Volume 130, Issue 24

16 June 2023

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Structure of carbon-boron clathrate.

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New High-Performance Piezoelectric: Ferroelectric Carbon-Boron Clathrate
Zhi Tan, Hui Zhang, Xiaojun Wu, Jie Xing, Qiming Zhang, and Jianguo Zhu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246802 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Swirling Fluid Reduces the Bounce of Partially Filled Containers

Klebbert Andrade, Javiera Catalán, Juan F. Marín, Vicente Salinas, Gustavo Castillo, Leonardo Gordillo, and Pablo Gutiérrez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 244001 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Dropping a rotating plastic bottle containing water results in a bounce whose height depends on the rotation rate.

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Reconnection-Powered Fast Radio Transients from Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries

Elias R. Most and Alexander A. Philippov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 245201 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Warning of the catastrophic collapse of a neutron star could come in the form of potentially detectable radio bursts in the 10–20 gigahertz range.

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Biphasic Chemokinesis of Mammalian Sperm

Meisam Zaferani and Alireza Abbaspourrad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 248401 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Mammalian sperm adopt a complex stochastic navigation strategy that depends on the local environment’s chemical conditions and rheological properties.

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Microsecond Isomer at the $N = 20$ Island of Shape Inversion Observed at FRIB

T. J. Gray et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 242501 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

Researchers may have found an unstable sodium nucleus that has an excited state with a spherical wave function—an elusive prospect for the study of nuclear shapes.

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Quantum Oscillations in Graphene Using Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators

Yawen Fang, Yang Xu, Kaifei Kang, Benyamin Davaji, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Amit Lal, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, and B. J. Ramshaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246201 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

High quality factor surface acoustic wave resonators can be optimized to measure quantum transport in graphene at low temperatures and high magnetic fields.

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Control of Metastable States by Heat Flux in the Hamiltonian Potts Model

Michikazu Kobayashi, Naoko Nakagawa, and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 247102 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Numerical simulations of the Hamiltonian Potts model show that metastable states in equilibrium are controlled by a weak heat flux.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Quantum Uncertainty Principles for Measurements with Interventions

Yunlong Xiao, Yuxiang Yang, Ximing Wang, Qing Liu, and Mile Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240201 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Experimental Test of High-Dimensional Quantum Contextuality Based on Contextuality Concentration

Zheng-Hao Liu, Hui-Xian Meng, Zhen-Peng Xu, Jie Zhou, Jing-Ling Chen, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240202 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

Signatures of Quantum Gravity in the Gravitational Self-Interaction of Photons

Zain Mehdi, Joseph J. Hope, and Simon A. Haine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240203 (2023) - Published 14 June, 2023

Is There a Finite Complete Set of Monotones in Any Quantum Resource Theory?

Chandan Datta, Ray Ganardi, Tulja Varun Kondra, and Alexander Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240204 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Efficiency at Maximum Power of a Carnot Quantum Information Engine

Paul Fadler, Alexander Friedenberger, and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240401 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Convex Optimization for Nonequilibrium Steady States on a Hybrid Quantum Processor

Jonathan Wei Zhong Lau, Kian Hwee Lim, Kishor Bharti, Leong-Chuan Kwek, and Sai Vinjanampathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240601 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

One $T$ Gate Makes Distribution Learning Hard

M. Hinsche, M. Ioannou, A. Nietner, J. Haferkamp, Y. Quek, D. Hangleiter, J.-P. Seifert, J. Eisert, and R. Sweke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240602 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

Experimental Implementation of the Optical Fractional Fourier Transform in the Time-Frequency Domain

Bartosz Niewelt, Marcin Jastrzębski, Stanisław Kurzyna, Jan Nowosielski, Wojciech Wasilewski, Mateusz Mazelanik, and Michał Parniak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240801 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Multipartite Nonlocality in Clifford Networks

Amanda Gatto Lamas and Eric Chitambar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240802 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Critical Quantum Metrology Assisted by Real-Time Feedback Control

Raffaele Salvia, Mohammad Mehboudi, and Martí Perarnau-Llobet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 240803 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Opening up a Window on the Postinflationary QCD Axion

Yunjia Bao, JiJi Fan, and Lingfeng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241001 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Unification of Thermal and Quantum Noises in Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Chris Whittle, Lee McCuller, Vivishek Sudhir, and Matthew Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241401 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Gravitational Waveforms for Compact Binaries from Second-Order Self-Force Theory

Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Jeremy Miller, Leanne Durkan, and Alexandre Le Tiec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241402 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Numerical Studies of Back Reaction Effects in an Analog Model of Cosmological Preheating

Salvatore Butera and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241501 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Particles and Fields

Carrollian Origins of Bjorken Flow

Arjun Bagchi, Kedar S. Kolekar, and Ashish Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241601 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Unitarity of Symplectic Fermions in $α$ Vacua with Negative Central Charge

Shinsei Ryu and Junggi Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241602 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

New Opportunities for Detecting Axion-Lepton Interactions

Wolfgang Altmannshofer, Jeff A. Dror, and Stefania Gori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241801 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

Probing the Energy-Smeared $R$ Ratio Using Lattice QCD

Constantia Alexandrou, Simone Bacchio, Alessandro De Santis, Petros Dimopoulos, Jacob Finkenrath, Roberto Frezzotti, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Marco Garofalo, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou, Bartosz Kostrzewa, Karl Jansen, Vittorio Lubicz, Marcus Petschlies, Francesco Sanfilippo, Silvano Simula, Nazario Tantalo, Carsten Urbach, and Urs Wenger (Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration (ETMC))

