Volume 128, Issue 22

3 June 2022

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Pattern propagation on a deformed sphere as time passes from left to right. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Pattern Propagation Driven by Surface Curvature
Ryosuke Nishide and Shuji Ishihara
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 224101 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino

Simeon Reusch et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221101 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Researchers have found new evidence that high-energy neutrinos are emitted when a black hole gobbles up a hapless star.

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Sharp Signals of Boson Clouds in Black Hole Binary Inspirals

Daniel Baumann, Gianfranco Bertone, John Stout, and Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221102 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Distinctive features of gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the existence of long-sought ultralight bosons.

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Extreme-Ultraviolet Shaping and Imaging by High-Harmonic Generation from Nanostructured Silica

Sylvianne D. C. Roscam Abbing, Radoslaw Kolkowski, Zhuang-Yan Zhang, Filippo Campi, Lars Lötgering, A. Femius Koenderink, and Peter M. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223902 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022

By etching nanostructures into ultraviolet-generating materials, researchers show that they can manipulate the outgoing light in ways that aren’t otherwise possible.

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Smallest Stable $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ Interface that Suppresses Quantum Tunneling from Machine-Learning-Based Global Search

Ye-Fei Li and Zhi-Pan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 226102 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Researchers have identified the best silicon and silicon dioxide materials for the next generation of transistors, which are expected to be just a nanometer long.

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Microstructural Origin of Propagating Compaction Patterns in Porous Media

Lars Blatny, Paul Berclaz, François Guillard, Itai Einav, and Johan Gaume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 228002 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

A model attributes the material-agnostic propagating bands that appear in a compressed porous medium to structural changes alone.

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Negative Quasiprobabilities Enhance Phase Estimation in Quantum-Optics Experiment

Noah Lupu-Gladstein, Y. Batuhan Yilmaz, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, Aharon Brodutch, Arthur O. T. Pang, Aephraim M. Steinberg, and Nicole Yunger Halpern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220504 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

The precision of phase estimation can be increased by the careful application of postselection, and can be quantified by negative quasiprobabilities.

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Realization of a Fermi-Hubbard Optical Tweezer Array

Benjamin M. Spar, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Sungjae Chi, Zoe Z. Yan, and Waseem S. Bakr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223202 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

An eight-site Fermi-Hubbard chain is realized in an optical tweezer array of $^{6}$ Li atoms, increasing the size of the Hilbert space by over three orders of magnitude over previous experiments.

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Pattern Propagation Driven by Surface Curvature

Ryosuke Nishide and Shuji Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 224101 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Turing patterns that are static on a flat surface can propagate on a curved surface.

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Chiral Ising Gross-Neveu Criticality of a Single Dirac Cone: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study

S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei, Amir-Reza Negari, Joseph Maciejko, and Abolhassan Vaezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 225701 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

The first large-scale numerical study of the N=2 chiral Ising Gross-Neveu model allows the pinpointing of the quantum critical point and the identification of the critical exponents for this theory with great accuracy.

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Magnetoelectric Classification of Skyrmions

Sayantika Bhowal and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227204 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

A general theory of classification of magnetic skyrmions and other related spin textures by utilizing their magnetoelectric multipoles broadens the technical methods for studying spin textures.

LETTERS

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

Temporal Entanglement, Quasiparticles, and the Role of Interactions

Giacomo Giudice, Giuliano Giudici, Michael Sonner, Julian Thoenniss, Alessio Lerose, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Lorenzo Piroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220401 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Asymptotic Survival of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement in Noisy Quantum Networks Depends on the Topology

Patricia Contreras-Tejada, Carlos Palazuelos, and Julio I. de Vicente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220501 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022

Quantum Algorithm for Petz Recovery Channels and Pretty Good Measurements

András Gilyén, Seth Lloyd, Iman Marvian, Yihui Quek, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220502 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

How to Simulate Quantum Measurement without Computing Marginals

Sergey Bravyi, David Gosset, and Yinchen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220503 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

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Negative Quasiprobabilities Enhance Phase Estimation in Quantum-Optics Experiment

Noah Lupu-Gladstein, Y. Batuhan Yilmaz, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, Aharon Brodutch, Arthur O. T. Pang, Aephraim M. Steinberg, and Nicole Yunger Halpern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220504 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

The precision of phase estimation can be increased by the careful application of postselection, and can be quantified by negative quasiprobabilities.

Entangling Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks

Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Alexander Zlokapa, Michael Broughton, Sergio Boixo, Masoud Mohseni, Vadim Smelyanskyi, and Hartmut Neven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220505 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Energetic Cost of Measurements Using Quantum, Coherent, and Thermal Light

Xiayu Linpeng, Léa Bresque, Maria Maffei, Andrew N. Jordan, Alexia Auffèves, and Kater W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 220506 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino

Simeon Reusch et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221101 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Researchers have found new evidence that high-energy neutrinos are emitted when a black hole gobbles up a hapless star.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sharp Signals of Boson Clouds in Black Hole Binary Inspirals

Daniel Baumann, Gianfranco Bertone, John Stout, and Giovanni Maria Tomaselli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221102 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Distinctive features of gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the existence of long-sought ultralight bosons.

Low-Energy Supernovae Severely Constrain Radiative Particle Decays

Andrea Caputo, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Raffelt, and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221103 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Direct Detection Constraints on Blazar-Boosted Dark Matter

Jin-Wei Wang, Alessandro Granelli, and Piero Ullio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221104 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Limits and Relic Gravitational-Wave Detection Prospects

Tina Kahniashvili, Emma Clarke, Jonathan Stepp, and Axel Brandenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221301 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Do Direct Detection Experiments Constrain Axionlike Particles Coupled to Electrons?

Ricardo Z. Ferreira, M. C. David Marsh, and Eike Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221302 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact $T \bar{T}$ Deformation of Two-Dimensional Maxwell Theory

Luca Griguolo, Rodolfo Panerai, Jacopo Papalini, and Domenico Seminara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221601 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Angular Analysis of $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays and Search for $C P$ Violation

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 221801 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Seconds-Scale Coherence on Nuclear Spin Transitions of Ultracold Polar Molecules in 3D Optical Lattices

Junyu Lin, Junyu He, Mucan Jin, Guanghua Chen, and Dajun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223201 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realization of a Fermi-Hubbard Optical Tweezer Array

Benjamin M. Spar, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Sungjae Chi, Zoe Z. Yan, and Waseem S. Bakr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223202 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

An eight-site Fermi-Hubbard chain is realized in an optical tweezer array of $^{6}$ Li atoms, increasing the size of the Hilbert space by over three orders of magnitude over previous experiments.

Delayed Onset and Directionality of X-Ray-Induced Atomic Displacements Observed on Subatomic Length Scales

Ichiro Inoue, Victor Tkachenko, Konrad J. Kapcia, Vladimir Lipp, Beata Ziaja, Yuichi Inubushi, Toru Hara, Makina Yabashi, and Eiji Nishibori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223203 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

First and Second Sound in a Compressible 3D Bose Fluid

Timon A. Hilker, Lena H. Dogra, Christoph Eigen, Jake A. P. Glidden, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223601 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Giant Atoms in a Synthetic Frequency Dimension

Lei Du, Yan Zhang, Jin-Hui Wu, Anton Frisk Kockum, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223602 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coherent Diffractive Imaging with Diffractive Optics

Jakob Soltau, Markus Osterhoff, and Tim Salditt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223901 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022

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Extreme-Ultraviolet Shaping and Imaging by High-Harmonic Generation from Nanostructured Silica

Sylvianne D. C. Roscam Abbing, Radoslaw Kolkowski, Zhuang-Yan Zhang, Filippo Campi, Lars Lötgering, A. Femius Koenderink, and Peter M. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223902 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022

By etching nanostructures into ultraviolet-generating materials, researchers show that they can manipulate the outgoing light in ways that aren’t otherwise possible.

