In a stunning first, scientists observed anyons—exotic particles with in-between statistics—in a 1D ultracold gas. This discovery could pave the way for advanced quantum states and potentially transform quantum computing. In the universe,…
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Scientists Create Exotic “Anyons” in One-Dimensional Quantum Gas
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Physicists Built a “Trampoline” Smaller Than a Human Hair – And It Could Rewrite the Rules of Microchip Design
The world’s strangest trampoline doesn’t bounce—it swings sideways and even glides around corners. But no one can jump on it, because it’s less than a millimeter tall. Imagine a trampoline so tiny it’s just 0.2 millimeters wide, with a…
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Feedback between F-actin organization and active stress governs criticality and energy localization in the cell cytoskeleton
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Flow control of three-dimensional cylinders transitioning to turbulence via multi-agent reinforcement learning
This study presents our findings on high-dimensional distributed forcing using multiple jets aligned along the spanwise direction of a 3D infinite cylinder. Training was carried out using MARL, which demonstrates superior performance compared to…
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Symmetry-mediated quantum coherence of W5+ spins in an oxygen-deficient double perovskite
All data were processed using a combination of Xepr, Python 2.7 and 3.11.4, Origin Pro 2018, RStudio 2024.04.2 running R version 4.1.2, Mathematica 14.1_WIN, and MATLAB R2018b and R2024a. A sample key is provided in SI §S1.
Synthesis of Sr2CaWO6
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Driven quantum fluids sound like supersolids
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Optical properties, plasmons, and orbital Skyrme textures in twisted TMDs
Plasmons are collective excitations of the electron density in a crystal41, and their behavior can indeed be influenced by various factors, including the underlying band structure and, in principle, its topological properties. To investigate the…
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From actin to action | Nature Physics
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Learning aerodynamics for the control of flying humanoid robots
In this section, we present the methods employed to produce the results achieved in this paper, following the same outline of the Results section:
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iRonCub-Mk1 mechanical design: we show the design methods and…
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All hard X-ray transient grating spectroscopy
Beamline and instrumentation
The experiment was performed at beamline BL3 (EH4c) of the SACLA Free Electron Laser (Hyogo, Japan)41. Two collinear X-ray pulses were generated from the same electron bunch in two undulator sections with variable…
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