Volume 131, Issue 18

3 November 2023

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On the Cover

Scanning tunneling microscope image of an island of C₆₀ molecules (buckyballs) on a Cu(111) surface.

From the article:

Geometrical Frustration, Correlated Disorder, and Emerging Order in a Corrugated $C_{60}$ Monolayer
M. Alfonso-Moro, V. Guisset, P. David, B. Canals, J. Coraux, and N. Rougemaille
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186201 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181901 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

The Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS Collaboration observes, for the first time, the coincident production of a photon and a top quark.

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Measurement of Capillary Forces Using Two Fibers Dynamically Withdrawn from a Liquid: Evidence for an Enhanced Cheerios Effect

Hadrien Bense, Emmanuel Siéfert, and Fabian Brau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184003 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

The attractive force that causes floating Cheerios to clump together increases in strength when objects are withdrawn from a liquid.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Engineering Field-Insensitive Molecular Clock Transitions for Symmetry Violation Searches

Yuiki Takahashi, Chi Zhang, Arian Jadbabaie, and Nicholas R. Hutzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183003 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

Researchers have engineered ultracold molecular transitions ideally suited for probing beyond-standard-model effects of symmetry violations.

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High-Purity Generation and Switching of Twisted Single Photons

Haoqi Zhao, Yichen Ma, Zihe Gao, Na Liu, Tianwei Wu, Shuang Wu, Xilin Feng, James Hone, Stefan Strauf, and Liang Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183801 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

An experiment combines the two-dimensional semiconductor WSe $_{2}$ with a spin-orbit-coupled microring resonator to demonstrate the high-purity generation of twisted single photons and its convenient switching between different orbital angular momentum states.

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Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity

Mingquan Xu, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang-Peng Gao, and Wu Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186202 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

Energy-loss spectroscopy mapping of a silicon point defect in graphene demonstrates real-space mapping of specific electronic excitations at the single-atom scale.

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Anisotropic Nonlocal Damping in $Ferromagnet / α − GeTe$ Bilayers Enabled by Splitting Energy Bands

Xu Yang, Liang Qiu, Yan Li, Hao-Pu Xue, Jia-Nan Liu, Rui Sun, Qing-Lin Yang, Xue-Song Gai, Yan-Sheng Wei, Andrew H. Comstock, Dali Sun, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Wei He, Yusheng Hou, and Zhao-Hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186703 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Anisotropic nonlocal Gilbert damping, an effect induced by the anisotropic splitting of energy bands, has been observed experimentally for the first time in GeTe.

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Controlling the Spatial Profile and Energy Landscape of Organic Polariton Condensates in Double-Dye Cavities

Anton D. Putintsev, Kirsty E. McGhee, Denis Sannikov, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Julian D. Töpfer, Till Jessewitsch, Ullrich Scherf, David G. Lidzey, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186902 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Ultrafast and reversible manipulation of the spatial profile and energy landscape of organic polariton condensates is experimentally demonstrated in double-dye cavities by shaping both the local potential and the dissipation in real space at room temperature.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Nonstabilizerness via Perfect Pauli Sampling of Matrix Product States

Guglielmo Lami and Mario Collura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180401 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

Absolutely Stable Time Crystals at Finite Temperature

Francisco Machado, Quntao Zhuang, Norman Y. Yao, and Michael P. Zaletel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180402 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Scrambling Is Necessary but Not Sufficient for Chaos

Neil Dowling, Pavel Kos, and Kavan Modi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180403 (2023) - Published 2 November, 2023

Simulating Quantum Circuits Using Efficient Tensor Network Contraction Algorithms with Subexponential Upper Bound

Thorsten B. Wahl and Sergii Strelchuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 180601 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Do the CMB Temperature Fluctuations Conserve Parity?

Oliver H. E. Philcox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181001 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Critical Phenomena in the Collapse of Gravitational Waves

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Bernd Brügmann, Daniela Cors, Carsten Gundlach, David Hilditch, Anton Khirnov, Tomáš Ledvinka, Sarah Renkhoff, and Isabel Suárez Fernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181401 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Particles and Fields

3D Quantum Gravity Partition Function at Three Loops

Mauricio Leston, Andrés Goya, Guillem Pérez-Nadal, Mario Passaglia, and Gaston Giribet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181601 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Tests of Light-Lepton Universality in Angular Asymmetries of $B^{0} \to D^{* -} ℓ ν$ Decays

I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181801 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

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Observation of Single-Top-Quark Production in Association with a Photon Using the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181901 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

The Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS Collaboration observes, for the first time, the coincident production of a photon and a top quark.

Equation of State of Cold Quark Matter to $O (α_{s}^{3} \ln α_{s})$

Tyler Gorda, Risto Paatelainen, Saga Säppi, and Kaapo Seppänen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 181902 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Higher-Order QED Corrections to the Hyperfine Splitting in ${}^{3}{He}$

Vojtěch Patkóš, Vladimir A. Yerokhin, and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183001 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Vibrational Quenching of Optically Pumped Carbon Dimer Anions

Markus Nötzold, Robert Wild, Christine Lochmann, Tanja Rahim, Sruthi Purushu Melath, Katrin Dulitz, Barry Mant, Jan Franz, Francesco A. Gianturco, and Roland Wester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183002 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Engineering Field-Insensitive Molecular Clock Transitions for Symmetry Violation Searches

Yuiki Takahashi, Chi Zhang, Arian Jadbabaie, and Nicholas R. Hutzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183003 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

Researchers have engineered ultracold molecular transitions ideally suited for probing beyond-standard-model effects of symmetry violations.

Harmonic Suppression Induced by Three-Electron Dynamics of Li in Strong Laser Fields

Yu-Ning Yang, Su-Qi Chen, Zhao-Han Zhang, Hui Jiang, Min Chen, Yang Li, and Feng He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183201 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Extended Rotational Coherence of Polar Molecules in an Elliptically Polarized Trap

Annie J. Park, Lewis R. B. Picard, Gabriel E. Patenotte, Jessie T. Zhang, Till Rosenband, and Kang-Kuen Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183401 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Universal Dynamics of Rogue Waves in a Quenched Spinor Bose Condensate

Ido Siovitz, Stefan Lannig, Yannick Deller, Helmut Strobel, Markus K. Oberthaler, and Thomas Gasenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183402 (2023) - Published 2 November, 2023

Tailoring Photon Statistics with an Atom-Based Two-Photon Interferometer

Martin Cordier, Max Schemmer, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Volz, and Arno Rauschenbeutel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183601 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Revealing the Velocity Uncertainties of a Levitated Particle in the Quantum Ground State

M. Kamba and K. Aikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183602 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Purity Generation and Switching of Twisted Single Photons

Haoqi Zhao, Yichen Ma, Zihe Gao, Na Liu, Tianwei Wu, Shuang Wu, Xilin Feng, James Hone, Stefan Strauf, and Liang Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 183801 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Thermal Antibubbles: When Thermalization of Encapsulated Leidenfrost Drops Matters

Jonas Miguet, Benoit Scheid, Laurent Maquet, Baptiste Darbois Texier, and Stéphane Dorbolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184001 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Dynamic Buckling of a Filament Impacted by a Falling Droplet

Meng Lu, Jian Deng, Xuerui Mao, and Luca Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184002 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

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Measurement of Capillary Forces Using Two Fibers Dynamically Withdrawn from a Liquid: Evidence for an Enhanced Cheerios Effect

Hadrien Bense, Emmanuel Siéfert, and Fabian Brau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 184003 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

The attractive force that causes floating Cheerios to clump together increases in strength when objects are withdrawn from a liquid.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Bending Magnet Synchrotron Radiation Imaging with Large Orbital Collection Angles

M. Labat, O. Chubar, J. Breunlin, N. Hubert, and Å. Andersson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 185001 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Enhanced Transport at High Plasma Pressure and Subthreshold Kinetic Ballooning Modes in Wendelstein 7-X

P. Mulholland, K. Aleynikova, B. J. Faber, M. J. Pueschel, J. H. E. Proll, C. C. Hegna, P. W. Terry, and C. Nührenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 185101 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Dissipative Dynamics of a Heavy Impurity in a Bose Gas in the Strong Coupling Regime

Aleksandra Petković and Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186001 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Sharpness of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in Disordered NbN Films

Alexander Weitzel, Lea Pfaffinger, Ilaria Maccari, Klaus Kronfeldner, Thomas Huber, Lorenz Fuchs, James Mallord, Sven Linzen, Evgeni Il’ichev, Nicola Paradiso, and Christoph Strunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186002 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Geometrical Frustration, Correlated Disorder, and Emerging Order in a Corrugated $C_{60}$ Monolayer

M. Alfonso-Moro, V. Guisset, P. David, B. Canals, J. Coraux, and N. Rougemaille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186201 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing a Defect-Site-Specific Electronic Orbital in Graphene with Single-Atom Sensitivity

Mingquan Xu, Aowen Li, Stephen J. Pennycook, Shang-Peng Gao, and Wu Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186202 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

Energy-loss spectroscopy mapping of a silicon point defect in graphene demonstrates real-space mapping of specific electronic excitations at the single-atom scale.

Extracting the Quantum Hall Conductance from a Single Bulk Wave Function

Ruihua Fan, Rahul Sahay, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186301 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Gate-Tunable Berry Curvature Dipole Polarizability in Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Tong-Yang Zhao, An-Qi Wang, Xing-Guo Ye, Xing-Yu Liu, Xin Liao, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186302 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Critical Phase Dualities in 1D Exactly Solvable Quasiperiodic Models

Miguel Gonçalves, Bruno Amorim, Eduardo V. Castro, and Pedro Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186303 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Averting the Infrared Catastrophe in the Gold Standard of Quantum Chemistry

Nikolaos Masios, Andreas Irmler, Tobias Schäfer, and Andreas Grüneis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186401 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Highly Accurate Electronic Structure of Metallic Solids from Coupled-Cluster Theory with Nonperturbative Triple Excitations

Verena A. Neufeld and Timothy C. Berkelbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186402 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Static Self-Energy and Effective Mass of the Homogeneous Electron Gas from Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations

Markus Holzmann, Francesco Calcavecchia, David M. Ceperley, and Valerio Olevano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186501 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Anyon Statistics through Conductance Measurements of Time-Domain Interferometry

Noam Schiller, Yotam Shapira, Ady Stern, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186601 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Discovery of Charge Order in the Transition Metal Dichalcogenide ${Fe}_{x} {NbS}_{2}$

Shan Wu, Rourav Basak, Wenxin Li, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Donghui Lu, Makoto Hashimoto, Christie Nelson, Raul Acevedo-Esteves, Shannon C. Haley, James G. Analytis, Yu He, Alex Frano, and Robert J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186701 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Spurious Symmetry Enhancement in Linear Spin Wave Theory and Interaction-Induced Topology in Magnons

Matthias Gohlke, Alberto Corticelli, Roderich Moessner, Paul A. McClarty, and Alexander Mook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186702 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

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Anisotropic Nonlocal Damping in $Ferromagnet / α − GeTe$ Bilayers Enabled by Splitting Energy Bands

Xu Yang, Liang Qiu, Yan Li, Hao-Pu Xue, Jia-Nan Liu, Rui Sun, Qing-Lin Yang, Xue-Song Gai, Yan-Sheng Wei, Andrew H. Comstock, Dali Sun, Xiang-Qun Zhang, Wei He, Yusheng Hou, and Zhao-Hua Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186703 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Anisotropic nonlocal Gilbert damping, an effect induced by the anisotropic splitting of energy bands, has been observed experimentally for the first time in GeTe.

${EuCd}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : A Magnetic Semiconductor

D. Santos-Cottin, I. Mohelský, J. Wyzula, F. Le Mardelé, I. Kapon, S. Nasrallah, N. Barišić, I. Živković, J. R. Soh, F. Guo, K. Rigaux, M. Puppin, J. H. Dil, B. Gudac, Z. Rukelj, M. Novak, A. B. Kuzmenko, C. C. Homes, Tomasz Dietl, M. Orlita, and Ana Akrap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186704 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Floquet Engineering the Exceptional Points in Parity-Time-Symmetric Magnonics

Xi-guang Wang, Lu-lu Zeng, Guang-hua Guo, and Jamal Berakdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186705 (2023) - Published 3 November, 2023

Bright and Dark Quadrupolar Excitons in the ${WSe}_{2} / {MoSe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterotrilayer

Yongzhi Xie, Yuchen Gao, Fengyu Chen, Yunkun Wang, Jun Mao, Qinyun Liu, Saisai Chu, Hong Yang, Yu Ye, Qihuang Gong, Ji Feng, and Yunan Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186901 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlling the Spatial Profile and Energy Landscape of Organic Polariton Condensates in Double-Dye Cavities

Anton D. Putintsev, Kirsty E. McGhee, Denis Sannikov, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Julian D. Töpfer, Till Jessewitsch, Ullrich Scherf, David G. Lidzey, and Pavlos G. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186902 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Possible Eliashberg-Type Superconductivity Enhancement Effects in a Two-Band Superconductor ${MgB}_{2}$ Driven by Narrow-Band THz Pulses

Sergei Sobolev, Amon P. Lanz, Tao Dong, Amrit Pokharel, Viktor Kabanov, Tie-Quan Xu, Yue Wang, Zi-Zhao Gan, Li-Yu Shi, Nan-Lin Wang, Alexej Pashkin, Ece Uykur, Stephan Winnerl, Manfred Helm, and Jure Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 186903 (2023) - Published 1 November, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Classical Drift in the Arnold Web Induces Quantum Delocalization Transition

Jan Robert Schmidt, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 187201 (2023) - Published 30 October, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Absence of Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order in hcp ${}^{4}{He}$ Dislocation Cores”

M. Boninsegni, A. B. Kuklov, L. Pollet, N. Prokof’ev, and B. V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 189601 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023

de Koning et al. Reply:

Maurice de Koning, Wei Cai, Claudio Cazorla, and Jordi Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 189602 (2023) - Published 31 October, 2023