Physical Review Letters - Week ending 27 October 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 17 Week Ending 27 October 2023 On the Cover Combined sky localization map of binary black hole merger events from the third observation run of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. From the article Angular Power Spectrum of Gravitational-Wave Transient Sources as a Probe of the Large-Scale Structure Yanyan Zheng, Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Jacob Golomb, Marco Cavaglià, Arianna I. Renzini, and Mairi Sakellariadou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171403 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement APS Announces Partnership with Astrobites APS is pleased to announce that it will begin sponsoring Astrobites, a daily astrophysical literature journal written by graduate students in astronomy that makes the latest findings in astronomy accessible to broad audiences. This mutually beneficial collaboration aims to enhance the dissemination of research, educational resources, and career insights in the field of astronomy and astrophysics. Learn more.     Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session November 20 | 10:00 a.m. ET Tristan Clua-Provost, Aurore Finco, and Vincent Jacques (Université de Montpellier and CNRS) on the Physical Review Applied paper: "Magnetic Imaging with Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride" 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 Strong Evidence for 9N and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei R. J. Charity, J. Wylie, S. M. Wang, T. B. Webb, K. W. Brown, G. Cerizza, Z. Chajecki, J. M. Elson, J. Estee, D. E. M. Hoff, S. A. Kuvin, W. G. Lynch, J. Manfredi, N. Michel, D. G. McNeel, P. Morfouace, W. Nazarewicz, C. D. Pruitt, C. Santamaria, S. Sweany, J. Smith, L. G. Sobotka, M. B. Tsang, and A. H. Wuosmaa Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 172501 (2023) – Published 27 October 2023 Focus:Five Protons Spew Out of Extreme Nucleus A highly unstable nucleus that decays by emitting five protons has been observed, offering an extreme case for testing nuclear models.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Emergence of a Spin Microemulsion in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates Ethan C. McGarrigle, Kris T. Delaney, Leon Balents, and Glenn H. Fredrickson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173403 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023 Synopsis:Quantum Emulsion Predicted in BEC A phase that shares some properties with mayonnaise can form in a Bose-Einstein condensate.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Traveling Perversion as Constant Torque Actuator Émilien Dilly, Sébastien Neukirch, Julien Derr, and Dražen Zanchi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177201 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023 Synopsis:Two Experimental Observations of Helix Reversals Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Spontaneous Demixing of Binary Colloidal Flocks Samadarshi Maity and Alexandre Morin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178304 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 Synopsis:Binary Colloids Don't Flock Together A homogenous mixture of two self-propelling species first forms a polar vortex and then spontaneously demixes, thanks to a difference in speeds and other competing effects.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Bend or Twist? What Plectonemes Reveal about the Mysterious Motility of Spiroplasma Paul M. Ryan, Joshua W. Shaevitz, and Charles W. Wolgemuth Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178401 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023 Synopsis:Two Experimental Observations of Helix Reversals Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.     Featured in Physics Second Data Release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: Challenging the Ultralight Dark Matter Paradigm Clemente Smarra et al. (European Pulsar Timing Array) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171001 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 Synopsis:Milky Way Pulsars Rule Out Some Extremely Light Dark Matter Particles If ultralight dark matter particles exist, they can contribute no more than 70% of the dark matter between Earth and a set of monitored pulsars.     Editors' Suggestion Generation of High-Density High-Polarization Positrons via Single-Shot Strong Laser-Foil Interaction Kun Xue, Ting Sun, Ke-Jia Wei, Zhong-Peng Li, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan, Chong Lv, Yong-Tao Zhao, Zhong-Feng Xu, and Jian-Xing Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 175101 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023 Numerical simulations show that highly-polarized dense positron beams can be generated during single-shot interaction of a strong laser with a tilted solid foil by carefully controlling the angle of incidence of the laser on the target.     Editors' Suggestion Construction of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics with Many-Body Non-Markovian Memory Liyao Lyu and Huan Lei Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177301 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023 A machine-learning-based coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) model faithfully retains the many-body nature of the intermolecular dissipative interactions.     