Volume 131, Issue 15

13 October 2023

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Simulations of frictional sliding contacts revealing tensile-stress concentrations in compressible elastomers.

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Significance of Elastic Coupling for Stresses and Leakage in Frictional Contacts
Christian Müller, Martin H. Müser, Giuseppe Carbone, and Nicola Menga
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156201 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Optimal Generators for Quantum Sensing

Jarrod T. Reilly, John Drew Wilson, Simon B. Jäger, Christopher Wilson, and Murray J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150802 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

A new method identifies the most sensitive measurement that can be performed using a given quantum state, knowledge key for designing improved quantum sensors.

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Measurement of Ultra-High-Energy Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission of the Galactic Plane from 10 TeV to 1 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151001 (2023) - Published 9 October, 2023

Interstellar magnetic fields perturb the trajectories of cosmic rays, making it difficult to identify their sources. A new survey of gamma radiation produced when cosmic rays interact with the interstellar medium should help in this identification.

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Orbital Hanle Magnetoresistance in a $3 d$ Transition Metal

Giacomo Sala, Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156703 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Two different experiments on two different transition metals reveal that a current of electron orbital angular momentum flows in response to an electric field.

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Hydrodynamics-Induced Long-Range Attraction between Plates in Bacterial Suspensions

Luhui Ning, Xin Lou, Qili Ma, Yaochen Yang, Nan Luo, Ke Chen, Fanlong Meng, Xin Zhou, Mingcheng Yang, and Yi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 158301 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

The flow field generated by swimming bacteria drives a long-range attractive force felt by passive objects much larger than the swimmers themselves.

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Magneto-Optical Detection of the Orbital Hall Effect in Chromium

Igor Lyalin, Sanaz Alikhah, Marco Berritta, Peter M. Oppeneer, and Roland K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156702 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Two different experiments on two different transition metals reveal that a current of electron orbital angular momentum flows in response to an electric field.

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Active Spaghetti: Collective Organization in Cyanobacteria

Mixon K. Faluweki, Jan Cammann, Marco G. Mazza, and Lucas Goehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 158303 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Lab experiments and theoretical models elucidate how chains of light-harvesting bacteria assemble into various density-dependent structures.

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Observation of the $γ γ \to τ τ$ Process in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions and Constraints on the $τ$ -Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151802 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have separately measured photon-induced τ-lepton pair production in Pb+Pb collisions, providing a novel probe of the τ anomalous magnetic moment.

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Observation of $τ$ Lepton Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151803 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have separately measured photon-induced τ-lepton pair production in Pb+Pb collisions, providing a novel probe of the τ anomalous magnetic moment.

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Observation of an Excess of Dicharmonium Events in the Four-Muon Final State with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151902 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Statistically significant excesses are seen in the di- $J / ψ$ and $J / ψ + ψ (2 S)$ channels using the ATLAS detector.

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Quantum Optics Measurement Scheme for Quantum Geometry and Topological Invariants

Markus Lysne, Michael Schüler, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156901 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

A proposed optical setup combines a Fabry-Perot-type optical cavity with heterodyne photon detection for extracting the topological properties of two-dimensional semiconductor materials.

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Controllable Single Cooper Pair Splitting in Hybrid Quantum Dot Systems

Damaz de Jong, Christian G. Prosko, Lin Han, Filip K. Malinowski, Yu Liu, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, and Wolfgang Pfaff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 157001 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

A superconducting island with quantum dots on either side allows for coherent splitting of a single Cooper pair and detection of an emerging unpaired electron.

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Realization of a $Z$ -Classified Chiral-Symmetric Higher-Order Topological Insulator in a Coupling-Inverted Acoustic Crystal

Dongyi Wang, Yuanchen Deng, Jun Ji, Mourad Oudich, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Guancong Ma, and Yun Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 157201 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

An experiment shows the existence of $Z$ -classified multiple chiral topological phase, which requires both chiral symmetry and a unique condition where the long-range hopping is stronger than the nearest-neighboring one.

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Mechanistic Insights into Water Autoionization through Metadynamics Simulation Enhanced by Machine Learning

Ling Liu, Yingqi Tian, Xuanye Yang, and Chungen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 158001 (2023) - Published 9 October, 2023

Machine learning-assisted metadynamics is used to study water autoionization, one of the most important properties of water for all biological and chemical process including electrolysis (related to batteries).

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

General Class of Continuous Variable Entanglement Criteria

Martin Gärttner, Tobias Haas, and Johannes Noll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150201 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Nonclassical Advantage in Metrology Established via Quantum Simulations of Hypothetical Closed Timelike Curves

David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, Aidan G. McConnell, and Nicole Yunger Halpern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150202 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Testing Heisenberg-Type Measurement Uncertainty Relations of Three Observables

Ya-Li Mao, Hu Chen, Chang Niu, Zheng-Da Li, Sixia Yu, and Jingyun Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150203 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Validating Phase-Space Methods with Tensor Networks in Two-Dimensional Spin Models with Power-Law Interactions

Sean R. Muleady, Mingru Yang, Steven R. White, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150401 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Gaussian Boson Sampling with Pseudo-Photon-Number-Resolving Detectors and Quantum Computational Advantage

Yu-Hao Deng et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150601 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Hardware Implementation of Quantum Stabilizers in Superconducting Circuits

K. Dodge, Y. Liu, A. R. Klots, B. Cole, A. Shearrow, M. Senatore, S. Zhu, L. B. Ioffe, R. McDermott, and B. L. T. Plourde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150602 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Linear Combination of Hamiltonian Simulation for Nonunitary Dynamics with Optimal State Preparation Cost

Dong An, Jin-Peng Liu, and Lin Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150603 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Optimal Sensing Protocol for Statistically Polarized Nano-NMR with NV Centers

Nicolas Staudenmaier, Anjusha Vijayakumar-Sreeja, Genko Genov, Daniel Cohen, Christoph Findler, Johannes Lang, Alex Retzker, Fedor Jelezko, and Santiago Oviedo-Casado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150801 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

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Optimal Generators for Quantum Sensing

Jarrod T. Reilly, John Drew Wilson, Simon B. Jäger, Christopher Wilson, and Murray J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150802 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

A new method identifies the most sensitive measurement that can be performed using a given quantum state, knowledge key for designing improved quantum sensors.

Generalized Quantum Measurements on a Higher-Dimensional System via Quantum Walks

Xiaowei Wang, Xiang Zhan, Yulin Li, Lei Xiao, Gaoyan Zhu, Dengke Qu, Quan Lin, Yue Yu, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150803 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Interferometry-Integrated Noise-Immune Quantum Memory

Zhifei Yu, Zeliang Wu, Xuejie Li, Xiaotian Feng, Wenfeng Huang, Keye Zhang, Chun-Hua Yuan, Weiping Zhang, and L. Q. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 150804 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Measurement of Ultra-High-Energy Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission of the Galactic Plane from 10 TeV to 1 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151001 (2023) - Published 9 October, 2023

Temporal Structures in Positron Spectra and Charge-Sign Effects in Galactic Cosmic Rays

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151002 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Strong Backreaction Regime in Axion Inflation

Daniel G. Figueroa, Joanes Lizarraga, Ander Urio, and Jon Urrestilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151003 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Conservative Scattering of Spinning Black Holes at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, Benjamin Sauer, and Yingxuan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151401 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Particles and Fields

Entanglement Resolution with Respect to Conformal Symmetry

Christian Northe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151601 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Supersymmetric Spectral Form Factor and Euclidean Black Holes

Sunjin Choi, Seok Kim, and Jaewon Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151602 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Measurement of the $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ (1520) μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Differential Branching Fraction

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151801 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

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Observation of the $γ γ \to τ τ$ Process in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions and Constraints on the $τ$ -Lepton Anomalous Magnetic Moment with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151802 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have separately measured photon-induced τ-lepton pair production in Pb+Pb collisions, providing a novel probe of the τ anomalous magnetic moment.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of $τ$ Lepton Pair Production in Ultraperipheral Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151803 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

The ATLAS and CMS experiments have separately measured photon-induced τ-lepton pair production in Pb+Pb collisions, providing a novel probe of the τ anomalous magnetic moment.

Determination of Spin-Parity Quantum Numbers for the Narrow Structure near the $p \bar{Λ}$ Threshold in $e^{+} e^{-} \to p K^{-} \bar{Λ} + c . c .$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151901 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

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Observation of an Excess of Dicharmonium Events in the Four-Muon Final State with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151902 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Statistically significant excesses are seen in the di- $J / ψ$ and $J / ψ + ψ (2 S)$ channels using the ATLAS detector.

