A scanning tunneling microscope topography scan across a half 4H-SiC unit cell step edge shows two indenene domains (insets) that are mutually rotated by 180°. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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A scheme utilizing tunable gate voltages in a Kitaev spin liquid and a monolayer semiconductor is proposed as a method for both generating and detecting individual Ising anyons.

Clusters containing a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes para-H${}_2$ and D${}_2$ remain liquid at a temperature of 2 K and exhibit phase separation, a hallmark of quantum fluids.

The structural and segmental relaxation times in a deformed polymer glass are similar, indicating a connection between segmental mobility and structural relaxation.

Quantum fully homomorphic encryption is shown to be feasible on a compact silicon photonic chip, improving the prospects of a scalable, programmable, and stable quantum network infrastructure.

As a crucial validation for the forthcoming electron-ion collider (EIC), an experiment at the RHIC demonstrates the ability to prepare and collide ion beams with emittance ratio of 11:1.

Machine learning can be employed to optimize extraction of information from trajectory data in deterministic chaos.

X-ray experiments reveal that a semimetal exhibits “orbital texture”—an exotic electronic structure resulting in spin-dependent electron transport.

Synopsis on:
Stefanie Suzanne Brinkman et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196402 (2024)

The quantum-geometric origin of out-of-plane stacking ferroelectric polarization is elucidated and shown to be compatible with the modern theory of polarization.

Adding neutrinos to an existing nucleosynthesis recipe can account for the puzzling existence of neutron-deficient heavy nuclei.

Synopsis on:
Zewei Xiong, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Oliver Just, and Andre Sieverding
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 192701 (2024)

Researchers predict that several exotic states of matter can exist in semiconductor structures hosting electrons in one layer and holes in another.

Synopsis on:
David D. Dai and Liang Fu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196202 (2024)

A universal, one-parameter scaling theory is developed that describes transport behavior from the ballistic to the diffusive regime in multimode nonlinear photonic circuits.

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