Volume 131, Issue 8

25 August 2023

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On the Cover

Apparatus for in vacuo ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of exotic high energy density matter using a modified magnetron sputtering source.

From the article:

Direct Observation of Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Copper Nanoparticles in the Warm-Dense Matter Regime
Quynh L. D. Nguyen, Jacopo Simoni, Kevin M. Dorney, Xun Shi, Jennifer L. Ellis, Nathan J. Brooks, Daniel D. Hickstein, Amanda G. Grennell, Sadegh Yazdi, Eleanor E. B. Campbell, Liang Z. Tan, David Prendergast, Jerome Daligault, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085101 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Mpemba Effect in a Quantum Dot with Reservoirs

Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Satoshi Takada, and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080402 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

The temperatures of two copies of a quantum dot, one initially hotter than the other, can cross each other at some finite time and reverse their identities, the first such prediction in a quantum regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Variational Neural-Network Ansatz for Continuum Quantum Field Theory

John M. Martyn, Khadijeh Najafi, and Di Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081601 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

A variational ansatz based on deep-sets neural-network architecture enables the parametrization of all multiparticle wave functions in continuum nonrelativistic quantum field theories.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Real-Space Imaging of Triplon Excitations in Engineered Quantum Magnets

Robert Drost, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Jose L. Lado, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086701 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

A minimal quantum magnet with triplon excitations has been engineered using molecular building blocks in the singlet ground state.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Intensity and Spin Contrast in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

S. Ernst, P. J. Scheidegger, S. Diesch, L. Lorenzelli, and C. L. Degen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086903 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

Two photoluminescence experiments and models of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond over broad temperature ranges improve our understanding of the photodynamics of vacancy centers and other spin defects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature-Dependent Photophysics of Single NV Centers in Diamond

Jodok Happacher, Juanita Bocquel, Hossein T. Dinani, Märta A. Tschudin, Patrick Reiser, David A. Broadway, Jeronimo R. Maze, and Patrick Maletinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086904 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shortcuts to Equilibrium with a Levitated Particle in the Underdamped Regime

Damien Raynal, Timothée de Guillebon, David Guéry-Odelin, Emmanuel Trizac, Jean-Sébastien Lauret, and Loïc Rondin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 087101 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

An experiment using optically-levitated nanoparticles demonstrates a successful application of engineered swift equilibration in the underdamped regime.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Bell Inequalities with Overlapping Measurements

Moisés Bermejo Morán, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, and Felix Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080201 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

Quantum Simulation of Topological Zero Modes on a 41-Qubit Superconducting Processor

Yun-Hao Shi, Yu Liu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Zhongcheng Xiang, Kaixuan Huang, Tao Liu, Yong-Yi Wang, Jia-Chi Zhang, Cheng-Lin Deng, Gui-Han Liang, Zheng-Yang Mei, Hao Li, Tian-Ming Li, Wei-Guo Ma, Hao-Tian Liu, Chi-Tong Chen, Tong Liu, Ye Tian, Xiaohui Song, S. P. Zhao, Kai Xu, Dongning Zheng, Franco Nori, and Heng Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080401 (2023) - Published 21 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Mpemba Effect in a Quantum Dot with Reservoirs

Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Satoshi Takada, and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080402 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

Proposal for Observing Yang-Lee Criticality in Rydberg Atomic Arrays

Ruizhe Shen, Tianqi Chen, Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu, Fang Qin (覃昉), Yin Zhong, Huanqian Loh, and Ching Hua Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080403 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Based on the Mermin-Peres Magic Square Game

Yi-Zheng Zhen, Yingqiu Mao, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Feihu Xu, and Barry C. Sanders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080801 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Probing the Pulsar Explanation of the Galactic-Center GeV Excess Using Continuous Gravitational-Wave Searches

Andrew L. Miller and Yue Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081401 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

Self-Dual Gravity and Color-Kinematics Duality in ${AdS}_{4}$

Arthur Lipstein and Silvia Nagy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081501 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Variational Neural-Network Ansatz for Continuum Quantum Field Theory

John M. Martyn, Khadijeh Najafi, and Di Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081601 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

A variational ansatz based on deep-sets neural-network architecture enables the parametrization of all multiparticle wave functions in continuum nonrelativistic quantum field theories.

Extended Axion Dark Matter Search Using the CAPP18T Haloscope

Byeongsu Yang, Hojin Yoon, Moohyun Ahn, Youngjae Lee, and Jonghee Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081801 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

Towards Quantum Computing Phase Diagrams of Gauge Theories with Thermal Pure Quantum States

Zohreh Davoudi, Niklas Mueller, and Connor Powers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081901 (2023) - Published 21 August, 2023

Nuclear Physics

Toward a Unified Description of Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonances in a Self-Consistent Quasiparticle-Vibration Coupling Approach

Z. Z. Li (李征征), Y. F. Niu (牛一斐), and G. Colò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 082501 (2023) - Published 23 August, 2023

First Observation of Cyclotron Radiation from MeV-Scale $e^{\pm}$ following Nuclear $β$ Decay

W. Byron et al. (He6-CRES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 082502 (2023) - Published 23 August, 2023

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Imaging a ${}^{6}{Li}$ Atom in an Optical Tweezer 2000 Times with $Λ$ -Enhanced Gray Molasses

Karl N. Blodgett, David Peana, Saumitra S. Phatak, Lane M. Terry, Maria Paula Montes, and Jonathan D. Hood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083001 (2023) - Published 21 August, 2023

Evaluation of a ${}^{88}{Sr}^{+}$ Optical Clock with a Direct Measurement of the Blackbody Radiation Shift and Determination of the Clock Frequency

M. Steinel, H. Shao, M. Filzinger, B. Lipphardt, M. Brinkmann, A. Didier, T. E. Mehlstäubler, T. Lindvall, E. Peik, and N. Huntemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083002 (2023) - Published 23 August, 2023

Sound Propagation in a Bose-Fermi Mixture: From Weak to Strong Interactions

Krutik Patel, Geyue Cai, Henry Ando, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083003 (2023) - Published 23 August, 2023

Landau-Forbidden Quantum Criticality in Rydberg Quantum Simulators

Jong Yeon Lee, Joshua Ramette, Max A. Metlitski, Vladan Vuletić, Wen Wei Ho, and Soonwon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083601 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

Orientational Melting in a Mesoscopic System of Charged Particles

Lucia Duca, Naoto Mizukami, Elia Perego, Massimo Inguscio, and Carlo Sias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083602 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

Observation of a Topological Edge State Stabilized by Dissipation

Helene Wetter, Michael Fleischhauer, Stefan Linden, and Julian Schmitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083801 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Confinement-Induced Diffusive Sound Transport in Nanoscale Fluidic Channels

Hannes Holey, Peter Gumbsch, and Lars Pastewka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 084001 (2023) - Published 21 August, 2023

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Direct Observation of Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Copper Nanoparticles in the Warm-Dense Matter Regime

Quynh L. D. Nguyen, Jacopo Simoni, Kevin M. Dorney, Xun Shi, Jennifer L. Ellis, Nathan J. Brooks, Daniel D. Hickstein, Amanda G. Grennell, Sadegh Yazdi, Eleanor E. B. Campbell, Liang Z. Tan, David Prendergast, Jerome Daligault, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085101 (2023) - Published 21 August, 2023

Self-Consistent Simulation of the Excitation of Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes and Runaway Electron Diffusion in Tokamak Disruptions

Chang Liu, Andrey Lvovskiy, Carlos Paz-Soldan, Stephen C. Jardin, and Amitava Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085102 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

Extended Magnetic Reconnection in Kinetic Plasma Turbulence

Tak Chu Li, Yi-Hsin Liu, Yi Qi, and Muni Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085201 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

Condensed Matter and Materials

Predicting the Density-Scaling Exponent of a Glass-Forming Liquid from Complex Dielectric Permittivity Measurements

Marian Paluch, Beibei Yao, Jurgen Pionteck, and Zaneta Wojnarowska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086101 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

Dissipationless Circulating Currents and Fringe Magnetic Fields Near a Single Spin Embedded in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Adonai R. da Cruz and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086301 (2023) - Published 23 August, 2023

Observation of Electronic Strong Correlation in ${VTe}_{2} -2 \sqrt{3} \times 2 \sqrt{3}$ Monolayer

Wei-Min Zhao, Wenjun Ding, Qi-Wei Wang, Yu-Xin Meng, Li Zhu, Zhen-Yu Jia, Wenguang Zhu, and Shao-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086501 (2023) - Published 21 August, 2023

Density of States and Spectral Function of a Superconductor out of a Quantum-Critical Metal

Shang-Shun Zhang and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086502 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

Chiral-Flux-Phase-Based Topological Superconductivity in Kagome Systems with Mixed Edge Chiralities

Junjie Zeng, Qingming Li, Xun Yang, Dong-Hui Xu, and Rui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086601 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Real-Space Imaging of Triplon Excitations in Engineered Quantum Magnets

Robert Drost, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Jose L. Lado, and Peter Liljeroth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086701 (2023) - Published 22 August, 2023

A minimal quantum magnet with triplon excitations has been engineered using molecular building blocks in the singlet ground state.

Nonlocal Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer by Transdimensional Plasmonics

H. Salihoglu, J. Shi, Z. Li, Z. Wang, X. Luo, I. V. Bondarev, S.-A. Biehs, and S. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086901 (2023) - Published 23 August, 2023

Natural Optical Activity from Density-Functional Perturbation Theory

Asier Zabalo and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086902 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Intensity and Spin Contrast in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

S. Ernst, P. J. Scheidegger, S. Diesch, L. Lorenzelli, and C. L. Degen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086903 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature-Dependent Photophysics of Single NV Centers in Diamond

Jodok Happacher, Juanita Bocquel, Hossein T. Dinani, Märta A. Tschudin, Patrick Reiser, David A. Broadway, Jeronimo R. Maze, and Patrick Maletinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086904 (2023) - Published 24 August, 2023

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shortcuts to Equilibrium with a Levitated Particle in the Underdamped Regime

Damien Raynal, Timothée de Guillebon, David Guéry-Odelin, Emmanuel Trizac, Jean-Sébastien Lauret, and Loïc Rondin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 087101 (2023) - Published 25 August, 2023

An experiment using optically-levitated nanoparticles demonstrates a successful application of engineered swift equilibration in the underdamped regime.