Volume 131, Issue 3

21 July 2023

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Two-level quantum battery: red, blue, and green represent energy levels. Work is injected into the center well from the right and extracted to the left.

From the article:

Battery Capacity of Energy-Storing Quantum Systems
Xue Yang, Yan-Han Yang, Mir Alimuddin, Raffaele Salvia, Shao-Ming Fei, Li-Ming Zhao, Stefan Nimmrichter, and Ming-Xing Luo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 030402 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC

Henso Abreu et al. (FASER Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031801 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

The first observation of neutrinos produced at a particle collider opens a new field of study and offers ways to test the limits of the standard model.

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Synthesis of Single Crystals of $ε$ -Iron and Direct Measurements of Its Elastic Constants

Agnès Dewaele, Bernard Amadon, Alexei Bosak, Volodymyr Svitlyk, and Florent Occelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 034101 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

Laboratory experiments elucidate the directions and speeds at which acoustic waves propagate in the type of iron that likely makes up Earth’s core.

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Extended Spatial Coherence of Interlayer Excitons in ${MoSe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterobilayers

Mirco Troue, Johannes Figueiredo, Lukas Sigl, Christos Paspalides, Manuel Katzer, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Malte Selig, Andreas Knorr, Ursula Wurstbauer, and Alexander W. Holleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036902 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

Evidence of coherent light emission from excitons in a 2D-material structure could inspire new quantum-technology applications.

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Single-Photon Synchronization with a Room-Temperature Atomic Quantum Memory

Omri Davidson, Ohad Yogev, Eilon Poem, and Ofer Firstenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033601 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Researchers use two clouds of rubidium vapor to generate, store, and simultaneously release two photons.

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Operator Product Expansion Coefficients of the 3D Ising Criticality via Quantum Fuzzy Spheres

Liangdong Hu, Yin-Chen He, and W. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031601 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

A new numerical technique leads to the precise determination of conformal data in the 3D Ising model, including some previously unknown expansion coefficients.

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Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment

R. Albanese et al. (SND@LHC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031802 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

The first observation of neutrinos produced at a particle collider opens a new field of study and offers ways to test the limits of the standard model.

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Observation of a $J / ψ Λ$ Resonance Consistent with a Strange Pentaquark Candidate in $B^{-} \to J / ψ Λ \bar{p}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031901 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

A pentaquark candidate that has strange quark content, seen as a resonant structure in $B^{-} \to J ψ Λ \bar{p}$ decay, is observed for the first time.

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Large-Momentum-Transfer Atom Interferometers with $μ rad$ -Accuracy Using Bragg Diffraction

J.-N. Kirsten-Siemß, F. Fitzek, C. Schubert, E. M. Rasel, N. Gaaloul, and K. Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033602 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

A new method using atoms on optical gratings significantly improves the precision of the Bragg atom interferometers by reducing some of the detrimental systematic effects.

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Voltage X-Ray Reflectometry: A Method to Study Electric-Field-Induced Changes in Interfacial Electronic Structures

Sven Erik Ilse, Gisela Schütz, and Eberhard Goering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036201 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

A new method enables element-specific measurements of electric-field-induced changes to electronic structures at buried interfaces.

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Comprehensive Ab Initio Investigation of the Phase Diagram of Quasi-One-Dimensional Molecular Solids

Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Takahiro Misawa, Takao Tsumuraya, and Hitoshi Seo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036401 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

By deriving the \textit{ab initio} effective low-energy Hamiltonians of complex materials and analyzing them with a highly accurate numerical solver, a crucial parameter which determines physical properties has been identified, providing guidelines for designing functional organic materials.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Cooperation and Competition in Synchronous Open Quantum Systems

Taufiq Murtadho, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Juzar Thingna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 030401 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

Battery Capacity of Energy-Storing Quantum Systems

Xue Yang, Yan-Han Yang, Mir Alimuddin, Raffaele Salvia, Shao-Ming Fei, Li-Ming Zhao, Stefan Nimmrichter, and Ming-Xing Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 030402 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

Complexity Phase Transitions Generated by Entanglement

Soumik Ghosh, Abhinav Deshpande, Dominik Hangleiter, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Bill Fefferman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 030601 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Randomized Benchmarking Using Nondestructive Readout in a Two-Dimensional Atom Array

