Volume 132, Issue 19

10 May 2024

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A scanning tunneling microscope topography scan across a half 4H-SiC unit cell step edge shows two indenene domains (insets) that are mutually rotated by 180°. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Bias-Free Access to Orbital Angular Momentum in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials
Jonas Erhardt, Cedric Schmitt, Philipp Eck, Matthias Schmitt, Philipp Keßler, Kyungchan Lee, Timur Kim, Cephise Cacho, Iulia Cojocariu, Daniel Baranowski, Vitaliy Feyer, Louis Veyrat, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Ralph Claessen, and Simon Moser
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196401 (2024)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Quantum Sensing with Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Platforms for Fundamental Physics

Jun Ye and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 190001 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Next in the PRL series of forward-looking Essays, Jun Ye and Peter Zoller envision exciting research paths at the intersection of AMO physics, quantum technologies, and fundamental physics.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Production of $p$ Nuclei from $r$ -Process Seeds: The $ν r$ Process

Zewei Xiong, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Oliver Just, and Andre Sieverding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 192701 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Adding neutrinos to an existing nucleosynthesis recipe can account for the puzzling existence of neutron-deficient heavy nuclei.

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Strong-Coupling Phases of Trions and Excitons in Electron-Hole Bilayers at Commensurate Densities

David D. Dai and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196202 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Researchers predict that several exotic states of matter can exist in semiconductor structures hosting electrons in one layer and holes in another.

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Chirality-Driven Orbital Angular Momentum and Circular Dichroism in CoSi

Stefanie Suzanne Brinkman, Xin Liang Tan, Bjørnulf Brekke, Anders Christian Mathisen, Øyvind Finnseth, Richard Justin Schenk, Kenta Hagiwara, Meng-Jie Huang, Jens Buck, Matthias Kalläne, Moritz Hoesch, Kai Rossnagel, Kui-Hon Ou Yang, Minn-Tsong Lin, Guo-Jiun Shu, Ying-Jiun Chen, Christian Tusche, and Hendrik Bentmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196402 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

X-ray experiments reveal that a semimetal exhibits “orbital texture”—an exotic electronic structure resulting in spin-dependent electron transport.

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Machine-Learning Optimized Measurements of Chaotic Dynamical Systems via the Information Bottleneck

Kieran A. Murphy and Dani S. Bassett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197201 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Machine learning can be employed to optimize extraction of information from trajectory data in deterministic chaos.

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Bell Nonlocality in Classical Systems Coexisting with Other System Types

Giulio Chiribella, Lorenzo Giannelli, and Carlo Maria Scandolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 190201 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

If classical systems were to coexist with “anticlassical” systems (coined here) then an observer with access to both systems could measure Bell nonlocality and other nonclassical features.

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Optical Kinetic Theory of Nonlinear Multimode Photonic Networks

Arkady Kurnosov, Lucas J. Fernández-Alcázar, Alba Ramos, Boris Shapiro, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193802 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

A universal, one-parameter scaling theory is developed that describes transport behavior from the ballistic to the diffusive regime in multimode nonlinear photonic circuits.

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Bias-Free Access to Orbital Angular Momentum in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials

Jonas Erhardt, Cedric Schmitt, Philipp Eck, Matthias Schmitt, Philipp Keßler, Kyungchan Lee, Timur Kim, Cephise Cacho, Iulia Cojocariu, Daniel Baranowski, Vitaliy Feyer, Louis Veyrat, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Ralph Claessen, and Simon Moser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196401 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

A universal and fully experimental algorithm allows for extraction of orbital angular momentum from 2D quantum materials.

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Quantum-Geometric Origin of Out-of-Plane Stacking Ferroelectricity

Benjamin T. Zhou, Vedangi Pathak, and Marcel Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196801 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

The quantum-geometric origin of out-of-plane stacking ferroelectric polarization is elucidated and shown to be compatible with the modern theory of polarization.

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Combining Reinforcement Learning and Tensor Networks, with an Application to Dynamical Large Deviations

Edward Gillman, Dominic C. Rose, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197301 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Tensor network methods and reinforcement learning are combined to solve dynamical optimization tasks relevant to both nonequilibrium physics and machine learning.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bell Nonlocality in Classical Systems Coexisting with Other System Types

Giulio Chiribella, Lorenzo Giannelli, and Carlo Maria Scandolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 190201 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

If classical systems were to coexist with “anticlassical” systems (coined here) then an observer with access to both systems could measure Bell nonlocality and other nonclassical features.

