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Article on new physics searches with spheres selected as IOP Top Cited Paper

Our article on searching for new physics with levitated microspheres selected as IOP Top Cited Paper for North America in the Quantum category.

Paper link: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-9565/abcf8a

See the following for more details:

https://wlab.yale.edu/news/yale-physics-faculty-awarded-iop-top-cited-paper-awards

North America: Top Cited Paper Award

Paper detecting nuclear decays in microspheres featured in PRL

Congrats to Jiaxiang on leading this work, providing the first detection of a nuclear decay by observing the recoil of the entire object in which the decaying nucleus is embedded:

Paper in PRL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.023602
Viewpoint in Physics Magazine: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/107
Cartoon describing the work: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/108
Coverage in Physics Today: https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/43404/Levitating-beads-reveal-radioactivity

Here we are celebrating the publication with durian crepe cake: