Physical Sciences / Physics -- New results matching your topic search. https://www.pnas.org/action/doSearch?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Physics Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences en-US http://www.atypon.com/images/atypon_logo_small.gif http://www.atypon.com https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2528723123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 15, April 2026. <br/> Cosmic ray–driven electron-induced reaction theory does not quantify spatiotemporal variations in lower-stratospheric ozone and temperature doi:10.1073/pnas.2528723123 2026-04-06T07:00:00Z Sophie Godin-BeekmannMartyn P. ChipperfieldRolf MüllerJessica L. NeuPaul A. NewmanMichelle L. SanteeSusan SolomonDavid TarasickAnne M. ThompsonZihao WangaLaboratoire Atmosphère Observations Spatiales, Sorbonne Université, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 75005, FrancebSchool of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United KingdomcNational Centre for Earth Observation, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United KingdomdInstitute of Climate and Energy Systems: Stratosphere, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich 52425, GermanyeJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109fUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250gDepartment of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139hEnvironment and Climate Change, Toronto, ON M3H 5T4, CanadaiNational Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 15 2026-04-14T07:00:00Z 2026-04-14T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2528723123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2528723123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2537183123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 15, April 2026. <br/> Reply to Godin-Beekmann et al.: Quantitative agreement between the CRE theory and spatiotemporal ozone observations is well founded doi:10.1073/pnas.2537183123 2026-04-06T07:00:00Z Qing-Bin LuaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CanadabDepartment of Biology and Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 15 2026-04-14T07:00:00Z 2026-04-14T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2537183123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2537183123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2522964123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 14, April 2026. <br/>SignificanceThe effects of stochasticity can be averaged in two ways: over a population of individuals and over time along individual trajectories. If the encountered states and collected payoffs along any given trajectory eventually match the expected ... Non-ergodicity in ecology and evolution doi:10.1073/pnas.2522964123 2026-03-31T07:00:00Z Teemu KuosmanenAlexandre MinettoVille MustonenaDepartment of Computer Science, Organismal and Evolutionary Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 14 2026-04-07T07:00:00Z 2026-04-07T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2522964123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2522964123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2528413123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 14, April 2026. <br/>SignificanceAs modern computing becomes limited by energy consumption, there is growing interest in physical computing paradigms that can operate closer to fundamental thermodynamic limits. Thermodynamic computing is an emerging field in which computation ... Training thermodynamic computers by gradient descent doi:10.1073/pnas.2528413123 2026-04-03T07:00:00Z Stephen WhitelamaMolecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 14 2026-04-07T07:00:00Z 2026-04-07T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2528413123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2528413123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2525390123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 13, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceModeling the motion of small particles in turbulent flows is central to a wide range of scientific and engineering problems ranging from cloud formation and pollutant transport to manufacturing and nuclear fusion. Yet, despite a century of ... Data-driven Mori–Zwanzig modeling of Lagrangian particle dynamics in turbulent flows doi:10.1073/pnas.2525390123 2026-03-25T07:00:00Z Xander M. de WitAlessandro GabbanaMichael WoodwardYen Ting LinFederico ToschiDaniel LivescuaDepartment of Applied Physics and Science Education, Fluids and Flows group and J.M. Burgers Center for Fluid Mechanics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5600 MB, NetherlandsbComputational Physics and Methods Group (CCS-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545cCenter for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545dDepartment of Physics and Earth Science, University of Ferrara, INFN Ferrara, Ferrara 44121, ItalyeInformation Science Group (CCS-3), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545fInstituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome I-00185, Italy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 13 2026-03-31T07:00:00Z 2026-03-31T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2525390123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2525390123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2531552123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 13, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceWe report a van der Waals semiconductor, crystalline As2S3, that exhibits an exceptionally large light-induced refractive index change (photorefraction Δnup to 0.3) together with controllable photoexpansion of up to 7%. These effects occur ... Giant photorefractive and photoexpansion effects in a van der Waals semiconductor doi:10.1073/pnas.2531552123 2026-03-27T07:00:00Z Anton A. MinnekhanovGeorgy A. ErmolaevAlexey P. TsapenkoIlia M. FradkinGleb I. TselikovAdilet N. ToksumakovAleksandr S. SlavichArslan B. MazitovSergey A. SmirnovNikita D. OrekhovIvan A. KruglovSergei A. IvanovIlya P. RadkoAndrey A. VyshnevyyAleksey V. ArseninKostya S. NovoselovValentyn S. VolkovaEmerging Technologies Research Center, XPANCEO, Dubai 00000, United Arab EmiratesbNational Graphene Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United KingdomcDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117544, SingaporedInstitute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117544, Singapore Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 13 2026-03-31T07:00:00Z 2026-03-31T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2531552123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2531552123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2523350123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceIs there a fundamental reason why quantum computers cannot factor large integers used for encryption today? We introduce a theory of quantum physics based on the notion that the continuum nature of quantum mechanics’ state space approximates ... Rational quantum mechanics: Testing quantum theory with quantum computers doi:10.1073/pnas.2523350123 2026-03-16T07:00:00Z Tim PalmeraDepartment of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 12 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2523350123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2523350123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2525419123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceNudibranchs are an extraordinarily diverse group of marine animals, renowned for their dazzling range of colors and striking patterns. While their pigmentary coloration is well understood, so far, structural coloration has been largely ... Nudibranch color diversity shares a common physical basis in guanine photonic structure ‘pixels’ doi:10.1073/pnas.2525419123 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z Samuel HumphreyXianglian HeTobias PriemelVera Marie TitzeSinuhé Perea-PuenteVivek SubramanianCedric Bouchet-MarquisBruno JesusSilvia VignoliniaDepartment of Sustainable and Bio-inspired Materials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam 14476, GermanybBio-inspired Photonics Group, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United KingdomcMaterials and Structural Analysis, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Hi6llsboro, OR 5350dDépartement Biologie, Institut Des Substances Et Organismes de La Mer, Nantes Université, Nantes 44322, France Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 12 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2525419123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2525419123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2531605123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/>SignificancePhase-change materials (PCM) are used in nonvolatile memories and neuromorphic computing devices, which exploit the strong temperature dependence of their crystallization kinetics. Using molecular dynamics simulations based on a machine-... Liquid anomalies and fragility of supercooled antimony doi:10.1073/pnas.2531605123 2026-03-20T07:00:00Z Flavio GiulianiFrancesco Guidarelli MattioliYuhan ChenDario BaratellaDaniele DragoniMarco BernasconiJohn RussoLilia BoeriRiccardo MazzarelloaDepartment of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome 00185, ItalybDepartment of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan 20125, ItalycQuantum Computing Solutions, Leonardo Societá per azioni, Via R. Pieragostini 80, Genova, Italy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 12 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2531605123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2531605123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2535645123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceThis research presents a scalable screen-printing strategy for fabricating dynamic structural-color graphics using cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs). The printed patterns exhibit circularly polarized reflection, mechanochromism, ... Dynamic anticounterfeiting and tunable lasing with screen-printed cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers doi:10.1073/pnas.2535645123 2026-03-19T07:00:00Z Guangyin QuLulu GuoXiaojuan ZhangSiqi LiYan KuaiWeiwei FuTianyu YangJialin WenBenli YuZhijia HuaState Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Protection Technology, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Acquisition and Manipulation of Ministry of Education, Information Materials and Intelligent Sensing Laboratory of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, ChinabSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinacSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui 230601, ChinadInstitute of Very Large Scale Integration Design, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei 230601, ChinaeInstitute of Opto-Electronic Engineering and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 12 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2535645123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2535645123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2606723123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 12, March 2026. <br/> Correction for Ghimenti et al., Clever algorithms for glasses work by time reparameterization doi:10.1073/pnas.2606723123 2026-03-20T07:00:00Z Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 12 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 2026-03-24T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2606723123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2606723123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2515400123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceMagnetic topological insulators exhibit a range of remarkable and potentially useful electronic phenomena. Many of these electronic properties, including the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE), remain confined to cryogenic temperatures. ... Visualizing the breakdown of the quantum anomalous Hall effect doi:10.1073/pnas.2515400123 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z G. M FergusonRun XiaoAnthony R. RichardellaAustin KaczmarekNitin SamarthKatja C. NowackaDepartment of Physics, Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853bDepartment of Physics and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802cKavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2515400123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2515400123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520324123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>Room-temperature superconductivity is arguably the greatest challenge in condensed matter physics, with