Volume 131, Issue 14

6 October 2023

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Numerically simulated cell condensation patterns with repeated branching arising from a homogeneous cell-ECM mixture.

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Contractility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Solids
Sifan Yin and L. Mahadevan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148401 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Lossless Monochromator in an Ultrafast Electron Microscope Using Near-Field THz Radiation

Michael Yannai, Yuval Adiv, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Tal Fishman, Michael Krüger, and Ido Kaminer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145002 (2023) - Published 4 October, 2023

Researchers demonstrate a method to reduce the energy spread of electrons used in electron microscopes, opening the door to time- and energy-resolved studies of quasiparticles such as phonons and plasmons.

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Lifting, Loading, and Buckling in Conical Shells

Daniel Duffy, Joselle M. McCracken, Tayler S. Hebner, Timothy J. White, and John S. Biggins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148202 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

The early failure of thin-walled cones under compression was thought to arise mainly from the presence of imperfections. A new model suggests otherwise.

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Dark Matter Constraints from Isomeric ${}^{178 m}{Hf}$

D. S. M. Alves, S. R. Elliott, R. Massarczyk, S. J. Meijer, and H. Ramani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 141801 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

A search for the collisional deexcitation of metastable $^{178 m}$ Hf puts new constraints on the parameter space of inelastic dark matter.

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Final Results of GERDA on the Two-Neutrino Double- $β$ Decay Half-Life of ${}^{76}{Ge}$

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 142501 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

The GERDA collaboration has made the most precise determination of the two-neutrino double- $β$ decay half-life of $^{76}$ Ge.

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Experimental Demonstration to Control the Pulse Length of Coherent Undulator Radiation by Chirped Microbunching

Takashi Tanaka, Yuichiro Kida, Satoshi Hashimoto, Shuji Miyamoto, Tadashi Togashi, Hiromitsu Tomizawa, Aoi Gocho, Keisuke Kaneshima, and Yoshihito Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145001 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

A new free-electron laser (FEL) scheme that uses chirped microbunching to compress pulse length has been demonstrated, opening the path to the realization of single-cycle FELs.

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Gate-Defined Topological Josephson Junctions in Bernal Bilayer Graphene

Ying-Ming Xie, Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise, Andrea F. Young, Stevan Nadj-Perge, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146601 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

Gapped superconductivity emerging via intervalley coherence in bilayer graphene or monolayer WSe $_{2}$ can lead to formation of Majorana zero modes.

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Fluids in Random Media and Dimensional Augmentation

John Cardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 147102 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

A nonrandom fluid in $d$ dimensions with finite-range two-body potentials is precisely equivalent to one in a quenched random medium in $d + 2$ dimensions.

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Dynamical Pattern Formation without Self-Attraction in Quorum-Sensing Active Matter: The Interplay between Nonreciprocity and Motility

Yu Duan, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoît Mahault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Nonreciprocal interactions and self-propulsion lead to the formation of dynamical patterns that do not rely on self-attraction in binary mixtures of quorum-sensing active particles.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Self-Testing with Dishonest Parties and Device-Independent Entanglement Certification in Quantum Communication Networks

Gláucia Murta and Flavio Baccari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 140201 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Emergence of Time from Quantum Interaction with the Environment

Sebastian Gemsheim and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 140202 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Nonequilibrium Full Counting Statistics and Symmetry-Resolved Entanglement from Space-Time Duality

Bruno Bertini, Pasquale Calabrese, Mario Collura, Katja Klobas, and Colin Rylands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 140401 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Problem-Dependent Power of Quantum Neural Networks on Multiclass Classification

Yuxuan Du, Yibo Yang, Dacheng Tao, and Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 140601 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Quantum Complementarity Approach to Device-Independent Security

Xingjian Zhang, Pei Zeng, Tian Ye, Hoi-Kwong Lo, and Xiongfeng Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 140801 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Single-Qubit Loss-Tolerant Quantum Position Verification Protocol Secure against Entangled Attackers

Llorenç Escolà-Farràs and Florian Speelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 140802 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Particles and Fields

Disordered Quantum Critical Fixed Points from Holography

Xiaoyang Huang, Subir Sachdev, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 141601 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

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Dark Matter Constraints from Isomeric ${}^{178 m}{Hf}$

D. S. M. Alves, S. R. Elliott, R. Massarczyk, S. J. Meijer, and H. Ramani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 141801 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

A search for the collisional deexcitation of metastable $^{178 m}$ Hf puts new constraints on the parameter space of inelastic dark matter.

