Volume 129, Issue 18

28 October 2022

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Snapshot of a molecular dynamics simulation of a phase transition in GaN showing the enthalpy per atom on a color scale that goes from blue to red.

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Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics
Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Howard Yanxon, Byungkyun Kang, Yansun Yao, and Qiang Zhu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185701 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Atom Interferometry with Floquet Atom Optics

Thomas Wilkason, Megan Nantel, Jan Rudolph, Yijun Jiang (姜一君), Benjamin E. Garber, Hunter Swan, Samuel P. Carman, Mahiro Abe, and Jason M. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183202 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers—which could boost these devices’ ability to probe new physics.

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Fractional Optical Angular Momentum and Multi-Defect-Mediated Mode Renormalization and Orientation Control in Photonic Crystal Microring Resonators

Mingkang Wang, Feng Zhou, Xiyuan Lu, Andrew McClung, Marcelo Davanco, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186101 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

A ring-shaped waveguide with a particular pattern of notches can force a light wave to make two round trips before completing an integer number of wave cycles.

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Multifractal Conductance Fluctuations in High-Mobility Graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime

Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ramya Nagarajan, Rahul Pandit, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186802 (2022) - Published 26 October, 2022

Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition.

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Packed Swarms on Dirt: Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flocks with Quenched and Annealed Disorder

Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, Ananyo Maitra, and John Toner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188004 (2022) - Published 27 October, 2022

Predictions indicate that disorder induced by immobile imperfections does not prevent organisms from moving collectively as a group.

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Merger and Postmerger of Binary Neutron Stars with a Quark-Hadron Crossover Equation of State

Yong-Jia Huang, Luca Baiotti, Toru Kojo, Kentaro Takami, Hajime Sotani, Hajime Togashi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Shigehiro Nagataki, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181101 (2022) - Published 26 October, 2022

Simulations indicate that postmerger gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars could allow researchers to hear the phase transitions between exotic states of matter.

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First-Principles Phonon Quasiparticle Theory Applied to a Strongly Anharmonic Halide Perovskite

Terumasa Tadano and Wissam A. Saidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185901 (2022) - Published 25 October, 2022

First principles lattice dynamics theory predicts the thermal conductivity and the lattice structure phase transition of strongly anharmonic crystals much more accurately than conventional theories.

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Electron-Phonon Interaction and Longitudinal-Transverse Phonon Splitting in Doped Semiconductors

Francesco Macheda, Paolo Barone, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185902 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

A first-principles method based on maximally localized Wannier functions predicts the doping dependence of the electron-phonon interaction in semiconductors much more accurately than other state-of-the-art methods.

LETTERS

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

Interaction-Induced Non-Hermitian Topological Phases from a Dynamical Gauge Field

W. N. Faugno and Tomoki Ozawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180401 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Highly Adiabatic Time-Optimal Quantum Driving at Low Energy Cost

Lluc Garcia, Josep Maria Bofill, Ibério de P. R. Moreira, and Guillermo Albareda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180402 (2022) - Published 26 October, 2022

Restoring Quantum Communication Efficiency over High Loss Optical Fibers

Francesco Anna Mele, Ludovico Lami, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180501 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Identifying Objects at the Quantum Limit for Superresolution Imaging

Michael R. Grace and Saikat Guha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180502 (2022) - Published 25 October, 2022

Universal Parity Quantum Computing

Michael Fellner, Anette Messinger, Kilian Ender, and Wolfgang Lechner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180503 (2022) - Published 27 October, 2022

Spin-Echo Silencing Using a Current-Biased Frequency-Tunable Resonator

V. Ranjan, Y. Wen, A. K. V. Keyser, S. E. Kubatkin, A. V. Danilov, T. Lindström, P. Bertet, and S. E. de Graaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180504 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Merger and Postmerger of Binary Neutron Stars with a Quark-Hadron Crossover Equation of State

Yong-Jia Huang, Luca Baiotti, Toru Kojo, Kentaro Takami, Hajime Sotani, Hajime Togashi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Shigehiro Nagataki, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181101 (2022) - Published 26 October, 2022

Simulations indicate that postmerger gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars could allow researchers to hear the phase transitions between exotic states of matter.

Quantum Signatures of Black Hole Mass Superpositions

Joshua Foo, Cemile Senem Arabaci, Magdalena Zych, and Robert B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181301 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Pairwise Multiparticle States and the Monopole Unitarity Puzzle

Csaba Csáki, Yuri Shirman, Ofri Telem, and John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181601 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Observation of an $a_{0}$ -like State with Mass of 1.817 GeV in the Study of $D_{s}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{+} π^{0}$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182001 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Azimuth-Dependent Suppression of Hadron Pairs in Electron Scattering off Nuclei

S. J. Paul et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182501 (2022) - Published 25 October, 2022

$β$ -Nuclear-Recoil Correlation from ${}^{6}{He}$ Decay in a Laser Trap

P. Müller, Y. Bagdasarova, R. Hong, A. Leredde, K. G. Bailey, X. Fléchard, A. García, B. Graner, A. Knecht, O. Naviliat-Cuncic, T. P. O’Connor, M. G. Sternberg, D. W. Storm, H. E. Swanson, F. Wauters, and D. W. Zumwalt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182502 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Alignment Thresholds of Molecules

Joshua E. Szekely and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183201 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

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Atom Interferometry with Floquet Atom Optics

Thomas Wilkason, Megan Nantel, Jan Rudolph, Yijun Jiang (姜一君), Benjamin E. Garber, Hunter Swan, Samuel P. Carman, Mahiro Abe, and Jason M. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183202 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers—which could boost these devices’ ability to probe new physics.

Polychromatic Excitation of Delocalized Long-Lived Proton Spin States in Aliphatic Chains

Anna Sonnefeld, Geoffrey Bodenhausen, and Kirill Sheberstov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183203 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Differential Measurement of Electron Ejection after Two-Photon Two-Electron Excitation of Helium

Michael Straub, Thomas Ding, Marc Rebholz, Gergana D. Borisova, Alexander Magunia, Hannes Lindenblatt, Severin Meister, Florian Trost, Yimeng Wang, Steffen Palutke, Markus Braune, Stefan Düsterer, Rolf Treusch, Chris H. Greene, Robert Moshammer, Thomas Pfeifer, and Christian Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183204 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Spatial Properties of Entangled Two-Photon Absorption

D. Tabakaev, A. Djorović, L. La Volpe, G. Gaulier, S. Ghosh, L. Bonacina, J.-P. Wolf, H. Zbinden, and R. T. Thew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183601 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Understanding the Quantum Rabi Ring Using Analogies to Quantum Magnetism

Diego Fallas Padilla, Han Pu, Guo-Jing Cheng, and Yu-Yu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183602 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Defining the Semiclassical Limit of the Quantum Rabi Hamiltonian

E. K. Twyeffort Irish and A. D. Armour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183603 (2022) - Published 26 October, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Thouless Pumping of Matter Waves

Qidong Fu, Peng Wang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Fangwei Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183901 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in a Bosonic Chiral Superfluid

Guan-Hua Huang, Zhi-Fang Xu, and Zhigang Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185301 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Size-Dependent Nucleation in Crystal Phase Transition from Machine Learning Metadynamics

Pedro A. Santos-Florez, Howard Yanxon, Byungkyun Kang, Yansun Yao, and Qiang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185701 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

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First-Principles Phonon Quasiparticle Theory Applied to a Strongly Anharmonic Halide Perovskite

Terumasa Tadano and Wissam A. Saidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185901 (2022) - Published 25 October, 2022

First principles lattice dynamics theory predicts the thermal conductivity and the lattice structure phase transition of strongly anharmonic crystals much more accurately than conventional theories.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electron-Phonon Interaction and Longitudinal-Transverse Phonon Splitting in Doped Semiconductors

Francesco Macheda, Paolo Barone, and Francesco Mauri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185902 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

Electric Potential of Ions in Electrode Micropores Deduced from Calorimetry

Joren E. Vos, Danny Inder Maur, Hendrik P. Rodenburg, Lennart van den Hoven, Suzan E. Schoemaker, Petra E. de Jongh, and Ben H. Erné

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186001 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

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Fractional Optical Angular Momentum and Multi-Defect-Mediated Mode Renormalization and Orientation Control in Photonic Crystal Microring Resonators

Mingkang Wang, Feng Zhou, Xiyuan Lu, Andrew McClung, Marcelo Davanco, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, and Kartik Srinivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186101 (2022) - Published 28 October, 2022

A ring-shaped waveguide with a particular pattern of notches can force a light wave to make two round trips before completing an integer number of wave cycles.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Giant Second-Order Nonlinear Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Junxi Duan, Yu Jian, Yang Gao, Huimin Peng, Jinrui Zhong, Qi Feng, Jinhai Mao, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186801 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

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Multifractal Conductance Fluctuations in High-Mobility Graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime

Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ramya Nagarajan, Rahul Pandit, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186802 (2022) - Published 26 October, 2022

Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition.

Pseudospin Paramagnons and the Superconducting Dome in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Chunli Huang, Nemin Wei, Wei Qin, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187001 (2022) - Published 24 October, 2022

Nematic-Fluctuation-Mediated Superconductivity Revealed by Anisotropic Strain in $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$

Jean-Côme Philippe, Alexis Lespinas, Jimmy Faria, Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson, Sarah Houver, Maximilien Cazayous, Alain Sacuto, Indranil Paul, and Yann Gallais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187002 (2022) - Published 25 October, 2022

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

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Packed Swarms on Dirt: Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flocks with Quenched and Annealed Disorder

Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, Ananyo Maitra, and John Toner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188004 (2022) - Published 27 October, 2022

Predictions indicate that disorder induced by immobile imperfections does not prevent organisms from moving collectively as a group.