Volume 124, Issue 12

27 March 2020

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Energy dispersion of the spin-3/2 Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl fermion at a fourfold linear band crossing point, for the rotationally symmetric case.

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Interplay of Topology and Electron-Electron Interactions in Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals
Igor Boettcher
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127602 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Ultimate Strength of Metals

Michael Chandross and Nicolas Argibay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 125501 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

The peak strength of a metal occurs when the boundaries between its grains and the grains themselves have the same strength.

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Rank–2 $U (1)$ Spin Liquid on the Breathing Pyrochlore Lattice

Han Yan (闫寒), Owen Benton, L. D. C. Jaubert, and Nic Shannon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127203 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

A new theory proposes an experimental approach to spotting fractons.

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Reverse Janssen Effect in Narrow Granular Columns

Shivam Mahajan, Michael Tennenbaum, Sudhir N. Pathak, Devontae Baxter, Xiaochen Fan, Pablo Padilla, Caleb Anderson, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, and Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 128002 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Friction at the walls of a cylinder can generate a downward force, resulting in an apparent weight increase of the particles inside.

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Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ${}^{130}{Te}$ with CUORE

D. Q. Adams et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 122501 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

New limits have been set on the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{130}$ Te from two years of data from the CUORE experiment.

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Laser Trapping of Circular Rydberg Atoms

R. G. Cortiñas, M. Favier, B. Ravon, P. Méhaignerie, Y. Machu, J. M. Raimond, C. Sayrin, and M. Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123201 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Laser trapping of circular Rydberg atoms for 10 ms with 5 ms lifetimes has enabled 1000 interaction cycles between two Rydberg atoms held 5 microns apart.

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Non-Lorentzian Local Density of States in Coupled Photonic Crystal Cavities Probed by Near- and Far-Field Emission

Daniele Pellegrino, Dario Balestri, Nicoletta Granchi, Matteo Ciardi, Francesca Intonti, Francesco Pagliano, Andrei Yu. Silov, Frank W. Otten, Tong Wu, Kevin Vynck, Philippe Lalanne, Andrea Fiore, and Massimo Gurioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123902 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Near-field hyperspectral imaging of quantum dot photoluminescence measures local density of states lineshapes providing evidence of their non-Lorentzian character, in agreement with numerical and theoretical predictions concerning the Purcell factor.

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Shortcut to Geostrophy in Wave-Driven Rotating Turbulence: The Quartetic Instability

Maxime Brunet, Basile Gallet, and Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 124501 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

When energy in a cylindrical wave tank is fed into inertial waves only, then strong forcing generates geostrophic flow invariant along the rotation axis.

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Tunable Valley Splitting due to Topological Orbital Magnetic Moment in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Point Contacts

Yongjin Lee, Angelika Knothe, Hiske Overweg, Marius Eich, Carolin Gold, Annika Kurzmann, Veronika Klasovika, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Wantanabe, Vladimir Fal’ko, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, and Peter Rickhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126802 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

A method to tune the valley splitting in bilayer graphene using gate electrodes might lead to a useful tool for quantum information processing.

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Magnetoconductance, Quantum Hall Effect, and Coulomb Blockade in Topological Insulator Nanocones

Raphael Kozlovsky, Ansgar Graf, Denis Kochan, Klaus Richter, and Cosimo Gorini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126804 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

A coaxial magnetic field through a topological insulator nanowire with a variable cross-section leads to novel magnetotransport features.

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Spontaneous Rotation of Ferrimagnetism Driven by Antiferromagnetic Spin Canting

A. M. Vibhakar, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, J. Liu, A. A. Belik, and R. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127201 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

This novel mechanism for spin-reorientation phase transitions in distorted perovskite oxides is based on the competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic instabilities, and which is independent of rare-earth magnetism.

LETTERS

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

Complete Resource Theory of Quantum Incompatibility as Quantum Programmability

Francesco Buscemi, Eric Chitambar, and Wenbin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120401 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Distillation of Quantum Steering

R. V. Nery, M. M. Taddei, P. Sahium, S. P. Walborn, L. Aolita, and G. H. Aguilar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120402 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Quantum Rotation Sensing with Dual Sagnac Interferometers in an Atom-Optical Waveguide

E. R. Moan, R. A. Horne, T. Arpornthip, Z. Luo, A. J. Fallon, S. J. Berl, and C. A. Sackett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120403 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Demonstration of Controlled-Phase Gates between Two Error-Correctable Photonic Qubits

Y. Xu, Y. Ma, W. Cai, X. Mu, W. Dai, W. Wang, L. Hu, X. Li, J. Han, H. Wang, Y. P. Song, Zhen-Biao Yang, Shi-Biao Zheng, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120501 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Application of the Resource Theory of Channels to Communication Scenarios

Ryuji Takagi, Kun Wang, and Masahito Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120502 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

Confined Phases of One-Dimensional Spinless Fermions Coupled to $Z_{2}$ Gauge Theory

