A new model of epidemics describes infections as part of a feedback loop—an approach that might one day help optimize interventions such as social distancing and lockdowns.
Nicholas E. Frattini, Rodrigo G. Cortiñas, Jayameenakshi Venkatraman, Xu Xiao, Qile Su, Chan U. Lei, Benjamin J. Chapman, Vidul R. Joshi, S. M. Girvin, Robert J. Schoelkopf, Shruti Puri, and Michel H. Devoret
Phys. Rev. X 14, 031040 (2024) – Published 3 September 2024
An extension of a magnetic imaging technique with soft X-rays provides access to samples much thicker than previously possible, with potential impacts across a wide variety of fundamental and applied research efforts.
A new theory that accounts for disorder in a protein’s structure sheds light on the development inside a cell of tiny droplets that are vital to a cell’s function.
Malte Brammerloh, Renat Sibgatulin, Karl-Heinz Herrmann, Markus Morawski, Tilo Reinert, Carsten Jäger, Roland Müller, Gerald Falkenberg, Dennis Brückner, Kerrin J. Pine, Andreas Deistung, Valerij G. Kiselev, Jürgen R. Reichenbach, Nikolaus Weiskopf, and Evgeniya Kirilina
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021041 (2024) – Published 10 June 2024
A new technique for measuring the magnetic properties of metals within cells provides a powerful tool for studying how metal accumulation in cells leads to certain diseases.
In its superconducting state, an exotic metal harbors charge carriers that appear to have 4 and 6 times the charge of a single electron, suggesting the formation of Cooper-pair “molecules.”
Researchers record the longest Rydberg-atom lifetime by placing strontium atoms in “circular” states, where the outer electrons move in planet-like orbits.
A new model describes the population of black hole binaries without assumptions on the shape of their distribution—a capability that could boost the discovery potential of gravitational-wave observations.
A new theoretical framework for plastic neural networks predicts dynamical regimes where synapses rather than neurons primarily drive the network’s behavior, leading to an alternative candidate mechanism for working memory in the brain.
Researchers have realized a recently proposed qubit in which the errors mostly involve erasure of the qubit state, an advance that could help simplify the architecture of fault-tolerant quantum computers.
G. Wang, N. N. Wang, X. L. Shen, J. Hou, L. Ma, L. F. Shi, Z. A. Ren, Y. D. Gu, H. M. Ma, P. T. Yang, Z. Y. Liu, H. Z. Guo, J. P. Sun, G. M. Zhang, S. Calder, J.-Q. Yan, B. S. Wang, Y. Uwatoko, and J.-G. Cheng
Phys. Rev. X 14, 011040 (2024) – Published 7 March 2024
Researchers have measured a zero-resistance state for the nickelate LaNiO, which measurements suggest may superconduct at temperatures above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen.
Researchers have determined the amount of transverse orbital angular momentum that a type of optical vortex carries per photon, an important step for future applications.
New theoretical work establishes an analogy between systems that are dynamically frustrated, such as glasses, and thermodynamic systems whose members have conflicting goals, such as predator–prey ecosystems.