Volume 129, Issue 13

23 September 2022

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Bright-field image of metal-coated Janus particles under laser illumination.

From the article:

Activity Induced Rigidity of Liquid Droplets
Kaili Xie, Benjamin Gorin, Rory T. Cerbus, Laura Alvarez, Jean-Michel Rampnoux, and Hamid Kellay
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 138001 (2022)

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Wave Packet Dynamics in Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields

Mehedi Hasan, Chetan Sriram Madasu, Ketan D. Rathod, Chang Chi Kwong, Christian Miniatura, Frédéric Chevy, and David Wilkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130402 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Researchers produce analogues of hard-to-study quantum phenomena in a gas of strontium atoms near absolute zero.

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Bayesian Information Engine that Optimally Exploits Noisy Measurements

Tushar K. Saha, Joseph N. E. Lucero, Jannik Ehrich, David A. Sivak, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130601 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

A “filtering” algorithm allows information engines to perform efficiently even when they are subjected to high noise.

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Self-Kerr Effect across the Yellow Rydberg Series of Excitons in ${Cu}_{2} O$

Corentin Morin, Jérôme Tignon, Juliette Mangeney, Sukhdeep Dhillon, Gerard Czajkowski, Karol Karpiński, Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska, David Ziemkiewicz, and Thomas Boulier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 137401 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated that a solid can exhibit an enhanced nonlinear optical phenomenon usually seen only in cold atomic gases.

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Changing Flows Balance Nutrient Absorption and Bacterial Growth along the Gut

Agnese Codutti, Jonas Cremer, and Karen Alim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 138101 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Fluid dynamics simulations suggest that the varying flow speed inside the small intestine maximizes nutrient absorption while minimizing excess bacteria.

LETTERS

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

Efficient Contextual Ontological Model of $n$ -Qubit Stabilizer Quantum Mechanics

Christoffer Hindlycke and Jan-Åke Larsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130401 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

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Wave Packet Dynamics in Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields

Mehedi Hasan, Chetan Sriram Madasu, Ketan D. Rathod, Chang Chi Kwong, Christian Miniatura, Frédéric Chevy, and David Wilkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130402 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Researchers produce analogues of hard-to-study quantum phenomena in a gas of strontium atoms near absolute zero.

High Fidelity State Preparation and Measurement of Ion Hyperfine Qubits with $I > \frac{1}{2}$

Fangzhao Alex An, Anthony Ransford, Andrew Schaffer, Lucas R. Sletten, John Gaebler, James Hostetter, and Grahame Vittorini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130501 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Passive Quantum Phase Gate for Photons Based on Three Level Emitters

Björn Schrinski, Miren Lamaison, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130502 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

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Bayesian Information Engine that Optimally Exploits Noisy Measurements

Tushar K. Saha, Joseph N. E. Lucero, Jannik Ehrich, David A. Sivak, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130601 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

A “filtering” algorithm allows information engines to perform efficiently even when they are subjected to high noise.

Entanglement, Coherence, and Extractable Work in Quantum Batteries

Hai-Long Shi, Shu Ding, Qing-Kun Wan, Xiao-Hui Wang, and Wen-Li Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130602 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Computing Free Energies with Fluctuation Relations on Quantum Computers

Lindsay Bassman Oftelie, Katherine Klymko, Diyi Liu, Norm M. Tubman, and Wibe A. de Jong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 130603 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Strongest Atomic Physics Bounds on Noncommutative Quantum Gravity Models

Kristian Piscicchia, Andrea Addazi, Antonino Marcianò, Massimiliano Bazzi, Michael Cargnelli, Alberto Clozza, Luca De Paolis, Raffaele Del Grande, Carlo Guaraldo, Mihail Antoniu Iliescu, Matthias Laubenstein, Johann Marton, Marco Miliucci, Fabrizio Napolitano, Alessio Porcelli, Alessandro Scordo, Diana Laura Sirghi, Florin Sirghi, Oton Vazquez Doce, Johann Zmeskal, and Catalina Curceanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 131301 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Searching for Chameleon Dark Energy with Mechanical Systems

J. Betz, J. Manley, E. M. Wright, D. Grin, and S. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 131302 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonperturbative Decoupling of Massive Fermions

Tobias Rindlisbacher, Kari Rummukainen, Ahmed Salami, and Kimmo Tuominen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 131601 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Precise Measurements of Decay Parameters and $C P$ Asymmetry with Entangled $Λ − \bar{Λ}$ Pairs

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 131801 (2022) - Published 22 September, 2022

Pion and Kaon Distribution Amplitudes from Lattice QCD

Jun Hua, Min-Huan Chu, Fang-Cheng He, Jin-Chen He, Xiangdong Ji, Andreas Schäfer, Yushan Su, Peng Sun, Wei Wang, Ji Xu, Yi-Bo Yang, Fei Yao, Jian-Hui Zhang, and Qi-An Zhang (Lattice Parton Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 132001 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Charge Radii of ${}^{55, 56}{Ni}$ Reveal a Surprisingly Similar Behavior at $N = 28$ in Ca and Ni Isotopes

Felix Sommer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 132501 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Deep Underground Laboratory Measurement of ${}^{13}C (α, n) {}^{16}O$ in the Gamow Windows of the $s$ and $i$ Processes

B. Gao et al. (JUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 132701 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Discrete Time Crystals Enforced by Floquet-Bloch Scars

Biao Huang, Tsz-Him Leung, Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 133001 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Two-Center Interference in the Photoionization Delays of ${Kr}_{2}$

Saijoscha Heck, Meng Han, Denis Jelovina, Jia-Bao Ji, Conaill Perry, Xiaochun Gong, Robert Lucchese, Kiyoshi Ueda, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 133002 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Variational Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Process Tomography with Arbitrary Ancillary Qubits

Shichuan Xue, Yizhi Wang, Junwei Zhan, Yaxuan Wang, Ru Zeng, Jiangfang Ding, Weixu Shi, Yong Liu, Yingwen Liu, Anqi Huang, Guangyao Huang, Chunlin Yu, Dongyang Wang, Xiang Fu, Xiaogang Qiang, Ping Xu, Mingtang Deng, Xuejun Yang, and Junjie Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 133601 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Overcoming the Diffraction Limit on the Size of Dielectric Resonators Using an Amplifying Medium

I. V. Doronin, E. S. Andrianov, and A. A. Zyablovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 133901 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Suppression of Nonlinear Optical Rogue Wave Formation Using Polarization-Structured Beams

A. Nicholas Black, Saumya Choudhary, E. Samuel Arroyo-Rivera, Hayden Woodworth, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 133902 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Ill-Defined Topological Phases in Local Dispersive Photonic Crystals

Filipa R. Prudêncio and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 133903 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Acoustic Resonance Frequencies of Underwater Toroidal Bubbles

M. Alloul, B. Dollet, O. Stephan, E. Bossy, C. Quilliet, and P. Marmottant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 134501 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Homogeneous, Micron-Scale High-Energy-Density Matter Generated by Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions

N. F. Beier, H. Allison, P. Efthimion, K. A. Flippo, L. Gao, S. B. Hansen, K. Hill, R. Hollinger, M. Logantha, Y. Musthafa, R. Nedbailo, V. Senthilkumaran, R. Shepherd, V. N. Shlyaptsev, H. Song, S. Wang, F. Dollar, J. J. Rocca, and A. E. Hussein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 135001 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Nonresonant Scattering of Relativistic Electrons by Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves in Earth’s Radiation Belts

Xin An, Anton Artemyev, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Xiaojia Zhang, Didier Mourenas, and Jacob Bortnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 135101 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Self-Induced Dirac Boundary State and Digitization in a Nonlinear Resonator Chain

Gengming Liu, Jiho Noh, Jianing Zhao, and Gaurav Bahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 135501 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Photoinduced Ultrafast Transition of the Local Correlated Structure in Chalcogenide Phase-Change Materials

Yingpeng Qi, Nianke Chen, Thomas Vasileiadis, Daniela Zahn, Hélène Seiler, Xianbin Li, and Ralph Ernstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 135701 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Going beyond the Cumulant Approximation: Power Series Correction to the Single-Particle Green’s Function in the Holstein System

Bipul Pandey and Peter B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 136401 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Deep Learning the Functional Renormalization Group

Domenico Di Sante, Matija Medvidović, Alessandro Toschi, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Cesare Franchini, Anirvan M. Sengupta, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 136402 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Observation of Spin-Splitter Torque in Collinear Antiferromagnetic ${RuO}_{2}$

Shutaro Karube, Takahiro Tanaka, Daichi Sugawara, Naohiro Kadoguchi, Makoto Kohda, and Junsaku Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 137201 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Magnetic Interactions of the Centrosymmetric Skyrmion Material ${Gd}_{2} {PdSi}_{3}$

Joseph A. M. Paddison, Binod K. Rai, Andrew F. May, Stuart Calder, Matthew B. Stone, Matthias D. Frontzek, and Andrew D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 137202 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

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Self-Kerr Effect across the Yellow Rydberg Series of Excitons in ${Cu}_{2} O$

Corentin Morin, Jérôme Tignon, Juliette Mangeney, Sukhdeep Dhillon, Gerard Czajkowski, Karol Karpiński, Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska, David Ziemkiewicz, and Thomas Boulier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 137401 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated that a solid can exhibit an enhanced nonlinear optical phenomenon usually seen only in cold atomic gases.

Extended Charge Layers in Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Nanocapacitors Revealed by Operando Electron Holography

C. Gatel, R. Serra, K. Gruel, A. Masseboeuf, L. Chapuis, R. Cours, L. Zhang, B. Warot-Fonrose, and M. J. Hÿtch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 137701 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022

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

Activity Induced Rigidity of Liquid Droplets

Kaili Xie, Benjamin Gorin, Rory T. Cerbus, Laura Alvarez, Jean-Michel Rampnoux, and Hamid Kellay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 138001 (2022) - Published 21 September, 2022

Anomalous Cooling and Overcooling of Active Colloids

Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 138002 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

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Changing Flows Balance Nutrient Absorption and Bacterial Growth along the Gut

Agnese Codutti, Jonas Cremer, and Karen Alim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 138101 (2022) - Published 23 September, 2022

Fluid dynamics simulations suggest that the varying flow speed inside the small intestine maximizes nutrient absorption while minimizing excess bacteria.

ERRATA

Erratum: Attractive Spin-Orbit Potential from the Skyrme Model [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 042501 (2020)]

Chris Halcrow and Derek Harland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 139901 (2022) - Published 19 September, 2022