Volume 124, Issue 20

22 May 2020

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Experimentally measured phase map of polariton condensates with all-optical control of coupling.

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Optical Control of Couplings in Polariton Condensate Lattices
S. Alyatkin, J. D. Töpfer, A. Askitopoulos, H. Sigurdsson, and P. G. Lagoudakis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207402 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Radar

Lorenzo Maccone and Changliang Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200503 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

An object’s distance and direction could be measured in a new radar scheme that uses entangled photons, something unachievable with previous quantum radar proposals.

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Emergence of Topologically Nontrivial Spin-Polarized States in a Segmented Linear Chain

Thang Pham, Sehoon Oh, Scott Stonemeyer, Brian Shevitski, Jeffrey D. Cain, Chengyu Song, Peter Ercius, Marvin L. Cohen, and Alex Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206403 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

A segmented chain of molecules held together by van der Waals forces may host spin-polarized, topologically protected electron states.

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Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Cooling Granular Gas

Peidong Yu, Matthias Schröter, and Matthias Sperl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208007 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Experiments in near-zero gravity establish the validity of the fundamental theory of granular gases.

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Spontaneous Electrokinetic Magnus Effect

Zachary M. Sherman and James W. Swan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208002 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

A small charged particle suspended in an electrolyte can swerve like a spinning baseball when exposed to a strong enough electric field.

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Electron Scattering in Liquid Water and Amorphous Ice: A Striking Resemblance

Ruth Signorell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 205501 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Amorphous ice cross sections can be used for modeling of radiation chemistry and biology in water.

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Probing Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Photoexcited Polarons on a Metal-Oxide Surface with Atomic Precision

Chaoyu Guo (郭钞宇), Xiangzhi Meng, Huixia Fu, Qin Wang, Huimin Wang, Ye Tian, Jinbo Peng, Runze Ma, Yuxiang Weng, Sheng Meng, Enge Wang, and Ying Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206801 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Critical role of the atomic environment in polaron dynamics is revealed by a study of the relaxation of photoexcited single polarons on the atomic scale.

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Simultaneous Nodal Superconductivity and Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor CaPtAs

T. Shang, M. Smidman, A. Wang, L.-J. Chang, C. Baines, M. K. Lee, Z. Y. Nie, G. M. Pang, W. Xie, W. B. Jiang, M. Shi, M. Medarde, T. Shiroka, and H. Q. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207001 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

CaPtAs provides a link between correlated magnetic and weakly-correlated noncentrosymmetric superconductors, the latter of which usually exhibit only fully gapped behavior.

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Compaction Model for Highly Deformable Particle Assemblies

David Cantor, Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, Itthichai Preechawuttipong, Mathieu Renouf, and Emilien Azéma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208003 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

A physical model describes the compaction of highly deformed grains beyond jamming.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Walks of a Phonon in Trapped Ions

Masaya Tamura, Takashi Mukaiyama, and Kenji Toyoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200501 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Entanglement Detection beyond Measuring Fidelities

M. Weilenmann, B. Dive, D. Trillo, E. A. Aguilar, and M. Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200502 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

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Quantum Radar

Lorenzo Maccone and Changliang Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200503 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

An object’s distance and direction could be measured in a new radar scheme that uses entangled photons, something unachievable with previous quantum radar proposals.

Information Scrambling in Quantum Neural Networks

Huitao Shen, Pengfei Zhang, Yi-Zhuang You, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200504 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Flow Equations for Generalized $T \bar{T}$ Deformations

Guzmán Hernández-Chifflet, Stefano Negro, and Alessandro Sfondrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200601 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Multifractality Meets Entanglement: Relation for Nonergodic Extended States

Giuseppe De Tomasi and Ivan M. Khaymovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200602 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Fine Grained Tensor Network Methods

Philipp Schmoll, Saeed S. Jahromi, Max Hörmann, Matthias Mühlhauser, Kai Phillip Schmidt, and Román Orús

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200603 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Eigenstate Thermalization from the Clustering Property of Correlation

Tomotaka Kuwahara and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 200604 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Soliton Random Walk and the Cluster-Stripping Problem in Ultralight Dark Matter

Hsi-Yu Schive (薛熙于), Tzihong Chiueh (闕志鴻), and Tom Broadhurst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 201301 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Black Holes Often Saturate Entanglement Entropy the Fastest

Márk Mezei and Wilke van der Schee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 201601 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Detecting Light Dark Matter with Magnons

Tanner Trickle, Zhengkang Zhang, and Kathryn M. Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 201801 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Measurement of the Jet Mass Distribution and Top Quark Mass in Hadronic Decays of Boosted Top Quarks in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 202001 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Observing the Deformation of Nuclei with Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Giuliano Giacalone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 202301 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Search for $η^{'}$ Bound Nuclei in the ${}^{12}C (γ, p)$ Reaction with Simultaneous Detection of Decay Products

