Volume 130, Issue 12

24 March 2023

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Scanning electron microscope image of fly ash-based cement.

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NMR Surface Relaxivity in a Time-Dependent Porous System
Neil Robinson, Razyq Nasharuddin, Einar O. Fridjonsson, and Michael L. Johns
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126204 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Direct Measurement of Hexacontatetrapole, $E 6$ $γ$ Decay from ${}^{53 m}{Fe}$

T. Palazzo, A. J. Mitchell, G. J. Lane, A. E. Stuchbery, B. A. Brown, M. W. Reed, A. Akber, B. J. Coombes, J. T. H. Dowie, T. K. Eriksen, M. S. M. Gerathy, T. Kibédi, T. Tornyi, and M. O. de Vries

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 122503 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Observations deliver evidence of an exotic “sixth-order” electromagnetic transition in the gamma-ray emission of an iron isotope, a finding that could provide new ways to test nuclear models.

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Many-Body Description of STM-Induced Fluorescence of Charged Molecules

Song Jiang, Tomáš Neuman, Rémi Bretel, Alex Boeglin, Fabrice Scheurer, Eric Le Moal, and Guillaume Schull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126202 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Spatial maps of the light emitted by an excited molecule reveal how the emission depends on the molecule’s charge states.

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Imprinting Spatial Helicity Structure of Vector Vortex Beam on Spin Texture in Semiconductors

Jun Ishihara, Takachika Mori, Takuya Suzuki, Sota Sato, Ken Morita, Makoto Kohda, Yuzo Ohno, and Kensuke Miyajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126701 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Researchers use an optical vortex beam to create a stable pattern of electron spins in a thin layer of semiconductor material.

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Enzyme-Enriched Condensates Show Self-Propulsion, Positioning, and Coexistence

Leonardo Demarchi, Andriy Goychuk, Ivan Maryshev, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128401 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

Phase separation within cells creates droplets whose chemical activity leads to surprising mobility that serves cellular function and hints at the origin of life.

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Dissipative Pairing Interactions: Quantum Instabilities, Topological Light, and Volume-Law Entanglement

Andrew Pocklington, Yu-Xin Wang, and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 123602 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

A new class of dynamical instabilities generated by a stable photonic lattice Hamiltonian and stable dissipative pairing interaction is sensitive to wavefunction localization and allows selective excitation and entanglement of pure topological photonic edge states with minimal resources.

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Generalizing Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (1954) for Complex Atmospheric Turbulence

Ivana Stiperski and Marc Calaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 124001 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

The first generalization for all flow conditions of the 70-year old Monin-Obukhov similarity theory using an ensemble of atmospheric measurements covering the widest range of atmospheric complexity explains turbulence in complex atmospheric conditions

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Valley-Tunable Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in the Lowest Landau Level of an Anisotropic System

Md. Shafayat Hossain, Meng K. Ma, Y. J. Chung, S. K. Singh, A. Gupta, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, R. Winkler, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126301 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

An in-plane magnetic field and valley occupancy can tune phase transitions in an even-denominator quantum Hall regime.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Prethermal Fragmentation in a Periodically Driven Fermionic Chain

Somsubhra Ghosh, Indranil Paul, and K. Sengupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 120401 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Controlling Entanglement at Absorbing State Phase Transitions in Random Circuits

Piotr Sierant and Xhek Turkeshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 120402 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Discrete Time Crystal Enabled by Stark Many-Body Localization

Shuo Liu, Shi-Xin Zhang, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Shengyu Zhang, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 120403 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Multipartite Entanglement in a Microwave Frequency Comb

Shan W. Jolin, Gustav Andersson, J. C. Rivera Hernández, Ingrid Strandberg, Fernando Quijandría, José Aumentado, Riccardo Borgani, Mats O. Tholén, and David B. Haviland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 120601 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Classical Cost of Transmitting a Qubit

Martin J. Renner, Armin Tavakoli, and Marco Túlio Quintino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 120801 (2023) - Published 22 March, 2023

Full-Period Quantum Phase Estimation

Li-Zheng Liu, Yue-Yang Fei, Yingqiu Mao, Yi Hu, Rui Zhang, Xu-Fei Yin, Xiao Jiang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Feihu Xu, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 120802 (2023) - Published 22 March, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Thermal Dark Matter from Freeze-Out of Inverse Decays

Ronny Frumkin, Yonit Hochberg, Eric Kuflik, and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121001 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Dark Matter Dilution Mechanism through the Lens of Large-Scale Structure

Miha Nemevšek and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121002 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Massive Galaxy Clusters Like El Gordo Hint at Primordial Quantum Diffusion

Jose María Ezquiaga, Juan García-Bellido, and Vincent Vennin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121003 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Pulsar Polarization Arrays

