Volume 130, Issue 20

19 May 2023

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Photon counts near the center of the Milky Way from 14 years of data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope used in a search for thermal Higgsino dark matter. The blank bar is the Galactic plane, which has been masked.

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Higgsino Dark Matter Confronts 14 Years of Fermi $γ$ -Ray Data
Christopher Dessert, Joshua W. Foster, Yujin Park, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Weishuang Linda Xu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201001 (2023)

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Search for Spin-Dependent Gravitational Interactions at Earth Range

S.-B. Zhang, Z.-L. Ba, D.-H. Ning, N.-F. Zhai, Z.-T. Lu, and D. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201401 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

A new search for an interaction between a particle’s intrinsic spin and Earth’s gravitational field probes physics in the regime where quantum theory meets gravity.

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Entanglement-Enhanced Magnetic Induction Tomography

Wenqiang Zheng, Hengyan Wang, Rebecca Schmieg, Alan Oesterle, and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203602 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Quantum effects improve the performance of magnetic induction tomography—an imaging technique that has promising medical applications.

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Ramsey Spectroscopy of the $2 S_{1 / 2}$ Hyperfine Interval in Atomic Hydrogen

R. G. Bullis, C. Rasor, W. L. Tavis, S. A. Johnson, M. R. Weiss, and D. C. Yost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203001 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Measurements of the “hyperfine” splitting of certain electronic levels of hydrogen have broken precision records, potentially enabling precise tests of quantum electrodynamics.

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Subpicosecond Ultracold Electron Source

T. C. H. de Raadt, J. G. H. Franssen, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 205001 (2023) - Published 17 May, 2023

A method for producing ultrashort, ultracold electron bunches could improve the resolution of electron-based imaging methods.

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Machine Learning the Phase Diagram of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

M. Link, K. Gao, A. Kell, M. Breyer, D. Eberz, B. Rauf, and M. Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203401 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

An artificial neural network is used to determine the phase diagram of strongly correlated fermions across the BCS-BEC crossover, revealing a maximum in the critical temperature at the bosonic side.

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Non-Abelian Inverse Anderson Transitions

Weixuan Zhang, Haiteng Wang, Houjun Sun, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206401 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

A topoelectrical circuit shows that localized and extended eigenstates coexist in a non-Abelian flat-band system with disorder.

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Collective Excitations in Chiral Stoner Magnets

Zhiyu Dong, Olumakinde Ogunnaike, and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206701 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Recently observed metallic phases in multilayer graphene support chiral edge modes allowing spin waves to propagate without backscattering.

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Trivial Andreev Band Mimicking Topological Bulk Gap Reopening in the Nonlocal Conductance of Long Rashba Nanowires

Richard Hess, Henry F. Legg, Daniel Loss, and Jelena Klinovaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207001 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

An Andreev band, formed from multiple bound states via equal distribution within a nanowire at similar energies, mimics the topological bulk closing and reopening signature of a bulk band gap.

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Extreme Statistics and Spacing Distribution in a Brownian Gas Correlated by Resetting

Marco Biroli, Hernan Larralde, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207101 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

A new, experimentally realizable, many-particle model that can be solved exactly describes a resetting gas with strong, long-range interactions in the steady state.

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Eigenvalue Crossing as a Phase Transition in Relaxation Dynamics

Gianluca Teza, Ran Yaacoby, and Oren Raz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207103 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

A phase transition in the out-of-equilibrium dynamics can occur with a rather simple mechanism: a small change in a parameter (e.g. the temperature of the thermal bath) can force the system to explore completely different configurations during the relaxation process.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Test of Causal Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics by Ramsey Interferometry with a Trapped Ion

Joseph Broz, Bingran You, Sumanta Khan, Hartmut Häffner, David E. Kaplan, and Surjeet Rajendran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200201 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

Observation of Non-Markovian Evolution of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Yan Wang, Ze-Yan Hao, Jia-Kun Li, Zheng-Hao Liu, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200202 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Multiple Scattering Expansion for Dielectric Media: Casimir Effect

Thorsten Emig and Giuseppe Bimonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200401 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

Thermalization and Dephasing in Collisional Reservoirs

Jorge Tabanera-Bravo, Juan M. R. Parrondo, Massimiliano Esposito, and Felipe Barra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200402 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Learning Many-Body Hamiltonians with Heisenberg-Limited Scaling

Hsin-Yuan Huang, Yu Tong, Di Fang, and Yuan Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200403 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Superfluid Signatures in a Dissipative Quantum Point Contact

