Volume 123, Issue 16

18 October 2019

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Dispersions of the antiferromagnetic edge (left) and ferromagnetic edge (right) of the nodal superconducting plane of a Fe(Se,Te) heterostructure.

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Higher-Order Topology and Nodal Topological Superconductivity in Fe(Se,Te) Heterostructures
Rui-Xing Zhang, William S. Cole, Xianxin Wu, and S. Das Sarma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167001 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Constraining the Mass of the Graviton with the Planetary Ephemeris INPOP

L. Bernus, O. Minazzoli, A. Fienga, M. Gastineau, J. Laskar, and P. Deram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161103 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Precision data on planetary motions are used to constrain deviations from general relativity, complementing results obtained from gravitational wave measurements.

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Decay of a Quantum Knot

T. Ollikainen, A. Blinova, M. Möttönen, and D. S. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163003 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Researchers have observed the decay of a topological knot defect in a quantum gas.

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Strong-Field Extreme-Ultraviolet Dressing of Atomic Double Excitation

Christian Ott, Lennart Aufleger, Thomas Ding, Marc Rebholz, Alexander Magunia, Maximilian Hartmann, Veit Stooß, David Wachs, Paul Birk, Gergana D. Borisova, Kristina Meyer, Patrick Rupprecht, Carina da Costa Castanheira, Robert Moshammer, Andrew R. Attar, Thomas Gaumnitz, Zhi-Heng Loh, Stefan Düsterer, Rolf Treusch, Joachim Ullrich, Yuhai Jiang, Michael Meyer, Peter Lambropoulos, and Thomas Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163201 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

An extreme-UV (XUV) laser alters the structure of doubly excited helium in experiments that pave the way for improved understanding and control of fundamental light-matter interactions.

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Highly Charged Droplets of Superfluid Helium

Felix Laimer, Lorenz Kranabetter, Lukas Tiefenthaler, Simon Albertini, Fabio Zappa, Andrew M. Ellis, Michael Gatchell, and Paul Scheier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165301 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Tiny droplets of superfluid helium can contain more than fifty charges, which could act as nucleation sites for growing nanostructures.

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Measuring the Hydrodynamic Linear Response of a Unitary Fermi Gas

Lorin Baird, Xin Wang, Stetson Roof, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160402 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Measurement of the hydrodynamic linear response of a unitary Fermi gas provides the first experimental estimation of the thermal conductivity of a normal fluid.

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Anomaly of the Electromagnetic Duality of Maxwell Theory

Chang-Tse Hsieh, Yuji Tachikawa, and Kazuya Yonekura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161601 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

The well known electric-magnetic duality of classical electromagnetism is violated upon quantization of the theory in the presence of general background fields.

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Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

G. Anton et al. (EXO-200 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161802 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

A new lower limit on the neutrinoless double- $β$ decay of $^{136}$ Xe has been set by the full EXO-200 dataset.

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Determination of the Interval between the Ground States of Para- and Ortho- $H_{2}$

M. Beyer, N. Hölsch, J. Hussels, C.-F. Cheng, E. J. Salumbides, K. S. E. Eikema, W. Ubachs, Ch. Jungen, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163002 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

High-precision measurement of the energy shift between the ground states of ortho- and para-hydrogen yields a new fundamental physical quantity for ultraprecise quantum chemistry.

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Breakup and Recovery of Topological Zero Modes in Finite Non-Hermitian Optical Lattices

Wange Song, Wenzhao Sun, Chen Chen, Qinghai Song, Shumin Xiao, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165701 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

The introduction of non-Hermitian degeneracy through loss modulation in silicon waveguides makes it possible to observe the recovery of the exact-zero mode of optical topological edge states.

