Volume 131, Issue 8

25 August 2023
On the Cover

Apparatus for in vacuo ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of exotic high energy density matter using a modified magnetron sputtering source.

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Direct Observation of Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Copper Nanoparticles in the Warm-Dense Matter Regime
Quynh L. D. Nguyen, Jacopo Simoni, Kevin M. Dorney, Xun Shi, Jennifer L. Ellis, Nathan J. Brooks, Daniel D. Hickstein, Amanda G. Grennell, Sadegh Yazdi, Eleanor E. B. Campbell, Liang Z. Tan, David Prendergast, Jerome Daligault, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085101 (2023)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Mpemba Effect in a Quantum Dot with Reservoirs
Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Satoshi Takada, and Hisao Hayakawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080402 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023

The temperatures of two copies of a quantum dot, one initially hotter than the other, can cross each other at some finite time and reverse their identities, the first such prediction in a quantum regime.

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Variational Neural-Network Ansatz for Continuum Quantum Field Theory
John M. Martyn, Khadijeh Najafi, and Di Luo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081601 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023

A variational ansatz based on deep-sets neural-network architecture enables the parametrization of all multiparticle wave functions in continuum nonrelativistic quantum field theories.

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Real-Space Imaging of Triplon Excitations in Engineered Quantum Magnets
Robert Drost, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Jose L. Lado, and Peter Liljeroth
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086701 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023

A minimal quantum magnet with triplon excitations has been engineered using molecular building blocks in the singlet ground state.

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Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Intensity and Spin Contrast in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers
S. Ernst, P. J. Scheidegger, S. Diesch, L. Lorenzelli, and C. L. Degen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086903 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023

Two photoluminescence experiments and models of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond over broad temperature ranges improve our understanding of the photodynamics of vacancy centers and other spin defects.

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Temperature-Dependent Photophysics of Single NV Centers in Diamond
Jodok Happacher, Juanita Bocquel, Hossein T. Dinani, Märta A. Tschudin, Patrick Reiser, David A. Broadway, Jeronimo R. Maze, and Patrick Maletinsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086904 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023

Two photoluminescence experiments and models of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond over broad temperature ranges improve our understanding of the photodynamics of vacancy centers and other spin defects.

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Shortcuts to Equilibrium with a Levitated Particle in the Underdamped Regime
Damien Raynal, Timothée de Guillebon, David Guéry-Odelin, Emmanuel Trizac, Jean-Sébastien Lauret, and Loïc Rondin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 087101 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023

An experiment using optically-levitated nanoparticles demonstrates a successful application of engineered swift equilibration in the underdamped regime.

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LETTERS

Quantum Information, Science, and Technology

Bell Inequalities with Overlapping Measurements
Moisés Bermejo Morán, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, and Felix Huber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080201 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Quantum Simulation of Topological Zero Modes on a 41-Qubit Superconducting Processor
Yun-Hao Shi, Yu Liu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Zhongcheng Xiang, Kaixuan Huang, Tao Liu, Yong-Yi Wang, Jia-Chi Zhang, Cheng-Lin Deng, Gui-Han Liang, Zheng-Yang Mei, Hao Li, Tian-Ming Li, Wei-Guo Ma, Hao-Tian Liu, Chi-Tong Chen, Tong Liu, Ye Tian, Xiaohui Song, S. P. Zhao, Kai Xu, Dongning Zheng, Franco Nori, and Heng Fan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080401 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Quantum Mpemba Effect in a Quantum Dot with Reservoirs
Amit Kumar Chatterjee, Satoshi Takada, and Hisao Hayakawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080402 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023

The temperatures of two copies of a quantum dot, one initially hotter than the other, can cross each other at some finite time and reverse their identities, the first such prediction in a quantum regime.

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Proposal for Observing Yang-Lee Criticality in Rydberg Atomic Arrays
Ruizhe Shen, Tianqi Chen, Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu, Fang Qin (覃昉), Yin Zhong, Huanqian Loh, and Ching Hua Lee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080403 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Based on the Mermin-Peres Magic Square Game
Yi-Zheng Zhen, Yingqiu Mao, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Feihu Xu, and Barry C. Sanders
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 080801 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation

Probing the Pulsar Explanation of the Galactic-Center GeV Excess Using Continuous Gravitational-Wave Searches
Andrew L. Miller and Yue Zhao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081401 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Self-Dual Gravity and Color-Kinematics Duality in AdS4
Arthur Lipstein and Silvia Nagy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081501 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023
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Particles and Fields

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Variational Neural-Network Ansatz for Continuum Quantum Field Theory
John M. Martyn, Khadijeh Najafi, and Di Luo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081601 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023

A variational ansatz based on deep-sets neural-network architecture enables the parametrization of all multiparticle wave functions in continuum nonrelativistic quantum field theories.

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Extended Axion Dark Matter Search Using the CAPP18T Haloscope
Byeongsu Yang, Hojin Yoon, Moohyun Ahn, Youngjae Lee, and Jonghee Yoo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081801 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023
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Towards Quantum Computing Phase Diagrams of Gauge Theories with Thermal Pure Quantum States
Zohreh Davoudi, Niklas Mueller, and Connor Powers
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 081901 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Nuclear Physics

Toward a Unified Description of Isoscalar Giant Monopole Resonances in a Self-Consistent Quasiparticle-Vibration Coupling Approach
Z. Z. Li (李征征), Y. F. Niu (牛一斐), and G. Colò
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 082501 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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First Observation of Cyclotron Radiation from MeV-Scale e± following Nuclear β Decay
W. Byron et al. (He6-CRES Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 082502 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Imaging a Li6 Atom in an Optical Tweezer 2000 Times with Λ-Enhanced Gray Molasses
Karl N. Blodgett, David Peana, Saumitra S. Phatak, Lane M. Terry, Maria Paula Montes, and Jonathan D. Hood
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083001 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Evaluation of a Sr+88 Optical Clock with a Direct Measurement of the Blackbody Radiation Shift and Determination of the Clock Frequency
M. Steinel, H. Shao, M. Filzinger, B. Lipphardt, M. Brinkmann, A. Didier, T. E. Mehlstäubler, T. Lindvall, E. Peik, and N. Huntemann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083002 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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Sound Propagation in a Bose-Fermi Mixture: From Weak to Strong Interactions
Krutik Patel, Geyue Cai, Henry Ando, and Cheng Chin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083003 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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Landau-Forbidden Quantum Criticality in Rydberg Quantum Simulators
Jong Yeon Lee, Joshua Ramette, Max A. Metlitski, Vladan Vuletić, Wen Wei Ho, and Soonwon Choi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083601 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023
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Orientational Melting in a Mesoscopic System of Charged Particles
Lucia Duca, Naoto Mizukami, Elia Perego, Massimo Inguscio, and Carlo Sias
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083602 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Observation of a Topological Edge State Stabilized by Dissipation
Helene Wetter, Michael Fleischhauer, Stefan Linden, and Julian Schmitt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083801 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023
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Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate

Confinement-Induced Diffusive Sound Transport in Nanoscale Fluidic Channels
Hannes Holey, Peter Gumbsch, and Lars Pastewka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 084001 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams

Direct Observation of Enhanced Electron-Phonon Coupling in Copper Nanoparticles in the Warm-Dense Matter Regime
Quynh L. D. Nguyen, Jacopo Simoni, Kevin M. Dorney, Xun Shi, Jennifer L. Ellis, Nathan J. Brooks, Daniel D. Hickstein, Amanda G. Grennell, Sadegh Yazdi, Eleanor E. B. Campbell, Liang Z. Tan, David Prendergast, Jerome Daligault, Henry C. Kapteyn, and Margaret M. Murnane
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085101 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Self-Consistent Simulation of the Excitation of Compressional Alfvén Eigenmodes and Runaway Electron Diffusion in Tokamak Disruptions
Chang Liu, Andrey Lvovskiy, Carlos Paz-Soldan, Stephen C. Jardin, and Amitava Bhattacharjee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085102 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023
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Extended Magnetic Reconnection in Kinetic Plasma Turbulence
Tak Chu Li, Yi-Hsin Liu, Yi Qi, and Muni Zhou
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 085201 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023
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Condensed Matter and Materials

