Physical Review Letters - Week ending 28 July 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 4 Week Ending 28 July 2023 On the Cover 3D representation of the first equidistant eigenmodes in a multimode fiber with periodically modulated core radius and gain profile. From the article Non-Hermitian Mode Cleaning in Periodically Modulated Multimode Fibers Mohammad Nayeem Akhter, Salim B. Ivars, Muriel Botey, Ramon Herrero, and Kestutis Staliunas Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043604 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Deadline August 4: 2024 APS Committee Nominations 2024 Committee Nominations are currently open, and will close August 4. Please nominate colleagues (or yourself). Service by APS's diverse, talented, and engaged membership strengthens our community and enhances the leadership skills of committee members.     Advertisement APS General Election: Meet the Candidates Get to know the candidates for Vice President, General Councilor, International Councilor, and Chair-Elect of the Nominating Committee. 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Lett. 131, 041002 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 Synopsis:The Search for WIMPs Continues Two mammoth underground detectors have delivered more stringent upper limits on how strongly a putative dark matter candidate interacts with normal matter.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041003 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 Synopsis:The Search for WIMPs Continues Two mammoth underground detectors have delivered more stringent upper limits on how strongly a putative dark matter candidate interacts with normal matter.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion First Observation of a Doubly Charged Tetraquark and Its Neutral Partner R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041902 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 Synopsis:A Pair of New Tetraquarks CERN's Large Hadron Collider has detected the signals of two new four-quark states that are unusual because of their charges and their quark compositions.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Two-Dimensional Crystals far from Equilibrium Leonardo Galliano, Michael E. Cates, and Ludovic Berthier Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 047101 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023 :Two-Dimensional Crystal Found in a Nonequilibrium System Crystals cannot form in two-dimensional particle systems at equilibrium. A new study has found a regime where a crystal can form if the system is driven out of equilibrium.     Featured in Physics Phonon Laser in the Quantum Regime T. Behrle, T. L. Nguyen, F. Reiter, D. Baur, B. de Neeve, M. Stadler, M. Marinelli, F. Lancellotti, S. F. Yelin, and J. P. Home Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043605 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 Focus:Two Atoms Vibrate Like a Laser A laser for vibrational energy, rather than for light, operating in the quantum regime could teach researchers about the interplay between spin, vibration, and dissipation in quantum mechanics.     Editors' Suggestion Electroassociation of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules into Tetramer Field-Linked States Goulven Quéméner, John L. Bohn, and James F. E. Croft Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043402 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 A proposed method uses electric fields to form tetramers from two ultracold dipolar molecules, analogous to the magnetic field association between two atoms to form molecules.     Editors' Suggestion Femtosecond Polarization Shaping of Free-Electron Laser Pulses Giovanni Perosa et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 045001 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 A new method can generate intense, extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses with time-dependent polarization using a free-electron laser, which may lead to new coherent control schemes for probing and manipulating core electrons in matter.     Editors' Suggestion Magnetic Susceptibility of Andreev Bound States in Superfluid 3He−B J. W. Scott, M. D. Nguyen, D. Park, and W. P. Halperin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046001 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 The magnetic susceptibility of superfluid Helium-3 in an anisotropic stretched aerogel exhibits behavior indicative of surface Andreev bound states within the planar aerogel structure.     Editors' Suggestion Flat Γ Moiré Bands in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 G. Gatti, J. Issing, L. Rademaker, F. Margot, T. A. de Jong, S. J. van der Molen, J. Teyssier, T. K. Kim, M. D. Watson, C. Cacho, P. Dudin, J. Avila, K. Cordero Edwards, P. Paruch, N. Ubrig, I. Gutiérrez-Lezama, A. F. Morpurgo, A. Tamai, and F. Baumberger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046401 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023 Combined real- and momentum-space mapping of moire superlattices reveals intriguing flat-band physics of certain van der Waals materials.     Editors' Suggestion Coupling of Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Spin Dynamics in Mn2Au/NiFe Thin Film Bilayers Hassan Al-Hamdo, Tobias Wagner, Yaryna Lytvynenko, Gutenberg Kendzo, Sonka Reimers, Moritz Ruhwedel, Misbah Yaqoob, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Philipp Pirro, Jairo Sinova, Mathias Kläui, Martin Jourdan, Olena Gomonay, and Mathias Weiler Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046701 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 By coupling antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic modes in a ferromagnet-antiferromagnet bilayer, the antiferromagnetic dynamics can be made visible in the GHz range     Editors' Suggestion Nonmonotonous Translocation Time of Polymers across Pores Emanuele Locatelli, Valentino Bianco, Chantal Valeriani, and Paolo Malgaretti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 048101 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 The translocation time of linear polymers across a varying-section channel shows a nonmonotonous dependence on the polymer size, that may be a useful tool to design channels for polymer sorting.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Violation of Detailed Balance in Quantum Open Systems Robert Alicki, Milan Šindelka, and David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 040401 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Semiclassical Husimi Distributions of Schur Vectors in Non-Hermitian Quantum Systems Joseph Hall, Simon Malzard, and Eva-Maria Graefe Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 040402 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023   Time-Domain Universal Linear-Optical Operations for Universal Quantum Information Processing Kazuma Yonezu, Yutaro Enomoto, Takato Yoshida, and Shuntaro Takeda Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 040601 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Performance Analysis of a Repetition Cat Code Architecture: Computing 256-bit Elliptic Curve Logarithm in 9 Hours with 126 133 Cat Qubits Élie Gouzien, Diego Ruiz, Francois-Marie Le Régent, Jérémie Guillaud, and Nicolas Sangouard Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 040602 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Search for Light Dark Matter from the Atmosphere in PandaX-4T Xuyang Ning et al. (PandaX Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041001 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion First Dark Matter Search Results from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment J. Aalbers et al. (LUX-ZEPLIN Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041002 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 Synopsis:The Search for WIMPs Continues Two mammoth underground detectors have delivered more stringent upper limits on how strongly a putative dark matter candidate interacts with normal matter.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion First Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Recoils from the XENONnT Experiment E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041003 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 Synopsis:The Search for WIMPs Continues Two mammoth underground detectors have delivered more stringent upper limits on how strongly a putative dark matter candidate interacts with normal matter.     Circular Polarization of the Astrophysical Gravitational Wave Background L. Valbusa Dall'Armi, A. Nishizawa, A. Ricciardone, and S. Matarrese Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041401 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023   Black Lenses in Kaluza-Klein Matter Marcus A. Khuri and Jordan F. Rainone Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041402 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Frequency-Dependent Squeezed Vacuum Source for the Advanced Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detector F. Acernese et al. (Virgo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041403 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Particles and Fields Bootstrapping Elliptic Feynman Integrals Using Schubert Analysis Roger Morales, Anne Spiering, Matthias Wilhelm, Qinglin Yang (杨清霖), and Chi Zhang (张驰) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041601 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023   Kinematic Lie Algebras from Twistor Spaces Leron Borsten, Branislav Jurčo, Hyungrok Kim, Tommaso Macrelli, Christian Saemann, and Martin Wolf Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041603 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Search for Higgs Boson and Observation of Z Boson through Their Decay into a Charm Quark-Antiquark Pair in Boosted Topologies in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=13  TeV A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041801 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Discriminating between Higgs Production Mechanisms via Jet Charge at the LHC Hai Tao Li, Bin Yan, and C.-P. Yuan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041802 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023   Search for Nonresonant Pair Production of Highly Energetic Higgs Bosons Decaying to Bottom Quarks A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041803 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Search for Rare Decays of D0 Mesons into Two Muons R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041804 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   First Measurement of Antideuteron Number Fluctuations at Energies Available at the Large Hadron Collider S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041901 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion First Observation of a Doubly Charged Tetraquark and Its Neutral Partner R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 041902 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 Synopsis:A Pair of New Tetraquarks CERN's Large Hadron Collider has detected the signals of two new four-quark states that are unusual because of their charges and their quark compositions.     Nuclear Physics Enhanced Deuteron Coalescence Probability in Jets S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 042301 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Nuclear Modification Factor of Neutral Pions in the Forward and Backward Regions in p−Pb Collisions R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 042302 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023   Measurement of the J/ψ Polarization with Respect to the Event Plane in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 042303 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Spin Alignment of Vector Mesons in Heavy-Ion Collisions Xin-Li Sheng, Lucia Oliva, Zuo-Tang Liang, Qun Wang, and Xin-Nian Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 042304 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Precision Microwave Spectroscopy of the Positronium 2 3S1→2 3P2 Interval R. E. Sheldon, T. J. Babij, S. H. Reeder, S. D. Hogan, and D. B. Cassidy Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043001 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023   Proposal for Observing XUV-Induced Rabi Oscillation Using Superfluorescent Emission Jun Jie Cui, Yongjun Cheng, Xin Wang, Zheng Li, Nina Rohringer, Victor Kimberg, and Song Bin Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043201 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Temperature-Dependent Contact of Weakly Interacting Single-Component Fermi Gases and Loss Rate of Degenerate Polar Molecules Xin-Yuan Gao, D. Blume, and Yangqian Yan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043401 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Editors' Suggestion Electroassociation of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules into Tetramer Field-Linked States Goulven Quéméner, John L. Bohn, and James F. E. Croft Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043402 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023 A proposed method uses electric fields to form tetramers from two ultracold dipolar molecules, analogous to the magnetic field association between two atoms to form molecules.     Non-Fermi Liquids from Kinetic Constraints in Tilted Optical Lattices Ethan Lake and T. Senthil Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043403 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Triggered Superradiance and Spin Inversion Storage in a Hybrid Quantum System Wenzel Kersten, Nikolaus de Zordo, Oliver Diekmann, Tobias Reiter, Matthias Zens, Andrew N. Kanagin, Stefan Rotter, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Andreas Angerer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043601 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Characterizing Temperature and Strain Variations with Qubit Ensembles for Their Robust Coherence Protection Guoqing Wang (王国庆), Ariel Rebekah Barr, Hao Tang, Mo Chen (陈墨), Changhao Li (李长昊), Haowei Xu, Andrew Stasiuk, Ju Li, and Paola Cappellaro Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043602 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   High-Q Magnetic Levitation and Control of Superconducting Microspheres at Millikelvin Temperatures J. Hofer, R. Gross, G. Higgins, H. Huebl, O. F. Kieler, R. Kleiner, D. Koelle, P. Schmidt, J. A. Slater, M. Trupke, K. Uhl, T. Weimann, W. Wieczorek, and M. Aspelmeyer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043603 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Non-Hermitian Mode Cleaning in Periodically Modulated Multimode Fibers Mohammad Nayeem Akhter, Salim B. Ivars, Muriel Botey, Ramon Herrero, and Kestutis Staliunas Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043604 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Featured in Physics Phonon Laser in the Quantum Regime T. Behrle, T. L. Nguyen, F. Reiter, D. Baur, B. de Neeve, M. Stadler, M. Marinelli, F. Lancellotti, S. F. Yelin, and J. P. Home Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 043605 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023 Focus:Two Atoms Vibrate Like a Laser A laser for vibrational energy, rather than for light, operating in the quantum regime could teach researchers about the interplay between spin, vibration, and dissipation in quantum mechanics.     Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Editors' Suggestion Femtosecond Polarization Shaping of Free-Electron Laser Pulses Giovanni Perosa et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 045001 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 A new method can generate intense, extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) pulses with time-dependent polarization using a free-electron laser, which may lead to new coherent control schemes for probing and manipulating core electrons in matter.     