Volume 133, Issue 5

2 August 2024

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Photo of the Madison Symmetric Torus device. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Tokamak Plasmas with Density up to 10 Times the Greenwald Limit
N. C. Hurst, B. E. Chapman, J. S. Sarff, A. F. Almagri, K. J. McCollam, D. J. Den Hartog, J. B. Flahavan, and C. B. Forest
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 055101 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Maximally Entangled Mixed States for a Fixed Spectrum Do Not Always Exist

Julio I. de Vicente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050202 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

An answer to a decades-old question in the theory of quantum entanglement raises more questions about this quirky phenomenon.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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X-Ray–Cosmic-Shear Cross-Correlations: First Detection and Constraints on Baryonic Effects

Tassia Ferreira, David Alonso, Carlos Garcia-Garcia, and Nora Elisa Chisari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 051001 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

A correlation between two astronomical observables reveals the influence of visible matter on a universe dominated by dark matter.

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Full Rotational Dynamics of Plastic Microfibers in Turbulence

Vlad Giurgiu, Giuseppe Carlo Alp Caridi, Marco De Paoli, and Alfredo Soldati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 054101 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

New data on the rotation around both long and short axes of plastic strands may help researchers track and remove microplastics that pollute the ocean.

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Measurement of the Gamma-Ray-to-Neutron Branching Ratio for the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas

A. Dal Molin, G. Marcer, M. Nocente, M. Rebai, D. Rigamonti, M. Angelone, A. Bracco, F. Camera, C. Cazzaniga, T. Craciunescu, G. Croci, M. Dalla Rosa, L. Giacomelli, G. Gorini, Y. Kazakov, E. M. Khilkevitch, A. Muraro, E. Panontin, E. Perelli Cippo, M. Pillon, O. Putignano, J. Scionti, A. E. Shevelev, A. Žohar, and M. Tardocchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 055102 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Experiments at the Joint European Torus make the case for using gamma rays to determine the fusion reaction rate in a magnetically confined plasma.

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Strong Zero Modes in Integrable Quantum Circuits

Eric Vernier, Hsiu-Chung Yeh, Lorenzo Piroli, and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050606 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

Robust edge modes exist for a class of integrable spin chains in the interacting Floquet setting.

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Orders of Magnitude Improved Cyclotron-Mode Cooling for Nondestructive Spin Quantum Transition Spectroscopy with Single Trapped Antiprotons

B. M. Latacz, M. Fleck, J. I. Jäger, G. Umbrazunas, B. P. Arndt, S. R. Erlewein, E. J. Wursten, J. A. Devlin, P. Micke, F. Abbass, D. Schweitzer, M. Wiesinger, C. Will, H. Yildiz, K. Blaum, Y. Matsuda, A. Mooser, C. Ospelkaus, C. Smorra, A. Soter, W. Quint, J. Walz, Y. Yamazaki, and S. Ulmer (BASE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053201 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

The subthermal resistive cooling of a single trapped proton to temperatures below 200 mK in particle preparation times below 500s, about 100 times faster than reported before, was achieved using a double-Penning-trap system.

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Clock-Line-Mediated Sisyphus Cooling

Chun-Chia Chen (陳俊嘉), Jacob L. Siegel, Benjamin D. Hunt, Tanner Grogan, Youssef S. Hassan, Kyle Beloy, Kurt Gibble, Roger C. Brown, and Andrew D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053401 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Sisyphus cooling applied to an ytterbium lattice clock improves atomic loading into the optical trap and the control of clock systematics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tokamak Plasmas with Density up to 10 Times the Greenwald Limit

N. C. Hurst, B. E. Chapman, J. S. Sarff, A. F. Almagri, K. J. McCollam, D. J. Den Hartog, J. B. Flahavan, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 055101 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Tokamak experiments in the Madison Symmetric Torus have produced plasma with an unprecedented density of up to ten times the Greenwald density limit, promising more stable fusion operating scenarios.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Separation of Inverse Altermagnetic Spin-Splitting Effect from Inverse Spin Hall Effect in ${RuO}_{2}$

Ching-Te Liao, Yu-Chun Wang, Yu-Cheng Tien, Ssu-Yen Huang, and Danru Qu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056701 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

By isolating the relativistic spin Hall effect in an epitaxially grown film of RuO $_{2}$ with well-defined Néel vectors, the spin-to-charge conversion of the nonrelativistic altermagnetic spin-splitting has been demonstrated.

