Physical Review Letters - Week ending 26 January 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 132, Issue 4 Week Ending 26 January 2024 On the Cover Husimi function of a time-evolved quantum state blocked by classical partial barriers of a 4D map. From the article Quantum Transport through Partial Barriers in Higher-Dimensional Systems Jonas Stöber, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047201 (2024)     View Issue   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.     Advertisement Join the Editorial Team at APS! Current openings: Associate Editor, PRX Quantum: Help decide on publishing the most exciting and consequential results in quantum science and technologies. Chief Editor, Physical Review B: Provide strategic and operational leadership for the journal, overseeing both the day-to-day running of activity and setting direction for long term goals. Chief Editor, Physical Review E: The Chief Editor also collaborates with the Publications Leadership and Management to develop the scope, direction and strategy of the journal, ensuring it remains relevant and sustainable.     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 Centrifugal Flows Drive Reverse Rotation of Feynman's Sprinkler Kaizhe Wang, Brennan Sprinkle, Mingxuan Zuo, and Leif Ristroph Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044003 (2024) – Published 26 January 2024 Focus:Feynman's Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Evidence for Millisecond–Timescale Structural Evolution Following the Microsecond–Timescale Folding of a Small Protein C. Blake Wilson, Wai-Ming Yau, and Robert Tycko Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048402 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024 Viewpoint:Protein Folding Can Be Surprisingly Slow Researchers have used nuclear magnetic resonance to observe a previously unseen intermediate state in which the protein lingers for an unexpectedly long time.     Featured in Physics Photonic Flatband Resonances in Multiple Light Scattering Thanh Xuan Hoang, Daniel Leykam, and Yuri Kivshar Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043803 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024 Synopsis:Long-Range Resonances Slow Light in a Photonic Material Light–matter interactions in certain one-dimensional photonic materials can bring light nearly to a standstill, an effect that researchers show requires consideration of long-range interactions between the material's components.     Editors' Suggestion Tailoring Magnetism of Graphene Nanoflakes via Tip-Controlled Dehydrogenation Chenxiao Zhao, Qiang Huang, Leoš Valenta, Kristjan Eimre, Lin Yang, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, Wangwei Xu, Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng, Michal Juríček, Roman Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, and Carlo A. Pignedoli Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046201 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024 Highly precise atomic scale manipulations correlated with theoretical calculations suggest changes in the spin states of a graphene island on Au(111) depending on which site was hydrogenated.     Editors' Suggestion Spectroscopic Evidence of Kondo-Induced Quasiquartet in CeRh2As2 Denise S. Christovam, Miguel Ferreira-Carvalho, Andrea Marino, Martin Sundermann, Daisuke Takegami, Anna Melendez-Sans, Ku Ding Tsuei, Zhiwei Hu, Sahana Rößler, Manuel Valvidares, Maurits W. Haverkort, Yu Liu, Eric D. Bauer, Liu Hao Tjeng, Gertrud Zwicknagl, and Andrea Severing Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046401 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024 Temperature dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments on CeRh2As2 offers direct evidence for the coupling of the Kondo interaction and crystal-field states.     Editors' Suggestion Spin Polarons and Ferromagnetism in Doped Dilute Moiré-Mott Insulators Urban F. P. Seifert and Leon Balents Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046501 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024 A small density of doped electrons couples to local moments in a moire-Mott insulator, constituting a novel mechanism for magnetic ordering in moire transition-metal dichalcogenides.     Editors' Suggestion Energy Gap of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in Bilayer Graphene Alexandre Assouline, Taige Wang, Haoxin Zhou, Liam A. Cohen, Fangyuan Yang, Ruining Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Roger S. K. Mong, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046603 (2024) – Published 26 January 2024 A large energy gap is seen for the even-denominator fractional state in bilayer graphene, making it a promising platform for studying non-Abelian anyons.     Editors' Suggestion Magnetostriction-Driven Muon Localization in an Antiferromagnetic Oxide Pietro Bonfà, Ifeanyi John Onuorah, Franz Lang, Iurii Timrov, Lorenzo Monacelli, Chennan Wang, Xiao Sun, Oleg Petracic, Giovanni Pizzi, Nicola Marzari, Stephen J. Blundell, and Roberto De Renzi Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046701 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024 Small energy differences determine muon-sample interactions, providing a significant insight into muon-spin spectroscopy of magnetic oxides.     