Physical Review Letters - Week ending 2 June 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 130, Issue 22 Week Ending 2 June 2023 On the Cover Schematics showing two monomers forming an amide-amide double hydrogen bond that crosslinks the polymers to form a transient network. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Dynamics of Associative Polymers with High Density of Reversible Bonds Shifeng Nian, Shalin Patil, Siteng Zhang, Myoeum Kim, Quan Chen, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Ting Ge, Shiwang Cheng, and Li-Heng Cai (蔡历恒) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228101 (2023)     View Issue   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? 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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.   EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS Essay: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Magnetic Fusion Power Plant Ambrogio Fasoli Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220001 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Stochastic Exceptional Points for Noise-Assisted Sensing Zhipeng Li, Chenhui Li, Ze Xiong, Guoqiang Xu, Yongtai Raymond Wang, Xi Tian, Xin Yang, Zhu Liu, Qihang Zeng, Rongzhou Lin, Ying Li, Jason Kai Wei Lee, John S. Ho, and Cheng-Wei Qiu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 227201 (2023) – Published 2 June 2023 Focus:Environmental Noise Makes a Sensor More Sensitive By exploiting a phenomenon called stochastic resonance, sensors can perform better in a noisy environment than in a noise-free setting.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Dynamics of Associative Polymers with High Density of Reversible Bonds Shifeng Nian, Shalin Patil, Siteng Zhang, Myoeum Kim, Quan Chen, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Ting Ge, Shiwang Cheng, and Li-Heng Cai (蔡历恒) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228101 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 Synopsis:Bond Density Not Strength Controls Polymer Stickiness Experiments show that the sticky behavior of so-called associative polymers is controlled by the density of bonding structures, contradicting theoretical predictions.     Featured in Physics Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom, and Heino Falcke Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221502 (2023) – Published 2 June 2023 Synopsis:Another Way for Black Holes to Evaporate The gravitational fields of black holes and other compact objects are strong enough to wrest pairs of particles and antiparticles out of the vacuum and into existence, causing the objects to decay.     Featured in Physics Magnetic Response of Nematic Superconductors: Skyrmion Stripes and Their Signatures in Muon Spin Relaxation Experiments Martin Speight, Thomas Winyard, and Egor Babaev Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226002 (2023) – Published 30 May 2023 Synopsis:Superconductor Vortices Visible as Stripes An unusual kind of superconductor harbors magnetic vortices that researchers predict should be readily observable thanks to the striped configurations they adopt.     Editors' Suggestion Partition Function for a Volume of Space Ted Jacobson and Manus R. Visser Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221501 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 A new calculation shows that any region of space with the topology of a ball has a standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.     Editors' Suggestion First Constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Using the ArgoNeuT Experiment R. Acciarri, C. Adams, B. Baller, V. Basque, F. Cavanna, R. T. Co, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. Fleming, P. Green, R. Harnik, K. J. Kelly, S. Kumar, K. Lang, I. Lepetic, Z. Liu, X. Luo, K. F. Lyu, O. Palamara, G. Scanavini, M. Soderberg, J. Spitz, A. M. Szelc, W. Wu, and T. Yang (The ArgoNeuT Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221802 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 The first search for heavy QCD axions using a liquid argon detector bounds a previously unexplored region of axion parameter space between 0.2 and 0.9 GeV.     Editors' Suggestion Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers Daniel K. Ruttley, Alexander Guttridge, Stefan Spence, Robert C. Bird, C. Ruth Le Sueur, Jeremy M. Hutson, and Simon L. Cornish Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223401 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 By merging two optical tweezers containing a single atom each, an ultracold molecule is formed in the motional ground state.     Editors' Suggestion Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves J. R. Rygg, P. M. Celliers, and G. W. Collins Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 225101 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 Discrepancies between shock compression models and experiments may be explained by accounting for the contribution of collective plasma oscillations in the heat model for warm dense hydrogen.     Editors' Suggestion Superfluid Fraction in an Interacting Spatially Modulated Bose-Einstein Condensate G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 130, 226002 (2023) – Published 30 May 2023 Synopsis:Superconductor Vortices Visible as Stripes An unusual kind of superconductor harbors magnetic vortices that researchers predict should be readily observable thanks to the striped configurations they adopt.     Editors' Suggestion Superfluid Fraction in an Interacting Spatially Modulated Bose-Einstein Condensate G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023) – Published 2 June 2023 Breaking Galilean invariance in a superfluid reduces the superfluid fraction while the system remains fully condensed.     Learning Complexity to Guide Light-Induced Self-Organized Nanopatterns Eduardo Brandao, Anthony Nakhoul, Stefan Duffner, R. Emonet, Florence Garrelie, Amaury Habrard, François Jacquenet, Florent Pigeon, Marc Sebban, and Jean-Philippe Colombier Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 130, 227101 (2023) – Published 30 May 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Stochastic Exceptional Points for Noise-Assisted Sensing Zhipeng Li, Chenhui Li, Ze Xiong, Guoqiang Xu, Yongtai Raymond Wang, Xi Tian, Xin Yang, Zhu Liu, Qihang Zeng, Rongzhou Lin, Ying Li, Jason Kai Wei Lee, John S. Ho, and Cheng-Wei Qiu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 227201 (2023) – Published 2 June 2023 Focus:Environmental Noise Makes a Sensor More Sensitive By exploiting a phenomenon called stochastic resonance, sensors can perform better in a noisy environment than in a noise-free setting.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Dynamics of Associative Polymers with High Density of Reversible Bonds Shifeng Nian, Shalin Patil, Siteng Zhang, Myoeum Kim, Quan Chen, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Ting Ge, Shiwang Cheng, and Li-Heng Cai (蔡历恒) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228101 (2023) – Published 31 May 2023 Synopsis:Bond Density Not Strength Controls Polymer Stickiness Experiments show that the sticky behavior of so-called associative polymers is controlled by the density of bonding structures, contradicting theoretical predictions.     Contact Topology and the Classification of Disclination Lines in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Joseph Pollard and Gareth P. Alexander Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228102 (2023) – Published 1 June 2023   Reversal of Solvent Migration in Poroelastic Folds M. M. Flapper, A. Pandey, M. H. Essink, E. H. van Brummelen, S. Karpitschka, and J. H. Snoeijer Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228201 (2023) – Published 2 June 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.