Volume 132, Issue 26

28 June 2024

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Photograph of a twisted moiré phononic crystal. The inset amplifies the details of the top layer in which a sound probe and a sound point source are inserted.

From the article:

Topological Network Modes in a Twisted Moiré Phononic Crystal
Dan Yao, Liping Ye, Zhonghao Fu, Qing Wang, Hailong He, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266602 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Properties of Cosmic Deuterons Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261001 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

A long-running experiment aboard the International Space Station has found an unexpected population of cosmic rays made of heavy hydrogen ions.

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Combination of Measurements of the Top Quark Mass from Data Collected by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 8 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration^†["id", "col1"], ATLAS Collaboration^‡["id", "col2"])

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261902 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Researchers at CERN have significantly increased the precision of the measured value of the top-quark mass, a key input for making standard-model calculations.

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Toward Programmable Quantum Processors Based on Spin Qubits with Mechanically Mediated Interactions and Transport

F. Fung, E. Rosenfeld, J. D. Schaefer, A. Kabcenell, J. Gieseler, T. X. Zhou, T. Madhavan, N. Aslam, A. Yacoby, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263602 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

A vibrating nanobeam could be used to share information between distant solid-state spin qubits, potentially allowing use of these qubits in complex computations.

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Agnostic Phase Estimation

Xingrui Song, Flavio Salvati, Chandrashekhar Gaikwad, Nicole Yunger Halpern, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, and Kater Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260801 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Quantum sensing can benefit from entanglement protocols that can be interpreted as allowing qubits to go backward in time to choose an optimal initial state.

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Search for Dark Matter Ionization on the Night Side of Jupiter with Cassini

Carlos Blanco and Rebecca K. Leane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261002 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

A proposed dark matter (DM) search uses the possibility of excess H $_{3}^{+}$ in planetary atmospheres due to DM annihilation and uses this idea to place constraints on DM-nucleon cross section using data collected from Cassini’s Jupiter flyby.

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Hyperbolic Shear Metasurfaces

Enrico M. Renzi, Emanuele Galiffi, Xiang Ni, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263803 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

The introduction of hyperbolic shear metasurfaces that support ultraconfined hyperbolic surface modes with symmetry-tailored axial dispersion and loss redistribution makes possible the generalization of the features of shear polaritons to metasurfaces.

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Phase Transition to Turbulence via Moving Fronts

Sébastien Gomé, Aliénor Rivière, Laurette S. Tuckerman, and Dwight Barkley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 264002 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Simulations of Couette flow that eliminate discreet structures show that turbulence proliferates through expanding fronts and decays through spontaneous formation of laminar zones.

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Spin-Dependent $π π^{*}$ Gap in Graphene on a Magnetic Substrate

P. M. Sheverdyaeva, G. Bihlmayer, E. Cappelluti, D. Pacilé, F. Mazzola, N. Atodiresei, M. Jugovac, I. Grimaldi, G. Contini, Asish K. Kundu, I. Vobornik, J. Fujii, P. Moras, C. Carbone, and L. Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266401 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Photoemission spectroscopy and density-functional calculations indicate specific bands of graphene and spin-polarized Eu states induce a large spin-dependent gap at the Dirac point.

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Bath-Engineering Magnetic Order in Quantum Spin Chains: An Analytic Mapping Approach

Brett Min, Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs, Marlon Brenes, and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266701 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

A method showing a bath-induced transition from antiferromangnetic to ferromagnetic order in a Heisenberg spin chain demonstrates a unified framework for understanding impacts of environmental factors on magnetic ordering in spin systems.

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Robust Nuclear Spin Polarization via Ground-State Level Anticrossing of Boron Vacancy Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Shihao Ru, Zhengzhi Jiang, Haidong Liang, Jonathan Kenny, Hongbing Cai, Xiaodan Lyu, Robert Cernansky, Feifei Zhou, Yuzhe Yang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguch, Fuli Li, Teck Seng Koh, Xiaogang Liu, Fedor Jelezko, Andrew A. Bettiol, and Weibo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266801 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Leveraging the ground state level anticrossing, nitrogen nuclei near boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride achieve nuclear spin polarization via a weak laser.

