Volume 129, Issue 14

30 September 2022

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Formation of vortex strings produced by black hole superradiance over time (left to right). Top: scalar field phase in the equatorial plane of the black hole. Bottom: scalar field magnitude in the meridional slice intersection of the black hole and string.

From the article:

Vortex String Formation in Black Hole Superradiance of a Dark Photon with the Higgs Mechanism
William E. East
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 141103 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Emergence of Fermi’s Golden Rule

Tobias Micklitz, Alan Morningstar, Alexander Altland, and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140402 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Researchers have calculated the likelihood that a quantum state will decay when its evolution is inhibited by a lack of availability of final states.

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Experimental Evidence of Nonlinear Focusing in Standing Water Waves

Yuchen He, Alexey Slunyaev, Nobuhito Mori, and Amin Chabchoub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 144502 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Researchers create the most realistic rogue waves to date, showing dynamics that follow those expected for extreme waves in more idealized systems.

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Quantum Critical Behavior of Entanglement in Lattice Bosons with Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interactions

Shraddha Sharma, Simon B. Jäger, Rebecca Kraus, Tommaso Roscilde, and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 143001 (2022) - Published 26 September, 2022

Scaling of entanglement entropy can signal the different phase transitions in a two-dimensional quantum many-body system with long-range interactions.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Refutation of Real-Valued Quantum Mechanics under Strict Locality Conditions

Dian Wu, Yang-Fan Jiang, Xue-Mei Gu, Liang Huang, Bing Bai, Qi-Chao Sun, Xingjian Zhang, Si-Qiu Gong, Yingqiu Mao, Han-Sen Zhong, Ming-Cheng Chen, Jun Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140401 (2022) - Published 26 September, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Emergence of Fermi’s Golden Rule

Tobias Micklitz, Alan Morningstar, Alexander Altland, and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140402 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Researchers have calculated the likelihood that a quantum state will decay when its evolution is inhibited by a lack of availability of final states.

Quantum Speed Limit for States with a Bounded Energy Spectrum

Gal Ness, Andrea Alberti, and Yoav Sagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140403 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

Observation of Non-Markovian Spin Dynamics in a Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard Model Using a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator

B.-W. Li, Q.-X. Mei, Y.-K. Wu, M.-L. Cai, Y. Wang, L. Yao, Z.-C. Zhou, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140501 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Simulation of Interaction-Induced Chiral Topological Dynamics on a Digital Quantum Computer

Jin Ming Koh, Tommy Tai, and Ching Hua Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140502 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Entanglement Negativity and Mutual Information after a Quantum Quench: Exact Link from Space-Time Duality

Bruno Bertini, Katja Klobas, and Tsung-Cheng Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140503 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

Mathematical, Thermodynamical, and Experimental Necessity for Coarse Graining Empirical Densities and Currents in Continuous Space

Cai Dieball and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140601 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

Tuning between Continuous Time Crystals and Many-Body Scars in Long-Range $X Y Z$ Spin Chains

Kieran Bull, Andrew Hallam, Zlatko Papić, and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140602 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

Splitting Probabilities of Symmetric Jump Processes

J. Klinger, R. Voituriez, and O. Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140603 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

Fingerprint and Universal Markovian Closure of Structured Bosonic Environments

Alexander Nüßeler, Dario Tamascelli, Andrea Smirne, James Lim, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 140604 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraining the Symmetron Model with the HUST-2020 Torsion Pendulum Experiment

Yuan-Ling Zhao, Yu-Jie Tan, Wen-Hao Wu, Jie Luo, and Cheng-Gang Shao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 141101 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Classical Gravitational Spinning-Spinless Scattering at $O (G^{2} S^{\infty})$

Rafael Aoude, Kays Haddad, and Andreas Helset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 141102 (2022) - Published 29 September, 2022

Vortex String Formation in Black Hole Superradiance of a Dark Photon with the Higgs Mechanism

William E. East

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 141103 (2022) - Published 30 September, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Excitation by Free Muon Capture

Simone Gargiulo, Ming Feng Gu, Fabrizio Carbone, and Ivan Madan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 142501 (2022) - Published 27 September, 2022

Proton Distribution Radii of ${}^{16 - 24}O$ : Signatures of New Shell Closures and Neutron Skin

S. Kaur et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 142502 (2022) - Published 28 September, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum Critical Behavior of Entanglement in Lattice Bosons with Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interactions

Shraddha Sharma, Simon B. Jäger, Rebecca Kraus, Tommaso Roscilde, and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 143001 (2022) - Published 26 September, 2022

Scaling of entanglement entropy can signal the different phase transitions in a two-dimensional quantum many-body system with long-range interactions.