Physical Review Letters - Week ending 16 December 2022

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 129, Issue 25 Week Ending 16 December 2022 On the Cover Illustration of two tunneling processes through a Majorana qubit. From the article Transport Theory for Topological Josephson Junctions with a Majorana Qubit Zhi Wang, Jia-Jin Feng, Zhao Huang, and Qian Niu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 257001 (2022)     View Issue   Advertisement New Sectioning Scheme for Physical Review Letters PRL publishes a large number of papers across all of physics, with each subfield delineated within its ten-section Table of Contents. Increasingly, scientists, working across fields and subfields are creating new lines of fundamental and applied physics research. To keep PRL inclusive and welcoming, the journal is modernizing its sections and subsections. Read more »     Advertisement Dr. Stephen Nagler Named Lead Editor of Physical Review B APS is pleased to announce that Dr. Stephen Nagler of Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been selected to succeed Dr. Laurens Molenkamp as Lead Editor of Physical Review B. The transition to Dr. Nagler will be effective as of February 1, 2023. Learn more »     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Editorial: Addition by Division Hugues Chaté, Robert Garisto, and Rocio Cortes Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250001 (2022) – Published 13 December 2022   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Improved Measurement of Solar Neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle by Borexino and Its Implications for the Standard Solar Model S. Appel et al. (Borexino Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252701 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022 Viewpoint:Elemental Accounting of the Solar Interior A study of neutrinos from the Sun has measured the signal from the so-called CNO cycle, offering a direct measure of the elemental abundances in the Sun's core.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Liquid-Liquid Transition in Water from First Principles Thomas E. Gartner, III, Pablo M. Piaggi, Roberto Car, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, and Pablo G. Debenedetti Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 255702 (2022) – Published 15 December 2022 Synopsis:The Two Faces of Supercooled Water Computations support the 30-year-old idea that supercooled liquid water can undergo a transition between high- and low-density states.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Phason-Dominated Thermal Transport in Fresnoite M. E. Manley, A. F. May, B. L. Winn, D. L. Abernathy, R. Sahul, and R. P. Hermann Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 255901 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022 Viewpoint:Cooking with Phason Gas Heat-transport measurements and neutron-scattering spectroscopy probe a form of thermal conduction based on excitations called phasons.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonmonotonic Friction due to Water Capillary Adhesion and Hydrogen Bonding at Multiasperity Interfaces Liang Peng, Feng-Chun Hsia, Sander Woutersen, Mischa Bonn, Bart Weber, and Daniel Bonn Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 256101 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022 Focus:Why Wetting a Surface Can Increase Friction Experiments suggest that hydrogen bonding explains why a wet surface can have nearly twice as much friction as a dry surface.     Featured in Physics Extraterrestrial Axion Search with the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey Joshua W. Foster, Samuel J. Witte, Matthew Lawson, Tim Linden, Vishal Gajjar, Christoph Weniger, and Benjamin R. Safdi Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251102 (2022) – Published 13 December 2022 Synopsis:Hunting for Axions in the Galactic Center A neutron star's ultrastrong magnetic field could create the conditions for uncloaking a promising dark matter candidate.     Editors' Suggestion Noise-Induced Quantum Synchronization Finn Schmolke and Eric Lutz Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250601 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022 Noise-induced synchronization can occur in the quantum regime as well as the classical, and by applying noise to a single spin in an arbitrarily long chain, one can synchronize the entire chain.     Editors' Suggestion de Sitter Bubbles from Anti–de Sitter Fluctuations Anxo Biasi, Oleg Evnin, and Spyros Sypsas Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251104 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022 A theoretical model shows that de Sitter geometries may emerge locally in globally anti-de Sitter spacetimes via unstable fluctuations.     LETTERS General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. Driven-Dissipative Time Crystalline Phases in a Two-Mode Bosonic System with Kerr Nonlinearity L. R. Bakker, M. S. Bahovadinov, D. V. Kurlov, V. Gritsev, A. K. Fedorov, and Dmitry O. Krimer Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250401 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022   One-Axis Twisting as a Method of Generating Many-Body Bell Correlations Marcin Płodzień, Maciej Lewenstein, Emilia Witkowska, and Jan Chwedeńczuk Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250402 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Observation of Spin-Tensor Induced Topological Phase Transitions of Triply Degenerate Points with a Trapped Ion Mengxiang Zhang, Xinxing Yuan, Yue Li, Xi-Wang Luo, Chang Liu, Mingdong Zhu, Xi Qin, Chuanwei Zhang, Yiheng Lin, and Jiangfeng Du Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250501 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Feedback-Based Quantum Optimization Alicia B. Magann, Kenneth M. Rudinger, Matthew D. Grace, and Mohan Sarovar Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250502 (2022) – Published 13 December 2022   Error-Mitigated Quantum Metrology via Virtual Purification Kaoru Yamamoto, Suguru Endo, Hideaki Hakoshima, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, and Yuuki Tokunaga Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250503 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Almost Qudits in the Prepare-and-Measure Scenario Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, Erik Woodhead, and Armin Tavakoli Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250504 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Editors' Suggestion Noise-Induced Quantum Synchronization Finn Schmolke and Eric Lutz Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250601 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022 Noise-induced synchronization can occur in the quantum regime as well as the classical, and by applying noise to a single spin in an arbitrarily long chain, one can synchronize the entire chain.     Gravitation and Astrophysics Optimal Transport Reconstruction of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Farnik Nikakhtar, Ravi K. Sheth, Bruno Lévy, and Roya Mohayaee Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251101 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Featured in Physics Extraterrestrial Axion Search with the Breakthrough Listen Galactic Center Survey Joshua W. Foster, Samuel J. Witte, Matthew Lawson, Tim Linden, Vishal Gajjar, Christoph Weniger, and Benjamin R. Safdi Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251102 (2022) – Published 13 December 2022 Synopsis:Hunting for Axions in the Galactic Center A neutron star's ultrastrong magnetic field could create the conditions for uncloaking a promising dark matter candidate.     Cosmic-Ray Boron Flux Measured from 8.4  GeV/n to 3.8  TeV/n with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251103 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Editors' Suggestion de Sitter Bubbles from Anti–de Sitter Fluctuations Anxo Biasi, Oleg Evnin, and Spyros Sypsas Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251104 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022 A theoretical model shows that de Sitter geometries may emerge locally in globally anti-de Sitter spacetimes via unstable fluctuations.     Elementary Particles and Fields Double Copy of Form Factors and Higgs Amplitudes: A Mechanism for Turning Spurious Poles in Yang-Mills Theory into Physical Poles in Gravity Guanda Lin and Gang Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 251601 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Axial-Vector D1 Hadrons in D*π Scattering from QCD Nicolas Lang and David J. Wilson (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252001 (2022) – Published 15 December 2022   Small-x Evolution of the Gluon Generalized Parton Distribution Eg of the Nucleon Yoshitaka Hatta and Jian Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252002 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Nuclear Physics Collision-System and Beam-Energy Dependence of Anisotropic Flow Fluctuations M. S. Abdallah et al. (STAR Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252301 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022   Collectivity in Ultraperipheral Pb+Pb Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider Wenbin Zhao, Chun Shen, and Björn Schenke Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252302 (2022) – Published 13 December 2022   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Improved Measurement of Solar Neutrinos from the Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle by Borexino and Its Implications for the Standard Solar Model S. Appel et al. (Borexino Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252701 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022 Viewpoint:Elemental Accounting of the Solar Interior A study of neutrinos from the Sun has measured the signal from the so-called CNO cycle, offering a direct measure of the elemental abundances in the Sun's core.     Trace Anomaly as Signature of Conformality in Neutron Stars Yuki Fujimoto, Kenji Fukushima, Larry D. McLerran, and Michał Praszałowicz Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 252702 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Topological Flat Bands in Self-Complementary Plasmonic Metasurfaces Zhixia Xu, Xianghong Kong, Jie Chang, Daniel F. Sievenpiper, and Tie Jun Cui Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 253001 (2022) – Published 15 December 2022   Observation of Nondipole-Induced Asymmetry in the Angular Emission Distribution of Photoelectrons from Fixed-in-Space CO Molecules D. V. Rezvan, K. Klyssek, S. Grundmann, A. Pier, N. M. Novikovskiy, N. Strenger, D. Tsitsonis, M. Kircher, I. Vela-Peréz, K. Fehre, F. Trinter, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, R. Dörner, and Ph. V. Demekhin Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 253201 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Control of Localized Single- and Many-Body Dark States in Waveguide QED R. Holzinger, R. Gutiérrez-Jáuregui, T. Hönigl-Decrinis, G. Kirchmair, A. Asenjo-Garcia, and H. Ritsch Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 253601 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Optoelectronic Control of Atomic Bistability with Graphene Mikkel Have Eriksen, Jakob E. Olsen, Christian Wolff, and Joel D. Cox Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 253602 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc. Excitation of an Electric Octupole Transition by Twisted Light R. Lange, N. Huntemann, A. A. Peshkov, A. Surzhykov, and E. Peik Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 253901 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022   Observation of π/2 Modes in an Acoustic Floquet System Zheyu Cheng, Raditya Weda Bomantara, Haoran Xue, Weiwei Zhu, Jiangbin Gong, and Baile Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 254301 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Dispersion of Molecular Patterns Written in Turbulent Air Willem van de Water, Nico Dam, and Enrico Calzavarini Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 254501 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Gauging Nanoswimmer Dynamics via the Motion of Large Bodies Ashwani Kr. Tripathi and Tsvi Tlusty Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 254502 (2022) – Published 13 December 2022   Plasma and Beam Physics Enhanced Material Assimilation in a Toroidal Plasma Using Mixed H2+Ne Pellet Injection and Implications to ITER A. Matsuyama, R. Sakamoto, R. Yasuhara, H. Funaba, H. Uehara, I. Yamada, T. Kawate, and M. Goto Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 255001 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Condensed Matter: Structure, etc. Ultrafast Loss of Lattice Coherence in the Light-Induced Structural Phase Transition of V2O3 A. S. Johnson, D. Moreno-Mencía, E. B. Amuah, M. Menghini, J.-P. Locquet, C. Giannetti, E. Pastor, and S. E. Wall Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 255701 (2022) – Published 12 December 2022   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Liquid-Liquid Transition in Water from First Principles Thomas E. Gartner, III, Pablo M. Piaggi, Roberto Car, Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos, and Pablo G. Debenedetti Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 255702 (2022) – Published 15 December 2022 Synopsis:The Two Faces of Supercooled Water Computations support the 30-year-old idea that supercooled liquid water can undergo a transition between high- and low-density states.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Phason-Dominated Thermal Transport in Fresnoite M. E. Manley, A. F. May, B. L. Winn, D. L. Abernathy, R. Sahul, and R. P. Hermann Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 255901 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022 Viewpoint:Cooking with Phason Gas Heat-transport measurements and neutron-scattering spectroscopy probe a form of thermal conduction based on excitations called phasons.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonmonotonic Friction due to Water Capillary Adhesion and Hydrogen Bonding at Multiasperity Interfaces Liang Peng, Feng-Chun Hsia, Sander Woutersen, Mischa Bonn, Bart Weber, and Daniel Bonn Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 256101 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022 Focus:Why Wetting a Surface Can Increase Friction Experiments suggest that hydrogen bonding explains why a wet surface can have nearly twice as much friction as a dry surface.     Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc. Topologically Localized Insulators Bastien Lapierre, Titus Neupert, and Luka Trifunovic Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 256401 (2022) – Published 15 December 2022   Tunable Rectification of Diffusion-Wave Fields by Spatiotemporal Metamaterials Jiaxin Li, Zhanxiang Zhang, Guoqiang Xu, Haoran Sun, Lizhou Dai, Tianlong Li, and Cheng-Wei Qiu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 256601 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Transport Theory for Topological Josephson Junctions with a Majorana Qubit Zhi Wang, Jia-Jin Feng, Zhao Huang, and Qian Niu Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 257001 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   Magnonic Einstein–de Haas Effect: Ultrafast Rotation of Magnonic Microspheres A. Kani, F. Quijandría, and J. Twamley Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 257201 (2022) – Published 14 December 2022   Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics Data-Driven Discovery of Active Nematic Hydrodynamics Chaitanya Joshi, Sattvic Ray, Linnea M. Lemma, Minu Varghese, Graham Sharp, Zvonimir Dogic, Aparna Baskaran, and Michael F. Hagan Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 258001 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022   ERRATA Erratum: Stabilizing Mechanism for Bose-Einstein Condensation of Interacting Magnons in Ferrimagnets and Ferromagnets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 187202 (2018)] Naoya Arakawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 259901 (2022) – Published 16 December 2022     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.