Volume 130, Issue 1

6 January 2023

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Sketch of the simplest one-dimensional topological braid structures and the transitions in between. The two strands inside the cylinder form a link or knot structure when closing the braid into a torus. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Observation of Acoustic Non-Hermitian Bloch Braids and Associated Topological Phase Transitions
Qicheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Huanfa Sun, Xun Liu, Luekai Zhao, Xiling Feng, Xiying Fan, and Chunyin Qiu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 017201 (2023)

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Robustness and Universality in Organelle Size Control

Kiandokht Panjtan Amiri, Asa Kalish, and Shankar Mukherji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 018401 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023

A new “bursty growth” model for organelles—internal components of biological cells—helps explain observed size fluctuations.

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Anomalous Diffusion of Deformable Particles in a Honeycomb Network

Zaiyi Shen, Franck Plouraboué, Juho S. Lintuvuori, Hengdi Zhang, Mehdi Abbasi, and Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 014001 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

Researchers have studied how irregularly shaped particles travel through microchannels. Their work could have relevance to the transport of red blood cells through capillaries.

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Exploring the Regime of Fragmentation in Strongly Tilted Fermi-Hubbard Chains

Thomas Kohlert, Sebastian Scherg, Pablo Sala, Frank Pollmann, Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Immanuel Bloch, and Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 010201 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

A strongly tilted 1D Fermi-Hubbard model shows signatures of Hilbert-space fragmentation in its relaxation dynamics.

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Topological Speed Limit

Tan Van Vu and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 010402 (2023) - Published 4 January, 2023

Quantum speed limits due to underlying topological structure are derived and applied to chemical reactions and interacting bosons.

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Control over Berry Curvature Dipole with Electric Field in ${WTe}_{2}$

Xing-Guo Ye, Huiying Liu, Peng-Fei Zhu, Wen-Zheng Xu, Shengyuan A. Yang, Nianze Shang, Kaihui Liu, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016301 (2023) - Published 4 January, 2023

Charge transport experiments in thin exfoliated flakes of WTe $_{2}$ suggest the existence of an electric-field tunable Berry curvature.

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Observation of Acoustic Non-Hermitian Bloch Braids and Associated Topological Phase Transitions

Qicheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Huanfa Sun, Xun Liu, Luekai Zhao, Xiling Feng, Xiying Fan, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 017201 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

Topologically braided non-Hermitian Bloch bands in acoustics are synthesized by a simple binary cavity-tube system.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exploring the Regime of Fragmentation in Strongly Tilted Fermi-Hubbard Chains

Thomas Kohlert, Sebastian Scherg, Pablo Sala, Frank Pollmann, Bharath Hebbe Madhusudhana, Immanuel Bloch, and Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 010201 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

A strongly tilted 1D Fermi-Hubbard model shows signatures of Hilbert-space fragmentation in its relaxation dynamics.

Entanglement Entropy of Non-Hermitian Eigenstates and the Ginibre Ensemble

Giorgio Cipolloni and Jonah Kudler-Flam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 010401 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

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Topological Speed Limit

Tan Van Vu and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 010402 (2023) - Published 4 January, 2023

Quantum speed limits due to underlying topological structure are derived and applied to chemical reactions and interacting bosons.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Supertranslation-Invariant Formula for the Angular Momentum Flux in Gravitational Scattering

Reza Javadinezhad and Massimo Porrati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 011401 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

Dynamical Instability of Self-Gravitating Membranes

Huan Yang, Béatrice Bonga, and Zhen Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 011402 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

Particles and Fields

First Constraints on Light Sterile Neutrino Oscillations from Combined Appearance and Disappearance Searches with the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 011801 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Study of the $N = 32$ and $N = 34$ Shell Gap for Ti and V by the First High-Precision Multireflection Time-of-Flight Mass Measurements at BigRIPS-SLOWRI

S. Iimura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 012501 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonreciprocal Frequency Conversion and Mode Routing in a Microresonator

Zhen Shen, Yan-Lei Zhang, Yuan Chen, Yun-Feng Xiao, Chang-Ling Zou, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 013601 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Anomalous Diffusion of Deformable Particles in a Honeycomb Network

Zaiyi Shen, Franck Plouraboué, Juho S. Lintuvuori, Hengdi Zhang, Mehdi Abbasi, and Chaouqi Misbah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 014001 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

Researchers have studied how irregularly shaped particles travel through microchannels. Their work could have relevance to the transport of red blood cells through capillaries.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Electron Polarization in Ultrarelativistic Plasma Current Filamentation Instabilities

Zheng Gong, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 015101 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Absence of Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order in hcp ${}^{4}{He}$ Dislocation Cores

Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai, Claudio Cazorla, and Jordi Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016001 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

Deep-Learning Electron Diffractive Imaging

Dillan J. Chang, Colum M. O’Leary, Cong Su, Daniel A. Jacobs, Salman Kahn, Alex Zettl, Jim Ciston, Peter Ercius, and Jianwei Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016101 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023

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Control over Berry Curvature Dipole with Electric Field in ${WTe}_{2}$

Xing-Guo Ye, Huiying Liu, Peng-Fei Zhu, Wen-Zheng Xu, Shengyuan A. Yang, Nianze Shang, Kaihui Liu, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016301 (2023) - Published 4 January, 2023

Charge transport experiments in thin exfoliated flakes of WTe $_{2}$ suggest the existence of an electric-field tunable Berry curvature.

Thermodynamic Characteristic for a Correlated Flat-Band System with a Quantum Anomalous Hall Ground State

Gaopei Pan, Xu Zhang, Hongyu Lu, Heqiu Li, Bin-Bin Chen, Kai Sun, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016401 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

Chiral Spin-Chain Interfaces Exhibiting Event-Horizon Physics

Matthew D. Horner, Andrew Hallam, and Jiannis K. Pachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016701 (2023) - Published 3 January, 2023

Integrated Sideband-Resolved SERS with a Dimer on a Nanobeam Hybrid

Ilan Shlesinger, Isabelle M. Palstra, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 016901 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Observation of Acoustic Non-Hermitian Bloch Braids and Associated Topological Phase Transitions

Qicheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Huanfa Sun, Xun Liu, Luekai Zhao, Xiling Feng, Xiying Fan, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 017201 (2023) - Published 5 January, 2023

Topologically braided non-Hermitian Bloch bands in acoustics are synthesized by a simple binary cavity-tube system.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robustness and Universality in Organelle Size Control

Kiandokht Panjtan Amiri, Asa Kalish, and Shankar Mukherji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 018401 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023

A new “bursty growth” model for organelles—internal components of biological cells—helps explain observed size fluctuations.

ERRATA

Erratum: Observation of Magnetic Proximity Effect Using Resonant Optical Spectroscopy of an Electrically Tunable ${MoSe}_{2} / {CrBr}_{3}$ Heterostructure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197401 (2020)]

Livio Ciorciaro, Martin Kroner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 019901 (2023) - Published 6 January, 2023