Volume 132, Issue 4

26 January 2024

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Husimi function of a time-evolved quantum state blocked by classical partial barriers of a 4D map.

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Quantum Transport through Partial Barriers in Higher-Dimensional Systems
Jonas Stöber, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047201 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Centrifugal Flows Drive Reverse Rotation of Feynman’s Sprinkler

Kaizhe Wang, Brennan Sprinkle, Mingxuan Zuo, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044003 (2024) - Published 26 January, 2024

Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer.

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Experimental Evidence for Millisecond–Timescale Structural Evolution Following the Microsecond–Timescale Folding of a Small Protein

C. Blake Wilson, Wai-Ming Yau, and Robert Tycko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048402 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Researchers have used nuclear magnetic resonance to observe a previously unseen intermediate state in which the protein lingers for an unexpectedly long time.

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Photonic Flatband Resonances in Multiple Light Scattering

Thanh Xuan Hoang, Daniel Leykam, and Yuri Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043803 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Light–matter interactions in certain one-dimensional photonic materials can bring light nearly to a standstill, an effect that researchers show requires consideration of long-range interactions between the material’s components.

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Tailoring Magnetism of Graphene Nanoflakes via Tip-Controlled Dehydrogenation

Chenxiao Zhao, Qiang Huang, Leoš Valenta, Kristjan Eimre, Lin Yang, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, Wangwei Xu, Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng, Michal Juríček, Roman Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, and Carlo A. Pignedoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046201 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Highly precise atomic scale manipulations correlated with theoretical calculations suggest changes in the spin states of a graphene island on Au(111) depending on which site was hydrogenated.

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Spectroscopic Evidence of Kondo-Induced Quasiquartet in ${CeRh}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Denise S. Christovam, Miguel Ferreira-Carvalho, Andrea Marino, Martin Sundermann, Daisuke Takegami, Anna Melendez-Sans, Ku Ding Tsuei, Zhiwei Hu, Sahana Rößler, Manuel Valvidares, Maurits W. Haverkort, Yu Liu, Eric D. Bauer, Liu Hao Tjeng, Gertrud Zwicknagl, and Andrea Severing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046401 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Temperature dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments on CeRh $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ offers direct evidence for the coupling of the Kondo interaction and crystal-field states.

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Spin Polarons and Ferromagnetism in Doped Dilute Moiré-Mott Insulators

Urban F. P. Seifert and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046501 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

A small density of doped electrons couples to local moments in a moire-Mott insulator, constituting a novel mechanism for magnetic ordering in moire transition-metal dichalcogenides.

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Energy Gap of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in Bilayer Graphene

Alexandre Assouline, Taige Wang, Haoxin Zhou, Liam A. Cohen, Fangyuan Yang, Ruining Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Roger S. K. Mong, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046603 (2024) - Published 26 January, 2024

A large energy gap is seen for the even-denominator fractional state in bilayer graphene, making it a promising platform for studying non-Abelian anyons.

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Magnetostriction-Driven Muon Localization in an Antiferromagnetic Oxide

Pietro Bonfà, Ifeanyi John Onuorah, Franz Lang, Iurii Timrov, Lorenzo Monacelli, Chennan Wang, Xiao Sun, Oleg Petracic, Giovanni Pizzi, Nicola Marzari, Stephen J. Blundell, and Roberto De Renzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046701 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Small energy differences determine muon-sample interactions, providing a significant insight into muon-spin spectroscopy of magnetic oxides.

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Bidirectional Multiphoton Communication between Remote Superconducting Nodes

Joel Grebel, Haoxiong Yan, Ming-Han Chou, Gustav Andersson, Christopher R. Conner, Yash J. Joshi, Jacob M. Miller, Rhys G. Povey, Hong Qiao, Xuntao Wu, and Andrew N. Cleland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047001 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

A device with qubits coupled to microwave resonators achieves transfer and entanglement of complex quantum states between superconducting nodes.

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Quasicrystal of Binary Hard Spheres on a Plane Stabilized by Configurational Entropy

Etienne Fayen, Laura Filion, Giuseppe Foffi, and Frank Smallenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048202 (2024) - Published 26 January, 2024

Free-energy calculations demonstrate that configurational entropy stabilizes a dodecagonal quasicrystal in a binary mixture of hard spheres on a plane.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Ergodicity Breaking Provably Robust to Arbitrary Perturbations

David T. Stephen, Oliver Hart, and Rahul M. Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040401 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Exact Universal Bounds on Quantum Dynamics and Fast Scrambling

Amit Vikram and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040402 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Dynamical Transitions from Slow to Fast Relaxation in Random Open Quantum Systems

