Physical Review Letters - Week ending 8 December 2023

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 23 Week Ending 8 December 2023 On the Cover Vorticity field of a spin-orbit synchronized exoplanet atmosphere with deep heating. Orange and blue colors correspond to positive and negative values of vorticity, respectively. Selected to feature in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating Jack W. Skinner, Joonas Nättilä, and James Y-K. Cho Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231201 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session December 12 | 6:30 p.m. ET Ji-Sung Park (Seoul University) on the Physical Review Fluids paper: "Elastic hoops jumping on water" December 14 | 8:00 p.m. ET Hua-Lei Yin (Nanjing University, China) and Wei Li (University of Science & Technology, Hefei, China) on the Physical Review Letters papers: "Experimental Quantum Communication Overcomes the Rate-Loss Limit without Global Phase Tracking" and "Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution without Phase Locking" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     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 Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating Jack W. Skinner, Joonas Nättilä, and James Y-K. Cho Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231201 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023 :"Deep Heating" of a Jupiter-Like Planet Causes New Storm to Blow Supercomputer simulations of the weather on a hot Jupiter reveal a previously unseen storm pattern in which cyclones are repeatedly generated and destroyed.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion 2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot Nick A. von Jeinsen, Sam M. Lambrick, Matthew Bergin, Aleksandar Radić, Boyao Liu, Dan Seremet, Andrew P. Jardine, and David J. Ward Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236202 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023 Viewpoint:Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot Researchers have developed an atom-diffraction imaging method with micrometer spatial resolution, which may allow new applications in material characterization.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Moving Crystal Phases of a Quantum Wigner Solid in an Ultra-High-Quality 2D Electron System P. T. Madathil, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, and M. Shayegan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236501 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023 Synopsis:Electron Crystal Reveals Its Dynamics Researchers have precisely measured the electrical-transport properties of a highly ordered Wigner solid—a crystalline state formed of electrons rather than atoms.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Mechanism of Ultraviolet-Induced CO Desorption from CO Ice: Role of Vibrational Relaxation Highlighted Samuel Del Fré, Alejandro Rivero Santamaría, Denis Duflot, Romain Basalgète, Géraldine Féraud, Mathieu Bertin, Jean-Hugues Fillion, and Maurice Monnerville Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238001 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023 Synopsis:Carbon Monoxide Leaves Cosmic Ice with a Kick Molecular "kicks" induced by ultraviolet light are predicted to cause carbon monoxide molecules to be released from the icy layers that cover cosmic dust.     Editors' Suggestion Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a W Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC Luca Buonocore, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, Luca Rottoli, and Chiara Savoini Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231901 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023 Significant reduction in the perturbative uncertainty due to the first second-order QCD calculation of the hadroproduction of a W boson in association with a top-antitop quark pair could lead to stringent tests of the standard model.     Editors' Suggestion Fate of Quasiparticles at High Temperature in the Correlated Metal Sr2RuO4 A. Hunter, S. Beck, E. Cappelli, F. Margot, M. Straub, Y. Alexanian, G. Gatti, M. D. Watson, T. K. Kim, C. Cacho, N. C. Plumb, M. Shi, M. Radović, D. A. Sokolov, A. P. Mackenzie, M. Zingl, J. Mravlje, A. Georges, F. Baumberger, and A. Tamai Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236502 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023 An analysis of ARPES data from Sr2RuO4 shows that quasiparticles in a correlated metal vanish with increasing temperature by dissolving into the incoherent background because of excessive broadening arising from super-Planckian scattering.     Editors' Suggestion Connecting the Many-Body Chern Number to Luttinger's Theorem through Středa's Formula Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Subir Sachdev, and Nathan Goldman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236601 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023 The many-body Chern number of a two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall insulator can be decomposed as the sum of the Green-function-based invariant N3 and a correction that vanishes whenever the system satisfies Luttinger's theorem.     Editors' Suggestion Excitonic Interactions and Mechanism for Ultrafast Interlayer Photoexcited Response in van der Waals Heterostructures Chen Hu, Mit H. Naik, Yang-Hao Chan, and Steven G. Louie Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236904 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023 An excitonic mechanism for ultrafast optical responses converts photoexcited intralayer to interlayer excitations in transition metal dichalcogenides.     