Volume 132, Issue 8

23 February 2024

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Floating robot which self-propels by oscillating to generate gravity-capillary waves near a boundary. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot
Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto, and Daniel I. Goldman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084001 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Equation of State and Thermometry of the 2D $SU (N)$ Fermi-Hubbard Model

G. Pasqualetti, O. Bettermann, N. Darkwah Oppong, E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, S. Dasgupta, R. T. Scalettar, K. R. A. Hazzard, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083401 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Ultracold Yb gas in an optical lattice realizes the equation of state of the Fermi-Hubbard model across the Mott crossover temperature.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Positronium Laser Cooling via the $1^{3} S − 2^{3} P$ Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse

L. T. Glöggler et al. (AEḡIS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083402 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Researchers have managed to cool an atom-like system made of an electron and a positron using a technique commonly used in cold-atom experiments.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Flexophotovoltaic Effect and Above-Band-Gap Photovoltage Induced by Strain Gradients in Halide Perovskites

Zhiguo Wang, Shengwen Shu, Xiaoyong Wei, Renhong Liang, Shanming Ke, Longlong Shu, and Gustau Catalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086902 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

The engineering of structural deformations in light-sensitive semiconductors can boost the efficiency of solar cells.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Enhanced Production of $Λ_{b}^{0}$ Baryons in High-Multiplicity $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081901 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Bottom quarks are increasingly more likely to exist in three-quark states rather than two-quark ones as the density of their environment increases.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mass, Spectroscopy, and Two-Neutron Decay of ${}^{16}{Be}$

B. Monteagudo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 082501 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Identification of both the ground and first excited states of $^{16}$ Be allows for a precise determination of its mass.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot

Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto, and Daniel I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084001 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

A free-floating robot that oscillates symmetrically can use confined hydrodynamic surface wave fields to move without the need for a traditional propulsion mechanism.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Avalanches and Extreme Value Statistics of a Mesoscale Moving Contact Line

Caishan Yan, Dongshi Guan, Yin Wang, Pik-Yin Lai, Hsuan-Yi Chen, and Penger Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084003 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

The pinning-depinning dynamics of a circular moving contact line are studied at the single-slip resolution using a mesoscale experimental framework.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Solution of the Bose-Hubbard Model with Unidirectional Hopping

Mingchen Zheng, Yi Qiao, Yupeng Wang, Junpeng Cao, and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086502 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Using a quantum inverse scattering framework, it is shown that the non-Hermitian one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is integrable.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Random Matrix Statistics in Propagating Correlation Fronts of Fermions

Kazuya Fujimoto and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087101 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

The dynamic higher-order fluctuations around the correlation front in one-dimensional noninteracting fermions can exhibit the universal behavior of the random matrix theory’s Gaussian orthogonal and symplectic ensembles.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Gaussian Displacements in Active Transport on a Carpet of Motile Cells

Robert Großmann, Lara S. Bort, Ted Moldenhawer, Maike Stange, Setareh Sharifi Panah, Ralf Metzler, and Carsten Beta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 088301 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

A carpet of active cells functions as an active bath for passive tracer particles, inducing non-Gaussian displacement and a crossover from superdiffusive to normal diffusive behavior.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Randomness Certification from Multipartite Quantum Steering for Arbitrary Dimensional Systems

Yi Li, Yu Xiang, Xiao-Dong Yu, H. Chau Nguyen, Otfried Gühne, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080201 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Experimental Demonstration of Inequivalent Mutually Unbiased Bases

Wen-Zhe Yan, Yunting Li, Zhibo Hou, Huangjun Zhu, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080202 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Localized Dynamics in the Floquet Quantum East Model

Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080401 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Unscrambling Quantum Information with Clifford Decoders

Salvatore F. E. Oliviero, Lorenzo Leone, Seth Lloyd, and Alioscia Hamma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 080402 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Footprints of the QCD Crossover on Cosmological Gravitational Waves at Pulsar Timing Arrays

Gabriele Franciolini, Davide Racco, and Fabrizio Rompineve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081001 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Dark-Matter-Induced Nucleon Decay Signals in Mesogenesis

Joshua Berger and Gilly Elor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081002 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Imperfect Axion Precludes the Domain Wall Problem

Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081003 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Particles and Fields

Parisi’s Hypercube, Fock-Space Frustration, and ${Near- AdS}_{2} / Near- {CFT}_{1}$ Holography

Micha Berkooz, Yiyang Jia (贾抑扬), and Navot Silberstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081601 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Resummation of Next-to-Leading Nonglobal Logarithms at the LHC

Thomas Becher, Nicolas Schalch, and Xiaofeng Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081602 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Search for New Phenomena in Two-Body Invariant Mass Distributions Using Unsupervised Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081801 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Observation of Cabibbo-Suppressed Two-Body Hadronic Decays and Precision Mass Measurement of the $Ω_{c}^{0}$ Baryon

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081802 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

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Enhanced Production of $Λ_{b}^{0}$ Baryons in High-Multiplicity $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081901 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Bottom quarks are increasingly more likely to exist in three-quark states rather than two-quark ones as the density of their environment increases.

Back-to-Back Inclusive Dijets in Deep Inelastic Scattering at Small $x$ : Complete NLO Results and Predictions

Paul Caucal, Farid Salazar, Björn Schenke, Tomasz Stebel, and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081902 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Propagator Zeros and Lattice Chiral Gauge Theories

Maarten Golterman and Yigal Shamir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081903 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Determination of the $Σ^{+}$ Timelike Electromagnetic Form Factors

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 081904 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mass, Spectroscopy, and Two-Neutron Decay of ${}^{16}{Be}$

B. Monteagudo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 082501 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Identification of both the ground and first excited states of $^{16}$ Be allows for a precise determination of its mass.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Trapping and Sympathetic Cooling of Conformationally Selected Molecular Ions

Lei Xu, Jutta Toscano, and Stefan Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083001 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Time-Resolved Multielectron Coincidence Spectroscopy of Double Auger-Meitner Decay Following Xe $4 d$ Ionization

Pengju Zhang, Joel Trester, Kiyoshi Ueda, Meng Han, Tadas Balčiūnas, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083201 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Scheme for Quantum-Logic Based Transfer of Accuracy in Polarizability Measurement for Trapped Ions Using a Moving Optical Lattice

Fabian Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083202 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equation of State and Thermometry of the 2D $SU (N)$ Fermi-Hubbard Model

G. Pasqualetti, O. Bettermann, N. Darkwah Oppong, E. Ibarra-García-Padilla, S. Dasgupta, R. T. Scalettar, K. R. A. Hazzard, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083401 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Ultracold Yb gas in an optical lattice realizes the equation of state of the Fermi-Hubbard model across the Mott crossover temperature.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Positronium Laser Cooling via the $1^{3} S − 2^{3} P$ Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse

L. T. Glöggler et al. (AEḡIS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083402 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Researchers have managed to cool an atom-like system made of an electron and a positron using a technique commonly used in cold-atom experiments.

Experimental Quantum Non-Gaussian Coincidences of Entangled Photons

Run-Ze Liu, Yu-Kun Qiao, Lukáš Lachman, Zhen-Xuan Ge, Tung-Hsun Chung, Jun-Yi Zhao, Hao Li, Lixing You, Radim Filip, and Yong-Heng Huo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083601 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Edge State, Band Topology, and Time Boundary Effect in the Fine-Grained Categorization of Chern Insulators

H. C. Wu, H. S. Xu, L. C. Xie, and L. Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 083801 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Hydrodynamic Fluctuation-Induced Forces with an Oscillating Robot

Steven W. Tarr, Joseph S. Brunner, Daniel Soto, and Daniel I. Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084001 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

A free-floating robot that oscillates symmetrically can use confined hydrodynamic surface wave fields to move without the need for a traditional propulsion mechanism.

Chemically Enhanced Convective Dissolution of ${CO}_{2}$

R. Tanaka, C. Almarcha, Y. Nagatsu, Y. Méheust, and P. Meunier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084002 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Avalanches and Extreme Value Statistics of a Mesoscale Moving Contact Line

Caishan Yan, Dongshi Guan, Yin Wang, Pik-Yin Lai, Hsuan-Yi Chen, and Penger Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 084003 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

The pinning-depinning dynamics of a circular moving contact line are studied at the single-slip resolution using a mesoscale experimental framework.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Subrelativistic Alternating Phase Focusing Dielectric Laser Accelerators

Payton Broaddus, Thilo Egenolf, Dylan S. Black, Melanie Murillo, Clarisse Woodahl, Yu Miao, Uwe Niedermayer, Robert L. Byer, Kenneth J. Leedle, and Olav Solgaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 085001 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Monofractality in the Solar Wind at Electron Scales: Insights from Kinetic Alfvén Waves Turbulence

Vincent David, Sébastien Galtier, and Romain Meyrand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 085201 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Radiative Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Turbulent Comptonization in Magnetized Black-Hole Coronae

Daniel Grošelj, Hayk Hakobyan, Andrei M. Beloborodov, Lorenzo Sironi, and Alexander Philippov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 085202 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Crystal-Structure Matches in Solid-Solid Phase Transitions

Fang-Cheng Wang, Qi-Jun Ye, Yu-Cheng Zhu, and Xin-Zheng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086101 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Modeling Temperature-Dependent Electron Thermal Diffuse Scattering via Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials and Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics

Dennis S. Kim, Michael Xu, and James M. LeBeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086301 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Observation of Free-Boundary-Induced Chiral Anomaly Bulk States in Elastic Twisted Kagome Metamaterials

Zi-Dong Zhang, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086302 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Mixed Stochastic-Deterministic Approach for Many-Body Perturbation Theory Calculations

Aaron R. Altman, Sudipta Kundu, and Felipe H. da Jornada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086401 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Physical Properties of an Aperiodic Monotile with Graphene-like Features, Chirality, and Zero Modes

Justin Schirmann, Selma Franca, Felix Flicker, and Adolfo G. Grushin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086402 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Stoner Ferromagnetism in a Momentum-Confined Interacting 2D Electron Gas

Ohad Antebi, Ady Stern, and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086501 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Solution of the Bose-Hubbard Model with Unidirectional Hopping

Mingchen Zheng, Yi Qiao, Yupeng Wang, Junpeng Cao, and Shu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086502 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Using a quantum inverse scattering framework, it is shown that the non-Hermitian one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model is integrable.

Emergent Conformal Boundaries from Finite-Entanglement Scaling in Matrix Product States

Rui-Zhen Huang, Long Zhang, Andreas M. Läuchli, Jutho Haegeman, Frank Verstraete, and Laurens Vanderstraeten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086503 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Incommensurate Spin Density Wave in Antiferromagnetic ${RuO}_{2}$ Evinced by Abnormal Spin Splitting Torque

Xiaoyu Feng, Hua Bai, Xinxin Fan, Muhan Guo, Zhiqiang Zhang, Guozhi Chai, Tao Wang, Desheng Xue, Cheng Song, and Xiaolong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086701 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Mechanical Rippling for Diverse Ferroelectric Topologies in Otherwise Nonferroelectric ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Nanofilms

Tao Xu, Chengsheng Wu, Sizheng Zheng, Yu Wang, Jie Wang, Hiroyuki Hirakata, Takayuki Kitamura, and Takahiro Shimada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086801 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024

Spin-Chirality-Driven Multiferroicity in van der Waals Monolayers

Chao Liu, Wei Ren, and Silvia Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086802 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flexophotovoltaic Effect and Above-Band-Gap Photovoltage Induced by Strain Gradients in Halide Perovskites

Zhiguo Wang, Shengwen Shu, Xiaoyong Wei, Renhong Liang, Shanming Ke, Longlong Shu, and Gustau Catalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086902 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

The engineering of structural deformations in light-sensitive semiconductors can boost the efficiency of solar cells.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Random Matrix Statistics in Propagating Correlation Fronts of Fermions

Kazuya Fujimoto and Tomohiro Sasamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087101 (2024) - Published 22 February, 2024

Thermodynamic Correlation Inequality

Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087102 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

Higher-Order Components Dictate Higher-Order Contagion Dynamics in Hypergraphs

Jung-Ho Kim and K.-I. Goh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 087401 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Gaussian Displacements in Active Transport on a Carpet of Motile Cells

Robert Großmann, Lara S. Bort, Ted Moldenhawer, Maike Stange, Setareh Sharifi Panah, Ralf Metzler, and Carsten Beta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 088301 (2024) - Published 23 February, 2024

A carpet of active cells functions as an active bath for passive tracer particles, inducing non-Gaussian displacement and a crossover from superdiffusive to normal diffusive behavior.

ERRATA

Erratum: Phonon-Mediated Interlayer Conductance in Twisted Graphene Bilayers [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 236604 (2012)]

Vasili Perebeinos, Jerry Tersoff, and Phaedon Avouris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 089901 (2024) - Published 20 February, 2024

Erratum: Fluctuations and Shape Dependence of Microphase Separation in Systems with Long-Range Interactions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 258401 (2023)]

Amit Kumar and Samuel A. Safran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 089902 (2024) - Published 21 February, 2024