Volume 133, Issue 7

16 August 2024

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On the Cover

Disordered defect networks evolving from spiral (left) and target (middle) to traveling waves (right) with nonreciprocal interactions in active matter systems.

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Defect Solutions of the Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard Model: Spirals and Targets
Navdeep Rana and Ramin Golestanian
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 078301 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Efficient Microwave Photon-to-Electron Conversion in a High-Impedance Quantum Circuit

O. Stanisavljević, J.-C. Philippe, J. Gabelli, M. Aprili, J. Estève, and J. Basset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076302 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

A new device converts a stream of microwave photons into an electric current with high efficiency, which will benefit quantum information technologies.

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Temporal Refraction in an Acoustic Phononic Lattice

Brian L. Kim, Christopher Chong, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077201 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

A magnet-and-coil system reveals how acoustic waves reflect and refract when the host medium suddenly changes elasticity.

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Measuring Entanglement in Physical Networks

Cory Glover and Albert-László Barabási

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077401 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

A new mathematical measure of knottiness could help improve the transport efficiencies of subway and road systems, as well as other physical networks.

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Discontinuous Transition in Electrolyte Flow through Charge-Patterned Nanochannels

Tine Curk, Sergi G. Leyva, and Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 078201 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Electrically patterning the walls of a nanochannel could provide a route to creating “valves” that abruptly alter the speed at which a charged fluid flows through a nanofluidic device.

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Stringent Tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation from LHAASO Observations of GRB 221009A

Zhen Cao et al. (The LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071501 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

An analysis of the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed reveals no difference in the propagation speed of different frequencies of light—placing some of the tightest constraints on certain violations of general relativity.

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Observation of Non-Hermitian Edge Burst in Quantum Dynamics

Lei Xiao, Wen-Tan Xue, Fei Song, Yu-Min Hu, Wei Yi, Zhong Wang, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070801 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

In non-Hermitian systems, boundary effects are more pronounced than in Hermitian systems.

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MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect

B. Acharya et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071803 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

A search for the magnetic monopoles that carry 2 to 45 Dirac units of magnetic charge that could have been produced by heavy-ion collisions places world-leading limits on the monopole masses.

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Measurement of Energy Correlators inside Jets and Determination of the Strong Coupling $α_{S} (m_{Z})$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071903 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

The measurements of the two- and three-particle energy correlators at LHC results in the most precise value of the strong coupling constant $α_{s} (m_{Z})$ obtained using jet-substructure observables.

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Neural-network Density Functional Theory Based on Variational Energy Minimization

Yang Li, Zechen Tang, Zezhou Chen, Minghui Sun, Boheng Zhao, He Li, Honggeng Tao, Zilong Yuan, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076401 (2024) - Published 12 August, 2024

Instead of training the neural networks with predictions derived from DFT, unsupervised learning by treating the energy functional of variational DFT as the loss function of the neural network yields predictions of material properties.

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Many-Body Quantum Interference Route to the Two-Channel Kondo Effect: Inverse Design for Molecular Junctions and Quantum Dot Devices

Sudeshna Sen and Andrew K. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076501 (2024) - Published 12 August, 2024

Many-body quantum interference can be used in molecular transistors and quantum dot nanostructures to engineer fractionalized Kondo anyons.

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Topological Thermal Hall Conductance of Even-Denominator Fractional States

Arup Kumar Paul, Priya Tiwari, Ron Melcer, Vladimir Umansky, and Moty Heiblum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076601 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

The topological order of two even-denominator fractional Hall states is determined by thermal Hall conductance measurements, confirming their non-Abelian order, hence supporting Majorana quasiparticles.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Power-Law Entanglement and Hilbert Space Fragmentation in Nonreciprocal Quantum Circuits

K. Klocke, J. E. Moore, and M. Buchhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070401 (2024) - Published 12 August, 2024

Persistent Ballistic Entanglement Spreading with Optimal Control in Quantum Spin Chains

Ying Lu, Pei Shi, Xiao-Han Wang, Jie Hu, and Shi-Ju Ran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070402 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Chiral Bell-State Transfer via Dissipative Liouvillian Dynamics

Shishir Khandelwal, Weijian Chen, Kater W. Murch, and Géraldine Haack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070403 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Work Sum Rule for Open Quantum Systems

Parth Kumar, Caleb M. Webb, and Charles A. Stafford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070404 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Generalized Linear Response Theory for the Full Quantum Work Statistics

Giacomo Guarnieri, Jens Eisert, and Harry J. D. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070405 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Detecting Measurement-Induced Entanglement Transitions with Unitary Mirror Circuits

Yariv Yanay, Brian Swingle, and Charles Tahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070601 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

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Observation of Non-Hermitian Edge Burst in Quantum Dynamics

Lei Xiao, Wen-Tan Xue, Fei Song, Yu-Min Hu, Wei Yi, Zhong Wang, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 070801 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

In non-Hermitian systems, boundary effects are more pronounced than in Hermitian systems.

