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Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 6 Week Ending 11 August 2023 On the Cover A non-Hermitian sonic crystal setup to measure dispersion across various PT-symmetric phases, with a carbon nanotube film mounted on the lid of the cavity and the corresponding thermal image. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Sonic Lattice Bolun Hu, Zhiwang Zhang, Zichong Yue, Danwei Liao, Yimin Liu, Haixiao Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066601 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session September 13 | 11:00 a.m. ET: A panel discussion with Bruce Sutherland (University of Alberta), Michelle DiBenedetto (University of Washington), Alexis Kaminski (University of California Berkeley), and Ton van den Bremer (TU Delft) on the Physical Review Fluids paper "Fluid dynamics challenges in predicting plastic pollution transport in the ocean: A perspective" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     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 All-Order Coulomb Corrections to Delbrück Scattering above the Pair-Production Threshold J. Sommerfeldt, V. A. Yerokhin, Th. Stöhlker, and A. Surzhykov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061601 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023 Synopsis:Quantum Deflection Unraveled Improved calculations of a quantum phenomenon called Delbrück scattering resolve a long-standing discrepancy between theory and experiment.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion How to Cross an Energy Barrier at Zero Kelvin without Tunneling Effect Seiji Miyashita and Bernard Barbara Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066701 (2023) – Published 9 August 2023 Synopsis:Zap with Microwaves to Reverse Spin Irradiating a uniaxial magnetic system with a specific sequence of microwave pulses can induce in the system quantum oscillations that cause the material's spins to flip back and forth.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Metalearning Generalizable Dynamics from Trajectories Qiaofeng Li, Tianyi Wang, Vwani Roychowdhury, and M. K. Jawed Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 067301 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023 Synopsis:AI Learns to Play with a Slinky A new artificial intelligence algorithm can model the behavior of a set of objects, such as helical springs or pendulums, using a method that can extrapolate to objects that the algorithm hasn't previously analyzed.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Large Scale Zigzag Pattern Emerging from Circulating Active Shakers Gaspard Junot, Marco De Corato, and Pietro Tierno Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068301 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023 Focus:Self-Organized Zigzags from Fluid Flow A zigzag arrangement that appears spontaneously in a collection of magnetic particles and some other colloids is explained by the fluid flow around each particle.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Physical Constraints in Intracellular Signaling: The Cost of Sending a Bit Samuel J. Bryant and Benjamin B. Machta Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068401 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 Viewpoint:The Cost of Sending a Bit Across a Living Cell Calculations of the minimum energy a cell requires to transmit a signal between two internal components could help scientists understand how energy and information combine to produce living systems.     Editors' Suggestion Search for Higgs Boson Decay to a Charm Quark-Antiquark Pair in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=13  TeV A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061801 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 Decays of Z bosons to charm quark-antiquark pairs have been observed for the first time at a hadron collider, as part of a search for decays of Higgs bosons to charm quark-antiquark pairs, which are bounded at 14 times the standard model value.     Editors' Suggestion Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Effect and Gate-Switchable Berry Curvature Sliding in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Meizhen Huang, Zefei Wu, Xu Zhang, Xuemeng Feng, Zishu Zhou, Shi Wang, Yong Chen, Chun Cheng, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, and Ning Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066301 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023 An out-of-plane displacement field substantially affects the nonlinear Hall effect in high-mobility twisted bilayer graphene devices.     Editors' Suggestion Ultrafast Hidden Spin Polarization Dynamics of Bright and Dark Excitons in 2H−WSe2 Mauro Fanciulli, David Bresteau, Jérôme Gaudin, Shuo Dong, Romain Géneaux, Thierry Ruchon, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Ján Minár, Olivier Heckmann, Maria Christine Richter, Karol Hricovini, and Samuel Beaulieu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066402 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023 Multifaceted (spin-, time-, and angle-resolved) photoemission spectroscopy in transitional metal dichalcogenides provide optical control of excitons that could aid the study of spintronics in these systems.     Editors' Suggestion Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Sonic Lattice Bolun Hu, Zhiwang Zhang, Zichong Yue, Danwei Liao, Yimin Liu, Haixiao Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066601 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 A novel acoustic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with non-Hermitian components displays a non-Hermitian phase transition and reveals new acoustic topological interface states with tunable robust confinement.     Editors' Suggestion Instability of Magnetic Skyrmion Strings Induced by Longitudinal Spin Currents Shun Okumura, Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, and Markus Garst Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066702 (2023) – Published 9 August 2023 A simple mechanism to topologically unwind magnetic textures uses currents flowing perpendicular to the skyrmion plane to trigger a Goldstone spin-wave instability that eventually destroys skyrmions.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Generalized Thermalization in Quantum-Chaotic Quadratic Hamiltonians Patrycja Łydżba, Marcin Mierzejewski, Marcos Rigol, and Lev Vidmar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060401 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Work Extraction Processes from Noisy Quantum Batteries: The Role of Nonlocal Resources Salvatore Tirone, Raffaele Salvia, Stefano Chessa, and Vittorio Giovannetti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060402 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Measurement and Feedback Driven Entanglement Transition in the Probabilistic Control of Chaos Thomas Iadecola, Sriram Ganeshan, J. H. Pixley, and Justin H. Wilson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060403 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Scale-Invariant Survival Probability at Eigenstate Transitions Miroslav Hopjan and Lev Vidmar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060404 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Shortest Route to Non-Abelian Topological Order on a Quantum Processor Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ruben Verresen, and Ashvin Vishwanath Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060405 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023   Schrödinger-Heisenberg Variational Quantum Algorithms Zhong-Xia Shang, Ming-Cheng Chen, Xiao Yuan, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060406 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023   Fermionic Correlation Functions from Randomized Measurements in Programmable Atomic Quantum Devices Piero Naldesi, Andreas Elben, Anna Minguzzi, David Clément, Peter Zoller, and Benoît Vermersch Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060601 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Self-Healing of Trotter Error in Digital Adiabatic State Preparation Lucas K. Kovalsky, Fernando A. Calderon-Vargas, Matthew D. Grace, Alicia B. Magann, James B. Larsen, Andrew D. Baczewski, and Mohan Sarovar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060602 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Coherent-Error Threshold for Surface Codes from Majorana Delocalization Florian Venn, Jan Behrends, and Benjamin Béri Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060603 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Prediction-Retrodiction Measurements for Teleportation and Conditional State Transfer Sergey A. Fedorov and Emil Zeuthen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060801 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Squeezed Superradiance Enables Robust Entanglement-Enhanced Metrology Even with Highly Imperfect Readout Martin Koppenhöfer, Peter Groszkowski, and A. A. Clerk Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060802 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Demonstration of a Quantum Switch in a Sagnac Configuration Teodor Strömberg, Peter Schiansky, Robert W. Peterson, Marco Túlio Quintino, and Philip Walther Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060803 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Featured in Physics Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions Can Help and Hinder Neutrino-Driven Explosions Jakob Ehring, Sajad Abbar, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Raffelt, and Irene Tamborra Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061401 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 :   Particles and Fields Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion All-Order Coulomb Corrections to Delbrück Scattering above the Pair-Production Threshold J. Sommerfeldt, V. A. Yerokhin, Th. Stöhlker, and A. Surzhykov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061601 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023 Synopsis:Quantum Deflection Unraveled Improved calculations of a quantum phenomenon called Delbrück scattering resolve a long-standing discrepancy between theory and experiment.     Editors' Suggestion Search for Higgs Boson Decay to a Charm Quark-Antiquark Pair in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=13  TeV A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061801 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 Decays of Z bosons to charm quark-antiquark pairs have been observed for the first time at a hadron collider, as part of a search for decays of Higgs bosons to charm quark-antiquark pairs, which are bounded at 14 times the standard model value.     Test of CP Invariance in Higgs Boson Vector-Boson-Fusion Production Using the H→γγ Channel with the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061802 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Decays of W Bosons Using a Dilepton Displaced Vertex in √s=13  TeV pp Collisions with the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061803 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Evidence for Modification of b Quark Hadronization in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at √s=13  TeV R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061901 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023   Nuclear Physics Multiscale Imaging of Nuclear Deformation at the Electron-Ion Collider Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen, and Wenbin Zhao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 062301 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Raman Scattering Errors in Stimulated-Raman-Induced Logic Gates in 133Ba+ Matthew J. Boguslawski, Zachary J. Wall, Samuel R. Vizvary, Isam Daniel Moore, Michael Bareian, David T. C. Allcock, David J. Wineland, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063001 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Spin Squeezing by Rydberg Dressing in an Array of Atomic Ensembles Jacob A. Hines, Shankari V. Rajagopal, Gabriel L. Moreau, Michael D. Wahrman, Neomi A. Lewis, Ognjen Marković, and Monika Schleier-Smith Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063401 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023   Signatures of Superradiance as a Witness to Multipartite Entanglement Frederik Lohof, Daniel Schumayer, David A. W. Hutchinson, and Christopher Gies Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063601 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023   Low-Rank Combinatorial Optimization and Statistical Learning by Spatial Photonic Ising Machine Hiroshi Yamashita, Ken-ichi Okubo, Suguru Shimomura, Yusuke Ogura, Jun Tanida, and Hideyuki Suzuki Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063801 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Spontaneous