Volume 133, Issue 24

13 December 2024

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Global temperature anomaly caused by doubling the concentration of carbon dioxide over a century. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Detecting and Attributing Change in Climate and Complex Systems: Foundations, Green’s Functions, and Nonlinear Fingerprints
Valerio Lucarini and Mickaël D. Chekroun
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 244201 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Gravitational Metrological Triangle

Claus Lämmerzahl and Sebastian Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241402 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Measuring gravitational analogues of quantum phenomena could lead to high-precision measurement of gravitational forces, according to a theoretical proposal.

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Kinetics and Optimality of Influenza A Virus Locomotion

Siddhansh Agarwal, Boris Veytsman, Daniel A. Fletcher, and Greg Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248402 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Studies of influenza A’s unusual propulsion strategy suggest that drugs could target a critical protein.

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Metastability of a Periodic Network of Threads: Shapes of a Knitted Fabric

Jérôme Crassous, Samuel Poincloux, and Audrey Steinberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248201 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

A simplified model of how yarns interact shows that a piece of knitted fabric can have many stable resting states depending on its history of deformation.

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Polymorphic Crystalline Layer at the Crystallization Front

Mengmeng Li, Zhibin Xu, Qi Zhang, Wei Li, Yongjun Zhang, and Yilong Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248202 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

Experiments with colloidal particles have uncovered conditions where an intermediate layer that separates a crystallizing liquid from its solid forms.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detecting and Attributing Change in Climate and Complex Systems: Foundations, Green’s Functions, and Nonlinear Fingerprints

Valerio Lucarini and Mickaël D. Chekroun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 244201 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Response theory for nonequilibrium systems provides a basis for optimal fingerprinting in climate system, a framework crucial for linking climate change to both anthropogenic and natural drivers.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconductivity from Domain Wall Fluctuations in Sliding Ferroelectrics

Gaurav Chaudhary and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246001 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

Domain wall mediated Cooper pairing may explain superconductivity in sliding ferroelectrics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mapping the Topological Proximity-Induced Gap in Multiterminal Josephson Junctions

M. Wisne, Y. Deng, I. M. A. Lilja, P. J. Hakonen, and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246601 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

The resistance of Josephson junctions as a function of the phase differences reveals the topological nature of the underlying anomalous superconducting Green’s function.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Corner Charge Fluctuation as an Observable for Quantum Geometry and Entanglement in Two-Dimensional Insulators

Pok Man Tam, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, and Jiabin Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246603 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

A new experimental observable, the corner charge fluctuation, simultaneously relates the quantum geometry and quantum information content of generic 2D band insulators.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of an Anderson Impurity

Mahasweta Bagchi, Tfyeche Y. Tounsi, Affan Safeer, Camiel van Efferen, Achim Rosch, Thomas Michely, Wouter Jolie, Theo A. Costi, and Jeison Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246701 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy measurements on MoS $_{2}$ show magnetic field induced changes in the peak heights of the Anderson impurity states as well as in the magnetic field-split Kondo resonance.

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Stacking-Engineered Ferroelectricity and Multiferroic Order in van der Waals Magnets

Daniel Bennett, Gabriel Martínez-Carracedo, Xu He, Jaime Ferrer, Philippe Ghosez, Riccardo Comin, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246703 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Stacking of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets induces multiferroic order, providing a general approach for fabricating multifunctional nanomaterials.

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Cell Sorting in an Active Nematic Vertex Model

Jan Rozman and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248401 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

An active nematic vertex model predicts that cells of different types will sort due to asymmetry between extensile and contractile activity, a mechanism that is not captured by conventional continuum active nematic models.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

No-Broadcasting Characterizes Operational Contextuality

Pauli Jokinen, Mirjam Weilenmann, Martin Plávala, Juha-Pekka Pellonpää, Jukka Kiukas, and Roope Uola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240201 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Exploring the Accuracy of Interferometric Quantum Measurements under Conservation Laws

Nicolò Piccione, Maria Maffei, Andrew N. Jordan, Kater W. Murch, and Alexia Auffèves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240202 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Absolute Dimensionality of Quantum Ensembles

