Volume 130, Issue 19

12 May 2023

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Scanning tunneling microscope image of the honeycomb lattice of germanene, magnified in the inset. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Quantum Spin Hall States and Topological Phase Transition in Germanene
Pantelis Bampoulis, Carolien Castenmiller, Dennis J. Klaassen, Jelle van Mil, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Yugui Yao, Motohiko Ezawa, Alexander N. Rudenko, and Harold J. W. Zandvliet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196401 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Full Network Nonlocality with Independent Sources and Strict Locality Constraints

Xue-Mei Gu, Liang Huang, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Yang-Fan Jiang, Dian Wu, Bing Bai, Qi-Chao Sun, Ming-Cheng Chen, Jun Zhang, Sixia Yu, Qiang Zhang, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 190201 (2023) - Published 11 May, 2023

Researchers prove the fully nonclassical nature of a three-party quantum network, a requirement for developing secure quantum communication technologies.

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Solving Graph Problems Using Gaussian Boson Sampling

Yu-Hao Deng, Si-Qiu Gong, Yi-Chao Gu, Zhi-Jiong Zhang, Hua-Liang Liu, Hao Su, Hao-Yang Tang, Jia-Min Xu, Meng-Hao Jia, Ming-Cheng Chen, Han-Sen Zhong, Hui Wang, Jiarong Yan, Yi Hu, Jia Huang, Wei-Jun Zhang, Hao Li, Xiao Jiang, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 190601 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023

A quantum photonic device can perform some real-world tasks more efficiently than classical computers.

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Blue-Detuned Magneto-optical Trap of Molecules

Justin J. Burau, Parul Aggarwal, Kameron Mehling, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193401 (2023) - Published 10 May, 2023

A novel laser cooling and trapping technique squeezes large numbers of molecules into a confined space while keeping them ultracold.

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Characterization of Quasi-Keplerian, Differentially Rotating, Free-Boundary Laboratory Plasmas

V. Valenzuela-Villaseca, L. G. Suttle, F. Suzuki-Vidal, J. W. D. Halliday, S. Merlini, D. R. Russell, E. R. Tubman, J. D. Hare, J. P. Chittenden, M. E. Koepke, E. G. Blackman, and S. V. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 195101 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

A spinning plasma ring mimics the rotating structure surrounding a black hole.

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Quantum Spin Hall States and Topological Phase Transition in Germanene

Pantelis Bampoulis, Carolien Castenmiller, Dennis J. Klaassen, Jelle van Mil, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Yugui Yao, Motohiko Ezawa, Alexander N. Rudenko, and Harold J. W. Zandvliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196401 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Germanene undergoes a topological phase transition and then becomes a normal insulator when the strength of an applied electric field is dialed up.

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Quantum Control of a Single Magnon in a Macroscopic Spin System

Da Xu, Xu-Ke Gu, He-Kang Li, Yuan-Chao Weng, Yi-Pu Wang, Jie Li, H. Wang, Shi-Yao Zhu, and J. Q. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193603 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

By coupling an yttrium-iron-garnet nanosphere to a superconducting qubit, experiments succeed in generating a single magnon state and its superposition with a vacuum.

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Topological and Stacked Flat Bands in Bilayer Graphene with a Superlattice Potential

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Aaron Dunbrack, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Jiacheng Sun, Xu Du, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196201 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Bilayer graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential can be an alternative platform to realize moiŕe physics, where the superlattice symmetry and geometry can be chosen on demand.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Experimental Full Network Nonlocality with Independent Sources and Strict Locality Constraints

Xue-Mei Gu, Liang Huang, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Yang-Fan Jiang, Dian Wu, Bing Bai, Qi-Chao Sun, Ming-Cheng Chen, Jun Zhang, Sixia Yu, Qiang Zhang, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 190201 (2023) - Published 11 May, 2023

Researchers prove the fully nonclassical nature of a three-party quantum network, a requirement for developing secure quantum communication technologies.

Quench-Probe Setup as Analyzer of Fractionalized Entanglement Spreading

Nicolas P. Bauer, Jan Carl Budich, Björn Trauzettel, and Alessio Calzona

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 190401 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023

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Solving Graph Problems Using Gaussian Boson Sampling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 190601 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023

A quantum photonic device can perform some real-world tasks more efficiently than classical computers.

Quantum Associative Memory with a Single Driven-Dissipative Nonlinear Oscillator

Adrià Labay-Mora, Roberta Zambrini, and Gian Luca Giorgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 190602 (2023) - Published 11 May, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Collisional Flavor Instabilities of Supernova Neutrinos

Lucas Johns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 191001 (2023) - Published 8 May, 2023

Constraining the Bispectrum from Bouncing Cosmologies with Planck

Bartjan van Tent, Paola C. M. Delgado, and Ruth Durrer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 191002 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023

Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate at Redshift 2.3 from the Lyman- $α$ Forest

Andrei Cuceu, Andreu Font-Ribera, Seshadri Nadathur, Benjamin Joachimi, and Paul Martini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 191003 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Particles and Fields

Quantum Field Theory in AdS Space instead of Lehmann-Symanzik-Zimmerman Axioms

Balt C. van Rees and Xiang Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 191601 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Lattice QCD Calculation of $π^{0} \to e^{+} e^{-}$ Decay

