Volume 133, Issue 8

23 August 2024

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Sketch of an exciton-hole exchange interaction in a 2D semiconductor moiré superlattice.

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Moiré Exchange Effect in Twisted ${WSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Heterobilayer
Jiayi Zhu, Huiyuan Zheng, Xi Wang, Heonjoon Park, Chengxin Xiao, Yinong Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Daniel R. Gamelin, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086501 (2024)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Realization of a Coherent and Efficient One-Dimensional Atom

Natasha Tomm, Nadia O. Antoniadis, Marcelo Janovitch, Matteo Brunelli, Rüdiger Schott, Sascha R. Valentin, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Patrick P. Potts, Alisa Javadi, and Richard J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083602 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

A device that sorts photon states could lead to a basic component of an all-optical quantum computer.

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Rheology of Suspensions of Non-Brownian Soft Spheres across the Jamming and Viscous-to-Inertial Transitions

Franco Tapia, Chong-Wei Hong, Pascale Aussillous, and Élisabeth Guazzelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 088201 (2024) - Published 20 August, 2024

Experiments on soft granular materials have allowed researchers to derive a rheological description for these materials by extending an established framework valid for hard granular materials.

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Fundamental Limits for Realizing Quantum Processes in Spacetime

V. Vilasini and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 080201 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

In order for quantum processes with indefinite causal order to be realized on a classical spacetime, the inputs and outputs cannot be localized in spacetime.

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Taming Mass Gaps with Anti–de Sitter Space

Christian Copetti, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Ziming Ji, and Shota Komatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 081601 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

The transition from massless to mass-gapped phase in certain quantum field theories in AdS $_{2}$ is shown to be triggered by a singlet operator that becomes marginal.

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Magicity versus Superfluidity around ${}^{28}O$ viewed from the Study of ${}^{30}F$

J. Kahlbow et al. (SAMURAI21-NeuLAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 082501 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

The first identification of the unbound nucleus $^{30}$ F observed at the Samurai spectrometer in RIKEN has consequences for the superfluidity of $^{28}$ O and the two-neutron halo nature of $^{29, 31}$ F.

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Quantum Droplets in Two-Dimensional Bose Mixtures at Finite Temperature

G. Spada, S. Pilati, and S. Giorgini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083401 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Bose mixtures in 2D at finite temperature reveal the coexistence of liquid droplets and gas phases.

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Non-Hermitian Fermi-Dirac Distribution in Persistent Current Transport

Pei-Xin Shen, Zhide Lu, Jose L. Lado, and Mircea Trif

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086301 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

The non-Hermitian Fermi-Dirac distribution provides a framework to compute persistent currents in dissipative superconducting junctions and other non-Hermitian systems in equilibrium.

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Altermagnetic Anomalous Hall Effect Emerging from Electronic Correlations

Toshihiro Sato, Sonia Haddad, Ion Cosma Fulga, Fakher F. Assaad, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086503 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

Researchers predict that antiferromagnetic electron interactions can induce altermagnetism and consequently the anomalous Hall effect in a honeycomb lattice.

LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fundamental Limits for Realizing Quantum Processes in Spacetime

V. Vilasini and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 080201 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

In order for quantum processes with indefinite causal order to be realized on a classical spacetime, the inputs and outputs cannot be localized in spacetime.

Exact Ansatz of Fermion-Boson Systems for a Quantum Device

Samuel Warren, Yuchen Wang, Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros, and David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 080202 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

Localized Virtual Purification

Hideaki Hakoshima, Suguru Endo, Kaoru Yamamoto, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, and Nobuyuki Yoshioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 080601 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

Quantum Sensing with Erasure Qubits

Pradeep Niroula, Jack Dolde, Xin Zheng, Jacob Bringewatt, Adam Ehrenberg, Kevin C. Cox, Jeff Thompson, Michael J. Gullans, Shimon Kolkowitz, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 080801 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Axion Minicluster Streams in the Solar Neighborhood

Ciaran A. J. O’Hare, Giovanni Pierobon, and Javier Redondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 081001 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

Black Hole Formation—Null Geodesic Correspondence

Andrea Ianniccari, Antonio J. Iovino, Alex Kehagias, Davide Perrone, and Antonio Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 081401 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

Particles and Fields

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Taming Mass Gaps with Anti–de Sitter Space

Christian Copetti, Lorenzo Di Pietro, Ziming Ji, and Shota Komatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 081601 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

The transition from massless to mass-gapped phase in certain quantum field theories in AdS $_{2}$ is shown to be triggered by a singlet operator that becomes marginal.

Measurements of the Branching Fraction, Polarization, and $C P$ Asymmetry for the Decay $B^{0} \to ω ω$

Y. Guan et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 081801 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

Precise Measurement of Born Cross Sections for $e^{+} e^{-} \to D \bar{D}$ at $\sqrt{s} = 3.80 - 4.95 GeV$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 081901 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

Nuclear Physics

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Magicity versus Superfluidity around ${}^{28}O$ viewed from the Study of ${}^{30}F$

J. Kahlbow et al. (SAMURAI21-NeuLAND Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 082501 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

In Situ Observation of Nonpolar to Strongly Polar Atom-Ion Collision Dynamics

M. Berngruber, D. J. Bosworth, O. A. Herrera-Sancho, V. S. V. Anasuri, N. Zuber, F. Hummel, J. Krauter, F. Meinert, R. Löw, P. Schmelcher, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083001 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

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Quantum Droplets in Two-Dimensional Bose Mixtures at Finite Temperature

G. Spada, S. Pilati, and S. Giorgini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083401 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of Bose mixtures in 2D at finite temperature reveal the coexistence of liquid droplets and gas phases.

