Volume 133, Issue 20

15 November 2024

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Topological charge density structure for multicomponent textured crystals where spatial profiles of spin-pseudospin entanglement are varied by tuning the anisotropies.

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Entanglement Smectic and Stripe Order
Nilotpal Chakraborty, Roderich Moessner, and Benoit Doucot
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206604 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Gain-Induced Group Delay in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

Guillaume Thekkadath, Martin Houde, Duncan England, Philip Bustard, Frédéric Bouchard, Nicolás Quesada, and Ben Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203601 (2024) - Published 14 November, 2024

The observation of a previously unseen photon delay in the production of quantum light has implications for the development of quantum technologies.

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Frequency-Dependent Covariance Reveals Critical Spatiotemporal Patterns of Synchronized Activity in the Human Brain

Rubén Calvo, Carles Martorell, Guillermo B. Morales, Serena Di Santo, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 208401 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

A new frequency-based analysis of recordings from neurons in the brain may give insight into brain pathologies such as Parkinson’s disease.

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Theory of Quantum Anomalous Hall Phases in Pentalayer Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Structures

Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206502 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases in rhombohedral multilayer graphene.

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Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene. I. Interaction-Driven Chern Bands and Fractional Quantum Hall States at Zero Magnetic Field

Junkai Dong (董焌锴), Taige Wang, Tianle Wang, Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Daniel E. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206503 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

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Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene in the Moiréless Limit

Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206504 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

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Quantum Advantage: A Single Qubit’s Experimental Edge in Classical Data Storage

Chen Ding, Edwin Peter Lobo, Mir Alimuddin, Xiao-Yue Xu, Shuo Zhang, Manik Banik, Wan-Su Bao, and He-Liang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 200201 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

A new quantum communication protocol allows a qubit to outperform a classical bit in storing capacity for classical data.

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Search for an eV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Using Improved High-Energy $ν_{μ}$ Event Reconstruction in IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201804 (2024) - Published 14 November, 2024

Using a decade of data, the IceCube collaboration places strong new constraints on sterile neutrinos.

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Experimental Demonstration of Mode-Coupled and High-Brightness Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission in an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

Eduard Prat, Wenxiang Hu, Christopher Arrell, Marco Calvi, Philipp Dijkstal, Rolf Follath, and Sven Reiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 205001 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

The first experimental demonstration of two schemes to enhance the longitudinal coherence of SASE-XFEL pulses shows that the SASE pulse bandwidth can be reduced by up to a factor of three.

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Origin of Spectral Bands in the Crab Pulsar Radio Emission

Mikhail V. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 205201 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

A new model explains the peculiar spectral band structure of the high-frequency interpulse of the Crab pulsar radio emission as diffraction fringes created by the pulsar’s plasma-filled magnetosphere, acting as a frequency-dependent diffraction screen.

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Topological Bound on the Structure Factor

Yugo Onishi and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206602 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

The static structure factor at long wavelength, characterized by a recently introduced concept quantum weight, has a lower bound solely determined by the many-body Chern number.

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Twisted Magnetic Van der Waals Bilayers: An Ideal Platform for Altermagnetism

Yichen Liu, Junxi Yu, and Cheng-Cheng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206702 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

By choosing a constituent monolayer with specific symmetry, the properties of twisted altermagnets, like spin Hall effect, can be flexibly engineered.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

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Quantum Advantage: A Single Qubit’s Experimental Edge in Classical Data Storage

Chen Ding, Edwin Peter Lobo, Mir Alimuddin, Xiao-Yue Xu, Shuo Zhang, Manik Banik, Wan-Su Bao, and He-Liang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 200201 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

A new quantum communication protocol allows a qubit to outperform a classical bit in storing capacity for classical data.

Discrete Time Crystals in Unbounded Potentials

Yevgeny Bar Lev and Achilleas Lazarides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 200401 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Universal Spreading of Conditional Mutual Information in Noisy Random Circuits

Su-un Lee, Changhun Oh, Yat Wong, Senrui Chen, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 200402 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Experimental Demonstration of Drone-Based Quantum Key Distribution

Xiao-Hui Tian, Ran Yang, Hua-Ying Liu, Pengfei Fan, Ji-Ning Zhang, Changsheng Gu, Mengwen Chen, Mingzhe Hu, Feng-Yu Lu, Chunxi Zhu, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Zhi-Jun Yin, Mo Yuan, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Yan-Xiao Gong, Shi-Ning Zhu, and Zhenda Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 200801 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Searching for Asymmetric and Heavily Precessing Binary Black Holes in the Gravitational Wave Data from the LIGO Third Observing Run

Stefano Schmidt et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201401 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Particles and Fields

Relative State Counting for Semiclassical Black Holes

Chris Akers and Jonathan Sorce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201601 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Correlators of $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory on Real Projective Space at Strong Coupling

Xinan Zhou (周稀楠)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201602 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Is the Real Two-Higgs-Doublet Model Consistent?

Carlos Henrique de Lima and Heather E. Logan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201801 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Search for $C P$ -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions with the NOvA Experiment

M. A. Acero et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201802 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

Searches for Pair-Produced Multijet Resonances Using Data Scouting in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201803 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

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Search for an eV-Scale Sterile Neutrino Using Improved High-Energy $ν_{μ}$ Event Reconstruction in IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 201804 (2024) - Published 14 November, 2024

Using a decade of data, the IceCube collaboration places strong new constraints on sterile neutrinos.

Nuclear Physics

Quest for Cooper Pair Transfer in Heavy-Ion Reactions: The ${}^{206}{Pb} + {}^{118}{Sn}$ Case

S. Szilner et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 202501 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Signature of Attochemical Quantum Interference upon Ionization and Excitation of an Electronic Wave Packet in Fluorobenzene

Anthony Ferté, Dane Austin, Allan S. Johnson, Felicity McGrath, João Pedro Malhado, Jon P. Marangos, and Morgane Vacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203201 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Measuring Bipartite Spin Correlations of Lattice-Trapped Dipolar Atoms

Youssef Aziz Alaoui, Sean R. Muleady, Edwin Chaparro, Youssef Trifa, Ana Maria Rey, Tommaso Roscilde, Bruno Laburthe-Tolra, and Laurent Vernac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203401 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

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Gain-Induced Group Delay in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

Guillaume Thekkadath, Martin Houde, Duncan England, Philip Bustard, Frédéric Bouchard, Nicolás Quesada, and Ben Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203601 (2024) - Published 14 November, 2024

The observation of a previously unseen photon delay in the production of quantum light has implications for the development of quantum technologies.

Optoacoustic Entanglement in a Continuous Brillouin-Active Solid State System

Changlong Zhu, Claudiu Genes, and Birgit Stiller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203602 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

All-Optical Ultrafast Arbitrary Rotation of Hole Orbital Qubits with Direct Phase Control

Jun-Yong Yan, Liang Zhai, Hans-Georg Babin, Yuanzhen Li, Si-Hui Pei, Moritz Cygorek, Wei Fang, Fei Gao, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Chao-Yuan Jin, Da-Wei Wang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203603 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

Exact Quantum Electrodynamics of Radiative Photonic Environments

Ben Yuen and Angela Demetriadou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203604 (2024) - Published 14 November, 2024

Hybrid Source of Quantum Light for Generation of Frequency Tunable Fock States

Aleksa Krstić, Priyanshu Tiwari, Florian Höhe, Frank Setzpfandt, Ulf Peschel, Joachim Ankerhold, and Sina Saravi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 203605 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

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Experimental Demonstration of Mode-Coupled and High-Brightness Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission in an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

Eduard Prat, Wenxiang Hu, Christopher Arrell, Marco Calvi, Philipp Dijkstal, Rolf Follath, and Sven Reiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 205001 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

The first experimental demonstration of two schemes to enhance the longitudinal coherence of SASE-XFEL pulses shows that the SASE pulse bandwidth can be reduced by up to a factor of three.

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Origin of Spectral Bands in the Crab Pulsar Radio Emission

Mikhail V. Medvedev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 205201 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Anomalous Thermal Transport in Compressed Carbon Phases

Zefang Ye, Janghan Park, Yongjian Zhou, Raul D. Montano, Tribhuwan Pandey, Yanyao Zhang, Jung-Fu Lin, and Yaguo Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206301 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Large Band Splitting in $g$ -Wave Altermagnet CrSb

Jianyang Ding, Zhicheng Jiang, Xiuhua Chen, Zicheng Tao, Zhengtai Liu, Tongrui Li, Jishan Liu, Jianping Sun, Jinguang Cheng, Jiayu Liu, Yichen Yang, Runfeng Zhang, Liwei Deng, Wenchuan Jing, Yu Huang, Yuming Shi, Mao Ye, Shan Qiao, Yilin Wang, Yanfeng Guo, Donglai Feng, and Dawei Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206401 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

Rigorous Formalization of Orbital Functionals

Neil Qiang Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206402 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Capping Effects on Spin and Charge Excitations in Parent and Superconducting ${Nd}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {NiO}_{2}$

S. Fan, H. LaBollita, Q. Gao, N. Khan, Y. Gu, T. Kim, J. Li, V. Bhartiya, Y. Li, W. Sun, J. Yang, S. Yan, A. Barbour, X. Zhou, A. Cano, F. Bernardini, Y. Nie, Z. Zhu, V. Bisogni, C. Mazzoli, A. S. Botana, and J. Pelliciari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206501 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

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Theory of Quantum Anomalous Hall Phases in Pentalayer Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Structures

Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206502 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Fractional quantum anomalous Hall phases in rhombohedral multilayer graphene.

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Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene. I. Interaction-Driven Chern Bands and Fractional Quantum Hall States at Zero Magnetic Field

Junkai Dong (董焌锴), Taige Wang, Tianle Wang, Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Michael P. Zaletel, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Daniel E. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206503 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

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Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene in the Moiréless Limit

Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206504 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Designing Topology and Fractionalization in Narrow Gap Semiconductor Films via Electrostatic Engineering

Tixuan Tan, Aidan P. Reddy, Liang Fu, and Trithep Devakul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206601 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

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Topological Bound on the Structure Factor

Yugo Onishi and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206602 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

The static structure factor at long wavelength, characterized by a recently introduced concept quantum weight, has a lower bound solely determined by the many-body Chern number.

Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity Oscillations in Relation to the Putative Kitaev Spin Liquid Phase of $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

Heda Zhang, Hu Miao, Thomas Z. Ward, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, Michael A. McGuire, and Jiaqiang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206603 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

Entanglement Smectic and Stripe Order

Nilotpal Chakraborty, Roderich Moessner, and Benoit Doucot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206604 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

Voltage-Controlled Bimeron-Torques Switching of In-Plane Magnetization

Dongxing Yu, Yonglong Ga, Peng Li, Jiawei Jiang, Jinghua Liang, Liming Wang, Chenglong Jia, Kai Chang, and Hongxin Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206701 (2024) - Published 14 November, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Twisted Magnetic Van der Waals Bilayers: An Ideal Platform for Altermagnetism

Yichen Liu, Junxi Yu, and Cheng-Cheng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206702 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

By choosing a constituent monolayer with specific symmetry, the properties of twisted altermagnets, like spin Hall effect, can be flexibly engineered.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Mean-Field Theory of the Uniaxial Ferroelectric Smectic A Liquid Crystal Phase

Aitor Erkoreka, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya, and Josu Martinez-Perdiguero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 208101 (2024) - Published 12 November, 2024

Bulk Condensation by an Active Interface

Raushan Kant, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Harsh Soni, A. K. Sood, and Sriram Ramaswamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 208301 (2024) - Published 15 November, 2024

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Frequency-Dependent Covariance Reveals Critical Spatiotemporal Patterns of Synchronized Activity in the Human Brain

Rubén Calvo, Carles Martorell, Guillermo B. Morales, Serena Di Santo, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 208401 (2024) - Published 13 November, 2024

A new frequency-based analysis of recordings from neurons in the brain may give insight into brain pathologies such as Parkinson’s disease.