Volume 124, Issue 2

17 January 2020

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Optical image of MnPS₃ nanoflakes on an SiO₂ substrate for probing long-range Néel order using optical second harmonic generation. Gold ring and electrode assist with heat dissipation.

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Linear Magnetoelectric Phase in Ultrathin ${MnPS}_{3}$ Probed by Optical Second Harmonic Generation
Hao Chu, Chang Jae Roh, Joshua O. Island, Chen Li, Sungmin Lee, Jingjing Chen, Je-Geun Park, Andrea F. Young, Jong Seok Lee, and David Hsieh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027601 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of a Quantum Phase from Classical Rotation of a Single Spin

A. A. Wood, L. C. L. Hollenberg, R. E. Scholten, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020401 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

Researchers detected the effect of rotating a crystal on the spin of an embedded particle, a result that could lead to ultrasensitive rotation sensors.

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Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara et al. (HAWC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 021102 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

A high-altitude observatory has detected nine astrophysical sources emitting gamma rays with extremely high energies.

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Three-Dimensional Trapping of Individual Rydberg Atoms in Ponderomotive Bottle Beam Traps

D. Barredo, V. Lienhard, P. Scholl, S. de Léséleuc, T. Boulier, A. Browaeys, and T. Lahaye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023201 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

A holographic technique confines excited Rydberg atoms in the central dark region of a 3D light-intensity pattern.

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In-Phase and Anti-Phase Synchronization in a Laser Frequency Comb

Johannes Hillbrand, Dominik Auth, Marco Piccardo, Nikola Opačak, Erich Gornik, Gottfried Strasser, Federico Capasso, Stefan Breuer, and Benedikt Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023901 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

A single semiconductor laser can produce both an amplitude-modulated and a frequency-modulated frequency comb, demonstrating a physical relationship between two types of output previously thought to be independent.

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Supersonic Rotation of a Superfluid: A Long-Lived Dynamical Ring

Yanliang Guo, Romain Dubessy, Mathieu de Goër de Herve, Avinash Kumar, Thomas Badr, Aurélien Perrin, Laurent Longchambon, and Hélène Perrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025301 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Researchers rev up a rotating Bose–Einstein condensate to beyond a critical speed, setting the stage for creating a giant superfluid vortex.

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Observation of Large Unidirectional Rashba Magnetoresistance in Ge(111)

T. Guillet, C. Zucchetti, Q. Barbedienne, A. Marty, G. Isella, L. Cagnon, C. Vergnaud, H. Jaffrès, N. Reyren, J.-M. George, A. Fert, and M. Jamet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027201 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

A new experiment shows that the semiconductor germanium exhibits unidirectional magnetoresistance, which had previously only been seen in more exotic materials

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Controlling Excitons in an Atomically Thin Membrane with a Mirror

You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Jiho Sung, Ryan J. Gelly, Dominik S. Wild, Kristiaan De Greve, Andrew Y. Joe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hongkun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027401 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

The photonic density of states, as well as absorption and emission properties, of excitons in a suspended heterostructure of MoSe $_{2}$ monolayers are controlled with a metallic mirror.

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Nonlocal Detection of Out-of-Plane Magnetization in a Magnetic Insulator by Thermal Spin Drag

Can Onur Avci, Ethan Rosenberg, Mantao Huang, Jackson Bauer, Caroline A. Ross, and Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027701 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

The discovery of a nonlocal spin-to-charge interconversion driven by orthogonal spin currents in a magnetic insulator provides a new way of generating an in-plane spin current with out-of-plane polarization in a nonmagnetic metal.

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Substrate Roughness Speeds Up Segmental Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films

Anna Panagopoulou, Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco, Ronald P. White, Jane E. G. Lipson, and Simone Napolitano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027802 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

By reducing interfacial density, nanoscale surface asperities enhance segmental mobility of polymers in thin films.

LETTERS

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

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Observation of a Quantum Phase from Classical Rotation of a Single Spin

A. A. Wood, L. C. L. Hollenberg, R. E. Scholten, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020401 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

Researchers detected the effect of rotating a crystal on the spin of an embedded particle, a result that could lead to ultrasensitive rotation sensors.

