Volume 131, Issue 20

17 November 2023

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Bayesian analysis of the QCD equation of state for dense nuclear matter. Color represents the probability for the potential energy at a given baryon density. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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QCD Equation of State of Dense Nuclear Matter from a Bayesian Analysis of Heavy-Ion Collision Data
Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou, and Horst Stoecker
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202303 (2023)

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Canonical Hubble-Tension-Resolving Early Dark Energy Cosmologies Are Inconsistent with the Lyman- $α$ Forest

Samuel Goldstein, J. Colin Hill, Vid Iršič, and Blake D. Sherwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 201001 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

An early-Universe spike in dark energy could resolve a disagreement between two cosmic-expansion-rate measurements, but such a spike may conflict with observations of quasar spectra.

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Perfect Resonant Absorption of Guided Water Waves by Autler-Townes Splitting

L.-P. Euvé, K. Pham, R. Porter, P. Petitjeans, V. Pagneux, and A. Maurel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 204002 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

Cavities at the sides of a water channel can cause waves to be completely absorbed, suggesting new techniques for protecting coastlines.

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Polycrystallinity Enhances Stress Buildup around Ice

Dominic Gerber, Lawrence A. Wilen, Eric R. Dufresne, and Robert W. Style

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 208201 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

The unfrozen water-filled channels that crisscross multicrystal ice help feed ice growth, which can lead to fractures in materials such as asphalt and cement.

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Trapping and Imaging Single Dysprosium Atoms in Optical Tweezer Arrays

Damien Bloch, Britton Hofer, Sam R. Cohen, Antoine Browaeys, and Igor Ferrier-Barbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203401 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Trapping and imaging single dysprosium atoms extends the utility of optical tweezer arrays to electronically complex species, opening the door to new quantum physics studies.

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Photon Pathways and the Nonperturbative Scaling Law of High Harmonic Generation

Mekha Vimal, Martin Luttmann, Titouan Gadeyne, Matthieu Guer, Romain Cazali, David Bresteau, Fabien Lepetit, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Jean-François Hergott, Thierry Auguste, and Thierry Ruchon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203402 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

A new interpretation of high-harmonic generation—the cornerstone of attosecond physics—paves the way for quantum applications of this process.

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Recent Gravitational Wave Observation by Pulsar Timing Arrays and Primordial Black Holes: The Importance of Non-Gaussianities

Gabriele Franciolini, Antonio Junior Iovino, Ville Vaskonen, and Hardi Veermäe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 201401 (2023) - Published 13 November, 2023

The balance between the abundance of primordial black holes and non-Gaussianities is reanalyzed in light of the recent NANOGrav data.

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QCD Equation of State of Dense Nuclear Matter from a Bayesian Analysis of Heavy-Ion Collision Data

Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou, and Horst Stoecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202303 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

A Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion collisions at intermediate collision energies puts strong constraints on the equation of state at large chemical potential and zero temperature.

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Deformation versus Sphericity in the Ground States of the Lightest Gold Isotopes

J. G. Cubiss et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202501 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Charge radii of neutron-deficient gold isotopes measured with resonance-ionization laser spectroscopy display a unique pattern that has not been observed elsewhere in the nuclear chart.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Nishimori’s Cat: Stable Long-Range Entanglement from Finite-Depth Unitaries and Weak Measurements

Guo-Yi Zhu, Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ashvin Vishwanath, Simon Trebst, and Ruben Verresen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 200201 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Evolution Operator Can Always Be Separated into the Product of Holonomy and Dynamic Operators

Xiao-Dong Yu and D. M. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 200202 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Beyond i.i.d. in the Resource Theory of Asymmetry: An Information-Spectrum Approach for Quantum Fisher Information

Koji Yamaguchi and Hiroyasu Tajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 200203 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

Quantum Flow Algorithms for Simulating Many-Body Systems on Quantum Computers

Karol Kowalski and Nicholas P. Bauman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 200601 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

Non–Pauli Errors Can Be Efficiently Sampled in Qudit Surface Codes

Yue Ma, Michael Hanks, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 200602 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

Digital Optimal Robust Control

Meri Harutyunyan, Frédéric Holweck, Dominique Sugny, and Stéphane Guérin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 200801 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Canonical Hubble-Tension-Resolving Early Dark Energy Cosmologies Are Inconsistent with the Lyman- $α$ Forest

Samuel Goldstein, J. Colin Hill, Vid Iršič, and Blake D. Sherwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 201001 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

An early-Universe spike in dark energy could resolve a disagreement between two cosmic-expansion-rate measurements, but such a spike may conflict with observations of quasar spectra.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Recent Gravitational Wave Observation by Pulsar Timing Arrays and Primordial Black Holes: The Importance of Non-Gaussianities

Gabriele Franciolini, Antonio Junior Iovino, Ville Vaskonen, and Hardi Veermäe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 201401 (2023) - Published 13 November, 2023

The balance between the abundance of primordial black holes and non-Gaussianities is reanalyzed in light of the recent NANOGrav data.

