Volume 130, Issue 8

24 February 2023

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Representative isosurface of electron density for a singlet exciton in crystalline pentacene (gray structures). The blue (red) isosurfaces indicate regions of increasing (decreasing) density in the presence of phonons.

From the article:

Phonon-Induced Localization of Excitons in Molecular Crystals from First Principles
Antonios M. Alvertis, Jonah B. Haber, Edgar A. Engel, Sahar Sharifzadeh, and Jeffrey B. Neaton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086401 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Walter Del Pozzo, Francisco Duque, Thomas Helfer, Estuti Shukla, and Kaze W. K. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081401 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.

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Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns

Keefe Mitman, Macarena Lagos, Leo C. Stein, Sizheng Ma, Lam Hui, Yanbei Chen, Nils Deppe, François Hébert, Lawrence E. Kidder, Jordan Moxon, Mark A. Scheel, Saul A. Teukolsky, William Throwe, and Nils L. Vu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081402 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.

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Quantum-Path-Resolved Attosecond High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

Antoine Camper, Amélie Ferré, Valérie Blanchet, Dominique Descamps, Nan Lin, Stéphane Petit, Robert Lucchese, Pascal Salières, Thierry Ruchon, and Yann Mairesse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083201 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.

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Attosecond Imaging of Electronic Wave Packets

Gabriel A. Stewart, Paul Hoerner, Duke A. Debrah, Suk Kyoung Lee, H. Bernhard Schlegel, and Wen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083202 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.

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Optimal Cooling of Multiple Levitated Particles through Far-Field Wavefront Shaping

Jakob Hüpfl, Nicolas Bachelard, Markus Kaczvinszki, Michael Horodynski, Matthias Kühmayer, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083203 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Researchers predict that the “scattering matrix” of a collection of particles could be used to slow the particles down, potentially allowing for the cooling of significantly more particles than is possible with current techniques.

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Quantifying Energy Conversion in Higher-Order Phase Space Density Moments in Plasmas

Paul A. Cassak, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Haoming Liang, and Matthew R. Argall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085201 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

From first principles, the energy conversion associated with higher moments is calculated for a plasma that is far from local thermodynamic equilibrium.

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Energetics of Microwaves Probed by Double Quantum Dot Absorption

Subhomoy Haldar, Harald Havir, Waqar Khan, Sebastian Lehmann, Claes Thelander, Kimberly A. Dick, and Ville F. Maisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087003 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Detuning and stopping-potential measurements in a quantum dot photodiode demonstrate a microwave analog of the photoelectric effect.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonaffine Deformation of Semiflexible Polymer and Fiber Networks

Sihan Chen, Tomer Markovich, and Fred C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 088101 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

The nonaffine properties of semiflexible networks (common in biomaterials) are captured by an analytical model under various conditions in both 2D and 3D.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Many-Body Interference at the Onset of Chaos

Eric Brunner, Lukas Pausch, Edoardo G. Carnio, Gabriel Dufour, Alberto Rodríguez, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080401 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Quantum Dynamics is Not Strictly Bidivisible

David Davalos and Mario Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080801 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Quantum Contextuality Provides Communication Complexity Advantage

Shashank Gupta, Debashis Saha, Zhen-Peng Xu, Adán Cabello, and A. S. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080802 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Effects in Black Hole Ringdown

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Vishal Baibhav, Emanuele Berti, Vitor Cardoso, Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Walter Del Pozzo, Francisco Duque, Thomas Helfer, Estuti Shukla, and Kaze W. K. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081401 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081402 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Simulations show that nonlinear spacetime dynamics manifest in the postmerger gravitational-wave signal of binary black hole coalescence.

Silicon Oxy-Nitride for the Low Refractive Index Layers in the Mirror Coatings of the Cryogenic Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves Detector

Shiuh Chao, Wen-Jie Tsai, Dong-Lin Tsai, I-Peng Chang, Qian-Yi Hong, Wei-Chih Chang, and Yu-Hsun Kao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081403 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Lorentzian Quantum Gravity and the Graviton Spectral Function

Jannik Fehre, Daniel F. Litim, Jan M. Pawlowski, and Manuel Reichert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081501 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Particles and Fields

One-Loop Off-Shell Amplitudes from Classical Equations of Motion

Humberto Gomez, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, Cristhiam Lopez-Arcos, and Alexander Quintero Vélez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081601 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Evidence for the Cusp Effect in $η'$ Decays into $η π^{0} π^{0}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 081901 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Beam Energy Dependence of Fifth- and Sixth-Order Net-Proton Number Fluctuations in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 082301 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Onset of Rotational Decoupling for a Molecular Ion Solvated in Helium: From Tags to Rings and Shells

Julia A. Davies, Christoph Schran, Fabien Brieuc, Dominik Marx, and Andrew M. Ellis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083001 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

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Quantum-Path-Resolved Attosecond High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

Antoine Camper, Amélie Ferré, Valérie Blanchet, Dominique Descamps, Nan Lin, Stéphane Petit, Robert Lucchese, Pascal Salières, Thierry Ruchon, and Yann Mairesse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083201 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Attosecond Imaging of Electronic Wave Packets

Gabriel A. Stewart, Paul Hoerner, Duke A. Debrah, Suk Kyoung Lee, H. Bernhard Schlegel, and Wen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083202 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Two groups demonstrate innovative ways to capture the ultrafast motion of electrons in atoms and molecules.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optimal Cooling of Multiple Levitated Particles through Far-Field Wavefront Shaping

Jakob Hüpfl, Nicolas Bachelard, Markus Kaczvinszki, Michael Horodynski, Matthias Kühmayer, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083203 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Artificial Non-Abelian Lattice Gauge Fields for Photons in the Synthetic Frequency Dimension

Dali Cheng, Kai Wang, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083601 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Three-Photon Excitation of InGaN Quantum Dots

Viviana Villafañe, Bianca Scaparra, Manuel Rieger, Stefan Appel, Rahul Trivedi, Tongtong Zhu, John Jarman, Rachel A. Oliver, Robert A. Taylor, Jonathan J. Finley, and Kai Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083602 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior from Cavity Electromagnetic Vacuum Fluctuations at the Superradiant Transition

Peng Rao and Francesco Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083603 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Observation of Linear and Nonlinear Light Localization at the Edges of Moiré Arrays

A. A. Arkhipova, Y. V. Kartashov, S. K. Ivanov, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. N. Skryabin, I. V. Dyakonov, A. A. Kalinkin, S. P. Kulik, V. O. Kompanets, S. V. Chekalin, F. Ye, V. V. Konotop, L. Torner, and V. N. Zadkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083801 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Multiplexed Long-Range Electrohydrodynamic Transport and Nano-Optical Trapping with Cascaded Bowtie Photonic Crystal Nanobeams

Sen Yang, Joshua A. Allen, Chuchuan Hong, Kellen P. Arnold, Sharon M. Weiss, and Justus C. Ndukaife

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 083802 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Field-Induced Hydration Shell Reorganization Enables Electro-osmotic Flow in Nanochannels

Wanqi Zhou, Yufeng Guo, Zhuhua Zhang, Wanlin Guo, and Hu Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 084001 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Photon Acceleration from Optical to XUV

R. T. Sandberg and A. G. R. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085001 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Coherent Combining of Phase-Steerable High Power Microwaves Generated by Two X-Band Triaxial Klystron Amplifiers with Pulsed Magnetic Fields

Jinchuan Ju, Xingjun Ge, Wei Zhang, Fangchao Dang, Yunxiao Zhou, Fuxiang Yang, Chengwei Yuan, Xinbing Cheng, Qiang Zhang, and Juntao He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085002 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantifying Energy Conversion in Higher-Order Phase Space Density Moments in Plasmas

