HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION Realization of a Laughlin State of Two Rapidly Rotating Fermions Philipp Lunt, Paul Hill, Johannes Reiter, Philipp M. Preiss, Maciej Gałka, and Selim Jochim Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253401 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 By controlling the motion and interaction of individual atoms in a cold-atom ensemble, researchers have produced a correlated topological state of matter, called a fractional quantum Hall state. FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy S. Balugani, J. A. Hernandez, N. Sévelin-Radiguet, O. Mathon, V. Recoules, J. J. Kas, D. E. Eakins, H. Doyle, A. Ravasio, and R. Torchio Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254101 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores. FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators A. Picksley, J. Stackhouse, C. Benedetti, K. Nakamura, H. E. Tsai, R. Li, B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, E. Rockafellow, H. M. Milchberg, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, and A. J. Gonsalves Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 A laser-driven electron accelerator delivers beams of ~10-GeV electrons—an approach that could lead to cheaper, more compact alternatives to large-scale x-ray sources and particle accelerators. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Constraining Light QCD Axions with Isolated Neutron Star Cooling Antonio Gómez-Bañón, Kai Bartnick, Konstantin Springmann, and José A. Pons Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251002 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 New constraints are placed in the axion parameter space by using the effect of light QCD axion on neutron star structure and the rate of neutron star cooling. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Two-Loop Electron Self-Energy for Low Nuclear Charges V. A. Yerokhin, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251803 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 A new approach extrapolates the two-loop QED correction for 1⁢𝑆 Lamb shift at higher atomic numbers to hydrogen, resulting in a two-fold improvement in precision and a 3.3 kHz shift to the measured value of the Rydberg constant. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Phase Diagram, 𝑑-Wave Superconductivity, and Pseudogap of the 𝑡 −𝑡′ −𝐽 Model at Finite Temperature Dai-Wei Qu, Qiaoyi Li, Shou-Shu Gong, Yang Qi, Wei Li, and Gang Su Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256003 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 Thermal tensor network simulation is able to obtain the phase diagram of the 𝑡−𝑡′−𝐽 model, and finds a domelike superconductive regime. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Metallic Bonding in Close-Packed Structures: Structural Frustration from a Hidden Gauge Symmetry Eric He, C. M. Wilson, and R. Ganesh Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256401 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Symmetry conditions dictated by band structure and nearest-neighbor interactions indicate why specific complex ordered structures are present in lithium and sodium under pressure. EDITORS' SUGGESTION Thermally Stimulated Spin Switching Accelerates Water Electrolysis Mengfei Lu, Yu Du, Shicheng Yan, Tao Yu, and Zhigang Zou Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258001 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 The Invar effect on a catalyst promotes oxygen evolution reaction kinetics. LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Catalytic and Asymptotic Equivalence for Quantum Entanglement Ray Ganardi, Tulja Varun Kondra, and Alexander Streltsov Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250201 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 Black Box Work Extraction and Composite Hypothesis Testing Kaito Watanabe and Ryuji Takagi Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250401 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Quantum Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes in Lattice Gauge Theories Zohreh Davoudi, Christopher Jarzynski, Niklas Mueller, Greeshma Oruganti, Connor Powers, and Nicole Yunger Halpern Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250402 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 Quantum-Limited Generalized Measurement for Tunnel-Coupled Condensates Maximilian Prüfer, Yuri Minoguchi, Tiantian Zhang, Yevhenii Kuriatnikov, M. Venkat Ramana, and Jörg Schmiedmayer Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250403 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024 Enhancing Initial State Overlap through Orbital Optimization for Faster Molecular Electronic Ground-State Energy Estimation Pauline J. Ollitrault, Cristian L. Cortes, Jérôme F. Gonthier, Robert M. Parrish, Dario Rocca, Gian-Luca Anselmetti, Matthias Degroote, Nikolaj Moll, Raffaele Santagati, and Michael Streif Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250601 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Photonic Quantum State Tomography Using Free Electrons Alexey Gorlach, Salomon Malka, Aviv Karnieli, Raphael Dahan, Eliahu Cohen, Avi Pe’er, and Ido Kaminer Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 250801 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024 Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Resonant Conversion of Wave Dark Matter in the Ionosphere Carl Beadle, Andrea Caputo, and Sebastian A. R. Ellis Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251001 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Constraining Light QCD Axions with Isolated Neutron Star Cooling Antonio Gómez-Bañón, Kai Bartnick, Konstantin Springmann, and José A. Pons Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251002 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 New constraints are placed in the axion parameter space by using the effect of light QCD axion on neutron star structure and the rate of neutron star cooling. Interacting Dark Energy after