Editors' Suggestion First-Principles Approach for Coupled Quantum Dynamics of Electrons and Protons in Heterogeneous Systems Jianhang Xu, Ruiyi Zhou, Volker Blum, Tao E. Li, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, and Yosuke Kanai Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238002 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023 Extension of the real-time NEO-DFT method to periodic systems can help simulate the coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons in complex heterogeneous systems.     Editors' Suggestion Fundamental Drivers of Electrochemical Barriers Xi Chen, Georg Kastlunger, and Andrew A. Peterson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238003 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023 The basic driving forces behind electrochemical reaction barriers are investigated using the solvated jellium method, uncovering their differences from conventional reactions at surfaces in nonelectrochemical systems.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Nonergodic Measurements of Qubit Frequency Noise Filip Wudarski, Yaxing Zhang, and M. I. Dykman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230201 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023   Large Deviations beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism Federico Balducci, Mathieu Beau, Jing Yang, Andrea Gambassi, and Adolfo del Campo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230401 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023   Dynamical Localization Transition of String Breaking in Quantum Spin Chains Roberto Verdel, Guo-Yi Zhu, and Markus Heyl Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230402 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Entanglement Growth and Minimal Membranes in (d+1) Random Unitary Circuits Piotr Sierant, Marco Schirò, Maciej Lewenstein, and Xhek Turkeshi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230403 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Superposed Quantum Error Mitigation Jorge Miguel-Ramiro, Zheng Shi, Luca Dellantonio, Albie Chan, Christine A. Muschik, and Wolfgang Dür Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230601 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Single-Shot Single-Mode Optical Two-Parameter Displacement Estimation beyond Classical Limit Fumiya Hanamura, Warit Asavanant, Seigo Kikura, Moeto Mishima, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai, Masahiro Yabuno, Fumihiro China, Kosuke Fukui, Mamoru Endo, and Akira Furusawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230801 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Leptonic Model for Neutrino Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei Dan Hooper and Kathryn Plant Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231001 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Dark Matter Minihalos from Primordial Magnetic Fields Pranjal Ralegankar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231002 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating Jack W. Skinner, Joonas Nättilä, and James Y-K. Cho Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231201 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023 :"Deep Heating" of a Jupiter-Like Planet Causes New Storm to Blow Supercomputer simulations of the weather on a hot Jupiter reveal a previously unseen storm pattern in which cyclones are repeatedly generated and destroyed.     Nonlinear Ringdown at the Black Hole Horizon Neev Khera, Ariadna Ribes Metidieri, Béatrice Bonga, Xisco Jiménez Forteza, Badri Krishnan, Eric Poisson, Daniel Pook-Kolb, Erik Schnetter, and Huan Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231401 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023   Jets from Neutron-Star Merger Remnants and Massive Blue Kilonovae Luciano Combi and Daniel M. Siegel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231402 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Particles and Fields Electroweak Multi-Higgs Production: A Smoking Gun for the Type-I Two-Higgs-Doublet Model Tanmoy Mondal, Stefano Moretti, Shoaib Munir, and Prasenjit Sanyal Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231801 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a W Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC Luca Buonocore, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, Luca Rottoli, and Chiara Savoini Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231901 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023 Significant reduction in the perturbative uncertainty due to the first second-order QCD calculation of the hadroproduction of a W boson in association with a top-antitop quark pair could lead to stringent tests of the standard model.     Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Spectral Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect between a Heralded Single-Photon State and a Thermal Field: Multiphoton Contamination and the Nonclassicality Threshold Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Lucia Caspani, and Michael Kues Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 233601 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023   Twist Phase Matching in Two-Dimensional Materials Hao Hong, Chen Huang, Chenjun Ma, Jiajie Qi, Xuping Shi, Can Liu, Shiwei Wu, Zhipei Sun, Enge Wang, and Kaihui Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 233801 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023   Maximally Efficient Biphoton Generation by Single Photon Decay in Nonlinear Quantum Photonic Circuits Mikhail Tokman, Jitendra K. Verma, Jacob Bohreer, and Alexey Belyanin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 233802 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Local-Nonlinearity-Enabled Deep Subdiffraction Control of Acoustic Waves Jiaxin Zhong, Chengbo Hu, Kangkang Wang, Jun Ji, Tao Zhuang, Haishan Zou, Jing Lu, Hyeonu Heo, Bin Liang, Yun Jing, and Jian-Chun Cheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 234001 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023   Bistability in Radiatively Heated Melt Ponds Rui Yang, Christopher J. Howland, Hao-Ran Liu, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 234002 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials In-Plane Magnetic Penetration Depth in Sr2RuO4: Muon-Spin Rotation and Relaxation Study Rustem Khasanov, Aline Ramires, Vadim Grinenko, Ilya Shipulin, Naoki Kikugawa, Dmitry A. Sokolov, Jonas A. Krieger, Thomas J. Hicken, Yoshiteru Maeno, Hubertus Luetkens, and Zurab Guguchia Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236001 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   s±-Wave Pairing and the Destructive Role of Apical-Oxygen Deficiencies in La3Ni2O7 under Pressure Yu-Bo Liu, Jia-Wei Mei, Fei Ye, Wei-Qiang Chen, and Fan Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236002 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Unequivocal Identification of Spin-Triplet and Spin-Singlet Superconductors with Upper Critical Field and Flux Quantization C. C. Chiang, H. C. Lee, S. C. Lin, D. Qu, M. W. Chu, C. D. Chen, C. L. Chien, and S. Y. Huang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236003 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Searching for Unconventional Superfluid in Excitons of Monolayer Semiconductors Wei Chen, Chun-Jiong Huang, and Qizhong Zhu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236004 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Coarse-Graining and Forecasting Atomic Material Simulations with Descriptors Thomas D. Swinburne Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236101 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Ultrahigh Strength and Plasticity Mechanisms of Si and SiC Nanoparticles Revealed by First-Principles Molecular Dynamics L. Pizzagalli and J. Godet Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236201 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion 2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot Nick A. von Jeinsen, Sam M. Lambrick, Matthew Bergin, Aleksandar Radić, Boyao Liu, Dan Seremet, Andrew P. Jardine, and David J. Ward Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236202 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023 Viewpoint:Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot Researchers have developed an atom-diffraction imaging method with micrometer spatial resolution, which may allow new applications in material characterization.     In-Plane Flexoelectricity in Two-Dimensional D3d Crystals Matteo Springolo, Miquel Royo, and Massimiliano Stengel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236203 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Phonon Hall Viscosity of Ionic Crystals B. Flebus and A. H. MacDonald Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236301 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Moving Crystal Phases of a Quantum Wigner Solid in an Ultra-High-Quality 2D Electron System P. T. Madathil, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, and M. Shayegan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236501 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023 Synopsis:Electron Crystal Reveals Its Dynamics Researchers have precisely measured the electrical-transport properties of a highly ordered Wigner solid—a crystalline state formed of electrons rather than atoms.     Editors' Suggestion Fate of Quasiparticles at High Temperature in the Correlated Metal Sr2RuO4 A. Hunter, S. Beck, E. Cappelli, F. Margot, M. Straub, Y. Alexanian, G. Gatti, M. D. Watson, T. K. Kim, C. Cacho, N. C. Plumb, M. Shi, M. Radović, D. A. Sokolov, A. P. Mackenzie, M. Zingl, J. Mravlje, A. Georges, F. Baumberger, and A. Tamai Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236502 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023 An analysis of ARPES data from Sr2RuO4 shows that quasiparticles in a correlated metal vanish with increasing temperature by dissolving into the incoherent background because of excessive broadening arising from super-Planckian scattering.     Editors' Suggestion Connecting the Many-Body Chern Number to Luttinger's Theorem through Středa's Formula Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Subir Sachdev, and Nathan Goldman Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236601 (2023) – Published 4 December 2023 The many-body Chern number of a two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall insulator can be decomposed as the sum of the Green-function-based invariant N3 and a correction that vanishes whenever the system satisfies Luttinger's theorem.     Nonlocal Spin Correlation as a Signature of Ising Anyons Trapped in Vacancies of the Kitaev Spin Liquid Masahiro O. Takahashi, Masahiko G. Yamada, Masafumi Udagawa, Takeshi Mizushima, and Satoshi Fujimoto Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236701 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Detecting Magnetoelectric Effect in a Metallic Antiferromagnet via Nonreciprocal Rotation of Reflected Light Keito Arakawa, Takeshi Hayashida, Kenta Kimura, Ryusuke Misawa, Takayuki Nagai, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto, Fumitoshi Iga, and Tsuyoshi Kimura Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236702 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Giant and Nonanalytic Negative Piezoelectric Response in Elemental Group-Va Ferroelectric Monolayers Shulin Zhong, Xuanlin Zhang, Shi Liu, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Yunhao Lu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236801 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Resonant Versus