Volume 124, Issue 10

13 March 2020

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Spectrum of Liouvillian for eight spins with random two-body dissipation, showing clusters associated with different relaxation timescales and degrees of locality. Yellow: Eigenvalue cluster corresponding to three-body relaxation processes; Red dot: Prediction of perturbation theory. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Hierarchy of Relaxation Timescales in Local Random Liouvillians
Kevin Wang, Francesco Piazza, and David J. Luitz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100604 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detection of Cross-Correlation between Gravitational Lensing and $γ$ Rays

S. Ammazzalorso et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101102 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

A detected overlap of gravitational lenses and gamma-ray signals could shed light on the nature of dark matter.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Break in High Intensity Gravitational Wave Interactions

R. F. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101301 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Collisions between beams of gravitons could convert the hypothesized particles into photons, producing a potentially detectable radio signal that would accompany some gravitational waves.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hierarchy of Relaxation Timescales in Local Random Liouvillians

Kevin Wang, Francesco Piazza, and David J. Luitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100604 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Introducing a notion of locality into the random Liouvillian of a many-body quantum system reveals clustered eigenvalues with sharp separation of relaxation timescales.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extended Search for the Invisible Axion with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

T. Braine et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101303 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

A cavity haloscope search for axion dark matter is extended to exclude benchmark models for a mass range around 3 μeV.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discovering Topological Surface States of Dirac Points

Hengbin Cheng, Yixin Sha, Rongjuan Liu, Chen Fang, and Ling Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 104301 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

An acoustic crystal simulating a 3D Dirac material hosts topological surface states.

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Suppression of Deflecting Forces in Planar-Symmetric Dielectric Wakefield Accelerating Structures with Elliptical Bunches

Brendan D. O’Shea, Gerard Andonian, S. S. Baturin, Christine I. Clarke, P. D. Hoang, Mark J. Hogan, Brian Naranjo, Oliver B. Williams, Vitaly Yakimenko, and James B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 104801 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

High-gradient wakefield acceleration has been achieved without loss of beam quality by using elliptical electron drive beams and a dielectric material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Drastic Electronic-Structure Change in a One-Dimensional Moiré Superlattice

Sihan Zhao, Pilkyung Moon, Yuhei Miyauchi, Taishi Nishihara, Kazunari Matsuda, Mikito Koshino, and Ryo Kitaura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106101 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Strong interwall electronic coupling in an individual double-wall carbon nanotube is experimentally observed for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Particle-Hole Duality, Emergent Fermi Liquids, and Fractional Chern Insulators in Moiré Flatbands

Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Zhao Liu, and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106803 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

A microscopic study of Coulomb interactions within a fractionally filled spin-polarized moiré flatband system shows that high temperature fractional Chern insulators can form in twisted bilayer graphene.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab Initio Mismatched Interface Theory of Graphene on $α − {RuCl}_{3}$ : Doping and Magnetism

Eli Gerber, Yuan Yao, Tomas A. Arias, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106804 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

A new framework for calculating electronic properties indicates that $α$ -RuCl $_{3}$ , likely a prototypical quantum spin liquid, may upon doping move closer to the Kitaev point.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Overlapping Tomography

Jordan Cotler and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100401 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Classification of Matrix-Product Unitaries with Symmetries

Zongping Gong, Christoph Sünderhauf, Norbert Schuch, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100402 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Chain Rule for the Quantum Relative Entropy

Kun Fang, Omar Fawzi, Renato Renner, and David Sutter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100501 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Regimes of Classical Simulability for Noisy Gaussian Boson Sampling

Haoyu Qi, Daniel J. Brod, Nicolás Quesada, and Raúl García-Patrón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100502 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

$T \bar{T}$ Deformations and Integrable Spin Chains

Enrico Marchetto, Alessandro Sfondrini, and Zhou Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100601 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Probing Thermalization through Spectral Analysis with Matrix Product Operators

Yilun Yang, Sofyan Iblisdir, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Mari Carmen Bañuls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100602 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Maxwell’s Lesser Demon: A Quantum Engine Driven by Pointer Measurements

Stella Seah, Stefan Nimmrichter, and Valerio Scarani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100603 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hierarchy of Relaxation Timescales in Local Random Liouvillians

Kevin Wang, Francesco Piazza, and David J. Luitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100604 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Introducing a notion of locality into the random Liouvillian of a many-body quantum system reveals clustered eigenvalues with sharp separation of relaxation timescales.