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Ferromagnetic Resonance with Magnetic Phase Selectivity by Means of Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering on a Chiral Magnet

S. Pöllath, A. Aqeel, A. Bauer, C. Luo, H. Ryll, F. Radu, C. Pfleiderer, G. Woltersdorf, and C. H. Back

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167201 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Ferromagnetic resonance experiments performed in reciprocal space allow unambiguous identification of magnetic modes in complex magnetic systems.

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Reversible Quantum Information Spreading in Many-Body Systems near Criticality

Quirin Hummel, Benjamin Geiger, Juan Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160401 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

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Measuring the Hydrodynamic Linear Response of a Unitary Fermi Gas

Lorin Baird, Xin Wang, Stetson Roof, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160402 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Measurement of the hydrodynamic linear response of a unitary Fermi gas provides the first experimental estimation of the thermal conductivity of a normal fluid.

Bose-Einstein Condensation on the Surface of a Sphere

A. Tononi and L. Salasnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160403 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Dynamical Spin-Orbit Coupling of a Quantum Gas

Ronen M. Kroeze, Yudan Guo, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160404 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Rotating Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates and Vortex Clusters in Quantum Droplets

M. Nilsson Tengstrand, P. Stürmer, E. Ö. Karabulut, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160405 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Entanglement Swapping with Photons Generated on Demand by a Quantum Dot

F. Basso Basset, M. B. Rota, C. Schimpf, D. Tedeschi, K. D. Zeuner, S. F. Covre da Silva, M. Reindl, V. Zwiller, K. D. Jöns, A. Rastelli, and R. Trotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160501 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Entanglement Swapping with Semiconductor-Generated Photons Violates Bell’s Inequality

Michael Zopf, Robert Keil, Yan Chen, Jingzhong Yang, Disheng Chen, Fei Ding, and Oliver G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160502 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Construction and Universal Application of Entanglement-Erasing Partner States

Daniel Hetterich and Polina Matveeva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160503 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Jamming in Multilayer Supervised Learning Models

Silvio Franz, Sungmin Hwang, and Pierfrancesco Urbani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160602 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Boundaries and Unphysical Fixed Points in Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions

Amina Khatun and Somendra M. Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 160603 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Learning about Black Hole Binaries from their Ringdown Spectra

Scott A. Hughes, Anuj Apte, Gaurav Khanna, and Halston Lim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161101 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Search for Subsolar Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161102 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

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Constraining the Mass of the Graviton with the Planetary Ephemeris INPOP

L. Bernus, O. Minazzoli, A. Fienga, M. Gastineau, J. Laskar, and P. Deram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161103 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Precision data on planetary motions are used to constrain deviations from general relativity, complementing results obtained from gravitational wave measurements.

Constraints on Spin-Independent Nucleus Scattering with sub-GeV Weakly Interacting Massive Particle Dark Matter from the CDEX-1B Experiment at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory

Z. Z. Liu et al. (CDEX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161301 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Magnonic Analog of Black- and White-Hole Horizons in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

M. Človečko, E. Gažo, M. Kupka, and P. Skyba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161302 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Anomaly of the Electromagnetic Duality of Maxwell Theory

Chang-Tse Hsieh, Yuji Tachikawa, and Kazuya Yonekura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161601 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

The well known electric-magnetic duality of classical electromagnetism is violated upon quantization of the theory in the presence of general background fields.

Emergent Solution to the Strong $C P$ Problem

Jason Arakawa, Arvind Rajaraman, and Tim M. P. Tait

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161602 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Observation of Electroweak Production of a Same-Sign $W$ Boson Pair in Association with Two Jets in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161801 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

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Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

G. Anton et al. (EXO-200 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161802 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

A new lower limit on the neutrinoless double- $β$ decay of $^{136}$ Xe has been set by the full EXO-200 dataset.

