Recent Articles in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Recent articles in Physical Review Letters
Author(s): S. Hazra, W. Dai, T. Connolly, P. D. Kurilovich, Z. Wang, L. Frunzio, and M. H. Devoret Readout of superconducting qubits faces a trade-off between measurement speed and unwanted backaction on the qubit caused by the readout drive, such as ${T}_{1}$ degradation and leakage out of the computational subspace. The readout is typically benchmarked by integrating the readout signal and choo… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 100601] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Luca Amendola, Marco Marinucci, and Miguel Quartin We propose a methodology to measure the cosmological spatial curvature by employing the deviation from statistical isotropy due to the Alcock-Paczyński effect of large scale galaxy clustering. This approach has a higher degree of model independence than most other proposed methods, being independent… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101004] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Raghuveer Garani, Michele Redi, and Andrea Tesi We investigate the production of dark matter from metric perturbations produced during inflation or in standard cosmology. Perturbations break Weyl flatness of the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric, allowing conformally coupled fields—in particular, fermions studied here—to be produced even… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101005] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Minho Choi, Andrea Alù, and Arka Majumdar Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces with strong chiral responses to the incident light have been reported, these respon… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103801] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Nishchhal Verma and Raquel Queiroz The quantum metric is known to influence several observables, such as the dielectric constant, superfluid stiffness, and optical mass. However, a direct measurement of the metric has remained elusive. In linear response functions such as electric conductivity, only the matrix elements of the metric … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106403] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Tom Drechsler and Matthias Vojta The destruction of the Kondo effect in a local-moment metal can lead to a topological non-Fermi-liquid phase, dubbed fractionalized Fermi liquid, with spinon-type excitations and an emergent gauge field. We demonstrate that, if the latter displays an internal $π$-flux structure, a chiral heavy-fermi… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106503] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Shengjie Fang, Kumpei Imamura, Yuta Mizukami, Ryuichi Namba, Kota Ishihara, Kenichiro Hashimoto, and Takasada Shibauchi Field-angle-resolved specific heat measurements provide thermodynamic evidence that Na2Co2TeO6 is not a Kitaev spin liquid. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106701] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Xunkai Duan, Jiayong Zhang, Ziye Zhu, Yuntian Liu, Zhenyu Zhang, Igor Žutić, and Tong Zhou Researchers have proposed methods to tune the properties of altermagnets, a step toward practical applications for this new form of magnet. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106801] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Mingqiang Gu, Yuntian Liu, Haiyuan Zhu, Kunihiro Yananose, Xiaobing Chen, Yongkang Hu, Alessandro Stroppa, and Qihang Liu Researchers have proposed methods to tune the properties of altermagnets, a step toward practical applications for this new form of magnet. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106802] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Weibao He, Shun Wan, Yunlan Zuo, Siyang Hu, Ziheng Ren, Zhongyi Yu, Dongsheng Yang, Xiang’ai Cheng, Keyu Xia, Yuze Hu, Hui Jing, and Tian Jiang Illuminating a metasurface with a laser can enable the rapid modulation of the polarization of terahertz light transmitted through the metasurface. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106901] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Seemant Mishra, Artem Ryabov, and Philipp Maass In driven nonlinear systems, phase locking is an intriguing effect leading to robust stationary states that are stable over extended ranges of control parameters. Recent experiments allow for exploring microscopic mechanisms underlying such phenomena in collective dynamics of micro- and nanoparticle… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107102] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Yu’an Li, Yongfeng Zhao, Siyuan Yang, Min Tang, and H. P. Zhang We examine the navigation behavior of the photosensitive alga Euglena gracilis in confined environments. Under uniform lighting conditions, E. gracilis exhibits stochastic movements with nearly straight runs interrupted by abrupt directional changes. The lengths of these runs follow a long-tailed di… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 108301] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Pragya Shukla [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 109901] Published Thu Mar 13, 2025