Tao Liu, Xuzixiang Lou, and Jing Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121401 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Penrose Inequality as a Constraint on the Low Energy Limit of Quantum Gravity

Åsmund Folkestad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121501 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Particles and Fields

Noninvertible Symmetries from Holography and Branes

Fabio Apruzzi, Ibrahima Bah, Federico Bonetti, and Sakura Schäfer-Nameki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121601 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Self-Consistent Extraction of Spectroscopic Bounds on Light New Physics

Cédric Delaunay, Jean-Philippe Karr, Teppei Kitahara, Jeroen C. J. Koelemeij, Yotam Soreq, and Jure Zupan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121801 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Observation of Three Charmoniumlike States with $J^{P C} = 1^{- -}$ in $e^{+} e^{-} \to D^{* 0} D^{* -} π^{+}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 121901 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Theoretical Study of the $d (d, p) {}^{3}H$ and $d (d, n) {}^{3}{He}$ Processes at Low Energies

M. Viviani, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky, D. Logoteta, and L. E. Marcucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 122501 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

First Evidence of Axial Shape Asymmetry and Configuration Coexistence in ${}^{74}{Zn}$ : Suggestion for a Northern Extension of the $N = 40$ Island of Inversion

M. Rocchini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 122502 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

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Direct Measurement of Hexacontatetrapole, $E 6$ $γ$ Decay from ${}^{53 m}{Fe}$

T. Palazzo, A. J. Mitchell, G. J. Lane, A. E. Stuchbery, B. A. Brown, M. W. Reed, A. Akber, B. J. Coombes, J. T. H. Dowie, T. K. Eriksen, M. S. M. Gerathy, T. Kibédi, T. Tornyi, and M. O. de Vries

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 122503 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Observations deliver evidence of an exotic “sixth-order” electromagnetic transition in the gamma-ray emission of an iron isotope, a finding that could provide new ways to test nuclear models.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing the Degree of Coherence through the Full 1D to 3D Crossover

R. Shah, T. J. Barrett, A. Colcelli, F. Oručević, A. Trombettoni, and P. Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 123401 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Pure Dephasing of Light-Matter Systems in the Ultrastrong and Deep-Strong Coupling Regimes

Alberto Mercurio, Shilan Abo, Fabio Mauceri, Enrico Russo, Vincenzo Macrì, Adam Miranowicz, Salvatore Savasta, and Omar Di Stefano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 123601 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

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Dissipative Pairing Interactions: Quantum Instabilities, Topological Light, and Volume-Law Entanglement

Andrew Pocklington, Yu-Xin Wang, and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 123602 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Deterministic Quantum Phase Estimation beyond N00N States

Jens A. H. Nielsen, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, Tobias Gehring, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 123603 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Metasurface-Based Solid Poincaré Sphere Polarizer

Shuai Wang, Shun Wen, Zi-Lan Deng, Xiangping Li, and Yuanmu Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 123801 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Generalizing Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory (1954) for Complex Atmospheric Turbulence

Ivana Stiperski and Marc Calaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 124001 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Pair-Density-Wave and Chiral Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Yi-Ming Wu, Zhengzhi Wu, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126001 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect with Unconventional Pairing in Monolayer Graphene

Anirban Sharma, Songyang Pu, Ajit C. Balram, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126201 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

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Many-Body Description of STM-Induced Fluorescence of Charged Molecules

Song Jiang, Tomáš Neuman, Rémi Bretel, Alex Boeglin, Fabrice Scheurer, Eric Le Moal, and Guillaume Schull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126202 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Spatial maps of the light emitted by an excited molecule reveal how the emission depends on the molecule’s charge states.

Dimer Coupling Energies of the Si(001) Surface

Christian Brand, Alfred Hucht, Giriraj Jnawali, Jonas D. Fortmann, Björn Sothmann, Hamid Mehdipour, Peter Kratzer, Ralf Schützhold, and Michael Horn-von Hoegen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126203 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

NMR Surface Relaxivity in a Time-Dependent Porous System

Neil Robinson, Razyq Nasharuddin, Einar O. Fridjonsson, and Michael L. Johns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126204 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Effect of Amorphous-Crystalline Phase Transition on Superlubric Sliding

Ebru Cihan, Dirk Dietzel, Benedykt R. Jany, and André Schirmeisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126205 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

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Valley-Tunable Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in the Lowest Landau Level of an Anisotropic System

Md. Shafayat Hossain, Meng K. Ma, Y. J. Chung, S. K. Singh, A. Gupta, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, R. Winkler, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126301 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

An in-plane magnetic field and valley occupancy can tune phase transitions in an even-denominator quantum Hall regime.

