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Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 22 Week Ending 1 December 2023 On the Cover Sketch of the negative perceptron's solution landscape satisfying the required constraints (blue and white) or with nonzero energy (orange). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron Brandon Livio Annesi, Clarissa Lauditi, Carlo Lucibello, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gabriele Perugini, Fabrizio Pittorino, and Luca Saglietti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227301 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session December 12 | 6:30 p.m. ET Ji-Sung Park (Seoul National University) on the Physical Review Fluids paper: "Elastic hoops jumping on water" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement Build your on-campus physics community with help from a Women in Physics Group Grant The APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) is now accepting proposals from undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in creating new WiP groups or enhancing existing ones. The deadline for proposals is January 26, 2024. Learn more.     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 Nuclear Charge Radius of 26mAl and Its Implication for Vud in the Quark Mixing Matrix P. Plattner et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222502 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023 Viewpoint:Quark Picture Put to the Test A measurement of the charge radius of an aluminum nucleus probes the assumption that there are only three families of quarks.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymerlike Networks Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, and Xuanhe Zhao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228102 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023 Focus:Why It's Hard to Break Plastics The crack resistance of polymer materials is explained by a new model that incorporates a network of stretchable polymer chains.     Featured in Physics Gas Compression Systematically Delays the Onset of Viscous Fingering Liam C. Morrow, Callum Cuttle, and Christopher W. MacMinn Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224002 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 Synopsis:Control Knob Found for Viscous Fingers The onset time for "viscous fingering"—an instability that can occur at a gas–liquid boundary—depends on the compressibility of the gas, offering a way to control the behavior.     Editors' Suggestion Kerr Black Holes from Massive Higher-Spin Gauge Symmetry Lucile Cangemi, Marco Chiodaroli, Henrik Johansson, Alexander Ochirov, Paolo Pichini, and Evgeny Skvortsov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221401 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023 Spinning black holes may have a hidden higher-spin gauge symmetry.     Editors' Suggestion Single-Shot Measurements of Phonon Number States Using the Autler-Townes Effect Marion Mallweger, Murilo Henrique de Oliveira, Robin Thomm, Harry Parke, Natalia Kuk, Gerard Higgins, Romain Bachelard, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas, and Markus Hennrich Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223603 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023 A new method based on the Autler-Townes effect can be used to measure the motional states of trapped ions in the number basis.     Editors' Suggestion Cascade of Multielectron Bubble Phases in Monolayer Graphene at High Landau Level Filling Fangyuan Yang, Ruiheng Bai, Alexander A. Zibrov, Sandeep Joy, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Brian Skinner, Mark O. Goerbig, and Andrea F. Young Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226501 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023 Chemical potential measurements, in concert with theoretical calculations, reveal density-tuned phase transitions between multielectron bubble states in monolayer graphene.     Editors' Suggestion Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations Driving Field-Reinforced Superconductivity in UTe2 Y. Tokunaga, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, P. Opletal, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Haga, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, D. Aoki, G. Knebel, G. Lapertot, S. Krämer, and M. Horvatić Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226503 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 High-field NMR measurements on single crystals of UTe2 show an enhancement of longitudinal spin fluctuations above 15 Tesla, exhibiting a divergence near the field-induced metamagnetic transition at 35 Tesla.     Editors' Suggestion Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Fields due to Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Bulk Superconducting UTe2 N. Azari, M. Yakovlev, N. Rye, S. R. Dunsiger, S. Sundar, M. M. Bordelon, S. M. Thomas, J. D. Thompson, P. F. S. Rosa, and J. E. Sonier Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226504 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 Muon spin relaxation measurements on a new generation of high-quality flux-grown single crystals show that UTe2 does not break time-reversal symmetry.     Editors' Suggestion Model for Nonrelativistic Topological Multiferroic Matter Guidobeth Saez, Mario A. Castro, Sebastian Allende, and Alvaro S. Nunez Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226801 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023 A minimal model shows that different magnetic configurations give rise to electric polarization stemming from a nontrivial Berry phase of the system without spin-orbit coupling.     Editors' Suggestion Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron Brandon Livio Annesi, Clarissa Lauditi, Carlo Lucibello, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gabriele Perugini, Fabrizio Pittorino, and Luca Saglietti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227301 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 The solutions of a nonconvex over-parametrized neural network model are geodesically connected in a star-shaped geometry.