Volume 130, Issue 11

17 March 2023

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Comparison between fluid and kinetic simulations of accretion onto a rotating black hole (center). The color represents plasma number density on the left, ion and positron number density on the right.

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Collisionless Accretion onto Black Holes: Dynamics and Flares
Alisa Galishnikova, Alexander Philippov, Eliot Quataert, Fabio Bacchini, Kyle Parfrey, and Bart Ripperda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115201 (2023)

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Universal Quantum Rewinding Protocol with an Arbitrarily High Probability of Success

D. Trillo, B. Dive, and M. Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110201 (2023) - Published 14 March, 2023

A new technique for reversing the evolution of a quantum system could become a key tool in quantum information technology.

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Helical Locomotion in Yield Stress Fluids

Farshad Nazari, Kourosh Shoele, and Hadi Mohammadigoushki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 114002 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

If a helical bacteria’s tail propulsion is strong enough to deform the yield-stress fluid ahead of the swimmer, locomotion proceeds.

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Switchable Explosives: Performance Tuning of Fluid-Activated High Explosive Architectures

Cameron B. Brown, Alexander H. Mueller, Seetharaman Sridhar, Joseph P. Lichthardt, Andrew M. Schmalzer, Bryce C. Tappan, Von H. Whitley, Larry G. Hill, Eduardo Lozano, and Tariq D. Aslam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116105 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

An explosive material fabricated with a highly porous structure is inactive but is easily “switched on” when filled with water.

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Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Cation- $π$ Interactions in Aqueous Media Are Highly Affected by Cation Dehydration

Weishuai Di, Kai Xue, Jun Cai, Zhenshu Zhu, Zihan Li, Hui Fu, Hai Lei, Wenbing Hu, Chun Tang, Wei Wang, and Yi Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118101 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Researchers have developed a method for measuring the strength of certain ion–electron interactions in water, with initial tests throwing up unexpected results.

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Electronic Excitation Response of DNA to High-Energy Proton Radiation in Water

Christopher Shepard, Dillon C. Yost, and Yosuke Kanai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118401 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

A study of the electron excitation response of DNA to proton radiation has elucidated mechanisms of damage incurred during proton radiotherapy.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Universal Quantum Rewinding Protocol with an Arbitrarily High Probability of Success

D. Trillo, B. Dive, and M. Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110201 (2023) - Published 14 March, 2023

A new technique for reversing the evolution of a quantum system could become a key tool in quantum information technology.

Principle of Information Causality Rationalizes Quantum Composition

Ram Krishna Patra, Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Edwin Peter Lobo, Samrat Sen, Govind Lal Sidhardh, Mir Alimuddin, and Manik Banik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110202 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Breakdown of Detailed Balance for Thermal Radiation by Synthetic Fields

S.-A. Biehs and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110401 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Enhancement of Quantum Heat Engine by Encircling a Liouvillian Exceptional Point

J.-T. Bu, J.-Q. Zhang, G.-Y. Ding, J.-C. Li, J.-W. Zhang, B. Wang, W.-Q. Ding, W.-F. Yuan, L. Chen, Ş. K. Özdemir, F. Zhou, H. Jing, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110402 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Experimental Simulation of Larger Quantum Circuits with Fewer Superconducting Qubits

Chong Ying, Bin Cheng, Youwei Zhao, He-Liang Huang, Yu-Ning Zhang, Ming Gong, Yulin Wu, Shiyu Wang, Futian Liang, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Hui Deng, Hao Rong, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Man-Hong Yung, Xiaobo Zhu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110601 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Quantum Volume for Photonic Quantum Processors

Yuxuan Zhang, Daoheng Niu, Alireza Shabani, and Hassan Shapourian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110602 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Experimental Activation of Strong Local Passive States with Quantum Information

Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones, Hemant Katiyar, Eduardo Martín-Martínez, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 110801 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Discordances in Cosmology and the Violation of Slow-Roll Inflationary Dynamics

Akhil Antony, Fabio Finelli, Dhiraj Kumar Hazra, and Arman Shafieloo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111001 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Searching for Afterglow: Light Dark Matter Boosted by Supernova Neutrinos

Yen-Hsun Lin, Wen-Hua Wu, Meng-Ru Wu, and Henry Tsz-King Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111002 (2023) - Published 14 March, 2023

Photon Ring Astrometry for Superradiant Clouds

Yifan Chen, Xiao Xue, Richard Brito, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111401 (2023) - Published 14 March, 2023

