Volume 133, Issue 15

11 October 2024

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On the Cover

Subnanometer-resolved tip-enhanced photoluminescence images at two different gating voltages of a zinc phthalocyanine molecule deposited on 4-monolayer-thick sodium chloride.

From the article:

Gating Single-Molecule Fluorescence with Electrons
Katharina Kaiser, Song Jiang, Michelangelo Romeo, Fabrice Scheurer, Guillaume Schull, and Anna Rosławska
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156902 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Tuning Transduction from Hidden Observables to Optimize Information Harvesting

Giorgio Nicoletti and Daniel Maria Busiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158401 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Bacteria, cells, swarms, and other organisms pluck information from noisy environments with extraordinarily high precision.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Greater than Five-Order-of-Magnitude Postcompression Temporal Contrast Improvement with an Ionization Plasma Grating

M. R. Edwards, N. M. Fasano, A. M. Giakas, M. M. Wang, J. Griff-McMahon, A. Morozov, V. M. Perez-Ramirez, N. Lemos, P. Michel, and J. M. Mikhailova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 155101 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

When two laser beams converge on a volume of gas, their interference creates a diffraction grating made of plasma that can divert and shape a third beam.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Highly Nonlinear Light-Nucleus Interaction

Hanxu Zhang, Tao Li, and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 152503 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Hydrogenlike thorium-229 ions interacting with intense lasers could unlock a highly nonlinear and nonperturbative regime of light-nucleus interaction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predictive Framework for Flow Reversals and Excursions in Turbulence

Balachandra Suri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 154002 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

A new framework shows that the occurrence of reversals and excursions of large-scale circulations in turbulent geophysical, fluid, and thermal systems can be predicted and averted via feedback control.

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Ballistic Electron Source with Magnetically Controlled Valley Polarization in Bilayer Graphene

Josep Ingla-Aynés, Antonio L. R. Manesco, Talieh S. Ghiasi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Herre S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156301 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

A valley-polarized current source in bilayer graphene has been made by electrostatically defining quantum point contact pairs that work as a coherent valley-polarized current splitter and collector.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Geometry and Stabilization of Fractional Chern Insulators Far from the Ideal Limit

Gal Shavit and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156504 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

A new coupled-wire construction provides a direct link between fractional Chern-insulator stability, electron-electron interaction parameters, and quantum geometrical properties of the strongly-correlated band hosting it.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chiral Split Magnon in Altermagnetic MnTe

Zheyuan Liu, Makoto Ozeki, Shinichiro Asai, Shinichi Itoh, and Takatsugu Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156702 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Inelastic neutron scattering on MnTe shows evidence for altermagnetic magnon chiral splitting.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Traveling Wave Amplification in Stationary Gratings

S. A. R. Horsley and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156903 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Compression and quantum emission phenomena that are predicted in moving refractive index profiles can be equivalently realized in nonmoving, modulated systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrotaxis of Self-Propelling Artificial Swimmers in Microchannels

Carola M. Buness, Avi Rana, Corinna C. Maass, and Ranabir Dey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158301 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Artificial active swimmers in microchannels exhibit a behavior similar to electrotaxis in response to electrical fields and pressure driven flow.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanics and Morphology of Proliferating Cell Collectives with Self-Inhibiting Growth

Scott Weady, Bryce Palmer, Adam Lamson, Taeyoon Kim, Reza Farhadifar, and Michael J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158402 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

A growing cell colony can develop concentric wavelike patterns in cell size due to purely mechanical processes such as the inevitable collisions between cells.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Genuine Multipartite Entanglement Detection with Imperfect Measurements: Concept and Experiment

Huan Cao, Simon Morelli, Lee A. Rozema, Chao Zhang, Armin Tavakoli, and Philip Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150201 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Applicability of Mean-Field Theory for Time-Dependent Open Quantum Systems with Infinite-Range Interactions

Federico Carollo and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150401 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Extended Local Ergotropy

Riccardo Castellano, Donato Farina, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Antonio Acin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150402 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Exciting the Higgs Mode in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas by Interaction Modulation

Andreas Kell, Moritz Breyer, Daniel Eberz, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150403 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Quantum Cellular Automata for Quantum Error Correction and Density Classification

T. L. M. Guedes, D. Winter, and M. Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150601 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Quantum Fourier Transform Using Dynamic Circuits

Elisa Bäumer, Vinay Tripathi, Alireza Seif, Daniel Lidar, and Derek S. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150602 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Optimization of Decoder Priors for Accurate Quantum Error Correction

Volodymyr Sivak, Michael Newman, and Paul Klimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150603 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Hybrid Stabilizer Matrix Product Operator

