Physical Review Letters - Week ending 28 October 2022

Physical Review Letters View Email Online Volume 129, Issue 18 Week Ending 28 October 2022 On the Cover Snapshot of a molecular dynamics simulation of a phase transition in GaN showing the enthalpy per atom on a color scale that goes from blue to red. From the article Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Howard Yanxon, Byungkyun Kang, Yansun Yao, and Qiang Zhu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185701 (2022)     View Issue   Advertisement See how researchers created a physics-driven contrastive learning scheme for a network of variable resistors The Physical Review Journal Club returns November 21 at 10:00 a.m. ET with Sam Dillavou, Menachem Stern, Andrea J. Liu, and Douglas J. Durian, University of Pennsylvania, to discuss their recently published Physical Review Applied paper: "Demonstration of Decentralized Physics-Driven Learning." 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Register now »     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Atom Interferometry with Floquet Atom Optics Thomas Wilkason, Megan Nantel, Jan Rudolph, Yijun Jiang (姜一君), Benjamin E. Garber, Hunter Swan, Samuel P. Carman, Mahiro Abe, and Jason M. Hogan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183202 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022 Viewpoint:Toward Flawless Atom Optics The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers—which could boost these devices' ability to probe new physics.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Fractional Optical Angular Momentum and Multi-Defect-Mediated Mode Renormalization and Orientation Control in Photonic Crystal Microring Resonators Mingkang Wang, Feng Zhou, Xiyuan Lu, Andrew McClung, Marcelo Davanco, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186101 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022 Focus:A Möbius Strip for Light A ring-shaped waveguide with a particular pattern of notches can force a light wave to make two round trips before completing an integer number of wave cycles.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Multifractal Conductance Fluctuations in High-Mobility Graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ramya Nagarajan, Rahul Pandit, and Aveek Bid Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186802 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022 Synopsis:Electrical Conductance Reveals Complex Fractals Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Packed Swarms on Dirt: Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flocks with Quenched and Annealed Disorder Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, Ananyo Maitra, and John Toner Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188004 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022 Synopsis:"Dirt" Is No Barrier to Flocking Predictions indicate that disorder induced by immobile imperfections does not prevent organisms from moving collectively as a group.     Featured in Physics Merger and Postmerger of Binary Neutron Stars with a Quark-Hadron Crossover Equation of State Yong-Jia Huang, Luca Baiotti, Toru Kojo, Kentaro Takami, Hajime Sotani, Hajime Togashi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Shigehiro Nagataki, and Yi-Zhong Fan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181101 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022 Synopsis:Listening to Equation-of-State Changes Simulations indicate that postmerger gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars could allow researchers to hear the phase transitions between exotic states of matter.     Editors' Suggestion First-Principles Phonon Quasiparticle Theory Applied to a Strongly Anharmonic Halide Perovskite Terumasa Tadano and Wissam A. Saidi Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185901 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022 First principles lattice dynamics theory predicts the thermal conductivity and the lattice structure phase transition of strongly anharmonic crystals much more accurately than conventional theories.     Editors' Suggestion Electron-Phonon Interaction and Longitudinal-Transverse Phonon Splitting in Doped Semiconductors Francesco Macheda, Paolo Barone, and Francesco Mauri Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185902 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022 A first-principles method based on maximally localized Wannier functions predicts the doping dependence of the electron-phonon interaction in semiconductors much more accurately than other state-of-the-art methods.     LETTERS General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. Interaction-Induced Non-Hermitian Topological Phases from a Dynamical Gauge Field W. N. Faugno and Tomoki Ozawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180401 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Highly Adiabatic Time-Optimal Quantum Driving at Low Energy Cost Lluc Garcia, Josep Maria Bofill, Ibério de P. R. Moreira, and Guillermo Albareda Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180402 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022   Restoring Quantum Communication Efficiency over High Loss Optical Fibers Francesco Anna Mele, Ludovico Lami, and Vittorio Giovannetti Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180501 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Identifying Objects at the Quantum Limit for Superresolution Imaging Michael R. Grace and Saikat Guha Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180502 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   Universal Parity Quantum Computing Michael Fellner, Anette Messinger, Kilian Ender, and Wolfgang Lechner Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180503 