Quantum Work Statistics at Strong Reservoir Coupling

Owen Diba, Harry J. D. Miller, Jake Iles-Smith, and Ahsan Nazir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 190401 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Experimental Direct Quantum Fidelity Learning via a Data-Driven Approach

Haiyang Qin, Liangyu Che, Chao Wei, Feng Xu, Yulei Huang, and Tao Xin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 190801 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Hubble Tension as a Window on the Gravitation of the Dark Matter Sector

Cyril Pitrou and Jean-Philippe Uzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191001 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

First Results of the Laser-Interferometric Detector for Axions (LIDA)

Joscha Heinze, Alex Gill, Artemiy Dmitriev, Jiří Smetana, Tianliang Yan, Vincent Boyer, Denis Martynov, and Matthew Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191002 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Mitigating the Counterpart Selection Effect for Standard Sirens

Hsin-Yu Chen, Colm Talbot, and Eve A. Chase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191003 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Coupling Constants as Conserved Charges in Black Hole Thermodynamics

Kamal Hajian and Bayram Tekin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191401 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Nonlocal Massive Gravity from Einstein Gravity

Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, and Robie A. Hennigar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191402 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Constraints on Neutrino Natal Kicks from Black-Hole Binary VFTS 243

Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Reinhold Willcox, Irene Tamborra, Ilya Mandel, Mathieu Renzo, Tom Wagg, Hans-Thomas Janka, Daniel Kresse, Julia Bodensteiner, Tomer Shenar, and Thomas M. Tauris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191403 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Geometry and Unitarity of Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity

Minxi He, Kohei Kamada, and Kyohei Mukaida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191501 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Particles and Fields

Regge Spectroscopy of Higher-Twist States in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Rob Klabbers, Michelangelo Preti, and István M. Szécsényi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191601 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

One-Loop Double Copy Relation in String Theory

S. Stieberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191602 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Covariant Compton Amplitudes in Gravity with Classical Spin

N. Emil J. Bjerrum-Bohr, Gang Chen, and Marcos Skowronek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191603 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Lattice QCD Calculation of Electroweak Box Contributions to Superallowed Nuclear and Neutron Beta Decays

Peng-Xiang Ma, Xu Feng, Mikhail Gorchtein, Lu-Chang Jin, Keh-Fei Liu, Chien-Yeah Seng, Bi-Geng Wang, and Zhao-Long Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191901 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

First Observation of a Three-Resonance Structure in $e^{+} e^{-} \to Nonopen$ Charm Hadrons

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 191902 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Nuclear Physics

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Production of $p$ Nuclei from $r$ -Process Seeds: The $ν r$ Process

Zewei Xiong, Gabriel Martínez-Pinedo, Oliver Just, and Andre Sieverding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 192701 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Adding neutrinos to an existing nucleosynthesis recipe can account for the puzzling existence of neutron-deficient heavy nuclei.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Universal Composite Boson Formation in Strongly Interacting One-Dimensional Fermionic Systems

Francesc Sabater, Abel Rojo-Francàs, Grigori E. Astrakharchik, and Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193401 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Direct Laser Cooling of Rydberg Atoms with an Isolated-Core Transition

A. Bouillon, E. Marin-Bujedo, and M. Génévriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193402 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Magnon-Skyrmion Hybrid Quantum Systems: Tailoring Interactions via Magnons

Xue-Feng Pan, Peng-Bo Li, Xin-Lei Hei, Xichao Zhang, Masahito Mochizuki, Fu-Li Li, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193601 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

Nonreciprocal Superradiant Phase Transitions and Multicriticality in a Cavity QED System

Gui-Lei Zhu, Chang-Sheng Hu, Hui Wang, Wei Qin, Xin-You Lü, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193602 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Approaching Maximal Precision of Hong-Ou-Mandel Interferometry with Nonperfect Visibility

O. Meskine, E. Descamps, A. Keller, A. Lemaître, F. Baboux, S. Ducci, and P. Milman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193603 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Universally Robust Quantum Control

Pablo M. Poggi, Gabriele De Chiara, Steve Campbell, and Anthony Kiely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193801 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

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Optical Kinetic Theory of Nonlinear Multimode Photonic Networks

Arkady Kurnosov, Lucas J. Fernández-Alcázar, Alba Ramos, Boris Shapiro, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193802 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

A universal, one-parameter scaling theory is developed that describes transport behavior from the ballistic to the diffusive regime in multimode nonlinear photonic circuits.

Measuring the Optical Concurrence of Vector Beams with an Atomic-State Interferometer

Jinwen Wang, Sphinx J. Svensson, Thomas W. Clark, Yun Chen, Mustafa A. Al Khafaji, Hong Gao, Niclas Westerberg, and Sonja Franke-Arnold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193803 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Self-Hybridized Vibrational-Mie Polaritons in Water Droplets

Adriana Canales, Oleg V. Kotov, Betül Küçüköz, and Timur O. Shegai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 193804 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Simple Mechanism for the Observed Breakdown of the Nernst-Einstein Relation for Ions in Carbon Nanotubes

A. W. C. Lau and J. B. Sokoloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 194001 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Multi-GeV Electron Acceleration in Wakefields Strongly Driven by Oversized Laser Spots

K. Põder, J. C. Wood, N. C. Lopes, J. M. Cole, S. Alatabi, M. P. Backhouse, P. S. Foster, A. J. Hughes, C. Kamperidis, O. Kononenko, S. P. D. Mangles, C. A. J. Palmer, D. Rusby, A. Sahai, G. Sarri, D. R. Symes, J. R. Warwick, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 195001 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Energy Formulation for Infinite Structures: Order Parameter for Percolation, Critical Bonds, and Power-Law Scaling of Contact-Based Transport

Samarth Agrawal, Sandra Galmarini, and Martin Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196101 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Structure of Graphene Grown on Cu(111): X-Ray Standing Wave Measurement and Density Functional Theory Prediction

Matthew A. Stoodley, Luke A. Rochford, Tien-Lin Lee, Benedikt P. Klein, David A. Duncan, and Reinhard J. Maurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196201 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

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Strong-Coupling Phases of Trions and Excitons in Electron-Hole Bilayers at Commensurate Densities

David D. Dai and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196202 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Researchers predict that several exotic states of matter can exist in semiconductor structures hosting electrons in one layer and holes in another.

High-Temperature Atomic Diffusion and Specific Heat in Quasicrystals

Yuki Nagai, Yutaka Iwasaki, Koichi Kitahara, Yoshiki Takagiwa, Kaoru Kimura, and Motoyuki Shiga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196301 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bias-Free Access to Orbital Angular Momentum in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196401 (2024) - Published 6 May, 2024

A universal and fully experimental algorithm allows for extraction of orbital angular momentum from 2D quantum materials.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chirality-Driven Orbital Angular Momentum and Circular Dichroism in CoSi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196402 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

X-ray experiments reveal that a semimetal exhibits “orbital texture”—an exotic electronic structure resulting in spin-dependent electron transport.

Strong Terahertz Third-Harmonic Generation by Kinetic Heavy Quasiparticles in ${CaRuO}_{3}$

Chris Reinhoffer, Sven Esser, Sebastian Esser, Evgeny A. Mashkovich, Semyon Germanskiy, Philipp Gegenwart, Frithjof Anders, Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht, and Zhe Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196501 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Topological Quantum Synchronization of Fractionalized Spins

Christopher W. Wächtler and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196601 (2024) - Published 9 May, 2024

Fermi Surface Spin Texture and Topological Superconductivity in Spin-Orbit Free Noncollinear Antiferromagnets

Seung Hun Lee, Yuting Qian, and Bohm-Jung Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196602 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

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Quantum-Geometric Origin of Out-of-Plane Stacking Ferroelectricity

Benjamin T. Zhou, Vedangi Pathak, and Marcel Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196801 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

The quantum-geometric origin of out-of-plane stacking ferroelectric polarization is elucidated and shown to be compatible with the modern theory of polarization.

Crossover from Linear to Quadratic Electro-optic Behavior in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ and $(Ba, Sr) {TiO}_{3}$ Solid Solution

Sergey Prosandeev, Charles Paillard, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196901 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Distance Dependence of the Energy Transfer Mechanism in ${WS}_{2}$ -Graphene Heterostructures

David Tebbe, Marc Schütte, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Christoph Stampfer, Bernd Beschoten, and Lutz Waldecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196902 (2024) - Published 8 May, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Machine-Learning Optimized Measurements of Chaotic Dynamical Systems via the Information Bottleneck

Kieran A. Murphy and Dani S. Bassett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197201 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

Machine learning can be employed to optimize extraction of information from trajectory data in deterministic chaos.

Demonstration of Acoustic Higher-Order Topological Stiefel-Whitney Semimetal

Xiao Xiang, Yu-Gui Peng, Feng Gao, Xiaoxiao Wu, Peng Wu, Zhaoxian Chen, Xiang Ni, and Xue-Feng Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197202 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024

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Combining Reinforcement Learning and Tensor Networks, with an Application to Dynamical Large Deviations

Edward Gillman, Dominic C. Rose, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197301 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Tensor network methods and reinforcement learning are combined to solve dynamical optimization tasks relevant to both nonequilibrium physics and machine learning.

ERRATA

Erratum: Spontaneous Domain Formation in Spherically Confined Elastic Filaments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047801 (2019)]

Tine Curk, James Daniel Farrell, Jure Dobnikar, and Rudolf Podgornik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 199901 (2024) - Published 7 May, 2024

Erratum: Current-Induced Creation of Topological Vortex Rings in a Magnetic Nanocylinder [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 126701 (2024)]

Yizhou Liu and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 199902 (2024) - Published 10 May, 2024