Volume 130, Issue 2

13 January 2023

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Examples of hydrodynamically synchronized circular swimmers.

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Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Chiral Microswimmers
Sotiris Samatas and Juho Lintuvuori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 024001 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Vibrational Dynamics of Orientated Rydberg-Atom-Ion Molecules

Yi-Quan Zou, Moritz Berngruber, Viraatt S. V. Anasuri, Nicolas Zuber, Florian Meinert, Robert Löw, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023002 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Researchers have recorded for the first time the dynamics of vibrating Rydberg molecules, the slow-motion counterparts of regular molecules.

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Quantum Phase Transition in the One-Dimensional Water Chain

T. Serwatka, R. G. Melko, A. Burkov, and P.-N. Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026201 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Water molecules that are close enough to “see” each other but far enough apart to be gas-like can undergo a quantum phase transition, a finding of relevance for making future water-based quantum devices.

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Rhythms from Two Competing Periodic Sources Embedded in an Excitable Medium

Khady Diagne, Thomas M. Bury, Marc W. Deyell, Zachary Laksman, Alvin Shrier, Gil Bub, and Leon Glass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 028401 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Computer simulations and experiments with cardiac cells identify signatures of a condition in which two sets of pacemaker cells lead to an abnormal heartbeat.

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Origin of the Reactor Antineutrino Anomalies in Light of a New Summation Model with Parametrized $β^{-}$ Transitions

A. Letourneau, V. Savu, D. Lhuillier, T. Lasserre, T. Materna, G. Mention, X. Mougeot, A. Onillon, L. Perisse, and M. Vivier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021801 (2023) - Published 10 January, 2023

A new analysis finds that discrepancies between reactor neutrino experiments and theory may be the result of errors in the analysis of electron data that form the basis of the neutrino predictions.

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Solution of the BEC to BCS Quench in One Dimension

Colin Rylands, Pasquale Calabrese, and Bruno Bertini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023001 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

An exact solution for the BEC-BCS quench in one dimension is modeled using the attractive Yang-Gaudin model quenched from a molecular BEC initial state.

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Buoyancy-Induced Convection Driven by Frontal Polymerization

Y. Gao, J. E. Paul, M. Chen, L. Hong, L. P. Chamorro, N. R. Sottos, and P. H. Geubelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 028101 (2023) - Published 9 January, 2023

A model of frontal polymerization for a reaction-diffusion-convection fluid enables fabrication of polymeric materials with controllable patterns and heterogeneous properties in closed-mold systems.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Controlling Quantum Chaos: Optimal Coherent Targeting

Steven Tomsovic, Juan Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020201 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Exact Results for the Moments of the Rapidity Distribution in Galilean-Invariant Integrable Models

Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020401 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Driven Tracer in the Symmetric Exclusion Process: Linear Response and Beyond

Aurélien Grabsch, Pierre Rizkallah, Pierre Illien, and Olivier Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020402 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Catalytic Leverage of Correlations and Mitigation of Dissipation in Information Erasure

I. Henao and R. Uzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020403 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Exploring Integrability-Chaos Transition with a Sequence of Independent Perturbations

Vladimir A. Yurovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020404 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Long-Range Bell States from Local Measurements and Many-Body Teleportation without Time Reversal

Lakshya Agarwal, Christopher M. Langlett, and Shenglong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020801 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Faithfulness and Sensitivity for Ancilla-Assisted Process Tomography

Seok Hyung Lie and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 020802 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Novel Ringdown Amplitude-Phase Consistency Test

Xisco Jiménez Forteza, Swetha Bhagwat, Sumit Kumar, and Paolo Pani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021001 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Coordinate Singularities of Self-Interacting Vector Field Theories

Andrew Coates and Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021401 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Particles and Fields

Conservative Binary Dynamics with a Spinning Black Hole at $O (G^{3})$ from Scattering Amplitudes

Fernando Febres Cordero, Manfred Kraus, Guanda Lin, Michael S. Ruf, and Mao Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021601 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Gauge Invariance at Large Charge

Oleg Antipin, Alexander Bednyakov, Jahmall Bersini, Pantelis Panopoulos, and Andrey Pikelner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021602 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Rényi Mutual Information in Quantum Field Theory

Jonah Kudler-Flam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021603 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

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Origin of the Reactor Antineutrino Anomalies in Light of a New Summation Model with Parametrized $β^{-}$ Transitions

A. Letourneau, V. Savu, D. Lhuillier, T. Lasserre, T. Materna, G. Mention, X. Mougeot, A. Onillon, L. Perisse, and M. Vivier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021801 (2023) - Published 10 January, 2023

A new analysis finds that discrepancies between reactor neutrino experiments and theory may be the result of errors in the analysis of electron data that form the basis of the neutrino predictions.

Search for Solar ${}^{8}B$ Neutrinos in the PandaX-4T Experiment Using Neutrino-Nucleus Coherent Scattering

Wenbo Ma et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 021802 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Correlations between Spin and Transverse Momenta in Back-to-Back Dihadron Production at CLAS12

H. Avakian et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 022501 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Solution of the BEC to BCS Quench in One Dimension

Colin Rylands, Pasquale Calabrese, and Bruno Bertini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023001 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

An exact solution for the BEC-BCS quench in one dimension is modeled using the attractive Yang-Gaudin model quenched from a molecular BEC initial state.

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Observation of Vibrational Dynamics of Orientated Rydberg-Atom-Ion Molecules

Yi-Quan Zou, Moritz Berngruber, Viraatt S. V. Anasuri, Nicolas Zuber, Florian Meinert, Robert Löw, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023002 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Researchers have recorded for the first time the dynamics of vibrating Rydberg molecules, the slow-motion counterparts of regular molecules.

Dissipation Mechanisms in Fermionic Josephson Junction

Gabriel Wlazłowski, Klejdja Xhani, Marek Tylutki, Nikolaos P. Proukakis, and Piotr Magierski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023003 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Recoil Corrections to the Energy Levels of Hydrogenic Atoms

Gregory S. Adkins, Jonathan Gomprecht, Yanxi Li, and Evan Shinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023004 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Stable Atomic Magnetometer in Parity-Time Symmetry Broken Phase

Xiangdong Zhang, Jinbo Hu, and Nan Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023201 (2023) - Published 9 January, 2023

Millisecond-Lived Circular Rydberg Atoms in a Room-Temperature Experiment

H. Wu, R. Richaud, J.-M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Gleyzes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023202 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Frequency Combs with Parity-Protected Cross-Correlations and Entanglement from Dynamically Modulated Qubit Arrays

Denis Ilin, Alexander V. Poshakinskiy, Alexander N. Poddubny, and Ivan Iorsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023601 (2023) - Published 9 January, 2023

Superexchange Liquefaction of Strongly Correlated Lattice Dipolar Bosons

Ivan Morera, Rafał Ołdziejewski, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, and Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 023602 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Chiral Microswimmers

Sotiris Samatas and Juho Lintuvuori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 024001 (2023) - Published 9 January, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Pair Density Wave Order from Electron Repulsion

Yi-Ming Wu, P. A. Nosov, Aavishkar A. Patel, and S. Raghu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026001 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Spinful Topological Phases in Acoustic Crystals with Projective $P T$ Symmetry

Yan Meng, Shuxin Lin, Bin-jie Shi, Bin Wei, Linyun Yang, Bei Yan, Zhenxiao Zhu, Xiang Xi, Yin Wang, Yong Ge, Shou-qi Yuan, Jingming Chen, Gui-Geng Liu, Hong-xiang Sun, Hongsheng Chen, Yihao Yang, and Zhen Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026101 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

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Quantum Phase Transition in the One-Dimensional Water Chain

T. Serwatka, R. G. Melko, A. Burkov, and P.-N. Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026201 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Fractionalization and Topology in Amorphous Electronic Solids

Sunghoon Kim, Adhip Agarwala, and Debanjan Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026202 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Microstructural Pattern Formation during Far-from-Equilibrium Alloy Solidification

Kaihua Ji, Elaheh Dorari, Amy J. Clarke, and Alain Karma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026203 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Unveiling and Manipulating Hidden Symmetries in Graphene Nanoribbons

Nikita V. Tepliakov, Johannes Lischner, Efthimios Kaxiras, Arash A. Mostofi, and Michele Pizzochero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026401 (2023) - Published 12 January, 2023

Direct Optical Probe of Magnon Topology in Two-Dimensional Quantum Magnets

Emil Viñas Boström, Tahereh Sadat Parvini, James W. McIver, Angel Rubio, Silvia Viola Kusminskiy, and Michael A. Sentef

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026701 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Suppressed Fluctuations as the Origin of the Static Magnetic Order in Strained ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Bongjae Kim, Sergii Khmelevskyi, Cesare Franchini, and I. I. Mazin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026702 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Exactly Solvable Model for a Deconfined Quantum Critical Point in 1D

Carolyn Zhang and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026801 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Twist-Dependent Intra- and Interlayer Excitons in Moiré ${MoSe}_{2}$ Homobilayers

Viviana Villafañe, Malte Kremser, Ruven Hübner, Marko M. Petrić, Nathan P. Wilson, Andreas V. Stier, Kai Müller, Matthias Florian, Alexander Steinhoff, and Jonathan J. Finley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 026901 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Buoyancy-Induced Convection Driven by Frontal Polymerization

Y. Gao, J. E. Paul, M. Chen, L. Hong, L. P. Chamorro, N. R. Sottos, and P. H. Geubelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 028101 (2023) - Published 9 January, 2023

A model of frontal polymerization for a reaction-diffusion-convection fluid enables fabrication of polymeric materials with controllable patterns and heterogeneous properties in closed-mold systems.

Spontaneous Twisting of Achiral Hard Rod Nematics

Davide Revignas and Alberta Ferrarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 028102 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Discontinuous Tension-Controlled Transition between Collective Actuations in Active Solids

Paul Baconnier, Dor Shohat, and Olivier Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 028201 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

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Rhythms from Two Competing Periodic Sources Embedded in an Excitable Medium

Khady Diagne, Thomas M. Bury, Marc W. Deyell, Zachary Laksman, Alvin Shrier, Gil Bub, and Leon Glass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 028401 (2023) - Published 11 January, 2023

Computer simulations and experiments with cardiac cells identify signatures of a condition in which two sets of pacemaker cells lead to an abnormal heartbeat.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Universality and Intermittency of Pair Dispersion in Turbulence”

Dhawal Buaria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 029401 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

Tan and Ni Reply:

Shiyong Tan and Rui Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 029402 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023

ERRATA

Erratum: State-Resolved Mutual Neutralization of ${Mg}^{+}$ and $D^{-}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033401 (2022)]

Jon Grumer, Gustav Eklund, Anish M. Amarsi, Paul S. Barklem, Stefan Rosén, MingChao Ji, Ansgar Simonsson, Henrik Cederquist, Henning Zettergren, and Henning T. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 029901 (2023) - Published 13 January, 2023