Volume 133, Issue 6

9 August 2024

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Conductance as a function of bias current (x axis) and charge carrier density (y axis) in electron-doped bilayer graphene indicates Wigner-crystal, charge-density-wave, or spin-density-wave phases.

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Interaction-Driven Quasi-Insulating Ground States of Gapped Electron-Doped Bilayer Graphene
Anna M. Seiler, Martin Statz, Isabell Weimer, Nils Jacobsen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhiyu Dong, Leonid S. Levitov, and R. Thomas Weitz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066301 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Local Readout and Control of Current and Kinetic Energy Operators in Optical Lattices

Alexander Impertro, Simon Karch, Julian F. Wienand, SeungJung Huh, Christian Schweizer, Immanuel Bloch, and Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063401 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

A new manipulation technique could enable the realization of more versatile quantum simulators.

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Dispersion-Selective Band Engineering in an Artificial Kagome Superlattice

Shuai Wang, Zhen Zhan, Xiaodong Fan, Yonggang Li, Pierre A. Pantaleón, Chaochao Ye, Zhiping He, Laiming Wei, Lin Li, Francisco Guinea, Shengjun Yuan, and Changgan Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066302 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

Researchers have used a specially crafted electric potential to manipulate the electronic band structure of graphene, laying the groundwork for on-demand electronic band design.

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Bidirectional Cascaded Superfluorescent Lasing in Air Enabled by Resonant Third Harmonic Photon Exchange from Nitrogen to Argon

Zan Nie, Noa Nambu, Kenneth A. Marsh, Daniel Matteo, C. Kumar Patel, Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Stefanos Carlström, Felipe Morales, Serguei Patchkovskii, Olga Smirnova, Misha Ivanov, and Chan Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063201 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

A resonance between energy levels in argon atoms and nitrogen molecules could be used to remotely sense contaminants in air.

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Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism via Hardy’s Violation

Si-Ran Zhao, Shuai Zhao, Hai-Hao Dong, Wen-Zhao Liu, Jing-Ling Chen, Kai Chen, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060201 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Local realism is ruled out again in the first loophole-free demonstration of Hardy’s all versus nothing quantum nonlocality test.

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Constraints on Ultraheavy Dark Matter Properties from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with LHAASO Observations

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061001 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

An analysis of LHAASO data in the direction of sixteen dwarf spheroidal galaxies puts tight constraints on the annihilation and decay of ultra heavy dark matter candidates.

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Runaway Gravitational Production of Dark Photons

Christian Capanelli, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb, and Evan McDonough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061602 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Gravitational production of the hypothetical dark photons due to its nonminimal coupling to gravity can suffer from an instability which leads to runaway particle production.

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Simulating Holographic Conformal Field Theories on Hyperbolic Lattices

Santanu Dey, Anffany Chen, Pablo Basteiro, Alexander Fritzsche, Martin Greiter, Matthias Kaminski, Patrick M. Lenggenhager, René Meyer, Riccardo Sorbello, Alexander Stegmaier, Ronny Thomale, Johanna Erdmenger, and Igor Boettcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061603 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

A proof-of-principle demonstration suggests that holographic correspondences may be simulated in electrical circuits.

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Origin of Magnetism in a Supposedly Nonmagnetic Osmium Oxide

S. Agrestini, F. Borgatti, P. Florio, J. Frassineti, D. Fiore Mosca, Q. Faure, B. Detlefs, C. J. Sahle, S. Francoual, J. Choi, M. Garcia-Fernandez, K.-J. Zhou, V. F. Mitrović, P. M. Woodward, G. Ghiringhelli, C. Franchini, F. Boscherini, S. Sanna, and M. Moretti Sala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066501 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

X-ray spectroscopy shows a finite magnetic moment in the double-perovskite compound Ba $_{2}$ NaOsO $_{6}$ despite its nominally nonmagnetic 5d $^{1}$ configuration.

