Volume 132, Issue 18

3 May 2024

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A laser excites a low energy isomeric state in a nucleus of thorium-229 embedded in a crystal of calcium fluoride. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Laser Excitation of the Th-229 Nucleus
J. Tiedau, M. V. Okhapkin, K. Zhang, J. Thielking, G. Zitzer, E. Peik, F. Schaden, T. Pronebner, I. Morawetz, L. Toscani De Col, F. Schneider, A. Leitner, M. Pressler, G. A. Kazakov, K. Beeks, T. Sikorsky, and T. Schumm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 182501 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Laser Excitation of the Th-229 Nucleus

J. Tiedau, M. V. Okhapkin, K. Zhang, J. Thielking, G. Zitzer, E. Peik, F. Schaden, T. Pronebner, I. Morawetz, L. Toscani De Col, F. Schneider, A. Leitner, M. Pressler, G. A. Kazakov, K. Beeks, T. Sikorsky, and T. Schumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 182501 (2024) - Published 29 April, 2024

Researchers use a laser to excite and precisely measure a long-sought exotic nuclear state, paving the way for precise timekeeping and ultrasensitive quantum sensing.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Wave-Function Tomography of Topological Dimer Chains with Long-Range Couplings

F. Pellerin, R. Houvenaghel, W. A. Coish, I. Carusotto, and P. St-Jean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 183802 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

A method for freely adjusting the parameters of a loop of optical fiber enables the exploration of exotic topological phases of matter.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Erasure Detection of a Dual-Rail Qubit Encoded in a Double-Post Superconducting Cavity

Akshay Koottandavida, Ioannis Tsioutsios, Aikaterini Kargioti, Cassady R. Smith, Vidul R. Joshi, Wei Dai, James D. Teoh, Jacob C. Curtis, Luigi Frunzio, Robert J. Schoelkopf, and Michel H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180601 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Dual-rail erasure qubits are characterized in a superconducting cavity architecture that allows for an improved error correction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determination of Spin-Parity Quantum Numbers of $X (2370)$ as $0^{- +}$ from $J / ψ \to γ K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0} η^{'}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181901 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

A reexamination of the X(2370) state using high-precision $J / ψ$ decay data uncovers its quantum number as $0^{- +}$ , which is consistent with it being a pseudoscalar glueball candidate.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Dissipation of Fast Electrons in Polymethylmethacrylate: Toward a Universal Curve for Electron-Beam Attenuation in Solids between $\sim 0 eV$ and Relativistic Energies

Wolfgang S. M. Werner, Florian Simperl, Felix Blödorn, Julian Brunner, Johannes Kero, Alessandra Bellissimo, and Olga Ridzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186203 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

To describe the electron beam attenuation lengths in solids, in addition to a single-exponential law, momentum relaxation must also be taken into account.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Contributions to Diffusion in Complex Materials Quantified with Machine Learning

Soham Chattopadhyay and Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186301 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

To better understand diffusion in complex materials, a computational method separating out uncorrelated individual contributions makes it possible to construct new analytic forms for diffusivity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum-Acoustical Drude Peak Shift

Joonas Keski-Rahkonen, Xiaoyu Ouyang, Shaobing Yuan, Anton M. Graf, Alhun Aydin, and Eric J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186303 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

The Drude peak displacements in the optical conductivity of strange metals are a consequence of a strong electron-phonon interaction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Out-of-Equilibrium Fluctuation-Dissipation Bounds

Ludovico Tesser and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186304 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Bounds on fluctuations for nonequilibrium conditions provide performance limitations of heat engines at the nanoscale.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Experimental Virtual Distillation of Entanglement and Coherence

Ting Zhang, Yukun Zhang, Lu Liu, Xiao-Xu Fang, Qian-Xi Zhang, Xiao Yuan, and He Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180201 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Arbitrary Amplification of Quantum Coherence in Asymptotic and Catalytic Transformation

Naoto Shiraishi and Ryuji Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180202 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Energy-Conversion Device Using a Quantum Engine with the Work Medium of Two-Atom Entanglement

J.-W. Zhang, B. Wang, W.-F. Yuan, J.-C. Li, J.-T. Bu, G.-Y. Ding, W.-Q. Ding, L. Chen, F. Zhou, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180401 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Erasure Detection of a Dual-Rail Qubit Encoded in a Double-Post Superconducting Cavity

Akshay Koottandavida, Ioannis Tsioutsios, Aikaterini Kargioti, Cassady R. Smith, Vidul R. Joshi, Wei Dai, James D. Teoh, Jacob C. Curtis, Luigi Frunzio, Robert J. Schoelkopf, and Michel H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180601 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Dual-rail erasure qubits are characterized in a superconducting cavity architecture that allows for an improved error correction.

New Constraints on Exotic Spin-Spin-Velocity-Dependent Interactions with Solid-State Quantum Sensors

Yue Huang, Hang Liang, Man Jiao, Pei Yu, Xiangyu Ye, Yijin Xie, Yi-Fu Cai, Chang-Kui Duan, Ya Wang, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180801 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

Estimation with Ultimate Quantum Precision of the Transverse Displacement between Two Photons via Two-Photon Interference Sampling Measurements

Danilo Triggiani and Vincenzo Tamma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180802 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

Single-Shot Readout of a Nuclear Spin in Silicon Carbide

Xiao-Yi Lai, Ren-Zhou Fang, Tao Li, Ren-Zhu Su, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Li-Xing You, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180803 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

High-Fidelity Optical Readout of a Nuclear-Spin Qubit in Silicon Carbide

Erik Hesselmeier, Pierre Kuna, Wolfgang Knolle, Florian Kaiser, Nguyen Tien Son, Misagh Ghezellou, Jawad Ul-Hassan, Vadim Vorobyov, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180804 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Tight Bounds on Pauli Channel Learning without Entanglement

Senrui Chen, Changhun Oh, Sisi Zhou, Hsin-Yuan Huang, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 180805 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Gapless Neutron Superfluidity Can Explain the Late Time Cooling of Transiently Accreting Neutron Stars

V. Allard and N. Chamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181001 (2024) - Published 29 April, 2024

Revisiting the Cosmic String Origin of GW190521

Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Charlie Hoy, and Mark Hannam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181401 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

Particles and Fields

Universal Pattern in Quantum Gravity at Infinite Distance

Alberto Castellano, Ignacio Ruiz, and Irene Valenzuela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181601 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Absorption of Axion Dark Matter in a Magnetized Medium

Asher Berlin and Tanner Trickle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181801 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determination of Spin-Parity Quantum Numbers of $X (2370)$ as $0^{- +}$ from $J / ψ \to γ K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0} η^{'}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181901 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

A reexamination of the X(2370) state using high-precision $J / ψ$ decay data uncovers its quantum number as $0^{- +}$ , which is consistent with it being a pseudoscalar glueball candidate.

Nuclear Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser Excitation of the Th-229 Nucleus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 182501 (2024) - Published 29 April, 2024

Researchers use a laser to excite and precisely measure a long-sought exotic nuclear state, paving the way for precise timekeeping and ultrasensitive quantum sensing.

Ab Initio Uncertainty Quantification of Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ${}^{76}{Ge}$

A. Belley, J. M. Yao (尧江明), B. Bally, J. Pitcher, J. Engel, H. Hergert, J. D. Holt, T. Miyagi, T. R. Rodríguez, A. M. Romero, S. R. Stroberg, and X. Zhang (张馨)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 182502 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

Experimental Determination of $α$ Widths of ${}^{21}{Ne}$ Levels in the Region of Astrophysical Interest: New ${}^{17}O + α$ Reaction Rates and Impact on the Weak $s$ Process

F. Hammache, P. Adsley, L. Lamia, D. S. Harrouz, N. de Séréville, B. Bastin, A. Choplin, T. Faestermann, C. Fougères, R. Hertenberger, R. Hirschi, M. La Cognata, A. Meyer, S. Palmerini, R. G. Pizzone, F. de Oliveira Santos, S. Romano, A. Tumino, and H.-F. Wirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 182701 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Decoherence and Momentum Relaxation in Fermi-Polaron Rabi Dynamics: A Kinetic Equation Approach

Tomasz Wasak, Matteo Sighinolfi, Johannes Lang, Francesco Piazza, and Alessio Recati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 183001 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Scheme for Deterministic Loading of Laser-Cooled Molecules into Optical Tweezers

Etienne F. Walraven, Michael R. Tarbutt, and Tijs Karman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 183401 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Spatial Information Lasing Enabled by Full- $k$ -Space Bound States in the Continuum

Ruoheng Chai, Wenwei Liu, Zhancheng Li, Yuebian Zhang, Haonan Wang, Hua Cheng, Jianguo Tian, and Shuqi Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 183801 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Wave-Function Tomography of Topological Dimer Chains with Long-Range Couplings

F. Pellerin, R. Houvenaghel, W. A. Coish, I. Carusotto, and P. St-Jean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 183802 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

A method for freely adjusting the parameters of a loop of optical fiber enables the exploration of exotic topological phases of matter.

