2024) – Published 31 January 2024   American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2024 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.