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022   Spin-Echo Silencing Using a Current-Biased Frequency-Tunable Resonator V. Ranjan, Y. Wen, A. K. V. Keyser, S. E. Kubatkin, A. V. Danilov, T. Lindström, P. Bertet, and S. E. de Graaf Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180504 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Gravitation and Astrophysics Featured in Physics Merger and Postmerger of Binary Neutron Stars with a Quark-Hadron Crossover Equation of State Yong-Jia Huang, Luca Baiotti, Toru Kojo, Kentaro Takami, Hajime Sotani, Hajime Togashi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Shigehiro Nagataki, and Yi-Zhong Fan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181101 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022 Synopsis:Listening to Equation-of-State Changes Simulations indicate that postmerger gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars could allow researchers to hear the phase transitions between exotic states of matter.     Quantum Signatures of Black Hole Mass Superpositions Joshua Foo, Cemile Senem Arabaci, Magdalena Zych, and Robert B. Mann Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181301 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Elementary Particles and Fields Pairwise Multiparticle States and the Monopole Unitarity Puzzle Csaba Csáki, Yuri Shirman, Ofri Telem, and John Terning Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181601 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Observation of an a0-like State with Mass of 1.817 GeV in the Study of Ds+→KS0K+π0 Decays M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182001 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Nuclear Physics Observation of Azimuth-Dependent Suppression of Hadron Pairs in Electron Scattering off Nuclei S. J. Paul et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182501 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   β-Nuclear-Recoil Correlation from 6He Decay in a Laser Trap P. Müller, Y. Bagdasarova, R. Hong, A. Leredde, K. G. Bailey, X. Fléchard, A. García, B. Graner, A. Knecht, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, T. P. O'Connor, M. G. Sternberg, D. W. Storm, H. E. Swanson, F. Wauters, and D. W. Zumwalt Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182502 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Alignment Thresholds of Molecules Joshua E. Szekely and Tamar Seideman Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183201 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Atom Interferometry with Floquet Atom Optics Thomas Wilkason, Megan Nantel, Jan Rudolph, Yijun Jiang (姜一君), Benjamin E. Garber, Hunter Swan, Samuel P. Carman, Mahiro Abe, and Jason M. Hogan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183202 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022 Viewpoint:Toward Flawless Atom Optics The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers—which could boost these devices' ability to probe new physics.     Polychromatic Excitation of Delocalized Long-Lived Proton Spin States in Aliphatic Chains Anna Sonnefeld, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, and Kirill Sheberstov Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183203 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Differential Measurement of Electron Ejection after Two-Photon Two-Electron Excitation of Helium Michael Straub, Thomas Ding, Marc Rebholz, Gergana D. Borisova, Alexander Magunia, Hannes Lindenblatt, Severin Meister, Florian Trost, Yimeng Wang, Steffen Palutke, Markus Braune, Stefan Düsterer, Rolf Treusch, Chris H. Greene, Robert Moshammer, Thomas Pfeifer, and Christian Ott Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183204 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Spatial Properties of Entangled Two-Photon Absorption D. Tabakaev, A. Djorović, L. La Volpe, G. Gaulier, S. Ghosh, L. Bonacina, J.-P. Wolf, H. Zbinden, and R. T. Thew Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183601 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Understanding the Quantum Rabi Ring Using Analogies to Quantum Magnetism Diego Fallas Padilla, Han Pu, Guo-Jing Cheng, and Yu-Yu Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183602 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Defining the Semiclassical Limit of the Quantum Rabi Hamiltonian E. K. Irish and A. D. Armour Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183603 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022   Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Thouless Pumping of Matter Waves Qidong Fu, Peng Wang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Fangwei Ye Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183901 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in a Bosonic Chiral Superfluid Guan-Hua Huang, Zhi-Fang Xu, and Zhigang Wu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185301 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Howard Yanxon, Byungkyun Kang, Yansun Yao, and Qiang Zhu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185701 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Editors' Suggestion First-Principles Phonon Quasiparticle Theory Applied to a Strongly Anharmonic Halide Perovskite Terumasa Tadano and Wissam A. Saidi Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185901 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022 First principles lattice dynamics theory predicts the thermal conductivity and the lattice structure phase transition of strongly anharmonic crystals much more accurately than conventional theories.     