Physical Review Letters collection of the year 2024
Each year Physical Review Letters publishes about 2000-2500 Letters across ~52 issues. We select about 400 of those papers to highlight as Editors' Suggestions. That is still a lot to read. So, we have decided to provide a more concentrated distillation of some of the most important and interesting papers in physics and related areas.
Here is our Collection of the Year 2024. We have gathered about one issue's worth of Letters, representative of the wide range of interests of the communities advancing fundamental and applied physical science. We plan to have such a collection each year.
This year saw advances in a diverse array of topics: the quantum Mpemba effect, astrophysical neutrino events, black holes, probes of the standard model of particle physics, steps toward the nuclear island of stability, groundwork for a nuclear clock, Feynman’s sprinkler, studies of the ocean and core of the Earth, a milestone in inertial confinement fusion, altermagnet theories and experiments, topology, 2D materials, scaling in the fruit-fly brain, and more.
Congratulations to all the authors in this collection!
We hope you get a chance to read not only in your field, but some of the remarkable achievements in neighboring fields.
The PRL Editors
Quantum information, science, and technology
Nonreciprocal Quantum Batteries
Microscopic Origin of the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Integrable Systems
B. Ahmadi et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210402 – Published 22 May, 2024
Colin Rylands et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010401 – Published 1 July, 2024
Observing the Quantum Mpemba Effect in Quantum Simulations
Inverse Mpemba Effect Demonstrated on a Single Trapped Ion Qubit
Lata Kh. Joshi et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010402 – Published 1 July, 2024
Shahaf Aharony Shapira et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 010403 – Published 1 July, 2024
Strong Zero Modes in Integrable Quantum Circuits
Verifiable Blind Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions and Single Photons
Eric Vernier et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 050606 – Published 2 August, 2024
P. Drmota et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 150604 – Published 10 April, 2024
Heralded Three-Photon Entanglement from a Single-Photon Source on a Photonic Chip
Photonic Source of Heralded Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger States
Si Chen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 130603 – Published 28 March, 2024
H. Cao et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 130604 – Published 28 March, 2024
Continuous Sensing and Parameter Estimation with the Boundary Time Crystal
Albert Cabot, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 050801 – Published 30 January, 2024
Cosmology, astrophysics, and gravitation
Observation of Seven Astrophysical Tau Neutrino Candidates with IceCube
Insights from HST into Ultramassive Galaxies and Early-Universe Cosmology
IceCube Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 151001 – Published 11 April, 2024
Nashwan Sabti, Julian B. Muñoz, and Marc Kamionkowski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 061002 – Published 9 February, 2024
First Indication of Solar 8B Neutrinos through Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in PandaX-4T
First Indication of Solar 8B Neutrinos via Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering with XENONnT
XENON Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 191002 – Published 7 November, 2024
PandaX Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 191001 – Published 7 November, 2024
No Black Holes from Light
Microscopic Origin of the Entropy of Astrophysical Black Holes
Álvaro Álvarez-Domínguez et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 041401 – Published 26 July, 2024
Vijay Balasubramanian et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 141501 – Published 1 April, 2024
Particles and fields
Schwarzschild Black Hole from Perturbation Theory to All Orders
First Measurement of 𝜈𝑒 and 𝜈𝜇 Interaction Cross Sections at the LHC with FASER’s Emulsion Detector
Poul H. Damgaard and Kanghoon Lee
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 251603 – Published 20 June, 2024
FASER Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 021802 – Published 11 July, 2024
Evidence for the Higgs Boson Decay to a 𝑍 Boson and a Photon at the LHC
Determination of the Relative Sign of the Higgs Boson Couplings to 𝑊 and 𝑍 Bosons Using 𝑊𝐻 Production via Vector-Boson Fusion with the ATLAS Detector
ATLAS and CMS Collaborations
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 021803 – Published 11 January, 2024
ATLAS Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 141801 – Published 2 October, 2024
Determination of Spin-Parity Quantum Numbers of 𝑋(2370) as 0−+ from 𝐽/𝜓→𝛾𝐾0𝑆𝐾0𝑆𝜂′
Combination of Measurements of the Top Quark Mass from Data Collected by the ATLAS and CMS Experiments at √𝑠 =7 and 8 TeV
BESIII Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 181901 – Published 2 May, 2024
CMS and ATLAS Collaborations
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 261902 – Published 27 June, 2024
Nuclear physics
Observation of New Isotopes in the Fragmentation of
198Pt at FRIB
Laser Excitation of the Th-229 Nucleus
J. Tiedau et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 182501 – Published 29 April, 2024
O.B. Tarasov et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 072501 – Published 15 February, 2024
Toward the Discovery of New Elements: Production of Livermorium (𝑍=116) with 50Ti
J.M. Gates et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 172502 – Published 21 October, 2024
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
Clock with 8 ×10−19 Systematic Uncertainty
Local Readout and Control of Current and Kinetic Energy Operators in Optical Lattices
Alexander Aeppli et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023401 – Published 10 July, 2024
Alexander Impertro et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 063401 – Published 5 August, 2024
Realization of a Laughlin State of Two Rapidly Rotating Fermions
Spatiotemporal Single-Photon Airy Bullets
Jianmin Wang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 143601 – Published 3 April, 2024
Philipp Lunt et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 253401 – Published 16 December, 2024
Mechanical Detection of Nuclear Decays
Topological Photonic Alloy
Jiaxiang Wang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023602 – Published 8 July, 2024
Tiantao Qu et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 223802 – Published 30 May, 2024
Physics of fluids, earth and planetary science, and climate
Centrifugal Flows Drive Reverse Rotation of Feynman’s Sprinkler
Observations of Rogue Seas in the Southern Ocean
A. Toffoli et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 154101 – Published 12 April, 2024
Kaizhe Wang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 044003 – Published 26 January, 2024
New Constraints on the Melting Temperature and Phase Stability of Shocked Iron up to 270 GPa Probed by Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Decline: Tipping Small Scales under Global Warming
Ruijian Gou, Gerrit Lohmann, and Lixin Wu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 034201 – Published 16 July, 2024
S. Balugani et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 254101 – Published 18 December, 2024
Plasma and solar physics, accelerators and beams
Matched Guiding and Controlled Injection in Dark-Current-Free, 10-GeV-Class, Channel-Guided Laser-Plasma Accelerators
Achievement of Target Gain Larger than Unity in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
A. Picksley et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 255001 – Published 18 December, 2024
The Indirect Drive ICF Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065102 – Published 5 February, 2024
Energy Principles of Scientific Breakeven in an Inertial Fusion Experiment
O. A. Hurricane et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 065103 – Published 5 February, 2024
Physics of condensed matter and materials
Feasible Route to High-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Hydride Superconductivity
Nonlinear and Negative Effective Diffusivity of Interlayer Excitons in Moiré-Free Heterobilayers
Kapildeb Dolui et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 166001 – Published 15 April, 2024
Edith Wietek et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 016202 – Published 4 January, 2024
Chirality-Driven Orbital Angular Momentum and Circular Dichroism in CoSi
Evidence of Spin Density Waves in La3Ni2O7−𝛿
Stefanie Suzanne Brinkman et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 196402 – Published 10 May, 2024
Kaiwen Chen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 256503 – Published 21 June, 2024
Theory of Quantum Anomalous Hall Phases in Pentalayer Rhombohedral Graphene Moiré Structures
Anomalous Hall Crystals in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene. I. Interaction-Driven Chern Bands and Fractional Quantum Hall States at Zero Magnetic Field
Zhihuan Dong, Adarsh S. Patri, and T. Senthil
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206502 – Published 12 November, 2024
Junkai Dong (董焌锴) et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206503 – Published 12 November, 2024
Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Rhombohedral Multilayer Graphene in the Moiréless Limit
Cluster State as a Noninvertible Symmetry-Protected Topological Phase
Sahand Seifnashri and Shu-Heng Shao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 116601 – Published 10 September, 2024
Boran Zhou, Hui Yang, and Ya-Hui Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 206504 – Published 12 November, 2024
Energy Gap of the Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in Bilayer Graphene
Altermagnetic Routes to Majorana Modes in Zero Net Magnetization
Alexandre Assouline, et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 046603 – Published 26 January, 2024
Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Taylor L. Hughes, and Jennifer Cano
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 106601 – Published 5 September, 2024
Landau Theory of Altermagnetism
Broken Kramers Degeneracy in Altermagnetic MnTe
Paul A. McClarty and Jeffrey G. Rau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 176702 – Published 23 April, 2024
Suyoung Lee et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 036702 – Published 18 January, 2024
Flexophotovoltaic Effect and Above-Band-Gap Photovoltage Induced by Strain Gradients in Halide Perovskites
Coexistence of Nonequilibrium Density and Equilibrium Energy Distribution of Quasiparticles in a Superconducting Qubit
Zhiguo Wang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 086902 – Published 20 February, 2024
Thomas Connolly et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 217001 – Published 20 May, 2024
Statistical physics; Classical, nonlinear, and complex Systems
Gauge Invariance of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Second Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation
Johanna Müller et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 217101 – Published 18 November, 2024
Benjamin Sorkin et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 267101 – Published 23 December, 2024
Machine-Learning Optimized Measurements of Chaotic Dynamical Systems via the Information Bottleneck
Measuring Entanglement in Physical Networks
Kieran A. Murphy and Dani S. Bassett
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 197201 – Published 10 May, 2024
Cory Glover and Albert-László Barabási
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 077401 – Published 13 August, 2024
Polymers, chemical physics, soft matter, and biological physics
Irreversible Monte Carlo Algorithms for Hard Disk Glasses: From Event-Chain to Collective Swaps
Model of Active Solids: Rigid Body Motion and Shape-Changing Mechanisms
Federico Ghimenti, Ludovic Berthier, and Frédéric van Wijland
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 028202 – Published 10 July, 2024
Claudio Hernández-López et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 238303 – Published 7 June, 2024
Experimental Evidence for Millisecond–Timescale Structural Evolution Following the Microsecond–Timescale Folding of a Small Protein
Geometric Scaling Law in Real Neuronal Networks
C. Blake Wilson, Wai-Ming Yau, and Robert Tycko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 048402 – Published 24 January, 2024
Xin-Ya Zhang et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 138401 – Published 23 September, 2024
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