“A Hydrogen Isotope of Mass 2”
A Letter to the Editor (precursor to PRL) published Jan 1, 1932
on the discovery of deuterium
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Researchers use a laser to excite and precisely measure a long-sought exotic nuclear state, paving the way for precise timekeeping and ultrasensitive quantum sensing. #OpenAccess
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Volume 132, Issue 17
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Cover: Orbit of a spinning compact object around a Schwarzschild black hole (left) and its projections into angular momentum aligned coordinates (right).
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The first report of the COMPACT Collaboration finds that Cosmic Microwave Background data does not yet rule out the Universe having nontrivial topology, such a twisted 3-torus.
Letter: go.aps.org/3UjMA3f #OpenAccess
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The interaction of Doppler-boosted light with matter at intensities approaching the Schwinger limit is explored in numerical simulations showing the creation of electron-positron pairs forming high-density relativistic attosecond jets go.aps.org/3Uybdun

Landau theory adapted to the zero spin-orbit coupling limit captures features of altermagnets, a class of colinear magnets with spin-split bands go.aps.org/3UdZW0E

The radio frequency response of a Wigner crystal at low filling factors reveals the details of the pinning mode resonance and shows how this mode is affected by disorder go.aps.org/44rNgZ3

3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50% go.aps.org/3UuNlqj

Using thin layers of chiral nematic liquid crystals, researchers have observed the formation dynamics of skyrmions
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Billiards with Spatial Memory
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Volume 132, Issue 16
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Cover: Chiral liquid numerical simulation showing the particle displacements and local bond orientations
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The measurement of the incoherent photonuclear production of J/ψ in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions by ALICE Experiment is explained by the presence of subnuclear quantum fluctuations of the gluon field. go.aps.org/3vQUIA2

The most precise measurement of the fine structure of helium will allow for increasingly precise tests of quantum electrodynamics. go.aps.org/443yE1J

From Huei Sears: Astrobites offers coverage of the Physical Review Letters Invited Session: “Looking Ahead as we Look Far through the JWST.” #APSApril

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Dense ensembles of laser-cooled molecules allow the observation of molecular collisions—a result that could lead to applications of cold molecular gases in quantum simulation and fundamental physics tests.
Letter: go.aps.org/4cYXxiZ
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Muon spin rotation measurements of the magnetic ground state of a high-purity single-crystal RuO₂, in combination with DFT calculations, show there is no bulk antiferromagnetic order as previously reported go.aps.org/4azGh2e

The refined similarity hypothesis of Kolmogorov applied to the mean cascade from large to small scales also applies separately to forward and inverse cascade regions (from small to large scales) in turbulent flows
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Strain localization in shear bands is key to the yielding and material failure of amorphous systems subject to oscillatory shear go.aps.org/3xFMb3g