Volume 130, Issue 22

2 June 2023

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On the Cover

Schematics showing two monomers forming an amide-amide double hydrogen bond that crosslinks the polymers to form a transient network. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Dynamics of Associative Polymers with High Density of Reversible Bonds
Shifeng Nian, Shalin Patil, Siteng Zhang, Myoeum Kim, Quan Chen, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Ting Ge, Shiwang Cheng, and Li-Heng Cai (蔡历恒)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228101 (2023)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Magnetic Fusion Power Plant

Ambrogio Fasoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220001 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

In a new forward-looking Essay, Ambrogio Fasoli outlines the challenges and opportunities of realizing sustainable magnetic fusion.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Exceptional Points for Noise-Assisted Sensing

Zhipeng Li, Chenhui Li, Ze Xiong, Guoqiang Xu, Yongtai Raymond Wang, Xi Tian, Xin Yang, Zhu Liu, Qihang Zeng, Rongzhou Lin, Ying Li, Jason Kai Wei Lee, John S. Ho, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 227201 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

By exploiting a phenomenon called stochastic resonance, sensors can perform better in a noisy environment than in a noise-free setting.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamics of Associative Polymers with High Density of Reversible Bonds

Shifeng Nian, Shalin Patil, Siteng Zhang, Myoeum Kim, Quan Chen, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Ting Ge, Shiwang Cheng, and Li-Heng Cai (蔡历恒)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228101 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Experiments show that the sticky behavior of so-called associative polymers is controlled by the density of bonding structures, contradicting theoretical predictions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation

Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom, and Heino Falcke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221502 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

The gravitational fields of black holes and other compact objects are strong enough that they might wrest massless particles out of the vacuum and into existence, causing the objects to decay.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Magnetic Response of Nematic Superconductors: Skyrmion Stripes and Their Signatures in Muon Spin Relaxation Experiments

Martin Speight, Thomas Winyard, and Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226002 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

An unusual kind of superconductor harbors magnetic vortices that researchers predict should be readily observable thanks to the striped configurations they adopt.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Partition Function for a Volume of Space

Ted Jacobson and Manus R. Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221501 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

A new calculation shows that any region of space with the topology of a ball has a standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Using the ArgoNeuT Experiment

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, B. Baller, V. Basque, F. Cavanna, R. T. Co, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. Fleming, P. Green, R. Harnik, K. J. Kelly, S. Kumar, K. Lang, I. Lepetic, Z. Liu, X. Luo, K. F. Lyu, O. Palamara, G. Scanavini, M. Soderberg, J. Spitz, A. M. Szelc, W. Wu, and T. Yang (The ArgoNeuT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221802 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

The first search for heavy QCD axions using a liquid argon detector bounds a previously unexplored region of axion parameter space between 0.2 and 0.9 GeV.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers

Daniel K. Ruttley, Alexander Guttridge, Stefan Spence, Robert C. Bird, C. Ruth Le Sueur, Jeremy M. Hutson, and Simon L. Cornish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223401 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

By merging two optical tweezers containing a single atom each, an ultracold molecule is formed in the motional ground state.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves

J. R. Rygg, P. M. Celliers, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 225101 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Discrepancies between shock compression models and experiments may be explained by accounting for the contribution of collective plasma oscillations in the heat model for warm dense hydrogen.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid Fraction in an Interacting Spatially Modulated Bose-Einstein Condensate

G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

Breaking Galilean invariance in a superfluid reduces the superfluid fraction while the system remains fully condensed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tangent Space Approach for Thermal Tensor Network Simulations of the 2D Hubbard Model

Qiaoyi Li, Yuan Gao, Yuan-Yao He, Yang Qi, Bin-Bin Chen, and Wei Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226502 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

A new tangent space tensor renormalization group method is well-controlled, highly efficient, and accurate for strongly correlated 2D lattice models at finite temperature.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Distilling Nonlocality in Quantum Correlations

Sahil Gopalkrishna Naik, Govind Lal Sidhardh, Samrat Sen, Arup Roy, Ashutosh Rai, and Manik Banik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220201 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

Construction of Non-Hermitian Parent Hamiltonian from Matrix Product States

Ruohan Shen, Yuchen Guo, and Shuo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220401 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

Thermodynamic Phase Diagram of Two-Dimensional Bosons in a Quasicrystal Potential

Zhaoxuan Zhu, Hepeng Yao, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220402 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Oscillating Solitons and ac Josephson Effect in Ferromagnetic Bose-Bose Mixtures

S. Bresolin, A. Roy, G. Ferrari, A. Recati, and N. Pavloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220403 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Cross Entropy Benchmark for Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions

Yaodong Li, Yijian Zou, Paolo Glorioso, Ehud Altman, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220404 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

Rydberg-Blockade-Based Parity Quantum Optimization

Martin Lanthaler, Clemens Dlaska, Kilian Ender, and Wolfgang Lechner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220601 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

Evolution of $1 / f$ Flux Noise in Superconducting Qubits with Weak Magnetic Fields

David A. Rower, Lamia Ateshian, Lauren H. Li, Max Hays, Dolev Bluvstein, Leon Ding, Bharath Kannan, Aziza Almanakly, Jochen Braumüller, David K. Kim, Alexander Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Mollie E. Schwartz, Jonilyn L. Yoder, Terry P. Orlando, Joel I-Jan Wang, Simon Gustavsson, Jeffrey A. Grover, Kyle Serniak, Riccardo Comin, and William D. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220602 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Model-Independent Learning of Quantum Phases of Matter with Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks

Yu-Jie Liu, Adam Smith, Michael Knap, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220603 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

Fully Passive Quantum Key Distribution

Wenyuan Wang, Rong Wang, Chengqiu Hu, Victor Zapatero, Li Qian, Bing Qi, Marcos Curty, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220801 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Analytic Approach to Light Dark Matter Propagation

Christopher V. Cappiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221001 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Signatures of a High Temperature QCD Transition in the Early Universe

Philip Lu, Volodymyr Takhistov, and George M. Fuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221002 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Multi-Neutrino Entanglement and Correlations in Dense Neutrino Systems

Marc Illa and Martin J. Savage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221003 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Partition Function for a Volume of Space

Ted Jacobson and Manus R. Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221501 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

A new calculation shows that any region of space with the topology of a ball has a standard Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation

Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom, and Heino Falcke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221502 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

The gravitational fields of black holes and other compact objects are strong enough that they might wrest massless particles out of the vacuum and into existence, causing the objects to decay.

Particles and Fields

Accelerating Cosmology from a Holographic Wormhole

Stefano Antonini, Petar Simidzija, Brian Swingle, and Mark Van Raamsdonk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221601 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Quantum Discord and Steering in Top Quarks at the LHC

Yoav Afik and Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221801 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Constraints on Heavy QCD Axions with a Liquid Argon Time Projection Chamber Using the ArgoNeuT Experiment

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 221802 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

The first search for heavy QCD axions using a liquid argon detector bounds a previously unexplored region of axion parameter space between 0.2 and 0.9 GeV.

Nuclear Physics

First Observation of the $β 3 α p$ Decay of ${}^{13}O$ via $β$ -Delayed Charged-Particle Spectroscopy

J. Bishop, G. V. Rogachev, S. Ahn, M. Barbui, S. M. Cha, E. Harris, C. Hunt, C. H. Kim, D. Kim, S. H. Kim, E. Koshchiy, Z. Luo, C. Park, C. E. Parker, E. C. Pollacco, B. T. Roeder, M. Roosa, A. Saastamoinen, and D. P. Scriven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 222501 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Effects of an Oscillating Electric Field on and Dipole Moment Measurement of a Single Molecular Ion

Alejandra L. Collopy, Julian Schmidt, Dietrich Leibfried, David R. Leibrandt, and Chin-Wen Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223201 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers

Daniel K. Ruttley, Alexander Guttridge, Stefan Spence, Robert C. Bird, C. Ruth Le Sueur, Jeremy M. Hutson, and Simon L. Cornish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223401 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

By merging two optical tweezers containing a single atom each, an ultracold molecule is formed in the motional ground state.

Subnatural Linewidth Superradiant Lasing with Cold ${}^{88}{Sr}$ Atoms

Sofus Laguna Kristensen, Eliot Bohr, Julian Robinson-Tait, Tanya Zelevinsky, Jan W. Thomsen, and Jörg Helge Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223402 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Floquet Gauge Anomaly Inflow and Arbitrary Fractional Charge in Periodically Driven Topological-Normal Insulator Heterostructures

Yiming Pan, Zhaopin Chen, Bing Wang, and Eilon Poem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223403 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

On-Chip Generation and Collectively Coherent Control of the Superposition of the Whole Family of Dicke States

Leizhen Chen, Liangliang Lu, Lijun Xia, Yanqing Lu, Shining Zhu, and Xiao-song Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223601 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

Extreme Events Prediction from Nonlocal Partial Information in a Spatiotemporally Chaotic Microcavity Laser

V. A. Pammi, M. G. Clerc, S. Coulibaly, and S. Barbay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 223801 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Specific Heat of Electron Plasma Waves

J. R. Rygg, P. M. Celliers, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 225101 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Discrepancies between shock compression models and experiments may be explained by accounting for the contribution of collective plasma oscillations in the heat model for warm dense hydrogen.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Superconductivity, Charge Density Wave, and Supersolidity in Flat Bands with a Tunable Quantum Metric

Johannes S. Hofmann, Erez Berg, and Debanjan Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226001 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Magnetic Response of Nematic Superconductors: Skyrmion Stripes and Their Signatures in Muon Spin Relaxation Experiments

Martin Speight, Thomas Winyard, and Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226002 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

An unusual kind of superconductor harbors magnetic vortices that researchers predict should be readily observable thanks to the striped configurations they adopt.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superfluid Fraction in an Interacting Spatially Modulated Bose-Einstein Condensate

G. Chauveau, C. Maury, F. Rabec, C. Heintze, G. Brochier, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, J. Beugnon, S. M. Roccuzzo, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226003 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

Breaking Galilean invariance in a superfluid reduces the superfluid fraction while the system remains fully condensed.

Learning Complexity to Guide Light-Induced Self-Organized Nanopatterns

Eduardo Brandao, Anthony Nakhoul, Stefan Duffner, R. Emonet, Florence Garrelie, Amaury Habrard, François Jacquenet, Florent Pigeon, Marc Sebban, and Jean-Philippe Colombier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226201 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

Ultrafast Long-Distance Electron-Hole Plasma Expansion in GaAs Mediated by Stimulated Emission and Reabsorption of Photons

Tinkara Troha, Filip Klimovič, Tomáš Ostatnický, Filip Kadlec, Petr Kužel, and Hynek Němec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226301 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Gate-Tunable Phonon Magnetic Moment in Bilayer Graphene

Xiao-Wei Zhang, Yafei Ren, Chong Wang, Ting Cao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226302 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

Carrier-Density Control of the Quantum-Confined $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$ Charge Density Wave

T. Jaouen, A. Pulkkinen, M. Rumo, G. Kremer, B. Salzmann, C. W. Nicholson, M.-L. Mottas, E. Giannini, S. Tricot, P. Schieffer, B. Hildebrand, and C. Monney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226401 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Ultrafast Switching from the Charge Density Wave Phase to a Metastable Metallic State in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$

Shaofeng Duan, Wei Xia, Chaozhi Huang, Shichong Wang, Lingxiao Gu, Haoran Liu, Dao Xiang, Dong Qian, Yanfeng Guo, and Wentao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226501 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tangent Space Approach for Thermal Tensor Network Simulations of the 2D Hubbard Model

Qiaoyi Li, Yuan Gao, Yuan-Yao He, Yang Qi, Bin-Bin Chen, and Wei Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226502 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

A new tangent space tensor renormalization group method is well-controlled, highly efficient, and accurate for strongly correlated 2D lattice models at finite temperature.

Delocalization and Universality of the Fractional Quantum Hall Plateau-to-Plateau Transitions

P. T. Madathil, K. A. Villegas Rosales, C. T. Tai, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226503 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

Fractionalized Prethermalization in a Driven Quantum Spin Liquid

Hui-Ke Jin, Johannes Knolle, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226701 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

Hexagonal Close-Packed Polar-Skyrmion Lattice in Ultrathin Ferroelectric ${PbTiO}_{3}$ Films

Shuai Yuan, Zuhuang Chen, Sergei Prokhorenko, Yousra Nahas, Laurent Bellaiche, Chenhan Liu, Bin Xu, Lang Chen, Sujit Das, and Lane W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226801 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Determination of Vibrational Modes of l-Alanine Single Crystals by a Combination of Terahertz Spectroscopy Measurements and Density Functional Calculations

J. L. Allen, T. J. Sanders, J. Horvat, R. A. Lewis, and K. C. Rule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226901 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Range-Controlled Random Walks

L. Régnier, O. Bénichou, and P. L. Krapivsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 227101 (2023) - Published 30 May, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stochastic Exceptional Points for Noise-Assisted Sensing

Zhipeng Li, Chenhui Li, Ze Xiong, Guoqiang Xu, Yongtai Raymond Wang, Xi Tian, Xin Yang, Zhu Liu, Qihang Zeng, Rongzhou Lin, Ying Li, Jason Kai Wei Lee, John S. Ho, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 227201 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023

By exploiting a phenomenon called stochastic resonance, sensors can perform better in a noisy environment than in a noise-free setting.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamics of Associative Polymers with High Density of Reversible Bonds

Shifeng Nian, Shalin Patil, Siteng Zhang, Myoeum Kim, Quan Chen, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Ting Ge, Shiwang Cheng, and Li-Heng Cai (蔡历恒)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228101 (2023) - Published 31 May, 2023

Experiments show that the sticky behavior of so-called associative polymers is controlled by the density of bonding structures, contradicting theoretical predictions.

Contact Topology and the Classification of Disclination Lines in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Joseph Pollard and Gareth P. Alexander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228102 (2023) - Published 1 June, 2023

Reversal of Solvent Migration in Poroelastic Folds

M. M. Flapper, A. Pandey, M. H. Essink, E. H. van Brummelen, S. Karpitschka, and J. H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 228201 (2023) - Published 2 June, 2023