Volume 130, Issue 25

23 June 2023

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Depiction of the thermal evolution of the early universe from a holographic model during periods of inflation, reheating, and thermalization.

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Dynamical Inflaton Coupled to Strongly Interacting Matter
Christian Ecker, Elias Kiritsis, and Wilke van der Schee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251001 (2023)

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Experimental Quantum Communication Overcomes the Rate-Loss Limit without Global Phase Tracking

Lai Zhou, Jinping Lin, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yumang Jing, Hua-Lei Yin, and Zhiliang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250801 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.

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Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution without Phase Locking

Wei Li, Likang Zhang, Yichen Lu, Zheng-Ping Li, Cong Jiang, Yang Liu, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, Lixing You, Feihu Xu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250802 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.

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Improved Limits on the Coupling of Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter to Photons from Optical Atomic Clock Comparisons

M. Filzinger, S. Dörscher, R. Lange, J. Klose, M. Steinel, E. Benkler, E. Peik, C. Lisdat, and N. Huntemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253001 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

A search for oscillations in the frequencies of optical clocks has set new bounds on ultralight dark matter particles.

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Observation of Nuclear Wave-Packet Interference in Ultrafast Interatomic Energy Transfer

Meng Han, Jacqueline Fedyk, Jia-Bao Ji, Victor Despré, Alexander I. Kuleff, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253202 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

Quantum interference in the nuclear dynamics driving interatomic excitation-energy transfer, also known as frustrated interatomic Coulombic decay, acts as an electronic-relaxation mechanism in many forms of matter, including clusters and liquids.

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Hyperbolic Fringe Signal for Twin Impurity Quasiparticle Interference

Peize Ding, Tilman Schwemmer, Ching Hua Lee, Xianxin Wu, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256001 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Depositing two adjacent atomic impurities on the surface of a superconductor produces hyperbolic interference fringes when probed with a scanning tunneling microscope that make it possible to extract previously inaccessible order parameter symmetry data.

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Multiversality and Unnecessary Criticality in One Dimension

Abhishodh Prakash, Michele Fava, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256401 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Two new concepts, multiversality and unnecessary criticality, useful for the quantum field theoretic description of topological properties, have been demonstrated using one-dimensional quantum spin systems.

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Spin-Derived Electric Polarization and Chirality Density Inherent in Localized Electron Orbitals

Shintaro Hoshino, Michi-To Suzuki, and Hiroaki Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256801 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

The relation between the spin current tensor, electric toroidal multipole, and chirality based on a relativistic quantum mechanical formalism, shows that the spin-derived polarization associated with the spin current tensor serves as a fundamental physical quantity that characterizes electric toroidal multipoles.

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Probing Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene by Infrared Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

Tommaso Venanzi, Lorenzo Graziotto, Francesco Macheda, Simone Sotgiu, Taoufiq Ouaj, Elena Stellino, Claudia Fasolato, Paolo Postorino, Vaidotas Mišeikis, Marvin Metzelaars, Paul Kögerler, Bernd Beschoten, Camilla Coletti, Stefano Roddaro, Matteo Calandra, Michele Ortolani, Christoph Stampfer, Francesco Mauri, and Leonetta Baldassarre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256901 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

A low-intensity Raman probe shows enhanced coupling between electrons and Brillouin zone boundary optical phonons in graphene near the Dirac point.

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Giant Bulk Electrophotovoltaic Effect in Heteronodal-Line Systems

Xiao Jiang, Lei Kang, Jianfeng Wang, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256902 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

First-principles model calculations predict a large tunable photovoltaic effect in electric-field-biased bilayers made of heteronodal-line systems, such as HSnN-MoS2 bilayers.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Hierarchy of Multipartite Nonlocality and Device-Independent Effect Witnesses

Peter Bierhorst and Jitendra Prakash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250201 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Dynamical Transition of Operator Size Growth in Quantum Systems Embedded in an Environment

Pengfei Zhang and Zhenhua Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250401 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

Genuine Many-Body Quantum Scars along Unstable Modes in Bose-Hubbard Systems

Quirin Hummel, Klaus Richter, and Peter Schlagheck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250402 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Channeling Quantum Criticality

Yijian Zou, Shengqi Sang, and Timothy H. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250403 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Experimentally Realizable $P T$ Phase Transitions in Reflectionless Quantum Scattering

Micheline B. Soley, Carl M. Bender, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250404 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Many-Body Resonances in the Avalanche Instability of Many-Body Localization

Hyunsoo Ha, Alan Morningstar, and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250405 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

Noise-Resilient Phase Estimation with Randomized Compiling

Yanwu Gu, Yunheng Ma, Nicolò Forcellini, and Dong E. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250601 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

All-Microwave Leakage Reduction Units for Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Transmon Qubits

J. F. Marques, H. Ali, B. M. Varbanov, M. Finkel, H. M. Veen, S. L. M. van der Meer, S. Valles-Sanclemente, N. Muthusubramanian, M. Beekman, N. Haider, B. M. Terhal, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250602 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

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Experimental Quantum Communication Overcomes the Rate-Loss Limit without Global Phase Tracking

Lai Zhou, Jinping Lin, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yumang Jing, Hua-Lei Yin, and Zhiliang Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250801 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution without Phase Locking

Wei Li, Likang Zhang, Yichen Lu, Zheng-Ping Li, Cong Jiang, Yang Liu, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, Lixing You, Feihu Xu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 250802 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

A series of demonstrations considerably ease the requirements for implementing quantum cryptography protocols over large distances.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Dynamical Inflaton Coupled to Strongly Interacting Matter

Christian Ecker, Elias Kiritsis, and Wilke van der Schee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251001 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Search for Ultralight Dark Matter with Spectroscopy of Radio-Frequency Atomic Transitions

