Volume 132, Issue 17

26 April 2024

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Orbit of a spinning compact object around a Schwarzschild black hole (left) and its projections into angular momentum aligned coordinates (right).

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Analytic Solutions for the Motion of Spinning Particles near Spherically Symmetric Black Holes and Exotic Compact Objects
Vojtěch Witzany and Gabriel Andres Piovano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171401 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Promise of Future Searches for Cosmic Topology

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171501 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Most models for the overall shape and geometry of the Universe—including some exotic ones—are compatible with the latest cosmic observations.

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Dynamics and Topology of Symmetry Breaking with Skyrmions

J. Pišljar, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, A. Petelin, S. Kralj, and I. Muševič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 178101 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

Using thin layers of chiral nematic liquid crystals, researchers have observed the formation dynamics of skyrmions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pulsed Electron Lenses for Space Charge Mitigation

Adrian Oeftiger and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50%.

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Light-Matter Interaction near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers

Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli, Pierre Bartoli, Axel Huebl, Adrien Leblanc, Jean-Luc Vay, and Henri Vincenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175002 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

The interaction of Doppler-boosted light with matter at intensities approaching the Schwinger limit is explored in numerical simulations showing the creation of electron-positron pairs forming high-density relativistic attosecond jets.

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Origin of Pinning Disorder in Magnetic-Field-Induced Wigner Solids

Matthew L. Freeman, P. T. Madathil, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, Y. J. Chung, R. Winkler, M. Shayegan, and L. W. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176301 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

The radio frequency response of the Wigner crystal at low filling factors reveals the details of the pinning mode resonance and shows how this mode is affected by disorder, and which disorder is driving the frequency dependence.

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Landau Theory of Altermagnetism

Paul A. McClarty and Jeffrey G. Rau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176702 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Landau theory adapted to the zero spin-orbit coupling limit captures features of altermagnets, a class of colinear magnets with spin-split bands.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Closed-Form Propagator of the Calogero Model

Valdemar Melin and Edwin Langmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170201 (2024) - Published 25 April, 2024

Fast Quantum State Preparation and Bath Dynamics Using Non-Gaussian Variational Ansatz and Quantum Optimal Control

Liam J. Bond, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, and Jiří Minář

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170401 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Dynamics of a Quantum System Interacting with White Non-Gaussian Baths: Poisson Noise Master Equation

Ken Funo and Akihito Ishizaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170402 (2024) - Published 25 April, 2024

Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding in Continuous Modal Variables of Single Photons

Éloi Descamps, Arne Keller, and Pérola Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170601 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Separability Transitions in Topological States Induced by Local Decoherence

Yu-Hsueh Chen and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 170602 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Experimental Limits on Solar Reflected Dark Matter with a New Approach on Accelerated-Dark-Matter–Electron Analysis in Semiconductors

Z. Y. Zhang et al. (CDEX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171001 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

Cosmological Background Interpretation of Pulsar Timing Array Data

Daniel G. Figueroa, Mauro Pieroni, Angelo Ricciardone, and Peera Simakachorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171002 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Analytic Solutions for the Motion of Spinning Particles near Spherically Symmetric Black Holes and Exotic Compact Objects

Vojtěch Witzany and Gabriel Andres Piovano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171401 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Nonperturbative Second Law of Black Hole Mechanics in Effective Field Theory

Iain Davies and Harvey S. Reall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171402 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Promise of Future Searches for Cosmic Topology

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171501 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Most models for the overall shape and geometry of the Universe—including some exotic ones—are compatible with the latest cosmic observations.

Nuclear Physics

Virtual Photons Shed Light on the Early Temperature of Dense QCD Matter

Jessica Churchill, Lipei Du, Charles Gale, Greg Jackson, and Sangyong Jeon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 172301 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

Emergence of Long-Range Angular Correlations in Low-Multiplicity Proton-Proton Collisions

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 172302 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin Rotations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Driven by Counterflow and Spin-Independent Interactions

David C. Spierings, Joseph H. Thywissen, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173401 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Engineering Mixing Properties of Fluids by Spatial Modulations

Abid Ali and Hiroki Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173402 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Breakdown of Temporal Coherence in Photon Condensates

Yijun Tang, Himadri S. Dhar, Rupert F. Oulton, Robert A. Nyman, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173601 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Single-Shot Intensity- and Phase-Sensitive Compressive Sensing-Based Coherent Modulation Ultrafast Imaging

Chengzhi Jin, Yingming Xu, Dalong Qi, Yunhua Yao, Yuecheng Shen, Lianzhong Deng, Ruozhong Han, Zhen Pan, Jiali Yao, Yilin He, Zhengqi Huang, Xingchen Pan, Hua Tao, Mingying Sun, Cheng Liu, Junhui Shi, Jinyang Liang, Zhiyong Wang, Jianqiang Zhu, Zhenrong Sun, and Shian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173801 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