Distinguishing Quantum Phases through Cusps in Full Counting Statistics

Chang-Yan Wang, Tian-Gang Zhou, Yi-Neng Zhou, and Pengfei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083402 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Theory of the Spectral Function of Fermi Polarons at Finite Temperature

Hui Hu, Jia Wang, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083403 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Collective Dynamical Fermi Suppression of Optically Induced Inelastic Scattering

Camen A. Royse, J. Huang, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083404 (2024) - Published 20 August, 2024

Reversible Phasonic Control of a Quantum Phase Transition in a Quasicrystal

Toshihiko Shimasaki, Yifei Bai, H. Esat Kondakci, Peter Dotti, Jared E. Pagett, Anna R. Dardia, Max Prichard, André Eckardt, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083405 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

Scalable Spin Squeezing in Two-Dimensional Arrays of Dipolar Large- $S$ Spins

Youssef Trifa and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083601 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

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Realization of a Coherent and Efficient One-Dimensional Atom

Natasha Tomm, Nadia O. Antoniadis, Marcelo Janovitch, Matteo Brunelli, Rüdiger Schott, Sascha R. Valentin, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Patrick P. Potts, Alisa Javadi, and Richard J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083602 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

A device that sorts photon states could lead to a basic component of an all-optical quantum computer.

Dressed Atom Revisited: Hamiltonian-Independent Treatment of the Radiative Cascade

Francesco V. Pepe and Karolina Słowik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083603 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

All Optical Zepto-Newton-Meter Nanoscale Silk Sensor

Shivali Sokhi and Kamal P. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083801 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Temporal Goos-Hänchen Shift in Synthetic Discrete-Time Heterolattices

Chengzhi Qin, Shulin Wang, Bing Wang, Xinyuan Hu, Chenyu Liu, Yinglan Li, Lange Zhao, Han Ye, Stefano Longhi, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083802 (2024) - Published 20 August, 2024

Ultralow-Loss Integrated Photonics Enables Bright, Narrowband, Photon-Pair Sources

Ruiyang Chen, Yi-Han Luo, Jinbao Long, Baoqi Shi, Chen Shen, and Junqiu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 083803 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Passive Viscous Flow Selection via Fluid-Induced Buckling

Hemanshul Garg, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, Jon Skov Pedersen, and Matteo Pezzulla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 084001 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Pareto Optimization and Tuning of a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

F. Irshad, C. Eberle, F. M. Foerster, K. v. Grafenstein, F. Haberstroh, E. Travac, N. Weisse, S. Karsch, and A. Döpp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 085001 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

Condensed Matter and Materials

Decoding the Drive-Bath Interplay: A Guideline to Enhance Superconductivity

Rui Lin, Aline Ramires, and R. Chitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086001 (2024) - Published 19 August, 2024

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Non-Hermitian Fermi-Dirac Distribution in Persistent Current Transport

Pei-Xin Shen, Zhide Lu, Jose L. Lado, and Mircea Trif

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086301 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

The non-Hermitian Fermi-Dirac distribution provides a framework to compute persistent currents in dissipative superconducting junctions and other non-Hermitian systems in equilibrium.

Exchange-Correlation Energy from Green’s Functions

Steven Crisostomo, E. K. U. Gross, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086401 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

Moiré Exchange Effect in Twisted ${WSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Heterobilayer

Jiayi Zhu, Huiyuan Zheng, Xi Wang, Heonjoon Park, Chengxin Xiao, Yinong Zhang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Jiaqiang Yan, Daniel R. Gamelin, Wang Yao, and Xiaodong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086501 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024

Nonlinear Effects on Charge Fractionalization in Critical Chains

Flávia B. Ramos, Rodrigo G. Pereira, Sebastian Eggert, and Imke Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086502 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

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Altermagnetic Anomalous Hall Effect Emerging from Electronic Correlations

Toshihiro Sato, Sonia Haddad, Ion Cosma Fulga, Fakher F. Assaad, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086503 (2024) - Published 23 August, 2024

Researchers predict that antiferromagnetic electron interactions can induce altermagnetism and consequently the anomalous Hall effect in a honeycomb lattice.

Gapped Boundaries of Fermionic Topological Orders and Higher Central Charges

Minyoung You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086601 (2024) - Published 20 August, 2024

Robust Weak Topological Insulator in the Bismuth Halide ${Bi}_{4} {Br}_{2} I_{2}$

Ryo Noguchi, Masaru Kobayashi, Kaishu Kawaguchi, Wataru Yamamori, Kohei Aido, Chun Lin, Hiroaki Tanaka, Kenta Kuroda, Ayumi Harasawa, Viktor Kandyba, Mattia Cattelan, Alexei Barinov, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Masayuki Ochi, Takao Sasagawa, and Takeshi Kondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 086602 (2024) - Published 22 August, 2024

Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

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Rheology of Suspensions of Non-Brownian Soft Spheres across the Jamming and Viscous-to-Inertial Transitions

Franco Tapia, Chong-Wei Hong, Pascale Aussillous, and Élisabeth Guazzelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 088201 (2024) - Published 20 August, 2024

Experiments on soft granular materials have allowed researchers to derive a rheological description for these materials by extending an established framework valid for hard granular materials.

Matrix Viscoelasticity Decouples Bubble Growth and Mobility in Coarsening Foams

Chiara Guidolin, Emmanuelle Rio, Roberto Cerbino, Fabio Giavazzi, and Anniina Salonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 088202 (2024) - Published 21 August, 2024