Volume 132, Issue 11

15 March 2024

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Qutrit encoding for the complete set of input modes in a classical photonic simulator with four macro-pixel mutually unbiased bases.

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Unveiling the Non-Abelian Statistics of $D (S_{3})$ Anyons Using a Classical Photonic Simulator
Suraj Goel, Matthew Reynolds, Matthew Girling, Will McCutcheon, Saroch Leedumrongwatthanakun, Vatshal Srivastav, David Jennings, Mehul Malik, and Jiannis K. Pachos
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110601 (2024)

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Precision-Spectroscopic Determination of the Binding Energy of a Two-Body Quantum System: The Hydrogen Atom and the Proton-Size Puzzle

Simon Scheidegger and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113001 (2024) - Published 11 March, 2024

Researchers have measured the transition energy of several highly excited states, which could help resolve a discrepancy about the size of the proton.

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Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Temporal Statistics in a Continuous Free-Electron Beam with Subpicosecond Resolution

S. Borrelli, T. C. H. de Raadt, S. B. van der Geer, P. H. A. Mutsaers, K. A. H. van Leeuwen, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115001 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

A new method to measure the arrival times of electrons could aid in the design of future electron microscopes.

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Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Clumping along the Equatorial Rings of SN1987A and Other Stars

Michael J. Wadas, William J. White, Heath J. LeFevre, Carolyn C. Kuranz, Aaron Towne, and Eric Johnsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111201 (2024) - Published 13 March, 2024

The clumpy structure of a ring of gas ejected by the progenitor star of the supernova 1987A could have formed when vortices in the gas interacted.

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New Structures in the $J / ψ J / ψ$ Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111901 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Three structures, $X (6900)$ and two new ones around 6.64 and 7.13 GeV, are seen in the $J / ψ J / ψ$ mass spectrum that are consistent with being part of a family of radial excitations.

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Multispecies Ion Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection with Hybrid-Kinetic Simulations

Qile Zhang, Fan Guo, William Daughton, Hui Li, Ari Le, Tai Phan, and Mihir Desai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115201 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Computationally challenging 3D hybrid simulations of magnetic reconnection for multiple ion species give insights into the acceleration process for heavy ions and energy spectra compatible with in-situ spacecraft observations.

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Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study of ${Sr}_{2} {RhO}_{4}$

Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Bernhard Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116502 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

A combined Raman scattering and theoretical study of spin-orbit excitations in Sr $_{2}$ RhO $_{4}$ reveals unusual but well-defined excitations around 230 meV that are excitonic transitions between the spin-orbit multiplets of the Rh ions, excitations analogous to those recently observed in the Mott insulators Sr $_{2}$ IrO $_{4}$ and RuCl $_{3}$ .

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Shortcuts of Freely Relaxing Systems Using Equilibrium Physical Observables

Isidoro González-Adalid Pemartín, Emanuel Mompó, Antonio Lasanta, Víctor Martín-Mayor, and Jesús Salas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 117102 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Equilibrium observables can control nonequilibrium dynamics such as anomalous heating and cooling effects.

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Tensor Network Message Passing

Yijia Wang, Yuwen Ebony Zhang, Feng Pan, and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 117401 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

The tensor network message passing method reduces the error in the calculation of local observables by several orders of magnitude compared with state-of-the-art techniques.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Solvable Model of Quantum-Darwinism-Encoding Transitions

Benoît Ferté and Xiangyu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110201 (2024) - Published 11 March, 2024

Dynamical Resource Theory of Informational Nonequilibrium Preservability

Benjamin Stratton, Chung-Yun Hsieh, and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110202 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Virtual Quantum Broadcasting

Arthur J. Parzygnat, James Fullwood, Francesco Buscemi, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110203 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Bounding the Amount of Entanglement from Witness Operators

Liang-Liang Sun, Xiang Zhou, Armin Tavakoli, Zhen-Peng Xu, and Sixia Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110204 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Emergence of Boltzmann Subspaces in Open Quantum Systems Far from Equilibrium

Michael Iv, Saar Rahav, and Uri Peskin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110401 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Exponentially Enhanced Non-Hermitian Cooling