B. Nikolov, E. Diamond-Hitchcock, J. Bass, N. L. R. Spong, and J. D. Pritchard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 030602 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

Quantum Metrology Using Time-Frequency as Quantum Continuous Variables: Resources, Sub-Shot-Noise Precision and Phase Space Representation

Eloi Descamps, Nicolas Fabre, Arne Keller, and Pérola Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 030801 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Particles and Fields

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Operator Product Expansion Coefficients of the 3D Ising Criticality via Quantum Fuzzy Spheres

Liangdong Hu, Yin-Chen He, and W. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031601 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

A new numerical technique leads to the precise determination of conformal data in the 3D Ising model, including some previously unknown expansion coefficients.

Bootstrapping the String Kawai-Lewellen-Tye Kernel

Alan Shih-Kuan Chen, Henriette Elvang, and Aidan Herderschee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031602 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

Taming Dyson-Schwinger Equations with Null States

Wenliang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031603 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

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First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC

Henso Abreu et al. (FASER Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031801 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

The first observation of neutrinos produced at a particle collider opens a new field of study and offers ways to test the limits of the standard model.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Collider Muon Neutrinos with the SND@LHC Experiment

R. Albanese et al. (SND@LHC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031802 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

The first observation of neutrinos produced at a particle collider opens a new field of study and offers ways to test the limits of the standard model.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a $J / ψ Λ$ Resonance Consistent with a Strange Pentaquark Candidate in $B^{-} \to J / ψ Λ \bar{p}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 031901 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

A pentaquark candidate that has strange quark content, seen as a resonant structure in $B^{-} \to J ψ Λ \bar{p}$ decay, is observed for the first time.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Kapitza Trap for Ultracold Atoms

Jian Jiang, Erik Bernhart, Marvin Röhrle, Jens Benary, Marvin Beck, Christian Baals, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033401 (2023) - Published 20 July, 2023

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Single-Photon Synchronization with a Room-Temperature Atomic Quantum Memory

Omri Davidson, Ohad Yogev, Eilon Poem, and Ofer Firstenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033601 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Researchers use two clouds of rubidium vapor to generate, store, and simultaneously release two photons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large-Momentum-Transfer Atom Interferometers with $μ rad$ -Accuracy Using Bragg Diffraction

J.-N. Kirsten-Siemß, F. Fitzek, C. Schubert, E. M. Rasel, N. Gaaloul, and K. Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033602 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

A new method using atoms on optical gratings significantly improves the precision of the Bragg atom interferometers by reducing some of the detrimental systematic effects.

Quantum Induced Coherence Light Detection and Ranging

Gewei Qian, Xingqi Xu, Shun-An Zhu, Chenran Xu, Fei Gao, V. V. Yakovlev, Xu Liu, Shi-Yao Zhu, and Da-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033603 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Programmable Quantum Simulations of Bosonic Systems with Trapped Ions

Or Katz and Christopher Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033604 (2023) - Published 20 July, 2023

Many-Body Superradiance and Dynamical Mirror Symmetry Breaking in Waveguide QED

Silvia Cardenas-Lopez, Stuart J. Masson, Zoe Zager, and Ana Asenjo-Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033605 (2023) - Published 20 July, 2023

Independent Electrical Control of Two Quantum Dots Coupled through a Photonic-Crystal Waveguide

Xiao-Liu Chu, Camille Papon, Nikolai Bart, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Leonardo Midolo, Nir Rotenberg, and Peter Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033606 (2023) - Published 20 July, 2023

Quantum Light from Lossy Semiconductor Rydberg Excitons

Valentin Walther and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 033607 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Emergence of Power-Law Particle Size Distribution in Microfluidic Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: An Extended Yule Process with a Ripening Effect

Jianping Xu and Matthew T. Balhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 034001 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

Direct Path from Turbulence to Time-Periodic Solutions

Chaitanya S. Paranjape, Gökhan Yalnız, Yohann Duguet, Nazmi Burak Budanur, and Björn Hof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 034002 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

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Synthesis of Single Crystals of $ε$ -Iron and Direct Measurements of Its Elastic Constants

Agnès Dewaele, Bernard Amadon, Alexei Bosak, Volodymyr Svitlyk, and Florent Occelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 034101 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

Laboratory experiments elucidate the directions and speeds at which acoustic waves propagate in the type of iron that likely makes up Earth’s core.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Collisionless Heating Driven by Vlasov Filamentation in a Counterstreaming Beams Configuration

Alain Ghizzo, Daniele Del Sarto, and Homam Betar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 035101 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Local Sn Dipolar-Character Displacements behind the Low Thermal Conductivity in SnSe Thermoelectric

E. S. Bozin, H. Xie, A. M. M. Abeykoon, S. M. Everett, M. G. Tucker, M. G. Kanatzidis, and S. J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036101 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

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Voltage X-Ray Reflectometry: A Method to Study Electric-Field-Induced Changes in Interfacial Electronic Structures

Sven Erik Ilse, Gisela Schütz, and Eberhard Goering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036201 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

A new method enables element-specific measurements of electric-field-induced changes to electronic structures at buried interfaces.

Probing Momentum-Dependent Scattering in Uniaxially Stressed ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ through the Hall Effect

Po-Ya Yang, Hilary M. L. Noad, Mark E. Barber, Naoki Kikugawa, Dmitry A. Sokolov, Andrew P. Mackenzie, and Clifford W. Hicks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036301 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

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Comprehensive Ab Initio Investigation of the Phase Diagram of Quasi-One-Dimensional Molecular Solids

Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Takahiro Misawa, Takao Tsumuraya, and Hitoshi Seo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036401 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Dynamical Degeneracy Splitting and Directional Invisibility in Non-Hermitian Systems

Kai Zhang, Chen Fang, and Zhesen Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036402 (2023) - Published 20 July, 2023

Revealing a 3D Fermi Surface Pocket and Electron-Hole Tunneling in ${UTe}_{2}$ with Quantum Oscillations

Christopher Broyles, Zack Rehfuss, Hasan Siddiquee, Jiahui Althena Zhu, Kaiwen Zheng, Martin Nikolo, David Graf, John Singleton, and Sheng Ran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036501 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

Can Neural Quantum States Learn Volume-Law Ground States?

Giacomo Passetti, Damian Hofmann, Pit Neitemeier, Lukas Grunwald, Michael A. Sentef, and Dante M. Kennes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036502 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

Engineering SYK Interactions in Disordered Graphene Flakes under Realistic Experimental Conditions

Marta Brzezińska, Yifei Guan, Oleg V. Yazyev, Subir Sachdev, and Alexander Kruchkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036503 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Multiorbital Nature of Doped ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

Guoren Zhang and Eva Pavarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036504 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

Detecting Emergent Continuous Symmetries at Quantum Criticality

Mingru Yang, Bram Vanhecke, and Norbert Schuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036505 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

Realistic Spin Model for Multiferroic ${NiI}_{2}$

Xuanyi Li, Changsong Xu, Boyu Liu, Xueyang Li, L. Bellaiche, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036701 (2023) - Published 20 July, 2023

In-Plane Electric-Field-Induced Orbital Hybridization of Excitonic States in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Bairen Zhu, Ke Xiao, Siyuan Yang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Xiaodong Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036901 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023

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Extended Spatial Coherence of Interlayer Excitons in ${MoSe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterobilayers

Mirco Troue, Johannes Figueiredo, Lukas Sigl, Christos Paspalides, Manuel Katzer, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Malte Selig, Andreas Knorr, Ursula Wurstbauer, and Alexander W. Holleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 036902 (2023) - Published 19 July, 2023

Evidence of coherent light emission from excitons in a 2D-material structure could inspire new quantum-technology applications.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Matrix Product Symmetries and Breakdown of Thermalization from Hard Rod Deformations

Márton Borsi, Levente Pristyák, and Balázs Pozsgay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 037101 (2023) - Published 18 July, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Inverted Sedimentation of Active Particles in Unbiased ac Fields

José Carlos Ureña Marcos and Benno Liebchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 038201 (2023) - Published 21 July, 2023

Constriction of Actin Rings by Passive Crosslinkers

Alexander Cumberworth and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 038401 (2023) - Published 17 July, 2023