Each year Physical Review Letters publishes about 2000-2500 Letters across ~52 issues. We select about 400 of those papers to highlight as Editors' Suggestions. That is still a lot to read. So, we have decided to provide a more concentrated distillation of some of the most important and interesting papers in physics and related areas.
Here is our Collection of the Year 2024. We have gathered about one issue's worth of Letters, representative of the wide range of interests of the communities advancing fundamental and applied physical science. We plan to have such a collection each year.
This year saw advances in a diverse array of topics: the quantum Mpemba effect, astrophysical neutrino events, black holes, probes of the standard model of particle physics, steps toward the nuclear island of stability, groundwork for a nuclear clock, Feynman’s sprinkler, studies of the ocean and core of the Earth, a milestone in inertial confinement fusion, altermagnet theories and experiments, topology, 2D materials, scaling in the fruit-fly brain, and more.
Congratulations to all the authors in this collection!
We hope you get a chance to read not only in your field, but some of the remarkable achievements in neighboring fields.
The PRL Editors
