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April 23, 2024
Orbit of a spinning compact object around a Schwarzschild black hole (left) and its projections into angular momentum aligned coordinates (right).
Vojtěch Witzany and Gabriel Andres Piovano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171401 (2024)
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To describe the electron beam attenuation lengths in solids, in addition to a single-exponential law, momentum relaxation must also be taken into account.
Wolfgang S. M. Werner et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186203 (2024)
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To better understand diffusion in complex materials, a computational method separating out uncorrelated individual contributions makes it possible to construct new analytic forms for diffusivity.
Soham Chattopadhyay and Dallas R. Trinkle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186301 (2024)
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The interaction of Doppler-boosted light with matter at intensities approaching the Schwinger limit is explored in numerical simulations showing the creation of electron-positron pairs forming high-density relativistic attosecond jets.
Neïl Zaïm et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175002 (2024)
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Landau theory adapted to the zero spin-orbit coupling limit captures features of altermagnets, a class of colinear magnets with spin-split bands.
Paul A. McClarty and Jeffrey G. Rau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176702 (2024)
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The radio frequency response of the Wigner crystal at low filling factors reveals the details of the pinning mode resonance and shows how this mode is affected by disorder, and which disorder is driving the frequency dependence.
Matthew L. Freeman et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176301 (2024)
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3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50%.
Adrian Oeftiger and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001 (2024)
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The first experimental measurement of the incoherent photonuclear production of in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions is better explained by the presence of subnuclear quantum fluctuations of the gluon field.
S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 162302 (2024)