significant practical and commercial implications if it can be solved. There are no physical laws preventing this from occurring; indeed, ... The path to room-temperature superconductivity: A programmatic approach doi:10.1073/pnas.2520324123 2026-03-09T07:00:00Z Rohit P. PrasankumarMatthew JulianMichael HutcheonChristoph HeilLiangzi DengDmitri BasovChing-Wu ChuRiccardo CominPhilip KimBryce MeredigChris PickardWarren E. PickettTimothy StrobelStuart WolfEva ZurekNathan MyhrvoldaEnterprise Science Fund, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA 98007bInstitute of Theoretical and Computational Physics, Graz University of Technology, NAWI Graz, Graz 8010, AustriacDepartment of Physics, Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204dDepartment of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027eDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139fDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138gTravertine Labs, Las Vegas, NV 89103hDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FS, United KingdomiDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616jEarth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015kDepartment of Chemistry, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2520324123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520324123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520703123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceThis study reveals a unique electronic control mechanism in twisted bilayer 1T-TaSe2, wherein a dual moiré pattern—arising from both the atomic lattice and the charge density wave (CDW) superlattice—governs distinct modulations of the ... Modulation of electronic structure via dual moiré patterns in twisted 1T-TaSe2 doi:10.1073/pnas.2520703123 2026-03-11T07:00:00Z Yonghao LiuYuan ZhengKun YangWenhao ZhangZongxiu WuJingjing GaoXuan LuoYuping SunJin ZhangYi YinaZhejiang Key Laboratory of Micro-Nano Quantum Chips and Quantum Control, School of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, ChinabLaboratory of Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, ChinacKey Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid-State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, ChinadAnhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Low-Energy Quantum Materials and Devices, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, ChinaeCollaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2520703123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520703123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2527371123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceOur study reveals that twisting two-dimensional anisotropic crystals can trigger a “moiré collapse,:” a structural collapse of a two-dimensional moiré pattern into a one-dimensional crystal, taking place at a new type of magic angle. This ... Moiré collapse and Luttinger liquids in twisted anisotropic homobilayers doi:10.1073/pnas.2527371123 2026-03-11T07:00:00Z Duarte J. P. de SousaSeungjun LeeFrancisco GuineaTony LowaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455bInstituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados Nanoscience, Madrid 28049, SpaincDonostia International Physics Center, San Sebastián 20018, SpaindDepartment of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2527371123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2527371123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2529764123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceTo predict material properties, accurate but efficient approximations for the electronic exchange-correlation energy are needed. r2SCAN satisfies many more exact conditions than PBE, and is more accurate in most cases, but there are puzzling ... Electron localization in noncompact covalent bonds captured by the r2SCAN+V approach doi:10.1073/pnas.2529764123 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z Yubo ZhangDa KeRohan ManiarTimo LebedaPeihong ZhangJianwei SunJohn P. PerdewaMinjiang Collaborative Center for Theoretical Physics, College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Minjiang University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350108, ChinabDepartment of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118cDepartment of Physics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2529764123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2529764123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2533676123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceSolving long-standing scientific problems requires researchers to navigate vast and complex research literatures with competing perspectives. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can aid in this challenging process in principle, reading ... Expert evaluation of LLM world models: A high-Tc superconductivity case study doi:10.1073/pnas.2533676123 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z Haoyu GuoMaria TikhanovskayaPaul RaccugliaAlexey VlaskinChris CoDaniel J. LieblingScott EllsworthMatthew AbrahamElizabeth DorfmanN. P. ArmitageChunhan FengAntoine GeorgesOlivier GingrasDominik KieseSteven A. KivelsonVadim OganesyanB. J. RamshawSubir SachdevT. SenthilJ. M. TranquadaMichael P. BrennerSubhashini VenugopalanEun-Ah KimaDepartment of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853bGoogle, Mountain View, CA 94043cDepartment of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138dWilliam H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218eCenter for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010fCollège de France, 75005 Paris, FrancegThe Center for Theoretical Physics (CPHT), CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Route de Saclay, 91128 Palaiseau, FrancehDepartment of Quantum Matter Physics (DQMP), Université de Genève, Genève CH-1211, SwitzerlandiUniversité Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA), Institut de physique théorique, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, FrancejDepartment of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305kPhysics Program and Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY 10016lDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York (CUNY), Staten Island, NY 10314mDepartment of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139nCondensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000oSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138pDepartment