Volume 130, Issue 21

26 May 2023

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On the Cover

An initially spherical silicon oil droplet (0.2 mm) submerged in water gradually deforms into a pendant droplet (red line) after a water-ice solidification front (not shown) advances at a slow rate from right to left to engulf the deformed droplet.

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Thin-Film-Mediated Deformation of Droplet during Cryopreservation
Jochem G. Meijer, Pallav Kant, Duco van Buuren, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 214002 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Telecom-Wavelength Quantum Repeater Node Based on a Trapped-Ion Processor

V. Krutyanskiy, M. Canteri, M. Meraner, J. Bate, V. Krcmarsky, J. Schupp, N. Sangouard, and B. P. Lanyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213601 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

A quantum repeater based on trapped ions allows the transmission of entangled, telecom-wavelength photons over 50 km.

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Experimental Demonstration of Laser Guiding and Wakefield Acceleration in a Curved Plasma Channel

Xinzhe Zhu, Boyuan Li, Feng Liu, Jianlong Li, Zewu Bi, Xulei Ge, Hongyang Deng, Ziyang Zhang, Peilin Cui, Lin Lu, Wenchao Yan, Xiaohui Yuan, Liming Chen, Qiang Cao, Zhenyu Liu, Zhengming Sheng, Min Chen, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 215001 (2023) - Published 23 May, 2023

A curved “laser wakefield accelerator” could boost the acceleration potential of a multistage version of this device.

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Suppression of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Transport in Flat-Band Superconductors

Ville A. J. Pyykkönen, Sebastiano Peotta, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216003 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Single electrons stay stationary in superconductors with “flat-band” electronic structures, which could lead to low-energy-consumption devices made from such materials.

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Flattened and Wrinkled Encapsulated Droplets: Shape Morphing Induced by Gravity and Evaporation

Davide Riccobelli, Hedar H. Al-Terke, Päivi Laaksonen, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Arja Paananen, Robin H. A. Ras, Pasquale Ciarletta, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218202 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Whether sitting or hanging, the surface of a protein-containing droplet changes as the water escapes, an effect researchers link to the pull of gravity.

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Reaction-Limited Quantum Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Federico Carollo, Juan P. Garrahan, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210402 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

An analytical treatment of a quantum model of reaction-diffusion dynamics leads to a novel set of collective phenomena.

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Controlling Local Thermalization Dynamics in a Floquet-Engineered Dipolar Ensemble

Leigh S. Martin, Hengyun Zhou, Nathaniel T. Leitao, Nishad Maskara, Oksana Makarova, Haoyang Gao, Qian-Ze Zhu, Mincheol Park, Matthew Tyler, Hongkun Park, Soonwon Choi, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210403 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

A novel technique for probing local thermalization in interacting quantum many-body systems applied to a dense spin ensemble of around 100,000 spins is sensitive to local dynamics despite only having access to global control and readout.

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Superfluid Helium Drops Levitated in High Vacuum

C. D. Brown, Y. Wang, M. Namazi, G. I. Harris, M. T. Uysal, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216001 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Millimeter-scale drops of superfluid liquid helium can be trapped indefinitely in high vacuum.

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Andreev Reflection in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Unconventional Superconductors

P. O. Sukhachov, Felix von Oppen, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216002 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Every possible parameter associated with the energy gap, electron pairing, and density of states of two-dimensional superconductors can be extracted from scanning tunneling spectroscopy data using a proposed theoretical method.

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Absolute Negative Mobility of an Active Tracer in a Crowded Environment

Pierre Rizkallah, Alessandro Sarracino, Olivier Bénichou, and Pierre Illien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218201 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Active tracers subject to external forcing can exhibit a tendency to travel against the driving force in a crowded environment.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Work Extraction from Unknown Quantum Sources

Dominik Šafránek, Dario Rosa, and Felix C. Binder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210401 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

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Reaction-Limited Quantum Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Federico Carollo, Juan P. Garrahan, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210402 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

An analytical treatment of a quantum model of reaction-diffusion dynamics leads to a novel set of collective phenomena.

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Controlling Local Thermalization Dynamics in a Floquet-Engineered Dipolar Ensemble

Leigh S. Martin, Hengyun Zhou, Nathaniel T. Leitao, Nishad Maskara, Oksana Makarova, Haoyang Gao, Qian-Ze Zhu, Mincheol Park, Matthew Tyler, Hongkun Park, Soonwon Choi, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210403 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Signatures of Dissipation Driven Quantum Phase Transition in Rabi Model

G. De Filippis, A. de Candia, G. Di Bello, C. A. Perroni, L. M. Cangemi, A. Nocera, M. Sassetti, R. Fazio, and V. Cataudella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210404 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Quantum Similarity Testing with Convolutional Neural Networks