Alexander Bernal, Gabriele Cobucci, Martin J. Renner, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240203 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Energy-Filtered Quantum States and the Emergence of Nonlocal Correlations

Gianluca Morettini, Luca Capizzi, Maurizio Fagotti, and Leonardo Mazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240401 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Detecting a Long-Lived False Vacuum with Quantum Quenches

Gianluca Lagnese, Federica Maria Surace, Sid Morampudi, and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240402 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Quantum Turnstiles for Robust Measurement of Full Counting Statistics

Rhine Samajdar, Ewan McCulloch, Vedika Khemani, Romain Vasseur, and Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240403 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Breakdown of the Quantum Distinction of Regular and Chaotic Classical Dynamics in Dissipative Systems

David Villaseñor, Lea F. Santos, and Pablo Barberis-Blostein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240404 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Resisting High-Energy Impact Events through Gap Engineering in Superconducting Qubit Arrays

Matt McEwen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240601 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Correlated Decoding of Logical Algorithms with Transversal Gates

Madelyn Cain, Chen Zhao, Hengyun Zhou, Nadine Meister, J. Pablo Bonilla Ataides, Arthur Jaffe, Dolev Bluvstein, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240602 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Quantum Error-Correcting Codes with a Covariant Encoding

Aurélie Denys and Anthony Leverrier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240603 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Learning Fermionic Correlations by Evolving with Random Translationally Invariant Hamiltonians

Janek Denzler, Antonio Anna Mele, Ellen Derbyshire, Tommaso Guaita, and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 240604 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Actinide-Boosting $r$ Process in Black-Hole–Neutron-Star Merger Ejecta

Shinya Wanajo, Sho Fujibayashi, Kota Hayashi, Kenta Kiuchi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, and Masaru Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241201 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Outflows from Naked Singularities, Infall through the Black Hole Horizon: Hydrodynamic Simulations of Accretion in the Reissner-Nordström Space-Time

Włodek Kluźniak and Tomasz Krajewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241401 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

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Gravitational Metrological Triangle

Claus Lämmerzahl and Sebastian Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241402 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Measuring gravitational analogues of quantum phenomena could lead to high-precision measurement of gravitational forces, according to a theoretical proposal.

Particles and Fields

Celestial Holography Revisited

Charlotte Sleight and Massimo Taronna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241601 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Search for Fractionally Charged Particles with CUORE

D. Q. Adams et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241801 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Parametrization of Generalized Parton Distributions from $t$ -Channel String Exchange in AdS Spaces

Kiminad A. Mamo and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241901 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

$R (3780)$ Resonance Interpreted as the $1 {}^{3}{D_{1}}$ -Wave Dominant State of Charmonium from Precise Measurements of the Cross Section of $e^{+} e^{-} \to Hadrons$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241902 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Identification of the $G (3900)$ Structure as the $P$ -Wave $D {\bar{D}}^{} / \bar{D} D^{}$ Resonance

Zi-Yang Lin, Jun-Zhang Wang, Jian-Bo Cheng, Lu Meng, and Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241903 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Transverse Momentum Distributions from Lattice QCD without Wilson Lines

Yong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 241904 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Interaction-Enhanced Superradiance of a Rydberg-Atom Array

Yiwen Han, Haowei Li, and Wei Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243401 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Observation of an Inverse Turbulent-Wave Cascade in a Driven Quantum Gas

Andrey Karailiev, Martin Gazo, Maciej Gałka, Christoph Eigen, Tanish Satoor, and Zoran Hadzibabic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243402 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Robust Quantum Control via Multipath Interference for Thousandfold Phase Amplification in a Resonant Atom Interferometer

Yiping Wang, Jonah Glick, Tejas Deshpande, Kenneth DeRose, Sharika Saraf, Natasha Sachdeva, Kefeng Jiang, Zilin Chen, and Tim Kovachy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243403 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Early Warning Signals of the Tipping Point in Strongly Interacting Rydberg Atoms