Scalable Bell Inequalities for Qubit Graph States and Robust Self-Testing

F. Baccari, R. Augusiak, I. Šupić, J. Tura, and A. Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020402 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

Quantum Sensing with a Single-Qubit Pseudo-Hermitian System

Yaoming Chu, Yu Liu, Haibin Liu, and Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020501 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Advantage Distillation for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Ernest Y.-Z. Tan, Charles C.-W. Lim, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020502 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Deep Autoregressive Models for the Efficient Variational Simulation of Many-Body Quantum Systems

Or Sharir, Yoav Levine, Noam Wies, Giuseppe Carleo, and Amnon Shashua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020503 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Efficient Quantum Error Correction of Dephasing Induced by a Common Fluctuator

David Layden, Mo Chen (陈墨), and Paola Cappellaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 020504 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Second-Order Self-Force Calculation of Gravitational Binding Energy in Compact Binaries

Adam Pound, Barry Wardell, Niels Warburton, and Jeremy Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 021101 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

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Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

A. U. Abeysekara et al. (HAWC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 021102 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

A high-altitude observatory has detected nine astrophysical sources emitting gamma rays with extremely high energies.

Scaling Density of Axion Strings

Mark Hindmarsh, Joanes Lizarraga, Asier Lopez-Eiguren, and Jon Urrestilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 021301 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Relation between the Migdal Effect and Dark Matter-Electron Scattering in Isolated Atoms and Semiconductors

Rouven Essig, Josef Pradler, Mukul Sholapurkar, and Tien-Tien Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 021801 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Fragmentation of Single-Particle Strength around the Doubly Magic Nucleus ${}^{132}{Sn}$ and the Position of the $0 f_{5 / 2}$ Proton-Hole State in ${}^{131}{In}$

V. Vaquero et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 022501 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Evidence for the First Excited State of ${}^{7}H$

A. A. Bezbakh et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 022502 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Three-Dimensional Trapping of Individual Rydberg Atoms in Ponderomotive Bottle Beam Traps

D. Barredo, V. Lienhard, P. Scholl, S. de Léséleuc, T. Boulier, A. Browaeys, and T. Lahaye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023201 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

A holographic technique confines excited Rydberg atoms in the central dark region of a 3D light-intensity pattern.

Quantum Signature of a Squeezed Mechanical Oscillator

A. Chowdhury, P. Vezio, M. Bonaldi, A. Borrielli, F. Marino, B. Morana, G. A. Prodi, P. M. Sarro, E. Serra, and F. Marin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023601 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Transform-Limited Photons From a Coherent Tin-Vacancy Spin in Diamond

Matthew E. Trusheim, Benjamin Pingault, Noel H. Wan, Mustafa Gündoğan, Lorenzo De Santis, Romain Debroux, Dorian Gangloff, Carola Purser, Kevin C. Chen, Michael Walsh, Joshua J. Rose, Jonas N. Becker, Benjamin Lienhard, Eric Bersin, Ioannis Paradeisanos, Gang Wang, Dominika Lyzwa, Alejandro R-P. Montblanch, Girish Malladi, Hassaram Bakhru, Andrea C. Ferrari, Ian A. Walmsley, Mete Atatüre, and Dirk Englund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023602 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

Topologically Protected Quantum Coherence in a Superatom

Wei Nie, Z. H. Peng, Franco Nori, and Yu-xi Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023603 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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In-Phase and Anti-Phase Synchronization in a Laser Frequency Comb

Johannes Hillbrand, Dominik Auth, Marco Piccardo, Nikola Opačak, Erich Gornik, Gottfried Strasser, Federico Capasso, Stefan Breuer, and Benedikt Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023901 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

Hyperspectrally Compressed Ultrafast Photography

Chengshuai Yang, Fengyan Cao, Dalong Qi, Yilin He, Pengpeng Ding, Jiali Yao, Tianqing Jia, Zhenrong Sun, and Shian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 023902 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Nonuniform Electro-osmotic Flow Drives Fluid-Structure Instability

Evgeniy Boyko, Ran Eshel, Amir D. Gat, and Moran Bercovici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 024501 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Evolution of the Electron Distribution Function in the Presence of Inverse Bremsstrahlung Heating and Collisional Ionization

