Physical Review Letters - Week ending 19 January 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online Volume 132, Issue 3 Week Ending 19 January 2024 On the Cover Experimental observation (left) and numerical simulation (right) of the emergence of the Peregrine soliton in a two-component repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate. From the article Experimental Realization of the Peregrine Soliton in Repulsive Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates A. Romero-Ros, G. C. Katsimiga, S. I. Mistakidis, S. Mossman, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher, P. Engels, and P. G. Kevrekidis Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033402 (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" January 26 | 12:00 p.m. ET Luca Magri (Imperial College London and the Alan Turing Institute) on the Physical Review Fluids paper: "Hard-constrained neural networks for modeling nonlinear acoustics" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement Attend March Meeting 2024 Registration is still open for March Meeting 2024 - one of the largest and most exciting conferences in physics! Witness groundbreaking physics research, network with potential employers, and prepare for career success at March Meeting 2024. Register today.     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 Inertia Induces Strong Orientation Fluctuations of Nonspherical Atmospheric Particles T. Bhowmick, J. Seesing, K. Gustavsson, J. Guettler, Y. Wang, A. Pumir, B. Mehlig, and G. Bagheri Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 034101 (2024) – Published 19 January 2024 Focus:Particles Flutter as They Fall Experiments with small falling particles show that their orientations oscillate—which may help explain the settling of volcanic ash and the formation of snow.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Broken Kramers Degeneracy in Altermagnetic MnTe Suyoung Lee, Sangjae Lee, Saegyeol Jung, Jiwon Jung, Donghan Kim, Yeonjae Lee, Byeongjun Seok, Jaeyoung Kim, Byeong Gyu Park, Libor Šmejkal, Chang-Jong Kang, and Changyoung Kim Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036702 (2024) – Published 18 January 2024 Synopsis:Experimental Evidence for a New Type of Magnetism Spectroscopic data suggest that thin films of a certain semiconducting material can exhibit altermagnetism, a new and fundamental form of magnetism.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonvolatile Switching of Large Nonreciprocal Optical Absorption at Shortwave Infrared Wavelengths Kenta Kimura and Tsuyoshi Kimura Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036901 (2024) – Published 17 January 2024 Synopsis:A Large Optical-Diode Effect at Telecom Frequencies At low temperatures, crystals of lithium nickel phosphate transmit short-wavelength infrared light much more strongly in one direction than in the other.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Characterization and Control of the Run-and-Tumble Dynamics of Escherichia Coli Christina Kurzthaler, Yongfeng Zhao, Nan Zhou, Jana Schwarz-Linek, Clemence Devailly, Jochen Arlt, Jian-Dong Huang, Wilson C. K. Poon, Thomas Franosch, Julien Tailleur, and Vincent A. Martinez Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038302 (2024) – Published 19 January 2024 Synopsis:Characterizing the Swimming Gait of a Bacterium A new technique could allow researchers to distinguish the swimming motion of a species of microorganisms without the need to track individuals within a population.     Editors' Suggestion Self-Trapping of Slow Electrons in the Energy Domain Maor Eldar, Zhaopin Chen, Yiming Pan, and Michael Krüger Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035001 (2024) – Published 17 January 2024 Numerical investigation of the phase-matched interaction of slow electrons with a strong optical field unveils a tunable trapping, opening the door for manipulating free electrons in the low-energy regime.     Editors' Suggestion Emergence of Competing Orders and Possible Quantum Spin Liquid in SU(N) Fermions Xue-Jia Yu, Shao-Hang Shi, Limei Xu, and Zi-Xiang Li Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 036601 (2024) – Published 16 January 2024   Majorana Zero Modes Induced by the Meissner Effect at Small Magnetic Field Xiao-Hong Pan, Li Chen, Dong E. Liu, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Xin Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036602 (2024) – Published 16 January 2024   Dynamical Detection of Topological Spectral Density Jia-Hui Zhang, Feng Mei, Liantuan Xiao, and Suotang Jia Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036603 (2024) – Published 17 January 2024   Non-Abelian Holonomy of Majorana Zero Modes Coupled to a Chaotic Quantum Dot Max Geier, Svend Krøjer, Felix von Oppen, Charles M. Marcus, Karsten Flensberg, and Piet W. Brouwer Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036604 (2024) – Published 19 January 2024   Dissipative Spin-Wave Diode and Nonreciprocal Magnonic Amplifier Ji Zou, Stefano Bosco, Even Thingstad, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 036704 (2024) – Published 18 January 2024 A realistic SU(N) interacting fermionic model reveals exotic quantum magnetic phases that occur at intermediate N, where the competition between distinct ordering tendencies gives rise to an intermediate quantum spin liquid phase featuring nontrivial topological order.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Nonvolatile Switching of Large Nonreciprocal Optical Absorption at Shortwave Infrared Wavelengths Kenta Kimura and Tsuyoshi Kimura Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036901 (2024) – Published 17 January 2024 Synopsis:A Large Optical-Diode Effect at Telecom Frequencies At low temperatures, crystals of lithium nickel phosphate transmit short-wavelength infrared light much more strongly in one direction than in the other.     Excitonic Polarons and Self-Trapped Excitons from First-Principles Exciton-Phonon Couplings Zhenbang Dai, Chao Lian, Jon Lafuente-Bartolome, and Feliciano Giustino Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 037101 (2024) – Published 16 January 2024 A novel linear-algebra method opens the way to efficiently study a broad class of responses for nonequilibrium systems.     From Particle Currents to Tracer Diffusion: Universal Correlation Profiles in Single-File Dynamics Aurélien Grabsch, Théotim Berlioz, Pierre Rizkallah, Pierre Illien, and Olivier Bénichou Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037102 (2024) – Published 18 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Percolation and Topological Properties of Temporal Higher-Order Networks Leonardo Di Gaetano, Federico Battiston, and Michele Starnini Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037401 (2024) – Published 18 January 2024 A hidden-variable formalism allows for the characterization of topological properties of temporal networks with higher-order interactions.     Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Hydrodynamic Effects on the Collapse Kinetics of Flexible Polyelectrolytes Jiaxing Yuan and Hajime Tanaka Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038101 (2024) – Published 18 January 2024   Symmetry Breaking of Self-Propelled Topological Defects in Thin-Film Active Chiral Nematics Weiqiang Wang, Haijie Ren, and Rui Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038301 (2024) – Published 17 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Characterization and Control of the Run-and-Tumble Dynamics of Escherichia Coli Christina Kurzthaler, Yongfeng Zhao, Nan Zhou, Jana Schwarz-Linek, Clemence Devailly, Jochen Arlt, Jian-Dong Huang, Wilson C. K. Poon, Thomas Franosch, Julien Tailleur, and Vincent A. Martinez Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038302 (2024) – Published 19 January 2024 Synopsis:Characterizing the Swimming Gait of a Bacterium A new technique could allow researchers to distinguish the swimming motion of a species of microorganisms without the need to track individuals within a population.     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.