Meng-Zi Huang, Jeffrey Mohan, Anne-Maria Visuri, Philipp Fabritius, Mohsen Talebi, Simon Wili, Shun Uchino, Thierry Giamarchi, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200404 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Learning Logical Pauli Noise in Quantum Error Correction

Thomas Wagner, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß, and Martin Kliesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200601 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

Linear Optical Quantum Computation with Frequency-Comb Qubits and Passive Devices

Tomohiro Yamazaki, Tomoaki Arizono, Toshiki Kobayashi, Rikizo Ikuta, and Takashi Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200602 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Generic Nonadditivity of Quantum Capacity in Simple Channels

Felix Leditzky, Debbie Leung, Vikesh Siddhu, Graeme Smith, and John A. Smolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 200801 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Higgsino Dark Matter Confronts 14 Years of Fermi $γ$ -Ray Data

Christopher Dessert, Joshua W. Foster, Yujin Park, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Weishuang Linda Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201001 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Test for Cosmological Parity Violation Using the 3D Distribution of Galaxies

Robert N. Cahn, Zachary Slepian, and Jiamin Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201002 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Machine Learning Cosmic Backreaction and Its Effects on Observations

S. M. Koksbang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201003 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

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Search for Spin-Dependent Gravitational Interactions at Earth Range

S.-B. Zhang, Z.-L. Ba, D.-H. Ning, N.-F. Zhai, Z.-T. Lu, and D. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201401 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

A new search for an interaction between a particle’s intrinsic spin and Earth’s gravitational field probes physics in the regime where quantum theory meets gravity.

Binary Dynamics through the Fifth Power of Spin at $O (G^{2})$

Zvi Bern, Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Andrés Luna, Radu Roiban, and Fei Teng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201402 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Degeneracy in the Inference of Phase Transitions in the Neutron Star Equation of State from Gravitational Wave Data

Carolyn A. Raithel and Elias R. Most

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201403 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Particles and Fields

Wilson Loops at Large $N$ and the Quantum M2-Brane

Simone Giombi and Arkady A. Tseytlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201601 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Line of Fixed Points in Gross-Neveu Theories

Charlie Cresswell-Hogg and Daniel F. Litim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201602 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Dispersive $π π \to K \bar{K}$ Amplitude and Giant $C P$ Violation in $B$ to Three Light-Meson Decays at LHCb

R. Álvarez Garrote, J. Cuervo, P. C. Magalhães, and J. R. Peláez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 201901 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Beam Energy Dependence of Triton Production and Yield Ratio ( $N_{t} \times N_{p} / N_{d}^{2}$ ) in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

M. I. Abdulhamid et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 202301 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Direct Determination of Fission-Barrier Heights Using Light-Ion Transfer in Inverse Kinematics

S. A. Bennett, K. Garrett, D. K. Sharp, S. J. Freeman, A. G. Smith, T. J. Wright, B. P. Kay, T. L. Tang, I. A. Tolstukhin, Y. Ayyad, J. Chen, P. J. Davies, A. Dolan, L. P. Gaffney, A. Heinz, C. R. Hoffman, C. Müller-Gatermann, R. D. Page, and G. L. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 202501 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Ramsey Spectroscopy of the $2 S_{1 / 2}$ Hyperfine Interval in Atomic Hydrogen

R. G. Bullis, C. Rasor, W. L. Tavis, S. A. Johnson, M. R. Weiss, and D. C. Yost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203001 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Measurements of the “hyperfine” splitting of certain electronic levels of hydrogen have broken precision records, potentially enabling precise tests of quantum electrodynamics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Machine Learning the Phase Diagram of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

M. Link, K. Gao, A. Kell, M. Breyer, D. Eberz, B. Rauf, and M. Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203401 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

An artificial neural network is used to determine the phase diagram of strongly correlated fermions across the BCS-BEC crossover, revealing a maximum in the critical temperature at the bosonic side.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Entanglement-Enhanced Magnetic Induction Tomography

Wenqiang Zheng, Hengyan Wang, Rebecca Schmieg, Alan Oesterle, and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203602 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Quantum effects improve the performance of magnetic induction tomography—an imaging technique that has promising medical applications.

Controlling Optomechanical Libration with the Degree of Polarization

J. A. Zielińska, F. van der Laan, A. Norrman, M. Rimlinger, R. Reimann, L. Novotny, and M. Frimmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203603 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Nonlinear Interferometry for Quantum-Enhanced Measurements of Multiphoton Absorption

Shahram Panahiyan, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Maria V. Chekhova, and Frank Schlawin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203604 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Quantum-Squeezing-Induced Point-Gap Topology and Skin Effect

Liang-Liang Wan and Xin-You Lü

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203605 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Geometrical Theory of Electromagnetic Nonreciprocity

Yongliang Zhang, Lina Shi, Che Ting Chan, Kin Hung Fung, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203801 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Intrinsic Triple Degeneracy Point Bounded by Nodal Surfaces in Chiral Photonic Crystal

Dongyang Wang, Hongwei Jia, Quanlong Yang, Jing Hu, Z. Q. Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203802 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Eigenpulses of Dispersive Time-Varying Media

S. A. R. Horsley, E. Galiffi, and Y.-T. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 203803 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Boundary-Layer Disruption and Heat-Transfer Enhancement in Convection Turbulence by Oscillating Deformations of Boundary

Leiqi Yuan, Shufan Zou, Yantao Yang, and Shiyi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 204001 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Subpicosecond Ultracold Electron Source

T. C. H. de Raadt, J. G. H. Franssen, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 205001 (2023) - Published 17 May, 2023

A method for producing ultrashort, ultracold electron bunches could improve the resolution of electron-based imaging methods.

Observation of Fast Current Redistribution in an Imploding Plasma Column

C. Stollberg, E. Kroupp, D. Mikitchuk, P. Sharma, V. Bernshtam, M. Cvejić, R. Doron, E. Stambulchik, Y. Maron, A. Fruchtman, I. E. Ochs, N. J. Fisch, and U. Shumlak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 205101 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Subion-Scale Turbulence Driven by Magnetic Reconnection

D. Manzini, F. Sahraoui, and F. Califano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 205201 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Phase Shift and Magnetic Anisotropy Induced Field Splitting of Impurity States in $({Li}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x}) OHFeSe$ Superconductor

Tianzhen Zhang, Yining Hu, Wei Su, Chen Chen, Xu Wang, Dong Li, Zouyouwei Lu, Wentao Yang, Qingle Zhang, Xiaoli Dong, Rui Wang, Xiaoqun Wang, Donglai Feng, and Tong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206001 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

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Non-Abelian Inverse Anderson Transitions

Weixuan Zhang, Haiteng Wang, Houjun Sun, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206401 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

A topoelectrical circuit shows that localized and extended eigenstates coexist in a non-Abelian flat-band system with disorder.

Emergent Glassy Behavior in a Kagome Rydberg Atom Array

Zheng Yan, Yan-Cheng Wang, Rhine Samajdar, Subir Sachdev, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206501 (2023) - Published 18 May, 2023

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Collective Excitations in Chiral Stoner Magnets

Zhiyu Dong, Olumakinde Ogunnaike, and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206701 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

Recently observed metallic phases in multilayer graphene support chiral edge modes allowing spin waves to propagate without backscattering.

Identifying and Constructing Complex Magnon Band Topology

Alberto Corticelli, Roderich Moessner, and Paul A. McClarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 206702 (2023) - Published 19 May, 2023

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Trivial Andreev Band Mimicking Topological Bulk Gap Reopening in the Nonlocal Conductance of Long Rashba Nanowires

Richard Hess, Henry F. Legg, Daniel Loss, and Jelena Klinovaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207001 (2023) - Published 15 May, 2023

An Andreev band, formed from multiple bound states via equal distribution within a nanowire at similar energies, mimics the topological bulk closing and reopening signature of a bulk band gap.

Gate-Controlled Quantum Interference Effects in a Clean Single-Wall Carbon Nanotube $p - n$ Junction

Xiaosong Deng, Kui Gong, Yin Wang, Zebin Liu, Kaili Jiang, Ning Kang, and Zhiyong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207002 (2023) - Published 17 May, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Extreme Statistics and Spacing Distribution in a Brownian Gas Correlated by Resetting

Marco Biroli, Hernan Larralde, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207101 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

A new, experimentally realizable, many-particle model that can be solved exactly describes a resetting gas with strong, long-range interactions in the steady state.

Nonequilibrium Phase Transition to Temporal Oscillations in Mean-Field Spin Models

Laura Guislain and Eric Bertin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 207102 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023

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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Experimental Test of Sinai’s Model in DNA Unzipping

Cathelijne ter Burg, Paolo Rissone, Marc Rico-Pasto, Felix Ritort, and Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 208401 (2023) - Published 16 May, 2023