Condensed Matter and Materials Editors' Suggestion Magnetic Susceptibility of Andreev Bound States in Superfluid 3He−B J. W. Scott, M. D. Nguyen, D. Park, and W. P. Halperin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046001 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 The magnetic susceptibility of superfluid Helium-3 in an anisotropic stretched aerogel exhibits behavior indicative of surface Andreev bound states within the planar aerogel structure.     Nonlinear Topological Mechanics in Elliptically Geared Isostatic Metamaterials Fangyuan Ma, Zheng Tang, Xiaotian Shi, Ying Wu, Jinkyu Yang, Di Zhou, Yugui Yao, and Feng Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046101 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Editors' Suggestion Flat Γ Moiré Bands in Twisted Bilayer WSe2 G. Gatti, J. Issing, L. Rademaker, F. Margot, T. A. de Jong, S. J. van der Molen, J. Teyssier, T. K. Kim, M. D. Watson, C. Cacho, P. Dudin, J. Avila, K. Cordero Edwards, P. Paruch, N. Ubrig, I. Gutiérrez-Lezama, A. F. Morpurgo, A. Tamai, and F. Baumberger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046401 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023 Combined real- and momentum-space mapping of moire superlattices reveals intriguing flat-band physics of certain van der Waals materials.     Nematic Excitonic Insulator in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Moiré Heterobilayers Ming Xie, Haining Pan, Fengcheng Wu, and Sankar Das Sarma Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046402 (2023) – Published 28 July 2023   Highly Resolved Spectral Functions of Two-Dimensional Systems with Neural Quantum States Tiago Mendes-Santos, Markus Schmitt, and Markus Heyl Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046501 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023   Zeeman Field-Induced Two-Dimensional Weyl Semimetal Phase in Cadmium Arsenide Binghao Guo, Wangqian Miao, Victor Huang, Alexander C. Lygo, Xi Dai, and Susanne Stemmer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046601 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023   Editors' Suggestion Coupling of Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Spin Dynamics in Mn2Au/NiFe Thin Film Bilayers Hassan Al-Hamdo, Tobias Wagner, Yaryna Lytvynenko, Gutenberg Kendzo, Sonka Reimers, Moritz Ruhwedel, Misbah Yaqoob, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Philipp Pirro, Jairo Sinova, Mathias Kläui, Martin Jourdan, Olena Gomonay, and Mathias Weiler Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046701 (2023) – Published 24 July 2023 By coupling antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic modes in a ferromagnet-antiferromagnet bilayer, the antiferromagnetic dynamics can be made visible in the GHz range     Lamellar Fluctuations Melt Ferroelectricity G. G. Guzmán-Verri, C. H. Liang, and P. B. Littlewood Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 046801 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Two-Dimensional Crystals far from Equilibrium Leonardo Galliano, Michael E. Cates, and Ludovic Berthier Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 047101 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023 :Two-Dimensional Crystal Found in a Nonequilibrium System Crystals cannot form in two-dimensional particle systems at equilibrium. A new study has found a regime where a crystal can form if the system is driven out of equilibrium.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonmonotonous Translocation Time of Polymers across Pores Emanuele Locatelli, Valentino Bianco, Chantal Valeriani, and Paolo Malgaretti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 048101 (2023) – Published 27 July 2023 The translocation time of linear polymers across a varying-section channel shows a nonmonotonous dependence on the polymer size, that may be a useful tool to design channels for polymer sorting.     Activity-Driven Phase Transition Causes Coherent Flows of Chromatin Iraj Eshghi, Alexandra Zidovska, and Alexander Y. Grosberg Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 048401 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   COMMENTS Comment on "Evidence and Stability Field of fcc Superionic Water Ice Using Static Compression" Alexander F. Goncharov and Vitali B. Prakapenka Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 049601 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Weck et al. Reply: G. Weck, F. Datchi, A. Forestier, S. Ninet, M. Mezouar, and P. Loubeyre Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 049602 (2023) – Published 26 July 2023   Comment on "Anisotropic Scattering Caused by Apical Oxygen Vacancies in Thin Films of Overdoped High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors" H. U. Özdemir, Vivek Mishra, N. R. Lee-Hone, Xiangru Kong, T. Berlijn, D. M. Broun, and P. J. Hirschfeld Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 049701 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   Wang et al. Reply: Da Wang, Jun-Qi Xu, Hai-Jun Zhang, and Qiang-Hua Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 049702 (2023) – Published 25 July 2023   ERRATA Erratum: Quantifying Qubit Magic Resource with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 210502 (2022)] Oliver Hahn, Alessandro Ferraro, Lina Hultquist, Giulia Ferrini, and Laura García-Álvarez Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 049901 (2023) – Published 27 July 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.