Volume 131, Issue 11

15 September 2023

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On the Cover

Two isomers of the smallest very long-lived or stable all-carbon molecular dianion $C_{7}^{2 -}$

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Stability and Cooling of the $C_{7}^{2 -}$ Dianion
P. K. Najeeb, M. H. Stockett, E. K. Anderson, M. K. Kristiansson, P. Reinhed, A. Simonsson, S. Rosén, R. D. Thomas, K. C. Chartkunchand, H. Gnaser, R. Golser, D. Hanstorp, Å. Larson, H. Cederquist, H. T. Schmidt, and H. Zettergren
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113003 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Determination of the Thermomigration Force on Adatoms

F. Leroy, A. El Barraj, F. Cheynis, P. Müller, and S. Curiotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116202 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

The slow drift of microscale features on a surface reveals the force driving atoms from the hot to the cold side of the material.

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Direct Observation of Topological Phonons in Graphene

Jiade Li, Jiangxu Li, Jilin Tang, Zhiyu Tao, Siwei Xue, Jiaxi Liu, Hailin Peng, Xing-Qiu Chen, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116602 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

New experiments reveal graphene’s exotic phonon spectrum with unprecedented detail and completeness.

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Evidence for Suppression of Structure Growth in the Concordance Cosmological Model

Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Dragan Huterer, and Yuewei Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111001 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

A joint analysis of data from the CMB, weak lensing, peculiar velocities, and galaxy clustering, shows that an extension of the concordance cosmological model which includes the suppression of the growth of cosmic structure can alleviate two widely discussed cosmological tensions.

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Prevailing Charge Order in Overdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ beyond the Superconducting Dome

Qizhi Li, Hsiao-Yu Huang, Tianshuang Ren, Eugen Weschke, Lele Ju, Changwei Zou, Shilong Zhang, Qingzheng Qiu, Jiarui Liu, Shuhan Ding, Amol Singh, Oleksandr Prokhnenko, Di-Jing Huang, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Yanwu Xie, and Yingying Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116002 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

Resonant x-ray scattering measurements reveal the existence of charge ordering in the high-temperature cuprate superconductor, La $_{2 - x}$ Sr $_{x}$ CuO $_{4}$ , well beyond the expected levels of doping concentrations.

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Paramagnetic Singularities of the Orbital Magnetism in Graphene with a Moiré Potential

J. Vallejo Bustamante, R. Ribeiro-Palau, C. Fermon, M. Pannetier-Lecoeur, K. Watanabe, T. Tanigushi, R. Deblock, S. Guéron, M. Ferrier, J. N. Fuchs, G. Montambaux, F. Piéchon, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116201 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Magnetization measurements on graphene/hBN samples in a wide range of chemical potential reveal paramagnetism at saddle points of the moiré band structure.

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Floquet Engineering of Black Phosphorus upon Below-Gap Pumping

Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan, Fei Wang, Haoyuan Zhong, Hongyun Zhang, Peizhe Tang, Wenhui Duan, and Shuyun Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116401 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Light-induced band engineering in black phosphorus by pumping below the band gap is experimentally demonstrated, which might extend Floquet engineering to more quantum materials.

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Enhancement of Second-Order Non-Hermitian Skin Effect by Magnetic Fields

Chang-An Li, Björn Trauzettel, Titus Neupert, and Song-Bo Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116601 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

The second-order non-Hermitian skin effect is robust and can even be enhanced by magnetic fields, which is in contrast to the first-order non-Hermitian skin effect.

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Experimental Observation of Critical Scaling in Magnetic Dynamic Phase Transitions

M. Quintana and A. Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116701 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Magneto-optical experiments on ultrathin uniaxial cobalt films reveal (for the first time) critical behavior in such systems, and also show indications of dimensional crossover, with the films exhibiting 2D dynamical and 3D thermodynamic behavior.

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Chemotactic Motility-Induced Phase Separation

Hongbo Zhao, Andrej Košmrlj, and Sujit S. Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118301 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

Chemotaxis and motility-induced phase separation compete against each other in systems of active particles.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Unlimited One-Way Steering

Pavel Sekatski, Florian Giraud, Roope Uola, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110201 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Constructing Local Models for General Measurements on Bosonic Gaussian States

Michael G. Jabbour and Jonatan Bohr Brask

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110202 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

Embedding Semiclassical Periodic Orbits into Chaotic Many-Body Hamiltonians

Andrew Hallam, Jean-Yves Desaules, and Zlatko Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110401 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

Benchmarking Quantum Simulators Using Ergodic Quantum Dynamics

Daniel K. Mark, Joonhee Choi, Adam L. Shaw, Manuel Endres, and Soonwon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110601 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

Measurement-Based Deterministic Imaginary Time Evolution

Yuping Mao, Manish Chaudhary, Manikandan Kondappan, Junheng Shi, Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke, Valentin Ivannikov, and Tim Byrnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110602 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Single-Qubit Error Mitigation by Simulating Non-Markovian Dynamics

Mirko Rossini, Dominik Maile, Joachim Ankerhold, and Brecht I. C. Donvil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110603 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Proof-of-Principle Demonstration of Fully Passive Quantum Key Distribution

Chengqiu Hu, Wenyuan Wang, Kai-Sum Chan, Zhenghan Yuan, and Hoi-Kwong Lo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110801 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Experimental Demonstration of Fully Passive Quantum Key Distribution

Feng-Yu Lu, Ze-Hao Wang, Víctor Zapatero, Jia-Lin Chen, Shuang Wang, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Marcos Curty, De-Yong He, Rong Wang, Wei Chen, Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110802 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Evidence for Suppression of Structure Growth in the Concordance Cosmological Model

Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Dragan Huterer, and Yuewei Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111001 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Ruling Out New Physics at Low Redshift as a Solution to the $H_{0}$ Tension

Ryan E. Keeley and Arman Shafieloo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111002 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Starburst Galactic Nuclei as Light Dark Matter Laboratories

Antonio Ambrosone, Marco Chianese, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Antonio Marinelli, and Gennaro Miele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111003 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Novel Constraints on Axions Produced in Pulsar Polar-Cap Cascades

Dion Noordhuis, Anirudh Prabhu, Samuel J. Witte, Alexander Y. Chen, Fábio Cruz, and Christoph Weniger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111004 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Large Scale Limit of the Observed Galaxy Power Spectrum

Matteo Foglieni, Mattia Pantiri, Enea Di Dio, and Emanuele Castorina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111201 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

From Black Hole Spectral Instability to Stable Observables

Théo Torres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111401 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Asymptotic Symmetry Algebra of Einstein Gravity and Lorentz Generators

Oscar Fuentealba, Marc Henneaux, and Cédric Troessaert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111402 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

Self-Consistent Modeling of Gravitational Theories beyond General Relativity

Ramiro Cayuso, Pau Figueras, Tiago França, and Luis Lehner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111403 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Particles and Fields

$Q$ -Ball Superradiance

Paul M. Saffin, Qi-Xin Xie, and Shuang-Yong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111601 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Energy Extraction from $Q$ -balls and Other Fundamental Solitons

Vitor Cardoso, Rodrigo Vicente, and Zhen Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111602 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Generalized Symmetries for Generalized Gravitons

Valentin Benedetti, Pablo Bueno, and Javier M. Magan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111603 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Probing the Dark Sector with Nuclear Transition Photons

Bhaskar Dutta, Wei-Chih Huang, and Jayden L. Newstead

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111801 (2023) - Published 12 September, 2023

Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions $R (D^{*})$ and $R (D^{0})$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111802 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Measurement of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{0}$ Decays at Belle II

I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111803 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Study of the ${}^{22}{Mg}$ Waiting Point Relevant for X-Ray Burst Nucleosynthesis via the ${}^{22}{Mg} (α, p) {}^{25}{Al}$ Reaction

H. Jayatissa, M. L. Avila, K. E. Rehm, P. Mohr, Z. Meisel, J. Chen, C. R. Hoffman, J. Liang, C. Müller-Gatermann, D. Neto, W. J. Ong, A. Psaltis, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, T. L. Tang, C. Ugalde, and G. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 112701 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Effects of Quantum Fluctuations on the Low-Energy Collective Modes of Two-Dimensional Superfluid Fermi Gases from the BCS to the Bose Limit

Senne Van Loon and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113001 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Low-Velocity-Favored Transition Radiation

Jialin Chen, Ruoxi Chen, Fuyang Tay, Zheng Gong, Hao Hu, Yi Yang, Xinyan Zhang, Chan Wang, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen, Baile Zhang, and Xiao Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113002 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Stability and Cooling of the $C_{7}^{2 -}$ Dianion

P. K. Najeeb, M. H. Stockett, E. K. Anderson, M. K. Kristiansson, P. Reinhed, A. Simonsson, S. Rosén, R. D. Thomas, K. C. Chartkunchand, H. Gnaser, R. Golser, D. Hanstorp, Å. Larson, H. Cederquist, H. T. Schmidt, and H. Zettergren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113003 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Variation of the Quadrupole Hyperfine Structure and Nuclear Radius due to an Interaction with Scalar and Axion Dark Matter

V. V. Flambaum and A. J. Mansour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113004 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

Observation of a Superradiant Phase Transition with Emergent Cat States

Ri-Hua Zheng, Wen Ning, Ye-Hong Chen, Jia-Hao Lü, Li-Tuo Shen, Kai Xu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Da Xu, Hekang Li, Yan Xia, Fan Wu, Zhen-Biao Yang, Adam Miranowicz, Neill Lambert, Dongning Zheng, Heng Fan, Franco Nori, and Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113601 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Nonreciprocal Dicke Model

Ezequiel I. Rodríguez Chiacchio, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Matteo Brunelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113602 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Confined Phase Singularities Reveal the Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Conversion of Sound Waves

Ludovic Alhaïtz, Thomas Brunet, Christophe Aristégui, Olivier Poncelet, and Diego Baresch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 114001 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Kolmogorov Turbulence Coexists with Pseudo-Turbulence in Buoyancy-Driven Bubbly Flows

Vikash Pandey, Dhrubaditya Mitra, and Prasad Perlekar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 114002 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Shape-Morphing Dynamics of Soft Compliant Membranes for Drag and Turbulence Modulation

Varghese Mathai, Asimanshu Das, Dante L. Naylor, and Kenneth S. Breuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 114003 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Fast Ion Isotropization by Current Sheet Scattering in Magnetic Reconnection Jets

Louis Richard, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Daniel B. Graham, Andris Vaivads, Daniel J. Gershman, and Christopher T. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 115201 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Current-Voltage Characteristics of the Normal Metal-Insulator-PT-Symmetric Non-Hermitian Superconductor Junction as a Probe of Non-Hermitian Formalisms

Viktoriia Kornich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116001 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

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Prevailing Charge Order in Overdoped ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ beyond the Superconducting Dome

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116002 (2023) - Published 14 September, 2023

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Paramagnetic Singularities of the Orbital Magnetism in Graphene with a Moiré Potential

J. Vallejo Bustamante, R. Ribeiro-Palau, C. Fermon, M. Pannetier-Lecoeur, K. Watanabe, T. Tanigushi, R. Deblock, S. Guéron, M. Ferrier, J. N. Fuchs, G. Montambaux, F. Piéchon, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116201 (2023) - Published 11 September, 2023

Magnetization measurements on graphene/hBN samples in a wide range of chemical potential reveal paramagnetism at saddle points of the moiré band structure.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determination of the Thermomigration Force on Adatoms

F. Leroy, A. El Barraj, F. Cheynis, P. Müller, and S. Curiotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116202 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

The slow drift of microscale features on a surface reveals the force driving atoms from the hot to the cold side of the material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet Engineering of Black Phosphorus upon Below-Gap Pumping

Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan, Fei Wang, Haoyuan Zhong, Hongyun Zhang, Peizhe Tang, Wenhui Duan, and Shuyun Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116401 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

Light-induced band engineering in black phosphorus by pumping below the band gap is experimentally demonstrated, which might extend Floquet engineering to more quantum materials.

Probing Hidden Mott Gap and Incommensurate Charge Modulation on the Polar Surfaces of ${PdCrO}_{2}$

Chenhaoping Wen, Tian Qin, Xuefeng Zhang, Mingxin Zhang, Weixiong Hu, Shiwei Shen, Zhongzheng Yang, Yanpeng Qi, Gang Li, and Shichao Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116501 (2023) - Published 15 September, 2023

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Enhancement of Second-Order Non-Hermitian Skin Effect by Magnetic Fields

Chang-An Li, Björn Trauzettel, Titus Neupert, and Song-Bo Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116601 (2023) - Published 13 September, 2023

The second-order non-Hermitian skin effect is robust and can even be enhanced by magnetic fields, which is in contrast to the first-order non-Hermitian skin effect.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION