Volume 132, Issue 9

1 March 2024

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On the Cover

A semiclassical lattice gauge theory simulates the superconducting phase dynamics of a bilayer superconductor in the presence of thermal fluctuations.

From the article:

Dissipationless Counterflow Currents above $T_{c}$ in Bilayer Superconductors
Guido Homann, Marios H. Michael, Jayson G. Cosme, and Ludwig Mathey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096002 (2024)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Exploring the Physics of Basic Medical Research

Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090001 (2024) - Published 26 February, 2024

In a new forward-looking Essay, Vahid Sandoghdar poses exciting questions on topics at the interface between physics and medical research.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conformal Invariance in Water-Wave Turbulence

M. Noseda and P. J. Cobelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 094001 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Experiments on gravity-capillary waves and analysis techniques drawn from stochastic partial differential equation theory establish a connection between zero-height isolines and the critical 2D Ising model’s domain walls, revealing a novel link between water-wave turbulence and critical systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrahigh Critical Current Density across Sliding Electrical Contacts in Structural Superlubric State

Tielin Wu, Weipeng Chen, Lingyi Wangye, Yiran Wang, Zhanghui Wu, Ming Ma, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096201 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

An experimental study of sliding electrical graphite contacts demonstrates simultaneous superlubricity and extremely high electrical conductivity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deep-Learning Density Functional Perturbation Theory

He Li, Zechen Tang, Jingheng Fu, Wen-Han Dong, Nianlong Zou, Xiaoxun Gong, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096401 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

A framework leveraging deep learning and automatic differentiation circumvents the computational bottleneck associated with density functional perturbation theory calculations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polar Self-Organization of Ferroelectric Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Molecules on Atomically Flat Au(111) Surface

Alexandr A. Marchenko, Oleksiy L. Kapitanchuk, Yaroslava Yu. Lopatina, Kostiantyn G. Nazarenko, Anton I. Senenko, Nathalie Katsonis, Vassili G. Nazarenko, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098101 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Using a scanning tunneling microscope polar molecular ordering in a monolayer of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal has been directly observed for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exploration-Exploitation Paradigm for Networked Biological Systems

Vito Dichio and Fabrizio De Vico Fallani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098402 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

In the context of the brain wiring problem, development of the nematode, $C .$ $e l e g a n s$ , follows an exploration-exploitation paradigm.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Remote Charging and Degradation Suppression for the Quantum Battery

Wan-Lu Song, Hai-Bin Liu, Bin Zhou, Wan-Li Yang, and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090401 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Qudit-Based Spectroscopy for Measurement and Control of Nuclear-Spin Qubits in Silicon Carbide

Erik Hesselmeier, Pierre Kuna, István Takács, Viktor Ivády, Wolfgang Knolle, Nguyen Tien Son, Misagh Ghezellou, Jawad Ul-Hassan, Durga Dasari, Florian Kaiser, Vadim Vorobyov, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090601 (2024) - Published 26 February, 2024

Readout-Induced Suppression and Enhancement of Superconducting Qubit Lifetimes

Ted Thorbeck, Zhihao Xiao, Archana Kamal, and Luke C. G. Govia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090602 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Self-Similar Growth of Bose Stars

A. S. Dmitriev, D. G. Levkov, A. G. Panin, and I. I. Tkachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091001 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Binary Coalescences as Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

Jonas P. Pereira, Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo, Rita C. dos Anjos, and Jaziel G. Coelho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091401 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Effective Field Theory for Extreme Mass Ratio Binaries

Clifford Cheung, Julio Parra-Martinez, Ira Z. Rothstein, Nabha Shah, and Jordan Wilson-Gerow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091402 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Particles and Fields

Multiparticle Factorization and the Rigidity of String Theory

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Clifford Cheung, Carolina Figueiredo, and Grant N. Remmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091601 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

Effect of Ultralight Dark Matter on $g - 2$ of the Electron

Jason L. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091801 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Observation of $D_{s}^{+} \to η^{'} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ , Precision Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with $D_{s}^{+} \to η^{(')} l^{+} ν_{l}$ , and First Measurements of $D_{s}^{+} \to η^{(')} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ Decay Dynamics

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091802 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Transversity Distributions and Tensor Charges of the Nucleon: Extraction from Dihadron Production and Their Universal Nature

C. Cocuzza, A. Metz, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato, and R. Seidl (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091901 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Soft Photon Theorem in QCD with Massless Quarks

Yao Ma, George Sterman, and Aniruddha Venkata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091902 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

High-Energy Collision of Quarks and Mesons in the Schwinger Model: From Tensor Networks to Circuit QED

Ron Belyansky, Seth Whitsitt, Niklas Mueller, Ali Fahimniya, Elizabeth R. Bennewitz, Zohreh Davoudi, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091903 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Evidence for Chiral Wobbler in Nuclei

R. J. Guo (郭睿巨) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 092501 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Spectral Analysis by Continuous Measurement of Landau-Zener Transitions

Christopher C. Bounds, Josh P. Duff, Alex Tritt, Hamish A. M. Taylor, George X. Coe, Sam J. White, and L. D. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093401 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Spin- and Momentum-Correlated Atom Pairs Mediated by Photon Exchange and Seeded by Vacuum Fluctuations

Fabian Finger, Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, Nicola Reiter, Panagiotis Christodoulou, Tobias Donner, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093402 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Observation of Photoassociation Resonances in Ultracold Atom-Molecule Collisions

Jin Cao, Bo-Yuan Wang, Huan Yang, Zhi-Jie Fan, Zhen Su, Jun Rui, Bo Zhao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093403 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

Coherent Electron-Vibron Interactions in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)

Miguel Á. Martínez-García and Diego Martín-Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093601 (2024) - Published 26 February, 2024

Lie Algebraic Quantum Phase Reduction

Wataru Setoyama and Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093602 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Photonic Which-Path Entangler Based on Longitudinal Cavity-Qubit Coupling

Z. M. McIntyre and W. A. Coish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093603 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Observation of Replica Symmetry Breaking in Standard Mode-Locked Fiber Laser

Nicolas P. Alves, Wesley F. Alves, André C. A. Siqueira, Naudson L. L. Matias, Anderson S. L. Gomes, Ernesto P. Raposo, and Marcio H. G. de Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093801 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conformal Invariance in Water-Wave Turbulence

M. Noseda and P. J. Cobelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 094001 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Exploring the Equivalence between Two-Dimensional Classical and Quantum Turbulence through Velocity Circulation Statistics

Nicolás P. Müller and Giorgio Krstulovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 094002 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Space-Time Structured Plasma Waves

J. P. Palastro, K. G. Miller, R. K. Follett, D. Ramsey, K. Weichman, A. V. Arefiev, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 095101 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

ac Hall Effect and Photon Drag of Superconducting Condensates

S. V. Mironov, A. S. Mel’nikov, and A. I. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096001 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Dissipationless Counterflow Currents above $T_{c}$ in Bilayer Superconductors

Guido Homann, Marios H. Michael, Jayson G. Cosme, and Ludwig Mathey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096002 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Atomistic Origin of Diverse Charge Density Wave States in ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Binhua Zhang, Hengxin Tan, Binghai Yan, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096101 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrahigh Critical Current Density across Sliding Electrical Contacts in Structural Superlubric State

Tielin Wu, Weipeng Chen, Lingyi Wangye, Yiran Wang, Zhanghui Wu, Ming Ma, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096201 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

An experimental study of sliding electrical graphite contacts demonstrates simultaneous superlubricity and extremely high electrical conductivity.

Electric-Field-Tunable Edge Transport in Bernal-Stacked Trilayer Graphene

Saurabh Kumar Srivastav, Adithi Udupa, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Diptiman Sen, and Anindya Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096301 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Nonlinear Valley Hall Effect

Kamal Das, Koushik Ghorai, Dimitrie Culcer, and Amit Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096302 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deep-Learning Density Functional Perturbation Theory

He Li, Zechen Tang, Jingheng Fu, Wen-Han Dong, Nianlong Zou, Xiaoxun Gong, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096401 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

A framework leveraging deep learning and automatic differentiation circumvents the computational bottleneck associated with density functional perturbation theory calculations.

Occupation-Dependent Particle Separation in One-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Lattices

Yi Qin and Linhu Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096501 (2024) - Published 27 February, 2024

Signatures of Correlated Defects in an Ultraclean Wigner Crystal in the Extreme Quantum Limit

P. T. Madathil, C. Wang, S. K. Singh, A. Gupta, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096502 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

Quantum Liquid States of Spin Solitons in a Ferroelectric Spin-Peierls State

Shusaku Imajo, Atsushi Miyake, Ryosuke Kurihara, Masashi Tokunaga, Koichi Kindo, Sachio Horiuchi, and Fumitaka Kagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096601 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Nicolás Morales-Durán, Nemin Wei, Jingtian Shi, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096602 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

Spin-Reorientation-Driven Linear Magnetoelectric Effect in Topological Antiferromagnet ${Cu}_{3} {TeO}_{6}$

Virna Kisiček, Damir Dominko, Matija Čulo, Željko Rapljenović, Marko Kuveždić, Martina Dragičević, Helmuth Berger, Xavier Rocquefelte, Mirta Herak, and Tomislav Ivek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096701 (2024) - Published 26 February, 2024

Light-Driven Spontaneous Phonon Chirality and Magnetization in Paramagnets

Yafei Ren, Mark Rudner, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096702 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

Spin-Frame Field Theory of a Three-Sublattice Antiferromagnet

Bastián Pradenas and Oleg Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096703 (2024) - Published 1 March, 2024

Macroscopic Noise Amplification by Asymmetric Dyads in Non-Hermitian Optical Systems for Generative Diffusion Models

Alexander Johnston and Natalia G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096901 (2024) - Published 26 February, 2024

Spin-Orbit Effects on Exciton Complexes in Diamond

Shinya Takahashi, Yoshiki Kubo, Kazuki Konishi, Riadh Issaoui, Julien Barjon, and Nobuko Naka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096902 (2024) - Published 26 February, 2024

Nonreciprocity and Circulation in a Passive Josephson-Junction Ring

Arkady Fedorov, N. Pradeep Kumar, Dat Thanh Le, Rohit Navarathna, Prasanna Pakkiam, and Thomas M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 097001 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Giant Thermoelectric Response of Confined Electrolytes with Thermally Activated Charge Carrier Generation

Rajkumar Sarma and Steffen Hardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098001 (2024) - Published 28 February, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polar Self-Organization of Ferroelectric Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Molecules on Atomically Flat Au(111) Surface

Alexandr A. Marchenko, Oleksiy L. Kapitanchuk, Yaroslava Yu. Lopatina, Kostiantyn G. Nazarenko, Anton I. Senenko, Nathalie Katsonis, Vassili G. Nazarenko, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098101 (2024) - Published 29 February, 2024

Using a scanning tunneling microscope polar molecular ordering in a monolayer of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal has been directly observed for the first time.