Volume 132, Issue 2

12 January 2024

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An optical vortex wavefront induces dynamical polar skyrmions in a ferroelectric thin film.

From the article:

Dynamical Control of Topology in Polar Skyrmions via Twisted Light
Lingyuan Gao, Sergei Prokhorenko, Yousra Nahas, and Laurent Bellaiche
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026902 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a $Z$ Boson and a Photon at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021803 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

The Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS and CMS collaborations have analyzed data of a rare Higgs-boson decay, finding a hint of a disagreement with standard-model predictions.

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Synchronization of Bloch Oscillations in a Strongly Coupled Pair of Small Josephson Junctions: Evidence for a Shapiro-like Current Step

Fabian Kaap, David Scheer, Fabian Hassler, and Sergey Lotkhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027001 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

High-precision measurements of the oscillations generated by a superconducting device suggest that an improved electric-current-calibration standard should be possible.

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Development of Neutron Interferometer Using Multilayer Mirrors and Measurements of Neutron-Nuclear Scattering Length with Pulsed Neutron Source

Takuhiro Fujiie, Masahiro Hino, Takuya Hosobata, Go Ichikawa, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Kenji Mishima, Yoshichika Seki, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, and Yutaka Yamagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023402 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

Researchers have demonstrated a mirror-based neutron interferometer that should be more sensitive to beyond-standard-model particle interactions than previous instruments.

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Measurement of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to ψ (\to ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}) K_{S}^{0} (\to π^{+} π^{-})$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021801 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

The quark-mixing $C P$ -violation angle $β$ is measured with the greatest precision to date.

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Suppression of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability via Special Pairs of Shocks and Phase Transitions

W. J. Schill, M. R. Armstrong, J. H. Nguyen, D. M. Sterbentz, D. A. White, L. X. Benedict, R. N. Rieben, A. Hoff, H. E. Lorenzana, J. L. Belof, B. M. La Lone, and M. D. Staska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 024001 (2024) - Published 9 January, 2024

Neutralization of a shock-generated Richtmyer-Meshkov instability at the interface between heavy and light materials using timed double-shock wave fronts is demonstrated experimentally and verified numerically.

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Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Flat-Band Superconductors with Quantum Metric

Shuai A. Chen and K. T. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026002 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

An application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to superconducting twisted bilayer graphene determines the coherence length and the upper critical field, which are in agreement with recent experiments.

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Germanium Vacancy in Diamond Quantum Memory Exceeding 20 ms

Katharina Senkalla, Genko Genov, Mathias H. Metsch, Petr Siyushev, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026901 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

An experiment demonstrates a record long quantum coherence time that exceeds 20 milliseconds for a germanium vacancy in diamond.

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Accelerated Adiabatic Passage of a Single Electron Spin Qubit in Quantum Dots

Xiao-Fei Liu, Yuta Matsumoto, Takafumi Fujita, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Akira Oiwa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027002 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

Schemes for shortcuts to adiabaticity are demonstrated in gate-defined quantum dots based on transitionless quantum driving.

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Fate of Boltzmann’s Breathers: Stokes Hypothesis and Anomalous Thermalization

M. I. García de Soria, P. Maynar, David Guéry-Odelin, and Emmanuel Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027101 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Boltzmann breathers can thermalize at long times due to a damping mechanism related to the bulk viscosity for finite densities.

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Fundamental and Second-Order Superregular Breathers in Vector Fields

Chong Liu, Shao-Chun Chen, and Nail Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027201 (2024) - Published 10 January, 2024

An exact theory for superregular breathers in Manakov systems is derived, with possible applications to a wide range of nonlinear wave phenomena.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Quantum Scars and Regular Eigenstates in a Chaotic Spinor Condensate

Bertrand Evrard, Andrea Pizzi, Simeon I. Mistakidis, and Ceren B. Dag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 020401 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Demonstrating Path-Independent Anyonic Braiding on a Modular Superconducting Quantum Processor

Jingjing Niu, Yishan Li, Libo Zhang, Jiajian Zhang, Ji Chu, Jiaxiang Huang, Wenhui Huang, Lifu Nie, Jiawei Qiu, Xuandong Sun, Ziyu Tao, Weiwei Wei, Jiawei Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Yuanzhen Chen, Ling Hu, Yang Liu, Song Liu, Youpeng Zhong, Dawei Lu, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 020601 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Quantum Precision Limits of Displacement Noise-Free Interferometers

Tuvia Gefen, Rajashik Tarafder, Rana X. Adhikari, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 020801 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Defying Conventional Wisdom in Spectroscopy: Power Narrowing on IBM Quantum

Ivo S. Mihov and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 020802 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Demonstrating Agreement between Radio and Fluorescence Measurements of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Abdul Halim et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021001 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Large Neutrino Secret Interactions Have a Small Impact on Supernovae

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Georg G. Raffelt, and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021002 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Extended Black Hole Thermodynamics from Extended Iyer-Wald Formalism

Yong Xiao, Yu Tian, and Yu-Xiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021401 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Particles and Fields

Ergodicity Breaking and Deviation from Eigenstate Thermalization in Relativistic Quantum Field Theory

Miha Srdinšek, Tomaž Prosen, and Spyros Sotiriadis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021601 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of $C P$ Violation in $B^{0} \to ψ (\to ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}) K_{S}^{0} (\to π^{+} π^{-})$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021801 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

The quark-mixing $C P$ -violation angle $β$ is measured with the greatest precision to date.

Observation of $W Z γ$ Production in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021802 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

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Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a $Z$ Boson and a Photon at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration, CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021803 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

The Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS and CMS collaborations have analyzed data of a rare Higgs-boson decay, finding a hint of a disagreement with standard-model predictions.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Mutual Neutralization of ${NO}^{+}$ with $O^{-}$

Mathias Poline, Arnaud Dochain, Stefan Rosén, MingChao Ji, Peter Reinhed, Ansgar Simonsson, Mats Larsson, Henning T. Schmidt, Henning Zettergren, Richard D. Thomas, Shaun G. Ard, Nicholas S. Shuman, and Albert A. Viggiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023001 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Density Dependent Gauge Field Inducing Emergent Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Physics, Solitons, and Condensates in a Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

W. N. Faugno, Mario Salerno, and Tomoki Ozawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023401 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

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Development of Neutron Interferometer Using Multilayer Mirrors and Measurements of Neutron-Nuclear Scattering Length with Pulsed Neutron Source

Takuhiro Fujiie, Masahiro Hino, Takuya Hosobata, Go Ichikawa, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Kenji Mishima, Yoshichika Seki, Hirohiko M. Shimizu, and Yutaka Yamagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023402 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

Researchers have demonstrated a mirror-based neutron interferometer that should be more sensitive to beyond-standard-model particle interactions than previous instruments.

Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions via Dynamics in a Wide Double-Well Potential

M. Roda-Llordes, A. Riera-Campeny, D. Candoli, P. T. Grochowski, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023601 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Engineering Arbitrary Hamiltonians in Phase Space

Lingzhen Guo and Vittorio Peano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023602 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Optoacoustic Cooling of Traveling Hypersound Waves

Laura Blázquez Martínez, Philipp Wiedemann, Changlong Zhu, Andreas Geilen, and Birgit Stiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023603 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Threshold and Laser Conversion in Nanostructured-Resonator Parametric Oscillators

Haixin Liu, Grant M. Brodnik, Jizhao Zang, David R. Carlson, Jennifer A. Black, and Scott B. Papp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 023801 (2024) - Published 10 January, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Suppression of Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability via Special Pairs of Shocks and Phase Transitions

W. J. Schill, M. R. Armstrong, J. H. Nguyen, D. M. Sterbentz, D. A. White, L. X. Benedict, R. N. Rieben, A. Hoff, H. E. Lorenzana, J. L. Belof, B. M. La Lone, and M. D. Staska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 024001 (2024) - Published 9 January, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Supersolid Phases of Bosonic Particles in a Bubble Trap

Matteo Ciardi, Fabio Cinti, Giuseppe Pellicane, and Santi Prestipino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026001 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ginzburg-Landau Theory of Flat-Band Superconductors with Quantum Metric

Shuai A. Chen and K. T. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026002 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

An application of Ginzburg-Landau theory to superconducting twisted bilayer graphene determines the coherence length and the upper critical field, which are in agreement with recent experiments.

Nernst Sign Reversal in the Hexatic Vortex Phase of Weakly Disordered $a − MoGe$ Thin Films

Y. Wu, A. Roy, S. Dutta, J. Jesudasan, P. Raychaudhuri, and A. Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026003 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Unification of Nonlinear Anomalous Hall Effect and Nonreciprocal Magnetoresistance in Metals by the Quantum Geometry

Daniel Kaplan, Tobias Holder, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026301 (2024) - Published 8 January, 2024

Long-Lived Higgs Modes in Strongly Correlated Condensates

J. Lorenzana and G. Seibold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026501 (2024) - Published 9 January, 2024

Evidence of Strong Orbital-Selective Spin-Orbital-Phonon Coupling in ${CrVO}_{4}$

Aditya Prasad Roy, Jayakrishnan SS, Vivek Dwij, Ashish Khandelwal, M. K. Chattopadhyay, Vasant Sathe, Ranjan Mittal, P. U. Sastry, Srungarpu N. Achary, Avesh K. Tyagi, Peram D. Babu, Manh Duc Le, and Dipanshu Bansal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026701 (2024) - Published 9 January, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Germanium Vacancy in Diamond Quantum Memory Exceeding 20 ms

Katharina Senkalla, Genko Genov, Mathias H. Metsch, Petr Siyushev, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026901 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

An experiment demonstrates a record long quantum coherence time that exceeds 20 milliseconds for a germanium vacancy in diamond.

Dynamical Control of Topology in Polar Skyrmions via Twisted Light

Lingyuan Gao, Sergei Prokhorenko, Yousra Nahas, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 026902 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Synchronization of Bloch Oscillations in a Strongly Coupled Pair of Small Josephson Junctions: Evidence for a Shapiro-like Current Step

Fabian Kaap, David Scheer, Fabian Hassler, and Sergey Lotkhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027001 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

High-precision measurements of the oscillations generated by a superconducting device suggest that an improved electric-current-calibration standard should be possible.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Accelerated Adiabatic Passage of a Single Electron Spin Qubit in Quantum Dots

Xiao-Fei Liu, Yuta Matsumoto, Takafumi Fujita, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Akira Oiwa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027002 (2024) - Published 12 January, 2024

Schemes for shortcuts to adiabaticity are demonstrated in gate-defined quantum dots based on transitionless quantum driving.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fate of Boltzmann’s Breathers: Stokes Hypothesis and Anomalous Thermalization

M. I. García de Soria, P. Maynar, David Guéry-Odelin, and Emmanuel Trizac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027101 (2024) - Published 11 January, 2024

Boltzmann breathers can thermalize at long times due to a damping mechanism related to the bulk viscosity for finite densities.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fundamental and Second-Order Superregular Breathers in Vector Fields

Chong Liu, Shao-Chun Chen, and Nail Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 027201 (2024) - Published 10 January, 2024

An exact theory for superregular breathers in Manakov systems is derived, with possible applications to a wide range of nonlinear wave phenomena.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Realizing Symmetry-Breaking Architectures in Soap Films

Nidhi Kaul, Luca Bergamasco, Hongwei Song, Thijs Varkevisser, Agnese Amati, Gabriele Falciani, Cees J. M. van Rijn, Eliodoro Chiavazzo, Indraneel Sen, Sylvestre Bonnet, and Leif Hammarström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 028201 (2024) - Published 10 January, 2024

COMMENTS

Comment on “Anomalous Reentrant $5 / 2$ Quantum Hall Phase at Moderate Landau-Level-Mixing Strength”

Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 029601 (2024) - Published 9 January, 2024

Das et al. Reply:

Sudipto Das, Sahana Das, and Sudhansu S. Mandal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 029602 (2024) - Published 9 January, 2024