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Fundamental Accuracy-Resolution Trade-Off for Timekeeping Devices Florian Meier, Emanuel Schwarzhans, Paul Erker, and Marcus Huber Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220201 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Invertible Map between Bell Nonlocal and Contextuality Scenarios Victoria J. Wright and Máté Farkas Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220202 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   Experimental Test of the Jarzynski Equality in a Single Spin-1 System Using High-Fidelity Single-Shot Readouts Wenquan Liu, Zhibo Niu, Wei Cheng, Xin Li, Chang-Kui Duan, Zhangqi Yin, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220401 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   Spectral Response of Disorder-Free Localized Lattice Gauge Theories Nilotpal Chakraborty, Markus Heyl, Petr Karpov, and Roderich Moessner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220402 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Unifying Emergent Hydrodynamics and Lindbladian Low-Energy Spectra across Symmetries, Constraints, and Long-Range Interactions Olumakinde Ogunnaike, Johannes Feldmeier, and Jong Yeon Lee Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220403 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Scrambling Transition in a Radiative Random Unitary Circuit Zack Weinstein, Shane P. Kelly, Jamir Marino, and Ehud Altman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220404 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Stochastic Thermodynamics of a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Finite-Size Reservoir Saulo V. Moreira, Peter Samuelsson, and Patrick P. Potts Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220405 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023   Breaking the Entangling Gate Speed Limit for Trapped-Ion Qubits Using a Phase-Stable Standing Wave S. Saner, O. Băzăvan, M. Minder, P. Drmota, D. J. Webb, G. Araneda, R. Srinivas, D. M. Lucas, and C. J. Ballance Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220601 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023   Multiparameter Estimation Perspective on Non-Hermitian Singularity-Enhanced Sensing Javid Naikoo, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, and Jan Kołodyński Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220801 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Optimized Protocols for Duplex Quantum Transduction Zhaoyou Wang, Mengzhen Zhang, Yat Wong, Changchun Zhong, and Liang Jiang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220802 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Robust Higher-Order Hamiltonian Engineering for Quantum Sensing with Strongly Interacting Systems Hengyun Zhou, Leigh S. Martin, Matthew Tyler, Oksana Makarova, Nathaniel Leitao, Hongkun Park, and Mikhail D. Lukin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220803 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Dark Radiation from Neutrino Mixing after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Daniel Aloni, Melissa Joseph, Martin Schmaltz, and Neal Weiner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221001 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Editors' Suggestion Kerr Black Holes from Massive Higher-Spin Gauge Symmetry Lucile Cangemi, Marco Chiodaroli, Henrik Johansson, Alexander Ochirov, Paolo Pichini, and Evgeny Skvortsov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221401 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023 Spinning black holes may have a hidden higher-spin gauge symmetry.     Multimode Quasinormal Spectrum from a Perturbed Black Hole Collin D. Capano, Miriam Cabero, Julian Westerweck, Jahed Abedi, Shilpa Kastha, Alexander H. Nitz, Yi-Fan Wang, Alex B. Nielsen, and Badri Krishnan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221402 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Intrinsic Limits on the Detection of the Anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Giorgio Mentasti, Carlo R. Contaldi, and Marco Peloso Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221403 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Particles and Fields Holographic Dissipative Spacetime Supersolids Peng Yang, Matteo Baggioli, Zi Cai, Yu Tian, and Hongbao Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221601 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   Heating Up Quadruply Quantized Vortices: Splitting Patterns and Dynamical Transitions Shanquan Lan, Xin Li, Yu Tian, Peng Yang, and Hongbao Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221602 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Measurement of Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on 127I with the COHERENT NaIνE Detector P. An et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221801 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Colorful Mirror Solution to the Strong CP Problem Quentin Bonnefoy, Lawrence Hall, Claudio Andrea Manzari, and Christiane Scherb Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221802 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Nuclear Physics Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of 82Se with the Global CUPID-0 Background Model O. Azzolini et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222501 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nuclear Charge Radius of 26mAl and Its Implication for Vud in the Quark Mixing Matrix P. Plattner et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222502 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023 Viewpoint:Quark Picture Put to the Test A measurement of the charge radius of an aluminum nucleus probes the assumption that there are only three families of quarks.     