Volume 128, Issue 13

1 April 2022

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Simulation of the full electric field inside the conceptual design of the Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection (BREAD). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Broadband Solenoidal Haloscope for Terahertz Axion Detection
Jesse Liu, Kristin Dona, Gabe Hoshino, Stefan Knirck, Noah Kurinsky, Matthew Malaker, David W. Miller, Andrew Sonnenschein, Mohamed H. Awida, Peter S. Barry, Karl K. Berggren, Daniel Bowring, Gianpaolo Carosi, Clarence Chang, Aaron Chou, Rakshya Khatiwada, Samantha Lewis, Juliang Li, Sae Woo Nam, Omid Noroozian, and Tony X. Zhou (BREAD Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131801 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Thermal Waves and Heat Transfer Efficiency Enhancement in Harmonically Modulated Turbulent Thermal Convection

P. Urban, P. Hanzelka, T. Králik, V. Musilová, and L. Skrbek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 134502 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

If the temperature gradient in a fluid oscillates, heat flows through it more effectively, according to experiments that may have relevance for climate models.

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High-Temperature Majorana Zero Modes

Alejandro Mercado, Sharmistha Sahoo, and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 137002 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

A new proposal for generating Majorana zero modes—electronic states with potential for quantum computing—would not require subkelvin temperatures.

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Preferred Spin Excitations in the Bilayer Iron-Based Superconductor $CaK {({Fe}_{0.96} {Ni}_{0.04})}_{4} {As}_{4}$ with Spin-Vortex Crystal Order

Chang Liu, Philippe Bourges, Yvan Sidis, Tao Xie, Guanghong He, Frédéric Bourdarot, Sergey Danilkin, Haranath Ghosh, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Xiaoyan Ma, Shiliang Li, Yuan Li, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 137003 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

An experiment finds that spin fluctuations in an iron-based superconductor have a preferred direction, suggesting a potential mechanism for superconductivity in these materials.

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Broadband Solenoidal Haloscope for Terahertz Axion Detection

Jesse Liu, Kristin Dona, Gabe Hoshino, Stefan Knirck, Noah Kurinsky, Matthew Malaker, David W. Miller, Andrew Sonnenschein, Mohamed H. Awida, Peter S. Barry, Karl K. Berggren, Daniel Bowring, Gianpaolo Carosi, Clarence Chang, Aaron Chou, Rakshya Khatiwada, Samantha Lewis, Juliang Li, Sae Woo Nam, Omid Noroozian, and Tony X. Zhou (BREAD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131801 (2022) - Published 28 March, 2022

A proposed cylindrical metal barrel detector with a parabolic reflector will be able to probe dark matter axions over the broad meV to eV range.

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Intermolecular Coulombic Decay in Liquid Water

Pengju Zhang, Conaill Perry, Tran Trung Luu, Danylo Matselyukh, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 133001 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

The first observation of intermolecular Coulombic decay following inner-valence ionization in liquid water is made in a tabletop experiment.

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Spin-Conservation Propensity Rule for Three-Body Recombination of Ultracold Rb Atoms

Shinsuke Haze, José P. D’Incao, Dominik Dorer, Markus Deiß, Eberhard Tiemann, Paul S. Julienne, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 133401 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

The propensity rule for the total spin conservation of many-body ultracold collisions is confirmed experimentally.

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Fundamental Limits in Bayesian Thermometry and Attainability via Adaptive Strategies

Mohammad Mehboudi, Mathias R. Jørgensen, Stella Seah, Jonatan B. Brask, Jan Kołodyński, and Martí Perarnau-Llobet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130502 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Thermal Critical Dynamics from Equilibrium Quantum Fluctuations

Irénée Frérot, Adam Rançon, and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130601 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

Inverse Scattering Method Solves the Problem of Full Statistics of Nonstationary Heat Transfer in the Kipnis-Marchioro-Presutti Model

Eldad Bettelheim, Naftali R. Smith, and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130602 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

Macroscopic Effects of Localized Measurements in Jammed States of Quantum Spin Chains

Kemal Bidzhiev, Maurizio Fagotti, and Lenart Zadnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130603 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

Quantum Signatures in Quench from Chaos to Superradiance

Sayak Ray, Amichay Vardi, and Doron Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130604 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Universal Behavior beyond Multifractality of Wave Functions at Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions

Piotr Sierant and Xhek Turkeshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130605 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Classical Pendulum Clocks Break the Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

Patrick Pietzonka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 130606 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Waves at Strong Coupling from an Effective Action

Fëanor Reuben Ares, Oscar Henriksson, Mark Hindmarsh, Carlos Hoyos, and Niko Jokela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131101 (2022) - Published 29 March, 2022

Causality Constraints on Gravitational Effective Field Theories

Claudia de Rham, Andrew J. Tolley, and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131102 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Direct Measurement of the Nickel Spectrum in Cosmic Rays in the Energy Range from $8.8 GeV / n$ to $240 GeV / n$ with CALET on the International Space Station

O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131103 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Cosmology Meets Functional QCD: First-Order Cosmic QCD Transition Induced by Large Lepton Asymmetries

Fei Gao and Isabel M. Oldengott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131301 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Broadband Solenoidal Haloscope for Terahertz Axion Detection

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131801 (2022) - Published 28 March, 2022

A proposed cylindrical metal barrel detector with a parabolic reflector will be able to probe dark matter axions over the broad meV to eV range.