Umberto Borla, Ruben Verresen, Fabian Grusdt, and Sergej Moroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120503 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Critical Quantum Metrology with a Finite-Component Quantum Phase Transition

Louis Garbe, Matteo Bina, Arne Keller, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Simone Felicetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120504 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Galois Conjugated Tensor Fusion Categories and Nonunitary Conformal Field Theory

Laurens Lootens, Robijn Vanhove, Jutho Haegeman, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120601 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Relaxation Theory for Perturbed Many-Body Quantum Systems versus Numerics and Experiment

Lennart Dabelow and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120602 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Inferring Entropy Production from Short Experiments

Sreekanth K. Manikandan, Deepak Gupta, and Supriya Krishnamurthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 120603 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Classification of String Theories via Topological Phases

Justin Kaidi, Julio Parra-Martinez, and Yuji Tachikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 121601 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

High-Statistics Measurement of Neutrino Quasielasticlike Scattering at 6 GeV on a Hydrocarbon Target

M. F. Carneiro et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 121801 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Dark Matter Signals from Timing Spectra at Neutrino Experiments

Bhaskar Dutta, Doojin Kim, Shu Liao, Jong-Chul Park, Seodong Shin, and Louis E. Strigari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 121802 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Natural Twin Neutralino Dark Matter

Marcin Badziak, Giovanni Grilli di Cortona, and Keisuke Harigaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 121803 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Observation of the Radiative Decays of $ϒ (1 S)$ to $χ_{c 1}$

P. Katrenko et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 122001 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Measurement of $f_{s} / f_{u}$ Variation with Proton-Proton Collision Energy and $B$ -Meson Kinematics

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 122002 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Study of Two-Photon Exchange via the Beam Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry in Electron-Proton Elastic Scattering at Forward Angles over a Wide Energy Range

B. Gou et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 122003 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay in ${}^{130}{Te}$ with CUORE

D. Q. Adams et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 122501 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

New limits have been set on the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{130}$ Te from two years of data from the CUORE experiment.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Laser Trapping of Circular Rydberg Atoms

R. G. Cortiñas, M. Favier, B. Ravon, P. Méhaignerie, Y. Machu, J. M. Raimond, C. Sayrin, and M. Brune

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123201 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Laser trapping of circular Rydberg atoms for 10 ms with 5 ms lifetimes has enabled 1000 interaction cycles between two Rydberg atoms held 5 microns apart.

Fast In Situ Observation of Atomic Feshbach Resonances by Photoassociative Ionization

M. Eisele, R. A. W. Maier, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123401 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Deconfining Disordered Phase in Two-Dimensional Quantum Link Models

Lorenzo Cardarelli, Sebastian Greschner, and Luis Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123601 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Necklace-State-Mediated Anomalous Enhancement of Transport in Anderson-Localized non-Hermitian Hybrid Systems

M. Balasubrahmaniyam, Sandip Mondal, and Sushil Mujumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123901 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

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Non-Lorentzian Local Density of States in Coupled Photonic Crystal Cavities Probed by Near- and Far-Field Emission

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 123902 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

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Shortcut to Geostrophy in Wave-Driven Rotating Turbulence: The Quartetic Instability

Maxime Brunet, Basile Gallet, and Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 124501 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

When energy in a cylindrical wave tank is fed into inertial waves only, then strong forcing generates geostrophic flow invariant along the rotation axis.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Bayesian Optimization of a Free-Electron Laser

J. Duris, D. Kennedy, A. Hanuka, J. Shtalenkova, A. Edelen, P. Baxevanis, A. Egger, T. Cope, M. McIntire, S. Ermon, and D. Ratner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 124801 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Ultimate Strength of Metals

Michael Chandross and Nicolas Argibay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 125501 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

The peak strength of a metal occurs when the boundaries between its grains and the grains themselves have the same strength.

Microscopic Origin of Capillary Force Balance at Contact Line

JingCun Fan, Joël De Coninck, HengAn Wu, and FengChao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 125502 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Kondo-Induced Giant Isotropic Negative Thermal Expansion

D. G. Mazzone, M. Dzero, AM. M. Abeykoon, H. Yamaoka, H. Ishii, N. Hiraoka, J.-P. Rueff, J. M. Ablett, K. Imura, H. S. Suzuki, J. N. Hancock, and I. Jarrige

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 125701 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Two-Dimensional Antimony Oxide

Stefan Wolff, Roland Gillen, Mhamed Assebban, Gonzalo Abellán, and Janina Maultzsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126101 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Plumbene on a Magnetic Substrate: A Combined Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Density Functional Theory Study

Gustav Bihlmayer, Jonas Sassmannshausen, André Kubetzka, Stefan Blügel, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126401 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Flat Chern Band from Twisted Bilayer ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Biao Lian, Zhaochen Liu, Yuanbo Zhang, and Jing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126402 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Robust Gapless Surface State against Surface Magnetic Impurities on $({Bi}_{0.5} {Sb}_{0.5})_{2} {Te}_{3}$ Evidenced by In Situ Magnetotransport Measurements

Liuqi Yu, Longqian Hu, Jorge L. Barreda, Tong Guan, Xiaoyue He, Kehui Wu, Yongqing Li, and Peng Xiong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126601 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Acoustogalvanic Effect in Dirac and Weyl Semimetals

P. O. Sukhachov and H. Rostami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126602 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Partial Equilibration of the Anti-Pfaffian Edge due to Majorana Disorder

Steven H. Simon and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126801 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

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Tunable Valley Splitting due to Topological Orbital Magnetic Moment in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Point Contacts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126802 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

A method to tune the valley splitting in bilayer graphene using gate electrodes might lead to a useful tool for quantum information processing.