N. Tomida et al. (LEPS2/BGOegg Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 202501 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Evidence for a New Compact Symmetric Fission Mode in Light Thorium Isotopes

A. Chatillon et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 202502 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

X-Ray Absorption Spectrum of the $N_{2}^{+}$ Molecular Ion

R. Lindblad, L. Kjellsson, R. C. Couto, M. Timm, C. Bülow, V. Zamudio-Bayer, M. Lundberg, B. von Issendorff, J. T. Lau, S. L. Sorensen, V. Carravetta, H. Ågren, and J.-E. Rubensson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203001 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

State-Dependent Optical Lattices for the Strontium Optical Qubit

A. Heinz, A. J. Park, N. Šantić, J. Trautmann, S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, I. Bloch, and S. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203201 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Mode-Specific Vibrational Autodetachment Following Excitation of Electronic Resonances by Electrons and Photons

Cate S. Anstöter, Golda Mensa-Bonsu, Pamir Nag, Miloš Ranković, Ragesh Kumar T. P., Anton N. Boichenko, Anastasia V. Bochenkova, Juraj Fedor, and Jan R. R. Verlet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203401 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Resonantly Interacting Fermi-Fermi Mixture of ${}^{161}{Dy}$ and ${}^{40}K$

C. Ravensbergen, E. Soave, V. Corre, M. Kreyer, B. Huang (黄博), E. Kirilov, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203402 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Photon Correlation Spectroscopy as a Witness for Quantum Coherence

Carlos Sánchez Muñoz and Frank Schlawin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203601 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Impact of Statistical Fluctuations on High Harmonic Generation in Liquids

Ai-Wu Zeng and Xue-Bin Bian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203901 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Frequency Comb Generation via Cascaded Second-Order Nonlinearities in Microresonators

Jan Szabados, Danila N. Puzyrev, Yannick Minet, Luis Reis, Karsten Buse, Alberto Villois, Dmitry V. Skryabin, and Ingo Breunig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 203902 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Effects of Surface Viscosity on Breakup of Viscous Threads

Hansol Wee, Brayden W. Wagoner, Pritish M. Kamat, and Osman A. Basaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 204501 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Succession of Resonances to Achieve Internal Wave Turbulence

Géraldine Davis, Timothée Jamin, Julie Deleuze, Sylvain Joubaud, and Thierry Dauxois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 204502 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Superfluid and Supersolid Phases of ${}^{4}{He}$ on the Second Layer of Graphite

M. C. Gordillo and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 205301 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

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Electron Scattering in Liquid Water and Amorphous Ice: A Striking Resemblance

Ruth Signorell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 205501 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Amorphous ice cross sections can be used for modeling of radiation chemistry and biology in water.

$Λ$ -Invariant and Topological Pathways to Influence the Strength of Submicron Crystals

Stefanos Papanikolaou and Giacomo Po

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 205502 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Origin of the Bauschinger Effect in Amorphous Solids

Sylvain Patinet, Armand Barbot, Matthias Lerbinger, Damien Vandembroucq, and Anaël Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 205503 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Entropic Identification of the First Order Freezing Transition of a Suspension of Hard Sphere Particles

W. van Megen and H. J. Schöpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 205701 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Field-Dependent Ionic Conductivities from Generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations

Dominika Lesnicki, Chloe Y. Gao, Benjamin Rotenberg, and David T. Limmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206001 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

High Explosive Ignition through Chemically Activated Nanoscale Shear Bands

Matthew P. Kroonblawd and Laurence E. Fried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206002 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Stacking Domains and Dislocation Networks in Marginally Twisted Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

V. V. Enaldiev, V. Zólyomi, C. Yelgel, S. J. Magorrian, and V. I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206101 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Embedding via the Exact Factorization Approach

Lionel Lacombe and Neepa T. Maitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206401 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Evidence of Large Polarons in Photoemission Band Mapping of the Perovskite Semiconductor ${CsPbBr}_{3}$

M. Puppin, S. Polishchuk, N. Colonna, A. Crepaldi, D. N. Dirin, O. Nazarenko, R. De Gennaro, G. Gatti, S. Roth, T. Barillot, L. Poletto, R. P. Xian, L. Rettig, M. Wolf, R. Ernstorfer, M. V. Kovalenko, N. Marzari, M. Grioni, and M. Chergui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206402 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

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Emergence of Topologically Nontrivial Spin-Polarized States in a Segmented Linear Chain

Thang Pham, Sehoon Oh, Scott Stonemeyer, Brian Shevitski, Jeffrey D. Cain, Chengyu Song, Peter Ercius, Marvin L. Cohen, and Alex Zettl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206403 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

A segmented chain of molecules held together by van der Waals forces may host spin-polarized, topologically protected electron states.

