Precision-Spectroscopic Determination of the Binding Energy of a Two-Body Quantum System: The Hydrogen Atom and the Proton-Size Puzzle
Simon Scheidegger and Frédéric Merkt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113001 (2024) – Published 11 March 2024
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Researchers have measured the transition energy of several highly excited states, which could help resolve a discrepancy about the size of the proton.

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Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Clumping along the Equatorial Rings of SN1987A and Other Stars
Michael J. Wadas, William J. White, Heath J. LeFevre, Carolyn C. Kuranz, Aaron Towne, and Eric Johnsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111201 (2024) – Published 13 March 2024
Physics logo Synopsis: A Supernova Remnant Shaped by Vortices

The clumpy structure of a ring of gas ejected by the progenitor star of the supernova 1987A could have formed when vortices in the gas interacted.

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Multispecies Ion Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection with Hybrid-Kinetic Simulations
Qile Zhang, Fan Guo, William Daughton, Hui Li, Ari Le, Tai Phan, and Mihir Desai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115201 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024

Computationally challenging 3D hybrid simulations of magnetic reconnection for multiple ion species give insights into the acceleration process for heavy ions and energy spectra compatible with in-situ spacecraft observations.

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Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study of 
Sr
2
RhO
4
Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Bernhard Keimer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116502 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024

A combined Raman scattering and theoretical study of spin-orbit excitations in Sr
2
RhO
4
 reveals unusual but well-defined excitations around 230 meV that are excitonic transitions between the spin-orbit multiplets of the Rh ions, excitations analogous to those recently observed in the Mott insulators Sr
2
IrO
4
 and RuCl
3
.

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Quantum Information, Science, and Technology
Solvable Model of Quantum-Darwinism-Encoding Transitions
Benoît Ferté and Xiangyu Cao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110201 (2024) – Published 11 March 2024
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Dynamical Resource Theory of Informational Nonequilibrium Preservability
Benjamin Stratton, Chung-Yun Hsieh, and Paul Skrzypczyk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110202 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Virtual Quantum Broadcasting
Arthur J. Parzygnat, James Fullwood, Francesco Buscemi, and Giulio Chiribella
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110203 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Bounding the Amount of Entanglement from Witness Operators
Liang-Liang Sun, Xiang Zhou, Armin Tavakoli, Zhen-Peng Xu, and Sixia Yu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110204 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Unveiling the Non-Abelian Statistics of 
D
(
S
3
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 Anyons Using a Classical Photonic Simulator
Suraj Goel, Matthew Reynolds, Matthew Girling, Will McCutcheon, Saroch Leedumrongwatthanakun, Vatshal Srivastav, David Jennings, Mehul Malik, and Jiannis K. Pachos
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110601 (2024) – Published 13 March 2024
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Minimum-Consumption Discrimination of Quantum States via Globally Optimal Adaptive Measurements
Boxuan Tian, Wen-Zhe Yan, Zhibo Hou, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110801 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Hydrodynamic Mechanism for Clumping along the Equatorial Rings of SN1987A and Other Stars
Michael J. Wadas, William J. White, Heath J. LeFevre, Carolyn C. Kuranz, Aaron Towne, and Eric Johnsen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111201 (2024) – Published 13 March 2024
Physics logo Synopsis: A Supernova Remnant Shaped by Vortices

The clumpy structure of a ring of gas ejected by the progenitor star of the supernova 1987A could have formed when vortices in the gas interacted.

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Bootstrapping Deconfined Quantum Tricriticality
Shai M. Chester and Ning Su
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111601 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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First Measurement of Discrimination between Helium and Electron Recoils in Liquid Xenon for Low-Mass Dark Matter Searches
S. J. Haselschwardt, R. Gibbons, H. Chen, S. Kravitz, A. Manalaysay, Q. Xia, W. H. Lippincott, and P. Sorensen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 111801 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Nuclear Physics
Momentum Shell in Quarkyonic Matter from Explicit Duality: A Dual Model for Cold, Dense QCD
Yuki Fujimoto, Toru Kojo, and Larry D. McLerran
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 112701 (2024) – Published 11 March 2024
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Precision-Spectroscopic Determination of the Binding Energy of a Two-Body Quantum System: The Hydrogen Atom and the Proton-Size Puzzle
Simon Scheidegger and Frédéric Merkt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113001 (2024) – Published 11 March 2024
Physics logo Viewpoint: Precise Measurement of Hydrogen’s Energy Levels

Researchers have measured the transition energy of several highly excited states, which could help resolve a discrepancy about the size of the proton.

