Physical Review Letters - Week ending 3 November 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 18 Week Ending 3 November 2023 On the Cover Scanning tunneling microscope image of an island of C60 molecules (buckyballs) on a Cu(111) surface. From the article Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity Mingquan Xu, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang-Peng Gao, and Wu Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186202 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club sessions November 17 | 2:00 p.m. ET Aidan Reddy (MIT) and Junkai Dong (Harvard University) on two Physical Review Letters papers: "Composite Fermi Liquid at Zero Magnetic Field in Twisted MoTe2" and "Zero-Field Composite Fermi Liquid in Twisted Semiconductor Bilayers" 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.     Advertisement Apply for APS's Congressional Science Fellowship APS has expanded the eligibility for the 2024-25 APS Congressional Science Fellowship. Applicants with a master's degree and three years of work experience in their degree field or science policy are now eligible for this extraordinary opportunity to work on Capitol Hill as a scientist alongside members of Congress.The application deadline is December 1, 2023.     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 Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181901 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023 Viewpoint:Observation of a Single Top Quark and a Photon The Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS Collaboration observes, for the first time, the coincident production of a photon and a top quark.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Measurement of Capillary Forces Using Two Fibers Dynamically Withdrawn from a Liquid: Evidence for an Enhanced Cheerios Effect Hadrien Bense, Emmanuel Siéfert, and Fabian Brau Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184003 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023 Synopsis:Dynamic Cheerios Stickier than Static Ones The attractive force that causes floating Cheerios to clump together increases in strength when objects are withdrawn from a liquid.     Featured in Physics Engineering Field-Insensitive Molecular Clock Transitions for Symmetry Violation Searches Yuiki Takahashi, Chi Zhang, Arian Jadbabaie, and Nicholas R. Hutzler Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183003 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 Synopsis:Engineering Molecular Transitions for Symmetry-Violation Tests Researchers have engineered ultracold molecular transitions ideally suited for probing beyond-standard-model effects of symmetry violations.     Editors' Suggestion High-Purity Generation and Switching of Twisted Single Photons Haoqi Zhao, Yichen Ma, Zihe Gao, Na Liu, Tianwei Wu, Shuang Wu, Xilin Feng, James Hone, Stefan Strauf, and Liang Feng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183801 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 An experiment combines the two-dimensional semiconductor WSe2 with a spin-orbit-coupled microring resonator to demonstrate the high-purity generation of twisted single photons and its convenient switching between different orbital angular momentum states.     Editors' Suggestion Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity Mingquan Xu, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang-Peng Gao, and Wu Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186202 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 Energy-loss spectroscopy mapping of a silicon point defect in graphene demonstrates real-space mapping of specific electronic excitations at the single-atom scale.     Editors' Suggestion Anisotropic Nonlocal Damping in Ferromagnet/α−GeTe Bilayers Enabled by Splitting Energy Bands Xu Yang, Liang Qiu, Yan Li, Hao-Pu Xue, Jia-Nan Liu, Rui Sun, Qing-Lin Yang, Xue-Song Gai, Yan-Sheng Wei, Andrew H. Comstock, Dali Sun, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Wei He, Yusheng Hou, and Zhao-Hua Cheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186703 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023 Anisotropic nonlocal Gilbert damping, an effect induced by the anisotropic splitting of energy bands, has been observed experimentally for the first time in GeTe.     Editors' Suggestion Controlling the Spatial Profile and Energy Landscape of Organic Polariton Condensates in Double-Dye Cavities Anton D. Putintsev, Kirsty E. McGhee, Denis Sannikov, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Julian D. Töpfer, Till Jessewitsch, Ullrich Scherf, David G. Lidzey, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186902 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023 Ultrafast and reversible manipulation of the spatial profile and energy landscape of organic polariton condensates is experimentally demonstrated in double-dye cavities by shaping both the local potential and the dissipation in real space at room temperature.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Nonstabilizerness via Perfect Pauli Sampling of Matrix Product States Guglielmo Lami and Mario Collura Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180401 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   Absolutely Stable Time Crystals at Finite Temperature Francisco Machado, Quntao Zhuang, Norman Y. Yao, and Michael P. Zaletel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180402 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Scrambling Is Necessary but Not Sufficient for Chaos Neil Dowling, Pavel Kos, and Kavan Modi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180403 (2023) – Published 2 November 2023   Simulating Quantum Circuits Using Efficient Tensor Network Contraction Algorithms with Subexponential Upper Bound Thorsten B. Wahl and Sergii Strelchuk Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180601 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Do the CMB Temperature Fluctuations Conserve Parity? Oliver H. E. Philcox Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181001 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023   Critical Phenomena in the Collapse of Gravitational Waves Thomas W. Baumgarte, Bernd Brügmann, Daniela Cors, Carsten Gundlach, David Hilditch, Anton Khirnov, Tomáš Ledvinka, Sarah Renkhoff, and Isabel Suárez Fernández Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181401 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Particles and Fields 3D Quantum Gravity Partition Function at Three Loops Mauricio Leston, Andrés Goya, Guillem Pérez-Nadal, Mario Passaglia, and Gaston Giribet Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181601 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Tests of Light-Lepton Universality in Angular Asymmetries of B0→D*−ℓν Decays I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181801 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181901 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023 Viewpoint:Observation of a Single Top Quark and a Photon The Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS Collaboration observes, for the first time, the coincident production of a photon and a top quark.     Equation of State of Cold Quark Matter to O(αs3lnαs) Tyler Gorda, Risto Paatelainen, Saga Säppi, and Kaapo Seppänen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181902 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Higher-Order QED Corrections to the Hyperfine Splitting in 3He Vojtěch Patkóš, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, and Krzysztof Pachucki Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183001 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Vibrational Quenching of Optically Pumped Carbon Dimer Anions Markus Nötzold, Robert Wild, Christine Lochmann, Tanja Rahim, Sruthi Purushu Melath, Katrin Dulitz, Barry Mant, Jan Franz, Francesco A. Gianturco, and Roland Wester Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183002 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Featured in Physics Engineering Field-Insensitive Molecular Clock Transitions for Symmetry Violation Searches Yuiki Takahashi, Chi Zhang, Arian Jadbabaie, and Nicholas R. Hutzler Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183003 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 Synopsis:Engineering Molecular Transitions for Symmetry-Violation Tests Researchers have engineered ultracold molecular transitions ideally suited for probing beyond-standard-model effects of symmetry violations.     Harmonic Suppression Induced by Three-Electron Dynamics of Li in Strong Laser Fields Yu-Ning Yang, Su-Qi Chen, Zhao-Han Zhang, Hui Jiang, Min Chen, Yang Li, and Feng He Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183201 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Extended Rotational Coherence of Polar Molecules in an Elliptically Polarized Trap Annie J. Park, Lewis R. B. Picard, Gabriel E. Patenotte, Jessie T. Zhang, Till Rosenband, and Kang-Kuen Ni Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183401 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Universal Dynamics of Rogue Waves in a Quenched Spinor Bose Condensate Ido Siovitz, Stefan Lannig, Yannick Deller, Helmut Strobel, Markus K. Oberthaler, and Thomas Gasenzer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183402 (2023) – Published 2 November 2023   Tailoring Photon Statistics with an Atom-Based Two-Photon Interferometer Martin Cordier, Max Schemmer, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Volz, and Arno Rauschenbeutel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183601 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Revealing the Velocity Uncertainties of a Levitated Particle in the Quantum Ground State M. Kamba and K. Aikawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183602 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion High-Purity Generation and Switching of Twisted Single Photons Haoqi Zhao, Yichen Ma, Zihe Gao, Na Liu, Tianwei Wu, Shuang Wu, Xilin Feng, James Hone, Stefan Strauf, and Liang Feng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183801 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 An experiment combines the two-dimensional semiconductor WSe2 with a spin-orbit-coupled microring resonator to demonstrate the high-purity generation of twisted single photons and its convenient switching between different orbital angular momentum states.     Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Thermal Antibubbles: When Thermalization of Encapsulated Leidenfrost Drops Matters Jonas Miguet, Benoit Scheid, Laurent Maquet, Baptiste Darbois Texier, and Stéphane Dorbolo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184001 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Dynamic Buckling of a Filament Impacted by a Falling Droplet Meng Lu, Jian Deng, Xuerui Mao, and Luca Brandt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184002 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Measurement of Capillary Forces Using Two Fibers Dynamically Withdrawn from a Liquid: Evidence for an Enhanced Cheerios Effect Hadrien Bense, Emmanuel Siéfert, and Fabian Brau Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184003 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023 Synopsis:Dynamic Cheerios Stickier than Static Ones The attractive force that causes floating Cheerios to clump together increases in strength when objects are withdrawn from a liquid.     Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Bending Magnet Synchrotron Radiation Imaging with Large Orbital Collection Angles M. Labat, O. Chubar, J. Breunlin, N. Hubert, and Å. Andersson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 185001 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Enhanced Transport at High Plasma Pressure and Subthreshold Kinetic Ballooning Modes in Wendelstein 7-X P. Mulholland, K. Aleynikova, B. J. Faber, M. J. Pueschel, J. H. E. Proll, C. C. Hegna, P. W. Terry, and C. Nührenberg Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 185101 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Dissipative Dynamics of a Heavy Impurity in a Bose Gas in the Strong Coupling Regime Aleksandra Petković and Zoran Ristivojevic Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186001 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Sharpness of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Disordered NbN Films Alexander Weitzel, Lea Pfaffinger, Ilaria Maccari, Klaus Kronfeldner, Thomas Huber, Lorenz Fuchs, James Mallord, Sven Linzen, Evgeni Il'ichev, Nicola Paradiso, and Christoph Strunk Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186002 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Geometrical Frustration, Correlated Disorder, and Emerging Order in a Corrugated C60 Monolayer M. Alfonso-Moro, V. Guisset, P. David, B. Canals, J. Coraux, and N. Rougemaille Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186201 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity Mingquan Xu, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang-Peng Gao, and Wu Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186202 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 Energy-loss spectroscopy mapping of a silicon point defect in graphene demonstrates real-space mapping of specific electronic excitations at the single-atom scale.     Extracting the Quantum Hall Conductance from a Single Bulk Wave Function Ruihua Fan, Rahul Sahay, and Ashvin Vishwanath Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186301 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Gate-Tunable Berry Curvature Dipole Polarizability in Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2 Tong-Yang Zhao, An-Qi Wang, Xing-Guo Ye, Xing-Yu Liu, Xin Liao, and Zhi-Min Liao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186302 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Critical Phase Dualities in 1D Exactly Solvable Quasiperiodic Models Miguel Gonçalves, Bruno Amorim, Eduardo V. Castro, and Pedro Ribeiro Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186303 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023   Averting the Infrared Catastrophe in the Gold Standard of Quantum Chemistry Nikolaos Masios, Andreas Irmler, Tobias Schäfer, and Andreas Grüneis Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186401 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Highly Accurate Electronic Structure of Metallic Solids from Coupled-Cluster Theory with Nonperturbative Triple Excitations Verena A. Neufeld and Timothy C. Berkelbach Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186402 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Static Self-Energy and Effective Mass of the Homogeneous Electron Gas from Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations Markus Holzmann, Francesco Calcavecchia, David M. Ceperley, and Valerio Olevano Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186501 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Anyon Statistics through Conductance Measurements of Time-Domain Interferometry Noam Schiller, Yotam Shapira, Ady Stern, and Yuval Oreg Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186601 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Discovery of Charge Order in the Transition Metal Dichalcogenide FexNbS2 Shan Wu, Rourav Basak, Wenxin