Volume 132, Issue 20

17 May 2024

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A powderlike diffraction pattern of krypton measured with a krypton jet. Selected for a Focus story in Physics Magazine.

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Crystal Nucleation in Supercooled Atomic Liquids
Johannes Möller et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206102 (2024)

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Adapting to the Abyss: Passive Ventilation in the Deep-Sea Glass Sponge Euplectella aspergillum

Giacomo Falcucci, Giorgio Amati, Gino Bella, Andrea Luigi Facci, Vesselin K. Krastev, Giovanni Polverino, Sauro Succi, and Maurizio Porfiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208402 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

A deep-sea sponge’s intricate skeleton converts the horizontal flow of ocean currents into a vertical flow through the sponge’s body—a mechanism that helps with the sponge’s filter feeding.

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First Study of the ${}^{139}{Ba} (n, γ) {}^{140}{Ba}$ Reaction to Constrain the Conditions for the Astrophysical $i$ Process

A. Spyrou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 202701 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Measurements related to the production of lanthanum in stars where elements are thought to form via the “ $i$ process” indicate that less of the element is produced than models predict.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Crystal Nucleation in Supercooled Atomic Liquids

Johannes Möller et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206102 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

A new liquid-jet technology enabled researchers to test the theory for liquid freezing more stringently than was possible in previous experiments, but uncertainties remain.

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Experimental Quantum Homomorphic Encryption Using a Quantum Photonic Chip

Yuan Li, Lin Cao, Wei Luo, Hui Zhang, Hong Cai, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Feng Gao, Joseph Fitzsimons, Qinghua Song, and Ai-Qun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200801 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Quantum fully homomorphic encryption is shown to be feasible on a compact silicon photonic chip, improving the prospects of a scalable, programmable, and stable quantum network infrastructure.

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Experimental Demonstration of a Large Transverse Emittance Ratio $11 ∶ 1$ in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for the Electron-Ion Collider

Y. Luo, D. Xu, M. Blaskiewicz, and C. Montag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 205001 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

As a crucial validation for the forthcoming electron-ion collider (EIC), an experiment at the RHIC demonstrates the ability to prepare and collide ion beams with emittance ratio of 11:1.

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Phase Separation in Cold Para- $H_{2}$ $D_{2}$ Clusters

Russell Sliter, Kim Hyeon-Deuk, and Andrey F. Vilesov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206001 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Clusters containing a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes para-H $_{2}$ and D $_{2}$ remain liquid at a temperature of 2 K and exhibit phase separation, a hallmark of quantum fluids.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gate-Controlled Anyon Generation and Detection in Kitaev Spin Liquids

Gábor B. Halász

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206501 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

A scheme utilizing tunable gate voltages in a Kitaev spin liquid and a monolayer semiconductor is proposed as a method for both generating and detecting individual Ising anyons.

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Measuring the Boundary Gapless State and Criticality via Disorder Operator

Zenan Liu, Rui-Zhen Huang, Yan-Cheng Wang, Zheng Yan, and Dao-Xin Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206502 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

A disorder operator defined on the boundary of a two-dimensional Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki model reveals the connection between the gapless boundary mode and bulk criticality in the surface critical behavior.

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Quantum Slush State in Rydberg Atom Arrays

Tengzhou Zhang and Zi Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206503 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Rydberg atom arrays with kinetic constraints reveal a quantum slush state: a heterogeneous liquid and glass mixture with quasi-long-range order.

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Engineering the Impact of Phonon Dephasing on the Coherence of a ${WSe}_{2}$ Single-Photon Source via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Victor N. Mitryakhin, Alexander Steinhoff, Jens-Christian Drawer, Hangyong Shan, Matthias Florian, Lukas Lackner, Bo Han, Falk Eilenberger, Seth Ariel Tongay, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Carlos Antón-Solanas, Ana Predojević, Christopher Gies, Martin Esmann, and Christian Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206903 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

The coherence of single-photon emissions is controlled by coupling to optical cavities.

