Physical Review Letters - Week ending 16 February 2024

Physical Review Letters View Email Online Volume 132, Issue 7 Week Ending 16 February 2024 On the Cover Confocal image of a flexible 5x5 lattice of colloids functionalized with two complementary strands of DNA linkers, indicated by two different colors. From the article Soft and Stiff Normal Modes in Floppy Colloidal Square Lattices Julio Melio, Silke E. Henkes, and Daniela J. Kraft Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078202 (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." Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement Physical Review Applied​ seeks a part-time Associate Editor in photonics PRApplied is looking for a new teammate to handle submissions in photonics and quantum optics, as a part-time remote Associate Editor. The primary responsibility of a consulting Associate Editor is to manage the peer review process: assess submissions, determine which to send for external review, choose referees, and ultimately decide on acceptance or rejection. Learn more.     Advertisement Physical Review Applied seeks a new Lead Editor The American Physical Society is conducting an international search for a new Lead Editor of Physical Review Applied, our premier journal for Applied Physics Research. The Lead Editor is the lead scientific advisor to the journal and chairs the Editorial Board. They provide community oversight of the journal's content and direction, strategically advising the journal's Chief Editor in a consultative capacity. The role is key in helping to shape the journal's long-term goals, and growing and elevating the journal within the community. Learn more.     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 Observation of New Isotopes in the Fragmentation of 198Pt at FRIB O. B. Tarasov, A. Gade, K. Fukushima, M. Hausmann, E. Kwan, M. Portillo, M. Smith, D. S. Ahn, D. Bazin, R. Chyzh, S. Giraud, K. Haak, T. Kubo, D. J. Morrissey, P. N. Ostroumov, I. Richardson, B. M. Sherrill, A. Stolz, S. Watters, D. Weisshaar, and T. Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072501 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024 :Five New Isotopes Is Just the Beginning Less than a year after its opening, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams produced five never-before-seen isotopes for observation, a success that researchers say highlights the discovery potential of the facility.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Discovery of New Isotopes 160Os and 156W: Revealing Enhanced Stability of the N=82 Shell Closure on the Neutron-Deficient Side H. B. Yang (杨华彬) et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072502 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024 Synopsis:New Signs of Stability in Proton-Rich Nuclei Adding what seems like too many protons to a nucleus can increase one measure of its stability.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Voltage-Controlled Magnon Transistor via Tuning Interfacial Exchange Coupling Y. Z. Wang, T. Y. Zhang, J. Dong, P. Chen, G. Q. Yu, C. H. Wan, and X. F. Han Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076701 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024 Focus:Voltage Control over Magnons Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic spin waves called magnons can be controlled by voltage and thus could operate more efficiently as information carriers in future devices.     Editors' Suggestion Why Shot Noise Does Not Generally Detect Pairing in Mesoscopic Superconducting Tunnel Junctions Jiasen Niu, Koen M. Bastiaans, Jian-Feng Ge, Ruchi Tomar, John Jesudasan, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Max Karrer, Reinhold Kleiner, Dieter Koelle, Arnaud Barbier, Eduard F. C. Driessen, Yaroslav M. Blanter, and Milan P. Allan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076001 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024 Shot noise measurements in Nb-based superconducting tunnel junctions indicate that transparency channels obscure pairing in noise measurements, a common roadblock in measurements in such junctions.     Editors' Suggestion Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm Interference in the Presence of Edge Reconstruction Sourav Biswas, Hemanta Kumar Kundu, Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Vladimir Umansky, and Moty Heiblum Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076301 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024 Subtleties in edge-structure reconstruction may critically affect Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a quantum Hall interferometer.     Editors' Suggestion Probing Quantum Phases in Ultra-High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Using Surface Acoustic Waves Mengmeng Wu, Xiao Liu, Renfei Wang, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, Xi Lin, and Yang Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076501 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024 Deforming the quantum phase with a nondestructive current flowing through the sample shows that the system becomes more incompressible when hosting a current.     