Volume 133, Issue 10

6 September 2024

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Piezoresponse force microscope image of the polarization state (phase in color and amplitude in grayscale) of a PbTiO₃ thin film bombarded with He²⁺.

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Interplay between Point and Extended Defects and Their Effects on Jerky Domain-Wall Motion in Ferroelectric Thin Films
Ralph Bulanadi, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Philippe Tückmantel, Sahar Saremi, Giacomo Morpurgo, Qi Zhang, Lane W. Martin, Valanoor Nagarajan, and Patrycja Paruch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106801 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Direct Measurement of a $\sin (2 φ)$ Current Phase Relation in a Graphene Superconducting Quantum Interference Device

Simon Messelot, Nicolas Aparicio, Elie de Seze, Eric Eyraud, Johann Coraux, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Julien Renard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106001 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Researchers have isolated a high-order term in the behavior of a Josephson junction, which could lead to longer-lived superconducting qubits.

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Spin Dynamics across Metallic Layers on the Few-Femtosecond Timescale

Romain Géneaux, Hung-Tzu Chang, Alexander Guggenmos, Renaud Delaunay, François Légaré, Katherine Légaré, Jan Lüning, Tymur Parpiiev, Ilana J. P. Molesky, Bethany R. de Roulet, Michael W. Zuerch, Sangeeta Sharma, Martin Schultze, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106902 (2024) - Published 6 September, 2024

Researchers use ultrashort laser pulses to trigger a spin-aligned electron flow on the few-femtosecond timescale—opening up a possible path toward faster spintronic devices.

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Interpreting Neural Operators: How Nonlinear Waves Propagate in Nonreciprocal Solids

Jonathan Colen, Alexis Poncet, Denis Bartolo, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 107301 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

A clever use of machine learning guides researchers to a missing term that’s needed to accurately describe the dynamics of a complex fluid system.

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Searching for Scalar Field Dark Matter with LIGO

Alexandre S. Göttel, Aldo Ejlli, Kanioar Karan, Sander M. Vermeulen, Lorenzo Aiello, Vivien Raymond, and Hartmut Grote

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101001 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

An analysis of gravitational data from the LIGO detector sets new limits on a wave-like form of dark matter called scalar field dark matter.

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Peierls Transition in Gross-Neveu Model from Bethe Ansatz

Valdemar Melin, Yuta Sekiguchi, Paul Wiegmann, and Konstantin Zarembo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101601 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

An exact Bethe ansatz approach shows the presence of crystalline phase in 1+1 dimensional Gross-Neveu model at high density, going beyond the mean-field approximation.

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Excitations of a Binary Dipolar Supersolid

W. Kirkby, Au-Chen Lee, D. Baillie, T. Bland, F. Ferlaino, P. B. Blakie, and R. N. Bisset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 103401 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

The excitation spectrum of a binary dipolar supersolid in a linear crystal geometry reveals three Goldstone modes.

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Noncapillary Wave Dynamics due to Interfacial Coupling with Plasma Patterns at a Liquid Surface

Oles Dubrovski, Jinyu Yang, Felipe Veloso, David B. Go, Hsueh-Chia Chang, and Paul Rumbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 105301 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Experimentally observed plasma-liquid interface pattern oscillations are caused by resonances with capillary waves and represent a new class of liquid surface waves, whose behavior is unaffected by surface tension and dictated entirely by electrohydrodynamic interactions.

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Altermagnetic Routes to Majorana Modes in Zero Net Magnetization

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Taylor L. Hughes, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106601 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Proposed heterostructures utilize altermagnetism to achieve first and second order topological superconductivity with vanishing net magnetization.

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Quantum Geometry Induced Nonlinear Transport in Altermagnets

Yuan Fang, Jennifer Cano, and Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106701 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Investigation of the nonlinear response in altermagnets uncovers the role of quantum geometry order by order.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

$f$ -Sum Rules for Dissipative Systems

Xin-Xin Yang, Bo-Hao Wu, Yu Chen, and Wei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 100401 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Diagnosing Quantum Phase Transition Order and Deconfined Criticality via Entanglement Entropy

Zehui Deng, Lu Liu, Wenan Guo, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 100402 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Maxwell Relation between Entropy and Atom-Atom Pair Correlation

Raymon S. Watson, Caleb Coleman, and Karen V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 100403 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Two-Qubit Operations for Finite-Energy Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encodings

Ivan Rojkov, Paul Moser Röggla, Martin Wagener, Moritz Fontboté-Schmidt, Stephan Welte, Jonathan Home, and Florentin Reiter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 100601 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Searching for Scalar Field Dark Matter with LIGO

Alexandre S. Göttel, Aldo Ejlli, Kanioar Karan, Sander M. Vermeulen, Lorenzo Aiello, Vivien Raymond, and Hartmut Grote

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101001 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

An analysis of gravitational data from the LIGO detector sets new limits on a wave-like form of dark matter called scalar field dark matter.

Coexistence Test of Primordial Black Holes and Particle Dark Matter from Diffractive Lensing

Han Gil Choi, Sunghoon Jung, Philip Lu, and Volodymyr Takhistov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101002 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Particles and Fields

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Peierls Transition in Gross-Neveu Model from Bethe Ansatz

Valdemar Melin, Yuta Sekiguchi, Paul Wiegmann, and Konstantin Zarembo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101601 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

An exact Bethe ansatz approach shows the presence of crystalline phase in 1+1 dimensional Gross-Neveu model at high density, going beyond the mean-field approximation.

Combination of Searches for Higgs Boson Pair Production in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101801 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Studies of the Energy Dependence of Diboson Polarization Fractions and the Radiation-Amplitude-Zero Effect in $W Z$ Production with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101802 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Search for Time-Dependent $C P$ Violation in $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} π^{0}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101803 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Search for Rare $b \to d ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Transitions at Belle

I. Adachi et al. (Belle and Belle II Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101804 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-MeV Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering in PandaX-4T

Xiaofeng Shang et al. (PandaX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101805 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Global Data-Driven Determination of Baryon Transition Form Factors

Yu-Fei Wang, Michael Döring, Jackson Hergenrather, Maxim Mai, Terry Mart, Ulf-G. Meißner, Deborah Rönchen, and Ronald Workman (Jülich-Bonn-Washington Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101901 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Strong and Weak $C P$ Tests in Sequential Decays of Polarized $Σ^{0}$ Hyperons

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101902 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

High-Statistics Measurement of Collins and Sivers Asymmetries for Transversely Polarized Deuterons

G. D. Alexeev et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101903 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Excitations of a Binary Dipolar Supersolid

W. Kirkby, Au-Chen Lee, D. Baillie, T. Bland, F. Ferlaino, P. B. Blakie, and R. N. Bisset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 103401 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

The excitation spectrum of a binary dipolar supersolid in a linear crystal geometry reveals three Goldstone modes.

Subtraction and Addition of Propagating Photons by Two-Level Emitters

Mads M. Lund, Fan Yang, Victor Rueskov Christiansen, Danil Kornovan, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 103601 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Highly Correlated Optomechanical Oscillations Manifested by an Anomalous Stabilization

Jinlian Zhang, Miguel Orszag, Min Xiao, Xiaoshun Jiang, Qing Lin, and Bing He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 103602 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Orthogonal Thermal Noise and Transmission Signals: A New Coherent Perfect Absorption’s Feature

Douglas Oña, Angel Ortega-Gomez, Osmery Hernández, and Iñigo Liberal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 103801 (2024) - Published 6 September, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Interfacial Thermal Fluctuations Stabilize Bulk Nanobubbles

Yuyu Chen, Yue Hu, Benlong Wang, Xuesen Chu, and Lu-Wen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 104001 (2024) - Published 6 September, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Reduction or Enhancement of Stellarator Turbulence by Impurities

J. M. García-Regaña, I. Calvo, F. I. Parra, and H. Thienpondt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 105101 (2024) - Published 6 September, 2024

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Noncapillary Wave Dynamics due to Interfacial Coupling with Plasma Patterns at a Liquid Surface

Oles Dubrovski, Jinyu Yang, Felipe Veloso, David B. Go, Hsueh-Chia Chang, and Paul Rumbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 105301 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Direct Measurement of a $\sin (2 φ)$ Current Phase Relation in a Graphene Superconducting Quantum Interference Device

Simon Messelot, Nicolas Aparicio, Elie de Seze, Eric Eyraud, Johann Coraux, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Julien Renard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106001 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Researchers have isolated a high-order term in the behavior of a Josephson junction, which could lead to longer-lived superconducting qubits.

Fully Polarized Topological Isostatic Metamaterials in Three Dimensions

Zheng Tang, Fangyuan Ma, Feng Li, Yugui Yao, and Di Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106101 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

Orientational Disorder Drives Site Disorder in Plastic Ammonia Hemihydrate

Niccolò Avallone, Simon Huppert, Philippe Depondt, Leon Andriambariarijaona, Frédéric Datchi, Sandra Ninet, Thomas Plé, Riccardo Spezia, and Fabio Finocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106102 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Quantitative Understanding of Liquid Dynamics at Interfaces from a Free-Energy Landscape Perspective

Simon Hefner, Robin Horstmann, Sebastian Kloth, and Michael Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106201 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Frictional Contact of Soft Polymeric Shells

Riad Sahli, Jeppe Mikkelsen, Mathias Sätherström Boye, Marcelo A. Dias, and Ramin Aghababaei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106202 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Large Anomalous Hall Conductivity Derived from an $f$ -Electron Collinear Antiferromagnetic Structure

Hisashi Kotegawa, Hiroto Tanaka, Yuta Takeuchi, Hideki Tou, Hitoshi Sugawara, Junichi Hayashi, and Keiki Takeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106301 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Screening of Polar Electron-Phonon Interactions near the Surface of the Rashba Semiconductor BiTeCl

J. Qu, E. F. Cuddy, X. Han, J. Liu, H. Li, Y.-J. Zeng, B. Moritz, T. P. Devereaux, P. S. Kirchmann, Z.-X. Shen, and J. A. Sobota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106401 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

Irrational Moments and Signatures of Higher-Rank Gauge Theories in Diluted Classical Spin Liquids

R. Flores-Calderón, Owen Benton, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106501 (2024) - Published 3 September, 2024

Vortex Spin Liquid with Fractional Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Moiré Chern Bands

Ya-Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106502 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

Detecting Quantum Anomalies in Open Systems

Yunlong Zang, Yingfei Gu, and Shenghan Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106503 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Anomalous Hall Effect and Quantum Criticality in Geometrically Frustrated Heavy Fermion Metals

Wenxin Ding, Sarah Grefe, Silke Paschen, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106504 (2024) - Published 6 September, 2024

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Altermagnetic Routes to Majorana Modes in Zero Net Magnetization

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Taylor L. Hughes, and Jennifer Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106601 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Proposed heterostructures utilize altermagnetism to achieve first and second order topological superconductivity with vanishing net magnetization.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Geometry Induced Nonlinear Transport in Altermagnets

Yuan Fang, Jennifer Cano, and Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106701 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Investigation of the nonlinear response in altermagnets uncovers the role of quantum geometry order by order.

Interplay between Point and Extended Defects and Their Effects on Jerky Domain-Wall Motion in Ferroelectric Thin Films

Ralph Bulanadi, Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Philippe Tückmantel, Sahar Saremi, Giacomo Morpurgo, Qi Zhang, Lane W. Martin, Valanoor Nagarajan, and Patrycja Paruch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106801 (2024) - Published 5 September, 2024

Confined Meson Excitations in Rydberg-Atom Arrays Coupled to a Cavity Field

Tharnier O. Puel and Tommaso Macrì

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106901 (2024) - Published 4 September, 2024

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Spin Dynamics across Metallic Layers on the Few-Femtosecond Timescale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106902 (2024) - Published 6 September, 2024

Researchers use ultrashort laser pulses to trigger a spin-aligned electron flow on the few-femtosecond timescale—opening up a possible path toward faster spintronic devices.