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@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 11, 2026, 8:00 PM

Results from a spin-glass model suggest there may not be equilibrium thermodynamic glass transitions in structural glasses. The findings, reported in Physical Review E, also suggest the Kauzmann temperature may be zero in three dimensions.

Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4zkoyrB

This image shows a M−p spin glass model. A grid of colored dots are connected by dashed red lines, representing a lattice. The four rows of dots are colored yellow, black, magenta, and cyan from top to bottom. A squiggly blue line showing interactions of spins connects a top row yellow dot with the black dot below it and another black dot three columns away. A fourth magenta dot below that second black dot completes a loose box outlined by the blue line.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 11, 2026, 12:05 PM

A study in Physical Review D finds that a class of 5D special unitary quiver gauge theories admits a UV completion in terms of 5D conformal matter SCFTs which can be explicitly engineered via M-theory on a singular Calabi-Yau threefold.

Learn more: https://go.aps.org/4zoKyBt

At the top left of a schematic, grey text reads g-type 5d CM Atom SCFT above the symbol Tμ. A red arrow labeled mass deformation to Lagrangian points right at Qμ. Text above reads special unitary dynkin quiver. Up and to the right, green and grey text reads small coweight on coroot lattice of g sits above the symbol μ. Two arrows point from μ: one left to Qμ and one down and to the left to Qμ^u; text next to this symbol reads unitary dynkin quiver. A vertical arrow points down to C^3d with text reading 3d Coulomb Branch next to it. Another arrow points down to W̄0^μ next to text that reads slice in affine grassmannian of G. A green arrow points left into a beige-colored polygon. The arrow is labeled iso/quotient/normalisation and points at Ō and below is text that reads orbit closure in nilpotent cone of G. A black arrow points left to O inside a circle labeled g and Class-S Fixture. A blue double-headed vertical arrow labeled S¹ compactification connects T_μ to this circle.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 10, 2026, 3:00 PM

A study in Physical Review E uses quantum history state formalism to analyze time series data and, by applying the formalism to financial data, identifies entanglement-based volatility indicators that align with standard indices.

Get the findings: https://go.aps.org/4jLUAYX

A graph with N on the x axis and SPY on the y axis. It plots the opening values of the SPY (in USD) as a function of the elapsed number of days N along the period March 17, 2014 – December 30, 2022.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 9, 2026, 5:27 PM

As part of a study on ocean contamination, scientists simulated particles settling in turbulent flows, focusing on particles with densities 10 times that of water, showing that they settle less at these moderate densities.

More in Physical Review Fluids: https://go.aps.org/4jMkfRc

A photo of the Florida Bay where the water is vulnerable to contamination from pesticides.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 9, 2026, 1:59 PM

Averaging and orienting the fields around astrophysical sources allows scientists to study signals otherwise too faint. Researchers developed a faster method for reconstructing these so-called directional stacking signals.

Read more in Physical Review D: https://go.aps.org/4hB2G5j

An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the cosmic microwave background, demonstrating the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect — one potential measurement enabled by stacking. The image looks like yellow-orange smudges and twinkles of galaxies over a black background under a donut-shaped hazy blue cloud.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 9, 2026, 11:00 AM

Smaller LSTM networks can approach criticality as they learn, with scale-free avalanches emerging near optimal training. The findings, published in Physical Review E, help explain how neural networks balance information propagation and stability.

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A graph depicting distribution of optimal epochs, or the epoch with the lowest test loss during training (y axis), as a function of hidden-state dimensionality (x axis) for LSTM network. Each violin plot summarizes the distribution of optimal epochs across multiple network realizations with different random seeds but identical architectures. Black dots denote individual realizations. The dashed horizontal line marks epoch 30, which corresponds to the epoch at which the majority of networks achieve their best performance across hidden-state dimensions.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 8, 2026, 8:03 PM

A nuclear model combines quark-meson coupling with dual quarkyonic theory to characterize dense matter as it evolves into quark matter. Presented in Physical Review C, the model predicted a sound speed consistent with real neutron-star data.

