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Volume 128, Issue 7

18 February 2022
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Three-dimensional kinetic simulation of the onset of relativistic wave turbulence in the collision of two magnetic shear waves. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Heating of Magnetically Dominated Plasma by Alfvén-Wave Turbulence
Joonas Nättilä and Andrei M. Beloborodov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075101 (2022)

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The quantized conductance of a two-dimensional electron gas can reflect its Fermi surface topology.

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Heating of Magnetically Dominated Plasma by Alfvén-Wave Turbulence

Joonas Nättilä and Andrei M. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075101 (2022) - Published 14 February, 2022

Predictions indicate that it should be possible to directly identify how turbulence heats a given black hole’s plasma from the spectrum of that plasma’s radiation.

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Collective Radiative Dynamics of an Ensemble of Cold Atoms Coupled to an Optical Waveguide

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 073601 (2022) - Published 16 February, 2022

An ensemble of cold atoms is coherently coupled in a controlled way to a tapered optical fiber, demonstrating collective effects in this system.

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Chaotic Diffusion in Delay Systems: Giant Enhancement by Time Lag Modulation

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Laminar chaotic diffusion is found in systems with delayed nonlinearity, accompanied by a reduction of the effective dimensionality.

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Unexpected Upper Critical Dimension for Spin Glass Models in a Field Predicted by the Loop Expansion around the Bethe Solution at Zero Temperature

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075702 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Using finite connectivity and null temperature, the upper critical dimension of a spin glass in an external field is show to be 8, different from the conventional estimate (6) yielded by classical theory.

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Emergent Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Phase in Quadratically Driven Condensates

Oriana K. Diessel, Sebastian Diehl, and Alessio Chiocchetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070401 (2022) - Published 16 February, 2022

Distinguishing between Quantum and Classical Markovian Dephasing Dissipation

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070402 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

Reformulation of the No-Free-Lunch Theorem for Entangled Datasets

Kunal Sharma, M. Cerezo, Zoë Holmes, Lukasz Cincio, Andrew Sornborger, and Patrick J. Coles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070501 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Nonequilibrium Control of Thermal and Mechanical Changes in a Levitated System

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070601 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022

Four-Dimensional Scaling of Dipole Polarizability in Quantum Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070602 (2022) - Published 16 February, 2022

Open Quantum System Simulation of Faraday’s Induction Law via Dynamical Instabilities

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070603 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

Dynamics of Information Erasure and Extension of Landauer’s Bound to Fast Processes

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070604 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

Connecting Scrambling and Work Statistics for Short-Range Interactions in the Harmonic Oscillator

M. Mikkelsen, T. Fogarty, and Th. Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 070605 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Does Charge Matter in High-Energy Collisions of Black Holes?

Gabriele Bozzola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 071101 (2022) - Published 14 February, 2022

No Evidence for Axions from Chandra Observation of the Magnetic White Dwarf RE J0317-853

Christopher Dessert, Andrew J. Long, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 071102 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Late Time Correlations in Hydrodynamics: Beyond Constitutive Relations

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 071601 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Precise Measurement of Differential Cross Sections of the Σ−p→Λn Reaction in Momentum Range 470–650  MeV/c

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 072501 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022

Ab Initio Structure Factors for Spin-Dependent Dark Matter Direct Detection

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 072502 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

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Precision Determination of Isotope Shifts in Ytterbium and Implications for New Physics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 073001 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

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Nonlocal Scatterer for Compact Wave-Based Analog Computing

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 073201 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Predictions indicate that a nanometer-sized wave-based computer could solve equations in a fraction of the time of their larger, electronic counterparts.

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Collective Radiative Dynamics of an Ensemble of Cold Atoms Coupled to an Optical Waveguide

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 073601 (2022) - Published 16 February, 2022

An ensemble of cold atoms is coherently coupled in a controlled way to a tapered optical fiber, demonstrating collective effects in this system.

Perfect Chirality with Imperfect Polarization

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Floquet Engineering Hz-Level Rabi Spectra in Shallow Optical Lattice Clock

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Extract the Degradation Information in Squeezed States with Machine Learning

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Chaotic Diffusion in Delay Systems: Giant Enhancement by Time Lag Modulation

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Laminar chaotic diffusion is found in systems with delayed nonlinearity, accompanied by a reduction of the effective dimensionality.

