Volume 133, Issue 17

25 October 2024

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Time-lapse reconstruction of interference patterns from a spreading oil film during evaporation of an oil-in-water emulsion drop.

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Flowerlike Spreading of Micellar Films during Emulsion Drop Evaporation
Teng Dong, Kristo Kotsi, Teke Xu, Takeshi Kobayashi, Alexander Moriarty, Panagiota Angeli, Ian McRobbie, and Alberto Striolo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 174001 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Toward the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium ( $Z = 116$ ) with ${}^{50}{Ti}$

J. M. Gates et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 172502 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Scientists have synthesized an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium using a novel fusion reaction. The result paves the way for the discovery of new chemical elements.

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Individual-Ion Addressing and Readout in a Penning Trap

Brian J. McMahon, Kenton R. Brown, Creston D. Herold, and Brian C. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173201 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

A way to address the individual ions of a rotating ion crystal could allow scientists to perform quantum simulations in which each qubit can be carefully controlled.

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Optimization Methodology of Polar Direct-Drive Illumination for the National Ignition Facility

D. E. M. Barlow, A. Colaïtis, D. Viala, M. J. Rosenberg, I. Igumenshchev, V. Goncharov, L. Ceurvorst, P. B. Radha, W. Theobald, R. S. Craxton, M. J. V. Streeter, R. H. H. Scott, K. Glize, T. Chapman, and J. Mathiaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 175101 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

An automatic, algorithmic technique can find optimal laser configurations for inertial-confinement fusion—one of two main fusion approaches.

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Critical Spontaneous Breaking of U(1) Symmetry at Zero Temperature in One Dimension

Haruki Watanabe, Hosho Katsura, and Jong Yeon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176001 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

There is an infinite family of one-dimensional models exhibiting spontaneous breaking of a U(1) symmetry at zero temperature whose order parameter does not commute with the Hamiltonian.

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Absence of Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Character in Rutile Oxide ${RuO}_{2}$

Jiayu Liu, Jie Zhan, Tongrui Li, Jishan Liu, Shufan Cheng, Yuming Shi, Liwei Deng, Meng Zhang, Chihao Li, Jianyang Ding, Qi Jiang, Mao Ye, Zhengtai Liu, Zhicheng Jiang, Siyu Wang, Qian Li, Yanwu Xie, Yilin Wang, Shan Qiao, Jinsheng Wen, Yan Sun, and Dawei Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176401 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Measurement of momentum-dependent band splitting and spin polarization provides direct spectral evidence that RuO $_{2}$ is unlikely to be an altermagnet.

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Pair-Density-Wave Superconductivity: A Microscopic Model on the 2D Honeycomb Lattice

Yi-Fan Jiang and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176501 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

A pair density wave state can be realized in a minimal model of spinless fermions on a honeycomb lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interaction.

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Interaction-Induced Crystalline Topology of Excitons

Henry Davenport, Johannes Knolle, and Frank Schindler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176601 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

An interacting centrosymmetric semiconductor displays topologically nontrivial excitons even when the underlying noninteracting electron and hole bands have a trivial atomic limit.

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Conformational Selection of Polymer Chains upon $π - π$ Interactions with Small Molecules

Weirui Zeng, Lei Liu, Yingzhou Shen, Zhefu Wu, Yuanming Zhai, Dong Liu, Hongyu Chen, Kai Zhang, Bo Yin, Wei Yang, and Mingbo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 178101 (2024) - Published 25 October, 2024

Synthetic polymers exhibit conformational selection behavior in melt processing, adapting to small molecules through noncovalent interactions.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Unbounded Sharing of Nonlocality Using Qubit Projective Measurements

S. Sasmal, S. Kanjilal, and A. K. Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170201 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Thermodynamic Approach to Quantifying Incompatible Instruments

Chung-Yun Hsieh and Shin-Liang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170401 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Exact Hidden Markovian Dynamics in Quantum Circuits

He-Ran Wang, Xiao-Yang Yang, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170402 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Solvable Models of Many-Body Chaos from Dual-Koopman Circuits

Arul Lakshminarayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170403 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Exact Thermal Eigenstates of Nonintegrable Spin Chains at Infinite Temperature

