Volume 123, Issue 21

22 November 2019

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Typical emergent superradiant quasicrystalline optical potential with eightfold rotational symmetry located at the origin.

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Emergent Quasicrystalline Symmetry in Light-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions
Farokh Mivehvar, Helmut Ritsch, and Francesco Piazza
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210604 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Time Crystals from Hamiltonians with Long-Range Interactions

Valerii K. Kozin and Oleksandr Kyriienko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210602 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

A calculation shows that an elusive, isolated quantum time crystal may not be far from reality.

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Location of the Neutron Dripline at Fluorine and Neon

D. S. Ahn, N. Fukuda, H. Geissel, N. Inabe, N. Iwasa, T. Kubo, K. Kusaka, D. J. Morrissey, D. Murai, T. Nakamura, M. Ohtake, H. Otsu, H. Sato, B. M. Sherrill, Y. Shimizu, H. Suzuki, H. Takeda, O. B. Tarasov, H. Ueno, Y. Yanagisawa, and K. Yoshida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 212501 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Researchers have identified the largest possible isotopes of fluorine and neon, extending the neutron “dripline” for the first time in 20 years.

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Guiding Dirac Fermions in Graphene with a Carbon Nanotube

Austin Cheng, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, and Jean-Damien Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216804 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

A new waveguide that uses a nanotube to guide electrons could lead to novel types of circuitry in quantum computers.

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Spectral Statistics and Many-Body Quantum Chaos with Conserved Charge

Aaron J. Friedman, Amos Chan, Andrea De Luca, and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210603 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Diffuse scaling of the Thouless time is found for chaotic many-body quantum systems with a conserved charge.

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Observation of the Leptonic Decay $D^{+} \to τ^{+} ν_{τ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 211802 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

The first observation of the two-body decay of a charm meson into a tau and its neutrino allow for a new probe of lepton flavor universality.

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Magnus Hall Effect

Michał Papaj and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216802 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

A new type of linear-response Hall effect is a quantum analog to the Magnus effect, and has implications for current rectification devices and provides a tool to map Berry curvature distribution in momentum space.

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Higher-Order Topological Insulator in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Moon Jip Park, Youngkuk Kim, Gil Young Cho, and SungBin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216803 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

With the appearance of corner states at unexpectedly large angles, as long as its crystalline symmetry is left intact, twisted bilayer graphene functions as a higher-order topological insulator.

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Quantitative Assessment of the Toner and Tu Theory of Polar Flocks

Benoît Mahault, Francesco Ginelli, and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 218001 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Unprecedented large-scale numerical simulations of Viscek-type active particles provide a much-needed quantitative evaluation of the seminal Toner-Tu theory of flocking.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Bath Control with Nuclear Spin State Selectivity via Pulse-Adjusted Dynamical Decoupling

J. E. Lang, D. A. Broadway, G. A. L. White, L. T. Hall, A. Stacey, L. C. L. Hollenberg, T. S. Monteiro, and J.-P. Tetienne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210401 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Diabatic Gates for Frequency-Tunable Superconducting Qubits

R. Barends et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210501 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Reversing Unknown Quantum Transformations: Universal Quantum Circuit for Inverting General Unitary Operations

Marco Túlio Quintino, Qingxiuxiong Dong, Atsushi Shimbo, Akihito Soeda, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210502 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Exact Correlation Functions for Dual-Unitary Lattice Models in $1 + 1$ Dimensions

Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210601 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

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Quantum Time Crystals from Hamiltonians with Long-Range Interactions

Valerii K. Kozin and Oleksandr Kyriienko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210602 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

A calculation shows that an elusive, isolated quantum time crystal may not be far from reality.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectral Statistics and Many-Body Quantum Chaos with Conserved Charge

Aaron J. Friedman, Amos Chan, Andrea De Luca, and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210603 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Diffuse scaling of the Thouless time is found for chaotic many-body quantum systems with a conserved charge.

Emergent Quasicrystalline Symmetry in Light-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions

Farokh Mivehvar, Helmut Ritsch, and Francesco Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 210604 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Antiparticles as Particles: ${QED}_{2 + 1}$ and Composite Fermions at $ν = \frac{1}{2}$

Abhishek Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 211601 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Universal Relaxation in a Holographic Metallic Density Wave Phase

Andrea Amoretti, Daniel Areán, Blaise Goutéraux, and Daniele Musso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 211602 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Entanglement Spectrum of Chiral Fermions on the Torus

Pascal Fries and Ignacio A. Reyes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 211603 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Search for the Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays $B_{s}^{0} \to τ^{\pm} μ^{\mp}$ and $B^{0} \to τ^{\pm} μ^{\mp}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 211801 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Leptonic Decay $D^{+} \to τ^{+} ν_{τ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 211802 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

The first observation of the two-body decay of a charm meson into a tau and its neutrino allow for a new probe of lepton flavor universality.

Strange Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon with $N_{f} = 2 + 1$ $O (a)$ -Improved Wilson Fermions

D. Djukanovic, K. Ottnad, J. Wilhelm, and H. Wittig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 212001 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Measurements of Two-Particle Correlations in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions at 91 GeV with ALEPH Archived Data

Anthony Badea, Austin Baty, Paoti Chang, Gian Michele Innocenti, Marcello Maggi, Christopher McGinn, Michael Peters, Tzu-An Sheng, Jesse Thaler, and Yen-Jie Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 212002 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Nuclear Physics

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Location of the Neutron Dripline at Fluorine and Neon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 212501 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Researchers have identified the largest possible isotopes of fluorine and neon, extending the neutron “dripline” for the first time in 20 years.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electronic Decay of Singly Charged Ground-State Ions by Charge Transfer via van der Waals Bonds

Andreas Hans, Tsveta Miteva, Xaver Holzapfel, Christian Ozga, Philipp Schmidt, Huda Otto, Gregor Hartmann, Clemens Richter, Nicolas Sisourat, Arno Ehresmann, Kirill Gokhberg, Uwe Hergenhahn, and André Knie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213001 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Roton-Induced Bose Polaron in the Presence of Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling

Jia Wang, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213401 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Random to Chaotic Statistic Transformation in Low-Field Fano-Feshbach Resonances of Cold Thulium Atoms

V. A. Khlebnikov, D. A. Pershin, V. V. Tsyganok, E. T. Davletov, I. S. Cojocaru, E. S. Fedorova, A. A. Buchachenko, and A. V. Akimov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213402 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Quantum Interference between Photons from an Atomic Ensemble and a Remote Atomic Ion

A. N. Craddock, J. Hannegan, D. P. Ornelas-Huerta, J. D. Siverns, A. J. Hachtel, E. A. Goldschmidt, J. V. Porto, Q. Quraishi, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213601 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Real-Time Observation of Single Atoms Trapped and Interfaced to a Nanofiber Cavity

Kali P. Nayak, Jie Wang, and Jameesh Keloth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213602 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Nondestructive Cooling of an Atomic Quantum Register via State-Insensitive Rydberg Interactions

Ron Belyansky, Jeremy T. Young, Przemyslaw Bienias, Zachary Eldredge, Adam M. Kaufman, Peter Zoller, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213603 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Optimal Coherent Filtering for Single Noisy Photons

S. Gao, O. Lazo-Arjona, B. Brecht, K. T. Kaczmarek, S. E. Thomas, J. Nunn, P. M. Ledingham, D. J. Saunders, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213604 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Floquet-Engineered Vibrational Dynamics in a Two-Dimensional Array of Trapped Ions

Philip Kiefer, Frederick Hakelberg, Matthias Wittemer, Alejandro Bermúdez, Diego Porras, Ulrich Warring, and Tobias Schaetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213605 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Diffusive to Nonergodic Dipolar Transport in a Dissipative Atomic Medium

S. Whitlock, H. Wildhagen, H. Weimer, and M. Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213606 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhanced Sensing and Nondegraded Thermal Noise Performance Based on $P T$ -Symmetric Electronic Circuits with a Sixth-Order Exceptional Point

Zhicheng Xiao, Huanan Li, Tsampikos Kottos, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213901 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Self-Learning Perfect Optical Chirality via a Deep Neural Network

Yu Li, Youjun Xu, Meiling Jiang, Bowen Li, Tianyang Han, Cheng Chi, Feng Lin, Bo Shen, Xing Zhu, Luhua Lai, and Zheyu Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213902 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Tuning the Effective $P T$ Phase of Plasmonic Eigenmodes

Alessandro Tuniz, Torsten Wieduwilt, and Markus A. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213903 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Complete Characterization of Phase and Amplitude of Bichromatic Extreme Ultraviolet Light

Michele Di Fraia et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 213904 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Quantum Lissajous Scars

J. Keski-Rahkonen, A. Ruhanen, E. J. Heller, and E. Räsänen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214101 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Gradient-Index Granular Crystals: From Boomerang Motion to Asymmetric Transmission of Waves

Eunho Kim, Rajesh Chaunsali, and Jinkyu Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214301 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Extremely Asymmetrical Acoustic Metasurface Mirror at the Exceptional Point

Xu Wang, Xinsheng Fang, Dongxing Mao, Yun Jing, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214302 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Turning Drops into Bubbles: Cavitation by Vapor Diffusion through Elastic Networks

M. A. Bruning, M. Costalonga, J. H. Snoeijer, and A. Marin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214501 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Rifting of Extensional Flows on a Sphere

Roiy Sayag

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214502 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Oscillating Hydrogen Bubbles at Pt Microelectrodes

Aleksandr Bashkatov, Syed Sahil Hossain, Xuegeng Yang, Gerd Mutschke, and Kerstin Eckert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214503 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Constitutive Model for Time-Dependent Flows of Shear-Thickening Suspensions

J. J. J. Gillissen, C. Ness, J. D. Peterson, H. J. Wilson, and M. E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214504 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Phase-Stable Self-Modulation of an Electron Beam in a Magnetic Wiggler

James P. MacArthur, Joseph Duris, Zhen Zhang, Alberto Lutman, Alexander Zholents, Xinlu Xu, Zhirong Huang, and Agostino Marinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 214801 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Self-Generated Magnetic and Electric Fields at a Mach-6 Shock Front in a Low Density Helium Gas by Dual-Angle Proton Radiography

R. Hua, J. Kim, M. Sherlock, M. Bailly-Grandvaux, F. N. Beg, C. McGuffey, S. Wilks, H. Wen, A. Joglekar, W. Mori, and Y. Ping

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 215001 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stationary Quantum Vortex Street in a Driven-Dissipative Quantum Fluid of Light

S. V. Koniakhin, O. Bleu, D. D. Stupin, S. Pigeon, A. Maitre, F. Claude, G. Lerario, Q. Glorieux, A. Bramati, D. Solnyshkov, and G. Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 215301 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Enhancement of Many-Body Quantum Interference in Chaotic Bosonic Systems: The Role of Symmetry and Dynamics

Peter Schlagheck, Denis Ullmo, Juan Diego Urbina, Klaus Richter, and Steven Tomsovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 215302 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Surface- and Strain-Mediated Reversible Phase Transformation in Quantum-Confined ZnO Nanowires

Peili Zhao, Xiaoxi Guan, He Zheng, Shuangfeng Jia, Lei Li, Huihui Liu, Lulu Zhao, Huaping Sheng, Weiwei Meng, Yuanlin Zhuang, Jiangbing Wu, Luying Li, and Jianbo Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216101 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetic Doublon Bound States in the Kondo Lattice Model

Roman Rausch, Michael Potthoff, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216401 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Spectroscopic Evidence for Electron-Boson Coupling in Electron-Doped ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

Yong Hu, Xiang Chen, S.-T. Peng, C. Lane, M. Matzelle, Z.-L. Sun, M. Hashimoto, D.-H. Lu, E. F. Schwier, M. Arita, T. Wu, R. S. Markiewicz, K. Shimada, X.-H. Chen, Z.-X. Shen, A. Bansil, S. D. Wilson, and J.-F. He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216402 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Screening at the Surface of Black Phosphorus

Brian Kiraly, Elze J. Knol, Klara Volckaert, Deepnarayan Biswas, Alexander N. Rudenko, Danil A. Prishchenko, Vladimir G. Mazurenko, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Philip Hofmann, Daniel Wegner, and Alexander A. Khajetoorians

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216403 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

$k_{z}$ Selective Scattering within Quasiparticle Interference Measurements of FeSe

Luke C. Rhodes, Matthew D. Watson, Timur K. Kim, and Matthias Eschrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216404 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

Large Variation of Dirac Semimetal State in Perovskite ${CaIrO}_{3}$ with Pressure-Tuning of Electron Correlation

R. Yamada, J. Fujioka, M. Kawamura, S. Sakai, M. Hirayama, R. Arita, T. Okawa, D. Hashizume, M. Hoshino, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216601 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Nonequilibrium System as a Demon

Rafael Sánchez, Janine Splettstoesser, and Robert S. Whitney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216801 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnus Hall Effect

Michał Papaj and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216802 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Higher-Order Topological Insulator in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Moon Jip Park, Youngkuk Kim, Gil Young Cho, and SungBin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216803 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

With the appearance of corner states at unexpectedly large angles, as long as its crystalline symmetry is left intact, twisted bilayer graphene functions as a higher-order topological insulator.

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Guiding Dirac Fermions in Graphene with a Carbon Nanotube

Austin Cheng, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, and Jean-Damien Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 216804 (2019) - Published 22 November, 2019

A new waveguide that uses a nanotube to guide electrons could lead to novel types of circuitry in quantum computers.

Insulator-Metal Transition and Topological Superconductivity in ${UTe}_{2}$ from a First-Principles Calculation

Jun Ishizuka, Shuntaro Sumita, Akito Daido, and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217001 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Surfaces and Unitary Spin-Triplet Pairing in the Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${UTe}_{2}$

Yuanji Xu, Yutao Sheng, and Yi-feng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217002 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Zeeman Tunability of Andreev Bound States in van der Waals Tunnel Barriers

Tom Dvir, Marco Aprili, Charis H. L. Quay, and Hadar Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217003 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Quantum Phase Transition of Correlated Iron-Based Superconductivity in ${LiFe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} As$

Jia-Xin Yin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217004 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Superconducting Symmetries of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ from First-Principles Electronic Structure

O. Gingras, R. Nourafkan, A.-M. S. Tremblay, and M. Côté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217005 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Fast Domain Wall Motion Governed by Topology and Œrsted Fields in Cylindrical Magnetic Nanowires

M. Schöbitz, A. De Riz, S. Martin, S. Bochmann, C. Thirion, J. Vogel, M. Foerster, L. Aballe, T. O. Menteş, A. Locatelli, F. Genuzio, S. Le-Denmat, L. Cagnon, J. C. Toussaint, D. Gusakova, J. Bachmann, and O. Fruchart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217201 (2019) - Published 21 November, 2019

Topological Phases of Polaritons in a Cavity Waveguide

C. A. Downing, T. J. Sturges, G. Weick, M. Stobińska, and L. Martín-Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217401 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Electric-Field-Driven Nanosecond Ferroelastic-Domain Switching Dynamics in Epitaxial $Pb (Zr, Ti) O_{3}$ Film

Hyeon Jun Lee, Takao Shimizu, Hiroshi Funakubo, Yasuhiko Imai, Osami Sakata, Seung Hyun Hwang, Tae Yeon Kim, Changjae Yoon, Cheng Dai, Long Q. Chen, Su Yong Lee, and Ji Young Jo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217601 (2019) - Published 18 November, 2019

Uncompensated Polarization in Incommensurate Modulations of Perovskite Antiferroelectrics

Tao Ma, Zhongming Fan, Bin Xu, Tae-Hoon Kim, Ping Lu, Laurent Bellaiche, Matthew J. Kramer, Xiaoli Tan, and Lin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 217602 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantitative Assessment of the Toner and Tu Theory of Polar Flocks

Benoît Mahault, Francesco Ginelli, and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 218001 (2019) - Published 19 November, 2019

Unprecedented large-scale numerical simulations of Viscek-type active particles provide a much-needed quantitative evaluation of the seminal Toner-Tu theory of flocking.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Negative Landau Damping in Bilayer Graphene”

Dmitry Svintsov and Victor Ryzhii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 219401 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019

Morgado and Silveirinha Reply:

Tiago A. Morgado and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 219402 (2019) - Published 20 November, 2019