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Heating of Magnetically Dominated Plasma by Alfvén-Wave Turbulence

Joonas Nättilä and Andrei M. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075101 (2022) - Published 14 February, 2022

Predictions indicate that it should be possible to directly identify how turbulence heats a given black hole’s plasma from the spectrum of that plasma’s radiation.

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Surface Diffusion Is Controlled by Bulk Fragility across All Glass Types

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075501 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Simple Method of Including Density Variation in Quantitative Continuum Phase-Change Models

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075702 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Using finite connectivity and null temperature, the upper critical dimension of a spin glass in an external field is show to be 8, different from the conventional estimate (6) yielded by classical theory.

Magnetic Control of Soft Chiral Phonons in PbTe

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Anomalous Thermal Expansion in Ising-like Puckered Sheets

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 075902 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

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The quantized conductance of a two-dimensional electron gas can reflect its Fermi surface topology.

Universal Conductance Scaling of Andreev Reflections Using a Dissipative Probe

Donghao Liu, Gu Zhang, Zhan Cao, Hao Zhang, and Dong E. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 076802 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Suppressing Andreev Bound State Zero Bias Peaks Using a Strongly Dissipative Lead

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Pressure-Induced Dimensional Crossover in a Kagome Superconductor

Fanghang Yu, Xudong Zhu, Xikai Wen, Zhigang Gui, Zeyu Li, Yulei Han, Tao Wu, Zhenyu Wang, Ziji Xiang, Zhenhua Qiao, Jianjun Ying, and Xianhui Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 077001 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

Spin Elastodynamic Motive Force

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 077201 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Observation of Magnetic Helicoidal Dichroism with Extreme Ultraviolet Light Vortices

Mauro Fanciulli, Matteo Pancaldi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Mekha Vimal, David Bresteau, Martin Luttmann, Dario De Angelis, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Benedikt Rösner, Christian David, Carlo Spezzani, Michele Manfredda, Ricardo Sousa, Ioan-Lucian Prejbeanu, Laurent Vila, Bernard Dieny, Giovanni De Ninno, Flavio Capotondi, Maurizio Sacchi, and Thierry Ruchon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 077401 (2022) - Published 16 February, 2022

Persistent Room-Temperature Photodarkening in Cu-Doped β−Ga2O3

J. Jesenovec, C. Pansegrau, M. D. McCluskey, J. S. McCloy, T. D. Gustafson, L. E. Halliburton, and J. B. Varley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 077402 (2022) - Published 16 February, 2022

Electronic, Structural, and Mechanical Properties of SiO2 Glass at High Pressure Inferred from its Refractive Index

Sergey S. Lobanov, Sergio Speziale, Björn Winkler, Victor Milman, Keith Refson, and Lukas Schifferle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 077403 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

Unusual Properties of Hydrogen-Bonded Ferroelectrics: The Case of Cobalt Formate

P. S. Ghosh, D. DeTellem, J. Ren, S. Witanachchi, S. Ma, S. Lisenkov, and I. Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 077601 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

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

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Polar Fluctuations Lead to Extensile Nematic Behavior in Confluent Tissues

Andrew Killeen, Thibault Bertrand, and Chiu Fan Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 078001 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022

Cell-substrate interactions explain a difference in behavior between individual cells and tissues on a surface.

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Twist-Controlled Force Amplification and Spinning Tension Transition in Yarn

Antoine Seguin and Jérôme Crassous

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 078002 (2022) - Published 18 February, 2022

Experiments unravel the mysterious twisting process by which short fibers bind together into yarn.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Outbreak Size Distribution in Stochastic Epidemic Models

Jason Hindes, Michael Assaf, and Ira B. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 078301 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022

An analytical approach to stochastic epidemic models shows that the statistics of extreme outbreaks depend on an infinite number of minimum-action paths, and that extreme outbreaks define a new class of rare processes for discrete-state stochastic systems.

Subdiffusive Activity Spreading in the Diffusive Epidemic Process

Borislav Polovnikov, Patrick Wilke, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 078302 (2022) - Published 15 February, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Accuracy of the Quantum Regression Theorem for Photon Emission from a Quantum Dot [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 100402 (2021)]

M. Cosacchi, T. Seidelmann, M. Cygorek, A. Vagov, D. E. Reiter, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 079901 (2022) - Published 17 February, 2022

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