Ya-Dong Wu, Yan Zhu, Ge Bai, Yuexuan Wang, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210601 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Demonstration of Algorithmic Quantum Speedup

Bibek Pokharel and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210602 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Experimental Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution over 1000 km Fiber Distance

Yang Liu, Wei-Jun Zhang, Cong Jiang, Jiu-Peng Chen, Chi Zhang, Wen-Xin Pan, Di Ma, Hao Dong, Jia-Min Xiong, Cheng-Jun Zhang, Hao Li, Rui-Chun Wang, Jun Wu, Teng-Yun Chen, Lixing You, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 210801 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Charge-Sign Dependent Cosmic-Ray Modulation Observed with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211001 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Properties of Cosmic-Ray Sulfur and Determination of the Composition of Primary Cosmic-Ray Carbon, Neon, Magnesium, and Sulfur: Ten-Year Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211002 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Roles of Fast Neutrino-Flavor Conversion on the Neutrino-Heating Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernova

Hiroki Nagakura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211401 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Particles and Fields

Star Shaped Quivers in Four Dimensions

Hee-Cheol Kim and Shlomo S. Razamat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211601 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Improved Measurement of the Evolution of the Reactor Antineutrino Flux and Spectrum at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211801 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Observation of a Nuclear Recoil Peak at the 100 eV Scale Induced by Neutron Capture

H. Abele et al. (CRAB Collaboration, NUCLEUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211802 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Precision Measurement of the Decay $Σ^{+} \to p γ$ in the Process $J / ψ \to Σ^{+} {\bar{Σ}}^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211901 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

First CLAS12 Measurement of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Beam-Spin Asymmetries in the Extended Valence Region

G. Christiaens et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 211902 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Directed Flow of Hypernuclei ${}_{Λ}^{3}H$ and ${}_{Λ}^{4}H$ in $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 3 GeV$ $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212301 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Evidence of Hexadecapole Deformation in Uranium-238 at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

Wouter Ryssens, Giuliano Giacalone, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212302 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Feature an Extended Hydrodynamic Regime?

Weiyao Ke and Yi Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212303 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

First Direct Measurement Constraining the ${}^{34}{Ar} (α, p) {}^{37}K$ Reaction Cross Section for Mixed Hydrogen and Helium Burning in Accreting Neutron Stars

J. Browne et al. (JENSA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 212701 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Telecom-Wavelength Quantum Repeater Node Based on a Trapped-Ion Processor

V. Krutyanskiy, M. Canteri, M. Meraner, J. Bate, V. Krcmarsky, J. Schupp, N. Sangouard, and B. P. Lanyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213601 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

A quantum repeater based on trapped ions allows the transmission of entangled, telecom-wavelength photons over 50 km.

Polariton Localization and Dispersion Properties of Disordered Quantum Emitters in Multimode Microcavities

Georg Engelhardt and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213602 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Polarization-Orthogonal Nondegenerate Plasmonic Higher-Order Topological States

Yuanzhen Li, Su Xu, Zijian Zhang, Yumeng Yang, Xinrong Xie, Wenzheng Ye, Feng Liu, Haoran Xue, Liqiao Jing, Zuojia Wang, Qi-Dai Chen, Hong-Bo Sun, Erping Li, Hongsheng Chen, and Fei Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213603 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Nonlinear Sideband Cooling to a Cat State of Motion

B. D. Hauer, J. Combes, and J. D. Teufel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213604 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Dicke Superradiance Requires Interactions beyond Nearest Neighbors

Wai-Keong Mok, Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Tze Chien Sum, and Leong-Chuan Kwek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 213605 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Circulation in Quasi-2D Turbulence: Experimental Observation of the Area Rule and Bifractality

Hang-Yu Zhu (朱航宇), Jin-Han Xie (谢金翰), and Ke-Qing Xia (夏克青)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 214001 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Thin-Film-Mediated Deformation of Droplet during Cryopreservation

Jochem G. Meijer, Pallav Kant, Duco van Buuren, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 214002 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Experimental Demonstration of Laser Guiding and Wakefield Acceleration in a Curved Plasma Channel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 215001 (2023) - Published 23 May, 2023

A curved “laser wakefield accelerator” could boost the acceleration potential of a multistage version of this device.

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid Helium Drops Levitated in High Vacuum

C. D. Brown, Y. Wang, M. Namazi, G. I. Harris, M. T. Uysal, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216001 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Millimeter-scale drops of superfluid liquid helium can be trapped indefinitely in high vacuum.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Andreev Reflection in Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Unconventional Superconductors

P. O. Sukhachov, Felix von Oppen, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216002 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

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Suppression of Nonequilibrium Quasiparticle Transport in Flat-Band Superconductors

Ville A. J. Pyykkönen, Sebastiano Peotta, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216003 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Single electrons stay stationary in superconductors with “flat-band” electronic structures, which could lead to low-energy-consumption devices made from such materials.

Evidence for Band Renormalizations in Strong-Coupling Superconducting Alkali-Fulleride Films

J. S. Zhou, R. Z. Xu, X. Q. Yu, F. J. Cheng, W. X. Zhao, X. Du, S. Z. Wang, Q. Q. Zhang, X. Gu, S. M. He, Y. D. Li, M. Q. Ren, X. C. Ma, Q. K. Xue, Y. L. Chen, C. L. Song, and L. X. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216004 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Topological Exact Flat Bands in Two-Dimensional Materials under Periodic Strain

Xiaohan Wan, Siddhartha Sarkar, Shi-Zeng Lin, and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216401 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Exchange-Driven Intermixing of Bulk and Topological Surface States by Chiral Excitons in ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Bowen Hou, Dan Wang, Bradford A. Barker, and Diana Y. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216402 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Dielectric Relaxation by Quantum Critical Magnons

Daniel Flavián, Pavel A. Volkov, S. Hayashida, K. Yu. Povarov, S. Gvasaliya, Premala Chandra, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216501 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Efficient Spin-to-Charge Conversion via Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effect in Antiferromagnet ${RuO}_{2}$

H. Bai, Y. C. Zhang, Y. J. Zhou, P. Chen, C. H. Wan, L. Han, W. X. Zhu, S. X. Liang, Y. C. Su, X. F. Han, F. Pan, and C. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216701 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Néel Spin Currents in Antiferromagnets

Ding-Fu Shao, Yuan-Yuan Jiang, Jun Ding, Shu-Hui Zhang, Zi-An Wang, Rui-Chun Xiao, Gautam Gurung, W. J. Lu, Y. P. Sun, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216702 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Observation of the Nonreciprocal Magnon Hanle Effect

Janine Gückelhorn, Sebastián de-la-Peña, Monika Scheufele, Matthias Grammer, Matthias Opel, Stephan Geprägs, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Rudolf Gross, Hans Huebl, Akashdeep Kamra, and Matthias Althammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216703 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Topological Fracton Quantum Phase Transitions by Tuning Exact Tensor Network States

Guo-Yi Zhu, Ji-Yao Chen, Peng Ye, and Simon Trebst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216704 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Translational Boundaries as Incipient Ferrielectric Domains in Antiferroelectric ${PbZrO}_{3}$

Ying Liu, Ranming Niu, Andrzej Majchrowski, Krystian Roleder, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Julie M. Cairney, Jordi Arbiol, and Gustau Catalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216801 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

Ferroelectric Nematic-Isotropic Liquid Critical End Point

Jadwiga Szydlowska, Pawel Majewski, Mojca Čepič, Nataša Vaupotič, Paulina Rybak, Corrie T. Imrie, Rebecca Walker, Ewan Cruickshank, John M. D. Storey, Pociecha Damian, and Ewa Gorecka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216802 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Hyperbolic van der Waals Materials

Yuto Ashida, Ataç İmamoğlu, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 216901 (2023) - Published 26 May, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Electrochemical Shot Noise of a Redox Monolayer

Simon Grall, Shuo Li, Laurent Jalabert, Soo Hyeon Kim, Arnaud Chovin, Christophe Demaille, and Nicolas Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218001 (2023) - Published 25 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Absolute Negative Mobility of an Active Tracer in a Crowded Environment

Pierre Rizkallah, Alessandro Sarracino, Olivier Bénichou, and Pierre Illien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218201 (2023) - Published 22 May, 2023

Active tracers subject to external forcing can exhibit a tendency to travel against the driving force in a crowded environment.

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Flattened and Wrinkled Encapsulated Droplets: Shape Morphing Induced by Gravity and Evaporation

Davide Riccobelli, Hedar H. Al-Terke, Päivi Laaksonen, Pierangelo Metrangolo, Arja Paananen, Robin H. A. Ras, Pasquale Ciarletta, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218202 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Whether sitting or hanging, the surface of a protein-containing droplet changes as the water escapes, an effect researchers link to the pull of gravity.

Ephaptic Coupling as a Resolution to the Paradox of Action Potential Wave Speed and Discordant Alternans Spatial Scales in the Heart

Niels F. Otani, Eileen Figueroa, James Garrison, Michelle Hewson, Laura Muñoz, Flavio H. Fenton, Alain Karma, and Seth H. Weinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218401 (2023) - Published 23 May, 2023

Rheological Dynamics of Active Myxococcus xanthus Populations during Development

Matthew E. Black and Joshua W. Shaevitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 218402 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

COMMENTS

Comment on “Coulomb Instabilities of a Three-Dimensional Higher-Order Topological Insulator”

Yu-Wen Lee and Min-Fong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 219701 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023

Zhao et al. Reply:

Peng-Lu Zhao, Xiao-Bin Qiang, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 219702 (2023) - Published 24 May, 2023