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Superallowed α Decay to Doubly Magic ¹⁰⁰Sn

K. Auranen, D. Seweryniak, M. Albers, A. D. Ayangeakaa, S. Bottoni, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Chiara, P. Copp, H. M. David, D. T. Doherty, J. Harker, C. R. Hoffman, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, S. A. Kuvin, T. Lauritsen, G. Lotay, A. M. Rogers, J. Sethi, C. Scholey, R. Talwar, W. B. Walters, P. J. Woods, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 182501 (2018) – Published 30 October 2018

	Synopsis: The Fastest Alpha Emitter

The detection of unusually fast alpha emission from a heavy isotope could lead to new ways of testing the nuclear shell model.

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Phonon-Number-Sensitive Electromechanics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183601 (2018) – Published 29 October 2018

	Viewpoint: Counting the Quanta of Sound

Two teams demonstrate that they can count the number of quantized vibrations, or phonons, in cold mechanical oscillators by measuring the energy in the vibrations.

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Nonlocal Spin Transport Mediated by a Vortex Liquid in Superconductors

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 187203 (2018) – Published 31 October 2018

	Synopsis: Giving Vortices a Spin

A proposed method for transporting spin from one place to another utilizes superconducting vortices as carriers of spin information.

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Density-Driven Flows in Evaporating Binary Liquid Droplets

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 184501 (2018) – Published 1 November 2018

	Synopsis: Gravity-Driven Flows in Two-Fluid Drops

The direction in which fluid circulates in binary drops doesn’t change when the drops are tilted, implicating gravity—not surface tension—as the driver of flow in these systems.

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Observation of the Bogoliubov Dispersion in a Fluid of Light

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183604 (2018) – Published 31 October 2018

At room temperature light propagates like a superfluid through an atomic vapor.

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Observation of a Space-Time Crystal in a Superfluid Quantum Gas

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185301 (2018) – Published 29 October 2018

A space-time crystal can be created in a superfluid quantum gas by simultaneously breaking discrete time and spatial translation symmetries.

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A large system of particles with even a small attractive component jams differently than systems made of purely repulsive particles.

Beliaev Damping of a Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate

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Resilient Entangling Gates for Trapped Ions

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Robust Entanglement Gates for Trapped-Ion Qubits

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Device-Independent Entanglement Certification of All Entangled States

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Quantum Limited Superresolution of an Incoherent Source Pair in Three Dimensions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180504 (2018) – Published 31 October 2018

Certifying the Building Blocks of Quantum Computers from Bell’s Theorem

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Experimental Realization of an Information Machine with Tunable Temporal Correlations

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Assessing Near-Future Direct Dark Matter Searches with Benchmark-Free Forecasting

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Transition Radiation as a Probe of the Chiral Anomaly

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Superallowed α Decay to Doubly Magic ¹⁰⁰Sn

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	Synopsis: The Fastest Alpha Emitter

The detection of unusually fast alpha emission from a heavy isotope could lead to new ways of testing the nuclear shell model.

Quantum-Mechanical Relation between Atomic Dipole Polarizability and the van der Waals Radius

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Generation of a Lattice of Spin-Orbit Beams via Coherent Averaging

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Optically Addressing Single Rare-Earth Ions in a Nanophotonic Cavity

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Collective Effects in Casimir-Polder Forces

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Density-Driven Flows in Evaporating Binary Liquid Droplets

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 184501 (2018) – Published 1 November 2018

	Synopsis: Gravity-Driven Flows in Two-Fluid Drops

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Stimulated Excitation of an Optical Cavity by a Multibunch Electron Beam via Coherent-Diffraction-Radiation Process

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Experimental Measurements of Ion Heating in Collisional Plasma Shocks and Interpenetrating Supersonic Plasma Flows

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Majorana Doublets, Flat Bands, and Dirac Nodes in s-Wave Superfluids

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Multiscale Energy Dissipation Mechanism in Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels

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Experimental Observation of Hidden Berry Curvature in Inversion-Symmetric Bulk 2H−WSe₂

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Electron Doping of Proposed Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid Produces Localized States in the Band Gap

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Moiré Valleytronics: Realizing Dense Arrays of Topological Helical Channels

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	Synopsis: Giving Vortices a Spin

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Hydrodynamic Interactions, Hidden Order, and Emergent Collective Behavior in an Active Bacterial Suspension

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