Volume 131, Issue 23

8 December 2023

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Vorticity field of a spin-orbit synchronized exoplanet atmosphere with deep heating. Orange and blue colors correspond to positive and negative values of vorticity, respectively. Selected to feature in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating
Jack W. Skinner, Joonas Nättilä, and James Y-K. Cho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231201 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating

Jack W. Skinner, Joonas Nättilä, and James Y-K. Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231201 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Supercomputer simulations of the weather on a hot Jupiter reveal a previously unseen storm pattern in which cyclones are repeatedly generated and destroyed.

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2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot

Nick A. von Jeinsen, Sam M. Lambrick, Matthew Bergin, Aleksandar Radić, Boyao Liu, Dan Seremet, Andrew P. Jardine, and David J. Ward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236202 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Researchers have developed an atom-diffraction imaging method with micrometer spatial resolution, which may allow new applications in material characterization.

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Moving Crystal Phases of a Quantum Wigner Solid in an Ultra-High-Quality 2D Electron System

P. T. Madathil, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236501 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Researchers have precisely measured the electrical-transport properties of a highly ordered Wigner solid—a crystalline state formed of electrons rather than atoms.

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Mechanism of Ultraviolet-Induced CO Desorption from CO Ice: Role of Vibrational Relaxation Highlighted

Samuel Del Fré, Alejandro Rivero Santamaría, Denis Duflot, Romain Basalgète, Géraldine Féraud, Mathieu Bertin, Jean-Hugues Fillion, and Maurice Monnerville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238001 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Molecular “kicks” induced by ultraviolet light are predicted to cause carbon monoxide molecules to be released from the icy layers that cover cosmic dust.

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Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a $W$ Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC

Luca Buonocore, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, Luca Rottoli, and Chiara Savoini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231901 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Significant reduction in the perturbative uncertainty due to the first second-order QCD calculation of the hadroproduction of a $W$ boson in association with a top-antitop quark pair could lead to stringent tests of the standard model.

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Fate of Quasiparticles at High Temperature in the Correlated Metal ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

A. Hunter, S. Beck, E. Cappelli, F. Margot, M. Straub, Y. Alexanian, G. Gatti, M. D. Watson, T. K. Kim, C. Cacho, N. C. Plumb, M. Shi, M. Radović, D. A. Sokolov, A. P. Mackenzie, M. Zingl, J. Mravlje, A. Georges, F. Baumberger, and A. Tamai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236502 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

An analysis of ARPES data from Sr $_{2}$ RuO $_{4}$ shows that quasiparticles in a correlated metal vanish with increasing temperature by dissolving into the incoherent background because of excessive broadening arising from super-Planckian scattering.

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Connecting the Many-Body Chern Number to Luttinger’s Theorem through Středa’s Formula

Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Subir Sachdev, and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236601 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

The many-body Chern number of a two-dimensional quantum anomalous Hall insulator can be decomposed as the sum of the Green-function-based invariant $N_{3}$ and a correction that vanishes whenever the system satisfies Luttinger’s theorem.

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Excitonic Interactions and Mechanism for Ultrafast Interlayer Photoexcited Response in van der Waals Heterostructures

Chen Hu, Mit H. Naik, Yang-Hao Chan, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236904 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

An excitonic mechanism for ultrafast optical responses converts photoexcited intralayer to interlayer excitations in transition metal dichalcogenides.

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First-Principles Approach for Coupled Quantum Dynamics of Electrons and Protons in Heterogeneous Systems

Jianhang Xu, Ruiyi Zhou, Volker Blum, Tao E. Li, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, and Yosuke Kanai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238002 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Extension of the real-time NEO-DFT method to periodic systems can help simulate the coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons in complex heterogeneous systems.

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Fundamental Drivers of Electrochemical Barriers

Xi Chen, Georg Kastlunger, and Andrew A. Peterson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238003 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

The basic driving forces behind electrochemical reaction barriers are investigated using the solvated jellium method, uncovering their differences from conventional reactions at surfaces in nonelectrochemical systems.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Nonergodic Measurements of Qubit Frequency Noise

Filip Wudarski, Yaxing Zhang, and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230201 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Large Deviations beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism

Federico Balducci, Mathieu Beau, Jing Yang, Andrea Gambassi, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230401 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

Dynamical Localization Transition of String Breaking in Quantum Spin Chains

Roberto Verdel, Guo-Yi Zhu, and Markus Heyl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230402 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Entanglement Growth and Minimal Membranes in ( $d + 1$ ) Random Unitary Circuits

Piotr Sierant, Marco Schirò, Maciej Lewenstein, and Xhek Turkeshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230403 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

Superposed Quantum Error Mitigation

Jorge Miguel-Ramiro, Zheng Shi, Luca Dellantonio, Albie Chan, Christine A. Muschik, and Wolfgang Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230601 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Single-Shot Single-Mode Optical Two-Parameter Displacement Estimation beyond Classical Limit

Fumiya Hanamura, Warit Asavanant, Seigo Kikura, Moeto Mishima, Shigehito Miki, Hirotaka Terai, Masahiro Yabuno, Fumihiro China, Kosuke Fukui, Mamoru Endo, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 230801 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Leptonic Model for Neutrino Emission from Active Galactic Nuclei

Dan Hooper and Kathryn Plant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231001 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Dark Matter Minihalos from Primordial Magnetic Fields

Pranjal Ralegankar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231002 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

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Repeated Cyclogenesis on Hot-Exoplanet Atmospheres with Deep Heating

Jack W. Skinner, Joonas Nättilä, and James Y-K. Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231201 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Supercomputer simulations of the weather on a hot Jupiter reveal a previously unseen storm pattern in which cyclones are repeatedly generated and destroyed.

Nonlinear Ringdown at the Black Hole Horizon

Neev Khera, Ariadna Ribes Metidieri, Béatrice Bonga, Xisco Jiménez Forteza, Badri Krishnan, Eric Poisson, Daniel Pook-Kolb, Erik Schnetter, and Huan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231401 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Jets from Neutron-Star Merger Remnants and Massive Blue Kilonovae

Luciano Combi and Daniel M. Siegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231402 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

Particles and Fields

Electroweak Multi-Higgs Production: A Smoking Gun for the Type-I Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

Tanmoy Mondal, Stefano Moretti, Shoaib Munir, and Prasenjit Sanyal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231801 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

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Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a $W$ Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC

Luca Buonocore, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Javier Mazzitelli, Luca Rottoli, and Chiara Savoini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 231901 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spectral Hong-Ou-Mandel Effect between a Heralded Single-Photon State and a Thermal Field: Multiphoton Contamination and the Nonclassicality Threshold

Anahita Khodadad Kashi, Lucia Caspani, and Michael Kues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 233601 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

Twist Phase Matching in Two-Dimensional Materials

Hao Hong, Chen Huang, Chenjun Ma, Jiajie Qi, Xuping Shi, Can Liu, Shiwei Wu, Zhipei Sun, Enge Wang, and Kaihui Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 233801 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

Maximally Efficient Biphoton Generation by Single Photon Decay in Nonlinear Quantum Photonic Circuits

Mikhail Tokman, Jitendra K. Verma, Jacob Bohreer, and Alexey Belyanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 233802 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Local-Nonlinearity-Enabled Deep Subdiffraction Control of Acoustic Waves

Jiaxin Zhong, Chengbo Hu, Kangkang Wang, Jun Ji, Tao Zhuang, Haishan Zou, Jing Lu, Hyeonu Heo, Bin Liang, Yun Jing, and Jian-Chun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 234001 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Bistability in Radiatively Heated Melt Ponds

Rui Yang, Christopher J. Howland, Hao-Ran Liu, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 234002 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

In-Plane Magnetic Penetration Depth in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ : Muon-Spin Rotation and Relaxation Study

Rustem Khasanov, Aline Ramires, Vadim Grinenko, Ilya Shipulin, Naoki Kikugawa, Dmitry A. Sokolov, Jonas A. Krieger, Thomas J. Hicken, Yoshiteru Maeno, Hubertus Luetkens, and Zurab Guguchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236001 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

$s^{\pm}$ -Wave Pairing and the Destructive Role of Apical-Oxygen Deficiencies in ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$ under Pressure

Yu-Bo Liu, Jia-Wei Mei, Fei Ye, Wei-Qiang Chen, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236002 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Unequivocal Identification of Spin-Triplet and Spin-Singlet Superconductors with Upper Critical Field and Flux Quantization

C. C. Chiang, H. C. Lee, S. C. Lin, D. Qu, M. W. Chu, C. D. Chen, C. L. Chien, and S. Y. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236003 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Searching for Unconventional Superfluid in Excitons of Monolayer Semiconductors

Wei Chen, Chun-Jiong Huang, and Qizhong Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236004 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Coarse-Graining and Forecasting Atomic Material Simulations with Descriptors

Thomas D. Swinburne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236101 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

Ultrahigh Strength and Plasticity Mechanisms of Si and SiC Nanoparticles Revealed by First-Principles Molecular Dynamics

L. Pizzagalli and J. Godet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236201 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

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2D Helium Atom Diffraction from a Microscopic Spot

Nick A. von Jeinsen, Sam M. Lambrick, Matthew Bergin, Aleksandar Radić, Boyao Liu, Dan Seremet, Andrew P. Jardine, and David J. Ward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236202 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Researchers have developed an atom-diffraction imaging method with micrometer spatial resolution, which may allow new applications in material characterization.

In-Plane Flexoelectricity in Two-Dimensional $D_{3 d}$ Crystals

Matteo Springolo, Miquel Royo, and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236203 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

Phonon Hall Viscosity of Ionic Crystals

B. Flebus and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236301 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

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Moving Crystal Phases of a Quantum Wigner Solid in an Ultra-High-Quality 2D Electron System

P. T. Madathil, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236501 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Researchers have precisely measured the electrical-transport properties of a highly ordered Wigner solid—a crystalline state formed of electrons rather than atoms.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fate of Quasiparticles at High Temperature in the Correlated Metal ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236502 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Connecting the Many-Body Chern Number to Luttinger’s Theorem through Středa’s Formula

Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Subir Sachdev, and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236601 (2023) - Published 4 December, 2023

Nonlocal Spin Correlation as a Signature of Ising Anyons Trapped in Vacancies of the Kitaev Spin Liquid

Masahiro O. Takahashi, Masahiko G. Yamada, Masafumi Udagawa, Takeshi Mizushima, and Satoshi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236701 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Detecting Magnetoelectric Effect in a Metallic Antiferromagnet via Nonreciprocal Rotation of Reflected Light

Keito Arakawa, Takeshi Hayashida, Kenta Kimura, Ryusuke Misawa, Takayuki Nagai, Tatsuya Miyamoto, Hiroshi Okamoto, Fumitoshi Iga, and Tsuyoshi Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236702 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Giant and Nonanalytic Negative Piezoelectric Response in Elemental Group-Va Ferroelectric Monolayers

Shulin Zhong, Xuanlin Zhang, Shi Liu, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Yunhao Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236801 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Resonant Versus Nonresonant Spin Readout of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center in Diamond under Cryogenic Conditions

Richard Monge, Tom Delord, Gergő Thiering, Ádám Gali, and Carlos A. Meriles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236901 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Gauge Invariant Formulation of the Semiconductor Bloch Equations

A. M. Parks, J. V. Moloney, and T. Brabec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236902 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Optical Transitions of a Single Nodal Ring in ${SrAs}_{3}$ : Radially and Axially Resolved Characterization

Jiwon Jeon, Jiho Jang, Hoil Kim, Taesu Park, Dongwook Kim, Soonjae Moon, Jun Sung Kim, Ji Hoon Shim, Hongki Min, and Eunjip Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236903 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

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Excitonic Interactions and Mechanism for Ultrafast Interlayer Photoexcited Response in van der Waals Heterostructures

Chen Hu, Mit H. Naik, Yang-Hao Chan, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 236904 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

An excitonic mechanism for ultrafast optical responses converts photoexcited intralayer to interlayer excitations in transition metal dichalcogenides.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Controlling Uncertainty of Empirical First-Passage Times in the Small-Sample Regime

Rick Bebon and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 237101 (2023) - Published 8 December, 2023

Experimental Realization of Stable Exceptional Chains Protected by Non-Hermitian Latent Symmetries Unique to Mechanical Systems

Xiaohan Cui, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Xulong Wang, Wei Wang, Guancong Ma, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 237201 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Mechanism of Ultraviolet-Induced CO Desorption from CO Ice: Role of Vibrational Relaxation Highlighted

Samuel Del Fré, Alejandro Rivero Santamaría, Denis Duflot, Romain Basalgète, Géraldine Féraud, Mathieu Bertin, Jean-Hugues Fillion, and Maurice Monnerville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238001 (2023) - Published 6 December, 2023

Molecular “kicks” induced by ultraviolet light are predicted to cause carbon monoxide molecules to be released from the icy layers that cover cosmic dust.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Approach for Coupled Quantum Dynamics of Electrons and Protons in Heterogeneous Systems

Jianhang Xu, Ruiyi Zhou, Volker Blum, Tao E. Li, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, and Yosuke Kanai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 238002 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023

Extension of the real-time NEO-DFT method to periodic systems can help simulate the coupled quantum dynamics of electrons and protons in complex heterogeneous systems.

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ERRATA

Erratum: Orbital Hanle Magnetoresistance in a $3 d$ Transition Metal [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 156703 (2023)]

Giacomo Sala, Hanchen Wang, William Legrand, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 239901 (2023) - Published 5 December, 2023

Expression of Concern: Synthesis of Yttrium Superhydride Superconductor with a Transition Temperature up to 262 K by Catalytic Hydrogenation at High Pressures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117003 (2021)]

Randall D. Kamien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 239902 (2023) - Published 7 December, 2023