Editors' Suggestion Universal Features of Entanglement Entropy in the Honeycomb Hubbard Model Jonathan D'Emidio, Román Orús, Nicolas Laflorencie, and Fernando de Juan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076502 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024 The entanglement entropy of two-dimensional interacting fermions can be simulated with quantum Monte Carlo techniques.     Editors' Suggestion Field-Induced Hybridization of Moiré Excitons in MoSe2/WS2 Heterobilayers Borislav Polovnikov, Johannes Scherzer, Subhradeep Misra, Xin Huang, Christian Mohl, Zhijie Li, Jonas Göser, Jonathan Förste, Ismail Bilgin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alexander Högele, and Anvar S. Baimuratov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076902 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024 Laser modulation spectroscopy on a MoSe2/WS2 heterostructure shows an intricate interplay of both intra- and interlayer moiré excitons and allows to determine unambiguously the nature of the observed optical resonances.     Editors' Suggestion Exponential Capacity of Dense Associative Memories Carlo Lucibello and Marc Mézard Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077301 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 A statistical mechanics analysis allows for the computation of asymptotic thresholds for pattern retrieval in the context of dense associative memories.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Extending the Known Region of Nonlocal Boxes that Collapse Communication Complexity Pierre Botteron, Anne Broadbent, and Marc-Olivier Proulx Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070201 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Entanglement Detection with Trace Polynomials Albert Rico and Felix Huber Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070202 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Experimental Investigation of Uncertainty Relations for Non-Hermitian Operators Xinzhi Zhao, Xinglei Yu, Wenting Zhou, Chengjie Zhang, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070203 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Quantum Steering with Imprecise Measurements Armin Tavakoli Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070204 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Stable Measurement-Induced Floquet Enriched Topological Order DinhDuy Vu, Ali Lavasani, Jong Yeon Lee, and Matthew P. A. Fisher Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070401 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems Kohei Kawabata, Ramanjit Sohal, and Shinsei Ryu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070402 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Particles and Fields Universal Definition of the Nonconformal Trace Anomaly Renata Ferrero, Sebastián A. Franchino-Viñas, Markus B. Fröb, and William C. C. Lima Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 071601 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Prescaling Relaxation to Nonthermal Attractors Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Thimo Preis Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 071602 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Large N Fractons Kristan Jensen and Amir Raz Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 071603 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Nuclear Physics Viscosities of the Baryon-Rich Quark-Gluon Plasma from Beam Energy Scan Data Chun Shen, Björn Schenke, and Wenbin Zhao Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072301 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Observation of New Isotopes in the Fragmentation of 198Pt at FRIB O. B. Tarasov, A. Gade, K. Fukushima, M. Hausmann, E. Kwan, M. Portillo, M. Smith, D. S. Ahn, D. Bazin, R. Chyzh, S. Giraud, K. Haak, T. Kubo, D. J. Morrissey, P. N. Ostroumov, I. Richardson, B. M. Sherrill, A. Stolz, S. Watters, D. Weisshaar, and T. Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072501 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024 :Five New Isotopes Is Just the Beginning Less than a year after its opening, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams produced five never-before-seen isotopes for observation, a success that researchers say highlights the discovery potential of the facility.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Discovery of New Isotopes 160Os and 156W: Revealing Enhanced Stability of the N=82 Shell Closure on the Neutron-Deficient Side H. B. Yang (杨华彬) et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072502 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024 Synopsis:New Signs of Stability in Proton-Rich Nuclei Adding what seems like too many protons to a nucleus can increase one measure of its stability.     Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Zero-Quantum-Defect Method and the Fundamental Vibrational Interval of H2+ I. Doran, N. Hölsch, M. Beyer, and F. Merkt Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073001 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Coherent Amplification of Continuous Laser Field via Superfluorescence K. Kitano and H. Maeda Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073201 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024   Engineering Artificial Atomic Systems of Giant Electric Dipole Moment Baiyi Yu, Yaoming Chu, Ralf Betzholz, Shaoliang Zhang, and Jianming Cai Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073202 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Transform-Limited Photon Emission from a Lead-Vacancy Center in Diamond above 10 K Peng Wang, Lev Kazak, Katharina Senkalla, Petr Siyushev, Ryotaro Abe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shinobu Onoda, Hiromitsu Kato, Toshiharu Makino, Mutsuko Hatano, Fedor Jelezko, and Takayuki Iwasaki Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073601 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Conventional and Unconventional Dicke Models: Multistabilities and Nonequilibrium Dynamics Farokh Mivehvar Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073602 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Topologically Protected Strong-Interaction of Photonics with Free Electrons Jing Li (李靖), Yiqi Fang, and Yunquan Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073801 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Observation of Nonlinear Exceptional Points with a Complete Basis in Dynamics Kai Bai, Tian-Rui Liu, Liang Fang, Jia-Zheng Li, Chen Lin, Duanduan Wan, and Meng Xiao Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073802 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Local Markers for Crystalline Topology Alexander Cerjan, Terry A. Loring, and Hermann Schulz-Baldes Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073803 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Three-Dimensional Reconfigurable Optical Singularities in Bilayer Photonic Crystals Xueqi Ni, Yuan Liu, Beicheng Lou, Mingjie Zhang, Evelyn L. Hu, Shanhui Fan, Eric Mazur, and Haoning Tang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073804 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Coalescence of Elastic Blisters Filled with a Viscous Fluid Torstein Sæter, Christian Pedersen, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Thomas Salez, and Andreas Carlson Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 074001 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma T. Nechaeva et al. (AWAKE Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 075001 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Saturation of Fishbone Instability by Self-Generated Zonal Flows in Tokamak Plasmas G. Brochard, C. Liu, X. Wei, W. Heidbrink, Z. Lin, N. Gorelenkov, C. Chrystal, X. Du, J. Bao, A. R. Polevoi, M. Schneider, S. H. Kim, S. D. Pinches, P. Liu, J. H. Nicolau, and H. Lütjens Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 075101 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Condensed Matter and Materials Editors' Suggestion Why Shot Noise Does Not Generally Detect Pairing in Mesoscopic Superconducting Tunnel Junctions Jiasen Niu, Koen M. Bastiaans, Jian-Feng Ge, Ruchi Tomar, John Jesudasan, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Max Karrer, Reinhold Kleiner, Dieter Koelle, Arnaud Barbier, Eduard F. C. Driessen, Yaroslav M. Blanter, and Milan P. Allan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076001 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024 Shot noise measurements in Nb-based superconducting tunnel junctions indicate that transparency channels obscure pairing in noise measurements, a common roadblock in measurements in such junctions.     Defect-Assisted Exciton Transfer across the Tetracene-Si(111):H Interface Marvin Krenz, Uwe Gerstmann, and Wolf Gero Schmidt Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076201 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Spin Light Emitting Diode Based on Exciton Fine Structure Tuning in Quantum Dots A. V. Shumilin, T. S. Shamirzaev, and D. S. Smirnov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076202 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm Interference in the Presence of Edge Reconstruction Sourav Biswas, Hemanta Kumar Kundu, Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Vladimir Umansky, and Moty Heiblum Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076301 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024 Subtleties in edge-structure reconstruction may critically affect Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a quantum Hall interferometer.     Fast Fourier-Chebyshev Approach to Real-Space Simulations of the Kubo Formula Santiago Giménez de Castro, João M. Viana Parente Lopes, Aires Ferreira, and D. A. Bahamon Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076302 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Rigorous Screened Interactions for Realistic Correlated Electron Systems Charles J. C. Scott and George H. Booth Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076401 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Probing Quantum Phases in Ultra-High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Using Surface Acoustic Waves Mengmeng Wu, Xiao Liu, Renfei Wang, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, Xi Lin, and Yang Liu Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076501 (2024) – Published 12 February 2024 Deforming the quantum phase with a nondestructive current flowing through the sample shows that the system becomes more incompressible when hosting a current.     Editors' Suggestion Universal Features of Entanglement Entropy in the Honeycomb Hubbard Model Jonathan D'Emidio, Román Orús, Nicolas Laflorencie, and Fernando de Juan Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076502 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024 The entanglement entropy of two-dimensional interacting fermions can be simulated with quantum Monte Carlo techniques.     