Volume 133, Issue 13

27 September 2024

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Schematic depiction of a measurement-circuit-driven neural network.

From the article:

Multimodal Deep Representation Learning for Quantum Cross-Platform Verification
Yang Qian, Yuxuan Du, Zhenliang He, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, and Dacheng Tao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130601 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Singular Continuous and Nonreciprocal Phonons in Quasicrystal AlPdMn

Masato Matsuura, Jinjia Zhang, Yasushi Kamimura, Maiko Kofu, and Keiichi Edagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136101 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

Experiments show that a property of the vibrations in a quasicrystal is linked to the number known as the golden ratio.

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Geometric Scaling Law in Real Neuronal Networks

Xin-Ya Zhang, Jack Murdoch Moore, Xiaolei Ru, and Gang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 138401 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

Researchers leverage synapse-level maps of the fruit fly brain to examine how neuronal connection probabilities vary with distance, offering insights into how these neuronal networks may optimize function within spatial constraints.

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First Detailed Study of the Quantum Decoherence of Entangled Gamma Photons

Julien Bordes, James R. Brown, Daniel P. Watts, Mikhail Bashkanov, Kieran Gibson, Ruth Newton, and Nicholas Zachariou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 132502 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

The quantum entanglement of photons used in positron emission tomography (PET) scans has been shown to be surprisingly robust, opening prospects for developing quantum-enhanced PET schemes.

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Cooperative Spin Amplifier for Enhanced Quantum Sensing

Minxiang Xu, Min Jiang, Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Ying Huang, and Xinhua Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133202 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Magnetic feedback causes two atomic gases to guide each other’s spins into long-lasting collective alignment.

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Nonmonotonic Velocity Dependence of Atomic Friction Induced by Multiple Slips

Yiming Song, Jin Wang, Antoine Hinaut, Sebastian Scherb, Shuyu Huang, Thilo Glatzel, Erio Tosatti, and Ernst Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136201 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

An experiment reveals that frictional forces can have a surprisingly complex velocity dependence at the nanoscale.

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Quantum Spin Probe of Single Charge Dynamics

Jonathan C. Marcks, Mykyta Onizhuk, Yu-Xin Wang (王语馨), Yizhi Zhu, Yu Jin, Benjamin S. Soloway, Masaya Fukami, Nazar Delegan, F. Joseph Heremans, Aashish A. Clerk, Giulia Galli, and David D. Awschalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130802 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

An experiment exploits the intrinsic spin-charge correlation to measure the spin and charge properties of nitrogen spin defects in diamond.

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Observation of New Charmonium or Charmoniumlike States in $B^{+} \to D^{* \pm} D^{\mp} K^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131902 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

A new amplitude analysis involving simultaneous fits to two $C$ -parity related decay channels results in the observation of new charmonium(like) states decaying to $D^{* \pm} D^{\mp}$ .

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Nematic Superconductivity and Its Critical Vestigial Phases in the Quasicrystal

Yu-Bo Liu, Jing Zhou, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136002 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Gapless superconductivity with finite zero-energy density of states and vestigial phases may result from repulsive interactions in quasicrystals but not in crystals.

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Continuous Space-Time Crystal State Driven by Nonreciprocal Optical Forces

V. Raskatla, T. Liu, J. Li, K. F. MacDonald, and Nikolay I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136202 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

A continuous time crystal state can arise in an ensemble of linear oscillators from nonconservative coupling via optical radiation pressure forces, which is a new mechanism based on nonreciprocal interaction rather than nonlinearity.

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Bath-Induced Spin Inertia

Mario Gaspar Quarenta, Mithuss Tharmalingam, Tim Ludwig, H. Y. Yuan, Lukasz Karwacki, Robin C. Verstraten, and Rembert A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136701 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

The interaction of a spin with its environment, modeled as a bath of harmonic oscillators, generically induces inertia in its dynamics.