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Overcoming Temperature Limits in the Optical Cooling of Solids Using Light-Dressed States

Luísa Toledo Tude, Conor N. Murphy, and Paul R. Eastham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266901 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

A theoretical approach shows a pathway which could cool to much lower temperatures than the previous temperature floor of around 100K using inelastic light scattering within the Floquet spectrum.

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Swirling Due to Misaligned Perception-Dependent Motility

Rodrigo Saavedra, Gerhard Gompper, and Marisol Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 268301 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

When their vision is not strictly aligned with their propulsion vector, active agents can spontaneously self-organize into large-scale swirling patterns.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Violation of a Leggett-Garg Inequality Using Ideal Negative Measurements in Neutron Interferometry

Elisabeth Kreuzgruber, Richard Wagner, Niels Geerits, Hartmut Lemmel, and Stephan Sponar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260201 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Computing Quantum Mean Values in the Deep Chaotic Regime

Gabriel M. Lando, Olivier Giraud, and Denis Ullmo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260401 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Large Deviation Full Counting Statistics in Adiabatic Open Quantum Dynamics

Paulo J. Paulino, Igor Lesanovsky, and Federico Carollo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260402 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Catalytic Advantage in Otto-like Two-Stroke Quantum Engines

Marcin Łobejko, Tanmoy Biswas, Paweł Mazurek, and Michał Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260403 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

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Agnostic Phase Estimation

Xingrui Song, Flavio Salvati, Chandrashekhar Gaikwad, Nicole Yunger Halpern, David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur, and Kater Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260801 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Quantum sensing can benefit from entanglement protocols that can be interpreted as allowing qubits to go backward in time to choose an optimal initial state.

Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution with Local Frequency Reference

Jiu-Peng Chen, Fei Zhou, Chi Zhang, Cong Jiang, Fa-Xi Chen, Jia Huang, Hao Li, Li-Xing You, Xiang-Bin Wang, Yang Liu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 260802 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Properties of Cosmic Deuterons Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261001 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

A long-running experiment aboard the International Space Station has found an unexpected population of cosmic rays made of heavy hydrogen ions.

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Search for Dark Matter Ionization on the Night Side of Jupiter with Cassini

Carlos Blanco and Rebecca K. Leane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261002 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Ringdown Gravitational Waves from Close Scattering of Two Black Holes

Yeong-Bok Bae, Young-Hwan Hyun, and Gungwon Kang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261401 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Giant Graviton Expansion from Bubbling Geometry: Discreteness from Quantized Geometry

Evan Deddo, James T. Liu, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, and Robert J. Saskowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261501 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Particles and Fields

Production of Dark Sector Particles via Resonant Positron Annihilation on Atomic Electrons

Fernando Arias-Aragón, Luc Darmé, Giovanni Grilli di Cortona, and Enrico Nardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261801 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Inclusive Hadronic Decay Rate of the $τ$ Lepton from Lattice QCD: The $\bar{u} s$ Flavor Channel and the Cabibbo Angle

Constantia Alexandrou, Simone Bacchio, Alessandro De Santis, Antonio Evangelista, Jacob Finkenrath, Roberto Frezzotti, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Marco Garofalo, Bartosz Kostrzewa, Vittorio Lubicz, Simone Romiti, Francesco Sanfilippo, Silvano Simula, Nazario Tantalo, Carsten Urbach, and Urs Wenger (Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261901 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

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Combination of Measurements of the Top Quark Mass from Data Collected by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at $\sqrt{s} = 7$ and 8 TeV

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration^†["id", "col1"], ATLAS Collaboration^‡["id", "col2"])

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261902 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Researchers at CERN have significantly increased the precision of the measured value of the top-quark mass, a key input for making standard-model calculations.

Simultaneous Determination of Fragmentation Functions and Test on Momentum Sum Rule

Jun Gao, ChongYang Liu, XiaoMin Shen, Hongxi Xing, and Yuxiang Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261903 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Hexadecapole Deformation of ${}^{238}U$ from Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions Using a Nonlinear Response Coefficient

Hao-jie Xu, Jie Zhao, and Fuqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 262301 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Astrophysical Equation-of-State Constraints on the Color-Superconducting Gap

Aleksi Kurkela, Krishna Rajagopal, and Rachel Steinhorst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 262701 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Eliminating Qubit-Type Cross-Talk in the $o m g$ Protocol

Samuel R. Vizvary, Zachary J. Wall, Matthew J. Boguslawski, Michael Bareian, Andrei Derevianko, Wesley C. Campbell, and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263201 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Core-Hole Coherent Spectroscopy in Molecules

Emilio Rodríguez-Cuenca, Antonio Picón, Solène Oberli, Alexander I. Kuleff, and Oriol Vendrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263202 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

Precise Photoexcitation Measurement of Tan’s Contact in the Entire BCS-BEC Crossover

Manuel Jäger and Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263401 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

Realizing Altermagnetism in Fermi-Hubbard Models with Ultracold Atoms

Purnendu Das, Valentin Leeb, Johannes Knolle, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263402 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Enhancing a Many-Body Dipolar Rydberg Tweezer Array with Arbitrary Local Controls

Guillaume Bornet, Gabriel Emperauger, Cheng Chen, Francisco Machado, Sabrina Chern, Lucas Leclerc, Bastien Gély, Yuki Torii Chew, Daniel Barredo, Thierry Lahaye, Norman Y. Yao, and Antoine Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263601 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

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Toward Programmable Quantum Processors Based on Spin Qubits with Mechanically Mediated Interactions and Transport

F. Fung, E. Rosenfeld, J. D. Schaefer, A. Kabcenell, J. Gieseler, T. X. Zhou, T. Madhavan, N. Aslam, A. Yacoby, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263602 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

A vibrating nanobeam could be used to share information between distant solid-state spin qubits, potentially allowing use of these qubits in complex computations.

Non-Hermitian Delocalization in a Two-Dimensional Photonic Quasicrystal

Zhaoyang Zhang, Shun Liang, Ismaël Septembre, Jiawei Yu, Yongping Huang, Maochang Liu, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Guillaume Malpuech, and Dmitry Solnyshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263801 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Time Refraction and Time Reflection above Critical Angle for Total Internal Reflection

Lior Bar-Hillel, Alex Dikopoltsev, Amit Kam, Yonatan Sharabi, Ohad Segal, Eran Lustig, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263802 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

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Hyperbolic Shear Metasurfaces

Enrico M. Renzi, Emanuele Galiffi, Xiang Ni, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 263803 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Freely Decaying Saffman Turbulence Experimentally Generated by Magnetic Stirrers

Jean-Baptiste Gorce and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 264001 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

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Phase Transition to Turbulence via Moving Fronts

Sébastien Gomé, Aliénor Rivière, Laurette S. Tuckerman, and Dwight Barkley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 264002 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Simulations of Couette flow that eliminate discreet structures show that turbulence proliferates through expanding fronts and decays through spontaneous formation of laminar zones.

Proton Collective Quantum Tunneling Induces Anomalous Thermal Conductivity of Ice under Pressure

Yufeng Wang, Ripeng Luo, Jian Chen, Xuefeng Zhou, Shanmin Wang, Junqiao Wu, Feiyu Kang, Kuang Yu, and Bo Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 264101 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Electron Heating in High Mach Number Collisionless Shocks

A. Vanthieghem, V. Tsiolis, A. Spitkovsky, Y. Todo, K. Sekiguchi, and F. Fiuza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 265201 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Keldysh Field Theory of Dynamical Exciton Condensation Transitions in Nonequilibrium Electron-Hole Bilayers

Yongxin Zeng, Valentin Crépel, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266001 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Helical Topological Superconducting Pairing at Finite Excitation Energies

Masoud Bahari, Song-Bo Zhang, Chang-An Li, Sang-Jun Choi, Philipp Rüßmann, Carsten Timm, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266201 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Emerging Spin-Orbit Torques in Low-Dimensional Dirac Materials

Joaquín Medina Dueñas, José H. García, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266301 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

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Spin-Dependent $π π^{*}$ Gap in Graphene on a Magnetic Substrate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266401 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Photoemission spectroscopy and density-functional calculations indicate specific bands of graphene and spin-polarized Eu states induce a large spin-dependent gap at the Dirac point.