Quantum Vacuum Excitation of a Quasinormal Mode in an Analog Model of Black Hole Spacetime

M. J. Jacquet, L. Giacomelli, Q. Valnais, M. Joly, F. Claude, E. Giacobino, Q. Glorieux, I. Carusotto, and A. Bramati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111501 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Particles and Fields

Antipodal Self-Duality for a Four-Particle Form Factor

Lance J. Dixon, Ömer Gürdoğan, Yu-Ting Liu, Andrew J. McLeod, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111601 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

All-Orders Quadratic-Logarithmic Behavior for Amplitudes

Benjamin Basso, Lance J. Dixon, Yu-Ting Liu, and Georgios Papathanasiou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111602 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Entropic $g$ Theorem in General Spacetime Dimensions

Horacio Casini, Ignacio Salazar Landea, and Gonzalo Torroba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111603 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Search for the Pair Production of Dark Particles $X$ with $K_{L}^{0} \to X X$ , $X \to γ γ$

C. Lin et al. (KOTO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111801 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Phase Structure of Electroweak Vacuum in a Strong Magnetic Field: The Lattice Results

M. N. Chernodub, V. A. Goy, and A. V. Molochkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111802 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Shift-Invariant Orders of an Axionlike Particle

Quentin Bonnefoy, Christophe Grojean, and Jonathan Kley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111803 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Strongly Bound Dibaryon with Maximal Beauty Flavor from Lattice QCD

Nilmani Mathur, M. Padmanath, and Debsubhra Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111901 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair in Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD

Stefano Catani, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, and Chiara Savoini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 111902 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Sequential $ϒ$ Suppression in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$ with the STAR Experiment

B. E. Aboona et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112301 (2023) - Published 14 March, 2023

Isomeric Excitation of ${}^{229}{Th}$ in Laser-Heated Clusters

Jintao Qi, Hanxu Zhang, and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112501 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

New Structure in the Deuteron

Misak M. Sargsian and Frank Vera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112502 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Constraining the Nuclear Symmetry Energy with Multimessenger Resonant Shattering Flares

Duncan Neill, Rebecca Preston, William G. Newton, and David Tsang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 112701 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong Polarization of a $J = 1 / 2$ to $1 / 2$ Transition Arising from Unexpectedly Large Quantum Interference

Nobuyuki Nakamura, Naoki Numadate, Simpei Oishi, Xiao-Min Tong, Xiang Gao, Daiji Kato, Hirokazu Odaka, Tadayuki Takahashi, Yutaka Tsuzuki, Yuusuke Uchida, Hirofumi Watanabe, Shin Watanabe, and Hiroki Yoneda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113001 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Ultracold Gas of Dipolar NaCs Ground State Molecules

Ian Stevenson, Aden Z. Lam, Niccolò Bigagli, Claire Warner, Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang, and Sebastian Will

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113002 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Multiphoton Ionization Reduction of Atoms in Two-Color Femtosecond Laser Fields

Hong-Bin Yao, Qi-Wen Qu, Zhao-Han Zhang, Jia-Wei Wang, Jian Gao, Chen-Xi Hu, Hui Li, Jian Wu, and Feng He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113201 (2023) - Published 14 March, 2023

Bosonic Pair Production and Squeezing for Optical Phase Measurements in Long-Lived Dipoles Coupled to a Cavity

Bhuvanesh Sundar, Diego Barberena, Asier Piñeiro Orioli, Anjun Chu, James K. Thompson, Ana Maria Rey, and Robert J. Lewis-Swan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113202 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Evaluation of Lattice Light Shift at Low $10^{- 19}$ Uncertainty for a Shallow Lattice Sr Optical Clock

Kyungtae Kim, Alexander Aeppli, Tobias Bothwell, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113203 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Tracking Quantum Coherence in Polariton Condensates with Time-Resolved Tomography

Carolin Lüders, Matthias Pukrop, Franziska Barkhausen, Elena Rozas, Christian Schneider, Sven Höfling, Jan Sperling, Stefan Schumacher, and Marc Aßmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113601 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Quantum Uncertainty Limit for Stern-Gerlach Interferometry with Massive Objects

Yonathan Japha and Ron Folman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 113602 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Dynamics of Compression-Driven Gas-Liquid Displacement in a Capillary Tube

Callum Cuttle and Christopher W. MacMinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 114001 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

