Volume 123, Issue 20

15 November 2019

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Collective dislocation nucleation pattern in a two-dimensional square lattice subjected to uniform shearing. Colors indicate the level of stress.

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Landau-Type Theory of Planar Crystal Plasticity
R. Baggio, E. Arbib, P. Biscari, S. Conti, L. Truskinovsky, G. Zanzotto, and O. U. Salman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205501 (2019)

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Entropy Production in Open Systems: The Predominant Role of Intraenvironment Correlations

Krzysztof Ptaszyński and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200603 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Specific contributions to entropy may be the key to understanding how and when quantum systems equilibrate.

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Entanglement-Ergodic Quantum Systems Equilibrate Exponentially Well

H. Wilming, M. Goihl, I. Roth, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200604 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Specific contributions to entropy may be the key to understanding how and when quantum systems equilibrate.

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Candidate for Laser Cooling of a Negative Ion: High-Resolution Photoelectron Imaging of ${Th}^{-}$

Rulin Tang, Ran Si, Zejie Fei, Xiaoxi Fu, Yuzhu Lu, Tomas Brage, Hongtao Liu, Chongyang Chen, and Chuangang Ning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203002 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Measurements of the electron binding energy in the negative thorium ion suggest that it may be a good candidate for laser cooling.

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Extreme Hardening of Pb at High Pressure and Strain Rate

A. Krygier, P. D. Powell, J. M. McNaney, C. M. Huntington, S. T. Prisbrey, B. A. Remington, R. E. Rudd, D. C. Swift, C. E. Wehrenberg, A. Arsenlis, H.-S. Park, P. Graham, E. Gumbrell, M. P. Hill, A. J. Comley, and S. D. Rothman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205701 (2019) - Published 11 November, 2019

When rapidly compressed to planetary-core pressures, lead—a soft metal—becomes 10 times stronger than high-grade steel.

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Tuning the Random Walk of Active Colloids: From Individual Run-and-Tumble to Dynamic Clustering

Hamid Karani, Gerardo E. Pradillo, and Petia M. Vlahovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 208002 (2019) - Published 14 November, 2019

The jerky, random motion of bacteria has now been reproduced using artificial microswimmers, yielding collective behaviors similar to those of real-world bacterial swarms.

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Topology, Geometry, and Mechanics of Strongly Stretched and Twisted Filaments: Solenoids, Plectonemes, and Artificial Muscle Fibers

Nicholas Charles, Mattia Gazzola, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 208003 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

How an elastic filament deforms under stress has been quantified in simulations, with implications for the design of artificial muscles.

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Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations for a Driven Superatom

J. Lampen, A. Duspayev, H. Nguyen, H. Tamura, P. R. Berman, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203603 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

An experiment involving a gas of two-level atoms distinguishes between two mechanisms of light-matter interaction: stimulated emission and Hanbury Brown and Twiss interference.

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Rigid Band Shifts in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors through External Dielectric Screening

Lutz Waldecker, Archana Raja, Malte Rösner, Christina Steinke, Aaron Bostwick, Roland J. Koch, Chris Jozwiak, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Eli Rotenberg, Tim O. Wehling, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206403 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Valence and conduction bands exhibit rigid shifts in a monolayer of the dichalcogenide WS $_{2}$ when it is exposed to spatially separated dielectric environments.

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Dirac Spin Liquid on the Spin- $1 / 2$ Triangular Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Shijie Hu, W. Zhu, Sebastian Eggert, and Yin-Chen He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207203 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Large scale iDMRG simulations show that the spin-1/2 J $_{1}$ -J $_{2}$ -Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice is a U(1) Dirac quantum spin liquid.

