Physical Review Letters - Week ending 12 January 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online Volume 132, Issue 2 Week Ending 12 January 2024 On the Cover An optical vortex wavefront induces dynamical polar skyrmions in a ferroelectric thin film. From the article Dynamical Control of Topology in Polar Skyrmions via Twisted Light Lingyuan Gao, Sergei Prokhorenko, Yousra Nahas, and Laurent Bellaiche Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026902 (2024)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session January 23 | 09:00 a.m. ET Yong Li (Institute of Acoustics, School of Physics Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China) on the Physical Review Applied paper: "Sound-Absorbing Materials" January 25 | 11:30 a.m. ET Sam Lambrick (Cambridge University, UK) and Matthew Bergin (University of Newcastle, Australia) on the Physical Review Letters paper: "2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot" 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 Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a Z Boson and a Photon at the LHC G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021803 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 Synopsis:Measurements of Rare Higgs Decay May Disagree with Predictions The Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS and CMS collaborations have analyzed data of a rare Higgs-boson decay, finding a hint of a disagreement with standard-model predictions.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Synchronization of Bloch Oscillations in a Strongly Coupled Pair of Small Josephson Junctions: Evidence for a Shapiro-like Current Step Fabian Kaap, David Scheer, Fabian Hassler, and Sergey Lotkhov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027001 (2024) – Published 12 January 2024 Focus:Device Could Lead to New Current-Measurement Standard High-precision measurements of the oscillations generated by a superconducting device suggest that an improved electric-current-calibration standard should be possible.     Featured in Physics Development of Neutron Interferometer Using Multilayer Mirrors and Measurements of Neutron-Nuclear Scattering Length with Pulsed Neutron Source Takuhiro Fujiie, Masahiro Hino, Takuya Hosobata, Go Ichikawa, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Kenji Mishima, Yoshichika Seki, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, and Yutaka Yamagata Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023402 (2024) – Published 12 January 2024 Synopsis:Searching for New Physics in the Neutron Looking Glass Researchers have demonstrated a mirror-based neutron interferometer that should be more sensitive to beyond-standard-model particle interactions than previous instruments.     Editors' Suggestion Measurement of CP Violation in B0→ψ(→ℓ+ℓ−)KS0(→π+π−) Decays R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021801 (2024) – Published 8 January 2024 The quark-mixing CP-violation angle β is measured with the greatest precision to date.     Editors' Suggestion Suppression of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability via Special Pairs of Shocks and Phase Transitions W. J. Schill, M. R. Armstrong, J. H. Nguyen, D. M. Sterbentz, D. A. White, L. X. Benedict, R. N. Rieben, A. Hoff, H. E. Lorenzana, J. L. Belof, B. M. La Lone, and M. D. Staska Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 024001 (2024) – Published 9 January 2024 Neutralization of a shock-generated Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at the interface between heavy and light materials using timed double-shock wave fronts is demonstrated experimentally and verified numerically.     Editors' Suggestion Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Flat-Band Superconductors with Quantum Metric Shuai A. Chen and K. T. Law Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026002 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 An application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to superconducting twisted bilayer graphene determines the coherence length and the upper critical field, which are in agreement with recent experiments.     Editors' Suggestion Germanium Vacancy in Diamond Quantum Memory Exceeding 20 ms Katharina Senkalla, Genko Genov, Mathias H. Metsch, Petr Siyushev, and Fedor Jelezko Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026901 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 An experiment demonstrates a record long quantum coherence time that exceeds 20 milliseconds for a germanium vacancy in diamond.     Editors' Suggestion Accelerated Adiabatic Passage of a Single Electron Spin Qubit in Quantum Dots Xiao-Fei Liu, Yuta Matsumoto, Takafumi Fujita, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Akira Oiwa Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 021803 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 Synopsis:Measurements of Rare Higgs Decay May Disagree with Predictions The Large Hadron Collider's ATLAS and CMS collaborations have analyzed data of a rare Higgs-boson decay, finding a hint of a disagreement with standard-model predictions.     Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Mutual Neutralization of NO+ with O− Mathias Poline, Arnaud Dochain, Stefan Rosén, MingChao Ji, Peter Reinhed, Ansgar Simonsson, Mats Larsson, Henning T. Schmidt, Henning Zettergren, Richard D. Thomas, Shaun G. Ard, Nicholas S. Shuman, and Albert A. Viggiano Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023001 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024   Density Dependent Gauge Field Inducing Emergent Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Physics, Solitons, and Condensates in a Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation W. N. Faugno, Mario Salerno, and Tomoki Ozawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023401 (2024) – Published 8 January 2024   Featured in Physics Development of Neutron Interferometer Using Multilayer Mirrors and Measurements of Neutron-Nuclear Scattering Length with Pulsed Neutron Source Takuhiro Fujiie, Masahiro Hino, Takuya Hosobata, Go Ichikawa, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Kenji Mishima, Yoshichika Seki, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, and Yutaka Yamagata Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023402 (2024) – Published 12 January 2024 Synopsis:Searching for New Physics in the Neutron Looking Glass Researchers have demonstrated a mirror-based neutron interferometer that should be more sensitive to beyond-standard-model particle interactions than previous instruments.     Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions via Dynamics in a Wide Double-Well Potential M. Roda-Llordes, A. Riera-Campeny, D. Candoli, P. T. Grochowski, and O. Romero-Isart Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023601 (2024) – Published 8 January 2024   Engineering Arbitrary Hamiltonians in Phase Space Lingzhen Guo and Vittorio Peano Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 024001 (2024) – Published 9 January 2024 Neutralization of a shock-generated Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at the interface between heavy and light materials using timed double-shock wave fronts is demonstrated experimentally and verified numerically.     Condensed Matter and Materials Supersolid Phases of Bosonic Particles in a Bubble Trap Matteo Ciardi, Fabio Cinti, Giuseppe Pellicane, and Santi Prestipino Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026001 (2024) – Published 8 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Flat-Band Superconductors with Quantum Metric Shuai A. Chen and K. T. Law Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026002 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 An application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to superconducting twisted bilayer graphene determines the coherence length and the upper critical field, which are in agreement with recent experiments.     Nernst Sign Reversal in the Hexatic Vortex Phase of Weakly Disordered a−MoGe Thin Films Y. Wu, A. Roy, S. Dutta, J. 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Metsch, Petr Siyushev, and Fedor Jelezko Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026901 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 An experiment demonstrates a record long quantum coherence time that exceeds 20 milliseconds for a germanium vacancy in diamond.     Dynamical Control of Topology in Polar Skyrmions via Twisted Light Lingyuan Gao, Sergei Prokhorenko, Yousra Nahas, and Laurent Bellaiche Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026902 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Synchronization of Bloch Oscillations in a Strongly Coupled Pair of Small Josephson Junctions: Evidence for a Shapiro-like Current Step Fabian Kaap, David Scheer, Fabian Hassler, and Sergey Lotkhov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027001 (2024) – Published 12 January 2024 Focus:Device Could Lead to New Current-Measurement Standard High-precision measurements of the oscillations generated by a superconducting device suggest that an improved electric-current-calibration standard should be possible.     Editors' Suggestion Accelerated Adiabatic Passage of a Single Electron Spin Qubit in Quantum Dots Xiao-Fei Liu, Yuta Matsumoto, Takafumi Fujita, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Akira Oiwa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027002 (2024) – Published 12 January 2024 Schemes for shortcuts to adiabaticity are demonstrated in gate-defined quantum dots based on transitionless quantum driving.     Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Editors' Suggestion Fate of Boltzmann's Breathers: Stokes Hypothesis and Anomalous Thermalization M. I. García de Soria, P. Maynar, David Guéry-Odelin, and Emmanuel Trizac Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027101 (2024) – Published 11 January 2024 Boltzmann breathers can thermalize at long times due to a damping mechanism related to the bulk viscosity for finite densities.     Editors' Suggestion Fundamental and Second-Order Superregular Breathers in Vector Fields Chong Liu, Shao-Chun Chen, and Nail Akhmediev Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027201 (2024) – Published 10 January 2024 An exact theory for superregular breathers in Manakov systems is derived, with possible applications to a wide range of nonlinear wave phenomena.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Realizing Symmetry-Breaking Architectures in Soap Films Nidhi Kaul, Luca Bergamasco, Hongwei Song, Thijs Varkevisser, Agnese Amati, Gabriele Falciani, Cees J. M. van Rijn, Eliodoro Chiavazzo, Indraneel Sen, Sylvestre Bonnet, and Leif Hammarström Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 028201 (2024) – Published 10 January 2024   COMMENTS Comment on "Anomalous Reentrant 5/2 Quantum Hall Phase at Moderate Landau-Level-Mixing Strength" Steven H. Simon Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 029601 (2024) – Published 9 January 2024   Das et al. Reply: Sudipto Das, Sahana Das, and Sudhansu S. Mandal Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 029602 (2024) – Published 9 January 2024   American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2024 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.