Nicholas E. Frattini, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Xu Xiao, Qile Su, Chan U. Lei, Benjamin J. Chapman, Vidul R. Joshi, S. M. Girvin, Robert J. Schoelkopf, Shruti Puri, and Michel H. Devoret
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031040 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024
Yi Jiang, Ziyin Song, Tiannian Zhu, Zhong Fang, Hongming Weng, Zheng-Xin Liu, Jian Yang, and Chen Fang
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031039 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024
An extensive database of over 157 000 spin space groups provides researchers with a searchable tool for exploring the symmetries of a wide variety of magnetic materials.
Xiaobing Chen, Jun Ren, Yanzhou Zhu, Yutong Yu, Ao Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Jiayu Li, Yuntian Liu, Caiheng Li, and Qihang Liu
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031038 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024
A systematic study of over 100 000 spin space groups provides a foundational theory for symmetry in magnetic ordered materials that opens new paths for the fundamental comprehension and the exploration of emergent phenomena in such systems.
Zhenyu Xiao, Jianzhou Zhao, Yanqi Li, Ryuichi Shindou, and Zhi-Da Song
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031037 (2024) – Published 28 August 2024
A comprehensive classification of spin space groups, a hidden symmetry of magnetic materials, paves the way for a more complete understanding of magnetic phases and the design of novel materials.
Ioannis Karapatzakis, Jeremias Resch, Marcel Schrodin, Philipp Fuchs, Michael Kieschnick, Julia Heupel, Luis Kussi, Christoph Sürgers, Cyril Popov, Jan Meijer, Christoph Becher, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, and David Hunger
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031036 (2024) – Published 27 August 2024
Magnetic manipulation of electron spin in a diamond tin-vacancy center is more straightforward in strained diamonds, an insight that could be used to advance the field of quantum computing and communication.
Benoît Vermersch, Marko Ljubotina, J. Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller, Maksym Serbyn, and Lorenzo Piroli
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031035 (2024) – Published 26 August 2024
A new strategy for measuring bipartite entanglement in a quantum many-body system does so with very few measurements, extending previous studies to systems much larger than what is currently feasible.
Clay Córdova, Sungwoo Hong, Seth Koren, and Kantaro Ohmori
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031033 (2024) – Published 21 August 2024
A study of generalized global symmetries provides novel, realistic theories of particle physics beyond the standard model, including a natural description of why neutrino masses are so much smaller than those of charged leptons.
Giulia Preti, Adriano Fazzone, Giovanni Petri, and Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031032 (2024) – Published 20 August 2024
New models of social systems as directed hypergraphs reveal how group dynamics play a crucial role in shaping social systems across various domains like politics, epidemiology, and economics.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031031 (2024) – Published 19 August 2024
A field theory for filaments interacting through the action of motor proteins, leading to alignment and sliding, shows the emergence of structures that are nonequilibrium counterparts to those formed by lipids.
Samarth Hawaldar, Prakriti Shahi, Allison L. Carter, Ana Maria Rey, John J. Bollinger, and Athreya Shankar
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031030 (2024) – Published 16 August 2024
Penning traps enable the preparation of clean bilayer crystals of hundreds of ions, thus going beyond 1D and 2D crystals and opening new avenues in trapped-ion quantum information processing.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031029 (2024) – Published 16 August 2024
Joint correlations between small numbers of eigenstates in a many-body quantum system can capture many aspects of quantum dynamics not captured by the current standard framework of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis.
An extension of a magnetic imaging technique with soft X-rays provides access to samples much thicker than previously possible, with potential impacts across a wide variety of fundamental and applied research efforts.
Chantal Nguyen, Imri Dromi, Ahron Kempinski, Gabriella E. C. Gall, Orit Peleg, and Yasmine Meroz
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031027 (2024) – Published 15 August 2024
Broadly distributed plant movements serve as “functional noise.” This new insight provides a framework for studying plant navigation based on task oriented processes, optimization, and active sensing.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031026 (2024) – Published 14 August 2024
A new analysis identifies a specific molecular recognition process that allows B cells in the human immune system to produce a potent, specific, and fast response during acute infections.
Alexander Steinhoff, Edith Wietek, Matthias Florian, Tommy Schulz, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Shen Zhao, Alexander Högele, Frank Jahnke, and Alexey Chernikov
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031025 (2024) – Published 14 August 2024
A combined theory and experimental study of excitons in Van der Waals materials challenges the long-standing dipolar paradigm used to describe exciton interactions and shows the key role of quantum-mechanical contributions.
M. Coraiola, D. Z. Haxell, D. Sabonis, M. Hinderling, S. C. ten Kate, E. Cheah, F. Krizek, R. Schott, W. Wegscheider, and F. Nichele
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031024 (2024) – Published 13 August 2024
Adding a third terminal to a hybrid Josephson junction leads to a large energy difference between spin-up and spin-down levels and zero-energy level crossings, suggesting a basis for encoding and processing quantum information.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031023 (2024) – Published 12 August 2024
Innovations that provide new limits on the axion-photon coupling strength open the way to a much more extensive search for the elusive dark matter candidate over the next five years.
Brendan Harris, Leonardo L. Gollo, and Ben D. Fulcher
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031021 (2024) – Published 8 August 2024
A new method of detecting criticality from time-series data outperforms conventional metrics in the presence of variable noise levels for both simulated systems and real neural recordings.
Alexios A. Michailidis, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Luca V. Delacrétaz
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031020 (2024) – Published 6 August 2024
A determination of the structure of corrections to diffusive transport provides a deeper theoretical understanding of diffusion that could assist future experiments, theory, and simulations.
Sergei B. Rochal, Aleksey S. Roshal, Olga V. Konevtsova, and Rudolf Podgornik
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031019 (2024) – Published 5 August 2024
In recent years, many anomalous spherical protein shells have been made or discovered. An analysis of structures in the Protein Data Bank uncovers common principles governing their assembly.
Benjamin A. Foutty, Vladimir Calvera, Zhaoyu Han, Carlos R. Kometter, Song Liu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James C. Hone, Steven A. Kivelson, and Benjamin E. Feldman
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031018 (2024) – Published 1 August 2024
Measurements of Landau level gaps as a function of magnetic field and carrier density provide a new framework for understanding exchange interactions and their density dependence.
Hengyun Zhou, Haoyang Gao, Nathaniel T. Leitao, Oksana Makarova, Iris Cong, Alexander M. Douglas, Leigh S. Martin, and Mikhail D. Lukin
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031017 (2024) – Published 31 July 2024
A control framework for systems of interacting “qudits”—the multilevel equivalent of a qubit—demonstrates an order-of-magnitude improvement in qudit coherence times over the state of the art.