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Eigenstate Localization in a Many-Body Quantum System

Chao Yin, Rahul Nandkishore, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 137101 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

The existence of many-body localization is argued through a construction of a family of many-body quantum systems in which every low-energy eigenstate is localized.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Symmetry Shapes Thermodynamics of Macroscopic Quantum Systems

Vasco Cavina, Ariane Soret, Timur Aslyamov, Krzysztof Ptaszyński, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130401 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

Multimodal Deep Representation Learning for Quantum Cross-Platform Verification

Yang Qian, Yuxuan Du, Zhenliang He, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, and Dacheng Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130601 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

Variational Quantum Circuit Decoupling

Ximing Wang, Chengran Yang, and Mile Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130602 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Heisenberg-Limited Quantum Lidar for Joint Range and Velocity Estimation

Maximilian Reichert, Quntao Zhuang, and Mikel Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130801 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

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Quantum Spin Probe of Single Charge Dynamics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130802 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

An experiment exploits the intrinsic spin-charge correlation to measure the spin and charge properties of nitrogen spin defects in diamond.

Optimal Twirling Depth for Classical Shadows in the Presence of Noise

Pierre-Gabriel Rozon, Ning Bao, and Kartiek Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 130803 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Dark Age Consistency in the 21 cm Global Signal

Fumiya Okamatsu, Teppei Minoda, Tomo Takahashi, Daisuke Yamauchi, and Shintaro Yoshiura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131001 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis with High-Precision Numerical Relativity Simulations of Boson Star Mergers

Tamara Evstafyeva, Ulrich Sperhake, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, and Michalis Agathos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131401 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Explanation for the Absence of Secondary Peaks in Black Hole Light Curve Autocorrelations

Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño, Charles Gammie, and Alexandru Lupsasca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131402 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Particles and Fields

Multiway Junction Conditions for Spacetimes with Multiple Boundaries

Jia-Yin Shen, Cheng Peng, and Li-Xin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131601 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Infinite Family of Integrable Sigma Models Using Auxiliary Fields

Christian Ferko and Liam Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131602 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Measurement of Angular Coefficients of $\bar{B} \to D^{*} ℓ {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}$ : Implications for $| V_{c b} |$ and Tests of Lepton Flavor Universality

M. T. Prim et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131801 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Nucleon-to- $Δ$ Axial and Pseudoscalar Transition Form Factors

Chen Chen (陈晨), Christian S. Fischer, and Craig D. Roberts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131901 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

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Observation of New Charmonium or Charmoniumlike States in $B^{+} \to D^{* \pm} D^{\mp} K^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 131902 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

A new amplitude analysis involving simultaneous fits to two $C$ -parity related decay channels results in the observation of new charmonium(like) states decaying to $D^{* \pm} D^{\mp}$ .

Nuclear Physics

Revisiting the Excitation of the Low-Lying ${}^{181 m}{Ta}$ Isomer in Optical Laser-Generated Plasma

Simone Gargiulo, Ivan Madan, Benoit Truc, Paolo Usai, Kjeld Beeks, Veronica Leccese, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, and Fabrizio Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 132501 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

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First Detailed Study of the Quantum Decoherence of Entangled Gamma Photons

Julien Bordes, James R. Brown, Daniel P. Watts, Mikhail Bashkanov, Kieran Gibson, Ruth Newton, and Nicholas Zachariou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 132502 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

The quantum entanglement of photons used in positron emission tomography (PET) scans has been shown to be surprisingly robust, opening prospects for developing quantum-enhanced PET schemes.

High-Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron Deficient Silver Isotopes Probe the Robustness of the $N = 50$ Shell Closure

Zhuang Ge (葛壮) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 132503 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Persistent Ground-State Planar Alignment of Iodine Molecule through Resonant Excitation

M. Bournazel, A. Espaignol, D. Singh, R. K. Bhalavi, F. Billard, P. Béjot, E. Hertz, and O. Faucher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133201 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

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Cooperative Spin Amplifier for Enhanced Quantum Sensing

Minxiang Xu, Min Jiang, Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Ying Huang, and Xinhua Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133202 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Magnetic feedback causes two atomic gases to guide each other’s spins into long-lasting collective alignment.

Realizing Exceptional Points by Floquet Dissipative Couplings in Thermal Atoms

Zimo Zhang, Fengbo Zhang, Zhongxiao Xu, Ying Hu, Han Bao, and Heng Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133601 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Formation and Controlling of Optical Hopfions in High Harmonic Generation

Zijian Lyu, Yiqi Fang, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133801 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Realization of Time-Reversal Invariant Photonic Topological Anderson Insulators

Xiao-Dong Chen, Zi-Xuan Gao, Xiaohan Cui, Hao-Chang Mo, Wen-Jie Chen, Ruo-Yang Zhang, C. T. Chan, and Jian-Wen Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133802 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Diffraction

J. Abad-Arredondo, Z. Geng, G. Keijsers, F. Bijloo, F. J. García-Vidal, A. I. Fernández-Domínguez, and S. R. K. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133803 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Divergence of Critical Fluctuations on Approaching Catastrophic Phase Inversion in Turbulent Emulsions

Lei Yi, Ivan Girotto, Federico Toschi, and Chao Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 134001 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Real-Time Observation of Frustrated Ultrafast Recovery from Ionization in Nanostructured ${SiO}_{2}$ Using Laser-Driven Accelerators

J. P. Kennedy, M. Coughlan, C. R. J. Fitzpatrick, H. M. Huddleston, J. Smyth, N. Breslin, H. Donnelly, B. Villagomez-Bernabe, O. N. Rosmej, F. Currell, L. Stella, D. Riley, M. Zepf, M. Yeung, C. L. S. Lewis, and B. Dromey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 135001 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

Early-Time Harmonic Generation from a Single-Mode Perturbation Driven by X-Ray Ablation

Z. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 135101 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Benign Saturation of Ideal Ballooning Instability in a High-Performance Stellarator

Yao Zhou, K. Aleynikova, Chang Liu, and N. M. Ferraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 135102 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Universal Diffusion in Coulomb Crystals

M. E. Caplan and D. Yaacoub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 135301 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Prediction of $s^{\pm}$ -Wave Superconductivity Enhanced by Electronic Doping in Trilayer Nickelates ${La}_{4} {Ni}_{3} O_{10}$ under Pressure

Yang Zhang, Ling-Fang Lin, Adriana Moreo, Thomas A. Maier, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136001 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

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Nematic Superconductivity and Its Critical Vestigial Phases in the Quasicrystal

Yu-Bo Liu, Jing Zhou, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136002 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Gapless superconductivity with finite zero-energy density of states and vestigial phases may result from repulsive interactions in quasicrystals but not in crystals.

Anomalous Frequency and Temperature Dependent Scattering in the Dilute Metallic Phase in Lightly Doped ${SrTiO}_{3}$

K. Santhosh Kumar, Dooyong Lee, Shivasheesh Varshney, Bharat Jalan, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136003 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

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Singular Continuous and Nonreciprocal Phonons in Quasicrystal AlPdMn

Masato Matsuura, Jinjia Zhang, Yasushi Kamimura, Maiko Kofu, and Keiichi Edagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136101 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

Experiments show that a property of the vibrations in a quasicrystal is linked to the number known as the golden ratio.

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Nonmonotonic Velocity Dependence of Atomic Friction Induced by Multiple Slips

Yiming Song, Jin Wang, Antoine Hinaut, Sebastian Scherb, Shuyu Huang, Thilo Glatzel, Erio Tosatti, and Ernst Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136201 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

An experiment reveals that frictional forces can have a surprisingly complex velocity dependence at the nanoscale.

