Volume 133, Issue 22

29 November 2024

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Speckle pattern of a mirror-symmetric scattering medium.

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Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Multiple-Scattering Media
Sudhir K. Saini, Evangelos Marakis, Kayleigh Start, Gerwin Osnabrugge, Ivo M. Vellekoop, and Pepijn W. H. Pinkse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223802 (2024)

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High-Statistics Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum with H.E.S.S.

F. Aharonian et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221001 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

A new analysis of more than a decade’s worth of observations extends the spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons to unprecedented high energies.

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Optical Tweezer Arrays of Erbium Atoms

D. S. Grün, S. J. M. White, A. Ortu, A. Di Carli, H. Edri, M. Lepers, M. J. Mark, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223402 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Erbium and similar elements provide a wide range of electronic “handles” for manipulating atoms in many-body quantum experiments.

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Cross-Scale Energy Transfer from Fluid-Scale Alfvén Waves to Kinetic-Scale Ion Acoustic Waves in the Earth’s Magnetopause Boundary Layer

Xin An, Anton Artemyev, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Terry Z. Liu, Ivan Vasko, and David Malaspina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 225201 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Magnetospheric Multiscale mission data shows direct evidence of Alfvén-acoustic-energy channeling as a viable mechanism for plasma heating near plasma boundaries where large-amplitude Alfvén waves are present and complementary to the classical turbulence cascade.

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Optically Defined Phononic Crystal Defect

Thomas J. Clark, Simon Bernard, Jiaxing Ma, Vincent Dumont, and Jack C. Sankey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226904 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Forces imposed by laser light can manipulate the shape of a membrane’s vibrational modes.

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Tuning Colloidal Reactions

Ryan K. Krueger, Ella M. King, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 228201 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Researchers used machine learning to optimize the process by which a tiny cage is opened to release a molecule.

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Ultrafast Low-Energy Photoelectron Diffraction for the Study of Surface-Adsorbate Interactions with 100-fs Temporal Resolution

H. Erk, C. E. Jensen, S. Jauernik, and M. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226201 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

A novel configuration for pump-probe low-energy electron diffraction uses photoelectrons from the substrate and achieves 100-fs time resolution.

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Dissipation Bounds Precision of Current Response to Kinetic Perturbations

Krzysztof Ptaszyński, Timur Aslyamov, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 227101 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

A new type of thermodynamic uncertainty relation provides a thermodynamic trade-off between current fluctuations and the static linear current response, rather than the current itself.

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Adsorbate Configurations in Ni Single-Atom Catalysts during ${CO}_{2}$ Electrocatalytic Reduction Unveiled by Operando XAS, XES, and Machine Learning

Andrea Martini, Janis Timoshenko, Philipp Grosse, Clara Rettenmaier, Dorottya Hursán, Gabriele Deplano, Hyo Sang Jeon, Arno Bergmann, and Beatriz Roldan Cuenya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 228001 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

A suite of $i n$ $s i t u$ x-ray spectroscopy techniques coupled with machine learning and density functional theory enable a comprehensive characterization of the local atomistic and electronic structure of the working Ni-N-C catalyst during the electrocatalytic reduction of CO $_{2}$ to CO.

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Active Particles Knead Three-Dimensional Gels into Porous Structures

Martin Cramer Pedersen, Sourav Mukherjee, Amin Doostmohammadi, Chandana Mondal, and Kristian Thijssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 228301 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

When doped with active particles that serve as a means of local energy injection, colloidal gels can dynamically adopt highly porous yet compact bulk structures

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Extending Classically Simulatable Bounds of Clifford Circuits with Nonstabilizer States via Framed Wigner Functions

Guedong Park, Hyukjoon Kwon, and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 220601 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Quantum State Transfer between Superconducting Cavities via Exchange-Free Interactions

Jie Zhou, Ming Li, Weiting Wang, Weizhou Cai, Ziyue Hua, Yifang Xu, Xiaoxuan Pan, Guangming Xue, Hongyi Zhang, Yipu Song, Haifeng Yu, Chang-Ling Zou, and Luyan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 220801 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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High-Statistics Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum with H.E.S.S.

F. Aharonian et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221001 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

A new analysis of more than a decade’s worth of observations extends the spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons to unprecedented high energies.

Consistency of Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Galaxy Clusters with Planck

Andrés N. Salcedo, Hao-Yi Wu, Eduardo Rozo, David H. Weinberg, Chun-Hao To, Tomomi Sunayama, and Andy Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221002 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Black Holes and Gravitational Waves from Slow First-Order Phase Transitions

Marek Lewicki, Piotr Toczek, and Ville Vaskonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221003 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Fast Flavor Conversions at the Edge of Instability in a Two-Beam Model

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo and Georg G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221004 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

New Upper Limit on the Axion-Photon Coupling with an Extended CAST Run with a Xe-Based Micromegas Detector

K. Altenmüller et al. (CAST Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221005 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

How Much Information Can Be Extracted from Galaxy Clustering at the Field Level?

Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Fabian Schmidt, Beatriz Tucci, Martin Reinecke, and Andrija Kostić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221006 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Scattering and Bound Observables for Spinning Particles in Kerr Spacetime with Generic Spin Orientations

Riccardo Gonzo and Canxin Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221401 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

There and Back Again: Mapping and Factorizing Cosmological Observables

David Stefanyszyn, Xi Tong, and Yuhang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221501 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Particles and Fields

Probing $C P T$ Invariance with Top Quarks at the LHC

A. Belyaev, L. Cerrito, E. Lunghi, S. Moretti, and N. Sherrill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221601 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

From Chaos to Integrability in Double Scaled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model via a Chord Path Integral

Micha Berkooz, Nadav Brukner, Yiyang Jia (贾抑扬), and Ohad Mamroud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221602 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Constraints on Covariant Dark-Matter–Nucleon Effective Field Theory Interactions from the First Science Run of the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment

J. Aalbers et al. (LZ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 221801 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Nuclear Structure of Dripline Nuclei Elucidated through Precision Mass Measurements of ${}^{23}{Si}$ , ${}^{26}P$ , ${}^{27, 28}S$ , and ${}^{31}{Ar}$

Y. Yu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 222501 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Isomeric Population Transfer of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nucleus via Hyperfine Electronic Bridge

Wu Wang, Fen Zou, Stephan Fritzsche, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223001 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Coupling Trapped Ions to a Nanomechanical Oscillator

Moritz Weegen, Martino Poggio, and Stefan Willitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223201 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Uncovering Emergent Spacetime Supersymmetry with Rydberg Atom Arrays

Chengshu Li, Shang Liu, Hanteng Wang, Wenjun Zhang, Zi-Xiang Li, Hui Zhai, and Yingfei Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223401 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

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Optical Tweezer Arrays of Erbium Atoms

D. S. Grün, S. J. M. White, A. Ortu, A. Di Carli, H. Edri, M. Lepers, M. J. Mark, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223402 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Erbium and similar elements provide a wide range of electronic “handles” for manipulating atoms in many-body quantum experiments.

Dark State Transport between Unitary Fermi Superfluids

Mohsen Talebi, Simon Wili, Jeffrey Mohan, Philipp Fabritius, Meng-Zi Huang, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223403 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Photonic Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Continuum Limit

Andris Erglis, Milan Radonjić, and Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223601 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Synergistic Nonreciprocity of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Diffraction

Lihong Hong, Yu Zou, Zitao Ji, and Zhi-Yuan Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223801 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Mirror Symmetry in Three-Dimensional Multiple-Scattering Media

Sudhir K. Saini, Evangelos Marakis, Kayleigh Start, Gerwin Osnabrugge, Ivo M. Vellekoop, and Pepijn W. H. Pinkse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 223802 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Formation and Microfilamentation of Spiral Density Waves in Plasmas Induced by Circularly Polarized Field Ionization

C.-K. Huang, C. Zhang, K. A. Marsh, C. Joshi, and J. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 225101 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

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Cross-Scale Energy Transfer from Fluid-Scale Alfvén Waves to Kinetic-Scale Ion Acoustic Waves in the Earth’s Magnetopause Boundary Layer

Xin An, Anton Artemyev, Vassilis Angelopoulos, Terry Z. Liu, Ivan Vasko, and David Malaspina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 225201 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Quantum Griffiths Singularity in a Three-Dimensional Superconductor to Anderson Critical Insulator Transition

Shichao Qi, Yi Liu, Ziqiao Wang, Fucong Chen, Qian Li, Haoran Ji, Rao Li, Yanan Li, Jingchao Fang, Haiwen Liu, Fa Wang, Kui Jin, X. C. Xie, and Jian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226001 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

$φ$ Josephson Junction Induced by Altermagnetism

Bo Lu, Kazuki Maeda, Hiroyuki Ito, Keiji Yada, and Yukio Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226002 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Nature of Disordering in $γ − {Ga}_{2} O_{3}$

Qiu-Shi Huang, Chuan-Nan Li, Mao-Sheng Hao, Han-Pu Liang, Xuefen Cai, Ying Yue, Andrej Kuznetsov, Xie Zhang, and Su-Huai Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226101 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Topological Defect Formation in Slow Three-Dimensional Fracture

Yuri Lubomirsky and Eran Bouchbinder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226102 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

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Ultrafast Low-Energy Photoelectron Diffraction for the Study of Surface-Adsorbate Interactions with 100-fs Temporal Resolution

H. Erk, C. E. Jensen, S. Jauernik, and M. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226201 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

A novel configuration for pump-probe low-energy electron diffraction uses photoelectrons from the substrate and achieves 100-fs time resolution.

Quantized Acoustoelectric Floquet Effect in Quantum Nanowires

Christopher Yang, Will Hunt, Gil Refael, and Iliya Esin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226301 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Nonlinear Longitudinal Current of Band-Geometric Origin in Wires of Finite Thickness

Robin Durand, Louis-Thomas Gendron, Théo Nathaniel Dionne, and Ion Garate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226302 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Vacancies in Generic Kitaev Spin Liquids

Ihor Yatsuta and David F. Mross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226501 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Topological Effect on the Anderson Transition in Chiral Symmetry Classes

Pengwei Zhao, Zhenyu Xiao, Yeyang Zhang, and Ryuichi Shindou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226601 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Topological Phononic Fiber of Second Spin-Chern Number

Hua-Shan Lai, Xiao-Hui Gou, Cheng He, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226602 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Signatures of Spinon Dynamics and Phase Structure of Dipolar-Octupolar Quantum Spin Ices in Two-Dimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

Mark Potts, Roderich Moessner, and Owen Benton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226701 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Fabry-Perot Resonances in Bilayer Metasurfaces

G. Alagappan, F. J. García-Vidal, and C. E. Png

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226901 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

Real-Time Dyson-Expansion Scheme: Efficient Inclusion of Dynamical Correlations in Nonequilibrium Spectral Properties

Cian C. Reeves and Vojtěch Vlček

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226902 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Superconductivity Induced by Strong Electron-Exciton Coupling in Doped Atomically Thin Semiconductor Heterostructures

Jonas von Milczewski, Xin Chen, Atac Imamoglu, and Richard Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226903 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

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Optically Defined Phononic Crystal Defect

Thomas J. Clark, Simon Bernard, Jiaxing Ma, Vincent Dumont, and Jack C. Sankey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 226904 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Forces imposed by laser light can manipulate the shape of a membrane’s vibrational modes.

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Dissipation Bounds Precision of Current Response to Kinetic Perturbations

Krzysztof Ptaszyński, Timur Aslyamov, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 227101 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

A new type of thermodynamic uncertainty relation provides a thermodynamic trade-off between current fluctuations and the static linear current response, rather than the current itself.

High-Mode Coupling Yields Multicoherent-Phase Phenomena in Nonlocally Coupled Oscillators

Zongkai Cai, Zonghua Liu, Shuguang Guan, Jürgen Kurths, and Yong Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 227201 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Adsorbate Configurations in Ni Single-Atom Catalysts during ${CO}_{2}$ Electrocatalytic Reduction Unveiled by Operando XAS, XES, and Machine Learning

Andrea Martini, Janis Timoshenko, Philipp Grosse, Clara Rettenmaier, Dorottya Hursán, Gabriele Deplano, Hyo Sang Jeon, Arno Bergmann, and Beatriz Roldan Cuenya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 228001 (2024) - Published 25 November, 2024

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Tuning Colloidal Reactions

Ryan K. Krueger, Ella M. King, and Michael P. Brenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 228201 (2024) - Published 27 November, 2024

Researchers used machine learning to optimize the process by which a tiny cage is opened to release a molecule.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Active Particles Knead Three-Dimensional Gels into Porous Structures

Martin Cramer Pedersen, Sourav Mukherjee, Amin Doostmohammadi, Chandana Mondal, and Kristian Thijssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 228301 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

When doped with active particles that serve as a means of local energy injection, colloidal gels can dynamically adopt highly porous yet compact bulk structures

COMMENTS

Comment on “Gravitational Pair Production and Black Hole Evaporation”

Antonio Ferreiro, José Navarro-Salas, and Silvia Pla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 229001 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024

Wondrak, van Suijlekom, and Falcke reply

Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom, and Heino Falcke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 229002 (2024) - Published 26 November, 2024