DESI Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Measurements William Giarè, Miguel A. Sabogal, Rafael C. Nunes, and Eleonora Di Valentino Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251003 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Self-Interacting Dark Sectors in Supernovae Can Behave as a Relativistic Fluid Damiano F. G. Fiorillo and Edoardo Vitagliano Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251004 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Curvature Dependence of Gravitational-Wave Tests of General Relativity Ethan Payne, Maximiliano Isi, Katerina Chatziioannou, Luis Lehner, Yanbei Chen, and Will M. Farr Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251401 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Particles and Fields Bootstrap Principle for the Spectrum and Scattering of Strings Clifford Cheung, Aaron Hillman, and Grant N. Remmen Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251601 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Noninvertible Symmetry-Resolved Affleck-Ludwig-Cardy Formula and Entanglement Entropy from the Boundary Tube Algebra Yichul Choi, Brandon C. Rayhaun, and Yunqin Zheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251602 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Measurement of 𝐶⁢𝑃 Violation Observables in 𝐷+→𝐾−⁢𝐾+⁢𝜋+ Decays R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251801 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Final CONUS Results on Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering at the Brokdorf Reactor N. Ackermann, H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck, K. Fülber, J. Hakenmüller, J. Hempfling, J. Henrichs, G. Heusser, M. Lindner, W. Maneschg, T. Rink, E. Sánchez García, J. Stauber, H. Strecker, and R. Wink (CONUS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251802 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Two-Loop Electron Self-Energy for Low Nuclear Charges V. A. Yerokhin, Z. Harman, and C. H. Keitel Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 251803 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 A new approach extrapolates the two-loop QED correction for 1⁢𝑆 Lamb shift at higher atomic numbers to hydrogen, resulting in a two-fold improvement in precision and a 3.3 kHz shift to the measured value of the Rydberg constant. Nuclear Physics Disentangling Sources of Momentum Fluctuations in Xe+Xe and Pb+Pb Collisions with the ATLAS Detector G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 252301 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Generative Modeling of Nucleon-Nucleon Interactions Pengsheng Wen, Jeremy W. Holt, and Maggie Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 252501 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Observation of Laser-Assisted Dynamic Interference by Attosecond Controlled Photoelectron Spectroscopy Mingxuan Li, Meng-Fei Xie, Huiyong Wang, Lijuan Jia, Jialong Li, Wentao Wang, Jiaao Cai, Xiaochun Hong, Xiaosen Shi, Yi Lv, Xinning Zhao, Sizuo Luo, Wei-Chao Jiang, Liang-You Peng, and Dajun Ding Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253201 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Enhanced Quantum State Transfer via Feedforward Cancellation of Optical Phase Noise Benjamin P. Maddox, Jonathan M. Mortlock, Tom R. Hepworth, Adarsh P. Raghuram, Philip D. Gregory, Alexander Guttridge, and Simon L. Cornish Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253202 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION Realization of a Laughlin State of Two Rapidly Rotating Fermions Philipp Lunt, Paul Hill, Johannes Reiter, Philipp M. Preiss, Maciej Gałka, and Selim Jochim Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253401 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 By controlling the motion and interaction of individual atoms in a cold-atom ensemble, researchers have produced a correlated topological state of matter, called a fractional quantum Hall state. Floquet-Driven Crossover from Density-Assisted Tunneling to Enhanced Pair Tunneling Nick Klemmer, Janek Fleper, Valentin Jonas, Ameneh Sheikhan, Corinna Kollath, Michael Köhl, and Andrea Bergschneider Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253402 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Exponentially Enhanced Scheme for the Heralded Qudit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger State in Linear Optics Seungbeom Chin, Junghee Ryu, and Yong-Su Kim Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253601 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Rotational Locking of Charged Microparticles in Quadrupole Ion Traps Maxime Perdriat, Cosimo C. Rusconi, Tom Delord, Paul Huillery, Clément Pellet-Mary, Alrik Durand, Benjamin A. Stickler, and Gabriel Hétet Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253602 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Interfacial Dripping Faucet: Generating Monodisperse Liquid Lenses Lorène Champougny, Vincent Bertin, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254001 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy S. Balugani, J. A. Hernandez, N. Sévelin-Radiguet, O. Mathon, V. Recoules, J. J. Kas, D. E. Eakins, H. Doyle, A. Ravasio, and R. Torchio Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254101 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 By measuring the melting temperature of iron under high transient pressure, researchers set a limit on the temperature at the boundary between the inner and outer cores. Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams FEATURED IN PHYSICS EDITORS' SUGGESTION Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators A. Picksley, J. Stackhouse, C. Benedetti, K. Nakamura, H. E. Tsai, R. Li, B. Miao, J. E. Shrock, E. Rockafellow, H. M. Milchberg, C. B. Schroeder, J. van Tilborg, E. Esarey, C. G. R. Geddes, and A. J. Gonsalves Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 A laser-driven electron accelerator delivers beams of ~10-GeV electrons—an approach that could lead to cheaper, more compact alternatives to large-scale x-ray sources and particle accelerators. Condensed Matter and Materials Kolmogorov-Hinze Scales in Turbulent Superfluids Tsuyoshi Kadokura and Hiroki Saito Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256001 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Giant Thermoelectric Response of Fluxons in Superconductors Alok Nath Singh, Bibek Bhandari, Alessandro Braggio, Francesco Giazotto, and Andrew N. Jordan Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256002 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Phase Diagram, 𝑑-Wave Superconductivity, and Pseudogap of the 𝑡 −𝑡′ −𝐽 Model at Finite Temperature Dai-Wei Qu, Qiaoyi Li, Shou-Shu Gong, Yang Qi, Wei Li, and Gang Su Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256003 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 Thermal tensor network simulation is able to obtain the phase diagram of the 𝑡−𝑡′−𝐽 model, and finds a domelike superconductive regime. Parametrically Long Lifetime of Superdiffusion in Nonintegrable Spin Chains Adam J. McRoberts and Roderich Moessner Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256301 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024 EDITORS' SUGGESTION Metallic Bonding in Close-Packed Structures: Structural Frustration from a Hidden Gauge Symmetry Eric He, C. M. Wilson, and R. Ganesh Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256401 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Symmetry conditions dictated by band structure and nearest-neighbor interactions indicate why specific complex ordered structures are present in lithium and sodium under pressure. Fano Resonance in Epsilon-Near-Zero Media Wendi Yan, Hao Li, Xu Qin, Peihang Li, Pengyu Fu, Kaifeng Li, and Yue Li Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256402 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 Distinct Charge and Spin Recovery Dynamics in a Photoexcited Mott Insulator Sankha Subhra Bakshi and Pinaki Majumdar Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256501 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Mass Acquisition of Dirac Fermions in Bi4⁢I4 by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Ming Yang, Wenxuan Zhao, Dan Mu, Zhijian Shi, Jingyuan Zhong, Yaqi Li, Yundan Liu, Jianxin Zhong, Ningyan Cheng, Wei Zhou, Jianfeng Wang, Yan Shi, Ying Sun, Weichang Hao, Lexian Yang, Jincheng Zhuang, and Yi Du Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256601 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 On-Chip Elastic Wave Manipulations Based on Synthetic Dimension Zhenxing Cui, Chaohua Wu, Qiang Wei, Mou Yan, and Gang Chen Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256602 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Photogalvanic Effects in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Fernando Peñaranda, Héctor Ochoa, and Fernando de Juan Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256603 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Many-Body Systems with Spurious Modular Commutators Julian Gass and Michael Levin Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256604 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024 Inter- and Intrasublattice Spin Mixing Conductance of the Antiferromagnetic Spin Pumping Effect in 𝛼−Fe2⁢O3/Pt T. Hattori, A. Fukuoka, K. Kawagita, K. Tada, Y. Ishikawa, Y. Yamaguchi, Y. Tatematsu, Y. Fujii, M. Kimata, S. Kimura, D. Kan, J. Ohe, and T. Moriyama Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256701 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Self-Intercalation as Origin of High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Epitaxially Grown Fe5⁢GeTe2 Thin Films M. Silinskas, S. Senz, P. Gargiani, A. M. Ruiz, B. Kalkofen, I. Kostanovski, K. Mohseni, J. J. Baldoví, H. L. Meyerheim, S. S. P. Parkin, and A. Bedoya-Pinto Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256702 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Programmable Kondo Effect Formed by Landau Levels Hong Chen, Yun Chen, Rui Wang, and Baigeng Wang Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256703 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Quantifying Memory in Spin Glasses I. Paga et al. (Janus Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256704 (2024) - Published 20 December, 2024 Dual Mechanism for Transient Capacitance Anomaly in Improper Ferroelectrics Xin Li, Yu Yun, Pratyush Buragohain, Haidong Lu, Arashdeep Singh Thind, Donald A. Walko, Detian Yang, Rohan Mishra, Alexei Gruverman, and Xiaoshan Xu Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 256801 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Extreme Synergy in the Random-Energy Model Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn and David J. Schwab Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 257401 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics EDITORS' SUGGESTION Thermally Stimulated Spin Switching Accelerates Water Electrolysis Mengfei Lu, Yu Du, Shicheng Yan, Tao Yu, and Zhigang Zou Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258001 (2024) - Published 19 December, 2024 The Invar effect on a catalyst promotes oxygen evolution reaction kinetics. Minimum Scaling Model and Exact Exponents for the Nambu-Goldstone Modes in the Vicsek Model Harukuni Ikeda Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258301 (2024) - Published 16 December, 2024 Condensation and Synchronization in Aligning Chiral Active Matter Yujia Wang, Bruno Ventéjou, Hugues Chaté, and Xia-qing Shi Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258302 (2024) - Published 17 December, 2024 Nonreciprocal Alignment Induces Asymmetric Clustering in Active Mixtures Kim L. Kreienkamp and Sabine H. L. Klapp Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258303 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024 Measuring Attractive Interaction between a Self-Electrophoretic Micromotor and a Wall Yankai Xu, Chang Liu, Jiayu Liu, Pengzhao Xu, Zuyao Xiao, Wei Wang, and H. P. Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 258304 (2024) - Published 18 December, 2024