Volume 133, Issue 3

19 July 2024

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Schematic of a scanning superconducting quantum interference device on a quasi-2D superconductor with thermal and quantum phase fluctuations.

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Anomalous Superfluid Density in a Disordered Charge-Density-Wave Material: Pd-Intercalated ${ErTe}_{3}$
Yusuke Iguchi, Joshua A. Straquadine, Chaitanya Murthy, Steven A. Kivelson, Anisha G. Singh, Ian R. Fisher, and Kathryn A. Moler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036001 (2024)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Whither Letters?

Robert Garisto and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 030001 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Water Impact: When a Sphere Becomes Flat

Jesse Belden, Nathan Speirs, Aren Hellum, George Loubimov, and Tadd T. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034002 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Pebbles that are slightly curved—rather than completely flat—exert the highest impact forces when dropped onto a watery surface.

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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Decline: Tipping Small Scales under Global Warming

Ruijian Gou, Gerrit Lohmann, and Lixin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034201 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Using a detailed simulation, researchers reveal how climate change will affect the regional dynamics of the conveyor-belt-like circulation of water through the Atlantic Ocean.

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Tunneling Spectroscopy at Megabar Pressures: Determination of the Superconducting Gap in Sulfur

F. Du, F. F. Balakirev, V. S. Minkov, G. A. Smith, B. Maiorov, P. P. Kong, A. P. Drozdov, and M. I. Eremets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036002 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

The pressures at which some elements start superconducting are so high that making detailed measurements of the transition has been impossible—until now.

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Picosecond Trajectory of Two-Dimensional Vortex Motion in ${FeSe}_{0.5} {Te}_{0.5}$ Visualized by Terahertz Second Harmonic Generation

Sachiko Nakamura, Haruki Matsumoto, Hiroki Ogawa, Tomoki Kobayashi, Fuyuki Nabeshima, Atsutaka Maeda, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036004 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

A new technique reveals high-speed trajectories of oscillating vortices and shows that they are 10,000 times lighter than expected.

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Connecting Cosmic Inflation to Particle Physics with LiteBIRD, CMB-S4, EUCLID, and SKA

Marco Drewes and Lei Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031001 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Upcoming high-sensitivity observations of the cosmic microwave background will be able to place limits on the inflaton coupling in a given model of cosmic inflation. (Image credit: Lina Drewes)

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Tracy-Widom Distribution in Four-Dimensional Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories

Zoltan Bajnok, Bercel Boldis, and Gregory P. Korchemsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031601 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

A new method takes advantage of the relation between observables in four-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories and the Trace-Widom distribution to perform an expansion in the coupling constant that includes nonperturbative corrections.

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Anomalous Superfluid Density in a Disordered Charge-Density-Wave Material: Pd-Intercalated ${ErTe}_{3}$

Yusuke Iguchi, Joshua A. Straquadine, Chaitanya Murthy, Steven A. Kivelson, Anisha G. Singh, Ian R. Fisher, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036001 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

A uniform superfluid response in superconducting quasi-2D Pd-intercalated ErTe $_{3}$ was observed using scanning SQUID susceptometry, which suggests quantum phase fluctuations that may suppress $T_{c}$ .

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Isotropic Quantum Griffiths Singularity in ${Nd}_{0.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {NiO}_{2}$ Infinite-Layer Superconducting Thin Films

Qiang Zhao, Ting-Na Shao, Wen-Long Yang, Xue-Yan Wang, Xing-Yu Chen, Mei-Hui Chen, Fang-Hui Zhu, Cheng-Xue Chen, Rui-Fen Dou, Chang-Min Xiong, Haiwen Liu, and Jia-Cai Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036003 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

The exotic quantum Griffiths singularity associated with the superconductor-metal transition driven by magnetic field has been observed in nickelate thin films.

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Resonant Plasmon-Assisted Tunneling in a Double Quantum Dot Coupled to a Quantum Hall Plasmon Resonator

Chaojing Lin, Ko Futamata, Takafumi Akiho, Koji Muraki, and Toshimasa Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036301 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Single or multiple plasmon-assisted tunneling processes can be observed by measuring the energy spectrum of a double quantum dot, demonstrating a new platform for studying electronic quantum optics and for developing plasmonic cavity quantum electrodynamics.

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Thermal and Coherent Spin Pumping by Noncollinear Antiferromagnets

Ping Tang and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036701 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Interface effects explain the sign of the spin Seebeck effect in antiferromagnets across a spin-flop transition.

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Disorder-Induced Anomalous Mobility Enhancement in Confined Geometries

Dan Shafir and Stanislav Burov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 037101 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

When a strong and quenched disorder is present, the mobility of a particle in a two-dimensional channel is enhanced as the cross-section of the channel is diminished.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Robust Effective Ground State in a Nonintegrable Floquet Quantum Circuit

Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda, Sho Sugiura, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 030401 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Candidate for a Passively Protected Quantum Memory in Two Dimensions

Simon Lieu, Yu-Jie Liu, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 030601 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Quantum Codes from Twisted Unitary $t$ -Groups

Eric Kubischta and Ian Teixeira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 030602 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Reversing Unknown Quantum Processes via Virtual Combs for Channels with Limited Information

Chengkai Zhu, Yin Mo, Yu-Ao Chen, and Xin Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 030801 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Connecting Cosmic Inflation to Particle Physics with LiteBIRD, CMB-S4, EUCLID, and SKA

Marco Drewes and Lei Ming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031001 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Upcoming high-sensitivity observations of the cosmic microwave background will be able to place limits on the inflaton coupling in a given model of cosmic inflation. (Image credit: Lina Drewes)

Nonlinear Treatment of a Black Hole Mimicker Ringdown

Nils Siemonsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031401 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

$g$ Theorem from Strong Subadditivity

Jonathan Harper, Hiroki Kanda, Tadashi Takayanagi, and Kenya Tasuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031501 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Particles and Fields

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Tracy-Widom Distribution in Four-Dimensional Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories

Zoltan Bajnok, Bercel Boldis, and Gregory P. Korchemsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031601 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Supersymmetric States in Anti–de Sitter $D = 3$ Supergravity with Chiral Torsion

Laura Andrianopoli, Ruggero Noris, Mario Trigiante, and Jorge Zanelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031602 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Microstates of Accelerating and Supersymmetric ${AdS}_{4}$ Black Holes from the Spindle Index

Edoardo Colombo, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Dario Martelli, Antonio Pittelli, and Alberto Zaffaroni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031603 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Probing $C P$ Violation with Neutrino Disappearance Alone

Peter B. Denton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031801 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Statistical Combination of ATLAS Run 2 Searches for Charginos and Neutralinos at the LHC

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 031802 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Simulations of Stochastic Fluid Dynamics near a Critical Point in the Phase Diagram

Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Josh Ott, Thomas Schäfer, and Vladimir V. Skokov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 032301 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Infinite Order Hydrodynamics: An Analytical Example

L. Gavassino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 032302 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Substantial Nuclear Hyperfine Mixing Effect in Boronlike ${}^{205}{Pb}$ Ions

Wu Wang and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 032501 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Improved Measurement of the Differential Polarizability Using Co-Trapped Ions

Yuan-Fei Wei, Si-Jia Chao, Kai-Feng Cui, Cheng-Bin Li, Shi-Cheng Yu, Han Zhang, Hua-Lin Shu, Jian Cao, and Xue-Ren Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033001 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Simultaneous Real and Momentum Space Electron Diffraction from a Fullerene Molecule

R. Aiswarya, Rasheed Shaik, Jobin Jose, Hari R. Varma, and Himadri S. Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033002 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Electroweak Nuclear Properties from Single Molecular Ions in a Penning Trap

J. Karthein, S. M. Udrescu, S. B. Moroch, I. Belosevic, K. Blaum, A. Borschevsky, Y. Chamorro, D. DeMille, J. Dilling, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, N. R. Hutzler, L. F. Pašteka, and R. Ringle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033003 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Individual Addressing and State Readout of Trapped Ions Utilizing Radio-Frequency Micromotion

Nathan K. Lysne, Justin F. Niedermeyer, Andrew C. Wilson, Daniel H. Slichter, and Dietrich Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033201 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Unveiling Nonsecular Collisional Dissipation of Molecular Alignment

Pu Wang, Lixin He, Yu Deng, Siqi Sun, Pengfei Lan, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033202 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Multi-ion Frequency Reference Using Dynamical Decoupling

Lennart Pelzer, Kai Dietze, Víctor José Martínez-Lahuerta, Ludwig Krinner, Johannes Kramer, Fabian Dawel, Nicolas C. H. Spethmann, Klemens Hammerer, and Piet O. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033203 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Symmetry Protected Two-Photon Coherence Time

Xuanying Lai, Christopher Li, Alan Zanders, Yefeng Mei, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033601 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Characterizing Biphoton Spatial Wave Function Dynamics with Quantum Wavefront Sensing

Yi Zheng, Zhao-Di Liu, Rui-Heng Miao, Jin-Ming Cui, Mu Yang, Xiao-Ye Xu, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033602 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Error-Tolerant Amplification and Simulation of the Ultrastrong-Coupling Quantum Rabi Model

Ye-Hong Chen, Zhi-Cheng Shi, Franco Nori, and Yan Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033603 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Purifying Photon Indistinguishability through Quantum Interference

Carlos F. D. Faurby, Lorenzo Carosini, Huan Cao, Patrik I. Sund, Lena M. Hansen, Francesco Giorgino, Andrew B. Villadsen, Stefan N. van den Hoven, Peter Lodahl, Stefano Paesani, Juan C. Loredo, and Philip Walther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033604 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Nanoplasmonic Photoelectron Rescattering in the Multiphoton-Induced Emission Regime

Balázs Bánhegyi, Gellért Zsolt Kiss, Zsuzsanna Pápa, Péter Sándor, Lázár Tóth, László Péter, Péter Rácz, and Péter Dombi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 033801 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Liquid Surfaces with Chaotic Capillary Waves Exhibit an Effective Surface Tension

Steffen Bisswanger, Henning Bonart, Pyi Thein Khaing, and Steffen Hardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034001 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

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Water Impact: When a Sphere Becomes Flat

Jesse Belden, Nathan Speirs, Aren Hellum, George Loubimov, and Tadd T. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034002 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Pebbles that are slightly curved—rather than completely flat—exert the highest impact forces when dropped onto a watery surface.

Stability Transition in Gap Expansion-Driven Interfacial Flow

Dongqi Li, Zhibing Yang, Amir A. Pahlavan, Renjun Zhang, Ran Hu, and Yi-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034003 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Bursting of Underwater Oil Drops

Varun Kulkarni, Venkata Yashasvi Lolla, Suhas Tamvada, and Sushant Anand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034004 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

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Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Decline: Tipping Small Scales under Global Warming

Ruijian Gou, Gerrit Lohmann, and Lixin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034201 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Using a detailed simulation, researchers reveal how climate change will affect the regional dynamics of the conveyor-belt-like circulation of water through the Atlantic Ocean.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Experimental Observation of Space-Charge Field Screening of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

L. Verra, M. Galletti, R. Pompili, A. Biagioni, M. Carillo, A. Cianchi, L. Crincoli, A. Curcio, F. Demurtas, G. Di Pirro, V. Lollo, G. Parise, D. Pellegrini, S. Romeo, G. J. Silvi, F. Villa, and M. Ferrario

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 035001 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Identification of Coupled Landau and Anomalous Resonances in Space Plasmas

Jing-Huan Li, Xu-Zhi Zhou, Zhi-Yang Liu, Shan Wang, Anton V. Artemyev, Yoshiharu Omura, Xiao-Jia Zhang, Li Li, Chao Yue, Qiu-Gang Zong, Craig Pollock, Guan Le, and James L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 035201 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Superfluid Density in a Disordered Charge-Density-Wave Material: Pd-Intercalated ${ErTe}_{3}$

Yusuke Iguchi, Joshua A. Straquadine, Chaitanya Murthy, Steven A. Kivelson, Anisha G. Singh, Ian R. Fisher, and Kathryn A. Moler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036001 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunneling Spectroscopy at Megabar Pressures: Determination of the Superconducting Gap in Sulfur

F. Du, F. F. Balakirev, V. S. Minkov, G. A. Smith, B. Maiorov, P. P. Kong, A. P. Drozdov, and M. I. Eremets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036002 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

The pressures at which some elements start superconducting are so high that making detailed measurements of the transition has been impossible—until now.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isotropic Quantum Griffiths Singularity in ${Nd}_{0.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {NiO}_{2}$ Infinite-Layer Superconducting Thin Films

Qiang Zhao, Ting-Na Shao, Wen-Long Yang, Xue-Yan Wang, Xing-Yu Chen, Mei-Hui Chen, Fang-Hui Zhu, Cheng-Xue Chen, Rui-Fen Dou, Chang-Min Xiong, Haiwen Liu, and Jia-Cai Nie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036003 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

The exotic quantum Griffiths singularity associated with the superconductor-metal transition driven by magnetic field has been observed in nickelate thin films.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Picosecond Trajectory of Two-Dimensional Vortex Motion in ${FeSe}_{0.5} {Te}_{0.5}$ Visualized by Terahertz Second Harmonic Generation

Sachiko Nakamura, Haruki Matsumoto, Hiroki Ogawa, Tomoki Kobayashi, Fuyuki Nabeshima, Atsutaka Maeda, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036004 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

A new technique reveals high-speed trajectories of oscillating vortices and shows that they are 10,000 times lighter than expected.

Spin-Orbit-Locking Chiral Bound States in the Continuum

Xingqi Zhao, Jiajun Wang, Wenzhe Liu, Zhiyuan Che, Xinhao Wang, C. T. Chan, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036201 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Stabilizing the Ferroelectric Phase of ${Hf}_{0.5} {Zr}_{0.5} O_{2}$ Thin Films by Charge Transfer

Shu Shi, Tengfei Cao, Haolong Xi, Jiangzhen Niu, Xixiang Jing, Hanxin Su, Xiaojiang Yu, Ping Yang, Yichen Wu, Xiaobing Yan, He Tian, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Jingsheng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036202 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

First-Principles Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Molecules at Metal Surfaces with Vibrationally Coupled Electron Transfer

Gang Meng, James Gardner, Nils Hertl, Wenjie Dou, Reinhard J. Maurer, and Bin Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036203 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Geometric Amplitude Accompanying Local Responses: Spinor Phase Information from the Amplitudes of Spin-Polarized STM Measurements

Shu-Hui Zhang, Jin Yang, Ding-Fu Shao, Jia-Ji Zhu, Wen Yang, and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036204 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resonant Plasmon-Assisted Tunneling in a Double Quantum Dot Coupled to a Quantum Hall Plasmon Resonator

Chaojing Lin, Ko Futamata, Takafumi Akiho, Koji Muraki, and Toshimasa Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036301 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Topologically Localized Vibronic Excitations in Second-Layer Graphene Nanoribbons

Zhengya Wang, Ruoting Yin, Zixi Tang, Hongjian Du, Yifan Liang, Xiaoqing Wang, Qing-Song Deng, Yuan-Zhi Tan, Yao Zhang, Chuanxu Ma, Shijing Tan, and Bing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036401 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Spin-Orbit-Lattice Entangled State in $A_{2} {MgReO}_{6}$ ( $A = Ca$ , Sr, Ba) Revealed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Felix I. Frontini, Graham H. J. Johnstone, Naoya Iwahara, Pritam Bhattacharyya, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Liviu Hozoi, Mary H. Upton, Diego M. Casa, Daigorou Hirai, and Young-June Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036501 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

Non-Abelian Anyons in Periodically Driven Abelian Spin Liquids

Francesco Petiziol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036601 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal and Coherent Spin Pumping by Noncollinear Antiferromagnets

Ping Tang and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 036701 (2024) - Published 18 July, 2024

Interface effects explain the sign of the spin Seebeck effect in antiferromagnets across a spin-flop transition.

Valley-Free Silicon Fins Caused by Shear Strain

Christoph Adelsberger, Stefano Bosco, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 037001 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Disorder-Induced Anomalous Mobility Enhancement in Confined Geometries

Dan Shafir and Stanislav Burov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 037101 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

When a strong and quenched disorder is present, the mobility of a particle in a two-dimensional channel is enhanced as the cross-section of the channel is diminished.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Dielectric Properties of a Ferroelectric Nematic Material: Quantitative Test of the Polarization-Capacitance Goldstone Mode

Alex Adaka, Mojtaba Rajabi, Nilanthi Haputhantrige, Samuel Sprunt, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Antal Jákli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 038101 (2024) - Published 15 July, 2024

Unveiling the Phase Diagram and Reaction Paths of the Active Model B with the Deep Minimum Action Method

Ruben Zakine, Eric Simonnet, and Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 038301 (2024) - Published 19 July, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Frustrated Extended Bose-Hubbard Model and Deconfined Quantum Critical Points with Optical Lattices at the Antimagic Wavelength [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153401 (2024)]

Niccolò Baldelli, Cesar R. Cabrera, Sergi Julià-Farré, Monika Aidelsburger, and Luca Barbiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 039901 (2024) - Published 16 July, 2024

Erratum: Dissipative Effects in Odd Viscous Stokes Flow around a Single Sphere [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 218303 (2024)]

Jeffrey C. Everts and Bogdan Cichocki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 039902 (2024) - Published 17 July, 2024