Prof. Douglas Langie da SIlva
Physics
- What a worm's brain can teach us about sex differences in the nervous system
- How one of Earth's worst volcanic disasters affected societies in prehistoric Japan
- Simulations explore nuclear mitigation of asteroid threats
- Quantum magic state cleanup cuts errors 40-fold in first successful hardware test
- What an ancient volcanic eruption teaches us about resilience today
- Hand-cranked device tells blood type and red cell levels in 1 minute
- Salt crystals could hold clues to life beneath Enceladus's ice
- Australian scavengers don't just eat everything and slink away. They approach a carcass like a buffet
- The ambiguous costs of climate change
- Lone, starless cloud may be a 'dark' galaxy
Physical Review Letters
- Preferential Attachment with Local Flexibility 16/10/2026Author(s): Tingyu Zhao, Balázs Maga, Pierfrancesco Dionigi, Gergely Ódor, Kyle Soni, Anastasiya Salova, Bingjie Hao, Miklós Abért, and István A. KovácsFrom the formation of social ties to the budding quantum internet, growing networks often exhibit local flexibility upon new nodes attaching to an existing network. In our proposed model, a new node connects uniformly at […]Tingyu Zhao, Balázs Maga, Pierfrancesco Dionigi, Gergely Ódor, Kyle Soni, Anastasiya Salova, Bingjie Hao, Miklós Abért, and István A. Kovács
- Orbitally Tuned Composite-Fermion Pairing Transitions in Bilayer Graphene 16/10/2026Author(s): Ravi Kumar, Tomer Firon, André Haug, Misha Yutushui, Alon Ner Gaon, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David F. Mross, and Yuval RonenThe effective interaction between composite fermions, set entirely by the Coulomb potential and the underlying electronic Landau level orbitals, can stabilize exotic fractional quantum Hall states. In particular, half-filled Landau levels with different orbital […]Ravi Kumar, Tomer Firon, André Haug, Misha Yutushui, Alon Ner Gaon, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, David F. Mross, and Yuval Ronen
- Interacting Chern Insulator Transition on the Sphere: Revealing the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Criticality 16/10/2026Author(s): Zhi-Qiang Gao, Taige Wang, and Dung-Hai LeeIn two dimensions a Chern insulator can be tuned from a topological state to an ordinary band insulator without breaking any symmetry, offering a clean example of “beyond-Landau” criticality. We show that electron interactions drive this transition to the Gross-Neveu-Yukawa (GNY) fixed point, a benc…[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, […]Zhi-Qiang Gao, Taige Wang, and Dung-Hai Lee
- Local Relaxation and Scale-Dependent Alignment in Compressible, Magnetized Turbulence 16/10/2026Author(s): James R. Beattie and Amitava BhattacharjeePatchy alignment pervades magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence, yet its role in the turbulent cascade remains unclear. Using net- and no-net-flux compressible simulations with up to $10,36{8}^{3}$ grid cells, we uncover two distinct alignment laws. Our constant-flux model of departures from locally …[Phys. Rev. Lett. 137, 165202] Published Fri Oct 16, […]James R. Beattie and Amitava Bhattacharjee
- Transient Alignment of Distinct $l$-Doubling Populations via Centrifugal Distortion Precompensation 16/10/2026Author(s): Inbar Sternbach, Kfir Rutman Moshe, Amit Beer, Soumitra Hazra, and Sharly FleischerWe experimentally demonstrate a coherent-control scheme for precompensation of centrifugal distortion using shaped femtosecond laser pulses. By imposing a cubic spectral phase on the excitation pulse [Y. Huang et al., Phys. Rev. A 107, 053108 (2023)], rotational revivals that would otherwise become…[Phys. Rev. […]Inbar Sternbach, Kfir Rutman Moshe, Amit Beer, Soumitra Hazra, and Sharly Fleischer