Entanglement Hamiltonian of Many-Body Dynamics in Strongly Correlated Systems

W. Zhu, Zhoushen Huang, Yin-Chen He, and Xueda Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 100605 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Test of the Gravitational $1 / r^{2}$ Law at Separations down to $52 μ m$

J. G. Lee, E. G. Adelberger, T. S. Cook, S. M. Fleischer, and B. R. Heckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101101 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detection of Cross-Correlation between Gravitational Lensing and $γ$ Rays

S. Ammazzalorso et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101102 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

A detected overlap of gravitational lenses and gamma-ray signals could shed light on the nature of dark matter.

Universal Relation between Corrections to Entropy and Extremality

Garrett Goon and Riccardo Penco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101103 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Extracting the Gravitational Recoil from Black Hole Merger Signals

Vijay Varma, Maximiliano Isi, and Sylvia Biscoveanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101104 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Break in High Intensity Gravitational Wave Interactions

R. F. Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101301 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Collisions between beams of gravitons could convert the hypothesized particles into photons, producing a potentially detectable radio signal that would accompany some gravitational waves.

Probing Primordial Chirality with Galaxy Spins

Hao-Ran Yu, Pavel Motloch, Ue-Li Pen, Yu Yu, Huiyuan Wang, Houjun Mo, Xiaohu Yang, and Yipeng Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101302 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extended Search for the Invisible Axion with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

T. Braine et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101303 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

A cavity haloscope search for axion dark matter is extended to exclude benchmark models for a mass range around 3 μeV.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Kaluza-Klein Spectrometry for Supergravity

Emanuel Malek and Henning Samtleben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101601 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Renormalized Circuit Complexity

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Pratik Nandy, and Aninda Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101602 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

All Order $α^{'}$ Expansion of One-Loop Open-String Integrals

Carlos R. Mafra and Oliver Schlotterer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101603 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Manifestly Lorentz Invariant Chiral Boson Action

Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101604 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Cornering Higgsinos Using Soft Displaced Tracks

Hajime Fukuda, Natsumi Nagata, Hideyuki Oide, Hidetoshi Otono, and Satoshi Shirai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101801 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

Axion Dark Matter Search around $6.7 μ eV$

S. Lee, S. Ahn, J. Choi, B. R. Ko, and Y. K. Semertzidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101802 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

New Bounds from Positronium Decays on Massless Mirror Dark Photons

C. Vigo, L. Gerchow, B. Radics, M. Raaijmakers, A. Rubbia, and P. Crivelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 101803 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Early- and Late-Time Behavior of Attractors in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Aleksi Kurkela, Wilke van der Schee, Urs Achim Wiedemann, and Bin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 102301 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Swelling of Doubly Magic ${}^{48}{Ca}$ Core in Ca Isotopes beyond $N = 28$

M. Tanaka et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 102501 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Experimental Separation of Subcycle Ionization Bursts in Strong-Field Double Ionization of $H_{2}$

Václav Hanus, Sarayoo Kangaparambil, Seyedreza Larimian, Martin Dorner-Kirchner, Xinhua Xie (谢新华), Markus S. Schöffler, Gerhard G. Paulus, Andrius Baltuška, André Staudte, and Markus Kitzler-Zeiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 103201 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Complex Density Wave Orders and Quantum Phase Transitions in a Model of Square-Lattice Rydberg Atom Arrays

Rhine Samajdar, Wen Wei Ho, Hannes Pichler, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 103601 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Ground-State Cooling and High-Fidelity Quantum Transduction via Parametrically Driven Bad-Cavity Optomechanics