Haowei Xu, Uroš Delić, Guoqing Wang, Changhao Li, Paola Cappellaro, and Ju Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110402 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Measurement-Induced Phase Transition for Free Fermions above One Dimension

Igor Poboiko, Igor V. Gornyi, and Alexander D. Mirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110403 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Unveiling the Non-Abelian Statistics of $D (S_{3})$ Anyons Using a Classical Photonic Simulator

Suraj Goel, Matthew Reynolds, Matthew Girling, Will McCutcheon, Saroch Leedumrongwatthanakun, Vatshal Srivastav, David Jennings, Mehul Malik, and Jiannis K. Pachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110601 (2024) - Published 13 March, 2024

Minimum-Consumption Discrimination of Quantum States via Globally Optimal Adaptive Measurements

Boxuan Tian, Wen-Zhe Yan, Zhibo Hou, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110801 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Clumping along the Equatorial Rings of SN1987A and Other Stars

Michael J. Wadas, William J. White, Heath J. LeFevre, Carolyn C. Kuranz, Aaron Towne, and Eric Johnsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111201 (2024) - Published 13 March, 2024

The clumpy structure of a ring of gas ejected by the progenitor star of the supernova 1987A could have formed when vortices in the gas interacted.

Particles and Fields

Bootstrapping Deconfined Quantum Tricriticality

Shai M. Chester and Ning Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111601 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

First Measurement of Discrimination between Helium and Electron Recoils in Liquid Xenon for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches

S. J. Haselschwardt, R. Gibbons, H. Chen, S. Kravitz, A. Manalaysay, Q. Xia, W. H. Lippincott, and P. Sorensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111801 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Structures in the $J / ψ J / ψ$ Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111901 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Three structures, $X (6900)$ and two new ones around 6.64 and 7.13 GeV, are seen in the $J / ψ J / ψ$ mass spectrum that are consistent with being part of a family of radial excitations.

Nuclear Physics

Momentum Shell in Quarkyonic Matter from Explicit Duality: A Dual Model for Cold, Dense QCD

Yuki Fujimoto, Toru Kojo, and Larry D. McLerran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 112701 (2024) - Published 11 March, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Precision-Spectroscopic Determination of the Binding Energy of a Two-Body Quantum System: The Hydrogen Atom and the Proton-Size Puzzle

Simon Scheidegger and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113001 (2024) - Published 11 March, 2024

Researchers have measured the transition energy of several highly excited states, which could help resolve a discrepancy about the size of the proton.

Precision Measurement of Vibrational Quanta in Tritium Hydride

F. M. J. Cozijn, M. L. Diouf, W. Ubachs, V. Hermann, and M. Schlösser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113002 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Electrostatic Trapping of $N_{2}$ Molecules in High Rydberg States

M. H. Rayment and S. D. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113201 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Observation of Subdiffusive Dynamic Scaling in a Driven and Disordered Bose Gas

Gevorg Martirosyan, Christopher J. Ho, Jiří Etrych, Yansheng Zhang, Alec Cao, Zoran Hadzibabic, and Christoph Eigen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113401 (2024) - Published 11 March, 2024

Fast Generation of GHZ-like States Using Collective-Spin $XYZ$ Model

Xuanchen Zhang, Zhiyao Hu, and Yong-Chun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113402 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Control and Entanglement of Individual Rydberg Atoms near a Nanoscale Device

Paloma L. Ocola, Ivana Dimitrova, Brandon Grinkemeyer, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Tamara Đorđević, Polnop Samutpraphoot, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113601 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Topological Nature of Radiation Asymmetry in Bilayer Metagratings

Ze-Peng Zhuang, Hao-Long Zeng, Xiao-Dong Chen, Xin-Tao He, and Jian-Wen Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113801 (2024) - Published 11 March, 2024

Localization of Chiral Edge States by the Non-Hermitian Skin Effect

Gui-Geng Liu (刘癸庚), Subhaskar Mandal, Peiheng Zhou, Xiang Xi, Rimi Banerjee, Yuan-Hang Hu, Minggui Wei, Maoren Wang, Qiang Wang, Zhen Gao, Hongsheng Chen, Yihao Yang, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113802 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Revealing the Incidence-Angle-Independent Frequency Shift in the Acoustic Rotational Doppler Effect