Predicting the Density-Scaling Exponent of a Glass-Forming Liquid from Complex Dielectric Permittivity Measurements
Marian Paluch, Beibei Yao, Jurgen Pionteck, and Zaneta Wojnarowska
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086101 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Dissipationless Circulating Currents and Fringe Magnetic Fields Near a Single Spin Embedded in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Adonai R. da Cruz and Michael E. Flatté
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086301 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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Observation of Electronic Strong Correlation in VTe2-23×23 Monolayer
Wei-Min Zhao, Wenjun Ding, Qi-Wei Wang, Yu-Xin Meng, Li Zhu, Zhen-Yu Jia, Wenguang Zhu, and Shao-Chun Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086501 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Density of States and Spectral Function of a Superconductor out of a Quantum-Critical Metal
Shang-Shun Zhang and Andrey V. Chubukov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086502 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023
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Chiral-Flux-Phase-Based Topological Superconductivity in Kagome Systems with Mixed Edge Chiralities
Junjie Zeng, Qingming Li, Xun Yang, Dong-Hui Xu, and Rui Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086601 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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Real-Space Imaging of Triplon Excitations in Engineered Quantum Magnets
Robert Drost, Shawulienu Kezilebieke, Jose L. Lado, and Peter Liljeroth
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086701 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023

A minimal quantum magnet with triplon excitations has been engineered using molecular building blocks in the singlet ground state.

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Nonlocal Near-Field Radiative Heat Transfer by Transdimensional Plasmonics
H. Salihoglu, J. Shi, Z. Li, Z. Wang, X. Luo, I. V. Bondarev, S.-A. Biehs, and S. Shen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086901 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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Natural Optical Activity from Density-Functional Perturbation Theory
Asier Zabalo and Massimiliano Stengel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086902 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023
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Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Intensity and Spin Contrast in Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers
S. Ernst, P. J. Scheidegger, S. Diesch, L. Lorenzelli, and C. L. Degen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086903 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023

Two photoluminescence experiments and models of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond over broad temperature ranges improve our understanding of the photodynamics of vacancy centers and other spin defects.

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Editors' Suggestion
Temperature-Dependent Photophysics of Single NV Centers in Diamond
Jodok Happacher, Juanita Bocquel, Hossein T. Dinani, Märta A. Tschudin, Patrick Reiser, David A. Broadway, Jeronimo R. Maze, and Patrick Maletinsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 086904 (2023) – Published 24 August 2023

Two photoluminescence experiments and models of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond over broad temperature ranges improve our understanding of the photodynamics of vacancy centers and other spin defects.

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Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems

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Shortcuts to Equilibrium with a Levitated Particle in the Underdamped Regime
Damien Raynal, Timothée de Guillebon, David Guéry-Odelin, Emmanuel Trizac, Jean-Sébastien Lauret, and Loïc Rondin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 087101 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023

An experiment using optically-levitated nanoparticles demonstrates a successful application of engineered swift equilibration in the underdamped regime.

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Equilibrium Dynamics of Mutually Confined Waves with Signed Analogous Masses
Ping Zhang, Qing Guo, Hao Wu, Zeyu Gong, Binbin Nie, Yi Hu, Zhigang Chen, and Jingjun Xu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 087201 (2023) – Published 22 August 2023
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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics

Anomalous Collective Dynamics of Autochemotactic Populations
Jasper van der Kolk, Florian Raßhofer, Richard Swiderski, Astik Haldar, Abhik Basu, and Erwin Frey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 088201 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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How Flexibility Can Enhance Catalysis
Olivier Rivoire
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 088401 (2023) – Published 23 August 2023
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COMMENTS

Comment on “Magnetization Compensation Temperature and Frustration-Induced Topological Defects in Ferrimagnetic Antiperovskite Mn4N”
Zsolt Gercsi, Yangkun He, and J. M. D Coey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 089701 (2023) – Published 21 August 2023
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Temuujin Bayaraa, Changsong Xu, and L. Bellaiche
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ERRATA

Erratum: Global Polarization of Ξ and Ω Hyperons in Au+Au Collisions at sNN=200  GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162301 (2021)]
J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 089901 (2023) – Published 25 August 2023
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