Search for an Axionlike Particle in $B$ Meson Decays

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131802 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Improved Indirect Limits on Muon Electric Dipole Moment

Yohei Ema, Ting Gao, and Maxim Pospelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 131803 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Disentangling the Regge Cut and Regge Pole in Perturbative QCD

Giulio Falcioni, Einan Gardi, Niamh Maher, Calum Milloy, and Leonardo Vernazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 132001 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

Measurement of Lepton-Jet Correlation in Deep-Inelastic Scattering with the H1 Detector Using Machine Learning for Unfolding

V. Andreev et al. (H1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 132002 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

Measurement of the Nucleon $F_{2}^{n} / F_{2}^{p}$ Structure Function Ratio by the Jefferson Lab MARATHON Tritium/Helium-3 Deep Inelastic Scattering Experiment

D. Abrams et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 132003 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Determination of the ${}^{27}{Al}$ Neutron Distribution Radius from a Parity-Violating Electron Scattering Measurement

D. Androić et al. ( $Q_{weak}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 132501 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Proton Compton Scattering from Linearly Polarized Gamma Rays

X. Li et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 132502 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Measurement of Compton Scattering at MAMI for the Extraction of the Electric and Magnetic Polarizabilities of the Proton

E. Mornacchi et al. (A2 Collaboration at MAMI)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 132503 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intermolecular Coulombic Decay in Liquid Water

Pengju Zhang, Conaill Perry, Tran Trung Luu, Danylo Matselyukh, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 133001 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

The first observation of intermolecular Coulombic decay following inner-valence ionization in liquid water is made in a tabletop experiment.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Conservation Propensity Rule for Three-Body Recombination of Ultracold Rb Atoms

Shinsuke Haze, José P. D’Incao, Dominik Dorer, Markus Deiß, Eberhard Tiemann, Paul S. Julienne, and Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 133401 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

The propensity rule for the total spin conservation of many-body ultracold collisions is confirmed experimentally.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Classical Physics and Blackbody Radiation

Jiao Wang, Giulio Casati, and Giuliano Benenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 134101 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

Lyapunov Spectrum Scaling for Classical Many-Body Dynamics Close to Integrability

Merab Malishava and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 134102 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

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Thermal Waves and Heat Transfer Efficiency Enhancement in Harmonically Modulated Turbulent Thermal Convection

P. Urban, P. Hanzelka, T. Králik, V. Musilová, and L. Skrbek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 134502 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

If the temperature gradient in a fluid oscillates, heat flows through it more effectively, according to experiments that may have relevance for climate models.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Early Coarsening of Quenched Bose Gases

Junhong Goo, Yangheon Lee, Younghoon Lim, Dalmin Bae, Tenzin Rabga, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 135701 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Origin of Efficiency Enhancement by Lattice Expansion in Hybrid-Perovskite Solar Cells

Xie Zhang and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 136401 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

Phonon-Induced Relocation of Valence Charge in Boron Nitride Observed by Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction

Shekhar Priyadarshi, Isabel Gonzalez-Vallejo, Christoph Hauf, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 136402 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

Diffusion of Photoexcited Holes in a Viscous Electron Fluid

Yu. A. Pusep, M. D. Teodoro, V. Laurindo, Jr., E. R. Cardozo de Oliveira, G. M. Gusev, and A. K. Bakarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 136801 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

Anisotropic Scattering Caused by Apical Oxygen Vacancies in Thin Films of Overdoped High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

Da Wang, Jun-Qi Xu, Hai-Jun Zhang, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 137001 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Temperature Majorana Zero Modes

Alejandro Mercado, Sharmistha Sahoo, and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 137002 (2022) - Published 30 March, 2022

A new proposal for generating Majorana zero modes—electronic states with potential for quantum computing—would not require subkelvin temperatures.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Preferred Spin Excitations in the Bilayer Iron-Based Superconductor $CaK {({Fe}_{0.96} {Ni}_{0.04})}_{4} {As}_{4}$ with Spin-Vortex Crystal Order

Chang Liu, Philippe Bourges, Yvan Sidis, Tao Xie, Guanghong He, Frédéric Bourdarot, Sergey Danilkin, Haranath Ghosh, Soumyadeep Ghosh, Xiaoyan Ma, Shiliang Li, Yuan Li, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 137003 (2022) - Published 31 March, 2022

An experiment finds that spin fluctuations in an iron-based superconductor have a preferred direction, suggesting a potential mechanism for superconductivity in these materials.

Exchange-Torque-Triggered Fast Switching of Antiferromagnetic Domains

Jia Xu, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Chao Zhou, Dong Shi, Haoran Chen, Tong Wu, Qian Li, Haifeng Ding, Yan Zhou, and Yizheng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 137201 (2022) - Published 1 April, 2022