Volume 131, Issue 16

20 October 2023

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On the Cover

Cross sections of the normalized magnetization of a hopfion (a topological magnetic texture) and its interaction with spin waves (red wavy arrows) in the XY (top) and XZ (bottom) planes.

From the article:

Hopfion-Driven Magnonic Hall Effect and Magnonic Focusing
Carlos Saji, Roberto E. Troncoso, Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos, Dora Altbir, and Alvaro S. Nunez
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166702 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Femtosecond Reduction of Atomic Scattering Factors Triggered by Intense X-Ray Pulse

Ichiro Inoue, Jumpei Yamada, Konrad J. Kapcia, Michal Stransky, Victor Tkachenko, Zoltan Jurek, Takato Inoue, Taito Osaka, Yuichi Inubushi, Atsuki Ito, Yuto Tanaka, Satoshi Matsuyama, Kazuto Yamauchi, Makina Yabashi, and Beata Ziaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163201 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Measurements indicate that intense x-ray pulses can change the electronic structure of a material on femtosecond timescales, a finding that could improve imaging of light–matter interactions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Anisotropic Superfluid Density in an Artificial Crystal

J. Tao, M. Zhao, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163401 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Trapping a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical lattice, researchers confirm a 53-year-old theory that connects BECs to superfluids and supersolids.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Light Dark Matter with NA64 at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161801 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

An experiment at CERN performed by scattering 100 GeV electrons off a fixed target results in limits on thermal dark matter—that requires interactions mediated by hypothetical dark photons—in the MeV mass range.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm

D. P. Aguillard et al. (The Muon $g - 2$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161802 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

The magnetic moment of the muon, a key probe of the standard model and its possible extensions, has been measured to a precision of 200 parts per billion, 2.3 times more precise than their first landmark result.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Doubly Charmed Tetraquark $T_{c c}^{+}$ from Lattice QCD near Physical Point

Yan Lyu, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, and Jie Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161901 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

A lattice QCD computation close to the physical point finds a near-threshold virtual state in the $D D^{*}$ scattering channel, that suggests the formation of a loosely bound state at the physical point consistent with the experimental observation of a doubly charmed tetraquark $T_{c c}^{+}$ .

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Are Gluon Showers inside a Quark-Gluon Plasma Strongly Coupled? A Theorist’s Test

Peter Arnold, Omar Elgedawy, and Shahin Iqbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162302 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

A theoretical study demonstrates that in-medium showers of high-energy gluons can be approximately treated as a sequence of individual splitting processes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlled Excitation of Rotons in Superfluid Helium with an Optical Centrifuge

Alexander A. Milner and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166001 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

A laser pulse with rotating linear polarization creates roton pairs in superfluid helium.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Lower Bound on Topological Entanglement Entropy

Isaac H. Kim, Michael Levin, Ting-Chun Lin, Daniel Ranard, and Bowen Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166601 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

A lower bound to the topological entanglement entropy partially restores its universality.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room-Temperature Magnetic Phase Transition in an Electrically Tuned van der Waals Ferromagnet

Cheng Tan, Ji-Hai Liao, Guolin Zheng, Meri Algarni, Jia-Yi Lin, Xiang Ma, Edwin L. H. Mayes, Matthew R. Field, Sultan Albarakati, Majid Panahandeh-Fard, Saleh Alzahrani, Guopeng Wang, Yuanjun Yang, Dimitrie Culcer, James Partridge, Mingliang Tian, Bin Xiang, Yu-Jun Zhao, and Lan Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166703 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

A ferromagnetism to antiferromagnetism phase transition in a van der Waals magnet at room temperature uses CrTe nanoflakes that may lead to improved spintronic devices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Topological Magnon Spin Hall Effect

Zhejunyu Jin, Xianglong Yao, Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Weiwei Wang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166704 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

Nonlinear scattering of magnons and skyrmions in antiferromagnets leads to a spin Hall effect that emerges from real-space topology.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Bounds on Correlation Times

Andreas Dechant, Jérôme Garnier-Brun, and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 167101 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

An analysis of the correlation time of physical observables in steady-state diffusive systems reveals the existence of lower bounds both in and out of equilibrium.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Coherence-Based Operational Nonclassicality Criteria

Luca Innocenti, Lukáš Lachman, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160201 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Stochastic Operator Variance: An Observable to Diagnose Noise and Scrambling

Pablo Martinez-Azcona, Aritra Kundu, Adolfo del Campo, and Aurélia Chenu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160202 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Quantum Reliability

L. X. Cui, Y-M. Du, and C. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160203 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Impact of Imperfect Timekeeping on Quantum Control

Jake Xuereb, Paul Erker, Florian Meier, Mark T. Mitchison, and Marcus Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160204 (2023) - Published 20 October, 2023

Quantum Trajectories for Time-Local Non-Lindblad Master Equations

Tobias Becker, Ché Netzer, and André Eckardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160401 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Operator Growth in Open Quantum Systems

Thomas Schuster and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160402 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Entangling Dynamics from Effective Rotor–Spin-Wave Separation in U(1)-Symmetric Quantum Spin Models

Tommaso Roscilde, Tommaso Comparin, and Fabio Mezzacapo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160403 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Shadow Tomography from Emergent State Designs in Analog Quantum Simulators

Max McGinley and Michele Fava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160601 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Fundamental Sensitivity Limits for Non-Hermitian Quantum Sensors

Wenkui Ding, Xiaoguang Wang, and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 160801 (2023) - Published 20 October, 2023

Particles and Fields

Momentum Amplituhedron for $N = 6$ Chern-Simons-Matter Theory: Scattering Amplitudes from Configurations of Points in Minkowski Space

Tomasz Łukowski and Jonah Stalknecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161601 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Crossing-Symmetric Dispersion Relations without Spurious Singularities

Chaoming Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161602 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Emergent Worldsheet for the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro Amplitude

Luis F. Alday, Tobias Hansen, and Joao A. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161603 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

Tensionless Limit of Pure–Ramond-Ramond Strings and ${AdS}_{3} / {CFT}_{2}$

Alberto Brollo, Dennis le Plat, Alessandro Sfondrini, and Ryo Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161604 (2023) - Published 20 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Light Dark Matter with NA64 at CERN

Yu. M. Andreev et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161801 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm

D. P. Aguillard et al. (The Muon $g - 2$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161802 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Narrow and Ultranarrow Transitions in Highly Charged Xe Ions as Probes of Fifth Forces

Nils-Holger Rehbehn, Michael K. Rosner, Julian C. Berengut, Piet O. Schmidt, Thomas Pfeifer, Ming Feng Gu, and José R. Crespo López-Urrutia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161803 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Doubly Charmed Tetraquark $T_{c c}^{+}$ from Lattice QCD near Physical Point

Yan Lyu, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, and Jie Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161901 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

Extraction of the Parton Momentum-Fraction Dependence of Generalized Parton Distributions from Exclusive Photoproduction

Jian-Wei Qiu and Zhite Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161902 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Microscopic Encoding of Macroscopic Universality: Scaling Properties of Dirac Eigenspectra near QCD Chiral Phase Transition

H.-T. Ding, W.-P. Huang, Swagato Mukherjee, and P. Petreczky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161903 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Optimized $O (α_{s}^{2})$ Correction to Exclusive Double- $J / ψ$ Production at $B$ Factories

Wen-Long Sang, Feng Feng, Yu Jia, Zhewen Mo, Jichen Pan, and Jia-Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161904 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Phenomenological Estimate of Isospin Breaking in Hadronic Vacuum Polarization

Martin Hoferichter, Gilberto Colangelo, Bai-Long Hoid, Bastian Kubis, Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira, Dominic Schuh, Dominik Stamen, and Peter Stoffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161905 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Parton Showering with Higher Logarithmic Accuracy for Soft Emissions

Silvia Ferrario Ravasio, Keith Hamilton, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P. Salam, Ludovic Scyboz, and Gregory Soyez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 161906 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Sensitivity of Two-Particle Correlations in $p p$ Collisions to the Presence of Hard Scatterings

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162301 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Are Gluon Showers inside a Quark-Gluon Plasma Strongly Coupled? A Theorist’s Test

Peter Arnold, Omar Elgedawy, and Shahin Iqbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162302 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

A theoretical study demonstrates that in-medium showers of high-energy gluons can be approximately treated as a sequence of individual splitting processes.

Measurement of the $2 ν β β$ Decay Rate and Spectral Shape of ${}^{100}{Mo}$ from the CUPID-Mo Experiment

C. Augier et al. (CUPID-Mo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162501 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Proton-Capture Rates on Carbon Isotopes and Their Impact on the Astrophysical ${}^{12}C / {}^{13}C$ Ratio

J. Skowronski et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 162701 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Femtosecond Reduction of Atomic Scattering Factors Triggered by Intense X-Ray Pulse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163201 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Measurements indicate that intense x-ray pulses can change the electronic structure of a material on femtosecond timescales, a finding that could improve imaging of light–matter interactions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Observation of Anisotropic Superfluid Density in an Artificial Crystal

J. Tao, M. Zhao, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163401 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Trapping a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical lattice, researchers confirm a 53-year-old theory that connects BECs to superfluids and supersolids.

Trapping Microparticles in a Structured Dark Focus

F. Almeida, I. Sousa, O. Kremer, B. Pinheiro da Silva, D. S. Tasca, A. Z. Khoury, G. Temporão, and T. Guerreiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163601 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

Generating Multiparticle Entangled States by Self-Organization of Driven Ultracold Atoms

Ivor Krešić, Gordon R. M. Robb, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Thorsten Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 163602 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Rolling and Sliding Modes of Nanodroplet Spreading: Molecular Simulations and a Continuum Approach

Sreehari Perumanath, Mykyta V. Chubynsky, Rohit Pillai, Matthew K. Borg, and James E. Sprittles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 164001 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlled Excitation of Rotons in Superfluid Helium with an Optical Centrifuge

Alexander A. Milner and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166001 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

A laser pulse with rotating linear polarization creates roton pairs in superfluid helium.

Uncertainty and Irreproducibility of Triboelectricity Based on Interface Mechanochemistry

Giulio Fatti, Hyunseung Kim, Changwan Sohn, Minah Park, Yeong-won Lim, Zhuohan Li, Kwi-Il Park, Izabela Szlufarska, Hyunseok Ko, Chang Kyu Jeong, and Sung Beom Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166201 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

Absence of Mobility Edge in Short-Range Uncorrelated Disordered Model: Coexistence of Localized and Extended States

Adway Kumar Das, Anandamohan Ghosh, and Ivan M. Khaymovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166401 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Strain-Induced Quasi-1D Channels in Twisted Moiré Lattices

Andreas Sinner, Pierre A. Pantaleón, and Francisco Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166402 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Symmetric Kondo Lattice States in Doped Strained Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Haoyu Hu, Gautam Rai, Lorenzo Crippa, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Dumitru Călugăru, Tim Wehling, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Roser Valentí, Alexei M. Tsvelik, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166501 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Lower Bound on Topological Entanglement Entropy

Isaac H. Kim, Michael Levin, Ting-Chun Lin, Daniel Ranard, and Bowen Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166601 (2023) - Published 19 October, 2023

A lower bound to the topological entanglement entropy partially restores its universality.

Magnetic Arctic Circle in a Square Ice Qubit Lattice

A. D. King, J. Coraux, B. Canals, and N. Rougemaille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166701 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

Hopfion-Driven Magnonic Hall Effect and Magnonic Focusing

Carlos Saji, Roberto E. Troncoso, Vagson L. Carvalho-Santos, Dora Altbir, and Alvaro S. Nunez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166702 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room-Temperature Magnetic Phase Transition in an Electrically Tuned van der Waals Ferromagnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166703 (2023) - Published 17 October, 2023

A ferromagnetism to antiferromagnetism phase transition in a van der Waals magnet at room temperature uses CrTe nanoflakes that may lead to improved spintronic devices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlinear Topological Magnon Spin Hall Effect

Zhejunyu Jin, Xianglong Yao, Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Zhaozhuo Zeng, Weiwei Wang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166704 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

Nonlinear scattering of magnons and skyrmions in antiferromagnets leads to a spin Hall effect that emerges from real-space topology.

Signatures of the Optical Stark Effect on Entangled Photon Pairs from Resonantly Pumped Quantum Dots

F. Basso Basset, M. B. Rota, M. Beccaceci, T. M. Krieger, Q. Buchinger, J. Neuwirth, H. Huet, S. Stroj, S. F. Covre da Silva, G. Ronco, C. Schimpf, S. Höfling, T. Huber-Loyola, A. Rastelli, and R. Trotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166901 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

Nonlinear Terahertz Polarizability of Electrons Solvated in a Polar Liquid

Matthias Runge, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, and Thomas Elsaesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166902 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Bounds on Correlation Times

Andreas Dechant, Jérôme Garnier-Brun, and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 167101 (2023) - Published 16 October, 2023

An analysis of the correlation time of physical observables in steady-state diffusive systems reveals the existence of lower bounds both in and out of equilibrium.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914”

M. Isi and W. M. Farr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169001 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

Carullo et al. Reply:

Gregorio Carullo, Roberto Cotesta, Emanuele Berti, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169002 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023

ERRATA

Erratum: Mechanical Frustration of Phase Separation in the Cell Nucleus by Chromatin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258102 (2021)]

Yaojun Zhang, Daniel S. W. Lee, Yigal Meir, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 169901 (2023) - Published 18 October, 2023