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#OnTheCover of Physical Review Letters this week: An optical cavity containing an ensemble of molecules that are nonlinearly driven by an incoming pump and probe laser pulses.

Read the paper: go.aps.org/45ePqxh
Artist’s rendering of an optical cavity filled with molecules, illuminated by incoming red and yellow laser pulses (left) and emitting a blue waveform (right). The illustration represents nonlinear interactions between pump and probe pulses and the molecular ensemble inside the cavity, as used in quantum system simulations.
May 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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📣 Calling all middle & high school physics teachers in the Portland area. Join us Monday, June 16 for a day of FREE workshops exploring quantum science and ways that you can bring quantum to your classroom! Register by June 1: www.surveymonkey.com/r/C82KSRQ #PhysicsTeachers
May 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The president's budget proposal cuts billions in funding from the DOE Office of Science, NIST, NASA, and the NSF — but there’s still time to change it. Tell your lawmakers why they should stand up for science using our letter-writing toolkit, targeted to your state: go.aps.org/3RP9EWF
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May 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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A shoe-box sized system on the @space_station could break ground in #quantum communications, overcoming the limitations of fiber optics.

The SEAQUE experiment’s first results were unveiled at #APSSummit25. Read more in APS News: go.aps.org/4ix3K7w
A close-up of the boxy interior of SEAQUE reveals colorful 3D-printed components (blue, orange), circuit boards, wiring, and other hardware. Close-up view of the International Space Station exterior, showing equipment and, circled in red, SEAQUE. An astronaut in a spacesuit in the middle of the photo blends into the white station structures.
May 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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New in Physical Review A: Researchers take the Rubik's cube to the next level, introducing #superposition where tiles can occupy multiple positions simultaneously. They found combining classical and #quantum moves equals faster puzzle-solving.

Read more: go.aps.org/3XX7gk5
An illustration titled Quantum Rubik’s Cube on a beige background. The cube is laid out with 9 tiles on each side. Each tile has a circle in the middle with one color and two different colors filling in the sides of the square, representing the different options for each cube with superpositioning. Next to the cube, text reads “superposition of colors” with an arrow pointing to the cube. Below the text is a venn diagram showing all the color possibilities.
April 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The first SCOAP3 assessment of open science practices gave our journals high marks. A review of @PhysRevLetters, @PhysRevC, and @PhysRevD earned nearly double the total score of the next-highest publisher, showing our commitment to #OpenScience.

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A burst of glowing golden particles radiates outward from a central point, symbolizing the Higgs boson and the energy of particle collisions in high-energy physics.
April 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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14,000 physicists joined us #APSSummit25 last month — but what if they’d chosen a different path? Tell us what you’d do if you weren’t a physicist 👇
April 7, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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A new study in Physical Review Fluids suggests extra padding in headgear could reduce #brain damage caused by rotational impact injuries. Researchers tested this type of impact by modeling the brain as a hydrogel sphere inside liquid mimicking cerebrospinal fluid.

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A visualization of solid displacement in a hydrogel sphere, representing a model brain. The color map ranges from blue at the center, representing low displacement, to red at the edges, representing high displacement. Arrows indicate displacement direction, pointing outward from the center towards the edges. A scale on the right quantifies dimensionless displacement values. The label "displacement" is displayed vertically.
April 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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#OTD in 1948, the now-famous “alpha-beta-gamma” paper explained how conditions after the #BigBang could explain the origin of hydrogen and helium.

Learn more about the paper, and how it got its tongue-in-cheek name: aps.org/apsnews/2008...

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An ultraviolet image from NASA GALEX space telescope, showing two companion galaxies surrounded by purple swirls of cool hydrogen gas.
April 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM