Volume 132, Issue 6

9 February 2024

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Bottom hemisphere of the NIF target chamber where inertial-confinement-fusion target gain greater than unity was achieved in four stages of operation (bottom insets): capsule x-ray absorption, implosion, stagnation, and ignition/explosion. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (The Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024)

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The new JWST observatory is revealing far more bright galaxies in the early Universe than anyone predicted, and astrophysicists have more than one explanation for the puzzle.

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Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment

H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (The Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

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Energy Principles of Scientific Breakeven in an Inertial Fusion Experiment

O. A. Hurricane, D. A. Callahan, D. T. Casey, A. R. Christopherson, A. L. Kritcher, O. L. Landen, S. A. Maclaren, R. Nora, P. K. Patel, J. Ralph, D. Schlossberg, P. T. Springer, C. V. Young, and A. B. Zylstra

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Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

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Hohlraum Reheating from Burning NIF Implosions

M. S. Rubery, M. D. Rosen, N. Aybar, O. L. Landen, L. Divol, C. V. Young, C. Weber, J. Hammer, J. D. Moody, A. S. Moore, A. L. Kritcher, A. B. Zylstra, O. Hurricane, A. E. Pak, S. MacLaren, G. Zimmerman, J. Harte, and T. Woods

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Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

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Observation of Higher-Order Nodal-Line Semimetal in Phononic Crystals

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066601 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

The sound waves in a fabricated material exhibit topological features in one, two, and three dimensions—demonstrating an acoustic version of a higher-order nodal-line semimetal.

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Collective Relaxation Dynamics in a Three-Dimensional Lattice Glass Model

Yoshihiko Nishikawa and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 067101 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

A recently developed lattice model produces an unexpected prediction combination for the rearrangements of particles inside a supercooled liquid turning into a glass.

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Perturbed Ion Temperature and Toroidal Flow Profile Measurements in Rotating Neoclassical Tearing Mode Magnetic Islands

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Detailed measurements of the plasma structure in and around magnetic islands caused by neoclassical tearing modes (NTM) in the DIII-D tokamak help constrain theoretical models predicting the NTM onset threshold scaling for ITER and other future tokamaks.

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$π$ Phase Interlayer Shift and Stacking Fault in the Kagome Superconductor ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066501 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Observation of the stacking fault in the charge-density-wave phase of the kagome superconductor CsV $_{3}$ Sb $_{5}$ offers structural insights to comprehend the entanglement between superconductivity and charge density waves in that system.

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Spectroscopic Signatures of Fractionalization in Octupolar Quantum Spin Ice

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066502 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

A comprehensive theoretical study of octupolar quantum spin ice shows that the dynamical spin structure factor is characterized by a broad continuum with three distinctive peaks which could be confirmed with inelastic neutron scattering measurements.

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Bichromatic Rabi Control of Semiconductor Qubits

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 067001 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Coherent bichromatic Rabi control of quantum dot hole spin qubits can be used to control large qubit arrays.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Signature of Scramblon Effective Field Theory in Random Spin Models

Zeyu Liu and Pengfei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060201 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Optimizing Performance of Quantum Operations with Non-Markovian Decoherence: The Tortoise or the Hare?

Eoin P. Butler, Gerald E. Fux, Carlos Ortega-Taberner, Brendon W. Lovett, Jonathan Keeling, and Paul R. Eastham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060401 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Local Disclosure of Quantum Memory in Non-Markovian Dynamics

Charlotte Bäcker, Konstantin Beyer, and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060402 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Single-Shot Readout of a Solid-State Electron Spin Qutrit

Yuhang Guo, Wentao Ji, Xi Kong, Mengqi Wang, Haoyu Sun, Jingyang Zhou, Zihua Chai, Xing Rong, Fazhan Shi, Ya Wang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060601 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Native Approach to Controlled- $Z$ Gates in Inductively Coupled Fluxonium Qubits

Xizheng Ma et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060602 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Hyperfine Spectroscopy and Fast, All-Optical Arbitrary State Initialization and Readout of a Single, Ten-Level ${}^{73}{Ge}$ Vacancy Nuclear Spin Qudit in Diamond

C. Adambukulam, B. C. Johnson, A. Morello, and A. Laucht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060603 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Combining Critical and Quantum Metrology

Christoph Hotter, Helmut Ritsch, and Karol Gietka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 060801 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Detecting High-Energy Neutrinos from Galactic Supernovae with ATLAS

Alex Y. Wen, Carlos A. Argüelles, Ali Kheirandish, and Kohta Murase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061001 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

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Insights from HST into Ultramassive Galaxies and Early-Universe Cosmology

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061002 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

The new JWST observatory is revealing far more bright galaxies in the early Universe than anyone predicted, and astrophysicists have more than one explanation for the puzzle.