🔗 https://go.aps.org/3WdVzHw

A line plot shows energy density εN (GeV/fm3), chemical potential μN (GeV/fm3), pressure P (GeV/fm3) and sound velocity vs2 plotted against ⍴N/⍴0 for the case where the root-mean-square radius of the proton rp is 0.6 fm, 𝜈 = 0.4 GeV, and w = 0.40 GeV. The red solid (dashed) lines denote the results of the quarkyonic quark-meson coupling, or QQMC (quark-meson coupling, or QMC) model in symmetric nuclear matter, while the blue solid (dashed) lines denote those of the QQMC (QMC) model in pure neutron matter. Results of the gaussian quarkyonic model are plotted by the black lines for comparison.

@denys-dutykh.com Oct 7, 2026, 1:44 PMReposted by @apsjournals.aps.org

In asymptotic safety, a candidate theory of quantum gravity, gravity fades at the shortest distances. How does such a black hole ring? In Physical Review D (@apsphysics.aps.org), Davide Batic, Fabio Scardigli and I computed it. Part 2 of our trilogy. 🧵 #BlackHoles #QuantumGravity

Announcement card of Physical Review D, volume 114, article 024023 (2026): the research article "Quasinormal modes of Bonanno–Reuter black holes via the spectral method" by Davide Batic, Denys Dutykh and Fabio Scardigli, with pages of the paper in the background.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 8, 2026, 5:03 PM

New models can more efficiently find the lowest-energy structures of charged defects in materials, enabling more comprehensive studies of defects in semiconductors. Read more in PRX Energy: https://go.aps.org/3UjZ5j7

A schematic diagram for the integration of global charge embeddings for point defects in machine learning interatomic potentials.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 8, 2026, 2:50 PM

A new model clarifies enzymatic-driven growth kinetics and internal structure in biomolecular condensates.The results are applicable to synthetic biology, soft matter physics and origin-of-life studies.

Learn more in PRX Life: https://go.aps.org/4iaRj48

A series of sketches shows a progression over time of passive and active growth passways for biomolecular condensates . At top, the passive pathway starts with a long blue squiggly line of RNA surrounded by several shorter lines representing non-phosphorylated peptides. A second sketch, labeled rapid binding, shows the red lines aligning with the blue. A third sketch shows nucleation, where the second sketch is integrated into a grey circle. In a final sketch, two of the grey circles coalesce. In the bottom, an active pathway is shown, this time with the first sketch showing a blue line of RNA and smaller orange lines of double phosphorylated peptides. In the second sketch, slow crosslinking, the orange lines begin to align with the blue, becoming half red and half orange (mono phosphorylated) before turning red at full alignment. A third sketch, labeled maturation, shows the lines sticking out of a grey circle. The final sketch shows coalescence as before.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 7, 2026, 4:36 PM

A study in Physical Review Materials finds that — contrary to earlier theoretical studies — there are broad families of chiral topological semimetals that are stable in the presence of strong structural disorder.

🔗 https://go.aps.org/4yCUVSw

This figure represents controlling topology with average structural chirality in disordered chiral TSMs. The figure is divided into sections (a) to (e), and (f) to (j).

Section (a) shows a disordered Kramers-Weyl semimetal model containing mostly right-handed sites, which decrease towards section (e), which comprises mostly left-handed sites, along with plotting Wilson-loop spectra for each, which encode topological and symmetry properties in many-body systems. Sections (f) to (j) show the generality of the result, with two-band Wilson spectra.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 7, 2026, 2:04 PM

When the universe transitions suddenly from a matter-dominated era to one with pressure, a process called the poltergeist mechanism amplifies gravitational waves. A paper in Reviews of Modern Physics explains how this helps us study the early universe.

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This illustration shows the gravitational waves resulting from two black holes merging. The black holes are spiraling toward one another on the right side of the image. A blue spiral emitting outward from the black holes represents the gravitational waves, and a grid placed on the surface of the waves is distorted as the waves travel, representing the distortion of spacetime. On the left side of the image, the spirals face into a black background speckled with stars.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 6, 2026, 8:00 PM

Researchers found a way to design the materials around silicon quantum bits so they behave more consistently. Their approach boosts an energy separation in qubits, potentially increasing reliability and scalability.

More in Physical Review Applied: https://go.aps.org/4B7YrGf

Five plots compare how valley splitting and the electron wave function change with applied electric field. The top plots show that the modulated wiggle well’s valley splitting changes much more strongly with the field than a conventional design. The three lower plots show how the electron wave function shifts within the well as the field changes, helping explain why the new design offers greater electrical control.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 6, 2026, 5:47 PM

Two neural quantum state architectures can reduce computational scaling while retaining high variational accuracy, enabling larger and more reliable computations of competing electron phases in quantum materials.

