Volume 133, Issue 16

18 October 2024

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On the Cover

Fractal growth of silver deposits by reduction with one, two (top), and three (bottom left) copper disks, and gaps between branches growing from five copper rods (bottom right). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion

From the article:

Rift Gaps in Chemical-Wave Network Systems
Tamar Kanimian, Lara Haroun, and Rabih Sultan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 168001 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Long-Lived Magnetization in an Atomic Spin Chain Tuned to a Diabolic Point

R. J. G. Elbertse, D. Borodin, J. Oh, T. Ahn, J. Hwang, J. C. Rietveld, A. J. Heinrich, F. Delgado, S. Otte, and Y. Bae

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166703 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

A quantum degeneracy named after a Chinese yo-yo boosts the magnetization lifetime of a short chain of magnetic iron atoms by a factor of 1000.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Three-Dimensional Moiré Crystal in Ultracold Atomic Gases

Ce Wang, Chao Gao, Jing Zhang, Hui Zhai, and Zhe-Yu Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163401 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

Overlapping two 3D lattices with a relative twist opens the door to synthesizing crystals with diverse symmetries that showcase nontrivial band structures and novel properties.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Non-Abelian Fractionalization in Topological Minibands

Aidan P. Reddy, Nisarga Paul, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166503 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

The prediction that twisted semiconductor bilayers can host so-called non-Abelian states without a magnetic field holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Light Long-Lived Particles in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ Using Displaced Vertices in the ATLAS Inner Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161803 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

A search for long-lived particles at the LHC with a new scheme for reconstructing particle-tracks with significantly displaced vertices results in an order-of-magnitude improvement in constraints.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonmonotonic Hall Effect of Weyl Semimetals under a Magnetic Field

Xiao-Xiao Zhang and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166301 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Global topological properties of three-dimensional Weyl semimetals lead to a nonmonotonic Hall effect as a function of an external magnetic field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fermi and Luttinger Arcs: Two Concepts, Realized on One Surface

Paul Worm, Matthias Reitner, Karsten Held, and Alessandro Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166501 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

An analytical model providing an exact single-particle Green’s function in a material with strong antiferromagnetic fluctuations explains the emergence of Fermi arcs and pseudogaps in superconducting cuprates.

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General Stacking Theory for Altermagnetism in Bilayer Systems

Baoru Pan, Pan Zhou, Pengbo Lyu, Huaping Xiao, Xuejuan Yang, and Lizhong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166701 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

General stacking theory provides a straightforward criteria to predict whether a bilayer can demonstrate altermagnetic spin splitting solely based on the layer group of the composing monolayers.

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Visualization of Skyrmion-Superconducting Vortex Pairs in a Chiral-Magnet–Superconductor Heterostructure

Yong-Jie Xie, Ang Qian, Bin He, Yu-Biao Wu, Sheng Wang, Bing Xu, Guoqiang Yu, Xiufeng Han, and X. G. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166706 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Skyrmion-superconducting vortex pairs in chiral magnet-superconductor heterostructures have been directly observed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rift Gaps in Chemical-Wave Network Systems

Tamar Kanimian, Lara Haroun, and Rabih Sultan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 168001 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

Patterns formed in chemical waves in precipitation reactions and electroless metal-deposition media are shown to be chemical analogs of Voronoi diagrams.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Information Causality as a Tool for Bounding the Set of Quantum Correlations

Prabhav Jain, Mariami Gachechiladze, and Nikolai Miklin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 160201 (2024) - Published 18 October, 2024

Counterintuitive Yet Efficient Regimes for Measurement-Based Quantum Computation on Symmetry-Protected Spin Chains

Arnab Adhikary, Wang Yang, and Robert Raussendorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 160601 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Observation of Discrete Charge States of a Coherent Two-Level System in a Superconducting Qubit

Bao-Jie Liu, Ying-Ying Wang, Tal Sheffer, and Chen Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 160602 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Experimental Sample-Efficient Quantum State Tomography via Parallel Measurements

Chang-Kang Hu, Chao Wei, Chilong Liu, Liangyu Che, Yuxuan Zhou, Guixu Xie, Haiyang Qin, Guantian Hu, Haolan Yuan, Ruiyang Zhou, Song Liu, Dian Tan, Tao Xin, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 160801 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Pulsar Nulling and Vacuum Radio Emission from Axion Clouds

Andrea Caputo, Samuel J. Witte, Alexander A. Philippov, and Ted Jacobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161001 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Particles and Fields

Categorical Landau Paradigm for Gapped Phases

Lakshya Bhardwaj, Lea E. Bottini, Daniel Pajer, and Sakura Schäfer-Nameki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161601 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Prospects for Light Dark Matter Searches at Large-Volume Neutrino Detectors

Bhaskar Dutta, Wei-Chih Huang, Doojin Kim, Jayden L. Newstead, Jong-Chul Park, and Iman Shaukat Ali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161801 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Limits on $W_{R}$ from Meson Decays

Gustavo F. S. Alves, Chee Sheng Fong, Luighi P. S. Leal, and Renata Zukanovich Funchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161802 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Light Long-Lived Particles in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ Using Displaced Vertices in the ATLAS Inner Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161803 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

A search for long-lived particles at the LHC with a new scheme for reconstructing particle-tracks with significantly displaced vertices results in an order-of-magnitude improvement in constraints.

Search for the Exclusive $W$ Boson Hadronic Decays $W^{\pm} \to π^{\pm} γ$ , $W^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} γ$ and $W^{\pm} \to ρ^{\pm} γ$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161804 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Search for the $Z$ Boson Decay to $τ τ μ μ$ in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161805 (2024) - Published 18 October, 2024

New Data-Driven Constraints on the Sign of Gluon Polarization in the Proton

N. T. Hunt-Smith, C. Cocuzza, W. Melnitchouk, N. Sato, A. W. Thomas, and M. J. White (JAM Collaboration-Spin PDF Analysis Group)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 161901 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time Delays as Attosecond Probe of Interelectronic Coherence and Entanglement

Wei-Chao Jiang, Ming-Chen Zhong, Yong-Kang Fang, Stefan Donsa, Iva Březinová, Liang-You Peng, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163201 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

Hanle Effect for Lifetime Determinations in the Soft X-Ray Regime

Moto Togawa, Jan Richter, Chintan Shah, Marc Botz, Joshua Nenninger, Jonas Danisch, Joschka Goes, Steffen Kühn, Pedro Amaro, Awad Mohamed, Yuki Amano, Stefano Orlando, Roberta Totani, Monica de Simone, Stephan Fritzsche, Thomas Pfeifer, Marcello Coreno, Andrey Surzhykov, and José R. Crespo López-Urrutia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163202 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Three-Dimensional Moiré Crystal in Ultracold Atomic Gases

Ce Wang, Chao Gao, Jing Zhang, Hui Zhai, and Zhe-Yu Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163401 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

Overlapping two 3D lattices with a relative twist opens the door to synthesizing crystals with diverse symmetries that showcase nontrivial band structures and novel properties.

Thermomagnetic Anomalies by Magnonic Criticality in Ultracold Atomic Transport

Yuta Sekino, Yuya Ominato, Hiroyuki Tajima, Shun Uchino, and Mamoru Matsuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163402 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Floquet Flux Attachment in Cold Atomic Systems

Helia Kamal, Jack Kemp, Yin-Chen He, Yohei Fuji, Monika Aidelsburger, Peter Zoller, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 163403 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Instantaneous and Retarded Interactions in Coherent Radiation

Zhuoyuan Liu, Xiujie Deng, Tong Li, and Lixin Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 165001 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonmonotonic Hall Effect of Weyl Semimetals under a Magnetic Field

Xiao-Xiao Zhang and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166301 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Global topological properties of three-dimensional Weyl semimetals lead to a nonmonotonic Hall effect as a function of an external magnetic field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fermi and Luttinger Arcs: Two Concepts, Realized on One Surface

Paul Worm, Matthias Reitner, Karsten Held, and Alessandro Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166501 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Localizing Transitions via Interaction-Induced Flat Bands

Alireza Parhizkar and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166502 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Non-Abelian Fractionalization in Topological Minibands

Aidan P. Reddy, Nisarga Paul, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166503 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

The prediction that twisted semiconductor bilayers can host so-called non-Abelian states without a magnetic field holds promise for fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Reconstruction of Surface Electron Spectrum and Cyclotron Motion in the Charge Density Wave Phase of Weyl Semimetals

A. A. Grigoreva, A. V. Andreev, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166601 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

General Stacking Theory for Altermagnetism in Bilayer Systems

Baoru Pan, Pan Zhou, Pengbo Lyu, Huaping Xiao, Xuejuan Yang, and Lizhong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166701 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

General stacking theory provides a straightforward criteria to predict whether a bilayer can demonstrate altermagnetic spin splitting solely based on the layer group of the composing monolayers.

Entanglement Entropy and Deconfined Criticality: Emergent SO(5) Symmetry and Proper Lattice Bipartition

Jonathan D’Emidio and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166702 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Long-Lived Magnetization in an Atomic Spin Chain Tuned to a Diabolic Point

R. J. G. Elbertse, D. Borodin, J. Oh, T. Ahn, J. Hwang, J. C. Rietveld, A. J. Heinrich, F. Delgado, S. Otte, and Y. Bae

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166703 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

A quantum degeneracy named after a Chinese yo-yo boosts the magnetization lifetime of a short chain of magnetic iron atoms by a factor of 1000.

Quantum Sensing of Spin Dynamics Using Boron-Vacancy Centers in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Shekhar Das, Alex L. Melendez, I-Hsuan Kao, Janeth A. García-Monge, Daniel Russell, Jiahan Li, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James H. Edgar, Jyoti Katoch, Fengyuan Yang, P. Chris Hammel, and Simranjeet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166704 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Electrical Excitation and Detection of Chiral Magnons in a Compensated Ferrimagnetic Insulator

Ledong Wang, Laichuan Shen, Hao Bai, Heng-An Zhou, Ka Shen, and Wanjun Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166705 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Visualization of Skyrmion-Superconducting Vortex Pairs in a Chiral-Magnet–Superconductor Heterostructure

Yong-Jie Xie, Ang Qian, Bin He, Yu-Biao Wu, Sheng Wang, Bing Xu, Guoqiang Yu, Xiufeng Han, and X. G. Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166706 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Skyrmion-superconducting vortex pairs in chiral magnet-superconductor heterostructures have been directly observed.

Slow Equilibrium Relaxation in a Chiral Magnet Mediated by Topological Defects

Chenhao Zhang, Yang Wu, Jingyi Chen, Haonan Jin, Jinghui Wang, Raymond Fan, Paul Steadman, Gerrit van der Laan, Thorsten Hesjedal, and Shilei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 166707 (2024) - Published 18 October, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Generalized Lotka-Volterra Systems with Time Correlated Stochastic Interactions

Samir Suweis, Francesco Ferraro, Christian Grilletta, Sandro Azaele, and Amos Maritan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 167101 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Winning with Losses: The Surprising Success of Negative Strategies in Social Interaction Behavior

Joel Weijia Lai and Kang Hao Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 167401 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rift Gaps in Chemical-Wave Network Systems

Tamar Kanimian, Lara Haroun, and Rabih Sultan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 168001 (2024) - Published 15 October, 2024

Patterns formed in chemical waves in precipitation reactions and electroless metal-deposition media are shown to be chemical analogs of Voronoi diagrams.

Basolateral Mechanics Prevents Rigidity Transition in Epithelial Monolayers

Jan Rozman, Matej Krajnc, and Primož Ziherl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 168401 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

COMMENTS

Comment on “Octahedral Distortion and Displacement-Type Ferroelectricity with Switchable Photovoltaic Effect in a $3 d^{3}$ -Electron Perovskite System”

Alexei A. Belik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 169601 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

Zhou et al. Reply:

B. W. Zhou, J. Zhang, X. B. Ye, G. X. Liu, X. Xu, J. Wang, Z. H. Liu, L. Zhou, Z. Y. Liao, H. B. Yao, S. Xu, J. J. Shi, X. Shen, X. H. Yu, Z. W. Hu, H. J. Lin, C. T. Chen, X. G. Qiu, C. Dong, J. X. Zhang, R. C. Yu, P. Yu, K. J. Jin, Q. B. Meng, and Y. W. Long

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 169602 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Studies of the Energy Dependence of Diboson Polarization Fractions and the Radiation-Amplitude-Zero Effect in $W Z$ Production with the ATLAS Detector [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 101802 (2024)]

G. Aad (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 169901 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Erratum: Improved Measurement of the Differential Polarizability Using Co-trapped Ions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033001 (2024)]

Yuan-Fei Wei, Si-Jia Chao, Kai-Feng Cui, Cheng-Bin Li, Shi-Cheng Yu, Han Zhang, Hua-Lin Shu, Jian Cao, and Xue-Ren Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 169902 (2024) - Published 16 October, 2024

Erratum: Many-Body Interference at the Onset of Chaos [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 080401 (2023)]

Eric Brunner, Lukas Pausch, Edoardo G. Carnio, Gabriel Dufour, Alberto Rodríguez, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 169903 (2024) - Published 17 October, 2024