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Structural Relaxation Time of a Polymer Glass during Deformation

Pradip K. Bera, Grigori A. Medvedev, James M. Caruthers, and Mark D. Ediger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208101 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

The structural and segmental relaxation times in a deformed polymer glass are similar, indicating a connection between segmental mobility and structural relaxation.

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Kinetic Theory of Motility Induced Phase Separation for Active Brownian Particles

Rodrigo Soto, Martín Pinto, and Ricardo Brito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208301 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Active Brownian particles can be described by a Boltzmann–Enskog-like kinetic theory in which a motility-induced phase separation could arise from a reduced effective velocity of particles.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Coherence Manipulation in Asymmetry and Thermodynamics

Tulja Varun Kondra, Ray Ganardi, and Alexander Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200201 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Uncertainty Relations from State Polynomial Optimization

Moisés Bermejo Morán and Felix Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200202 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Entanglement Assisted Probe of the Non-Markovian to Markovian Transition in Open Quantum System Dynamics

Chandrashekhar Gaikwad, Daria Kowsari, Carson Brame, Xingrui Song, Haimeng Zhang, Martina Esposito, Arpit Ranadive, Giulio Cappelli, Nicolas Roch, Eli M. Levenson-Falk, and Kater W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200401 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Higher-Form Symmetries under Weak Measurement

Kaixiang Su, Nayan Myerson-Jain, Chong Wang, Chao-Ming Jian, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200402 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Open Quantum System Dynamics from Infinite Tensor Network Contraction

Valentin Link, Hong-Hao Tu, and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200403 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

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Experimental Quantum Homomorphic Encryption Using a Quantum Photonic Chip

Yuan Li, Lin Cao, Wei Luo, Hui Zhang, Hong Cai, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Feng Gao, Joseph Fitzsimons, Qinghua Song, and Ai-Qun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200801 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Quantum fully homomorphic encryption is shown to be feasible on a compact silicon photonic chip, improving the prospects of a scalable, programmable, and stable quantum network infrastructure.

Selective Detection of Dynamics-Complete Set of Correlations via Quantum Channels

Ze Wu, Ping Wang, Tianyun Wang, Yuchen Li, Ran Liu, Yuquan Chen, Xinhua Peng, and Ren-Bao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200802 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Dynamical Explanation of the Dark Matter and Baryon Energy Density Coincidence

Dawid Brzeminski and Anson Hook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201001 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Unveiling Dark Forces with Measurements of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Salvatore Bottaro, Emanuele Castorina, Marco Costa, Diego Redigolo, and Ennio Salvioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201002 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Particles and Fields

Emergent Noninvertible Symmetries in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Orr Sela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201601 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Calabi-Yau Meets Gravity: A Calabi-Yau Threefold at Fifth Post-Minkowskian Order

Hjalte Frellesvig, Roger Morales, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201602 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Pion Electromagnetic Form Factors

Long-Bin Chen, Wen Chen, Feng Feng, and Yu Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201901 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Bound Isoscalar Axial-Vector $b c \bar{u} \bar{d}$ Tetraquark $T_{b c}$ from Lattice QCD Using Two-Meson and Diquark-Antidiquark Variational Basis

M. Padmanath, Archana Radhakrishnan, and Nilmani Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201902 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Baryon Electric Charge Correlation as a Magnetometer of QCD

H.-T. Ding, J.-B. Gu, A. Kumar, S.-T. Li, and J.-H. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 201903 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Angle Correlations of Muons Produced via Heavy-Flavor Decays in 5.02 TeV $Pb + Pb$ and $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 202301 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

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First Study of the ${}^{139}{Ba} (n, γ) {}^{140}{Ba}$ Reaction to Constrain the Conditions for the Astrophysical $i$ Process

A. Spyrou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 202701 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Measurements related to the production of lanthanum in stars where elements are thought to form via the “ $i$ process” indicate that less of the element is produced than models predict.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Anisotropic Photodetachment of Positronium Negative Ions with Linearly Polarized Light

Koji Michishio, Luca Chiari, Fumi Tanaka, and Yasuyuki Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 203001 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Experimental Realization of Auger Decay in the Field of a Positive Elementary Charge

