Volume 132, Issue 21

24 May 2024

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Relativistic electron beams are deflected and guided over curved paths by means of the magnetic field generated in a plasma-discharge capillary.

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Guiding of Charged Particle Beams in Curved Plasma-Discharge Capillaries
R. Pompili et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 215001 (2024)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Coauthor! Coauthor!

Randall D. Kamien and Daniel Ucko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210001 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Nonreciprocal Quantum Batteries

B. Ahmadi, P. Mazurek, P. Horodecki, and S. Barzanjeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210402 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Coupling the charger and battery to a common reservoir induces a direct flow of energy into the battery.

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Observation of Alfvén Wave Reflection in the Solar Chromosphere: Ponderomotive Force and First Ionization Potential Effect

Mariarita Murabito, Marco Stangalini, J. Martin Laming, Deborah Baker, Andy S. H. To, David M. Long, David H. Brooks, Shahin Jafarzadeh, David B. Jess, and Gherardo Valori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 215201 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

New solar observations indicate that plasma waves are responsible for the Sun’s outer atmosphere having different abundances of chemical elements than the Sun’s other layers.

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Coexistence of Nonequilibrium Density and Equilibrium Energy Distribution of Quasiparticles in a Superconducting Qubit

Thomas Connolly, Pavel D. Kurilovich, Spencer Diamond, Heekun Nho, Charlotte G. L. Bøttcher, Leonid I. Glazman, Valla Fatemi, and Michel H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217001 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Measurements of the temperature distribution of quasiparticles in superconducting circuits reveal behavior that could inform strategies for mitigating quasiparticle-induced errors in superconducting qubits.

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First Results in the Search for Dark Sectors at NA64 with the CERN SPS High Energy Muon Beam

Yu. M. Andreev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211803 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

An experiment at CERN seeks signs of dark matter by looking for missing energy and momentum in the debris of particle collisions.

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Pseudomagic Quantum States

Andi Gu, Lorenzo Leone, Soumik Ghosh, Jens Eisert, Susanne F. Yelin, and Yihui Quek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210602 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

The newly constructed pseudomagic ensembles possess low nonstabilizerness but are computationally indistinguishable from those with high nonstabilizerness, having implications for quantum scramblers, quantum cryptography, and magic state distillation.

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First Measurement of $R (X_{τ / ℓ})$ as an Inclusive Test of the $b \to c τ ν$ Anomaly

I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211804 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

The ratio of inclusive semileptonic $B$ meson decays into $τ$ versus other leptons is in agreement with lepton universality.

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Giant Two-Level Systems in a Granular Superconductor

M. Kristen, J. N. Voss, M. Wildermuth, A. Bilmes, J. Lisenfeld, H. Rotzinger, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217002 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

A class of strongly coupled two-level systems is revealed in experiments with compact microwave resonators fabricated from granular aluminum thin films.

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Tracer Diffusion beyond Gaussian Behavior: Explicit Results for General Single-File Systems

Aurélien Grabsch and Olivier Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217101 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

An explicit formula is provided for the fourth cumulant of an arbitrary single-file system.

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Thermalization of Two- and Three-Dimensional Classical Lattices

Zhen Wang, Weicheng Fu, Yong Zhang, and Hong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217102 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

A universal scaling law shows that thermalization can be universally achieved in sufficiently large two- and three-dimensional lattices via weak nonlinear interactions.

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Emerging Mesoscale Flows and Chaotic Advection in Dense Active Matter

Yann-Edwin Keta, Juliane U. Klamser, Robert L. Jack, and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 218301 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Reminiscent of multiscale flow patterns in turbulence, mesoscale flows and chaotic advection can develop in dense active suspensions resulting from a competition between crowding effects and propulsion.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Entanglement Growth via Splitting of a Few Thermal Quanta

Pradip Laha, Darren W. Moore, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210201 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Observation of Diverse Asymmetric Structures in High-Dimensional Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Rui Qu, Chao Zhang, Ze-Hong Chang, Xiao-Lin Zhang, Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Pei Zhang, and Bi-Heng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210202 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Robust Spectral $π$ Pairing in the Random-Field Floquet Quantum Ising Model

Harald Schmid, Alexander-Georg Penner, Kang Yang, Leonid Glazman, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210401 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

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Nonreciprocal Quantum Batteries

B. Ahmadi, P. Mazurek, P. Horodecki, and S. Barzanjeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210402 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Coupling the charger and battery to a common reservoir induces a direct flow of energy into the battery.

Experimental Realization of Self-Contained Quantum Refrigeration

Keyi Huang, Cheng Xi, Xinyue Long, Hongfeng Liu, Yu-ang Fan, Xiangyu Wang, Yuxuan Zheng, Yufang Feng, Xinfang Nie, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210403 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

Ground State Nature and Nonlinear Squeezing of Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States

Petr Marek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210601 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

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Pseudomagic Quantum States

Andi Gu, Lorenzo Leone, Soumik Ghosh, Jens Eisert, Susanne F. Yelin, and Yihui Quek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210602 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Quantum-Enhanced Metrology with Network States

Yuxiang Yang, Benjamin Yadin, and Zhen-Peng Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210801 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Arbitrarily Small Nonlocality

Lewis Wooltorton, Peter Brown, and Roger Colbeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210802 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Unbounded Device-Independent Quantum Key Rates from Arbitrarily Small Nonlocality

Máté Farkas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210803 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Neutrino Trapping and Out-of-Equilibrium Effects in Binary Neutron-Star Merger Remnants

Pedro Luis Espino, Peter Hammond, David Radice, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Rossella Gamba, Francesco Zappa, Luís Felipe Longo Micchi, and Albino Perego

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211001 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Resurrecting Hitomi for Decaying Dark Matter and Forecasting Leading Sensitivity for XRISM

Christopher Dessert, Orion Ning, Nicholas L. Rodd, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211002 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Effect of Wave Dark Matter on Equal Mass Black Hole Mergers

Josu C. Aurrekoetxea, Katy Clough, Jamie Bamber, and Pedro G. Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211401 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Particles and Fields

Coulomb Branch Amplitudes from a Deformed Amplituhedron Geometry

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Wojciech Flieger, Johannes M. Henn, Anders Schreiber, and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211601 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Hybrid Goldstone Modes from the Double Copy Bootstrap

Yang Li, Diederik Roest, and Tonnis ter Veldhuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211602 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

New Constraint for Isotropic Lorentz Violation from LHC Data

David Amram, Killian Bouzoud, Nicolas Chanon, Hubert Hansen, Marcos R. Ribeiro, Jr., and Marco Schreck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211801 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

New Directions for Axionlike Particle Searches Combining Nuclear Reactors and Haloscopes

Fernando Arias-Aragón, Vedran Brdar, and Jérémie Quevillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211802 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

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First Results in the Search for Dark Sectors at NA64 with the CERN SPS High Energy Muon Beam

Yu. M. Andreev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211803 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

An experiment at CERN seeks signs of dark matter by looking for missing energy and momentum in the debris of particle collisions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Measurement of $R (X_{τ / ℓ})$ as an Inclusive Test of the $b \to c τ ν$ Anomaly

I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211804 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

The ratio of inclusive semileptonic $B$ meson decays into $τ$ versus other leptons is in agreement with lepton universality.

Precision Calculation of the Electromagnetic Radii of the Proton and Neutron from Lattice QCD

Dalibor Djukanovic, Georg von Hippel, Harvey B. Meyer, Konstantin Ottnad, Miguel Salg, and Hartmut Wittig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211901 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Top-Bottom Interference Contribution to Fully Inclusive Higgs Production

Michał Czakon, Felix Eschment, Marco Niggetiedt, Rene Poncelet, and Tom Schellenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 211902 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Medium-Enhanced $c \bar{c}$ Radiation

Maximilian Attems, Jasmine Brewer, Gian Michele Innocenti, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, Sohyun Park, Wilke van der Schee, Gregory Soyez, and Urs Achim Wiedemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 212301 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Comb-Referenced Doppler-Free Spectrometry of the ${}^{200}{Hg}$ and ${}^{202}{Hg}$ Intercombination Line at 254 nm

Stefania Gravina, Naveed A. Chishti, Simona Di Bernardo, Eugenio Fasci, Antonio Castrillo, Athanasios Laliotis, and Livio Gianfrani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 213001 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Engineering of a Low-Entropy Quantum Simulator for Strongly Correlated Electrons Using Cold Atoms with $SU (N)$ -Symmetric Interactions

Daisuke Yamamoto and Katsuhiro Morita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 213401 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Multiphoton Atom Interferometry via Cavity-Enhanced Bragg Diffraction

D. O. Sabulsky, J. Junca, X. Zou, A. Bertoldi, M. Prevedelli, Q. Beaufils, R. Geiger, A. Landragin, P. Bouyer, and B. Canuel (MIGA Consortium)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 213601 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

Single-Atom Verification of the Optimal Trade-Off between Speed and Cost in Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 213602 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Higher-Order Topological Insulators via Momentum-Space Nonsymmorphic Symmetries

Jinbing Hu, Songlin Zhuang, and Yi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 213801 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Stable Vortex Solitons Sustained by Localized Gain in a Cubic Medium

Chunyan Li and Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 213802 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Intrinsic Stress Field for Liquid Surfaces

Zi-Feng Yuan, Brian B. Laird, Cheng-Jie Xia, Xiang-Ming Ma, Hong-Tao Liang, and Yang Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 214001 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Guiding of Charged Particle Beams in Curved Plasma-Discharge Capillaries

R. Pompili et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 215001 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

First Measurement of Drift-Alfvén Wave Polarization in Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas

Xiaodi Du, Liu Chen, William W. Heidbrink, Michael A. Van Zeeland, Max E. Austin, Jie Chen, Yueqiang Liu, George R. McKee, and Zheng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 215101 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

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Observation of Alfvén Wave Reflection in the Solar Chromosphere: Ponderomotive Force and First Ionization Potential Effect

