Physical Review Letters - Week ending 26 May 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 130, Issue 21 Week Ending 26 May 2023 On the Cover An initially spherical silicon oil droplet (0.2 mm) submerged in water gradually deforms into a pendant droplet (red line) after a water-ice solidification front (not shown) advances at a slow rate from right to left to engulf the deformed droplet. From the article Thin-Film-Mediated Deformation of Droplet during Cryopreservation Jochem G. Meijer, Pallav Kant, Duco van Buuren, and Detlef Lohse Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 214002 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club June 14 | 12:00 p.m. ET | Michael Woodward on the Physical Review Fluids paper "Physics-informed machine learning with smoothed particle hydrodynamics: Hierarchy of reduced Lagrangian models of turbulence" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement Discuss your research with Editors from the Physical Review Journals at DAMOP 2023   Got a question about your paper? Interested in learning more about the submission process? Want to become a referee? There are several opportunities to gain insight from editors from Physical Review Letters, Physical Review X, and Physical Review A at the 54th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics in Spokane, Washington. 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Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Telecom-Wavelength Quantum Repeater Node Based on a Trapped-Ion Processor V. Krutyanskiy, M. Canteri, M. Meraner, J. Bate, V. Krcmarsky, J. Schupp, N. Sangouard, and B. P. Lanyon Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213601 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023 Viewpoint:Quantum Repeater Goes the Distance A quantum repeater based on trapped ions allows the transmission of entangled, telecom-wavelength photons over 50 km.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Demonstration of Laser Guiding and Wakefield Acceleration in a Curved Plasma Channel Xinzhe Zhu, Boyuan Li, Feng Liu, Jianlong Li, Zewu Bi, Xulei Ge, Hongyang Deng, Ziyang Zhang, Peilin Cui, Lin Lu, Wenchao Yan, Xiaohui Yuan, Liming Chen, Qiang Cao, Zhenyu Liu, Zhengming Sheng, Min Chen, and Jie Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 215001 (2023) – Published 23 May 2023 Synopsis:Curved-Laser Demonstration for a Higher-Energy Laser Accelerator A curved "laser wakefield accelerator" could boost the acceleration potential of a multistage version of this device.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Suppression of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Transport in Flat-Band Superconductors Ville A. J. Pyykkönen, Sebastiano Peotta, and Päivi Törmä Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216003 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023 Synopsis:Static Electrons in Flat-Band Nonequilibrium Superconductors Single electrons stay stationary in superconductors with "flat-band" electronic structures, which could lead to low-energy-consumption devices made from such materials.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Flattened and Wrinkled Encapsulated Droplets: Shape Morphing Induced by Gravity and Evaporation Davide Riccobelli, Hedar H. Al-Terke, Päivi Laaksonen, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Arja Paananen, Robin H. A. 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Lett. 130, 210403 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023 A novel technique for probing local thermalization in interacting quantum many-body systems applied to a dense spin ensemble of around 100,000 spins is sensitive to local dynamics despite only having access to global control and readout.     Editors' Suggestion Superfluid Helium Drops Levitated in High Vacuum C. D. Brown, Y. Wang, M. Namazi, G. I. Harris, M. T. Uysal, and J. G. E. Harris Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216001 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023 Millimeter-scale drops of superfluid liquid helium can be trapped indefinitely in high vacuum.     Editors' Suggestion Andreev Reflection in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Unconventional Superconductors P. O. Sukhachov, Felix von Oppen, and L. I. Glazman Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 130, 211001 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Properties of Cosmic-Ray Sulfur and Determination of the Composition of Primary Cosmic-Ray Carbon, Neon, Magnesium, and Sulfur: Ten-Year Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211002 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Roles of Fast Neutrino-Flavor Conversion on the Neutrino-Heating Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernova Hiroki Nagakura Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211401 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Particles and Fields Star Shaped Quivers in Four Dimensions Hee-Cheol Kim and Shlomo S. Razamat Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211601 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   Improved Measurement of the Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211801 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   Observation of a Nuclear Recoil Peak at the 100 eV Scale Induced by Neutron Capture H. Abele et al. (CRAB Collaboration, NUCLEUS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211802 (2023) – Published 26 May 2023   Precision Measurement of the Decay Σ+→pγ in the Process J/ψ→Σ+Σ̅ − M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211901 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   First CLAS12 Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries in the Extended Valence Region G. Christiaens et al. (CLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211902 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Nuclear Physics Observation of Directed Flow of Hypernuclei Λ3H and Λ4H in √sNN=3  GeV Au+Au Collisions at RHIC B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212301 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023   Evidence of Hexadecapole Deformation in Uranium-238 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Wouter Ryssens, Giuliano Giacalone, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212302 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Feature an Extended Hydrodynamic Regime? Weiyao Ke and Yi Yin Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212303 (2023) – Published 26 May 2023   First Direct Measurement Constraining the 34Ar(α,p)37K Reaction Cross Section for Mixed Hydrogen and Helium Burning in Accreting Neutron Stars J. Browne et al. (JENSA Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212701 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Telecom-Wavelength Quantum Repeater Node Based on a Trapped-Ion Processor V. Krutyanskiy, M. Canteri, M. Meraner, J. Bate, V. Krcmarsky, J. Schupp, N. Sangouard, and B. P. Lanyon Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213601 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023 Viewpoint:Quantum Repeater Goes the Distance A quantum repeater based on trapped ions allows the transmission of entangled, telecom-wavelength photons over 50 km.     