Ultrafast Dynamics of Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in the Topological Antiferromagnet ${Mn}_{3} Sn$

Takuya Matsuda, Tomoya Higo, Takashi Koretsune, Natsuki Kanda, Yoshua Hirai, Hanyi Peng, Takumi Matsuo, Naotaka Yoshikawa, Ryo Shimano, Satoru Nakatsuji, and Ryusuke Matsunaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126302 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Intrinsic Nonlinear Planar Hall Effect

Yue-Xin Huang, Xiaolong Feng, Hui Wang, Cong Xiao, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126303 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Magnetic Breakdown and Topology in the Kagome Superconductor ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$ under High Magnetic Field

Ramakanta Chapai, Maxime Leroux, Vincent Oliviero, David Vignolles, Nicolas Bruyant, M. P. Smylie, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, W.-K. Kwok, J. F. Mitchell, and Ulrich Welp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126401 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

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Imprinting Spatial Helicity Structure of Vector Vortex Beam on Spin Texture in Semiconductors

Jun Ishihara, Takachika Mori, Takuya Suzuki, Sota Sato, Ken Morita, Makoto Kohda, Yuzo Ohno, and Kensuke Miyajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126701 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Researchers use an optical vortex beam to create a stable pattern of electron spins in a thin layer of semiconductor material.

Distinct Magnetic Gaps between Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Orders Driven by Surface Defects in the Topological Magnet ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Hengxin Tan and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126702 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Large Anomalous Frequency Shift in Perpendicular Standing Spin Wave Modes in BiYIG Films Induced by Thin Metallic Overlayers

Byung Hun Lee, Takian Fakhrul, Caroline A. Ross, and Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126703 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Prominent Size Effects without a Depolarization Field Observed in Ultrathin Ferroelectric Oxide Membranes

Haoying Sun, Jiahui Gu, Yongqiang Li, Tula R. Paudel, Di Liu, Jierong Wang, Yipeng Zang, Chengyi Gu, Jiangfeng Yang, Wenjie Sun, Zhengbin Gu, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Junming Liu, Houbing Huang, Di Wu, and Yuefeng Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126801 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Electronuclear Transition into a Spatially Modulated Magnetic State in ${YbRh}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

J. Knapp, L. V. Levitin, J. Nyéki, A. F. Ho, B. Cowan, J. Saunders, M. Brando, C. Geibel, K. Kliemt, and C. Krellner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126802 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Coupling of ${MoS}_{2}$ Excitons with Lattice Phonons and Cavity Vibrational Phonons in Hybrid Nanobeam Cavities

Chenjiang Qian, Viviana Villafañe, Marko M. Petrić, Pedro Soubelet, Andreas V. Stier, and Jonathan J. Finley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126901 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Terahertz-Driven Local Dipolar Correlation in a Quantum Paraelectric

Bing Cheng, Patrick L. Kramer, Zhi-Xun Shen, and Matthias C. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 126902 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Soliton Shielding of the Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Marco Bertola, Tamara Grava, and Giuseppe Orsatti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 127201 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Defect Line Coarsening and Refinement in Active Nematics

Nika Kralj, Miha Ravnik, and Žiga Kos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128101 (2023) - Published 21 March, 2023

Soft Deployable Structures via Core-Shell Inflatables

Trevor J. Jones, Thomas Dupuis, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, Joel Marthelot, and P.-T. Brun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128201 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

Collective Motion and Pattern Formation in Phase-Synchronizing Active Fluids

Brato Chakrabarti, Michael J. Shelley, and Sebastian Fürthauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128202 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Tuning Nucleation Kinetics via Nonequilibrium Chemical Reactions

Yongick Cho and William M. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128203 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

Modeling the Transition between Localized and Extended Deposition in Flow Networks through Packings of Glass Beads

Gess Kelly, Navid Bizmark, Bulbul Chakraborty, Sujit S. Datta, and Thomas G. Fai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128204 (2023) - Published 24 March, 2023

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Enzyme-Enriched Condensates Show Self-Propulsion, Positioning, and Coexistence

Leonardo Demarchi, Andriy Goychuk, Ivan Maryshev, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 128401 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

Phase separation within cells creates droplets whose chemical activity leads to surprising mobility that serves cellular function and hints at the origin of life.

ERRATA

Expression of Concern: Colossal Density-Driven Resistance Response in the Negative Charge Transfer Insulator $M n S_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016401 (2021)]

Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 129901 (2023) - Published 20 March, 2023

Erratum: Quantifying and Controlling Entanglement in the Quantum Magnet ${Cs}_{2} {CoCl}_{4}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037201 (2021)]

Pontus Laurell, Allen Scheie, Chiron J. Mukherjee, Michael M. Koza, Mechtild Enderle, Zbigniew Tylczynski, Satoshi Okamoto, Radu Coldea, D. Alan Tennant, and Gonzalo Alvarez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 129902 (2023) - Published 23 March, 2023