Volume 131, Issue 6

11 August 2023

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A non-Hermitian sonic crystal setup to measure dispersion across various PT-symmetric phases, with a carbon nanotube film mounted on the lid of the cavity and the corresponding thermal image. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Sonic Lattice
Bolun Hu, Zhiwang Zhang, Zichong Yue, Danwei Liao, Yimin Liu, Haixiao Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066601 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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All-Order Coulomb Corrections to Delbrück Scattering above the Pair-Production Threshold

J. Sommerfeldt, V. A. Yerokhin, Th. Stöhlker, and A. Surzhykov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061601 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Improved calculations of a quantum phenomenon called Delbrück scattering resolve a long-standing discrepancy between theory and experiment.

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How to Cross an Energy Barrier at Zero Kelvin without Tunneling Effect

Seiji Miyashita and Bernard Barbara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066701 (2023) - Published 9 August, 2023

Irradiating a uniaxial magnetic system with a specific sequence of microwave pulses can induce in the system quantum oscillations that cause the material’s spins to flip back and forth.

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Metalearning Generalizable Dynamics from Trajectories

Qiaofeng Li, Tianyi Wang, Vwani Roychowdhury, and M. K. Jawed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 067301 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can model the behavior of a set of objects, such as helical springs or pendulums, using a method that can extrapolate to objects that the algorithm hasn’t previously analyzed.

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Large Scale Zigzag Pattern Emerging from Circulating Active Shakers

Gaspard Junot, Marco De Corato, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068301 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

A zigzag arrangement that appears spontaneously in a collection of magnetic particles and some other colloids is explained by the fluid flow around each particle.

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Physical Constraints in Intracellular Signaling: The Cost of Sending a Bit

Samuel J. Bryant and Benjamin B. Machta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068401 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Calculations of the minimum energy a cell requires to transmit a signal between two internal components could help scientists understand how energy and information combine to produce living systems.

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Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions Can Help and Hinder Neutrino-Driven Explosions

Jakob Ehring, Sajad Abbar, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Raffelt, and Irene Tamborra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061401 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

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Search for Higgs Boson Decay to a Charm Quark-Antiquark Pair in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061801 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Decays of $Z$ bosons to charm quark-antiquark pairs have been observed for the first time at a hadron collider, as part of a search for decays of Higgs bosons to charm quark-antiquark pairs, which are bounded at 14 times the standard model value.

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Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Effect and Gate-Switchable Berry Curvature Sliding in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Meizhen Huang, Zefei Wu, Xu Zhang, Xuemeng Feng, Zishu Zhou, Shi Wang, Yong Chen, Chun Cheng, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, and Ning Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066301 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

An out-of-plane displacement field substantially affects the nonlinear Hall effect in high-mobility twisted bilayer graphene devices.

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Ultrafast Hidden Spin Polarization Dynamics of Bright and Dark Excitons in $2 H − {WSe}_{2}$

Mauro Fanciulli, David Bresteau, Jérôme Gaudin, Shuo Dong, Romain Géneaux, Thierry Ruchon, Olivier Tcherbakoff, Ján Minár, Olivier Heckmann, Maria Christine Richter, Karol Hricovini, and Samuel Beaulieu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066402 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

Multifaceted (spin-, time-, and angle-resolved) photoemission spectroscopy in transitional metal dichalcogenides provide optical control of excitons that could aid the study of spintronics in these systems.

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Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Sonic Lattice

Bolun Hu, Zhiwang Zhang, Zichong Yue, Danwei Liao, Yimin Liu, Haixiao Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066601 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

A novel acoustic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with non-Hermitian components displays a non-Hermitian phase transition and reveals new acoustic topological interface states with tunable robust confinement.

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Instability of Magnetic Skyrmion Strings Induced by Longitudinal Spin Currents

Shun Okumura, Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, and Markus Garst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066702 (2023) - Published 9 August, 2023

A simple mechanism to topologically unwind magnetic textures uses currents flowing perpendicular to the skyrmion plane to trigger a Goldstone spin-wave instability that eventually destroys skyrmions.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Generalized Thermalization in Quantum-Chaotic Quadratic Hamiltonians

Patrycja Łydżba, Marcin Mierzejewski, Marcos Rigol, and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060401 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Work Extraction Processes from Noisy Quantum Batteries: The Role of Nonlocal Resources

Salvatore Tirone, Raffaele Salvia, Stefano Chessa, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060402 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Measurement and Feedback Driven Entanglement Transition in the Probabilistic Control of Chaos

Thomas Iadecola, Sriram Ganeshan, J. H. Pixley, and Justin H. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060403 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Scale-Invariant Survival Probability at Eigenstate Transitions

Miroslav Hopjan and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060404 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Shortest Route to Non-Abelian Topological Order on a Quantum Processor

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Ruben Verresen, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060405 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

Schrödinger-Heisenberg Variational Quantum Algorithms

Zhong-Xia Shang, Ming-Cheng Chen, Xiao Yuan, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060406 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

Fermionic Correlation Functions from Randomized Measurements in Programmable Atomic Quantum Devices

Piero Naldesi, Andreas Elben, Anna Minguzzi, David Clément, Peter Zoller, and Benoît Vermersch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060601 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Self-Healing of Trotter Error in Digital Adiabatic State Preparation

Lucas K. Kovalsky, Fernando A. Calderon-Vargas, Matthew D. Grace, Alicia B. Magann, James B. Larsen, Andrew D. Baczewski, and Mohan Sarovar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060602 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Coherent-Error Threshold for Surface Codes from Majorana Delocalization

Florian Venn, Jan Behrends, and Benjamin Béri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060603 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Prediction-Retrodiction Measurements for Teleportation and Conditional State Transfer

Sergey A. Fedorov and Emil Zeuthen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060801 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Squeezed Superradiance Enables Robust Entanglement-Enhanced Metrology Even with Highly Imperfect Readout

Martin Koppenhöfer, Peter Groszkowski, and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060802 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Demonstration of a Quantum Switch in a Sagnac Configuration

Teodor Strömberg, Peter Schiansky, Robert W. Peterson, Marco Túlio Quintino, and Philip Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 060803 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions Can Help and Hinder Neutrino-Driven Explosions

Jakob Ehring, Sajad Abbar, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Raffelt, and Irene Tamborra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061401 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Particles and Fields

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All-Order Coulomb Corrections to Delbrück Scattering above the Pair-Production Threshold

J. Sommerfeldt, V. A. Yerokhin, Th. Stöhlker, and A. Surzhykov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061601 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

Improved calculations of a quantum phenomenon called Delbrück scattering resolve a long-standing discrepancy between theory and experiment.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Higgs Boson Decay to a Charm Quark-Antiquark Pair in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061801 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Test of $C P$ Invariance in Higgs Boson Vector-Boson-Fusion Production Using the $H \to γ γ$ Channel with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061802 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Decays of $W$ Bosons Using a Dilepton Displaced Vertex in $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061803 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Evidence for Modification of $b$ Quark Hadronization in High-Multiplicity $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 061901 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Multiscale Imaging of Nuclear Deformation at the Electron-Ion Collider

Heikki Mäntysaari, Björn Schenke, Chun Shen, and Wenbin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 062301 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Raman Scattering Errors in Stimulated-Raman-Induced Logic Gates in ${}^{133}{Ba}^{+}$

Matthew J. Boguslawski, Zachary J. Wall, Samuel R. Vizvary, Isam Daniel Moore, Michael Bareian, David T. C. Allcock, David J. Wineland, Eric R. Hudson, and Wesley C. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063001 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Spin Squeezing by Rydberg Dressing in an Array of Atomic Ensembles

Jacob A. Hines, Shankari V. Rajagopal, Gabriel L. Moreau, Michael D. Wahrman, Neomi A. Lewis, Ognjen Marković, and Monika Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063401 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

Signatures of Superradiance as a Witness to Multipartite Entanglement

Frederik Lohof, Daniel Schumayer, David A. W. Hutchinson, and Christopher Gies

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063601 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