Editors' Suggestion Bidirectional Multiphoton Communication between Remote Superconducting Nodes Joel Grebel, Haoxiong Yan, Ming-Han Chou, Gustav Andersson, Christopher R. Conner, Yash J. Joshi, Jacob M. Miller, Rhys G. Povey, Hong Qiao, Xuntao Wu, and Andrew N. Cleland Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047001 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024 A device with qubits coupled to microwave resonators achieves transfer and entanglement of complex quantum states between superconducting nodes.     Editors' Suggestion Quasicrystal of Binary Hard Spheres on a Plane Stabilized by Configurational Entropy Etienne Fayen, Laura Filion, Giuseppe Foffi, and Frank Smallenburg Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048202 (2024) – Published 26 January 2024 Free-energy calculations demonstrate that configurational entropy stabilizes a dodecagonal quasicrystal in a binary mixture of hard spheres on a plane.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Ergodicity Breaking Provably Robust to Arbitrary Perturbations David T. Stephen, Oliver Hart, and Rahul M. Nandkishore Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040401 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Exact Universal Bounds on Quantum Dynamics and Fast Scrambling Amit Vikram and Victor Galitski Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040402 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Dynamical Transitions from Slow to Fast Relaxation in Random Open Quantum Systems Dror Orgad, Vadim Oganesyan, and Sarang Gopalakrishnan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040403 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Preparation of Matrix Product States with Log-Depth Quantum Circuits Daniel Malz, Georgios Styliaris, Zhi-Yuan Wei, and J. Ignacio Cirac Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040404 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024   Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexed Deterministic All-Optical Quantum Erasure-Correcting Code Yanbo Lou, Yinghui Lv, Jiabin Wang, Shengshuai Liu, and Jietai Jing Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040601 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Experimental Realization of Nonunitary Multiqubit Operations M. W. van Mourik, E. Zapusek, P. Hrmo, L. Gerster, R. Blatt, T. Monz, P. Schindler, and F. Reiter Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040602 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Exotic Dark Matter Search with the Majorana Demonstrator I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041001 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Particles and Fields Asymptotic Freedom at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition without Fine-Tuning Using a Qubit Regularization Sandip Maiti, Debasish Banerjee, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Marina K. Marinkovic Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041601 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   AdS3 Pure Gravity and Stringy Unitarity Gabriele Di Ubaldo and Eric Perlmutter Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041602 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Electron-Positron and Neutral-Pion Final States with the MicroBooNE Detector P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041801 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Search for Inelastic Dark Matter in Events with Two Displaced Muons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at √s=13  TeV A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041802 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Exploring High-Purity Multiparton Scattering at Hadron Colliders Jeppe R. Andersen, Pier Francesco Monni, Luca Rottoli, Gavin P. Salam, and Alba Soto-Ontoso Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041901 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Nuclear Physics ψ(2S) Suppression in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 042301 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Active Suppression of Quantum Dephasing in Resonantly Driven Ensembles C. He and R. R. Jones Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043201 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Metasurface-Assisted Quantum Nonlocal Weak-Measurement Microscopy Jiawei Liu, Qiang Yang, Yichang Shou, Shizhen Chen, Weixing Shu, Geng Chen, Shuangchun Wen, and Hailu Luo Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043601 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Metasurface-Based Hybrid Optical Cavities for Chiral Sensing Nico S. Baßler, Andrea Aiello, Kai P. Schmidt, Claudiu Genes, and Michael Reitz Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043602 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Experimental Investigation of the Thermal