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  • Critical Avalanches in Excitation-Inhibition Balanced Networks Reconcile Response Reliability with Sensitivity for Optimal Neural Representation

    Author(s): Zhuda Yang, Junhao Liang, and Changsong Zhou A new model reveals that bursts of neural activity known as critical avalanches underlie the brain’s ability to respond consistently to stimuli. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 028401] Published Wed Jan 15, 2025

  • Stepping into the Sea of Instability: The New Sub-$\mathrm{μ}\mathrm{s}$ Superheavy Nucleus $^{252}\mathrm{Rf}$

    Author(s): J. Khuyagbaatar, P. Mosat, J. Ballof, R. A. Cantemir, Ch. E. Düllmann, K. Hermainski, F. P. Heßberger, E. Jäger, B. Kindler, J. Krier, N. Kurz, S. Löchner, B. Lommel, B. Schausten, Y. Wei, P. Wieczorek, and A. Yakushev The discovery of an isotope, rutherfordium-252, whose ground state forestalls fission for just 60 nanoseconds, could help theorists understand the cosmic synthesis of superheavy elements. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 022501...

  • Flat and Tunable Moiré Phonons in Twisted Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

    Author(s): Alejandro Ramos-Alonso, Benjamin Remez, Daniel Bennett, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Héctor Ochoa An out-of-plane electric field can tune the phonon dispersion of twisted van der Waals multilayers. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 026501] Published Tue Jan 14, 2025

  • Hybridized Soliton Lasing in Coupled Semiconductor Lasers

    Author(s): Theodore P. Letsou, Dmitry Kazakov, Pawan Ratra, Lorenzo L. Columbo, Massimo Brambilla, Franco Prati, Cristina Rimoldi, Sandro Dal Cin, Nikola Opačak, Henry O. Everitt, Marco Piccardo, Benedikt Schwarz, and Federico Capasso An experiment demonstrates that a chip-scale coupled laser system consisting of a pair of coupled semiconductor ring lasers can exhibit complex optical states impossible to achieve in a single waveguide laser. ...

  • Planar Hall Effect in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Materials

    Author(s): Koushik Ghorai, Sunit Das, Harsh Varshney, and Amit Agarwal Stacked bilayer graphene can demonstrate a 2D planar Hall effect due to factors related to Berry curvature, orbital magnetic moments, and broken symmetries. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 026301] Published Mon Jan 13, 2025

  • Smooth Exact Gradient Descent Learning in Spiking Neural Networks

    Author(s): Christian Klos and Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer By incorporating electrical pulses with shapes similar to those of the spikes from biological neurons, researchers improved the ability to train energy-efficient types of neural networks. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 027301] Published Mon Jan 13, 2025

  • Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity

    Author(s): Julia R. K. Cline, Vera M. Schäfer, Zhijing Niu, Dylan J. Young, Tai Hyun Yoon, and James K. Thompson Continuous loading and transport of ultracold strontium atoms inside a high-finesse cavity is experimentally demonstrated, with implications for continuous cavity QED experiments. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 013403] Published Fri Jan 10, 2025
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