Volume 128, Issue 8

25 February 2022

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On the Cover

Supercapacitor with undulating graphene layers as electrodes, induced charges shown in red (positive) and blue (negative). The yellow and orange particles are cations, the green particles are anions.

From the article:

Elucidating Curvature-Capacitance Relationships in Carbon-Based Supercapacitors
Jannes Seebeck, Céline Merlet, and Robert H. Meißner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 086001 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Thirty-six Entangled Officers of Euler: Quantum Solution to a Classically Impossible Problem

Suhail Ahmad Rather, Adam Burchardt, Wojciech Bruzda, Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć, Arul Lakshminarayan, and Karol Życzkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080507 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

A mathematical problem with no classical solution turns out to be solvable using quantum rules.

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Superresolution Microscopy of Optical Fields Using Tweezer-Trapped Single Atoms

Emma Deist, Justin A. Gerber, Yue-Hui Lu, Johannes Zeiher, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083201 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

A one-dimensional array of atoms has been used to make superresolution measurements of the electromagnetic field distribution within an optical cavity.

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Defect-Free Arbitrary-Geometry Assembly of Mixed-Species Atom Arrays

Cheng Sheng, Jiayi Hou, Xiaodong He, Kunpeng Wang, Ruijun Guo, Jun Zhuang, Bahtiyar Mamat, Peng Xu, Min Liu, Jin Wang, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083202 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Two research teams have created arrays containing two different neutral atoms, a promising platform for quantum computing.

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Inverse Renormalization Group in Quantum Field Theory

Dimitrios Bachtis, Gert Aarts, Francesco Di Renzo, and Biagio Lucini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081603 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Machine learning tools are applied to demonstrate the invertibility of renormalization group transformations for a quantum field theory.

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Superfluid Weight Bounds from Symmetry and Quantum Geometry in Flat Bands

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Valerio Peri, Frank Schindler, Sebastian D. Huber, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 087002 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Superconductivity in materials with flat bands is guaranteed in the presence of local quantum entanglement.

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Metallic and Deconfined Quantum Criticality in Dirac Systems

Zi Hong Liu, Matthias Vojta, Fakher F. Assaad, and Lukas Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 087201 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a bilayer honeycomb lattice identify a new candidate for a deconfined quantum critical point in interacting Dirac fermions.

LETTERS

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

Emergence of Constructor-Based Irreversibility in Quantum Systems: Theory and Experiment

Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral, Laura T. Knoll, Fabrizio Piacentini, Ettore Bernardi, Enrico Rebufello, Alessio Avella, Marco Gramegna, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, and Marco Genovese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080401 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Quantum-Memory-Enhanced Preparation of Nonlocal Graph States

Sheng Zhang, Yu-Kai Wu, Chang Li, Nan Jiang, Yun-Fei Pu, and Lu-Ming Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080501 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Resource-Efficient Dissipative Entanglement of Two Trapped-Ion Qubits

Daniel C. Cole, Stephen D. Erickson, Giorgio Zarantonello, Karl P. Horn, Pan-Yu Hou, Jenny J. Wu, Daniel H. Slichter, Florentin Reiter, Christiane P. Koch, and Dietrich Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080502 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Generation of a Maximally Entangled State Using Collective Optical Pumping

M. Malinowski, C. Zhang, V. Negnevitsky, I. Rojkov, F. Reiter, T.-L. Nguyen, M. Stadler, D. Kienzler, K. K. Mehta, and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080503 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Entanglement Purification and Protection in a Superconducting Quantum Network

Haoxiong Yan, Youpeng Zhong, Hung-Shen Chang, Audrey Bienfait, Ming-Han Chou, Christopher R. Conner, Étienne Dumur, Joel Grebel, Rhys G. Povey, and Andrew N. Cleland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080504 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Scalable Neural Decoder for Topological Surface Codes

Kai Meinerz, Chae-Yeun Park, and Simon Trebst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080505 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Efficient Measure for the Expressivity of Variational Quantum Algorithms

Yuxuan Du, Zhuozhuo Tu, Xiao Yuan, and Dacheng Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080506 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

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Thirty-six Entangled Officers of Euler: Quantum Solution to a Classically Impossible Problem

Suhail Ahmad Rather, Adam Burchardt, Wojciech Bruzda, Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć, Arul Lakshminarayan, and Karol Życzkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080507 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

A mathematical problem with no classical solution turns out to be solvable using quantum rules.

Spin Entanglement and Magnetic Competition via Long-Range Interactions in Spinor Quantum Optical Lattices

Karen Lozano-Méndez, Alejandro H. Cásares, and Santiago F. Caballero-Benítez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080601 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Coarse-Grained Entanglement and Operator Growth in Anomalous Dynamics

Zongping Gong, Adam Nahum, and Lorenzo Piroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080602 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Seeding Crystallization in Time

Michal Hajdušek, Parvinder Solanki, Rosario Fazio, and Sai Vinjanampathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 080603 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Supermassive Black Holes, Ultralight Dark Matter, and Gravitational Waves from a First Order Phase Transition

Hooman Davoudiasl, Peter B. Denton, and Julia Gehrlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081101 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Collective Neutrino Flavor Instability Requires a Crossing

Basudeb Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081102 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Dominance of Replica Off-Diagonal Configurations and Phase Transitions in a $P T$ Symmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Antonio M. García-García, Yiyang Jia (贾抑扬), Dario Rosa, and Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081601 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Does Complexity Equal Anything?

Alexandre Belin, Robert C. Myers, Shan-Ming Ruan, Gábor Sárosi, and Antony J. Speranza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081602 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

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Inverse Renormalization Group in Quantum Field Theory

Dimitrios Bachtis, Gert Aarts, Francesco Di Renzo, and Biagio Lucini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081603 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Machine learning tools are applied to demonstrate the invertibility of renormalization group transformations for a quantum field theory.

Joint Determination of Reactor Antineutrino Spectra from ${}^{235}U$ and ${}^{239}{Pu}$ Fission by Daya Bay and PROSPECT

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration["id", "col1"], PROSPECT Collaboration["id", "col2"])

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081801 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Joint Measurement of the ${}^{235}U$ Antineutrino Spectrum by PROSPECT and STEREO

H. Almazán et al. (PROSPECT Collaboration, STEREO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081802 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Measuring $C P$ Violating Phase in Beauty Baryon Decays

Rahul Sinha, Shibasis Roy, and N. G. Deshpande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081803 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Search for a Light Higgs Boson in Single-Photon Decays of $ϒ (1 S)$ Using $ϒ (2 S) \to π^{+} π^{-} ϒ (1 S)$ Tagging Method

S. Jia et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081804 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Measurement of the Inclusive and Differential Higgs Boson Production Cross Sections in the Decay Mode to a Pair of $τ$ Leptons in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081805 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Massive Gravitons as Feebly Interacting Dark Matter Candidates

Haiying Cai, Giacomo Cacciapaglia, and Seung J. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081806 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

$Z$ -Portal Continuum Dark Matter

Csaba Csáki, Sungwoo Hong, Gowri Kurup, Seung J. Lee, Maxim Perelstein, and Wei Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 081807 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Study of $Z$ Bosons Produced in Association with Charm in the Forward Region

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 082001 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Evidence of the Triaxial Structure of ${}^{129}{Xe}$ at the Large Hadron Collider

Benjamin Bally, Michael Bender, Giuliano Giacalone, and Vittorio Somà

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 082301 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Raman Interferometry between Autoionizing States to Probe Ultrafast Wave-Packet Dynamics with High Spectral Resolution

A. Plunkett, M. A. Alarcón, J. K. Wood, C. H. Greene, and A. Sandhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083001 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

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Superresolution Microscopy of Optical Fields Using Tweezer-Trapped Single Atoms

Emma Deist, Justin A. Gerber, Yue-Hui Lu, Johannes Zeiher, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083201 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

A one-dimensional array of atoms has been used to make superresolution measurements of the electromagnetic field distribution within an optical cavity.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Defect-Free Arbitrary-Geometry Assembly of Mixed-Species Atom Arrays

Cheng Sheng, Jiayi Hou, Xiaodong He, Kunpeng Wang, Ruijun Guo, Jun Zhuang, Bahtiyar Mamat, Peng Xu, Min Liu, Jin Wang, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083202 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Two research teams have created arrays containing two different neutral atoms, a promising platform for quantum computing.

Tunable Three-Body Interactions in Driven Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Hammond, L. Lavoine, and T. Bourdel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083401 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Observation of Nonclassical Correlations in Biphotons Generated from an Ensemble of Pure Two-Level Atoms

Michelle O. Araújo, Lucas S. Marinho, and Daniel Felinto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083601 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Non-Markovian Steady States of a Driven Two-Level System

Andreas Ask and Göran Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083603 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Quantum Squeezing Induced Optical Nonreciprocity

Lei Tang, Jiangshan Tang, Mingyuan Chen, Franco Nori, Min Xiao, and Keyu Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083604 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Quantum Interference between Photons and Single Quanta of Stored Atomic Coherence

Xingchang Wang, Jianmin Wang, Zhiqiang Ren, Rong Wen, Chang-Ling Zou, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and J. F. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083605 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Observation of Squeezed States of Light in Higher-Order Hermite-Gaussian Modes with a Quantum Noise Reduction of up to 10 dB

Joscha Heinze, Benno Willke, and Henning Vahlbruch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083606 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Conservative Solitons and Reversibility in Time Delayed Systems

T. G. Seidel, S. V. Gurevich, and J. Javaloyes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 083901 (2022) - Published 22 February, 2022

Bound States in the Continuum in Compact Acoustic Resonators

Ilya Deriy, Ivan Toftul, Mihail Petrov, and Andrey Bogdanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 084301 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Aspect Ratio Dependence of Heat Transfer in a Cylindrical Rayleigh-Bénard Cell

Guenter Ahlers, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Robert Hartmann, Xiaozhou He, Detlef Lohse, Philipp Reiter, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco, Marcel Wedi, Stephan Weiss, Xuan Zhang, Lukas Zwirner, and Olga Shishkina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 084501 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-Sustained Divertor Oscillation Driven by Magnetic Island Dynamics in Torus Plasma

T. Kobayashi, M. Kobayashi, Y. Narushima, Y. Suzuki, K. Y. Watanabe, K. Mukai, and Y. Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 085001 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Bohm Criterion of Plasma Sheaths away from Asymptotic Limits

Yuzhi Li, Bhuvana Srinivasan, Yanzeng Zhang, and Xian-Zhu Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 085002 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Experimental Evidence of Intrinsic Current Generation by Turbulence in Stationary Tokamak Plasmas

Erzhong Li et al. (EAST Team)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 085003 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Giant Isotope Effect of Thermal Conductivity in Silicon Nanowires

Penghong Ci, Muhua Sun, Meenakshi Upadhyaya, Houfu Song, Lei Jin, Bo Sun, Matthew R. Jones, Joel W. Ager, Zlatan Aksamija, and Junqiao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 085901 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Elucidating Curvature-Capacitance Relationships in Carbon-Based Supercapacitors

Jannes Seebeck, Céline Merlet, and Robert H. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 086001 (2022) - Published 24 February, 2022

Interpretation of the X-Ray Emission Spectra of Liquid Water through Temperature and Isotope Dependence

Osamu Takahashi, Ryosuke Yamamura, Takashi Tokushima, and Yoshihisa Harada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 086002 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Resilient Fermi Liquid and Strength of Correlations near an Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point

C. Gauvin-Ndiaye, M. Setrakian, and A.-M. S. Tremblay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 087001 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid Weight Bounds from Symmetry and Quantum Geometry in Flat Bands

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Valerio Peri, Frank Schindler, Sebastian D. Huber, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 087002 (2022) - Published 25 February, 2022

Superconductivity in materials with flat bands is guaranteed in the presence of local quantum entanglement.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Metallic and Deconfined Quantum Criticality in Dirac Systems

Zi Hong Liu, Matthias Vojta, Fakher F. Assaad, and Lukas Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 087201 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations on a bilayer honeycomb lattice identify a new candidate for a deconfined quantum critical point in interacting Dirac fermions.

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

Erythrocyte Sedimentation: Collapse of a High-Volume-Fraction Soft-Particle Gel

Alexis Darras, Anil Kumar Dasanna, Thomas John, Gerhard Gompper, Lars Kaestner, Dmitry A. Fedosov, and Christian Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 088101 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Thermodynamics of Correlated-Catalytic State Conversion at Small Scale [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150502 (2021)]

Naoto Shiraishi and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 089901 (2022) - Published 23 February, 2022