Gain-Loss-Induced Hybrid Skin-Topological Effect

Yaohua Li, Chao Liang, Chenyang Wang, Cuicui Lu, and Yong-Chun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 223903 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pattern Propagation Driven by Surface Curvature

Ryosuke Nishide and Shuji Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 224101 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Turing patterns that are static on a flat surface can propagate on a curved surface.

Acoustic Realization of Surface-Obstructed Topological Insulators

Juan Du, Tianzi Li, Xiying Fan, Qicheng Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 224301 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Energy Spectrum of Two-Dimensional Acoustic Turbulence

Adam Griffin, Giorgio Krstulovic, Victor S. L’vov, and Sergey Nazarenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 224501 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Long Term Vortex Flow Evolution around a Magnetic Island in Tokamaks

G. J. Choi and T. S. Hahm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 225001 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Chiral Ising Gross-Neveu Criticality of a Single Dirac Cone: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study

S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei, Amir-Reza Negari, Joseph Maciejko, and Abolhassan Vaezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 225701 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Polarization-Dependent Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy for Ångstrom-Scale Depth Profiling of Molecules at Interfaces

Chun-Chieh Yu, Takakazu Seki, Yongkang Wang, Mischa Bonn, and Yuki Nagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 226001 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Dual-Scale Stick-Slip Friction on $Graphene / h − BN$ Moiré Superlattice Structure

Shuai Zhang, Quanzhou Yao, Lingxiu Chen, Chengxin Jiang, Tianbao Ma, Haomin Wang, Xi-Qiao Feng, and Qunyang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 226101 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

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Smallest Stable $Si / {SiO}_{2}$ Interface that Suppresses Quantum Tunneling from Machine-Learning-Based Global Search

Ye-Fei Li and Zhi-Pan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 226102 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

Researchers have identified the best silicon and silicon dioxide materials for the next generation of transistors, which are expected to be just a nanometer long.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Non-Hermitian Spatial Symmetries and Their Stabilized Normal and Exceptional Topological Semimetals

W. B. Rui, Zhen Zheng, Chenjie Wang, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 226401 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Spiral Spin Liquid on a Honeycomb Lattice

Shang Gao, Michael A. McGuire, Yaohua Liu, Douglas L. Abernathy, Clarina dela Cruz, Matthias Frontzek, Matthew B. Stone, and Andrew D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227201 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

Thermal Ising Transition in the Spin- $1 / 2$ $J_{1}$ - $J_{2}$ Heisenberg Model

Olivier Gauthé and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227202 (2022) - Published 2 June, 2022

Exploiting Spin Fluctuations for Enhanced Pure Spin Current

Po-Hsun Wu, Danru Qu, Yen-Chang Tu, Yin-Ze Lin, C. L. Chien, and Ssu-Yen Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227203 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoelectric Classification of Skyrmions

Sayantika Bhowal and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227204 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

A general theory of classification of magnetic skyrmions and other related spin textures by utilizing their magnetoelectric multipoles broadens the technical methods for studying spin textures.

SU(4) Symmetry in Twisted Bilayer Graphene: An Itinerant Perspective

Dmitry V. Chichinadze, Laura Classen, Yuxuan Wang, and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 227601 (2022) - Published 3 June, 2022

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

Molecular Cross-correlations Govern Structural Rearrangements in a Nonassociating Polar Glass Former

K. Moch, P. Münzner, R. Böhmer, and C. Gainaru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 228001 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

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Microstructural Origin of Propagating Compaction Patterns in Porous Media

Lars Blatny, Paul Berclaz, François Guillard, Itai Einav, and Johan Gaume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 228002 (2022) - Published 1 June, 2022

A model attributes the material-agnostic propagating bands that appear in a compressed porous medium to structural changes alone.

ERRATA

Erratum: Faster Uphill Relaxation in Thermodynamically Equidistant Temperature Quenches [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110602 (2020)]

Alessio Lapolla and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 229901 (2022) - Published 31 May, 2022