A. L. Milder, H. P. Le, M. Sherlock, P. Franke, J. Katz, S. T. Ivancic, J. L. Shaw, J. P. Palastro, A. M. Hansen, I. A. Begishev, W. Rozmus, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025001 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Transition between Isotope-Mixing and Nonmixing States in Hydrogen-Deuterium Mixture Plasmas

K. Ida, M. Nakata, K. Tanaka, M. Yoshinuma, Y. Fujiwara, R. Sakamoto, G. Motojima, S. Masuzaki, T. Kobayashi, and K. Yamasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025002 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

Plasma Collision in a Gas Atmosphere

S. Le Pape, L. Divol, G. Huser, J. Katz, A. Kemp, J. S. Ross, R. Wallace, and S. Wilks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025003 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Supersonic Rotation of a Superfluid: A Long-Lived Dynamical Ring

Yanliang Guo, Romain Dubessy, Mathieu de Goër de Herve, Avinash Kumar, Thomas Badr, Aurélien Perrin, Laurent Longchambon, and Hélène Perrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025301 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Researchers rev up a rotating Bose–Einstein condensate to beyond a critical speed, setting the stage for creating a giant superfluid vortex.

Effect of Magnetic Impurities on Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$

A. M. Zimmerman, M. D. Nguyen, J. W. Scott, and W. P. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025302 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Efficient and Versatile Model for Vibrational STEM-EELS

Paul M. Zeiger and Ján Rusz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025501 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Fractal-like Mechanical Resonators with a Soft-Clamped Fundamental Mode

S. A. Fedorov, A. Beccari, N. J. Engelsen, and T. J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025502 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Nucleation Theory for Yielding of Nearly Defect-Free Crystals: Understanding Rate Dependent Yield Points

Vikranth Sagar Reddy, Parswa Nath, Jürgen Horbach, Peter Sollich, and Surajit Sengupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 025503 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Phase Instability amid Dimensional Crossover in Artificial Oxide Crystal

Seung Gyo Jeong, Taewon Min, Sungmin Woo, Jiwoong Kim, Yu-Qiao Zhang, Seong Won Cho, Jaeseok Son, Young-Min Kim, Jung Hoon Han, Sungkyun Park, Hu Young Jeong, Hiromichi Ohta, Suyoun Lee, Tae Won Noh, Jaekwang Lee, and Woo Seok Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 026401 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Identification and Resolution of Unphysical Multielectron Excitations in the Real-Time Time-Dependent Kohn-Sham Formulation

Xiaoning Zang, Udo Schwingenschlögl, and Mark T. Lusk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 026402 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

Transport in Bilayer Graphene near Charge Neutrality: Which Scattering Mechanisms Are Important?

Glenn Wagner, Dung X. Nguyen, and Steven H. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 026601 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Quantum Hall Response to Time-Dependent Strain Gradients in Graphene

Eran Sela, Yakov Bloch, Felix von Oppen, and Moshe Ben Shalom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 026602 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Linear Aging Behavior at Short Timescales in Nanoscale Contacts

Kaiwen Tian, Zhuohan Li, Yun Liu, Nitya N. Gosvami, David L. Goldsby, Izabela Szlufarska, and Robert W. Carpick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 026801 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Symmetry of Order Parameters in Multiband Superconductors ${LaRu}_{4} {As}_{12}$ and ${PrOs}_{4} {Sb}_{12}$ Probed by Local Magnetization Measurements

J. Juraszek, R. Wawryk, Z. Henkie, M. Konczykowski, and T. Cichorek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027001 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Exploring High Transition Temperature Superconductivity in a Freestanding or ${SrTiO}_{3}$ -Supported CoSb Monolayer

Wenjun Ding, Jiang Zeng, Wei Qin, Ping Cui, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027002 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

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Observation of Large Unidirectional Rashba Magnetoresistance in Ge(111)

T. Guillet, C. Zucchetti, Q. Barbedienne, A. Marty, G. Isella, L. Cagnon, C. Vergnaud, H. Jaffrès, N. Reyren, J.-M. George, A. Fert, and M. Jamet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027201 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

A new experiment shows that the semiconductor germanium exhibits unidirectional magnetoresistance, which had previously only been seen in more exotic materials

Electrical Switching of Tristate Antiferromagnetic Néel Order in $α − {Fe}_{2} O_{3}$ Epitaxial Films

Yang Cheng, Sisheng Yu, Menglin Zhu, Jinwoo Hwang, and Fengyuan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027202 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

Chiral Spin-Wave Velocities Induced by All-Garnet Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ultrathin Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

Hanchen Wang, Jilei Chen, Tao Liu, Jianyu Zhang, Korbinian Baumgaertl, Chenyang Guo, Yuehui Li, Chuanpu Liu, Ping Che, Sa Tu, Song Liu, Peng Gao, Xiufeng Han, Dapeng Yu, Mingzhong Wu, Dirk Grundler, and Haiming Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027203 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

Tuning Spin Current Injection at Ferromagnet-Nonmagnet Interfaces by Molecular Design

Angela Wittmann, Guillaume Schweicher, Katharina Broch, Jiri Novak, Vincent Lami, David Cornil, Erik R. McNellis, Olga Zadvorna, Deepak Venkateshvaran, Kazuo Takimiya, Yves H. Geerts, Jérôme Cornil, Yana Vaynzof, Jairo Sinova, Shun Watanabe, and Henning Sirringhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027204 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Dynamical Scaling of Charge and Spin Responses at a Kondo Destruction Quantum Critical Point

Ang Cai, Zuodong Yu, Haoyu Hu, Stefan Kirchner, and Qimiao Si

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027205 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

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Controlling Excitons in an Atomically Thin Membrane with a Mirror

You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Jiho Sung, Ryan J. Gelly, Dominik S. Wild, Kristiaan De Greve, Andrew Y. Joe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hongkun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027401 (2020) - Published 14 January, 2020

The photonic density of states, as well as absorption and emission properties, of excitons in a suspended heterostructure of MoSe $_{2}$ monolayers are controlled with a metallic mirror.

Optical Signature of a Crossover from Mott- to Slater-Type Gap in ${Sr}_{2} {Ir}_{1 - x} {Rh}_{x} O_{4}$

B. Xu, P. Marsik, E. Sheveleva, F. Lyzwa, A. Louat, V. Brouet, D. Munzar, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027402 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

Linear Magnetoelectric Phase in Ultrathin ${MnPS}_{3}$ Probed by Optical Second Harmonic Generation

Hao Chu, Chang Jae Roh, Joshua O. Island, Chen Li, Sungmin Lee, Jingjing Chen, Je-Geun Park, Andrea F. Young, Jong Seok Lee, and David Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027601 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

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Nonlocal Detection of Out-of-Plane Magnetization in a Magnetic Insulator by Thermal Spin Drag

Can Onur Avci, Ethan Rosenberg, Mantao Huang, Jackson Bauer, Caroline A. Ross, and Geoffrey S. D. Beach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027701 (2020) - Published 17 January, 2020

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

Topological Linking Drives Anomalous Thickening of Ring Polymers in Weak Extensional Flows

Thomas C. O’Connor, Ting Ge, Michael Rubinstein, and Gary S. Grest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027801 (2020) - Published 13 January, 2020

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Substrate Roughness Speeds Up Segmental Dynamics of Thin Polymer Films

Anna Panagopoulou, Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco, Ronald P. White, Jane E. G. Lipson, and Simone Napolitano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 027802 (2020) - Published 15 January, 2020

By reducing interfacial density, nanoscale surface asperities enhance segmental mobility of polymers in thin films.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Calorimetric Dark Matter Detection with Galactic Center Gas Clouds”

Glennys Farrar, Felix J. Lockman, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, and Digvijay Wadekar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 029001 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

Bhoonah et al. Reply

Amit Bhoonah, Joseph Bramante, Fatemeh Elahi, and Sarah Schon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 029002 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Gravitational Waves from Quasicircular Black-Hole Binaries in Dynamical Chern-Simons Gravity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 251105 (2012)]

Kent Yagi, Nicolás Yunes, and Takahiro Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 029901 (2020) - Published 16 January, 2020