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May 15

Share your experience publishing in a scientific journal and you could win APS prizes! We are conducting a survey to get feedback on the publishing process from #physicists around the world. 🌎 ➡️ Take the survey: go.aps.org/3MsBlm7. #APSsurvey #Physics #Publishing

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#OTD in 1887, he discovered a universal property of dissolved molecules and showed how to use it. Discover François-Marie Raoult and Raoult’s Law in #PhysicsHistory: go.aps.org/3PCVeq5.

This Month in Physics History

François-Marie Raoult and Raoult’s Law: May 23, 1887

Perspective: In the quest for solving the dark-matter puzzle, quantum engineering strategies for improving detection sensitivity are discussed. Read more in PRX Quantum: go.aps.org/3BKs0jA.

Active tracers subject to external forcing can exhibit a tendency to travel against the driving force in a crowded environment. Read more in #PRL: go.aps.org/3MLyK76.

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Join the next Science Trust Project (STP) Coffee Hour on June 13 at 2:00 PM ET. STP aims to build a vibrant and engaged community ready to take action on addressing misinformation by providing a hub for resources, training, collaboration, and action. go.aps.org/3Muaa9w.

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Become a #Voice4Physics and make your voice heard. Choose an issue and take 🎬 action using the APS Action Center: go.aps.org/3cKZ8hD.

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#PRBTopDownload: #Electrical and #thermal transport properties of the #kagome metals #ATi3Bi5 (A=Rb,Cs). Authors: X. Chen, X. Liu, W. Xia, X. Mi, L. Zhong, K. Yang, L. Zhang et al. ➡️ go.aps.org/3MMbaaf #condmat #physics

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Physical Review Applied Editor's Suggestion: Superconducting Microsphere Magnetically Levitated in an Anharmonic Potential with Integrated Magnetic Readout #OpenAccess: go.aps.org/3MGR4hv.

Superconducting Microsphere Magnetically Levitated in an Anharmonic Potential with Integrated...

The authors present a platform for quantum experiments on levitated particles with masses ranging from nanograms to micrograms. They exploit the Meissner effect to magnetically levitate superconduc...

Congratulations to the APS 2023-24 Congressional Science Fellow Sophia Chan! Read the announcement: go.aps.org/3Bu37sj.

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APS Selects 2023-24 Congressional Science Fellow

The Fellow this year is Sophia Chan.

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Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in #physics. Authors: Nicholas T. Young, N. Verboncoeur, Dao Chi Lam, and Marcos D. Caballero. Discover more in Physical Review PER: go.aps.org/3MgHroy.

Rubric-based holistic review represents a change from traditional graduate admissions approaches in...

Rubric-based holistic review is a method that could make the graduate admissions process in physics more equitable.

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Axions may be produced in supernovae, and their decays would leave a detectable flux of photons. However, a recent #PRD Suggestion argues a plasma fireball effect would shift the energy spectrum of this signal, requiring a reanalysis of observations. go.aps.org/43i8UNh.

Axion-sourced fireballs from supernovae

This study revisits bounds on axion-like particles (ALPs) derived from supernovae, where they may be generated in stellar interiors before decaying to photons. Past works have used observations from...

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The Undergraduate Faculty Prize recognizes a physicist whose research in an #undergrad setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics. Learn more: go.aps.org/43hjkwB.

Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution

To honor a physicist whose research in an undergraduate setting has achieved wide recognition and contributed significantly to physics and who has contributed substantially to the professional...

The Apker Award recognizes outstanding achievements in physics by undergraduate students and provides encouragement to students who have demonstrated great potential for future scientific accomplishment. Nominate an #undergrad: go.aps.org/3ItKtEP.

The Bouchet Award recognizes a distinguished minority physicist who has made significant contributions to physics research and the advancement of underrepresented minority scientists. Nominations end June 1: go.aps.org/3MvCrMK.

2021 Edward A. Bouchet Award Recipient

To promote the participation of underrepresented minorities in physics by identifying and recognizing a distinguished minority physicist who has made significant contributions to physics research....

The Maria Goeppert Mayer Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a woman physicist in the early years of her career and provides opportunities for her to present these achievements to others through public lectures. Apply by June 1: go.aps.org/41XCEht.

APS Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one’s professional peers for making advances in physics. Nomination deadlines vary by Unit. Learn more: go.aps.org/3MMg8nw.

Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers. Each year, no more than one half of one percent of the Society’s membership (excluding student members) is recogni...

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APS Prizes and Awards recognize outstanding achievements in research, education, and public service across all fields of #physics. Please consider nominating deserving colleagues by June 1: go.aps.org/3ogOLsl. (a 🧵 of 🥇)

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#PRBTopDownload: Topological and superconducting properties in bilayer #kagome metals #YT6Sn6 (T=V, Nb, Ta). Authors: L.-T. Shi, J.-G. Si, A. Liang, R. Turnbull et al. Learn more in Physical Review B: go.aps.org/3MKi4g6. #condmat #physics

Band structures calculated including the SOC effect for (a) YV6Sn6, (b) YNb6Sn6, and (c) YTa6Sn6. The colored lines indicate the bands crossing the Fermi level, and the colored shading illustrates the continuous band gaps in the BZ.

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Now in Physical Review Materials: Interplay of field-induced molecular dipole alignment and compensating surface polarization in low-temperature P−V hysteresis of MAPbBr3(001): go.aps.org/3pYm5os.

Interplay of field-induced molecular dipole alignment and compensating surface polarization in...

