Volume 132, Issue 15

12 April 2024

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Symmetry breaking in optical vortex rings generates photonic wave packets with opposite chiralities.

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Observation of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Toroidal Vortices of Light
Wei Chen, Yuan Liu, An-Zhuo Yu, Han Cao, Wei Hu, Wen Qiao, Lin-Sen Chen, and Yan-Qing Lu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153801 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Verifiable Blind Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions and Single Photons

P. Drmota, D. P. Nadlinger, D. Main, B. C. Nichol, E. M. Ainley, D. Leichtle, A. Mantri, E. Kashefi, R. Srinivas, G. Araneda, C. J. Ballance, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150604 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

A trapped-ion quantum server and a photonic client-side system are linked by fiber optics to implement a protocol for secure cloud-based quantum computation.

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Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151001 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Scientists have found seven astrophysical tau neutrinos—particles that are notoriously difficult to detect—in an analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.

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Observation of the Anomalous Shape of $X (1840)$ in $J / ψ \to γ 3 (π^{+} π^{-})$ Indicating a Second Resonance Near $p \bar{p}$ Threshold

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151901 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

A signal from the decay products of a meson—a quark and an antiquark—comes from two subatomic particles and not one, as previously thought.

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Observations of Rogue Seas in the Southern Ocean

A. Toffoli, A. Alberello, H. Clarke, F. Nelli, A. Benetazzo, F. Bergamasco, B. Ntamba Ntamba, M. Vichi, and M. Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 154101 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Observations of the Southern Ocean show that wind can produce the surface states needed to generate rare “rogue” waves.

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$O_{2}^{+}$ Production Coming from ${CO}_{2}$ Single-Event Electron Impact

Ana Beatriz Monteiro-Carvalho, L. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153002 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Researchers have quantified a pathway for the formation of molecular oxygen from the interaction of carbon dioxide with electrons, key information for searches of life on other worlds.

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Plasmoid Formation and Strong Radiative Cooling in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

R. Datta, K. Chandler, C. E. Myers, J. P. Chittenden, A. J. Crilly, C. Aragon, D. J. Ampleford, J. T. Banasek, A. Edens, W. R. Fox, S. B. Hansen, E. C. Harding, C. A. Jennings, H. Ji, C. C. Kuranz, S. V. Lebedev, Q. Looker, S. G. Patel, A. Porwitzky, G. A. Shipley, D. A. Uzdensky, D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, and J. D. Hare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155102 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Magnetic reconnection under conditions of strong radiative cooling has been studied for the first time in a laboratory, and the results might be broadly applicable to several astrophysical settings.

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Billiards with Spatial Memory

Thijs Albers, Stijn Delnoij, Nico Schramma, and Maziyar Jalaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 157101 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Spatial memory drastically changes the dynamics and statistics of classical billiards.

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High-Order Nonlinear Electrophoresis in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Mojtaba Rajabi, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li, Hend Baza, Dmitry Golovaty, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158102 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Electrophoretic transport is greatly enhanced in a nematic environment due to shear thinning.

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Origin of Anomalously Large Depletion Zones in Like-Charged Colloid-Polyelectrolyte Mixtures

C. M. Martens, M. Vis, and R. Tuinier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158103 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

An explicit analytical expression to predict the size of the depletion zone in like-charged polyelectrolyte-colloid mixtures allows for a direct comparison with experiments.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Every Quantum Helps: Operational Advantage of Quantum Resources beyond Convexity

Kohdai Kuroiwa, Ryuji Takagi, Gerardo Adesso, and Hayata Yamasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150201 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024

Embedding Quantum Many-Body Scars into Decoherence-Free Subspaces

He-Ran Wang, Dong Yuan, Shun-Yao Zhang, Zhong Wang, Dong-Ling Deng, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150401 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

On-Chip Quantum Information Processing with Distinguishable Photons

Patrick Yard, Alex E. Jones, Stefano Paesani, Alexandre Maïnos, Jacob F. F. Bulmer, and Anthony Laing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150602 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024

Absence of Barren Plateaus in Finite Local-Depth Circuits with Long-Range Entanglement

Hao-Kai Zhang, Shuo Liu, and Shi-Xin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150603 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

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Verifiable Blind Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions and Single Photons

P. Drmota, D. P. Nadlinger, D. Main, B. C. Nichol, E. M. Ainley, D. Leichtle, A. Mantri, E. Kashefi, R. Srinivas, G. Araneda, C. J. Ballance, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150604 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

A trapped-ion quantum server and a photonic client-side system are linked by fiber optics to implement a protocol for secure cloud-based quantum computation.