Xue Zhang, Abhishek Banerjee, Mahapan Leyser, Gilad Perez, Stephan Schiller, Dmitry Budker, and Dionysios Antypas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251002 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Particles and Fields

Nucleation at Finite Temperature: A Gauge-Invariant Perturbative Framework

Johan Löfgren, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Philipp Schicho, and Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251801 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Measurement of Direct-Photon Cross Section and Double-Helicity Asymmetry at $\sqrt{s} = 510 GeV$ in $\vec{p} +$ $\vec{p}$ Collisions

N. J. Abdulameer et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251901 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

First Study of Reaction $Ξ^{0} n \to Ξ^{-} p$ Using $Ξ^{0}$ -Nucleus Scattering at an Electron-Positron Collider

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 251902 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Limits on the Coupling of Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter to Photons from Optical Atomic Clock Comparisons

M. Filzinger, S. Dörscher, R. Lange, J. Klose, M. Steinel, E. Benkler, E. Peik, C. Lisdat, and N. Huntemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253001 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

A search for oscillations in the frequencies of optical clocks has set new bounds on ultralight dark matter particles.

Strong-Field Ionization of Hydrogen Atoms with Quantum Light

Yiqi Fang, Feng-Xiao Sun, Qiongyi He, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253201 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

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Observation of Nuclear Wave-Packet Interference in Ultrafast Interatomic Energy Transfer

Meng Han, Jacqueline Fedyk, Jia-Bao Ji, Victor Despré, Alexander I. Kuleff, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253202 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

Universality of Internal Correlations of Strongly Interacting $p$ -Wave Fermions in One-Dimensional Geometry

Przemysław Kościk and Tomasz Sowiński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253401 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

Ultrafast Temporal SU(1,1) Interferometer

Sara Meir, Yuval Tamir, Hamootal Duadi, Eliahu Cohen, and Moti Fridman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253601 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Stochastic Approach to the Quantum Noise of a Single-Emitter Nanolaser

Matias Bundgaard-Nielsen, Emil Vosmar Denning, Marco Saldutti, and Jesper Mørk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 253801 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Kinematic Effects on Probability Density Functions of Energy Dissipation Rate and Enstrophy in Turbulence

Toshiyuki Gotoh, Takeshi Watanabe, and Izumi Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 254001 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Seeding the Electrothermal Instability through a Three-Dimensional, Nonlinear Perturbation

E. P. Yu, T. J. Awe, K. R. Cochrane, K. J. Peterson, K. C. Yates, T. M. Hutchinson, M. W. Hatch, B. S. Bauer, K. Tomlinson, and D. B. Sinars

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 255101 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Hyperbolic Fringe Signal for Twin Impurity Quasiparticle Interference

Peize Ding, Tilman Schwemmer, Ching Hua Lee, Xianxin Wu, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256001 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Record High 36 K Transition Temperature to the Superconducting State of Elemental Scandium at a Pressure of 260 GPa

Jianjun Ying, Shiqiu Liu, Qing Lu, Xikai Wen, Zhigang Gui, Yuqing Zhang, Xiaomeng Wang, Jian Sun, and Xianhui Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256002 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Current Noise of Hydrodynamic Electrons

Aaron Hui and Brian Skinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256301 (2023) - Published 20 June, 2023

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Multiversality and Unnecessary Criticality in One Dimension

Abhishodh Prakash, Michele Fava, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256401 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

General Theory of Momentum-Space Nonsymmorphic Symmetry

Chen Zhang, Z. Y. Chen, Zheng Zhang, and Y. X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256601 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

Acoustic Waves Induced by Einstein–de Haas Effect in the Ultrafast Core Reversal of Magnetic Vortex

Jiajun Sun, Shengbin Shi, and Jie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256701 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Confinement of Fractional Excitations in a Triangular Lattice Antiferromagnet

L. Facheris, S. D. Nabi, A. Glezer Moshe, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, K. Yu. Povarov, J. R. Stewart, Z. Yan, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256702 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

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Spin-Derived Electric Polarization and Chirality Density Inherent in Localized Electron Orbitals

Shintaro Hoshino, Michi-To Suzuki, and Hiroaki Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256801 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene by Infrared Resonance Raman Spectroscopy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256901 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

A low-intensity Raman probe shows enhanced coupling between electrons and Brillouin zone boundary optical phonons in graphene near the Dirac point.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Giant Bulk Electrophotovoltaic Effect in Heteronodal-Line Systems

Xiao Jiang, Lei Kang, Jianfeng Wang, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256902 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

First-principles model calculations predict a large tunable photovoltaic effect in electric-field-biased bilayers made of heteronodal-line systems, such as HSnN-MoS2 bilayers.

Temperature-Dependent Spin-Lattice Relaxation of the Nitrogen-Vacancy Spin Triplet in Diamond

M. C. Cambria, A. Norambuena, H. T. Dinani, G. Thiering, A. Gardill, I. Kemeny, Y. Li, V. Lordi, Á. Gali, J. R. Maze, and S. Kolkowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 256903 (2023) - Published 22 June, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Time-Resolved Statistics of Snippets as General Framework for Model-Free Entropy Estimators

Jann van der Meer, Julius Degünther, and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 257101 (2023) - Published 23 June, 2023

Generalized Lotka-Volterra Equations with Random, Nonreciprocal Interactions: The Typical Number of Equilibria

Valentina Ros, Felix Roy, Giulio Biroli, Guy Bunin, and Ari M. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 257401 (2023) - Published 21 June, 2023

Volume 130, Issue 25

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Particles and Fields

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Condensed Matter and Materials

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics