Physical Review Letters - Week ending 28 April 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 130, Issue 17 Week Ending 28 April 2023 On the Cover Top view of vertical fluid velocity in a rotating box for the periodic case (left), vertical walls without barriers (middle), and with two barriers (right). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Suppression of Wall Modes in Rapidly Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection by Narrow Horizontal Fins Louise Terrien, Benjamin Favier, and Edgar Knobloch Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 174002 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Discuss gravastars, fuzzballs, and other exotic compact objects live with researchers On May 4 at 11:00 a.m. ET, Pedro V. P. 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Dynamic and personable individuals with a strong scientific background in either condensed matter and materials science, or physics of fluids, polymer physics, chemical physics, geophysics, or complex systems are encouraged to apply. More information.     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 Imaging via Correlation of X-Ray Fluorescence Photons Fabian Trost et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 173201 (2023) – Published 24 April 2023 Viewpoint:Bringing Interferometric Imaging into the X-Ray Regime The experimental realization of a recently proposed technique points to new possibilities for imaging molecules using x rays.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Boosting Thermal Conductivity by Surface Plasmon Polaritons Propagating along a Thin Ti Film Dong-min Kim, Sinwoo Choi, Jungwan Cho, Mikyung Lim, and Bong Jae Lee Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176302 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023 Focus:Heat Carried by Electron Waves A new observation of heat transport by surface waves involving electrons could lead to improved cooling strategies for microscale electronic components.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Shape Morphing of Planar Liquid Crystal Elastomers Daniel Castro and Hillel Aharoni Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178101 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023 Synopsis:Stretching without Buckling Materials that stretch on demand often bend in undesired directions, but a new theoretical model can produce stress-free designs that change shape without buckling.     Featured in Physics Inferring Subsystem Efficiencies in Bipartite Molecular Machines Matthew P. Leighton and David A. Sivak Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178401 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023 Synopsis:The Efficiency of Tandem Molecular Machines Machines that consist of two coupled biomolecules trade thermodynamic efficiency for operating speed.     Editors' Suggestion First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons I. Arnquist et al. (DAMIC-M Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171003 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023 World-leading constraints are placed on electron interactions with dark matter in the MeV to GeV range by the first underground operation of a new CCD detector.     Editors' Suggestion Suppression of Wall Modes in Rapidly Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection by Narrow Horizontal Fins Louise Terrien, Benjamin Favier, and Edgar Knobloch Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 174002 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023 Extensive model calculations and numerical simulations show that undesirable vertical modes of turbulent heat flow near the inner walls of a rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Benard cell can be eliminated by the introduction of narrow horizontal channels.     Editors' Suggestion Tuning a Two-Impurity Kondo System by a Moiré Superstructure Sergey Trishin, Christian Lotze, Friedemann Lohss, Giada Franceschi, Leonid I. Glazman, Felix von Oppen, and Katharina J. Franke Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176201 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023 A moiré pattern enables tuning of exchange coupling of Mn atoms with the substrate (a monolayer of MoS2 on gold), providing a new experimental signature of Kondo screening.     Editors' Suggestion High Phase-Purity and Composition-Tunable Ferromagnetic Icosahedral Quasicrystal Ryo Takeuchi, Farid Labib, Takafumi Tsugawa, Yuto Akai, Asuka Ishikawa, Shintaro Suzuki, Takenori Fujii, and Ryuji Tamura Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176701 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023 A ferromagnetic icosahedral quasicrystal with high-phase purity and a large single-phase region provides a medium in which to realize easy rotation of magnetic moments.     Editors' Suggestion Self-Oscillation and Synchronization Transitions in Elastoactive Structures Ellen Zheng, Martin Brandenbourger, Louis Robinet, Peter Schall, Edan Lerner, and Corentin Coulais Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178202 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023 A centimeter-sized model system for one-dimensional elastoactive structures show that such structures exhibit flagellar motion when pinned at one end, self-snapping when pinned at two ends, and synchronization when coupled together with a sufficiently stiff link.