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Structural oddities

A small twist to a field theory, a giant leap for its phenomenology. Waiving the standard requirement of energy conservation in linear elasticity unravels unexpected mechanical behaviour that has previously been overlooked.

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Peri, V., Huber, S.D. Structural oddities. Nat. Phys. 16, 375–376 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-0814-z

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