Precise Measurement of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to D_{s}^{* +} D_{s}^{* -}$ Cross Sections at Center-of-Mass Energies from Threshold to 4.95 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 151903 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Constraints on the Decay of ${}^{180 m}{Ta}$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 152501 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Amplifying a Zeptonewton Force with a Single-Ion Nonlinear Oscillator

Bo Deng, Moritz Göb, Benjamin A. Stickler, Max Masuhr, Kilian Singer, and Daqing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 153601 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Impact of Cavity Geometry on Microlaser Dynamics

Kyungduk Kim, Stefan Bittner, Yuhao Jin, Yongquan Zeng, Qi Jie Wang, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 153801 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Nonlinear Optical Pulses in Media with Asymmetric Gain

S. K. Turitsyn, A. E. Bednyakova, and E. V. Podivilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 153802 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Superoscillations Deliver Superspectroscopy

Gerard McCaul, Peisong Peng, Monica Ortiz Martinez, Dusty R. Lindberg, Diyar Talbayev, and Denys I. Bondar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 153803 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Verifying the Magnitude Dependence in Earthquake Occurrence

Giuseppe Petrillo and Jiancang Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 154101 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Using Direct Laboratory Measurements of Electron Temperature Anisotropy to Identify the Heating Mechanism in Electron-Only Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection

Peiyun Shi, Earl E. Scime, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul A. Cassak, Subash Adhikari, M. Swisdak, and Julia E. Stawarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 155101 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Significance of Elastic Coupling for Stresses and Leakage in Frictional Contacts

Christian Müller, Martin H. Müser, Giuseppe Carbone, and Nicola Menga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156201 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Josephson-like Tunnel Resonance and Large Coulomb Drag in GaAs-Based Electron-Hole Bilayers

M. L. Davis, S. Parolo, C. Reichl, W. Dietsche, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156301 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Multiple $k$ -Point Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics for Ultrafast Excitations in Periodic Systems: The Example of Photoexcited Silicon

Fan Zheng and Lin-wang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156302 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Transport and Entanglement across Integrable Impurities from Generalized Hydrodynamics

Colin Rylands and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156303 (2023) - Published 10 October, 2023

Quantum Metric Unveils Defect Freezing in Non-Hermitian Systems

Karin Sim, Nicolò Defenu, Paolo Molignini, and R. Chitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156501 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

Stimulated Amplification of Propagating Spin Waves

D. Breitbach, M. Schneider, B. Heinz, F. Kohl, J. Maskill, L. Scheuer, R. O. Serha, T. Brächer, B. Lägel, C. Dubs, V. S. Tiberkevich, A. N. Slavin, A. A. Serga, B. Hillebrands, A. V. Chumak, and P. Pirro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156701 (2023) - Published 9 October, 2023

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Magneto-Optical Detection of the Orbital Hall Effect in Chromium

Igor Lyalin, Sanaz Alikhah, Marco Berritta, Peter M. Oppeneer, and Roland K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156702 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Two different experiments on two different transition metals reveal that a current of electron orbital angular momentum flows in response to an electric field.

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Orbital Hanle Magnetoresistance in a $3 d$ Transition Metal

Giacomo Sala, Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156703 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

Two different experiments on two different transition metals reveal that a current of electron orbital angular momentum flows in response to an electric field.

Voltage-Controlled High-Bandwidth Terahertz Oscillators Based on Antiferromagnets

Mike A. Lund, Davi R. Rodrigues, Karin Everschor-Sitte, and Kjetil M. D. Hals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156704 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

Correlation-Enhanced Interaction of a Bose-Einstein Condensate with Parametric Magnon Pairs and Virtual Magnons

Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, Dmytro A. Bozhko, Burkard Hillebrands, and Alexander A. Serga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156705 (2023) - Published 13 October, 2023

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Quantum Optics Measurement Scheme for Quantum Geometry and Topological Invariants

Markus Lysne, Michael Schüler, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156901 (2023) - Published 11 October, 2023

A proposed optical setup combines a Fabry-Perot-type optical cavity with heterodyne photon detection for extracting the topological properties of two-dimensional semiconductor materials.

Nonthermal Bonding Origin of a Novel Photoexcited Lattice Instability in SnSe

Yijing Huang, Samuel Teitelbaum, Shan Yang, Gilberto De la Peña, Takahiro Sato, Matthieu Chollet, Diling Zhu, Jennifer L. Niedziela, Dipanshu Bansal, Andrew F. May, Aaron M. Lindenberg, Olivier Delaire, Mariano Trigo, and David A. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156902 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

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Controllable Single Cooper Pair Splitting in Hybrid Quantum Dot Systems

Damaz de Jong, Christian G. Prosko, Lin Han, Filip K. Malinowski, Yu Liu, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, and Wolfgang Pfaff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 157001 (2023) - Published 12 October, 2023

A superconducting island with quantum dots on either side allows for coherent splitting of a single Cooper pair and detection of an emerging unpaired electron.