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Origin of a Topotactic Reduction Effect for Superconductivity in Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Shengwei Zeng, Chi Sin Tang, Zhaoyang Luo, Lin Er Chow, Zhi Shiuh Lim, Saurav Prakash, Ping Yang, Caozheng Diao, Xiaojiang Yu, Zhenxiang Xing, Rong Ji, Xinmao Yin, Changjian Li, X. Renshaw Wang, Qian He, Mark B. H. Breese, A. Ariando, and Huajun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066503 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

Spectroscopic and transport measurements on optimally reduced nickelate films show a single $d_{x 2 - y 2}$ orbital occupancy leading to the minimization of the c-axis parameter, a correlation between the orbital asymmetry and the $T_{c}$ which supports the electronic analogy between nickelate and cuprate superconductors.

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Quantum Anomalous Hall Crystal at Fractional Filling of Moiré Superlattices

D. N. Sheng, Aidan P. Reddy, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Emil J. Bergholtz, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066601 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

States called quantum anomalous Hall crystals exhibit a quantized Hall conductance with a larger than expected value.

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Langevin Equation in Heterogeneous Landscapes: How to Choose the Interpretation

Adrian Pacheco-Pozo, Michał Balcerek, Agnieszka Wyłomanska, Krzysztof Burnecki, Igor M. Sokolov, and Diego Krapf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 067102 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

The overall characterization of the motion of a particle in heterogeneous two-phase systems depends on the interpretation (Itô, Stratonovich, or Hanggi-Klimontovich) of the Langevin equation.

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Complexity Scaling of Liquid Dynamics

Ian M. Douglass, Jeppe C. Dyre, and Lorenzo Costigliola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 068001 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

A data compression algorithm based on Kolmogorov complexity theory allows estimation of dynamic properties of simple liquids, specifically the diffusion coefficient, from a single equilibrium configuration.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism via Hardy’s Violation

Si-Ran Zhao, Shuai Zhao, Hai-Hao Dong, Wen-Zhao Liu, Jing-Ling Chen, Kai Chen, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060201 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Local realism is ruled out again in the first loophole-free demonstration of Hardy’s all versus nothing quantum nonlocality test.

Random Pure Gaussian States and Hawking Radiation

Erik Aurell, Lucas Hackl, Paweł Horodecki, Robert H. Jonsson, and Mario Kieburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060202 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Collective Randomized Measurements in Quantum Information Processing

Satoya Imai, Géza Tóth, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060203 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

Canonical Typicality under General Quantum Channels

Pedro S. Correia, Gabriel Dias Carvalho, Thiago R. de Oliveira, Raúl O. Vallejos, and Fernando de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060401 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Probing Site-Resolved Current in Strongly Interacting Superconducting Circuit Lattices

Botao Du, Ramya Suresh, Santiago López, Jeremy Cadiente, and Ruichao Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060601 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

Quasiparticle Dynamics in a Superconducting Qubit Irradiated by a Localized Infrared Source

R. Benevides, M. Drimmer, G. Bisson, F. Adinolfi, U. v. Lüpke, H. M. Doeleman, G. Catelani, and Y. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060602 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Surpassing the Quantum Limit in Bosonic Loss Estimation without Quantum Probes

Yu Tao, Xinhang Li, Lang Li, Jingzheng Huang, Hongjing Li, Tao Wang, Linjie Zhou, and Guihua Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060801 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

Efficient Local Classical Shadow Tomography with Number Conservation

Sumner N. Hearth, Michael O. Flynn, Anushya Chandran, and Chris R. Laumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060802 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Constraints on Ultraheavy Dark Matter Properties from Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with LHAASO Observations

Zhen Cao et al. (LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061001 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

An analysis of LHAASO data in the direction of sixteen dwarf spheroidal galaxies puts tight constraints on the annihilation and decay of ultra heavy dark matter candidates.

Particles and Fields

Rigorous Holographic Bound on AdS Scale Separation

Eric Perlmutter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061601 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

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Runaway Gravitational Production of Dark Photons

Christian Capanelli, Leah Jenks, Edward W. Kolb, and Evan McDonough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061602 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Gravitational production of the hypothetical dark photons due to its nonminimal coupling to gravity can suffer from an instability which leads to runaway particle production.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Simulating Holographic Conformal Field Theories on Hyperbolic Lattices

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061603 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

A proof-of-principle demonstration suggests that holographic correspondences may be simulated in electrical circuits.

Rise and Fall of Light Top Squarks in the LHC Top-Quark Sample

Emanuele Bagnaschi, Gennaro Corcella, Roberto Franceschini, and Dibyashree Sengupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 061801 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Bidirectional Cascaded Superfluorescent Lasing in Air Enabled by Resonant Third Harmonic Photon Exchange from Nitrogen to Argon

Zan Nie, Noa Nambu, Kenneth A. Marsh, Daniel Matteo, C. Kumar Patel, Chaojie Zhang, Yipeng Wu, Stefanos Carlström, Felipe Morales, Serguei Patchkovskii, Olga Smirnova, Misha Ivanov, and Chan Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063201 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

A resonance between energy levels in argon atoms and nitrogen molecules could be used to remotely sense contaminants in air.

Mollow-like Triplets in Ultrafast Resonant Absorption

Axel Stenquist, Felipe Zapata, Edvin Olofsson, Yijie Liao, Elna Svegborn, Jakob Nicolai Bruhnke, Claudio Verdozzi, and Jan Marcus Dahlström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063202 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

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Local Readout and Control of Current and Kinetic Energy Operators in Optical Lattices

Alexander Impertro, Simon Karch, Julian F. Wienand, SeungJung Huh, Christian Schweizer, Immanuel Bloch, and Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063401 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

A new manipulation technique could enable the realization of more versatile quantum simulators.

Digital Homodyne and Heterodyne Detection for Stationary Bosonic Modes

Ingrid Strandberg, Axel M. Eriksson, Baptiste Royer, Mikael Kervinen, and Simone Gasparinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063601 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

Quantum Enhanced Balanced Heterodyne Readout for Differential Interferometry

Daniel W. Gould, Vaishali B. Adya, Sheon S. Y. Chua, Jonas Junker, Dennis Wilken, Terry G. McRae, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, Min Jet Yap, Robert L. Ward, Michèle Heurs, and David E. McClelland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063602 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

Controlling Markovianity with Chiral Giant Atoms

Federico Roccati and Dario Cilluffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063603 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Tailoring Space-Time Nonlocality for Event-Based Image Processing Metasurfaces

Sedigheh Esfahani, Michele Cotrufo, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063801 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Submegahertz Nucleation of Plasmonic Vapor Microbubbles near a Solid Vertical Boundary

Fulong Wang (王福龙), Zhibin Hu, Binglin Zeng, Chenliang Xia, Lihua Dong, Huimin Wang, Lijun Yang, and Yuliang Wang (王玉亮)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 064001 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Pressure-Sensitive Multiple Superconducting Phases and Their Structural Origin in Van der Waals ${HfS}_{2}$ Up to 160 GPa

Wei Zhong, He Zhang, Ertugrul Karaca, Jie Zhou, Saori Kawaguchi, Hirokazu Kadobayashi, Xiaohui Yu, Daniel Errandonea, Binbin Yue, and Fang Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066001 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Anderson Localization Transition in Disordered Hyperbolic Lattices

Anffany Chen, Joseph Maciejko, and Igor Boettcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066101 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Interaction-Driven Quasi-Insulating Ground States of Gapped Electron-Doped Bilayer Graphene

Anna M. Seiler, Martin Statz, Isabell Weimer, Nils Jacobsen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Zhiyu Dong, Leonid S. Levitov, and R. Thomas Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066301 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

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Dispersion-Selective Band Engineering in an Artificial Kagome Superlattice

Shuai Wang, Zhen Zhan, Xiaodong Fan, Yonggang Li, Pierre A. Pantaleón, Chaochao Ye, Zhiping He, Laiming Wei, Lin Li, Francisco Guinea, Shengjun Yuan, and Changgan Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066302 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

Researchers have used a specially crafted electric potential to manipulate the electronic band structure of graphene, laying the groundwork for on-demand electronic band design.

