Volume 131, Issue 25

22 December 2023

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Optical image of a dual-gated MoS₂ homobilayer moiré superlattice device.

From the article:

Giant Correlated Gap and Possible Room-Temperature Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer ${MoS}_{2}$
Fanfan Wu, Qiaoling Xu, Qinqin Wang, Yanbang Chu, Lu Li, Jian Tang, Jieying Liu, Jinpeng Tian, Yiru Ji, Le Liu, Yalong Yuan, Zhiheng Huang, Jiaojiao Zhao, Xiaozhou Zan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dongxia Shi, Gangxu Gu, Yang Xu, Lede Xian, Wei Yang, Luojun Du, and Guangyu Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256201 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extreme Domain Wall Speeds under Ultrafast Optical Excitation

Rahul Jangid, Nanna Zhou Hagström, Meera Madhavi, Kyle Rockwell, Justin M. Shaw, Jeffrey A. Brock, Matteo Pancaldi, Dario De Angelis, Flavio Capotondi, Emanuele Pedersoli, Hans T. Nembach, Mark W. Keller, Stefano Bonetti, Eric E. Fullerton, Ezio Iacocca, Roopali Kukreja, and Thomas J. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256702 (2023) - Published 19 December, 2023

Experiments reveal that the boundaries between magnetic domains in a multilayered magnetic metal can move faster than sound, confirming a previous prediction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass from the $H \to γ γ$ and $H \to Z Z^{*} \to 4 ℓ$ Decay Channels with the ATLAS Detector Using $\sqrt{s} = 7$ , 8, and 13 TeV $p p$ Collision Data

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251802 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

The mass of the Higgs boson is measured with a precision of less than a tenth of a percent.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Continuous Phase Transitions between Fractional Quantum Hall States and Symmetry-Protected Topological States

Ying-Hai Wu, Hong-Hao Tu, and Meng Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256502 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

In Bose-Fermi mixtures under particular conditions, a symmetry-protected topological state goes through a continuous transition to two decoupled fractional quantum Hall states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sampling Efficiency of Transverse Forces in Dense Liquids

Federico Ghimenti, Ludovic Berthier, Grzegorz Szamel, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 257101 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Transverse forces that break detailed balance accelerate the dynamics of an overdamped many-body system while preserving the Boltzmann distribution.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rationalizing Euclidean Assemblies of Hard Polyhedra from Tessellations in Curved Space

Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer, Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao, and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258201 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Though geometrically forbidden from doing so in flat space, some hard Platonic solids can entropically self-assemble into space-filling crystals with sufficient spatial curvature.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Complete Hilbert-Space Ergodicity in Quantum Dynamics of Generalized Fibonacci Drives

Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo, Ceren B. Dag, Wen Wei Ho, and Soonwon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 250401 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Autonomous Distribution of Programmable Multiqubit Entanglement in a Dual-Rail Quantum Network

J. Agustí, X. H. H. Zhang, Y. Minoguchi, and P. Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 250801 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Self-Testing in Prepare-and-Measure Scenarios and a Robust Version of Wigner’s Theorem

Miguel Navascués, Károly F. Pál, Tamás Vértesi, and Mateus Araújo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 250802 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Observability of the Very-High-Energy Emission from GRB 221009A

Giorgio Galanti, Lara Nava, Marco Roncadelli, Fabrizio Tavecchio, and Giacomo Bonnoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251001 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Particles and Fields

Gravity Amplitudes from Double Bonus Relations

Shruti Paranjape and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251601 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Conformal Field Theory Ground States as Critical Points of an Entropy Function

Ting-Chun Lin (林鼎鈞) and John McGreevy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251602 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

All Gauged Curvature-Squared Supergravities in Five Dimensions

Gregory Gold, Jessica Hutomo, Saurish Khandelwal, Mehmet Ozkan, Yi Pang, and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251603 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Search for Dark Photons in Rare $Z$ Boson Decays with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251801 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Combined Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass from the $H \to γ γ$ and $H \to Z Z^{*} \to 4 ℓ$ Decay Channels with the ATLAS Detector Using $\sqrt{s} = 7$ , 8, and 13 TeV $p p$ Collision Data

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251802 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

The mass of the Higgs boson is measured with a precision of less than a tenth of a percent.

Data-Driven Determination of the Light-Quark Connected Component of the Intermediate-Window Contribution to the Muon $g - 2$

Genessa Benton, Diogo Boito, Maarten Golterman, Alexander Keshavarzi, Kim Maltman, and Santiago Peris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 251803 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Molecular Ionization Dissociation Induced by Interatomic Coulombic Decay in an ${ArCH}_{4}$ -Electron Collision System

S. Yan, R. T. Zhang, S. Xu, S. F. Zhang, and X. Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 253001 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

High-Precision Determination of $g$ Factors and Masses of ${}^{20}{Ne}^{9 +}$ and ${}^{22}{Ne}^{9 +}$

F. Heiße, M. Door, T. Sailer, P. Filianin, J. Herkenhoff, C. M. König, K. Kromer, D. Lange, J. Morgner, A. Rischka, Ch. Schweiger, B. Tu, Y. N. Novikov, S. Eliseev, S. Sturm, and K. Blaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 253002 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Improved Measurements of Muonic Helium Ground-State Hyperfine Structure at a Near-Zero Magnetic Field

P. Strasser, S. Fukumura, R. Iwai, S. Kanda, S. Kawamura, M. Kitaguchi, S. Nishimura, S. Seo, H. M. Shimizu, K. Shimomura, H. Tada, and H. A. Torii (MuSEUM Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 253003 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Alternative Pathway to Double-Core-Hole States

Iyas Ismail et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 253201 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Superradiant Detection of Microscopic Optical Dipolar Interactions

Lingjing Ji, Yizun He, Qingnan Cai, Zhening Fang, Yuzhuo Wang, Liyang Qiu, Lei Zhou, Saijun Wu, Stefano Grava, and Darrick E. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 253602 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Superradiant and Subradiant Cavity Scattering by Atom Arrays

Zhenjie Yan, Jacquelyn Ho, Yue-Hui Lu, Stuart J. Masson, Ana Asenjo-Garcia, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 253603 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Characterizing Small-Scale Dynamics of Navier-Stokes Turbulence with Transverse Lyapunov Exponents: A Data Assimilation Approach

Masanobu Inubushi, Yoshitaka Saiki, Miki U. Kobayashi, and Susumu Goto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 254001 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Lagrangian Supersaturation Fluctuations at the Cloud Edge

J. Fries, G. Sardina, G. Svensson, A. Pumir, and B. Mehlig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 254201 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Josephson Junction $π − 0$ Transition Induced by Orbital Hybridization in a Double Quantum Dot

Rousan Debbarma, Athanasios Tsintzis, Markus Aspegren, Rubén Seoane Souto, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly Dick, Martin Leijnse, and Claes Thelander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256001 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Iron Vacancy Tunable Superconductor-Insulator Transition in $FeSe / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Monolayer

Cheng-Long Xue, Li-Guo Dou, Yong-Jie Xu, Qian-Qian Yuan, Qi-Yuan Li, Zhen-Yu Jia, Zishuang Li, Ronghua Liu, and Shao-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256002 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Giant Correlated Gap and Possible Room-Temperature Correlated States in Twisted Bilayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Fanfan Wu, Qiaoling Xu, Qinqin Wang, Yanbang Chu, Lu Li, Jian Tang, Jieying Liu, Jinpeng Tian, Yiru Ji, Le Liu, Yalong Yuan, Zhiheng Huang, Jiaojiao Zhao, Xiaozhou Zan, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Dongxia Shi, Gangxu Gu, Yang Xu, Lede Xian, Wei Yang, Luojun Du, and Guangyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256201 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Bulklike Vibrational Coupling of Surface Water Revealed by Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy

Kuo-Yang Chiang, Xiaoqing Yu, Chun-Chieh Yu, Takakazu Seki, Shumei Sun, Mischa Bonn, and Yuki Nagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256202 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Controlled Frustration Release on the Kagome Lattice by Uniaxial-Strain Tuning

Jierong Wang, M. Spitaler, Y.-S. Su, K. M. Zoch, C. Krellner, P. Puphal, S. E. Brown, and A. Pustogow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256501 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Continuous Phase Transitions between Fractional Quantum Hall States and Symmetry-Protected Topological States

Ying-Hai Wu, Hong-Hao Tu, and Meng Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256502 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

In Bose-Fermi mixtures under particular conditions, a symmetry-protected topological state goes through a continuous transition to two decoupled fractional quantum Hall states.

Coherent Phonon Assisted Ultrafast Order-Parameter Reversal and Hidden Metallic State in ${Ta}_{2} {NiSe}_{5}$

Mengxue Guan, Daqiang Chen, Qing Chen, Yugui Yao, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256503 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Origin of the Magnetic Exciton in the van der Waals Antiferromagnet ${NiPS}_{3}$

T. Klaproth, S. Aswartham, Y. Shemerliuk, S. Selter, O. Janson, J. van den Brink, B. Büchner, M. Knupfer, S. Pazek, D. Mikhailova, A. Efimenko, R. Hayn, A. Savoyant, V. Gubanov, and A. Koitzsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256504 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Divergent Nonlinear Response from Quasiparticle Interactions

Michele Fava, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur, Fabian Essler, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256505 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Edge-Selective Extremal Damping from Topological Heritage of Dissipative Chern Insulators

Suraj S. Hegde, Toni Ehmcke, and Tobias Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256601 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Universal Platform of Point-Gap Topological Phases from Topological Materials

Daichi Nakamura, Kazuya Inaka, Nobuyuki Okuma, and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256602 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Spinon Heat Transport in the Three-Dimensional Quantum Magnet ${PbCuTe}_{2} O_{6}$

Xiaochen Hong, Matthias Gillig, Abanoub R. N. Hanna, Shravani Chillal, A. T. M. Nazmul Islam, Bella Lake, Bernd Büchner, and Christian Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256701 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extreme Domain Wall Speeds under Ultrafast Optical Excitation

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256702 (2023) - Published 19 December, 2023

Experiments reveal that the boundaries between magnetic domains in a multilayered magnetic metal can move faster than sound, confirming a previous prediction.

Chiral Magnons in Altermagnetic ${RuO}_{2}$

Libor Šmejkal, Alberto Marmodoro, Kyo-Hoon Ahn, Rafael González-Hernández, Ilja Turek, Sergiy Mankovsky, Hubert Ebert, Sunil W. D’Souza, Ondřej Šipr, Jairo Sinova, and Tomáš Jungwirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256703 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

All Local Conserved Quantities of the One-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Kohei Fukai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256704 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Ultrahigh Oxygen Ion Mobility in Ferroelectric Hafnia

Liyang Ma, Jing Wu, Tianyuan Zhu, Yiwei Huang, Qiyang Lu, and Shi Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256801 (2023) - Published 20 December, 2023

Berry-Curvature Engineering for Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

Wenhao Liang, Junjie Zeng, Zhenhua Qiao, Yang Gao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256901 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Hydrogen-Induced Ultralow Optical Absorption and Mechanical Loss in Amorphous Silicon for Gravitational-Wave Detectors

M. Molina-Ruiz, A. Markosyan, R. Bassiri, M. M. Fejer, M. Abernathy, T. H. Metcalf, X. Liu, G. Vajente, A. Ananyeva, and F. Hellman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256902 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Paramagnetic Point Defect in Fluorine-Doped Silica Glass: The $E^{'} (F)$ Center

Linards Skuja, Madara Leimane, Nadège Ollier, and Andrey Grishchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 256903 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sampling Efficiency of Transverse Forces in Dense Liquids

Federico Ghimenti, Ludovic Berthier, Grzegorz Szamel, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 257101 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Transverse forces that break detailed balance accelerate the dynamics of an overdamped many-body system while preserving the Boltzmann distribution.

Storage and Learning Phase Transitions in the Random-Features Hopfield Model

M. Negri, C. Lauditi, G. Perugini, C. Lucibello, and E. Malatesta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 257301 (2023) - Published 19 December, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rationalizing Euclidean Assemblies of Hard Polyhedra from Tessellations in Curved Space

Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer, Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao, and Sharon C. Glotzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258201 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023

Though geometrically forbidden from doing so in flat space, some hard Platonic solids can entropically self-assemble into space-filling crystals with sufficient spatial curvature.

Interfacial Fluid Rheology of Soft Particles

Maximilian M. Schmidt, José Ruiz-Franco, Steffen Bochenek, Fabrizio Camerin, Emanuela Zaccarelli, and Andrea Scotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258202 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

Irreversibility across a Nonreciprocal $P T$ -Symmetry-Breaking Phase Transition

Henry Alston, Luca Cocconi, and Thibault Bertrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258301 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Irreversible Mesoscale Fluctuations Herald the Emergence of Dynamical Phases

Thomas Suchanek, Klaus Kroy, and Sarah A. M. Loos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258302 (2023) - Published 18 December, 2023

Fluctuations and Shape Dependence of Microphase Separation in Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Amit Kumar and Samuel A. Safran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258401 (2023) - Published 22 December, 2023

ERRATA

Erratum: In situ Signature of Cyclotron Resonant Heating in the Solar Wind [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 165101 (2022)]

Trevor A. Bowen, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Jonathan Squire, Stuart D. Bale, Die Duan, Kristopher G. Klein, Davin Larson, Alfred Mallet, Michael D. McManus, Romain Meyrand, Jaye L. Verniero, and Lloyd D. Woodham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 259901 (2023) - Published 21 December, 2023