Volume 133, Issue 1

5 July 2024

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Artist conception of laser excitation of thorium-229, a dopant inside a high-band-gap crystal. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics Magazine and for an Editors’ Suggestion

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Laser Excitation of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomeric Transition in a Solid-State Host
R. Elwell, Christian Schneider, Justin Jeet, J. E. S. Terhune, H. W. T. Morgan, A. N. Alexandrova, H. B. Tran Tan, Andrei Derevianko, and Eric R. Hudson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 013201 (2024)

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Microscopic Origin of the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Integrable Systems

Colin Rylands, Katja Klobas, Filiberto Ares, Pasquale Calabrese, Sara Murciano, and Bruno Bertini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010401 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics.

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Observing the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Quantum Simulations

Lata Kh. Joshi, Johannes Franke, Aniket Rath, Filiberto Ares, Sara Murciano, Florian Kranzl, Rainer Blatt, Peter Zoller, Benoît Vermersch, Pasquale Calabrese, Christian F. Roos, and Manoj K. Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010402 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics.

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Inverse Mpemba Effect Demonstrated on a Single Trapped Ion Qubit

Shahaf Aharony Shapira, Yotam Shapira, Jovan Markov, Gianluca Teza, Nitzan Akerman, Oren Raz, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010403 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics.

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Laser Excitation of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomeric Transition in a Solid-State Host

R. Elwell, Christian Schneider, Justin Jeet, J. E. S. Terhune, H. W. T. Morgan, A. N. Alexandrova, H. B. Tran Tan, Andrei Derevianko, and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 013201 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Researchers have made the most precise measurement to date of the excited nuclear state of thorium-229, a candidate isotope for an ultraprecise nuclear clock.

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Decay Dynamics of a Single Spherical Domain in Near-Critical Phase-Separated Conditions

Raphael Saiseau, Henri Truong, Thomas Guérin, Ulysse Delabre, and Jean-Pierre Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 018201 (2024) - Published 3 July, 2024

An experiment uncovers the role played by gravity in Ostwald ripening, a spontaneous thermodynamic process responsible for many effects such as the recrystallization of ice cream.

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Exact Numerical Solution of the Fully Connected Classical and Quantum Heisenberg Spin Glass

Nikita Kavokine, Markus Müller, Antoine Georges, and Olivier Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 016501 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

The exact numerical solution of the quantum Heisenberg spin glass throughout the ordered phase and down to zero temperature clears a technical limitation in the investigation of a system of fundamental relevance.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Extremal Tsirelson Inequalities

Victor Barizien and Jean-Daniel Bancal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010201 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Limitations of Classically Simulable Measurements for Quantum State Discrimination

Chengkai Zhu, Zhiping Liu, Chenghong Zhu, and Xin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010202 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

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Microscopic Origin of the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Integrable Systems

Colin Rylands, Katja Klobas, Filiberto Ares, Pasquale Calabrese, Sara Murciano, and Bruno Bertini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010401 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics.

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Observing the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Quantum Simulations

Lata Kh. Joshi, Johannes Franke, Aniket Rath, Filiberto Ares, Sara Murciano, Florian Kranzl, Rainer Blatt, Peter Zoller, Benoît Vermersch, Pasquale Calabrese, Christian F. Roos, and Manoj K. Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010402 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics.

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Inverse Mpemba Effect Demonstrated on a Single Trapped Ion Qubit

Shahaf Aharony Shapira, Yotam Shapira, Jovan Markov, Gianluca Teza, Nitzan Akerman, Oren Raz, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010403 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

In the Mpemba effect, a warm liquid freezes faster than a cold one. Three studies investigate quantum versions of this effect, challenging our understanding of quantum thermodynamics.

Nonstabilizerness via Matrix Product States in the Pauli Basis

Poetri Sonya Tarabunga, Emanuele Tirrito, Mari Carmen Bañuls, and Marcello Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010601 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

Unveiling the Stabilizer Group of a Matrix Product State

Guglielmo Lami and Mario Collura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010602 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

Adaptive Trotterization for Time-Dependent Hamiltonian Quantum Dynamics Using Piecewise Conservation Laws

Hongzheng Zhao, Marin Bukov, Markus Heyl, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010603 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Stress and Geometry for Isotropic Singularities

A. Rod Gover, Jarosław Kopiński, and Andrew Waldron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 011401 (2024) - Published 3 July, 2024

Fast Parameter Inference on Pulsar Timing Arrays with Normalizing Flows

David Shih, Marat Freytsis, Stephen R. Taylor, Jeff A. Dror, and Nolan Smyth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 011402 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Particles and Fields

Search for Narrow Trijet Resonances in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 011801 (2024) - Published 3 July, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Precise Spectroscopy of the $3 n$ and $3 p$ Systems via the ${}^{3}H (t, {}^{3}{He}) 3 n$ and ${}^{3}{He} ({}^{3}{He}, t) 3 p$ Reactions at Intermediate Energies

K. Miki et al. (RIBF-SHARAQ11 Collaboration and RCNP-E502 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 012501 (2024) - Published 3 July, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Laser Excitation of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear Isomeric Transition in a Solid-State Host

R. Elwell, Christian Schneider, Justin Jeet, J. E. S. Terhune, H. W. T. Morgan, A. N. Alexandrova, H. B. Tran Tan, Andrei Derevianko, and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 013201 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Researchers have made the most precise measurement to date of the excited nuclear state of thorium-229, a candidate isotope for an ultraprecise nuclear clock.

High-Fidelity Detection of Large-Scale Atom Arrays in an Optical Lattice

Renhao Tao, Maximilian Ammenwerth, Flavien Gyger, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 013401 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

Noise Level of a Ring Laser Gyroscope in the Femto-Rad/s Range

Angela D. V. Di Virgilio, Francesco Bajardi, Andrea Basti, Nicolò Beverini, Giorgio Carelli, Donatella Ciampini, Giuseppe Di Somma, Francesco Fuso, Enrico Maccioni, Paolo Marsili, Antonello Ortolan, Alberto Porzio, and David Vitali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 013601 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Sign-Indefinite Invariants Shape Turbulent Cascades

Michal Shavit, Oliver Bühler, and Jalal Shatah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 014001 (2024) - Published 1 July, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Fermi Surface Nesting Driving the RKKY Interaction in the Centrosymmetric Skyrmion Magnet ${Gd}_{2} {PdSi}_{3}$

Yuyang Dong, Yosuke Arai, Kenta Kuroda, Masayuki Ochi, Natsumi Tanaka, Yuxuan Wan, Matthew D. Watson, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Yuji Aoki, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, and Takeshi Kondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 016401 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

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Exact Numerical Solution of the Fully Connected Classical and Quantum Heisenberg Spin Glass

Nikita Kavokine, Markus Müller, Antoine Georges, and Olivier Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 016501 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Three-Carrier Spin Blockade and Coupling in Bilayer Graphene Double Quantum Dots

Chuyao Tong, Florian Ginzel, Annika Kurzmann, Rebekka Garreis, Lara Ostertag, Jonas D. Gerber, Wei Wister Huang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Guido Burkard, Jeroen Danon, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 017001 (2024) - Published 2 July, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Decay Dynamics of a Single Spherical Domain in Near-Critical Phase-Separated Conditions

Raphael Saiseau, Henri Truong, Thomas Guérin, Ulysse Delabre, and Jean-Pierre Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 018201 (2024) - Published 3 July, 2024

An experiment uncovers the role played by gravity in Ostwald ripening, a spontaneous thermodynamic process responsible for many effects such as the recrystallization of ice cream.