Editors' Suggestion Electric Fields in Liquid Water Irradiated with Protons at Ultrahigh Dose Rates F. Gobet, P. Barberet, M.-H. Delville, G. Devès, T. Guérin, R. Liénard, H. N. Tran, C. Vecco-Garda, A. Würger, S. Zein, and H. Seznec Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178001 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023 Ultrahigh dose rates of proton irradiation induce electrokinetic effects in water that can perturb the dynamics of charged particles, such as macromolecules, in biological tissues and other aqueous systems.     Editors' Suggestion Fluid-Glass-Jamming Rheology of Soft Active Brownian Particles Roland Wiese, Klaus Kroy, and Demian Levis Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178302 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 With activity taking the place of temperature, a fluid-glass-jamming phase diagram is constructed for active Brownian particles under shear.     Editors' Suggestion Lorentz Reciprocal Theorem in Fluids with Odd Viscosity Yuto Hosaka, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178303 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 The Lorentz reciprocal theorem, crucial for understanding microswimmer propulsion, is generalizable to fluids with odd viscosity.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Resource-Efficient High-Dimensional Entanglement Detection via Symmetric Projections Simon Morelli, Marcus Huber, and Armin Tavakoli Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170201 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Universal Quantum Computation in Globally Driven Rydberg Atom Arrays Francesco Cesa and Hannes Pichler Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170601 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   Experimental Quantum Channel Discrimination Using Metastable States of a Trapped Ion Kyle DeBry, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Colin D. Bruzewicz, David Reens, May E. Kim, Matthew P. Roychowdhury, Robert McConnell, Isaac L. Chuang, and John Chiaverini Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170602 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Efficient Concatenated Bosonic Code for Additive Gaussian Noise Kosuke Fukui, Takaya Matsuura, and Nicolas C. Menicucci Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170603 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Frequency Tunable, Cavity-Enhanced Single Erbium Quantum Emitter in the Telecom Band Yong Yu, Dorian Oser, Gaia Da Prato, Emanuele Urbinati, Javier Carrasco Ávila, Yu Zhang, Patrick Remy, Sara Marzban, Simon Gröblacher, and Wolfgang Tittel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170801 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Toward the Device-Independent Certification of a Quantum Memory Pavel Sekatski, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Marie Ioannou, Mikael Afzelius, and Nicolas Brunner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170802 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Featured in Physics Second Data Release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: Challenging the Ultralight Dark Matter Paradigm Clemente Smarra et al. (European Pulsar Timing Array) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171001 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 Synopsis:Milky Way Pulsars Rule Out Some Extremely Light Dark Matter Particles If ultralight dark matter particles exist, they can contribute no more than 70% of the dark matter between Earth and a set of monitored pulsars.     Titania Mixed with Silica: A Low Thermal-Noise Coating Material for Gravitational-Wave Detectors Graeme I. McGhee, Viola Spagnuolo, Nicholas Demos, Simon C. Tait, Peter G. Murray, Martin Chicoine, Paul Dabadie, Slawek Gras, Jim Hough, Guido Alex Iandolo, Ross Johnston, Valérie Martinez, Oli Patane, Sheila Rowan, François Schiettekatte, Joshua R. Smith, Lukas Terkowski, Liyuan Zhang, Matthew Evans, Iain W. Martin, and Jessica Steinlechner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171401 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Incompleteness Theorems for Observables in General Relativity Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, George Sparling, and Marios Christodoulou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171402 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Angular Power Spectrum of Gravitational-Wave Transient Sources as a Probe of the Large-Scale Structure Yanyan Zheng, Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Jacob Golomb, Marco Cavaglià, Arianna I. Renzini, and Mairi Sakellariadou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171403 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   First-Order Phase Transition Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Signal Is Consistent with Solar-Mass Black Holes Yann Gouttenoire Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171404 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Particles and Fields Conformal Bounds in Three Dimensions from Entanglement Entropy Pablo Bueno, Horacio Casini, Oscar Lasso Andino, and Javier Moreno Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171601 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Coupling Fields to 3D Quantum Gravity via Chern-Simons Theory Alejandra Castro, Ioana Coman, Jackson R. Fliss, and Claire Zukowski Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171602 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Generic Tests of CP Violation in High-pT Multilepton Signals at the LHC and Beyond Yoav Afik, Shaouly Bar-Shalom, Kuntal Pal, Amarjit Soni, and Jose Wudka Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171801 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Precision Measurement of CP Violation in the Penguin-Mediated Decay Bs0→ϕϕ R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171802 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Precise Measurement of the Ds+ Lifetime at Belle II I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171803 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Observation of New Baryons in the Ξb−π+π− and Ξb0π+π− Systems R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171901 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Quantum and Classical Spin-Network Algorithms for q-Deformed Kogut-Susskind Gauge Theories Torsten V. Zache, Daniel González-Cuadra, and Peter Zoller Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171902 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   Nuclear Physics Measurement of Suppression of Large-Radius Jets and Its Dependence on Substructure in Pb+Pb Collisions at √sNN=5.02  TeV with the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 172301 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Strong Evidence for 9N and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei R. J. Charity, J. Wylie, S. M. Wang, T. B. Webb, K. W. Brown, G. Cerizza, Z. Chajecki, J. M. Elson, J. Estee, D. E. M. Hoff, S. A. Kuvin, W. G. Lynch, J. Manfredi, N. Michel, D. G. McNeel, P. Morfouace, W. Nazarewicz, C. D. Pruitt, C. Santamaria, S. Sweany, J. Smith, L. G. Sobotka, M. B. Tsang, and A. H. Wuosmaa Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 172501 (2023) – Published 27 October 2023 Focus:Five Protons Spew Out of Extreme Nucleus A highly unstable nucleus that decays by emitting five protons has been observed, offering an extreme case for testing nuclear models.     Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Tuning Photon-Mediated Interactions in a Multimode Cavity: From Supersolid to Insulating Droplets Hosting Phononic Excitations Natalia Masalaeva, Helmut Ritsch, and Farokh Mivehvar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173401 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Quasicrystalline Bose Glass in the Absence of Disorder and Quasidisorder Matteo Ciardi, Adriano Angelone, Fabio Mezzacapo, and Fabio Cinti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173402 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Emergence of a Spin Microemulsion in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates Ethan C. McGarrigle, Kris T. Delaney, Leon Balents, and Glenn H. Fredrickson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173403 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023 Synopsis:Quantum Emulsion Predicted in BEC A phase that shares some properties with mayonnaise can form in a Bose-Einstein condensate.     Attractive Solution of Binary Bose Mixtures: Liquid-Vapor Coexistence and Critical Point G. Spada, S. Pilati, and S. Giorgini Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173404 (2023) – Published 27 October 2023   Intense Squeezed Light from Lasers with Sharply Nonlinear Gain at Optical Frequencies Linh Nguyen, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, and Marin Soljačić Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173801 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Editors' Suggestion Generation of High-Density High-Polarization Positrons via Single-Shot Strong Laser-Foil Interaction Kun Xue, Ting Sun, Ke-Jia Wei, Zhong-Peng Li, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan, Chong Lv, Yong-Tao Zhao, Zhong-Feng Xu, and Jian-Xing Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 175101 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023 Numerical simulations show that highly-polarized dense positron beams can be generated during single-shot interaction of a strong laser with a tilted solid foil by carefully controlling the angle of incidence of the laser on the target.     Condensed Matter and Materials Drawing Dispersion Curves: Band Structure Customization via Nonlocal Phononic Crystals Arash Kazemi, Kshiteej J. Deshmukh, Fei Chen, Yunya Liu, Bolei Deng, Henry Chien Fu, and Pai Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176101 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Exact New Mobility Edges between Critical and Localized States Xin-Chi Zhou, Yongjian Wang, Ting-Fung Jeffrey Poon, Qi Zhou, and Xiong-Jun Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176401 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Making Topologically Trivial Non-Hermitian Systems Nontrivial via Gauge Fields W. B. Rui, Y. X. Zhao, and Z. D. Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176402 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Complete Crystalline Topological Invariants from Partial Rotations in (2+1)D Invertible Fermionic States and Hofstadter's Butterfly Yuxuan Zhang, Naren Manjunath, Ryohei Kobayashi, and Maissam Barkeshli Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176501 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Many-Body Majorana Braiding without an Exponential Hilbert Space Eric Mascot, Themba Hodge, Dan Crawford, Jasmin Bedow, Dirk K. Morr, and Stephan Rachel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176601 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   Electron-Photon Chern Number in Cavity-Embedded 2D Moiré Materials Danh-Phuong Nguyen, Geva Arwas, Zuzhang Lin, Wang Yao, and Cristiano Ciuti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176602 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Converging Periodic Boundary Conditions and Detection of Topological Gaps on Regular Hyperbolic Tessellations Fabian R. Lux and Emil Prodan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176603 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Loss and Decoherence at the Quantum Hall-Superconductor Interface Lingfei Zhao, Zubair Iftikhar, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Ethan G. Arnault, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, François Amet, and Gleb Finkelstein Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176604 (2023) – Published 27 October 2023   Valley-Selective Phonon-Magnon Scattering in Magnetoelastic Superlattices Liyang Liao, Jorge Puebla, Kei Yamamoto, Junyeon Kim, Sadamichi Maekawa, Yunyoung Hwang, You Ba, and Yoshichika Otani Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176701 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Graded Quasiperiodic Metamaterials Perform Fractal Rainbow Trapping B. Davies, G. J. Chaplain, T. A. Starkey, and R. V. Craster Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177001 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Traveling Perversion as Constant Torque Actuator Émilien Dilly, Sébastien Neukirch, Julien Derr, and Dražen Zanchi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177201 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023 Synopsis:Two Experimental Observations of Helix Reversals Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.     Editors' Suggestion Construction of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics with Many-Body Non-Markovian Memory Liyao Lyu and Huan Lei Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177301 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023 A machine-learning-based coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) model faithfully retains the many-body nature of the intermolecular dissipative interactions.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Editors' Suggestion Electric Fields in Liquid Water Irradiated with Protons at Ultrahigh Dose Rates F. Gobet, P. Barberet, M.-H. Delville, G. Devès, T. Guérin, R. Liénard, H. N. Tran, C. Vecco-Garda, A. Würger, S. Zein, and H. Seznec Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178001 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023 Ultrahigh dose rates of proton irradiation induce electrokinetic effects in water that can perturb the dynamics of charged particles, such as macromolecules, in biological tissues and other aqueous systems.     Strain-Controlled Critical Slowing Down in the Rheology of Disordered Networks Jordan L. Shivers, Abhinav Sharma, and Fred C. MacKintosh Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178201 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Hamiltonian Dynamics and Structural States of Two-Dimensional Active Particles Yuval Shoham and Naomi Oppenheimer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178301 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Fluid-Glass-Jamming Rheology of Soft Active Brownian Particles Roland Wiese, Klaus Kroy, and Demian Levis Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178302 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 With activity taking the place of temperature, a fluid-glass-jamming phase diagram is constructed for active Brownian particles under shear.     Editors' Suggestion Lorentz Reciprocal Theorem in Fluids with Odd Viscosity Yuto Hosaka, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178303 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 The Lorentz reciprocal theorem, crucial for understanding microswimmer propulsion, is generalizable to fluids with odd viscosity.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Spontaneous Demixing of Binary Colloidal Flocks Samadarshi Maity and Alexandre Morin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178304 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023 Synopsis:Binary Colloids Don't Flock Together A homogenous mixture of two self-propelling species first forms a polar vortex and then spontaneously demixes, thanks to a difference in speeds and other competing effects.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Bend or Twist? What Plectonemes Reveal about the Mysterious Motility of Spiroplasma Paul M. Ryan, Joshua W. Shaevitz, and Charles W. Wolgemuth Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178401 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023 Synopsis:Two Experimental Observations of Helix Reversals Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.     Critical Growth of Cerebral Tissue in Organoids: Theory and Experiments Egor I. Kiselev, Florian Pflug, and Arndt von Haeseler Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178402 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   ERRATA Erratum: Exact Top-Quark Mass Dependence in Hadronic Higgs Production [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162002 (2021)] M. Czakon, R. V. Harlander, J. Klappert, and M. Niggetiedt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 179901 (2023) – Published 26 October 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.