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Persistence of Spin Coherence in a Crystalline Environment

Gerald Curran, III, Zachary Rex, Casper Xallan Wilson, Luke J. Weaver, and Ivan Biaggio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056901 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

A combined theoretical and experimental work in single-crystal rubrene provides a model of spin coherence that accounts for transport-induced dephasing and derives the triplet-exciton hopping rate between inequivalent sites.

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Probabilistic Work Extraction on a Classical Oscillator Beyond the Second Law

Nicolas Barros, Sergio Ciliberto, and Ludovic Bellon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 057101 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

In a fully classical continuous system, the second law of thermodynamics can be violated locally while being preserved on average.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Beyond Linear Response: Equivalence between Thermodynamic Geometry and Optimal Transport

Adrianne Zhong and Michael R. DeWeese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 057102 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Geodesic-counteradiabatic protocols unifying thermodynamic geometry and optimal transport provide exact optimal solutions for arbitrary protocol durations.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Certifiable Lower Bounds of Wigner Negativity Volume and Non-Gaussian Entanglement with Conditional Displacement Gates

Lin Htoo Zaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050201 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Maximally Entangled Mixed States for a Fixed Spectrum Do Not Always Exist

Julio I. de Vicente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050202 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

An answer to a decades-old question in the theory of quantum entanglement raises more questions about this quirky phenomenon.

Detecting Entanglement from Macroscopic Measurements of the Electric Field and Its Fluctuations

Pedro Rosario, Alan C. Santos, Nicola Piovella, Robin Kaiser, André Cidrim, and Romain Bachelard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050203 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Evidence-Based Certification of Quantum Dimensions

Y. S. Teo, S. U. Shringarpure, H. Jeong, N. Prasannan, B. Brecht, C. Silberhorn, M. Evans, D. Mogilevtsev, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050204 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Generalized Quantum Fluctuation Theorem for Energy Exchange

Wei Wu and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050401 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Measurement and Feed Forward Induced Entanglement Negativity Transition

Alireza Seif, Yu-Xin Wang (王语馨), Ramis Movassagh, and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050402 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Ensemble Inequivalence in Long-Range Quantum Systems

Nicolò Defenu, David Mukamel, and Stefano Ruffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050403 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

Catalytic Transformation from Computationally Universal to Strictly Universal Measurement-Based Quantum Computation

Yuki Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050601 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Robust and Deterministic Preparation of Bosonic Logical States in a Trapped Ion

V. G. Matsos, C. H. Valahu, T. Navickas, A. D. Rao, M. J. Millican, X. C. Kolesnikow, M. J. Biercuk, and T. R. Tan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050602 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Generalization of Quantum Machine Learning Models Using Quantum Fisher Information Metric

Tobias Haug and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050603 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

High-Photon-Loss Threshold Quantum Computing Using GHZ-State Measurements

Brendan Pankovich, Angus Kan, Kwok Ho Wan, Maike Ostmann, Alex Neville, Srikrishna Omkar, Adel Sohbi, and Kamil Brádler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050604 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

Encoded-Fusion-Based Quantum Computation for High Thresholds with Linear Optics

Wooyeong Song, Nuri Kang, Yong-Su Kim, and Seung-Woo Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050605 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong Zero Modes in Integrable Quantum Circuits

Eric Vernier, Hsiu-Chung Yeh, Lorenzo Piroli, and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050606 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

Robust edge modes exist for a class of integrable spin chains in the interacting Floquet setting.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

X-Ray–Cosmic-Shear Cross-Correlations: First Detection and Constraints on Baryonic Effects

Tassia Ferreira, David Alonso, Carlos Garcia-Garcia, and Nora Elisa Chisari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 051001 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

A correlation between two astronomical observables reveals the influence of visible matter on a universe dominated by dark matter.

Resolving the Stellar-Collapse and Hierarchical-Merger Origins of the Coalescing Black Holes

Yin-Jie Li, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Shao-Peng Tang, and Yi-Zhong Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 051401 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

Particles and Fields

Search for a Sub-eV Sterile Neutrino Using Daya Bay’s Full Dataset

F. P. An et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 051801 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Experimental Search for Invisible Dark Matter Axions around $22 μ eV$

Younggeun Kim, Junu Jeong, SungWoo Youn, Sungjae Bae, Kiwoong Lee, Arjan F. van Loo, Yasunobu Nakamura, Seonjeong Oh, Taehyeon Seong, Sergey Uchaikin, Jihn E. Kim, and Yannis K. Semertzidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 051802 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Probing the Quark Orbital Angular Momentum at Electron-Ion Colliders Using Exclusive $π^{0}$ Production

Shohini Bhattacharya, Duxin Zheng, and Jian Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 051901 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Strong Nuclear Suppression in Exclusive $J / ψ$ Photoproduction in $Au + Au$ Ultraperipheral Collisions at RHIC

M. I. Abdulhamid et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 052301 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

First Direct Measurement of the 64.5 keV Resonance Strength in the ${}^{17}O (p, γ) {}^{18}F$ Reaction

R. M. Gesuè et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 052701 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Shedding Light on the Origin of ${}^{204}{Pb}$ , the Heaviest $s$ -Process–Only Isotope in the Solar System

A. Casanovas-Hoste et al. (n_TOF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 052702 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orders of Magnitude Improved Cyclotron-Mode Cooling for Nondestructive Spin Quantum Transition Spectroscopy with Single Trapped Antiprotons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053201 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Clock-Line-Mediated Sisyphus Cooling

Chun-Chia Chen (陳俊嘉), Jacob L. Siegel, Benjamin D. Hunt, Tanner Grogan, Youssef S. Hassan, Kyle Beloy, Kurt Gibble, Roger C. Brown, and Andrew D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053401 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Sisyphus cooling applied to an ytterbium lattice clock improves atomic loading into the optical trap and the control of clock systematics.

From Local to Nonlocal High- $Q$ Plasmonic Metasurfaces

Yao Liang, Din Ping Tsai, and Yuri Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053801 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Non-Abelian Holonomy in Degenerate Non-Hermitian Systems

Zhong-Lei Shan, Yi-Ke Sun, Ran Tao, Qi-Dai Chen, Zhen-Nan Tian, and Xu-Lin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053802 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

Self-Focused Pulse Propagation Is Mediated by Spatiotemporal Optical Vortices

M. S. Le, G. A. Hine, A. Goffin, J. P. Palastro, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053803 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

Strongly Anisotropic Vortices in Dipolar Quantum Droplets

Guilong Li, Zibin Zhao, Xunda Jiang, Zhaopin Chen, Bin Liu, Boris A. Malomed, and Yongyao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 053804 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Full Rotational Dynamics of Plastic Microfibers in Turbulence

Vlad Giurgiu, Giuseppe Carlo Alp Caridi, Marco De Paoli, and Alfredo Soldati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 054101 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

New data on the rotation around both long and short axes of plastic strands may help researchers track and remove microplastics that pollute the ocean.

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tokamak Plasmas with Density up to 10 Times the Greenwald Limit

N. C. Hurst, B. E. Chapman, J. S. Sarff, A. F. Almagri, K. J. McCollam, D. J. Den Hartog, J. B. Flahavan, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 055101 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Tokamak experiments in the Madison Symmetric Torus have produced plasma with an unprecedented density of up to ten times the Greenwald density limit, promising more stable fusion operating scenarios.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Measurement of the Gamma-Ray-to-Neutron Branching Ratio for the Deuterium-Tritium Reaction in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Plasmas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 055102 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Experiments at the Joint European Torus make the case for using gamma rays to determine the fusion reaction rate in a magnetically confined plasma.

Condensed Matter and Materials

Pressure Induced Nonmonotonic Evolution of Superconductivity in $6 R − {TaS}_{2}$ with a Natural Bulk Van der Waals Heterostructure

Shaopeng Wang, Yuyan Han, Sutao Sun, Shuyang Wang, Chao An, Chunhua Chen, Lili Zhang, Yonghui Zhou, Jian Zhou, and Zhaorong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056001 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Predictable Gate-Field Control of Spin in Altermagnets with Spin-Layer Coupling

Run-Wu Zhang, Chaoxi Cui, Runze Li, Jingyi Duan, Lei Li, Zhi-Ming Yu, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056401 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

Eliashberg Theory for Dynamical Screening in Bilayer Exciton Condensation

G. J. Sreejith, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056501 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Anomalous $h / 2 e$ Periodicity and Majorana Zero Modes in Chiral Josephson Junctions

Zi-Ting Sun, Jin-Xin Hu, Ying-Ming Xie, and K. T. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056601 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Prevalence of Two-Dimensional Photonic Topology

Ali Ghorashi, Sachin Vaidya, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Marin Soljačić, and Thomas Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056602 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Separation of Inverse Altermagnetic Spin-Splitting Effect from Inverse Spin Hall Effect in ${RuO}_{2}$

Ching-Te Liao, Yu-Chun Wang, Yu-Cheng Tien, Ssu-Yen Huang, and Danru Qu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056701 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Electrical Detection of Acoustic Antiferromagnetic Resonance in Compensated Synthetic Antiferromagnets

Chong Chen, Peisen Liu, Shixuan Liang, Yichi Zhang, Wenxuan Zhu, Lei Han, Qian Wang, Sulei Fu, Feng Pan, and Cheng Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056702 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Transforming from Kitaev to Disguised Ising Chain: Application to ${CoNb}_{2} O_{6}$

Derek Churchill and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056703 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Persistence of Spin Coherence in a Crystalline Environment

Gerald Curran, III, Zachary Rex, Casper Xallan Wilson, Luke J. Weaver, and Ivan Biaggio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056901 (2024) - Published 29 July, 2024

Realizing Topological Superconductivity in Tunable Bose-Fermi Mixtures with Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures

Caterina Zerba, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, Ataç Imamoğlu, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056902 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Strain-Amplified Exciton Chirality in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials

Jin Xiao, Haofeng Zheng, Yanan Liu, Li Fang, Jing Li, Jongchan Kim, Yanlong Wang, Qi Liu, Xuyu Ma, and Shaocong Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 056903 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probabilistic Work Extraction on a Classical Oscillator Beyond the Second Law

Nicolas Barros, Sergio Ciliberto, and Ludovic Bellon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 057101 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

In a fully classical continuous system, the second law of thermodynamics can be violated locally while being preserved on average.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Beyond Linear Response: Equivalence between Thermodynamic Geometry and Optimal Transport

Adrianne Zhong and Michael R. DeWeese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 057102 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Geodesic-counteradiabatic protocols unifying thermodynamic geometry and optimal transport provide exact optimal solutions for arbitrary protocol durations.

Optimal Transport with Constraints: From Mirror Descent to Classical Mechanics

Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim, Michael Muehlebach, and Caterina De Bacco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 057401 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Effect of Particle Shape on the Flow of an Hourglass

Bo Fan, Tivadar Pongó, Raúl Cruz Hidalgo, and Tamás Börzsönyi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 058201 (2024) - Published 31 July, 2024

Generic Coupling between Internal States and Activity Leads to Activation Fronts and Criticality in Active Systems

Hadrien-Matthieu Gascuel, Parisa Rahmani, Richard Bon, and Fernando Peruani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 058301 (2024) - Published 1 August, 2024

Anomalous Fluctuations in a Droplet of Chemically Active Colloids or Enzymes

K. R. Prathyusha, Suropriya Saha, and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 058401 (2024) - Published 30 July, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Nuclear Charge Radii of Silicon Isotopes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 162502 (2024)]

Kristian König, Julian C. Berengut, Anastasia Borschevsky, Alex Brinson, B. Alex Brown, Adam Dockery, Serdar Elhatisari, Ephraim Eliav, Ronald F. Garcia Ruiz, Jason D. Holt, Bai-Shan Hu, Jonas Karthein, Dean Lee, Yuan-Zhuo Ma, Ulf-G. Meißner, Kei Minamisono, Alexander V. Oleynichenko, Skyy V. Pineda, Sergey D. Prosnyak, Marten L. Reitsma, Leonid V. Skripnikov, Adam Vernon, and Andréi Zaitsevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 059901 (2024) - Published 2 August, 2024