Unidirectional Charge Transport via Ripplonic Polarons in a Three-Terminal Microchannel Device

A. O. Badrutdinov, D. G. Rees, J. Y. Lin, A. V. Smorodin, and D. Konstantinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126803 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

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Magnetoconductance, Quantum Hall Effect, and Coulomb Blockade in Topological Insulator Nanocones

Raphael Kozlovsky, Ansgar Graf, Denis Kochan, Klaus Richter, and Cosimo Gorini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 126804 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

A coaxial magnetic field through a topological insulator nanowire with a variable cross-section leads to novel magnetotransport features.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Rotation of Ferrimagnetism Driven by Antiferromagnetic Spin Canting

A. M. Vibhakar, D. D. Khalyavin, P. Manuel, J. Liu, A. A. Belik, and R. D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127201 (2020) - Published 23 March, 2020

Dimer Physics in the Frustrated Cairo Pentagonal Antiferromagnet ${Bi}_{2} {Fe}_{4} O_{9}$

K. Beauvois, V. Simonet, S. Petit, J. Robert, F. Bourdarot, M. Gospodinov, A. A. Mukhin, R. Ballou, V. Skumryev, and E. Ressouche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127202 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

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Rank–2 $U (1)$ Spin Liquid on the Breathing Pyrochlore Lattice

Han Yan (闫寒), Owen Benton, L. D. C. Jaubert, and Nic Shannon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127203 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

A new theory proposes an experimental approach to spotting fractons.

Three-Dimensional Dynamics of a Magnetic Hopfion Driven by Spin Transfer Torque

Yizhou Liu, Wentao Hou, Xiufeng Han, and Jiadong Zang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127204 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Anomalous Lattice Softening Near a Quantum Critical Point in a Transverse Ising Magnet

Keisuke Matsuura, Pham Thanh Cong, Sergei Zherlitsyn, Joachim Wosnitza, Nobuyuki Abe, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127205 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Direct Evidence of the Competing Nature between Electronic and Lattice Breathing Order in Rare-Earth Nickelates

Jong-Woo Kim, Yongseong Choi, S. Middey, D. Meyers, J. Chakhalian, Padraic Shafer, H. Park, and Philip J. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127601 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Interplay of Topology and Electron-Electron Interactions in Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetals

Igor Boettcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127602 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Trapping and Counting Ballistic Nonequilibrium Electrons

Lars Freise, Thomas Gerster, David Reifert, Thomas Weimann, Klaus Pierz, Frank Hohls, and Niels Ubbelohde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 127701 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

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

Charge Carrier Transport and Generation via Trap-Mediated Optical Release in Organic Semiconductor Devices

Oskar J. Sandberg, Stefan Zeiske, Nasim Zarrabi, Paul Meredith, and Ardalan Armin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 128001 (2020) - Published 25 March, 2020

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Reverse Janssen Effect in Narrow Granular Columns

Shivam Mahajan, Michael Tennenbaum, Sudhir N. Pathak, Devontae Baxter, Xiaochen Fan, Pablo Padilla, Caleb Anderson, Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, and Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 128002 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020

Friction at the walls of a cylinder can generate a downward force, resulting in an apparent weight increase of the particles inside.

Magnetic Noise Enabled Biocompass

Da-Wu Xiao, Wen-Hui Hu, Yunfeng Cai, and Nan Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 128101 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Precision Mass Measurements on Neutron-Rich Rare-Earth Isotopes at JYFLTRAP: Reduced Neutron Pairing and Implications for $r$ -Process Calculations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 262701 (2018)]

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 129901 (2020) - Published 24 March, 2020

Erratum: Direct Observation of Proton Emission in ${}^{11}{Be}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 082501 (2019)]

Y. Ayyad et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 129902 (2020) - Published 26 March, 2020

Erratum: Delayed Onset of Nonthermal Melting in Single-Crystal Silicon Pumped with Hard X Rays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265701 (2018)]

T. Pardini, J. Alameda, A. Aquila, S. Boutet, T. Decker, A. E. Gleason, S. Guillet, P. Hamilton, M. Hayes, R. Hill, J. Koglin, B. Kozioziemski, J. Robinson, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, R. Soufli, and S. P. Hau-Riege

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 129903 (2020) - Published 27 March, 2020