Volume 131, Issue 22

1 December 2023

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Sketch of the negative perceptron's solution landscape satisfying the required constraints (blue and white) or with nonzero energy (orange). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron
Brandon Livio Annesi, Clarissa Lauditi, Carlo Lucibello, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gabriele Perugini, Fabrizio Pittorino, and Luca Saglietti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227301 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Nuclear Charge Radius of ${}^{26 m}{Al}$ and Its Implication for $V_{u d}$ in the Quark Mixing Matrix

P. Plattner et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222502 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

A measurement of the charge radius of an aluminum nucleus probes the assumption that there are only three families of quarks.

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Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymerlike Networks

Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, and Xuanhe Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228102 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

The crack resistance of polymer materials is explained by a new model that incorporates a network of stretchable polymer chains.

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Gas Compression Systematically Delays the Onset of Viscous Fingering

Liam C. Morrow, Callum Cuttle, and Christopher W. MacMinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224002 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

The onset time for “viscous fingering”—an instability that can occur at a gas–liquid boundary—depends on the compressibility of the gas, offering a way to control the behavior.

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Kerr Black Holes from Massive Higher-Spin Gauge Symmetry

Lucile Cangemi, Marco Chiodaroli, Henrik Johansson, Alexander Ochirov, Paolo Pichini, and Evgeny Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221401 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Spinning black holes may have a hidden higher-spin gauge symmetry.

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Single-Shot Measurements of Phonon Number States Using the Autler-Townes Effect

Marion Mallweger, Murilo Henrique de Oliveira, Robin Thomm, Harry Parke, Natalia Kuk, Gerard Higgins, Romain Bachelard, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas, and Markus Hennrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223603 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

A new method based on the Autler-Townes effect can be used to measure the motional states of trapped ions in the number basis.

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Cascade of Multielectron Bubble Phases in Monolayer Graphene at High Landau Level Filling

Fangyuan Yang, Ruiheng Bai, Alexander A. Zibrov, Sandeep Joy, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Brian Skinner, Mark O. Goerbig, and Andrea F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226501 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Chemical potential measurements, in concert with theoretical calculations, reveal density-tuned phase transitions between multielectron bubble states in monolayer graphene.

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Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations Driving Field-Reinforced Superconductivity in ${UTe}_{2}$

Y. Tokunaga, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, P. Opletal, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Haga, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, D. Aoki, G. Knebel, G. Lapertot, S. Krämer, and M. Horvatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226503 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

High-field NMR measurements on single crystals of UTe $_{2}$ show an enhancement of longitudinal spin fluctuations above 15 Tesla, exhibiting a divergence near the field-induced metamagnetic transition at 35 Tesla.

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Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Fields due to Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Bulk Superconducting ${UTe}_{2}$

N. Azari, M. Yakovlev, N. Rye, S. R. Dunsiger, S. Sundar, M. M. Bordelon, S. M. Thomas, J. D. Thompson, P. F. S. Rosa, and J. E. Sonier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226504 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Muon spin relaxation measurements on a new generation of high-quality flux-grown single crystals show that UTe $_{2}$ does not break time-reversal symmetry.

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Model for Nonrelativistic Topological Multiferroic Matter

Guidobeth Saez, Mario A. Castro, Sebastian Allende, and Alvaro S. Nunez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226801 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

A minimal model shows that different magnetic configurations give rise to electric polarization stemming from a nontrivial Berry phase of the system without spin-orbit coupling.

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Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron

Brandon Livio Annesi, Clarissa Lauditi, Carlo Lucibello, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gabriele Perugini, Fabrizio Pittorino, and Luca Saglietti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227301 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

The solutions of a nonconvex over-parametrized neural network model are geodesically connected in a star-shaped geometry.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Fundamental Accuracy-Resolution Trade-Off for Timekeeping Devices

Florian Meier, Emanuel Schwarzhans, Paul Erker, and Marcus Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220201 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

Invertible Map between Bell Nonlocal and Contextuality Scenarios

Victoria J. Wright and Máté Farkas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220202 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Experimental Test of the Jarzynski Equality in a Single Spin-1 System Using High-Fidelity Single-Shot Readouts

Wenquan Liu, Zhibo Niu, Wei Cheng, Xin Li, Chang-Kui Duan, Zhangqi Yin, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220401 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Spectral Response of Disorder-Free Localized Lattice Gauge Theories

Nilotpal Chakraborty, Markus Heyl, Petr Karpov, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220402 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Unifying Emergent Hydrodynamics and Lindbladian Low-Energy Spectra across Symmetries, Constraints, and Long-Range Interactions

Olumakinde Ogunnaike, Johannes Feldmeier, and Jong Yeon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220403 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Scrambling Transition in a Radiative Random Unitary Circuit

Zack Weinstein, Shane P. Kelly, Jamir Marino, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220404 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Stochastic Thermodynamics of a Quantum Dot Coupled to a Finite-Size Reservoir

Saulo V. Moreira, Peter Samuelsson, and Patrick P. Potts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220405 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

Breaking the Entangling Gate Speed Limit for Trapped-Ion Qubits Using a Phase-Stable Standing Wave

S. Saner, O. Băzăvan, M. Minder, P. Drmota, D. J. Webb, G. Araneda, R. Srinivas, D. M. Lucas, and C. J. Ballance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220601 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

Multiparameter Estimation Perspective on Non-Hermitian Singularity-Enhanced Sensing

Javid Naikoo, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, and Jan Kołodyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220801 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Optimized Protocols for Duplex Quantum Transduction

Zhaoyou Wang, Mengzhen Zhang, Yat Wong, Changchun Zhong, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220802 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

Robust Higher-Order Hamiltonian Engineering for Quantum Sensing with Strongly Interacting Systems

Hengyun Zhou, Leigh S. Martin, Matthew Tyler, Oksana Makarova, Nathaniel Leitao, Hongkun Park, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 220803 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Dark Radiation from Neutrino Mixing after Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Daniel Aloni, Melissa Joseph, Martin Schmaltz, and Neal Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221001 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kerr Black Holes from Massive Higher-Spin Gauge Symmetry

Lucile Cangemi, Marco Chiodaroli, Henrik Johansson, Alexander Ochirov, Paolo Pichini, and Evgeny Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221401 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Spinning black holes may have a hidden higher-spin gauge symmetry.

Multimode Quasinormal Spectrum from a Perturbed Black Hole

Collin D. Capano, Miriam Cabero, Julian Westerweck, Jahed Abedi, Shilpa Kastha, Alexander H. Nitz, Yi-Fan Wang, Alex B. Nielsen, and Badri Krishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221402 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

Intrinsic Limits on the Detection of the Anisotropies of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Giorgio Mentasti, Carlo R. Contaldi, and Marco Peloso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221403 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

Particles and Fields

Holographic Dissipative Spacetime Supersolids

Peng Yang, Matteo Baggioli, Zi Cai, Yu Tian, and Hongbao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221601 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Heating Up Quadruply Quantized Vortices: Splitting Patterns and Dynamical Transitions

Shanquan Lan, Xin Li, Yu Tian, Peng Yang, and Hongbao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221602 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Measurement of Electron-Neutrino Charged-Current Cross Sections on ${}^{127}I$ with the COHERENT $NaI ν E$ Detector

P. An et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221801 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Colorful Mirror Solution to the Strong $C P$ Problem

Quentin Bonnefoy, Lawrence Hall, Claudio Andrea Manzari, and Christiane Scherb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 221802 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the $2 ν β β$ Decay Half-Life of ${}^{82}{Se}$ with the Global CUPID-0 Background Model

O. Azzolini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222501 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nuclear Charge Radius of ${}^{26 m}{Al}$ and Its Implication for $V_{u d}$ in the Quark Mixing Matrix

P. Plattner et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222502 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

A measurement of the charge radius of an aluminum nucleus probes the assumption that there are only three families of quarks.

Further Evidence for Shape Coexistence in ${}^{79}{Zn}^{m}$ near Doubly Magic ${}^{78}{Ni}$

L. Nies et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 222503 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of a Low-Lying Metastable Electronic State in Highly Charged Lead by Penning-Trap Mass Spectrometry

Kathrin Kromer, Chunhai Lyu, Menno Door, Pavel Filianin, Zoltán Harman, Jost Herkenhoff, Paul Indelicato, Christoph H. Keitel, Daniel Lange, Yuri N. Novikov, Christoph Schweiger, Sergey Eliseev, and Klaus Blaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223002 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Glitches in Rotating Supersolids

Elena Poli, Thomas Bland, Samuel J. M. White, Manfred J. Mark, Francesca Ferlaino, Silvia Trabucco, and Massimo Mannarelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223401 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Vacuum-Induced Symmetry Breaking of Chiral Enantiomer Formation in Chemical Reactions

Yanzhe Ke, Zhigang Song, and Qing-Dong Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223601 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Coherent Two-Photon LIDAR with Incoherent Light

Chung-Hyun Lee, Yosep Kim, Dong-Gil Im, U-Shin Kim, Vincenzo Tamma, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223602 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single-Shot Measurements of Phonon Number States Using the Autler-Townes Effect

Marion Mallweger, Murilo Henrique de Oliveira, Robin Thomm, Harry Parke, Natalia Kuk, Gerard Higgins, Romain Bachelard, Celso Jorge Villas-Boas, and Markus Hennrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223603 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

A new method based on the Autler-Townes effect can be used to measure the motional states of trapped ions in the number basis.

Unique Steady-State Squeezing in a Driven Quantum Rabi Model

Karol Gietka, Christoph Hotter, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223604 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

Robust Zero Modes in Non-Hermitian Systems without Global Symmetries

Jose D. H. Rivero, Courtney Fleming, Bingkun Qi, Liang Feng, and Li Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223801 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Revealing the Interplay between Strong Field Selection Rules and Crystal Symmetries

Ayelet J. Uzan-Narovlansky, Gal Orenstein, Sergei Shames, Matan Even Tzur, Omer Kneller, Barry D. Bruner, Talya Arusi-Parpar, Oren Cohen, and Nirit Dudovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 223802 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Universal Free-Fall Law for Liquid Jets under Fully Developed Injection Conditions

M. Beneitez, D. Moreno-Boza, and A. Sevilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224001 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

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Gas Compression Systematically Delays the Onset of Viscous Fingering

Liam C. Morrow, Callum Cuttle, and Christopher W. MacMinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224002 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

The onset time for “viscous fingering”—an instability that can occur at a gas–liquid boundary—depends on the compressibility of the gas, offering a way to control the behavior.

Two-Dimensional Turbulence with Local Interactions: Statistics of the Condensate

Anton Svirsky, Corentin Herbert, and Anna Frishman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 224003 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Ion-Ion Interaction Induced Nondispersive Dynamics in an Electrostatic Ion Beam Trap

Deepak Sharma, Oded Heber, Daniel Zajfman, and Ryan Ringle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 225001 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

Electron Slingshot Acceleration in Relativistic Preturbulent Shocks Explored via Emitted Photon Polarization

Zheng Gong, Xiaofei Shen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 225101 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Three-Dimensional Energy Transfer in Space Plasma Turbulence from Multipoint Measurement

Francesco Pecora, Yan Yang, William H. Matthaeus, Alexandros Chasapis, Kristopher G. Klein, Michael Stevens, Sergio Servidio, Antonella Greco, Daniel J. Gershman, Barbara L. Giles, and James L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 225201 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Evidence for Quantum Stripe Ordering in a Triangular Optical Lattice

Xiao-Qiong Wang, Guang-Quan Luo, Jin-Yu Liu, Guan-Hua Huang, Zi-Xiang Li, Congjun Wu, Andreas Hemmerich, and Zhi-Fang Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226001 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Controlling Macroscopic Friction through Interfacial Siloxane Bonding

Liang Peng, Chao-Chun Hsu, Chen Xiao, Daniel Bonn, and Bart Weber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226201 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Non-Abelian Hyperbolic Band Theory from Supercells

Patrick M. Lenggenhager, Joseph Maciejko, and Tomáš Bzdušek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226401 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cascade of Multielectron Bubble Phases in Monolayer Graphene at High Landau Level Filling

Fangyuan Yang, Ruiheng Bai, Alexander A. Zibrov, Sandeep Joy, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Brian Skinner, Mark O. Goerbig, and Andrea F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226501 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Chemical potential measurements, in concert with theoretical calculations, reveal density-tuned phase transitions between multielectron bubble states in monolayer graphene.

Extracting the Speed of Light from Matrix Product States

Alexander A. Eberharter, Laurens Vanderstraeten, Frank Verstraete, and Andreas M. Läuchli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226502 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Longitudinal Spin Fluctuations Driving Field-Reinforced Superconductivity in ${UTe}_{2}$

Y. Tokunaga, H. Sakai, S. Kambe, P. Opletal, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Haga, S. Kitagawa, K. Ishida, D. Aoki, G. Knebel, G. Lapertot, S. Krämer, and M. Horvatić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226503 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Absence of Spontaneous Magnetic Fields due to Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Bulk Superconducting ${UTe}_{2}$

N. Azari, M. Yakovlev, N. Rye, S. R. Dunsiger, S. Sundar, M. M. Bordelon, S. M. Thomas, J. D. Thompson, P. F. S. Rosa, and J. E. Sonier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226504 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Muon spin relaxation measurements on a new generation of high-quality flux-grown single crystals show that UTe $_{2}$ does not break time-reversal symmetry.

Topological Bogoliubov Quasiparticles from Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Flat Band System

Zahra Jalali-mola, Tobias Grass, Valentin Kasper, Maciej Lewenstein, and Utso Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226601 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Model for Nonrelativistic Topological Multiferroic Matter

Guidobeth Saez, Mario A. Castro, Sebastian Allende, and Alvaro S. Nunez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226801 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

A minimal model shows that different magnetic configurations give rise to electric polarization stemming from a nontrivial Berry phase of the system without spin-orbit coupling.

Unconventional Polarization-Switching Mechanism in $(Hf, Zr) O_{2}$ Ferroelectrics and Its Implications

Yao Wu, Yuke Zhang, Jie Jiang, Limei Jiang, Minghua Tang, Yichun Zhou, Min Liao, Qiong Yang, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226802 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

Ultrafast Transition from State-Blocking Dynamics to Electron Localization in Transition Metal $β$ -Tungsten

E. W. de Vos, S. Neb, A. Niedermayr, F. Burri, M. Hollm, L. Gallmann, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 226901 (2023) - Published 27 November, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Heterogeneous Mean First-Passage Time Scaling in Fractal Media

Hyun-Myung Chun, Sungmin Hwang, Byungnam Kahng, Heiko Rieger, and Jae Dong Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227101 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

Non-Gaussian Dynamics of Quantum Fluctuations and Mean-Field Limit in Open Quantum Central Spin Systems

Federico Carollo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227102 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

Finding the Effective Dynamics to Make Rare Events Typical in Chaotic Maps

Ricardo Gutiérrez, Adrián Canella-Ortiz, and Carlos Pérez-Espigares

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227201 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Star-Shaped Space of Solutions of the Spherical Negative Perceptron

Brandon Livio Annesi, Clarissa Lauditi, Carlo Lucibello, Enrico M. Malatesta, Gabriele Perugini, Fabrizio Pittorino, and Luca Saglietti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 227301 (2023) - Published 29 November, 2023

The solutions of a nonconvex over-parametrized neural network model are geodesically connected in a star-shaped geometry.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Molecules in Environments: Toward Systematic Quantum Embedding of Electrons and Drude Oscillators

Matej Ditte, Matteo Barborini, Leonardo Medrano Sandonas, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228001 (2023) - Published 30 November, 2023

Undulations of Smectic A Layers in Achiral Liquid Crystals Manifested as Stripe Textures

Natalia Podoliak, Peter Salamon, Lubor Lejček, Petr Kužel, and Vladimíra Novotná

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228101 (2023) - Published 28 November, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonlocal Intrinsic Fracture Energy of Polymerlike Networks

Bolei Deng, Shu Wang, Chase Hartquist, and Xuanhe Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 228102 (2023) - Published 1 December, 2023

The crack resistance of polymer materials is explained by a new model that incorporates a network of stretchable polymer chains.