When determining the authorship list for your next paper, be generous yet disciplined.

Two PRX Editorial Board members, Liuyan Zhao and Xavier Marie, talk about why PRX is positively welcoming to the field of 2D materials research.

Applying the physics of spin glasses to a multiplayer economic game shows that agents never reach collectively optimal strategies even when they learn from past outcomes.

An experiment puts limits on how much quantum vacuum fluctuations can alter the quantized Hall resistance in a 2D electron gas under a magnetic field.

Statistical properties of fluctuations of certain parameters describing a complex system can reveal when that system is approaching a tipping point.

Synopsis on:
Andreas Morr and Niklas Boers
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021037 (2024)

Statistical properties of fluctuations of certain parameters describing a complex system can reveal when that system is approaching a tipping point.

Machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are already a powerful tool for simulating atomic interactions. Including basis functions on graphs makes MLIPs physically and chemically transparent and even more accurate and efficient.

Group theory and first-principles calculations combine to predict which antiferromagnets have potentially useful net surface magnetization.

Viewpoint on:
Sophie F. Weber et al.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021033 (2024)

Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226702 (2024)

Researchers discovered a trick for dragging an object in a fluid with minimal effort, suggesting an optimal strategy for nanorobots.

Focus story on:
Sarah A. M. Loos, Samuel Monter, Felix Ginot, and Clemens Bechinger
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021032 (2024)

In its superconducting state, an exotic metal harbors charge carriers that appear to have 4 and 6 times the charge of a single electron, suggesting the formation of Cooper-pair “molecules.”

Viewpoint on:
Jun Ge et al.
Phys. Rev. X 14, 021025 (2024)

APS has selected 156 Outstanding Referees for 2024 who have demonstrated exceptional work in the assessment of manuscripts published in the Physical Review journals. A full list of the Outstanding Referees is available online.

PRX presents a collection of papers dedicated to ultrafast generation, control, and imaging of electronic dynamics in molecules and in solids—a fortuitously timed tribute to the 2023 Nobel-Prize-winning attosecond technology.

Introducing PRX’s second Perspective, Igor Mazin, PRX’s Editorial Board member, and the editors offer their take on why altermagnetism is needed to describe a new class of magnetism.