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Measuring Incompatibility and Clustering Quantum Observables with a Quantum Switch Ning Gao, Dantong Li, Anchit Mishra, Junchen Yan, Kyrylo Simonov, and Giulio Chiribella Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 170201 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Strong Quantum Metrological Limit from Many-Body Physics Yaoming Chu, Xiangbei Li, and Jianming Cai Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 170801 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Roadmap to Thermal Dark Matter beyond the Weakly Interacting Dark Matter Unitarity Bound Ronny Frumkin, Eric Kuflik, Itay Lavie, and Tal Silverwater Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171001 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023   Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Helium Spectrum from 40 GeV to 250 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171002 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Editors' Suggestion First Constraints from DAMIC-M on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons I. Arnquist et al. (DAMIC-M Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171003 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023 World-leading constraints are placed on electron interactions with dark matter in the MeV to GeV range by the first underground operation of a new CCD detector.     Heavy Primordial Black Holes from Strongly Clustered Light Black Holes Valerio De Luca, Gabriele Franciolini, and Antonio Riotto Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171401 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023   Normalizing Flows as an Avenue to Studying Overlapping Gravitational Wave Signals Jurriaan Langendorff, Alex Kolmus, Justin Janquart, and Chris Van Den Broeck Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171402 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023   Neural Importance Sampling for Rapid and Reliable Gravitational-Wave Inference Maximilian Dax, Stephen R. Green, Jonathan Gair, Michael Pürrer, Jonas Wildberger, Jakob H. Macke, Alessandra Buonanno, and Bernhard Schölkopf Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171403 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023   Particles and Fields New Diagrammatic Framework for Higher-Spin Gravity Yasha Neiman Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171601 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023   New Limits on Leptophilic Axionlike Particles and Majorons from ArgoNeuT Enrico Bertuzzo, Ana Luisa Foguel, Gabriel M. Salla, and Renata Zukanovich Funchal Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171801 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Dynamical Gauge Fields with Bosonic Codes Javier del Pino and Oded Zilberberg Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 171901 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Nuclear Physics Multiple Mechanisms in Proton-Induced Nucleon Removal at ∼100  MeV/Nucleon T. Pohl et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 172501 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Proof-of-Principle Experiment for Testing Strong-Field Quantum Electrodynamics with Exotic Atoms: High Precision X-Ray Spectroscopy of Muonic Neon T. Okumura et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 173001 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Lattice Polarons across the Superfluid to Mott Insulator Transition V. E. Colussi, F. Caleffi, C. Menotti, and A. Recati Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 173002 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Imaging via Correlation of X-Ray Fluorescence Photons Fabian Trost et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 173201 (2023) – Published 24 April 2023 Viewpoint:Bringing Interferometric Imaging into the X-Ray Regime The experimental realization of a recently proposed technique points to new possibilities for imaging molecules using x rays.     Transport of Multispecies Ion Crystals through a Junction in a Radio-Frequency Paul Trap William Cody Burton, Brian Estey, Ian M. Hoffman, Abigail R. Perry, Curtis Volin, and Gabriel Price Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 173202 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Realization of Strong Coupling between Deterministic Single-Atom Arrays and a High-Finesse Miniature Optical Cavity Yanxin Liu, Zhihui Wang, Pengfei Yang, Qinxia Wang, Qing Fan, Shijun Guan, Gang Li, Pengfei Zhang, and Tiancai Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 173601 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Drag Force on a Starting Plate Scales with the Square Root of Acceleration J. Reijtenbagh, M. J. Tummers, and J. Westerweel Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 174001 (2023) – Published 24 April 2023   Editors' Suggestion Suppression of Wall Modes in Rapidly Rotating Rayleigh-Bénard Convection by Narrow Horizontal Fins Louise Terrien, Benjamin Favier, and Edgar Knobloch Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 174002 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023 Extensive model calculations and numerical simulations show that undesirable vertical modes of turbulent heat flow near the inner walls of a rapidly rotating Rayleigh-Benard cell can be eliminated by the introduction of narrow horizontal channels.     Condensed Matter and Materials Acoustic Amplifying Diode Using Nonreciprocal Willis Coupling Xinhua Wen, Heung Kit Yip, Choonlae Cho, Jensen Li, and Namkyoo Park Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176101 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Editors' Suggestion Tuning a Two-Impurity Kondo System by a Moiré Superstructure Sergey Trishin, Christian Lotze, Friedemann Lohss, Giada Franceschi, Leonid I. Glazman, Felix von Oppen, and Katharina J. Franke Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176201 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023 A moiré pattern enables tuning of exchange coupling of Mn atoms with the substrate (a monolayer of MoS2 on gold), providing a new experimental signature of Kondo screening.     