Volume 123, Issue 24

13 December 2019

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Weyl nodes in the Brillouin zone of TaAs with one elementary Weyl pair highlighted.

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Nonlinear Hall Acceleration and the Quantum Rectification Sum Rule
O. Matsyshyn and I. Sodemann
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246602 (2019)

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Revival of the Dark Matter Hypothesis for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

Rebecca K. Leane and Tracy R. Slatyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241101 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

The so-called gamma-ray excess that radiates from the core of our Galaxy might be from dark matter after all.

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Quasisimultons in Thermal Atomic Vapors

Thomas P. Ogden, K. A. Whittaker, J. Keaveney, S. A. Wrathmall, C. S. Adams, and R. M. Potvliege

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243604 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

By combining two frequencies of light into a pulse called a simulton, a weak signal can travel through a dense atomic vapor as though the medium were nearly transparent.

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Experimental Verification of a Bigrating Beam Rider

Ying-Ju Lucy Chu, Nelson V. Tabiryan, and Grover A. Swartzlander, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244302 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

A technology for propelling spacecraft using a “sail” pushed by light has passed an initial test, with the prototype device staying centered in a laser beam.

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Wave Turbulence on the Surface of a Fluid in a High-Gravity Environment

A. Cazaubiel, S. Mawet, A. Darras, G. Grosjean, J. J. W. A. van Loon, S. Dorbolo, and E. Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244501 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

A wave experiment in a centrifuge reveals how the size of the fluid container strongly influences turbulent behavior.

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Experimental Characterization of a Spin Quantum Heat Engine

John P. S. Peterson, Tiago B. Batalhão, Marcela Herrera, Alexandre M. Souza, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Roberto M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240601 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

An experimental proof-of-concept quantum Otto cycle, based on a nuclear spin, has an efficiency close to its thermodynamic limit.

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Non-Hermitian Topological Invariants in Real Space

Fei Song, Shunyu Yao, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246801 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

Some quantities in real, as opposed to momentum, space can act as robust topological invariants for systems with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.

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Absence of Magnetic Thermal Conductivity in the Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate ${EtMe}_{3} Sb [Pd (dmit)_{2}]_{2}$

J. M. Ni, B. L. Pan, B. Q. Song, Y. Y. Huang, J. Y. Zeng, Y. J. Yu, E. J. Cheng, L. S. Wang, D. Z. Dai, R. Kato, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247204 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

New measurements show the huge residual linear term 𝜅 $_{0}$ / $T$ in the thermal conductivity of EtMe $_{3}$ Sb[Pd(dmit) $_{2}$ ] $_{2}$ is due entirely to phonons, calling into question the view that the compound is a gapless quantum spin liquid.

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Infrared Interlayer Exciton Emission in ${MoS}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterostructures

Ouri Karni, Elyse Barré, Sze Cheung Lau, Roland Gillen, Eric Yue Ma, Bumho Kim, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Janina Maultzsch, Katayun Barmak, Ralph H. Page, and Tony F. Heinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247402 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

The light emitted around 1200 nm from a heterostructure composed of monolayers of certain transition metal dichalcogenides is shown to be an interlayer exciton, an observation relevant to silicon photonics and fiber optics.

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

Landau-Zener-Stückelberg Interference in a Multimode Electromechanical System in the Quantum Regime

Mikael Kervinen, Jhon E. Ramírez-Muñoz, Alpo Välimaa, and Mika A. Sillanpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240401 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

All-Optical Bose-Einstein Condensates in Microgravity

G. Condon, M. Rabault, B. Barrett, L. Chichet, R. Arguel, H. Eneriz-Imaz, D. Naik, A. Bertoldi, B. Battelier, P. Bouyer, and A. Landragin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240402 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

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Experimental Characterization of a Spin Quantum Heat Engine

John P. S. Peterson, Tiago B. Batalhão, Marcela Herrera, Alexandre M. Souza, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Roberto M. Serra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240601 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

An experimental proof-of-concept quantum Otto cycle, based on a nuclear spin, has an efficiency close to its thermodynamic limit.

