Volume 132, Issue 14

5 April 2024

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Color map showing the resistance of nine-septuple-layer MnBi₂Te₄ as a function of magnetic field and filling factor.

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Exchange-Driven Chern States in High-Mobility Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulators
Su Kong Chong, Chao Lei, Yang Cheng, Seng Huat Lee, Zhiqiang Mao, Allan H. MacDonald, and Kang L. Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146601 (2024)

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Chiral Gauge Theory at the Boundary between Topological Phases

David B. Kaplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141603 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

David Kaplan has developed a lattice model for particles that are left- or right-handed, offering a firmer foundation for the theory of weak interactions.

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Weyl Fermions on a Finite Lattice

David B. Kaplan and Srimoyee Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141604 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

David Kaplan has developed a lattice model for particles that are left- or right-handed, offering a firmer foundation for the theory of weak interactions.

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Spatiotemporal Single-Photon Airy Bullets

Jianmin Wang, Ying Zuo, Xingchang Wang, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and J. F. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143601 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

A way to create single photons whose spatiotemporal shapes do not expand during propagation could limit information loss in future photonic quantum technologies.

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Kerr-Enhanced Optical Spring

Sotatsu Otabe, Wataru Usukura, Kaido Suzuki, Kentaro Komori, Yuta Michimura, Ken-ichi Harada, and Kentaro Somiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143602 (2024) - Published 4 April, 2024

Adding a nonlinear crystal to an optical spring can change the spring’s stiffness, a finding that could allow the use of such devices as gravitational-wave detectors.

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Direct Evidence of Klein and Anti-Klein Tunneling of Graphitic Electrons in a Corbino Geometry

Mirza M. Elahi, Hamed Vakili, Yihang Zeng, Cory R. Dean, and Avik W. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146302 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Graphene is the setting for the first demonstration of relativistic electrons’ paradoxical ability to whiz through a barrier, provided the barrier is high enough.

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Validation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in Solid and Molten Tungsten above 2000 K through Thermal Conductivity Measurements via Steady-State Temperature Differential Radiometry

Milena Milich, Hunter B. Schonfeld, Konstantinos Boboridis, Davide Robba, Luka Vlahovic, Rudy J. M. Konings, Jeffrey L. Braun, John T. Gaskins, Niraj Bhatt, Ashutosh Giri, and Patrick E. Hopkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146303 (2024) - Published 5 April, 2024

A radiometry technique directly measures thermal conductivity in molten metals and confirms the relationship with electrical resistivity.

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Microscopic Origin of the Entropy of Astrophysical Black Holes

Vijay Balasubramanian, Albion Lawrence, Javier M. Magán, and Martin Sasieta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141501 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

A theoretical proposal presents a framework for microscopic explanation of the entropy of astrophysical black holes.

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Large- $N$ Principal Chiral Model in Arbitrary External Fields

Vladimir Kazakov, Evgeny Sobko, and Konstantin Zarembo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141602 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

An exact analytic solution for the vacuum state of the two-dimensional principal chiral model at any set of chemical potentials in the limit of large number of particle species exhibits an emergent third dimension and also supports the potential for a dual string description in a specific double-scaled limit.

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Effects of Linking Topology on the Shear Response of Connected Ring Polymers: Catenanes and Bonded Rings Flow Differently

Reyhaneh A. Farimani, Zahra Ahmadian Dehaghani, Christos N. Likos, and Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 148101 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

The dynamics of ring polymers under shear is strongly dependent on whether they are chemically bonded or mechanically linked

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Certifying Sets of Quantum Observables with Any Full-Rank State

Zhen-Peng Xu, Debashis Saha, Kishor Bharti, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 140201 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Error-Resilience Phase Transitions in Encoding-Decoding Quantum Circuits

Xhek Turkeshi and Piotr Sierant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 140401 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

Fundamental Limits on Anomalous Energy Flows in Correlated Quantum Systems

Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, Giovanni Francesco Diotallevi, and Pharnam Bakhshinezhad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 140402 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Stimulated Emission of Signal Photons from Dark Matter Waves

Ankur Agrawal, Akash V. Dixit, Tanay Roy, Srivatsan Chakram, Kevin He, Ravi K. Naik, David I. Schuster, and Aaron Chou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 140801 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

High-Speed Quantum Radio-Frequency-Over-Light Communication

Shaocong Liang, Jialin Cheng, Jiliang Qin, Jiatong Li, Yi Shi, Zhihui Yan, Xiaojun Jia, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 140802 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Pathological Character of Modifications to Coincident General Relativity: Cosmological Strong Coupling and Ghosts in $f (Q)$ Theories

Débora Aguiar Gomes, Jose Beltrán Jiménez, Alejandro Jiménez Cano, and Tomi S. Koivisto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141401 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

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Microscopic Origin of the Entropy of Astrophysical Black Holes

Vijay Balasubramanian, Albion Lawrence, Javier M. Magán, and Martin Sasieta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141501 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

A theoretical proposal presents a framework for microscopic explanation of the entropy of astrophysical black holes.

Particles and Fields

All Two-Loop Feynman Integrals for Five-Point One-Mass Scattering

Samuel Abreu, Dmitry Chicherin, Harald Ita, Ben Page, Vasily Sotnikov, Wladimir Tschernow, and Simone Zoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141601 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

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Large- $N$ Principal Chiral Model in Arbitrary External Fields

Vladimir Kazakov, Evgeny Sobko, and Konstantin Zarembo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141602 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

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Chiral Gauge Theory at the Boundary between Topological Phases

David B. Kaplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141603 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

David Kaplan has developed a lattice model for particles that are left- or right-handed, offering a firmer foundation for the theory of weak interactions.

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Weyl Fermions on a Finite Lattice

David B. Kaplan and Srimoyee Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141604 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

David Kaplan has developed a lattice model for particles that are left- or right-handed, offering a firmer foundation for the theory of weak interactions.

Study of the $f_{0} (980)$ and $f_{0} (500)$ Scalar Mesons through the Decay $D_{s}^{+} \to π^{+} π^{-} e^{+} ν_{e}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141901 (2024) - Published 5 April, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Scission Deformation of the ${}^{120}{Cd} / {}^{132}{Sn}$ Neutronless Fragmentation in ${}^{252}{Cf} (sf)$

A. Francheteau, L. Gaudefroy, G. Scamps, O. Roig, V. Méot, A. Ebran, and G. Bélier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 142501 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Improved Tensor Current Limit from ${}^{8}B$ $β$ Decay Including New Recoil-Order Calculations

B. Longfellow, A. T. Gallant, G. H. Sargsyan, M. T. Burkey, T. Y. Hirsh, G. Savard, N. D. Scielzo, L. Varriano, M. Brodeur, D. P. Burdette, J. A. Clark, D. Lascar, K. D. Launey, P. Mueller, D. Ray, K. S. Sharma, A. A. Valverde, G. L. Wilson, and X. L. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 142502 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing $H_{2}$ Double Ionization with Bicircular Laser Fields

Zhenning Guo, Zhihe Zhang, Yongkai Deng, Jiguo Wang, Difa Ye, Jie Liu, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143201 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Deconfinement Dynamics of Fractons in Tilted Bose-Hubbard Chains

Julian Boesl, Philip Zechmann, Johannes Feldmeier, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143401 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Spontaneously Sliding Multipole Spin Density Waves in Cold Atoms

G. Labeyrie, J. G. M. Walker, G. R. M. Robb, R. Kaiser, and T. Ackemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143402 (2024) - Published 5 April, 2024

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Spatiotemporal Single-Photon Airy Bullets

Jianmin Wang, Ying Zuo, Xingchang Wang, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Georgios A. Siviloglou, and J. F. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143601 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

A way to create single photons whose spatiotemporal shapes do not expand during propagation could limit information loss in future photonic quantum technologies.

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Kerr-Enhanced Optical Spring

Sotatsu Otabe, Wataru Usukura, Kaido Suzuki, Kentaro Komori, Yuta Michimura, Ken-ichi Harada, and Kentaro Somiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143602 (2024) - Published 4 April, 2024

Adding a nonlinear crystal to an optical spring can change the spring’s stiffness, a finding that could allow the use of such devices as gravitational-wave detectors.

Entanglement and Squeezing of the Optical Field Modes in High Harmonic Generation

Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Andrew S. Maxwell, Theocharis Lamprou, Javier Argüello-Luengo, Paraskevas Tzallas, Marcelo F. Ciappina, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143603 (2024) - Published 5 April, 2024

Bound-Extended Mode Transition in Type-II Synthetic Photonic Weyl Heterostructures

Wange Song, Zhiyuan Lin, Jitao Ji, Jiacheng Sun, Chen Chen, Shengjie Wu, Chunyu Huang, Luqi Yuan, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143801 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Anomalous Resistivity and Electron Heating by Lower Hybrid Drift Waves during Magnetic Reconnection with a Guide Field

Jongsoo Yoo, Jonathan Ng, Hantao Ji, Sayak Bose, Aaron Goodman, Andrew Alt, Li-Jen Chen, Peiyun Shi, and Masaaki Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 145101 (2024) - Published 4 April, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Sound, Superfluidity, and Layer Compressibility in a Ring Dipolar Supersolid

Marija Šindik, Tomasz Zawiślak, Alessio Recati, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146001 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Interlayer-Coupling-Driven High-Temperature Superconductivity in ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$ under Pressure

Chen Lu, Zhiming Pan, Fan Yang, and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146002 (2024) - Published 5 April, 2024

Dynamical Nonlinear Inversion of the Surface Photovoltage at Si(100)

Friedrich Roth, Johannes Mahl, Mario Borgwardt, Lukas Wenthaus, Felix Brausse, Valentin Garbe, Oliver Gessner, and Wolfgang Eberhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146201 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Enhanced Nonlinear Response by Manipulating the Dirac Point at the (111) ${LaTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

G. Tuvia, A. Burshtein, I. Silber, A. Aharony, O. Entin-Wohlman, M. Goldstein, and Y. Dagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146301 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

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Direct Evidence of Klein and Anti-Klein Tunneling of Graphitic Electrons in a Corbino Geometry

Mirza M. Elahi, Hamed Vakili, Yihang Zeng, Cory R. Dean, and Avik W. Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146302 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Graphene is the setting for the first demonstration of relativistic electrons’ paradoxical ability to whiz through a barrier, provided the barrier is high enough.

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Validation of the Wiedemann-Franz Law in Solid and Molten Tungsten above 2000 K through Thermal Conductivity Measurements via Steady-State Temperature Differential Radiometry

Milena Milich, Hunter B. Schonfeld, Konstantinos Boboridis, Davide Robba, Luka Vlahovic, Rudy J. M. Konings, Jeffrey L. Braun, John T. Gaskins, Niraj Bhatt, Ashutosh Giri, and Patrick E. Hopkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146303 (2024) - Published 5 April, 2024

A radiometry technique directly measures thermal conductivity in molten metals and confirms the relationship with electrical resistivity.

Gate-Tunable Antiferromagnetic Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Xiaoyu Liu, Yuchi He, Chong Wang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Ting Cao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146401 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Floquet Fermi Liquid

Li-kun Shi, Oles Matsyshyn, Justin C. W. Song, and Inti Sodemann Villadiego

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146402 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Intertwined Van Hove Singularities as a Mechanism for Loop Current Order in Kagome Metals

Heqiu Li, Yong Baek Kim, and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146501 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

Exchange-Driven Chern States in High-Mobility Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulators

Su Kong Chong, Chao Lei, Yang Cheng, Seng Huat Lee, Zhiqiang Mao, Allan H. MacDonald, and Kang L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146601 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Macroscopic Polarization from Nonlinear Gradient Couplings

Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146801 (2024) - Published 4 April, 2024

Ultrafast Photoinduced Phase Change in SnSe

Benjamin J. Dringoli, Mark Sutton, Zhongzhen Luo, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and David G. Cooke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146901 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

All-Electrical Readout of Coherently Controlled Spins in Silicon Carbide

C. T.-K. Lew, V. K. Sewani, N. Iwamoto, T. Ohshima, J. C. McCallum, and B. C. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 146902 (2024) - Published 4 April, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Emergence of Memory in Equilibrium versus Nonequilibrium Systems

Xizhu Zhao, David Hartich, and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 147101 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Parametric Frequency Divider Based Ising Machines

Nicolas Casilli, Tahmid Kaisar, Luca Colombo, Siddhartha Ghosh, Philip X.-L. Feng, and Cristian Cassella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 147301 (2024) - Published 2 April, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Effects of Linking Topology on the Shear Response of Connected Ring Polymers: Catenanes and Bonded Rings Flow Differently

Reyhaneh A. Farimani, Zahra Ahmadian Dehaghani, Christos N. Likos, and Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 148101 (2024) - Published 1 April, 2024

The dynamics of ring polymers under shear is strongly dependent on whether they are chemically bonded or mechanically linked

Scale Separation of Shear-Induced Criticality in Glasses

Norihiro Oyama, Takeshi Kawasaki, Kang Kim, and Hideyuki Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 148201 (2024) - Published 3 April, 2024

Molecular Simulations Reveal the Free Energy Landscape and Transition State of Membrane Electroporation

Gari Kasparyan and Jochen S. Hub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 148401 (2024) - Published 4 April, 2024