Volume 131, Issue 24

15 December 2023

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On the Cover

Topologically distinct Bloch-sphere trajectories (blue, yellow, and red curves) for an atomic spinor Bose-Einstein condensate at three different values of quadratic Zeeman energies (spheres from left to right).

From the article:

Excited-State Phase Diagram of a Ferromagnetic Quantum Gas
B. Meyer-Hoppe, F. Anders, P. Feldmann, L. Santos, and C. Klempt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243402 (2023)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Where Can Quantum Geometry Lead Us?

Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240001 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

In a new forward-looking Essay, Päivi Törmä highlights the significance and impact of quantum geometry for the future of physics research.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of the Exotic $0_{2}^{+}$ Cluster State in ${}^{8}{He}$

Z. H. Yang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242501 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Scattering experiments show that the four extra neutrons in helium-8 can pair up and form a nuclear analog of a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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All-Optical GeV Electron Bunch Generation in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator via Truncated-Channel Injection

A. Picksley, J. Chappell, E. Archer, N. Bourgeois, J. Cowley, D. R. Emerson, L. Feder, X. J. Gu, O. Jakobsson, A. J. Ross, W. Wang, R. Walczak, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 245001 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

The judicious shaping of a tube of plasma by one laser enhances the properties of electron bunches accelerated by another.

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Evaporation of Concentrated Polymer Solutions Is Insensitive to Relative Humidity

Max Huisman, Paul Digard, Wilson C. K. Poon, and Simon Titmuss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 248102 (2023) - Published 15 December, 2023

Experiments verify a theory that explains why paint doesn’t dry any faster on a dry day than on a wet day.

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Description of the Proton-Decaying $0_{2}^{+}$ Resonance of the $α$ Particle

N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Płoszajczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242502 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Theoretical descriptions of the first excited state of helium-4 are now consistent with experimental data.

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Mass Difference of Tritium and Helium-3

Moisés Medina Restrepo and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243002 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

Measurement of the mass difference between tritium and helium-3 achieves better precision by a factor of three for the Q-value of tritium beta-decay.

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Signatures of Prethermalization in a Quenched Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interacting Fermi Gas

Zemao Wu, Jijie Fan, Xue Zhang, Jiansheng Qi, and Haibin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243401 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

Relaxation dynamics of an ultracold Fermi gas inside an optical resonator are observed experimentally by quenching the system across the Dicke phase transition to reveal a prethermalized quantum state.

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Artificial Atoms, Wigner Molecules, and an Emergent Kagome Lattice in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices

Aidan P. Reddy, Trithep Devakul, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246501 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

The superlattice constant, the quantum confinement length, and the Wigner molecule size are three key length scales that control the properties of moiré materials at filling factors greater than one.

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High-Temperature Ferroic Glassy States in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ -Based Thin Films

Tianyu Li, Shiqing Deng, He Qi, Tao Zhu, Yu Chen, Huanhua Wang, Fangyuan Zhu, Hui Liu, Jiaou Wang, Er-Jia Guo, Oswaldo Diéguez, and Jun Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246801 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

A method of manipulating local symmetry to achieve a strong magnetic/electric moment along with high transition temperatures is proposed and experimentally demonstrated for the prototypical perovskite SrTiO $_{3}$ .

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Tip of the Quantum Entropy Cone

Matthias Christandl, Bergfinnur Durhuus, and Lasse Harboe Wolff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240201 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Charging Quantum Batteries via Indefinite Causal Order: Theory and Experiment

Gaoyan Zhu, Yuanbo Chen, Yoshihiko Hasegawa, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240401 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Family of Quantum Codes with Exotic Transversal Gates

Eric Kubischta and Ian Teixeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240601 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

Thrifty Shadow Estimation: Reusing Quantum Circuits and Bounding Tails

Jonas Helsen and Michael Walter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240602 (2023) - Published 15 December, 2023

Highly Efficient Storage of 25-Dimensional Photonic Qudit in a Cold-Atom-Based Quantum Memory

Ming-Xin Dong, Wei-Hang Zhang, Lei Zeng, Ying-Hao Ye, Da-Chuang Li, Guang-Can Guo, Dong-Sheng Ding, and Bao-Sen Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 240801 (2023) - Published 15 December, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

First Observation of Neutral Bremsstrahlung Electroluminescence in Liquid Argon

A. Bondar, A. Buzulutskov, E. Frolov, E. Borisova, V. Nosov, V. Oleynikov, and A. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241001 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

Entropy Bounds for Rotating AdS Black Holes

Masaya Amo, Antonia M. Frassino, and Robie A. Hennigar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241401 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

Dissipative Scattering of Spinning Black Holes at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, and Benjamin Sauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241402 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

Particles and Fields

Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry as a New Probe of Standard-Model-Effective-Field-Theory Dipole Operators

Xin-Kai Wen, Bin Yan, Zhite Yu, and C.-P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241801 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

Search for a Nonrelativistic Boson in Two-Body Antimuon Decay

J. I. Collar, P. S. Cooper, and C. M. Lewis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241802 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

Probing the Onset of Maximal Entanglement inside the Proton in Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering

Martin Hentschinski, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Krzysztof Kutak, and Zhoudunming Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 241901 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Nuclear Physics

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Observation of the Exotic $0_{2}^{+}$ Cluster State in ${}^{8}{He}$

Z. H. Yang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242501 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Scattering experiments show that the four extra neutrons in helium-8 can pair up and form a nuclear analog of a Bose-Einstein condensate.

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Description of the Proton-Decaying $0_{2}^{+}$ Resonance of the $α$ Particle

N. Michel, W. Nazarewicz, and M. Płoszajczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242502 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Theoretical descriptions of the first excited state of helium-4 are now consistent with experimental data.

Floating Block Method for Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Avik Sarkar, Dean Lee, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 242503 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Collinear Laser Spectroscopy of $2 {}^{3}{S_{1}} \to 2 {}^{3}{P_{J}}$ Transitions in Helium-like ${{}^{12}C}^{4 +}$

P. Imgram, K. König, B. Maaß, P. Müller, and W. Nörtershäuser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243001 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

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Mass Difference of Tritium and Helium-3

Moisés Medina Restrepo and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243002 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

Measurement of the mass difference between tritium and helium-3 achieves better precision by a factor of three for the Q-value of tritium beta-decay.

Universal Generalization of Density Functional Theory for Static Correlation

Daniel Gibney, Jan-Niklas Boyn, and David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243003 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

Following the Nonthermal Phase Transition in Niobium Dioxide by Time-Resolved Harmonic Spectroscopy

Z. Nie, L. Guery, E. B. Molinero, P. Juergens, T. J. van den Hooven, Y. Wang, A. Jimenez Galan, P. C. M. Planken, R. E. F. Silva, and P. M. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243201 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

XUV Rectification Effect in the IR-Dressed Medium

A. V. Flegel and M. V. Frolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243202 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

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Signatures of Prethermalization in a Quenched Cavity-Mediated Long-Range Interacting Fermi Gas

Zemao Wu, Jijie Fan, Xue Zhang, Jiansheng Qi, and Haibin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243401 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

Excited-State Phase Diagram of a Ferromagnetic Quantum Gas

B. Meyer-Hoppe, F. Anders, P. Feldmann, L. Santos, and C. Klempt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243402 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Magnonic Frequency Comb in the Magnomechanical Resonator

Guan-Ting Xu, Mai Zhang, Yu Wang, Zhen Shen, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 243601 (2023) - Published 11 December, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation in a Nonequilibrium Quantum Fluid

T. R. Kirkpatrick and D. Belitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 244001 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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All-Optical GeV Electron Bunch Generation in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator via Truncated-Channel Injection

A. Picksley, J. Chappell, E. Archer, N. Bourgeois, J. Cowley, D. R. Emerson, L. Feder, X. J. Gu, O. Jakobsson, A. J. Ross, W. Wang, R. Walczak, and S. M. Hooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 245001 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

The judicious shaping of a tube of plasma by one laser enhances the properties of electron bunches accelerated by another.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Tunneling Valley Hall Effect Driven by Tilted Dirac Fermions

Shu-Hui Zhang, Ding-Fu Shao, Zi-An Wang, Jin Yang, Wen Yang, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246301 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

Onsager Reciprocal Relation between Anomalous Transverse Coefficients of an Anisotropic Antiferromagnet

Xiaodong Guo, Xiaokang Li, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246302 (2023) - Published 15 December, 2023

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Artificial Atoms, Wigner Molecules, and an Emergent Kagome Lattice in Semiconductor Moiré Superlattices

Aidan P. Reddy, Trithep Devakul, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246501 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

Phonon Topology and Winding of Spectral Weight in Graphite

N. D. Andriushin, A. S. Sukhanov, A. N. Korshunov, M. S. Pavlovskii, M. C. Rahn, and S. E. Nikitin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246601 (2023) - Published 14 December, 2023

Emergent Mechanics of Magnetic Skyrmions Deformed by Defects

Linjie Liu, Weijin Chen, and Yue Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246701 (2023) - Published 12 December, 2023

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High-Temperature Ferroic Glassy States in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ -Based Thin Films

Tianyu Li, Shiqing Deng, He Qi, Tao Zhu, Yu Chen, Huanhua Wang, Fangyuan Zhu, Hui Liu, Jiaou Wang, Er-Jia Guo, Oswaldo Diéguez, and Jun Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246801 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023

Polariton Condensation in Gap-Confined States of Photonic Crystal Waveguides

F. Riminucci, A. Gianfrate, D. Nigro, V. Ardizzone, S. Dhuey, L. Francaviglia, K. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. Ballarini, D. Trypogeorgos, A. Schwartzberg, D. Gerace, and D. Sanvitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 246901 (2023) - Published 13 December, 2023