Norman Christ, Xu Feng, Luchang Jin, Cheng Tu, and Yidi Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 191901 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Proton Structure Functions at Next-to-Leading Order in the Dipole Picture with Massive Quarks

Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen, and Jani Penttala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 192301 (2023) - Published 8 May, 2023

Mass Measurement of Upper $f p$ -Shell $N = Z - 2$ and $N = Z - 1$ Nuclei and the Importance of Three-Nucleon Force along the $N = Z$ Line

M. Wang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 192501 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023

Angular Correlations in the $β$ Decay of ${}^{8}B$ : First Tensor-Current Limits from a Mirror-Nucleus Pair

A. T. Gallant et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 192502 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Criticality of Liquid-Gas Transition in a Binary Bose Mixture

Li He, Haowei Li, Wei Yi, and Zeng-Qiang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193001 (2023) - Published 8 May, 2023

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Blue-Detuned Magneto-optical Trap of Molecules

Justin J. Burau, Parul Aggarwal, Kameron Mehling, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193401 (2023) - Published 10 May, 2023

A novel laser cooling and trapping technique squeezes large numbers of molecules into a confined space while keeping them ultracold.

Dark-State Enhanced Loading of an Optical Tweezer Array

Adam L. Shaw, Pascal Scholl, Ran Finklestein, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Brandon Grinkemeyer, and Manuel Endres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193402 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Spectral Analysis of Quantum Field Fluctuations in a Strongly Coupled Optomechanical System

A. Ranfagni, F. Marino, and F. Marin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193601 (2023) - Published 8 May, 2023

$PT$ -Symmetric Feedback Induced Linewidth Narrowing

Yuanjiang Tang, Chao Liang, Xin Wen, Weipeng Li, An-Ning Xu, and Yong-Chun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193602 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Control of a Single Magnon in a Macroscopic Spin System

Da Xu, Xu-Ke Gu, He-Kang Li, Yuan-Chao Weng, Yi-Pu Wang, Jie Li, H. Wang, Shi-Yao Zhu, and J. Q. You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 193603 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

By coupling an yttrium-iron-garnet nanosphere to a superconducting qubit, experiments succeed in generating a single magnon state and its superposition with a vacuum.

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Saturation of Vortex Rings Ejected from Shock-Accelerated Interfaces

Michael J. Wadas, Loc H. Khieu, Griffin S. Cearley, Heath J. LeFevre, Carolyn C. Kuranz, and Eric Johnsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 194001 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Characterization of Quasi-Keplerian, Differentially Rotating, Free-Boundary Laboratory Plasmas

V. Valenzuela-Villaseca, L. G. Suttle, F. Suzuki-Vidal, J. W. D. Halliday, S. Merlini, D. R. Russell, E. R. Tubman, J. D. Hare, J. P. Chittenden, M. E. Koepke, E. G. Blackman, and S. V. Lebedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 195101 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

A spinning plasma ring mimics the rotating structure surrounding a black hole.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Stabilizing Fluctuating Spin-Triplet Superconductivity in Graphene via Induced Spin-Orbit Coupling

Jonathan B. Curtis, Nicholas R. Poniatowski, Yonglong Xie, Amir Yacoby, Eugene Demler, and Prineha Narang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196001 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023

Field Induced Multiple Superconducting Phases in ${UTe}_{2}$ along Hard Magnetic Axis

H. Sakai, Y. Tokiwa, P. Opletal, M. Kimata, S. Awaji, T. Sasaki, D. Aoki, S. Kambe, Y. Tokunaga, and Y. Haga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196002 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Microscopic Imaging Homogeneous and Single Phase Superfluid Density in ${UTe}_{2}$

Yusuke Iguchi, Huiyuan Man, S. M. Thomas, Filip Ronning, Priscila F. S. Rosa, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196003 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological and Stacked Flat Bands in Bilayer Graphene with a Superlattice Potential

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Aaron Dunbrack, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Jiacheng Sun, Xu Du, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196201 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Bilayer graphene in the presence of a superlattice potential can be an alternative platform to realize moiŕe physics, where the superlattice symmetry and geometry can be chosen on demand.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Spin Hall States and Topological Phase Transition in Germanene

Pantelis Bampoulis, Carolien Castenmiller, Dennis J. Klaassen, Jelle van Mil, Yichen Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Yugui Yao, Motohiko Ezawa, Alexander N. Rudenko, and Harold J. W. Zandvliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196401 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Germanene undergoes a topological phase transition and then becomes a normal insulator when the strength of an applied electric field is dialed up.

Quantum Effects on Unconventional Pinch Point Singularities

Nils Niggemann, Yasir Iqbal, and Johannes Reuther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196601 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Fermi-Arc Metals

Maxim Breitkreiz and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196602 (2023) - Published 12 May, 2023

Observation of Electric Hysteresis, Polarization Oscillation, and Pyroelectricity in Nonferroelectric $p − n$ Heterojunctions

Yucheng Jiang, Xinglong Ma, Lin Wang, Jinlei Zhang, Zhichao Wang, Run Zhao, Guozhen Liu, Yang Li, Cheng Zhang, Chunlan Ma, Yaping Qi, Lin Wu, and Ju Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 196801 (2023) - Published 9 May, 2023