Essay: Exploring the Physics of Basic Medical Research
Vahid Sandoghdar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090001 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024

In this installment of the PRL Essay series, Vahid Sandoghdar discusses exciting challenges for physicists in the medical sciences.

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES
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Conformal Invariance in Water-Wave Turbulence
M. Noseda and P. J. Cobelli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 094001 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024

Experiments on gravity-capillary waves and analysis techniques drawn from stochastic partial differential equation theory establish a connection between zero-height isolines and the critical 2D Ising model’s domain walls, revealing a novel link between water-wave turbulence and critical systems.

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Ultrahigh Critical Current Density across Sliding Electrical Contacts in Structural Superlubric State
Tielin Wu, Weipeng Chen, Lingyi Wangye, Yiran Wang, Zhanghui Wu, Ming Ma, and Quanshui Zheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096201 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024

An experimental study of sliding electrical graphite contacts demonstrates simultaneous superlubricity and extremely high electrical conductivity.

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Deep-Learning Density Functional Perturbation Theory
He Li, Zechen Tang, Jingheng Fu, Wen-Han Dong, Nianlong Zou, Xiaoxun Gong, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096401 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024

A framework leveraging deep learning and automatic differentiation circumvents the computational bottleneck associated with density functional perturbation theory calculations.

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Polar Self-Organization of Ferroelectric Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Molecules on Atomically Flat Au(111) Surface
Alexandr A. Marchenko, Oleksiy L. Kapitanchuk, Yaroslava Yu. Lopatina, Kostiantyn G. Nazarenko, Anton I. Senenko, Nathalie Katsonis, Vassili G. Nazarenko, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098101 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024

Using a scanning tunneling microscope polar molecular ordering in a monolayer of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal has been directly observed for the first time.

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Exploration-Exploitation Paradigm for Networked Biological Systems
Vito Dichio and Fabrizio De Vico Fallani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098402 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024

In the context of the brain wiring problem, development of the nematode, 
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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology
Remote Charging and Degradation Suppression for the Quantum Battery
Wan-Lu Song, Hai-Bin Liu, Bin Zhou, Wan-Li Yang, and Jun-Hong An
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090401 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Qudit-Based Spectroscopy for Measurement and Control of Nuclear-Spin Qubits in Silicon Carbide
Erik Hesselmeier, Pierre Kuna, István Takács, Viktor Ivády, Wolfgang Knolle, Nguyen Tien Son, Misagh Ghezellou, Jawad Ul-Hassan, Durga Dasari, Florian Kaiser, Vadim Vorobyov, and Jörg Wrachtrup
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090601 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024
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Readout-Induced Suppression and Enhancement of Superconducting Qubit Lifetimes
Ted Thorbeck, Zhihao Xiao, Archana Kamal, and Luke C. G. Govia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 090602 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation
Self-Similar Growth of Bose Stars
A. S. Dmitriev, D. G. Levkov, A. G. Panin, and I. I. Tkachev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091001 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Binary Coalescences as Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays
Jonas P. Pereira, Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo, Rita C. dos Anjos, and Jaziel G. Coelho
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091401 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Effective Field Theory for Extreme Mass Ratio Binaries
Clifford Cheung, Julio Parra-Martinez, Ira Z. Rothstein, Nabha Shah, and Jordan Wilson-Gerow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091402 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Particles and Fields
Multiparticle Factorization and the Rigidity of String Theory
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Clifford Cheung, Carolina Figueiredo, and Grant N. Remmen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091601 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024
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Effect of Ultralight Dark Matter on 
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Jason L. Evans
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091801 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Observation of 
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, Precision Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with 
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, and First Measurements of 
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M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091802 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Transversity Distributions and Tensor Charges of the Nucleon: Extraction from Dihadron Production and Their Universal Nature
C. Cocuzza, A. Metz, D. Pitonyak, A. Prokudin, N. Sato, and R. Seidl (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091901 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Soft Photon Theorem in QCD with Massless Quarks
Yao Ma, George Sterman, and Aniruddha Venkata
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091902 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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High-Energy Collision of Quarks and Mesons in the Schwinger Model: From Tensor Networks to Circuit QED
Ron Belyansky, Seth Whitsitt, Niklas Mueller, Ali Fahimniya, Elizabeth R. Bennewitz, Zohreh Davoudi, and Alexey V. Gorshkov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 091903 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Nuclear Physics
Evidence for Chiral Wobbler in Nuclei
R. J. Guo (郭睿巨) et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 092501 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Quantum Spectral Analysis by Continuous Measurement of Landau-Zener Transitions
Christopher C. Bounds, Josh P. Duff, Alex Tritt, Hamish A. M. Taylor, George X. Coe, Sam J. White, and L. D. Turner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093401 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Spin- and Momentum-Correlated Atom Pairs Mediated by Photon Exchange and Seeded by Vacuum Fluctuations
Fabian Finger, Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, Nicola Reiter, Panagiotis Christodoulou, Tobias Donner, and Tilman Esslinger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093402 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Observation of Photoassociation Resonances in Ultracold Atom-Molecule Collisions
Jin Cao, Bo-Yuan Wang, Huan Yang, Zhi-Jie Fan, Zhen Su, Jun Rui, Bo Zhao, and Jian-Wei Pan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093403 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024
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Coherent Electron-Vibron Interactions in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
Miguel Á. Martínez-García and Diego Martín-Cano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093601 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024
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Lie Algebraic Quantum Phase Reduction
Wataru Setoyama and Yoshihiko Hasegawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093602 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Photonic Which-Path Entangler Based on Longitudinal Cavity-Qubit Coupling
Z. M. McIntyre and W. A. Coish
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093603 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Observation of Replica Symmetry Breaking in Standard Mode-Locked Fiber Laser
Nicolas P. Alves, Wesley F. Alves, André C. A. Siqueira, Naudson L. L. Matias, Anderson S. L. Gomes, Ernesto P. Raposo, and Marcio H. G. de Miranda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 093801 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate
Editors' Suggestion
Conformal Invariance in Water-Wave Turbulence
M. Noseda and P. J. Cobelli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 094001 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024

Experiments on gravity-capillary waves and analysis techniques drawn from stochastic partial differential equation theory establish a connection between zero-height isolines and the critical 2D Ising model’s domain walls, revealing a novel link between water-wave turbulence and critical systems.

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Exploring the Equivalence between Two-Dimensional Classical and Quantum Turbulence through Velocity Circulation Statistics
Nicolás P. Müller and Giorgio Krstulovic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 094002 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams
Space-Time Structured Plasma Waves
J. P. Palastro, K. G. Miller, R. K. Follett, D. Ramsey, K. Weichman, A. V. Arefiev, and D. H. Froula
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 095101 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Condensed Matter and Materials
ac Hall Effect and Photon Drag of Superconducting Condensates
S. V. Mironov, A. S. Mel’nikov, and A. I. Buzdin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096001 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Dissipationless Counterflow Currents above 
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Guido Homann, Marios H. Michael, Jayson G. Cosme, and Ludwig Mathey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096002 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Atomistic Origin of Diverse Charge Density Wave States in 
CsV
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5
Binhua Zhang, Hengxin Tan, Binghai Yan, Changsong Xu, and Hongjun Xiang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096101 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Ultrahigh Critical Current Density across Sliding Electrical Contacts in Structural Superlubric State
Tielin Wu, Weipeng Chen, Lingyi Wangye, Yiran Wang, Zhanghui Wu, Ming Ma, and Quanshui Zheng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096201 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024

An experimental study of sliding electrical graphite contacts demonstrates simultaneous superlubricity and extremely high electrical conductivity.

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Electric-Field-Tunable Edge Transport in Bernal-Stacked Trilayer Graphene
Saurabh Kumar Srivastav, Adithi Udupa, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Diptiman Sen, and Anindya Das
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096301 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Nonlinear Valley Hall Effect
Kamal Das, Koushik Ghorai, Dimitrie Culcer, and Amit Agarwal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096302 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Deep-Learning Density Functional Perturbation Theory
He Li, Zechen Tang, Jingheng Fu, Wen-Han Dong, Nianlong Zou, Xiaoxun Gong, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096401 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024

A framework leveraging deep learning and automatic differentiation circumvents the computational bottleneck associated with density functional perturbation theory calculations.

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Occupation-Dependent Particle Separation in One-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Lattices
Yi Qin and Linhu Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096501 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Signatures of Correlated Defects in an Ultraclean Wigner Crystal in the Extreme Quantum Limit
P. T. Madathil, C. Wang, S. K. Singh, A. Gupta, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, L. W. Engel, and M. Shayegan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096502 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024
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Quantum Liquid States of Spin Solitons in a Ferroelectric Spin-Peierls State
Shusaku Imajo, Atsushi Miyake, Ryosuke Kurihara, Masashi Tokunaga, Koichi Kindo, Sachio Horiuchi, and Fumitaka Kagawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096601 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Magic Angles and Fractional Chern Insulators in Twisted Homobilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Nicolás Morales-Durán, Nemin Wei, Jingtian Shi, and Allan H. MacDonald
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096602 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024
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Spin-Reorientation-Driven Linear Magnetoelectric Effect in Topological Antiferromagnet 
Cu
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TeO
6
Virna Kisiček, Damir Dominko, Matija Čulo, Željko Rapljenović, Marko Kuveždić, Martina Dragičević, Helmuth Berger, Xavier Rocquefelte, Mirta Herak, and Tomislav Ivek
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096701 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024
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Light-Driven Spontaneous Phonon Chirality and Magnetization in Paramagnets
Yafei Ren, Mark Rudner, and Di Xiao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096702 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Spin-Frame Field Theory of a Three-Sublattice Antiferromagnet
Bastián Pradenas and Oleg Tchernyshyov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096703 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024
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Macroscopic Noise Amplification by Asymmetric Dyads in Non-Hermitian Optical Systems for Generative Diffusion Models
Alexander Johnston and Natalia G. Berloff
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096901 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024
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Spin-Orbit Effects on Exciton Complexes in Diamond
Shinya Takahashi, Yoshiki Kubo, Kazuki Konishi, Riadh Issaoui, Julien Barjon, and Nobuko Naka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 096902 (2024) – Published 26 February 2024
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Nonreciprocity and Circulation in a Passive Josephson-Junction Ring
Arkady Fedorov, N. Pradeep Kumar, Dat Thanh Le, Rohit Navarathna, Prasanna Pakkiam, and Thomas M. Stace
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 097001 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
Giant Thermoelectric Response of Confined Electrolytes with Thermally Activated Charge Carrier Generation
Rajkumar Sarma and Steffen Hardt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098001 (2024) – Published 28 February 2024
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Polar Self-Organization of Ferroelectric Nematic-Liquid-Crystal Molecules on Atomically Flat Au(111) Surface
Alexandr A. Marchenko, Oleksiy L. Kapitanchuk, Yaroslava Yu. Lopatina, Kostiantyn G. Nazarenko, Anton I. Senenko, Nathalie Katsonis, Vassili G. Nazarenko, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098101 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024

Using a scanning tunneling microscope polar molecular ordering in a monolayer of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal has been directly observed for the first time.

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Demixing in Binary Mixtures with Differential Diffusivity at High Density
Erin McCarthy, Raj Kumar Manna, Ojan Damavandi, and M. Lisa Manning
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098301 (2024) – Published 29 February 2024
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Geometry-Sensitive Protrusion Growth Directs Confined Cell Migration
Johannes Flommersfeld, Stefan Stöberl, Omar Shah, Joachim O. Rädler, and Chase P. Broedersz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098401 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Exploration-Exploitation Paradigm for Networked Biological Systems
Vito Dichio and Fabrizio De Vico Fallani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098402 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024

In the context of the brain wiring problem, development of the nematode, 
C
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e
l
e
g
a
n
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, follows an exploration-exploitation paradigm.

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Effects of Molecular Noise on Cell Size Control
Motasem ElGamel and Andrew Mugler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 098403 (2024) – Published 1 March 2024
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COMMENTS
Comment on “Trivial Andreev Band Mimicking Topological Bulk Gap Reopening in the Nonlocal Conductance of Long Rashba Nanowires”
Sankar Das Sarma and Haining Pan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 099601 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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Hess et al. Reply:
Richard Hess, Henry F. Legg, Daniel Loss, and Jelena Klinovaja
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 099602 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024
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ERRATA
Erratum: Ubiquitous Non-Majorana Zero-Bias Conductance Peaks in Nanowire Devices [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 107703 (2019)]
J. Chen, B. D. Woods, P. Yu, M. Hocevar, D. Car, S. R. Plissard, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, T. D. Stanescu, and S. M. Frolov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 099901 (2024) – Published 27 February 2024