Nonresonant Spin Readout of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond under Cryogenic Conditions Richard Monge, Tom Delord, Gergő Thiering, Ádám Gali, and Carlos A. Meriles Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236901 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Gauge Invariant Formulation of the Semiconductor Bloch Equations A. M. Parks, J. V. Moloney, and T. Brabec Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236902 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Optical Transitions of a Single Nodal Ring in SrAs3: Radially and Axially Resolved Characterization Jiwon Jeon, Jiho Jang, Hoil Kim, Taesu Park, Dongwook Kim, Soonjae Moon, Jun Sung Kim, Ji Hoon Shim, Hongki Min, and Eunjip Choi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236903 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023   Editors' Suggestion Excitonic Interactions and Mechanism for Ultrafast Interlayer Photoexcited Response in van der Waals Heterostructures Chen Hu, Mit H. Naik, Yang-Hao Chan, and Steven G. Louie Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236904 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023 An excitonic mechanism for ultrafast optical responses converts photoexcited intralayer to interlayer excitations in transition metal dichalcogenides.     Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Controlling Uncertainty of Empirical First-Passage Times in the Small-Sample Regime Rick Bebon and Aljaž Godec Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 237101 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Experimental Realization of Stable Exceptional Chains Protected by Non-Hermitian Latent Symmetries Unique to Mechanical Systems Xiaohan Cui, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Xulong Wang, Wei Wang, Guancong Ma, and C. T. Chan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 237201 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Mechanism of Ultraviolet-Induced CO Desorption from CO Ice: Role of Vibrational Relaxation Highlighted Samuel Del Fré, Alejandro Rivero Santamaría, Denis Duflot, Romain Basalgète, Géraldine Féraud, Mathieu Bertin, Jean-Hugues Fillion, and Maurice Monnerville Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238001 (2023) – Published 6 December 2023 Synopsis:Carbon Monoxide Leaves Cosmic Ice with a Kick Molecular "kicks" induced by ultraviolet light are predicted to cause carbon monoxide molecules to be released from the icy layers that cover cosmic dust.     Editors' Suggestion First-Principles Approach for Coupled Quantum Dynamics of Electrons and Protons in Heterogeneous Systems Jianhang Xu, Ruiyi Zhou, Volker Blum, Tao E. Li, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, and Yosuke Kanai Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238002 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023 Extension of the real-time NEO-DFT method to periodic systems can help simulate the coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons in complex heterogeneous systems.     Editors' Suggestion Fundamental Drivers of Electrochemical Barriers Xi Chen, Georg Kastlunger, and Andrew A. Peterson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238003 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023 The basic driving forces behind electrochemical reaction barriers are investigated using the solvated jellium method, uncovering their differences from conventional reactions at surfaces in nonelectrochemical systems.     Surface Instability in a Nematic Elastomer Morgan Barnes, Fan Feng, and John S. Biggins Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238101 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Harnessing Viscoelasticity to Suppress Irreversibility Buildup in a Colloidal Stirling Engine Niloyendu Roy, A. K. Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238201 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Dynamical Approach to the Jamming Problem Sam Wilken, Ashley Z. Guo, Dov Levine, and Paul M. Chaikin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238202 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Mechanochemical Active Feedback Generates Convergence Extension in Epithelial Tissue Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba, Tanniemola B. Liverpool, and Silke Henkes Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238301 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   Pulsating Active Matter Yiwei Zhang and Étienne Fodor Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238302 (2023) – Published 8 December 2023   Localized States in Active Fluids Luca Barberi and Karsten Kruse Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238401 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Mechanisms of DNA-Mediated Allostery Midas Segers, Aderik Voorspoels, Takahiro Sakaue, and Enrico Carlon Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238402 (2023) – Published 7 December 2023   ERRATA Erratum: Orbital Hanle Magnetoresistance in a 3d Transition Metal [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156703 (2023)] Giacomo Sala, Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, and Pietro Gambardella Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 239901 (2023) – Published 5 December 2023   Expression of Concern: Synthesis of Yttrium Superhydride Superconductor with a Transition Temperature up to 262 K by Catalytic Hydrogenation at High Pressures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117003 (2021)] Elliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride, Xiaoyu Wang, Noah Meyers, Keith V. Lawler, Eva Zurek, Ashkan Salamat, and Ranga P. Dias Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 239902 (2023) – Published 7 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.