Volume 124, Issue 19

15 May 2020

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Milliseconds after an outer soap film bursts, unbalanced surface tension dynamically buckles a bounding elastic ring (top) or annulus (bottom). Selected as an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Dynamic Buckling of an Elastic Ring in a Soap Film
Finn Box, Ousmane Kodio, Doireann O’Kiely, Vincent Cantelli, Alain Goriely, and Dominic Vella
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198003 (2020)

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Determination of Interfacial Concentration of a Contaminated Droplet from Shape Oscillation Damping

Benjamin Lalanne, Olivier Masbernat, and Frédéric Risso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 194501 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Shape oscillations of a moving droplet are good probes of contaminants on the droplet’s surface, even in terrestrial experiments where gravity is strong.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Twin-Airy Point-Spread Function for Extended-Volume Particle Localization

Yongzhuang Zhou, Paul Zammit, Vytautas Zickus, Jonathan M. Taylor, and Andrew R. Harvey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198104 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

A new system allows precise, 3D-imaging of particles smaller than a wavelength of light.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Doing Spin Physics with Unpolarized Particles

Igor P. Ivanov, Nikolai Korchagin, Alexandr Pimikov, and Pengming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192001 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Theorists show that collisions between particles with orbital angular momentum could offer a new way to study intrinsic spin properties.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamic Buckling of an Elastic Ring in a Soap Film

Finn Box, Ousmane Kodio, Doireann O’Kiely, Vincent Cantelli, Alain Goriely, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198003 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Breaking a soap film surrounding an elastic ring causes the ring to buckle.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cellular Uptake of Active Particles

Pengyu Chen, Ziyang Xu, Guolong Zhu, Xiaobin Dai, and Li-Tang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198102 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Simulations and theory reveal a nonmonotonic efficiency of cellular uptake of active particles with tilted orientation and provide a criterion to tune the activity-mediated cellular endocytosis.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transition from Saltation to Collisional Regime in Windblown Sand

J-L. Ralaiarisoa, J-B. Besnard, B. Furieri, P. Dupont, A. Ould El Moctar, F. Naaim-Bouvet, and A. Valance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198501 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Wind tunnel experiments coupled with numerical simulations on sand particles find a wind-speed-dependent transition between saltation (jumping) and collision regimes.

LETTERS

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

Geometric Phase through Spatial Potential Engineering

Stefano Cusumano, Antonella De Pasquale, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190401 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Rate Operator Unraveling for Open Quantum System Dynamics

Andrea Smirne, Matteo Caiaffa, and Jyrki Piilo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190402 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Coherence Equality and Communication in a Quantum Superposition

Flavio Del Santo and Borivoje Dakić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190501 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

High-Dimensional Frequency-Encoded Quantum Information Processing with Passive Photonics and Time-Resolving Detection

Chaohan Cui, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Saikat Guha, and Linran Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190502 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Quantum Metrology with Indefinite Causal Order

Xiaobin Zhao, Yuxiang Yang, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190503 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Bare-Excitation Ground State of a Spinless-Fermion–Boson Model and $W$ -State Engineering in an Array of Superconducting Qubits and Resonators

Vladimir M. Stojanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190504 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Floquet Engineering Topological Many-Body Localized Systems

K. S. C. Decker, C. Karrasch, J. Eisert, and D. M. Kennes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 190601 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Thermodynamically Consistent Equation of State for an Accreted Neutron Star Crust

M. E. Gusakov and A. I. Chugunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191101 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

First All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational-Wave Signals from Unknown Neutron Stars in Binary Systems Using Advanced LIGO Data

P. B. Covas and Alicia M. Sintes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191102 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Real-Time Dynamics of Plasma Balls from Holography

Hans Bantilan, Pau Figueras, and David Mateos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191601 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Double-Scaling Limit in the Principal Chiral Model: A New Noncritical String?