Emission Cross Section of Nanoresonators Using Hierarchical Poisson-Disk Distributions Denis Langevin, Clément Verlhac, Julien Jaeck, Loubnan Abou-Hamdan, Eva Taupeau, Baptiste Fix, Nathalie Bardou, Christophe Dupuis, Yannick De Wilde, Riad Haïdar, and Patrick Bouchon Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043801 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Interferometer for Dispersive Measurements S. E. Harris Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043802 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Featured in Physics Photonic Flatband Resonances in Multiple Light Scattering Thanh Xuan Hoang, Daniel Leykam, and Yuri Kivshar Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043803 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024 Synopsis:Long-Range Resonances Slow Light in a Photonic Material Light–matter interactions in certain one-dimensional photonic materials can bring light nearly to a standstill, an effect that researchers show requires consideration of long-range interactions between the material's components.     Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields for Non-Hermitian Systems Zehai Pang, Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong, Jinbing Hu, and Yi Yang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043804 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024   Backscattering-Induced Dissipative Solitons in Ring Quantum Cascade Lasers Lukas Seitner, Johannes Popp, Ina Heckelmann, Réka-Eszter Vass, Bo Meng, Michael Haider, Jérôme Faist, and Christian Jirauschek Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043805 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Generation of Spatiotemporal Vortex Pulses by Resonant Diffractive Grating Zhiyuan Che, Wenzhe Liu, Junyi Ye, Lei Shi, C. T. Chan, and Jian Zi Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044001 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Manipulation of Contact Angle Hysteresis at Electrified Ionic Liquid-Solid Interfaces Pengcheng Nie, Xikai Jiang, Xu Zheng, and Dongshi Guan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044002 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Centrifugal Flows Drive Reverse Rotation of Feynman's Sprinkler Kaizhe Wang, Brennan Sprinkle, Mingxuan Zuo, and Leif Ristroph Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044003 (2024) – Published 26 January 2024 Focus:Feynman's Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer.     Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Generation of Ultrabrilliant Polarized Attosecond Electron Bunches via Dual-Wake Injection Ting Sun, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan, Yousef I. Salamin, and Jian-Xing Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 045001 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Condensed Matter and Materials Constrained Motions and Slow Dynamics in One-Dimensional Bosons with Double-Well Dispersion Yang-Zhi Chou and Jay D. Sau Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046001 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Nonreciprocal Josephson Linear Response Pauli Virtanen and Tero T. Heikkilä Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046002 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Enhanced Superconducting Diode Effect due to Coexisting Phases Sayan Banerjee and Mathias S. Scheurer Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046003 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Tailoring Magnetism of Graphene Nanoflakes via Tip-Controlled Dehydrogenation Chenxiao Zhao, Qiang Huang, Leoš Valenta, Kristjan Eimre, Lin Yang, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, Wangwei Xu, Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng, Michal Juríček, Roman Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, and Carlo A. Pignedoli Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046201 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024 Highly precise atomic scale manipulations correlated with theoretical calculations suggest changes in the spin states of a graphene island on Au(111) depending on which site was hydrogenated.     Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics in the Density Fluctuations of Localized Two-Dimensional Wave Packets Sen Mu, Jiangbin Gong, and Gabriel Lemarié Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046301 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Anomalous Temperature Effect in Weakly Coupled Superlattices: Carrier Transport in a THz Quantum Cascade Laser Miriam Giparakis, Martin A. Kainz, Marie C. Ertl, Benedikt Limbacher, Michael Jaidl, Maximilian Beiser, Stefania Isceri, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Benedikt Schwarz, Gottfried Strasser, Gérald Bastard, Karl Unterrainer, and Aaron M. Andrews Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046302 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024   Odd Nonlinear Conductivity under Spatial Inversion in Chiral Tellurium Manuel Suárez-Rodríguez, Beatriz Martín-García, Witold