Metal-Insulator Transition in a Semiconductor Heterobilayer Model Yubo Yang (杨煜波), Miguel A. Morales, and Shiwei Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076503 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Discovery of Magnetic Phase Transitions in Heavy-Fermion Superconductor CeRh2As2 Grzegorz Chajewski and Dariusz Kaczorowski Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076504 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Tunable Quantum Criticality in Multicomponent Rydberg Arrays Natalia Chepiga Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076505 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Voltage-Controlled Magnon Transistor via Tuning Interfacial Exchange Coupling Y. Z. Wang, T. Y. Zhang, J. Dong, P. Chen, G. Q. Yu, C. H. Wan, and X. F. Han Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076701 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024 Focus:Voltage Control over Magnons Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic spin waves called magnons can be controlled by voltage and thus could operate more efficiently as information carriers in future devices.     Orbital Rashba Effect as a Platform for Robust Orbital Photocurrents T. Adamantopoulos, M. Merte, D. Go, F. Freimuth, S. Blügel, and Y. Mokrousov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076901 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Editors' Suggestion Field-Induced Hybridization of Moiré Excitons in MoSe2/WS2 Heterobilayers Borislav Polovnikov, Johannes Scherzer, Subhradeep Misra, Xin Huang, Christian Mohl, Zhijie Li, Jonas Göser, Jonathan Förste, Ismail Bilgin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alexander Högele, and Anvar S. Baimuratov Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076902 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024 Laser modulation spectroscopy on a MoSe2/WS2 heterostructure shows an intricate interplay of both intra- and interlayer moiré excitons and allows to determine unambiguously the nature of the observed optical resonances.     Mechanisms Underlying a Quantum Superposition Microscope Based on THz-Driven Coherent Oscillations in a Two-Level Molecular Sensor Yunpeng Xia, Likun Wang, and W. Ho Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076903 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Editors' Suggestion Exponential Capacity of Dense Associative Memories Carlo Lucibello and Marc Mézard Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077301 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024 A statistical mechanics analysis allows for the computation of asymptotic thresholds for pattern retrieval in the context of dense associative memories.     Triadic Approximation Reveals the Role of Interaction Overlap on the Spread of Complex Contagions on Higher-Order Networks Giulio Burgio, Sergio Gómez, and Alex Arenas Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077401 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Compressing the Chronology of a Temporal Network with Graph Commutators Andrea J. Allen, Cristopher Moore, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077402 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Anisotropic-Isotropic Transition of Cages at the Glass Transition Huijun Zhang, Qi Zhang, Feng Liu, and Yilong Han Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078201 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Soft and Stiff Normal Modes in Floppy Colloidal Square Lattices Julio Melio, Silke E. Henkes, and Daniela J. Kraft Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078202 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Networks of Limited-Valency Patchy Particles P. J. M. Swinkels, R. Sinaasappel, Z. Gong, S. Sacanna, W. V. Meyer, Francesco Sciortino, and P. Schall Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078203 (2024) – Published 16 February 2024   Nematic Torques in Scalar Active Matter: When Fluctuations Favor Polar Order and Persistence Gianmarco Spera, Charlie Duclut, Marc Durand, and Julien Tailleur Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078301 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Coordinated Motion of Epithelial Layers on Curved Surfaces L. Happel and A. Voigt Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078401 (2024) – Published 13 February 2024   Noisy Delay Denoises Biochemical Oscillators Yun Min Song, Sean Campbell, LieJune Shiau, Jae Kyoung Kim, and William Ott Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078402 (2024) – Published 15 February 2024   ERRATA Erratum: Molecular Ion Desorption from LiF(110) Surfaces by Positron Annihilation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143201 (2023)] T. Tachibana, D. Hoshi, and Y. Nagashima Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 079901 (2024) – Published 14 February 2024   Erratum: Direct Mechanical Detection and Measurement of Wave-Matter Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer by Nondissipative Vortex Mode Conversion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244301 (2019)] B. Sanchez-Padilla, L. Jonusauskas, M. Malinauskas, R. Wunenburger, and E. Brasselet Phys. Rev. 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