Physical Review Letters In this final forward-looking Essay of the year, Xie Chen discusses how the generalized Landau principle reframes beyond-Landau phases and transitions as symmetry-breaking …

First Results on the Search for Lepton Number Violating Neutrinoless Double- 𝛽 Decay with the LEGEND-200 Experiment H. Acharya et al. (LEGEND Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 022701 (2026) - …

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Jul 1, 2024 · Microscopic Origin of the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Integrable Systems Colin Rylands, Katja Klobas, Filiberto Ares, Pasquale Calabrese, Sara Murciano, and Bruno Bertini Phys. Rev. Lett. …

APS Journals Frustration in spin systems can prevent ordering even at T =0, creating quantum spin liquids that have been sought since Anderson’s pioneering work in 1973 and his influential 1987 …

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