Skowroński, F. Calavalle, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Ivo Souza, Fernando De Juan, Andrey Chuvilin, Albert Fert, Marco Gobbi, Fèlix Casanova, and Luis E. Hueso Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046303 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Spectroscopic Evidence of Kondo-Induced Quasiquartet in CeRh2As2 Denise S. Christovam, Miguel Ferreira-Carvalho, Andrea Marino, Martin Sundermann, Daisuke Takegami, Anna Melendez-Sans, Ku Ding Tsuei, Zhiwei Hu, Sahana Rößler, Manuel Valvidares, Maurits W. Haverkort, Yu Liu, Eric D. Bauer, Liu Hao Tjeng, Gertrud Zwicknagl, and Andrea Severing Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046401 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024 Temperature dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments on CeRh2As2 offers direct evidence for the coupling of the Kondo interaction and crystal-field states.     Editors' Suggestion Spin Polarons and Ferromagnetism in Doped Dilute Moiré-Mott Insulators Urban F. P. Seifert and Leon Balents Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046501 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024 A small density of doped electrons couples to local moments in a moire-Mott insulator, constituting a novel mechanism for magnetic ordering in moire transition-metal dichalcogenides.     Non-Abelian Topological Bound States in the Continuum Long Qian, Weixuan Zhang, Houjuan Sun, and Xiangdong Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046601 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Role of Topology in Relaxation of One-Dimensional Stochastic Processes Taro Sawada, Kazuki Sone, Ryusuke Hamazaki, Yuto Ashida, and Takahiro Sagawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046602 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Energy Gap of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in Bilayer Graphene Alexandre Assouline, Taige Wang, Haoxin Zhou, Liam A. Cohen, Fangyuan Yang, Ruining Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Roger S. K. Mong, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046603 (2024) – Published 26 January 2024 A large energy gap is seen for the even-denominator fractional state in bilayer graphene, making it a promising platform for studying non-Abelian anyons.     Editors' Suggestion Magnetostriction-Driven Muon Localization in an Antiferromagnetic Oxide Pietro Bonfà, Ifeanyi John Onuorah, Franz Lang, Iurii Timrov, Lorenzo Monacelli, Chennan Wang, Xiao Sun, Oleg Petracic, Giovanni Pizzi, Nicola Marzari, Stephen J. Blundell, and Roberto De Renzi Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046701 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024 Small energy differences determine muon-sample interactions, providing a significant insight into muon-spin spectroscopy of magnetic oxides.     Editors' Suggestion Bidirectional Multiphoton Communication between Remote Superconducting Nodes Joel Grebel, Haoxiong Yan, Ming-Han Chou, Gustav Andersson, Christopher R. Conner, Yash J. Joshi, Jacob M. Miller, Rhys G. Povey, Hong Qiao, Xuntao Wu, and Andrew N. Cleland Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047001 (2024) – Published 25 January 2024 A device with qubits coupled to microwave resonators achieves transfer and entanglement of complex quantum states between superconducting nodes.     Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Quantum Transport through Partial Barriers in Higher-Dimensional Systems Jonas Stöber, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047201 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Programmable Potentials Choreograph Defects in a Colloidal Crystal Shell Guolong Zhu, Lijuan Gao, Yuming Wang, Tsvi Tlusty, and Li-Tang Yan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048201 (2024) – Published 23 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Quasicrystal of Binary Hard Spheres on a Plane Stabilized by Configurational Entropy Etienne Fayen, Laura Filion, Giuseppe Foffi, and Frank Smallenburg Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048202 (2024) – Published 26 January 2024 Free-energy calculations demonstrate that configurational entropy stabilizes a dodecagonal quasicrystal in a binary mixture of hard spheres on a plane.     Long Timescales, Individual Differences, and Scale Invariance in Animal Behavior William Bialek and Joshua W. Shaevitz Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048401 (2024) – Published 22 January 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Experimental Evidence for Millisecond–Timescale Structural Evolution Following the Microsecond–Timescale Folding of a Small Protein C. Blake Wilson, Wai-Ming Yau, and Robert Tycko Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048402 (2024) – Published 24 January 2024 Viewpoint:Protein Folding Can Be Surprisingly Slow Researchers have used nuclear magnetic resonance to observe a previously unseen intermediate state in which the protein lingers for an unexpectedly long time.       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.