Physical Review Letters - Week ending 5 January 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 132, Issue 1 Week Ending 5 January 2024 On the Cover Fingering instability at the leading front of a growing cell collective. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Fingering Instability Accelerates Population Growth of a Proliferating Cell Collective Yiyang Ye (叶毅扬) and Jie Lin (林杰) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018402 (2024)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session 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 Generalized Scaling and Model for Friction in Wall Turbulence Shivsai Ajit Dixit, Abhishek Gupta, Harish Choudhary, and Thara Prabhakaran Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 014001 (2024) – Published 2 January 2024 Synopsis:Turbulence Modeling No Longer a Drag A new theoretical framework allows scientists to accurately estimate the friction a surface experiences in a turbulent flow, such as an airplane wing flying through the sky.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Fully Ab Initio Approach to Inelastic Atom-Surface Scattering Michelle M. Kelley, Ravishankar Sundararaman, and Tomás A. Arias Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016203 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024 Synopsis:Calculating How Atoms Scatter Off Surfaces The interactions of helium atoms with crystalline surfaces are so gentle and subtle that it has been challenging to describe them from first principles.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Schramm-Loewner Evolution in 2D Rigidity Percolation Nina Javerzat Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018201 (2024) – Published 2 January 2024 Viewpoint:Angle-Preserving Transformations Give Rigidity Transitions a New Twist New theoretical work explores the onset of rigidity in granular materials and other disordered systems by mapping out the edges of rigid regions.     Editors' Suggestion Nonlinear and Negative Effective Diffusivity of Interlayer Excitons in Moiré-Free Heterobilayers Edith Wietek, Matthias Florian, Jonas Göser, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Alexander Högele, Mikhail M. Glazov, Alexander Steinhoff, and Alexey Chernikov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016202 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024 Interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures diffuse rapidly, with diffusion coefficients about 1000 times larger than previously seen, in the absence of moiré- and disorder-induced localization.     Editors' Suggestion Observation of Terahertz Spin Hall Conductivity Spectrum in GaAs with Optical Spin Injection Tomohiro Fujimoto, Takayuki Kurihara, Yuta Murotani, Tomohiro Tamaya, Natsuki Kanda, Changsu Kim, Jun Yoshinobu, Hidefumi Akiyama, Takeo Kato, and Ryusuke Matsunaga Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016301 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024 Spin Hall conductivity is observed in GaAs at room temperature via a circularly polarized terahertz pump-probe setup.     Editors' Suggestion Light-Induced Ideal Weyl Semimetal in HgTe via Nonlinear Phononics Dongbin Shin, Angel Rubio, and Peizhe Tang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016603 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024 Calculations show that light-matter interactions via nonlinear phononics can lead to long-lived non-equilibrium lattice distortion in bulk HgTe, demonstrating a possible microscopic mechanism to control the material topology with light.     Editors' Suggestion Fracton Self-Statistics Hao Song, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Wilbur Shirley, and Michael Hermele Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016604 (2024) – Published 5 January 2024 By way of an algebraic basis for their computation, fracton self-statistics are shown to be a key factor in the characterization of fracton order.     Editors' Suggestion d-Mon: A Transmon with Strong Anharmonicity Based on Planar c-Axis Tunneling Junction between d-Wave and s-Wave Superconductors Hrishikesh Patel, Vedangi Pathak, Oguzhan Can, Andrew C. Potter, and Marcel Franz Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 018402 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024 A continuum model predicts a fingering instability at the leading front of a growing cell collective due to the feedback between pressure and growth rate, which could provide an evolutionary advantage.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Quantum Many-Body Scars in Dual-Unitary Circuits Leonard Logarić, Shane Dooley, Silvia Pappalardi, and John Goold Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 010401 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024   Measurement-Induced Quantum Synchronization and Multiplexing Finn Schmolke and Eric Lutz Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 010402 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024   Dissipative Dynamics of Graph-State Stabilizers with Superconducting Qubits Liran Shirizly, Grégoire Misguich, and Haggai Landa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 010601 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024   Randomness-Enhanced Expressivity of Quantum Neural Networks Yadong Wu, Juan Yao, Pengfei Zhang, and Xiaopeng Li Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 011902 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Geometric Similarities and Topological Phases in Surface Magnon Polaritons Chen Qian, Jicheng Jin, Thomas Christensen, Li He, Anthony Sigillito, Eugene J. Mele, and Bo Zhen Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 013601 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024   Ultrafast Excitation Exchange in a Maxwell Fish-Eye Lens Oliver Diekmann, Dmitry O. Krimer, and Stefan Rotter Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 013602 (2024) – Published 5 January 2024   Theoretical Analysis of Microcavity Simultons Reinforced by χ(2) and χ(3) Nonlinearities Yulei Ding, Ziqi Wei, Yifei Wang, Changxi Yang, and Chengying Bao Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 013801 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Generalized Scaling and Model for Friction in Wall Turbulence Shivsai Ajit Dixit, Abhishek Gupta, Harish Choudhary, and Thara Prabhakaran Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 014001 (2024) – Published 2 January 2024 Synopsis:Turbulence Modeling No Longer a Drag A new theoretical framework allows scientists to accurately estimate the friction a surface experiences in a turbulent flow, such as an airplane wing flying through the sky.     Self-Lifting Droplet Driven by the Solidification-Induced Solutal Marangoni Flow Feng Wang, Li Chen, Yuqi Li, Peng Huo, Xi Gu, Man Hu, and Daosheng Deng Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 014002 (2024) – Published 2 January 2024   Condensed Matter and Materials Ice-Water Equilibrium in Nanoscale Confinement Verena Schiller and Michael Vogel Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016201 (2024) – Published 2 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Nonlinear and Negative Effective Diffusivity of Interlayer Excitons in Moiré-Free Heterobilayers Edith Wietek, Matthias Florian, Jonas Göser, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Alexander Högele, Mikhail M. Glazov, Alexander Steinhoff, and Alexey Chernikov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016202 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024 Interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures diffuse rapidly, with diffusion coefficients about 1000 times larger than previously seen, in the absence of moiré- and disorder-induced localization.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Fully Ab Initio Approach to Inelastic Atom-Surface Scattering Michelle M. Kelley, Ravishankar Sundararaman, and Tomás A. Arias Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016203 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024 Synopsis:Calculating How Atoms Scatter Off Surfaces The interactions of helium atoms with crystalline surfaces are so gentle and subtle that it has been challenging to describe them from first principles.     Editors' Suggestion Observation of Terahertz Spin Hall Conductivity Spectrum in GaAs with Optical Spin Injection Tomohiro Fujimoto, Takayuki Kurihara, Yuta Murotani, Tomohiro Tamaya, Natsuki Kanda, Changsu Kim, Jun Yoshinobu, Hidefumi Akiyama, Takeo Kato, and Ryusuke Matsunaga Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016301 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024 Spin Hall conductivity is observed in GaAs at room temperature via a circularly polarized terahertz pump-probe setup.     Nematic Spin Correlations Pervading the Phase Diagram of FeSe1−xSx Ruixian Liu, Wenliang Zhang, Yuan Wei, Zhen Tao, Teguh C. Asmara, Yi Li, Vladimir N. Strocov, Rong Yu, Qimiao Si, Thorsten Schmitt, and Xingye Lu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016501 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024   Perfect Excitation of Topological States by Supersymmetric Waveguides Xuanyu Liu, Zhiyuan Lin, Wange Song, Jiacheng Sun, Chunyu Huang, Shengjie Wu, Xingjian Xiao, Haoran Xin, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016601 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024   Extracting Higher Central Charge from a Single Wave Function Ryohei Kobayashi, Taige Wang, Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Roger S. K. Mong (蒙紹璣), and Shinsei Ryu Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 017002 (2024) – Published 5 January 2024 A proposed new design of superconducting qubits uses Josephson junctions made with a high-Tc d-wave superconductor overlaying a conventional s-wave superconductor to increase their coherence time and stability in the presence of noise.     Editors' Suggestion Superconducting Qubit Based on Twisted Cuprate Van der Waals Heterostructures Valentina Brosco, Giuseppe Serpico, Valerii Vinokur, Nicola Poccia, and Uri Vool Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 017003 (2024) – Published 5 January 2024 A proposed new design of superconducting qubits uses Josephson junctions made with a high-Tc d-wave superconductor overlaying a conventional s-wave superconductor to increase their coherence time and stability in the presence of noise.     Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Dynamical Criticality of Magnetization Transfer in Integrable Spin Chains Žiga Krajnik, Johannes Schmidt, Enej Ilievski, and Tomaž Prosen Phys. Rev. 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Lett. 132, 018202 (2024) – Published 5 January 2024   Vortex Lattices in Active Nematics with Periodic Obstacle Arrays Cody D. Schimming, C. J. O. Reichhardt, and C. Reichhardt Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018301 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024   Heterogeneous Popularity of Metabolic Reactions from Evolution Mi Jin Lee and Deok-Sun Lee Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018401 (2024) – Published 4 January 2024   Editors' Suggestion Fingering Instability Accelerates Population Growth of a Proliferating Cell Collective Yiyang Ye (叶毅扬) and Jie Lin (林杰) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 018402 (2024) – Published 3 January 2024 A continuum model predicts a fingering instability at the leading front of a growing cell collective due to the feedback between pressure and growth rate, which could provide an evolutionary advantage.       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.