Further Evidence for Shape Coexistence in 79Znm near Doubly Magic 78Ni L. Nies et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222503 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Observation of a Low-Lying Metastable Electronic State in Highly Charged Lead by Penning-Trap Mass Spectrometry Kathrin Kromer, Chunhai Lyu, Menno Door, Pavel Filianin, Zoltán Harman, Jost Herkenhoff, Paul Indelicato, Christoph H. Keitel, Daniel Lange, Yuri N. Novikov, Christoph Schweiger, Sergey Eliseev, and Klaus Blaum Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223002 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Glitches in Rotating Supersolids Elena Poli, Thomas Bland, Samuel J. M. White, Manfred J. Mark, Francesca Ferlaino, Silvia Trabucco, and Massimo Mannarelli Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223401 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Vacuum-Induced Symmetry Breaking of Chiral Enantiomer Formation in Chemical Reactions Yanzhe Ke, Zhigang Song, and Qing-Dong Jiang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223601 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   Coherent Two-Photon LIDAR with Incoherent Light Chung-Hyun Lee, Yosep Kim, Dong-Gil Im, U-Shin Kim, Vincenzo Tamma, and Yoon-Ho Kim Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223602 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Editors' Suggestion Single-Shot Measurements of Phonon Number States Using the Autler-Townes Effect Marion Mallweger, Murilo Henrique de Oliveira, Robin Thomm, Harry Parke, Natalia Kuk, Gerard Higgins, Romain Bachelard, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas, and Markus Hennrich Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223603 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023 A new method based on the Autler-Townes effect can be used to measure the motional states of trapped ions in the number basis.     Unique Steady-State Squeezing in a Driven Quantum Rabi Model Karol Gietka, Christoph Hotter, and Helmut Ritsch Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223604 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023   Robust Zero Modes in Non-Hermitian Systems without Global Symmetries Jose D. H. Rivero, Courtney Fleming, Bingkun Qi, Liang Feng, and Li Ge Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223801 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Revealing the Interplay between Strong Field Selection Rules and Crystal Symmetries Ayelet J. Uzan-Narovlansky, Gal Orenstein, Sergei Shames, Matan Even Tzur, Omer Kneller, Barry D. Bruner, Talya Arusi-Parpar, Oren Cohen, and Nirit Dudovich Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223802 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Universal Free-Fall Law for Liquid Jets under Fully Developed Injection Conditions M. Beneitez, D. Moreno-Boza, and A. Sevilla Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224001 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Featured in Physics Gas Compression Systematically Delays the Onset of Viscous Fingering Liam C. Morrow, Callum Cuttle, and Christopher W. MacMinn Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224002 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 Synopsis:Control Knob Found for Viscous Fingers The onset time for "viscous fingering"—an instability that can occur at a gas–liquid boundary—depends on the compressibility of the gas, offering a way to control the behavior.     Two-Dimensional Turbulence with Local Interactions: Statistics of the Condensate Anton Svirsky, Corentin Herbert, and Anna Frishman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224003 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Ion-Ion Interaction Induced Nondispersive Dynamics in an Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap Deepak Sharma, Oded Heber, Daniel Zajfman, and Ryan Ringle Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 225001 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Electron Slingshot Acceleration in Relativistic Preturbulent Shocks Explored via Emitted Photon Polarization Zheng Gong, Xiaofei Shen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 225101 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Three-Dimensional Energy Transfer in Space Plasma Turbulence from Multipoint Measurement Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, William H. Matthaeus, Alexandros Chasapis, Kristopher G. Klein, Michael Stevens, Sergio Servidio, Antonella Greco, Daniel J. Gershman, Barbara L. Giles, and James L. Burch Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 225201 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Evidence for Quantum Stripe Ordering in a Triangular Optical Lattice Xiao-Qiong Wang, Guang-Quan Luo, Jin-Yu Liu, Guan-Hua Huang, Zi-Xiang Li, Congjun Wu, Andreas Hemmerich, and Zhi-Fang Xu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226001 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   .     Controlling Macroscopic Friction through Interfacial Siloxane Bonding Liang Peng, Chao-Chun Hsu, Chen Xiao, Daniel Bonn, and Bart Weber Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226201 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Non-Abelian Hyperbolic Band Theory from Supercells Patrick M. Lenggenhager, Joseph Maciejko, and Tomáš Bzdušek Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226401 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion Cascade of Multielectron Bubble Phases in Monolayer Graphene at High Landau Level Filling Fangyuan Yang, Ruiheng Bai, Alexander A. Zibrov, Sandeep Joy, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Brian Skinner, Mark O. Goerbig, and Andrea F. Young Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226501 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023 Chemical potential measurements, in concert with theoretical calculations, reveal density-tuned phase transitions between multielectron bubble states in monolayer graphene.     Extracting the Speed of Light from Matrix Product States Alexander A. Eberharter, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Frank Verstraete, and Andreas M. Läuchli Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226502 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Editors' Suggestion Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations Driving Field-Reinforced Superconductivity in UTe2 Y. Tokunaga, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, P. Opletal, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Haga, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, D. Aoki, G. Knebel, G. Lapertot, S. Krämer, and M. Horvatić Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226503 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 High-field NMR measurements on single crystals of UTe2 show an enhancement of longitudinal spin fluctuations above 15 Tesla, exhibiting a divergence near the field-induced metamagnetic transition at 35 Tesla.     Editors' Suggestion Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Fields due to Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Bulk Superconducting UTe2 N. Azari, M. Yakovlev, N. Rye, S. R. Dunsiger, S. Sundar, M. M. Bordelon, S. M. Thomas, J. D. Thompson, P. F. S. Rosa, and J. E. Sonier Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226504 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 Muon spin relaxation measurements on a new generation of high-quality flux-grown single crystals show that UTe2 does not break time-reversal symmetry.     Topological Bogoliubov Quasiparticles from Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Flat Band System Zahra Jalali-mola, Tobias Grass, Valentin Kasper, Maciej Lewenstein, and Utso Bhattacharya Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226601 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Editors' Suggestion Model for Nonrelativistic Topological Multiferroic Matter Guidobeth Saez, Mario A. Castro, Sebastian Allende, and Alvaro S. Nunez Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226801 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023 A minimal model shows that different magnetic configurations give rise to electric polarization stemming from a nontrivial Berry phase of the system without spin-orbit coupling.     Unconventional Polarization-Switching Mechanism in (Hf, Zr)O2 Ferroelectrics and Its Implications Yao Wu, Yuke Zhang, Jie Jiang, Limei Jiang, Minghua Tang, Yichun Zhou, Min Liao, Qiong Yang, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226802 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Ultrafast Transition from State-Blocking Dynamics to Electron Localization in Transition Metal β-Tungsten E. W. de Vos, S. Neb, A. Niedermayr, F. Burri, M. Hollm, L. Gallmann, and U. Keller Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226901 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Heterogeneous Mean First-Passage Time Scaling in Fractal Media Hyun-Myung Chun, Sungmin Hwang, Byungnam Kahng, Heiko Rieger, and Jae Dong Noh Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227101 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Non-Gaussian Dynamics of Quantum Fluctuations and Mean-Field Limit in Open Quantum Central Spin Systems Federico Carollo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227102 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Finding the Effective Dynamics to Make Rare Events Typical in Chaotic Maps Ricardo Gutiérrez, Adrián Canella-Ortiz, and Carlos Pérez-Espigares Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227201 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023   Editors' Suggestion Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron Brandon Livio Annesi, Clarissa Lauditi, Carlo Lucibello, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gabriele Perugini, Fabrizio Pittorino, and Luca Saglietti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227301 (2023) – Published 29 November 2023 The solutions of a nonconvex over-parametrized neural network model are geodesically connected in a star-shaped geometry.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Molecules in Environments: Toward Systematic Quantum Embedding of Electrons and Drude Oscillators Matej Ditte, Matteo Barborini, Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, and Alexandre Tkatchenko Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228001 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Undulations of Smectic A Layers in Achiral Liquid Crystals Manifested as Stripe Textures Natalia Podoliak, Peter Salamon, Lubor Lejček, Petr Kužel, and Vladimíra Novotná Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228101 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymerlike Networks Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, and Xuanhe Zhao Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228102 (2023) – Published 1 December 2023 Focus:Why It's Hard to Break Plastics The crack resistance of polymer materials is explained by a new model that incorporates a network of stretchable polymer chains.     Surface Charge Deposition by Moving Drops Reduces Contact Angles Xiaomei Li, Aaron D. Ratschow, Steffen Hardt, and Hans-Jürgen Butt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228201 (2023) – Published 28 November 2023   Non-Markovian Modeling of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Dissipation in Active Viscoelastic Biomatter Amir Abbasi, Roland R. Netz, and Ali Naji Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228202 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Shape-Tension Coupling Produces Nematic Order in an Epithelium Vertex Model Jan Rozman, Julia M. Yeomans, and Rastko Sknepnek Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228301 (2023) – Published 27 November 2023   Motility-Induced Phase Separation Mediated by Bacterial Quorum Sensing Wesley J. M. Ridgway, Mohit P. Dalwadi, Philip Pearce, and S. Jonathan Chapman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228302 (2023) – Published 30 November 2023   Transverse Fluctuations Control the Assembly of Semiflexible Filaments Valerio Sorichetti and Martin Lenz Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228401 (2023) – Published 27 November 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.