Volume 129, Issue 12

16 September 2022

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Fracture surfaces in a brittle hydrogel reveal step lines, a signature of heterogeneity.

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How Material Heterogeneity Creates Rough Fractures
Will Steinhardt and Shmuel M. Rubinstein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 128001 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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$M I C R O S C O P E$ Mission: Final Results of the Test of the Equivalence Principle

Pierre Touboul et al. (MICROSCOPE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121102 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

The MICROSCOPE satellite experiment has tested the equivalence principle with an unprecedented level of precision.

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Nanoscale Magnetism Probed in a Matter-Wave Interferometer

Yaakov Y. Fein, Sebastian Pedalino, Armin Shayeghi, Filip Kiałka, Stefan Gerlich, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123001 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

A matter-wave interferometer can probe the magnetism of a broad range of species, from single atoms to very large, weakly magnetic molecules.

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Two-Dimensional Programmable Tweezer Arrays of Fermions

Zoe Z. Yan, Benjamin M. Spar, Max L. Prichard, Sungjae Chi, Hao-Tian Wei, Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, and Waseem S. Bakr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123201 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

An optical tweezer with a stroboscopic twist can trap cold atoms in lattices of all shapes.

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Perturbative Quantum Simulation

Jinzhao Sun, Suguru Endo, Huiping Lin, Patrick Hayden, Vlatko Vedral, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120505 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

In this protocol, the main component of the Hamiltonian is simulated on a quantum computer, and classical perturbation theory is used to approximate interactions.

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Engineering Symmetry-Selective Couplings of a Superconducting Artificial Molecule to Microwave Waveguides

Mohammed Ali Aamir, Claudia Castillo Moreno, Simon Sundelin, Janka Biznárová, Marco Scigliuzzo, Kowshik Erappaji Patel, Amr Osman, D. P. Lozano, Ingrid Strandberg, and Simone Gasparinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123604 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Considering symmetry in waveguide couplings to transmon qubits, quasiselection rules are implemented in superconducting quantum optics.

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Anomalous Electromagnetic Tunneling in Bianisotropic $ϵ − μ$ -Zero Media

Menglin L. N. Chen, Yangang Bi, Hsun-Chi Chan, Zemeng Lin, Shaojie Ma, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123901 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

An unexplored form of tunneling for electromagnetic waves in a medium that exhibits both $ϵ - μ -$ zero and bianisotropy demonstrates opposite behaviors from the electric and magnetic fields.

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Eulerian vs Lagrangian Irreversibility in an Experimental Turbulent Swirling Flow

Adam Cheminet, Damien Geneste, Antoine Barlet, Yasar Ostovan, Tarek Chaabo, Valentina Valori, Paul Debue, Christophe Cuvier, François Daviaud, Jean-Marc Foucaut, Jean-Philippe Laval, Vincent Padilla, Cécile Wiertel-Gasquet, and Bérengère Dubrulle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 124501 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

High-resolution Eulerian and Lagrangian measurement in a turbulent facility is used to identify the flow dynamics responsible for the development of the observed time irreversibility.

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Observation of Dirac Hierarchy in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Topological Insulators

Linyun Yang, Yin Wang, Yan Meng, Zhenxiao Zhu, Xiang Xi, Bei Yan, Shuxin Lin, Jingming Chen, Bin-jie Shi, Yong Ge, Shou-qi Yuan, Hongsheng Chen, Hong-xiang Sun, Gui-Geng Liu, Yihao Yang, and Zhen Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 125502 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Acoustic measurements reveal the full hierarchy of Dirac cones and the corresponding hierarchy of band topology in 3D acoustic crystals.

LETTERS

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

Criticality and Phase Classification for Quadratic Open Quantum Many-Body Systems

Yikang Zhang and Thomas Barthel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120401 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Quantum Nondemolition Measurements of Moving Target States

Anton L. Andersen and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120402 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Uniqueness of Noncontextual Models for Stabilizer Subtheories

David Schmid, Haoxing Du, John H. Selby, and Matthew F. Pusey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120403 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Coherent and Dephasing Spectroscopy for Single-Impurity Probing of an Ultracold Bath

Daniel Adam, Quentin Bouton, Jens Nettersheim, Sabrina Burgardt, and Artur Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120404 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Hidden Phase of the Spin-Boson Model

Florian Otterpohl, Peter Nalbach, and Michael Thorwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120406 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Coherence as a Resource for Shor’s Algorithm

Felix Ahnefeld, Thomas Theurer, Dario Egloff, Juan Mauricio Matera, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120501 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Superradiance-Mediated Photon Storage for Broadband Quantum Memory

Anindya Rastogi, Erhan Saglamyurek, Taras Hrushevskyi, and Lindsay J. LeBlanc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120502 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Sequential Measurements for Quantum-Enhanced Magnetometry in Spin Chain Probes

Victor Montenegro, Gareth Siôn Jones, Sougato Bose, and Abolfazl Bayat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120503 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Adaptive Advantage in Entanglement-Assisted Communications

Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120504 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

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Perturbative Quantum Simulation

Jinzhao Sun, Suguru Endo, Huiping Lin, Patrick Hayden, Vlatko Vedral, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120505 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

In this protocol, the main component of the Hamiltonian is simulated on a quantum computer, and classical perturbation theory is used to approximate interactions.

Fundamental Limits on Correlated Catalytic State Transformations

Roberto Rubboli and Marco Tomamichel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120506 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Entanglement of Nambu Spinors and Bell Inequality Test without Beam Splitters

Wei Luo, Hao Geng, D. Y. Xing, G. Blatter, and Wei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120507 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Localization and Melting of Interfaces in the Two-Dimensional Quantum Ising Model

Federico Balducci, Andrea Gambassi, Alessio Lerose, Antonello Scardicchio, and Carlo Vanoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120601 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Maxwell Demon that Can Work at Macroscopic Scales

Nahuel Freitas and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120602 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Speed Limit for a Highly Irreversible Process and Tight Finite-Time Landauer’s Bound

Jae Sung Lee, Sangyun Lee, Hyukjoon Kwon, and Hyunggyu Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120603 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Field Theory of Charge Sharpening in Symmetric Monitored Quantum Circuits

Fergus Barratt, Utkarsh Agrawal, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, David A. Huse, Romain Vasseur, and Andrew C. Potter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120604 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Suppression of Interband Heating for Random Driving

Hongzheng Zhao, Johannes Knolle, Roderich Moessner, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120605 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Human-Scale Brownian Ratchet: A Historical Thought Experiment

M. Lagoin, C. Crauste-Thibierge, and A. Naert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 120606 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Bremsstrahlung with Tidal Effects in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion

Stavros Mougiakakos, Massimiliano Maria Riva, and Filippo Vernizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121101 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

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$M I C R O S C O P E$ Mission: Final Results of the Test of the Equivalence Principle

Pierre Touboul et al. (MICROSCOPE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121102 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

The MICROSCOPE satellite experiment has tested the equivalence principle with an unprecedented level of precision.

Squeezed States of Light for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors at a Wavelength of 1550 nm

Fabian Meylahn, Benno Willke, and Henning Vahlbruch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121103 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Gravitational Waves from Accretion-Induced Descalarization in Massive Scalar-Tensor Theory

Hao-Jui Kuan, Arthur G. Suvorov, Daniela D. Doneva, and Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121104 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Radiated Angular Momentum and Dissipative Effects in Classical Scattering

Aneesh V. Manohar, Alexander K. Ridgway, and Chia-Hsien Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121601 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Unitarity and Low Energy Expansion of the Coon Amplitude

Felipe Figueroa and Piotr Tourkine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121602 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Worldsheet Correlators in Black Hole Microstates

Davide Bufalini, Sergio Iguri, Nicolas Kovensky, and David Turton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121603 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Line Operators in Chern-Simons–Matter Theories and Bosonization in Three Dimensions

Barak Gabai, Amit Sever, and De-liang Zhong (钟德亮)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121604 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Pion-Induced Radiative Corrections to Neutron $β$ Decay

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Jordy de Vries, Leendert Hayen, Emanuele Mereghetti, and André Walker-Loud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121801 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Absolute $ν$ Mass Measurement with the DUNE Experiment

Federica Pompa, Francesco Capozzi, Olga Mena, and Michel Sorel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121802 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Correlating $W$ -Boson Mass Shift with Muon $g - 2$ in the Two Higgs Doublet Model

K. S. Babu, Sudip Jana, and Vishnu P. K.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 121803 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

First Observation of the Direct Production of the $χ_{c 1}$ in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 122001 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Structure of ${}^{36}{Ca}$ under the Coulomb Magnifying Glass

L. Lalanne et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 122501 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Nanoscale Magnetism Probed in a Matter-Wave Interferometer

Yaakov Y. Fein, Sebastian Pedalino, Armin Shayeghi, Filip Kiałka, Stefan Gerlich, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123001 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

A matter-wave interferometer can probe the magnetism of a broad range of species, from single atoms to very large, weakly magnetic molecules.

Electronic State Population Dynamics upon Ultrafast Strong Field Ionization and Fragmentation of Molecular Nitrogen

Carlo Kleine, Marc-Oliver Winghart, Zhuang-Yan Zhang, Maria Richter, Maria Ekimova, Sebastian Eckert, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Erik T. J. Nibbering, Arnaud Rouzée, and Edward R. Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123002 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

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Two-Dimensional Programmable Tweezer Arrays of Fermions

Zoe Z. Yan, Benjamin M. Spar, Max L. Prichard, Sungjae Chi, Hao-Tian Wei, Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, and Waseem S. Bakr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123201 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

An optical tweezer with a stroboscopic twist can trap cold atoms in lattices of all shapes.

Dynamically Induced Symmetry Breaking and Out-of-Equilibrium Topology in a 1D Quantum System

G. H. Reid, Mingwu Lu, A. R. Fritsch, A. M. Piñeiro, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123202 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Resonant Annihilation and Positron Bound States in Benzene

S. Ghosh, J. R. Danielson, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123401 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Mechanical Bistability in Kerr-modified Cavity Magnomechanics

Rui-Chang Shen, Jie Li, Zhi-Yuan Fan, Yi-Pu Wang, and J. Q. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123601 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Beating the 3 dB Limit for Intracavity Squeezing and Its Application to Nondemolition Qubit Readout

Wei Qin, Adam Miranowicz, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123602 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Floquet Control of Optomechanical Bistability in Multimode Systems

Karl Pelka, Guilhem Madiot, Rémy Braive, and André Xuereb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123603 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

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Engineering Symmetry-Selective Couplings of a Superconducting Artificial Molecule to Microwave Waveguides

Mohammed Ali Aamir, Claudia Castillo Moreno, Simon Sundelin, Janka Biznárová, Marco Scigliuzzo, Kowshik Erappaji Patel, Amr Osman, D. P. Lozano, Ingrid Strandberg, and Simone Gasparinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123604 (2022) - Published 15 September, 2022

Considering symmetry in waveguide couplings to transmon qubits, quasiselection rules are implemented in superconducting quantum optics.

Electro-Optic Fourier Transform Chronometry of Pulsed Quantum Light

Ali Golestani, Alex O. C. Davis, Filip Sośnicki, Michał Mikołajczyk, Nicolas Treps, and Michał Karpiński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123605 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Anomalous Electromagnetic Tunneling in Bianisotropic $ϵ − μ$ -Zero Media

Menglin L. N. Chen, Yangang Bi, Hsun-Chi Chan, Zemeng Lin, Shaojie Ma, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123901 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

An unexplored form of tunneling for electromagnetic waves in a medium that exhibits both $ϵ - μ -$ zero and bianisotropy demonstrates opposite behaviors from the electric and magnetic fields.

Impact of Surface Charge Depletion on the Free Electron Nonlinear Response of Heavily Doped Semiconductors

Federico De Luca and Cristian Ciracì

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123902 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Vortex Solitons in Twisted Circular Waveguide Arrays

Liangwei Dong, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner, and Albert Ferrando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123903 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

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Eulerian vs Lagrangian Irreversibility in an Experimental Turbulent Swirling Flow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 124501 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

High-resolution Eulerian and Lagrangian measurement in a turbulent facility is used to identify the flow dynamics responsible for the development of the observed time irreversibility.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Modulational Instability in the Strong Turbulent Regime for an Electron Beam Propagating in a Background Plasma

Haomin Sun, Jian Chen, Igor D. Kaganovich, Alexander Khrabrov, and Dmytro Sydorenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 125001 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Brillouin Spectroscopy of Metastable Superfluid Helium-4

Lionel Djadaojee and Jules Grucker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 125301 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Duality, Hidden Symmetry, and Dynamic Isomerism in 2D Hinge Structures

Qun-Li Lei, Feng Tang, Ji-Dong Hu, Yu-qiang Ma, and Ran Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 125501 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

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Observation of Dirac Hierarchy in Three-Dimensional Acoustic Topological Insulators

Linyun Yang, Yin Wang, Yan Meng, Zhenxiao Zhu, Xiang Xi, Bei Yan, Shuxin Lin, Jingming Chen, Bin-jie Shi, Yong Ge, Shou-qi Yuan, Hongsheng Chen, Hong-xiang Sun, Gui-Geng Liu, Yihao Yang, and Zhen Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 125502 (2022) - Published 16 September, 2022

Acoustic measurements reveal the full hierarchy of Dirac cones and the corresponding hierarchy of band topology in 3D acoustic crystals.

Skyrmion Echo in a System of Interacting Skyrmions

X.-G. Wang, Guang-hua Guo, A. Dyrdał, J. Barnaś, V. K. Dugaev, S. S. P. Parkin, A. Ernst, and L. Chotorlishvili

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 126101 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Many-Body Self-Interaction and Polarons

Stefano Falletta and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 126401 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

Thermal Evolution of Dirac Magnons in the Honeycomb Ferromagnet ${CrBr}_{3}$

S. E. Nikitin, B. Fåk, K. W. Krämer, T. Fennell, B. Normand, A. M. Läuchli, and Ch. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 127201 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Riemann-Encircling Exceptional Points for Efficient Asymmetric Polarization-Locked Devices

Aodong Li, Weijin Chen, Heng Wei, Guowei Lu, Andrea Alù, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Lin Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 127401 (2022) - Published 13 September, 2022

Ultrafast Suppression of the Ferroelectric Instability in ${KTaO}_{3}$

Viktor Krapivin, Mingqiang Gu, D. Hickox-Young, S. W. Teitelbaum, Y. Huang, G. de la Peña, D. Zhu, N. Sirica, M.-C. Lee, R. P. Prasankumar, A. A. Maznev, K. A. Nelson, M. Chollet, James M. Rondinelli, D. A. Reis, and M. Trigo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 127601 (2022) - Published 14 September, 2022

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Fermi Surface Reconstruction and Electron Dynamics at the Charge-Density-Wave Transition in ${TiSe}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 167602 (2020)]

Patrick Knowles, Bo Yang, Takaki Muramatsu, Owen Moulding, Jonathan Buhot, Charles Sayers, Enrico Da Como, and Sven Friedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 129901 (2022) - Published 12 September, 2022