Precision Small Scattering Angle Measurements of Elastic Proton-Proton Single and Double Spin Analyzing Powers at the RHIC Hydrogen Jet Polarimeter

A. A. Poblaguev, A. Zelenski, E. Aschenauer, G. Atoian, K. O. Eyser, H. Huang, Y. Makdisi, W. B. Schmidke, I. Alekseev, D. Svirida, and N. H. Buttimore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 162001 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Double Prompt $J / ψ$ Hadroproduction in the Parton Reggeization Approach with High-Energy Resummation

Zhi-Guo He, Bernd A. Kniehl, Maxim A. Nefedov, and Vladimir A. Saleev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 162002 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Deuteronlike Heavy Dibaryons from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

Parikshit Junnarkar and Nilmani Mathur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 162003 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Nuclear Physics

First Observation of the Directed Flow of $D^{0}$ and $\bar{D^{0}}$ in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 162301 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resolving Ultrafast Spin-Orbit Dynamics in Heavy Many-Electron Atoms

Jack Wragg, Daniel D. A. Clarke, Gregory S. J. Armstrong, Andrew C. Brown, Connor P. Ballance, and Hugo W. van der Hart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163001 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

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Determination of the Interval between the Ground States of Para- and Ortho- $H_{2}$

M. Beyer, N. Hölsch, J. Hussels, C.-F. Cheng, E. J. Salumbides, K. S. E. Eikema, W. Ubachs, Ch. Jungen, and F. Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163002 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

High-precision measurement of the energy shift between the ground states of ortho- and para-hydrogen yields a new fundamental physical quantity for ultraprecise quantum chemistry.

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Decay of a Quantum Knot

T. Ollikainen, A. Blinova, M. Möttönen, and D. S. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163003 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Researchers have observed the decay of a topological knot defect in a quantum gas.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong-Field Extreme-Ultraviolet Dressing of Atomic Double Excitation

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163201 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

An extreme-UV (XUV) laser alters the structure of doubly excited helium in experiments that pave the way for improved understanding and control of fundamental light-matter interactions.

Excitonic Wave Function Reconstruction from Near-Field Spectra Using Machine Learning Techniques

Fulu Zheng, Xing Gao, and Alexander Eisfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163202 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Observing and Verifying the Quantum Trajectory of a Mechanical Resonator

Massimiliano Rossi, David Mason, Junxin Chen, and Albert Schliesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163601 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Gallium Phosphide as a Piezoelectric Platform for Quantum Optomechanics

Robert Stockill, Moritz Forsch, Grégoire Beaudoin, Konstantinos Pantzas, Isabelle Sagnes, Rémy Braive, and Simon Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163602 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Disorder-Immune Photonics Based on Mie-Resonant Dielectric Metamaterials

Changxu Liu, Mikhail V. Rybin, Peng Mao, Shuang Zhang, and Yuri Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 163901 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Phase Models Beyond Weak Coupling

Dan Wilson and Bard Ermentrout

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 164101 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Beyond Chu’s Limit with Floquet Impedance Matching

Huanan Li, Ahmed Mekawy, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 164102 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Relativistic Anyon Beam: Construction and Properties

Joydeep Majhi, Subir Ghosh, and Santanu K. Maiti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 164801 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Neutron Time-of-Flight Measurements of Charged-Particle Energy Loss in Inertial Confinement Fusion Plasmas

D. B. Sayre et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165001 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Highly Charged Droplets of Superfluid Helium

Felix Laimer, Lorenz Kranabetter, Lukas Tiefenthaler, Simon Albertini, Fabio Zappa, Andrew M. Ellis, Michael Gatchell, and Paul Scheier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165301 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Tiny droplets of superfluid helium can contain more than fifty charges, which could act as nucleation sites for growing nanostructures.

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Breakup and Recovery of Topological Zero Modes in Finite Non-Hermitian Optical Lattices

Wange Song, Wenzhao Sun, Chen Chen, Qinghai Song, Shumin Xiao, Shining Zhu, and Tao Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165701 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

The introduction of non-Hermitian degeneracy through loss modulation in silicon waveguides makes it possible to observe the recovery of the exact-zero mode of optical topological edge states.

