Volume 128, Issue 4

28 January 2022

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Morphologies of ice melting inside liquid water at different temperatures, from colder (left) to intermediate (center) to warmer (right). Selected for a Focus in Physics.

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Anomalous Convective Flows Carve Pinnacles and Scallops in Melting Ice
Scott Weady, Joshua Tong, Alexandra Zidovska, and Leif Ristroph
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 044502 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Testing Real Quantum Theory in an Optical Quantum Network

Zheng-Da Li, Ya-Li Mao, Mirjam Weilenmann, Armin Tavakoli, Hu Chen, Lixin Feng, Sheng-Jun Yang, Marc-Olivier Renou, David Trillo, Thinh P. Le, Nicolas Gisin, Antonio Acín, Miguel Navascués, Zizhu Wang (王子竹), and Jingyun Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040402 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Studies demonstrate that a formulation of quantum mechanics involving complex rather than real numbers is necessary to reproduce experimental results.

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Ruling Out Real-Valued Standard Formalism of Quantum Theory

Ming-Cheng Chen, Can Wang, Feng-Ming Liu, Jian-Wen Wang, Chong Ying, Zhong-Xia Shang, Yulin Wu, M. Gong, H. Deng, F.-T. Liang, Qiang Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Xiaobo Zhu, Adán Cabello, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040403 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Studies demonstrate that a formulation of quantum mechanics involving complex rather than real numbers is necessary to reproduce experimental results.

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Run with the Brownian Hare, Hunt with the Deterministic Hounds

Davide Bernardi and Benjamin Lindner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040601 (2022) - Published 26 January, 2022

Researchers explore the effects of random motion in a pursuit problem in which hounds chase a hare.

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Analysis of Neutral $B$ -Meson Decays into Two Muons

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041801 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

A new analysis of Large Hadron Collider data measures rare decays of the $B$ meson that behave according to the standard model.

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Lizard Skin Patterns and the Ising Model

Szabolcs Zakany, Stanislav Smirnov, and Michel C. Milinkovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048102 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

The pattern of green and black scales on an ocellated lizard can be described with the two-parameter Ising model for antiferromagnetic systems.

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Anomalous Convective Flows Carve Pinnacles and Scallops in Melting Ice

Scott Weady, Joshua Tong, Alexandra Zidovska, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 044502 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022

Experiments reveal that the shape of submerged, melting ice depends on temperature, suggesting that natural ice structures can provide clues about water temperatures.

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Solving Conformal Field Theories with Artificial Intelligence

Gergely Kántor, Constantinos Papageorgakis, and Vasilis Niarchos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041601 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Machine learning is shown to provide a road to solving conformal field theories by efficiently exploiting numerical bootstrap methods.

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Particulate Projectiles Driven by Cavitation Bubbles

Zibo Ren, Zhigang Zuo, Shengji Wu, and Shuhong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 044501 (2022) - Published 26 January, 2022

Laser-induced cavitation bubbles provide a noninvasive way to lift millimeter-sized particles from an immersed surface.

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Density Depletion and Enhanced Fluctuations in Water near Hydrophobic Solutes: Identifying the Underlying Physics

Mary K. Coe, Robert Evans, and Nigel B. Wilding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 045501 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Treating curvature as an effective scaling field, a scaling argument can be used to understand density depletion and enhanced density fluctuations in water near a hydrophobic solute.

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Design Principles for High-Temperature Superconductors with a Hydrogen-Based Alloy Backbone at Moderate Pressure

Zihan Zhang, Tian Cui, Michael J. Hutcheon, Alice M. Shipley, Hao Song, Mingyang Du, Vladimir Z. Kresin, Defang Duan, Chris J. Pickard, and Yansun Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 047001 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022

A proposed roadmap for designing and growing high-temperature superhydride superconductors requires only moderate pressures.

LETTERS

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

Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases with Time-Dependent Interactions: Consequence of Conformal Symmetry

Jeff Maki, Shizhong Zhang, and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040401 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

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Testing Real Quantum Theory in an Optical Quantum Network

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040402 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Studies demonstrate that a formulation of quantum mechanics involving complex rather than real numbers is necessary to reproduce experimental results.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ruling Out Real-Valued Standard Formalism of Quantum Theory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040403 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Studies demonstrate that a formulation of quantum mechanics involving complex rather than real numbers is necessary to reproduce experimental results.

