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#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Scanning tunneling microscope topographic image of a cluster-decorated Lieb lattice constructed with 57 Fe adatoms on a Ag(111) surface. Check out the complete issue: go.aps.org/4zSMO4v
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Researchers created a new material that traps and “pumps” sound waves between layers of slightly mismatched one-dimensional moiré lattices. This can allow signals to be routed without loss for communication and information processing. Read more: go.aps.org/3W5TWM7
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A spectroscopy study of Caroli-de Gennes-Matricon (CdGM) states shows the utility of terahertz magneto-optics as a probe for helical vortex-core excitations and yields evidence of multiband CdGM in iron superconductors. Read more: go.aps.org/4i9N7R6
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By merging reflection’s wavelength-independent geometry with the momentum control of a periodic lattice, a deep binary grating efficiently routes wavelengths into a single diffraction angle. The observation could help build flat optical components: go.aps.org/47uJjoG
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Researchers trapped a single positron in a Penning trap and resolved its quantum states, realizing a one-positron quantum cyclotron that could enable more precise measurements of positron and electron magnetic moments to test CPT symmetry. Learn more: go.aps.org/4i9C8Hs
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By combining atomic manipulation and scanning tunneling spectroscopy, researchers construct a cluster-decorated Lieb lattice that can precisely tune flat band energy to the Fermi level while preserving graph connectivity. Check out the Letter: go.aps.org/47r81X5
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Researchers have detected individual collisions of Kr, Xe, and SF6 with an optically levitated nanoparticle, validating theoretical predictions and providing a proof-of-principle for primary pressure sensor designs. Read more: go.aps.org/4yXKaKD
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#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Planck CMB temperature data from 25 galaxy clusters showing a dipole signal from rotating intracluster gas. Check out the complete issue: go.aps.org/4B85MFr
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Leveraging rotation-anisotropy second harmonic generation, researchers successfully track and control nanoscale polar islands in a quantum ferroelectric metal and probe the transition’s order-disorder nature. Learn more: go.aps.org/4jF4VpN
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Researchers show that orbital relaxation is incredibly short range — about 1 nm — in Ni/(Pt)Ti/Au heterostructures. The results settle an intense debate about orbital currents. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4B7Mgck
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Using the RABBIT technique, researchers recast attosecond photoelectron interferometry as a phase-sensitive detector of quantum light — tackling a gap in the emerging field of quantum attosecond optics. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4B2HBIH
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Scientists report the first robust evidence for the rotational kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect in galaxy clusters, according to an analysis of cosmic microwave background photons scattered off intracluster gas. 🔗 go.aps.org/4zmYxbc
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Helicon waves can provide supplemental currents to tokamaks to sustain the high performances required for fusion power plants. New work provides the first demonstration of this current, a step toward steady-state tokamak operation. Read the paper: go.aps.org/4AVWLPN
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#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Snapshot of a general relativistic particle-in-cell simulation of a collisionless plasma accreting onto a central spinning black hole, showing number density on the right and out-of-plane magnetic field on the left: go.aps.org/4rVDM3C
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Scientists have reconstructed planar extensional viscosity properties of an unknown material using only steady shear measurements — a finding that tackles longstanding experimental challenges in fluid mechanics and rheology. Read more: go.aps.org/3TqVNKI
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Researchers discovered ultrafast magnetoelectric coupling in rare-earth iron garnets — a finding that may enable sub-100-nm THz magneto-optical readout for faster magnetic data storage and information processing. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4jdLtQy
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An “acoustic drumstick” experiment generates acoustic modes in HBARs and couples them with a silicon nitride membrane. The energy dissipation is nonlinear and 20 times stronger than dispersive interactions, offering unprecedented sound control. 🔗 go.aps.org/4AOiid7
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Researchers used a bright squeezed vacuum to drive strong-field ionization and showed that the light’s photon-number fluctuations can be imprinted onto electrons emitted by atoms. The results offer a new way to probe ultrafast electron dynamics. 📄 go.aps.org/4j5tGek
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Congratulations to @NobelPrize in #Physics winner Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to @uw_icecube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin." Read the prize-winning research from our journal: go.aps.org/4yuL693 go.aps.org/4yFFKIk
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Materials falling into black holes are collisionless plasmas. Researchers modeled black hole accretion using plasma simulations for the first time, enabling new discoveries — like the role of pair discharge in black hole jets. Read the Letter: go.aps.org/4rKAb8A
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