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 241901 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Measurements of the Elliptic and Triangular Azimuthal Anisotropies in Central ${}^{3}{He} + Au$ , $d + Au$ and $p + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 242301 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

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Microsecond Isomer at the $N = 20$ Island of Shape Inversion Observed at FRIB

T. J. Gray et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 242501 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

Researchers may have found an unstable sodium nucleus that has an excited state with a spherical wave function—an elusive prospect for the study of nuclear shapes.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spatially Tunable Spin Interactions in Neutral Atom Arrays

Lea-Marina Steinert, Philip Osterholz, Robin Eberhard, Lorenzo Festa, Nikolaus Lorenz, Zaijun Chen, Arno Trautmann, and Christian Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 243001 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Non-Hermitian Anharmonicity Induces Single-Photon Emission

Anael Ben-Asher, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, and Johannes Feist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 243601 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Gauge Field Induced Chiral Zero Mode in Five-Dimensional Yang Monopole Metamaterials

Shaojie Ma, Hongwei Jia, Yangang Bi, Shangqiang Ning, Fuxin Guan, Hongchao Liu, Chenjie Wang, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 243801 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Nonlinearity-Induced Optical Torque

Ivan Toftul, Gleb Fedorovich, Denis Kislov, Kristina Frizyuk, Kirill Koshelev, Yuri Kivshar, and Mihail Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 243802 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Swirling Fluid Reduces the Bounce of Partially Filled Containers

Klebbert Andrade, Javiera Catalán, Juan F. Marín, Vicente Salinas, Gustavo Castillo, Leonardo Gordillo, and Pablo Gutiérrez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 244001 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Dropping a rotating plastic bottle containing water results in a bounce whose height depends on the rotation rate.

Asymptotic Self-Similar Blow-Up Profile for Three-Dimensional Axisymmetric Euler Equations Using Neural Networks

Y. Wang, C.-Y. Lai, J. Gómez-Serrano, and T. Buckmaster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 244002 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Reconnection-Powered Fast Radio Transients from Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries

Elias R. Most and Alexander A. Philippov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 245201 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Warning of the catastrophic collapse of a neutron star could come in the form of potentially detectable radio bursts in the 10–20 gigahertz range.

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Quantum Oscillations in Graphene Using Surface Acoustic Wave Resonators

Yawen Fang, Yang Xu, Kaifei Kang, Benyamin Davaji, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Amit Lal, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan, and B. J. Ramshaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246201 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

High quality factor surface acoustic wave resonators can be optimized to measure quantum transport in graphene at low temperatures and high magnetic fields.

Time-Linear Quantum Transport Simulations with Correlated Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions

R. Tuovinen, Y. Pavlyukh, E. Perfetto, and G. Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246301 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Dynamic Response of Wigner Crystals

Lili Zhao, Wenlu Lin, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer, and Yang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246401 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Controlled Bond Expansion for Density Matrix Renormalization Group Ground State Search at Single-Site Costs

Andreas Gleis, Jheng-Wei Li, and Jan von Delft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246402 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Bulk-Boundary Correspondence and Singularity-Filling in Long-Range Free-Fermion Chains

Nick G. Jones, Ryan Thorngren, and Ruben Verresen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246601 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Long-Range Orbital Torque by Momentum-Space Hotspots

Dongwook Go, Daegeun Jo, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Soogil Lee, Min-Gu Kang, Byong-Guk Park, Stefan Blügel, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246701 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

Morphotropic Phase Boundary in Polarized Organic Piezoelectric Materials

Fangfang Gao, Xuan Zhao, Xiaochen Xun, Houbing Huang, Xiaoming Shi, Qi Li, Fang Liu, Peng Gao, Qingliang Liao, and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246801 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

New High-Performance Piezoelectric: Ferroelectric Carbon-Boron Clathrate

Zhi Tan, Hui Zhang, Xiaojun Wu, Jie Xing, Qiming Zhang, and Jianguo Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246802 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

Spatiotemporal Electron Beam Focusing through Parallel Interactions with Shaped Optical Fields

F. Javier García de Abajo and Claus Ropers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 246901 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Integrability Breaking from Backscattering

Javier Lopez-Piqueres and Romain Vasseur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 247101 (2023) - Published 13 June, 2023

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Control of Metastable States by Heat Flux in the Hamiltonian Potts Model

Michikazu Kobayashi, Naoko Nakagawa, and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 247102 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Numerical simulations of the Hamiltonian Potts model show that metastable states in equilibrium are controlled by a weak heat flux.

Distinguishing Simple and Complex Contagion Processes on Networks

Giulia Cencetti, Diego Andrés Contreras, Marco Mancastroppa, and Alain Barrat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 247401 (2023) - Published 15 June, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Fluctuation-Corrected Phase Diagrams for Diblock Copolymer Melts

Mark W. Matsen, Tom M. Beardsley, and James D. Willis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 248101 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Nucleation of Chemically Active Droplets

Noah Ziethen, Jan Kirschbaum, and David Zwicker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 248201 (2023) - Published 16 June, 2023

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Biphasic Chemokinesis of Mammalian Sperm

Meisam Zaferani and Alireza Abbaspourrad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 248401 (2023) - Published 12 June, 2023

Mammalian sperm adopt a complex stochastic navigation strategy that depends on the local environment’s chemical conditions and rheological properties.