Volume 133, Issue 18

1 November 2024

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Macroscopic vibrational states of a cavity (bluish purple) are driven via a pump (blue), coupling molecular vibrations (purple) to a cavity polariton BEC (green).

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Sympathetic Mechanism for Vibrational Condensation Enabled by Polariton Optomechanical Interaction
Vladislav Yu. Shishkov, Evgeny S. Andrianov, Sergei Tretiak, K. Birgitta Whaley, and Anton V. Zasedatelev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186903 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Autodetachment of Diatomic Carbon Anions from Long-Lived High-Rotation Quartet States

Viviane C. Schmidt, Roman Čurík, Milan Ončák, Klaus Blaum, Sebastian George, Jürgen Göck, Manfred Grieser, Florian Grussie, Robert von Hahn, Claude Krantz, Holger Kreckel, Oldřich Novotný, Kaija Spruck, and Andreas Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183001 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

Sometimes a rotating molecule can transition to a new state only if an electron carries away some of the molecule’s angular momentum.

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Magnetic Taylor-Proudman Constraint Explains Flows into the Tangent Cylinder

Alban Pothérat, Kélig Aujogue, and François Debray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 184101 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

A “Little Earth Experiment” inside a giant magnet sheds light on so-far-unexplained flow patterns in Earth’s interior.

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Piecewise Omnigenous Stellarators

J. L. Velasco, I. Calvo, F. J. Escoto, E. Sánchez, H. Thienpondt, and F. I. Parra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 185101 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

Breaking the problem into pieces makes it easier to design a fusion reactor’s coils for optimum energy confinement.

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Experimental Investigation of Coherent Ergotropy in a Single Spin System

Zhibo Niu, Yang Wu, Yunhan Wang, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 180401 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

By manipulating a nitrogen vacancy’s single spin, researchers have shown that the more coherent the system is, the more work can be extracted from it.

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Observation of Space-Dependent Rotational Doppler Shifts with a Single Ion Probe

Nicolás A. Nuñez Barreto, Muriel Bonetto, Marcelo A. Luda, Cecilia Cormick, and Christian T. Schmiegelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183601 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

A light beam with orbital angular momentum can produce the rotational analog of the Doppler effect on an ion.

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Quantum Inequalities for Quantum Black Holes

Antonia M. Frassino, Robie A. Hennigar, Juan F. Pedraza, and Andrew Svesko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181501 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

New spacetime inequalities applicable to quantum-corrected black holes to all orders of backreaction are proposed for the first time in three dimensions.

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Quantum Nonlinear Optics on the Edge of a Few-Particle Fractional Quantum Hall Fluid in a Small Lattice

Alberto Nardin, Daniele De Bernardis, Rifat Onur Umucalılar, Leonardo Mazza, Matteo Rizzi, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183401 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Nonlinear chiral Luttinger liquid theory is able to describe the dynamics of a fractional quantum Hall fluid even on the small lattices that are available to experiments.

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Tailor-Designed Models for the Turbulent Velocity Gradient through Normalizing Flow

M. Carbone, V. J. Peterhans, A. S. Ecker, and M. Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 184001 (2024) - Published 1 November, 2024

Combining methods from statistical mechanics and machine learning with data from highly resolved turbulence simulations, a low-dimensional dynamical model is constructed that successfully captures the hallmarks of small-scale turbulence.

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Strange Metal and Superconductor in the Two-Dimensional Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Chenyuan Li, Davide Valentinis, Aavishkar A. Patel, Haoyu Guo, Jörg Schmalian, Subir Sachdev, and Ilya Esterlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186502 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

Focusing on the inhomogeneity in the position of a quantum phase transition of so called strange metals provides answers to key puzzles in high-temperature superconductivity

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Two-Dimensional Topological Ferroelectric Metal with Giant Shift Current

Liu Yang, Lei Li, Zhi-Ming Yu, Menghao Wu, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186801 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

First-principles calculations show that ferroelectricity and metallicity can coexist in monolayers of PtBi $_{2}$ .

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Testing Whether Gravity Acts as a Quantum Entity When Measured

Farhan Hanif, Debarshi Das, Jonathan Halliwell, Dipankar Home, Anupam Mazumdar, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 180201 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

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Experimental Investigation of Coherent Ergotropy in a Single Spin System

Zhibo Niu, Yang Wu, Yunhan Wang, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 180401 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

By manipulating a nitrogen vacancy’s single spin, researchers have shown that the more coherent the system is, the more work can be extracted from it.

Confinement in the Transverse Field Ising Model on the Heavy Hex Lattice

Joseph Tindall and Dries Sels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 180402 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Entangling Four Logical Qubits beyond Break-Even in a Nonlocal Code

Yifan Hong, Elijah Durso-Sabina, David Hayes, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 180601 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Non-Hermitian Sensing in the Absence of Exceptional Points

Lei Xiao, Yaoming Chu, Quan Lin, Haiqing Lin, Wei Yi, Jianming Cai, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 180801 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Proposal for a Ramsey Neutron-Beam Experiment to Search for Ultralight Axion Dark Matter at the European Spallation Source

P. Fierlinger, M. Holl, D. Milstead, V. Santoro, W. M. Snow, and Y. V. Stadnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181001 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Dark Population Transfer Mechanism for Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

George M. Fuller, Lukáš Gráf, Amol V. Patwardhan, and Jacob Spisak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181002 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Ringing Out General Relativity: Quasinormal Mode Frequencies for Black Holes of Any Spin in Modified Gravity

Adrian Ka-Wai Chung and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181401 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

Mass Inflation without Cauchy Horizons

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Francesco Di Filippo, Stefano Liberati, and Matt Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181402 (2024) - Published 1 November, 2024

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Quantum Inequalities for Quantum Black Holes

Antonia M. Frassino, Robie A. Hennigar, Juan F. Pedraza, and Andrew Svesko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181501 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

New spacetime inequalities applicable to quantum-corrected black holes to all orders of backreaction are proposed for the first time in three dimensions.

Particles and Fields

Noninvertible Symmetries, Anomalies, and Scattering Amplitudes

Christian Copetti, Lucía Córdova, and Shota Komatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181601 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

QCD Running Coupling in the Nonperturbative and Near-Perturbative Regimes

Guy F. de Téramond, Arpon Paul, Stanley J. Brodsky, Alexandre Deur, Hans Günter Dosch, Tianbo Liu, and Raza Sabbir Sufian (HLFHS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181901 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

QCD Predictions for Meson Electromagnetic Form Factors at High Momenta: Testing Factorization in Exclusive Processes

Heng-Tong Ding, Xiang Gao, Andrew D. Hanlon, Swagato Mukherjee, Peter Petreczky, Qi Shi, Sergey Syritsyn, Rui Zhang, and Yong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 181902 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Unveiling Baryon Charge Carriers through Charge Stopping in Isobar Collisions

Gregoire Pihan, Akihiko Monnai, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 182301 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Extraction of Spectra in the Shell Model Monte Carlo Method Using Imaginary-Time Correlation Matrices

Y. Alhassid, M. Bonett-Matiz, C. N. Gilbreth, and S. Vartak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 182501 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Autodetachment of Diatomic Carbon Anions from Long-Lived High-Rotation Quartet States

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183001 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

Sometimes a rotating molecule can transition to a new state only if an electron carries away some of the molecule’s angular momentum.

Role of the Coulomb Potential in Compton Scattering

N. Melzer, M. Kircher, A. Pier, L. Kaiser, J. Kruse, N. Anders, J. Stindl, L. Sommerlad, D. McGinnis, M. Schmidt, L. Nowak, A. Kügler, I. Dwojak, J. Drnec, F. Trinter, M. S. Schöffler, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, N. M. Novikovskiy, Ph. V. Demekhin, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183002 (2024) - Published 1 November, 2024

Observation of Attosecond Time Delays in Above-Threshold Ionization

Wenhai Xie, Zichen Li, Min Li, Yupeng Liu, Yang Liu, Chuanpeng Cao, Keyu Guo, Kunlong Liu, Yueming Zhou, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183201 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

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Quantum Nonlinear Optics on the Edge of a Few-Particle Fractional Quantum Hall Fluid in a Small Lattice

Alberto Nardin, Daniele De Bernardis, Rifat Onur Umucalılar, Leonardo Mazza, Matteo Rizzi, and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183401 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Nonlinear chiral Luttinger liquid theory is able to describe the dynamics of a fractional quantum Hall fluid even on the small lattices that are available to experiments.

Symmetry Oscillations in Strongly Interacting One-Dimensional Mixtures

S. Musolino, M. Albert, A. Minguzzi, and P. Vignolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183402 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Velocity Scanning Tomography for Room-Temperature Quantum Simulation

Jiefei Wang, Ruosong Mao, Xingqi Xu, Yunzhou Lu, Jianhao Dai, Xiao Liu, Gang-Qin Liu, Dawei Lu, Huizhu Hu, Shi-Yao Zhu, Han Cai, and Da-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183403 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

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Observation of Space-Dependent Rotational Doppler Shifts with a Single Ion Probe

Nicolás A. Nuñez Barreto, Muriel Bonetto, Marcelo A. Luda, Cecilia Cormick, and Christian T. Schmiegelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183601 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

A light beam with orbital angular momentum can produce the rotational analog of the Doppler effect on an ion.

Observation of Two-Dimensional Dam Break Flow and a Gaseous Phase of Solitons in a Photon Fluid

Ludovica Dieli, Davide Pierangeli, Eugenio DelRe, and Claudio Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183801 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Correlation Hyperspectral Imaging

Gianlorenzo Massaro, Francesco V. Pepe, and Milena D’Angelo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183802 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Anomalous Subkelvin Thermal Frequency Shifts of Ultranarrow Linewidth Solid State Emitters

X. Lin, M. T. Hartman, B. Pointard, R. Le Targat, P. Goldner, S. Seidelin, B. Fang, and Y. Le Coq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183803 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Evidence of $1 + 1 D$ Photorefractive Stripe Solitons Deep in the Kerr Limit

Ludovica Falsi, Alberto Villois, Francesco Coppini, Aharon J. Agranat, Eugenio DelRe, and Stefano Trillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183804 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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Tailor-Designed Models for the Turbulent Velocity Gradient through Normalizing Flow

M. Carbone, V. J. Peterhans, A. S. Ecker, and M. Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 184001 (2024) - Published 1 November, 2024

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Magnetic Taylor-Proudman Constraint Explains Flows into the Tangent Cylinder

Alban Pothérat, Kélig Aujogue, and François Debray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 184101 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

A “Little Earth Experiment” inside a giant magnet sheds light on so-far-unexplained flow patterns in Earth’s interior.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Harnessing Plasmonic Interference for Nanoscale Ultrafast Electron Sources

Alimohammed Kachwala, Mansoure Moeini Rizi, Christopher M. Pierce, Daniele Filippetto, Jared Maxson, and Siddharth Karkare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 185001 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

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Piecewise Omnigenous Stellarators

J. L. Velasco, I. Calvo, F. J. Escoto, E. Sánchez, H. Thienpondt, and F. I. Parra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 185101 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

Breaking the problem into pieces makes it easier to design a fusion reactor’s coils for optimum energy confinement.

Evidence of Different Charging Behavior of Conductive and Dielectric Materials in Low-Temperature Plasmas and a New Diagnostic for Low-Energy Electron Absorption

Armin Mengel, Franz X. Bronold, and Franko Greiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 185301 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Coulomb Drag in $Graphene / h − BN / Graphene$ Moiré Heterostructures

Yueyang Wang, Hongxia Xue, Xiong Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Dong-Keun Ki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186301 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Role of Disorder in the Intrinsic Orbital Hall Effect

Ping Tang and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186302 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

Voltage-Controlled Synthesis of Higher Harmonics in Hybrid Josephson Junction Circuits

L. Banszerus, W. Marshall, C. W. Andersson, T. Lindemann, M. J. Manfra, C. M. Marcus, and S. Vaitiekėnas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186303 (2024) - Published 31 October, 2024

Respective Roles of Electron-Phonon and Electron-Electron Interactions in the Transport and Quasiparticle Properties of ${SrVO}_{3}$

David J. Abramovitch, Jernej Mravlje, Jin-Jian Zhou, Antoine Georges, and Marco Bernardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186501 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

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Strange Metal and Superconductor in the Two-Dimensional Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Chenyuan Li, Davide Valentinis, Aavishkar A. Patel, Haoyu Guo, Jörg Schmalian, Subir Sachdev, and Ilya Esterlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186502 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

Focusing on the inhomogeneity in the position of a quantum phase transition of so called strange metals provides answers to key puzzles in high-temperature superconductivity

Quantized Integrated Shift Effect in Multigap Topological Phases

Wojciech J. Jankowski and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186601 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Bilayer ${MoTe}_{2}$ : A Composite Fermion Perspective

Tianhong Lu and Luiz H. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186602 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Anyon Interferometry to Detect Braiding Statistics of Neutral Modes

Cheolhee Han, June-Young M. Lee, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186603 (2024) - Published 29 October, 2024

Spin Spiral State at a Ferromagnetic Gd Vacuum Interface

Patrick Härtl, Matthias Vogt, Markus Leisegang, Gustav Bihlmayer, Stefan Blügel, and Matthias Bode

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186701 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Strong Enhancement of Magnetic Coercivity Induced by Uniaxial Stress

Bin Shen, Franziska Breitner, Philipp Gegenwart, and Anton Jesche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186702 (2024) - Published 28 October, 2024

Intrinsic Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy Induced $3 m$ -Symmetry Dependent Field-Free Switching in Epitaxial Garnet Films

Jintao Ke, Dalin Zhang, L. Z. Bi, Zhuolin Li, Sai Zhou, Pengju Wang, Zhaozhao Zhu, He Bai, G. S. Li, Mo Zhu, Chaoqun Hu, Ying Zhang, Yaowen Liu, and J. W. Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186703 (2024) - Published 30 October, 2024

Continuum Excitations in a Spin Supersolid on a Triangular Lattice

M. Zhu, V. Romerio, N. Steiger, S. D. Nabi, N. Murai, S. Ohira-Kawamura, K. Yu. Povarov, Y. Skourski, R. Sibille, L. Keller, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 186704 (2024) - Published 1 November, 2024

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