Volume 132, Issue 3

19 January 2024

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Experimental observation (left) and numerical simulation (right) of the emergence of the Peregrine soliton in a two-component repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate.

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Experimental Realization of the Peregrine Soliton in Repulsive Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates
A. Romero-Ros, G. C. Katsimiga, S. I. Mistakidis, S. Mossman, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher, P. Engels, and P. G. Kevrekidis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033402 (2024)

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Inertia Induces Strong Orientation Fluctuations of Nonspherical Atmospheric Particles

T. Bhowmick, J. Seesing, K. Gustavsson, J. Guettler, Y. Wang, A. Pumir, B. Mehlig, and G. Bagheri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 034101 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Experiments with small falling particles show that their orientations oscillate—which may help explain the settling of volcanic ash and the formation of snow.

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Broken Kramers Degeneracy in Altermagnetic MnTe

Suyoung Lee, Sangjae Lee, Saegyeol Jung, Jiwon Jung, Donghan Kim, Yeonjae Lee, Byeongjun Seok, Jaeyoung Kim, Byeong Gyu Park, Libor Šmejkal, Chang-Jong Kang, and Changyoung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036702 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Spectroscopic data suggest that thin films of a certain semiconducting material can exhibit altermagnetism, a new and fundamental form of magnetism.

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Nonvolatile Switching of Large Nonreciprocal Optical Absorption at Shortwave Infrared Wavelengths

Kenta Kimura and Tsuyoshi Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036901 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

At low temperatures, crystals of lithium nickel phosphate transmit short-wavelength infrared light much more strongly in one direction than in the other.

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Characterization and Control of the Run-and-Tumble Dynamics of Escherichia Coli

Christina Kurzthaler, Yongfeng Zhao, Nan Zhou, Jana Schwarz-Linek, Clemence Devailly, Jochen Arlt, Jian-Dong Huang, Wilson C. K. Poon, Thomas Franosch, Julien Tailleur, and Vincent A. Martinez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038302 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

A new technique could allow researchers to distinguish the swimming motion of a species of microorganisms without the need to track individuals within a population.

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Self-Trapping of Slow Electrons in the Energy Domain

Maor Eldar, Zhaopin Chen, Yiming Pan, and Michael Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035001 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Numerical investigation of the phase-matched interaction of slow electrons with a strong optical field unveils a tunable trapping, opening the door for manipulating free electrons in the low-energy regime.

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Emergence of Competing Orders and Possible Quantum Spin Liquid in $SU (N)$ Fermions

Xue-Jia Yu, Shao-Hang Shi, Limei Xu, and Zi-Xiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036704 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

A realistic SU(N) interacting fermionic model reveals exotic quantum magnetic phases that occur at intermediate N, where the competition between distinct ordering tendencies gives rise to an intermediate quantum spin liquid phase featuring nontrivial topological order.

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Nonequilibrium Response for Markov Jump Processes: Exact Results and Tight Bounds

Timur Aslyamov and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037101 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

A novel linear-algebra method opens the way to efficiently study a broad class of responses for nonequilibrium systems.

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Percolation and Topological Properties of Temporal Higher-Order Networks

Leonardo Di Gaetano, Federico Battiston, and Michele Starnini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037401 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

A hidden-variable formalism allows for the characterization of topological properties of temporal networks with higher-order interactions.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Resource-Efficient Direct Characterization of General Density Matrix

Liang Xu, Mingti Zhou, Runxia Tao, Zhipeng Zhong, Ben Wang, Zhiyong Cao, Hongkuan Xia, Qianyi Wang, Hao Zhan, Aonan Zhang, Shang Yu, Nanyang Xu, Ying Dong, Changliang Ren, and Lijian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 030201 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Mass-Independent Scheme to Test the Quantumness of a Massive Object

Debarshi Das, Dipankar Home, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 030202 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Pointer States in the Born-Markov Approximation

Uttam Singh, Adam Sawicki, and Jarosław K. Korbicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 030203 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Finite-Time Teleportation Phase Transition in Random Quantum Circuits

Yimu Bao, Maxwell Block, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 030401 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Semiclassical Limit of a Measurement-Induced Transition in Many-Body Chaos in Integrable and Nonintegrable Oscillator Chains

Sibaram Ruidas and Sumilan Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 030402 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Verifying Quantum Advantage Experiments with Multiple Amplitude Tensor Network Contraction

Yong Liu, Yaojian Chen, Chu Guo, Jiawei Song, Xinmin Shi, Lin Gan, Wenzhao Wu, Wei Wu, Haohuan Fu, Xin Liu, Dexun Chen, Zhifeng Zhao, Guangwen Yang, and Jiangang Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 030601 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Explaining Dark Matter Halo Density Profiles with Neural Networks

Luisa Lucie-Smith, Hiranya V. Peiris, and Andrew Pontzen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 031001 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Dust Collapse in Asymptotic Safety: A Path to Regular Black Holes

Alfio Bonanno, Daniele Malafarina, and Antonio Panassiti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 031401 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Particles and Fields

