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A paper in Physical Review Letters measures the spatial confinement of chiral edge modes and presents a model to show how it varies depending on disorder.
15 years ago, 3D topological insulators were experimentally discovered. Since then, the ever-expanding family of topological materials has provided insights into new physics.
100 years ago, Arthur Compton measured a wavelength shift in an X-ray scattering experiment, which provided direct evidence for the particle theory of light. Today, Compton scattering continues to be a useful tool for research and medical applications.
A paper in Physical Review X presents a method for numerically generating data sequences that are as likely to be observed under a power law as a given observed dataset.
A study in PNAS suggests that symmetric structures in nature are preferred because they require less information to encode — they are more compressible.