Emergence of Competing Stripe Phases in Undoped Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Ruiqi Zhang, Christopher Lane, Johannes Nokelainen, Bahadur Singh, Bernardo Barbiellini, Robert S. Markiewicz, Arun Bansil, and Jianwei Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066401 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

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Origin of Magnetism in a Supposedly Nonmagnetic Osmium Oxide

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066501 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

X-ray spectroscopy shows a finite magnetic moment in the double-perovskite compound Ba $_{2}$ NaOsO $_{6}$ despite its nominally nonmagnetic 5d $^{1}$ configuration.

Thermodynamic Stability at the Two-Particle Level

A. Kowalski, M. Reitner, L. Del Re, M. Chatzieleftheriou, A. Amaricci, A. Toschi, L. de’ Medici, G. Sangiovanni, and T. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066502 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

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Origin of a Topotactic Reduction Effect for Superconductivity in Infinite-Layer Nickelates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066503 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

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Quantum Anomalous Hall Crystal at Fractional Filling of Moiré Superlattices

D. N. Sheng, Aidan P. Reddy, Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Emil J. Bergholtz, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066601 (2024) - Published 7 August, 2024

States called quantum anomalous Hall crystals exhibit a quantized Hall conductance with a larger than expected value.

Liquid-Crystal-Like Dynamic Transition in Ferroelectric-Dielectric Superlattices

Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Mónica Graf, Javier Junquera, Jorge Íñiguez-González, and Hugo Aramberri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066801 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

Antiskyrmions in Ferroelectric Barium Titanate

Mauro A. P. Gonçalves, Marek Paściak, and Jiří Hlinka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066802 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Kadanoff-Baym Equations for Interacting Systems with Dissipative Lindbladian Dynamics

Gianluca Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066901 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

Unconventional Thermophotonic Charge Density Wave

Cheng-Long Zhou, Zahra Torbatian, Shui-Hua Yang, Yong Zhang, Hong-Liang Yi, Mauro Antezza, Dino Novko, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 066902 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Thermodynamic Bounds on Generalized Transport: From Single-Molecule to Bulk Observables

Cai Dieball and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 067101 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024

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Langevin Equation in Heterogeneous Landscapes: How to Choose the Interpretation

Adrian Pacheco-Pozo, Michał Balcerek, Agnieszka Wyłomanska, Krzysztof Burnecki, Igor M. Sokolov, and Diego Krapf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 067102 (2024) - Published 6 August, 2024

The overall characterization of the motion of a particle in heterogeneous two-phase systems depends on the interpretation (Itô, Stratonovich, or Hanggi-Klimontovich) of the Langevin equation.

Hyperuniformity in the Manna Model, Conserved Directed Percolation and Depinning

Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 067103 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

Braess’s Paradox Analog in Physical Networks of Optimal Exploration

Georgios Gounaris and Eleni Katifori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 067401 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Complexity Scaling of Liquid Dynamics

Ian M. Douglass, Jeppe C. Dyre, and Lorenzo Costigliola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 068001 (2024) - Published 9 August, 2024

Eukaryotic Chemotaxis under Periodic Stimulation Shows Temporal Gradient Dependence

Richa Karmakar, Aravind Karanam, Man-Ho Tang, and Wouter-Jan Rappel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 068401 (2024) - Published 8 August, 2024

ERRATA

Erratum: Fractionalized Prethermalization in a Driven Quantum Spin Liquid [Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 226701 (2023)]

Hui-Ke Jin, Johannes Knolle, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 069901 (2024) - Published 5 August, 2024