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Helical Locomotion in Yield Stress Fluids

Farshad Nazari, Kourosh Shoele, and Hadi Mohammadigoushki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 114002 (2023) - Published 16 March, 2023

If a helical bacteria’s tail propulsion is strong enough to deform the yield-stress fluid ahead of the swimmer, locomotion proceeds.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Mitigation of the Onset of Hosing in the Linear Regime through Plasma Frequency Detuning

Mariana Moreira, Patric Muggli, and Jorge Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115001 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Growth and Saturation of the Electron Drift Instability in a Crossed Field Plasma

Zachariah A. Brown and Benjamin A. Jorns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115101 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Collisionless Accretion onto Black Holes: Dynamics and Flares

Alisa Galishnikova, Alexander Philippov, Eliot Quataert, Fabio Bacchini, Kyle Parfrey, and Bart Ripperda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 115201 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Observation of Perfectly-Chiral Exceptional Point via Bound State in the Continuum

Zhiling Zhou, Bin Jia, Nengyin Wang, Xu Wang, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116101 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Toughening Ceramics down to Cryogenic Temperatures by Reentrant Strain-Glass Transition

Minxia Fang, Yuanchao Ji, Yan Ni, Wenjia Wang, Hengmin Zhang, Xifei Wang, Andong Xiao, Tianyu Ma, Sen Yang, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116102 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Acoustic Higher-Order Weyl Semimetal with Bound Hinge States in the Continuum

Zhenhang Pu, Hailong He, Licheng Luo, Qiyun Ma, Liping Ye, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116103 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Activating Mobile Dislocation in Boron Carbide at Room Temperature via Al Doping

Jun Li, Kun Luo, and Qi An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116104 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

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Switchable Explosives: Performance Tuning of Fluid-Activated High Explosive Architectures

Cameron B. Brown, Alexander H. Mueller, Seetharaman Sridhar, Joseph P. Lichthardt, Andrew M. Schmalzer, Bryce C. Tappan, Von H. Whitley, Larry G. Hill, Eduardo Lozano, and Tariq D. Aslam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116105 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

An explosive material fabricated with a highly porous structure is inactive but is easily “switched on” when filled with water.

Enhancement of Graphene Phonon Excitation by a Chemically Engineered Molecular Resonance

Xiaocui Wu, Nicolas Néel, Mads Brandbyge, and Jörg Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116201 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

Machine Learning Optimization of Majorana Hybrid Nanowires

Matthias Thamm and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116202 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Control of Andreev Bound States Using Superconducting Phase Texture

Abhishek Banerjee, Max Geier, M. Ahnaf Rahman, Daniel S. Sanchez, Candice Thomas, Tian Wang, Michael J. Manfra, Karsten Flensberg, and Charles M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116203 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Connecting Higher-Order Topology with the Orbital Hall Effect in Monolayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Marcio Costa, Bruno Focassio, Luis M. Canonico, Tarik P. Cysne, Gabriel R. Schleder, R. B. Muniz, Adalberto Fazzio, and Tatiana G. Rappoport

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116204 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Where is the Quantum Spin Nematic?

Shengtao Jiang (蒋晟韬), Judit Romhányi, Steven R. White, M. E. Zhitomirsky, and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 116701 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Reconstructing Network Dynamics of Coupled Discrete Chaotic Units from Data

Irem Topal and Deniz Eroglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 117401 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Direct Calculation of the Interfacial Free Energy between NaCl Crystal and Its Aqueous Solution at the Solubility Limit

Ignacio Sanchez-Burgos and Jorge R. Espinosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118001 (2023) - Published 15 March, 2023

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Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Reveals Cation- $π$ Interactions in Aqueous Media Are Highly Affected by Cation Dehydration

Weishuai Di, Kai Xue, Jun Cai, Zhenshu Zhu, Zihan Li, Hui Fu, Hai Lei, Wenbing Hu, Chun Tang, Wei Wang, and Yi Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118101 (2023) - Published 17 March, 2023

Researchers have developed a method for measuring the strength of certain ion–electron interactions in water, with initial tests throwing up unexpected results.

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Electronic Excitation Response of DNA to High-Energy Proton Radiation in Water

Christopher Shepard, Dillon C. Yost, and Yosuke Kanai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 118401 (2023) - Published 13 March, 2023

A study of the electron excitation response of DNA to proton radiation has elucidated mechanisms of damage incurred during proton radiotherapy.