State-of-the-Art Estimation of Protein Model Accuracy Using AlphaFold
James P. Roney and Sergey Ovchinnikov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238101 (2022) – Published 28 November 2022
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Cosmic Optical Background Excess, Dark Matter, and Line-Intensity Mapping
José Luis Bernal, Gabriela Sato-Polito, and Marc Kamionkowski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231301 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Axions that decay into photons could account for visible light that exceeds what’s expected to come from all known galaxies.

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Fundamental Limitation on the Detectability of Entanglement
Pengyu Liu, Zhenhuan Liu, Shu Chen, and Xiongfeng Ma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230503 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022

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Universal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Dynamics in Integrable Quantum Systems
Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Jack Kemp, Ross B. Hutson, and Norman Y. Yao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230602 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022

Numerical evidence based on sophisticated tensor network methods supports a stronger conjecture that Kardar-Parisi-Zhang dynamics occurs in all integrable spin chains with non-Abelian symmetry and corresponding integrable Floquet models.

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Standard Model Prediction for Paramagnetic Electric Dipole Moments
Yohei Ema, Ting Gao, and Maxim Pospelov
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The spin Hall effect of light in photonic crystal slabs via momentum-space topological vortices around bound states in the continuum reveals intriguing spin-related topological effects.

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Electric Field-Controlled Damping Switches of Coupled Dirac Plasmons
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General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
Contextuality and Wigner Negativity Are Equivalent for Continuous-Variable Quantum Measurements
Robert I. Booth, Ulysse Chabaud, and Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230401 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Projective Measurements Are Sufficient for Recycling Nonlocality
Anna Steffinlongo and Armin Tavakoli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230402 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Exponentially Decreasing Critical Detection Efficiency for Any Bell Inequality
Nikolai Miklin, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Mohamed Bourennane, Marcin Pawłowski, and Adán Cabello
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230403 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Constant-Cost Implementations of Clifford Operations and Multiply-Controlled Gates Using Global Interactions
Sergey Bravyi, Dmitri Maslov, and Yunseong Nam
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230501 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Optimal Thresholds for Fracton Codes and Random Spin Models with Subsystem Symmetry
Hao Song (宋昊), Janik Schönmeier-Kromer, Ke Liu (刘科 子竞), Oscar Viyuela, Lode Pollet, and M. A. Martin-Delgado
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230502 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Fundamental Limitation on the Detectability of Entanglement
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Quantum State Preparation with Optimal Circuit Depth: Implementations and Applications
Xiao-Ming Zhang, Tongyang Li, and Xiao Yuan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230504 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Complete Frequency-Bin Bell Basis Synthesizer
Suparna Seshadri, Hsuan-Hao Lu, Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner, and Joseph M. Lukens
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230505 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Taming Quantum Noise for Efficient Low Temperature Simulations of Open Quantum Systems
Meng Xu, Yaming Yan, Qiang Shi, J. Ankerhold, and J. T. Stockburger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230601 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Universal Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Dynamics in Integrable Quantum Systems
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230602 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022

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Simulation of a Particle Domain in a Continuum, Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Reservoir
Abbas Gholami, Rupert Klein, and Luigi Delle Site
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230603 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Thermodynamics of Quantum Switch Information Capacity Activation
Xiangjing Liu, Daniel Ebler, and Oscar Dahlsten
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 230604 (2022) – Published 1 December 2022
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Gravitation and Astrophysics
Explaining the GeV Antiproton Excess, GeV 
γ
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-Boson Mass Anomaly in an Inert Two Higgs Doublet Model
Cheng-Rui Zhu, Ming-Yang Cui, Zi-Qing Xia, Zhao-Huan Yu, Xiaoyuan Huang, Qiang Yuan, and Yi-Zhong Fan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231101 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Cosmic Optical Background Excess, Dark Matter, and Line-Intensity Mapping
José Luis Bernal, Gabriela Sato-Polito, and Marc Kamionkowski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231301 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Elementary Particles and Fields
Jackiw-Teitelboim Gravity from the Karch-Randall Braneworld
Hao Geng, Andreas Karch, Carlos Perez-Pardavila, Suvrat Raju, Lisa Randall, Marcos Riojas, and Sanjit Shashi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231601 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Yangian Symmetry in Five Dimensions
Arthur Lipstein and Tristan Orchard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231602 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Pole Skipping in Holographic Theories with Bosonic Fields
Diandian Wang and Zi-Yue Wang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231603 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Associativity of One-Loop Corrections to the Celestial Operator Product Expansion
Kevin Costello and Natalie M. Paquette
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231604 (2022) – Published 1 December 2022
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Standard Model Prediction for Paramagnetic Electric Dipole Moments
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New Constraints on Extended Higgs Sectors from the Trilinear Higgs Coupling
Henning Bahl, Johannes Braathen, and Georg Weiglein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231802 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Study of the Semileptonic Decay 
Λ
+
c
→
Λ
e
+
ν
e
M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 231803 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Infrared Singularities of Multileg QCD Amplitudes with a Massive Parton at Three Loops
Ze Long Liu and Nicolas Schalch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232001 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Nuclear Physics
Hadronic Nucleus-Nucleus Cross Section and the Nucleon Size
Govert Nijs and Wilke van der Schee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232301 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Combined Theoretical Analysis of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry for 
48
Ca
 and 
208
Pb
Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Xavier Roca-Maza, and Witold Nazarewicz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232501 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Determining 
g
A
/
g
V
 with High-Resolution Spectral Measurements Using a 
LiInSe
2
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A. F. Leder, D. Mayer, J. L. Ouellet, F. A. Danevich, L. Dumoulin, A. Giuliani, J. Kostensalo, J. Kotila, P. de Marcillac, C. Nones, V. Novati, E. Olivieri, D. Poda, J. Suhonen, V. I. Tretyak, L. Winslow, and A. Zolotarova
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 232502 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Ultrafast Imaging of Molecular Chirality with Photoelectron Vortices
Xavier Barcons Planas, Andrés Ordóñez, Maciej Lewenstein, and Andrew S. Maxwell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233201 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Universal van der Waals Force between Heavy Polarons in Superfluids
Keisuke Fujii, Masaru Hongo, and Tilman Enss
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233401 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Cavity-Based Reservoir Engineering for Floquet-Engineered Superconducting Circuits
Francesco Petiziol and André Eckardt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233601 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.
Angular-Dependent Klein Tunneling in Photonic Graphene
Zhaoyang Zhang, Yuan Feng, Feng Li, Sergei Koniakhin, Changbiao Li, Fu Liu, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Guillaume Malpuech, and Dmitry Solnyshkov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 233901 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Plasma and Beam Physics
Stable Operation of a Free-Electron Laser Driven by a Plasma Accelerator
M. Galletti et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 234801 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Ablating Ion Velocity Distributions in Short-Pulse-Heated Solids via X-Ray Doppler Shifts
B. F. Kraus, Lan Gao, W. Fox, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. C. Efthimion, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, Shoujun Wang, Huanyu Song, and J. J. Rocca
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235001 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Deep Electric Field Predictions by Drift-Reduced Braginskii Theory with Plasma-Neutral Interactions Based on Experimental Images of Boundary Turbulence
A. Mathews, J. W. Hughes, J. L. Terry, and S. G. Baek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235002 (2022) – Published 2 December 2022
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.
Phase Transition Dynamics in a Complex Oxide Heterostructure
Qingteng Zhang (张庆腾), Guoxiang Hu (胡国香), Vitalii Starchenko, Gang Wan, Eric M. Dufresne, Yongqi Dong, Huajun Liu, Hua Zhou, Hyoungjeen Jeen, Kayahan Saritas, Jaron T. Krogel, Fernando A. Reboredo, Ho Nyung Lee, Alec R. Sandy, Irene Calvo Almazan, Panchapakesan Ganesh, and Dillon D. Fong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 235701 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Spin Hall Effect of Light via Momentum-Space Topological Vortices around Bound States in the Continuum
Jiajun Wang, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 236101 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.
Topological Hall Effect Anisotropy in Kagome Bilayer Metal 
Fe
3
Sn
2
Qianheng Du, Zhixiang Hu, Myung-Geun Han, Fernando Camino, Yimei Zhu, and C. Petrovic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 236601 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Synergetic Ferroelectricity and Superconductivity in Zero-Density Dirac Semimetals near Quantum Criticality
Vladyslav Kozii, Avraham Klein, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Jonathan Ruhman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237001 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Surface Cooper-Pair Spin Waves in Triplet Superconductors
Nicholas R. Poniatowski, Jonathan B. Curtis, Charlotte G. L. Bøttcher, Victor M. Galitski, Amir Yacoby, Prineha Narang, and Eugene Demler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237002 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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Inertial Spin Dynamics in Epitaxial Cobalt Films
Vivek Unikandanunni, Rajasekhar Medapalli, Marco Asa, Edoardo Albisetti, Daniela Petti, Riccardo Bertacco, Eric E. Fullerton, and Stefano Bonetti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237201 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Line-Graph Approach to Spiral Spin Liquids
Shang Gao, Ganesh Pokharel, Andrew F. May, Joseph A. M. Paddison, Chris Pasco, Yaohua Liu, Keith M. Taddei, Stuart Calder, David G. Mandrus, Matthew B. Stone, and Andrew D. Christianson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237202 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Dephasing Dynamics across Different Local Vibrational Modes and Crystalline Environments
T. J. Keat, D. J. L. Coxon, M. Staniforth, M. W. Dale, V. G. Stavros, M. E. Newton, and J. Lloyd-Hughes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237401 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Electric Field-Controlled Damping Switches of Coupled Dirac Plasmons
Huayang Zhang, Xiaodong Fan, Dongli Wang, Dongbo Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, and Changgan Zeng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 237402 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022

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Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Probing Cage Relaxation in Concentrated Protein Solutions by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
Yuriy Chushkin, Alessandro Gulotta, Felix Roosen-Runge, Antara Pal, Anna Stradner, and Peter Schurtenberger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238001 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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Numerical Test of the Onsager Relations in a Driven System
Xipeng Wang, Jure Dobnikar, and Daan Frenkel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238002 (2022) – Published 29 November 2022
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From Subaging to Hyperaging in Structural Glasses
Luis F. Elizondo-Aguilera, Tommaso Rizzo, and Thomas Voigtmann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238003 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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State-of-the-Art Estimation of Protein Model Accuracy Using AlphaFold
James P. Roney and Sergey Ovchinnikov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238101 (2022) – Published 28 November 2022
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Length Regulation Drives Self-Organization in Filament-Motor Mixtures
Moritz Striebel, Fridtjof Brauns, and Erwin Frey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 238102 (2022) – Published 30 November 2022
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