Atom Interferometry with Floquet Atom Optics
Thomas Wilkason, Megan Nantel, Jan Rudolph, Yijun Jiang (姜一君), Benjamin E. Garber, Hunter Swan, Samuel P. Carman, Mahiro Abe, and Jason M. Hogan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183202 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
Physics logo Viewpoint: Toward Flawless Atom Optics

The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers—which could boost these devices’ ability to probe new physics.

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Multifractal Conductance Fluctuations in High-Mobility Graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime
Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ramya Nagarajan, Rahul Pandit, and Aveek Bid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186802 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: Electrical Conductance Reveals Complex Fractals

Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition.

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Packed Swarms on Dirt: Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flocks with Quenched and Annealed Disorder
Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, Ananyo Maitra, and John Toner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188004 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: “Dirt” Is No Barrier to Flocking

Predictions indicate that disorder induced by immobile imperfections does not prevent organisms from moving collectively as a group.

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Merger and Postmerger of Binary Neutron Stars with a Quark-Hadron Crossover Equation of State
Yong-Jia Huang, Luca Baiotti, Toru Kojo, Kentaro Takami, Hajime Sotani, Hajime Togashi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Shigehiro Nagataki, and Yi-Zhong Fan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181101 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: Listening to Equation-of-State Changes

Simulations indicate that postmerger gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars could allow researchers to hear the phase transitions between exotic states of matter.

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First-Principles Phonon Quasiparticle Theory Applied to a Strongly Anharmonic Halide Perovskite
Terumasa Tadano and Wissam A. Saidi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185901 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022

First principles lattice dynamics theory predicts the thermal conductivity and the lattice structure phase transition of strongly anharmonic crystals much more accurately than conventional theories.

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General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
Interaction-Induced Non-Hermitian Topological Phases from a Dynamical Gauge Field
W. N. Faugno and Tomoki Ozawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180401 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Highly Adiabatic Time-Optimal Quantum Driving at Low Energy Cost
Lluc Garcia, Josep Maria Bofill, Ibério de P. R. Moreira, and Guillermo Albareda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180402 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022
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Restoring Quantum Communication Efficiency over High Loss Optical Fibers
Francesco Anna Mele, Ludovico Lami, and Vittorio Giovannetti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180501 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Identifying Objects at the Quantum Limit for Superresolution Imaging
Michael R. Grace and Saikat Guha
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180502 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Universal Parity Quantum Computing
Michael Fellner, Anette Messinger, Kilian Ender, and Wolfgang Lechner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 180503 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022
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Gravitation and Astrophysics
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Merger and Postmerger of Binary Neutron Stars with a Quark-Hadron Crossover Equation of State
Yong-Jia Huang, Luca Baiotti, Toru Kojo, Kentaro Takami, Hajime Sotani, Hajime Togashi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Shigehiro Nagataki, and Yi-Zhong Fan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181101 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: Listening to Equation-of-State Changes

Simulations indicate that postmerger gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars could allow researchers to hear the phase transitions between exotic states of matter.

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Elementary Particles and Fields
Pairwise Multiparticle States and the Monopole Unitarity Puzzle
Csaba Csáki, Yuri Shirman, Ofri Telem, and John Terning
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 181601 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Nuclear Physics
Observation of Azimuth-Dependent Suppression of Hadron Pairs in Electron Scattering off Nuclei
S. J. Paul et al. (CLAS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 182501 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Alignment Thresholds of Molecules
Joshua E. Szekely and Tamar Seideman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183201 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Atom Interferometry with Floquet Atom Optics
Thomas Wilkason, Megan Nantel, Jan Rudolph, Yijun Jiang (姜一君), Benjamin E. Garber, Hunter Swan, Samuel P. Carman, Mahiro Abe, and Jason M. Hogan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183202 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
Physics logo Viewpoint: Toward Flawless Atom Optics

The engineering of so-called Floquet states leads to almost-perfect atom-optics elements for matter-wave interferometers—which could boost these devices’ ability to probe new physics.

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Spatial Properties of Entangled Two-Photon Absorption
D. Tabakaev, A. Djorović, L. La Volpe, G. Gaulier, S. Ghosh, L. Bonacina, J.-P. Wolf, H. Zbinden, and R. T. Thew
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183601 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Understanding the Quantum Rabi Ring Using Analogies to Quantum Magnetism
Diego Fallas Padilla, Han Pu, Guo-Jing Cheng, and Yu-Yu Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183602 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Defining the Semiclassical Limit of the Quantum Rabi Hamiltonian
E. K. Irish and A. D. Armour
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183603 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Thouless Pumping of Matter Waves
Qidong Fu, Peng Wang, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Fangwei Ye
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 183901 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
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First-Principles Phonon Quasiparticle Theory Applied to a Strongly Anharmonic Halide Perovskite
Terumasa Tadano and Wissam A. Saidi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 185901 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022

First principles lattice dynamics theory predicts the thermal conductivity and the lattice structure phase transition of strongly anharmonic crystals much more accurately than conventional theories.

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
Giant Second-Order Nonlinear Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Junxi Duan, Yu Jian, Yang Gao, Huimin Peng, Jinrui Zhong, Qi Feng, Jinhai Mao, and Yugui Yao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186801 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Multifractal Conductance Fluctuations in High-Mobility Graphene in the Integer Quantum Hall Regime
Kazi Rafsanjani Amin, Ramya Nagarajan, Rahul Pandit, and Aveek Bid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 186802 (2022) – Published 26 October 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: Electrical Conductance Reveals Complex Fractals

Researchers find that a phenomenon called multifractality manifests in the conductance fluctuations of a 2D electron gas as the gas undergoes a topological phase transition.

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Pseudospin Paramagnons and the Superconducting Dome in Magic Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Chunli Huang, Nemin Wei, Wei Qin, and Allan H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187001 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Nematic-Fluctuation-Mediated Superconductivity Revealed by Anisotropic Strain in 
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Jean-Côme Philippe, Alexis Lespinas, Jimmy Faria, Anne Forget, Dorothée Colson, Sarah Houver, Maximilien Cazayous, Alain Sacuto, Indranil Paul, and Yann Gallais
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187002 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Reconciling Monolayer and Bilayer 
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Dongliang Gong, Junyi Yang, Lin Hao, Lukas Horak, Yan Xin, Evguenia Karapetrova, Jörg Strempfer, Yongseong Choi, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, and Jian Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187201 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Experimental Evidence of 
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 Electron-Gas Rashba Interaction Induced by Asymmetric Orbital Hybridization
G. J. Omar, W. L. Kong, H. Jani, M. S. Li, J. Zhou, Z. S. Lim, S. Prakash, S. W. Zeng, S. Hooda, T. Venkatesan, Y. P. Feng, S. J. Pennycook, L. Shen, and A. Ariando
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187203 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Dramatic Plasmon Response to the Charge-Density-Wave Gap Development in 
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Zijian Lin, Cuixiang Wang, A. Balassis, J. P. Echeverry, A. S. Vasenko, V. M. Silkin, E. V. Chulkov, Youguo Shi, Jiandi Zhang, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187601 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Zeeman Effect in Centrosymmetric Antiferromagnetic Semiconductors Controlled by an Electric Field
Hong Jian Zhao, Xinran Liu, Yanchao Wang, Yurong Yang, Laurent Bellaiche, and Yanming Ma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187602 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Emergence of Interlayer Coherence in Twist-Controlled Graphene Double Layers
Kenneth A. Lin, Nitin Prasad, G. William Burg, Bo Zou, Keiji Ueno, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Allan H. MacDonald, and Emanuel Tutuc
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 187701 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Predicting Defects in Soft Sphere Packings near Jamming Using the Force Network Ensemble
James D. Sartor and Eric I. Corwin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188001 (2022) – Published 24 October 2022
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Coupled Dynamical Phase Transitions in Driven Disk Packings
Akash Ghosh, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, Paul M. Chaikin, Dov Levine, and Shankar Ghosh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188002 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Pumping and Mixing in Active Pores
G. C. Antunes, P. Malgaretti, J. Harting, and S. Dietrich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188003 (2022) – Published 25 October 2022
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Packed Swarms on Dirt: Two-Dimensional Incompressible Flocks with Quenched and Annealed Disorder
Leiming Chen, Chiu Fan Lee, Ananyo Maitra, and John Toner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 188004 (2022) – Published 27 October 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: “Dirt” Is No Barrier to Flocking

Predictions indicate that disorder induced by immobile imperfections does not prevent organisms from moving collectively as a group.

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