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  • Polaron-Polariton-Assisted Thermally Activated Superradiance

    Author(s): Yi-Ting Chuang and Liang-Yan Hsu We predict an anomalous thermally activated superradiance in molecular aggregates within polaritonic environments. In contrast to free space, the collective emission is enhanced when either the exciton-phonon coupling or the temperature increases. This counterintuitive phenomenon is captured by a mi… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 238001] Published Tue Jun 09, 2026

  • Topological Approach to Measuring the Gaussian Curvature Modulus of Lipid Membranes in Simulation

    Author(s): Seamus F. Gallagher and Markus Deserno Fission and fusion of lipid membranes are ubiquitous shape transformations in living cells, necessary for maintaining the shape of organelles and enabling a host of transport processes between them. These topology-changing events involve curvature-elastic free energy changes proportional to the Gaus… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 238201] Published Tue Jun 09, 2026

  • Macroscopic Illusion and Microscopic Reality of Glass Formation Paths: Cooling vs Compression

    Author(s): Kajetan Koperwas, Żaneta Wojnarowska, and Marian Paluch We provide evidence that dynamical slowdown in glass-forming liquids may follow different microscopic routes under cooling and compression, pointing to a previously unrecognized discrepancy between two dynamical landmarks: the Arrhenius–to–non-Arrhenius crossover associated with cooling and the infl… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228001] Published Wed Jun 03, 2026

  • Entropic Charge Separation as a General Mechanism Arresting Nanoscale Condensate Coarsening

    Author(s): Feipeng Chen, Jiaxing Yuan, Yaojun Zhang, Hajime Tanaka, and Ho Cheung Shum Size-dependent electrostatic barriers place an upper limit on droplet merging efficiency. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228202] Published Wed Jun 03, 2026

  • Emergent Isotropic-Nematic Transition in 3D Semiflexible Active Polymers

    Author(s): Twan Hooijschuur, Ehsan Irani, Antoine Deblais, and Sara Jabbari-Farouji Large-scale Brownian dynamics simulations of 3D semiflexible polymers show that activity modifies the classic picture of the isotropic–nematic transition which highlights a nontrivial interplay between activity, flexibility, and crowding in these systems. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228101] Published Tue Jun 02, 2026

  • Correlation between Structural Order and Diffusion Length in Granular Flow

    Author(s): David Luce, Adrien Gans, Sébastien Kiesgen De Richter, and Nicolas Vandewalle We investigate how structural ordering, i.e., crystallization, affects the flow of bidisperse granular materials in a quasi-two-dimensional silo. By systematically varying the mass fraction of two particle sizes, we finely tune the degree of local order. Using high-speed imaging and kinematic modeli… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 228201] Published Tue Jun 02,...

  • Phase Separation in a Chiral Active Fluid of Inertial Self-Spinning Disks

    Author(s): Pasquale Digregorio, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Francisco Vega Reyes We show that systematic particle rotations in a fluid composed of disk-shaped spinners can spontaneously lead to phase separation. The phenomenon arises out of a homogeneous and hydrostatic stationary state, due to a pressure feedback mechanism that increases local density fluctuations. We show how … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 218301] Published Wed May 27, 2026
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