Read the PRX Intelligence study: https://go.aps.org/4yL4Hli

$Two plots that show the accuracy vs. cost trade-off on the U = 8 Hubbard model. The plots compare variational ground state energy against relative computational cost. On the left, for the 16 × 4 (t′ = 0) system, the authors analyzed the effect of progressively enforcing symmetries on the ACE architecture, shown in purple stars. Labels denote the cumulative addition of point group (D2), spin-flip (σ), half-translation (T1/2), and quarter-translation (T1/4) symmetries. ACE achieves lower energies than Transformer, HFPS, and NNBF while maintaining a fraction of the computational cost of the full-symmetry NNBF. On the right, on the larger 32×8 (t′ = −0.2) system, the ACE and SCALE variants establish an improved Pareto front, outperforming Transformer-based models in both accuracy and computational efficiency.$

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 6, 2026, 4:06 PM

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@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 5, 2026, 8:29 PM

A Physical Review Applied paper demonstrates a way to study individual point defects in semiconductor crystals at the nanometer and nanosecond scale. Understanding these defects could unlock the full potential of optoelectronic devices.

🔗 https://go.aps.org/4y6YG1k

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 5, 2026, 6:11 PM

Pressure can push metallic glass into a new amorphous state. A high-pressure X-ray study revealed avalanche-like atomic rearrangements and slower relaxation near 3 GPa — evidence of two coexisting amorphous states.

More in Physical Review Materials: https://go.aps.org/4yPEjHn

A figure depicting high-pressure X-ray measurements that reveal avalanche-like atomic rearrangements and the emergence of slower relaxation processes as metallic glass transitions between amorphous states.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 5, 2026, 2:03 PM

A new study in Physical Review A shows that multi-photon states allow myriad exchange symmetries. Experiments show that multi-photon interference can be turned on and off by tuning the pairs’ symmetry, which is relevant for quantum technologies.

🔗 https://go.aps.org/4hZwzMD

Schematic showing a state of three photons on the left. The state is shown by a light purple oval containing three small dark purple circles (photons). It is labeled |(3) (φ) >. An arrow points to the right towards a grey rectangular box with an arrow–pointing from the bottom right to the top left–representing a variable beam splitter, labeled UVBS. Two wavy lines enter the box from the left and exit to two output modes. Below the light purple oval is a grey control knob labeled φ with a dial ranging from the 0 (symmetric) on the bottom left, through π/2 at the top center, to π on the bottom right (mixed symmetric). The pointer is just to the left of π/2 on the diagram.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 5, 2026, 11:10 AM

New data for the total inclusive helicity-dependent cross sections for the proton and deuteron confirm the validity of the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn sum rule — providing an experimental benchmark for theoretical nucleon models.

More in Physical Review C: https://go.aps.org/4ywRtZA

A graph with E gamma (MeV) on the x axis and △σ (µb) on the y axis. It shows the unpolarized total inclusive cross section for the proton compared with previous results, with data from this study shown in red and previous data in blue. The solid purple line represents the model-dependent correction applied to account for detector inefficiency. The systematic uncertainties are shown as gray bands.

@apsjournals.aps.org Oct 4, 2026, 9:03 PM

New work in Physical Review Materials reports the synthesis and structure of iridium-based four-component aluminogermanide compounds. These compounds could help future study of advanced physics phenomena including complex magnetism and electron transport.

🔗 https://go.aps.org/46Z1qCQ

$This figure is divided into three parts. Part (a) depicts the crystal structure of the iridium-based aluminogermanide Ln2MAl4Ge2. Ln represents a lanthanide, either erbium (Er) or terbium (Tb), shown in green; Al is aluminium, shown in blue, M is the transition metal iridium (Ir), shown in grey; and Ge is germanium, shown in orange. Part (b) comprises photographs of single crystals of the two compounds Er2IrAl4Ge2 and Tb2IrAl4Ge2. Part (c) shows the X-ray diffraction pattern measured on a flat facet of a Tb2IrAl4Ge2 crystal.$

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