Volume 131, Issue 5

4 August 2023

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X-ray–regenerative–amplifier free-electron-laser scheme with electron-beam-based Q switching.

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Active Q-Switched X-Ray Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser
Jingyi Tang, Zhen Zhang, Jenny Morgan, Erik Hemsing, and Zhirong Huang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 055001 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Interrelated Thermalization and Quantum Criticality in a Lattice Gauge Simulator

Han-Yi Wang, Wei-Yong Zhang, Zhiyuan Yao, Ying Liu, Zi-Hang Zhu, Yong-Guang Zheng, Xuan-Kai Wang, Hui Zhai, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050401 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice can mimic how—in a basic quantum field theory—massive particles reach, or fail to reach, thermal equilibrium.

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Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC

A. Albert et al. (HAWC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051201 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Measurements of the highest-energy radiation from the Sun ever seen highlight the need for better solar models.

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Test of Lepton Universality in $b \to s ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051803 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

New data from observations of $B$ -meson decay again vindicate the standard model of particle physics.

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Test of Light-Lepton Universality in the Rates of Inclusive Semileptonic $B$ -Meson Decays at Belle II

L. Aggarwal et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051804 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

New data from observations of $B$ -meson decay again vindicate the standard model of particle physics.

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Rare ${}^{40}K$ Decay with Implications for Fundamental Physics and Geochronology

M. Stukel et al. (KDK Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 052503 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Researchers revisit a neglected decay mode with implications for fundamental physics and for dating some of the oldest rocks on Earth and in the Solar System.

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Super Interferometric Range Resolution

John C. Howell, Andrew N. Jordan, Barbara Šoda, and Achim Kempf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053803 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

A low-frequency radar method with improved resolution could aid in the detection of landmines and archeological objects.

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Nonaffine Mechanics of Entangled Networks Inspired by Intermediate Filaments

Marco Pensalfini, Tom Golde, Xavier Trepat, and Marino Arroyo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058101 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

Simulations show that the topology of biopolymer “tangles” controls how biological cells resist deformation.

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On-Demand Breaking of Action-Reaction Reciprocity between Magnetic Microdisks Using Global Stimuli

Gaurav Gardi and Metin Sitti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058301 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

A model system of floating disks can be tuned to execute a variety of behaviors by controlling the interactions between the disks.

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Bichromatic Imaging of Single Molecules in an Optical Tweezer Array

Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, and Lawrence W. Cheuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053202 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

The proposed bichromatic imaging scheme could lead to high-fidelity detection of single CaF molecules trapped in an optical tweezer array.

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Generation of Near-Equipartition Magnetic Fields in Turbulent Collisionless Plasmas

Lorenzo Sironi, Luca Comisso, and Ryan Golant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 055201 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Weibel-generated magnetic fields can be dynamo amplified and reach near equipartition under the continuous action of turbulent gravitational forces generated by the large-scale structure in the universe.

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Topological Superconductivity in Doped Magnetic Moiré Semiconductors

Valentin Crépel, Daniele Guerci, Jennifer Cano, J. H. Pixley, and Andrew Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056001 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Robust attraction and low-energy symmetry properties in transition metal dichalcogenide twisted bilayers may produce topologically protected superconductivity.

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Robust Fermi-Liquid Instabilities in Sign Problem-Free Models

Ori Grossman and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056501 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

For all known symmetry-classes that generate a sign-problem free model within the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, the Fermi liquid is unstable at zero temperature.

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Composition Dependent Instabilities in Mixtures with Many Components

Filipe C. Thewes, Matthias Krüger, and Peter Sollich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058401 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

A new form of demixing instability may explain the strong dependence of phase separation in biological mixtures on their composition.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Interrelated Thermalization and Quantum Criticality in a Lattice Gauge Simulator

Han-Yi Wang, Wei-Yong Zhang, Zhiyuan Yao, Ying Liu, Zi-Hang Zhu, Yong-Guang Zheng, Xuan-Kai Wang, Hui Zhai, Zhen-Sheng Yuan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050401 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice can mimic how—in a basic quantum field theory—massive particles reach, or fail to reach, thermal equilibrium.

Prethermalization and the Local Robustness of Gapped Systems

Chao Yin and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050402 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Approximate Autonomous Quantum Error Correction with Reinforcement Learning

Yexiong Zeng, Zheng-Yang Zhou, Enrico Rinaldi, Clemens Gneiting, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050601 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Floquet Engineering to Overcome No-Go Theorem of Noisy Quantum Metrology

Si-Yuan Bai and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050801 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Iterative Adaptive Spectroscopy of Short Signals

Avishek Chowdhury, Anh Tuan Le, Eva M. Weig, and Hugo Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 050802 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Discovery of Gamma Rays from the Quiescent Sun with HAWC

A. Albert et al. (HAWC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051201 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Measurements of the highest-energy radiation from the Sun ever seen highlight the need for better solar models.

Detecting Massive Scalar Fields with Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Susanna Barsanti, Andrea Maselli, Thomas P. Sotiriou, and Leonardo Gualtieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051401 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Particles and Fields

Color-Dual Fates of $F^{3}$ , $R^{3}$ , and $N = 4$ Supergravity

John Joseph M. Carrasco, Matthew Lewandowski, and Nicolas H. Pavao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051601 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Neutrino-Induced Coherent $π^{+}$ Production in C, CH, Fe, and Pb at $⟨ E_{ν} ⟩ \sim 6 GeV$

M. A. Ramírez et al. (The MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051801 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Enhanced Charm $C P$ Asymmetries from Final State Interactions

I. Bediaga, T. Frederico, and P. C. Magalhães

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051802 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

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Test of Lepton Universality in $b \to s ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051803 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

New data from observations of $B$ -meson decay again vindicate the standard model of particle physics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Test of Light-Lepton Universality in the Rates of Inclusive Semileptonic $B$ -Meson Decays at Belle II

L. Aggarwal et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051804 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

New data from observations of $B$ -meson decay again vindicate the standard model of particle physics.

Azimuthal Correlations within Exclusive Dijets with Large Momentum Transfer in Photon-Lead Collisions

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 051901 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Nuclear Physics

${}^{138}{Ba} (d, α)$ Study of States in ${}^{136}{Cs}$ : Implications for New Physics Searches with Xenon Detectors

B. M. Rebeiro, S. Triambak, P. E. Garrett, G. C. Ball, B. A. Brown, J. Menéndez, B. Romeo, P. Adsley, B. G. Lenardo, R. Lindsay, V. Bildstein, C. Burbadge, R. Coleman, A. Diaz Varela, R. Dubey, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, M. Kamil, K. G. Leach, C. Natzke, J. C. Nzobadila Ondze, A. Radich, E. Rand, and H.-F. Wirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 052501 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Observation of Low-Lying Isomeric States in ${}^{136}{Cs}$ : A New Avenue for Dark Matter and Solar Neutrino Detection in Xenon Detectors

S. J. Haselschwardt, B. G. Lenardo, T. Daniels, S. W. Finch, F. Q. L. Friesen, C. R. Howell, C. R. Malone, E. Mancil, and W. Tornow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 052502 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

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Rare ${}^{40}K$ Decay with Implications for Fundamental Physics and Geochronology

M. Stukel et al. (KDK Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 052503 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Researchers revisit a neglected decay mode with implications for fundamental physics and for dating some of the oldest rocks on Earth and in the Solar System.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Manipulating Growth and Propagation of Correlations in Dipolar Multilayers: From Pair Production to Bosonic Kitaev Models

Thomas Bilitewski and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053001 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Nonadiabatic Laser-Induced Alignment Dynamics of Molecules on a Surface

Lorenz Kranabetter, Henrik H. Kristensen, Areg Ghazaryan, Constant A. Schouder, Adam S. Chatterley, Paul Janssen, Frank Jensen, Robert E. Zillich, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Henrik Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053201 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

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Bichromatic Imaging of Single Molecules in an Optical Tweezer Array

Connor M. Holland, Yukai Lu, and Lawrence W. Cheuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053202 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

The proposed bichromatic imaging scheme could lead to high-fidelity detection of single CaF molecules trapped in an optical tweezer array.

Anomalous Diffusion in the Long-Range Haken-Strobl-Reineker Model

A. G. Catalano, F. Mattiotti, J. Dubail, D. Hagenmüller, T. Prosen, F. Franchini, and G. Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053401 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Cavity Quantum Optomechanical Nonlinearities and Position Measurement beyond the Breakdown of the Linearized Approximation

J. Clarke, P. Neveu, K. E. Khosla, E. Verhagen, and M. R. Vanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053601 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Fermi Arc Reconstruction in Synthetic Photonic Lattice

D.-H.-Minh Nguyen, Chiara Devescovi, Dung Xuan Nguyen, Hai Son Nguyen, and Dario Bercioux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053602 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Time-Resolved Line Shapes of Single Quantum Emitters via Machine Learned Photon Correlations

Andrew H. Proppe, Kin Long Kelvin Lee, Alexander E. K. Kaplan, Matthias Ginterseder, Chantalle J. Krajewska, and Moungi G. Bawendi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053603 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

Decoherence and Turbulence Sources in a Long Laser

Amy Roche, Svetlana Slepneva, Anton Kovalev, Alexander Pimenov, Andrei G. Vladimirov, Massimo Giudici, Mathias Marconi, and Guillaume Huyet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053801 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Absence of Topological Protection of the Interface States in $Z_{2}$ Photonic Crystals

Shupeng Xu, Yuhui Wang, and Ritesh Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053802 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

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Super Interferometric Range Resolution

John C. Howell, Andrew N. Jordan, Barbara Šoda, and Achim Kempf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 053803 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

A low-frequency radar method with improved resolution could aid in the detection of landmines and archeological objects.

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Quantitative Prediction of Sling Events in Turbulence at High Reynolds Numbers

Tobias Bätge, Itzhak Fouxon, and Michael Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 054001 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Active Q-Switched X-Ray Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser

Jingyi Tang, Zhen Zhang, Jenny Morgan, Erik Hemsing, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 055001 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of Near-Equipartition Magnetic Fields in Turbulent Collisionless Plasmas

Lorenzo Sironi, Luca Comisso, and Ryan Golant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 055201 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Topological Superconductivity in Doped Magnetic Moiré Semiconductors

Valentin Crépel, Daniele Guerci, Jennifer Cano, J. H. Pixley, and Andrew Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056001 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Robust attraction and low-energy symmetry properties in transition metal dichalcogenide twisted bilayers may produce topologically protected superconductivity.

Convection-Induced Compositional Patterning at Grain Boundaries in Irradiated Alloys

G. F. Bouobda Moladje, R. S. Averback, P. Bellon, and L. Thuinet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056201 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Anomalous Reentrant $5 / 2$ Quantum Hall Phase at Moderate Landau-Level-Mixing Strength

Sudipto Das, Sahana Das, and Sudhansu S. Mandal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056202 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Anisotropic Topological Anderson Transitions in Chiral Symmetry Classes

Zhenyu Xiao, Kohei Kawabata, Xunlong Luo, Tomi Ohtsuki, and Ryuichi Shindou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056301 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Highly Anisotropic Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in an Orbitally Coupled Half-Filled Landau Level

Chengyu Wang, A. Gupta, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, R. Winkler, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056302 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Detection of the Néel Vector for Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Spintronics

Jizhang Wang, Hui Zeng, Wenhui Duan, and Huaqing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056401 (2023) - Published 31 July, 2023

Trap-Assisted Auger-Meitner Recombination from First Principles

Fangzhou Zhao, Mark E. Turiansky, Audrius Alkauskas, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056402 (2023) - Published 2 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust Fermi-Liquid Instabilities in Sign Problem-Free Models

Ori Grossman and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056501 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023

For all known symmetry-classes that generate a sign-problem free model within the determinant quantum Monte Carlo method, the Fermi liquid is unstable at zero temperature.

Prethermal Time-Crystalline Spin Ice and Monopole Confinement in a Driven Magnet

Mingxi Yue and Zi Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 056502 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Information Engine in a Nonequilibrium Bath

Tushar K. Saha, Jannik Ehrich, Momčilo Gavrilov, Susanne Still, David A. Sivak, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 057101 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Nonaffine Mechanics of Entangled Networks Inspired by Intermediate Filaments

Marco Pensalfini, Tom Golde, Xavier Trepat, and Marino Arroyo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058101 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

Simulations show that the topology of biopolymer “tangles” controls how biological cells resist deformation.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

On-Demand Breaking of Action-Reaction Reciprocity between Magnetic Microdisks Using Global Stimuli

Gaurav Gardi and Metin Sitti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058301 (2023) - Published 4 August, 2023

A model system of floating disks can be tuned to execute a variety of behaviors by controlling the interactions between the disks.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Composition Dependent Instabilities in Mixtures with Many Components

Filipe C. Thewes, Matthias Krüger, and Peter Sollich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 058401 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

A new form of demixing instability may explain the strong dependence of phase separation in biological mixtures on their composition.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Identification of the Mott Insulating Charge Density Wave State in $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ ”

Diego Pasquier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 059601 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

Shin et al. Reply:

Dongbin Shin, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Jin Zhang, Mahmut Sait Okyay, Angel Rubio, and Noejung Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 059602 (2023) - Published 3 August, 2023

ERRATA

Erratum: ${}^{27}{Al}^{+}$ Quantum-Logic Clock with a Systematic Uncertainty below $10^{- 18}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 033201 (2019)]

S. M. Brewer, J.-S. Chen, A. M. Hankin, E. R. Clements, C. W. Chou, D. J. Wineland, D. B. Hume, and D. R. Leibrandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 059901 (2023) - Published 1 August, 2023