Robert Garisto
@robertgaristo.bsky.social
Physicist. Editor. Writer.
Evidence (3.4σ) from @atlasexperiment.bsky.social that Higgs bosons decay into muon pairs, as predicted by the Standard Model mass mechanism for leptons as laid out in Steven Weinberg's 1967 model of leptons. Glibly, Weinberg was right.
PRL: go.aps.org/3MoU2JT #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3XtwWUV
PRL: go.aps.org/3MoU2JT #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3XtwWUV
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Evidence (3.4σ) from @atlasexperiment.bsky.social that Higgs bosons decay into muon pairs, as predicted by the Standard Model mass mechanism for leptons as laid out in Steven Weinberg's 1967 model of leptons. Glibly, Weinberg was right.
PRL: go.aps.org/3MoU2JT #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3XtwWUV
PRL: go.aps.org/3MoU2JT #OpenAccess
PhysMag: go.aps.org/3XtwWUV
Realization of the Einstein-Bohr Gedankenexperiment using a single atom as tunable recoiling "slit" 🧪⚛️ #IYQ2025
PRL: go.aps.org/44C02Fn
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4pf6bQl
PRL: go.aps.org/44C02Fn
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4pf6bQl
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Realization of the Einstein-Bohr Gedankenexperiment using a single atom as tunable recoiling "slit" 🧪⚛️ #IYQ2025
PRL: go.aps.org/44C02Fn
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4pf6bQl
PRL: go.aps.org/44C02Fn
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4pf6bQl
#PRLjournalclub
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
November 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
#PRLjournalclub
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
Please join us in a week, on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025 12p EST
for a live discussion with the authors of Lysak et al about
New Plasma Regime in Jupiter’s Auroral Zones
PRL: go.aps.org/4lpgnng #OpenAccess
Free registration: go.aps.org/4oZN8ZK
Job Opening: Full-Time Associate Editor, PRL
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
October 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Job Opening: Full-Time Associate Editor, PRL
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
We seek a dynamic and personable individual with postdoctoral experience in gravitation, astrophysics, or cosmology, to join our close-knit team of editors running the world’s leading physics journal.
aps.applicantstack.com/x/detail/a27...
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, & John Martinis
Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, & John Martinis
Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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Nobel in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs
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30% of PRL authors use End Matter after just a year! I’ve seen it improve many a Letter. #PeerReviewWeek
September 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
30% of PRL authors use End Matter after just a year! I’ve seen it improve many a Letter. #PeerReviewWeek
I'd like to thank everyone who helped carefully & quickly vet this Letter & bring it to publication: authors, editors, other staff, and especially the referees.
(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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September 10, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'd like to thank everyone who helped carefully & quickly vet this Letter & bring it to publication: authors, editors, other staff, and especially the referees.
(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
(Received 13 August 2025; revised 25 August 2025; accepted 26 August 2025; published 10 September 2025)
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Event GW250114, with signal-to-noise ratio of 80, shows
• mass & spin of the merged BH matches the Kerr spectrum
• horizon area of the final BH is greater than the sum of the horizon areas for the merging BHs, as predicted in 1971 by Stephen Hawking go.aps.org/4nkqZEr
• mass & spin of the merged BH matches the Kerr spectrum
• horizon area of the final BH is greater than the sum of the horizon areas for the merging BHs, as predicted in 1971 by Stephen Hawking go.aps.org/4nkqZEr
September 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Event GW250114, with signal-to-noise ratio of 80, shows
• mass & spin of the merged BH matches the Kerr spectrum
• horizon area of the final BH is greater than the sum of the horizon areas for the merging BHs, as predicted in 1971 by Stephen Hawking go.aps.org/4nkqZEr
• mass & spin of the merged BH matches the Kerr spectrum
• horizon area of the final BH is greater than the sum of the horizon areas for the merging BHs, as predicted in 1971 by Stephen Hawking go.aps.org/4nkqZEr
** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT **
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
September 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
** STEPHEN HAWKING WAS RIGHT **
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
Using a very strong black-hole merger signal, the @LIGO-@ego_virgo-@KAGRA_PR Collaboration has shown the 2nd law of black hole mechanics, Hawking's area law (A_final > A_initial), to hold with high credibility.
PRL: go.aps.org/3VarXHA #open
Fun PRL about chainmail:
"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
go.aps.org/3HsuObE 🧪⚛️
"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
go.aps.org/3HsuObE 🧪⚛️
August 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Fun PRL about chainmail:
"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
go.aps.org/3HsuObE 🧪⚛️
"In this Letter, we propose a rigidity theory for a type of interlocked material system: the torus knot tessellation."
go.aps.org/3HsuObE 🧪⚛️
Meet our new Lead Editor*: Rafael Fernandes @uofillinois.bsky.social
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*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
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*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
August 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Meet our new Lead Editor*: Rafael Fernandes @uofillinois.bsky.social
journals.aps.org/prl/edannoun...
*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
journals.aps.org/prl/edannoun...
*To avoid confusion, I'm not going anywhere. He will work with me as an advisor in my role as Chief Editor.
AI is used to quickly assemble ~2000 atoms without defects. As a fun demonstration of the technique, the authors created a #CatVideo about Schrödinger's cat—each pixel is an atom.
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
AI is used to quickly assemble ~2000 atoms without defects. As a fun demonstration of the technique, the authors created a #CatVideo about Schrödinger's cat—each pixel is an atom.
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
PRL: go.aps.org/40Sx1ne
PhysMag: go.aps.org/4fyNPps
Photonic torons with 3D topology transitions and tunable spin monopoles
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
August 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Photonic torons with 3D topology transitions and tunable spin monopoles
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
PRL: go.aps.org/4l9fLRH #CoolVideo 🧪⚛️
#PRLjournalclub
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
go.aps.org/44UlYeg
Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
go.aps.org/44UlYeg
Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
July 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
#PRLjournalclub
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
go.aps.org/44UlYeg
Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
Please join us on Thursday, July 24th, 9p EDT for a live discussion with the authors of:
"Establishing a New Benchmark in Quantum Computational Advantage with 105-qubit Zuchongzhi 3.0 Processor"
go.aps.org/44UlYeg
Free Registration: go.aps.org/45aKKYV
Here are PRL's metrics journals.aps.org/prl/about
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
July 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Here are PRL's metrics journals.aps.org/prl/about
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
•PRL is large, so not buffeted by its highest-cited papers
•A PRL is cited almost once a minute
•PRL is 60x more influential than the average journal
•PRL's Google h5 index is 50 more than the next physics journal scholar.google.com/citations?vi...)
Using a bubble chamber, world-leading constraints are placed on the absorption of hypothetical fermionic dark matter, including the first limits on spin-dependent absorptive interactions go.aps.org/4eszJVQ
July 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Using a bubble chamber, world-leading constraints are placed on the absorption of hypothetical fermionic dark matter, including the first limits on spin-dependent absorptive interactions go.aps.org/4eszJVQ
Next in PRL's series of forward-looking Essays (see go.aps.org/3OOyTYP), Tadashi Takayanagi outlines prospects for understanding quantum gravity using holographic duality in the context of quantum information go.aps.org/4kRroxy #OpenAccess
June 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Next in PRL's series of forward-looking Essays (see go.aps.org/3OOyTYP), Tadashi Takayanagi outlines prospects for understanding quantum gravity using holographic duality in the context of quantum information go.aps.org/4kRroxy #OpenAccess
World-leading constraints are placed on dark-matter particles with mass between 100 keV and 1 GeV which could have been boosted to relativistic energies via collisions with cosmic rays go.aps.org/4kK20JR 🧪⚛️ #OpenAccess
June 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
World-leading constraints are placed on dark-matter particles with mass between 100 keV and 1 GeV which could have been boosted to relativistic energies via collisions with cosmic rays go.aps.org/4kK20JR 🧪⚛️ #OpenAccess
Nice interview with PRL's Lead Editor (chief scientific advisor) Hugues Chaté by Science & Technology Daily, and a testimonial about PRL by one of China's leading scientists, Jianwei Pan. digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjr...
June 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nice interview with PRL's Lead Editor (chief scientific advisor) Hugues Chaté by Science & Technology Daily, and a testimonial about PRL by one of China's leading scientists, Jianwei Pan. digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjr...
Schrödinger's trilobites:
PRL Cover Caption: Two calculated Rydberg electron distributions for trilobite molecules.
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PRL Cover Caption: Two calculated Rydberg electron distributions for trilobite molecules.
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June 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Schrödinger's trilobites:
PRL Cover Caption: Two calculated Rydberg electron distributions for trilobite molecules.
journals.aps.org/prl/issues/1...
PRL Cover Caption: Two calculated Rydberg electron distributions for trilobite molecules.
journals.aps.org/prl/issues/1...
APS has posted a number of new metrics for journals, including decision times. PRL does quite well for a very selective journal (which can entail more review).
All: journals.aps.org/metrics
PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/about
All: journals.aps.org/metrics
PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/about
June 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
APS has posted a number of new metrics for journals, including decision times. PRL does quite well for a very selective journal (which can entail more review).
All: journals.aps.org/metrics
PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/about
All: journals.aps.org/metrics
PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/about
#RIP Joseph H. Eberly, leader in quantum optics.
Charles Hard Townes Medal
Frederic Ives Medal
Marian Smoluchowski Medal
OSA President
APS & OSA Fellow
APS Outstanding Referee
Obituary:
optica.org/about/newsro...
PR&PRLs: journals.aps.org/search/resul...
Charles Hard Townes Medal
Frederic Ives Medal
Marian Smoluchowski Medal
OSA President
APS & OSA Fellow
APS Outstanding Referee
Obituary:
optica.org/about/newsro...
PR&PRLs: journals.aps.org/search/resul...
May 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
#RIP Joseph H. Eberly, leader in quantum optics.
Charles Hard Townes Medal
Frederic Ives Medal
Marian Smoluchowski Medal
OSA President
APS & OSA Fellow
APS Outstanding Referee
Obituary:
optica.org/about/newsro...
PR&PRLs: journals.aps.org/search/resul...
Charles Hard Townes Medal
Frederic Ives Medal
Marian Smoluchowski Medal
OSA President
APS & OSA Fellow
APS Outstanding Referee
Obituary:
optica.org/about/newsro...
PR&PRLs: journals.aps.org/search/resul...
In celebration of #IYQ2025 the Phys. Rev. editors have curated a collection of seminal papers that laid the foundations of the field
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Editorial: Celebrating the First Century of Quantum Physics & Preparing for the Next One journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️
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Editorial: Celebrating the First Century of Quantum Physics & Preparing for the Next One journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️
April 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
In celebration of #IYQ2025 the Phys. Rev. editors have curated a collection of seminal papers that laid the foundations of the field
promo.aps.org/quantum-foun...
Editorial: Celebrating the First Century of Quantum Physics & Preparing for the Next One journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️
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Editorial: Celebrating the First Century of Quantum Physics & Preparing for the Next One journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... 🧪⚛️
Three of the top 10 cited papers of all time (according to @nature.com) are physics papers, 1 in PRL, 2 in PRB:
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April 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Three of the top 10 cited papers of all time (according to @nature.com) are physics papers, 1 in PRL, 2 in PRB:
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Dwarf Galaxies Imply Dark Matter is Heavier than 2.2⨉10⁻²¹eV
"This lower limit is free of any assumptions pertaining to cosmology, microphysics (including spin), or dynamics of dark matter [just assumes a] single bosonic particle species."
PRL go.aps.org/42EbzCy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️
"This lower limit is free of any assumptions pertaining to cosmology, microphysics (including spin), or dynamics of dark matter [just assumes a] single bosonic particle species."
PRL go.aps.org/42EbzCy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️
April 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Dwarf Galaxies Imply Dark Matter is Heavier than 2.2⨉10⁻²¹eV
"This lower limit is free of any assumptions pertaining to cosmology, microphysics (including spin), or dynamics of dark matter [just assumes a] single bosonic particle species."
PRL go.aps.org/42EbzCy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️
"This lower limit is free of any assumptions pertaining to cosmology, microphysics (including spin), or dynamics of dark matter [just assumes a] single bosonic particle species."
PRL go.aps.org/42EbzCy #OpenAccess 🧪⚛️