Volume 128, Issue 14

8 April 2022

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Computer-generated random phase two-dimensional profile imprinted on the boundary of a multimode laser cavity. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Controlling Nonlinear Interaction in a Many-Mode Laser by Tuning Disorder
Yaniv Eliezer, Simon Mahler, Asher A. Friesem, Hui Cao, and Nir Davidson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 143901 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Charging Advantage Cannot Be Extensive without Global Operations

Ju-Yeon Gyhm, Dominik Šafránek, and Dario Rosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140501 (2022) - Published 4 April, 2022

A new study has quantified the maximum speedup of a battery’s charging time that can be achieved through quantum effects.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Phase Transition in a Non-Markovian Animal Exploration Model with Preferential Returns

Ohad Vilk, Daniel Campos, Vicenç Méndez, Emmanuel Lourie, Ran Nathan, and Michael Assaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 148301 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022

A new animal-foraging model accurately predicts the dynamics of Egyptian fruit bats, allowing researchers to uncover a surprising phase transition in the penchant of animals to explore.

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New Measurements of the Beam-Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering over a Range of Spin-0 Nuclei

D. Adhikari et al. (PREX and CREX Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142501 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

New measurements of the beam-normal single spin asymmetry in two calcium isotopes show clear differentiation between nuclei with Z $<$ 20 and recent results on lead nuclei.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlling Nonlinear Interaction in a Many-Mode Laser by Tuning Disorder

Yaniv Eliezer, Simon Mahler, Asher A. Friesem, Hui Cao, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 143901 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

The number of lasing modes increases as the characteristic scale of random phase fluctuation decreases in a degenerate cavity, providing a tunable platform for investigating many-body phenomena.

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How Valley-Orbit States in Silicon Quantum Dots Probe Quantum Well Interfaces

J. P. Dodson, H. Ekmel Ercan, J. Corrigan, Merritt P. Losert, Nathan Holman, Thomas McJunkin, L. F. Edge, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146802 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

The one- and two-electron valley state energies in silicon quantum dots are measured as the quantum dot potential is modified, demonstrating a new probe of the quantum well interface.

LETTERS

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

Composition of Multipartite Quantum Systems: Perspective from Timelike Paradigm

Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo, Samrat Sen, Ram Krishna Patra, Mir Alimuddin, Tamal Guha, Some Sankar Bhattacharya, and Manik Banik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140401 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

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Quantum Charging Advantage Cannot Be Extensive without Global Operations

Ju-Yeon Gyhm, Dominik Šafránek, and Dario Rosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140501 (2022) - Published 4 April, 2022

A new study has quantified the maximum speedup of a battery’s charging time that can be achieved through quantum effects.

Negativity Hamiltonian: An Operator Characterization of Mixed-State Entanglement

Sara Murciano, Vittorio Vitale, Marcello Dalmonte, and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140502 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Bias in Error-Corrected Quantum Sensing

Ivan Rojkov, David Layden, Paola Cappellaro, Jonathan Home, and Florentin Reiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140503 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Experimental Measurement of Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators at Finite Temperature

Alaina M. Green, A. Elben, C. Huerta Alderete, Lata Kh Joshi, Nhung H. Nguyen, Torsten V. Zache, Yingyue Zhu, Bhuvanesh Sundar, and Norbert M. Linke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140601 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Thermodynamics of Precision in Markovian Open Quantum Dynamics

Tan Van Vu and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 140602 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

High Quality QCD Axion at Gravitational Wave Observatories

Ricardo Z. Ferreira, Alessio Notari, Oriol Pujolàs, and Fabrizio Rompineve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 141101 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Conservative and Radiative Dynamics of Spinning Bodies at Third Post-Minkowskian Order Using Worldline Quantum Field Theory

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen and Gustav Mogull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 141102 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Damping of Pseudo-Goldstone Fields

Luca V. Delacrétaz, Blaise Goutéraux, and Vaios Ziogas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 141601 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Affleck-Dine Leptogenesis from Higgs Inflation

Neil D. Barrie, Chengcheng Han, and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 141801 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Simplest and Most Predictive Model of Muon $g - 2$ and Thermal Dark Matter

Ian Holst, Dan Hooper, and Gordan Krnjaic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 141802 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Observation of the Singly Cabibbo Suppressed Decay $Λ_{c}^{+} \to n π^{+}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142001 (2022) - Published 4 April, 2022

Accurate Relativistic Chiral Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction up to Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Jun-Xu Lu, Chun-Xuan Wang, Yang Xiao, Li-Sheng Geng, Jie Meng, and Peter Ring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142002 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Lattice QCD Determination of the Bjorken- $x$ Dependence of Parton Distribution Functions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Xiang Gao, Andrew D. Hanlon, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Philipp Scior, Sergey Syritsyn, and Yong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142003 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Measurement of the Nuclear Modification Factor and Prompt Charged Particle Production in $p$ -Pb and $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5 TeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142004 (2022) - Published 7 April, 2022

Measurement of Two-Particle Correlations of Hadrons in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions at Belle

Y.-C. Chen et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142005 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Measurements of the Beam-Normal Single Spin Asymmetry in Elastic Electron Scattering over a Range of Spin-0 Nuclei

D. Adhikari et al. (PREX and CREX Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 142501 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

New measurements of the beam-normal single spin asymmetry in two calcium isotopes show clear differentiation between nuclei with Z $<$ 20 and recent results on lead nuclei.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mechanical Squeezing via Unstable Dynamics in a Microcavity

Katja Kustura, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Andrés de los Ríos Sommer, Nadine Meyer, Romain Quidant, and Oriol Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 143601 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Observing Dynamical Currents in a Non-Hermitian Momentum Lattice

Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, Francesco Ferri, Fabian Finger, Nishant Dogra, Katrin Kroeger, Rui Lin, R. Chitra, Tobias Donner, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 143602 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlling Nonlinear Interaction in a Many-Mode Laser by Tuning Disorder

Yaniv Eliezer, Simon Mahler, Asher A. Friesem, Hui Cao, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 143901 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

The number of lasing modes increases as the characteristic scale of random phase fluctuation decreases in a degenerate cavity, providing a tunable platform for investigating many-body phenomena.

Dynamics of Bacteria Scanning a Porous Environment

Ehsan Irani, Zahra Mokhtari, and Annette Zippelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 144501 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022

Observation of Interfacial Instability of an Ultrathin Water Film

Yoko Tomo, Sarthak Nag, and Hiroshi Takamatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 144502 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection

Rostom Mbarek, Colby Haggerty, Lorenzo Sironi, Michael Shay, and Damiano Caprioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 145101 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Nonideal Fields Solve the Injection Problem in Relativistic Reconnection

Lorenzo Sironi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 145102 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Diffusive Fizeau Drag in Spatiotemporal Thermal Metamaterials

Liujun Xu, Guoqiang Xu, Jiping Huang, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 145901 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Surface Effect on Young’s Modulus of Sub-Two-Nanometer Gold [111] Nanocontacts

Jiaqi Zhang, Masahiko Tomitori, Toyoko Arai, and Yoshifumi Oshima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146101 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022

Can Weak Chirality Induce Strong Coupling between Resonant States?

Yang Chen, Weijin Chen, Xianghong Kong, Dong Wu, Jiaru Chu, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146102 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermionic Many-Body Localization for Random and Quasiperiodic Systems in the Presence of Short- and Long-Range Interactions

DinhDuy Vu, Ke Huang, Xiao Li, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146601 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

Anomalous Electromagnetic Field Penetration in a Weyl or Dirac Semimetal

P. O. Sukhachov and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146801 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

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How Valley-Orbit States in Silicon Quantum Dots Probe Quantum Well Interfaces

J. P. Dodson, H. Ekmel Ercan, J. Corrigan, Merritt P. Losert, Nathan Holman, Thomas McJunkin, L. F. Edge, Mark Friesen, S. N. Coppersmith, and M. A. Eriksson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146802 (2022) - Published 6 April, 2022

The one- and two-electron valley state energies in silicon quantum dots are measured as the quantum dot potential is modified, demonstrating a new probe of the quantum well interface.

Fractional Entropy of Multichannel Kondo Systems from Conductance-Charge Relations

Cheolhee Han, Z. Iftikhar, Yaakov Kleeorin, A. Anthore, F. Pierre, Yigal Meir, Andrew K. Mitchell, and Eran Sela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146803 (2022) - Published 7 April, 2022

Correlations at PT-Symmetric Quantum Critical Point

Balázs Dóra, Doru Sticlet, and Cătălin Paşcu Moca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 146804 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Theory of Emergent Inductance with Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects

Yuta Yamane, Shunsuke Fukami, and Jun’ichi Ieda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 147201 (2022) - Published 7 April, 2022

Inelastic Mach-Zehnder Interferometry with Free Electrons

Cameron W. Johnson, Amy E. Turner, F. Javier García de Abajo, and Benjamin J. McMorran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 147401 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Magnetic-Field Universality of the Kondo Effect Revealed by Thermocurrent Spectroscopy

Chunwei Hsu, Theo A. Costi, David Vogel, Christina Wegeberg, Marcel Mayor, Herre S. J. van der Zant, and Pascal Gehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 147701 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Cellular Sensing Governs the Stability of Chemotactic Fronts

Ricard Alert, Alejandro Martínez-Calvo, and Sujit S. Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 148101 (2022) - Published 8 April, 2022

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Phase Transition in a Non-Markovian Animal Exploration Model with Preferential Returns

Ohad Vilk, Daniel Campos, Vicenç Méndez, Emmanuel Lourie, Ran Nathan, and Michael Assaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 148301 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022

A new animal-foraging model accurately predicts the dynamics of Egyptian fruit bats, allowing researchers to uncover a surprising phase transition in the penchant of animals to explore.

ERRATA

Erratum: Coherent Excitation of the Highly Forbidden Electric Octupole Transition in ${}^{172}{Yb}^{+}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163001 (2020)]

H. A. Fürst, C.-H. Yeh, D. Kalincev, A. P. Kulosa, L. S. Dreissen, R. Lange, E. Benkler, N. Huntemann, E. Peik, and T. E. Mehlstäubler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 149901 (2022) - Published 5 April, 2022