Volume 132, Issue 22

31 May 2024

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Fluorescence microscope image from a video showing the dynamics of active nematics confined to a cardioid along with the tracks of three defects, which form a braid. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Controlling Chaos: Periodic Defect Braiding in Active Nematics Confined to a Cardioid
Fereshteh L. Memarian, Derek Hammar, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Mark Elias, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Linda S. Hirst
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 228301 (2024)

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Topological Photonic Alloy

Tiantao Qu, Mudi Wang, Xiaoyu Cheng, Xiaohan Cui, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jun Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223802 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Experiments and numerical simulations indicate that randomly replacing a few nonmagnetic components with magnetic ones in a photonic alloy induces backscattering-free light propagation along its edge.

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How Charges Separate when Surfaces Are Dewetted

Aaron D. Ratschow, Lisa S. Bauer, Pravash Bista, Stefan A. L. Weber, Hans-Jürgen Butt, and Steffen Hardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 224002 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Experiments and theory explain how charge builds up in a moving water drop and why the effect requires a water-repelling surface.

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Surface-Symmetry-Driven Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Canted Ferrimagnetism in Collinear Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnet ${Cr}_{2} O_{3}$

Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Sophie F. Weber, Pavlo Makushko, Igor Veremchuk, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Denys Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226702 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Group theory and first-principles calculations combine to predict which antiferromagnets have potentially useful net surface magnetization.

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Excited-State Half-Lives in ${}^{130}{Cd}$ and the Isospin Dependence of Effective Charges

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 222501 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Experiments comparing neutron-rich cadmium with previous data on a neutron-poor version prove that a key parameter in nuclear calculations depends on the neutron-to-proton ratio.

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Timing Correlated-Electron Emission from Strong Field Atomic Double Ionization with Polarization-Gated Attoclock

YanLan Wang, ShaoGang Yu, RenPing Sun, HuiPeng Kang, SongPo Xu, XuanYang Lai, Wei Quan, and XiaoJun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223202 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Polarization-gated attoclock technique allows the observation of electron-electron interaction in nonsequential photoionization events.

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Quantum Bipolaron Superconductivity from Quadratic Electron-Phonon Coupling

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226001 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

A mechanism for strong-coupling superconductivity based on the electron-phonon interaction, quadratic in phonon displacements suggests a new route to high-temperature superconductivity.

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Transition between Heavy-Fermion-Strange-Metal and Quantum Spin Liquid in a $4 d$ -Electron Trimer Lattice

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226503 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Observation of a heavy Fermi surface of charge-neutral spinons in Ba $_{4}$ Nb $_{1 - x}$ Ru $_{3 + x}$ O $_{12}$ provides experimental evidence for a robust quantum spin liquid that features an extraordinarily large entropy and a linear heat capacity extending into the milli-Kelvin regime.

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Controlling Chaos: Periodic Defect Braiding in Active Nematics Confined to a Cardioid

Fereshteh L. Memarian, Derek Hammar, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Mark Elias, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Linda S. Hirst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 228301 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Confining active nematics in cardioid-shaped wells leads to realization of the golden braid, a maximally efficient mixing state of exactly three defects with no defect creation or annihilation.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Semi-Device-Independently Characterizing Quantum Temporal Correlations

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Correlation-Pattern-Based Continuous Variable Entanglement Detection through Neural Networks

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220203 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Statistics of Local Level Spacings in Single- and Many-Body Quantum Chaos

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Biorthogonal Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in Non-Hermitian Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220402 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Reservoir-Free Decoherence in Flying Qubits

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Chiral Basis for Qubits and Spin-Helix Decay

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220404 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Local Integrals of Motion in Dipole-Conserving Models with Hilbert Space Fragmentation

Patrycja Łydżba, Peter Prelovšek, and Marcin Mierzejewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220405 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Phase-Sensitive Quantum Measurement without Controlled Operations

Yilun Yang, Arthur Christianen, Mari Carmen Bañuls, Dominik S. Wild, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220601 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Parity Quantum Computing as $y z$ -Plane Measurement-Based Quantum Computing

Isaac D. Smith, Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup, and Hans J. Briegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220602 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Beating the Standard Quantum Limit Electronic Field Sensing by Simultaneously Using Quantum Entanglement and Squeezing

X. N. Feng, M. Zhang, and L. F. Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220801 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Fewer Measurements from Shadow Tomography with $N$ -Representability Conditions

Irma Avdic and David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 220802 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Can Supercooled Phase Transitions Explain the Gravitational Wave Background Observed by Pulsar Timing Arrays?