Exploiting the Causal Tensor Network Structure of Quantum Processes to Efficiently Simulate Non-Markovian Path Integrals

Mathias R. Jørgensen and Felix A. Pollock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240602 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

Heating Rates in Periodically Driven Strongly Interacting Quantum Many-Body Systems

Krishnanand Mallayya and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240603 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Convergence of Nonperturbative Approximations to the Renormalization Group

Ivan Balog, Hugues Chaté, Bertrand Delamotte, Maroje Marohnić, and Nicolás Wschebor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 240604 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Revival of the Dark Matter Hypothesis for the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess

Rebecca K. Leane and Tracy R. Slatyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241101 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

The so-called gamma-ray excess that radiates from the core of our Galaxy might be from dark matter after all.

Neutrino Echoes from Multimessenger Transient Sources

Kohta Murase and Ian M. Shoemaker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241102 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Quantum Penrose Inequality

Raphael Bousso, Arvin Shahbazi-Moghaddam, and Marija Tomašević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241301 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Full-Color Two-Loop Four-Gluon Amplitude in $N = 2$ Supersymmetric QCD

Claude Duhr, Henrik Johansson, Gregor Kälin, Gustav Mogull, and Bram Verbeek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241601 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

Fractional Degrees of Freedom at Infinite Coupling in Large $N_{f}$ QED in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241602 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Search for Physics beyond the Standard Model in Events with Overlapping Photons and Jets

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241801 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Search for Lepton-Flavor Violating Decays $B^{+} \to K^{+} μ^{\pm} e^{\mp}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241802 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Search for Light Dark Matter Interactions Enhanced by the Migdal Effect or Bremsstrahlung in XENON1T

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 241803 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Recoil-Induced Asymmetry of Nondipole Molecular Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions in the Hard X-ray Regime

M. Kircher, J. Rist, F. Trinter, S. Grundmann, M. Waitz, N. Melzer, I. Vela-Pérez, T. Mletzko, A. Pier, N. Strenger, J. Siebert, R. Janssen, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, A. N. Artemyev, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, R. Dörner, and Ph. V. Demekhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243201 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

Field-Induced Diastereomers for Chiral Separation

Andrey Yachmenev, Jolijn Onvlee, Emil Zak, Alec Owens, and Jochen Küpper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243202 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

Formation Dynamics of Excited Neutral Nitrogen Molecules inside Femtosecond Laser Filaments

Rostyslav Danylo, Xiang Zhang, Zhengquan Fan, Dongjie Zhou, Qi Lu, Bin Zhou, Qingqing Liang, Songlin Zhuang, Aurélien Houard, André Mysyrowicz, Eduardo Oliva, and Yi Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243203 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Rest Frame Interference in Rotating Structures and Metamaterials

Y. Mazor and Ben Z. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243204 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Collective Multimode Vacuum Rabi Splitting

W. Guerin, T. S. do Espirito Santo, P. Weiss, A. Cipris, J. Schachenmayer, R. Kaiser, and R. Bachelard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243401 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Color Erasure Detectors Enable Chromatic Interferometry

Luo-Yuan Qu, Jordan Cotler, Fei Ma, Jian-Yu Guan, Ming-Yang Zheng, Xiuping Xie, Yu-Ao Chen, Qiang Zhang, Frank Wilczek, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243601 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

Observation of Collective Superstrong Coupling of Cold Atoms to a 30-m Long Optical Resonator

Aisling Johnson, Martin Blaha, Alexander E. Ulanov, Arno Rauschenbeutel, Philipp Schneeweiss, and Jürgen Volz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243602 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Radiation Reaction of a Jiggling Dipole in a Quantum Electromagnetic Field

Adrián E. Rubio López and Oriol Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243603 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

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Quasisimultons in Thermal Atomic Vapors

Thomas P. Ogden, K. A. Whittaker, J. Keaveney, S. A. Wrathmall, C. S. Adams, and R. M. Potvliege

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243604 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

By combining two frequencies of light into a pulse called a simulton, a weak signal can travel through a dense atomic vapor as though the medium were nearly transparent.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optimizing Light Storage in Scattering Media with the Dwell-Time Operator

M. Durand, S. M. Popoff, R. Carminati, and A. Goetschy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243901 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

Theory of Frequency-Modulated Combs in Lasers with Spatial Hole Burning, Dispersion, and Kerr Nonlinearity

Nikola Opačak and Benedikt Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243902 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Attosecond Pulse Amplification in a Plasma-Based X-Ray Laser Dressed by an Infrared Laser Field

V. A. Antonov, K. Ch. Han, T. R. Akhmedzhanov, Marlan Scully, and Olga Kocharovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243903 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Spin-Orbit Optical Hall Effect

Shenhe Fu, Chaoheng Guo, Guohua Liu, Yongyao Li, Hao Yin, Zhen Li, and Zhenqiang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243904 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Soliton Molecules with Two Frequencies

Oliver Melchert, Stephanie Willms, Surajit Bose, Alexey Yulin, Bernhard Roth, Fedor Mitschke, Uwe Morgner, Ihar Babushkin, and Ayhan Demircan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 243905 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Direct Mechanical Detection and Measurement of Wave-Matter Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer by Nondissipative Vortex Mode Conversion

B. Sanchez-Padilla, L. Jonusauskas, M. Malinauskas, R. Wunenburger, and E. Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244301 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

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Experimental Verification of a Bigrating Beam Rider

Ying-Ju Lucy Chu, Nelson V. Tabiryan, and Grover A. Swartzlander, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244302 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

A technology for propelling spacecraft using a “sail” pushed by light has passed an initial test, with the prototype device staying centered in a laser beam.

Hyperbolic Sound Propagation over Nonlocal Acoustic Metasurfaces

Li Quan and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244303 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

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Wave Turbulence on the Surface of a Fluid in a High-Gravity Environment

A. Cazaubiel, S. Mawet, A. Darras, G. Grosjean, J. J. W. A. van Loon, S. Dorbolo, and E. Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244501 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

A wave experiment in a centrifuge reveals how the size of the fluid container strongly influences turbulent behavior.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Subterahertz Photonic Crystal Klystron Amplifier

J. C. Stephens, G. Rosenzweig, M. A. Shapiro, R. J. Temkin, J. C. Tucek, and K. E. Kreischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 244801 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Energy Cascade Rate Measured in a Collisionless Space Plasma with MMS Data and Compressible Hall Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence Theory

N. Andrés, F. Sahraoui, S. Galtier, L. Z. Hadid, R. Ferrand, and S. Y. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245101 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Multiple Diffusion-Freezing Mechanisms in Molecular-Hydrogen Films

T. Makiuchi, K. Yamashita, M. Tagai, Y. Nago, and K. Shirahama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245301 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Phononic Helical Nodal Lines with $PT$ Protection in ${MoB}_{2}$

T. T. Zhang, H. Miao, Q. Wang, J. Q. Lin, Y. Cao, G. Fabbris, A. H. Said, X. Liu, H. C. Lei, Z. Fang, H. M. Weng, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245302 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Nonisentropic Release of a Shocked Solid

P. G. Heighway, M. Sliwa, D. McGonegle, C. Wehrenberg, C. A. Bolme, J. Eggert, A. Higginbotham, A. Lazicki, H. J. Lee, B. Nagler, H.-S. Park, R. E. Rudd, R. F. Smith, M. J. Suggit, D. Swift, F. Tavella, B. A. Remington, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245501 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Neural-Network-Based Path Collective Variables for Enhanced Sampling of Phase Transformations

Jutta Rogal, Elia Schneider, and Mark E. Tuckerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 245701 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Gas-Induced Segregation in Pt-Rh Alloy Nanoparticles Observed by In Situ Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging

Tomoya Kawaguchi, Thomas F. Keller, Henning Runge, Luca Gelisio, Christoph Seitz, Young Yong Kim, Evan R. Maxey, Wonsuk Cha, Andrew Ulvestad, Stephan O. Hruszkewycz, Ross Harder, Ivan A. Vartanyants, Andreas Stierle, and Hoydoo You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246001 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Single-Photon Emission Mediated by Single-Electron Tunneling in Plasmonic Nanojunctions

Q. Schaeverbeke, R. Avriller, T. Frederiksen, and F. Pistolesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246601 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Nonlinear Hall Acceleration and the Quantum Rectification Sum Rule

O. Matsyshyn and I. Sodemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246602 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

Energy Drag in Particle-Hole Symmetric Systems as a Quantum Quench

William Berdanier, Thomas Scaffidi, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246603 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

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Non-Hermitian Topological Invariants in Real Space

Fei Song, Shunyu Yao, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246801 (2019) - Published 9 December, 2019

Some quantities in real, as opposed to momentum, space can act as robust topological invariants for systems with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.

Electrons and Phonons Cooperate in the Laser-Induced Desorption of CO from Pd(111)

Maite Alducin, Nicholas Camillone, III, Sung-Young Hong, and J. Iñaki Juaristi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246802 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

Current-Induced Gap Opening in Interacting Topological Insulator Surfaces

Ajit C. Balram, Karsten Flensberg, Jens Paaske, and Mark S. Rudner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246803 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Dynamics of Single-Molecule Dissociation by Selective Excitation of Molecular Phonons

Caiyun Chen, Longjuan Kong, Yu Wang, Peng Cheng, Baojie Feng, Qijing Zheng, Jin Zhao, Lan Chen, and Kehui Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 246804 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Knight Shift and Leading Superconducting Instability from Spin Fluctuations in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

A. T. Rømer, D. D. Scherer, I. M. Eremin, P. J. Hirschfeld, and B. M. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247001 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Angle Resolved Relaxation of Spin Currents by Antiferromagnets in Spin Valves

D. M. Polishchuk, A. Kamra, T. I. Polek, A. Brataas, and V. Korenivski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247201 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Chiral Pumping of Spin Waves

Tao Yu, Yaroslav M. Blanter, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247202 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Ultrasmall Moment Incommensurate Spin Density Wave Order Masking a Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in ${NbFe}_{2}$

P. G. Niklowitz, M. Hirschberger, M. Lucas, P. Cermak, A. Schneidewind, E. Faulhaber, J.-M. Mignot, W. J. Duncan, A. Neubauer, C. Pfleiderer, and F. M. Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247203 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

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Absence of Magnetic Thermal Conductivity in the Quantum Spin Liquid Candidate ${EtMe}_{3} Sb [Pd (dmit)_{2}]_{2}$

J. M. Ni, B. L. Pan, B. Q. Song, Y. Y. Huang, J. Y. Zeng, Y. J. Yu, E. J. Cheng, L. S. Wang, D. Z. Dai, R. Kato, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247204 (2019) - Published 10 December, 2019

Strain-Induced Spin-Nematic State and Nematic Susceptibility Arising from $2 \times 2$ Fe Clusters in ${KFe}_{0.8} {Ag}_{1.2} {Te}_{2}$

Yu Song, Dongsheng Yuan, Xingye Lu, Zhijun Xu, Edith Bourret-Courchesne, and Robert J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247205 (2019) - Published 11 December, 2019

Quantitative Study on Current-Induced Effect in an Antiferromagnet Insulator/Pt Bilayer Film

Pengxiang Zhang, Joseph Finley, Taqiyyah Safi, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247206 (2019) - Published 13 December, 2019

Quantization in Chiral Higher Order Topological Insulators: Circular Dichroism and Local Chern Marker

Oscar Pozo, Cécile Repellin, and Adolfo G. Grushin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 247401 (2019) - Published 12 December, 2019

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Volume 123, Issue 24

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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