Nonreciprocal Phonon Propagation in a Metallic Chiral Magnet T. Nomura, X.-X. Zhang, R. Takagi, K. Karube, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, S. Zherlitsyn, Y. Kohama, and S. Seki Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176301 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Boosting Thermal Conductivity by Surface Plasmon Polaritons Propagating along a Thin Ti Film Dong-min Kim, Sinwoo Choi, Jungwan Cho, Mikyung Lim, and Bong Jae Lee Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176302 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023 Focus:Heat Carried by Electron Waves A new observation of heat transport by surface waves involving electrons could lead to improved cooling strategies for microscale electronic components.     Phonon-Assisted Intertube Electronic Transport in an Armchair Carbon Nanotube Film Davoud Adinehloo, Weilu Gao, Ali Mojibpour, Junichiro Kono, and Vasili Perebeinos Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176303 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Signatures of Supersymmetry in the ν=5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Songyang Pu, Ajit C. Balram, Mikael Fremling, Andrey Gromov, and Zlatko Papić Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176501 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Editors' Suggestion High Phase-Purity and Composition-Tunable Ferromagnetic Icosahedral Quasicrystal Ryo Takeuchi, Farid Labib, Takafumi Tsugawa, Yuto Akai, Asuka Ishikawa, Shintaro Suzuki, Takenori Fujii, and Ryuji Tamura Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176701 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023 A ferromagnetic icosahedral quasicrystal with high-phase purity and a large single-phase region provides a medium in which to realize easy rotation of magnetic moments.     Sliding Phase Transition in Ferroelectric van der Waals Bilayers Ping Tang and Gerrit E. W. Bauer Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176801 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023   Ferroelectric Phase Transition Driven by Switchable Covalent Bonds Han-Yue Zhang, Nan Zhang, Yao Zhang, Huan-Huan Jiang, Yu-Ling Zeng, Shu-Yu Tang, Peng-Fei Li, Yuan-Yuan Tang, and Ren-Gen Xiong Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176802 (2023) – Published 28 April 2023   Monolayer-to-Mesoscale Modulation of the Optical Properties in 2D CrI3 Mapped by Hyperspectral Microscopy Marta Galbiati, Fernando Ramiro-Manzano, José Joaquín Pérez Grau, Fernando Cantos-Prieto, Jaume Meseguer-Sánchez, Ivona Kosic, Filippo Mione, Ana Pallarés Vilar, Andrés Cantarero, David Soriano, and Efrén Navarro-Moratalla Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 176901 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Collective Transport for Nonlinear Current-Voltage Characteristics of Doped Conducting Polymers Jiawei Wang, Dongyang Liu, Lishuai Yu, Feilong Liu, Jiebin Niu, Guanhua Yang, Congyan Lu, Nianduan Lu, Ling Li, and Ming Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 177001 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023   Diode Effects in Current-Biased Josephson Junctions Jacob F. Steiner, Larissa Melischek, Martina Trahms, Katharina J. Franke, and Felix von Oppen Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 177002 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Shape Morphing of Planar Liquid Crystal Elastomers Daniel Castro and Hillel Aharoni Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178101 (2023) – Published 26 April 2023 Synopsis:Stretching without Buckling Materials that stretch on demand often bend in undesired directions, but a new theoretical model can produce stress-free designs that change shape without buckling.     Multiple Scenarios of Low-Temperature Nucleation in Simple Liquids Mengyuan Zhan, Yanshuang Chen, Zhehua Jiang, Ning Xu, and Peng Tan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178201 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023   Editors' Suggestion Self-Oscillation and Synchronization Transitions in Elastoactive Structures Ellen Zheng, Martin Brandenbourger, Louis Robinet, Peter Schall, Edan Lerner, and Corentin Coulais Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178202 (2023) – Published 25 April 2023 A centimeter-sized model system for one-dimensional elastoactive structures show that such structures exhibit flagellar motion when pinned at one end, self-snapping when pinned at two ends, and synchronization when coupled together with a sufficiently stiff link.     Model of Friction with Plastic Contact Nudging: Amontons-Coulomb Laws, Aging of Static Friction, and Nonmonotonic Stribeck Curves with Finite Quasistatic Limit Suzanne M. Fielding Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178203 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023   Featured in Physics Inferring Subsystem Efficiencies in Bipartite Molecular Machines Matthew P. Leighton and David A. Sivak Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 178401 (2023) – Published 27 April 2023 Synopsis:The Efficiency of Tandem Molecular Machines Machines that consist of two coupled biomolecules trade thermodynamic efficiency for operating speed.       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.