Stochasticity in the Presence of Intermittency André Luís Peixoto Considera and Simon Thalabard Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 064001 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Dynamics and Power Balance of Near Unity Target Gain Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions A. Pak et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 065101 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Positron Generation and Acceleration in a Self-Organized Photon Collider Enabled by an Ultraintense Laser Pulse K. Sugimoto, Y. He, N. Iwata, I-L. Yeh, K. Tangtartharakul, A. Arefiev, and Y. Sentoku Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 065102 (2023) – Published 9 August 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Editors' Suggestion Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Effect and Gate-Switchable Berry Curvature Sliding in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Meizhen Huang, Zefei Wu, Xu Zhang, Xuemeng Feng, Zishu Zhou, Shi Wang, Yong Chen, Chun Cheng, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, and Ning Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066301 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023 An out-of-plane displacement field substantially affects the nonlinear Hall effect in high-mobility twisted bilayer graphene devices.     Coherent-Phonon-Driven Intervalley Scattering and Rabi Oscillation in Multivalley 2D Materials Chenyu Wang, Xinbao Liu, Qing Chen, Daqiang Chen, Yaxian Wang, and Sheng Meng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066401 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Editors' Suggestion Ultrafast Hidden Spin Polarization Dynamics of Bright and Dark Excitons in 2H−WSe2 Mauro Fanciulli, David Bresteau, Jérôme Gaudin, Shuo Dong, Romain Géneaux, Thierry Ruchon, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Ján Minár, Olivier Heckmann, Maria Christine Richter, Karol Hricovini, and Samuel Beaulieu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066402 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023 Multifaceted (spin-, time-, and angle-resolved) photoemission spectroscopy in transitional metal dichalcogenides provide optical control of excitons that could aid the study of spintronics in these systems.     Editors' Suggestion Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Sonic Lattice Bolun Hu, Zhiwang Zhang, Zichong Yue, Danwei Liao, Yimin Liu, Haixiao Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066601 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 A novel acoustic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with non-Hermitian components displays a non-Hermitian phase transition and reveals new acoustic topological interface states with tunable robust confinement.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion How to Cross an Energy Barrier at Zero Kelvin without Tunneling Effect Seiji Miyashita and Bernard Barbara Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066701 (2023) – Published 9 August 2023 Synopsis:Zap with Microwaves to Reverse Spin Irradiating a uniaxial magnetic system with a specific sequence of microwave pulses can induce in the system quantum oscillations that cause the material's spins to flip back and forth.     Editors' Suggestion Instability of Magnetic Skyrmion Strings Induced by Longitudinal Spin Currents Shun Okumura, Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, and Markus Garst Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066702 (2023) – Published 9 August 2023 A simple mechanism to topologically unwind magnetic textures uses currents flowing perpendicular to the skyrmion plane to trigger a Goldstone spin-wave instability that eventually destroys skyrmions.     Indirect Exchange Interaction Leads to Large Lattice Contribution to Magnetocaloric Entropy Change Lokanath Patra and Bolin Liao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066703 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023   Instabilities near Ultrastrong Coupling in a Microwave Optomechanical Cavity Soumya Ranjan Das, Sourav Majumder, Sudhir Kumar Sahu, Ujjawal Singhal, Tanmoy Bera, and Vibhor Singh Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 067001 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Metalearning Generalizable Dynamics from Trajectories Qiaofeng Li, Tianyi Wang, Vwani Roychowdhury, and M. K. Jawed Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 067301 (2023) – Published 10 August 2023 Synopsis:AI Learns to Play with a Slinky A new artificial intelligence algorithm can model the behavior of a set of objects, such as helical springs or pendulums, using a method that can extrapolate to objects that the algorithm hasn't previously analyzed.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Modeling Viscoelasticity and Dynamic Nematic Order of Exchangeable Liquid Crystal Elastomers Jiameng Zhao and Fanlong Meng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068101 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023   Dynamics of Motility-Induced Clusters: Coarsening beyond Ostwald Ripening Claudio B. Caporusso, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Pasquale Digregorio, Giuseppe Gonnella, Demian Levis, and Antonio Suma Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068201 (2023) – Published 8 August 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Large Scale Zigzag Pattern Emerging from Circulating Active Shakers Gaspard Junot, Marco De Corato, and Pietro Tierno Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068301 (2023) – Published 11 August 2023 Focus:Self-Organized Zigzags from Fluid Flow A zigzag arrangement that appears spontaneously in a collection of magnetic particles and some other colloids is explained by the fluid flow around each particle.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Physical Constraints in Intracellular Signaling: The Cost of Sending a Bit Samuel J. Bryant and Benjamin B. Machta Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068401 (2023) – Published 7 August 2023 Viewpoint:The Cost of Sending a Bit Across a Living Cell Calculations of the minimum energy a cell requires to transmit a signal between two internal components could help scientists understand how energy and information combine to produce living systems.       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. 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