Andreas Hans, Nils Kiefer, Lutz Marder, Catmarna Küstner-Wetekam, Emilia Heikura, Niklas Golchert, Johannes H. Viehmann, Denis Cubaynes, Iyas Ismail, Florian Trinter, Pascal Lablanquie, Jérôme Palaudoux, Arno Ehresmann, and Francis Penent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 203002 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Measurement of Small Photon Numbers in Circuit QED Resonators

Juan Atalaya, Alex Opremcak, Ani Nersisyan, Kenny Lee, and Alexander N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 203601 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Autonomous Stabilization of Fock States in an Oscillator against Multiphoton Losses

Sai Li, Zhongchu Ni, Libo Zhang, Yanyan Cai, Jiasheng Mai, Shengcheng Wen, Pan Zheng, Xiaowei Deng, Song Liu, Yuan Xu, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 203602 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Photon Pressure with an Effective Negative Mass Microwave Mode

I. C. Rodrigues, G. A. Steele, and D. Bothner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 203603 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Observation of Non-Hermitian Edge Burst Effect in One-Dimensional Photonic Quantum Walk

Jiankun Zhu, Ya-Li Mao, Hu Chen, Kui-Xing Yang, Linhu Li, Bing Yang, Zheng-Da Li, and Jingyun Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 203801 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Boundary Layer Thickness and Friction Velocity by Symmetry Arguments

Chenning Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 204001 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Multiflagellate Swimming Controlled by Hydrodynamic Interactions

Shiyuan Hu and Fanlong Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 204002 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of a Large Transverse Emittance Ratio $11 ∶ 1$ in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider for the Electron-Ion Collider

Y. Luo, D. Xu, M. Blaskiewicz, and C. Montag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 205001 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

As a crucial validation for the forthcoming electron-ion collider (EIC), an experiment at the RHIC demonstrates the ability to prepare and collide ion beams with emittance ratio of 11:1.

Breakdown of Quasilinear Theory in the Tokamak Edge

Arash Ashourvan and J. Candy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 205101 (2024) - Published 13 May, 2024

Conversion of Magnetic Energy to Plasma Kinetic Energy During Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection in the Laboratory

Sayak Bose, William Fox, Hantao Ji, Jongsoo Yoo, Aaron Goodman, Andrew Alt, and Masaaki Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 205102 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Phase Separation in Cold Para- $H_{2}$ $D_{2}$ Clusters

Russell Sliter, Kim Hyeon-Deuk, and Andrey F. Vilesov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206001 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Clusters containing a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes para-H $_{2}$ and D $_{2}$ remain liquid at a temperature of 2 K and exhibit phase separation, a hallmark of quantum fluids.

Dipolar Order Controls Dielectric Response of Glass-Forming Liquids

Till Böhmer, Florian Pabst, Jan P. Gabriel, and Thomas Blochowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206101 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

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Crystal Nucleation in Supercooled Atomic Liquids

Johannes Möller et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206102 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

A new liquid-jet technology enabled researchers to test the theory for liquid freezing more stringently than was possible in previous experiments, but uncertainties remain.

Coexistence of Interacting Charge Density Waves in a Layered Semiconductor

B. Q. Lv, Alfred Zong, Dong Wu, Zhengwei Nie, Yifan Su, Dongsung Choi, Batyr Ilyas, Bryan T. Fichera, Jiarui Li, Edoardo Baldini, Masataka Mogi, Y.-B. Huang, Hoi Chun Po, Sheng Meng, Yao Wang, N. L. Wang, and Nuh Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206401 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gate-Controlled Anyon Generation and Detection in Kitaev Spin Liquids

Gábor B. Halász

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206501 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

A scheme utilizing tunable gate voltages in a Kitaev spin liquid and a monolayer semiconductor is proposed as a method for both generating and detecting individual Ising anyons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring the Boundary Gapless State and Criticality via Disorder Operator

Zenan Liu, Rui-Zhen Huang, Yan-Cheng Wang, Zheng Yan, and Dao-Xin Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206502 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Slush State in Rydberg Atom Arrays

Tengzhou Zhang and Zi Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206503 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Rydberg atom arrays with kinetic constraints reveal a quantum slush state: a heterogeneous liquid and glass mixture with quasi-long-range order.

