Volume 129, Issue 23

2 December 2022

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On the Cover

Representation of extended operators and topological defects in the 3D X-cube model. Membrane operators (gray plaquettes) create fracton defects (cyan cubes). String operators (cyan lines) create lineon defects (red ellipsoids).

From the article:

Optimal Thresholds for Fracton Codes and Random Spin Models with Subsystem Symmetry
Hao Song (宋昊), Janik Schönmeier-Kromer, Ke Liu (刘科子竞), Oscar Viyuela, Lode Pollet, and M. A. Martin-Delgado
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230502 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

State-of-the-Art Estimation of Protein Model Accuracy Using AlphaFold

James P. Roney and Sergey Ovchinnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238101 (2022) - Published 28 November, 2022

An algorithm that already predicts how proteins fold might also shed light on the physical principles that dictate this folding.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Cosmic Optical Background Excess, Dark Matter, and Line-Intensity Mapping

José Luis Bernal, Gabriela Sato-Polito, and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231301 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Axions that decay into photons could account for visible light that exceeds what’s expected to come from all known galaxies.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fundamental Limitation on the Detectability of Entanglement

Pengyu Liu, Zhenhuan Liu, Shu Chen, and Xiongfeng Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230503 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

A systematic method to upper bound the detection capability of various entanglement criteria reveals a fundamental trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Dynamics in Integrable Quantum Systems

Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Ross B. Hutson, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230602 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Numerical evidence based on sophisticated tensor network methods supports a stronger conjecture that Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics occurs in all integrable spin chains with non-Abelian symmetry and corresponding integrable Floquet models.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Standard Model Prediction for Paramagnetic Electric Dipole Moments

Yohei Ema, Ting Gao, and Maxim Pospelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231801 (2022) - Published 28 November, 2022

$C P$ -violating contributions from the standard-model quark-mixing phase to electric dipole moments are shown to be three orders of magnitude larger than previously thought, possibly putting them in reach of future experiments.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Hall Effect of Light via Momentum-Space Topological Vortices around Bound States in the Continuum

Jiajun Wang, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 236101 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

The spin Hall effect of light in photonic crystal slabs via momentum-space topological vortices around bound states in the continuum reveals intriguing spin-related topological effects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric Field-Controlled Damping Switches of Coupled Dirac Plasmons

Huayang Zhang, Xiaodong Fan, Dongli Wang, Dongbo Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, and Changgan Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237402 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

A novel approach to actively control the lifetime of the graphene plasmon in a double-layer graphene system is efficient and implementable in other systems.

LETTERS

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

Contextuality and Wigner Negativity Are Equivalent for Continuous-Variable Quantum Measurements

Robert I. Booth, Ulysse Chabaud, and Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230401 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Projective Measurements Are Sufficient for Recycling Nonlocality

Anna Steffinlongo and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230402 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Exponentially Decreasing Critical Detection Efficiency for Any Bell Inequality

Nikolai Miklin, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Mohamed Bourennane, Marcin Pawłowski, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230403 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Constant-Cost Implementations of Clifford Operations and Multiply-Controlled Gates Using Global Interactions

Sergey Bravyi, Dmitri Maslov, and Yunseong Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230501 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Optimal Thresholds for Fracton Codes and Random Spin Models with Subsystem Symmetry

Hao Song (宋昊), Janik Schönmeier-Kromer, Ke Liu (刘科子竞), Oscar Viyuela, Lode Pollet, and M. A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230502 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fundamental Limitation on the Detectability of Entanglement

Pengyu Liu, Zhenhuan Liu, Shu Chen, and Xiongfeng Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230503 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

A systematic method to upper bound the detection capability of various entanglement criteria reveals a fundamental trade-off between efficiency and effectiveness.

Quantum State Preparation with Optimal Circuit Depth: Implementations and Applications

Xiao-Ming Zhang, Tongyang Li, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230504 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Complete Frequency-Bin Bell Basis Synthesizer

Suparna Seshadri, Hsuan-Hao Lu, Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner, and Joseph M. Lukens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230505 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

Taming Quantum Noise for Efficient Low Temperature Simulations of Open Quantum Systems

Meng Xu, Yaming Yan, Qiang Shi, J. Ankerhold, and J. T. Stockburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230601 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Dynamics in Integrable Quantum Systems

Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Ross B. Hutson, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230602 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Simulation of a Particle Domain in a Continuum, Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Reservoir

Abbas Gholami, Rupert Klein, and Luigi Delle Site

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230603 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Thermodynamics of Quantum Switch Information Capacity Activation

Xiangjing Liu, Daniel Ebler, and Oscar Dahlsten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230604 (2022) - Published 1 December, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Explaining the GeV Antiproton Excess, GeV $γ$ -Ray Excess, and $W$ -Boson Mass Anomaly in an Inert Two Higgs Doublet Model

Cheng-Rui Zhu, Ming-Yang Cui, Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Huan Yu, Xiaoyuan Huang, Qiang Yuan, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231101 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Cosmic Optical Background Excess, Dark Matter, and Line-Intensity Mapping

José Luis Bernal, Gabriela Sato-Polito, and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231301 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Axions that decay into photons could account for visible light that exceeds what’s expected to come from all known galaxies.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity from the Karch-Randall Braneworld

Hao Geng, Andreas Karch, Carlos Perez-Pardavila, Suvrat Raju, Lisa Randall, Marcos Riojas, and Sanjit Shashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231601 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Yangian Symmetry in Five Dimensions

Arthur Lipstein and Tristan Orchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231602 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Pole Skipping in Holographic Theories with Bosonic Fields

Diandian Wang and Zi-Yue Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231603 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Associativity of One-Loop Corrections to the Celestial Operator Product Expansion

Kevin Costello and Natalie M. Paquette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231604 (2022) - Published 1 December, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Standard Model Prediction for Paramagnetic Electric Dipole Moments

Yohei Ema, Ting Gao, and Maxim Pospelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231801 (2022) - Published 28 November, 2022

New Constraints on Extended Higgs Sectors from the Trilinear Higgs Coupling

Henning Bahl, Johannes Braathen, and Georg Weiglein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231802 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Study of the Semileptonic Decay $Λ_{c}^{+} \to Λ e^{+} ν_{e}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231803 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Infrared Singularities of Multileg QCD Amplitudes with a Massive Parton at Three Loops

Ze Long Liu and Nicolas Schalch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232001 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Hadronic Nucleus-Nucleus Cross Section and the Nucleon Size

Govert Nijs and Wilke van der Schee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232301 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Combined Theoretical Analysis of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry for ${}^{48}{Ca}$ and ${}^{208}{Pb}$

Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Xavier Roca-Maza, and Witold Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232501 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

Determining $g_{A} / g_{V}$ with High-Resolution Spectral Measurements Using a ${LiInSe}_{2}$ Bolometer

A. F. Leder, D. Mayer, J. L. Ouellet, F. A. Danevich, L. Dumoulin, A. Giuliani, J. Kostensalo, J. Kotila, P. de Marcillac, C. Nones, V. Novati, E. Olivieri, D. Poda, J. Suhonen, V. I. Tretyak, L. Winslow, and A. Zolotarova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232502 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Imaging of Molecular Chirality with Photoelectron Vortices

Xavier Barcons Planas, Andrés Ordóñez, Maciej Lewenstein, and Andrew S. Maxwell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233201 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Universal van der Waals Force between Heavy Polarons in Superfluids

Keisuke Fujii, Masaru Hongo, and Tilman Enss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233401 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Cavity-Based Reservoir Engineering for Floquet-Engineered Superconducting Circuits

Francesco Petiziol and André Eckardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233601 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Angular-Dependent Klein Tunneling in Photonic Graphene

Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuan Feng, Feng Li, Sergei Koniakhin, Changbiao Li, Fu Liu, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Guillaume Malpuech, and Dmitry Solnyshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233901 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stable Operation of a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Plasma Accelerator

M. Galletti et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 234801 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Ablating Ion Velocity Distributions in Short-Pulse-Heated Solids via X-Ray Doppler Shifts

B. F. Kraus, Lan Gao, W. Fox, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. C. Efthimion, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, Shoujun Wang, Huanyu Song, and J. J. Rocca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235001 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

Deep Electric Field Predictions by Drift-Reduced Braginskii Theory with Plasma-Neutral Interactions Based on Experimental Images of Boundary Turbulence

A. Mathews, J. W. Hughes, J. L. Terry, and S. G. Baek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235002 (2022) - Published 2 December, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Transition Dynamics in a Complex Oxide Heterostructure

Qingteng Zhang (张庆腾), Guoxiang Hu (胡国香), Vitalii Starchenko, Gang Wan, Eric M. Dufresne, Yongqi Dong, Huajun Liu, Hua Zhou, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Kayahan Saritas, Jaron T. Krogel, Fernando A. Reboredo, Ho Nyung Lee, Alec R. Sandy, Irene Calvo Almazan, Panchapakesan Ganesh, and Dillon D. Fong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235701 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Hall Effect of Light via Momentum-Space Topological Vortices around Bound States in the Continuum

Jiajun Wang, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 236101 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

The spin Hall effect of light in photonic crystal slabs via momentum-space topological vortices around bound states in the continuum reveals intriguing spin-related topological effects.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Hall Effect Anisotropy in Kagome Bilayer Metal ${Fe}_{3} {Sn}_{2}$

Qianheng Du, Zhixiang Hu, Myung-Geun Han, Fernando Camino, Yimei Zhu, and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 236601 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Synergetic Ferroelectricity and Superconductivity in Zero-Density Dirac Semimetals near Quantum Criticality

Vladyslav Kozii, Avraham Klein, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Jonathan Ruhman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237001 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Surface Cooper-Pair Spin Waves in Triplet Superconductors

Nicholas R. Poniatowski, Jonathan B. Curtis, Charlotte G. L. Bøttcher, Victor M. Galitski, Amir Yacoby, Prineha Narang, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237002 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

Inertial Spin Dynamics in Epitaxial Cobalt Films

Vivek Unikandanunni, Rajasekhar Medapalli, Marco Asa, Edoardo Albisetti, Daniela Petti, Riccardo Bertacco, Eric E. Fullerton, and Stefano Bonetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237201 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Line-Graph Approach to Spiral Spin Liquids

Shang Gao, Ganesh Pokharel, Andrew F. May, Joseph A. M. Paddison, Chris Pasco, Yaohua Liu, Keith M. Taddei, Stuart Calder, David G. Mandrus, Matthew B. Stone, and Andrew D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237202 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

Dephasing Dynamics across Different Local Vibrational Modes and Crystalline Environments

T. J. Keat, D. J. L. Coxon, M. Staniforth, M. W. Dale, V. G. Stavros, M. E. Newton, and J. Lloyd-Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237401 (2022) - Published 29 November, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric Field-Controlled Damping Switches of Coupled Dirac Plasmons

Huayang Zhang, Xiaodong Fan, Dongli Wang, Dongbo Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, and Changgan Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237402 (2022) - Published 30 November, 2022

A novel approach to actively control the lifetime of the graphene plasmon in a double-layer graphene system is efficient and implementable in other systems.