Physical Review Letters - Week ending 23 June 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 130, Issue 25 Week Ending 23 June 2023 On the Cover Depiction of the thermal evolution of the early universe from a holographic model during periods of inflation, reheating, and thermalization. From the article Dynamical Inflaton Coupled to Strongly Interacting Matter Christian Ecker, Elias Kiritsis, and Wilke van der Schee Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251001 (2023)     View Issue   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 Experimental Quantum Communication Overcomes the Rate-Loss Limit without Global Phase Tracking Lai Zhou, Jinping Lin, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yumang Jing, Hua-Lei Yin, and Zhiliang Yuan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250801 (2023) – Published 20 June 2023 Viewpoint:Long-Range Quantum Cryptography Gets Simpler A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution without Phase Locking Wei Li, Likang Zhang, Yichen Lu, Zheng-Ping Li, Cong Jiang, Yang Liu, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, Lixing You, Feihu Xu, and Jian-Wei Pan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250802 (2023) – Published 20 June 2023 Viewpoint:Long-Range Quantum Cryptography Gets Simpler A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Improved Limits on the Coupling of Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter to Photons from Optical Atomic Clock Comparisons M. Filzinger, S. Dörscher, R. Lange, J. Klose, M. Steinel, E. Benkler, E. Peik, C. Lisdat, and N. Huntemann Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253001 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 Synopsis:Clock Comparison Limits Dark Matter A search for oscillations in the frequencies of optical clocks has set new bounds on ultralight dark matter particles.     Editors' Suggestion Observation of Nuclear Wave-Packet Interference in Ultrafast Interatomic Energy Transfer Meng Han, Jacqueline Fedyk, Jia-Bao Ji, Victor Despré, Alexander I. Kuleff, and Hans Jakob Wörner Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253202 (2023) – Published 23 June 2023 Quantum interference in the nuclear dynamics driving interatomic excitation-energy transfer, also known as frustrated interatomic Coulombic decay, acts as an electronic-relaxation mechanism in many forms of matter, including clusters and liquids.     Editors' Suggestion Hyperbolic Fringe Signal for Twin Impurity Quasiparticle Interference Peize Ding, Tilman Schwemmer, Ching Hua Lee, Xianxin Wu, and Ronny Thomale Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256001 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023 Depositing two adjacent atomic impurities on the surface of a superconductor produces hyperbolic interference fringes when probed with a scanning tunneling microscope that make it possible to extract previously inaccessible order parameter symmetry data.     Editors' Suggestion Multiversality and Unnecessary Criticality in One Dimension Abhishodh Prakash, Michele Fava, and S. A. Parameswaran Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256401 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 Two new concepts, multiversality and unnecessary criticality, useful for the quantum field theoretic description of topological properties, have been demonstrated using one-dimensional quantum spin systems.     Editors' Suggestion Spin-Derived Electric Polarization and Chirality Density Inherent in Localized Electron Orbitals Shintaro Hoshino, Michi-To Suzuki, and Hiroaki Ikeda Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256801 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 The relation between the spin current tensor, electric toroidal multipole, and chirality based on a relativistic quantum mechanical formalism, shows that the spin-derived polarization associated with the spin current tensor serves as a fundamental physical quantity that characterizes electric toroidal multipoles.     Editors' Suggestion Probing Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene by Infrared Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Tommaso Venanzi, Lorenzo Graziotto, Francesco Macheda, Simone Sotgiu, Taoufiq Ouaj, Elena Stellino, Claudia Fasolato, Paolo Postorino, Vaidotas Mišeikis, Marvin Metzelaars, Paul Kögerler, Bernd Beschoten, Camilla Coletti, Stefano Roddaro, Matteo Calandra, Michele Ortolani, Christoph Stampfer, Francesco Mauri, and Leonetta Baldassarre Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256901 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023 A low-intensity Raman probe shows enhanced coupling between electrons and Brillouin zone boundary optical phonons in graphene near the Dirac point.     Editors' Suggestion Giant Bulk Electrophotovoltaic Effect in Heteronodal-Line Systems Xiao Jiang, Lei Kang, Jianfeng Wang, and Bing Huang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256902 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 First-principles model calculations predict a large tunable photovoltaic effect in electric-field-biased bilayers made of heteronodal-line systems, such as HSnN-MoS2 bilayers.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Hierarchy of Multipartite Nonlocality and Device-Independent Effect Witnesses Peter Bierhorst and Jitendra Prakash Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250201 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Dynamical Transition of Operator Size Growth in Quantum Systems Embedded in an Environment Pengfei Zhang and Zhenhua Yu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250401 (2023) – Published 20 June 2023   Genuine Many-Body Quantum Scars along Unstable Modes in Bose-Hubbard Systems Quirin Hummel, Klaus Richter, and Peter Schlagheck Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250402 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023   Channeling Quantum Criticality Yijian Zou, Shengqi Sang, and Timothy H. Hsieh Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250403 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023   Experimentally Realizable PT Phase Transitions in Reflectionless Quantum Scattering Micheline B. Soley, Carl M. Bender, and A. Douglas Stone Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250404 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Many-Body Resonances in the Avalanche Instability of Many-Body Localization Hyunsoo Ha, Alan Morningstar, and David A. Huse Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250405 (2023) – Published 23 June 2023   Noise-Resilient Phase Estimation with Randomized Compiling Yanwu Gu, Yunheng Ma, Nicolò Forcellini, and Dong E. Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250601 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   All-Microwave Leakage Reduction Units for Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Transmon Qubits J. F. Marques, H. Ali, B. M. Varbanov, M. Finkel, H. M. Veen, S. L. M. van der Meer, S. Valles-Sanclemente, N. Muthusubramanian, M. Beekman, N. Haider, B. M. Terhal, and L. DiCarlo Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250602 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Quantum Communication Overcomes the Rate-Loss Limit without Global Phase Tracking Lai Zhou, Jinping Lin, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yumang Jing, Hua-Lei Yin, and Zhiliang Yuan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250801 (2023) – Published 20 June 2023 Viewpoint:Long-Range Quantum Cryptography Gets Simpler A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution without Phase Locking Wei Li, Likang Zhang, Yichen Lu, Zheng-Ping Li, Cong Jiang, Yang Liu, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, Lixing You, Feihu Xu, and Jian-Wei Pan Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250802 (2023) – Published 20 June 2023 Viewpoint:Long-Range Quantum Cryptography Gets Simpler A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.     Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Dynamical Inflaton Coupled to Strongly Interacting Matter Christian Ecker, Elias Kiritsis, and Wilke van der Schee Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251001 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Search for Ultralight Dark Matter with Spectroscopy of Radio-Frequency Atomic Transitions Xue Zhang, Abhishek Banerjee, Mahapan Leyser, Gilad Perez, Stephan Schiller, Dmitry Budker, and Dionysios Antypas Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251002 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Particles and Fields Nucleation at Finite Temperature: A Gauge-Invariant Perturbative Framework Johan Löfgren, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Philipp Schicho, and Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251801 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023   Measurement of Direct-Photon Cross Section and Double-Helicity Asymmetry at √s=510  GeV in p⃗+p⃗ Collisions N. J. Abdulameer et al. (PHENIX Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251901 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023   First Study of Reaction Ξ0n→Ξ−p Using Ξ0-Nucleus Scattering at an Electron-Positron Collider M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251902 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Improved Limits on the Coupling of Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter to Photons from Optical Atomic Clock Comparisons M. Filzinger, S. Dörscher, R. Lange, J. Klose, M. Steinel, E. Benkler, E. Peik, C. Lisdat, and N. Huntemann Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253001 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 Synopsis:Clock Comparison Limits Dark Matter A search for oscillations in the frequencies of optical clocks has set new bounds on ultralight dark matter particles.     Strong-Field Ionization of Hydrogen Atoms with Quantum Light Yiqi Fang, Feng-Xiao Sun, Qiongyi He, and Yunquan Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253201 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Editors' Suggestion Observation of Nuclear Wave-Packet Interference in Ultrafast Interatomic Energy Transfer Meng Han, Jacqueline Fedyk, Jia-Bao Ji, Victor Despré, Alexander I. Kuleff, and Hans Jakob Wörner Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253202 (2023) – Published 23 June 2023 Quantum interference in the nuclear dynamics driving interatomic excitation-energy transfer, also known as frustrated interatomic Coulombic decay, acts as an electronic-relaxation mechanism in many forms of matter, including clusters and liquids.     Universality of Internal Correlations of Strongly Interacting p-Wave Fermions in One-Dimensional Geometry Przemysław Kościk and Tomasz Sowiński Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253401 (2023) – Published 23 June 2023   Ultrafast Temporal SU(1,1) Interferometer Sara Meir, Yuval Tamir, Hamootal Duadi, Eliahu Cohen, and Moti Fridman Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253601 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Stochastic Approach to the Quantum Noise of a Single-Emitter Nanolaser Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Emil Vosmar Denning, Marco Saldutti, and Jesper Mørk Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253801 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Kinematic Effects on Probability Density Functions of Energy Dissipation Rate and Enstrophy in Turbulence Toshiyuki Gotoh, Takeshi Watanabe, and Izumi Saito Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 254001 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Seeding the Electrothermal Instability through a Three-Dimensional, Nonlinear Perturbation E. P. Yu, T. J. Awe, K. R. Cochrane, K. J. Peterson, K. C. Yates, T. M. Hutchinson, M. W. Hatch, B. S. Bauer, K. Tomlinson, and D. B. Sinars Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 255101 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Editors' Suggestion Hyperbolic Fringe Signal for Twin Impurity Quasiparticle Interference Peize Ding, Tilman Schwemmer, Ching Hua Lee, Xianxin Wu, and Ronny Thomale Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256001 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023 Depositing two adjacent atomic impurities on the surface of a superconductor produces hyperbolic interference fringes when probed with a scanning tunneling microscope that make it possible to extract previously inaccessible order parameter symmetry data.     