Physical Review Letters - Week ending 17 March 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 130, Issue 11 Week Ending 17 March 2023 On the Cover Comparison between fluid and kinetic simulations of accretion onto a rotating black hole (center). The color represents plasma number density on the left, ion and positron number density on the right. From the article Collisionless Accretion onto Black Holes: Dynamics and Flares Alisa Galishnikova, Alexander Philippov, Eliot Quataert, Fabio Bacchini, Kyle Parfrey, and Bart Ripperda Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115201 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement PRX Life is open for submissions! Submit your research to the first interdisciplinary journal focused exclusively on quantitative life science research. Hear details on the journal from Lead Editor Margaret Gardel and Managing Editor Serena Bradde. APS covers APC fees until 2024. Learn more.     Advertisement The Physical Review Journal Club returns with two new sessions March 27 | 11:30 AM ET Richard Henshaw on the Physical Review Fluids paper "Dynamic Mode Structure of Active Turbulence" March 28 | 2:00 PM ET Tobias Serwatka on the Physical Review Letters paper "Quantum Phase Transition in the One-Dimensional Water Chain" 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 Universal Quantum Rewinding Protocol with an Arbitrarily High Probability of Success D. Trillo, B. Dive, and M. Navascués Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110201 (2023) – Published 14 March 2023 Synopsis:Hitting Rewind on Quantum Processes A new technique for reversing the evolution of a quantum system could become a key tool in quantum information technology.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Helical Locomotion in Yield Stress Fluids Farshad Nazari, Kourosh Shoele, and Hadi Mohammadigoushki Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 114002 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023 Synopsis:How Microswimmers Push Through Solid-Like Fluids If a helical bacteria's tail propulsion is strong enough to deform the yield-stress fluid ahead of the swimmer, locomotion proceeds.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Switchable Explosives: Performance Tuning of Fluid-Activated High Explosive Architectures Cameron B. Brown, Alexander H. Mueller, Seetharaman Sridhar, Joseph P. Lichthardt, Andrew M. Schmalzer, Bryce C. Tappan, Von H. Whitley, Larry G. Hill, Eduardo Lozano, and Tariq D. Aslam Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116105 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023 Focus:"Off Switch" Makes Explosives Safer An explosive material fabricated with a highly porous structure is inactive but is easily "switched on" when filled with water.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Cation-π Interactions in Aqueous Media Are Highly Affected by Cation Dehydration Weishuai Di, Kai Xue, Jun Cai, Zhenshu Zhu, Zihan Li, Hui Fu, Hai Lei, Wenbing Hu, Chun Tang, Wei Wang, and Yi Cao Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118101 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023 Synopsis:A Watery Probe for Ion–Electron Interactions Researchers have developed a method for measuring the strength of certain ion–electron interactions in water, with initial tests throwing up unexpected results.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Electronic Excitation Response of DNA to High-Energy Proton Radiation in Water Christopher Shepard, Dillon C. Yost, and Yosuke Kanai Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118401 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023 Viewpoint:The Impact of Ions on DNA A study of the electron excitation response of DNA to proton radiation has elucidated mechanisms of damage incurred during proton radiotherapy.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Universal Quantum Rewinding Protocol with an Arbitrarily High Probability of Success D. Trillo, B. Dive, and M. Navascués Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110201 (2023) – Published 14 March 2023 Synopsis:Hitting Rewind on Quantum Processes A new technique for reversing the evolution of a quantum system could become a key tool in quantum information technology.     Principle of Information Causality Rationalizes Quantum Composition Ram Krishna Patra, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo, Samrat Sen, Govind Lal Sidhardh, Mir Alimuddin, and Manik Banik Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110202 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Breakdown of Detailed Balance for Thermal Radiation by Synthetic Fields S.-A. Biehs and G. S. Agarwal Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110401 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Enhancement of Quantum Heat Engine by Encircling a Liouvillian Exceptional Point J.-T. Bu, J.-Q. Zhang, G.-Y. Ding, J.-C. Li, J.-W. Zhang, B. Wang, W.-Q. Ding, W.-F. Yuan, L. Chen, Ş. K. Özdemir, F. Zhou, H. Jing, and M. Feng Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110402 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023   Experimental Simulation of Larger Quantum Circuits with Fewer Superconducting Qubits Chong Ying, Bin Cheng, Youwei Zhao, He-Liang Huang, Yu-Ning Zhang, Ming Gong, Yulin Wu, Shiyu Wang, Futian Liang, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Hui Deng, Hao Rong, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Man-Hong Yung, Xiaobo Zhu, and Jian-Wei Pan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110601 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Quantum Volume for Photonic Quantum Processors Yuxuan Zhang, Daoheng Niu, Alireza Shabani, and Hassan Shapourian Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 130, 111401 (2023) – Published 14 March 2023   Quantum Vacuum Excitation of a Quasinormal Mode in an Analog Model of Black Hole Spacetime M. J. Jacquet, L. Giacomelli, Q. Valnais, M. Joly, F. Claude, E. Giacobino, Q. Glorieux, I. Carusotto, and