Volume 130, Issue 6

10 February 2023

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Quarter section of the simulation of a trapped deformed microgel bead subjected to an applied pressure. Color represents relative nodal displacement in the bead.

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Clogging of a Rectangular Slit by a Spherical Soft Particle
Charles Paul Moore, Julien Husson, Arezki Boudaoud, Gabriel Amselem, and Charles N. Baroud
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 064001 (2023)

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Exotic Compact Objects and the Fate of the Light-Ring Instability

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061401 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

The results of new simulations negate the argument that some objects thought to be black holes are instead hypothetical exotic systems called bosonic stars.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Superradiant Droplet Emission from Parametrically Excited Cavities

Valeri Frumkin, John W. M. Bush, and Konstantinos Papatryfonos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 064002 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Experiments reveal a hydrodynamic analog of an important effect in quantum optics called superradiance.

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Ultra-Large-Scale Deterministic Entanglement Containing $2 \times 20 400$ Optical Modes Based on Time-Delayed Quantum Interferometer

Yanfen Zhou, Wei Wang, Tingting Song, Xutong Wang, Qiqi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Shengshuai Liu, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 060801 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

A time-delayed quantum interferometer is used to generate deterministic continuous-variable entanglement with 40800 optical modes.

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Final Result of the Majorana Demonstrator’s Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay in ${}^{76}{Ge}$

I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 062501 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

The final results from the Majorana Demonstrator’s search for neutrinoless double-beta decay in $^{76}$ Ge set an upper limit on the half-life of this decay to be $T_{1 / 2} > 8.3 \times 10^{25}$ years.

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Non-Hermitian Spectral Flows and Berry-Chern Monopoles

Lucien Jezequel and Pierre Delplace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066601 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

A generalization of the correspondence between a spectral flow and the topological charges to non-Hermitian systems leads to the emergence of Berry-Chern monopoles.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Rapid Thermalization of Spin Chain Commuting Hamiltonians

Ivan Bardet, Ángela Capel, Li Gao, Angelo Lucia, David Pérez-García, and Cambyse Rouzé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 060401 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Universal Breakdown of Kibble-Zurek Scaling in Fast Quenches across a Phase Transition

Hua-Bi Zeng, Chuan-Yin Xia, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 060402 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Simulating the Interplay of Particle Conservation and Long-Range Coherence

Emanuele G. Dalla Torre and Matthew J. Reagor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 060403 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultra-Large-Scale Deterministic Entanglement Containing $2 \times 20 400$ Optical Modes Based on Time-Delayed Quantum Interferometer

Yanfen Zhou, Wei Wang, Tingting Song, Xutong Wang, Qiqi Zhu, Kai Zhang, Shengshuai Liu, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 060801 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

A time-delayed quantum interferometer is used to generate deterministic continuous-variable entanglement with 40800 optical modes.

Experimental Boson Sampling Enabling Cryptographic One-Way Function

Xiao-Wei Wang, Wen-Hao Zhou, Yu-Xuan Fu, Jun Gao, Yong-Heng Lu, Yi-Jun Chang, Lu-Feng Qiao, Ruo-Jing Ren, Ze-Kun Jiang, Zhi-Qiang Jiao, Georgios M. Nikolopoulos, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 060802 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Limits to Gauge Coupling in the Dark Sector Set by the Nonobservation of Instanton-Induced Decay of Super-Heavy Dark Matter in the Pierre Auger Observatory Data

P. Abreu et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061001 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Search for Gamma-Ray Spectral Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation up to 100 TeV toward the Galactic Center with MAGIC

H. Abe et al. (MAGIC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061002 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exotic Compact Objects and the Fate of the Light-Ring Instability

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Nicolas Sanchis-Gual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061401 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

The results of new simulations negate the argument that some objects thought to be black holes are instead hypothetical exotic systems called bosonic stars.

Particles and Fields

$β$ Symmetry of Supergravity

Walter H. Baron, Diego Marqués, and Carmen A. Nuñez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061601 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

Top-Down Holography in an Asymptotically Flat Spacetime

Kevin Costello, Natalie M. Paquette, and Atul Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061602 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Radiative Decay Width of $J / ψ \to γ η_{(2)}$ from $N_{f} = 2$ Lattice QCD

Xiangyu Jiang, Feiyu Chen, Ying Chen, Ming Gong, Ning Li, Zhaofeng Liu, Wei Sun, and Renqiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 061901 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Nuclear Physics

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Final Result of the Majorana Demonstrator’s Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay in ${}^{76}{Ge}$

I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 062501 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of the Sign Reversal of the Magnetic Correlation in a Driven-Dissipative Fermi Gas in Double Wells

Kantaro Honda, Shintaro Taie, Yosuke Takasu, Naoki Nishizawa, Masaya Nakagawa, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 063001 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Ultrasensitive Atomic Comagnetometer with Enhanced Nuclear Spin Coherence

Kai Wei, Tian Zhao, Xiujie Fang, Zitong Xu, Chang Liu, Qian Cao, Arne Wickenbrock, Yanhui Hu, Wei Ji, Jiancheng Fang, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 063201 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Competition between Two-Photon Driving, Dissipation, and Interactions in Bosonic Lattice Models: An Exact Solution

David Roberts and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 063601 (2023) - Published 6 February, 2023

Laser Cooling of Nuclear Magnons

Haowei Xu, Guoqing Wang, Changhao Li, Hua Wang, Hao Tang, Ariel Rebekah Barr, Paola Cappellaro, and Ju Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 063602 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Observation of Light Thermalization to Negative-Temperature Rayleigh-Jeans Equilibrium States in Multimode Optical Fibers

K. Baudin, J. Garnier, A. Fusaro, N. Berti, C. Michel, K. Krupa, G. Millot, and A. Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 063801 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Clogging of a Rectangular Slit by a Spherical Soft Particle

Charles Paul Moore, Julien Husson, Arezki Boudaoud, Gabriel Amselem, and Charles N. Baroud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 064001 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Superradiant Droplet Emission from Parametrically Excited Cavities

Valeri Frumkin, John W. M. Bush, and Konstantinos Papatryfonos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 064002 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Experiments reveal a hydrodynamic analog of an important effect in quantum optics called superradiance.

Body Forces Drive the Apparent Line Tension of Sessile Droplets

Beng Hau Tan, Hongjie An, and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 064003 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Tunable Superconductivity and Möbius Fermi Surfaces in an Inversion-Symmetric Twisted van der Waals Heterostructure

Harley D. Scammell and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066001 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Continuous Mott Transition in Moiré Semiconductors: Role of Long-Wavelength Inhomogeneities

Sunghoon Kim, T. Senthil, and Debanjan Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066301 (2023) - Published 9 February, 2023

Multichannel Topological Kondo Effect

Guangjie Li, Yuval Oreg, and Jukka I. Väyrynen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066302 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Mott Quantum Critical Points at Finite Doping

Maria Chatzieleftheriou, Alexander Kowalski, Maja Berović, Adriano Amaricci, Massimo Capone, Lorenzo De Leo, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and Luca de’ Medici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066401 (2023) - Published 7 February, 2023

Visualizing Higher-Fold Topology in Chiral Crystals

Tyler A. Cochran, Ilya Belopolski, Kaustuv Manna, Mohammad Yahyavi, Yiyuan Liu, Daniel S. Sanchez, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P. Yang, Daniel Multer, Jia-Xin Yin, Horst Borrmann, Alla Chikina, Jonas A. Krieger, Jaime Sánchez-Barriga, Patrick Le Fèvre, François Bertran, Vladimir N. Strocov, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Tay-Rong Chang, Shuang Jia, Claudia Felser, Hsin Lin, Guoqing Chang, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066402 (2023) - Published 8 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Hermitian Spectral Flows and Berry-Chern Monopoles

Lucien Jezequel and Pierre Delplace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066601 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

A generalization of the correspondence between a spectral flow and the topological charges to non-Hermitian systems leads to the emergence of Berry-Chern monopoles.

Magnon Interference Tunneling Spectroscopy as a Probe of 2D Magnetism

Asimpunya Mitra, Alberto Corticelli, Pedro Ribeiro, and Paul A. McClarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 066701 (2023) - Published 10 February, 2023

Volume 130, Issue 6

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Condensed Matter and Materials

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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