Physical Review Letters

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Charge density waves usually appear in weakly-correlated, low-dimensional materials. A new paper finds one hiding inside a correlated antiferromagnetic oxide, only revealing itself through strongly nonlinear transport below 20 K. Read the study: go.aps.org/3Thgnwl

Particles moving through crowded environments don't just navigate obstacles — they displace them. A "pushy random walk" model shows how these particle-induced rearrangements can fundamentally alter diffusion and transport in dense media in 1D and 2D. 🔗 go.aps.org/4fcLTTM

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#OnTheCover: Model of the lunar surface topography and thickness of the crust constructed using data from lunar missions LOLA and GRAIL. 🌕 Read the full issue: go.aps.org/3R3CvtA

Using decades old data from Cavendish experiments tracing back to the 18th century, this Letter places significantly stronger new bounds on hypothetical millicharged particles. PRL: go.aps.org/4wHaHud #OpenAccess PRD: go.aps.org/3R0t0eF PhysMag: go.aps.org/4wBYxTo

A 2D model combines spectral element method and normal mode analysis to predict how the moon's rugged terrain and uneven crust affect its response to gravitational waves, showing that thicker-crust regions could amplify mid-band signals up to tenfold: go.aps.org/3R7EqgG

Two PRLs on gravitational waves & the Moon🌒 : Its rugged surface could make it a better resonant detector go.aps.org/3R7EqgG GWs could help us probe it go.aps.org/3QLPDn7 PhysMag: go.aps.org/4f7HyRA

A comprehensive analysis of a semileptonic B decay (to an excited kaon & pair of muons) shows an angular observable continues to be in tension with the standard model. PRL: go.aps.org/4vntcCW #OpenAccess PhysMag: go.aps.org/3Rm1dW9

By encapsulating monolayer graphene between two parallel twisted WSe₂ monolayers, this study reports pure valley-Zeeman spin-orbit coupling, a step towards realizing topological and spintronic phases in van der Waals heterostructures. 🔗 go.aps.org/4vUw2jP

The remnant properties of black hole mergers may be governed by a maximum entropy bound, suggesting that once the black holes become sufficiently close together, the Kerr entropy computation becomes valid go.aps.org/4p8SaUN

Letters from two groups provide evidence for hierarchical mergers of black holes. PRL: go.aps.org/4wnTyFv go.aps.org/4yd4KXA PhysMag: go.aps.org/4ymL7fI

#OnTheCover: Far-field lasing pattern from the q = −4 microcavity. The overlaid line segments represent polarization vectors. Read the full issue: go.aps.org/4v6m4KO

Why do solutions converge to a wrong answer in many-body systems? This study suggests two reasons — misleading convergence in self-consistent schemes and branching of the Luttinger-Ward functional — and proposes a method to stabilize the solution. More: go.aps.org/3R9oHxA

By engineering isotropic interband coupling in a bilayer photonic crystal, researchers numerically demonstrate a topologically protected, continuous ring of unidirectional guided resonances that locks vortex laser emission into a single direction. 📄 go.aps.org/3SFY1oD

A technique combining spectroscopy and computational simulations allows the geometry and spin magnetic moment of iron nanoclusters to be determined more precisely. Letter: go.aps.org/4bkU4Mp PhysMag: go.aps.org/4eNLiHS

Computing finite-temperature coupled ion-electron transfer free-energy surfaces from constrained 𝑎𝑏 𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜 trajectories enables the calculation of current-overpotential relations from first principles go.aps.org/4worl1B

The evolution of moiré minibands under varying carrier density and displacement field is directly visualized using microfocused angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy go.aps.org/4aqvv0j

An extended version of mean-field theory accurately captures activity patterns seen in networks of biological neurons Letter: go.aps.org/4fd2S9q Synopsis: go.aps.org/4vIiqYS

Observation and modulation of the quantum Mpemba effect on an all-to-all connected, tunable-coupling superconducting processor go.aps.org/3QurDop

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