Nematic Metal in a Multivalley Electron Gas: Variational Monte Carlo Analysis and Application to AlAs

Agnes Valenti, Vladimir Calvera, Steven A. Kivelson, Erez Berg, and Sebastian D. Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266501 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Transient Localization from the Interaction with Quantum Bosons

Hadi Rammal, Arnaud Ralko, Sergio Ciuchi, and Simone Fratini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266502 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Quantum Interference between Quasi-2D Fermi Surface Sheets in ${UTe}_{2}$

T. I. Weinberger, Z. Wu, D. E. Graf, Y. Skourski, A. Cabala, J. Pospíšil, J. Prokleška, T. Haidamak, G. Bastien, V. Sechovský, G. G. Lonzarich, M. Vališka, F. M. Grosche, and A. G. Eaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266503 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Exceptionally Slow, Long-Range, and Non-Gaussian Critical Fluctuations Dominate the Charge Density Wave Transition

Sk Kalimuddin, Sudipta Chatterjee, Arnab Bera, Hasan Afzal, Satyabrata Bera, Deep Singha Roy, Soham Das, Tuhin Debnath, Bhavtosh Bansal, and Mintu Mondal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266504 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Intriguing Low-Temperature Phase in the Antiferromagnetic Kagome Metal FeGe

M. Wenzel, E. Uykur, A. A. Tsirlin, S. Pal, R. Mathew Roy, C. Yi, C. Shekhar, C. Felser, A. V. Pronin, and M. Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266505 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Mott-Insulator State of FeSe as a Van der Waals 2D Material Is Unveiled

Byungkyun Kang, Maengsuk Kim, Chul Hong Park, and Anderson Janotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266506 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

Weyl Points on Nonorientable Manifolds

André Grossi Fonseca, Sachin Vaidya, Thomas Christensen, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Taylor L. Hughes, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266601 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Topological Network Modes in a Twisted Moiré Phononic Crystal

Dan Yao, Liping Ye, Zhonghao Fu, Qing Wang, Hailong He, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266602 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bath-Engineering Magnetic Order in Quantum Spin Chains: An Analytic Mapping Approach

Brett Min, Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs, Marlon Brenes, and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266701 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robust Nuclear Spin Polarization via Ground-State Level Anticrossing of Boron Vacancy Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266801 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024

Leveraging the ground state level anticrossing, nitrogen nuclei near boron vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride achieve nuclear spin polarization via a weak laser.

Spontaneous Inversion Symmetry Breaking and Emergence of Berry Curvature and Orbital Magnetization in Topological ${ZrTe}_{5}$ Films

Erqing Wang, Hui Zeng, Wenhui Duan, and Huaqing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266802 (2024) - Published 28 June, 2024

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Overcoming Temperature Limits in the Optical Cooling of Solids Using Light-Dressed States

Luísa Toledo Tude, Conor N. Murphy, and Paul R. Eastham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 266901 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

A theoretical approach shows a pathway which could cool to much lower temperatures than the previous temperature floor of around 100K using inelastic light scattering within the Floquet spectrum.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Direct Numerical Solutions to Stochastic Differential Equations with Multiplicative Noise

Ryan T. Grimm and Joel D. Eaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 267101 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

Transient Amplification of Broken Symmetry in Elastic Snap-Through

Qiong Wang, Andrea Giudici, Weicheng Huang, Yuzhe Wang, Mingchao Liu, Sameh Tawfick, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 267201 (2024) - Published 26 June, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Swirling Due to Misaligned Perception-Dependent Motility

Rodrigo Saavedra, Gerhard Gompper, and Marisol Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 268301 (2024) - Published 25 June, 2024

When their vision is not strictly aligned with their propulsion vector, active agents can spontaneously self-organize into large-scale swirling patterns.

Dynamic Scaling of Two-Dimensional Polar Flocks

Hugues Chaté and Alexandre Solon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 268302 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

Biological Rhythms Generated by a Single Activator-Repressor Loop with Inhomogeneity and Diffusion

Pablo Rojas, Oreste Piro, and Martin E. Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 268401 (2024) - Published 27 June, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Lower Bounds on Quantum Annealing Times [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 140601 (2023)]

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Lucas T. Brady, Jacob Bringewatt, and Yi-Kai Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 269901 (2024) - Published 24 June, 2024