Hoi-Kwan Lau and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 103602 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dual Coaxial Longitudinal Polarization Vortex Structures

Zhongsheng Man, Zheng Xi, Xiaocong Yuan, R. E. Burge, and H. Paul Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 103901 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Polarization-Controlled Cavity Input-Output Relations

Fuchuan Lei, Jonathan M. Ward, Priscila Romagnoli, and Síle Nic Chormaic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 103902 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discovering Topological Surface States of Dirac Points

Hengbin Cheng, Yixin Sha, Rongjuan Liu, Chen Fang, and Ling Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 104301 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

An acoustic crystal simulating a 3D Dirac material hosts topological surface states.

Energy Transfer from Large to Small Scales in Turbulence by Multiscale Nonlinear Strain and Vorticity Interactions

Perry L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 104501 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Transition from Exponentially Damped to Finite-Time Arrest Liquid Oscillations Induced by Contact Line Hysteresis

Benjamin Dollet, Élise Lorenceau, and François Gallaire

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 104502 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Suppression of Deflecting Forces in Planar-Symmetric Dielectric Wakefield Accelerating Structures with Elliptical Bunches

Brendan D. O’Shea, Gerard Andonian, S. S. Baturin, Christine I. Clarke, P. D. Hoang, Mark J. Hogan, Brian Naranjo, Oliver B. Williams, Vitaly Yakimenko, and James B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 104801 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

High-gradient wakefield acceleration has been achieved without loss of beam quality by using elliptical electron drive beams and a dielectric material.

Radio Emission Reveals Inner Meter-Scale Structure of Negative Lightning Leader Steps

B. M. Hare, O. Scholten, J. Dwyer, U. Ebert, S. Nijdam, A. Bonardi, S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, H. Falcke, T. Huege, J. R. Hörandel, G. K. Krampah, P. Mitra, K. Mulrey, B. Neijzen, A. Nelles, H. Pandya, J. P. Rachen, L. Rossetto, T. N. G. Trinh, S. ter Veen, and T. Winchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105101 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Morphological Superfluid in a Nonmagnetic Spin-2 Bose-Einstein Condensate

Emi Yukawa and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105301 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Torque and Angular-Momentum Transfer in Merging Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

Toshiaki Kanai, Wei Guo, Makoto Tsubota, and Dafei Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105302 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Symmetry-Protected Topological Triangular Weyl Complex

R. Wang, B. W. Xia, Z. J. Chen, B. B. Zheng, Y. J. Zhao, and H. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105303 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Nonempirical Free Volume Viscosity Model for Alkane Lubricants under Severe Pressures

Kerstin Falk, Daniele Savio, and Michael Moseler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105501 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Role of Thermal Equilibrium Dynamics in Atomic Motion during Nonthermal Laser-Induced Melting

Xiaocui Wang, J. C. Ekström, Å. U. J. Bengtsson, A. Jarnac, A. Jurgilaitis, Van-Thai Pham, D. Kroon, H. Enquist, and J. Larsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105701 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Phonon Thermal Hall Effect in Strontium Titanate

Xiaokang Li, Benoît Fauqué, Zengwei Zhu, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 105901 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Drastic Electronic-Structure Change in a One-Dimensional Moiré Superlattice

Sihan Zhao, Pilkyung Moon, Yuhei Miyauchi, Taishi Nishihara, Kazunari Matsuda, Mikito Koshino, and Ryo Kitaura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106101 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Strong interwall electronic coupling in an individual double-wall carbon nanotube is experimentally observed for the first time.

Interplay of Chemistry and Faceting at Grain Boundaries in a Model Al Alloy

Huan Zhao, Liam Huber, Wenjun Lu, Nicolas J. Peter, Dayong An, Frédéric De Geuser, Gerhard Dehm, Dirk Ponge, Jörg Neugebauer, Baptiste Gault, and Dierk Raabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106102 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

Meron Spin Textures in Momentum Space

Cheng Guo, Meng Xiao, Yu Guo, Luqi Yuan, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106103 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Nucleation of Dislocations in 3.9 nm Nanocrystals at High Pressure

Abhinav Parakh, Sangryun Lee, K. Anika Harkins, Mehrdad T. Kiani, David Doan, Martin Kunz, Andrew Doran, Lindsey A. Hanson, Seunghwa Ryu, and X. Wendy Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106104 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Measuring Dynamic Structural Changes of Nanoparticles at the Atomic Scale Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Annelies De wael, Annick De Backer, Lewys Jones, Aakash Varambhia, Peter D. Nellist, and Sandra Van Aert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106105 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Periodically Driven Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models

Clemens Kuhlenkamp and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106401 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Bulk and Surface Electronic Structure of the Dual-Topology Semimetal ${Pt}_{2} {HgSe}_{3}$

I. Cucchi, A. Marrazzo, E. Cappelli, S. Riccò, F. Y. Bruno, S. Lisi, M. Hoesch, T. K. Kim, C. Cacho, C. Besnard, E. Giannini, N. Marzari, M. Gibertini, F. Baumberger, and A. Tamai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106402 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Inelastic Electron Tunneling in $2 H − {Ta}_{x} {Nb}_{1 - x} {Se}_{2}$ Evidenced by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

Xing-Yuan Hou, Fan Zhang, Xin-Hai Tu, Ya-Dong Gu, Meng-Di Zhang, Jing Gong, Yu-Bing Tu, Bao-Tian Wang, Wen-Gang Lv, Hong-Ming Weng, Zhi-An Ren, Gen-Fu Chen, Xiang-De Zhu, Ning Hao, and Lei Shan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106403 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Nonlinear Thermoelectricity with Electron-Hole Symmetric Systems

G. Marchegiani, A. Braggio, and F. Giazotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106801 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Valley Polarization and Inversion in Strained Graphene via Pseudo-Landau Levels, Valley Splitting of Real Landau Levels, and Confined States

Si-Yu Li, Ying Su, Ya-Ning Ren, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106802 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Particle-Hole Duality, Emergent Fermi Liquids, and Fractional Chern Insulators in Moiré Flatbands

Ahmed Abouelkomsan, Zhao Liu, and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106803 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ab Initio Mismatched Interface Theory of Graphene on $α − {RuCl}_{3}$ : Doping and Magnetism

Eli Gerber, Yuan Yao, Tomas A. Arias, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106804 (2020) - Published 11 March, 2020

A new framework for calculating electronic properties indicates that $α$ -RuCl $_{3}$ , likely a prototypical quantum spin liquid, may upon doping move closer to the Kitaev point.

Flux Superperiods and Periodicity Transitions in Quantum Hall Interferometers

Bernd Rosenow and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 106805 (2020) - Published 13 March, 2020

Evidence for an Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State with Segmented Vortices in the BCS-BEC-Crossover Superconductor FeSe

S. Kasahara, Y. Sato, S. Licciardello, M. Čulo, S. Arsenijević, T. Ottenbros, T. Tominaga, J. Böker, I. Eremin, T. Shibauchi, J. Wosnitza, N. E. Hussey, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 107001 (2020) - Published 10 March, 2020

Probing the Source of the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction Responsible for the Topological Hall Effect in $Metal / {Tm}_{3} {Fe}_{5} O_{12}$ Systems

Aidan J. Lee, Adam S. Ahmed, Jose Flores, Side Guo, Binbin Wang, Nuria Bagués, David W. McComb, and Fengyuan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 107201 (2020) - Published 9 March, 2020

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Apical Charge Flux-Modulated In-Plane Transport Properties of Cuprate Superconductors”

E. Pavarini, I. Dasgupta, T. Saha-Dasgupta, and O. K. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 109701 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020

Li et al. Reply:

Xin Li, Sooran Kim, Xi Chen, and William Fitzhugh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 109702 (2020) - Published 12 March, 2020