We demonstrate the presence of a hysteresis in tunneling spectra acquired at 4.3 K on cleaved MA-Br terminated (001) surfaces of ${\mathrm{MAPbBr}}_{3}$ single crystals. Simulations of the tunneling...

A proposal suggests that non-Abelian chiral spin liquids can be realized and probed in quantum simulators using Floquet engineering. Learn more in PRX Quantum: go.aps.org/3pTZB7W.

#ICYMI: Attractors and bifurcation diagrams in complex climate models, Maura Brunetti and Charline Ragon. Learn more in #PRE: go.aps.org/3MCLOM0. #NonlinearDynamics #ClimateResearch

Make way for bendy, squishy robots! The metal contraptions of the popular imagination are making way for soft robotics powered by fluids and formed using origami folds. Learn more #APSnews: go.aps.org/3pOE4xi.

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The Dawn of Bendy, Squishy Robots

The metal contraptions of the popular imagination are making way for soft robotics powered by fluids and formed using origami folds.

#OTD in 1962, James West and Gerhard Sessler patented the electret microphone, found today in everything from hearing aids to recording equipment—and at 92, West is still inventing. Read this #PhysicsHistory story by @tessjoose: go.aps.org/43IzAIh.

This Month in Physics History

May 1962: James West and Gerhard Sessler Patent the Electret Microphone

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Cheers to another trip around the Sun–celebrating 124 years of the American Physical Society! 🎊 🎁 Are you part of the rich history of prominent #physicists who have contributed to the advancement of #physics? Become a member today: go.aps.org/42SAHUN.

Biological flow networks: Antagonism between hydrodynamic and metabolic stimuli as driver of topological transitions. Authors: Felix Kramer and Carl D. Modes. Learn more in Physical Review Research: go.aps.org/3By2Kge. #Biophysics #Topology #Networks

Calling all physics departments and undergraduate-serving programs! Apply for the APS Committee on Education Award for Improving Undergraduate Physics Education. Recognize your program for improving educational efforts: Learn more:

Award for Improving Undergraduate Physics Education

Committee on Education award to recognize physics departments and /or undergraduate-serving programs in physics that support best practices in education at the undergraduate level

In Physical Review Materials: Observation of Fermi arcs and Weyl nodes in a noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal: go.aps.org/3MJmkg8.

Observation of Fermi arcs and Weyl nodes in a noncentrosymmetric magnetic Weyl semimetal

Weyl semimetal (WSM), a novel state of quantum matter, hosts Weyl fermions as emergent quasiparticles resulting from the breaking of either inversion or time-reversal symmetry. Magnetic WSMs that...

#PRA Letter: Measurements of velocity-selective resonances from adiabatic rapid passage. Learn more in Physical Review A: go.aps.org/3BA1oBP.

Saddle-node bifurcation of periodic orbit route to hidden attractors. Authors: Suresh Kumarasamy, Malay Banerjee, Vaibhav Varshney, Manish Dev Shrimali, Nikolay V. Kuznetsov, and Awadhesh Prasad. Discover more in #PRE: go.aps.org/3BAobNH. #NonlinearDynamics

Looking to make improvements to your undergraduate physics program? Participating in a DALI has been an impactful experience for many. Discover how you can address challenges and make sustainable changes. Apply by May 29! go.aps.org/3KZrcfX

A topoelectrical circuit shows that localized and extended eigenstates coexist in a non-Abelian flat-band system with disorder. Read more in Physical Review Letters: go.aps.org/42W9Fw1. #PRL

To become brighter, #synchrotron light sources must first go dark. Learn why these specialized accelerators are going offline to prepare for major upgrades in #APSnews: go.aps.org/3MwMO41. @elizaboatman

To Become Brighter, Synchrotron Light Sources Must First Go Dark

Around the world, specialized accelerators are going offline to prepare for major upgrades.

Challenges and outcomes in remote undergraduate research programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. Authors: Dina Zohrabi Alaee and Benjamin M. Zwickl. Learn more in Physical Review Physics Education Research: go.aps.org/3MGnKbb. #PRPER

Challenges and outcomes in remote undergraduate research programs during the COVID-19 pandemic

Online undergraduate research programs may be a way to expand access to undergraduate research experiences.

Statistics of phase space localization measures and quantum chaos in the kicked top model. Authors: Qian Wang and Marko Robnik. Read more in #PRE: go.aps.org/3WhHNj9. #NonlinearDynamics

Entropy production of nonreciprocal interactions. Authors: Ziluo Zhang (张子洛) and Rosalba Garcia-Millan. Learn more in Physical Review Research: go.aps.org/3Wgg6qQ. #StatisticalPhysics

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Non-Abelian frame charges - mathematical entities used to describe certain topological properties - can also help understand band degeneracies in ordinary optical media. Read more in #PRX: go.aps.org/3MxXFej #PRXjustpublished #PRXphotonics #openaccess

An artificial neural network is utilized to determine the phase diagram of strongly correlated fermions in the crossover from Bose-Einstein condensates of molecules to Cooper pairs of fermions. Learn more in #PRL: go.aps.org/42CePNk

Who first discovered Jupiter’s red spot? Robert Hooke or Giovanni Cassini? Explore the #PhysicsHistory of the planet #Jupiter and the debate on who saw the famous spot first: go.aps.org/456kWej.

This Month in Physics History

May 1664: Hooke vs. Cassini: Who Discovered Jupiter’s Red Spot?