Record High 36 K Transition Temperature to the Superconducting State of Elemental Scandium at a Pressure of 260 GPa Jianjun Ying, Shiqiu Liu, Qing Lu, Xikai Wen, Zhigang Gui, Yuqing Zhang, Xiaomeng Wang, Jian Sun, and Xianhui Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256002 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Current Noise of Hydrodynamic Electrons Aaron Hui and Brian Skinner Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256301 (2023) – Published 20 June 2023   Editors' Suggestion Multiversality and Unnecessary Criticality in One Dimension Abhishodh Prakash, Michele Fava, and S. A. Parameswaran Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256401 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 Two new concepts, multiversality and unnecessary criticality, useful for the quantum field theoretic description of topological properties, have been demonstrated using one-dimensional quantum spin systems.     General Theory of Momentum-Space Nonsymmorphic Symmetry Chen Zhang, Z. Y. Chen, Zheng Zhang, and Y. X. Zhao Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256601 (2023) – Published 23 June 2023   Acoustic Waves Induced by Einstein–de Haas Effect in the Ultrafast Core Reversal of Magnetic Vortex Jiajun Sun, Shengbin Shi, and Jie Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256701 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Confinement of Fractional Excitations in a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet L. Facheris, S. D. Nabi, A. Glezer Moshe, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, K. Yu. Povarov, J. R. Stewart, Z. Yan, and A. Zheludev Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256702 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Editors' Suggestion Spin-Derived Electric Polarization and Chirality Density Inherent in Localized Electron Orbitals Shintaro Hoshino, Michi-To Suzuki, and Hiroaki Ikeda Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256801 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 The relation between the spin current tensor, electric toroidal multipole, and chirality based on a relativistic quantum mechanical formalism, shows that the spin-derived polarization associated with the spin current tensor serves as a fundamental physical quantity that characterizes electric toroidal multipoles.     Editors' Suggestion Probing Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene by Infrared Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Tommaso Venanzi, Lorenzo Graziotto, Francesco Macheda, Simone Sotgiu, Taoufiq Ouaj, Elena Stellino, Claudia Fasolato, Paolo Postorino, Vaidotas Mišeikis, Marvin Metzelaars, Paul Kögerler, Bernd Beschoten, Camilla Coletti, Stefano Roddaro, Matteo Calandra, Michele Ortolani, Christoph Stampfer, Francesco Mauri, and Leonetta Baldassarre Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256901 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023 A low-intensity Raman probe shows enhanced coupling between electrons and Brillouin zone boundary optical phonons in graphene near the Dirac point.     Editors' Suggestion Giant Bulk Electrophotovoltaic Effect in Heteronodal-Line Systems Xiao Jiang, Lei Kang, Jianfeng Wang, and Bing Huang Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256902 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023 First-principles model calculations predict a large tunable photovoltaic effect in electric-field-biased bilayers made of heteronodal-line systems, such as HSnN-MoS2 bilayers.     Temperature-Dependent Spin-Lattice Relaxation of the Nitrogen-Vacancy Spin Triplet in Diamond M. C. Cambria, A. Norambuena, H. T. Dinani, G. Thiering, A. Gardill, I. Kemeny, Y. Li, V. Lordi, Á. Gali, J. R. Maze, and S. Kolkowitz Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256903 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Time-Resolved Statistics of Snippets as General Framework for Model-Free Entropy Estimators Jann van der Meer, Julius Degünther, and Udo Seifert Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 257101 (2023) – Published 23 June 2023   Generalized Lotka-Volterra Equations with Random, Nonreciprocal Interactions: The Typical Number of Equilibria Valentina Ros, Felix Roy, Giulio Biroli, Guy Bunin, and Ari M. Turner Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 257401 (2023) – Published 21 June 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Crackling Noise during Slow Relaxations in Crumpled Sheets Yoav Lahini, Shmuel M. Rubinstein, and Ariel Amir Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 258201 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Two-Dimensional Melting of Two- and Three-Component Mixtures Yan-Wei Li, Yugui Yao, and Massimo Pica Ciamarra Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 258202 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Crowding-Regulated Binding of Divalent Biomolecules Tomasz Skóra, Mathijs Janssen, Andreas Carlson, and Svyatoslav Kondrat Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 258401 (2023) – Published 22 June 2023   Schrödinger Dynamics and Berry Phase of Undulatory Locomotion Alexander E. Cohen, Alasdair D. Hastewell, Sreeparna Pradhan, Steven W. Flavell, and Jörn Dunkel Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 258402 (2023) – Published 22 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.