Transition between rotational and translational behavior of a simulated active solid structure. Trajectories are color coded from blue to red by increasing time. Selected for a Focus story in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Two-dimensional interacting electrons with nontrivial quantum geometry can spontaneously form honeycomb-lattice crystals that exhibit the quantum anomalous Hall effect.

The Josephson effect is observed between two momentum states of a Bose-Einstein condensate superfluid.

Cooler and denser clouds of CaF molecules are trapped using blue-detuned magneto-optical traps.

Some ultralight black holes that formed soon after the big bang might have been exotic objects with a net “color charge” that left potentially observable signatures.

Synopsis on:
Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David I. Kaiser
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 231402 (2024)

D-TRILEX calculations unveil details of the crossover region in Mott transitions between the weakly and strongly correlated regimes for a half-filled 2D Hubbard model.

A new measurement of the $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to {\pi }^{+}{\pi }^{-}$ cross section from the CMD-3 experiment points to a larger hadronic contribution to muon $g-2$ than previous such measurements, which, if confirmed, would ease the tension between theory and experiment for that magnetic moment.

F. V. Ignatov et al. (CMD-3 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 109, 112002 (2024)

In a system where a standard antiferromagnet coexists with a second, ordered phase, which breaks the sublattice rotational symmetry spontaneously, altermagnetism may emerge as an electronic instability.

Interatomic Coulombic decay is experimentally observed in a doubly excited atom despite its extremely short lifetime.

Experiments and theory explain how charge builds up in a moving water drop and why the effect requires a water-repelling surface.

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Aaron D. Ratschow et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 224002 (2024)

A mechanism for strong-coupling superconductivity based on the electron-phonon interaction, quadratic in phonon displacements suggests a new route to high-temperature superconductivity.

Polarization-gated attoclock technique allows the observation of electron-electron interaction in nonsequential photoionization events.

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