Particles and Fields

Search for Evidence of Baryogenesis and Dark Matter in $B^{+} \to ψ_{D} + p$ Decays at BABAR

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 201801 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

Search for Boosted Dark Matter in COSINE-100

G. Adhikari et al. (COSINE-100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 201802 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Hyperon Polarization along the Beam Direction Relative to the Second and Third Harmonic Event Planes in Isobar Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

M. I. Abdulhamid et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202301 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Determination of the Neutron Skin of ${}^{208}{Pb}$ from Ultrarelativistic Nuclear Collisions

Giuliano Giacalone, Govert Nijs, and Wilke van der Schee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202302 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

QCD Equation of State of Dense Nuclear Matter from a Bayesian Analysis of Heavy-Ion Collision Data

Manjunath Omana Kuttan, Jan Steinheimer, Kai Zhou, and Horst Stoecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202303 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

A Bayesian analysis of heavy-ion collisions at intermediate collision energies puts strong constraints on the equation of state at large chemical potential and zero temperature.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deformation versus Sphericity in the Ground States of the Lightest Gold Isotopes

J. G. Cubiss et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202501 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Charge radii of neutron-deficient gold isotopes measured with resonance-ionization laser spectroscopy display a unique pattern that has not been observed elsewhere in the nuclear chart.

Manipulation of Giant Multipole Resonances via Vortex $γ$ Photons

Zhi-Wei Lu, Liang Guo, Zheng-Zheng Li, Mamutjan Ababekri, Fang-Qi Chen, Changbo Fu, Chong Lv, Ruirui Xu, Xiangjin Kong, Yi-Fei Niu, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 202502 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Auger Shake-Up Assisted Electron Recapture

M. Žitnik, M. Hrast, A. Mihelič, K. Bučar, J. Turnšek, R. Püttner, G. Goldsztejn, T. Marchenko, R. Guillemin, L. Journel, O. Travnikova, I. Ismail, M. N. Piancastelli, M. Simon, D. Ceolin, and M. Kavčič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203001 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Ultrastable Super-Tonks-Girardeau Gases under Weak Dipolar Interactions

Yu Chen and Xiaoling Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203002 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Quantum Phases from Competing Van der Waals and Dipole-Dipole Interactions of Rydberg Atoms

Zeki Zeybek, Rick Mukherjee, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203003 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Resolving Quantum Interference Black Box through Attosecond Photoionization Spectroscopy

Wenyu Jiang, Gregory S. J. Armstrong, Lulu Han, Yidan Xu, Zitan Zuo, Jihong Tong, Peifen Lu, Jan Marcus Dahlström, Kiyoshi Ueda, Andrew C. Brown, Hugo W. van der Hart, Xiaochun Gong, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203201 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

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Trapping and Imaging Single Dysprosium Atoms in Optical Tweezer Arrays

Damien Bloch, Britton Hofer, Sam R. Cohen, Antoine Browaeys, and Igor Ferrier-Barbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203401 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Trapping and imaging single dysprosium atoms extends the utility of optical tweezer arrays to electronically complex species, opening the door to new quantum physics studies.

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Photon Pathways and the Nonperturbative Scaling Law of High Harmonic Generation

Mekha Vimal, Martin Luttmann, Titouan Gadeyne, Matthieu Guer, Romain Cazali, David Bresteau, Fabien Lepetit, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Jean-François Hergott, Thierry Auguste, and Thierry Ruchon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 203402 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

A new interpretation of high-harmonic generation—the cornerstone of attosecond physics—paves the way for quantum applications of this process.

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Saturation and Multifractality of Lagrangian and Eulerian Scaling Exponents in Three-Dimensional Turbulence

Dhawal Buaria and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 204001 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

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Perfect Resonant Absorption of Guided Water Waves by Autler-Townes Splitting

L.-P. Euvé, K. Pham, R. Porter, P. Petitjeans, V. Pagneux, and A. Maurel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 204002 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

Cavities at the sides of a water channel can cause waves to be completely absorbed, suggesting new techniques for protecting coastlines.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Anomalous Relativistic Emission from Self-Modulated Plasma Mirrors

M. Lamač, K. Mima, J. Nejdl, U. Chaulagain, and S. V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 205001 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Self-Referenced Spectral Interferometry for Single-Shot Characterization of Ultrashort Free-Electron Laser Pulses

Yaozong Xiao, Hao Sun, Bo Liu, Zhentang Zhao, and Chao Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 205002 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Resistivity Tensor of Vortex-Lattice States in Josephson Junction Arrays

Alexander-Georg Penner, Karsten Flensberg, Leonid I. Glazman, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206001 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Ab Initio Phase Diagram of Gold in Extreme Conditions

P. Richard, A. Castellano, R. Béjaud, L. Baguet, J. Bouchet, G. Geneste, and F. Bottin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206101 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Superfluidity Meets the Solid State: Frictionless Mass Transport through a (5,5) Carbon Nanotube

Alberto Ambrosetti, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, and Luca Salasnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206301 (2023) - Published 13 November, 2023

Phonon and Magnon Jets above the Critical Current in Nanowires with Planar Domain Walls

Maria Stamenova, Plamen Stamenov, and Tchavdar Todorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206302 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Coulomb Blockade in a Nonthermalized Quantum Dot

G. McArdle, R. Davies, I. V. Lerner, and I. V. Yurkevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206303 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Correlated Electronic Structure of ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$ under Pressure

Viktor Christiansson, Francesco Petocchi, and Philipp Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206501 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Observation of the Anisotropic Magneto-Thomson Effect

Rajkumar Modak, Takamasa Hirai, Seiji Mitani, and Ken-ichi Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206701 (2023) - Published 17 November, 2023

Second-Order Temporal Coherence of Polariton Lasers Based on an Atomically Thin Crystal in a Microcavity

Hangyong Shan, Jens-Christian Drawer, Meng Sun, Carlos Anton-Solanas, Martin Esmann, Kentaro Yumigeta, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sefaattin Tongay, Sven Höfling, Ivan Savenko, and Christian Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206901 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023

Distinguishing Different Stackings in Layered Materials via Luminescence Spectroscopy

Matteo Zanfrognini, Alexandre Plaud, Ingrid Stenger, Frédéric Fossard, Lorenzo Sponza, Léonard Schué, Fulvio Paleari, Elisa Molinari, Daniele Varsano, Ludger Wirtz, François Ducastelle, Annick Loiseau, and Julien Barjon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 206902 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Effect of Inevitable Heat Leap on the Conversion Efficiency of Thermoelectric Generators

Kun Song, Shuang Wang, Yiwei Duan, Xiang Ling, and Peter Schiavone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 207001 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Extraordinary-log Universality of Critical Phenomena in Plane Defects

Yanan Sun, Minghui Hu, Youjin Deng, and Jian-Ping Lv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 207101 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Experimental Realization of Geometry-Dependent Skin Effect in a Reciprocal Two-Dimensional Lattice

Wei Wang, Mengying Hu, Xulong Wang, Guancong Ma, and Kun Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 207201 (2023) - Published 15 November, 2023

Emergence and Control of Synchronization in Networks with Directed Many-Body Interactions

Fabio Della Rossa, Davide Liuzza, Francesco Lo Iudice, and Pietro De Lellis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 207401 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Polycrystallinity Enhances Stress Buildup around Ice

Dominic Gerber, Lawrence A. Wilen, Eric R. Dufresne, and Robert W. Style

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 208201 (2023) - Published 16 November, 2023

The unfrozen water-filled channels that crisscross multicrystal ice help feed ice growth, which can lead to fractures in materials such as asphalt and cement.

Scroll Waves and Filaments in Excitable Media of Higher Spatial Dimension

Marie Cloet, Louise Arno, Desmond Kabus, Joeri Van der Veken, Alexander V. Panfilov, and Hans Dierckx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 208401 (2023) - Published 13 November, 2023

Selection for Size in Molecular Self-Assembly Drives the De Novo Evolution of a Molecular Machine

Zena Hadjivasiliou and Karsten Kruse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 208402 (2023) - Published 14 November, 2023