First Experimental Study of the Purely Leptonic Decay $D_{s}^{* +} \to e^{+} ν_{e}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 141802 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Nuclear Physics

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Final Results of GERDA on the Two-Neutrino Double- $β$ Decay Half-Life of ${}^{76}{Ge}$

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 142501 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

The GERDA collaboration has made the most precise determination of the two-neutrino double- $β$ decay half-life of $^{76}$ Ge.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Femtosecond Electronic and Hydrogen Structural Dynamics in Ammonia Imaged with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction

Elio G. Champenois, Nanna H. List, Matthew Ware, Mathew Britton, Philip H. Bucksbaum, Xinxin Cheng, Martin Centurion, James P. Cryan, Ruaridh Forbes, Ian Gabalski, Kareem Hegazy, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Andrew J. Howard, Fuhao Ji, Ming-Fu Lin, J. Pedro F. Nunes, Xiaozhe Shen, Jie Yang, Xijie Wang, Todd J. Martinez, and Thomas J. A. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143001 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

Emergence of Synchronization in a Driven-Dissipative Hot Rydberg Vapor

Karen Wadenpfuhl and C. Stuart Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143002 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Molecular Ion Desorption from LiF(110) Surfaces by Positron Annihilation

T. Tachibana, D. Hoshi, and Y. Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143201 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Atom Interferometry with Coherent Enhancement of Bragg Pulse Sequences

A. Béguin, T. Rodzinka, L. Calmels, B. Allard, and A. Gauguet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143401 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Phonon Signatures in Photon Correlations

Ben S. Humphries, Dale Green, Magnus O. Borgh, and Garth A. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143601 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

Resolving Nonclassical Magnon Composition of a Magnetic Ground State via a Qubit

Anna-Luisa E. Römling, Alejandro Vivas-Viaña, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, and Akashdeep Kamra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143602 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Mitigating Quantum Decoherence in Force Sensors by Internal Squeezing

M. Korobko, J. Südbeck, S. Steinlechner, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143603 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Quantum Fluctuation Dynamics of Dispersive Superradiant Pulses in a Hybrid Light-Matter System

Kevin C. Stitely, Fabian Finger, Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, Francesco Ferri, Tobias Donner, Tilman Esslinger, Scott Parkins, and Bernd Krauskopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143604 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Spectrally Sharp Near-Field Thermal Emission: Revealing Some Disagreements between a Casimir-Polder Sensor and Predictions from Far-Field Emittance

J. C. de Aquino Carvalho, I. Maurin, P. Chaves de Souza Segundo, A. Laliotis, D. de Sousa Meneses, and D. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143801 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

Integrated Backward Second-Harmonic Generation through Optically Induced Quasi-Phase-Matching

Ozan Yakar, Edgars Nitiss, Jianqi Hu, and Camille-Sophie Brès

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143802 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

Helicity and Polarization Gradient Optical Trapping in Evanescent Fields

Jinsheng Lu, Vincent Ginis, Soon Wei Daniel Lim, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143803 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration to Control the Pulse Length of Coherent Undulator Radiation by Chirped Microbunching

Takashi Tanaka, Yuichiro Kida, Satoshi Hashimoto, Shuji Miyamoto, Tadashi Togashi, Hiromitsu Tomizawa, Aoi Gocho, Keisuke Kaneshima, and Yoshihito Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145001 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

A new free-electron laser (FEL) scheme that uses chirped microbunching to compress pulse length has been demonstrated, opening the path to the realization of single-cycle FELs.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lossless Monochromator in an Ultrafast Electron Microscope Using Near-Field THz Radiation

Michael Yannai, Yuval Adiv, Raphael Dahan, Kangpeng Wang, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Tal Fishman, Michael Krüger, and Ido Kaminer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145002 (2023) - Published 4 October, 2023

Coherent Subcycle Optical Shock from a Superluminal Plasma Wake

H. Peng, T. W. Huang, K. Jiang, R. Li, C. N. Wu, M. Y. Yu, C. Riconda, S. Weber, C. T. Zhou, and S. C. Ruan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145003 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Experimental Validation of a Kinetic Ballooning Mode in High-Performance High-Bootstrap Current Fraction Fusion Plasmas

X. Jian, J. Chen, S. Ding, A. Garofalo, X. Gong, C. Holland, J. Huang, V. S. Chan, X. Qin, G. Yu, R. R. Ma, X. Du, R. Hong, G. Staebler, H. Wang, Z. Yan, E. Bass, D. Brower, W. Ding, and D. Orlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 145101 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Double-Shock Compression Pathways from Diamond to BC8 Carbon

Jiuyang Shi, Zhixing Liang, Junjie Wang, Shuning Pan, Chi Ding, Yong Wang, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146101 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Impact of Optically Pumped Nonequilibrium Steady States on Luminescence Emission of Atomically Thin Semiconductor Excitons

Manuel Katzer, Malte Selig, Dominik Christiansen, Mariana V. Ballottin, Peter C. M. Christianen, and Andreas Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146201 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

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Gate-Defined Topological Josephson Junctions in Bernal Bilayer Graphene

Ying-Ming Xie, Étienne Lantagne-Hurtubise, Andrea F. Young, Stevan Nadj-Perge, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146601 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

Gapped superconductivity emerging via intervalley coherence in bilayer graphene or monolayer WSe $_{2}$ can lead to formation of Majorana zero modes.

Nonlinear Transport due to Magnetic-Field-Induced Flat Bands in the Nodal-Line Semimetal ${ZrTe}_{5}$

Yongjian Wang, Thomas Bömerich, Jinhong Park, Henry F. Legg, A. A. Taskin, Achim Rosch, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146602 (2023) - Published 6 October, 2023

Continuous Spin Excitations in the Three-Dimensional Frustrated Magnet $K_{2} {Ni}_{2} ({SO}_{4})_{3}$

Weiliang Yao, Qing Huang, Tao Xie, Andrey Podlesnyak, Alexander Brassington, Chengkun Xing, Ranuri S. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage, Haozhe Wang, Weiwei Xie, Shengzhi Zhang, Minseong Lee, Vivien S. Zapf, Xiaojian Bai, D. Alan Tennant, Jian Liu, and Haidong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146701 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Triple-q Order in ${Na}_{2} {Co}_{2} {TeO}_{6}$ from Proximity to Hidden-SU(2)-Symmetric Point

Wilhelm G. F. Krüger, Wenjie Chen, Xianghong Jin, Yuan Li, and Lukas Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 146702 (2023) - Published 5 October, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Universal Relation between Entropy and Kinetics

Benjamin Sorkin, Haim Diamant, and Gil Ariel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 147101 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluids in Random Media and Dimensional Augmentation

John Cardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 147102 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

A nonrandom fluid in $d$ dimensions with finite-range two-body potentials is precisely equivalent to one in a quenched random medium in $d + 2$ dimensions.

Observation of Traveling Breathers and Their Scattering in a Two-Fluid System

Yifeng Mao, Sathyanarayanan Chandramouli, Wenqian Xu, and Mark A. Hoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 147201 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Dynamic Friction Unraveled by Observing an Unexpected Intermediate State in Controlled Molecular Manipulation

Norio Okabayashi, Thomas Frederiksen, Alexander Liebig, and Franz J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148001 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

Twisting a Cylindrical Sheet Makes It a Tunable Locking Material

Pan Dong, Mengfei He, Nathan C. Keim, and Joseph D. Paulsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148201 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lifting, Loading, and Buckling in Conical Shells

Daniel Duffy, Joselle M. McCracken, Tayler S. Hebner, Timothy J. White, and John S. Biggins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148202 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

The early failure of thin-walled cones under compression was thought to arise mainly from the presence of imperfections. A new model suggests otherwise.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamical Pattern Formation without Self-Attraction in Quorum-Sensing Active Matter: The Interplay between Nonreciprocity and Motility

Yu Duan, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Ramin Golestanian, and Benoît Mahault

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148301 (2023) - Published 3 October, 2023

Nonreciprocal interactions and self-propulsion lead to the formation of dynamical patterns that do not rely on self-attraction in binary mixtures of quorum-sensing active particles.

Contractility-Induced Phase Separation in Active Solids

Sifan Yin and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 148401 (2023) - Published 2 October, 2023