Experimental Shot-by-Shot Estimation of Quantum Measurement Confidence

Ivan A. Burenkov, N. Fajar R. Annafianto, M. V. Jabir, Michael Wayne, Abdella Battou, and Sergey V. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040404 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Operational Theories in Phase Space: Toy Model for the Harmonic Oscillator

Martin Plávala and Matthias Kleinmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040405 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Entanglement of Formation of Mixed Many-Body Quantum States via Tree Tensor Operators

L. Arceci, P. Silvi, and S. Montangero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040501 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Bath-Induced Correlations Enhance Thermometry Precision at Low Temperatures

Guim Planella, Marina F. B. Cenni, Antonio Acín, and Mohammad Mehboudi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040502 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Heisenberg-Limited Metrology via Weak-Value Amplification without Using Entangled Resources

Yosep Kim, Seung-Yeun Yoo, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040503 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Multiple-Phase Quantum Interferometry: Real and Apparent Gains of Measuring All the Phases Simultaneously

Wojciech Górecki and Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040504 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

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Run with the Brownian Hare, Hunt with the Deterministic Hounds

Davide Bernardi and Benjamin Lindner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040601 (2022) - Published 26 January, 2022

Researchers explore the effects of random motion in a pursuit problem in which hounds chase a hare.

Experimental Verification of the Work Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation for Information-to-Work Conversion

David Barker, Matteo Scandi, Sebastian Lehmann, Claes Thelander, Kimberly A. Dick, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, and Ville F. Maisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040602 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Nonequilibrium Dark Space Phase Transition

Federico Carollo and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 040603 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring the Galactic Binary Fluxes with LISA: Metamorphoses and Disappearances of White Dwarf Binaries

Naoki Seto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041101 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Ghosts without Runaway Instabilities

Cédric Deffayet, Shinji Mukohyama, and Alexander Vikman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041301 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Solving Conformal Field Theories with Artificial Intelligence

Gergely Kántor, Constantinos Papageorgakis, and Vasilis Niarchos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041601 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Machine learning is shown to provide a road to solving conformal field theories by efficiently exploiting numerical bootstrap methods.

Identifying Riemannian Singularities with Regular Non-Riemannian Geometry

Kevin Morand, Jeong-Hyuck Park, and Miok Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041602 (2022) - Published 26 January, 2022

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Analysis of Neutral $B$ -Meson Decays into Two Muons

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 041801 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

A new analysis of Large Hadron Collider data measures rare decays of the $B$ meson that behave according to the standard model.

Nuclear Physics

Constraining the Nucleon Size with Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Giuliano Giacalone, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 042301 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Radiative Capture on Nuclear Isomers: Direct Measurement of the ${}^{26 m}{Al} (p, γ) {}^{27}{Si}$ Reaction

G. Lotay, A. Lennarz, C. Ruiz, C. Akers, A. A. Chen, G. Christian, D. Connolly, B. Davids, T. Davinson, J. Fallis, D. A. Hutcheon, P. Machule, L. Martin, D. J. Mountford, and A. St. J. Murphy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 042701 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ground-State $g$ Factor of Highly Charged ${}^{229}{Th}$ Ions: An Access to the M1 Transition Probability between the Isomeric and Ground Nuclear States

V. M. Shabaev, D. A. Glazov, A. M. Ryzhkov, C. Brandau, G. Plunien, W. Quint, A. M. Volchkova, and D. V. Zinenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 043001 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Experimental Control of Quantum-Mechanical Entanglement in an Attosecond Pump-Probe Experiment

Lisa-Marie Koll, Laura Maikowski, Lorenz Drescher, Tobias Witting, and Marc J. J. Vrakking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 043201 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Ab Initio Prediction of a Negative Barkas Coefficient for Slow Protons and Antiprotons in LiF

Xixi Qi, Fabien Bruneval, and Ivan Maliyov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 043401 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Topological Quantum Critical Points in the Extended Bose-Hubbard Model

Joana Fraxanet, Daniel González-Cuadra, Tilman Pfau, Maciej Lewenstein, Tim Langen, and Luca Barbiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 043402 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Particulate Projectiles Driven by Cavitation Bubbles

Zibo Ren, Zhigang Zuo, Shengji Wu, and Shuhong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 044501 (2022) - Published 26 January, 2022

Laser-induced cavitation bubbles provide a noninvasive way to lift millimeter-sized particles from an immersed surface.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Anomalous Convective Flows Carve Pinnacles and Scallops in Melting Ice

Scott Weady, Joshua Tong, Alexandra Zidovska, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 044502 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022

Experiments reveal that the shape of submerged, melting ice depends on temperature, suggesting that natural ice structures can provide clues about water temperatures.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Prediction of a Supersolid Phase in High-Pressure Deuterium

Chang Woo Myung, Barak Hirshberg, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 045301 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

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Density Depletion and Enhanced Fluctuations in Water near Hydrophobic Solutes: Identifying the Underlying Physics

Mary K. Coe, Robert Evans, and Nigel B. Wilding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 045501 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Treating curvature as an effective scaling field, a scaling argument can be used to understand density depletion and enhanced density fluctuations in water near a hydrophobic solute.

Raman Linewidth Contributions from Four-Phonon and Electron-Phonon Interactions in Graphene

Zherui Han, Xiaolong Yang, Sean E. Sullivan, Tianli Feng, Li Shi, Wu Li, and Xiulin Ruan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 045901 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Circular Dichroism of Emergent Chiral Stacking Orders in Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge Density Waves

Sun-Woo Kim, Hyun-Jung Kim, Sangmo Cheon, and Tae-Hwan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 046401 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Signatures of Andreev Blockade in a Double Quantum Dot Coupled to a Superconductor

Po Zhang, Hao Wu, Jun Chen, Sabbir A. Khan, Peter Krogstrup, David Pekker, and Sergey M. Frolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 046801 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

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Design Principles for High-Temperature Superconductors with a Hydrogen-Based Alloy Backbone at Moderate Pressure

Zihan Zhang, Tian Cui, Michael J. Hutcheon, Alice M. Shipley, Hao Song, Mingyang Du, Vladimir Z. Kresin, Defang Duan, Chris J. Pickard, and Yansun Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 047001 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022

A proposed roadmap for designing and growing high-temperature superhydride superconductors requires only moderate pressures.

High-Harmonic Generation Approaching the Quantum Critical Point of Strongly Correlated Systems

Can Shao, Hantao Lu, Xiao Zhang, Chao Yu, Takami Tohyama, and Ruifeng Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 047401 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Intervalley Excitonic Hybridization, Optical Selection Rules, and Imperfect Circular Dichroism in Monolayer $h − BN$

Fang Zhang, Chin Shen Ong, Jia Wei Ruan, Meng Wu, Xing Qiang Shi, Zi Kang Tang, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 047402 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Thermoelectric Polarization Transport in Ferroelectric Ballistic Point Contacts

Ping Tang, Ryo Iguchi, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 047601 (2022) - Published 25 January, 2022

Coherent Coupling of Two Remote Magnonic Resonators Mediated by Superconducting Circuits

Yi Li, Volodymyr G. Yefremenko, Marharyta Lisovenko, Cody Trevillian, Tomas Polakovic, Thomas W. Cecil, Peter S. Barry, John Pearson, Ralu Divan, Vasyl Tyberkevych, Clarence L. Chang, Ulrich Welp, Wai-Kwong Kwok, and Valentine Novosad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 047701 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

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

Active Extensile Stress Promotes 3D Director Orientations and Flows

Mehrana R. Nejad and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048001 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

When Soft Crystals Defy Newton’s Third Law: Nonreciprocal Mechanics and Dislocation Motility

Alexis Poncet and Denis Bartolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048002 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

Quantization of Acoustic Modes in Dumbbell Nanoparticles

Zuyuan Wang, Hojin Kim, Maria Secchi, Maurizio Montagna, Eric M. Furst, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, and George Fytas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048003 (2022) - Published 26 January, 2022

Ising-like Critical Behavior of Vortex Lattices in an Active Fluid

Henning Reinken, Sebastian Heidenreich, Markus Bär, and Sabine H. L. Klapp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048004 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

Exact Distribution of Threshold Crossing Times for Protein Concentrations: Implication for Biological Timekeeping

Krishna Rijal, Ashok Prasad, Abhyudai Singh, and Dibyendu Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048101 (2022) - Published 24 January, 2022

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Lizard Skin Patterns and the Ising Model

Szabolcs Zakany, Stanislav Smirnov, and Michel C. Milinkovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048102 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

The pattern of green and black scales on an ocellated lizard can be described with the two-parameter Ising model for antiferromagnetic systems.

Active Regulation of Pressure and Volume Defines an Energetic Constraint on the Size of Cell Aggregates

M. S. Yousafzai, V. Yadav, S. Amiri, Y. Errami, S. Amiri, and M. Murrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 048103 (2022) - Published 28 January, 2022

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 049901 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 049902 (2022) - Published 27 January, 2022