Volume 129, Issue 1

1 July 2022

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A 1 nm slit between a pair of identical high-gain semiconductor nanowires supports extreme optical field confinement.

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Photonic Nanolaser with Extreme Optical Field Confinement
Hao Wu, Liu Yang, Peizhen Xu, Jue Gong, Xin Guo, Pan Wang, and Limin Tong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013902 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New Constraint on the Local Relic Neutrino Background Overdensity with the First KATRIN Data Runs

M. Aker et al. (KATRIN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011806 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Using radioactive tritium, scientists improve laboratory constraints on the “overdensity” signal of cosmic relic neutrinos by a factor of 100, an advance that should improve the chances of spotting this elusive particle.

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Position Measurement of a Levitated Nanoparticle via Interference with Its Mirror Image

Lorenzo Dania, Katharina Heidegger, Dmitry S. Bykov, Giovanni Cerchiari, Gabriel Araneda, and Tracy E. Northup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013601 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

A scattered laser beam’s interaction with itself creates a motion-detection method precise enough to determine whether a trapped particle is in its ground state.

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Membraneless Phonon Trapping and Resolution Enhancement in Optical Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors

Nicholas Zobrist, W. Hawkins Clay, Grégoire Coiffard, Miguel Daal, Noah Swimmer, Peter Day, and Benjamin A. Mazin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017701 (2022) - Published 1 July, 2022

An updated photon detector has a simpler design and higher resolving power than similar devices, opening the way for its use in detecting exoplanets.

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Understanding the Fragile-to-Strong Transition in Silica from Microscopic Dynamics

Zheng Yu, Dane Morgan, M. D. Ediger, and Bu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 018003 (2022) - Published 30 June, 2022

The quirky temperature dependence of liquid silica’s viscosity comes from the liquid equivalent of crystal defects, according to new simulations.

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Fluxonium: An Alternative Qubit Platform for High-Fidelity Operations

Feng Bao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 010502 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

A fluxonium processor with fast-frequency tunability and individual controls implements high-fidelity single-qubit and two-qubits gates.

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Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale $ν_{μ}$ Disappearance at IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011804 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

World-leading constraints are placed on nonstandard neutrino interactions using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data.

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Vibronic Coupling through the Continuum in the $e + {CO}_{2}$ System

Jan Dvořák, Miloš Ranković, Karel Houfek, Pamir Nag, Roman Čurík, Juraj Fedor, and Martin Čížek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013401 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

High-resolution spectra of electron loss in CO $_{2}$ reveal non-Born–Oppenheimer dynamics in the nuclear motion produced by vibrational coupling.

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Magic Gap Ratio for Optimally Robust Fermionic Condensation and Its Implications for $High − T_{c}$ Superconductivity

N. Harrison and M. K. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017001 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Specific heat measurements show the existence of a crossover between the superconducting pairing state (Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer) and a lower temperature superfluid condensate state (Bose-Einstein Condensate) in high-temperature cuprate superconductors.

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Control of Néel Vector with Spin-Orbit Torques in an Antiferromagnetic Insulator with Tilted Easy Plane

Pengxiang Zhang, Chung-Tao Chou, Hwanhui Yun, Brooke C. McGoldrick, Justin T. Hou, K. Andre Mkhoyan, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017203 (2022) - Published 1 July, 2022

Efficient manipulation of the Néel vector in antiferromagnets with spin torque has been demonstrated using a new configuration of both material and device.

