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The work was done by Brenda Bracco, Silvia Corezzi, and Paola Sassi at @UniperugiaNews, along with their colleagues there and at @UniGenova, @UniPadova, the Université de Lyon, @UniStraPg and @UniCamerino.

Ion-beam sputtered silicon dioxide exhibits a cylindrical elastic symmetry, with in-plane isotropy and a 6% compressive anisotropy, according to Brillouin light scattering and infrared reflectivity experiments. Learn more: go.aps.org/3RIhG6F

The work was done by Luca Giomi at the Universiteit Leiden.

A new theoretical framework based on the Schrödinger equation can be used to describe metashells — elastic shells patterned with an internal structure. The framework also demonstrates that periodic metashells support elastic Bloch waves. 🔗 go.aps.org/4fjyHOm

The findings come from Fumiya Hanamura, Akira Furusawa and colleagues at @engineering_UT @Eng_Univ_Tokyo and collaborators at @OpticsOlomouc, @UPOlomouc.

A new study introduces non-Gaussian control parameters that go beyond stellar rank benchmarks and can cut required photon detections across states, paving the road toward practical non-Gaussian states of light and scalable optical quantum technologies. 🔗 go.aps.org/4uPjI3t

This perspective was written by @murugan_chicago at @UChicago, Eric R. Dufresne at @Cornell, and their colleagues at Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

Could cells use phase transitions to process information? This perspective paper argues that biomolecular condensation, the process of forming small droplets full of proteins and nucleic acid, could contribute to cellular information processing. 🔗 go.aps.org/4wIfZXh

The work was done by Zihao Wang, Machiel Blok (@MachielSBlok), and colleagues at @UofR and its Center for Coherence and Quantum Science, @USherbrooke, and @CIFAR_News.

Why do measurements in circuit #quantum electrodynamics break at high powers? This can be explained by multiphoton resonances, suggests new research that measures the dynamics of the ionized, excited state. 🔗 go.aps.org/4uKS2wt

This work was done by Shang Gao, Hao Shang, Yu-Qiang Ma, and Qun-Li Lei at @NJU1902 and Hao Hu at Anhui University.

Where ordinary #fluids show wild fluctuations and critical opalescence, hyperuniform fluids of spinning particles stay unusually calm yet highly susceptible at the liquid–vapor critical point, a new study shows. 🔗 go.aps.org/3PjlCtZ

The paper’s authors are Liang Dong, Hai Lei, Puyu Cao, and Bin Chen at @ZJU_China; Yi Cao and collaborators at Nanjing University; and colleagues at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology.

Why do hydrogels often fatigue and fail? Researchers develop a force response model to quantify fatigue behavior and engineer new hydrogels based on unfoldable protein domains that can achieve unexpectedly high fatigue thresholds. Learn more: go.aps.org/4uLGE3E

The study was conducted by Weizhe Zhang, Youngjun Ahn, Liuyan Zhao, and colleagues in @UmichPhysics and @ummse of @UMich and collaborators at @NJIT_Physics and @RutgersU.

Researchers harness multimodal optics to probe intertwining among polarity, chirality, and ferro-rotational order in the polar-chiral insulator Ni-3-Te-O-6, revealing how intertwined orders shape the structure of domain walls in complex materials. 📝 go.aps.org/42VWn41

The work was done by Maria Barsukova, Zeyu Zhang, Brian Gould, and Mikael C. Rechtsman at @penn_state, along with their colleagues there and at @DTUtweet.

Using extremely large photonic crystals, physicists directly observed and quantified higher-order scattering from stealthy-hyperuniformity. In the stealthy regime, multiple scattering diminishes the material’s transparency. 🔗 go.aps.org/4nhNGug

The work was done by Daniel Burrow, Ivan J. Vera-Marun, and their colleagues at @OfficialUoM.

Using transverse magnetic focusing, scientists manipulated spin-polarised transport without spin-orbit coupling. Both the magnitude and polarity of the ballistic spin signal can be manipulated with this method, and at room temperature. 🔗 go.aps.org/4uBbdsB