Dror Orgad, Vadim Oganesyan, and Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040403 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Preparation of Matrix Product States with Log-Depth Quantum Circuits

Daniel Malz, Georgios Styliaris, Zhi-Yuan Wei, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040404 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexed Deterministic All-Optical Quantum Erasure-Correcting Code

Yanbo Lou, Yinghui Lv, Jiabin Wang, Shengshuai Liu, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040601 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Experimental Realization of Nonunitary Multiqubit Operations

M. W. van Mourik, E. Zapusek, P. Hrmo, L. Gerster, R. Blatt, T. Monz, P. Schindler, and F. Reiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 040602 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Exotic Dark Matter Search with the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041001 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Particles and Fields

Asymptotic Freedom at the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition without Fine-Tuning Using a Qubit Regularization

Sandip Maiti, Debasish Banerjee, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Marina K. Marinkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041601 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

${AdS}_{3}$ Pure Gravity and Stringy Unitarity

Gabriele Di Ubaldo and Eric Perlmutter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041602 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Electron-Positron and Neutral-Pion Final States with the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041801 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Search for Inelastic Dark Matter in Events with Two Displaced Muons and Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041802 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Exploring High-Purity Multiparton Scattering at Hadron Colliders

Jeppe R. Andersen, Pier Francesco Monni, Luca Rottoli, Gavin P. Salam, and Alba Soto-Ontoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 041901 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Nuclear Physics

$ψ (2 S)$ Suppression in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 042301 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Active Suppression of Quantum Dephasing in Resonantly Driven Ensembles

C. He and R. R. Jones

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043201 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Metasurface-Assisted Quantum Nonlocal Weak-Measurement Microscopy

Jiawei Liu, Qiang Yang, Yichang Shou, Shizhen Chen, Weixing Shu, Geng Chen, Shuangchun Wen, and Hailu Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043601 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Metasurface-Based Hybrid Optical Cavities for Chiral Sensing

Nico S. Baßler, Andrea Aiello, Kai P. Schmidt, Claudiu Genes, and Michael Reitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043602 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Experimental Investigation of the Thermal Emission Cross Section of Nanoresonators Using Hierarchical Poisson-Disk Distributions

Denis Langevin, Clément Verlhac, Julien Jaeck, Loubnan Abou-Hamdan, Eva Taupeau, Baptiste Fix, Nathalie Bardou, Christophe Dupuis, Yannick De Wilde, Riad Haïdar, and Patrick Bouchon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043801 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Interferometer for Dispersive Measurements

S. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043802 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

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Photonic Flatband Resonances in Multiple Light Scattering

Thanh Xuan Hoang, Daniel Leykam, and Yuri Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043803 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Synthetic Non-Abelian Gauge Fields for Non-Hermitian Systems

Zehai Pang, Bengy Tsz Tsun Wong, Jinbing Hu, and Yi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043804 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Backscattering-Induced Dissipative Solitons in Ring Quantum Cascade Lasers

Lukas Seitner, Johannes Popp, Ina Heckelmann, Réka-Eszter Vass, Bo Meng, Michael Haider, Jérôme Faist, and Christian Jirauschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 043805 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Generation of Spatiotemporal Vortex Pulses by Resonant Diffractive Grating

Zhiyuan Che, Wenzhe Liu, Junyi Ye, Lei Shi, C. T. Chan, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044001 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Manipulation of Contact Angle Hysteresis at Electrified Ionic Liquid-Solid Interfaces

Pengcheng Nie, Xikai Jiang, Xu Zheng, and Dongshi Guan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044002 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

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Centrifugal Flows Drive Reverse Rotation of Feynman’s Sprinkler

Kaizhe Wang, Brennan Sprinkle, Mingxuan Zuo, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044003 (2024) - Published 26 January, 2024

Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Generation of Ultrabrilliant Polarized Attosecond Electron Bunches via Dual-Wake Injection

Ting Sun, Qian Zhao, Feng Wan, Yousef I. Salamin, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 045001 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Constrained Motions and Slow Dynamics in One-Dimensional Bosons with Double-Well Dispersion

Yang-Zhi Chou and Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046001 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Nonreciprocal Josephson Linear Response

Pauli Virtanen and Tero T. Heikkilä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046002 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Enhanced Superconducting Diode Effect due to Coexisting Phases

Sayan Banerjee and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046003 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

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Tailoring Magnetism of Graphene Nanoflakes via Tip-Controlled Dehydrogenation

Chenxiao Zhao, Qiang Huang, Leoš Valenta, Kristjan Eimre, Lin Yang, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich, Wangwei Xu, Ji Ma, Xinliang Feng, Michal Juríček, Roman Fasel, Pascal Ruffieux, and Carlo A. Pignedoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046201 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Highly precise atomic scale manipulations correlated with theoretical calculations suggest changes in the spin states of a graphene island on Au(111) depending on which site was hydrogenated.

Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics in the Density Fluctuations of Localized Two-Dimensional Wave Packets

Sen Mu, Jiangbin Gong, and Gabriel Lemarié

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046301 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Anomalous Temperature Effect in Weakly Coupled Superlattices: Carrier Transport in a THz Quantum Cascade Laser

Miriam Giparakis, Martin A. Kainz, Marie C. Ertl, Benedikt Limbacher, Michael Jaidl, Maximilian Beiser, Stefania Isceri, Hermann Detz, Werner Schrenk, Benedikt Schwarz, Gottfried Strasser, Gérald Bastard, Karl Unterrainer, and Aaron M. Andrews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046302 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

Odd Nonlinear Conductivity under Spatial Inversion in Chiral Tellurium

Manuel Suárez-Rodríguez, Beatriz Martín-García, Witold Skowroński, F. Calavalle, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Ivo Souza, Fernando De Juan, Andrey Chuvilin, Albert Fert, Marco Gobbi, Fèlix Casanova, and Luis E. Hueso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046303 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopic Evidence of Kondo-Induced Quasiquartet in ${CeRh}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046401 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Temperature dependent x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments on CeRh $_{2}$ As $_{2}$ offers direct evidence for the coupling of the Kondo interaction and crystal-field states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin Polarons and Ferromagnetism in Doped Dilute Moiré-Mott Insulators

Urban F. P. Seifert and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046501 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

A small density of doped electrons couples to local moments in a moire-Mott insulator, constituting a novel mechanism for magnetic ordering in moire transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Non-Abelian Topological Bound States in the Continuum

Long Qian, Weixuan Zhang, Houjuan Sun, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046601 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

Role of Topology in Relaxation of One-Dimensional Stochastic Processes

Taro Sawada, Kazuki Sone, Ryusuke Hamazaki, Yuto Ashida, and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046602 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Gap of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in Bilayer Graphene

Alexandre Assouline, Taige Wang, Haoxin Zhou, Liam A. Cohen, Fangyuan Yang, Ruining Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Roger S. K. Mong, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046603 (2024) - Published 26 January, 2024

A large energy gap is seen for the even-denominator fractional state in bilayer graphene, making it a promising platform for studying non-Abelian anyons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetostriction-Driven Muon Localization in an Antiferromagnetic Oxide

Pietro Bonfà, Ifeanyi John Onuorah, Franz Lang, Iurii Timrov, Lorenzo Monacelli, Chennan Wang, Xiao Sun, Oleg Petracic, Giovanni Pizzi, Nicola Marzari, Stephen J. Blundell, and Roberto De Renzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046701 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Small energy differences determine muon-sample interactions, providing a significant insight into muon-spin spectroscopy of magnetic oxides.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bidirectional Multiphoton Communication between Remote Superconducting Nodes

Joel Grebel, Haoxiong Yan, Ming-Han Chou, Gustav Andersson, Christopher R. Conner, Yash J. Joshi, Jacob M. Miller, Rhys G. Povey, Hong Qiao, Xuntao Wu, and Andrew N. Cleland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047001 (2024) - Published 25 January, 2024

A device with qubits coupled to microwave resonators achieves transfer and entanglement of complex quantum states between superconducting nodes.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Quantum Transport through Partial Barriers in Higher-Dimensional Systems

Jonas Stöber, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 047201 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Programmable Potentials Choreograph Defects in a Colloidal Crystal Shell

Guolong Zhu, Lijuan Gao, Yuming Wang, Tsvi Tlusty, and Li-Tang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048201 (2024) - Published 23 January, 2024

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Quasicrystal of Binary Hard Spheres on a Plane Stabilized by Configurational Entropy

Etienne Fayen, Laura Filion, Giuseppe Foffi, and Frank Smallenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048202 (2024) - Published 26 January, 2024

Free-energy calculations demonstrate that configurational entropy stabilizes a dodecagonal quasicrystal in a binary mixture of hard spheres on a plane.

Long Timescales, Individual Differences, and Scale Invariance in Animal Behavior

William Bialek and Joshua W. Shaevitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048401 (2024) - Published 22 January, 2024

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Experimental Evidence for Millisecond–Timescale Structural Evolution Following the Microsecond–Timescale Folding of a Small Protein

C. Blake Wilson, Wai-Ming Yau, and Robert Tycko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048402 (2024) - Published 24 January, 2024

Researchers have used nuclear magnetic resonance to observe a previously unseen intermediate state in which the protein lingers for an unexpectedly long time.