Polariton Localization and Dispersion Properties of Disordered Quantum Emitters in Multimode Microcavities Georg Engelhardt and Jianshu Cao Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 130, 214001 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   Thin-Film-Mediated Deformation of Droplet during Cryopreservation Jochem G. Meijer, Pallav Kant, Duco van Buuren, and Detlef Lohse Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 214002 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Demonstration of Laser Guiding and Wakefield Acceleration in a Curved Plasma Channel Xinzhe Zhu, Boyuan Li, Feng Liu, Jianlong Li, Zewu Bi, Xulei Ge, Hongyang Deng, Ziyang Zhang, Peilin Cui, Lin Lu, Wenchao Yan, Xiaohui Yuan, Liming Chen, Qiang Cao, Zhenyu Liu, Zhengming Sheng, Min Chen, and Jie Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 215001 (2023) – Published 23 May 2023 Synopsis:Curved-Laser Demonstration for a Higher-Energy Laser Accelerator A curved "laser wakefield accelerator" could boost the acceleration potential of a multistage version of this device.     Condensed Matter and Materials Editors' Suggestion Superfluid Helium Drops Levitated in High Vacuum C. D. Brown, Y. Wang, M. Namazi, G. I. Harris, M. T. Uysal, and J. G. E. Harris Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216001 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023 Millimeter-scale drops of superfluid liquid helium can be trapped indefinitely in high vacuum.     Editors' Suggestion Andreev Reflection in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Unconventional Superconductors P. O. Sukhachov, Felix von Oppen, and L. I. Glazman Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216002 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023 Every possible parameter associated with the energy gap, electron pairing, and density of states of two-dimensional superconductors can be extracted from scanning tunneling spectroscopy data using a proposed theoretical method.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Suppression of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Transport in Flat-Band Superconductors Ville A. J. Pyykkönen, Sebastiano Peotta, and Päivi Törmä Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216003 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023 Synopsis:Static Electrons in Flat-Band Nonequilibrium Superconductors Single electrons stay stationary in superconductors with "flat-band" electronic structures, which could lead to low-energy-consumption devices made from such materials.     Evidence for Band Renormalizations in Strong-Coupling Superconducting Alkali-Fulleride Films J. S. Zhou, R. Z. Xu, X. Q. Yu, F. J. Cheng, W. X. Zhao, X. Du, S. Z. Wang, Q. Q. Zhang, X. Gu, S. M. He, Y. D. Li, M. Q. Ren, X. C. 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Lett. 130, 216701 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   Néel Spin Currents in Antiferromagnets Ding-Fu Shao, Yuan-Yuan Jiang, Jun Ding, Shu-Hui Zhang, Zi-An Wang, Rui-Chun Xiao, Gautam Gurung, W. J. Lu, Y. P. Sun, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216702 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023   Observation of the Nonreciprocal Magnon Hanle Effect Janine Gückelhorn, Sebastián de-la-Peña, Monika Scheufele, Matthias Grammer, Matthias Opel, Stephan Geprägs, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Rudolf Gross, Hans Huebl, Akashdeep Kamra, and Matthias Althammer Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216703 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023   Topological Fracton Quantum Phase Transitions by Tuning Exact Tensor Network States Guo-Yi Zhu, Ji-Yao Chen, Peng Ye, and Simon Trebst Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216704 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Translational Boundaries as Incipient Ferrielectric Domains in Antiferroelectric PbZrO3 Ying Liu, Ranming Niu, Andrzej Majchrowski, Krystian Roleder, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Julie M. Cairney, Jordi Arbiol, and Gustau Catalan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216801 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Ferroelectric Nematic-Isotropic Liquid Critical End Point Jadwiga Szydlowska, Pawel Majewski, Mojca Čepič, Nataša Vaupotič, Paulina Rybak, Corrie T. Imrie, Rebecca Walker, Ewan Cruickshank, John M. D. Storey, Pociecha Damian, and Ewa Gorecka Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216802 (2023) – Published 26 May 2023   Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Hyperbolic van der Waals Materials Yuto Ashida, Ataç İmamoğlu, and Eugene Demler Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216901 (2023) – Published 26 May 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Electrochemical Shot Noise of a Redox Monolayer Simon Grall, Shuo Li, Laurent Jalabert, Soo Hyeon Kim, Arnaud Chovin, Christophe Demaille, and Nicolas Clément Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218001 (2023) – Published 25 May 2023   Editors' Suggestion Absolute Negative Mobility of an Active Tracer in a Crowded Environment Pierre Rizkallah, Alessandro Sarracino, Olivier Bénichou, and Pierre Illien Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218201 (2023) – Published 22 May 2023 Active tracers subject to external forcing can exhibit a tendency to travel against the driving force in a crowded environment.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Flattened and Wrinkled Encapsulated Droplets: Shape Morphing Induced by Gravity and Evaporation Davide Riccobelli, Hedar H. Al-Terke, Päivi Laaksonen, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Arja Paananen, Robin H. A. Ras, Pasquale Ciarletta, and Dominic Vella Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218202 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023 Synopsis:Gravity Alters the Shape of an Evaporating Droplet Whether sitting or hanging, the surface of a protein-containing droplet changes as the water escapes, an effect researchers link to the pull of gravity.     Ephaptic Coupling as a Resolution to the Paradox of Action Potential Wave Speed and Discordant Alternans Spatial Scales in the Heart Niels F. Otani, Eileen Figueroa, James Garrison, Michelle Hewson, Laura Muñoz, Flavio H. Fenton, Alain Karma, and Seth H. Weinberg Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218401 (2023) – Published 23 May 2023   Rheological Dynamics of Active Myxococcus xanthus Populations during Development Matthew E. Black and Joshua W. Shaevitz Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218402 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023   COMMENTS Comment on "Coulomb Instabilities of a Three-Dimensional Higher-Order Topological Insulator" Yu-Wen Lee and Min-Fong Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 219701 (2023) – Published 24 May 2023   Zhao et al. 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