Volume 124, Issue 18

8 May 2020

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Lighter colors represent higher energies in a contour map of the two highest valence bands in the moiré Brillouin zone of twisted bilayer graphene.

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Marginal Fermi Liquid in Twisted Bilayer Graphene
J. González and T. Stauber
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186801 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Driven Imposters: Controlling Expectations in Many-Body Systems

Gerard McCaul, Christopher Orthodoxou, Kurt Jacobs, George H. Booth, and Denys I. Bondar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 183201 (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

A novel framework for controlling many-body systems with external fields shows how two distinct materials could be made to mimic each other or form more exotic materials.

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Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments

J. P. Sauppe, S. Palaniyappan, B. J. Tobias, J. L. Kline, K. A. Flippo, O. L. Landen, D. Shvarts, S. H. Batha, P. A. Bradley, E. N. Loomis, N. N. Vazirani, C. F. Kawaguchi, L. Kot, D. W. Schmidt, T. H. Day, A. B. Zylstra, and E. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185003 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Imploding targets at two different inertial confinement fusion facilities exhibit the same hydrodynamics over spatial and temporal scales that vary by a factor of 3.

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Reactive Momentum Transfer Contributes to the Self-Propulsion of Janus Particles

Shaltiel Eloul, Wilson C. K. Poon, Oded Farago, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 188001 (2020) - Published 5 May, 2020

Simulations indicate that rocket-like chemical reactions at the surface of a particle can provide enough force to propel the particles forward.

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Rheology of Entangled Active Polymer-Like T. Tubifex Worms

A. Deblais, S. Woutersen, and D. Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 188002 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

The activity of sludge worms can alter the viscosity of a fluid, a finding that could help researchers understand active systems in cellular biology.

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Grover Search as a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon

Mathieu Roget, Stéphane Guillet, Pablo Arrighi, and Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180501 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Under certain conditions, 1/2-spin fermions may naturally behave like a Grover quantum search looking for topological defects in a material.

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Onsager’s Scars in Disordered Spin Chains

Naoyuki Shibata, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, and Hosho Katsura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180604 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Nonthermalizing many-body dynamics is constructed for a nonintegrable but analytically tractable spin model with Onsager symmetry.

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Stationary Black Holes and Light Rings

Pedro V. P. Cunha and Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181101 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

Theoretical arguments suggest that light rings around black holes — like the one observed by the Event Horizon Telescope — may be understood as a generic topological consequence of the structure of spacetime around blackholes.

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Jones Polynomial and Knot Transitions in Hermitian and non-Hermitian Topological Semimetals

Zhesen Yang, Ching-Kai Chiu, Chen Fang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186402 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

The search for topological nodal line semimetals with nontrivial links and knots is simplified by considering the evolution of nodal chain semimetals.

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Direct Observation of Full-Gap Superconductivity and Pseudogap in Two-Dimensional Fullerides

Ming-Qiang Ren, Sha Han, Shu-Ze Wang, Jia-Qi Fan, Can-Li Song, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 187001 (2020) - Published 5 May, 2020

Scanning tunneling measurements of superconducting alkali-fulleride thin-film samples reveal a nodeless s-wave gap for multilayer samples and a cuprate-like pseudogap for only the trilayer sample.

LETTERS

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

Quantum State Engineering by Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Interacting Spin-Boson Systems

Obinna Abah, Ricardo Puebla, and Mauro Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180401 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

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Grover Search as a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon

Mathieu Roget, Stéphane Guillet, Pablo Arrighi, and Giuseppe Di Molfetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180501 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Under certain conditions, 1/2-spin fermions may naturally behave like a Grover quantum search looking for topological defects in a material.

Sequential Dispersive Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit

T. Peronnin, D. Marković, Q. Ficheux, and B. Huard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180502 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Counting Classical Nodes in Quantum Networks

He Lu, Chien-Ying Huang, Zheng-Da Li, Xu-Fei Yin, Rui Zhang, Teh-Lu Liao, Yu-Ao Chen, Che-Ming Li, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180503 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Operator Lévy Flight: Light Cones in Chaotic Long-Range Interacting Systems

Tianci Zhou, Shenglong Xu, Xiao Chen, Andrew Guo, and Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180601 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Confinement and Lack of Thermalization after Quenches in the Bosonic Schwinger Model

Titas Chanda, Jakub Zakrzewski, Maciej Lewenstein, and Luca Tagliacozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180602 (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory for Bosons

Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros, Jakob Wolff, Miguel A. L. Marques, and Christian Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180603 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

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Onsager’s Scars in Disordered Spin Chains

Naoyuki Shibata, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, and Hosho Katsura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 180604 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Nonthermalizing many-body dynamics is constructed for a nonintegrable but analytically tractable spin model with Onsager symmetry.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Stationary Black Holes and Light Rings

Pedro V. P. Cunha and Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181101 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

Directly Detecting Signals from Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter

Jeff A. Dror, Gilly Elor, and Robert McGehee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181301 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Implications of the Upper Bound on $h \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ on the Baryon Asymmetry of the Universe

Elina Fuchs, Marta Losada, Yosef Nir, and Yehonatan Viernik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181801 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Search for Dark Matter Induced Deexcitation of ${}^{180}{Ta}^{m}$

Björn Lehnert, Harikrishnan Ramani, Mikael Hult, Guillaume Lutter, Maxim Pospelov, Surjeet Rajendran, and Kai Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 181802 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

OmniFold: A Method to Simultaneously Unfold All Observables

Anders Andreassen, Patrick T. Komiske, Eric M. Metodiev, Benjamin Nachman, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 182001 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Fluorescence Time Delay in Multistep Auger Decay as an Internal Clock

