Physical Review Letters - Week ending 15 December 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 24 Week Ending 15 December 2023 On the Cover Topologically distinct Bloch-sphere trajectories (blue, yellow, and red curves) for an atomic spinor Bose-Einstein condensate at three different values of quadratic Zeeman energies (spheres from left to right). From the article Excited-State Phase Diagram of a Ferromagnetic Quantum Gas B. Meyer-Hoppe, F. Anders, P. Feldmann, L. Santos, and C. Klempt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243402 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement APS partners with Research4Life The American Physical Society (APS) has partnered with Research4Life to share its journals with researchers from nonprofits in over 115 countries, territories, and refugee camps at no cost. The Society will also cover article publication charges for new submissions from scientists belonging to these eligible groups beginning Jan. 1, 2024. Read more in the APS Newsroom     Advertisement New from PRX: Collection on Ultrafast Imaging of Coherent Electron Dynamics This new collection of invited papers focuses on laser-driven generation, control, and imaging of electronic dynamics in matter on ultrafast timescales ranging from femtoseconds to attoseconds and beyond. Read the Collection free at PRX.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS Essay: Where Can Quantum Geometry Lead Us? Päivi Törmä Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240001 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023 In a new forward-looking Essay, Päivi Törmä highlights the significance and impact of quantum geometry for the future of physics research.     HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Observation of the Exotic 02+ Cluster State in 8He Z. H. Yang et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242501 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023 Synopsis:Neutron Pairs Condense in Excited Helium-8 Scattering experiments show that the four extra neutrons in helium-8 can pair up and form a nuclear analog of a Bose-Einstein condensate.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion All-Optical GeV Electron Bunch Generation in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator via Truncated-Channel Injection A. Picksley, J. Chappell, E. Archer, N. Bourgeois, J. Cowley, D. R. Emerson, L. Feder, X. J. Gu, O. Jakobsson, A. J. Ross, W. Wang, R. Walczak, and S. M. Hooker Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 245001 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023 Synopsis:Creating Fast Bunches of Electrons with Lasers The judicious shaping of a tube of plasma by one laser enhances the properties of electron bunches accelerated by another.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Evaporation of Concentrated Polymer Solutions Is Insensitive to Relative Humidity Max Huisman, Paul Digard, Wilson C. K. Poon, and Simon Titmuss Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 248102 (2023) – Published 15 December 2023 Focus:Why Humidity Doesn't Affect Drying Paint Experiments verify a theory that explains why paint doesn't dry any faster on a dry day than on a wet day.     Featured in Physics Description of the Proton-Decaying 02+ Resonance of the α Particle N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Płoszajczak Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242502 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023 :Closing a Gap in Nuclear Theory Theoretical descriptions of the first excited state of helium-4 are now consistent with experimental data.     Editors' Suggestion Mass Difference of Tritium and Helium-3 Moisés Medina Restrepo and Edmund G. Myers Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243002 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023 Measurement of the mass difference between tritium and helium-3 achieves better precision by a factor of three for the Q-value of tritium beta-decay.     Editors' Suggestion Signatures of Prethermalization in a Quenched Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interacting Fermi Gas Zemao Wu, Jijie Fan, Xue Zhang, Jiansheng Qi, and Haibin Wu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243401 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023 Relaxation dynamics of an ultracold Fermi gas inside an optical resonator are observed experimentally by quenching the system across the Dicke phase transition to reveal a prethermalized quantum state.     Editors' Suggestion Artificial Atoms, Wigner Molecules, and an Emergent Kagome Lattice in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices Aidan P. Reddy, Trithep Devakul, and Liang Fu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246501 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023 The superlattice constant, the quantum confinement length, and the Wigner molecule size are three key length scales that control the properties of moiré materials at filling factors greater than one.     Editors' Suggestion High-Temperature Ferroic Glassy States in SrTiO3-Based Thin Films Tianyu Li, Shiqing Deng, He Qi, Tao Zhu, Yu Chen, Huanhua Wang, Fangyuan Zhu, Hui Liu, Jiaou Wang, Er-Jia Guo, Oswaldo Diéguez, and Jun Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246801 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023 A method of manipulating local symmetry to achieve a strong magnetic/electric moment along with high transition temperatures is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the prototypical perovskite SrTiO3.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Tip of the Quantum Entropy Cone Matthias Christandl, Bergfinnur Durhuus, and Lasse Harboe Wolff Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240201 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Charging Quantum Batteries via Indefinite Causal Order: Theory and Experiment Gaoyan Zhu, Yuanbo Chen, Yoshihiko Hasegawa, and Peng Xue Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240401 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Family of Quantum Codes with Exotic Transversal Gates Eric Kubischta and Ian Teixeira Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240601 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023   Thrifty Shadow Estimation: Reusing Quantum Circuits and Bounding Tails Jonas Helsen and Michael Walter Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240602 (2023) – Published 15 December 2023   Highly Efficient Storage of 25-Dimensional Photonic Qudit in a Cold-Atom-Based Quantum Memory Ming-Xin Dong, Wei-Hang Zhang, Lei Zeng, Ying-Hao Ye, Da-Chuang Li, Guang-Can Guo, Dong-Sheng Ding, and Bao-Sen Shi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240801 (2023) – Published 15 December 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation First Observation of Neutral Bremsstrahlung Electroluminescence in Liquid Argon A. Bondar, A. Buzulutskov, E. Frolov, E. Borisova, V. Nosov, V. Oleynikov, and A. Sokolov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241001 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023   Entropy Bounds for Rotating AdS Black Holes Masaya Amo, Antonia M. Frassino, and Robie A. Hennigar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241401 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   Dissipative Scattering of Spinning Black Holes at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, and Benjamin Sauer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241402 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023   Particles and Fields Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry as a New Probe of Standard-Model-Effective-Field-Theory Dipole Operators Xin-Kai Wen, Bin Yan, Zhite Yu, and C.-P. Yuan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241801 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   Search for a Nonrelativistic Boson in Two-Body Antimuon Decay J. I. Collar, P. S. Cooper, and C. M. Lewis Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241802 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023   Probing the Onset of Maximal Entanglement inside the Proton in Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering Martin Hentschinski, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Krzysztof Kutak, and Zhoudunming Tu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241901 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Nuclear Physics Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Observation of the Exotic 02+ Cluster State in 8He Z. H. Yang et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242501 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023 Synopsis:Neutron Pairs Condense in Excited Helium-8 Scattering experiments show that the four extra neutrons in helium-8 can pair up and form a nuclear analog of a Bose-Einstein condensate.     Featured in Physics Description of the Proton-Decaying 02+ Resonance of the α Particle N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Płoszajczak Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242502 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023 :Closing a Gap in Nuclear Theory Theoretical descriptions of the first excited state of helium-4 are now consistent with experimental data.     Floating Block Method for Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations Avik Sarkar, Dean Lee, and Ulf-G. Meißner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242503 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of 2 3S1→2 3PJ Transitions in Helium-like 12C4+ P. Imgram, K. König, B. Maaß, P. Müller, and W. Nörtershäuser Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243001 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion Mass Difference of Tritium and Helium-3 Moisés Medina Restrepo and Edmund G. Myers Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243002 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023 Measurement of the mass difference between tritium and helium-3 achieves better precision by a factor of three for the Q-value of tritium beta-decay.     Universal Generalization of Density Functional Theory for Static Correlation Daniel Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn, and David A. Mazziotti Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243003 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023   Following the Nonthermal Phase Transition in Niobium Dioxide by Time-Resolved Harmonic Spectroscopy Z. Nie, L. Guery, E. B. Molinero, P. Juergens, T. J. van den Hooven, Y. Wang, A. Jimenez Galan, P. C. M. Planken, R. E. F. Silva, and P. M. Kraus Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243201 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   XUV Rectification Effect in the IR-Dressed Medium A. V. Flegel and M. V. Frolov Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243202 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion Signatures of Prethermalization in a Quenched Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interacting Fermi Gas Zemao Wu, Jijie Fan, Xue Zhang, Jiansheng Qi, and Haibin Wu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243401 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023 Relaxation dynamics of an ultracold Fermi gas inside an optical resonator are observed experimentally by quenching the system across the Dicke phase transition to reveal a prethermalized quantum state.     