Super Bound States in the Continuum on a Photonic Flatband: Concept, Experimental Realization, and Optical Trapping Demonstration

Ngoc Duc Le, Paul Bouteyre, Ali Kheir-Aldine, Florian Dubois, Sébastien Cueff, Lotfi Berguiga, Xavier Letartre, Pierre Viktorovitch, Taha Benyattou, and Hai Son Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173802 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

Reducing Effective System Dimensionality with Long-Range Collective Dipole-Dipole Interactions

Ashwin K. Boddeti, Yi Wang, Xitlali G. Juarez, Alexandra Boltasseva, Teri W. Odom, Vladimir Shalaev, Hadiseh Alaeian, and Zubin Jacob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 173803 (2024) - Published 25 April, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Turbulent Properties of Stationary Flows in Porous Media

Florencia Falkinhoff, Alexandre Ponomarenko, Jean-Lou Pierson, Lionel Gamet, Romain Volk, and Mickaël Bourgoin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 174001 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pulsed Electron Lenses for Space Charge Mitigation

Adrian Oeftiger and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Light-Matter Interaction near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers

Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli, Pierre Bartoli, Axel Huebl, Adrien Leblanc, Jean-Luc Vay, and Henri Vincenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175002 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Superlattice Quantum Solid of Dipolar Excitons

Camille Lagoin, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, and François Dubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176001 (2024) - Published 25 April, 2024

In Situ Observation of Field-Induced Nanoprotrusion Growth on a Carbon-Coated Tungsten Nanotip

Guodong Meng, Yimeng Li, Roni Aleksi Koitermaa, Veronika Zadin, Yonghong Cheng, and Andreas Kyritsakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176201 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Distinguishing Quasiparticle-Phonon Interactions by Ultrahigh-Resolution Lifetime Measurements

Boyao Liu, William Allison, Bo Peng, Nadav Avidor, Bartomeu Monserrat, and Andrew P. Jardine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176202 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Origin of Pinning Disorder in Magnetic-Field-Induced Wigner Solids

Matthew L. Freeman, P. T. Madathil, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, Y. J. Chung, R. Winkler, M. Shayegan, and L. W. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176301 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

Higher-Order Topological In-Bulk Corner State in Pure Diffusion Systems

Zhoufei Liu, Pei-Chao Cao, Liujun Xu, Guoqiang Xu, Ying Li, and Jiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176302 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Tunable Superdiffusion in Integrable Spin Chains Using Correlated Initial States

Hansveer Singh, Michael H. Kolodrubetz, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Romain Vasseur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176303 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

Supercurrent in the Presence of Direct Transmission and a Resonant Localized State

Vukan Levajac, Hristo Barakov, Grzegorz P. Mazur, Nick van Loo, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Yuli V. Nazarov, and Ji-Yin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176304 (2024) - Published 25 April, 2024

Electric Polarization from a Many-Body Neural Network Ansatz

Xiang Li, Yubing Qian, and Ji Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176401 (2024) - Published 25 April, 2024

Numerically Exact Simulation of Photodoped Mott Insulators

Fabian Künzel, André Erpenbeck, Daniel Werner, Enrico Arrigoni, Emanuel Gull, Guy Cohen, and Martin Eckstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176501 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Chern-Simons Modified RPA-Eliashberg Theory of the $ν = \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{2}$ Quantum Hall Bilayer

Tevž Lotrič and Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176502 (2024) - Published 26 April, 2024

Experimental Observation of the Yang-Lee Quantum Criticality in Open Quantum Systems

Huixia Gao, Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Masaya Nakagawa, Norifumi Matsumoto, Dengke Qu, Haiqing Lin, Masahito Ueda, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176601 (2024) - Published 24 April, 2024

X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism in Altermagnetic $α$ -MnTe

A. Hariki, A. Dal Din, O. J. Amin, T. Yamaguchi, A. Badura, D. Kriegner, K. W. Edmonds, R. P. Campion, P. Wadley, D. Backes, L. S. I. Veiga, S. S. Dhesi, G. Springholz, L. Šmejkal, K. Výborný, T. Jungwirth, and J. Kuneš

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176701 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Landau Theory of Altermagnetism

Paul A. McClarty and Jeffrey G. Rau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176702 (2024) - Published 23 April, 2024

Landau theory adapted to the zero spin-orbit coupling limit captures features of altermagnets, a class of colinear magnets with spin-split bands.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Dynamics and Topology of Symmetry Breaking with Skyrmions

J. Pišljar, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, A. Petelin, S. Kralj, and I. Muševič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 178101 (2024) - Published 22 April, 2024

Using thin layers of chiral nematic liquid crystals, researchers have observed the formation dynamics of skyrmions.