LETTERS

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

Time Between the Maximum and the Minimum of a Stochastic Process

Francesco Mori, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200201 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Contextuality Test of the Nonclassicality of Variational Quantum Eigensolvers

William M. Kirby and Peter J. Love

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200501 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

All-Gaussian Universality and Fault Tolerance with the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Code

Ben Q. Baragiola, Giacomo Pantaleoni, Rafael N. Alexander, Angela Karanjai, and Nicolas C. Menicucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200502 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Evaluating the Holevo Cramér-Rao Bound for Multiparameter Quantum Metrology

Francesco Albarelli, Jamie F. Friel, and Animesh Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200503 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Using Matrix Product States to Study the Dynamical Large Deviations of Kinetically Constrained Models

Mari Carmen Bañuls and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200601 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Negative Thermophoretic Force in the Strong Coupling Regime

Rodrigo de Miguel and J. Miguel Rubí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200602 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

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Entropy Production in Open Systems: The Predominant Role of Intraenvironment Correlations

Krzysztof Ptaszyński and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200603 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Specific contributions to entropy may be the key to understanding how and when quantum systems equilibrate.

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Entanglement-Ergodic Quantum Systems Equilibrate Exponentially Well

H. Wilming, M. Goihl, I. Roth, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 200604 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Specific contributions to entropy may be the key to understanding how and when quantum systems equilibrate.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Quasi-Isotropic Cycles and Nonsingular Bounces in a Mixmaster Cosmology

Chandrima Ganguly and Marco Bruni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 201301 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Hyper-Non-Gaussianities in Inflation with Strongly Nongeodesic Motion

Jacopo Fumagalli, Sebastian Garcia-Saenz, Lucas Pinol, Sébastien Renaux-Petel, and John Ronayne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 201302 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

2D Volkov-Akulov Model as a $T \bar{T}$ Deformation

Niccolò Cribiori, Fotis Farakos, and Rikard von Unge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 201601 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Vector Space of Feynman Integrals and Multivariate Intersection Numbers

Hjalte Frellesvig, Federico Gasparotto, Manoj K. Mandal, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Luca Mattiazzi, and Sebastian Mizera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 201602 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Time-Reversed Particle-Vibration Loops and Nuclear Gamow-Teller Response

Caroline Robin and Elena Litvinova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 202501 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurement of Atomic Isotope Shifts Using a Two-Isotope Entangled State

Tom Manovitz, Ravid Shaniv, Yotam Shapira, Roee Ozeri, and Nitzan Akerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203001 (2019) - Published 11 November, 2019

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Candidate for Laser Cooling of a Negative Ion: High-Resolution Photoelectron Imaging of ${Th}^{-}$

Rulin Tang, Ran Si, Zejie Fei, Xiaoxi Fu, Yuzhu Lu, Tomas Brage, Hongtao Liu, Chongyang Chen, and Chuangang Ning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203002 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Measurements of the electron binding energy in the negative thorium ion suggest that it may be a good candidate for laser cooling.

Rotational, Vibrational, and Electronic Modulations in $N_{2}^{+}$ Lasing at 391 nm: Evidence of Coherent $B {{}^{2}Σ}_{u}^{+} - X {{}^{2}Σ}_{g}^{+} - A {{}^{2}Π}_{u}$ Coupling

Toshiaki Ando, Erik Lötstedt, Atsushi Iwasaki, Helong Li, Yao Fu, Siqi Wang, Huailiang Xu, and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203201 (2019) - Published 11 November, 2019

All-Optical Scheme for Generation of Isolated Attosecond Electron Pulses

M. Kozák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203202 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Thresholded Quantum LIDAR: Exploiting Photon-Number-Resolving Detection

Lior Cohen, Elisha S. Matekole, Yoni Sher, Daniel Istrati, Hagai S. Eisenberg, and Jonathan P. Dowling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203601 (2019) - Published 11 November, 2019

Noncritical Slowing Down of Photonic Condensation

Benjamin T. Walker, Henry J. Hesten, Himadri S. Dhar, Robert A. Nyman, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203602 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

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Hanbury Brown–Twiss Correlations for a Driven Superatom

J. Lampen, A. Duspayev, H. Nguyen, H. Tamura, P. R. Berman, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203603 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

An experiment involving a gas of two-level atoms distinguishes between two mechanisms of light-matter interaction: stimulated emission and Hanbury Brown and Twiss interference.

Spatial Multiplexing of Squeezed Light by Coherence Diffusion

Jian Sun, Xichang Zhang, Weizhi Qu, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Irina Novikova, Heng Shen, and Yanhong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203604 (2019) - Published 14 November, 2019

Partial Optomechanical Refrigeration via Multimode Cold-Damping Feedback

Christian Sommer and Claudiu Genes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203605 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Angular Memory Effect of Transmission Eigenchannels

Hasan Yılmaz, Chia Wei Hsu, Arthur Goetschy, Stefan Bittner, Stefan Rotter, Alexey Yamilov, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 203901 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser-Produced Magnetic-Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Plasma Slabs in a 20 T Magnetic Field

B. Khiar, G. Revet, A. Ciardi, K. Burdonov, E. Filippov, J. Béard, M. Cerchez, S. N. Chen, T. Gangolf, S. S. Makarov, M. Ouillé, M. Safronova, I. Yu. Skobelev, A. Soloviev, M. Starodubtsev, O. Willi, S. Pikuz, and J. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205001 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bulk Viscosity and Contact Correlations in Attractive Fermi Gases

Tilman Enss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205301 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Landau-Type Theory of Planar Crystal Plasticity

R. Baggio, E. Arbib, P. Biscari, S. Conti, L. Truskinovsky, G. Zanzotto, and O. U. Salman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205501 (2019) - Published 11 November, 2019

Anomalous Topological Active Matter

Kazuki Sone and Yuto Ashida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205502 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Role of the Crystal Lattice Structure in Predicting Fracture Toughness

Thuy Nguyen and Daniel Bonamy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205503 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

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Extreme Hardening of Pb at High Pressure and Strain Rate

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 205701 (2019) - Published 11 November, 2019

When rapidly compressed to planetary-core pressures, lead—a soft metal—becomes 10 times stronger than high-grade steel.

Broadband Nonreciprocal Amplification in Luminal Metamaterials

E. Galiffi, P. A. Huidobro, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206101 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Finding Reaction Pathways with Optimal Atomic Index Mappings

Deb Sankar De, Marco Krummenacher, Bastian Schaefer, and Stefan Goedecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206102 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electrical Tuning of the Excitonic Insulator Ground State of ${Ta}_{2} {NiSe}_{5}$

Keisuke Fukutani, Roland Stania, Jiwon Jung, Eike F. Schwier, Kenya Shimada, Chang Il Kwon, Jun Sung Kim, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206401 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Anomalous Dirac Plasmons in 1D Topological Electrides

Jianfeng Wang, Xuelei Sui, Shiwu Gao, Wenhui Duan, Feng Liu, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206402 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

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Rigid Band Shifts in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors through External Dielectric Screening

Lutz Waldecker, Archana Raja, Malte Rösner, Christina Steinke, Aaron Bostwick, Roland J. Koch, Chris Jozwiak, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Eli Rotenberg, Tim O. Wehling, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206403 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Valence and conduction bands exhibit rigid shifts in a monolayer of the dichalcogenide WS $_{2}$ when it is exposed to spatially separated dielectric environments.

Topological Correspondence between Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Systems: Anomalous Dynamics

Jong Yeon Lee, Junyeong Ahn, Hengyun Zhou, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206404 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Realization of a Metallic State in $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ with Persisting Long-Range Order of a Charge Density Wave

Xin-Yang Zhu, Shi Wang, Zhen-Yu Jia, Li Zhu, Qi-Yuan Li, Wei-Min Zhao, Cheng-Long Xue, Yong-Jie Xu, Zhen Ma, Jinsheng Wen, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li, and Shao-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206405 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Photon-Induced Weyl Half-Metal Phase and Spin Filter Effect from Topological Dirac Semimetals

Xiao-Shi Li, Chen Wang, Ming-Xun Deng, Hou-Jian Duan, Pei-Hao Fu, Rui-Qiang Wang, L. Sheng, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206601 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Resymmetrizing Broken Symmetry with Hydraulic Pressure

Ke Huang, Pengjie Wang, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, Yang Liu, and Xi Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206602 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Quantized Field-Effect Tunneling between Topological Edge or Interface States

Yong Xu, Yan-Ru Chen, Jun Wang, Jun-Feng Liu, and Zhongshui Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206801 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Resistive State of Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor Josephson Junctions in the Presence of Moving Domain Walls

