Volume 129, Issue 7

12 August 2022

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Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, where 192 laser beams were concentrated on an x-ray cavity that ablates and implodes a deuterium-tritium fuel capsule to achieve controlled fusion ignition. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

From the article:

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 075001 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for PeV Proton Acceleration from Fermi-LAT Observations of SNR $G 106.3 + 2.7$

Ke Fang, Matthew Kerr, Roger Blandford, Henrike Fleischhack, and Eric Charles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 071101 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

An analysis of 12 years of gamma-ray observations has allowed researchers to pinpoint a Galactic source of high-energy cosmic rays.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Angular Momentum Transport by Keplerian Turbulence in Liquid Metals

M. Vernet, S. Fauve, and C. Gissinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 074501 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

Using a magnetically stirred liquid metal, researchers have reproduced a key feature of astrophysical accretion disks: a turbulence-based transfer of angular momentum.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment

H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 075001 (2022) - Published 8 August, 2022

A laser-fusion scheme has achieved ignition—an important step on the road to energy production.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System

David Billington, Edward Riordan, Majdi Salman, Daniel Margineda, George J. W. Gill, Stephen P. Cottrell, Iain McKenzie, Tom Lancaster, Michael J. Graf, and Sean R. Giblin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 077201 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Muon spin relaxation is used to demonstrate the experimental manipulation of entangled states of the spin of implanted positive muons in a bulk crystal.

LETTERS

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

Dynamic Signatures of Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Topology in Ultracold Atoms

Qian Liang, Dizhou Xie, Zhaoli Dong, Haowei Li, Hang Li, Bryce Gadway, Wei Yi, and Bo Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 070401 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Fixed Depth Hamiltonian Simulation via Cartan Decomposition

Efekan Kökcü, Thomas Steckmann, Yan Wang, J. K. Freericks, Eugene F. Dumitrescu, and Alexander F. Kemper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 070501 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Metrology in Colored Noise by Quantum Zeno Effect

Xinyue Long, Wan-Ting He, Na-Na Zhang, Kai Tang, Zidong Lin, Hongfeng Liu, Xinfang Nie, Guanru Feng, Jun Li, Tao Xin, Qing Ai, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 070502 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

Thermodynamic Signatures of Genuinely Multipartite Entanglement

Samgeeth Puliyil, Manik Banik, and Mir Alimuddin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 070601 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for PeV Proton Acceleration from Fermi-LAT Observations of SNR $G 106.3 + 2.7$

Ke Fang, Matthew Kerr, Roger Blandford, Henrike Fleischhack, and Eric Charles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 071101 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

An analysis of 12 years of gamma-ray observations has allowed researchers to pinpoint a Galactic source of high-energy cosmic rays.

Seismic Background Limitation of Lunar Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Jan Harms

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 071102 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Onset of Quantum Chaos in Random Field Theories

Micha Berkooz, Adar Sharon, Navot Silberstein, and Erez Y. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 071601 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Carrollian Perspective on Celestial Holography

Laura Donnay, Adrien Fiorucci, Yannick Herfray, and Romain Ruzziconi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 071602 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Inhomogeneous Phase of the Chiral Gross-Neveu Model

Riccardo Ciccone, Lorenzo Di Pietro, and Marco Serone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 071603 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Massive Quarks at One Loop in the Dipole Picture of Deep Inelastic Scattering

G. Beuf, T. Lappi, and R. Paatelainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 072001 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Anisotropic Surface Broadening and Core Depletion during the Evolution of a Strong-Field Induced Nanoplasma

Camila Bacellar, Adam S. Chatterley, Florian Lackner, C. D. Pemmaraju, Rico Mayro P. Tanyag, Deepak Verma, Charles Bernando, Sean M. O. O’Connell, Maximilian Bucher, Ken R. Ferguson, Tais Gorkhover, Ryan N. Coffee, Giacomo Coslovich, Dipanwita Ray, Timur Osipov, Daniel M. Neumark, Christoph Bostedt, Andrey F. Vilesov, and Oliver Gessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 073201 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Universal Tetramer and Pentamer Bound States in Two-Dimensional Fermionic Mixtures

Ruijin Liu, Cheng Peng, and Xiaoling Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 073401 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dissipative Acousto-optic Interactions in Optical Microcavities

Jia-Wei Meng, Shui-Jing Tang, Jialve Sun, Ke Shen, Changhui Li, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 073901 (2022) - Published 8 August, 2022

Control of Light-Atom Solitons and Atomic Transport by Optical Vortex Beams Propagating through a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Grant W. Henderson, Gordon R. M. Robb, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Alison M. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 073902 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Far-Field Correlations Verifying Non-Hermitian Degeneracy of Optical Modes

Sunjae Gwak, Jinhyeok Ryu, Hyundong Kim, Hyeon-Hye Yu, Chil-Min Kim, and Chang-Hwan Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 074101 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Angular Momentum Transport by Keplerian Turbulence in Liquid Metals

M. Vernet, S. Fauve, and C. Gissinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 074501 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

Using a magnetically stirred liquid metal, researchers have reproduced a key feature of astrophysical accretion disks: a turbulence-based transfer of angular momentum.

Arrested Dynamics of Droplet Spreading on Ice

Venkata Yashasvi Lolla, S. Farzad Ahmadi, Hyunggon Park, Andrew P. Fugaro, and Jonathan B. Boreyko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 074502 (2022) - Published 11 August, 2022

Microscopic Origins of the Viscosity of a Lennard-Jones Liquid

Farid Rizk, Simon Gelin, Anne-Laure Biance, and Laurent Joly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 074503 (2022) - Published 11 August, 2022

Fiber Buckling in Confined Viscous Flows: An Absolute Instability Described by the Linear Ginzburg-Landau Equation

Jean Cappello, Olivia du Roure, François Gallaire, Camille Duprat, and Anke Lindner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 074504 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lawson Criterion for Ignition Exceeded in an Inertial Fusion Experiment

H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 075001 (2022) - Published 8 August, 2022

A laser-fusion scheme has achieved ignition—an important step on the road to energy production.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Reentrant Correlated Insulators in Twisted Bilayer Graphene at 25 T ( $2 π$ Flux)

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Aaron Chew, Dmitri K. Efetov, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076401 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Unified Approach to Polarons and Phonon-Induced Band Structure Renormalization

Jon Lafuente-Bartolome, Chao Lian, Weng Hong Sio, Idoia G. Gurtubay, Asier Eiguren, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076402 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Precision Many-Body Study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Temperature-Dependent Properties in the Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Yuan-Yao He, Hao Shi, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076403 (2022) - Published 12 August, 2022

Six-Body and Eight-Body Exciton States in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Dinh Van Tuan, Su-Fei Shi, Xiaodong Xu, Scott A. Crooker, and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076801 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Magnetic-Field-Tunable Valley-Contrasting Pseudomagnetic Confinement in Graphene

Ya-Ning Ren, Yu-Chen Zhuang, Qing-Feng Sun, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076802 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

Tunable Sample-Wide Electronic Kagome Lattice in Low-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Qi Zheng, Chen-Yue Hao, Xiao-Feng Zhou, Ya-Xin Zhao, Jia-Qi He, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076803 (2022) - Published 11 August, 2022

Topologically Enabled Superconductivity

Michael A. Rampp, Elio J. König, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 077001 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

Superconducting Instabilities in Strongly Correlated Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Andreas Kreisel, Brian M. Andersen, Astrid T. Rømer, Ilya M. Eremin, and Frank Lechermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 077002 (2022) - Published 11 August, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radio-Frequency Manipulation of State Populations in an Entangled Fluorine-Muon-Fluorine System

David Billington, Edward Riordan, Majdi Salman, Daniel Margineda, George J. W. Gill, Stephen P. Cottrell, Iain McKenzie, Tom Lancaster, Michael J. Graf, and Sean R. Giblin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 077201 (2022) - Published 9 August, 2022

Muon spin relaxation is used to demonstrate the experimental manipulation of entangled states of the spin of implanted positive muons in a bulk crystal.

Emergent Spinon Dispersion and Symmetry Breaking in Two-Channel Kondo Lattices

Yang Ge and Yashar Komijani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 077202 (2022) - Published 11 August, 2022

Spin Noise in Birefringent Media

V. O. Kozlov, N. S. Kuznetsov, D. S. Smirnov, I. I. Ryzhov, G. G. Kozlov, and V. S. Zapasskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 077401 (2022) - Published 10 August, 2022

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

Viscous to Inertial Transition in Dense Granular Suspension

Franco Tapia, Mie Ichihara, Olivier Pouliquen, and Élisabeth Guazzelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 078001 (2022) - Published 8 August, 2022

Critical Scaling of Solid Fragmentation at Quasistatic and Finite Strain Rates

Joel T. Clemmer and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 078002 (2022) - Published 11 August, 2022