Efficient Large-Scale, Targeted Gravitational-Wave Probes of Supermassive Black-Hole Binaries

Maria Charisi, Stephen R. Taylor, Caitlin A. Witt, and Jessie Runnoe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061401 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Particles and Fields

Spontaneous Hopf Fibration in the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model

R. A. Battye and S. J. Cotterill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061601 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

Effective Field Theories on the Jet Bundle

Nathaniel Craig and Yu-Tse Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061602 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Sixfold Way of Traversable Wormholes in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Antonio M. García-García, Lucas Sá, Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot, and Can Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061603 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Search for Scalar Leptoquarks Produced via $τ$ -Lepton–Quark Scattering in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061801 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Effects of Reheating on Charged Lepton Yukawa Equilibration and Leptogenesis

Arghyajit Datta, Rishav Roshan, and Arunansu Sil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061802 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Calculation of the Alpha-Particle Monopole Transition Form Factor

Ulf-G. Meißner, Shihang Shen, Serdar Elhatisari, and Dean Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 062501 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

High Resolution Study of ${}^{40}{Ca}$ to Constrain Potassium Nucleosynthesis in NGC 2419

W. Fox, R. Longland, C. Marshall, and F. Portillo Chaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 062701 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Measurement of the ${}^{13}C (α, n_{0}) {}^{16}O$ Differential Cross Section from 0.8 to 6.5 MeV

R. J. deBoer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 062702 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Transition from Flat-Band Localization to Anderson Localization in a One-Dimensional Tasaki Lattice

Chao Zeng, Yue-Ran Shi, Yi-Yi Mao, Fei-Fei Wu, Yan-Jun Xie, Tao Yuan, Wei Zhang, Han-Ning Dai, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 063401 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Enhancement of Entanglement via Incoherent Collisions

Xihua Yang, Mingfei Cheng, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 063601 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Universal Crosstalk of Twisted Light in Random Media

David Bachmann, Asher Klug, Mathieu Isoard, Vyacheslav Shatokhin, Giacomo Sorelli, Andreas Buchleitner, and Andrew Forbes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 063801 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Full Spatial Characterization of Entangled Structured Photons

Xiaoqin Gao, Yingwen Zhang, Alessio D’Errico, Alicia Sit, Khabat Heshami, and Ebrahim Karimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 063802 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

Superfluorescence from Electron-Hole Plasma at Moderate Temperatures of 175 K

Ajay K. Poonia, Barnali Mondal, Matthew C. Beard, Angshuman Nag, and K. V. Adarsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 063803 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Photonic Floquet Skin-Topological Effect

Yeyang Sun, Xiangrui Hou, Tuo Wan, Fangyu Wang, Shiyao Zhu, Zhichao Ruan, and Zhaoju Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 063804 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Chiral Anomaly and Dynamos from Inhomogeneous Chemical Potential Fluctuations

Jennifer Schober, Igor Rogachevskii, and Axel Brandenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065101 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

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Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment

H. Abu-Shawareb et al. (The Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Principles of Scientific Breakeven in an Inertial Fusion Experiment

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065103 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Hohlraum Reheating from Burning NIF Implosions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065104 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Scientists have now vetted details of the 2022 laser-powered fusion reaction that produced more energy than it consumed.

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in the Strongly Relativistic Regime

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065105 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

Self-Organized Evolution of the Internal Transport Barrier in Ion-Temperature-Gradient Driven Gyrokinetic Turbulence

Shaojie Wang, Zihao Wang, and Tiannan Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065106 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

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Perturbed Ion Temperature and Toroidal Flow Profile Measurements in Rotating Neoclassical Tearing Mode Magnetic Islands

L. Bardóczi, A. Dudkovskaia, R. J. La Haye, J. D. Callen, C. Chrystal, and M. Podesta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065107 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Disentangling Photodoping, Photoconductivity, and Photosuperconductivity in the Cuprates

R. El Hage, D. Sánchez-Manzano, V. Humbert, S. Carreira, V. Rouco, A. Sander, F. Cuellar, K. Seurre, A. Lagarrigue, S. Mesoraca, J. Briatico, J. Trastoy, J. Santamaría, and Javier E. Villegas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066001 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Emergent Superconductivity and Competing Charge Orders in Hole-Doped Square-Lattice $t − J$ Model

Xin Lu, Feng Chen, W. Zhu, D. N. Sheng, and Shou-Shu Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066002 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