S. Kosugi, F. Koike, M. Iizawa, M. Oura, T. Gejo, K. Tamasaku, J. R. Harries, R. Guillemin, M. N. Piancastelli, M. Simon, and Y. Azuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 183001 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

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Driven Imposters: Controlling Expectations in Many-Body Systems

Gerard McCaul, Christopher Orthodoxou, Kurt Jacobs, George H. Booth, and Denys I. Bondar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 183201 (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

A novel framework for controlling many-body systems with external fields shows how two distinct materials could be made to mimic each other or form more exotic materials.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Direct Observation of Flatband Loop States Arising from Nontrivial Real-Space Topology

Jina Ma, Jun-Won Rhim, Liqin Tang, Shiqi Xia, Haiping Wang, Xiuyan Zheng, Shiqiang Xia, Daohong Song, Yi Hu, Yigang Li, Bohm-Jung Yang, Daniel Leykam, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 183901 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

To Split or Not to Split: Dynamics of an Air Disk Formed under a Drop Impacting on a Pool

Zhen Jian, Murad Ali Channa, Abderrahmane Kherbeche, Hossain Chizari, Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen, and Marie-Jean Thoraval

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 184501 (2020) - Published 4 May, 2020

Symmetrization of Thin Freestanding Liquid Films via a Capillary-Driven Flow

Vincent Bertin, John Niven, Howard A. Stone, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 184502 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ultrafast Plasmon Dynamics in Crystalline LiF Triggered by Intense Extreme UV Pulses

C. Fasolato, F. Sacchetti, P. Postorino, P. Tozzi, E. Principi, A. Simoncig, L. Foglia, R. Mincigrucci, F. Bencivenga, C. Masciovecchio, and C. Petrillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 184801 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Anomalous Absorption by the Two-Plasmon Decay Instability

D. Turnbull, A. V. Maximov, D. H. Edgell, W. Seka, R. K. Follett, J. P. Palastro, D. Cao, V. N. Goncharov, C. Stoeckl, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185001 (2020) - Published 5 May, 2020

Simple Explanation for the Observed Power Law Distribution of Line Intensity in Complex Many-Electron Atoms

Keisuke Fujii and Julian C. Berengut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185002 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

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Demonstration of Scale-Invariant Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth in Laser-Driven Cylindrical Implosion Experiments

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185003 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Imploding targets at two different inertial confinement fusion facilities exhibit the same hydrodynamics over spatial and temporal scales that vary by a factor of 3.

Electron-Nanobunch-Width-Dominated Spectral Power Law for Relativistic Harmonic Generation from Ultrathin Foils

Matthew R. Edwards, Nicholas M. Fasano, and Julia M. Mikhailova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185004 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Rotating Spokes, Ionization Instability, and Electron Vortices in Partially Magnetized $E \times B$ Plasmas

Jean-Pierre Boeuf and Masayuki Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185005 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Unsupervised Manifold Clustering of Topological Phononics

Yang Long, Jie Ren, and Hong Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185501 (2020) - Published 6 May, 2020

Origin of Plasticity in Nanostructured Silicon

Zhidan Zeng, Qiaoshi Zeng, Mingyuan Ge, Bin Chen, Hongbo Lou, Xiehang Chen, Jinyuan Yan, Wenge Yang, Ho-kwang Mao, Deren Yang, and Wendy L. Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 185701 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Wave-Turbulence Origin of the Instability of Anderson Localization against Many-Body Interactions

Zhen Wang, Weicheng Fu, Yong Zhang, and Hong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186401 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

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Jones Polynomial and Knot Transitions in Hermitian and non-Hermitian Topological Semimetals

Zhesen Yang, Ching-Kai Chiu, Chen Fang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186402 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

The search for topological nodal line semimetals with nontrivial links and knots is simplified by considering the evolution of nodal chain semimetals.

Thouless Time Analysis of Anderson and Many-Body Localization Transitions

Piotr Sierant, Dominique Delande, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186601 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Universal Behavior of the Thermal Hall Conductivity

Yi-feng Yang, Guang-Ming Zhang, and Fu-Chun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186602 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

Marginal Fermi Liquid in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

J. González and T. Stauber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 186801 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

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Direct Observation of Full-Gap Superconductivity and Pseudogap in Two-Dimensional Fullerides

Ming-Qiang Ren, Sha Han, Shu-Ze Wang, Jia-Qi Fan, Can-Li Song, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 187001 (2020) - Published 5 May, 2020

Scanning tunneling measurements of superconducting alkali-fulleride thin-film samples reveal a nodeless s-wave gap for multilayer samples and a cuprate-like pseudogap for only the trilayer sample.

High-Temperature Charge-Stripe Correlations in ${La}_{1.675} {Eu}_{0.2} {Sr}_{0.125} {CuO}_{4}$

Qisi Wang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 187002 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

Ferromagnetism in Narrow Bands of Moiré Superlattices

Cécile Repellin, Zhihuan Dong, Ya-Hui Zhang, and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 187601 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020

First-Order Magnetic Phase Transition of Mobile Electrons in Monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Jonas G. Roch, Dmitry Miserev, Guillaume Froehlicher, Nadine Leisgang, Lukas Sponfeldner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, and Richard J. Warburton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 187602 (2020) - Published 8 May, 2020

Voltage-Controlled Antiferromagnetism in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Meng Xu, Mingen Li, Pravin Khanal, Ali Habiboglu, Blake Insana, Yuzan Xiong, Thomas Peterson, Jason C. Myers, Deborah Ortega, Hongwei Qu, C. L. Chien, Wei Zhang, Jian-Ping Wang, and W. G. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 187701 (2020) - Published 7 May, 2020