Volume 132, Issue 7

16 February 2024

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Confocal image of a flexible 5x5 lattice of colloids functionalized with two complementary strands of DNA linkers, indicated by two different colors.

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Soft and Stiff Normal Modes in Floppy Colloidal Square Lattices
Julio Melio, Silke E. Henkes, and Daniela J. Kraft
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 078202 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of New Isotopes in the Fragmentation of ${}^{198}{Pt}$ at FRIB

O. B. Tarasov, A. Gade, K. Fukushima, M. Hausmann, E. Kwan, M. Portillo, M. Smith, D. S. Ahn, D. Bazin, R. Chyzh, S. Giraud, K. Haak, T. Kubo, D. J. Morrissey, P. N. Ostroumov, I. Richardson, B. M. Sherrill, A. Stolz, S. Watters, D. Weisshaar, and T. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072501 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Less than a year after its opening, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams produced five never-before-seen isotopes for observation, a success that researchers say highlights the discovery potential of the facility.

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Discovery of New Isotopes ${}^{160}{Os}$ and ${}^{156}W$ : Revealing Enhanced Stability of the $N = 82$ Shell Closure on the Neutron-Deficient Side

H. B. Yang (杨华彬) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072502 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Adding what seems like too many protons to a nucleus can increase one measure of its stability.

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Voltage-Controlled Magnon Transistor via Tuning Interfacial Exchange Coupling

Y. Z. Wang, T. Y. Zhang, J. Dong, P. Chen, G. Q. Yu, C. H. Wan, and X. F. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076701 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic spin waves called magnons can be controlled by voltage and thus could operate more efficiently as information carriers in future devices.

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Why Shot Noise Does Not Generally Detect Pairing in Mesoscopic Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

Jiasen Niu, Koen M. Bastiaans, Jian-Feng Ge, Ruchi Tomar, John Jesudasan, Pratap Raychaudhuri, Max Karrer, Reinhold Kleiner, Dieter Koelle, Arnaud Barbier, Eduard F. C. Driessen, Yaroslav M. Blanter, and Milan P. Allan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076001 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Shot noise measurements in Nb-based superconducting tunnel junctions indicate that transparency channels obscure pairing in noise measurements, a common roadblock in measurements in such junctions.

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Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm Interference in the Presence of Edge Reconstruction

Sourav Biswas, Hemanta Kumar Kundu, Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Vladimir Umansky, and Moty Heiblum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076301 (2024) - Published 12 February, 2024

Subtleties in edge-structure reconstruction may critically affect Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a quantum Hall interferometer.

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Probing Quantum Phases in Ultra-High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Using Surface Acoustic Waves

Mengmeng Wu, Xiao Liu, Renfei Wang, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, Xi Lin, and Yang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076501 (2024) - Published 12 February, 2024

Deforming the quantum phase with a nondestructive current flowing through the sample shows that the system becomes more incompressible when hosting a current.

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Universal Features of Entanglement Entropy in the Honeycomb Hubbard Model

Jonathan D’Emidio, Román Orús, Nicolas Laflorencie, and Fernando de Juan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076502 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024

The entanglement entropy of two-dimensional interacting fermions can be simulated with quantum Monte Carlo techniques.

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Field-Induced Hybridization of Moiré Excitons in ${MoSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Heterobilayers

Borislav Polovnikov, Johannes Scherzer, Subhradeep Misra, Xin Huang, Christian Mohl, Zhijie Li, Jonas Göser, Jonathan Förste, Ismail Bilgin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alexander Högele, and Anvar S. Baimuratov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076902 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Laser modulation spectroscopy on a MoSe $_{2}$ /WS $_{2}$ heterostructure shows an intricate interplay of both intra- and interlayer moiré excitons and allows to determine unambiguously the nature of the observed optical resonances.

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Exponential Capacity of Dense Associative Memories

Carlo Lucibello and Marc Mézard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077301 (2024) - Published 13 February, 2024

A statistical mechanics analysis allows for the computation of asymptotic thresholds for pattern retrieval in the context of dense associative memories.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Extending the Known Region of Nonlocal Boxes that Collapse Communication Complexity

Pierre Botteron, Anne Broadbent, and Marc-Olivier Proulx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070201 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024

Entanglement Detection with Trace Polynomials

Albert Rico and Felix Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070202 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Experimental Investigation of Uncertainty Relations for Non-Hermitian Operators

Xinzhi Zhao, Xinglei Yu, Wenting Zhou, Chengjie Zhang, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070203 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Quantum Steering with Imprecise Measurements

Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070204 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Stable Measurement-Induced Floquet Enriched Topological Order

DinhDuy Vu, Ali Lavasani, Jong Yeon Lee, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070401 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024

Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Theorem in Open Quantum Systems

Kohei Kawabata, Ramanjit Sohal, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 070402 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Particles and Fields

Universal Definition of the Nonconformal Trace Anomaly

Renata Ferrero, Sebastián A. Franchino-Viñas, Markus B. Fröb, and William C. C. Lima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 071601 (2024) - Published 13 February, 2024

Prescaling Relaxation to Nonthermal Attractors

Michal P. Heller, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Thimo Preis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 071602 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Large $N$ Fractons

Kristan Jensen and Amir Raz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 071603 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Viscosities of the Baryon-Rich Quark-Gluon Plasma from Beam Energy Scan Data

Chun Shen, Björn Schenke, and Wenbin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072301 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

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Observation of New Isotopes in the Fragmentation of ${}^{198}{Pt}$ at FRIB

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072501 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

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Discovery of New Isotopes ${}^{160}{Os}$ and ${}^{156}W$ : Revealing Enhanced Stability of the $N = 82$ Shell Closure on the Neutron-Deficient Side

H. B. Yang (杨华彬) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072502 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Adding what seems like too many protons to a nucleus can increase one measure of its stability.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Zero-Quantum-Defect Method and the Fundamental Vibrational Interval of $H_{2}^{+}$

I. Doran, N. Hölsch, M. Beyer, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073001 (2024) - Published 13 February, 2024

Coherent Amplification of Continuous Laser Field via Superfluorescence

K. Kitano and H. Maeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073201 (2024) - Published 12 February, 2024

Engineering Artificial Atomic Systems of Giant Electric Dipole Moment

Baiyi Yu, Yaoming Chu, Ralf Betzholz, Shaoliang Zhang, and Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073202 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Transform-Limited Photon Emission from a Lead-Vacancy Center in Diamond above 10 K

Peng Wang, Lev Kazak, Katharina Senkalla, Petr Siyushev, Ryotaro Abe, Takashi Taniguchi, Shinobu Onoda, Hiromitsu Kato, Toshiharu Makino, Mutsuko Hatano, Fedor Jelezko, and Takayuki Iwasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073601 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Conventional and Unconventional Dicke Models: Multistabilities and Nonequilibrium Dynamics

Farokh Mivehvar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073602 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Topologically Protected Strong-Interaction of Photonics with Free Electrons

Jing Li (李靖), Yiqi Fang, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073801 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Observation of Nonlinear Exceptional Points with a Complete Basis in Dynamics

Kai Bai, Tian-Rui Liu, Liang Fang, Jia-Zheng Li, Chen Lin, Duanduan Wan, and Meng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073802 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Local Markers for Crystalline Topology

Alexander Cerjan, Terry A. Loring, and Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073803 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Three-Dimensional Reconfigurable Optical Singularities in Bilayer Photonic Crystals

Xueqi Ni, Yuan Liu, Beicheng Lou, Mingjie Zhang, Evelyn L. Hu, Shanhui Fan, Eric Mazur, and Haoning Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 073804 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Coalescence of Elastic Blisters Filled with a Viscous Fluid

Torstein Sæter, Christian Pedersen, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Thomas Salez, and Andreas Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 074001 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

T. Nechaeva et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 075001 (2024) - Published 13 February, 2024

Saturation of Fishbone Instability by Self-Generated Zonal Flows in Tokamak Plasmas

G. Brochard, C. Liu, X. Wei, W. Heidbrink, Z. Lin, N. Gorelenkov, C. Chrystal, X. Du, J. Bao, A. R. Polevoi, M. Schneider, S. H. Kim, S. D. Pinches, P. Liu, J. H. Nicolau, and H. Lütjens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 075101 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Why Shot Noise Does Not Generally Detect Pairing in Mesoscopic Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076001 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Shot noise measurements in Nb-based superconducting tunnel junctions indicate that transparency channels obscure pairing in noise measurements, a common roadblock in measurements in such junctions.

Defect-Assisted Exciton Transfer across the Tetracene-Si(111):H Interface

Marvin Krenz, Uwe Gerstmann, and Wolf Gero Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076201 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Spin Light Emitting Diode Based on Exciton Fine Structure Tuning in Quantum Dots

A. V. Shumilin, T. S. Shamirzaev, and D. S. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076202 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

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Anomalous Aharonov-Bohm Interference in the Presence of Edge Reconstruction

Sourav Biswas, Hemanta Kumar Kundu, Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Vladimir Umansky, and Moty Heiblum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076301 (2024) - Published 12 February, 2024

Subtleties in edge-structure reconstruction may critically affect Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a quantum Hall interferometer.

Fast Fourier-Chebyshev Approach to Real-Space Simulations of the Kubo Formula

Santiago Giménez de Castro, João M. Viana Parente Lopes, Aires Ferreira, and D. A. Bahamon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076302 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Rigorous Screened Interactions for Realistic Correlated Electron Systems

Charles J. C. Scott and George H. Booth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076401 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

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Probing Quantum Phases in Ultra-High-Mobility Two-Dimensional Electron Systems Using Surface Acoustic Waves

Mengmeng Wu, Xiao Liu, Renfei Wang, Yoon Jang Chung, Adbhut Gupta, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, Xi Lin, and Yang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076501 (2024) - Published 12 February, 2024

Deforming the quantum phase with a nondestructive current flowing through the sample shows that the system becomes more incompressible when hosting a current.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Features of Entanglement Entropy in the Honeycomb Hubbard Model

Jonathan D’Emidio, Román Orús, Nicolas Laflorencie, and Fernando de Juan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076502 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024

The entanglement entropy of two-dimensional interacting fermions can be simulated with quantum Monte Carlo techniques.

Metal-Insulator Transition in a Semiconductor Heterobilayer Model

Yubo Yang (杨煜波), Miguel A. Morales, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076503 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Discovery of Magnetic Phase Transitions in Heavy-Fermion Superconductor ${CeRh}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Grzegorz Chajewski and Dariusz Kaczorowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076504 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Tunable Quantum Criticality in Multicomponent Rydberg Arrays

Natalia Chepiga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076505 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

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Voltage-Controlled Magnon Transistor via Tuning Interfacial Exchange Coupling

Y. Z. Wang, T. Y. Zhang, J. Dong, P. Chen, G. Q. Yu, C. H. Wan, and X. F. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076701 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Researchers have demonstrated that magnetic spin waves called magnons can be controlled by voltage and thus could operate more efficiently as information carriers in future devices.

Orbital Rashba Effect as a Platform for Robust Orbital Photocurrents

T. Adamantopoulos, M. Merte, D. Go, F. Freimuth, S. Blügel, and Y. Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076901 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

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Field-Induced Hybridization of Moiré Excitons in ${MoSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Heterobilayers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076902 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Mechanisms Underlying a Quantum Superposition Microscope Based on THz-Driven Coherent Oscillations in a Two-Level Molecular Sensor

Yunpeng Xia, Likun Wang, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 076903 (2024) - Published 16 February, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exponential Capacity of Dense Associative Memories

Carlo Lucibello and Marc Mézard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077301 (2024) - Published 13 February, 2024

A statistical mechanics analysis allows for the computation of asymptotic thresholds for pattern retrieval in the context of dense associative memories.

Triadic Approximation Reveals the Role of Interaction Overlap on the Spread of Complex Contagions on Higher-Order Networks

Giulio Burgio, Sergio Gómez, and Alex Arenas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077401 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Compressing the Chronology of a Temporal Network with Graph Commutators

Andrea J. Allen, Cristopher Moore, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 077402 (2024) - Published 15 February, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

ERRATA

Erratum: Molecular Ion Desorption from LiF(110) Surfaces by Positron Annihilation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 143201 (2023)]

T. Tachibana, D. Hoshi, and Y. Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 079901 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024

Erratum: Direct Mechanical Detection and Measurement of Wave-Matter Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer by Nondissipative Vortex Mode Conversion [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244301 (2019)]

B. Sanchez-Padilla, L. Jonusauskas, M. Malinauskas, R. Wunenburger, and E. Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 079902 (2024) - Published 14 February, 2024