Low-Rank Combinatorial Optimization and Statistical Learning by Spatial Photonic Ising Machine

Hiroshi Yamashita, Ken-ichi Okubo, Suguru Shimomura, Yusuke Ogura, Jun Tanida, and Hideyuki Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 063801 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Spontaneous Stochasticity in the Presence of Intermittency

André Luís Peixoto Considera and Simon Thalabard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 064001 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Dynamics and Power Balance of Near Unity Target Gain Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

A. Pak et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 065101 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Positron Generation and Acceleration in a Self-Organized Photon Collider Enabled by an Ultraintense Laser Pulse

K. Sugimoto, Y. He, N. Iwata, I-L. Yeh, K. Tangtartharakul, A. Arefiev, and Y. Sentoku

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 065102 (2023) - Published 9 August, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Intrinsic Nonlinear Hall Effect and Gate-Switchable Berry Curvature Sliding in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Meizhen Huang, Zefei Wu, Xu Zhang, Xuemeng Feng, Zishu Zhou, Shi Wang, Yong Chen, Chun Cheng, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, and Ning Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066301 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

An out-of-plane displacement field substantially affects the nonlinear Hall effect in high-mobility twisted bilayer graphene devices.

Coherent-Phonon-Driven Intervalley Scattering and Rabi Oscillation in Multivalley 2D Materials

Chenyu Wang, Xinbao Liu, Qing Chen, Daqiang Chen, Yaxian Wang, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066401 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

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Ultrafast Hidden Spin Polarization Dynamics of Bright and Dark Excitons in $2 H − {WSe}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066402 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry in a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Sonic Lattice

Bolun Hu, Zhiwang Zhang, Zichong Yue, Danwei Liao, Yimin Liu, Haixiao Zhang, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066601 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How to Cross an Energy Barrier at Zero Kelvin without Tunneling Effect

Seiji Miyashita and Bernard Barbara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066701 (2023) - Published 9 August, 2023

Irradiating a uniaxial magnetic system with a specific sequence of microwave pulses can induce in the system quantum oscillations that cause the material’s spins to flip back and forth.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Instability of Magnetic Skyrmion Strings Induced by Longitudinal Spin Currents

Shun Okumura, Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, and Markus Garst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066702 (2023) - Published 9 August, 2023

A simple mechanism to topologically unwind magnetic textures uses currents flowing perpendicular to the skyrmion plane to trigger a Goldstone spin-wave instability that eventually destroys skyrmions.

Indirect Exchange Interaction Leads to Large Lattice Contribution to Magnetocaloric Entropy Change

Lokanath Patra and Bolin Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 066703 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

Instabilities near Ultrastrong Coupling in a Microwave Optomechanical Cavity

Soumya Ranjan Das, Sourav Majumder, Sudhir Kumar Sahu, Ujjawal Singhal, Tanmoy Bera, and Vibhor Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 067001 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Metalearning Generalizable Dynamics from Trajectories

Qiaofeng Li, Tianyi Wang, Vwani Roychowdhury, and M. K. Jawed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 067301 (2023) - Published 10 August, 2023

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Modeling Viscoelasticity and Dynamic Nematic Order of Exchangeable Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Jiameng Zhao and Fanlong Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068101 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

Dynamics of Motility-Induced Clusters: Coarsening beyond Ostwald Ripening

Claudio B. Caporusso, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Pasquale Digregorio, Giuseppe Gonnella, Demian Levis, and Antonio Suma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068201 (2023) - Published 8 August, 2023

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Large Scale Zigzag Pattern Emerging from Circulating Active Shakers

Gaspard Junot, Marco De Corato, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068301 (2023) - Published 11 August, 2023

A zigzag arrangement that appears spontaneously in a collection of magnetic particles and some other colloids is explained by the fluid flow around each particle.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical Constraints in Intracellular Signaling: The Cost of Sending a Bit

Samuel J. Bryant and Benjamin B. Machta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 068401 (2023) - Published 7 August, 2023

Calculations of the minimum energy a cell requires to transmit a signal between two internal components could help scientists understand how energy and information combine to produce living systems.