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Continuous Space-Time Crystal State Driven by Nonreciprocal Optical Forces

V. Raskatla, T. Liu, J. Li, K. F. MacDonald, and Nikolay I. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136202 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Narrowing of the Flexural Phonon Spectral Line in Stressed Crystalline Two-Dimensional Materials

A. D. Kokovin, V. Yu. Kachorovskii, and I. S. Burmistrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136203 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Hard Copper Boride with Exceptional Conductivity

Ming-Xing Huang, Changzeng Fan, Bo Xu, Jingyu Hou, Xi Shao, Xiao-Ji Weng, Xiang Zhang, Wentao Hu, Yufei Gao, Lin Wang, Zhisheng Zhao, Guochun Yang, Dongzhou Zhang, Yanbin Wang, Zhongyuan Liu, Xiang-Feng Zhou, and Yongjun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136301 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

Mpemba Effects in Open Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems

Andrea Nava and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136302 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Electron Localization Function for Noncollinear Spins

Jacques K. Desmarais, Giovanni Vignale, Kamel Bencheikh, Alessandro Erba, and Stefano Pittalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136401 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

Balancing the Contributions to the Gradient Expansion: Accurate Binding and Band Gaps with a Nonempirical Meta-GGA

Timo Lebeda, Thilo Aschebrock, and Stephan Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136402 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Long-Lived Topological Flatband Excitons in Semiconductor Moiré Heterostructures: A Bosonic Kane-Mele Model Platform

Ming Xie, Mohammad Hafezi, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136403 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Superconductivity and Mott Physics in Organic Charge Transfer Materials

Henri Menke, Marcel Klett, Kazushi Kanoda, Antoine Georges, Michel Ferrero, and Thomas Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136501 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

General Criterion for Non-Hermitian Skin Effects and Application: Fock Space Skin Effects in Many-Body Systems

Kenji Shimomura and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136502 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Many-Body Non-Hermitian Skin Effect for Multipoles

Jacopo Gliozzi, Giuseppe De Tomasi, and Taylor L. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136503 (2024) - Published 26 September, 2024

Topological Green’s Function Zeros in an Exactly Solved Model and Beyond

Steffen Bollmann, Chandan Setty, Urban F. P. Seifert, and Elio J. König

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136504 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024

Nonreciprocal Acoustic Devices with Asymmetric Peierls Phases

Li Zhang, Yong Ge, Yi-jun Guan, Fujia Chen, Ning Han, Qiaolu Chen, Yuang Pan, Ding Jia, Shou-qi Yuan, Hong-xiang Sun, Johan Christensen, Hongsheng Chen, and Yihao Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136601 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Percolation-Induced $P T$ Symmetry Breaking

Mengjie Yang and Ching Hua Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136602 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

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Bath-Induced Spin Inertia

Mario Gaspar Quarenta, Mithuss Tharmalingam, Tim Ludwig, H. Y. Yuan, Lukasz Karwacki, Robin C. Verstraten, and Rembert A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136701 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

The interaction of a spin with its environment, modeled as a bath of harmonic oscillators, generically induces inertia in its dynamics.

Exotic Spin Excitations in a Polar Magnet ${VOSe}_{2} O_{5}$

Tomonao Araki, Rina Takagi, Takashi Kurumaji, Yoshinori Tokura, Masahito Mochizuki, and Shinichiro Seki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136702 (2024) - Published 24 September, 2024

Emergent Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless and Kugel-Khomskii Physics in the Triangular Lattice Bilayer Colbaltate

Gang V. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136703 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

Origins of Electromagnetic Radiation from Spintronic Terahertz Emitters: A Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory plus Jefimenko Equations Approach

Ali Kefayati and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 136704 (2024) - Published 25 September, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Eigenstate Localization in a Many-Body Quantum System

Chao Yin, Rahul Nandkishore, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 137101 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

The existence of many-body localization is argued through a construction of a family of many-body quantum systems in which every low-energy eigenstate is localized.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Geometric Scaling Law in Real Neuronal Networks

Xin-Ya Zhang, Jack Murdoch Moore, Xiaolei Ru, and Gang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 138401 (2024) - Published 23 September, 2024

Role of Signal Degradation in Directional Chemosensing

Ryan LeFebre, Joseph A. Landsittel, David E. Stone, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 138402 (2024) - Published 27 September, 2024