Peter Athron, Andrew Fowlie, Chih-Ting Lu, Lachlan Morris, Lei Wu, Yongcheng Wu, and Zhongxiu Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221001 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Improved Planck Constraints on Axionlike Early Dark Energy as a Resolution of the Hubble Tension

George Efstathiou, Erik Rosenberg, and Vivian Poulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221002 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Constraining Primordial Black Hole Formation from Single-Field Inflation

Jason Kristiano and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221003 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

A Lower Bound on Dark Matter Mass

Mustafa A. Amin and Mehrdad Mirbabayi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221004 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Local in Time Conservative Binary Dynamics at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order

Christoph Dlapa, Gregor Kälin, Zhengwen Liu, and Rafael A. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221401 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Particles and Fields

Field Theory Expansions of String Theory Amplitudes

Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221601 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

$w_{1 + \infty}$ Algebra with a Cosmological Constant and the Celestial Sphere

Tomasz R. Taylor and Bin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221602 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Decay and Fission of Magnetic Quivers

Antoine Bourget, Marcus Sperling, and Zhenghao Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221603 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Search for Nearly Mass-Degenerate Higgsinos Using Low-Momentum Mildly Displaced Tracks in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221801 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Jet-Origin Identification and Its Application at an Electron-Positron Higgs Factory

Hao Liang, Yongfeng Zhu, Yuexin Wang, Yuzhi Che, Manqi Ruan, Chen Zhou, and Huilin Qu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221802 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Higgs-Confinement Continuity and Matching of Aharonov-Bohm Phases

Yui Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 221901 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Heavy-Quark Momentum Broadening in a Non-Abelian Plasma away from Thermal Equilibrium

Harshit Pandey, Sören Schlichting, and Sayantan Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 222301 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Universality Classes of Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: Foundations

L. Gavassino, M. Disconzi, and J. Noronha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 222302 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Photoproduction of $K^{+} K^{-}$ Pairs in Ultraperipheral Collisions

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 222303 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

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Excited-State Half-Lives in ${}^{130}{Cd}$ and the Isospin Dependence of Effective Charges

A. Jungclaus et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 222501 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Experiments comparing neutron-rich cadmium with previous data on a neutron-poor version prove that a key parameter in nuclear calculations depends on the neutron-to-proton ratio.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rydberg Platform for Nonergodic Chiral Quantum Dynamics

Riccardo J. Valencia-Tortora, Nicola Pancotti, Michael Fleischhauer, Hannes Bernien, and Jamir Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223201 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

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Timing Correlated-Electron Emission from Strong Field Atomic Double Ionization with Polarization-Gated Attoclock

YanLan Wang, ShaoGang Yu, RenPing Sun, HuiPeng Kang, SongPo Xu, XuanYang Lai, Wei Quan, and XiaoJun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223202 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Polarization-gated attoclock technique allows the observation of electron-electron interaction in nonsequential photoionization events.

Spectral Signatures of Vibronic Coupling in Trapped Cold Ionic Rydberg Systems

Joseph W. P. Wilkinson, Weibin Li, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223401 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Higgs Oscillations in a Unitary Fermi Superfluid

P. Dyke, S. Musolino, H. Kurkjian, D. J. M. Ahmed-Braun, A. Pennings, I. Herrera, S. Hoinka, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, V. E. Colussi, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223402 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Protecting Quantum Information via Destructive Interference of Correlated Noise

Alon Salhov, Qingyun Cao, Jianming Cai, Alex Retzker, Fedor Jelezko, and Genko Genov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223601 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Engineering Dispersive-Dissipative Modal Coupling in Hybrid Optical Microresonators

Xiaoxiu Zhu, Xiao Xiong, Zhendong Zhu, Wenjing Liu, Qi-Tao Cao, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223801 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

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Topological Photonic Alloy

Tiantao Qu, Mudi Wang, Xiaoyu Cheng, Xiaohan Cui, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Zhao-Qing Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jun Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223802 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Direct Measurement of Energy Transfer in Strongly Driven Rotating Turbulence

Omri Shaltiel, Alon Salhov, Omri Gat, and Eran Sharon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 224001 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

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How Charges Separate when Surfaces Are Dewetted

Aaron D. Ratschow, Lisa S. Bauer, Pravash Bista, Stefan A. L. Weber, Hans-Jürgen Butt, and Steffen Hardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 224002 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Experiments and theory explain how charge builds up in a moving water drop and why the effect requires a water-repelling surface.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Single-Shot Diagnosis of Electron Energy Evolution via Streaked Betatron X Rays in a Curved Laser Wakefield Accelerator

Y. Ma, J. A. Cardarelli, P. T. Campbell, S. Fourmaux, R. Fitzgarrald, M. D. Balcazar, A. F. Antoine, N. F. Beier, Q. Qian, A. E. Hussein, B. Kettle, S. R. Klein, K. Krushelnick, Y. F. Li, S. P. D. Mangles, G. Sarri, D. Seipt, V. Senthilkumaran, M. J. V. Streeter, L. Willingale, and A. G. R. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 225001 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Coherent High-Frequency Axial Oscillations in a Partially Magnetized Direct Current Magnetron Discharge

R. C. Przybocki and M. A. Cappelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 225301 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Quantum Bipolaron Superconductivity from Quadratic Electron-Phonon Coupling

Zhaoyu Han, Steven A. Kivelson, and Pavel A. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226001 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

A mechanism for strong-coupling superconductivity based on the electron-phonon interaction, quadratic in phonon displacements suggests a new route to high-temperature superconductivity.

