Volume 131, Issue 17

27 October 2023

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Combined sky localization map of binary black hole merger events from the third observation run of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA.

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Angular Power Spectrum of Gravitational-Wave Transient Sources as a Probe of the Large-Scale Structure
Yanyan Zheng, Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Jacob Golomb, Marco Cavaglià, Arianna I. Renzini, and Mairi Sakellariadou
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171403 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Strong Evidence for ${}^{9}N$ and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei

R. J. Charity, J. Wylie, S. M. Wang, T. B. Webb, K. W. Brown, G. Cerizza, Z. Chajecki, J. M. Elson, J. Estee, D. E. M. Hoff, S. A. Kuvin, W. G. Lynch, J. Manfredi, N. Michel, D. G. McNeel, P. Morfouace, W. Nazarewicz, C. D. Pruitt, C. Santamaria, S. Sweany, J. Smith, L. G. Sobotka, M. B. Tsang, and A. H. Wuosmaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 172501 (2023) - Published 27 October, 2023

A highly unstable nucleus that decays by emitting five protons has been observed, offering an extreme case for testing nuclear models.

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Emergence of a Spin Microemulsion in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ethan C. McGarrigle, Kris T. Delaney, Leon Balents, and Glenn H. Fredrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173403 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

A phase that shares some properties with mayonnaise can form in a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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Traveling Perversion as Constant Torque Actuator

Émilien Dilly, Sébastien Neukirch, Julien Derr, and Dražen Zanchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177201 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.

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Spontaneous Demixing of Binary Colloidal Flocks

Samadarshi Maity and Alexandre Morin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178304 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

A homogenous mixture of two self-propelling species first forms a polar vortex and then spontaneously demixes, thanks to a difference in speeds and other competing effects.

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Bend or Twist? What Plectonemes Reveal about the Mysterious Motility of Spiroplasma

Paul M. Ryan, Joshua W. Shaevitz, and Charles W. Wolgemuth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178401 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.

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Second Data Release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: Challenging the Ultralight Dark Matter Paradigm

Clemente Smarra et al. (European Pulsar Timing Array)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171001 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

If ultralight dark matter particles exist, they can contribute no more than 70% of the dark matter between Earth and a set of monitored pulsars.

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Generation of High-Density High-Polarization Positrons via Single-Shot Strong Laser-Foil Interaction

Kun Xue, Ting Sun, Ke-Jia Wei, Zhong-Peng Li, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan, Chong Lv, Yong-Tao Zhao, Zhong-Feng Xu, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 175101 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Numerical simulations show that highly-polarized dense positron beams can be generated during single-shot interaction of a strong laser with a tilted solid foil by carefully controlling the angle of incidence of the laser on the target.

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Construction of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics with Many-Body Non-Markovian Memory

Liyao Lyu and Huan Lei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177301 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

A machine-learning-based coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) model faithfully retains the many-body nature of the intermolecular dissipative interactions.

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Electric Fields in Liquid Water Irradiated with Protons at Ultrahigh Dose Rates

F. Gobet, P. Barberet, M.-H. Delville, G. Devès, T. Guérin, R. Liénard, H. N. Tran, C. Vecco-Garda, A. Würger, S. Zein, and H. Seznec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178001 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Ultrahigh dose rates of proton irradiation induce electrokinetic effects in water that can perturb the dynamics of charged particles, such as macromolecules, in biological tissues and other aqueous systems.

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Fluid-Glass-Jamming Rheology of Soft Active Brownian Particles

Roland Wiese, Klaus Kroy, and Demian Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178302 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

With activity taking the place of temperature, a fluid-glass-jamming phase diagram is constructed for active Brownian particles under shear.

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Lorentz Reciprocal Theorem in Fluids with Odd Viscosity

Yuto Hosaka, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178303 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

The Lorentz reciprocal theorem, crucial for understanding microswimmer propulsion, is generalizable to fluids with odd viscosity.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Resource-Efficient High-Dimensional Entanglement Detection via Symmetric Projections

Simon Morelli, Marcus Huber, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170201 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Universal Quantum Computation in Globally Driven Rydberg Atom Arrays

Francesco Cesa and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170601 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Experimental Quantum Channel Discrimination Using Metastable States of a Trapped Ion

Kyle DeBry, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Colin D. Bruzewicz, David Reens, May E. Kim, Matthew P. Roychowdhury, Robert McConnell, Isaac L. Chuang, and John Chiaverini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170602 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Efficient Concatenated Bosonic Code for Additive Gaussian Noise

Kosuke Fukui, Takaya Matsuura, and Nicolas C. Menicucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170603 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

Frequency Tunable, Cavity-Enhanced Single Erbium Quantum Emitter in the Telecom Band

Yong Yu, Dorian Oser, Gaia Da Prato, Emanuele Urbinati, Javier Carrasco Ávila, Yu Zhang, Patrick Remy, Sara Marzban, Simon Gröblacher, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170801 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Toward the Device-Independent Certification of a Quantum Memory

Pavel Sekatski, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Marie Ioannou, Mikael Afzelius, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 170802 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Second Data Release from the European Pulsar Timing Array: Challenging the Ultralight Dark Matter Paradigm

Clemente Smarra et al. (European Pulsar Timing Array)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171001 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

If ultralight dark matter particles exist, they can contribute no more than 70% of the dark matter between Earth and a set of monitored pulsars.

Titania Mixed with Silica: A Low Thermal-Noise Coating Material for Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Graeme I. McGhee, Viola Spagnuolo, Nicholas Demos, Simon C. Tait, Peter G. Murray, Martin Chicoine, Paul Dabadie, Slawek Gras, Jim Hough, Guido Alex Iandolo, Ross Johnston, Valérie Martinez, Oli Patane, Sheila Rowan, François Schiettekatte, Joshua R. Smith, Lukas Terkowski, Liyuan Zhang, Matthew Evans, Iain W. Martin, and Jessica Steinlechner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171401 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Incompleteness Theorems for Observables in General Relativity

Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, George Sparling, and Marios Christodoulou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171402 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Angular Power Spectrum of Gravitational-Wave Transient Sources as a Probe of the Large-Scale Structure

Yanyan Zheng, Nikolaos Kouvatsos, Jacob Golomb, Marco Cavaglià, Arianna I. Renzini, and Mairi Sakellariadou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171403 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

First-Order Phase Transition Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Signal Is Consistent with Solar-Mass Black Holes

Yann Gouttenoire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171404 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

Particles and Fields

Conformal Bounds in Three Dimensions from Entanglement Entropy

Pablo Bueno, Horacio Casini, Oscar Lasso Andino, and Javier Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171601 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Coupling Fields to 3D Quantum Gravity via Chern-Simons Theory

Alejandra Castro, Ioana Coman, Jackson R. Fliss, and Claire Zukowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171602 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Generic Tests of $C P$ Violation in High- $p_{T}$ Multilepton Signals at the LHC and Beyond

Yoav Afik, Shaouly Bar-Shalom, Kuntal Pal, Amarjit Soni, and Jose Wudka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171801 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Precision Measurement of $C P$ Violation in the Penguin-Mediated Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ ϕ$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171802 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Precise Measurement of the $D_{s}^{+}$ Lifetime at Belle II

I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171803 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Observation of New Baryons in the $Ξ_{b}^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Ξ_{b}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ Systems

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171901 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Quantum and Classical Spin-Network Algorithms for $q$ -Deformed Kogut-Susskind Gauge Theories

Torsten V. Zache, Daniel González-Cuadra, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 171902 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Suppression of Large-Radius Jets and Its Dependence on Substructure in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 172301 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

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Strong Evidence for ${}^{9}N$ and the Limits of Existence of Atomic Nuclei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 172501 (2023) - Published 27 October, 2023

A highly unstable nucleus that decays by emitting five protons has been observed, offering an extreme case for testing nuclear models.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Tuning Photon-Mediated Interactions in a Multimode Cavity: From Supersolid to Insulating Droplets Hosting Phononic Excitations

Natalia Masalaeva, Helmut Ritsch, and Farokh Mivehvar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173401 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Quasicrystalline Bose Glass in the Absence of Disorder and Quasidisorder

Matteo Ciardi, Adriano Angelone, Fabio Mezzacapo, and Fabio Cinti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173402 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

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Emergence of a Spin Microemulsion in Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Ethan C. McGarrigle, Kris T. Delaney, Leon Balents, and Glenn H. Fredrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173403 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

A phase that shares some properties with mayonnaise can form in a Bose-Einstein condensate.

Attractive Solution of Binary Bose Mixtures: Liquid-Vapor Coexistence and Critical Point

G. Spada, S. Pilati, and S. Giorgini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173404 (2023) - Published 27 October, 2023

Intense Squeezed Light from Lasers with Sharply Nonlinear Gain at Optical Frequencies

Linh Nguyen, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 173801 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Generation of High-Density High-Polarization Positrons via Single-Shot Strong Laser-Foil Interaction

Kun Xue, Ting Sun, Ke-Jia Wei, Zhong-Peng Li, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan, Chong Lv, Yong-Tao Zhao, Zhong-Feng Xu, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 175101 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Drawing Dispersion Curves: Band Structure Customization via Nonlocal Phononic Crystals

Arash Kazemi, Kshiteej J. Deshmukh, Fei Chen, Yunya Liu, Bolei Deng, Henry Chien Fu, and Pai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176101 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

Exact New Mobility Edges between Critical and Localized States

Xin-Chi Zhou, Yongjian Wang, Ting-Fung Jeffrey Poon, Qi Zhou, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176401 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Making Topologically Trivial Non-Hermitian Systems Nontrivial via Gauge Fields

W. B. Rui, Y. X. Zhao, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176402 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Complete Crystalline Topological Invariants from Partial Rotations in $(2 + 1) D$ Invertible Fermionic States and Hofstadter’s Butterfly

Yuxuan Zhang, Naren Manjunath, Ryohei Kobayashi, and Maissam Barkeshli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176501 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Many-Body Majorana Braiding without an Exponential Hilbert Space

Eric Mascot, Themba Hodge, Dan Crawford, Jasmin Bedow, Dirk K. Morr, and Stephan Rachel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176601 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Electron-Photon Chern Number in Cavity-Embedded 2D Moiré Materials

Danh-Phuong Nguyen, Geva Arwas, Zuzhang Lin, Wang Yao, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176602 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Converging Periodic Boundary Conditions and Detection of Topological Gaps on Regular Hyperbolic Tessellations

Fabian R. Lux and Emil Prodan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176603 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023

Loss and Decoherence at the Quantum Hall-Superconductor Interface

Lingfei Zhao, Zubair Iftikhar, Trevyn F. Q. Larson, Ethan G. Arnault, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, François Amet, and Gleb Finkelstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176604 (2023) - Published 27 October, 2023

Valley-Selective Phonon-Magnon Scattering in Magnetoelastic Superlattices

Liyang Liao, Jorge Puebla, Kei Yamamoto, Junyeon Kim, Sadamichi Maekawa, Yunyoung Hwang, You Ba, and Yoshichika Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 176701 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Graded Quasiperiodic Metamaterials Perform Fractal Rainbow Trapping

B. Davies, G. J. Chaplain, T. A. Starkey, and R. V. Craster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177001 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Traveling Perversion as Constant Torque Actuator

Émilien Dilly, Sébastien Neukirch, Julien Derr, and Dražen Zanchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177201 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Construction of Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics with Many-Body Non-Markovian Memory

Liyao Lyu and Huan Lei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177301 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

A machine-learning-based coarse-grained molecular dynamics (CGMD) model faithfully retains the many-body nature of the intermolecular dissipative interactions.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Electric Fields in Liquid Water Irradiated with Protons at Ultrahigh Dose Rates

F. Gobet, P. Barberet, M.-H. Delville, G. Devès, T. Guérin, R. Liénard, H. N. Tran, C. Vecco-Garda, A. Würger, S. Zein, and H. Seznec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178001 (2023) - Published 23 October, 2023

Strain-Controlled Critical Slowing Down in the Rheology of Disordered Networks

Jordan L. Shivers, Abhinav Sharma, and Fred C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178201 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

Hamiltonian Dynamics and Structural States of Two-Dimensional Active Particles

Yuval Shoham and Naomi Oppenheimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178301 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

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Fluid-Glass-Jamming Rheology of Soft Active Brownian Particles

Roland Wiese, Klaus Kroy, and Demian Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178302 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

With activity taking the place of temperature, a fluid-glass-jamming phase diagram is constructed for active Brownian particles under shear.

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Lorentz Reciprocal Theorem in Fluids with Odd Viscosity

Yuto Hosaka, Ramin Golestanian, and Andrej Vilfan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178303 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

The Lorentz reciprocal theorem, crucial for understanding microswimmer propulsion, is generalizable to fluids with odd viscosity.

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Spontaneous Demixing of Binary Colloidal Flocks

Samadarshi Maity and Alexandre Morin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178304 (2023) - Published 25 October, 2023

A homogenous mixture of two self-propelling species first forms a polar vortex and then spontaneously demixes, thanks to a difference in speeds and other competing effects.

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Bend or Twist? What Plectonemes Reveal about the Mysterious Motility of Spiroplasma

Paul M. Ryan, Joshua W. Shaevitz, and Charles W. Wolgemuth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178401 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

Helical bacteria and corkscrew rods can both undergo handedness reversals that could be useful in future robotic systems.

Critical Growth of Cerebral Tissue in Organoids: Theory and Experiments

Egor I. Kiselev, Florian Pflug, and Arndt von Haeseler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178402 (2023) - Published 24 October, 2023

ERRATA

Erratum: Exact Top-Quark Mass Dependence in Hadronic Higgs Production [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162002 (2021)]

M. Czakon, R. V. Harlander, J. Klappert, and M. Niggetiedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 179901 (2023) - Published 26 October, 2023