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Electrostatic Trapping of 
N
2
 Molecules in High Rydberg States
M. H. Rayment and S. D. Hogan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113201 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Observation of Subdiffusive Dynamic Scaling in a Driven and Disordered Bose Gas
Gevorg Martirosyan, Christopher J. Ho, Jiří Etrych, Yansheng Zhang, Alec Cao, Zoran Hadzibabic, and Christoph Eigen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113401 (2024) – Published 11 March 2024
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Fast Generation of GHZ-like States Using Collective-Spin 
XYZ
 Model
Xuanchen Zhang, Zhiyao Hu, and Yong-Chun Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113402 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Control and Entanglement of Individual Rydberg Atoms near a Nanoscale Device
Paloma L. Ocola, Ivana Dimitrova, Brandon Grinkemeyer, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Tamara Đorđević, Polnop Samutpraphoot, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113601 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Topological Nature of Radiation Asymmetry in Bilayer Metagratings
Ze-Peng Zhuang, Hao-Long Zeng, Xiao-Dong Chen, Xin-Tao He, and Jian-Wen Dong
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113801 (2024) – Published 11 March 2024
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Localization of Chiral Edge States by the Non-Hermitian Skin Effect
Gui-Geng Liu (刘癸庚), Subhaskar Mandal, Peiheng Zhou, Xiang Xi, Rimi Banerjee, Yuan-Hang Hu, Minggui Wei, Maoren Wang, Qiang Wang, Zhen Gao, Hongsheng Chen, Yihao Yang, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 113802 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate
Reveal the Incidence-Independent Frequency Shift in Acoustic Rotational Doppler Effect
Chuanxin Zhang, Xue Jiang, and Dean Ta
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 114001 (2024) – Published 13 March 2024
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Intermittency as a Consequence of a Stationarity Constraint on the Energy Flux
Sébastien Aumaître and Stephan Fauve
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 114002 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Multispecies Ion Acceleration in 3D Magnetic Reconnection with Hybrid-Kinetic Simulations
Qile Zhang, Fan Guo, William Daughton, Hui Li, Ari Le, Tai Phan, and Mihir Desai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 115201 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024

Computationally challenging 3D hybrid simulations of magnetic reconnection for multiple ion species give insights into the acceleration process for heavy ions and energy spectra compatible with in-situ spacecraft observations.

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Condensed Matter and Materials
Dynamic Nanoindentation and Short-Range Order in Equiatomic NiCoCr Medium-Entropy Alloy Lead to Novel Density Wave Ordering
A. Naghdi, F. J. Domínguez-Gutiérrez, W. Y. Huo, K. Karimi, and S. Papanikolaou
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116101 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Mechanical Control of Polar Patterns in Wrinkled Thin Films via Flexoelectricity
Hongxing Shang, Huiting Dong, Yihan Wu, Feng Deng, Xu Liang, Shuling Hu, and Shengping Shen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116201 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Emergent Inductance from Spin Fluctuations in Strongly Correlated Magnets
Taekoo Oh and Naoto Nagaosa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116501 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Spin-Orbit Excitons in a Correlated Metal: Raman Scattering Study of 
Sr
2
RhO
4
Lichen Wang, Huimei Liu, Valentin Zimmermann, Arvind Kumar Yogi, Masahiko Isobe, Matteo Minola, Matthias Hepting, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Bernhard Keimer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116502 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024

A combined Raman scattering and theoretical study of spin-orbit excitations in Sr
2
RhO
4
 reveals unusual but well-defined excitations around 230 meV that are excitonic transitions between the spin-orbit multiplets of the Rh ions, excitations analogous to those recently observed in the Mott insulators Sr
2
IrO
4
 and RuCl
3
.

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Non-Hermitian Strongly Interacting Dirac Fermions
Xue-Jia Yu, Zhiming Pan, Limei Xu, and Zi-Xiang Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116503 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Photoinduced Electronic and Spin Topological Phase Transitions in Monolayer Bismuth
Bo Peng, Gunnar F. Lange, Daniel Bennett, Kang Wang, Robert-Jan Slager, and Bartomeu Monserrat
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116601 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Slow-Wave Hybrid Magnonics
Jing Xu, Changchun Zhong, Shihao Zhuang, Chen Qian, Yu Jiang, Amin Pishehvar, Xu Han, Dafei Jin, Josep M. Jornet, Bo Zhen, Jiamian Hu, Liang Jiang, and Xufeng Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116701 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Impact of Transforming Interface Geometry on Edge States in Valley Photonic Crystals
D. Yu, S. Arora, and L. Kuipers
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 116901 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems
Being Heterogeneous Is Advantageous: Extreme Brownian Non-Gaussian Searches
Vittoria Sposini, Sankaran Nampoothiri, Aleksei Chechkin, Enzo Orlandini, Flavio Seno, and Fulvio Baldovin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 117101 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics
Inverse Design of Self-Folding 3D Shells
Diogo E. P. Pinto, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Petr Šulc, and John Russo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118201 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Designing Superselectivity in Linker-Mediated Multivalent Nanoparticle Adsorption
Xiuyang Xia and Ran Ni
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118202 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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Emergent Chirality and Hyperuniformity in an Active Mixture with Nonreciprocal Interactions
Jianchao Chen, Xiaokang Lei, Yalun Xiang, Mengyuan Duan, Xingguang Peng, and H. P. Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118301 (2024) – Published 14 March 2024
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Universal Transitions between Growth and Dormancy via Intermediate Complex Formation
Jumpei F. Yamagishi and Kunihiko Kaneko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 118401 (2024) – Published 12 March 2024
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