Adiabatic Thermal Radiation Pumps for Thermal Photonics

Huanan Li, Lucas J. Fernández-Alcázar, Fred Ellis, Boris Shapiro, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165901 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Scrambling Dynamics across a Thermalization-Localization Quantum Phase Transition

Subhayan Sahu, Shenglong Xu, and Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 165902 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Higher-Order Topology and Nodal Topological Superconductivity in Fe(Se,Te) Heterostructures

Rui-Xing Zhang, William S. Cole, Xianxin Wu, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167001 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Bulk Superconductivity and Role of Fluctuations in the Iron-Based Superconductor FeSe at High Pressures

Elena Gati, Anna E. Böhmer, Sergey L. Bud’ko, and Paul C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167002 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

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Ferromagnetic Resonance with Magnetic Phase Selectivity by Means of Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering on a Chiral Magnet

S. Pöllath, A. Aqeel, A. Bauer, C. Luo, H. Ryll, F. Radu, C. Pfleiderer, G. Woltersdorf, and C. H. Back

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167201 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Ferromagnetic resonance experiments performed in reciprocal space allow unambiguous identification of magnetic modes in complex magnetic systems.

Thermal Hall Effect Induced by Magnon-Phonon Interactions

Xiaoou Zhang, Yinhan Zhang, Satoshi Okamoto, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167202 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Magnon-Mediated Indirect Exciton Condensation through Antiferromagnetic Insulators

Øyvind Johansen, Akashdeep Kamra, Camilo Ulloa, Arne Brataas, and Rembert A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167203 (2019) - Published 18 October, 2019

Excited-State Trions in Monolayer ${WS}_{2}$

Ashish Arora, Thorsten Deilmann, Till Reichenauer, Johannes Kern, Steffen Michaelis de Vasconcellos, Michael Rohlfing, and Rudolf Bratschitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167401 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Fundamental Limits to Coherent Photon Generation with Solid-State Atomlike Transitions

Z. X. Koong, D. Scerri, M. Rambach, T. S. Santana, S. I. Park, J. D. Song, E. M. Gauger, and B. D. Gerardot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167402 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Light Scattering from Solid-State Quantum Emitters: Beyond the Atomic Picture

Alistair J. Brash, Jake Iles-Smith, Catherine L. Phillips, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, John O’Hara, Edmund Clarke, Benjamin Royall, Luke R. Wilson, Jesper Mørk, Maurice S. Skolnick, A. Mark Fox, and Ahsan Nazir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167403 (2019) - Published 16 October, 2019

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Initial Solvent-Driven Nonequilibrium Effect on Structure, Properties, and Dynamics of Polymer Nanocomposites

Sol Mi Oh, Mozhdeh Abbasi, Tae Joo Shin, Kay Saalwächter, and So Youn Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 167801 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

Persistent Anti-Correlations in Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Dense Colloidal Suspensions Revealed by Noise Suppression

Suvendu Mandal, Lukas Schrack, Hartmut Löwen, Matthias Sperl, and Thomas Franosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 168001 (2019) - Published 15 October, 2019

Curvature Regularization near Contacts with Stretched Elastic Tubes

Bhargav Rallabandi, Joel Marthelot, Etienne Jambon-Puillet, P.-T. Brun, and Jens Eggers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 168002 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019

COMMENTS

Comment on “Search for Axionlike Dark Matter with a Liquid-State Nuclear Spin Comagnetometer”

E. G. Adelberger and W. A. Terrano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 169001 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

Wu et al. Reply:

Teng Wu, John W. Blanchard, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Antoine Garcon, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Surjeet Rajendran, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Alexander O. Sushkov, Arne Wickenbrock, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 169002 (2019) - Published 14 October, 2019

ERRATA

Erratum: Magnetic Moment Manipulation by a Josephson Current [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 017001 (2009)]

F. Konschelle and A. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 169901 (2019) - Published 17 October, 2019