Volume 124, Issue 15

17 April 2020

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Interference patterns in a slice through a 3D photoelectron momentum distribution for helium ionized by a bicircular laser pulse.

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Gouy’s Phase Anomaly in Electron Waves Produced by Strong-Field Ionization
Simon Brennecke, Nicolas Eicke, and Manfred Lein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153202 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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High-Frequency Sound in a Unitary Fermi Gas

C. C. N. Kuhn, S. Hoinka, I. Herrera, P. Dyke, J. J. Kinnunen, G. M. Bruun, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150401 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Sound waves reveal the unique properties of the unitary Fermi gas, a model system for describing certain superconductors and forms of nuclear matter.

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High Harmonic Generation in a Correlated Electron System

Shohei Imai, Atsushi Ono, and Sumio Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157404 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Computer models show that the many-body interactions of electrons in correlated electron systems can generate high harmonic optical signals.

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Instability-Induced Pattern Formations in Soft Magnetoactive Composites

Artemii Goshkoderia, Vincent Chen, Jian Li, Abigail Juhl, Philip Buskohl, and Stephan Rudykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158002 (2020) - Published 14 April, 2020

The predicted particle patterns that develop in a magnetically active material could be harnessed to tune the material’s properties.

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Particle-Hole Symmetry and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in the Lowest Landau Level

W. Pan, W. Kang, M. P. Lilly, J. L. Reno, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, and D. C. Tsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 156801 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Reflection symmetry in the magnetoconductivities between states with filling factor $ν$ and its conjugate 1- $ν$ demonstrates that particle-hole symmetry is a fundamental property of fractional quantum Hall physics.

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Conductivitylike Gilbert Damping due to Intraband Scattering in Epitaxial Iron

Behrouz Khodadadi, Anish Rai, Arjun Sapkota, Abhishek Srivastava, Bhuwan Nepal, Youngmin Lim, David A. Smith, Claudia Mewes, Sujan Budhathoki, Adam J. Hauser, Min Gao, Jie-Fang Li, Dwight D. Viehland, Zijian Jiang, Jean J. Heremans, Prasanna V. Balachandran, Tim Mewes, and Satoru Emori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157201 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

The unambiguous identification of the conductivitylike component of Gilbert damping in pure iron validates theoretical predictions that were at odds with the apparent absence of this contribution.

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Finite Temperature Phase Behavior of Viral Capsids as Oriented Particle Shells

Amit R. Singh, Andrej Košmrlj, and Robijn Bruinsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158101 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Numerical simulations reveal details of thermal melting, buckling and collapse transitions of viral capsids.

LETTERS

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

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High-Frequency Sound in a Unitary Fermi Gas

C. C. N. Kuhn, S. Hoinka, I. Herrera, P. Dyke, J. J. Kinnunen, G. M. Bruun, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150401 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Sound waves reveal the unique properties of the unitary Fermi gas, a model system for describing certain superconductors and forms of nuclear matter.

Remote Generation of Wigner Negativity through Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Mattia Walschaers and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150501 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Demonstration of a Reconfigurable Entangled Radio-Frequency Photonic Sensor Network

Yi Xia, Wei Li, William Clark, Darlene Hart, Quntao Zhuang, and Zheshen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150502 (2020) - Published 17 April, 2020

Local-in-Time Error in Variational Quantum Dynamics

Rocco Martinazzo and Irene Burghardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150601 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Nonadiabatic Control of Geometric Pumping

Kazutaka Takahashi, Keisuke Fujii, Yuki Hino, and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150602 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Shortcuts to Adiabatic Pumping in Classical Stochastic Systems

Ken Funo, Neill Lambert, Franco Nori, and Christian Flindt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150603 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Searching for Scalar Dark Matter with Compact Mechanical Resonators

Jack Manley, Dalziel J. Wilson, Russell Stump, Daniel Grin, and Swati Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 151301 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Fractal Geometry of Higher Derivative Gravity

Maximilian Becker, Carlo Pagani, and Omar Zanusso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 151302 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Thermal Relic Targets with Exponentially Small Couplings

Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo, Duccio Pappadopulo, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Po-Jen Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 151801 (2020) - Published 17 April, 2020

Measurements of the Absolute Branching Fractions of $B^{\pm} \to K^{\pm} X_{c \bar{c}}$

J. P. Lees et al. (BaBar Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 152001 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Exact Hydrodynamic Attractor of an Ultrarelativistic Gas of Hard Spheres

Gabriel S. Denicol and Jorge Noronha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 152301 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Establishing the Maximum Collectivity in Highly Deformed $N = Z$ Nuclei

R. D. O. Llewellyn et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 152501 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Extending the Southern Shore of the Island of Inversion to ${}^{28}F$

