Volume 133, Issue 25

20 December 2024

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Frame-by-frame demonstration of optical guiding through a 30-cm-long laser-plasma accelerator. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics Magazine and for an Editors' Suggestion, and featured in a podcast episode of This is Physics.

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Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators
A. Picksley, J. Stackhouse, C. Benedetti, K. Nakamura, H. E. Tsai, R. Li, B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, E. Rockafellow, H. M. Milchberg, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, and A. J. Gonsalves
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Realization of a Laughlin State of Two Rapidly Rotating Fermions

Philipp Lunt, Paul Hill, Johannes Reiter, Philipp M. Preiss, Maciej Gałka, and Selim Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253401 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

By controlling the motion and interaction of individual atoms in a cold-atom ensemble, researchers have produced a correlated topological state of matter, called a fractional quantum Hall state.

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New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

S. Balugani, J. A. Hernandez, N. Sévelin-Radiguet, O. Mathon, V. Recoules, J. J. Kas, D. E. Eakins, H. Doyle, A. Ravasio, and R. Torchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254101 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores.

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Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators

A. Picksley, J. Stackhouse, C. Benedetti, K. Nakamura, H. E. Tsai, R. Li, B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, E. Rockafellow, H. M. Milchberg, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, and A. J. Gonsalves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

A laser-driven electron accelerator delivers beams of ~10-GeV electrons—an approach that could lead to cheaper, more compact alternatives to large-scale x-ray sources and particle accelerators.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Light QCD Axions with Isolated Neutron Star Cooling

Antonio Gómez-Bañón, Kai Bartnick, Konstantin Springmann, and José A. Pons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251002 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

New constraints are placed in the axion parameter space by using the effect of light QCD axion on neutron star structure and the rate of neutron star cooling.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Loop Electron Self-Energy for Low Nuclear Charges

V. A. Yerokhin, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251803 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

A new approach extrapolates the two-loop QED correction for $1 S$ Lamb shift at higher atomic numbers to hydrogen, resulting in a two-fold improvement in precision and a 3.3 kHz shift to the measured value of the Rydberg constant.

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Phase Diagram, $d$ -Wave Superconductivity, and Pseudogap of the $t - t^{'} - J$ Model at Finite Temperature

Dai-Wei Qu, Qiaoyi Li, Shou-Shu Gong, Yang Qi, Wei Li, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256003 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

Thermal tensor network simulation is able to obtain the phase diagram of the $t - t^{'} - J$ model, and finds a domelike superconductive regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Metallic Bonding in Close-Packed Structures: Structural Frustration from a Hidden Gauge Symmetry

Eric He, C. M. Wilson, and R. Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256401 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Symmetry conditions dictated by band structure and nearest-neighbor interactions indicate why specific complex ordered structures are present in lithium and sodium under pressure.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermally Stimulated Spin Switching Accelerates Water Electrolysis

Mengfei Lu, Yu Du, Shicheng Yan, Tao Yu, and Zhigang Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258001 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

The Invar effect on a catalyst promotes oxygen evolution reaction kinetics.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Catalytic and Asymptotic Equivalence for Quantum Entanglement

Ray Ganardi, Tulja Varun Kondra, and Alexander Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250201 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

Black Box Work Extraction and Composite Hypothesis Testing

Kaito Watanabe and Ryuji Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250401 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Quantum Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes in Lattice Gauge Theories

Zohreh Davoudi, Christopher Jarzynski, Niklas Mueller, Greeshma Oruganti, Connor Powers, and Nicole Yunger Halpern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250402 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

Quantum-Limited Generalized Measurement for Tunnel-Coupled Condensates

Maximilian Prüfer, Yuri Minoguchi, Tiantian Zhang, Yevhenii Kuriatnikov, M. Venkat Ramana, and Jörg Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250403 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024

Enhancing Initial State Overlap through Orbital Optimization for Faster Molecular Electronic Ground-State Energy Estimation

Pauline J. Ollitrault, Cristian L. Cortes, Jérôme F. Gonthier, Robert M. Parrish, Dario Rocca, Gian-Luca Anselmetti, Matthias Degroote, Nikolaj Moll, Raffaele Santagati, and Michael Streif

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250601 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Photonic Quantum State Tomography Using Free Electrons

Alexey Gorlach, Salomon Malka, Aviv Karnieli, Raphael Dahan, Eliahu Cohen, Avi Pe’er, and Ido Kaminer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250801 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Resonant Conversion of Wave Dark Matter in the Ionosphere

Carl Beadle, Andrea Caputo, and Sebastian A. R. Ellis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251001 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Light QCD Axions with Isolated Neutron Star Cooling

Antonio Gómez-Bañón, Kai Bartnick, Konstantin Springmann, and José A. Pons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251002 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

New constraints are placed in the axion parameter space by using the effect of light QCD axion on neutron star structure and the rate of neutron star cooling.

Interacting Dark Energy after DESI Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurements

William Giarè, Miguel A. Sabogal, Rafael C. Nunes, and Eleonora Di Valentino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251003 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

Self-Interacting Dark Sectors in Supernovae Can Behave as a Relativistic Fluid

Damiano F. G. Fiorillo and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251004 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

Curvature Dependence of Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity

Ethan Payne, Maximiliano Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, Luis Lehner, Yanbei Chen, and Will M. Farr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251401 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

Particles and Fields

Bootstrap Principle for the Spectrum and Scattering of Strings

Clifford Cheung, Aaron Hillman, and Grant N. Remmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251601 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Noninvertible Symmetry-Resolved Affleck-Ludwig-Cardy Formula and Entanglement Entropy from the Boundary Tube Algebra

Yichul Choi, Brandon C. Rayhaun, and Yunqin Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251602 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Measurement of $C P$ Violation Observables in $D^{+} \to K^{-} K^{+} π^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251801 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Final CONUS Results on Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the Brokdorf Reactor

N. Ackermann, H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck, K. Fülber, J. Hakenmüller, J. Hempfling, J. Henrichs, G. Heusser, M. Lindner, W. Maneschg, T. Rink, E. Sánchez García, J. Stauber, H. Strecker, and R. Wink (CONUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251802 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Loop Electron Self-Energy for Low Nuclear Charges

V. A. Yerokhin, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251803 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Disentangling Sources of Momentum Fluctuations in $Xe + Xe$ and $Pb + Pb$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 252301 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Generative Modeling of Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions

Pengsheng Wen, Jeremy W. Holt, and Maggie Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 252501 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Laser-Assisted Dynamic Interference by Attosecond Controlled Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Mingxuan Li, Meng-Fei Xie, Huiyong Wang, Lijuan Jia, Jialong Li, Wentao Wang, Jiaao Cai, Xiaochun Hong, Xiaosen Shi, Yi Lv, Xinning Zhao, Sizuo Luo, Wei-Chao Jiang, Liang-You Peng, and Dajun Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253201 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Enhanced Quantum State Transfer via Feedforward Cancellation of Optical Phase Noise

Benjamin P. Maddox, Jonathan M. Mortlock, Tom R. Hepworth, Adarsh P. Raghuram, Philip D. Gregory, Alexander Guttridge, and Simon L. Cornish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253202 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

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Realization of a Laughlin State of Two Rapidly Rotating Fermions

Philipp Lunt, Paul Hill, Johannes Reiter, Philipp M. Preiss, Maciej Gałka, and Selim Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253401 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

By controlling the motion and interaction of individual atoms in a cold-atom ensemble, researchers have produced a correlated topological state of matter, called a fractional quantum Hall state.

Floquet-Driven Crossover from Density-Assisted Tunneling to Enhanced Pair Tunneling

Nick Klemmer, Janek Fleper, Valentin Jonas, Ameneh Sheikhan, Corinna Kollath, Michael Köhl, and Andrea Bergschneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253402 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Exponentially Enhanced Scheme for the Heralded Qudit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger State in Linear Optics

Seungbeom Chin, Junghee Ryu, and Yong-Su Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253601 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Rotational Locking of Charged Microparticles in Quadrupole Ion Traps

Maxime Perdriat, Cosimo C. Rusconi, Tom Delord, Paul Huillery, Clément Pellet-Mary, Alrik Durand, Benjamin A. Stickler, and Gabriel Hétet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253602 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Interfacial Dripping Faucet: Generating Monodisperse Liquid Lenses

Lorène Champougny, Vincent Bertin, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254001 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

S. Balugani, J. A. Hernandez, N. Sévelin-Radiguet, O. Mathon, V. Recoules, J. J. Kas, D. E. Eakins, H. Doyle, A. Ravasio, and R. Torchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254101 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

A laser-driven electron accelerator delivers beams of ~10-GeV electrons—an approach that could lead to cheaper, more compact alternatives to large-scale x-ray sources and particle accelerators.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Kolmogorov-Hinze Scales in Turbulent Superfluids

Tsuyoshi Kadokura and Hiroki Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256001 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Giant Thermoelectric Response of Fluxons in Superconductors

Alok Nath Singh, Bibek Bhandari, Alessandro Braggio, Francesco Giazotto, and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256002 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase Diagram, $d$ -Wave Superconductivity, and Pseudogap of the $t - t^{'} - J$ Model at Finite Temperature

Dai-Wei Qu, Qiaoyi Li, Shou-Shu Gong, Yang Qi, Wei Li, and Gang Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256003 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

Thermal tensor network simulation is able to obtain the phase diagram of the $t - t^{'} - J$ model, and finds a domelike superconductive regime.

Parametrically Long Lifetime of Superdiffusion in Nonintegrable Spin Chains

Adam J. McRoberts and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256301 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Metallic Bonding in Close-Packed Structures: Structural Frustration from a Hidden Gauge Symmetry

Eric He, C. M. Wilson, and R. Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256401 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Symmetry conditions dictated by band structure and nearest-neighbor interactions indicate why specific complex ordered structures are present in lithium and sodium under pressure.

Fano Resonance in Epsilon-Near-Zero Media

Wendi Yan, Hao Li, Xu Qin, Peihang Li, Pengyu Fu, Kaifeng Li, and Yue Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256402 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

Distinct Charge and Spin Recovery Dynamics in a Photoexcited Mott Insulator

Sankha Subhra Bakshi and Pinaki Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256501 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024

Mass Acquisition of Dirac Fermions in ${Bi}_{4} I_{4}$ by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Ming Yang, Wenxuan Zhao, Dan Mu, Zhijian Shi, Jingyuan Zhong, Yaqi Li, Yundan Liu, Jianxin Zhong, Ningyan Cheng, Wei Zhou, Jianfeng Wang, Yan Shi, Ying Sun, Weichang Hao, Lexian Yang, Jincheng Zhuang, and Yi Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256601 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

On-Chip Elastic Wave Manipulations Based on Synthetic Dimension

Zhenxing Cui, Chaohua Wu, Qiang Wei, Mou Yan, and Gang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256602 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Photogalvanic Effects in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Fernando Peñaranda, Héctor Ochoa, and Fernando de Juan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256603 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Many-Body Systems with Spurious Modular Commutators

Julian Gass and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256604 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024

Inter- and Intrasublattice Spin Mixing Conductance of the Antiferromagnetic Spin Pumping Effect in $α − {Fe}_{2} O_{3} / Pt$

T. Hattori, A. Fukuoka, K. Kawagita, K. Tada, Y. Ishikawa, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Tatematsu, Y. Fujii, M. Kimata, S. Kimura, D. Kan, J. Ohe, and T. Moriyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256701 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Extreme Synergy in the Random-Energy Model

Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn and David J. Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 257401 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermally Stimulated Spin Switching Accelerates Water Electrolysis

Mengfei Lu, Yu Du, Shicheng Yan, Tao Yu, and Zhigang Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258001 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024

The Invar effect on a catalyst promotes oxygen evolution reaction kinetics.

ERRATA

Erratum: Leptonic Decay of the $ϒ (1 S)$ Meson at Third Order in QCD [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 151801 (2014)]

Martin Beneke, Yuichiro Kiyo, Peter Marquard, Alexander Penin, Jan Piclum, Dirk Seidel, and Matthias Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 259901 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024