Time Crystal in a Single-Mode Nonlinear Cavity

Yaohua Li, Chenyang Wang, Yuanjiang Tang, and Yong-Chun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 183803 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Interlink between Abnormal Water Imbibition in Hydrophilic and Rapid Flow in Hydrophobic Nanochannels

Runfeng Zhou, Mehdi Neek-Amal, Francois M. Peeters, Bofeng Bai, and Chengzhen Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 184001 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

Turbulent Flows Are Not Uniformly Multifractal

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Sugan Durai Murugan, Ritwik Mukherjee, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 184002 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Ultrahigh-Flux Water Nanopumps Generated by Asymmetric Terahertz Absorption

Qi-Lin Zhang, Tong Zhou, Chao Chang, Shi-Yu Gu, Yun-Jie Wang, Qi Liu, and Zhi Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 184003 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Colossal $c$ -Axis Response and Lack of Rotational Symmetry Breaking within the Kagome Planes of the ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$ Superconductor

Mehdi Frachet, Liran Wang, Wei Xia, Yanfeng Guo, Mingquan He, Nour Maraytta, Rolf Heid, Amir-Abbas Haghighirad, Michael Merz, Christoph Meingast, and Frédéric Hardy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186001 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Water, Not Salt, Causes Most of the Seebeck Effect of Nonisothermal Aqueous Electrolytes

Ole Nickel, Ludwig J. V. Ahrens-Iwers, Robert H. Meißner, and Mathijs Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186201 (2024) - Published 29 April, 2024

Nonbosonic Moiré Excitons

Tsung-Sheng Huang, Peter Lunts, and Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186202 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Dissipation of Fast Electrons in Polymethylmethacrylate: Toward a Universal Curve for Electron-Beam Attenuation in Solids between $\sim 0 eV$ and Relativistic Energies

Wolfgang S. M. Werner, Florian Simperl, Felix Blödorn, Julian Brunner, Johannes Kero, Alessandra Bellissimo, and Olga Ridzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186203 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

To describe the electron beam attenuation lengths in solids, in addition to a single-exponential law, momentum relaxation must also be taken into account.

Phase Pattern Formation in Grain Boundaries

I. S. Winter and T. Frolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186204 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Contributions to Diffusion in Complex Materials Quantified with Machine Learning

Soham Chattopadhyay and Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186301 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

To better understand diffusion in complex materials, a computational method separating out uncorrelated individual contributions makes it possible to construct new analytic forms for diffusivity.

Dominance of Extrinsic Scattering Mechanisms in the Orbital Hall Effect: Graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, and Topological Antiferromagnets

Hong Liu and Dimitrie Culcer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186302 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum-Acoustical Drude Peak Shift

Joonas Keski-Rahkonen, Xiaoyu Ouyang, Shaobing Yuan, Anton M. Graf, Alhun Aydin, and Eric J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186303 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

The Drude peak displacements in the optical conductivity of strange metals are a consequence of a strong electron-phonon interaction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Out-of-Equilibrium Fluctuation-Dissipation Bounds

Ludovico Tesser and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186304 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Bounds on fluctuations for nonequilibrium conditions provide performance limitations of heat engines at the nanoscale.

Emergent Correlated Phases in Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene Induced by Proximity Spin-Orbit and Exchange Coupling

Yaroslav Zhumagulov, Denis Kochan, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186401 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Deep-Level Structure of the Spin-Active Recombination Center in Dilute Nitrides

A. C. Ulibarri, C. T. K Lew, S. Q. Lim, J. C. McCallum, B. C. Johnson, J. C. Harmand, J. Peretti, and A. C. H. Rowe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186402 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Engineering the Kitaev Spin Liquid in a Quantum Dot System

Tessa Cookmeyer and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186501 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024

Low Temperature Dynamic Polaron Liquid in a Manganite Exhibiting Colossal Magnetoresistance

D. Jost, H.-Y. Huang, M. Rossi, A. Singh, D.-J. Huang, Y. Lee, H. Zheng, J. F. Mitchell, B. Moritz, Z.-X. Shen, T. P. Devereaux, and W.-S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186502 (2024) - Published 2 May, 2024

Discovery of Higher-Order Nodal Surface Semimetals

Huahui Qiu, Yuzeng Li, Qicheng Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186601 (2024) - Published 29 April, 2024

Ultrafast Electron-Electron Scattering in Metallic Phase of $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ Probed by High Harmonic Generation

K. S. Takeda, K. Uchida, K. Nagai, S. Kusaba, S. Takahashi, and K. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186901 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Lasing in Non-Hermitian Flat Bands: Quantum Geometry, Coherence, and the Fate of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics

Ivan Amelio and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186902 (2024) - Published 1 May, 2024

Inhomogeneous Photosusceptibility of ${VO}_{2}$ Films at the Nanoscale

A. J. Sternbach, T. Slusar, F. L. Ruta, S. Moore, X. Chen, M. K. Liu, H. T. Kim, A. J. Millis, R. D. Averitt, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186903 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Enhanced Far-Field Thermal Radiation through a Polaritonic Waveguide

Saeko Tachikawa, Jose Ordonez-Miranda, Laurent Jalabert, Yunhui Wu, Roman Anufriev, Yangyu Guo, Byunggi Kim, Hiroyuki Fujita, Sebastian Volz, and Masahiro Nomura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 186904 (2024) - Published 3 May, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Almost Qudits in the Prepare-and-Measure Scenario [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 250504 (2022)]

Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio, Erik Woodhead, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 189901 (2024) - Published 30 April, 2024