A. Revel et al. (SAMURAI21 collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 152502 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Balanced Coherence Times of Atomic Qubits of Different Species in a Dual $3 \times 3$ Magic-Intensity Optical Dipole Trap Array

Ruijun Guo, Xiaodong He, Cheng Sheng, Jiaheng Yang, Peng Xu, Kunpeng Wang, Jiaqi Zhong, Min Liu, Jin Wang, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153201 (2020) - Published 14 April, 2020

Gouy’s Phase Anomaly in Electron Waves Produced by Strong-Field Ionization

Simon Brennecke, Nicolas Eicke, and Manfred Lein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153202 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Optical Control of a Single Nuclear Spin in the Solid State

M. L. Goldman, T. L. Patti, D. Levonian, S. F. Yelin, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153203 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Imperfect Recollisions in High-Harmonic Generation in Solids

Lun Yue and Mette B. Gaarde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153204 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Vector Vortex Beam Emitter Embedded in a Photonic Chip

Yuan Chen, Ke-Yu Xia, Wei-Guan Shen, Jun Gao, Zeng-Quan Yan, Zhi-Qiang Jiao, Jian-Peng Dou, Hao Tang, Yan-Qing Lu, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153601 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Phonon-Induced Optical Dephasing in Single Organic Molecules

Chloe Clear, Ross C. Schofield, Kyle D. Major, Jake Iles-Smith, Alex S. Clark, and Dara P. S. McCutcheon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153602 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Universal Scaling in the Dynamic Hysteresis, and Non-Markovian Dynamics, of a Tunable Optical Cavity

Z. Geng, K. J. H. Peters, A. A. P. Trichet, K. Malmir, R. Kolkowski, J. M. Smith, and S. R. K. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153603 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Physical Violations of the Bulk-Edge Correspondence in Topological Electromagnetics

S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj and Francesco Monticone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153901 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Observation of Rapid Adiabatic Passage in Optical Four-Wave Mixing

Xiaoyue Ding, Dylan Heberle, Kerrianne Harrington, Noah Flemens, Wei-Zung Chang, Tim A. Birks, and Jeffrey Moses

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153902 (2020) - Published 14 April, 2020

Efficient Mode Transfer on a Compact Silicon Chip by Encircling Moving Exceptional Points

Qingjie Liu, Shuyi Li, Bing Wang, Shaolin Ke, Chengzhi Qin, Kai Wang, Weiwei Liu, Dingshan Gao, Pierre Berini, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153903 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Singular Points of Polarizations in the Momentum Space of Photonic Crystal Slabs

Weimin Ye, Yang Gao, and Jianlong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 153904 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Acoustic Radiation Forces Produced by Sharp-Edge Structures in Microfluidic Systems

Alexander A. Doinikov, Michael S. Gerlt, and Jürg Dual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 154501 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Pattern Formation of Three-Dimensional Electroconvection on a Charge Selective Surface

Soohyeon Kang and Rhokyun Kwak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 154502 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Identification of an Optimized Heating and Fast Ion Generation Scheme for the Wendelstein 7-X Stellarator

H. W. Patten, J. P. Graves, W. A. Cooper, J. Eriksson, D. Pfefferlé, W7-X team, and JET contributors

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 155001 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fully Coupled Two-Fluid Dynamics in Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ : Anomalous Anisotropic Velocity Fluctuations in Counterflow

Satoshi Yui, Hiromichi Kobayashi, Makoto Tsubota, and Wei Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 155301 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Many-Body Dynamical Localization in a Kicked Lieb-Liniger Gas

Colin Rylands, Efim B. Rozenbaum, Victor Galitski, and Robert Konik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 155302 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Lognormal Distribution of Local Strain: A Universal Law of Plastic Deformation in Material

Ao Tang, Haiting Liu, Guisen Liu, Yong Zhong, Li Wang, Qi Lu, Jeff Wang, and Yao Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 155501 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Machine-Learning X-Ray Absorption Spectra to Quantitative Accuracy

Matthew R. Carbone, Mehmet Topsakal, Deyu Lu, and Shinjae Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 156401 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Reducing Electronic Transport Dimension to Topological Hinge States by Increasing Geometry Size of Dirac Semimetal Josephson Junctions

Cai-Zhen Li, An-Qi Wang, Chuan Li, Wen-Zhuang Zheng, Alexander Brinkman, Da-Peng Yu, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 156601 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Particle-Hole Symmetry and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in the Lowest Landau Level

W. Pan, W. Kang, M. P. Lilly, J. L. Reno, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, and D. C. Tsui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 156801 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect from Electron Interactions

Songci Li and Alex Levchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 156802 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Dynamical Coulomb Blockade as a Local Probe for Quantum Transport