Excited-State Phase Diagram of a Ferromagnetic Quantum Gas B. Meyer-Hoppe, F. Anders, P. Feldmann, L. Santos, and C. Klempt Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243402 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Magnonic Frequency Comb in the Magnomechanical Resonator Guan-Ting Xu, Mai Zhang, Yu Wang, Zhen Shen, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243601 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation in a Nonequilibrium Quantum Fluid T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 244001 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion All-Optical GeV Electron Bunch Generation in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator via Truncated-Channel Injection A. Picksley, J. Chappell, E. Archer, N. Bourgeois, J. Cowley, D. R. Emerson, L. Feder, X. J. Gu, O. Jakobsson, A. J. Ross, W. Wang, R. Walczak, and S. M. Hooker Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 245001 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023 Synopsis:Creating Fast Bunches of Electrons with Lasers The judicious shaping of a tube of plasma by one laser enhances the properties of electron bunches accelerated by another.     Condensed Matter and Materials Tunneling Valley Hall Effect Driven by Tilted Dirac Fermions Shu-Hui Zhang, Ding-Fu Shao, Zi-An Wang, Jin Yang, Wen Yang, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246301 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023   Onsager Reciprocal Relation between Anomalous Transverse Coefficients of an Anisotropic Antiferromagnet Xiaodong Guo, Xiaokang Li, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246302 (2023) – Published 15 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion Artificial Atoms, Wigner Molecules, and an Emergent Kagome Lattice in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices Aidan P. Reddy, Trithep Devakul, and Liang Fu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246501 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023 The superlattice constant, the quantum confinement length, and the Wigner molecule size are three key length scales that control the properties of moiré materials at filling factors greater than one.     Phonon Topology and Winding of Spectral Weight in Graphite N. D. Andriushin, A. S. Sukhanov, A. N. Korshunov, M. S. Pavlovskii, M. C. Rahn, and S. E. Nikitin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246601 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023   Emergent Mechanics of Magnetic Skyrmions Deformed by Defects Linjie Liu, Weijin Chen, and Yue Zheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246701 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion High-Temperature Ferroic Glassy States in SrTiO3-Based Thin Films Tianyu Li, Shiqing Deng, He Qi, Tao Zhu, Yu Chen, Huanhua Wang, Fangyuan Zhu, Hui Liu, Jiaou Wang, Er-Jia Guo, Oswaldo Diéguez, and Jun Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246801 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023 A method of manipulating local symmetry to achieve a strong magnetic/electric moment along with high transition temperatures is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the prototypical perovskite SrTiO3.     Polariton Condensation in Gap-Confined States of Photonic Crystal Waveguides F. Riminucci, A. Gianfrate, D. Nigro, V. Ardizzone, S. Dhuey, L. Francaviglia, K. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. Ballarini, D. Trypogeorgos, A. Schwartzberg, D. Gerace, and D. Sanvitto Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246901 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Unpredicted Scaling of the One-Dimensional Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Equation Côme Fontaine, Francesco Vercesi, Marc Brachet, and Léonie Canet Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 247101 (2023) – Published 14 December 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Negative Dielectric Constant of Water at a Metal Interface Bolton Tran, Yuxing Zhou, Michael J. Janik, and Scott T. Milner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 248001 (2023) – Published 11 December 2023   Carrier Screening Controls Transport in Conjugated Polymers at High Doping Concentrations Muhamed Duhandžić, Michael Lu-Dìaz, Subhayan Samanta, Dhandapani Venkataraman, and Zlatan Akšamija Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 248101 (2023) – Published 13 December 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Evaporation of Concentrated Polymer Solutions Is Insensitive to Relative Humidity Max Huisman, Paul Digard, Wilson C. K. Poon, and Simon Titmuss Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 248102 (2023) – Published 15 December 2023 Focus:Why Humidity Doesn't Affect Drying Paint Experiments verify a theory that explains why paint doesn't dry any faster on a dry day than on a wet day.     ERRATA Erratum: Observation of π/2 Modes in an Acoustic Floquet System [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 254301 (2022)] Zheyu Cheng, Raditya Weda Bomantara, Haoran Xue, Weiwei Zhu, Jiangbin Gong, and Baile Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 249901 (2023) – Published 12 December 2023   Erratum: Measurement of the 2νββ Decay Half-Life of 130Te with CUORE [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171801 (2021)] D. Q. Adams et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 249902 (2023) – Published 12 December 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.