Physical Review Letters - Week ending 23 February 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online Volume 132, Issue 8 Week Ending 23 February 2024 On the Cover Floating robot which self-propels by oscillating to generate gravity-capillary waves near a boundary. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion. From the article Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto, and Daniel I. Goldman Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084001 (2024)     View Issue   Advertisement Discuss dynamics of flexible fibers in active fluids live The Physical Review Journal Club returns February 29 with an exclusive conversation with Scott Weady (Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute, New York, New York) and colleagues on their recently published Physical Review Fluids paper: "Conformations, correlations, and instabilities of a flexible fiber in an active fluid." 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Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Equation of State and Thermometry of the 2D SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard Model G. Pasqualetti, O. Bettermann, N. Darkwah Oppong, E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, S. Dasgupta, R. T. Scalettar, K. R. A. Hazzard, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083401 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024 Synopsis:A General Equation of State for a Quantum Simulator Ultracold Yb gas in an optical lattice realizes the equation of state of the Fermi-Hubbard model across the Mott crossover temperature.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Positronium Laser Cooling via the 13S−23P Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse L. T. Glöggler et al. (AEḡIS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083402 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024 Synopsis:Laser-Cooling Positronium Researchers have managed to cool an atom-like system made of an electron and a positron using a technique commonly used in cold-atom experiments.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Flexophotovoltaic Effect and Above-Band-Gap Photovoltage Induced by Strain Gradients in Halide Perovskites Zhiguo Wang, Shengwen Shu, Xiaoyong Wei, Renhong Liang, Shanming Ke, Longlong Shu, and Gustau Catalan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086902 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 Viewpoint:Harness Strain to Harvest Solar Energy The engineering of structural deformations in light-sensitive semiconductors can boost the efficiency of solar cells.     Featured in Physics Enhanced Production of Λb0 Baryons in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at √s=13  TeV R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081901 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 Synopsis:Three's Company for Bottom Quarks Bottom quarks are increasingly more likely to exist in three-quark states rather than two-quark ones as the density of their environment increases.     Editors' Suggestion Mass, Spectroscopy, and Two-Neutron Decay of 16Be B. Monteagudo et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 082501 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 Identification of both the ground and first excited states of 16Be allows for a precise determination of its mass.     Editors' Suggestion Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto, and Daniel I. Goldman Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084001 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 A free-floating robot that oscillates symmetrically can use confined hydrodynamic surface wave fields to move without the need for a traditional propulsion mechanism.     Editors' Suggestion Avalanches and Extreme Value Statistics of a Mesoscale Moving Contact Line Caishan Yan, Dongshi Guan, Yin Wang, Pik-Yin Lai, Hsuan-Yi Chen, and Penger Tong Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084003 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 The pinning-depinning dynamics of a circular moving contact line are studied at the single-slip resolution using a mesoscale experimental framework.     Editors' Suggestion Exact Solution of the Bose-Hubbard Model with Unidirectional Hopping Mingchen Zheng, Yi Qiao, Yupeng Wang, Junpeng Cao, and Shu Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086502 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 Using a quantum inverse scattering framework, it is shown that the non-Hermitian one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is integrable.     Editors' Suggestion Random Matrix Statistics in Propagating Correlation Fronts of Fermions Kazuya Fujimoto and Tomohiro Sasamoto Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087101 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024 The dynamic higher-order fluctuations around the correlation front in one-dimensional noninteracting fermions can exhibit the universal behavior of the random matrix theory's Gaussian orthogonal and symplectic ensembles.     Editors' Suggestion Non-Gaussian Displacements in Active Transport on a Carpet of Motile Cells Robert Großmann, Lara S. Bort, Ted Moldenhawer, Maike Stange, Setareh Sharifi Panah, Ralf Metzler, and Carsten Beta Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 088301 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 A carpet of active cells functions as an active bath for passive tracer particles, inducing non-Gaussian displacement and a crossover from superdiffusive to normal diffusive behavior.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Randomness Certification from Multipartite Quantum Steering for Arbitrary Dimensional Systems Yi Li, Yu Xiang, Xiao-Dong Yu, H. Chau Nguyen, Otfried Gühne, and Qiongyi He Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080201 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Experimental Demonstration of Inequivalent Mutually Unbiased Bases Wen-Zhe Yan, Yunting Li, Zhibo Hou, Huangjun Zhu, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080202 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Localized Dynamics in the Floquet Quantum East Model Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080401 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Unscrambling Quantum Information with Clifford Decoders Salvatore F. E. Oliviero, Lorenzo Leone, Seth Lloyd, and Alioscia Hamma Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080402 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Footprints of the QCD Crossover on Cosmological Gravitational Waves at Pulsar Timing Arrays Gabriele Franciolini, Davide Racco, and Fabrizio Rompineve Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081001 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Dark-Matter-Induced Nucleon Decay Signals in Mesogenesis Joshua Berger and Gilly Elor Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081002 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Imperfect Axion Precludes the Domain Wall Problem Yue Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081003 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Particles and Fields Parisi's Hypercube, Fock-Space Frustration, and Near-AdS2/Near-CFT1 Holography Micha Berkooz, Yiyang Jia (贾抑扬), and Navot Silberstein Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081601 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Resummation of Next-to-Leading Nonglobal Logarithms at the LHC Thomas Becher, Nicolas Schalch, and Xiaofeng Xu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081602 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Search for New Phenomena in Two-Body Invariant Mass Distributions Using Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection at √s=13  TeV with the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081801 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Observation of Cabibbo-Suppressed Two-Body Hadronic Decays and Precision Mass Measurement of the Ωc0 Baryon R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081802 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Featured in Physics Enhanced Production of Λb0 Baryons in High-Multiplicity pp Collisions at √s=13  TeV R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081901 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 Synopsis:Three's Company for Bottom Quarks Bottom quarks are increasingly more likely to exist in three-quark states rather than two-quark ones as the density of their environment increases.     Back-to-Back Inclusive Dijets in Deep Inelastic Scattering at Small x: Complete NLO Results and Predictions Paul Caucal, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke, Tomasz Stebel, and Raju Venugopalan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081902 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Propagator Zeros and Lattice Chiral Gauge Theories Maarten Golterman and Yigal Shamir Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081903 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Determination of the Σ+ Timelike Electromagnetic Form Factors M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081904 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Nuclear Physics Editors' Suggestion Mass, Spectroscopy, and Two-Neutron Decay of 16Be B. Monteagudo et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 082501 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 Identification of both the ground and first excited states of 16Be allows for a precise determination of its mass.     Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Trapping and Sympathetic Cooling of Conformationally Selected Molecular Ions Lei Xu, Jutta Toscano, and Stefan Willitsch Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083001 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Time-Resolved Multielectron Coincidence Spectroscopy of Double Auger-Meitner Decay Following Xe 4d Ionization Pengju Zhang, Joel Trester, Kiyoshi Ueda, Meng Han, Tadas Balčiūnas, and Hans Jakob Wörner Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083201 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Scheme for Quantum-Logic Based Transfer of Accuracy in Polarizability Measurement for Trapped Ions Using a Moving Optical Lattice Fabian Wolf Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083202 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Equation of State and Thermometry of the 2D SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard Model G. Pasqualetti, O. Bettermann, N. Darkwah Oppong, E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, S. Dasgupta, R. T. Scalettar, K. R. A. Hazzard, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083401 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024 Synopsis:A General Equation of State for a Quantum Simulator Ultracold Yb gas in an optical lattice realizes the equation of state of the Fermi-Hubbard model across the Mott crossover temperature.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Positronium Laser Cooling via the 13S−23P Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse L. T. Glöggler et al. (AEḡIS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083402 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024 Synopsis:Laser-Cooling Positronium Researchers have managed to cool an atom-like system made of an electron and a positron using a technique commonly used in cold-atom experiments.     Experimental Quantum Non-Gaussian Coincidences of Entangled Photons Run-Ze Liu, Yu-Kun Qiao, Lukáš Lachman, Zhen-Xuan Ge, Tung-Hsun Chung, Jun-Yi Zhao, Hao Li, Lixing You, Radim Filip, and Yong-Heng Huo Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083601 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Edge State, Band Topology, and Time Boundary Effect in the Fine-Grained Categorization of Chern Insulators H. C. Wu, H. S. Xu, L. C. Xie, and L. Jin Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083801 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Editors' Suggestion Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto, and Daniel I. Goldman Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084001 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 A free-floating robot that oscillates symmetrically can use confined hydrodynamic surface wave fields to move without the need for a traditional propulsion mechanism.     Chemically Enhanced Convective Dissolution of CO2 R. Tanaka, C. Almarcha, Y. Nagatsu, Y. Méheust, and P. Meunier Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084002 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Avalanches and Extreme Value Statistics of a Mesoscale Moving Contact Line Caishan Yan, Dongshi Guan, Yin Wang, Pik-Yin Lai, Hsuan-Yi Chen, and Penger Tong Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084003 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 The pinning-depinning dynamics of a circular moving contact line are studied at the single-slip resolution using a mesoscale experimental framework.     Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Subrelativistic Alternating Phase Focusing Dielectric Laser Accelerators Payton Broaddus, Thilo Egenolf, Dylan S. Black, Melanie Murillo, Clarisse Woodahl, Yu Miao, Uwe Niedermayer, Robert L. Byer, Kenneth J. Leedle, and Olav Solgaard Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 085001 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Monofractality in the Solar Wind at Electron Scales: Insights from Kinetic Alfvén Waves Turbulence Vincent David, Sébastien Galtier, and Romain Meyrand Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 085201 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Radiative Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Turbulent Comptonization in Magnetized Black-Hole Coronae Daniel Grošelj, Hayk Hakobyan, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Lorenzo Sironi, and Alexander Philippov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 085202 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Condensed Matter and Materials Crystal-Structure Matches in Solid-Solid Phase Transitions Fang-Cheng Wang, Qi-Jun Ye, Yu-Cheng Zhu, and Xin-Zheng Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086101 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Modeling Temperature-Dependent Electron Thermal Diffuse Scattering via Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials and Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics Dennis S. Kim, Michael Xu, and James M. LeBeau Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086301 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Observation of Free-Boundary-Induced Chiral Anomaly Bulk States in Elastic Twisted Kagome Metamaterials Zi-Dong Zhang, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086302 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Mixed Stochastic-Deterministic Approach for Many-Body Perturbation Theory Calculations Aaron R. Altman, Sudipta Kundu, and Felipe H. da Jornada Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086401 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Physical Properties of an Aperiodic Monotile with Graphene-like Features, Chirality, and Zero Modes Justin Schirmann, Selma Franca, Felix Flicker, and Adolfo G. Grushin Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086402 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Stoner Ferromagnetism in a Momentum-Confined Interacting 2D Electron Gas Ohad Antebi, Ady Stern, and Erez Berg Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086501 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Exact Solution of the Bose-Hubbard Model with Unidirectional Hopping Mingchen Zheng, Yi Qiao, Yupeng Wang, Junpeng Cao, and Shu Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086502 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 Using a quantum inverse scattering framework, it is shown that the non-Hermitian one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is integrable.     Emergent Conformal Boundaries from Finite-Entanglement Scaling in Matrix Product States Rui-Zhen Huang, Long Zhang, Andreas M. Läuchli, Jutho Haegeman, Frank Verstraete, and Laurens Vanderstraeten Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086503 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Incommensurate Spin Density Wave in Antiferromagnetic RuO2 Evinced by Abnormal Spin Splitting Torque Xiaoyu Feng, Hua Bai, Xinxin Fan, Muhan Guo, Zhiqiang Zhang, Guozhi Chai, Tao Wang, Desheng Xue, Cheng Song, and Xiaolong Fan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086701 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Mechanical Rippling for Diverse Ferroelectric Topologies in Otherwise Nonferroelectric SrTiO3 Nanofilms Tao Xu, Chengsheng Wu, Sizheng Zheng, Yu Wang, Jie Wang, Hiroyuki Hirakata, Takayuki Kitamura, and Takahiro Shimada Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086801 (2024) – Published 21 February 2024   Spin-Chirality-Driven Multiferroicity in van der Waals Monolayers Chao Liu, Wei Ren, and Silvia Picozzi Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086802 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Flexophotovoltaic Effect and Above-Band-Gap Photovoltage Induced by Strain Gradients in Halide Perovskites Zhiguo Wang, Shengwen Shu, Xiaoyong Wei, Renhong Liang, Shanming Ke, Longlong Shu, and Gustau Catalan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086902 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024 Viewpoint:Harness Strain to Harvest Solar Energy The engineering of structural deformations in light-sensitive semiconductors can boost the efficiency of solar cells.     Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Editors' Suggestion Random Matrix Statistics in Propagating Correlation Fronts of Fermions Kazuya Fujimoto and Tomohiro Sasamoto Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087101 (2024) – Published 22 February 2024 The dynamic higher-order fluctuations around the correlation front in one-dimensional noninteracting fermions can exhibit the universal behavior of the random matrix theory's Gaussian orthogonal and symplectic ensembles.     Thermodynamic Correlation Inequality Yoshihiko Hasegawa Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087102 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024   Higher-Order Components Dictate Higher-Order Contagion Dynamics in Hypergraphs Jung-Ho Kim and K.-I. Goh Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087401 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Editors' Suggestion Non-Gaussian Displacements in Active Transport on a Carpet of Motile Cells Robert Großmann, Lara S. Bort, Ted Moldenhawer, Maike Stange, Setareh Sharifi Panah, Ralf Metzler, and Carsten Beta Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 088301 (2024) – Published 23 February 2024 A carpet of active cells functions as an active bath for passive tracer particles, inducing non-Gaussian displacement and a crossover from superdiffusive to normal diffusive behavior.     ERRATA Erratum: Phonon-Mediated Interlayer Conductance in Twisted Graphene Bilayers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236604 (2012)] Vasili Perebeinos, Jerry Tersoff, and Phaedon Avouris Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 089901 (2024) – Published 20 February 2024   Erratum: Fluctuations and Shape Dependence of Microphase Separation in Systems with Long-Range Interactions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258401 (2023)] Amit Kumar and Samuel A. Safran Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 089902 (2024) – Published 21 February 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. 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