Mariarita Murabito, Marco Stangalini, J. Martin Laming, Deborah Baker, Andy S. H. To, David M. Long, David H. Brooks, Shahin Jafarzadeh, David B. Jess, and Gherardo Valori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 215201 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

New solar observations indicate that plasma waves are responsible for the Sun’s outer atmosphere having different abundances of chemical elements than the Sun’s other layers.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Universal Spin Superconducting Diode Effect from Spin-Orbit Coupling

Yue Mao, Qing Yan, Yu-Chen Zhuang, and Qing-Feng Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216001 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Emerging Two-Dimensional Conductivity at the Interface between Mott and Band Insulators

I. V. Maznichenko, S. Ostanin, D. Maryenko, V. K. Dugaev, E. Ya. Sherman, P. Buczek, I. Mertig, M. Kawasaki, and A. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216201 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Dissipation-Induced Extended-Localized Transition

Yaru Liu, Zeqing Wang, Chao Yang, Jianwen Jie, and Yucheng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216301 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Unambiguous Fluctuation Decomposition of the Self-Energy: Pseudogap Physics beyond Spin Fluctuations

Yang Yu, Sergei Iskakov, Emanuel Gull, Karsten Held, and Friedrich Krien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216501 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Spin Echo, Fidelity, and the Quantum Critical Fan in ${TmVO}_{4}$

Y-H. Nian, I. Vinograd, T. Green, C. Chaffey, P. Massat, R. R. P. Singh, M. P. Zic, I. R. Fisher, and N. J. Curro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216502 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Finite Width of Anyons Changes Their Braiding Signature

K. Iyer, F. Ronetti, B. Grémaud, T. Martin, J. Rech, and T. Jonckheere

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216601 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Non-Abelian Topological Phases and Their Quotient Relations in Acoustic Systems

Xiao-Chen Sun, Jia-Bao Wang, Cheng He, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216602 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

Coherent and Dissipative Coupling in a Magnetomechanical System

P. Carrara, M. Brioschi, R. Silvani, A. O. Adeyeye, G. Panaccione, G. Gubbiotti, G. Rossi, and R. Cucini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216701 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Observation of Cluster Magnetic Octupole Domains in the Antiferromagnetic Weyl Semimetal ${Mn}_{3} Sn$ Nanowire

Hironari Isshiki, Nico Budai, Ayuko Kobayashi, Ryota Uesugi, Tomoya Higo, Satoru Nakatsuji, and YoshiChika Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216702 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

Thermal Emission Modulation by Electron Population in Quantum Dots

Yu Gu, Haixiao Xu, and Zhi Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216901 (2024) - Published 21 May, 2024

Field-Induced Rocking-Curve Effects in Attosecond Electron Diffraction

Y. Morimoto and P. Baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216902 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

Electrical Control and Transport of Tightly Bound Interlayer Excitons in a ${MoSe}_{2} / hBN / {MoSe}_{2}$ Heterostructure

Lifu Zhang, Liuxin Gu, Ruihao Ni, Ming Xie, Suji Park, Houk Jang, Rundong Ma, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and You Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 216903 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

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Coexistence of Nonequilibrium Density and Equilibrium Energy Distribution of Quasiparticles in a Superconducting Qubit

Thomas Connolly, Pavel D. Kurilovich, Spencer Diamond, Heekun Nho, Charlotte G. L. Bøttcher, Leonid I. Glazman, Valla Fatemi, and Michel H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217001 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

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Giant Two-Level Systems in a Granular Superconductor

M. Kristen, J. N. Voss, M. Wildermuth, A. Bilmes, J. Lisenfeld, H. Rotzinger, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217002 (2024) - Published 22 May, 2024

A class of strongly coupled two-level systems is revealed in experiments with compact microwave resonators fabricated from granular aluminum thin films.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tracer Diffusion beyond Gaussian Behavior: Explicit Results for General Single-File Systems

Aurélien Grabsch and Olivier Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217101 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

An explicit formula is provided for the fourth cumulant of an arbitrary single-file system.

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Thermalization of Two- and Three-Dimensional Classical Lattices

Zhen Wang, Weicheng Fu, Yong Zhang, and Hong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217102 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

A universal scaling law shows that thermalization can be universally achieved in sufficiently large two- and three-dimensional lattices via weak nonlinear interactions.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Nonaffinity of Liquid Networks and Bicontinuous Mesophases

Michael S. Dimitriyev, Xueyan Feng, Edwin L. Thomas, and Gregory M. Grason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 218201 (2024) - Published 23 May, 2024

Unifying Atoms and Colloids near the Glass Transition through Bond-Order Topology

Laura Stricker, Peter M. Derlet, Ahmet Faik Demirörs, Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri, and Jan Vermant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 218202 (2024) - Published 24 May, 2024

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COMMENTS

Comment on “Topological Phase Transitions of Dirac Magnons in Honeycomb Ferromagnets”

Yun-Mei Li, Bin Wei, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 219601 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024

Lu et al. Reply:

Yu-Shan Lu, Jian-Lin Li, and Chien-Te Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 219602 (2024) - Published 20 May, 2024