A. Bramati Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111501 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Particles and Fields Antipodal Self-Duality for a Four-Particle Form Factor Lance J. Dixon, Ömer Gürdoğan, Yu-Ting Liu, Andrew J. McLeod, and Matthias Wilhelm Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111601 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   All-Orders Quadratic-Logarithmic Behavior for Amplitudes Benjamin Basso, Lance J. Dixon, Yu-Ting Liu, and Georgios Papathanasiou Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111602 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Entropic g Theorem in General Spacetime Dimensions Horacio Casini, Ignacio Salazar Landea, and Gonzalo Torroba Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111603 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023   Search for the Pair Production of Dark Particles X with KL0→XX, X→γγ C. Lin et al. (KOTO Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111801 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Phase Structure of Electroweak Vacuum in a Strong Magnetic Field: The Lattice Results M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy, and A. V. Molochkov Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111802 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Shift-Invariant Orders of an Axionlike Particle Quentin Bonnefoy, Christophe Grojean, and Jonathan Kley Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111803 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023   Strongly Bound Dibaryon with Maximal Beauty Flavor from Lattice QCD Nilmani Mathur, M. Padmanath, and Debsubhra Chakraborty Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111901 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair in Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Stefano Catani, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, and Chiara Savoini Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111902 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Nuclear Physics Measurement of Sequential ϒ Suppression in Au+Au Collisions at √sNN=200  GeV with the STAR Experiment B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112301 (2023) – Published 14 March 2023   Isomeric Excitation of 229Th in Laser-Heated Clusters Jintao Qi, Hanxu Zhang, and Xu Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112501 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   New Structure in the Deuteron Misak M. Sargsian and Frank Vera Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112502 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Constraining the Nuclear Symmetry Energy with Multimessenger Resonant Shattering Flares Duncan Neill, Rebecca Preston, William G. Newton, and David Tsang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112701 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Strong Polarization of a J=1/2 to 1/2 Transition Arising from Unexpectedly Large Quantum Interference Nobuyuki Nakamura, Naoki Numadate, Simpei Oishi, Xiao-Min Tong, Xiang Gao, Daiji Kato, Hirokazu Odaka, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yutaka Tsuzuki, Yuusuke Uchida, Hirofumi Watanabe, Shin Watanabe, and Hiroki Yoneda Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113001 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Ultracold Gas of Dipolar NaCs Ground State Molecules Ian Stevenson, Aden Z. Lam, Niccolò Bigagli, Claire Warner, Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang, and Sebastian Will Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113002 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Multiphoton Ionization Reduction of Atoms in Two-Color Femtosecond Laser Fields Hong-Bin Yao, Qi-Wen Qu, Zhao-Han Zhang, Jia-Wei Wang, Jian Gao, Chen-Xi Hu, Hui Li, Jian Wu, and Feng He Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113201 (2023) – Published 14 March 2023   Bosonic Pair Production and Squeezing for Optical Phase Measurements in Long-Lived Dipoles Coupled to a Cavity Bhuvanesh Sundar, Diego Barberena, Asier Piñeiro Orioli, Anjun Chu, James K. Thompson, Ana Maria Rey, and Robert J. Lewis-Swan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113202 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Evaluation of Lattice Light Shift at Low 10−19 Uncertainty for a Shallow Lattice Sr Optical Clock Kyungtae Kim, Alexander Aeppli, Tobias Bothwell, and Jun Ye Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113203 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Tracking Quantum Coherence in Polariton Condensates with Time-Resolved Tomography Carolin Lüders, Matthias Pukrop, Franziska Barkhausen, Elena Rozas, Christian Schneider, Sven Höfling, Jan Sperling, Stefan Schumacher, and Marc Aßmann Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113601 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Quantum Uncertainty Limit for Stern-Gerlach Interferometry with Massive Objects Yonathan Japha and Ron Folman Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113602 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Dynamics of Compression-Driven Gas-Liquid Displacement in a Capillary Tube Callum Cuttle and Christopher W. MacMinn Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 114001 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Helical Locomotion in Yield Stress Fluids Farshad Nazari, Kourosh Shoele, and Hadi Mohammadigoushki Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 114002 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023 Synopsis:How Microswimmers Push Through Solid-Like Fluids If a helical bacteria's tail propulsion is strong enough to deform the yield-stress fluid ahead of the swimmer, locomotion proceeds.     Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Mitigation of the Onset of Hosing in the Linear Regime through Plasma Frequency Detuning Mariana Moreira, Patric Muggli, and Jorge Vieira Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115001 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023   Growth and Saturation of the Electron Drift Instability in a Crossed Field Plasma Zachariah A. Brown and Benjamin A. Jorns Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115101 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Collisionless Accretion onto Black Holes: Dynamics and Flares Alisa Galishnikova, Alexander Philippov, Eliot Quataert, Fabio Bacchini, Kyle Parfrey, and Bart Ripperda Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115201 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Observation of Perfectly-Chiral Exceptional Point via Bound State in the Continuum Zhiling Zhou, Bin Jia, Nengyin Wang, Xu Wang, and Yong Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116101 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Toughening Ceramics down to Cryogenic Temperatures by Reentrant Strain-Glass Transition Minxia Fang, Yuanchao Ji, Yan Ni, Wenjia Wang, Hengmin Zhang, Xifei Wang, Andong Xiao, Tianyu Ma, Sen Yang, and Xiaobing Ren Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116102 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Acoustic Higher-Order Weyl Semimetal with Bound Hinge States in the Continuum Zhenhang Pu, Hailong He, Licheng Luo, Qiyun Ma, Liping Ye, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116103 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Activating Mobile Dislocation in Boron Carbide at Room Temperature via Al Doping Jun Li, Kun Luo, and Qi An Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116104 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Switchable Explosives: Performance Tuning of Fluid-Activated High Explosive Architectures Cameron B. Brown, Alexander H. Mueller, Seetharaman Sridhar, Joseph P. Lichthardt, Andrew M. Schmalzer, Bryce C. Tappan, Von H. Whitley, Larry G. Hill, Eduardo Lozano, and Tariq D. Aslam Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116105 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023 Focus:"Off Switch" Makes Explosives Safer An explosive material fabricated with a highly porous structure is inactive but is easily "switched on" when filled with water.     Enhancement of Graphene Phonon Excitation by a Chemically Engineered Molecular Resonance Xiaocui Wu, Nicolas Néel, Mads Brandbyge, and Jörg Kröger Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116201 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Machine Learning Optimization of Majorana Hybrid Nanowires Matthias Thamm and Bernd Rosenow Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116202 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Control of Andreev Bound States Using Superconducting Phase Texture Abhishek Banerjee, Max Geier, M. Ahnaf Rahman, Daniel S. Sanchez, Candice Thomas, Tian Wang, Michael J. Manfra, Karsten Flensberg, and Charles M. Marcus Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116203 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Connecting Higher-Order Topology with the Orbital Hall Effect in Monolayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Marcio Costa, Bruno Focassio, Luis M. Canonico, Tarik P. Cysne, Gabriel R. Schleder, R. B. Muniz, Adalberto Fazzio, and Tatiana G. Rappoport Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116204 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023   Where is the Quantum Spin Nematic? Shengtao Jiang (蒋晟韬), Judit Romhányi, Steven R. White, M. E. Zhitomirsky, and A. L. Chernyshev Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116701 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Reconstructing Network Dynamics of Coupled Discrete Chaotic Units from Data Irem Topal and Deniz Eroglu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 117401 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Direct Calculation of the Interfacial Free Energy between NaCl Crystal and Its Aqueous Solution at the Solubility Limit Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos and Jorge R. Espinosa Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118001 (2023) – Published 15 March 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Cation-π Interactions in Aqueous Media Are Highly Affected by Cation Dehydration Weishuai Di, Kai Xue, Jun Cai, Zhenshu Zhu, Zihan Li, Hui Fu, Hai Lei, Wenbing Hu, Chun Tang, Wei Wang, and Yi Cao Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118101 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023 Synopsis:A Watery Probe for Ion–Electron Interactions Researchers have developed a method for measuring the strength of certain ion–electron interactions in water, with initial tests throwing up unexpected results.     Frictional Weakening of Vibrated Granular Flows Abram H. Clark, Emily E. Brodsky, H. John Nasrin, and Stephanie E. Taylor Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118201 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023   Rheology of Dense Suspensions under Shear Rotation Frédéric Blanc, François Peters, Jurriaan J. J. Gillissen, Michael E. Cates, Sandra Bosio, Camille Benarroche, and Romain Mari Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118202 (2023) – Published 16 March 2023   Cross-linker Mobility Governs Fracture Behavior of Catch-Bonded Networks José Ruiz-Franco, Justin Tauber, and Jasper van der Gucht Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118203 (2023) – Published 17 March 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Electronic Excitation Response of DNA to High-Energy Proton Radiation in Water Christopher Shepard, Dillon C. Yost, and Yosuke Kanai Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118401 (2023) – Published 13 March 2023 Viewpoint:The Impact of Ions on DNA A study of the electron excitation response of DNA to proton radiation has elucidated mechanisms of damage incurred during proton radiotherapy.       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.