Volume 133, Issue 12

20 September 2024

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On the Cover

Trajectories of electrons in interaction with colliding high-intensity laser pulses.

From the article:

Effects of Colliding Laser Pulses Polarization on $e^{-} e^{+}$ Cascade Development in Extreme Focusing
M. Jirka and S. V. Bulanov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 125001 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Contributions of Edge and Internal Atoms to the Friction of Two-Dimensional Heterojunctions

Yutao Li, Wenjie He, Qi-Chang He, and Wen Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126202 (2024) - Published 20 September, 2024

Experiments reveal the factors that determine the friction between the single-atom-thick layers in van der Waals materials, which may have uses in lubrication technology.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Signatures of Ultralight Bosons in the Orbital Eccentricity of Binary Black Holes

Mateja Bošković, Matthias Koschnitzke, and Rafael A. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121401 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms”—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Legacy of Boson Clouds on Black Hole Binaries

Giovanni Maria Tomaselli, Thomas F. M. Spieksma, and Gianfranco Bertone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121402 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms”—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mott Transition for a Lieb-Liniger Gas in a Shallow Quasiperiodic Potential: Delocalization Induced by Disorder

Hepeng Yao, Luca Tanzi, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Thierry Giamarchi, Giovanni Modugno, and Chiara D’Errico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123401 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

A one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate’s superfluid state is surprisingly robust if the atoms are trapped in a quasiperiodic lattice.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Apparent Parity Violation in the Observed Galaxy Trispectrum

Pritha Paul, Chris Clarkson, and Roy Maartens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121001 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

A fully relativistic treatment of the statistics of galaxy distributions may explain the parity violation recently seen in the galaxy trispectrum.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Gap Superconductivity and the Decisive Role of Rare-Earth $d$ Electrons in Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Zhenglu Li and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126401 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Superconducting gaps on the Fermi surface of infinite-layer nickelates show a phonon-mediated pairing mechanism, suggesting that these superconductors are not conventional after all.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Circular Dichroism Induced by Electronic Chirality

Qian Xiao, Oleg Janson, Sonia Francoual, Qingzheng Qiu, Qizhi Li, Shilong Zhang, Wu Xie, Pablo Bereciartua, Jeroen van den Brink, Jasper van Wezel, and Yingying Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126402 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Breaking of inversion symmetry in the charge and orbital ordered phase of TiSe $_{2}$ has been unambiguously shown using x-ray diffraction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vacancy-Induced Tunable Kondo Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Yueqing Chang, Jinjing Yi, Ang-Kun Wu, Fabian B. Kugler, Eva Y. Andrei, David Vanderbilt, Gabriel Kotliar, and J. H. Pixley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126503 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Vacancy-induced impurity states in twisted bilayer graphene provide a tunable system to probe the critical destruction of the Kondo effect.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Dependent Localization of Helical Edge States in a Non-Hermitian Phononic Crystal

Junpeng Wu, Riyi Zheng, Jialuo Liang, Manzhu Ke, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126601 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

The spin-dependent hybrid skin-topological effect is experimentally realized on a non-Hermitian phononic crystal, which might lead to new methods for non-Hermitian wave manipulations.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Modular Many-Body Quantum Sensors

Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay and Abolfazl Bayat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120601 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Blind Quantum Machine Learning with Quantum Bipartite Correlator

Changhao Li, Boning Li, Omar Amer, Ruslan Shaydulin, Shouvanik Chakrabarti, Guoqing Wang, Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Isidor Schoch, Niraj Kumar, Charles Lim, Ju Li, Paola Cappellaro, and Marco Pistoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120602 (2024) - Published 18 September, 2024

Simulating Noisy Variational Quantum Algorithms: A Polynomial Approach

Yuguo Shao, Fuchuan Wei, Song Cheng, and Zhengwei Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120603 (2024) - Published 18 September, 2024

Quantum Walks and Correlated Dynamics in an Interacting Synthetic Rydberg Lattice

Tao Chen, Chenxi Huang, Bryce Gadway, and Jacob P. Covey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120604 (2024) - Published 18 September, 2024

Room-Temperature Optically Detected Coherent Control of Molecular Spins

Adrian Mena, Sarah K. Mann, Angus Cowley-Semple, Emma Bryan, Sandrine Heutz, Dane R. McCamey, Max Attwood, and Sam L. Bayliss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120801 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Efficient Characterization of Qudit Logical Gates with Gate Set Tomography Using an Error-Free Virtual $Z$ Gate Model

Shuxiang Cao, Deep Lall, Mustafa Bakr, Giulio Campanaro, Simone D. Fasciati, James Wills, Vivek Chidambaram, Boris Shteynas, Ivan Rungger, and Peter J. Leek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120802 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Entropy Bounds for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Local Bell Test

Ernest Y.-Z. Tan and Ramona Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120803 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Shadow Simulation of Quantum Processes

Xuanqiang Zhao, Xin Wang, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120804 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Apparent Parity Violation in the Observed Galaxy Trispectrum

Pritha Paul, Chris Clarkson, and Roy Maartens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121001 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

A fully relativistic treatment of the statistics of galaxy distributions may explain the parity violation recently seen in the galaxy trispectrum.

Axion Emission from Strange Matter in Core-Collapse SNe

Maël Cavan-Piton, Diego Guadagnoli, Micaela Oertel, Hyeonseok Seong, and Ludovico Vittorio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121002 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Achieving Single-Electron Sensitivity at Enhanced Speed in Fully Depleted CCDs with Double-Gate MOSFETs

Miguel Sofo-Haro, Kevan Donlon, Juan Estrada, Steve Holland, Farah Fahim, and Chris Leitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121003 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

First Constraints on the Epoch of Reionization Using the Non-Gaussianity of the Kinematic Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect from the South Pole Telescope and Herschel-SPIRE Observations

S. Raghunathan et al. (SPT-3G and SPTpol Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121004 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Viewing Explosion Models of Type Ia Supernovae through Insights from Terrestrial Cellular Detonation

Kazuya Iwata and Keiichi Maeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121201 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Signatures of Ultralight Bosons in the Orbital Eccentricity of Binary Black Holes

Mateja Bošković, Matthias Koschnitzke, and Rafael A. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121401 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms”—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Legacy of Boson Clouds on Black Hole Binaries

Giovanni Maria Tomaselli, Thomas F. M. Spieksma, and Gianfranco Bertone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121402 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers could reveal the presence of “gravitational atoms”—black holes surrounded by clouds of axions or other light bosons.

Primordial Black Hole Compaction Function from Stochastic Fluctuations in Ultraslow-Roll Inflation

Sami Raatikainen, Syksy Räsänen, and Eemeli Tomberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121403 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals in Ultralight Dark Matter

Francisco Duque, Caio F. B. Macedo, Rodrigo Vicente, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121404 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Particles and Fields

Plasma-Plasma Third Order Phase Transition from Type IIB Supergravity

Andrés Anabalón and Julio Oliva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121601 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Search for Rare Decays of $D_{s}^{+}$ to Final States $π^{+} e^{+} e^{-}$ , $ρ^{+} e^{+} e^{-}$ , $π^{+} π^{0} e^{+} e^{-}$ , $K^{+} π^{0} e^{+} e^{-}$ , and $K_{S}^{0} π^{+} e^{+} e^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121801 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Testing the Origins of Neutrino Mass with Supernova-Neutrino Time Delay

Shao-Feng Ge, Chui-Fan Kong, and Alexei Y. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121802 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Dark-Sector Search via Pion-Produced $η$ and $η^{'}$ Mesons Decaying Invisibly in the NA64h Detector

Yu. M. Andreev et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 121803 (2024) - Published 20 September, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Simultaneous Measurement of the Half-Life and Spectral Shape of ${}^{115}{In}$ $β$ Decay with an Indium Iodide Cryogenic Calorimeter

L. Pagnanini, G. Benato, P. Carniti, E. Celi, D. Chiesa, J. Corbett, I. Dafinei, S. Di Domizio, P. Di Stefano, S. Ghislandi, C. Gotti, D. L. Helis, R. Knobel, J. Kostensalo, J. Kotila, S. Nagorny, G. Pessina, S. Pirro, S. Pozzi, A. Puiu, S. Quitadamo, M. Sisti, J. Suhonen, and S. Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 122501 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Similarity of Near-Threshold Energy Dependence of Positronium Formation and Photoionization in Molecules

J. R. Danielson, G. F. Gribakin, E. Arthur-Baidoo, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123001 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Strong Electron-Electron-Nuclei Correlations in Two-Photon Double Ionization of $H_{2}$

Kilian Arteaga, Johannes Feist, Denis Jelovina, Fernando Martín, and Alicia Palacios

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123201 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Slowing Down a Coherent Superposition of Circular Rydberg States of Strontium

L. Lachaud, B. Muraz, A. Couto, J.-M. Raimond, M. Brune, and S. Gleyzes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123202 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Mott Transition for a Lieb-Liniger Gas in a Shallow Quasiperiodic Potential: Delocalization Induced by Disorder

Hepeng Yao, Luca Tanzi, Laurent Sanchez-Palencia, Thierry Giamarchi, Giovanni Modugno, and Chiara D’Errico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123401 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

A one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate’s superfluid state is surprisingly robust if the atoms are trapped in a quasiperiodic lattice.

Counterdiabatic Driving for Periodically Driven Systems

Paul M. Schindler and Marin Bukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123402 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Quadrupole Coupling of Circular Rydberg Qubits to Inner Shell Excitations

M. Wirth, C. Hölzl, A. Götzelmann, E. Pultinevicius, and F. Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123403 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Increasing the Resolution of Transmission Electron Microscopy by Computational Ghost Imaging

P. Rosi, L. Viani, E. Rotunno, S. Frabboni, A. H. Tavabi, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, A. Roncaglia, and V. Grillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123801 (2024) - Published 18 September, 2024

Dual Orthogonally Polarized Lasing Assisted by Imaginary Fermi Arcs in Organic Microcavities

Teng Long, Jiahuan Ren, Peng Li, Feng Yun, Guillaume Malpuech, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Hongbing Fu, Feng Li, and Qing Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 123802 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Effects of Colliding Laser Pulses Polarization on $e^{-} e^{+}$ Cascade Development in Extreme Focusing

M. Jirka and S. V. Bulanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 125001 (2024) - Published 18 September, 2024

Power-Law Scaling Relating the Average Charge State and Kinetic Energy in Expanding Laser-Driven Plasmas

J. Sheil, L. Poirier, A. C. Lassise, D. J. Hemminga, S. Schouwenaars, N. Braaksma, A. Frenzel, R. Hoekstra, and O. O. Versolato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 125101 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Large Orbital Moment and Dynamical Jahn-Teller Effect of AlCl-Phthalocyanine on Cu(100)

Chao Li, Marie-Laure Bocquet, Yan Lu, Nicolas Lorente, Manuel Gruber, Richard Berndt, and Alexander Weismann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126201 (2024) - Published 18 September, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Contributions of Edge and Internal Atoms to the Friction of Two-Dimensional Heterojunctions

Yutao Li, Wenjie He, Qi-Chang He, and Wen Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126202 (2024) - Published 20 September, 2024

Experiments reveal the factors that determine the friction between the single-atom-thick layers in van der Waals materials, which may have uses in lubrication technology.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Gap Superconductivity and the Decisive Role of Rare-Earth $d$ Electrons in Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Zhenglu Li and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126401 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Superconducting gaps on the Fermi surface of infinite-layer nickelates show a phonon-mediated pairing mechanism, suggesting that these superconductors are not conventional after all.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Circular Dichroism Induced by Electronic Chirality

Qian Xiao, Oleg Janson, Sonia Francoual, Qingzheng Qiu, Qizhi Li, Shilong Zhang, Wu Xie, Pablo Bereciartua, Jeroen van den Brink, Jasper van Wezel, and Yingying Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126402 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Breaking of inversion symmetry in the charge and orbital ordered phase of TiSe $_{2}$ has been unambiguously shown using x-ray diffraction.

Strong Pairing Originated from an Emergent $Z_{2}$ Berry Phase in ${La}_{3} {Ni}_{2} O_{7}$

Jia-Xin Zhang, Hao-Kai Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, and Zheng-Yu Weng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126501 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Ultraslow Growth of Number Entropy in an $ℓ$ -Bit Model of Many-Body Localization

David Aceituno Chávez, Claudia Artiaco, Thomas Klein Kvorning, Loïc Herviou, and Jens H. Bardarson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126502 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vacancy-Induced Tunable Kondo Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Yueqing Chang, Jinjing Yi, Ang-Kun Wu, Fabian B. Kugler, Eva Y. Andrei, David Vanderbilt, Gabriel Kotliar, and J. H. Pixley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126503 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Vacancy-induced impurity states in twisted bilayer graphene provide a tunable system to probe the critical destruction of the Kondo effect.

Edge Zeros and Boundary Spinons in Topological Mott Insulators

Niklas Wagner, Daniele Guerci, Andrew J. Millis, and Giorgio Sangiovanni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126504 (2024) - Published 19 September, 2024

Probing Majorana Wave Functions in Kitaev Honeycomb Spin Liquids with Second-Order Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy

Yihua Qiang, Victor L. Quito, Thaís V. Trevisan, and Peter P. Orth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126505 (2024) - Published 20 September, 2024

Pressure-Tuned Quantum Criticality in the Locally Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor ${CeRh}_{2} {As}_{2}$

M. Pfeiffer, K. Semeniuk, J. F. Landaeta, R. Borth, C. Geibel, M. Nicklas, M. Brando, S. Khim, and E. Hassinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126506 (2024) - Published 20 September, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Dependent Localization of Helical Edge States in a Non-Hermitian Phononic Crystal

Junpeng Wu, Riyi Zheng, Jialuo Liang, Manzhu Ke, Jiuyang Lu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 126601 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

The spin-dependent hybrid skin-topological effect is experimentally realized on a non-Hermitian phononic crystal, which might lead to new methods for non-Hermitian wave manipulations.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Generalized Dynamical Mean Field Theory for Non-Gaussian Interactions

Sandro Azaele and Amos Maritan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 127401 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024

Onset of Intragroup Conflict in a Generalized Model of Social Balance

Hirotaka Goto, Masashi Shiraishi, and Hiraku Nishimori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 127402 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Anomalous Giant Superradiance in Molecular Aggregates Coupled to Polaritons

Yi-Ting Chuang and Liang-Yan Hsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 128001 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

New Universality Class Describes Vicsek’s Flocking Phase in Physical Dimensions

Patrick Jentsch and Chiu Fan Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 128301 (2024) - Published 17 September, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Direct Evaluation of Rare Events in Active Matter from Variational Path Sampling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028005 (2022)]

Avishek Das, Benjamin Kuznets-Speck, and David T. Limmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 129901 (2024) - Published 16 September, 2024