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Promise of Future Searches for Cosmic Topology

Yashar Akrami, Stefano Anselmi, Craig J. Copi, Johannes R. Eskilt, Andrew H. Jaffe, Arthur Kosowsky, Pip Petersen, Glenn D. Starkman, Kevin González-Quesada, Özenç Güngör, Deyan P. Mihaylov, Samanta Saha, Andrius Tamosiunas, Quinn Taylor, and Valeri Vardanyan (COMPACT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 171501 (2024) – Published 26 April 2024

Focus: The Universe’s Topology May Not Be Simple

Most models for the overall shape and geometry of the Universe—including some exotic ones—are compatible with the latest cosmic observations.

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Light-Matter Interaction near the Schwinger Limit Using Tightly Focused Doppler-Boosted Lasers

Neïl Zaïm, Antonin Sainte-Marie, Luca Fedeli, Pierre Bartoli, Axel Huebl, Adrien Leblanc, Jean-Luc Vay, and Henri Vincenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175002 (2024) – Published 24 April 2024

The interaction of Doppler-boosted light with matter at intensities approaching the Schwinger limit is explored in numerical simulations showing the creation of electron-positron pairs forming high-density relativistic attosecond jets.

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Landau Theory of Altermagnetism

Paul A. McClarty and Jeffrey G. Rau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176702 (2024) – Published 23 April 2024

Landau theory adapted to the zero spin-orbit coupling limit captures features of altermagnets, a class of colinear magnets with spin-split bands.

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Pulsed Electron Lenses for Space Charge Mitigation

Adrian Oeftiger and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 175001 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024

3D tracking simulations show the effectiveness of a space-charge mitigation method that uses pulsed linear electron lenses to effectively increase the space charge limit in hadron synchrotrons by 50%.

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Origin of Pinning Disorder in Magnetic-Field-Induced Wigner Solids

Matthew L. Freeman, P. T. Madathil, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. Baldwin, Y. J. Chung, R. Winkler, M. Shayegan, and L. W. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176301 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024

The radio frequency response of the Wigner crystal at low filling factors reveals the details of the pinning mode resonance and shows how this mode is affected by disorder, and which disorder is driving the frequency dependence.

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Dynamics and Topology of Symmetry Breaking with Skyrmions

J. Pišljar, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, A. Petelin, S. Kralj, and I. Muševič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 178101 (2024) – Published 22 April 2024

Viewpoint: Witnessing the Birth of Skyrmions

Using thin layers of chiral nematic liquid crystals, researchers have observed the formation dynamics of skyrmions.

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First Measurement of the $|t|$ Dependence of Incoherent $J/\psi$ Photonuclear Production

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 162302 (2024) – Published 19 April 2024

The first experimental measurement of the incoherent photonuclear production of $J/\psi$ in ultraperipheral heavy-ion collisions is better explained by the presence of subnuclear quantum fluctuations of the gluon field.

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Precision Measurement of the $n=2$ Triplet $P$ $J=1$ to $J=0$ Fine Structure of Atomic Helium Using Frequency-Offset Separated Oscillatory Fields

F. Heydarizadmotlagh, T. D. G. Skinner, K. Kato, M. C. George, and E. A. Hessels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 163001 (2024) – Published 19 April 2024

Precision measurement of the fine structure in helium makes it possible to perform an independent measurement of the fine structure constant.

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High Density Loading and Collisional Loss of Laser-Cooled Molecules in an Optical Trap

Varun Jorapur, Thomas K. Langin, Qian Wang, Geoffrey Zheng, and David DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 163403 (2024) – Published 18 April 2024

Synopsis: Seeing Collisions in Cold Molecular Clouds

Dense ensembles of laser-cooled molecules allow the observation of molecular collisions—a result that could lead to applications of cold molecular gases in quantum simulation and fundamental physics tests.

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Forward and Inverse Energy Cascade in Fluid Turbulence Adhere to Kolmogorov’s Refined Similarity Hypothesis

H. Yao, P. K. Yeung, T. A. Zaki, and C. Meneveau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 164001 (2024) – Published 17 April 2024

Synopsis: Link Verified between Turbulence and Entropy

The verification of a 63-year-old hypothesis indicates that nonequilibrium statistical mechanics could act as a theoretical framework for describing turbulence.

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Nonmagnetic Ground State in ${\mathrm{RuO}}_2$ Revealed by Muon Spin Rotation

M. Hiraishi, H. Okabe, A. Koda, R. Kadono, T. Muroi, D. Hirai, and Z. Hiroi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166702 (2024) – Published 17 April 2024

Muon spin rotation measurements of the magnetic ground state of a high-purity single-crystal RuO${}_2$, in combination with DFT calculations, show there is no bulk antiferromagnetic order as previously reported.

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Slow Fatigue and Highly Delayed Yielding via Shear Banding in Oscillatory Shear

James O. Cochran, Grace L. Callaghan, Miles J. G. Caven, and Suzanne M. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 168202 (2024) – Published 17 April 2024

Strain localization in shear bands is key to the yielding and material failure of amorphous systems subject to oscillatory shear.

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Experimental Property Reconstruction in a Photonic Quantum Extreme Learning Machine

Alessia Suprano, Danilo Zia, Luca Innocenti, Salvatore Lorenzo, Valeria Cimini, Taira Giordani, Ivan Palmisano, Emanuele Polino, Nicolò Spagnolo, Fabio Sciarrino, G. Massimo Palma, Alessandro Ferraro, and Mauro Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 160802 (2024) – Published 16 April 2024

Synopsis: Quantum Machine Learning Goes Photonic

Measuring a photon’s angular momentum after it passes through optical devices teaches an algorithm to reconstruct the properties of the photon’s initial quantum state.

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Millijoule Terahertz Radiation from Laser Wakefields in Nonuniform Plasmas

Linzheng Wang, Zhelin Zhang, Siyu Chen, Yanping Chen, Xichen Hu, Mingyang Zhu, Wenchao Yan, Hao Xu, Lili Sun, Min Chen, Feng Liu, Liming Chen, Jie Zhang, and Zhengming Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 165002 (2024) – Published 16 April 2024

Millijoule THz emission has been experimentally observed in the backward direction of laser wakefields generated by focusing an intense femtosecond laser pulse on a gas nozzle.

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Record-High $T_c$ and Dome-Shaped Superconductivity in a Medium-Entropy Alloy TaNbHfZr under Pressure up to 160 GPa

Liyunxiao Wu, Jianguo Si, Shixue Guan, He Zhang, Jie Dou, Jun Luo, Jie Yang, Hui Yu, Jiawei Zhang, Xiaoli Ma, Pengtao Yang, Rui Zhou, Miao Liu, Fang Hong, and Xiaohui Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166002 (2024) – Published 16 April 2024

A new medium-entropy alloy, TaNbHfZr, under pressure sets a record high $T_c$ in its class of materials at 15.3 K.

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Exact Matrix Product States at the Quantum Lifshitz Tricritical Point in a Spin-$1/2$ Zigzag-Chain Antiferromagnet with Anisotropic $\mathrm{\Gamma }$ Term

Hidehiro Saito and Chisa Hotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166701 (2024) – Published 16 April 2024

An exact full set of matrix product states of highly degenerate tricritical Lifshitz points in the quantum spin model with anisotropic interactions has been discovered.

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Feasible Route to High-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Hydride Superconductivity

Kapildeb Dolui, Lewis J. Conway, Christoph Heil, Timothy A. Strobel, Rohit P. Prasankumar, and Chris J. Pickard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166001 (2024) – Published 15 April 2024

First-principles structure predictions across a very wide range of chemical compositions suggest that the cubic Mg${}_2$IrH${}_6$ structure is dynamically stable at zero pressure, and is computed to have a $T_c$ of around 160K.

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Observations of Rogue Seas in the Southern Ocean

A. Toffoli, A. Alberello, H. Clarke, F. Nelli, A. Benetazzo, F. Bergamasco, B. Ntamba Ntamba, M. Vichi, and M. Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 154101 (2024) – Published 12 April 2024

Focus: Ocean Measurements Detect Conditions for Giant Waves

Observations of the Southern Ocean show that wind can produce the surface states needed to generate rare “rogue” waves.

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Origin of Anomalously Large Depletion Zones in Like-Charged Colloid-Polyelectrolyte Mixtures

C. M. Martens, M. Vis, and R. Tuinier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158103 (2024) – Published 12 April 2024

An explicit analytical expression to predict the size of the depletion zone in like-charged polyelectrolyte-colloid mixtures allows for a direct comparison with experiments.

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Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube

R. Abbasi et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151001 (2024) – Published 11 April 2024

: Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos Unmasked

Scientists have found seven astrophysical tau neutrinos—particles that are notoriously difficult to detect—in an analysis of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica.

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${\mathrm{O}}_2^{+}$ Production Coming from ${\mathrm{CO}}_2$ Single-Event Electron Impact

Ana Beatriz Monteiro-Carvalho, L. Sigaud, and E. C. Montenegro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 153002 (2024) – Published 11 April 2024

: A Pathway to Making Molecular Oxygen That Doesn’t Involve Life

Researchers have quantified a pathway for the formation of molecular oxygen from the interaction of carbon dioxide with electrons, key information for searches of life on other worlds.

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Plasmoid Formation and Strong Radiative Cooling in a Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiment

R. Datta, K. Chandler, C. E. Myers, J. P. Chittenden, A. J. Crilly, C. Aragon, D. J. Ampleford, J. T. Banasek, A. Edens, W. R. Fox, S. B. Hansen, E. C. Harding, C. A. Jennings, H. Ji, C. C. Kuranz, S. V. Lebedev, Q. Looker, S. G. Patel, A. Porwitzky, G. A. Shipley, D. A. Uzdensky, D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, and J. D. Hare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 155102 (2024) – Published 11 April 2024

Magnetic reconnection under conditions of strong radiative cooling has been studied for the first time in a laboratory, and the results might be broadly applicable to several astrophysical settings.

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Billiards with Spatial Memory

Thijs Albers, Stijn Delnoij, Nico Schramma, and Maziyar Jalaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 157101 (2024) – Published 11 April 2024

Spatial memory drastically changes the dynamics and statistics of classical billiards.

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High-Order Nonlinear Electrophoresis in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Mojtaba Rajabi, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li, Hend Baza, Dmitry Golovaty, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 158102 (2024) – Published 11 April 2024

Electrophoretic transport is greatly enhanced in a nematic environment due to shear thinning.

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Verifiable Blind Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions and Single Photons

P. Drmota, D. P. Nadlinger, D. Main, B. C. Nichol, E. M. Ainley, D. Leichtle, A. Mantri, E. Kashefi, R. Srinivas, G. Araneda, C. J. Ballance, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150604 (2024) – Published 10 April 2024

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A trapped-ion quantum server and a photonic client-side system are linked by fiber optics to implement a protocol for secure cloud-based quantum computation.

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