Exclusion of Axionlike-Particle Cogenesis Dark Matter in a Mass Window above $100 μ eV$

Aaron Quiskamp, Ben T. McAllister, Paul Altin, Eugene N. Ivanov, Maxim Goryachev, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 031601 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Exact Operator Map from Strong Coupling to Free Fields: Beyond Seiberg-Witten Theory

Chinmaya Bhargava, Matthew Buican, and Hongliang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 031602 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Phase Diagram of the Two-Flavor Schwinger Model at Zero Temperature

Ross Dempsey, Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu, Benjamin T. Søgaard, and Bernardo Zan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 031603 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

First Measurement of the Decay Asymmetry in the Pure $W$ -Boson-Exchange Decay $Λ_{c}^{+} \to Ξ^{0} K^{+}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 031801 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sympathetic Cooling and Slowing of Molecules with Rydberg Atoms

Chi Zhang, Seth T. Rittenhouse, Timur V. Tscherbul, H. R. Sadeghpour, and Nicholas R. Hutzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033001 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Wave-Packet Surface Propagation for Light-Induced Molecular Dynamics

Shengzhe Pan, Zhaohan Zhang, Chenxi Hu, Peifen Lu, Xiaochun Gong, Ruolin Gong, Wenbin Zhang, Lianrong Zhou, Chenxu Lu, Menghang Shi, Zhejun Jiang, Hongcheng Ni, Feng He, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033201 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Strongly Interacting Bose-Fermi Mixtures: Mediated Interaction, Phase Diagram, and Sound Propagation

Xin Shen, Nir Davidson, Georg M. Bruun, Mingyuan Sun, and Zhigang Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033401 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Experimental Realization of the Peregrine Soliton in Repulsive Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Romero-Ros, G. C. Katsimiga, S. I. Mistakidis, S. Mossman, G. Biondini, P. Schmelcher, P. Engels, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033402 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Squeezing Multilevel Atoms in Dark States via Cavity Superradiance

Bhuvanesh Sundar, Diego Barberena, Ana Maria Rey, and Asier Piñeiro Orioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033601 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Measurement of Nanofiber Mechanical Flexural Modes Based on Near-Field Scattering

Lijun Song, Chenxi Wang, Yudong Hu, Jing Zhou, Qiang Zhang, Chang-Ling Zou, Gang Li, Pengfei Zhang, and Tiancai Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033801 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Time Domain at $1 {nm}^{- 1}$ Wave Vector

Danny Fainozzi, Laura Foglia, Nupur N. Khatu, Claudio Masciovecchio, Riccardo Mincigrucci, Ettore Paltanin, and Filippo Bencivenga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033802 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Photonic Topological Spin Pump in Synthetic Frequency Dimensions

Joseph Suh, Gyunghun Kim, Hyungchul Park, Shanhui Fan, Namkyoo Park, and Sunkyu Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033803 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Topological Constraints on the Dynamics of Vortex Formation in a Two-Dimensional Quantum Fluid

T. Congy, P. Azam, R. Kaiser, and N. Pavloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 033804 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Critical Prandtl Number for Heat Transfer Enhancement in Rotating Convection

Mohammad Anas and Pranav Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 034001 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

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Inertia Induces Strong Orientation Fluctuations of Nonspherical Atmospheric Particles

T. Bhowmick, J. Seesing, K. Gustavsson, J. Guettler, Y. Wang, A. Pumir, B. Mehlig, and G. Bagheri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 034101 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Experiments with small falling particles show that their orientations oscillate—which may help explain the settling of volcanic ash and the formation of snow.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Self-Trapping of Slow Electrons in the Energy Domain

Maor Eldar, Zhaopin Chen, Yiming Pan, and Michael Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035001 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Millijoule Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses from an Efficient Fresh-Slice Multistage Free-Electron Laser

Guanglei Wang, Philipp Dijkstal, Sven Reiche, Kirsten Schnorr, and Eduard Prat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035002 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Experimental Evidence of Plasmoids in High- $β$ Magnetic Reconnection

J. A. Pearcy, M. J. Rosenberg, T. M. Johnson, G. D. Sutcliffe, B. L. Reichelt, J. D. Hare, N. F. Loureiro, R. D. Petrasso, and C. K. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035101 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Reduction of Backward Scatterings at the Low-Coherence Kunwu Laser Facility

Anle Lei, Ning Kang, Yao Zhao, Huiya Liu, Honghai An, Jun Xiong, Ruirong Wang, Zhiyong Xie, Yuchun Tu, Guoxiao Xu, Xichen Zhou, Zhiheng Fang, Wei Wang, Lan Xia, Wei Feng, Xiaohui Zhao, Lailin Ji, Yong Cui, Shenlei Zhou, Zhanjun Liu, Chunyang Zheng, Lifeng Wang, Yanqi Gao, Xiuguang Huang, and Sizu Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035102 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Linearly Polarized Coherent Emission from Relativistic Magnetized Ion-Electron Shocks

Masanori Iwamoto, Yosuke Matsumoto, Takanobu Amano, Shuichi Matsukiyo, and Masahiro Hoshino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 035201 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Spin-Triplet Superconductivity from Quantum-Geometry-Induced Ferromagnetic Fluctuation

Taisei Kitamura, Akito Daido, and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036001 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Fractional Chern Insulator in Twisted Bilayer ${MoTe}_{2}$

Chong Wang, Xiao-Wei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Yuchi He, Xiaodong Xu, Ying Ran, Ting Cao, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036501 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Bilayer ${t − J − J}_{⊥}$ Model and Magnetically Mediated Pairing in the Pressurized Nickelate ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$

Xing-Zhou Qu, Dai-Wei Qu, Jialin Chen, Congjun Wu, Fan Yang, Wei Li, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036502 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Chiral Topological Superconductivity in Superconductor-Obstructed Atomic Insulator-Ferromagnetic Insulator Heterostructures

Jingnan Hu, Fei Yu, Aiyun Luo, Xiao-Hong Pan, Jinyu Zou, Xin Liu, and Gang Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036601 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Majorana Zero Modes Induced by the Meissner Effect at Small Magnetic Field

Xiao-Hong Pan, Li Chen, Dong E. Liu, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Xin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036602 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

Dynamical Detection of Topological Spectral Density

Jia-Hui Zhang, Feng Mei, Liantuan Xiao, and Suotang Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036603 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Non-Abelian Holonomy of Majorana Zero Modes Coupled to a Chaotic Quantum Dot

Max Geier, Svend Krøjer, Felix von Oppen, Charles M. Marcus, Karsten Flensberg, and Piet W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036604 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

Dissipative Spin-Wave Diode and Nonreciprocal Magnonic Amplifier

Ji Zou, Stefano Bosco, Even Thingstad, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036701 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

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Broken Kramers Degeneracy in Altermagnetic MnTe

Suyoung Lee, Sangjae Lee, Saegyeol Jung, Jiwon Jung, Donghan Kim, Yeonjae Lee, Byeongjun Seok, Jaeyoung Kim, Byeong Gyu Park, Libor Šmejkal, Chang-Jong Kang, and Changyoung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036702 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Spectroscopic data suggest that thin films of a certain semiconducting material can exhibit altermagnetism, a new and fundamental form of magnetism.

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Emergence of Competing Orders and Possible Quantum Spin Liquid in $SU (N)$ Fermions

Xue-Jia Yu, Shao-Hang Shi, Limei Xu, and Zi-Xiang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036704 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

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Nonvolatile Switching of Large Nonreciprocal Optical Absorption at Shortwave Infrared Wavelengths

Kenta Kimura and Tsuyoshi Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036901 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

At low temperatures, crystals of lithium nickel phosphate transmit short-wavelength infrared light much more strongly in one direction than in the other.

Excitonic Polarons and Self-Trapped Excitons from First-Principles Exciton-Phonon Couplings

Zhenbang Dai, Chao Lian, Jon Lafuente-Bartolome, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036902 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Trion Photoluminescence and Trion Stability in Atomically Thin Semiconductors

Raul Perea-Causin, Samuel Brem, Ole Schmidt, and Ermin Malic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036903 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

Observation of Acoustically Induced Dressed States of Rare-Earth Ions

Ryuichi Ohta, Grégoire Lelu, Xuejun Xu, Tomohiro Inaba, Kenichi Hitachi, Yoshitaka Taniyasu, Haruki Sanada, Atsushi Ishizawa, Takehiko Tawara, Katsuya Oguri, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Hajime Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036904 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Nonequilibrium Response for Markov Jump Processes: Exact Results and Tight Bounds

Timur Aslyamov and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037101 (2024) - Published 16 January, 2024

A novel linear-algebra method opens the way to efficiently study a broad class of responses for nonequilibrium systems.

From Particle Currents to Tracer Diffusion: Universal Correlation Profiles in Single-File Dynamics

Aurélien Grabsch, Théotim Berlioz, Pierre Rizkallah, Pierre Illien, and Olivier Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037102 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

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Percolation and Topological Properties of Temporal Higher-Order Networks

Leonardo Di Gaetano, Federico Battiston, and Michele Starnini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 037401 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

A hidden-variable formalism allows for the characterization of topological properties of temporal networks with higher-order interactions.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Hydrodynamic Effects on the Collapse Kinetics of Flexible Polyelectrolytes

Jiaxing Yuan and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038101 (2024) - Published 18 January, 2024

Symmetry Breaking of Self-Propelled Topological Defects in Thin-Film Active Chiral Nematics

Weiqiang Wang, Haijie Ren, and Rui Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038301 (2024) - Published 17 January, 2024

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Characterization and Control of the Run-and-Tumble Dynamics of Escherichia Coli

Christina Kurzthaler, Yongfeng Zhao, Nan Zhou, Jana Schwarz-Linek, Clemence Devailly, Jochen Arlt, Jian-Dong Huang, Wilson C. K. Poon, Thomas Franosch, Julien Tailleur, and Vincent A. Martinez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 038302 (2024) - Published 19 January, 2024

A new technique could allow researchers to distinguish the swimming motion of a species of microorganisms without the need to track individuals within a population.