Author(s): Alex Krolewski, Will J. Percival, and Alex Woodfinden We introduce a new method for measuring the Hubble parameter from low-redshift large-scale observations that is independent of the comoving sound horizon. The method uses the baryon-to-photon ratio determined by the primordial deuterium abundance, together with big bang nucleosynthesis calculations … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101002] Published Wed Mar 12, 2025
Author(s): Maksym Ovchynnikov and Vsevolod Syvolap Understanding how new physics influences the dynamics of cosmic neutrinos during their decoupling is crucial in light of upcoming precise cosmological observations and the need to reconcile cosmological and laboratory probes. Existing approaches to solving the neutrino Boltzmann equation are often m… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101003] Published Wed Mar 12, 2025
Author(s): R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101801] Published Wed Mar 12, 2025
Author(s): R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) A symmetry violation has been observed in a particle-decay process that—together with five related decays—could shed light on the matter–antimatter imbalance in the Universe. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101802] Published Wed Mar 12, 2025
Author(s): Tetsuya Sato, Shinichi Watanabe, Mamoru Matsuo, and Takeo Kato We theoretically investigate nonequilibrium spin fluctuations in a ferromagnet induced by a light pulse. Using a Lindblad equation consistent with the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation, we compute the autocorrelation function of magnetization. Our analysis reveals that this function comprises both th… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106702] Published Wed Mar 12, 2025
Author(s): Alptuğ Ulugöl, Robert J. Hardeman, Frank Smallenburg, and Laura Filion Quasicrystals are materials that exhibit long-range order without translational periodicity. In soft matter, the most commonly observed quasicrystal has 12-fold symmetry and consists of tilings made out of squares and triangles. Intriguingly, both in experiments and simulations, these tilings nearly… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 108201] Published Wed Mar 12, 2025
Author(s): Yue Liu, Chenlong Huang, Xingyu Zhang, and Dahai He In practice, qubit reset must be operated in an extremely short time, which incurs a thermodynamic cost within multiple orders of magnitude above the Landauer bound. We present a general framework to determine the minimal thermodynamic cost and the corresponding optimal protocol for memory erasure u… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 100401] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Steffen Gielen and Lucía Menéndez-Pidal We study the quantum dynamics of an interior planar anti–de Sitter black hole, requiring unitarity in the natural time coordinate conjugate to the cosmological “constant of motion” appearing in unimodular gravity. Both the classical singularity and the horizon are replaced by a nonsingular highly qu… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101501] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Daniele Bielli, Christian Ferko, Liam Smith, and Gabriele Tartaglino-Mazzucchelli We initiate the study of the interplay between T duality and classical stress tensor deformations in two-dimensional sigma models. We first show that a general Abelian T duality commutes with the $T\overline{T}$ deformation, which can be engineered by a gravitational dressing. Then, by using an auxi… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101601] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) An indication of isospin breaking is seen in certain decay modes of Tcs0*(2870) and Tcs1*(2900), which might shed light on the nature of these tetraquark candidates. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101901] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Sajad Azizi, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost We predict a near-threshold (“zero energy”) peak in multiphoton ionization for a dynamical regime where the photon frequency is large compared to the binding energy of the electron. The peak position does not depend on the laser frequency but on the binding energy and the pulse duration. The effect … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103201] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Shuaijia Chen, Ronald T. Leon, Rahmat Qambari, Yan Yan, Menghan Chen, Peter C. Sherrell, Amanda V. Ellis, and Joseph D. Berry Interfacial energy dissipation during stick-slip motion of a liquid drop on a nonconductive polymer substrate is shown to lead to an irreversible increase in electrical charge. This previously unobserved phenomenon occurs during surface wetting, in contrast to the previously reported charge separati… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104002] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Vatsal Sanjay and Detlef Lohse The dynamics of drop impact on a rigid surface strongly depends on the droplet’s velocity, its size, and its material properties. The main characteristics are the droplet’s force exerted on the surface and its maximal spreading radius. The crucial question is how do they depend on the (dimensionless… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104003] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Martin Magnuson, Per Eklund, and Craig Polley The class of two-dimensional carbides and nitrides known as MXenes exhibit remarkable electronic properties. Tailoring these properties, however, requires an in-depth understanding of the band structure and Fermi-surface topology. Surface oxidation of MXenes has previously hampered the characterizat… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106201] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Han Peng, Qiang Wang, Meng Xiao, Xiayi Wang, Shining Zhu, and Hui Liu Twisting two metasurfaces breaks mirror symmetry to generate tunable topological degeneracies, producing mechanism for controlling dispersion and polarization in photonics. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106601] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Stefanie M. Kampa, Florian Sammüller, Matthias Schmidt, and Robert Evans Combining classical density functional theory and machine learning gives access to a generalized universal functional for truncated, pairwise interacting model fluids. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107301] Published Tue Mar 11, 2025
Author(s): Pedro De la Torre Luque, Shyam Balaji, and Joseph Silk We demonstrate that the anomalous ionization rate observed in the Central Molecular Zone can be attributed to MeV dark matter annihilations into ${e}^{+}{e}^{−}$ pairs for galactic dark matter profiles with slopes $γ>1$. The low annihilation cross sections required avoid cosmological constraints … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 101001] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Yasumasa Hikosaka and Stephan Fritzsche The collective Auger decay (CAD) of ${\mathrm{Xe}}^{2+}\text{ }4{d}^{−2}$ double core-hole states in which two outer-shell electrons fill the double inner-shell vacancies while releasing a third energetic Auger electron is explored using multi-electron-ion coincidence spectroscopy. The CAD branching… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 103001] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Valentin Mouet, Guillaume Michel, François Pétrélis, and Stephan Fauve Rayleigh-Bénard convection is investigated with sulfur hexafluoride (${\mathrm{SF}}_{6}$) in the vicinity of its critical point. In the supercritical domain, direct measurements of the heat flux $Q$ as a function of the temperature difference $\mathrm{Δ}T$ are consistent with the usual scaling laws … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 104001] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Jing-Yang You, Chih-En Hsu, Mauro Del Ben, and Zhenglu Li Recent angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) experiments on the kagome metal ${\mathrm{CsV}}_{3}{\mathrm{Sb}}_{5}$ revealed distinct multimodal dispersion kinks and nodeless superconducting gaps across multiple electron bands. The prominent photoemission kinks suggest a definitive coupli… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106401] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Jacques K. Desmarais, Alessandro Erba, Giovanni Vignale, and Stefano Pittalis The Jacob’s ladder of density functional theory (DFT) proposes the compelling view that by extending the form of successful approximations—being guided by exact conditions and selected (least empirical) norms—upper rungs will do better than the lower, thus allowing to balance accuracy and computatio… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106402] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Andreas Gleis, Seung-Sup B. Lee, Gabriel Kotliar, and Jan von Delft A two-site cellular dynamical mean-field theory calculation suggests that the Kondo-breakdown quantum critical point is a novel disorder-free strange-metal fixed point. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106501] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Manato Fujimoto, Daniel E. Parker, Junkai Dong, Eslam Khalaf, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Patrick Ledwith Chern bands at zero magnetic field can have wavefunctions that share essential features with first Landau level, and are promising for realizing non-Abelian topological order. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 106502] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Tan Van Vu and Hisao Hayakawa The thermomajorization Mpemba effect implies the occurrence of the Mpemba effect within a bounded time for any monotone distance measure, utilized to quantify the anomalous relaxation speed [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 107101] Published Mon Mar 10, 2025
Author(s): Ludovico Lami, Francesco Anna Mele, and Bartosz Regula Quantum information theory is plagued by the problem of regularizations, which require the evaluation of formidable asymptotic quantities. This makes it computationally intractable to gain a precise quantitative understanding of the ultimate efficiency of key operational tasks such as entanglement m… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090202] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Weijian Chen, Maryam Abbasi, Serra Erdamar, Jacob Muldoon, Yogesh N. Joglekar, and Kater W. Murch We experimentally study the transient dynamics of a dissipative superconducting qubit under periodic drive toward its nonequilibrium steady states. The corresponding stroboscopic evolution, given by the qubit states at times equal to integer multiples of the drive period, is determined by a (generic… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090402] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Nicolas Delfosse and Edwin Tham We propose a Clifford noise reduction (CliNR) scheme that provides a reduction of the logical error rate of Clifford circuit with lower overhead than error correction and without the exponential sampling overhead of error mitigation. CliNR implements Clifford circuits by splitting them into subcircu… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090603] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Nicola D’Alessandro, Carles Roch i Carceller, and Armin Tavakoli We introduce semidefinite programming hierarchies for benchmarking relevant entanglement properties in the high-dimensional steering scenario. Firstly, we provide a general method for detecting the entanglement dimensionality through certification of the Schmidt number. Its key feature is that the c… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 090802] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Hua-Bi Zeng, Chuan-Yin Xia, Wei-Can Yang, Yu Tian, and Makoto Tsubota Quantum turbulence is a far-from-equilibrium process characterized by high nonlinearity. Holographic duality provides a systematic framework for simulating the decaying ($3+1$)-dimensional quantum turbulence by numerically solving the dual Abelian-Higgs theory in a ($4+1$)-dimensional black hole bac… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091603] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration) Strong constraints from atmospheric neutrinos are placed on oscillation parameters using the DeepCore subdetector of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091801] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Yong-Kang Huang, Yue-Long Shen, Chao Wang, and Yu-Ming Wang We accomplish for the first time the next-to-leading-order computation of the weak annihilation contribution to the electroweak penguin decays $B→{K,π}{ℓ}^{+}{ℓ}^{−}$, which is an essential missing piece of the complete QCD correction to the matrix elements of hadronic operators in the weak effectiv… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 091901] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Lamberto Oltra, Luis Méndez, Ismanuel Rabadán, Klaas Bijlsma, Emiel de Wit, and Ronnie Hoekstra Remarkably large double electron capture cross sections, on the scale of ${10}^{−15}\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}$, are observed in low-energy ($<50\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{eV}/\mathrm{u}$) collisions between ${\mathrm{Sn}}^{3+}$ and ${\mathrm{H}}_{2}$. Given that the reaction is energetically… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093002] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): J. Vandeleur, G. Sanamyan, O. R. Smits, I. A. Valuev, N. S. Oreshkina, and J. S. M. Ginges There is renewed interest in studies of muonic atoms, which may provide detailed information on nuclear structure. A major limiting factor in the interpretation of measurements is the nuclear polarization contribution. We propose a method to determine this contribution to the hyperfine structure in … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093003] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Stefanos Carlström, Rezvan Tahouri, Asimina Papoulia, Jan Marcus Dahlström, Misha Yu Ivanov, Olga Smirnova, and Serguei Patchkovskii It has been shown by Fano [1] that photoionization of a cesium atom by a laser pulse tuned to the vicinity of a Cooper minimum generates spin-polarized electrons. Here we show that while photoionization of rare gases does not provide large spin polarization in the vicinity of the Cooper minimum, the… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093202] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): L. Cavicchioli, C. Fort, F. Ancilotto, M. Modugno, F. Minardi, and A. Burchianti A single quantum droplet in a two-component bosonic mixture of ultracold atoms breaks up into multiple droplets, a behavior consistent with capillary instability. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093401] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Yiyang Chen, Yuanxin Qiu, and Matthew D. Lew We prove that it is impossible to distinguish two spatially coinciding fluorescent molecules from a single rotating molecule using polarization-sensitive imaging, even if one modulates the polarization of the illumination or the detection dipole-spread function (DSF). If the target is known to be a … [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 093805] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
Author(s): Hao Zhang, Zaicheng Zhang, Aditya Jha, Yacine Amarouchene, Thomas Salez, Thomas Guérin, Chaouqi Misbah, and Abdelhamid Maali Lift force of viscous origin is widespread across disciplines, from mechanics to biology. Here, we present the first direct measurement of the lift force acting on a particle moving in a viscous fluid along the liquid interface that separates two liquids. The force arises from the coupling between t… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 094001] Published Fri Mar 07, 2025
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