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

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Stringent Tests of Lorentz Invariance Violation from LHAASO Observations of GRB 221009A

Zhen Cao et al. (The LHAASO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071501 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

Particles and Fields

Compton Amplitude for Rotating Black Hole from QFT

Lucile Cangemi, Marco Chiodaroli, Henrik Johansson, Alexander Ochirov, Paolo Pichini, and Evgeny Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071601 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

Search by the SENSEI Experiment for Millicharged Particles Produced in the NuMI Beam

Liron Barak et al. (SENSEI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071801 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Search for Baryon-Number-Violating Processes in $B^{-}$ Decays to the ${\bar{Ξ}}_{c}^{0} {\bar{Λ}}_{c}^{-}$ Final State

T. Gu et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071802 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

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MoEDAL Search in the CMS Beam Pipe for Magnetic Monopoles Produced via the Schwinger Effect

B. Acharya et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071803 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

A search for the magnetic monopoles that carry 2 to 45 Dirac units of magnetic charge that could have been produced by heavy-ion collisions places world-leading limits on the monopole masses.

Estimate for the Bulk Viscosity of Strongly Coupled Quark Matter Using Perturbative QCD and Holography

Jesús Cruz Rojas, Tyler Gorda, Carlos Hoyos, Niko Jokela, Matti Järvinen, Aleksi Kurkela, Risto Paatelainen, Saga Säppi, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071901 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Final COMPASS Results on the Transverse-Spin-Dependent Azimuthal Asymmetries in the Pion-Induced Drell-Yan Process

G. D. Alexeev et al. (COMPASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071902 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

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Measurement of Energy Correlators inside Jets and Determination of the Strong Coupling $α_{S} (m_{Z})$

A. Hayrapetyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 071903 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Nuclear Physics

First Exploration of Monopole-Driven Shell Evolution above the $N = 126$ Shell Closure: New Millisecond Isomers in ${}^{213}{Tl}$ and ${}^{215}{Tl}$

T. T. Yeung et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 072501 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Direct Observation of Competing $M 1$ and $M 3$ Transitions in ${}^{10}B$

A. Kuşoğlu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 072502 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Strong-Field Ionization Phenomena Revealed by Quantum Trajectories

Taylor Moon, Klaus Bartschat, and Nicolas Douguet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073201 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Transition from Surface to Volume Expansion in Argon Clusters Coulomb Explosion

D. Komar, K. Raspe, L. Kazak, N. Iwe, K.-H. Meiwes-Broer, and J. Tiggesbäumker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073202 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

Fundamental Limits of Feedback Cooling Ultracold Atomic Gases

Zain Mehdi, Simon A. Haine, Joseph J. Hope, and Stuart S. Szigeti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073401 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Conditional Dynamics in Heterodyne Detection of Superradiant Lasing with Incoherently Pumped Atoms

Huihui Yu, Yuan Zhang, Qilong Wu, Chong-Xin Shan, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073601 (2024) - Published 12 August, 2024

Evolution of Propagating Coherent Pulses Driving a Single Superconducting Artificial Atom

A. V. Vasenin, Sh. V. Kadyrmetov, A. N. Bolgar, A. Yu. Dmitriev, and O. V. Astafiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073602 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Avalanche Terahertz Photon Detection in a Rydberg Tweezer Array

Chris Nill, Albert Cabot, Arno Trautmann, Christian Groß, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073603 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Self-Suppressed Quantum-Limited Timing Jitter and Fundamental Noise Limit of Soliton Microcombs

Xing Jin, Zhe Lv, Lu Yao, Qihuang Gong, and Qi-Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073801 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

Topological Structures of Energy Flow: Poynting Vector Skyrmions

Sicong Wang, Zhikai Zhou, Zecan Zheng, Jialin Sun, Hongkun Cao, Shichao Song, Zi-Lan Deng, Fei Qin, Yaoyu Cao, and Xiangping Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073802 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Observation of Topological Transition in Floquet Non-Hermitian Skin Effects in Silicon Photonics