Jacob Senkpiel, Jan C. Klöckner, Markus Etzkorn, Simon Dambach, Björn Kubala, Wolfgang Belzig, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Juan Carlos Cuevas, Fabian Pauly, Joachim Ankerhold, Christian R. Ast, and Klaus Kern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 156803 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Nematic Correlation Length in Iron-Based Superconductors Probed by Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

A. M. Merritt, F. Weber, J.-P. Castellan, Th. Wolf, D. Ishikawa, A. H. Said, A. Alatas, R. M. Fernandes, A. Q. R. Baron, and D. Reznik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157001 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Impurity-Induced Anomalous Thermal Hall Effect in Chiral Superconductors

Vudtiwat Ngampruetikorn and J. A. Sauls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157002 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conductivitylike Gilbert Damping due to Intraband Scattering in Epitaxial Iron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157201 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

The unambiguous identification of the conductivitylike component of Gilbert damping in pure iron validates theoretical predictions that were at odds with the apparent absence of this contribution.

Manipulation of the Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Interaction in Co/Pt Multilayers with Strain

N. S. Gusev, A. V. Sadovnikov, S. A. Nikitov, M. V. Sapozhnikov, and O. G. Udalov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157202 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Quantum Statistics of Vortices from a Dual Theory of the $X Y$ Ferromagnet

Sayak Dasgupta, Shu Zhang, Ibrahima Bah, and Oleg Tchernyshyov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157203 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Ultrafast Control of Excitonic Rashba Fine Structure by Phonon Coherence in the Metal Halide Perovskite ${CH}_{3} {NH}_{3} {PbI}_{3}$

Z. Liu, C. Vaswani, X. Yang, X. Zhao, Y. Yao, Z. Song, D. Cheng, Y. Shi, L. Luo, D.-H. Mudiyanselage, C. Huang, J.-M. Park, R. H. J. Kim, J. Zhao, Y. Yan, K.-M. Ho, and J. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157401 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Room-Temperature Macroscopic Coherence of Two Electron-Hole Plasmas in a Microcavity

Qi Jie, Keye Zhang, Chih-Wei Lai, Feng-Kuo Hsu, Weiping Zhang, Song Luo, Yi-Shan Lee, Sheng-Di Lin, Zhanghai Chen, and Wei Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157402 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Determination of Electron Band Structure using Temporal Interferometry

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Lixin He, Wei Cao, Qingbin Zhang, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157403 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

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High Harmonic Generation in a Correlated Electron System

Shohei Imai, Atsushi Ono, and Sumio Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157404 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Computer models show that the many-body interactions of electrons in correlated electron systems can generate high harmonic optical signals.

Mobility Enhancement in Graphene by in situ Reduction of Random Strain Fluctuations

Lujun Wang (王律俊), Péter Makk, Simon Zihlmann, Andreas Baumgartner, David I. Indolese, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Christian Schönenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 157701 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

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

Constraint Dependence of Active Depletion Forces on Passive Particles

Peng Liu, Simin Ye, Fangfu Ye, Ke Chen, and Mingcheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158001 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

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Instability-Induced Pattern Formations in Soft Magnetoactive Composites

Artemii Goshkoderia, Vincent Chen, Jian Li, Abigail Juhl, Philip Buskohl, and Stephan Rudykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158002 (2020) - Published 14 April, 2020

The predicted particle patterns that develop in a magnetically active material could be harnessed to tune the material’s properties.

Poiseuille Flow of Soft Polycrystals in 2D Rough Channels

Tanmoy Sarkar, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Anirban Sain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158003 (2020) - Published 17 April, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite Temperature Phase Behavior of Viral Capsids as Oriented Particle Shells

Amit R. Singh, Andrej Košmrlj, and Robijn Bruinsma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158101 (2020) - Published 13 April, 2020

Numerical simulations reveal details of thermal melting, buckling and collapse transitions of viral capsids.

Active Contact Forces Drive Nonequilibrium Fluctuations in Membrane Vesicles

Sho C. Takatori and Amaresh Sahu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158102 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

Invasion Rate Versus Diversity in Population Dynamics with Catastrophes

A. Melka, N. Dori, and Y. Louzoun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 158301 (2020) - Published 16 April, 2020

COMMENTS

Comment on “Enhancement of the Raman Effect by Infrared Pumping”

Zhenhuan Yi, Zhedong Zhang, Alexei V. Sokolov, and Vladislav V. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 159401 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

Shishkov et al. Reply:

V. Yu. Shishkov, E. S. Andrianov, A. A. Pukhov, A. P. Vinogradov, and A. A. Lisyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 159402 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Measurement of Preheat Due to Nonlocal Electron Transport in Warm Dense Matter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025002 (2018)]

K. Falk, M. Holec, C. J. Fontes, C. L. Fryer, C. W. Greeff, H. M. Johns, D. S. Montgomery, D. W. Schmidt, and M. Šmíd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 159901 (2020) - Published 15 April, 2020