Paul A. Cassak, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Haoming Liang, and Matthew R. Argall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 085201 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

From first principles, the energy conversion associated with higher moments is calculated for a plasma that is far from local thermodynamic equilibrium.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Confinement-Induced Chiral Edge Channel Interaction in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators

Ling-Jie Zhou, Ruobing Mei, Yi-Fan Zhao, Ruoxi Zhang, Deyi Zhuo, Zi-Jie Yan, Wei Yuan, Morteza Kayyalha, Moses H. W. Chan, Chao-Xing Liu, and Cui-Zu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086201 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Effects of Charge Dopants in Quantum Spin Hall Materials

Tomasz Dietl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086202 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Inverse Volcano: A New Molecule–Surface Interaction Phenomenon

Michelle S. Akerman, Roey Sagi, and Micha Asscher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086203 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

Phonon-Induced Localization of Excitons in Molecular Crystals from First Principles

Antonios M. Alvertis, Jonah B. Haber, Edgar A. Engel, Sahar Sharifzadeh, and Jeffrey B. Neaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086401 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Frequency Splitting of Chiral Phonons from Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry in ${CrI}_{3}$

John Bonini, Shang Ren, David Vanderbilt, Massimiliano Stengel, Cyrus E. Dreyer, and Sinisa Coh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086701 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023

Conductivity Enhancement in a Diffusive Fermi Liquid due to Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons

Joshua Aftergood and So Takei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086702 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Unidirectional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Antiferromagnetic Heterostructures

Yang Cheng, Junyu Tang, Justin J. Michel, Su Kong Chong, Fengyuan Yang, Ran Cheng, and Kang L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086703 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Field-Tunable Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Correlations in a Heisenberg Magnet

D. Opherden, M. S. J. Tepaske, F. Bärtl, M. Weber, M. M. Turnbull, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, M. Baenitz, J. Wosnitza, C. P. Landee, R. Moessner, D. J. Luitz, and H. Kühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 086704 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Two-Dimensional Semiconductors with High Intrinsic Carrier Mobility at Room Temperature

Chenmu Zhang, Ruoyu Wang, Himani Mishra, and Yuanyue Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087001 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Measurements of Phase Dynamics in Planar Josephson Junctions and SQUIDs

D. Z. Haxell, E. Cheah, F. Křížek, R. Schott, M. F. Ritter, M. Hinderling, W. Belzig, C. Bruder, W. Wegscheider, H. Riel, and F. Nichele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087002 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energetics of Microwaves Probed by Double Quantum Dot Absorption

Subhomoy Haldar, Harald Havir, Waqar Khan, Sebastian Lehmann, Claes Thelander, Kimberly A. Dick, and Ville F. Maisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087003 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Detuning and stopping-potential measurements in a quantum dot photodiode demonstrate a microwave analog of the photoelectric effect.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Direct Route to Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations and Their Saturation

Cai Dieball and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087101 (2023) - Published 23 February, 2023

Damping-Driven Time Reversal for Waves

Samuel Hidalgo-Caballero, Surabhi Kottigegollahalli Sreenivas, Vincent Bacot, Sander Wildeman, Maxime Harazi, Xiaoping Jia, Arnaud Tourin, Mathias Fink, Alvaro Cassinelli, Matthieu Labousse, and Emmanuel Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 087201 (2023) - Published 22 February, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonaffine Deformation of Semiflexible Polymer and Fiber Networks

Sihan Chen, Tomer Markovich, and Fred C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 088101 (2023) - Published 24 February, 2023

The nonaffine properties of semiflexible networks (common in biomaterials) are captured by an analytical model under various conditions in both 2D and 3D.

ERRATA

Erratum: Highly Adiabatic Time-Optimal Quantum Driving at Low Energy Cost [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180402 (2022)]

Ll. Garcia, J. M. Bofill, I. de P. R. Moreira, and G. Albareda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 089901 (2023) - Published 21 February, 2023