PRL ON THE COVER
June 7, 2024
Transition between rotational and translational behavior of a simulated active solid structure. Trajectories are color coded from blue to red by increasing time. Selected for a Focus story in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion.
Claudio Hernández-López et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 238303 (2024)
RMP ON THE COVER
June 5, 2024
For centuries, human fascination with the living world motivated the development of tools for visualizing life’s events at the spatiotemporal scales beyond our visual range. While all optical microscopes use light to probe the object of interest, fluorescence microscopes can discern between the object and background at the molecular scale. At this scale, the stochastic properties of light are fundamental to interpreting fluorescence microscopy data. Accordingly quantitative methods that enable such interpretation necessitate stochastic perspective and the use of statistical concepts. The physical-optical principles governing the formation of fluorescent images and modeling tools interpreting these images while accounting for the stochasticity of light and measurements are reviewed.
Mohamadreza Fazel et al.
Rev. Mod. Phys. 96, 025003 (2024)