Volume 129, Issue 5

29 July 2022

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Quantum optimal control of a continuous family of quantum gates: the resulting errors are numerically assessed and displayed for a 2D slice of the 3D manifold of gates.

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Optimal Control of Families of Quantum Gates
Frédéric Sauvage and Florian Mintert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050507 (2022)

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Toward a Photonic Demonstration of Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Wen-Zhao Liu, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Yi-Zheng Zhen, Ming-Han Li, Yang Liu, Jingyun Fan, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050502 (2022) - Published 27 July, 2022

A proof-of-concept demonstration of device-independent quantum key distribution is achieved in a photonic setup in the asymptotic limit.

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Postselected Entanglement between Two Atomic Ensembles Separated by 12.5 km

Xi-Yu Luo, Yong Yu, Jian-Long Liu, Ming-Yang Zheng, Chao-Yang Wang, Bin Wang, Jun Li, Xiao Jiang, Xiu-Ping Xie, Qiang Zhang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050503 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

On the road to a quantum internet, researchers demonstrate entanglement of two memory elements located 12.5 kilometers apart in an urban environment.

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Squeezed Light from a Levitated Nanoparticle at Room Temperature

Lorenzo Magrini, Victor A. Camarena-Chávez, Constanze Bach, Aisling Johnson, and Markus Aspelmeyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053601 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

A trapped nanoparticle interacting with a laser provides a simple way to generate squeezed light, which has an unusually low level of fluctuations.

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Ponderomotive Squeezing of Light by a Levitated Nanoparticle in Free Space

Andrei Militaru, Massimiliano Rossi, Felix Tebbenjohanns, Oriol Romero-Isart, Martin Frimmer, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053602 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

A trapped nanoparticle interacting with a laser provides a simple way to generate squeezed light, which has an unusually low level of fluctuations.

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Dispersionless Coupling among Optical Waveguides by Artificial Gauge Field

Wange Song, Ting Li, Shengjie Wu, Zhizhang Wang, Chen Chen, Yuxin Chen, Chunyu Huang, Kai Qiu, Shining Zhu, Yi Zou, and Tao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053901 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

More frequencies of light can pass between two coupled wavy waveguides than between two coupled straight ones, something that could allow for more flexible designs of optics-based circuits on silicon chips.

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Optically Controlled Femtosecond Polariton Switch at Room Temperature

Fei Chen, Hui Li, Hang Zhou, Song Luo, Zheng Sun, Ziyu Ye, Fenghao Sun, Jiawei Wang, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, Huailiang Xu, Hongxing Xu, Tim Byrnes, Zhanghai Chen, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 057402 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

A subpicosecond optical switch demonstrated in a semiconductor material moves researchers a step closer to an all-optical computer.

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Force Generation in Confined Active Fluids: The Role of Microstructure

Shuvojit Paul, Ashreya Jayaram, N Narinder, Thomas Speck, and Clemens Bechinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 058001 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

Measurements of the attractive force experienced by a passive particle in a bath of active ones and of the microstructure of that system, raise the tantalizing possibility of simple and generic quantitative descriptions of the organization of objects within active and living systems.

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

Quantum Fokker-Planck Master Equation for Continuous Feedback Control

Björn Annby-Andersson, Faraj Bakhshinezhad, Debankur Bhattacharyya, Guilherme De Sousa, Christopher Jarzynski, Peter Samuelsson, and Patrick P. Potts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050401 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

Experimental Demonstration of Quantum Pseudotelepathy

Jia-Min Xu, Yi-Zheng Zhen, Yu-Xiang Yang, Zi-Mo Cheng, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Kai Chen, Xi-Lin Wang, and Hui-Tian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050402 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

Quantum vs Noncontextual Semi-Device-Independent Randomness Certification

Carles Roch i Carceller, Kieran Flatt, Hanwool Lee, Joonwoo Bae, and Jonatan Bohr Brask

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050501 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

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Toward a Photonic Demonstration of Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Wen-Zhao Liu, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Yi-Zheng Zhen, Ming-Han Li, Yang Liu, Jingyun Fan, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050502 (2022) - Published 27 July, 2022

A proof-of-concept demonstration of device-independent quantum key distribution is achieved in a photonic setup in the asymptotic limit.

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Postselected Entanglement between Two Atomic Ensembles Separated by 12.5 km

Xi-Yu Luo, Yong Yu, Jian-Long Liu, Ming-Yang Zheng, Chao-Yang Wang, Bin Wang, Jun Li, Xiao Jiang, Xiu-Ping Xie, Qiang Zhang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050503 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

On the road to a quantum internet, researchers demonstrate entanglement of two memory elements located 12.5 kilometers apart in an urban environment.

Constant-Overhead Quantum Error Correction with Thin Planar Connectivity

Maxime A. Tremblay, Nicolas Delfosse, and Michael E. Beverland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050504 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Quantifying Nonlocality: How Outperforming Local Quantum Codes Is Expensive

Nouédyn Baspin and Anirudh Krishna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050505 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Certified Randomness from Untrusted Sources and Uncharacterized Measurements

Xing Lin, Rong Wang, Shuang Wang, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Wei Chen, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050506 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Optimal Control of Families of Quantum Gates

Frédéric Sauvage and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050507 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Signatures of Nontrivial Pairing in the Quantum Walk of Two-Component Bosons

Mrinal Kanti Giri, Suman Mondal, B. P. Das, and Tapan Mishra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050601 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

Benchmarking Information Scrambling

Joseph Harris, Bin Yan, and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050602 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

Universality Class of Ising Critical States with Long-Range Losses

Jamir Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 050603 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Improved Hamiltonians for Quantum Simulations of Gauge Theories

Marcela Carena, Henry Lamm, Ying-Ying Li, and Wanqiang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 051601 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Limits on Axions and Axionlike Particles within the Axion Window Using a Spin-Based Amplifier

Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Min Jiang, Ying Huang, Yushu Qin, Chang Guo, Zehao Wang, Dongdong Hu, Wei Ji, Pavel Fadeev, Xinhua Peng, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 051801 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

Experimental Limits on Exotic Spin and Velocity Dependent Interactions Using Rotationally Modulated Source Masses and an Atomic-Magnetometer Array

K. Y. Wu, S. Y. Chen, G. A. Sun, S. M. Peng, M. Peng, and H. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 051802 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Topological Pumping in a Floquet-Bloch Band

Joaquín Minguzzi, Zijie Zhu, Kilian Sandholzer, Anne-Sophie Walter, Konrad Viebahn, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053201 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

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Squeezed Light from a Levitated Nanoparticle at Room Temperature

Lorenzo Magrini, Victor A. Camarena-Chávez, Constanze Bach, Aisling Johnson, and Markus Aspelmeyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053601 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

A trapped nanoparticle interacting with a laser provides a simple way to generate squeezed light, which has an unusually low level of fluctuations.

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Ponderomotive Squeezing of Light by a Levitated Nanoparticle in Free Space

Andrei Militaru, Massimiliano Rossi, Felix Tebbenjohanns, Oriol Romero-Isart, Martin Frimmer, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053602 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

A trapped nanoparticle interacting with a laser provides a simple way to generate squeezed light, which has an unusually low level of fluctuations.

Efficient Source of Shaped Single Photons Based on an Integrated Diamond Nanophotonic System

E. N. Knall, C. M. Knaut, R. Bekenstein, D. R. Assumpcao, P. L. Stroganov, W. Gong, Y. Q. Huan, P.-J. Stas, B. Machielse, M. Chalupnik, D. Levonian, A. Suleymanzade, R. Riedinger, H. Park, M. Lončar, M. K. Bhaskar, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053603 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

Optical Trapping of High-Aspect-Ratio NaYF Hexagonal Prisms for kHz-MHz Gravitational Wave Detectors

George Winstone, Zhiyuan Wang, Shelby Klomp, Robert G. Felsted, Andrew Laeuger, Chaman Gupta, Daniel Grass, Nancy Aggarwal, Jacob Sprague, Peter J. Pauzauskie, Shane L. Larson, Vicky Kalogera, and Andrew A. Geraci (LSD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053604 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Dispersionless Coupling among Optical Waveguides by Artificial Gauge Field

Wange Song, Ting Li, Shengjie Wu, Zhizhang Wang, Chen Chen, Yuxin Chen, Chunyu Huang, Kai Qiu, Shining Zhu, Yi Zou, and Tao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053901 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

Inverse Optical Torques on Dielectric Nanoparticles in Elliptically Polarized Light Waves

Yuzhi Shi, Tongtong Zhu, Ai Qun Liu, Lei-Ming Zhou, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Amir Hassanfiroozi, Jingquan Liu, Din Ping Tsai, Zhenyu Li, Weiqiang Ding, Fan Wang, Hang Li, Qinghua Song, Xiaohao Xu, Baojun Li, Xinbin Cheng, Pin Chieh Wu, Che Ting Chan, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053902 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Effective Hamiltonian for Photonic Topological Insulator with Non-Hermitian Domain Walls

Yandong Li, Chongxiao Fan, Xiaoyong Hu, Yutian Ao, Cuicui Lu, C. T. Chan, Dante M. Kennes, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 053903 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Statistical Equilibrium of Large Scales in Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Turbulence

Jean-Baptiste Gorce and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 054501 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Hierarchical Symbolic Regression for Identifying Key Physical Parameters Correlated with Bulk Properties of Perovskites

Lucas Foppa, Thomas A. R. Purcell, Sergey V. Levchenko, Matthias Scheffler, and Luca M. Ghiringhelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 055301 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

Optically Induced Anisotropy in Time-Resolved Scattering: Imaging Molecular-Scale Structure and Dynamics in Disordered Media with Experiment and Theory

Andrés Montoya-Castillo, Michael S. Chen, Sumana L. Raj, Kenneth A. Jung, Kasper S. Kjaer, Tobias Morawietz, Kelly J. Gaffney, Tim B. van Driel, and Thomas E. Markland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056001 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Density Wave Order and Fluctuations above $T_{CDW}$ and below Superconducting $T_{c}$ in the Kagome Metal ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Q. Chen, D. Chen, W. Schnelle, C. Felser, and B. D. Gaulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056401 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Dissipation-Induced Order: The $S = 1 / 2$ Quantum Spin Chain Coupled to an Ohmic Bath

Manuel Weber, David J. Luitz, and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056402 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Effective Model for Fractional Topological Corner Modes in Quasicrystals

Citian Wang, Feng Liu, and Huaqing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056403 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Antisymmetric Seebeck Effect in a Tilted Weyl Semimetal

Bingyan Jiang, Jiaji Zhao, Jiangyuan Qian, Shen Zhang, XiaoBin Qiang, Lujunyu Wang, Ran Bi, Juewen Fan, Hai-Zhou Lu, Enke Liu, and Xiaosong Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056601 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Probing Geometric Excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall States on Quantum Computers

Ammar Kirmani, Kieran Bull, Chang-Yu Hou, Vedika Saravanan, Samah Mohamed Saeed, Zlatko Papić, Armin Rahmani, and Pouyan Ghaemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056801 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

Symmetry-Protected Transport through a Lattice with a Local Particle Loss

A.-M. Visuri, T. Giamarchi, and C. Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056802 (2022) - Published 26 July, 2022

Realizing One-Dimensional Electronic States in Graphene via Coupled Zeroth Pseudo-Landau Levels

Yi-Wen Liu, Zhen Zhan, Zewen Wu, Chao Yan, Shengjun Yuan, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056803 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Topological Phases in AB-Stacked ${MoTe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ : $Z_{2}$ Topological Insulators, Chern Insulators, and Topological Charge Density Waves

Haining Pan, Ming Xie, Fengcheng Wu, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 056804 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Electrostatic Shaping of Magnetic Transition Regions in ${La}_{0.7} {Sr}_{0.3} {MnO}_{3}$

Qianqian Lan, Chuanshou Wang, Lei Jin, Michael Schnedler, Lars Freter, Kurt Fischer, Jan Caron, Xian-Kui Wei, Thibaud Denneulin, András Kovács, Philipp Ebert, Xiaoyan Zhong, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 057201 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

Crystallizing Kagome Artificial Spin Ice

Wen-Cheng Yue, Zixiong Yuan, Yang-Yang Lyu, Sining Dong, Jian Zhou, Zhi-Li Xiao, Liang He, Xuecou Tu, Ying Dong, Huabing Wang, Weiwei Xu, Lin Kang, Peiheng Wu, Cristiano Nisoli, Wai-Kwong Kwok, and Yong-Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 057202 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

Three-Dimensional Electrical Control of the Excitonic Fine Structure for a Quantum Dot in a Cavity

H. Ollivier, P. Priya, A. Harouri, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, O. Krebs, L. Lanco, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, M. Esmann, and P. Senellart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 057401 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

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Optically Controlled Femtosecond Polariton Switch at Room Temperature

Fei Chen, Hui Li, Hang Zhou, Song Luo, Zheng Sun, Ziyu Ye, Fenghao Sun, Jiawei Wang, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, Huailiang Xu, Hongxing Xu, Tim Byrnes, Zhanghai Chen, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 057402 (2022) - Published 29 July, 2022

A subpicosecond optical switch demonstrated in a semiconductor material moves researchers a step closer to an all-optical computer.

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

Fingerprinting Brownian Motions of Polymers under Flow

Zhiqiang Shen, Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo, Bobby G. Sumpter, and Yangyang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 057801 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022

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Force Generation in Confined Active Fluids: The Role of Microstructure

Shuvojit Paul, Ashreya Jayaram, N Narinder, Thomas Speck, and Clemens Bechinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 058001 (2022) - Published 25 July, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: New Semiclassical Picture of Vacuum Decay [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 031601 (2019)]

Jonathan Braden, Matthew C. Johnson, Hiranya V. Peiris, Andrew Pontzen, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 059901 (2022) - Published 28 July, 2022