Hyperbolic Non-Abelian Semimetal

Tarun Tummuru, Anffany Chen, Patrick M. Lenggenhager, Titus Neupert, Joseph Maciejko, and Tomáš Bzdušek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206601 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Machine Learning the Disorder Landscape of Majorana Nanowires

Jacob R. Taylor, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206602 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Anisotropic Galvanomagnetic Effects in Single Cubic Crystals: A Theory and Its Verification

Yu Miao, Junwen Sun, Cunxu Gao, Desheng Xue, and X. R. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206701 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Strong-Field Bloch Electron Interferometry for Band-Structure Retrieval

Tobias Weitz, Christian Heide, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206901 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Anomalous Long-Distance Coherence in Critically Driven Cavity Magnonics

Ying Yang, Jiguang Yao, Yang Xiao, Pak-Tik Fong, Hoi-Kwan Lau, and C.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206902 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Engineering the Impact of Phonon Dephasing on the Coherence of a ${WSe}_{2}$ Single-Photon Source via Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 206903 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

The coherence of single-photon emissions is controlled by coupling to optical cavities.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Thermodynamic Geometry of Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Cyclically Driven Transport

Zi Wang (王子) and Jie Ren (任捷)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 207101 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

Statistics of Extreme Events in Integrable Turbulence

T. Congy, G. A. El, G. Roberti, A. Tovbis, S. Randoux, and P. Suret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 207201 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

Mapping Out Phase Diagrams with Generative Classifiers

Julian Arnold, Frank Schäfer, Alan Edelman, and Christoph Bruder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 207301 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Biased Ising Model Using Two Coupled Kerr Parametric Oscillators with External Force

Pablo Álvarez, Davide Pittilini, Filippo Miserocchi, Sathyanarayanan Raamamurthy, Gabriel Margiani, Orjan Ameye, Javier del Pino, Oded Zilberberg, and Alexander Eichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 207401 (2024) - Published 17 May, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Structural Relaxation Time of a Polymer Glass during Deformation

Pradip K. Bera, Grigori A. Medvedev, James M. Caruthers, and Mark D. Ediger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208101 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

The structural and segmental relaxation times in a deformed polymer glass are similar, indicating a connection between segmental mobility and structural relaxation.

Diffusiophoretic Fast Swelling of Chemically Responsive Hydrogels

Chinmay Katke, Peter A. Korevaar, and C. Nadir Kaplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208201 (2024) - Published 15 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetic Theory of Motility Induced Phase Separation for Active Brownian Particles

Rodrigo Soto, Martín Pinto, and Ricardo Brito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208301 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

Active Brownian particles can be described by a Boltzmann–Enskog-like kinetic theory in which a motility-induced phase separation could arise from a reduced effective velocity of particles.

Competition between Self-Assembly and Phase Separation Governs High-Temperature Condensation of a DNA Liquid

Omkar Hegde, Tianhao Li, Anjali Sharma, Marco Borja, William M. Jacobs, and W. Benjamin Rogers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208401 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Adapting to the Abyss: Passive Ventilation in the Deep-Sea Glass Sponge Euplectella aspergillum

Giacomo Falcucci, Giorgio Amati, Gino Bella, Andrea Luigi Facci, Vesselin K. Krastev, Giovanni Polverino, Sauro Succi, and Maurizio Porfiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 208402 (2024) - Published 16 May, 2024

A deep-sea sponge’s intricate skeleton converts the horizontal flow of ocean currents into a vertical flow through the sponge’s body—a mechanism that helps with the sponge’s filter feeding.

ERRATA

Erratum: Entanglement-Optimal Trajectories of Many-Body Quantum Markov Processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243601 (2022)]

Tatiana Vovk and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 209901 (2024) - Published 14 May, 2024