Vladimir Kazakov, Evgeny Sobko, and Konstantin Zarembo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191602 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Current Driven Tricritical Point in Large- $N_{c}$ Gauge Theory

Takuya Imaizumi, Masataka Matsumoto, and Shin Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191603 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Chiral Instabilities and the Onset of Chiral Turbulence in QED Plasmas

Mark Mace, Niklas Mueller, Sören Schlichting, and Sayantan Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191604 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Light Scalars and the Koto Anomaly

Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic, Samuel Homiller, and Patrick Meade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 191801 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

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Doing Spin Physics with Unpolarized Particles

Igor P. Ivanov, Nikolai Korchagin, Alexandr Pimikov, and Pengming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192001 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Theorists show that collisions between particles with orbital angular momentum could offer a new way to study intrinsic spin properties.

First-Principles Calculation of Electroweak Box Diagrams from Lattice QCD

Xu Feng, Mikhail Gorchtein, Lu-Chang Jin, Peng-Xiang Ma, and Chien-Yeah Seng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192002 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Positive-Parity Linear-Chain Molecular Band in ${}^{16}C$

Y. Liu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192501 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Electronic Bridge Excitation in Highly Charged ${}^{229}{Th}$ Ions

Pavlo V. Bilous, Hendrik Bekker, Julian C. Berengut, Benedict Seiferle, Lars von der Wense, Peter G. Thirolf, Thomas Pfeifer, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192502 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Advances in the Direct Study of Carbon Burning in Massive Stars

G. Fruet et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192701 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

New Measurement of ${}^{12}C + {}^{12}C$ Fusion Reaction at Astrophysical Energies

W. P. Tan, A. Boeltzig, C. Dulal, R. J. deBoer, B. Frentz, S. Henderson, K. B. Howard, R. Kelmar, J. J. Kolata, J. Long, K. T. Macon, S. Moylan, G. F. Peaslee, M. Renaud, C. Seymour, G. Seymour, B. Vande Kolk, M. Wiescher, E. F. Aguilera, P. Amador-Valenzuela, D. Lizcano, and E. Martinez-Quiroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 192702 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurements of the ${}^{138}{Ba}^{+}$ $6 s {{}^{2}S}_{1 / 2} - 5 d {{}^{2}D}_{5 / 2}$ Clock Transition

K. J. Arnold, R. Kaewuam, S. R. Chanu, T. R. Tan, Zhiqiang Zhang, and M. D. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193001 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Single-Species Atomic Comagnetometer Based on ${}^{87}{Rb}$ Atoms

Zhiguo Wang, Xiang Peng, Rui Zhang, Hui Luo, Jiajia Li, Zhiqiang Xiong, Shanshan Wang, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193002 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Multielectron-Ion Coincidence Spectroscopy of Xe in Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Fields: Nonlinear Multiple Ionization via Double Core-Hole States

M. Fushitani, Y. Sasaki, A. Matsuda, H. Fujise, Y. Kawabe, K. Hashigaya, S. Owada, T. Togashi, K. Nakajima, M. Yabashi, Y. Hikosaka, and A. Hishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193201 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Extended Coherently Delocalized States in a Frozen Rydberg Gas

G. Abumwis, Matthew T. Eiles, and Alexander Eisfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193401 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Near-Degenerate Quadrature-Squeezed Vacuum Generation on a Silicon-Nitride Chip

Yun Zhao, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Jae K. Jang, Xingchen Ji, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193601 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Protocol for Precise Field Sensing in the Optical Domain with Cold Atoms in a Cavity

Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Diego Barberena, Juan A. Muniz, Julia R. K. Cline, Dylan Young, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193602 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Nonadditive Enhancement of Nonequilibrium Atom-Surface Interactions

D. Reiche, K. Busch, and F. Intravaia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193603 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Coupling Rydberg Atoms to Microwave Fields in a Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide Resonator

A. A. Morgan and S. D. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193604 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Virtual Parity-Time Symmetry

Huanan Li, Ahmed Mekawy, Alex Krasnok, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 193901 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Determination of Interfacial Concentration of a Contaminated Droplet from Shape Oscillation Damping

Benjamin Lalanne, Olivier Masbernat, and Frédéric Risso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 194501 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Shape oscillations of a moving droplet are good probes of contaminants on the droplet’s surface, even in terrestrial experiments where gravity is strong.

Self-Similar Liquid Lens Coalescence

Michiel A. Hack, Walter Tewes, Qingguang Xie, Charu Datt, Kirsten Harth, Jens Harting, and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 194502 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Penetration Depth of a Plunging Jet: From Microjets to Cascades

Grégory Guyot, Alain Cartellier, and Jean-Philippe Matas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 194503 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transparent Spin Method for Spin Control of Hadron Beams in Colliders

Yu. N. Filatov, A. M. Kondratenko, M. A. Kondratenko, Ya. S. Derbenev, and V. S. Morozov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 194801 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Topological Gaseous Plasmon Polariton in Realistic Plasma

Jeffrey B. Parker, J. B. Marston, Steven M. Tobias, and Ziyan Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 195001 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

First Evidence of Local $E \times B$ Drift in the Divertor Influencing the Structure and Stability of Confined Plasma near the Edge of Fusion Devices

H. Q. Wang, H. Y. Guo, G. S. Xu, A. W. Leonard, X. Q. Wu, M. Groth, A. E. Jaervinen, J. G. Watkins, T. H. Osborne, D. M. Thomas, D. Eldon, P. C. Stangeby, F. Turco, J. C. Xu, L. Wang, Y. F. Wang, and J. B. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 195002 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Solvable Models of Supercooled Liquids in Three Dimensions

Tommaso Rizzo and Thomas Voigtmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 195501 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Strumming a Single Chemical Bond

Alfred J. Weymouth, Elisabeth Riegel, Oliver Gretz, and Franz J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196101 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Equivalence of Effective Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in the Context of Open Quantum Systems and Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

Yoshihiro Michishita and Robert Peters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196401 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Simultaneous Structural and Electronic Transitions in Epitaxial ${VO}_{2} / Ti O_{2} (001)$

Galo J. Paez, Christopher N. Singh, Matthew J. Wahila, Keith E. Tirpak, Nicholas F. Quackenbush, Shawn Sallis, Hanjong Paik, Yufeng Liang, Darrell G. Schlom, Tien-Lin Lee, Christoph Schlueter, Wei-Cheng Lee, and Louis F. J. Piper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196402 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Modeling of Electronic Mobilities in Halide Perovskites: Adiabatic Quantum Localization Scenario

Antoine Lacroix, Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Pascal Quémerais, Jean-Pierre Julien, and Didier Mayou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196601 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Nonlocal Spin Dynamics in the Crossover from Diffusive to Ballistic Transport

Marc Vila, Jose H. Garcia, Aron W. Cummings, Stephen R. Power, Christoph W. Groth, Xavier Waintal, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196602 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Interactions Remove the Quantization of the Chiral Photocurrent at Weyl Points

Alexander Avdoshkin, Vladyslav Kozii, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196603 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Mesoscopic Stoner Instability in Open Quantum Dots: Suppression of Coleman-Weinberg Mechanism by Electron Tunneling

I. S. Burmistrov, Y. Gefen, D. S. Shapiro, and A. Shnirman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196801 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Multipath Optical Recombination of Intervalley Dark Excitons and Trions in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Erfu Liu, Jeremiah van Baren, Ching-Tarng Liang, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Yia-Chung Chang, and Chun Hung Lui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196802 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Local Two-Body Parent Hamiltonians for the Entire Jain Sequence

Sumanta Bandyopadhyay, Gerardo Ortiz, Zohar Nussinov, and Alexander Seidel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 196803 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Geometric Induction in Chiral Superconductors

Qing-Dong Jiang, T. H. Hansson, and Frank Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197001 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Microwave Spectroscopy Reveals the Quantum Geometric Tensor of Topological Josephson Matter

R. L. Klees, G. Rastelli, J. C. Cuevas, and W. Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197002 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Metamagnetism of Weakly Coupled Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulators

Aoyu Tan, Valentin Labracherie, Narayan Kunchur, Anja U. B. Wolter, Joaquin Cornejo, Joseph Dufouleur, Bernd Büchner, Anna Isaeva, and Romain Giraud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197201 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Topological Spin Torque Emerging in Classical Spin Systems with Different Timescales

Michael Elbracht, Simon Michel, and Michael Potthoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197202 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Three-Magnon Bound State in the Quasi-One-Dimensional Antiferromagnet $α$ - ${NaMnO}_{2}$