Fine-Structure Qubit Encoded in Metastable Strontium Trapped in an Optical Lattice

S. Pucher, V. Klüsener, F. Spriestersbach, J. Geiger, A. Schindewolf, I. Bloch, and S. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150605 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Coherent Control of the Fine-Structure Qubit in a Single Alkaline-Earth Atom

G. Unnikrishnan, P. Ilzhöfer, A. Scholz, C. Hölzl, A. Götzelmann, R. K. Gupta, J. Zhao, J. Krauter, S. Weber, N. Makki, H. P. Büchler, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150606 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Autonomous Quantum Error Correction of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States

Dany Lachance-Quirion, Marc-Antoine Lemonde, Jean Olivier Simoneau, Lucas St-Jean, Pascal Lemieux, Sara Turcotte, Wyatt Wright, Amélie Lacroix, Joëlle Fréchette-Viens, Ross Shillito, Florian Hopfmueller, Maxime Tremblay, Nicholas E. Frattini, Julien Camirand Lemyre, and Philippe St-Jean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150607 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Automatic Detection of Nuclear Spins at Arbitrary Magnetic Fields via Signal-to-Image AI Model

B. Varona-Uriarte, C. Munuera-Javaloy, E. Terradillos, Y. Ban, A. Alvarez-Gila, E. Garrote, and J. Casanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150801 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151001 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Scientists have found seven astrophysical tau neutrinos—particles that are notoriously difficult to detect—in an analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.

White Dwarfs in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies: A New Class of Compact-Dark-Matter Detectors

Juri Smirnov, Ariel Goobar, Tim Linden, and Edvard Mörtsell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151401 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Vortex Effects in Merging Black Holes and Saturons

Gia Dvali, Oleg Kaikov, Florian Kühnel, Juan Sebastián Valbuena-Bermúdez, and Michael Zantedeschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151402 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Particles and Fields

Spin and Susceptibility Effects of Electromagnetic Self-Force in Effective Field Theory

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151601 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Three-Body Entanglement in Particle Decays

Kazuki Sakurai and Michael Spannowsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151602 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Amplitudes at Strong Coupling as Hyper-Kähler Scalars

Hadleigh Frost, Ömer Gürdoğan, and Lionel Mason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151603 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Three Puzzles with Covariance and Supertranslation Invariance of Angular Momentum Flux and Their Solutions

Reza Javadinezhad and Massimo Porrati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151604 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

First Measurement of $η$ Meson Production in Neutrino Interactions on Argon with MicroBooNE

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151801 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

U(2) Is Right for Leptons and Left for Quarks

Stefan Antusch, Admir Greljo, Ben A. Stefanek, and Anders Eller Thomsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151802 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

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Observation of the Anomalous Shape of $X (1840)$ in $J / ψ \to γ 3 (π^{+} π^{-})$ Indicating a Second Resonance Near $p \bar{p}$ Threshold

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151901 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

A signal from the decay products of a meson—a quark and an antiquark—comes from two subatomic particles and not one, as previously thought.

Shallow Bound States and Hints for Broad Resonances with Quark Content $\bar{b} \bar{c} u d$ in $B − \bar{D}$ and $B^{*} − \bar{D}$ Scattering from Lattice QCD

Constantia Alexandrou, Jacob Finkenrath, Theodoros Leontiou, Stefan Meinel, Martin Pflaumer, and Marc Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151902 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Coupled-Channel Analysis of the $χ_{c 1} (3872)$ Line Shape with BESIII Data

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151903 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Precision Mass Measurement of the Proton Dripline Halo Candidate ${}^{22}{Al}$

S. E. Campbell, G. Bollen, B. A. Brown, A. Dockery, C. M. Ireland, K. Minamisono, D. Puentes, B. J. Rickey, R. Ringle, I. T. Yandow, K. Fossez, A. Ortiz-Cortes, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, and A. C. C. Villari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 152501 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Searching for Two-Neutrino and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ${}^{134}{Xe}$ with the PandaX-4T Experiment

Xiyu Yan et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 152502 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Proton Shell Gaps in $N = 28$ Nuclei from the First Complete Spectroscopy Study with FRIB Decay Station Initiator

I. Cox et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 152503 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Exact Diagonalization of $SU (N)$ Fermi-Hubbard Models

Thomas Botzung and Pierre Nataf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153001 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

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$O_{2}^{+}$ Production Coming from ${CO}_{2}$ Single-Event Electron Impact

Ana Beatriz Monteiro-Carvalho, L. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153002 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Researchers have quantified a pathway for the formation of molecular oxygen from the interaction of carbon dioxide with electrons, key information for searches of life on other worlds.

Frustrated Extended Bose-Hubbard Model and Deconfined Quantum Critical Points with Optical Lattices at the Antimagic Wavelength

Niccolò Baldelli, Cesar R. Cabrera, Sergi Julià-Farré, Monika Aidelsburger, and Luca Barbiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153401 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024

Observation of the Fermionic Joule-Thomson Effect

Yunpeng Ji, Jianyi Chen, Grant L. Schumacher, Gabriel G. T. Assumpção, Songtao Huang, Franklin J. Vivanco, and Nir Navon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153402 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Universal Control of Symmetric States Using Spin Squeezing

Nir Gutman, Alexey Gorlach, Offek Tziperman, Ron Ruimy, and Ido Kaminer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153601 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

Amplifying Frequency Up-Converted Infrared Signals with a Molecular Optomechanical Cavity

Fen Zou, Lei Du, Yong Li, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153602 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Dicke State Generation and Extreme Spin Squeezing via Rapid Adiabatic Passage

Sebastian C. Carrasco, Michael H. Goerz, Svetlana A. Malinovskaya, Vladan Vuletić, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Vladimir S. Malinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153603 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Observation of Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Toroidal Vortices of Light

Wei Chen, Yuan Liu, An-Zhuo Yu, Han Cao, Wei Hu, Wen Qiao, Lin-Sen Chen, and Yan-Qing Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153801 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Observations of Rogue Seas in the Southern Ocean

A. Toffoli, A. Alberello, H. Clarke, F. Nelli, A. Benetazzo, F. Bergamasco, B. Ntamba Ntamba, M. Vichi, and M. Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 154101 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Observations of the Southern Ocean show that wind can produce the surface states needed to generate rare “rogue” waves.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Femtosecond Dynamics of Fast Electron Pulses in Relativistic Laser-Foil Interactions

Guoqian Liao, Fangzheng Sun, Hongyi Lei, Tianze Wang, Dan Wang, Yanyu Wei, Feng Liu, Xuan Wang, Yutong Li, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155001 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

Elevated Electron Temperature Coincident with Observed Fusion Reactions in a Sheared-Flow-Stabilized $Z$ Pinch

B. Levitt et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155101 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024

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Plasmoid Formation and Strong Radiative Cooling in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155102 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Magnetic reconnection under conditions of strong radiative cooling has been studied for the first time in a laboratory, and the results might be broadly applicable to several astrophysical settings.

