Volume 128, Issue 23

10 June 2022

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On the Cover

Driven polariton condensate (blue-orange surface) trapped in an annular potential induced by a nonresonant optical pump (blue-red surface), with the location of optical vortices indicated by the dashed white and blue lines.

From the article:

Spontaneous Formation of Time-Periodic Vortex Cluster in Nonlinear Fluids of Light
Kirill A. Sitnik, Sergey Alyatkin, Julian D. Töpfer, Ivan Gnusov, Tamsin Cookson, Helgi Sigurdsson, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 237402 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum-Coherent Light-Electron Interaction in a Scanning Electron Microscope

R. Shiloh, T. Chlouba, and P. Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 235301 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022

Scanning electron microscopes using laser-engineered electron quantum states enter the quantum optics ring.

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Quantum Flicker Noise in Atomic and Molecular Junctions

Ofir Shein-Lumbroso, Junjie Liu, Abhay Shastry, Dvira Segal, and Oren Tal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 237701 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

Measurements of so-called flicker noise can shed light on quantum effects that govern charge transport in nanoscale conductors.

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Geometric Bound on the Efficiency of Irreversible Thermodynamic Cycles

Adam G. Frim and Michael R. DeWeese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230601 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022

Applying the classical isoperimetric inequalities to thermodynamic spaces yields a novel universal bound on the efficiency of any closed thermodynamic cycle for a generic system.

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Geodesic Path for the Minimal Energy Cost in Shortcuts to Isothermality

Geng Li, Jin-Fu Chen, C. P. Sun, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230603 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

The equivalence between minimizing the energy cost and finding the geodesic path solves the optimization problem in thermodynamics through methods developed in Riemannian geometry.

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Floquet Spin Amplification

Min Jiang, Yushu Qin, Xin Wang, Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Xinhua Peng, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 233201 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

Floquet amplifiers based on periodically-driven xenon spins provide femtotesla-level precision in magnetic field measurements and broad bandwidth.

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Dissipative Parametric Gain in a $GaAs / AlGaAs$ Superlattice

Vladislovas Čižas, Liudvikas Subačius, Natalia V. Alexeeva, Dalius Seliuta, Timo Hyart, Klaus Köhler, Kirill N. Alekseev, and Gintaras Valušis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 236802 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022

Dissipative parametric gain is observed in a GaAs/AlGaAs superlattice at room temperature and GHz microwave temperatures.

LETTERS

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

Density Matrix Renormalization Group for Continuous Quantum Systems

Shovan Dutta, Anton Buyskikh, Andrew J. Daley, and Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230401 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022

Advantage of Coherent States in Ring Resonators over Any Quantum Probe Single-Pass Absorption Estimation Strategy

Alexandre Belsley, Euan J. Allen, Animesh Datta, and Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230501 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022

Toward the Speed Limit of High-Fidelity Two-Qubit Gates

Swathi S. Hegde, Jingfu Zhang, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230502 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022

Computational Advantage from a Quantum Superposition of Qubit Gate Orders

Martin J. Renner and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230503 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

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Geometric Bound on the Efficiency of Irreversible Thermodynamic Cycles

Adam G. Frim and Michael R. DeWeese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230601 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022

Applying the classical isoperimetric inequalities to thermodynamic spaces yields a novel universal bound on the efficiency of any closed thermodynamic cycle for a generic system.

Universal Casimir Interaction between Two Dielectric Spheres in Salted Water

Tanja Schoger, Benjamin Spreng, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Paulo A. Maia Neto, and Serge Reynaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230602 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

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Geodesic Path for the Minimal Energy Cost in Shortcuts to Isothermality

Geng Li, Jin-Fu Chen, C. P. Sun, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 230603 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

The equivalence between minimizing the energy cost and finding the geodesic path solves the optimization problem in thermodynamics through methods developed in Riemannian geometry.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Adiabatic Waveforms from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals: An Analytical Approach

Soichiro Isoyama, Ryuichi Fujita, Alvin J. K. Chua, Hiroyuki Nakano, Adam Pound, and Norichika Sago

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231101 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Properties of Daily Helium Fluxes

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231102 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Singularities from Entropy

Raphael Bousso and Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231301 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Fractional Soft Limits of Scattering Amplitudes

Tomáš Brauner, Angelo Esposito, and Riccardo Penco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231601 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

Critical Lattice Model for a Haagerup Conformal Field Theory

Robijn Vanhove, Laurens Lootens, Maarten Van Damme, Ramona Wolf, Tobias J. Osborne, Jutho Haegeman, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231602 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Numerical Evidence for a Haagerup Conformal Field Theory

Tzu-Chen Huang, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Kantaro Ohmori, Yuji Tachikawa, and Masaki Tezuka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231603 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Scattering Searches for Dark Matter in Subhalos: Neutron Stars, Cosmic Rays, and Old Rocks

Joseph Bramante, Bradley J. Kavanagh, and Nirmal Raj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231801 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

New Constraints on Dark Photon Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowire Detectors in an Optical Haloscope

Jeff Chiles, Ilya Charaev, Robert Lasenby, Masha Baryakhtar, Junwu Huang, Alexana Roshko, George Burton, Marco Colangelo, Ken Van Tilburg, Asimina Arvanitaki, Sae Woo Nam, and Karl K. Berggren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231802 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Search for Monopole-Dipole Interactions at the Submillimeter Range with a ${}^{129}{Xe} − {}^{131}{Xe} − Rb$ Comagnetometer

Y.-K. Feng, D.-H. Ning, S.-B. Zhang, Z.-T. Lu, and D. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 231803 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Results from the Baksan Experiment on Sterile Transitions (BEST)

V. V. Barinov et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 232501 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Floquet Spin Amplification

Min Jiang, Yushu Qin, Xin Wang, Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Xinhua Peng, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 233201 (2022) - Published 9 June, 2022

Floquet amplifiers based on periodically-driven xenon spins provide femtotesla-level precision in magnetic field measurements and broad bandwidth.

Ultracold Bose Gases in Dynamic Disorder with Tunable Correlation Time

Benjamin Nagler, Martin Will, Silvia Hiebel, Sian Barbosa, Jennifer Koch, Michael Fleischhauer, and Artur Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 233601 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022

Entangling a Hole Spin with a Time-Bin Photon: A Waveguide Approach for Quantum Dot Sources of Multiphoton Entanglement

Martin Hayhurst Appel, Alexey Tiranov, Simon Pabst, Ming Lai Chan, Christian Starup, Ying Wang, Leonardo Midolo, Konstantin Tiurev, Sven Scholz, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Anders Søndberg Sørensen, and Peter Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 233602 (2022) - Published 8 June, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Temporal Evolution of Erosion in Pore Networks: From Homogenization to Instability

Ahmad Zareei, Deng Pan, and Ariel Amir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 234501 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022

Scaling of Acceleration Statistics in High Reynolds Number Turbulence

Dhawal Buaria and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 234502 (2022) - Published 10 June, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Quantum-Coherent Light-Electron Interaction in a Scanning Electron Microscope

R. Shiloh, T. Chlouba, and P. Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 235301 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022

Scanning electron microscopes using laser-engineered electron quantum states enter the quantum optics ring.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Observation of Biradical Spin Coupling through Hydrogen Bonds

Yang He, Na Li, Ivano E. Castelli, Ruoning Li, Yajie Zhang, Xue Zhang, Chao Li, Bingwu Wang, Song Gao, Lianmao Peng, Shimin Hou, Ziyong Shen, Jing-Tao Lü, Kai Wu, Per Hedegård, and Yongfeng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 236401 (2022) - Published 6 June, 2022