Editors' Suggestion Electron-Phonon Interaction and Longitudinal-Transverse Phonon Splitting in Doped Semiconductors Francesco Macheda, Paolo Barone, and Francesco Mauri Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185902 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022 A first-principles method based on maximally localized Wannier functions predicts the doping dependence of the electron-phonon interaction in semiconductors much more accurately than other state-of-the-art methods.     Electric Potential of Ions in Electrode Micropores Deduced from Calorimetry Joren E. Vos, Danny Inder Maur, Hendrik P. Rodenburg, Lennart van den Hoven, Suzan E. Schoemaker, Petra E. de Jongh, and Ben H. Erné Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186001 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Fractional Optical Angular Momentum and Multi-Defect-Mediated Mode Renormalization and Orientation Control in Photonic Crystal Microring Resonators Mingkang Wang, Feng Zhou, Xiyuan Lu, Andrew McClung, Marcelo Davanco, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186101 (2022) – Published 28 October 2022 Focus:A Möbius Strip for Light A ring-shaped waveguide with a particular pattern of notches can force a light wave to make two round trips before completing an integer number of wave cycles.     Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Giant Second-Order Nonlinear Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Junxi Duan, Yu Jian, Yang Gao, Huimin Peng, Jinrui Zhong, Qi Feng, Jinhai Mao, and Yugui Yao Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186801 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Multifractal Conductance Fluctuations in High-Mobility Graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ramya Nagarajan, Rahul Pandit, and Aveek Bid Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186802 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022 Synopsis:Electrical Conductance Reveals Complex Fractals Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition.     Pseudospin Paramagnons and the Superconducting Dome in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene Chunli Huang, Nemin Wei, Wei Qin, and Allan H. MacDonald Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187001 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Nematic-Fluctuation-Mediated Superconductivity Revealed by Anisotropic Strain in Ba(Fe1−xCox)2As2 Jean-Côme Philippe, Alexis Lespinas, Jimmy Faria, Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson, Sarah Houver, Maximilien Cazayous, Alain Sacuto, Indranil Paul, and Yann Gallais Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187002 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   Reconciling Monolayer and Bilayer Jeff=1/2 Square Lattices in Hybrid Oxide Superlattice Dongliang Gong, Junyi Yang, Lin Hao, Lukas Horak, Yan Xin, Evguenia Karapetrova, Jörg Strempfer, Yongseong Choi, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, and Jian Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187201 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   Experimental Evidence of t2g Electron-Gas Rashba Interaction Induced by Asymmetric Orbital Hybridization G. J. Omar, W. L. Kong, H. Jani, M. S. Li, J. Zhou, Z. S. Lim, S. Prakash, S. W. Zeng, S. Hooda, T. Venkatesan, Y. P. Feng, S. J. Pennycook, L. Shen, and A. Ariando Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187203 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   Dramatic Plasmon Response to the Charge-Density-Wave Gap Development in 1T−TiSe2 Zijian Lin, Cuixiang Wang, A. Balassis, J. P. Echeverry, A. S. Vasenko, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, Youguo Shi, Jiandi Zhang, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187601 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Zeeman Effect in Centrosymmetric Antiferromagnetic Semiconductors Controlled by an Electric Field Hong Jian Zhao, Xinran Liu, Yanchao Wang, Yurong Yang, Laurent Bellaiche, and Yanming Ma Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187602 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Emergence of Interlayer Coherence in Twist-Controlled Graphene Double Layers Kenneth A. Lin, Nitin Prasad, G. William Burg, Bo Zou, Keiji Ueno, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Allan H. MacDonald, and Emanuel Tutuc Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187701 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics Predicting Defects in Soft Sphere Packings near Jamming Using the Force Network Ensemble James D. Sartor and Eric I. Corwin Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188001 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022   Coupled Dynamical Phase Transitions in Driven Disk Packings Akash Ghosh, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Paul M. Chaikin, Dov Levine, and Shankar Ghosh Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188002 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   Pumping and Mixing in Active Pores G. C. Antunes, P. Malgaretti, J. Harting, and S. Dietrich Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188003 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Packed Swarms on Dirt: Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flocks with Quenched and Annealed Disorder Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, Ananyo Maitra, and John Toner Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188004 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022 Synopsis:"Dirt" Is No Barrier to Flocking Predictions indicate that disorder induced by immobile imperfections does not prevent organisms from moving collectively as a group.     American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2022 American Physical Society | All rights reserved You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your preferences.