Inverse Spin-Hall Effect and Spin Swapping in Spin-Split Superconductors

Lina Johnsen Kamra and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226002 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

High-Temperature Anomalous Metal States in Iron-Based Interface Superconductors

Yanan Li, Haiwen Liu, Haoran Ji, Chengcheng Ji, Shichao Qi, Xiaotong Jiao, Wenfeng Dong, Yi Sun, Wenhao Zhang, Zihan Cui, Minghu Pan, Nitin Samarth, Lili Wang, X. C. Xie, Qi-Kun Xue, Yi Liu, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226003 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Preferential Nucleation of Dislocation Loops under Stress Explained by A15 Frank-Kasper Nanophases in Aluminum

T. Jourdan, A. M. Goryaeva, and M.-C. Marinica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226101 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Transonic and Supershear Crack Propagation Driven by Geometric Nonlinearities

Mohit Pundir, Mokhtar Adda-Bedia, and David S. Kammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226102 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Nanosecond Structural Dynamics during Electrical Melting of Charge Density Waves in $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$

Daniel B. Durham, Thomas E. Gage, Connor P. Horn, Xuedan Ma, Haihua Liu, Ilke Arslan, Supratik Guha, and Charudatta Phatak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226201 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Controllable Andreev Bound States in Bilayer Graphene Josephson Junctions from Short to Long Junction Limits

Geon-Hyoung Park, Wonjun Lee, Sein Park, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Gil Young Cho, and Gil-Ho Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226301 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Emergent Quantum Phenomena of a Noncentrosymmetric Charge Density Wave in $1 T$ -Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Cheong-Eung Ahn, Kyung-Hwan Jin, Young-Jae Choi, Jae Whan Park, Han Woong Yeom, Ara Go, Yong Baek Kim, and Gil Young Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226401 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Can Orbital-Selective Néel Transitions Survive Strong Nonlocal Electronic Correlations?

Evgeny A. Stepanov and Silke Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226501 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Quantum Simulation of the Tricritical Ising Model in Tunable Josephson Junction Ladders

Lorenzo Maffi, Niklas Tausendpfund, Matteo Rizzi, and Michele Burrello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226502 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

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Transition between Heavy-Fermion-Strange-Metal and Quantum Spin Liquid in a $4 d$ -Electron Trimer Lattice

Hengdi Zhao, Yu Zhang, Pedro Schlottmann, Rahul Nandkishore, Lance E. DeLong, and Gang Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226503 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Magnetic Effects of Nonmagnetic Impurities in Gapped Short-Range Resonating Valence Bond Spin Liquids

Md Zahid Ansari and Kedar Damle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226504 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Different Fractional Charges from Auto- and Cross-Correlation Noise in Quantum Hall States without Upstream Modes

Navketan Batra and D. E. Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226601 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Emergent Spin-Gapped Magnetization Plateaus in a Spin- $1 / 2$ Perfect Kagome Antiferromagnet

S. Suetsugu, T. Asaba, Y. Kasahara, Y. Kohsaka, K. Totsuka, B. Li, Y. Zhao, Y. Li, M. Tokunaga, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226701 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

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Surface-Symmetry-Driven Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction and Canted Ferrimagnetism in Collinear Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnet ${Cr}_{2} O_{3}$

Oleksandr V. Pylypovskyi, Sophie F. Weber, Pavlo Makushko, Igor Veremchuk, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Denys Makarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226702 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Group theory and first-principles calculations combine to predict which antiferromagnets have potentially useful net surface magnetization.

Accessing Ultrafast Spin-Transport Dynamics in Copper Using Broadband Terahertz Spectroscopy

Jiří Jechumtál, Reza Rouzegar, Oliver Gueckstock, Christian Denker, Wolfgang Hoppe, Quentin Remy, Tom S. Seifert, Peter Kubaščík, Georg Woltersdorf, Piet W. Brouwer, Markus Münzenberg, Tobias Kampfrath, and Lukáš Nádvorník

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226703 (2024) - Published 30 May, 2024

Efficient Magnon Injection and Detection via the Orbital Rashba-Edelstein Effect

J. A. Mendoza-Rodarte, M. Cosset-Chéneau, B. J. van Wees, and M. H. D. Guimarães

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226704 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Theory of Collective Excitations in the Quadruple- $Q$ Magnetic Hedgehog Lattices

Rintaro Eto and Masahito Mochizuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 226705 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Controllable Manipulation of Semifluxon States in Phase-Shifted Josephson Junctions

Razmik A. Hovhannisyan, Taras Golod, and Vladimir M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 227001 (2024) - Published 31 May, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Microscopic Intervention Yields Abrupt Transition in Interdependent Ferromagnetic Networks

Bnaya Gross, Ivan Bonamassa, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 227401 (2024) - Published 29 May, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Charge Regulation Effects in Polyelectrolyte Adsorption

Jiaxing Yuan and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 228101 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlling Chaos: Periodic Defect Braiding in Active Nematics Confined to a Cardioid

Fereshteh L. Memarian, Derek Hammar, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Mark Elias, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Linda S. Hirst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 228301 (2024) - Published 28 May, 2024

Confining active nematics in cardioid-shaped wells leads to realization of the golden braid, a maximally efficient mixing state of exactly three defects with no defect creation or annihilation.