Physical Review Letters - Week ending 24 February 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 130, Issue 8 Week Ending 24 February 2023 On the Cover Representative isosurface of electron density for a singlet exciton in crystalline pentacene (gray structures). The blue (red) isosurfaces indicate regions of increasing (decreasing) density in the presence of phonons. From the article Phonon-Induced Localization of Excitons in Molecular Crystals from First Principles Antonios M. Alvertis, Jonah B. Haber, Edgar A. Engel, Sahar Sharifzadeh, and Jeffrey B. Neaton Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086401 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Learn how turbulence in blood vasculature can be mitigated with stent implant Join the Physical Review Journal Club February 28 at 3:00 a.m. ET where Sanjiv Gunasekera (The University of New South Wales) will discuss the Physical Review Fluids paper: "Mitigation of the turbulence within an arteriovenous fistula with a stent implantation" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     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 Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Walter Del Pozzo, Francisco Duque, Thomas Helfer, Estuti Shukla, and Kaze W. K. Wong Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081401 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 Viewpoint:Finding Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns Keefe Mitman, Macarena Lagos, Leo C. Stein, Sizheng Ma, Lam Hui, Yanbei Chen, Nils Deppe, François Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky, William Throwe, and Nils L. Vu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081402 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 Viewpoint:Finding Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.     Featured in Physics Quantum-Path-Resolved Attosecond High-Harmonic Spectroscopy Antoine Camper, Amélie Ferré, Valérie Blanchet, Dominique Descamps, Nan Lin, Stéphane Petit, Robert Lucchese, Pascal Salières, Thierry Ruchon, and Yann Mairesse Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083201 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023 Viewpoint:Electrons Filming Themselves Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.     Featured in Physics Attosecond Imaging of Electronic Wave Packets Gabriel A. Stewart, Paul Hoerner, Duke A. Debrah, Suk Kyoung Lee, H. Bernhard Schlegel, and Wen Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083202 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023 Viewpoint:Electrons Filming Themselves Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.     Featured in Physics Optimal Cooling of Multiple Levitated Particles through Far-Field Wavefront Shaping Jakob Hüpfl, Nicolas Bachelard, Markus Kaczvinszki, Michael Horodynski, Matthias Kühmayer, and Stefan Rotter Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083203 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 Synopsis:Freezing Particle Motion with a Matrix Researchers predict that the "scattering matrix" of a collection of particles could be used to slow the particles down, potentially allowing for the cooling of significantly more particles than is possible with current techniques.     Editors' Suggestion Quantifying Energy Conversion in Higher-Order Phase Space Density Moments in Plasmas Paul A. Cassak, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Haoming Liang, and Matthew R. Argall Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085201 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 From first principles, the energy conversion associated with higher moments is calculated for a plasma that is far from local thermodynamic equilibrium.     Editors' Suggestion Energetics of Microwaves Probed by Double Quantum Dot Absorption Subhomoy Haldar, Harald Havir, Waqar Khan, Sebastian Lehmann, Claes Thelander, Kimberly A. Dick, and Ville F. Maisi Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087003 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023 Detuning and stopping-potential measurements in a quantum dot photodiode demonstrate a microwave analog of the photoelectric effect.     Editors' Suggestion Nonaffine Deformation of Semiflexible Polymer and Fiber Networks Sihan Chen, Tomer Markovich, and Fred C. MacKintosh Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 088101 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023 The nonaffine properties of semiflexible networks (common in biomaterials) are captured by an analytical model under various conditions in both 2D and 3D.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Many-Body Interference at the Onset of Chaos Eric Brunner, Lukas Pausch, Edoardo G. Carnio, Gabriel Dufour, Alberto Rodríguez, and Andreas Buchleitner Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080401 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Quantum Dynamics is Not Strictly Bidivisible David Davalos and Mario Ziman Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080801 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023   Quantum Contextuality Provides Communication Complexity Advantage Shashank Gupta, Debashis Saha, Zhen-Peng Xu, Adán Cabello, and A. S. Majumdar Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080802 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Walter Del Pozzo, Francisco Duque, Thomas Helfer, Estuti Shukla, and Kaze W. K. Wong Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081401 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 Viewpoint:Finding Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns Keefe Mitman, Macarena Lagos, Leo C. Stein, Sizheng Ma, Lam Hui, Yanbei Chen, Nils Deppe, François Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky, William Throwe, and Nils L. Vu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081402 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 Viewpoint:Finding Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.     Silicon Oxy-Nitride for the Low Refractive Index Layers in the Mirror Coatings of the Cryogenic Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Detector Shiuh Chao, Wen-Jie Tsai, Dong-Lin Tsai, I-Peng Chang, Qian-Yi Hong, Wei-Chih Chang, and Yu-Hsun Kao Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081403 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023   Lorentzian Quantum Gravity and the Graviton Spectral Function Jannik Fehre, Daniel F. Litim, Jan M. Pawlowski, and Manuel Reichert Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081501 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Particles and Fields One-Loop Off-Shell Amplitudes from Classical Equations of Motion Humberto Gomez, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos, and Alexander Quintero Vélez Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081601 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Evidence for the Cusp Effect in η′ Decays into ηπ0π0 M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081901 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Nuclear Physics Beam Energy Dependence of Fifth- and Sixth-Order Net-Proton Number Fluctuations in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 082301 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Onset of Rotational Decoupling for a Molecular Ion Solvated in Helium: From Tags to Rings and Shells Julia A. Davies, Christoph Schran, Fabien Brieuc, Dominik Marx, and Andrew M. Ellis Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083001 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Featured in Physics Quantum-Path-Resolved Attosecond High-Harmonic Spectroscopy Antoine Camper, Amélie Ferré, Valérie Blanchet, Dominique Descamps, Nan Lin, Stéphane Petit, Robert Lucchese, Pascal Salières, Thierry Ruchon, and Yann Mairesse Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083201 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023 Viewpoint:Electrons Filming Themselves Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.     Featured in Physics Attosecond Imaging of Electronic Wave Packets Gabriel A. Stewart, Paul Hoerner, Duke A. Debrah, Suk Kyoung Lee, H. Bernhard Schlegel, and Wen Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083202 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023 Viewpoint:Electrons Filming Themselves Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.     Featured in Physics Optimal Cooling of Multiple Levitated Particles through Far-Field Wavefront Shaping Jakob Hüpfl, Nicolas Bachelard, Markus Kaczvinszki, Michael Horodynski, Matthias Kühmayer, and Stefan Rotter Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083203 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 Synopsis:Freezing Particle Motion with a Matrix Researchers predict that the "scattering matrix" of a collection of particles could be used to slow the particles down, potentially allowing for the cooling of significantly more particles than is possible with current techniques.     Artificial Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Fields for Photons in the Synthetic Frequency Dimension Dali Cheng, Kai Wang, and Shanhui Fan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083601 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023   Three-Photon Excitation of InGaN Quantum Dots Viviana Villafañe, Bianca Scaparra, Manuel Rieger, Stefan Appel, Rahul Trivedi, Tongtong Zhu, John Jarman, Rachel A. Oliver, Robert A. Taylor, Jonathan J. Finley, and Kai Müller Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083602 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior from Cavity Electromagnetic Vacuum Fluctuations at the Superradiant Transition Peng Rao and Francesco Piazza Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083603 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Observation of Linear and Nonlinear Light Localization at the Edges of Moiré Arrays A. A. Arkhipova, Y. V. Kartashov, S. K. Ivanov, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. N. Skryabin, I. V. Dyakonov, A. A. Kalinkin, S. P. Kulik, V. O. Kompanets, S. V. Chekalin, F. Ye, V. V. Konotop, L. Torner, and V. N. Zadkov Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083801 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023   Multiplexed Long-Range Electrohydrodynamic Transport and Nano-Optical Trapping with Cascaded Bowtie Photonic Crystal Nanobeams Sen Yang, Joshua A. Allen, Chuchuan Hong, Kellen P. Arnold, Sharon M. Weiss, and Justus C. Ndukaife Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083802 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Field-Induced Hydration Shell Reorganization Enables Electro-osmotic Flow in Nanochannels Wanqi Zhou, Yufeng Guo, Zhuhua Zhang, Wanlin Guo, and Hu Qiu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 084001 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Photon Acceleration from Optical to XUV R. T. Sandberg and A. G. R. Thomas Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085001 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Coherent Combining of Phase-Steerable High Power Microwaves Generated by Two X-Band Triaxial Klystron Amplifiers with Pulsed Magnetic Fields Jinchuan Ju, Xingjun Ge, Wei Zhang, Fangchao Dang, Yunxiao Zhou, Fuxiang Yang, Chengwei Yuan, Xinbing Cheng, Qiang Zhang, and Juntao He Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085002 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Editors' Suggestion Quantifying Energy Conversion in Higher-Order Phase Space Density Moments in Plasmas Paul A. Cassak, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Haoming Liang, and Matthew R. Argall Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085201 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023 From first principles, the energy conversion associated with higher moments is calculated for a plasma that is far from local thermodynamic equilibrium.     Condensed Matter and Materials Confinement-Induced Chiral Edge Channel Interaction in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators Ling-Jie Zhou, Ruobing Mei, Yi-Fan Zhao, Ruoxi Zhang, Deyi Zhuo, Zi-Jie Yan, Wei Yuan, Morteza Kayyalha, Moses H. W. Chan, Chao-Xing Liu, and Cui-Zu Chang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086201 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023   Effects of Charge Dopants in Quantum Spin Hall Materials Tomasz Dietl Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086202 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023   Inverse Volcano: A New Molecule–Surface Interaction Phenomenon Michelle S. Akerman, Roey Sagi, and Micha Asscher Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086203 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023   Phonon-Induced Localization of Excitons in Molecular Crystals from First Principles Antonios M. Alvertis, Jonah B. Haber, Edgar A. Engel, Sahar Sharifzadeh, and Jeffrey B. Neaton Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086401 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Frequency Splitting of Chiral Phonons from Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in CrI3 John Bonini, Shang Ren, David Vanderbilt, Massimiliano Stengel, Cyrus E. Dreyer, and Sinisa Coh Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086701 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023   Conductivity Enhancement in a Diffusive Fermi Liquid due to Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons Joshua Aftergood and So Takei Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086702 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023   Unidirectional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures Yang Cheng, Junyu Tang, Justin J. Michel, Su Kong Chong, Fengyuan Yang, Ran Cheng, and Kang L. Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086703 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023   Field-Tunable Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Correlations in a Heisenberg Magnet D. Opherden, M. S. J. Tepaske, F. Bärtl, M. Weber, M. M. Turnbull, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, M. Baenitz, J. Wosnitza, C. P. Landee, R. Moessner, D. J. Luitz, and H. Kühne Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086704 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Two-Dimensional Semiconductors with High Intrinsic Carrier Mobility at Room Temperature Chenmu Zhang, Ruoyu Wang, Himani Mishra, and Yuanyue Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087001 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023   Measurements of Phase Dynamics in Planar Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs D. Z. Haxell, E. Cheah, F. Křížek, R. Schott, M. F. Ritter, M. Hinderling, W. Belzig, C. Bruder, W. Wegscheider, H. Riel, and F. Nichele Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087002 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Editors' Suggestion Energetics of Microwaves Probed by Double Quantum Dot Absorption Subhomoy Haldar, Harald Havir, Waqar Khan, Sebastian Lehmann, Claes Thelander, Kimberly A. Dick, and Ville F. Maisi Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087003 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023 Detuning and stopping-potential measurements in a quantum dot photodiode demonstrate a microwave analog of the photoelectric effect.     Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Direct Route to Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations and Their Saturation Cai Dieball and Aljaž Godec Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087101 (2023) – Published 23 February 2023   Damping-Driven Time Reversal for Waves Samuel Hidalgo-Caballero, Surabhi Kottigegollahalli Sreenivas, Vincent Bacot, Sander Wildeman, Maxime Harazi, Xiaoping Jia, Arnaud Tourin, Mathias Fink, Alvaro Cassinelli, Matthieu Labousse, and Emmanuel Fort Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087201 (2023) – Published 22 February 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonaffine Deformation of Semiflexible Polymer and Fiber Networks Sihan Chen, Tomer Markovich, and Fred C. MacKintosh Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 088101 (2023) – Published 24 February 2023 The nonaffine properties of semiflexible networks (common in biomaterials) are captured by an analytical model under various conditions in both 2D and 3D.     ERRATA Erratum: Highly Adiabatic Time-Optimal Quantum Driving at Low Energy Cost [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180402 (2022)] Ll. Garcia, J. M. Bofill, I. de P. R. Moreira, and G. Albareda Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 089901 (2023) – Published 21 February 2023     American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2023 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.