Jun Zhang, Li-Hua Zhang, Bang Liu, Zheng-Yuan Zhang, Shi-Yao Shao, Qing Li, Han-Chao Chen, Zong-Kai Liu, Yu Ma, Tian-Yu Han, Qi-Feng Wang, C. Stuart Adams, Bao-Sen Shi, and Dong-Sheng Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243601 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Reinforcement Learning Optimization of the Charging of a Dicke Quantum Battery

Paolo Andrea Erdman, Gian Marcello Andolina, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Frank Noé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243602 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Probing Berry Phase Effect in Topological Surface States

Ya Bai, Yang Jiang, Wenyang Zheng, Hanqing Xu, Jiayin Chen, Shuo Wang, Candong Liu, Ruxin Li, and Peng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243801 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Digital Feedback Loop in Paraxial Fluids of Light: A Gate to New Phenomena in Analog Physical Simulations

Tiago D. Ferreira, Ariel Guerreiro, and Nuno A. Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 243802 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Intermittent Thermal Convection in Jammed Emulsions

Francesca Pelusi, Andrea Scagliarini, Mauro Sbragaglia, Massimo Bernaschi, and Roberto Benzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 244001 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Interaction Renormalization and Validity of Kinetic Equations for Turbulent States

Vladimir Rosenhaus and Gregory Falkovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 244002 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Positive Answer on the Existence of Correlations between Positive Earthquake Magnitude Differences

Eugenio Lippiello, Lucilla de Arcangelis, and Cataldo Godano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 244101 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detecting and Attributing Change in Climate and Complex Systems: Foundations, Green’s Functions, and Nonlinear Fingerprints

Valerio Lucarini and Mickaël D. Chekroun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 244201 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Response theory for nonequilibrium systems provides a basis for optimal fingerprinting in climate system, a framework crucial for linking climate change to both anthropogenic and natural drivers.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Theoretical Coupling of Free-Flowing Ions and Magnetically Insulated Electrons

A. M. Darr and K. L. Cartwright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 245001 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

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Superconductivity from Domain Wall Fluctuations in Sliding Ferroelectrics

Gaurav Chaudhary and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246001 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

Domain wall mediated Cooper pairing may explain superconductivity in sliding ferroelectrics.

Determination of Molecular Ground State via Short Square Pulses on Superconducting Qubits

Noga Entin, Mor M. Roses, Reuven Cohen, Nadav Katz, and Adi Makmal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246002 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Wetting Phenomena: Line Tension and Gravitational Effect

Fei Wang (王飞), Haodong Zhang, and Britta Nestler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246201 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Effects of Patch Potentials in Electrostatic Double-Layer Forces

Gustavo Ch. Ponce de Leon and G. Palasantzas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246202 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Spin Drag Mechanism of Giant Thermal Magnetoresistance

Alex Levchenko and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246301 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Emergent Symmetry and Valley Chern Insulator in Twisted Double-Bilayer Graphene

Yimeng Wang, G. William Burg, Biao Lian, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246401 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Possible Sliding Regimes in Twisted Bilayer ${WTe}_{2}$

Yi-Ming Wu, Chaitanya Murthy, and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246501 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Crystal-Field Effects in the Formation of Wigner-Molecule Supercrystals in Moiré Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Superlattices

Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246502 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mapping the Topological Proximity-Induced Gap in Multiterminal Josephson Junctions

M. Wisne, Y. Deng, I. M. A. Lilja, P. J. Hakonen, and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246601 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

The resistance of Josephson junctions as a function of the phase differences reveals the topological nature of the underlying anomalous superconducting Green’s function.

Transport Properties of a Half-Filled Chern Band at the Electron and Composite Fermion Phases

Ady Stern and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246602 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Corner Charge Fluctuation as an Observable for Quantum Geometry and Entanglement in Two-Dimensional Insulators

Pok Man Tam, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, and Jiabin Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246603 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

A new experimental observable, the corner charge fluctuation, simultaneously relates the quantum geometry and quantum information content of generic 2D band insulators.

Chiral Phonons Induced from Spin Dynamics via Magnetoelastic Anisotropy

Bowen Ma, Z. D. Wang, and Gang v. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246604 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Splitting of the Girvin-MacDonald-Platzman Density Wave and the Nature of Chiral Gravitons in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Ajit C. Balram, G. J. Sreejith, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246605 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Flexible Control of Chiral Superconductivity in Optically Driven Nodal Point Superconductors with Antiferromagnetism

Zhen Ning, Da-Shuai Ma, Junjie Zeng, Dong-Hui Xu, and Rui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246606 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

Capacitive Scheme to Detect the Topological Magnetoelectric Effect

Chao Lei, Perry T. Mahon, C. M. Canali, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246607 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Measurements of an Anderson Impurity

Mahasweta Bagchi, Tfyeche Y. Tounsi, Affan Safeer, Camiel van Efferen, Achim Rosch, Thomas Michely, Wouter Jolie, Theo A. Costi, and Jeison Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246701 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Spin Waves and Three Dimensionality in the High-Pressure Antiferromagnetic Phase of ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$

Ellen Fogh, Gaétan Giriat, Mohamed E. Zayed, Andrea Piovano, Martin Boehm, Paul Steffens, Irina Safiulina, Ursula B. Hansen, Stefan Klotz, Jian-Rui Soh, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Frédéric Mila, Bruce Normand, and Henrik M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246702 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stacking-Engineered Ferroelectricity and Multiferroic Order in van der Waals Magnets

Daniel Bennett, Gabriel Martínez-Carracedo, Xu He, Jaime Ferrer, Philippe Ghosez, Riccardo Comin, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246703 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Stacking of two-dimensional van der Waals magnets induces multiferroic order, providing a general approach for fabricating multifunctional nanomaterials.

Optical Excitation of Coherent THz Dynamics of the Rare-Earth Lattice through Resonant Pumping of $f − f$ Electronic Transition in a Complex Perovskite ${DyFeO}_{3}$

T. T. Gareev, A. Sasani, D. I. Khusyainov, E. Bousquet, Z. V. Gareeva, A. V. Kimel, and D. Afanasiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 246901 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Thermodynamic Concentration Inequalities and Trade-Off Relations

Yoshihiko Hasegawa and Tomohiro Nishiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 247101 (2024) - Published 9 December, 2024

Multispecies Cohesion: Humans, Machinery, AI, and Beyond

Frank Yingjie Huo, Pedro D. Manrique, and Neil F. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 247401 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Heterogeneous Cluster Energetics and Nonlinear Thermodynamic Response in Supercritical Fluids

Jingcun Fan, Nguyen Ly, and Matthias Ihme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248001 (2024) - Published 13 December, 2024

Superdiffusive Thermal Transport in Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticle Melts

Bohai Liu, Mayank Jhalaria, Eric Ruzicka, Brian C. Benicewicz, Sanat K. Kumar, George Fytas, and Xiangfan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248101 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Metastability of a Periodic Network of Threads: Shapes of a Knitted Fabric

Jérôme Crassous, Samuel Poincloux, and Audrey Steinberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248201 (2024) - Published 12 December, 2024

A simplified model of how yarns interact shows that a piece of knitted fabric can have many stable resting states depending on its history of deformation.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Polymorphic Crystalline Layer at the Crystallization Front

Mengmeng Li, Zhibin Xu, Qi Zhang, Wei Li, Yongjun Zhang, and Yilong Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248202 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

Experiments with colloidal particles have uncovered conditions where an intermediate layer that separates a crystallizing liquid from its solid forms.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cell Sorting in an Active Nematic Vertex Model

Jan Rozman and Julia M. Yeomans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248401 (2024) - Published 10 December, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Kinetics and Optimality of Influenza A Virus Locomotion

Siddhansh Agarwal, Boris Veytsman, Daniel A. Fletcher, and Greg Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 248402 (2024) - Published 11 December, 2024

Studies of influenza A’s unusual propulsion strategy suggest that drugs could target a critical protein.