Volume 132, Issue 5

2 February 2024

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Measured (left) and calculated (right) surface acoustic wave transmission signal as a function of frequency and external magnetic field. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Strongly Coupled Spin Waves and Surface Acoustic Waves at Room Temperature
Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, Kouta Kondou, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Hironari Isshiki, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Liyang Liao, Fa Chen, Wei Luo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056704 (2024)

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Water-Wave Vortices and Skyrmions

Daria A. Smirnova, Franco Nori, and Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054003 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Interference in plane-wave combinations of water waves is predicted to give rise to structures that are usually found in optical, elastic, and quantum systems.

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Experimental Characterization of Defect-Induced Phonon Lifetime Shortening

Boyao Liu, Jack Kelsall, David J. Ward, and Andrew P. Jardine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056202 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

The scattering of helium atoms off a crystal surface reveals how defects in the crystal’s lattice influence its ability to transport heat.

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Integrability of a Globally Coupled Complex Riccati Array: Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons, Phase Oscillators, and All in Between

Rok Cestnik and Erik A. Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057201 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

A new approach to solving arrays of two-dimensional differential equations may allow researchers to go beyond the one-dimensional oscillator paradigm.

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Emergent Collective Motion of Self-Propelled Condensate Droplets

Marcus Lin, Philseok Kim, Sankara Arunachalam, Rifan Hardian, Solomon Adera, Joanna Aizenberg, Xi Yao, and Dan Daniel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058203 (2024) - Published 1 February, 2024

Water droplets can exhibit complex collective motions when they condense on a thin oil film.

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How a Soft Rod Wraps around a Rotating Cylinder

Marie Tani and Hirofumi Wada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 058204 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

As a string winds around a cylinder, a switch occurs from tight winding to looser winding, a behavior that could be relevant for natural phenomena.

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Two-Pole Nature of the $Λ (1405)$ Resonance from Lattice QCD

John Bulava, Bárbara Cid-Mora, Andrew D. Hanlon, Ben Hörz, Daniel Mohler, Colin Morningstar, Joseph Moscoso, Amy Nicholson, Fernando Romero-López, Sarah Skinner, and André Walker-Loud (Baryon Scattering (BaSc) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051901 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

The first lattice QCD computation of $π Σ - \bar{K} N$ scattering amplitudes supports the two-pole nature of the puzzling $Λ (1405)$ resonance.

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Crystal Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic ${RuO}_{2}$

Xiaodong Zhou, Wanxiang Feng, Run-Wu Zhang, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056701 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

A first-principles calculation reveals a novel class of anomalous thermal transport effects in the altermagnet RuO $_{2}$ .

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Theory of Defect-Induced Crystal Field Perturbations in Rare-Earth Magnets

Christopher E. Patrick, Yixuan Huang, Laura H. Lewis, and Julie B. Staunton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056703 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

A first-principles method which quantifies the effect of defects on macroscopic properties describes accurately the magnetic anisotropy energy of rare-earth systems.

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Strongly Coupled Spin Waves and Surface Acoustic Waves at Room Temperature

Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, Kouta Kondou, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Hironari Isshiki, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Liyang Liao, Fa Chen, Wei Luo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056704 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Strong coupling between magnons and phonons has been demonstrated using an on-chip surface acoustic wave resonator device containing a thin rectangular film of CoFeB.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Indistinguishability of Identical Bosons from a Quantum Information Theory Perspective

Matthias Englbrecht, Tristan Kraft, Christoph Dittel, Andreas Buchleitner, Geza Giedke, and Barbara Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050201 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Linear Program for Testing Nonclassicality and an Open-Source Implementation

John H. Selby, Elie Wolfe, David Schmid, Ana Belén Sainz, and Vinicius P. Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050202 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Virtual Quantum Resource Distillation

Xiao Yuan, Bartosz Regula, Ryuji Takagi, and Mile Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050203 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

Fractal States of the Schwinger Model

Elena V. Petrova, Egor S. Tiunov, Mari Carmen Bañuls, and Aleksey K. Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050401 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Geometric Origin of Non-Bloch $P T$ Symmetry Breaking

Yu-Min Hu, Hong-Yi Wang, Zhong Wang, and Fei Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050402 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Continuous Sensing and Parameter Estimation with the Boundary Time Crystal

Albert Cabot, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050801 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Limiting Light Dark Matter with Luminous Hadronic Loops

Melissa Diamond, Christopher V. Cappiello, Aaron C. Vincent, and Joseph Bramante

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051001 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Evidence of a Hardening in the Cosmic Ray Proton Spectrum at around 166 TeV Observed by the GRAPES-3 Experiment

F. Varsi et al. (GRAPES-3 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051002 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Relativistic Perturbation Theory for Black-Hole Boson Clouds

Enrico Cannizzaro, Laura Sberna, Stephen R. Green, and Stefan Hollands

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051401 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Particles and Fields

Effective Theory of Classical and Quantum Particle Dynamics in Rapidly Oscillating Fields

Alexander A. Penin and Aneca Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051601 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Axion Paradigm with Color-Mediated Neutrino Masses

A. Batra, H. B. Câmara, F. R. Joaquim, R. Srivastava, and J. W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051801 (2024) - Published 1 February, 2024

Improved Measurement of $C P$ Violation Parameters in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ K^{+} K^{-}$ Decays in the Vicinity of the $ϕ (1020)$ Resonance

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051802 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

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Two-Pole Nature of the $Λ (1405)$ Resonance from Lattice QCD

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051901 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

The first lattice QCD computation of $π Σ - \bar{K} N$ scattering amplitudes supports the two-pole nature of the puzzling $Λ (1405)$ resonance.

Quark Mass Dependence of Heavy Quark Diffusion Coefficient from Lattice QCD

Luis Altenkort, David de la Cruz, Olaf Kaczmarek, Rasmus Larsen, Guy D. Moore, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Hai-Tao Shu, and Simon Stendebach (HotQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051902 (2024) - Published 1 February, 2024

Sphaleron Rate of $N_{f} = 2 + 1$ QCD

Claudio Bonanno, Francesco D’Angelo, Massimo D’Elia, Lorenzo Maio, and Manuel Naviglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 051903 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Thallium-208: A Beacon of In Situ Neutron Capture Nucleosynthesis

Nicole Vassh, Xilu Wang, Maude Larivière, Trevor Sprouse, Matthew R. Mumpower, Rebecca Surman, Zhenghai Liu, Gail C. McLaughlin, Pavel Denissenkov, and Falk Herwig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 052701 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strongly Nonlinear Interaction between Nonclassical Light and a Blockaded Rydberg Atomic Ensemble

Jan Lowinski, Lukas Heller, Félix Hoffet, Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito, Klara Theophilo, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053001 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Probing Polaron Clouds by Rydberg Atom Spectroscopy

Marcel Gievers, Marcel Wagner, and Richard Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053401 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Quantum Phase Transitions in Optomechanical Systems

Bo Wang, Franco Nori, and Ze-Liang Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053601 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Signatures of Dynamically Dressed States

Katarina Boos, Sang Kyu Kim, Thomas Bracht, Friedrich Sbresny, Jan M. Kaspari, Moritz Cygorek, Hubert Riedl, Frederik W. Bopp, William Rauhaus, Carolin Calcagno, Jonathan J. Finley, Doris E. Reiter, and Kai Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053602 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Observation of Period-Doubling Bloch Oscillations

Naveed Khan, Peng Wang, Qidong Fu, Ce Shang, and Fangwei Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053801 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Quasinormal Modes of Optical Solitons

Christopher Burgess, Sam Patrick, Theo Torres, Ruth Gregory, and Friedrich König

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053802 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Line Tension in a Thick Soap Film

Théo Lenavetier, Gaëlle Audéoud, Marion Berry, Anaïs Gauthier, Raphaël Poryles, Corentin Trégouët, and Isabelle Cantat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054001 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Inertial Migration in a Pressure-Driven Channel Flow: Beyond the Segre-Silberberg Pinch

Prateek Anand and Ganesh Subramanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054002 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

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Water-Wave Vortices and Skyrmions

Daria A. Smirnova, Franco Nori, and Konstantin Y. Bliokh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054003 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Interference in plane-wave combinations of water waves is predicted to give rise to structures that are usually found in optical, elastic, and quantum systems.