LETTERS

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

Redundantly Amplified Information Suppresses Quantum Correlations in Many-Body Systems

Davide Girolami, Akram Touil, Bin Yan, Sebastian Deffner, and Wojciech H. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 010401 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Complete Physical Characterization of Quantum Nondemolition Measurements via Tomography

L. Pereira, J. J. García-Ripoll, and T. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 010402 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Demonstration of Entanglement-Enhanced Covert Sensing

Shuhong Hao, Haowei Shi, Christos N. Gagatsos, Mayank Mishra, Boulat Bash, Ivan Djordjevic, Saikat Guha, Quntao Zhuang, and Zheshen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 010501 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

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Fluxonium: An Alternative Qubit Platform for High-Fidelity Operations

Feng Bao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 010502 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

A fluxonium processor with fast-frequency tunability and individual controls implements high-fidelity single-qubit and two-qubits gates.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining Heavy Axionlike Particles by Energy Deposition in Globular Cluster Stars

Giuseppe Lucente, Oscar Straniero, Pierluca Carenza, Maurizio Giannotti, and Alessandro Mirizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011101 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Thermalization of Gauge Theories from their Entanglement Spectrum

Niklas Mueller, Torsten V. Zache, and Robert Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011601 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Shear Flows in Far-from-Equilibrium Strongly Coupled Fluids

Matteo Baggioli, Li Li, and Hao-Tian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011602 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Disordered Vector Models: From Higher Spins to Incipient Strings

Chi-Ming Chang, Sean Colin-Ellerin, Cheng Peng, and Mukund Rangamani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011603 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

First Search for Exclusive Diphoton Production at High Mass with Tagged Protons in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration^†, TOTEM Collaboration^‡)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011801 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Neutrino Propagation When Mass Eigenstates and Decay Eigenstates Mismatch

Dibya S. Chattopadhyay, Kaustav Chakraborty, Amol Dighe, Srubabati Goswami, and S. M. Lakshmi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011802 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe from Lepton Flavor Violation

Kyohei Mukaida, Kai Schmitz, and Masaki Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011803 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

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Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale $ν_{μ}$ Disappearance at IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011804 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

World-leading constraints are placed on nonstandard neutrino interactions using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data.

Unambiguously Testing Positivity at Lepton Colliders

Jiayin Gu, Lian-Tao Wang, and Cen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011805 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

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New Constraint on the Local Relic Neutrino Background Overdensity with the First KATRIN Data Runs

M. Aker et al. (KATRIN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011806 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Sensitivity of Parity-Violating Electron Scattering to a Dark Photon

A. W. Thomas, X. G. Wang, and A. G. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 011807 (2022) - Published 1 July, 2022

Definition of Local Spatial Densities in Hadrons

E. Epelbaum, J. Gegelia, N. Lange, U.-G. Meißner, and M. V. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 012001 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Towards a Global QCD Analysis of Fragmentation Functions at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Accuracy

Ignacio Borsa, Rodolfo Sassot, Daniel de Florian, Marco Stratmann, and Werner Vogelsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 012002 (2022) - Published 1 July, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Evidence of a Near-Threshold Resonance in ${}^{11}B$ Relevant to the $β$ -Delayed Proton Emission of ${}^{11}{Be}$

Y. Ayyad et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 012501 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Observation of a Near-Threshold Proton Resonance in ${}^{11}B$

E. Lopez-Saavedra, S. Almaraz-Calderon, B. W. Asher, L. T. Baby, N. Gerken, K. Hanselman, K. W. Kemper, A. N. Kuchera, A. B. Morelock, J. F. Perello, E. S. Temanson, A. Volya, and I. Wiedenhöver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 012502 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Vibronic Coupling through the Continuum in the $e + {CO}_{2}$ System

Jan Dvořák, Miloš Ranković, Karel Houfek, Pamir Nag, Roman Čurík, Juraj Fedor, and Martin Čížek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013401 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

High-resolution spectra of electron loss in CO $_{2}$ reveal non-Born–Oppenheimer dynamics in the nuclear motion produced by vibrational coupling.

Channel Selection of Ultracold Atom-Molecule Scattering in Dynamic Magnetic Fields

Hanwei Yang, Zunqi Li, Songbin Zhang, John L. Bohn, Lushuai Cao, Shutao Zhang, Gaoren Wang, Haitan Xu, and Zheng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013402 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

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Position Measurement of a Levitated Nanoparticle via Interference with Its Mirror Image

Lorenzo Dania, Katharina Heidegger, Dmitry S. Bykov, Giovanni Cerchiari, Gabriel Araneda, and Tracy E. Northup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013601 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

A scattered laser beam’s interaction with itself creates a motion-detection method precise enough to determine whether a trapped particle is in its ground state.

Quantum Non-Gaussianity of Multiphonon States of a Single Atom

L. Podhora, L. Lachman, T. Pham, A. Lešundák, O. Číp, L. Slodička, and R. Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013602 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Exceptional Precision of a Nonlinear Optical Sensor at a Square-Root Singularity

K. J. H. Peters and S. R. K. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013901 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Photonic Nanolaser with Extreme Optical Field Confinement

Hao Wu, Liu Yang, Peizhen Xu, Jue Gong, Xin Guo, Pan Wang, and Limin Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013902 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Anomalous Single-Mode Lasing Induced by Nonlinearity and the Non-Hermitian Skin Effect

Bofeng Zhu, Qiang Wang, Daniel Leykam, Haoran Xue, Qi Jie Wang, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 013903 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Emergence and Ordering of Polygonal Breathers in Polariton Condensates

Samuel N. Alperin and Natalia G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 015301 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Evidence for Dissociation and Ionization in Shock Compressed Nitrogen to 800 GPa

Yong-Jae Kim, Burkhard Militzer, Brian Boates, Stanimir Bonev, Peter M. Celliers, Gilbert W. Collins, Kevin P. Driver, Dayne E. Fratanduono, Sebastien Hamel, Raymond Jeanloz, J. Ryan Rygg, Damian C. Swift, Jon H. Eggert, and Marius Millot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 015701 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Novel Valence Transition in Elemental Metal Europium around 80 GPa

Bijuan Chen, Mingfeng Tian, Jurong Zhang, Bing Li, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Hongshan Deng, Jianbo Zhang, Raimundas Sereika, Xia Yin, Dong Wang, Xinguo Hong, Changqing Jin, Yan Bi, Hanyu Liu, Haifeng Liu, Jun Li, Ke Jin, Qiang Wu, Jun Chang, Yang Ding, and Ho-kwang Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 016401 (2022) - Published 27 June, 2022

Mott versus Hybridization Gap in the Low-Temperature Phase of $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$

Francesco Petocchi, Christopher W. Nicholson, Bjoern Salzmann, Diego Pasquier, Oleg V. Yazyev, Claude Monney, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 016402 (2022) - Published 30 June, 2022

Geometric Induction in Chiral Superfluids

Qing-Dong Jiang and A. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 016801 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

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Magic Gap Ratio for Optimally Robust Fermionic Condensation and Its Implications for $High − T_{c}$ Superconductivity

N. Harrison and M. K. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017001 (2022) - Published 29 June, 2022

Low-Energy Excitations of Skyrmion Crystals in a Centrosymmetric Kondo-Lattice Magnet: Decoupled Spin-Charge Excitations and Nonreciprocity

Rintaro Eto, Rico Pohle, and Masahito Mochizuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017201 (2022) - Published 28 June, 2022

Fractionalization on the Surface: Is Type-II Terminated $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ Surface an Anomalously Realized Spin Liquid?

Chao-Kai Li, Xu-Ping Yao, Jianpeng Liu, and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017202 (2022) - Published 30 June, 2022

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Control of Néel Vector with Spin-Orbit Torques in an Antiferromagnetic Insulator with Tilted Easy Plane

Pengxiang Zhang, Chung-Tao Chou, Hwanhui Yun, Brooke C. McGoldrick, Justin T. Hou, K. Andre Mkhoyan, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 017203 (2022) - Published 1 July, 2022

Efficient manipulation of the Néel vector in antiferromagnets with spin torque has been demonstrated using a new configuration of both material and device.