Zhiyuan Lin, Wange Song, Li-Wei Wang, Haoran Xin, Jiacheng Sun, Shengjie Wu, Chunyu Huang, Shining Zhu, Jian-Hua Jiang, and Tao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 073803 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Quantum Interference at the Recombination Junction of Perovskite-Si Tandem Solar Cells Improves Efficiency

Yuzhen Guo, Zijun C. Zhao, Jianghui Zheng, Fa-Jun Ma, Anita W. Y. Ho-Baillie, and David R. McKenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076201 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Interaction Effects on the Dynamical Anderson Metal-Insulator Transition Using Kicked Quantum Gases

Jun Hui See Toh, Mengxin Du, Xinxin Tang, Ying Su, Tristan Rojo, Carson O. Patterson, Nicolas R. Williams, Chuanwei Zhang, and Subhadeep Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076301 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

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Efficient Microwave Photon-to-Electron Conversion in a High-Impedance Quantum Circuit

O. Stanisavljević, J.-C. Philippe, J. Gabelli, M. Aprili, J. Estève, and J. Basset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076302 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

A new device converts a stream of microwave photons into an electric current with high efficiency, which will benefit quantum information technologies.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neural-network Density Functional Theory Based on Variational Energy Minimization

Yang Li, Zechen Tang, Zezhou Chen, Minghui Sun, Boheng Zhao, He Li, Honggeng Tao, Zilong Yuan, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076401 (2024) - Published 12 August, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Many-Body Quantum Interference Route to the Two-Channel Kondo Effect: Inverse Design for Molecular Junctions and Quantum Dot Devices

Sudeshna Sen and Andrew K. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076501 (2024) - Published 12 August, 2024

Many-body quantum interference can be used in molecular transistors and quantum dot nanostructures to engineer fractionalized Kondo anyons.

Non-Hermitian Mott Skin Effect

Tsuneya Yoshida, Song-Bo Zhang, Titus Neupert, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076502 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Unusual Quasiparticles and Tunneling Conductance in Quantum Point Contacts in $ν = 2 / 3$ Fractional Quantum Hall Systems

Vadim Ponomarenko and Yuli Lyanda-Geller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076503 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

Reclaiming the Lost Conformality in a Non-Hermitian Quantum 5-State Potts Model

Yin Tang, Han Ma, Qicheng Tang, Yin-Chen He, and W. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076504 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

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Topological Thermal Hall Conductance of Even-Denominator Fractional States

Arup Kumar Paul, Priya Tiwari, Ron Melcer, Vladimir Umansky, and Moty Heiblum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 076601 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

Lattice Realization of Complex Conformal Field Theories: Two-Dimensional Potts Model with $Q > 4$ States

Jesper Lykke Jacobsen and Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077101 (2024) - Published 16 August, 2024

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Temporal Refraction in an Acoustic Phononic Lattice

Brian L. Kim, Christopher Chong, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077201 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

A magnet-and-coil system reveals how acoustic waves reflect and refract when the host medium suddenly changes elasticity.

Instantons, Fluctuations, and Singularities in the Supercritical Stochastic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

Sumeja Bureković, Tobias Schäfer, and Rainer Grauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077202 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

Data-Driven Learning of the Generalized Langevin Equation with State-Dependent Memory

Pei Ge, Zhongqiang Zhang, and Huan Lei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077301 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

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Measuring Entanglement in Physical Networks

Cory Glover and Albert-László Barabási

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077401 (2024) - Published 13 August, 2024

A new mathematical measure of knottiness could help improve the transport efficiencies of subway and road systems, as well as other physical networks.

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Delayed Excitations Induce Polymer Looping and Coherent Motion

Andriy Goychuk, Deepti Kannan, and Mehran Kardar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 078101 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024

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Discontinuous Transition in Electrolyte Flow through Charge-Patterned Nanochannels

Tine Curk, Sergi G. Leyva, and Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 078201 (2024) - Published 14 August, 2024

Electrically patterning the walls of a nanochannel could provide a route to creating “valves” that abruptly alter the speed at which a charged fluid flows through a nanofluidic device.

Defect Solutions of the Nonreciprocal Cahn-Hilliard Model: Spirals and Targets

Navdeep Rana and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 078301 (2024) - Published 15 August, 2024