Physical Review Letters

Volume 136, Issue 11 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/136… Cover: Numerical simulations of the mass density of the gas orbiting the black hole on equatorial slices shortly after merger journals.aps.org/prl/issues/136…

A novel optical architecture utilizing spatial and polarization degrees of freedom efficiently implements sequential Fredkin gates go.aps.org/4uWCXJg

A low-frequency DC transport measurement on a Josephson junction and SQUID connected to a well-defined on-chip resistive environment verify the Schmid-Bulgadaev transition when the environmental resistance exceeds the quantum value of ℎ⁡/(4⁢𝑒²) go.aps.org/47L5DL7

The landscape of coercivity helps identify the scaling laws of hysteresis across dynamical regimes go.aps.org/3NeEF7T

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A proposed time crystal could be used as a clock. Averaging over many periodic burst of photons yields a precisely defined interval. PRL: go.aps.org/4751VMb PhysMag: go.aps.org/3PgTgAk

A continuum analog of the Hatano-Nelson model using a homogeneous spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate shows that repulsive interactions enhance self-acceleration while suppressing the non-Hermitian skin effect go.aps.org/4cQhN93 #OpenAccess

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State of the art numerical simulations predict telltale photon signatures from mergers of supermassive black holes go.aps.org/4dre6Xp

𝛾-ray emission coming from superluminous supernova SN 2017egm found using 15 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data shows that the peak time and luminosity of the gamma-ray emission are consistent with the prediction of a millisecond magnetar go.aps.org/475OSKo

Experimental Demonstration of Entanglement Pumping with Bosonic Logical Qubits go.aps.org/4sbBk8A

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A dielectric THz metasurface reshapes and amplifies ultrafast electromagnetic fields to give unprecedented 3D control over spin dynamics go.aps.org/4bO6soU

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Volume 136, Issue 10 journals.aps.org/prl/issues/136… Cover: Simulated volumetric rendering of the instantaneous fluid velocity field produced by the gravitational settling of heavy particles in a Rayleigh-Taylor-like setup journals.aps.org/prl/issues/136…

High-field magnetotransport measurements of a nickelate superconductor reveal an anisotropic quantum Griffiths singularity, establishing disorder-enhanced quantum fluctuations as an intrinsic mechanism for protecting superconductivity go.aps.org/4s97rpD

Using Coulomb drag as an unambiguous probe of interlayer correlation reveals the first direct quantized drag evidence of interlayer exciton condensation beyond N= 0 in double bilayer graphene go.aps.org/4b7v2km

Synthesizing tungsten boride with ordered vacancy pairs yields a combination of load-invariant superhardness and enhanced toughness and plasticity Letter: go.aps.org/3Nl8ALx Synopsis: go.aps.org/47uv8QJ

The negative Poisson’s ratio in ferroelectric perovskites arises from bond-length preserving local polar displacements of atoms under strain go.aps.org/4dhzAWK