D. S. Rabinovich, I. V. Bobkova, A. M. Bobkov, and M. A. Silaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207001 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Anomalous Nonlocal Conductance as a Fingerprint of Chiral Majorana Edge States

Satoshi Ikegaya, Yasuhiro Asano, and Dirk Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207002 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Anomalous Symmetry Protected Topological States in Interacting Fermion Systems

Qing-Rui Wang, Yang Qi, and Zheng-Cheng Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207003 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Noncollinear Ordering of the Orbital Magnetic Moments in Magnetite

H. Elnaggar, Ph. Sainctavit, A. Juhin, S. Lafuerza, F. Wilhelm, A. Rogalev, M.-A. Arrio, Ch. Brouder, M. van der Linden, Z. Kakol, M. Sikora, M. W. Haverkort, P. Glatzel, and F. M. F. de Groot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207201 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Multicritical Fermi Surface Topological Transitions

Dmitry V. Efremov, Alex Shtyk, Andreas W. Rost, Claudio Chamon, Andrew P. Mackenzie, and Joseph J. Betouras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207202 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

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Dirac Spin Liquid on the Spin- $1 / 2$ Triangular Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Shijie Hu, W. Zhu, Sebastian Eggert, and Yin-Chen He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207203 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Large scale iDMRG simulations show that the spin-1/2 J $_{1}$ -J $_{2}$ -Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice is a U(1) Dirac quantum spin liquid.

Magnon Landau Levels and Emergent Supersymmetry in Strained Antiferromagnets

Mary Madelynn Nayga, Stephan Rachel, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207204 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Room-Temperature Spin-Orbit Torque from Topological Surface States

Hao Wu, Peng Zhang, Peng Deng, Qianqian Lan, Quanjun Pan, Seyed Armin Razavi, Xiaoyu Che, Li Huang, Bingqian Dai, Kin Wong, Xiufeng Han, and Kang L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207205 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Helicity-Changing Brillouin Light Scattering by Magnons in a Ferromagnetic Crystal

R. Hisatomi, A. Noguchi, R. Yamazaki, Y. Nakata, A. Gloppe, Y. Nakamura, and K. Usami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207401 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Rashba Cavity QED: A Route Towards the Superradiant Quantum Phase Transition

Pierre Nataf, Thierry Champel, Gianni Blatter, and Denis M. Basko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207402 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Unifying Interacting Nodal Semimetals: A New Route to Strong Coupling

Shouvik Sur and Bitan Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207601 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

Defect-Induced (Dis)Order in Relaxor Ferroelectric Thin Films

Sahar Saremi, Jieun Kim, Anirban Ghosh, Derek Meyers, and Lane W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207602 (2019) - Published 15 November, 2019

Tuning Insulator-Semimetal Transitions in 3D Topological Insulator thin Films by Intersurface Hybridization and In-Plane Magnetic Fields

Yang Xu, Guodong Jiang, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Rudro R. Biswas, and Yong P. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207701 (2019) - Published 12 November, 2019

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

Anomalous Ostwald Ripening Enables 2D Polymer Crystals via Fast Evaporation

Qiyun Tang, Marcus Müller, Christopher Y. Li, and Wenbing Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 207801 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

Topology and Morphology of Self-Deforming Active Shells

Luuk Metselaar, Julia M. Yeomans, and Amin Doostmohammadi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 208001 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

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Tuning the Random Walk of Active Colloids: From Individual Run-and-Tumble to Dynamic Clustering

Hamid Karani, Gerardo E. Pradillo, and Petia M. Vlahovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 208002 (2019) - Published 14 November, 2019

The jerky, random motion of bacteria has now been reproduced using artificial microswimmers, yielding collective behaviors similar to those of real-world bacterial swarms.

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Topology, Geometry, and Mechanics of Strongly Stretched and Twisted Filaments: Solenoids, Plectonemes, and Artificial Muscle Fibers

Nicholas Charles, Mattia Gazzola, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 208003 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019

How an elastic filament deforms under stress has been quantified in simulations, with implications for the design of artificial muscles.

ERRATA

Erratum: Finite-Temperature Conformal Field Theory Results for All Couplings: $O (N)$ Model in $2 + 1$ Dimensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231603 (2019)]

Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 209901 (2019) - Published 13 November, 2019