Yuuya Chiba and Yasushi Yoneta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170404 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Coupler-Assisted Leakage Reduction for Scalable Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Qubits

Xiaohan Yang, Ji Chu, Zechen Guo, Wenhui Huang, Yongqi Liang, Jiawei Liu, Jiawei Qiu, Xuandong Sun, Ziyu Tao, Jiawei Zhang, Jiajian Zhang, Libo Zhang, Yuxuan Zhou, Weijie Guo, Ling Hu, Ji Jiang, Yang Liu, Xiayu Linpeng, Tingyong Chen, Yuanzhen Chen, Jingjing Niu, Song Liu, Youpeng Zhong, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170601 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Limits of Noisy Quantum Metrology with Restricted Quantum Controls

Sisi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 170801 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Short-Range Correlations and Urca Process in Neutron Stars

Armen Sedrakian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 171401 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Black Holes with Electroweak Hair

Romain Gervalle and Mikhail S. Volkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 171402 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Particles and Fields

Theory-Driven Evolution of the Weak Mixing Angle

Jens Erler, Rodolfo Ferro-Hernández, and Simon Kuberski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 171801 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Renormalization-Group Evolution for the Three-Particle $B$ -Meson Soft Function

Yong-Kang Huang, Yao Ji, Yue-Long Shen, Chao Wang, Yu-Ming Wang, and Xue-Chen Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 171901 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Unifying Monopole and Center Vortex as the Semiclassical Confinement Mechanism

Yui Hayashi and Yuya Tanizaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 171902 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Study of the Decay and Production Properties of $D_{s 1} (2536)$ and $D_{s 2}^{*} (2573)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 171903 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Nuclear Physics

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Toward the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium ( $Z = 116$ ) with ${}^{50}{Ti}$

J. M. Gates et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 172502 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Scientists have synthesized an isotope of the superheavy element livermorium using a novel fusion reaction. The result paves the way for the discovery of new chemical elements.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Highly Spin-Polarized Molecules via Collisional Microwave Pumping

Rebekah Hermsmeier and Timur V. Tscherbul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173001 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Direct Evidence of Breakdown of Spin Statistics in Ion-Atom Charge Exchange Collisions

XiaoLong Zhu, Shaofeng Zhang, Yong Gao, Dalong Guo, Jiawei Xu, Ruitian Zhang, Dongmei Zhao, Kaizhao Lin, Xubin Zhu, Dadi Xing, Shucheng Cui, Stylianos Passalidis, Alain Dubois, and X. Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173002 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

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Individual-Ion Addressing and Readout in a Penning Trap

Brian J. McMahon, Kenton R. Brown, Creston D. Herold, and Brian C. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173201 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

A way to address the individual ions of a rotating ion crystal could allow scientists to perform quantum simulations in which each qubit can be carefully controlled.

Anomalous Directed Percolation on a Dynamic Network Using Rydberg Facilitation

Daniel Brady, Simon Ohler, Johannes Otterbach, and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173401 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Hydrodynamic Attractor in Ultracold Atoms

Keisuke Fujii and Tilman Enss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173402 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Cold Molecular Ions via Autoionization below the Dissociation Limit

Sascha Schaller, Johannes Seifert, Giacomo Valtolina, André Fielicke, Boris G. Sartakov, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173403 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Frequency-Resolved Purcell Effect for the Dissipative Generation of Steady-State Entanglement

Alejandro Vivas-Viaña, Diego Martín-Cano, and Carlos Sánchez Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173601 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Experimental Quantum Simulation of Multicriticality in Closed and Open Rabi Model

Ze Wu, Changsheng Hu, Tianyun Wang, Yuquan Chen, Yuchen Li, Liqiang Zhao, Xin-You Lü, and Xinhua Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173602 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Experimental Demonstration of a Versatile and Scalable Scheme for Iterative Generation of Non-Gaussian States of Light

Hector Simon, Lucas Caron, Romaric Journet, Viviane Cotte, and Rosa Tualle-Brouri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173603 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Concurrent Spin Squeezing and Light Squeezing in an Atomic Ensemble

Shenchao Jin, Junlei Duan, Youwei Zhang, Xichang Zhang, Han Bao, Heng Shen, Liantuan Xiao, Suotang Jia, Mingfeng Wang, and Yanhong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173604 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Nonclassical Correlations between Photons and Phonons of Center-of-Mass Motion of a Mechanical Oscillator

Ivan Galinskiy, Georg Enzian, Michał Parniak, and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173605 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Coherent Perfect Absorption of Arbitrary Wavefronts at an Exceptional Point

Helmut Hörner, Lena Wild, Yevgeny Slobodkin, Gil Weinberg, Ori Katz, and Stefan Rotter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173801 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Flowerlike Spreading of Micellar Films during Emulsion Drop Evaporation

Teng Dong, Kristo Kotsi, Teke Xu, Takeshi Kobayashi, Alexander Moriarty, Panagiota Angeli, Ian McRobbie, and Alberto Striolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 174001 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Experimental Demonstration of an Emittance-Preserving Beam Energy Dechirper Using a Hollow Channel Plasma

Shuang Liu, Fei Li, Yingchao Du, Bo Peng, Yu Fang, Xiaonan Ning, Tianliang Zhang, Jiucheng Chen, Zhi Song, Hengyuan Xiao, Linyi Zhou, Bing Zhou, Jianfei Hua, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 175001 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimization Methodology of Polar Direct-Drive Illumination for the National Ignition Facility

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 175101 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

An automatic, algorithmic technique can find optimal laser configurations for inertial-confinement fusion—one of two main fusion approaches.

Binary Nature of Collisions Facilitates Runaway Electron Generation in Weakly Ionized Plasmas

Y. Lee, P. Aleynikov, P. C. de Vries, H.-T. Kim, J. Lee, M. Hoppe, J.-K. Park, G. J. Choi, J. Gwak, and Y.-S. Na

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 175102 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Critical Spontaneous Breaking of U(1) Symmetry at Zero Temperature in One Dimension

Haruki Watanabe, Hosho Katsura, and Jong Yeon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176001 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

There is an infinite family of one-dimensional models exhibiting spontaneous breaking of a U(1) symmetry at zero temperature whose order parameter does not commute with the Hamiltonian.

Theory of Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy in Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Lyuzhou Ye, Xiao Zheng, and Xin Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176201 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

Reflection Measurement of the Scattering Mean Free Path at the Onset of Multiple Scattering

Antton Goïcoechea, Cécile Brütt, Arthur Le Ber, Flavien Bureau, William Lambert, Claire Prada, Arnaud Derode, and Alexandre Aubry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176301 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

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Absence of Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Character in Rutile Oxide ${RuO}_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176401 (2024) - Published 24 October, 2024

Measurement of momentum-dependent band splitting and spin polarization provides direct spectral evidence that RuO $_{2}$ is unlikely to be an altermagnet.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pair-Density-Wave Superconductivity: A Microscopic Model on the 2D Honeycomb Lattice

Yi-Fan Jiang and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176501 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

A pair density wave state can be realized in a minimal model of spinless fermions on a honeycomb lattice with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interaction.

Incommensurate Order with Translationally Invariant Projected Entangled-Pair States: Spiral States and Quantum Spin Liquid on the Anisotropic Triangular Lattice

Juraj Hasik and Philippe Corboz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176502 (2024) - Published 23 October, 2024

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Interaction-Induced Crystalline Topology of Excitons

Henry Davenport, Johannes Knolle, and Frank Schindler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176601 (2024) - Published 21 October, 2024

An interacting centrosymmetric semiconductor displays topologically nontrivial excitons even when the underlying noninteracting electron and hole bands have a trivial atomic limit.

Cornertronics in Two-Dimensional Second-Order Topological Insulators

Yilin Han, Chaoxi Cui, Xiao-Ping Li, Ting-Ting Zhang, Zeying Zhang, Zhi-Ming Yu, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 176602 (2024) - Published 22 October, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Conformational Selection of Polymer Chains upon $π - π$ Interactions with Small Molecules

Weirui Zeng, Lei Liu, Yingzhou Shen, Zhefu Wu, Yuanming Zhai, Dong Liu, Hongyu Chen, Kai Zhang, Bo Yin, Wei Yang, and Mingbo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 178101 (2024) - Published 25 October, 2024

Synthetic polymers exhibit conformational selection behavior in melt processing, adapting to small molecules through noncovalent interactions.