Rebecca L. Dally, Alvin J. R. Heng, Anna Keselman, Mitchell M. Bordelon, Matthew B. Stone, Leon Balents, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197203 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Planar Hall Driven Torque in a Ferromagnet/Nonmagnet/Ferromagnet System

Christopher Safranski, Jonathan Z. Sun, Jun-Wen Xu, and Andrew D. Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197204 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Observation of Magnetic Proximity Effect Using Resonant Optical Spectroscopy of an Electrically Tunable ${MoSe}_{2} / {CrBr}_{3}$ Heterostructure

Livio Ciorciaro, Martin Kroner, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197401 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Nature of Symmetry Breaking at the Excitonic Insulator Transition: ${Ta}_{2} {NiSe}_{5}$

Giacomo Mazza, Malte Rösner, Lukas Windgätter, Simone Latini, Hannes Hübener, Andrew J. Millis, Angel Rubio, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197601 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Raman Response in the Nematic Phase of FeSe

Mattia Udina, Marco Grilli, Lara Benfatto, and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197602 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

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

Tale of Two Tails: Molecular Exchange Kinetics of Telechelic Polymer Micelles

Nico König, Lutz Willner, Vitaliy Pipich, Najet Mahmoudi, and Reidar Lund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 197801 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Velocity and Speed Correlations in Hamiltonian Flocks

Mathias Casiulis, Marco Tarzia, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, and Olivier Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198001 (2020) - Published 11 May, 2020

Coherent Force Chains in Disordered Granular Materials Emerge from a Percolation of Quasilinear Clusters

K. P. Krishnaraj and Prabhu R. Nott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198002 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamic Buckling of an Elastic Ring in a Soap Film

Finn Box, Ousmane Kodio, Doireann O’Kiely, Vincent Cantelli, Alain Goriely, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198003 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

Breaking a soap film surrounding an elastic ring causes the ring to buckle.

Nonequilibrium Strategy for Fast Target Search on the Genome

F. Cagnetta, D. Michieletto, and D. Marenduzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198101 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cellular Uptake of Active Particles

Pengyu Chen, Ziyang Xu, Guolong Zhu, Xiaobin Dai, and Li-Tang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198102 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Simulations and theory reveal a nonmonotonic efficiency of cellular uptake of active particles with tilted orientation and provide a criterion to tune the activity-mediated cellular endocytosis.

Self-Organized Lane Formation in Bidirectional Transport by Molecular Motors

Robin Jose and Ludger Santen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198103 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Twin-Airy Point-Spread Function for Extended-Volume Particle Localization

Yongzhuang Zhou, Paul Zammit, Vytautas Zickus, Jonathan M. Taylor, and Andrew R. Harvey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198104 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

A new system allows precise, 3D-imaging of particles smaller than a wavelength of light.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transition from Saltation to Collisional Regime in Windblown Sand

J-L. Ralaiarisoa, J-B. Besnard, B. Furieri, P. Dupont, A. Ould El Moctar, F. Naaim-Bouvet, and A. Valance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198501 (2020) - Published 12 May, 2020

Wind tunnel experiments coupled with numerical simulations on sand particles find a wind-speed-dependent transition between saltation (jumping) and collision regimes.

Precipitation Modification by Ionization

R. Giles Harrison, Keri A. Nicoll, Maarten H. P. Ambaum, Graeme J. Marlton, Karen L. Aplin, and Michael Lockwood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198701 (2020) - Published 13 May, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Nucleon Matrix Elements of the Antisymmetric Quark Tensor [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 122001 (2019)]

Martin Hoferichter, Bastian Kubis, Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira, and Peter Stoffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 199901 (2020) - Published 14 May, 2020

Publisher’s Note: Femtosecond X-Ray Scattering Study of Ultrafast Photoinduced Structural Dynamics in Solvated $[Co (terpy)_{2}]^{2 +}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 013002 (2016)]

Elisa Biasin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 199902 (2020) - Published 15 May, 2020

Volume 124, Issue 19

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

Nuclear Physics

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

COMMENTS

ERRATA