Florian Theuss, Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian M. Hayes, Shanta Saha, Tatsuya Shishidou, Taishi Chen, Satoru Nakatsuji, Sheng Ran, Michael Weinert, Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, and B. J. Ramshaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066003 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Collective Nature of Orbital Excitations in Layered Cuprates in the Absence of Apical Oxygens

Leonardo Martinelli, Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Jonathan Pelliciari, Riccardo Arpaia, Nicholas B. Brookes, Daniele Di Castro, Mirian G. Fernandez, Mingu Kang, Yoshiharu Krockenberger, Kurt Kummer, Daniel E. McNally, Eugenio Paris, Thorsten Schmitt, Hideki Yamamoto, Andrew Walters, Ke-Jin Zhou, Lucio Braicovich, Riccardo Comin, Marco Moretti Sala, Thomas P. Devereaux, Maria Daghofer, and Giacomo Ghiringhelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066004 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Nondissipative Martensitic Phase Transformation after Multimillion Superelastic Cycles

Mostafa Karami, Zeyuan Zhu, Ka Hung Chan, Peng Hua, Nobumichi Tamura, and Xian Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066101 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

Predicting Phase Stability at Interfaces

J. Pitfield, N. T. Taylor, and S. P. Hepplestone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066201 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

Tomasch Oscillations as Above-Gap Signature of Topological Superconductivity

Antonio Štrkalj, Xi-Rong Chen, Wei Chen, D. Y. Xing, and Oded Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066301 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

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$π$ Phase Interlayer Shift and Stacking Fault in the Kagome Superconductor ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Feng Jin, Wei Ren, Mingshu Tan, Mingtai Xie, Bingru Lu, Zheng Zhang, Jianting Ji, and Qingming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066501 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

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Spectroscopic Signatures of Fractionalization in Octupolar Quantum Spin Ice

Félix Desrochers and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066502 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

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Observation of Higher-Order Nodal-Line Semimetal in Phononic Crystals

Qiyun Ma, Zhenhang Pu, Liping Ye, Jiuyang Lu, Xueqin Huang, Manzhu Ke, Hailong He, Weiyin Deng, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066601 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

The sound waves in a fabricated material exhibit topological features in one, two, and three dimensions—demonstrating an acoustic version of a higher-order nodal-line semimetal.

Realization of Gapped and Ungapped Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators

Mina Ren, Ye Yu, Bintao Wu, Xin Qi, Yiwei Wang, Xiaogang Yao, Jie Ren, Zhiwei Guo, Haitao Jiang, Hong Chen, Xiong-Jun Liu, Zhigang Chen, and Yong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066602 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Evidence of 3D Topological-Domain Dynamics in KTN:Li Polarization-Supercrystal Formation

Feifei Xin, Ludovica Falsi, Yehonatan Gelkop, Davide Pierangeli, Guoquan Zhang, Fang Bo, Fabrizio Fusella, Aharon J. Agranat, and Eugenio DelRe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066603 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Electrically Controlled Anomalous Hall Effect and Orbital Magnetization in Topological Magnet ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Ruobing Mei, Yi-Fan Zhao, Chong Wang, Yafei Ren, Di Xiao, Cui-Zu Chang, and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066604 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

Field-Induced Non-BEC Transitions in Frustrated Magnets

Shouvik Sur, Yi Xu, Shuyi Li, Shou-Shu Gong, and Andriy H. Nevidomskyy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066701 (2024) - Published 5 February, 2024

Signatures of Fractional Statistics in Nonlinear Pump-Probe Spectroscopy

Max McGinley, Michele Fava, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066702 (2024) - Published 6 February, 2024

Coherent Interaction of a Few-Electron Quantum Dot with a Terahertz Optical Resonator

Kazuyuki Kuroyama, Jinkwan Kwoen, Yasuhiko Arakawa, and Kazuhiko Hirakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 066901 (2024) - Published 9 February, 2024

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Bichromatic Rabi Control of Semiconductor Qubits

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 067001 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024

Coherent bichromatic Rabi control of quantum dot hole spin qubits can be used to control large qubit arrays.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Collective Relaxation Dynamics in a Three-Dimensional Lattice Glass Model

Yoshihiko Nishikawa and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 067101 (2024) - Published 7 February, 2024

A recently developed lattice model produces an unexpected prediction combination for the rearrangements of particles inside a supercooled liquid turning into a glass.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Duality and Sheared Analytic Response in Mechanism-Based Metamaterials

Michael Czajkowski and D. Zeb Rocklin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 068201 (2024) - Published 8 February, 2024