Physical Review Letters

@PhysRevLett

The world’s most-cited journal in multidisciplinary physics.

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Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett 49m

#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: An atomistic simulation of crack propagation in silica glass.

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$An atomistic simulation of crack propagation in silica glass. A tall, vertical rectangular slab composed of densely packed purple and red particles is flanked on both sides by shaded grey regions representing fixed boundary atoms. A jagged white crack extends vertically downward through the center of the material, stopping roughly two-thirds of the way down. A circular inset on the lower right magnifies the crack tip, revealing the individual blue-purple and orange-red spheres forming the atomic structure around the fracture tip.$

Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett 2d

High-speed cameras capture a brief temperature dip in a vertically shaken granular fluid during its initial relaxation. Simulations and kinetic theory link this Kovacs memory effect to coupling between horizontal and vertical temperatures.

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A top-down photo shows a circular layer of steel spheres as bright dots against a black background. A white box outlines one region and dashed lines lead to an inset at the upper right that plots granular temperature T/T0 versus the product of time and driving frequency, t𝝂. Five blue curves, which represent horizontal temperature relaxation, are attached to a black curve to the left and show anomalous cooling dips before reaching steady state.

Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett 4d

Researchers present the first definitive experimental fingerprint of a viscous electron fluid in 3D. Thanks to frequent electron-electron collisions, bulk cadmium’s conductivity scales with the square of both temperature and size in a specific window.

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The Fermi surface of hexagonal close-packed cadmium consists of a central electron pocket, shown as a blue oval, surrounded by two types of hole pockets, which look like green fins and red triangles.

Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett Nov 6

#OnTheCover of this week’s issue: Calculated electron densities of the fractional Chern insulator ground state with different lattice modulation strengths.

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$Three hexagonal density plots show the electron density (r) of a fractional Chern insulator ground state within a moiré unit cell, The top plot shows a central circular high-density region surrounded by a uniform blue ring inside a hexagon. The bottom left plot has distinct dark-blue density spots arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The bottom right plot shows more concentrated density spots, indicating stronger spatial modulation.$

Physical Review Letters @PhysRevLett Nov 5

Clean 2D Fermi liquids realize a dynamical universality class distinct from the conventional Navier-Stokes paradigm — an unexpected finding with implications for quantum transport, hydrodynamics, and more.

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