Ion Kinetics and Neutron Generation Associated with Electromagnetic Turbulence in Laboratory-Scale Counterstreaming Plasmas

P. Liu, D. Wu, T. X. Hu, D. W. Yuan, G. Zhao, Z. M. Sheng, X. T. He, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155103 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Surface State Dissipation in Confined ${}^{3}{He} − A$

Alexander J. Shook, Emil Varga, Igor Boettcher, and John P. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156001 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Positive-Negative Tunable Coefficients of Friction in Superlubric Contacts

Zhanghui Wu, Xuanhe Li, Deli Peng, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156201 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

Non-Hermitian Moiré Valley Filter

Kai Shao, Hao Geng, Erfu Liu, Jose L. Lado, Wei Chen, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156301 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Effect of the Soliton Width on Nonequilibrium Exchange Phases of Anyons

Matthias Thamm and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156501 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

Compensated Ferrimagnets with Colossal Spin Splitting in Organic Compounds

Taiki Kawamura, Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, Kenichiro Hashimoto, Akito Kobayashi, and Takahiro Misawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156502 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

Disorder Operator and Rényi Entanglement Entropy of Symmetric Mass Generation

Zi Hong Liu, Yuan Da Liao, Gaopei Pan, Menghan Song, Jiarui Zhao, Weilun Jiang, Chao-Ming Jian, Yi-Zhuang You, Fakher F. Assaad, Zi Yang Meng, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156503 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

Experimental Demonstration of Controllable $PT$ and Anti- $PT$ Coupling in a Non-Hermitian Metamaterial

Chang Li, Ruisheng Yang, Xinchao Huang, Quanhong Fu, Yuancheng Fan, and Fuli Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156601 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024

Multiple Brillouin Zone Winding of Topological Chiral Edge States for Slow Light Applications

Fujia Chen, Haoran Xue, Yuang Pan, Maoren Wang, Yuanhang Hu, Li Zhang, Qiaolu Chen, Song Han, Gui-geng Liu, Zhen Gao, Peiheng Zhou, Wenyan Yin, Hongsheng Chen, Baile Zhang, and Yihao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156602 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Exotic Magnetism in Perovskite ${KOsO}_{3}$

Jie Chen, Hongze Li, Javier Gainza, Angel Muñoz, Jose A. Alonso, Jue Liu, Yu-Sheng Chen, Alexei A. Belik, Kazunari Yamaura, Jiaming He, Xinyu Li, John B. Goodenough, and J.-S. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156701 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

$J_{eff} = 1 / 2$ Hyperoctagon Lattice in Cobalt Oxalate Metal-Organic Framework

Hajime Ishikawa, Shusaku Imajo, Hikaru Takeda, Masafumi Kakegawa, Minoru Yamashita, Jun-ichi Yamaura, and Koichi Kindo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156702 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Probing $P T$ -Symmetry Breaking of Non-Hermitian Topological Photonic States via Strong Photon-Magnon Coupling

Jie Qian, Jie Li, Shi-Yao Zhu, J. Q. You, and Yi-Pu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 156901 (2024) - Published 9 April, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Billiards with Spatial Memory

Thijs Albers, Stijn Delnoij, Nico Schramma, and Maziyar Jalaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 157101 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Spatial memory drastically changes the dynamics and statistics of classical billiards.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Particle Dynamics in a Diblock-Copolymer-Based Dodecagonal Quasicrystal and Its Periodic Approximant by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

Andreas J. Mueller, Aaron P. Lindsay, Ronald M. Lewis, III, Qingteng Zhang, Suresh Narayanan, Timothy P. Lodge, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa, and Frank S. Bates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158101 (2024) - Published 10 April, 2024

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High-Order Nonlinear Electrophoresis in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Mojtaba Rajabi, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li, Hend Baza, Dmitry Golovaty, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158102 (2024) - Published 11 April, 2024

Electrophoretic transport is greatly enhanced in a nematic environment due to shear thinning.

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Origin of Anomalously Large Depletion Zones in Like-Charged Colloid-Polyelectrolyte Mixtures

C. M. Martens, M. Vis, and R. Tuinier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158103 (2024) - Published 12 April, 2024

An explicit analytical expression to predict the size of the depletion zone in like-charged polyelectrolyte-colloid mixtures allows for a direct comparison with experiments.

ERRATA

Erratum: Flavor Identification of Reconstructed Hadronic Jets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 161901 (2023)]

Rhorry Gauld, Alexander Huss, and Giovanni Stagnitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 159901 (2024) - Published 8 April, 2024