Physical Review Letters - Week ending 20 October 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 16 Week Ending 20 October 2023 On the Cover Cross sections of the normalized magnetization of a hopfion (a topological magnetic texture) and its interaction with spin waves (red wavy arrows) in the XY (top) and XZ (bottom) planes. From the article Hopfion-Driven Magnonic Hall Effect and Magnonic Focusing Carlos Saji, Roberto E. Troncoso, Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos, Dora Altbir, and Alvaro S. Nunez Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166702 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Physical Review B​ is looking for a new part-time (remote) Associate Editor PRB seeks an Associate Editor to manage the peer review process of assigned manuscripts by determining whether to send a manuscript out for external review, choosing appropriate reviewers, and making decisions on rejection or acceptance. More information.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Femtosecond Reduction of Atomic Scattering Factors Triggered by Intense X-Ray Pulse Ichiro Inoue, Jumpei Yamada, Konrad J. Kapcia, Michal Stransky, Victor Tkachenko, Zoltan Jurek, Takato Inoue, Taito Osaka, Yuichi Inubushi, Atsuki Ito, Yuto Tanaka, Satoshi Matsuyama, Kazuto Yamauchi, Makina Yabashi, and Beata Ziaja Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163201 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023 Synopsis:Intense X Rays Can Free Bound Electrons Measurements indicate that intense x-ray pulses can change the electronic structure of a material on femtosecond timescales, a finding that could improve imaging of light–matter interactions.     Featured in Physics Observation of Anisotropic Superfluid Density in an Artificial Crystal J. Tao, M. Zhao, and I. B. Spielman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163401 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023 Synopsis:Cold Atoms Link a BEC, a Superfluid, and a Supersolid Trapping a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical lattice, researchers confirm a 53-year-old theory that connects BECs to superfluids and supersolids.     Editors' Suggestion Search for Light Dark Matter with NA64 at CERN Yu. M. Andreev et al. (NA64 Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161801 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 An experiment at CERN performed by scattering 100 GeV electrons off a fixed target results in limits on thermal dark matter—that requires interactions mediated by hypothetical dark photons—in the MeV mass range.     Editors' Suggestion Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm D. P. Aguillard et al. (The Muon $g-2$ Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161802 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023 The magnetic moment of the muon, a key probe of the standard model and its possible extensions, has been measured to a precision of 200 parts per billion, 2.3 times more precise than their first landmark result.     Editors' Suggestion Doubly Charmed Tetraquark Tcc+ from Lattice QCD near Physical Point Yan Lyu, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, and Jie Meng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161901 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 A lattice QCD computation close to the physical point finds a near-threshold virtual state in the DD* scattering channel, that suggests the formation of a loosely bound state at the physical point consistent with the experimental observation of a doubly charmed tetraquark Tcc+.     Editors' Suggestion Are Gluon Showers inside a Quark-Gluon Plasma Strongly Coupled? A Theorist's Test Peter Arnold, Omar Elgedawy, and Shahin Iqbal Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162302 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 A theoretical study demonstrates that in-medium showers of high-energy gluons can be approximately treated as a sequence of individual splitting processes.     Editors' Suggestion Controlled Excitation of Rotons in Superfluid Helium with an Optical Centrifuge Alexander A. Milner and Valery Milner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166001 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023 A laser pulse with rotating linear polarization creates roton pairs in superfluid helium.     Editors' Suggestion Universal Lower Bound on Topological Entanglement Entropy Isaac H. Kim, Michael Levin, Ting-Chun Lin, Daniel Ranard, and Bowen Shi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166601 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 A lower bound to the topological entanglement entropy partially restores its universality.     Editors' Suggestion Room-Temperature Magnetic Phase Transition in an Electrically Tuned van der Waals Ferromagnet Cheng Tan, Ji-Hai Liao, Guolin Zheng, Meri Algarni, Jia-Yi Lin, Xiang Ma, Edwin L. H. Mayes, Matthew R. Field, Sultan Albarakati, Majid Panahandeh-Fard, Saleh Alzahrani, Guopeng Wang, Yuanjun Yang, Dimitrie Culcer, James Partridge, Mingliang Tian, Bin Xiang, Yu-Jun Zhao, and Lan Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166703 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023 A ferromagnetism to antiferromagnetism phase transition in a van der Waals magnet at room temperature uses CrTe nanoflakes that may lead to improved spintronic devices.     Editors' Suggestion Nonlinear Topological Magnon Spin Hall Effect Zhejunyu Jin, Xianglong Yao, Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Weiwei Wang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166704 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 Nonlinear scattering of magnons and skyrmions in antiferromagnets leads to a spin Hall effect that emerges from real-space topology.     Editors' Suggestion Thermodynamic Bounds on Correlation Times Andreas Dechant, Jérôme Garnier-Brun, and Shin-ichi Sasa Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 167101 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 An analysis of the correlation time of physical observables in steady-state diffusive systems reveals the existence of lower bounds both in and out of equilibrium.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Coherence-Based Operational Nonclassicality Criteria Luca Innocenti, Lukáš Lachman, and Radim Filip Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160201 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Stochastic Operator Variance: An Observable to Diagnose Noise and Scrambling Pablo Martinez-Azcona, Aritra Kundu, Adolfo del Campo, and Aurélia Chenu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160202 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Quantum Reliability L. X. Cui, Y-M. Du, and C. P. Sun Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160203 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Impact of Imperfect Timekeeping on Quantum Control Jake Xuereb, Paul Erker, Florian Meier, Mark T. Mitchison, and Marcus Huber Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160204 (2023) – Published 20 October 2023   Quantum Trajectories for Time-Local Non-Lindblad Master Equations Tobias Becker, Ché Netzer, and André Eckardt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160401 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Operator Growth in Open Quantum Systems Thomas Schuster and Norman Y. Yao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160402 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Entangling Dynamics from Effective Rotor–Spin-Wave Separation in U(1)-Symmetric Quantum Spin Models Tommaso Roscilde, Tommaso Comparin, and Fabio Mezzacapo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160403 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Shadow Tomography from Emergent State Designs in Analog Quantum Simulators Max McGinley and Michele Fava Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160601 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Fundamental Sensitivity Limits for Non-Hermitian Quantum Sensors Wenkui Ding, Xiaoguang Wang, and Shu Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160801 (2023) – Published 20 October 2023   Particles and Fields Momentum Amplituhedron for N=6 Chern-Simons-Matter Theory: Scattering Amplitudes from Configurations of Points in Minkowski Space Tomasz Łukowski and Jonah Stalknecht Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161601 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Crossing-Symmetric Dispersion Relations without Spurious Singularities Chaoming Song Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161602 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Emergent Worldsheet for the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude Luis F. Alday, Tobias Hansen, and Joao A. Silva Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161603 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023   Tensionless Limit of Pure–Ramond-Ramond Strings and AdS3/CFT2 Alberto Brollo, Dennis le Plat, Alessandro Sfondrini, and Ryo Suzuki Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161604 (2023) – Published 20 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Search for Light Dark Matter with NA64 at CERN Yu. M. Andreev et al. (NA64 Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161801 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 An experiment at CERN performed by scattering 100 GeV electrons off a fixed target results in limits on thermal dark matter—that requires interactions mediated by hypothetical dark photons—in the MeV mass range.     Editors' Suggestion Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm D. P. Aguillard et al. (The Muon $g-2$ Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161802 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023 The magnetic moment of the muon, a key probe of the standard model and its possible extensions, has been measured to a precision of 200 parts per billion, 2.3 times more precise than their first landmark result.     Narrow and Ultranarrow Transitions in Highly Charged Xe Ions as Probes of Fifth Forces Nils-Holger Rehbehn, Michael K. Rosner, Julian C. Berengut, Piet O. Schmidt, Thomas Pfeifer, Ming Feng Gu, and José R. Crespo López-Urrutia Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161803 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Doubly Charmed Tetraquark Tcc+ from Lattice QCD near Physical Point Yan Lyu, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, and Jie Meng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161901 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 A lattice QCD computation close to the physical point finds a near-threshold virtual state in the DD* scattering channel, that suggests the formation of a loosely bound state at the physical point consistent with the experimental observation of a doubly charmed tetraquark Tcc+.     Extraction of the Parton Momentum-Fraction Dependence of Generalized Parton Distributions from Exclusive Photoproduction Jian-Wei Qiu and Zhite Yu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161902 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Microscopic Encoding of Macroscopic Universality: Scaling Properties of Dirac Eigenspectra near QCD Chiral Phase Transition H.-T. Ding, W.-P. Huang, Swagato Mukherjee, and P. Petreczky Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161903 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Optimized O(αs2) Correction to Exclusive Double-J/ψ Production at B Factories Wen-Long Sang, Feng Feng, Yu Jia, Zhewen Mo, Jichen Pan, and Jia-Yue Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161904 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Phenomenological Estimate of Isospin Breaking in Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Martin Hoferichter, Gilberto Colangelo, Bai-Long Hoid, Bastian Kubis, Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira, Dominic Schuh, Dominik Stamen, and Peter Stoffer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161905 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Parton Showering with Higher Logarithmic Accuracy for Soft Emissions Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Keith Hamilton, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P. Salam, Ludovic Scyboz, and Gregory Soyez Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161906 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Nuclear Physics Measurement of the Sensitivity of Two-Particle Correlations in pp Collisions to the Presence of Hard Scatterings G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162301 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Are Gluon Showers inside a Quark-Gluon Plasma Strongly Coupled? A Theorist's Test Peter Arnold, Omar Elgedawy, and Shahin Iqbal Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162302 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 A theoretical study demonstrates that in-medium showers of high-energy gluons can be approximately treated as a sequence of individual splitting processes.     Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Rate and Spectral Shape of 100Mo from the CUPID-Mo Experiment C. Augier et al. (CUPID-Mo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162501 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Proton-Capture Rates on Carbon Isotopes and Their Impact on the Astrophysical 12C/13C Ratio J. Skowronski et al. (LUNA Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162701 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Featured in Physics Femtosecond Reduction of Atomic Scattering Factors Triggered by Intense X-Ray Pulse Ichiro Inoue, Jumpei Yamada, Konrad J. Kapcia, Michal Stransky, Victor Tkachenko, Zoltan Jurek, Takato Inoue, Taito Osaka, Yuichi Inubushi, Atsuki Ito, Yuto Tanaka, Satoshi Matsuyama, Kazuto Yamauchi, Makina Yabashi, and Beata Ziaja Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163201 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023 Synopsis:Intense X Rays Can Free Bound Electrons Measurements indicate that intense x-ray pulses can change the electronic structure of a material on femtosecond timescales, a finding that could improve imaging of light–matter interactions.     Featured in Physics Observation of Anisotropic Superfluid Density in an Artificial Crystal J. Tao, M. Zhao, and I. B. Spielman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163401 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023 Synopsis:Cold Atoms Link a BEC, a Superfluid, and a Supersolid Trapping a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical lattice, researchers confirm a 53-year-old theory that connects BECs to superfluids and supersolids.     Trapping Microparticles in a Structured Dark Focus F. Almeida, I. Sousa, O. Kremer, B. Pinheiro da Silva, D. S. Tasca, A. Z. Khoury, G. Temporão, and T. Guerreiro Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163601 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Generating Multiparticle Entangled States by Self-Organization of Driven Ultracold Atoms Ivor Krešić, Gordon R. M. Robb, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Thorsten Ackemann Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163602 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Rolling and Sliding Modes of Nanodroplet Spreading: Molecular Simulations and a Continuum Approach Sreehari Perumanath, Mykyta V. Chubynsky, Rohit Pillai, Matthew K. Borg, and James E. Sprittles Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 164001 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Editors' Suggestion Controlled Excitation of Rotons in Superfluid Helium with an Optical Centrifuge Alexander A. Milner and Valery Milner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166001 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023 A laser pulse with rotating linear polarization creates roton pairs in superfluid helium.     Uncertainty and Irreproducibility of Triboelectricity Based on Interface Mechanochemistry Giulio Fatti, Hyunseung Kim, Changwan Sohn, Minah Park, Yeong-won Lim, Zhuohan Li, Kwi-Il Park, Izabela Szlufarska, Hyunseok Ko, Chang Kyu Jeong, and Sung Beom Cho Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166201 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023   Absence of Mobility Edge in Short-Range Uncorrelated Disordered Model: Coexistence of Localized and Extended States Adway Kumar Das, Anandamohan Ghosh, and Ivan M. Khaymovich Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166401 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Strain-Induced Quasi-1D Channels in Twisted Moiré Lattices Andreas Sinner, Pierre A. Pantaleón, and Francisco Guinea Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166402 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Symmetric Kondo Lattice States in Doped Strained Twisted Bilayer Graphene Haoyu Hu, Gautam Rai, Lorenzo Crippa, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Dumitru Călugăru, Tim Wehling, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Roser Valentí, Alexei M. Tsvelik, and B. Andrei Bernevig Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166501 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Universal Lower Bound on Topological Entanglement Entropy Isaac H. Kim, Michael Levin, Ting-Chun Lin, Daniel Ranard, and Bowen Shi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166601 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 A lower bound to the topological entanglement entropy partially restores its universality.     Magnetic Arctic Circle in a Square Ice Qubit Lattice A. D. King, J. Coraux, B. Canals, and N. Rougemaille Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166701 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Hopfion-Driven Magnonic Hall Effect and Magnonic Focusing Carlos Saji, Roberto E. Troncoso, Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos, Dora Altbir, and Alvaro S. Nunez Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166702 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Room-Temperature Magnetic Phase Transition in an Electrically Tuned van der Waals Ferromagnet Cheng Tan, Ji-Hai Liao, Guolin Zheng, Meri Algarni, Jia-Yi Lin, Xiang Ma, Edwin L. H. Mayes, Matthew R. Field, Sultan Albarakati, Majid Panahandeh-Fard, Saleh Alzahrani, Guopeng Wang, Yuanjun Yang, Dimitrie Culcer, James Partridge, Mingliang Tian, Bin Xiang, Yu-Jun Zhao, and Lan Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166703 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023 A ferromagnetism to antiferromagnetism phase transition in a van der Waals magnet at room temperature uses CrTe nanoflakes that may lead to improved spintronic devices.     Editors' Suggestion Nonlinear Topological Magnon Spin Hall Effect Zhejunyu Jin, Xianglong Yao, Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Weiwei Wang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166704 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 Nonlinear scattering of magnons and skyrmions in antiferromagnets leads to a spin Hall effect that emerges from real-space topology.     Signatures of the Optical Stark Effect on Entangled Photon Pairs from Resonantly Pumped Quantum Dots F. Basso Basset, M. B. Rota, M. Beccaceci, T. M. Krieger, Q. Buchinger, J. Neuwirth, H. Huet, S. Stroj, S. F. Covre da Silva, G. Ronco, C. Schimpf, S. Höfling, T. Huber-Loyola, A. Rastelli, and R. Trotta Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166901 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Nonlinear Terahertz Polarizability of Electrons Solvated in a Polar Liquid Matthias Runge, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166902 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Editors' Suggestion Thermodynamic Bounds on Correlation Times Andreas Dechant, Jérôme Garnier-Brun, and Shin-ichi Sasa Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 167101 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023 An analysis of the correlation time of physical observables in steady-state diffusive systems reveals the existence of lower bounds both in and out of equilibrium.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Unraveling the Oxidation of a Graphitic Lattice: Structure Determination of Oxygen Clusters Mohammad Tohidi Vahdat, Shaoxian Li, Shiqi Huang, Carlo A. Pignedoli, Nicola Marzari, and Kumar Varoon Agrawal Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168001 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Explaining Giant Apparent pKa Shifts in Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes David Beyer, Peter Košovan, and Christian Holm Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168101 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Modeling Leidenfrost Levitation of Soft Elastic Solids Jack Binysh, Indrajit Chakraborty, Mykyta V. Chubynsky, Vicente Luis Díaz Melian, Scott R. Waitukaitis, James E. Sprittles, and Anton Souslov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168201 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Dependence of the Glass Transition and Jamming Densities on Spatial Dimension Monoj Adhikari, Smarajit Karmakar, and Srikanth Sastry Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168202 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Orientation-Dependent Propulsion of Active Brownian Spheres: From Self-Advection to Programmable Cluster Shapes Stephan Bröker, Jens Bickmann, Michael te Vrugt, Michael E. Cates, and Raphael Wittkowski Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168203 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023   Noise-Induced Quenched Disorder in Dense Active Systems Guozheng Lin, Zhangang Han, Amir Shee, and Cristián Huepe Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168301 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Swimming, Feeding, and Inversion of Multicellular Choanoflagellate Sheets Lloyd Fung, Adam Konkol, Takuji Ishikawa, Ben T. Larson, Thibaut Brunet, and Raymond E. Goldstein Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 168401 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   COMMENTS Comment on "Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914" M. Isi and W. M. Farr Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169001 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Carullo et al. Reply: Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Emanuele Berti, and Vitor Cardoso Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169002 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   ERRATA Erratum: Mechanical Frustration of Phase Separation in the Cell Nucleus by Chromatin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258102 (2021)] Yaojun Zhang, Daniel S. W. Lee, Yigal Meir, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Ned S. Wingreen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169901 (2023) – Published 18 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.