Antonio Francesco Mello, Alessandro Santini, and Mario Collura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150604 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Hyperfine-Enhanced Gyroscope Based on Solid-State Spins

Guoqing Wang (王国庆), Minh-Thi Nguyen, and Paola Cappellaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 150801 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Inflationary Butterfly Effect: Nonperturbative Dynamics from Small-Scale Features

Angelo Caravano, Keisuke Inomata, and Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 151001 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Efficient Computation of Overlap Reduction Functions for Pulsar Timing Arrays

Neha Anil Kumar and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 151401 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Particles and Fields

Nonrelativistic Holography from ${AdS}_{5} / {CFT}_{4}$

Andrea Fontanella and Juan Miguel Nieto García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 151601 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Measurement of Electron Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency via Neutron Capture on Hydrogen at Daya Bay

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 151801 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Global Analysis of Polarized Parton Distribution Functions

Ignacio Borsa, Marco Stratmann, Werner Vogelsang, Daniel de Florian, and Rodolfo Sassot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 151901 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Construction of Continuous Collective Energy Landscapes for Large Amplitude Nuclear Many-Body Problems

Paul Carpentier, Nathalie Pillet, Denis Lacroix, Noël Dubray, and David Regnier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 152501 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Modification of Quark-Gluon Distributions in Nuclei by Correlated Nucleon Pairs

A. W. Denniston, T. Ježo, A. Kusina, N. Derakhshanian, P. Duwentäster, O. Hen, C. Keppel, M. Klasen, K. Kovařík, J. G. Morfín, K. F. Muzakka, F. I. Olness, E. Piasetzky, P. Risse, R. Ruiz, I. Schienbein, and J. Y. Yu.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 152502 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Highly Nonlinear Light-Nucleus Interaction

Hanxu Zhang, Tao Li, and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 152503 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Hydrogenlike thorium-229 ions interacting with intense lasers could unlock a highly nonlinear and nonperturbative regime of light-nucleus interaction.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Subpicotesla Optomechanical Magnetometry

An-Ning Xu, Yifan Li, Xiangliang Li, Bei Liu, and Yong-Chun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 153601 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Monitoring the Energy of a Cavity by Observing the Emission of a Repeatedly Excited Qubit

H. Hutin, A. Essig, R. Assouly, P. Rouchon, A. Bienfait, and B. Huard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 153602 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Shearing Liquids of Unequal Viscosity: Can Mixing be Independent of Stirring Rate at a Large Viscosity Ratio?

I. Castaldi, B. Metzger, and H. Lhuissier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 154001 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predictive Framework for Flow Reversals and Excursions in Turbulence

Balachandra Suri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 154002 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Relativistic Electrons from Vacuum Laser Acceleration Using Tightly Focused Radially Polarized Beams

Jeffrey Powell, Spencer W. Jolly, Simon Vallières, François Fillion-Gourdeau, Stéphane Payeur, Sylvain Fourmaux, Marianna Lytova, Michel Piché, Heide Ibrahim, Steve MacLean, and François Légaré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 155001 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Greater than Five-Order-of-Magnitude Postcompression Temporal Contrast Improvement with an Ionization Plasma Grating

M. R. Edwards, N. M. Fasano, A. M. Giakas, M. M. Wang, J. Griff-McMahon, A. Morozov, V. M. Perez-Ramirez, N. Lemos, P. Michel, and J. M. Mikhailova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 155101 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

When two laser beams converge on a volume of gas, their interference creates a diffraction grating made of plasma that can divert and shape a third beam.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Size Selection of Crack Front Defects: Multiple Fracture-Plane Interactions and Intrinsic Length Scales

Meng Wang, Eran Bouchbinder, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156201 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ballistic Electron Source with Magnetically Controlled Valley Polarization in Bilayer Graphene

Josep Ingla-Aynés, Antonio L. R. Manesco, Talieh S. Ghiasi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Herre S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156301 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

A valley-polarized current source in bilayer graphene has been made by electrostatically defining quantum point contact pairs that work as a coherent valley-polarized current splitter and collector.

Quantum Melting of Generalized Wigner Crystals in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Moiré Systems

Yiqing Zhou, D. N. Sheng, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156501 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Dualities of Paired Quantum Hall Bilayer States at $ν_{T} = \frac{1}{2} + \frac{1}{2}$

Luca Rüegg, Gaurav Chaudhary, and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156502 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Enhanced Pair-Density-Wave Vertices in a Bilayer Hubbard Model at Half Filling

Fangze Liu, Xu-Xin Huang, Edwin W. Huang, Brian Moritz, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156503 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Geometry and Stabilization of Fractional Chern Insulators Far from the Ideal Limit

Gal Shavit and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156504 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

Flexomagnetoelectric Effect in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ Thin Films

Xin Liu, Ting Hu, Yujun Zhang, Xueli Xu, Runyu Lei, Biao Wu, Zongwei Ma, Peng Lv, Yuelin Zhang, Shih-Wen Huang, Jialu Wu, Jing Ma, Jiawang Hong, Zhigao Sheng, Chenglong Jia, Erjun Kan, Ce-Wen Nan, and Jinxing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156505 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

Lifting of Gap Nodes by Disorder in Tetragonal ${FeSe}_{1 - x} S_{x}$ Superconductors

T. Nagashima, K. Ishihara, K. Imamura, M. Kobayashi, M. Roppongi, K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, R. Grasset, M. Konczykowski, K. Hashimoto, and T. Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156506 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

All-Optical Control of Bubble and Skyrmion Breathing

Tim Titze, Sabri Koraltan, Timo Schmidt, Dieter Suess, Manfred Albrecht, Stefan Mathias, and Daniel Steil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156701 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chiral Split Magnon in Altermagnetic MnTe

Zheyuan Liu, Makoto Ozeki, Shinichiro Asai, Shinichi Itoh, and Takatsugu Masuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156702 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

Inelastic neutron scattering on MnTe shows evidence for altermagnetic magnon chiral splitting.

Breaking Surface-Plasmon Excitation Constraint via Surface Spin Waves

H. Y. Yuan and Yaroslav M. Blanter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156703 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Chiral Damping of Magnons

Dae-Yun Kim, Imane Berrai, T. S. Suraj, Yves Roussigné, Shuhan Yang, Mohamed Belmeguenai, Fanrui Hu, Guoyi Shi, Hui Ru Tan, Jifei Huang, Anjan Soumyanarayanan, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Salim Mourad Cherif, and Hyunsoo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156704 (2024) - Published 11 October, 2024

Phonon-Coupled High-Harmonic Generation for Exploring Nonadiabatic Electron-Phonon Interactions

Shi-Qi Hu, Hui Zhao, Xin-Bao Liu, Qing Chen, Da-Qiang Chen, Xin-Yuan Zhang, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156901 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Gating Single-Molecule Fluorescence with Electrons

Katharina Kaiser, Song Jiang, Michelangelo Romeo, Fabrice Scheurer, Guillaume Schull, and Anna Rosławska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156902 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Traveling Wave Amplification in Stationary Gratings

S. A. R. Horsley and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 156903 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Compression and quantum emission phenomena that are predicted in moving refractive index profiles can be equivalently realized in nonmoving, modulated systems.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Exact Propagators of One-Dimensional Self-Interacting Random Walks

Julien Brémont, O. Bénichou, and R. Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 157101 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Multimode Masers of Thermally Polarized Nuclear Spins in Solution NMR

Vineeth Francis Thalakottoor Jose Chacko, Alain Louis-Joseph, and Daniel Abergel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158001 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

Efficient Transport Controlled by Biharmonic Frictional Driving

Martin Maza-Cuello and Diego Maza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158201 (2024) - Published 9 October, 2024

Dumbbell Impurities in 2D Crystals of Repulsive Colloidal Spheres Trap Dislocations

Vera Meester, Casper van der Wel, Ruben W. Verweij, Giovanni Biondaro, and Daniela J. Kraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158202 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrotaxis of Self-Propelling Artificial Swimmers in Microchannels

Carola M. Buness, Avi Rana, Corinna C. Maass, and Ranabir Dey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158301 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Artificial active swimmers in microchannels exhibit a behavior similar to electrotaxis in response to electrical fields and pressure driven flow.

Inertia Drives Concentration-Wave Turbulence in Swimmer Suspensions

Purnima Jain, Navdeep Rana, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Prasad Perlekar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158302 (2024) - Published 8 October, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tuning Transduction from Hidden Observables to Optimize Information Harvesting

Giorgio Nicoletti and Daniel Maria Busiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158401 (2024) - Published 7 October, 2024

Bacteria, cells, swarms, and other organisms pluck information from noisy environments with extraordinarily high precision.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanics and Morphology of Proliferating Cell Collectives with Self-Inhibiting Growth

Scott Weady, Bryce Palmer, Adam Lamson, Taeyoon Kim, Reza Farhadifar, and Michael J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 158402 (2024) - Published 10 October, 2024

A growing cell colony can develop concentric wavelike patterns in cell size due to purely mechanical processes such as the inevitable collisions between cells.