Chuanxin Zhang, Xue Jiang, and Dean Ta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 114001 (2024) - Published 13 March, 2024

Intermittency as a Consequence of a Stationarity Constraint on the Energy Flux

Sébastien Aumaître and Stephan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 114002 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Temporal Statistics in a Continuous Free-Electron Beam with Subpicosecond Resolution

S. Borrelli, T. C. H. de Raadt, S. B. van der Geer, P. H. A. Mutsaers, K. A. H. van Leeuwen, and O. J. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115001 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

A new method to measure the arrival times of electrons could aid in the design of future electron microscopes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multispecies Ion Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection with Hybrid-Kinetic Simulations

Qile Zhang, Fan Guo, William Daughton, Hui Li, Ari Le, Tai Phan, and Mihir Desai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115201 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Steady-State Ultracold Plasma Created by Continuous Photoionization of Laser Cooled Atoms

B. B. Zelener, E. V. Vilshanskaya, N. V. Morozov, S. A. Saakyan, A. A. Bobrov, V. A. Sautenkov, and B. V. Zelener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115301 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Dynamic Nanoindentation and Short-Range Order in Equiatomic NiCoCr Medium-Entropy Alloy Lead to Novel Density Wave Ordering

A. Naghdi, F. J. Domínguez-Gutiérrez, W. Y. Huo, K. Karimi, and S. Papanikolaou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116101 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Mechanical Control of Polar Patterns in Wrinkled Thin Films via Flexoelectricity

Hongxing Shang, Huiting Dong, Yihan Wu, Feng Deng, Xu Liang, Shuling Hu, and Shengping Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116201 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Electron-Induced Nonmonotonic Pressure Dependence of the Lattice Thermal Conductivity of $θ$ -TaN

Ashis Kundu, Yani Chen, Xiaolong Yang, Fanchen Meng, Jesús Carrete, Mukul Kabir, Georg K. H. Madsen, and Wu Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116301 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Emergent Inductance from Spin Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Magnets

Taekoo Oh and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116501 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

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Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study of ${Sr}_{2} {RhO}_{4}$

Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Bernhard Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116502 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Non-Hermitian Strongly Interacting Dirac Fermions

Xue-Jia Yu, Zhiming Pan, Limei Xu, and Zi-Xiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116503 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Electrical Control of Spin and Valley in Spin-Orbit Coupled Graphene Multilayers

Taige Wang, Marc Vila, Michael P. Zaletel, and Shubhayu Chatterjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116504 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Photoinduced Electronic and Spin Topological Phase Transitions in Monolayer Bismuth

Bo Peng, Gunnar F. Lange, Daniel Bennett, Kang Wang, Robert-Jan Slager, and Bartomeu Monserrat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116601 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Polarization and Weak Topology in Chern Insulators

Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman, and Wladimir A. Benalcazar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116602 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Slow-Wave Hybrid Magnonics

Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Shihao Zhuang, Chen Qian, Yu Jiang, Amin Pishehvar, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Josep M. Jornet, Bo Zhen, Jiamian Hu, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116701 (2024) - Published 12 March, 2024

Impact of Transforming Interface Geometry on Edge States in Valley Photonic Crystals

D. Yu, S. Arora, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116901 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Being Heterogeneous Is Advantageous: Extreme Brownian Non-Gaussian Searches

Vittoria Sposini, Sankaran Nampoothiri, Aleksei Chechkin, Enzo Orlandini, Flavio Seno, and Fulvio Baldovin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 117101 (2024) - Published 14 March, 2024

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Shortcuts of Freely Relaxing Systems Using Equilibrium Physical Observables

Isidoro González-Adalid Pemartín, Emanuel Mompó, Antonio Lasanta, Víctor Martín-Mayor, and Jesús Salas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 117102 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

Equilibrium observables can control nonequilibrium dynamics such as anomalous heating and cooling effects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tensor Network Message Passing

Yijia Wang, Yuwen Ebony Zhang, Feng Pan, and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 117401 (2024) - Published 15 March, 2024

The tensor network message passing method reduces the error in the calculation of local observables by several orders of magnitude compared with state-of-the-art techniques.

Volume 132, Issue 11

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Condensed Matter and Materials

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics