Volume 129, Issue 17

21 October 2022

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Photograph of a device consisting of eight single-mode waveguides, each 50 μm long, for coherent control of optical transition of tin-vacancy centers in diamond. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Photonic Indistinguishability of the Tin-Vacancy Center in Nanostructured Diamond
Jesús Arjona Martínez, Ryan A. Parker, Kevin C. Chen, Carola M. Purser, Linsen Li, Cathryn P. Michaels, Alexander M. Stramma, Romain Debroux, Isaac B. Harris, Martin Hayhurst Appel, Eleanor C. Nichols, Matthew E. Trusheim, Dorian A. Gangloff, Dirk Englund, and Mete Atatüre
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173603 (2022)

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Demonstrating Quantum Microscopic Reversibility Using Coherent States of Light

Marco Bellini, Hyukjoon Kwon, Nicola Biagi, Saverio Francesconi, Alessandro Zavatta, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170604 (2022) - Published 20 October, 2022

A fundamental principle in statistical mechanics called microscopic reversibility has been extended to the quantum world.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Atom Interferometer Driven by a Picosecond Frequency Comb

Cyrille Solaro, Clément Debavelaere, Pierre Cladé, and Saïda Guellati-Khelifa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173204 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

A multiwavelength laser source known as a frequency comb provides a new technique for atom interferometry, potentially leading to new tests of fundamental physics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photonic Indistinguishability of the Tin-Vacancy Center in Nanostructured Diamond

Jesús Arjona Martínez, Ryan A. Parker, Kevin C. Chen, Carola M. Purser, Linsen Li, Cathryn P. Michaels, Alexander M. Stramma, Romain Debroux, Isaac B. Harris, Martin Hayhurst Appel, Eleanor C. Nichols, Matthew E. Trusheim, Dorian A. Gangloff, Dirk Englund, and Mete Atatüre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173603 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

A tin vacancy center in diamond in a nanophotonic waveguide acts like an artificial atom and produces indistinguishable single photons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Correlation between the Fraction of Liquidlike Zones and the $β$ Relaxation in High-Entropy Metallic Glasses

Y. J. Duan, L. T. Zhang, J. C. Qiao, Yun-Jiang Wang, Y. Yang, T. Wada, H. Kato, J. M. Pelletier, E. Pineda, and D. Crespo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175501 (2022) - Published 20 October, 2022

Linking the stress relaxation, a macroscopic mechanical behavior, and beta-relaxation, a microscopic relaxation process, in metallic glasses, reveals the intrinsic correlation between the static and dynamic mechanical responses.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fragmented Cooper Pair Condensation in Striped Superconductors

Alexander Wietek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 177001 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

The superconducting condensate in high-temperature cuprate superconductors fragments into multiple Josephson-coupled stripe segments.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Simulating Chiral Spin Liquids with Projected Entangled-Pair States

Juraj Hasik, Maarten Van Damme, Didier Poilblanc, and Laurens Vanderstraeten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 177201 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

Simulations in spin liquids assuage doubts regarding whether projected entangled-pair state simulation provides accurate results for chiral states.

LETTERS

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

Rise and Fall, and Slow Rise Again, of Operator Entanglement under Dephasing

D. Wellnitz, G. Preisser, V. Alba, J. Dubail, and J. Schachenmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170401 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

Dynamics in Systems with Modulated Symmetries

Pablo Sala, Julius Lehmann, Tibor Rakovszky, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170601 (2022) - Published 17 October, 2022

Shortcuts to Thermodynamic Quasistaticity

Artur Soriani, Eduardo Miranda, Sebastian Deffner, and Marcus V. S. Bonança

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170602 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis and Free Probability

Silvia Pappalardi, Laura Foini, and Jorge Kurchan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170603 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

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Demonstrating Quantum Microscopic Reversibility Using Coherent States of Light

Marco Bellini, Hyukjoon Kwon, Nicola Biagi, Saverio Francesconi, Alessandro Zavatta, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170604 (2022) - Published 20 October, 2022

A fundamental principle in statistical mechanics called microscopic reversibility has been extended to the quantum world.

Radiative Heat Transfer with a Cylindrical Waveguide Decays Logarithmically Slow

Kiryl Asheichyk and Matthias Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 170605 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Minimal Massive Supergravity

Nihat Sadik Deger, Marc Geiller, Jan Rosseel, and Henning Samtleben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 171601 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Consistent Theory of Kinetic Mixing and the Higgs Low-Energy Theorem

Martin Bauer and Patrick Foldenauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 171801 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

V. M. Braun, Yao Ji, and Jakob Schoenleber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 172001 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Nuclear Physics

$β$ -Delayed One and Two Neutron Emission Probabilities Southeast of ${}^{132}{Sn}$ and the Odd-Even Systematics in $r$ -Process Nuclide Abundances

V. H. Phong et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 172701 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Efficient Many-Body Non-Markovian Dynamics of Organic Polaritons

Piper Fowler-Wright, Brendon W. Lovett, and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173001 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

Probing Resonant Photoionization Time Delay by Self-Referenced Molecular Attoclock

Jihong Tong, Xiwang Liu, Wenhui Dong, Wenyu Jiang, Ming Zhu, Yidan Xu, Zitan Zuo, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Xiaohong Song, Weifeng Yang, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173201 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Role of Spin-Orbit Coupling in High-Order Harmonic Generation Revealed by Supercycle Rydberg Trajectories

N. Mayer, S. Beaulieu, Á. Jiménez-Galán, S. Patchkovskii, O. Kornilov, D. Descamps, S. Petit, O. Smirnova, Y. Mairesse, and M. Y. Ivanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173202 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Quantum Interference Paves the Way for Long-Lived Electronic Coherences

Diptesh Dey, Alexander I. Kuleff, and Graham A. Worth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173203 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Atom Interferometer Driven by a Picosecond Frequency Comb

Cyrille Solaro, Clément Debavelaere, Pierre Cladé, and Saïda Guellati-Khelifa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173204 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

A multiwavelength laser source known as a frequency comb provides a new technique for atom interferometry, potentially leading to new tests of fundamental physics.

Edge State, Localization Length, and Critical Exponent from Survival Probability in Topological Waveguides

Li-Cheng Wang, Yang Chen, Ming Gong, Feng Yu, Qi-Dai Chen, Zhen-Nan Tian, Xi-Feng Ren, and Hong-Bo Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173601 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Direct Observation of Dynamically Localized Quantum Optical States

Ze-Kun Jiang, Ruo-Jing Ren, Yi-Jun Chang, Wen-Hao Zhou, Yong-Heng Lu, Xiao-Wei Wang, Li Wang, Chang-Shun Wang, Alexander S. Solntsev, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173602 (2022) - Published 20 October, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photonic Indistinguishability of the Tin-Vacancy Center in Nanostructured Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173603 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

A tin vacancy center in diamond in a nanophotonic waveguide acts like an artificial atom and produces indistinguishable single photons.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Loss-Driven Topological Transitions in Lasing

Grazia Salerno, Rebecca Heilmann, Kristian Arjas, Kerttu Aronen, Jani-Petri Martikainen, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 173901 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Willis Coupling-Induced Acoustic Radiation Force and Torque Reversal

Shahrokh Sepehrirahnama, Sebastian Oberst, Yan Kei Chiang, and David A. Powell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 174501 (2022) - Published 17 October, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Correlation between the Fraction of Liquidlike Zones and the $β$ Relaxation in High-Entropy Metallic Glasses

Y. J. Duan, L. T. Zhang, J. C. Qiao, Yun-Jiang Wang, Y. Yang, T. Wada, H. Kato, J. M. Pelletier, E. Pineda, and D. Crespo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175501 (2022) - Published 20 October, 2022

Asymmetric Roughness of Elastic Interfaces at the Depinning Threshold

Esko Toivonen, Matti Molkkari, Esa Räsänen, and Lasse Laurson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175701 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Thermodynamic Interpretation of the Meyer-Neldel Rule Explains Temperature Dependence of Ion Diffusion in Silicate Glass

N. Takamure, X. Sun, T. Nagata, A. Ho-Baillie, N. Fukata, and D. R. McKenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175901 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Scaling Theory of Wave Confinement in Classical and Quantum Periodic Systems

Marek Kozoň, Ad Lagendijk, Matthias Schlottbom, Jaap J. W. van der Vegt, and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 176401 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

Tailoring Dirac Fermions by In-Situ Tunable High-Order Moiré Pattern in Graphene-Monolayer Xenon Heterostructure

Chunlong Wu, Qiang Wan, Cao Peng, Shangkun Mo, Renzhe Li, Keming Zhao, Yanping Guo, Shengjun Yuan, Fengcheng Wu, Chendong Zhang, and Nan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 176402 (2022) - Published 19 October, 2022

Vanishing and Nonvanishing Persistent Currents of Various Conserved Quantities

Hirokazu Kobayashi and Haruki Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 176601 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fragmented Cooper Pair Condensation in Striped Superconductors

Alexander Wietek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 177001 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022

The superconducting condensate in high-temperature cuprate superconductors fragments into multiple Josephson-coupled stripe segments.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Simulating Chiral Spin Liquids with Projected Entangled-Pair States

Juraj Hasik, Maarten Van Damme, Didier Poilblanc, and Laurens Vanderstraeten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 177201 (2022) - Published 21 October, 2022

Simulations in spin liquids assuage doubts regarding whether projected entangled-pair state simulation provides accurate results for chiral states.

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

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Lukas Hecht, Suvendu Mandal, Hartmut Löwen, and Benno Liebchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 178001 (2022) - Published 18 October, 2022