Suppression and Control of Bipolar Powder Charging by Turbulence

Simon Jantač and Holger Grosshans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054004 (2024) - Published 1 February, 2024

Anisotropic Mean Flow Enhancement and Anomalous Transport of Finite-Size Spherical Particles in Turbulent Flows

Alessandro Chiarini, Ianto Cannon, and Marco Edoardo Rosti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 054005 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Observation of Odd-Parity Superconductivity with the Geshkenbein-Larkin-Barone Composite Rings

Xiaoying Xu, Yufan Li, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056001 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Evolution of the Magnetic Excitations in Electron-Doped ${La}_{2 - x} {Ce}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

X. T. Li, S. J. Tu, L. Chaix, C. Fawaz, M. d’Astuto, X. Li, F. Yakhou-Harris, K. Kummer, N. B. Brookes, M. Garcia-Fernandez, Ke-Jin Zhou, Z. F. Lin, J. Yuan, K. Jin, M. P. M. Dean, and X. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056002 (2024) - Published 1 February, 2024

Connection between Mechanical Relaxation and Equilibration Kinetics in a High-Entropy Metallic Glass

Y. J. Duan, M. Nabahat, Yu Tong, L. Ortiz-Membrado, E. Jiménez-Piqué, Kun Zhao, Yun-Jiang Wang, Y. Yang, T. Wada, H. Kato, J. M. Pelletier, J. C. Qiao, and E. Pineda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056101 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Phonon Dispersion and Proton Disorder of Ice VII and VIII

G. Radtke, S. Klotz, M. Lazzeri, P. Loubeyre, M. Krisch, and A. Bossak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056102 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Ferroelastic Twin Angles at the Surface of ${CaTiO}_{3}$ Quantified by Photoemission Electron Microscopy

G. Magagnin, C. Lubin, M. Escher, N. Weber, L. Tortech, and N. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056201 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

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Experimental Characterization of Defect-Induced Phonon Lifetime Shortening

Boyao Liu, Jack Kelsall, David J. Ward, and Andrew P. Jardine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056202 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

The scattering of helium atoms off a crystal surface reveals how defects in the crystal’s lattice influence its ability to transport heat.

Reexamination of Damping in Sliding Friction

Shuyu Huang, Zhiyong Wei, Zaoqi Duan, Chengdong Sun, Yongkang Wang, Yi Tao, Yan Zhang, Yajing Kan, Ernst Meyer, Deyu Li, and Yunfei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056203 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Transport Anisotropy in One-Dimensional Graphene Superlattice in the High Kronig-Penney Potential Limit

Tianlin Li, Hanying Chen, Kun Wang, Yifei Hao, Le Zhang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Xia Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056204 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Orbital Origin of the Intrinsic Planar Hall Effect

Hui Wang, Yue-Xin Huang, Huiying Liu, Xiaolong Feng, Jiaojiao Zhu, Weikang Wu, Cong Xiao, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056301 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Chirality-Induced Selectivity of Phonon Angular Momenta in Chiral Quartz Crystals

Kazuki Ohe, Hiroaki Shishido, Masaki Kato, Shoyo Utsumi, Hiroyasu Matsuura, and Yoshihiko Togawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056302 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Transport Study of Charge-Carrier Scattering in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Andrew Y. Joe, Kateryna Pistunova, Kristen Kaasbjerg, Ke Wang, Bumho Kim, Daniel A. Rhodes, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, James Hone, Tony Low, Luis A. Jauregui, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056303 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Visualization of Alternating Triangular Domains of Charge Density Waves in $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$ by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Keisuke Sagisaka, and Hideaki Sakata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056401 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Quantics Tensor Cross Interpolation for High-Resolution Parsimonious Representations of Multivariate Functions

Marc K. Ritter, Yuriel Núñez Fernández, Markus Wallerberger, Jan von Delft, Hiroshi Shinaoka, and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056501 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Resilient Infinite Randomness Criticality for a Disordered Chain of Interacting Majorana Fermions

Natalia Chepiga and Nicolas Laflorencie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056502 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Magic Momenta and Three-Dimensional Landau Levels from a Three-Dimensional Graphite Moiré Superlattice

Xin Lu, Bo Xie, Yue Yang, Yiwen Zhang, Xiao Kong, Jun Li, Feng Ding, Zhu-Jun Wang, and Jianpeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056601 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

Crossed Andreev Reflection and Elastic Cotunneling in Three Quantum Dots Coupled by Superconductors

Alberto Bordin, Xiang Li, David van Driel, Jan Cornelis Wolff, Qingzhen Wang, Sebastiaan L. D. ten Haaf, Guanzhong Wang, Nick van Loo, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, and Tom Dvir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056602 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

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Crystal Thermal Transport in Altermagnetic ${RuO}_{2}$

Xiaodong Zhou, Wanxiang Feng, Run-Wu Zhang, Libor Šmejkal, Jairo Sinova, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056701 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

A first-principles calculation reveals a novel class of anomalous thermal transport effects in the altermagnet RuO $_{2}$ .

Giant Magnon-Polaron Anomalies in Spin Seebeck Effect in Double Umbrella-Structured ${Tb}_{3} {Fe}_{5} O_{12}$ Films

Yufei Li, Yihang Duan, Mingzhi Wang, Lili Lang, Yu Zhang, Meng Yang, Junxue Li, Weijia Fan, Ka Shen, Zhong Shi, and Shi-Ming Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056702 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

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Theory of Defect-Induced Crystal Field Perturbations in Rare-Earth Magnets

Christopher E. Patrick, Yixuan Huang, Laura H. Lewis, and Julie B. Staunton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056703 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

A first-principles method which quantifies the effect of defects on macroscopic properties describes accurately the magnetic anisotropy energy of rare-earth systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strongly Coupled Spin Waves and Surface Acoustic Waves at Room Temperature

Yunyoung Hwang, Jorge Puebla, Kouta Kondou, Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero, Hironari Isshiki, Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Liyang Liao, Fa Chen, Wei Luo, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yoshichika Otani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056704 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

Strong coupling between magnons and phonons has been demonstrated using an on-chip surface acoustic wave resonator device containing a thin rectangular film of CoFeB.

Interaction-Induced ac Stark Shift of Exciton-Polaron Resonances

T. Uto, B. Evrard, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, M. Kroner, and A. İmamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056901 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Polarization-Sensitive Photoluminescence from Aligned Carbon Chains Terminated by Gold Clusters

A. Kucherik, A. Osipov, V. Samyshkin, R. R. Hartmann, A. V. Povolotskiy, and M. E. Portnoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 056902 (2024) - Published 30 January, 2024

Interplay of Andreev Reflection and Coulomb Blockade in Hybrid Superconducting Single-Electron Transistors

Laura Sobral Rey, David Christian Ohnmacht, Clemens B. Winkelmann, Jens Siewert, Wolfgang Belzig, and Elke Scheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057001 (2024) - Published 2 February, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Microscopic Cutoff Dependence of an Entropic Force in Interface Propagation of Stochastic Order Parameter Dynamics

Yutaro Kado and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057101 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

Oscillatory Force Autocorrelations in Equilibrium Odd-Diffusive Systems

Erik Kalz, Hidde Derk Vuijk, Jens-Uwe Sommer, Ralf Metzler, and Abhinav Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057102 (2024) - Published 31 January, 2024

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Integrability of a Globally Coupled Complex Riccati Array: Quadratic Integrate-and-Fire Neurons, Phase Oscillators, and All in Between

Rok Cestnik and Erik A. Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 057201 (2024) - Published 29 January, 2024

A new approach to solving arrays of two-dimensional differential equations may allow researchers to go beyond the one-dimensional oscillator paradigm.