Volume 131, Issue 21 Week Ending 24 November 2023 | | Advertisement Your generous contributions support teachers like Tamia Williams who benefit from educational programs like PhysicsQuest. APS can continue to promote its mission of advancing and diffusing the knowledge of physics thanks to the continued support of members like you who believe physics education should be accessible to all. Support APS by participating in #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving on November 28. Donate today. | | | | | Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists. | | | | Featured in Physics Yui Kuramochi and Hiroyasu Tajima Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210201 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | According to a new extension to an old theory, a particle's position cannot be measured precisely even if its momentum is not measured simultaneously. | | | | | | Featured in Physics P. J. Li et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 212501 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can form clusters analogous to atoms in a molecule, even in the nuclear ground state. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Yangsen Ye et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210603 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | An efficient and scalable protocol to prepare arbitrary logical states for the distance-3 surface code is demonstrated using 17 out of the 66 qubits on the Zuchongzhi 2.1 superconducting quantum processor. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Norimasa Sasabe, Masaichiro Mizumaki, Takayuki Uozumi, and Yuichi Yamasaki Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 216501 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | A theoretical study on the feasibility of observing x-ray magnetic circular dichroism on a compound with collinear antiferromagnetism reveals two possible magnetic phases, excitonic antiferromagnetism and van Vleck type paramagnetism. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Shensheng Chen and Zhen-Gang Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218201 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | Charge asymmetry in mixtures of polyelectrolytes can slow down coarsening dynamics during liquid-liquid phase separation. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion Brieuc Benvegnen, Omer Granek, Sunghan Ro, Ran Yaacoby, Hugues Chaté, Yariv Kafri, David Mukamel, Alexandre Solon, and Julien Tailleur Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218301 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | Droplets of active particles moving in a direction opposite that of an ordered flocking phase nucleate and grow and spread ballistically in all directions, implying that discrete-symmetry flocks are metastable in all dimensions. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion John M. McBride, Konstantin Polev, Amirbek Abdirasulov, Vladimir Reinharz, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, and Tsvi Tlusty Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218401 (2023) – Published 20 November 2023 | A new method based on AlphaFold2 improves the precision of single-mutation predictions for protein folding. | | | | | | Quantum Information, Science, and Technology | Featured in Physics Yui Kuramochi and Hiroyasu Tajima Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210201 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | According to a new extension to an old theory, a particle's position cannot be measured precisely even if its momentum is not measured simultaneously. | | | | | | Alberto Rolandi, Paolo Abiuso, and Martí Perarnau-Llobet Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210401 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Ewan McCulloch, Jacopo De Nardis, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Romain Vasseur Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210402 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Kento Tsubouchi, Takahiro Sagawa, and Nobuyuki Yoshioka Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210601 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Ryuji Takagi, Hiroyasu Tajima, and Mile Gu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210602 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Yangsen Ye et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210603 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | An efficient and scalable protocol to prepare arbitrary logical states for the distance-3 surface code is demonstrated using 17 out of the 66 qubits on the Zuchongzhi 2.1 superconducting quantum processor. | | | | | | Matthew R. Brown, Markus Allgaier, Valérian Thiel, John D. Monnier, Michael G. Raymer, and Brian J. Smith Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210801 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | Zeyuan Zhou, Ryan Sitler, Yasuo Oda, Kevin Schultz, and Gregory Quiroz Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210802 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | Sangkha Borah and Bijita Sarma Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210803 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | Kenji Nakahira Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210804 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Giang N. Nguyen, Clemens Spinnler, Mark R. Hogg, Liang Zhai, Alisa Javadi, Carolin A. Schrader, Marcel Erbe, Marcus Wyss, Julian Ritzmann, Hans-Georg Babin, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, and Richard J. Warburton Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 210805 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation | Shion Chen, Hajime Fukuda, Toshiaki Inada, Takeo Moroi, Tatsumi Nitta, and Thanaporn Sichanugrist Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211001 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Marcus Reitz, Barbara Šoda, and Achim Kempf Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211501 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Jordan Cotler and Kristan Jensen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211601 (2023) – Published 20 November 2023 | | | L. Cao et al. (Belle Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211801 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | D. Liventsev et al. (Belle Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211802 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Melissa van Beekveld, Anna Kulesza, and Laura Moreno Valero Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211901 (2023) – Published 20 November 2023 | | | M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 211902 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Featured in Physics P. J. Li et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 212501 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | The protons and neutrons in a nucleus can form clusters analogous to atoms in a molecule, even in the nuclear ground state. | | | | | | Hang Yu, Sebastian König, and Dean Lee Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 212502 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | C. Hebborn, F. M. Nunes, and A. E. Lovell Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 212503 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics | Yoo Kyung Lee, Hanzhen Lin (林翰桢), and Wolfgang Ketterle Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 213001 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | Deborah Capecchi, Camilo Cantillano, Manfred J. Mark, Florian Meinert, Andreas Schindewolf, Manuele Landini, Alejandro Saenz, Fabio Revuelta, and Hanns-Christoph Nägerl Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 213002 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | | | Kahlil Y. Dixon, Terry A. Loring, and Alexander Cerjan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 213801 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Condensed Matter and Materials | Hongchao Li, Xie-Hang Yu, Masaya Nakagawa, and Masahito Ueda Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 216001 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Gabriele Riva, Pina Romaniello, and J. Arjan Berger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 216401 (2023) – Published 20 November 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Norimasa Sasabe, Masaichiro Mizumaki, Takayuki Uozumi, and Yuichi Yamasaki Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 216501 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | A theoretical study on the feasibility of observing x-ray magnetic circular dichroism on a compound with collinear antiferromagnetism reveals two possible magnetic phases, excitonic antiferromagnetism and van Vleck type paramagnetism. | | | | | | Reyhaneh Khasseh, Jiaju Zhang, Markus Heyl, and M. A. Rajabpour Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 216701 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics | Róisín A. O'Connell, William N. Sharratt, and João T. Cabral Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218101 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Shensheng Chen and Zhen-Gang Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218201 (2023) – Published 21 November 2023 | Charge asymmetry in mixtures of polyelectrolytes can slow down coarsening dynamics during liquid-liquid phase separation. | | | | | | Rajib K. Pandit and Horacio E. Castillo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218202 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | Editors' Suggestion Brieuc Benvegnen, Omer Granek, Sunghan Ro, Ran Yaacoby, Hugues Chaté, Yariv Kafri, David Mukamel, Alexandre Solon, and Julien Tailleur Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218301 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | Droplets of active particles moving in a direction opposite that of an ordered flocking phase nucleate and grow and spread ballistically in all directions, implying that discrete-symmetry flocks are metastable in all dimensions. | | | | | | Editors' Suggestion John M. McBride, Konstantin Polev, Amirbek Abdirasulov, Vladimir Reinharz, Bartosz A. Grzybowski, and Tsvi Tlusty Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218401 (2023) – Published 20 November 2023 | A new method based on AlphaFold2 improves the precision of single-mutation predictions for protein folding. | | | | | | Hao Sun, Zilong Guo, Haiyan Hong, Zhuwei Zhang, Yuhang Zhang, Yang Wang, Shimin Le, and Hu Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 218402 (2023) – Published 22 November 2023 | | | | |