of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, South Korea Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2533676123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2533676123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2536038123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificancePattern formation is ubiquitous in biological membranes and protein shells. Many cellular compartments including lipid vesicles, bacterial microcompartments, and viral capsids, are multicomponent systems that contain charged and neutral ... Electrostatically driven pattern formation in mixed charged–neutral multicomponent elastic membranes doi:10.1073/pnas.2536038123 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z Vipin AgrawalMonica Olvera de la CruzaCenter of Computation and Theory of Soft Materials, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208bDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2536038123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2536038123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2536178123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 11, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceThe pressure-quench protocol (PQP) demonstrated here establishes a paradigm for stabilizing at ambient pressure the high-pressure–induced/–enhanced metastable phases that host elevated superconducting transition temperatures, an effective way ... Ambient-pressure 151-K superconductivity in HgBa2Ca2Cu3O8+δ via pressure quench doi:10.1073/pnas.2536178123 2026-03-09T07:00:00Z Liangzi DengThacien HabamahoroArtin SafezoddehBishnu KarkiSudaice KazibweDaniel J. SchulzeZheng WuMatthew JulianRohit P. PrasankumarHua ZhouJesse S. SmithPavan R. HosurChing-Wu ChuaDepartment of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204bEnterprise Science Fund, Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue, WA 98005cX-ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 11 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 2026-03-17T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2536178123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2536178123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2514297123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 10, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceMolecular chirality is transferable: adding a tiny amount of chiral dopant induces an achiral nematic liquid crystal to twist into a chiral cholesteric phase. We argue that the origin of such helical twisting power lies in correlated ... Chirality amplification and chiral segregation in liquid crystals doi:10.1073/pnas.2514297123 2026-03-03T08:00:00Z Matthew J. DeutschRobin L. B. SelingerPaul van der SchootaMaterials Science Graduate Program, Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242bDepartment of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242cDepartment of Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven 5612 AE, The Netherlands Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 10 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2514297123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2514297123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520089123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 10, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceAlthough overdoped superconducting cuprates were prepared by reaction with high-pressure oxygen shortly after the discovery of high temperature superconductivity (HTSC), they never became widespread, leaving the “dome” of superconductivity in ... Saturation of superconductivity in cuprates overdoped with high-pressure oxygen: Phase diagram with YBa2Cu3O7+δ, δ → 1 doi:10.1073/pnas.2520089123 2026-03-02T08:00:00Z Steven D. ConradsonLuiz M. DezanetiGianguido BaldinozziLinda SederholmMaarit KarppinenLuis Casillas-TrujilloMatthew LatimerOliver MuellerEdmondo GilioliAlan R. BishopXiaofeng GuoJuejing LiuJuan Lezama PachecoaDepartment of Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 90164bFederal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Goias, Department of Academic Areas, Valparaiso-GO 72876-601, BrazilcStructures, Properties and Modeling of Solids Laboratory, University of Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, FrancedDepartment of Chemistry and Materials Science, Aalto University, Aalto FI-00076, FinlandeDepartment of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, National Supercomputer Centre, Linköping University, Linköping 58183, SwedenfStanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025gInstitute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Parma A-43124, ItalyhCenter for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545iStanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 10 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2520089123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520089123?af=R https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2525308123?af=R Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 10, March 2026. <br/>SignificanceSystems of interacting electrons can show emergent, strong-correlation phenomena. The parquet equations self-consistently relate various propagation amplitudes of many-electron systems and thereby allow one to distill the microscopic ... The finite-difference parquet method: Enhanced electron–paramagnon scattering opens a pseudogap doi:10.1073/pnas.2525308123 2026-03-03T08:00:00Z Jae-Mo LihmDominik KieseSeung-Sup B. LeeFabian B. KugleraEuropean Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility, Institute of Condensed Matter and Nanosciences, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve B-1348, BelgiumbDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, KoreacCenter for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, KoreadCenter for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, New York, NY 10010eInstitute for Data Innovation in Science, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, KoreafInstitute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Cologne 50937, Germany Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123 10 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z 2026-03-10T07:00:00Z 10.1073/pnas.2525308123 https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2525308123?af=R