Li, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Donghui Lu, Makoto Hashimoto, Christie Nelson, Raul Acevedo-Esteves, Shannon C. Haley, James G. Analytis, Yu He, Alex Frano, and Robert J. Birgeneau Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186701 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Spurious Symmetry Enhancement in Linear Spin Wave Theory and Interaction-Induced Topology in Magnons Matthias Gohlke, Alberto Corticelli, Roderich Moessner, Paul A. McClarty, and Alexander Mook Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186702 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Anisotropic Nonlocal Damping in Ferromagnet/α−GeTe Bilayers Enabled by Splitting Energy Bands Xu Yang, Liang Qiu, Yan Li, Hao-Pu Xue, Jia-Nan Liu, Rui Sun, Qing-Lin Yang, Xue-Song Gai, Yan-Sheng Wei, Andrew H. Comstock, Dali Sun, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Wei He, Yusheng Hou, and Zhao-Hua Cheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186703 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023 Anisotropic nonlocal Gilbert damping, an effect induced by the anisotropic splitting of energy bands, has been observed experimentally for the first time in GeTe.     EuCd2As2: A Magnetic Semiconductor D. Santos-Cottin, I. Mohelský, J. Wyzula, F. Le Mardelé, I. Kapon, S. Nasrallah, N. Barišić, I. Živković, J. R. Soh, F. Guo, K. Rigaux, M. Puppin, J. H. Dil, B. Gudac, Z. Rukelj, M. Novak, A. B. Kuzmenko, C. C. Homes, Tomasz Dietl, M. Orlita, and Ana Akrap Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186704 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023   Floquet Engineering the Exceptional Points in Parity-Time-Symmetric Magnonics Xi-guang Wang, Lu-lu Zeng, Guang-hua Guo, and Jamal Berakdar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186705 (2023) – Published 3 November 2023   Bright and Dark Quadrupolar Excitons in the WSe2/MoSe2/WSe2 Heterotrilayer Yongzhi Xie, Yuchen Gao, Fengyu Chen, Yunkun Wang, Jun Mao, Qinyun Liu, Saisai Chu, Hong Yang, Yu Ye, Qihuang Gong, Ji Feng, and Yunan Gao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186901 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Controlling the Spatial Profile and Energy Landscape of Organic Polariton Condensates in Double-Dye Cavities Anton D. Putintsev, Kirsty E. McGhee, Denis Sannikov, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Julian D. Töpfer, Till Jessewitsch, Ullrich Scherf, David G. Lidzey, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186902 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023 Ultrafast and reversible manipulation of the spatial profile and energy landscape of organic polariton condensates is experimentally demonstrated in double-dye cavities by shaping both the local potential and the dissipation in real space at room temperature.     Possible Eliashberg-Type Superconductivity Enhancement Effects in a Two-Band Superconductor MgB2 Driven by Narrow-Band THz Pulses Sergei Sobolev, Amon P. Lanz, Tao Dong, Amrit Pokharel, Viktor Kabanov, Tie-Quan Xu, Yue Wang, Zi-Zhao Gan, Li-Yu Shi, Nan-Lin Wang, Alexej Pashkin, Ece Uykur, Stephan Winnerl, Manfred Helm, and Jure Demsar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186903 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Classical Drift in the Arnold Web Induces Quantum Delocalization Transition Jan Robert Schmidt, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 187201 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Minimal Model of Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals Noe Atzin, Ali Mozaffari, Xingzhou Tang, Soumik Das, Nicholas L. Abbott, and Juan J. de Pablo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 188101 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Curvature Heterogeneities Act as Singular Perturbations to Smooth Laplacian Fields: A Fluid Mechanics Demonstration Stéphane Guillet, Benjamin Guiselin, Mariem Boughzala, Vassili Desages, and Denis Bartolo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 188201 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   Optimal Power Extraction from Active Particles with Hidden States Luca Cocconi, Jacob Knight, and Connor Roberts Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 188301 (2023) – Published 1 November 2023   Random Traction Yielding Transition in Epithelial Tissues Aboutaleb Amiri, Charlie Duclut, Frank Jülicher, and Marko Popović Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 188401 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   COMMENTS Comment on "Absence of Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order in hcp 4He Dislocation Cores" M. Boninsegni, A. B. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. Prokof'ev, and B. V. Svistunov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 189601 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   de Koning et al. Reply: Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai, Claudio Cazorla, and Jordi Boronat Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 189602 (2023) – Published 31 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.