Itinerant-Electron Magnetism: The Importance of Many-Body Correlations

Markus Holzmann and Saverio Moroni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206404 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Multiorbital Quantum Impurity Solver for General Interactions and Hybridizations

Eitan Eidelstein, Emanuel Gull, and Guy Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206405 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Acoustic Realization of Quadrupole Topological Insulators

Yajuan Qi, Chunyin Qiu, Meng Xiao, Hailong He, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206601 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Quantum Phases of ${SrCu}_{2} ({BO}_{3})_{2}$ from High-Pressure Thermodynamics

Jing Guo, Guangyu Sun, Bowen Zhao, Ling Wang, Wenshan Hong, Vladimir A. Sidorov, Nvsen Ma, Qi Wu, Shiliang Li, Zi Yang Meng, Anders W. Sandvik, and Liling Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206602 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Anomalous Temperature Dependence of Quantum Correction to the Conductivity of Magnetic Topological Insulators

Huan-Wen Wang, Bo Fu, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206603 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

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Probing Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Photoexcited Polarons on a Metal-Oxide Surface with Atomic Precision

Chaoyu Guo (郭钞宇), Xiangzhi Meng, Huixia Fu, Qin Wang, Huimin Wang, Ye Tian, Jinbo Peng, Runze Ma, Yuxiang Weng, Sheng Meng, Enge Wang, and Ying Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206801 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Critical role of the atomic environment in polaron dynamics is revealed by a study of the relaxation of photoexcited single polarons on the atomic scale.

Ideal Type-II Weyl Phase and Topological Transition in Phononic Crystals

Xueqin Huang, Weiyin Deng, Feng Li, Jiuyang Lu, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206802 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Lifetime of Almost Strong Edge-Mode Operators in One-Dimensional, Interacting, Symmetry Protected Topological Phases

Daniel J. Yates, Alexander G. Abanov, and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 206803 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

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Simultaneous Nodal Superconductivity and Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in the Noncentrosymmetric Superconductor CaPtAs

T. Shang, M. Smidman, A. Wang, L.-J. Chang, C. Baines, M. K. Lee, Z. Y. Nie, G. M. Pang, W. Xie, W. B. Jiang, M. Shi, M. Medarde, T. Shiroka, and H. Q. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207001 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

CaPtAs provides a link between correlated magnetic and weakly-correlated noncentrosymmetric superconductors, the latter of which usually exhibit only fully gapped behavior.

Proposal for Plasmon Spectroscopy of Fluctuations in Low-Dimensional Superconductors

V. M. Kovalev and I. G. Savenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207002 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

Terahertz Second-Harmonic Generation from Lightwave Acceleration of Symmetry-Breaking Nonlinear Supercurrents

C. Vaswani, M. Mootz, C. Sundahl, D. H. Mudiyanselage, J. H. Kang, X. Yang, D. Cheng, C. Huang, R. H. J. Kim, Z. Liu, L. Luo, I. E. Perakis, C. B. Eom, and J. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207003 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Critical Nature of the Ni Spin State in Doped ${NdNiO}_{2}$

Mi Jiang, Mona Berciu, and George A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207004 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Strongly Correlated Charge Density Wave in ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$ Evidenced by Doping-Dependent Phonon Anomaly

J. Q. Lin, H. Miao, D. G. Mazzone, G. D. Gu, A. Nag, A. C. Walters, M. García-Fernández, A. Barbour, J. Pelliciari, I. Jarrige, M. Oda, K. Kurosawa, N. Momono, Ke-Jin Zhou, V. Bisogni, X. Liu, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207005 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Tunable Flux Vortices in Two-Dimensional Dirac Superconductors

Sina Zeytinoğlu, Atac İmamoğlu, and Sebastian Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207006 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Skyrmion Crystal from RKKY Interaction Mediated by 2D Electron Gas

Zhentao Wang, Ying Su, Shi-Zeng Lin, and Cristian D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207201 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Steering of the Skyrmion Hall Angle by Gate Voltages

J. Plettenberg, M. Stier, and M. Thorwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207202 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

Magnetic Chirality Controlled by the Interlayer Exchange Interaction

Mariëlle J. Meijer, Juriaan Lucassen, Fabian Kloodt-Twesten, Robert Frömter, Oleg Kurnosikov, Rembert A. Duine, Henk J. M. Swagten, Bert Koopmans, and Reinoud Lavrijsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207203 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Attosecond Time-Domain Measurement of Core-Level-Exciton Decay in Magnesium Oxide

Romain Géneaux, Christopher J. Kaplan, Lun Yue, Andrew D. Ross, Jens E. Bækhøj, Peter M. Kraus, Hung-Tzu Chang, Alexander Guggenmos, Mi-Ying Huang, Michael Zürch, Kenneth J. Schafer, Daniel M. Neumark, Mette B. Gaarde, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207401 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Optical Control of Couplings in Polariton Condensate Lattices

S. Alyatkin, J. D. Töpfer, A. Askitopoulos, H. Sigurdsson, and P. G. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207402 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Continuum Theory for Topological Edge Soft Modes

Kai Sun and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207601 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

Hilbert-Space Fragmentation from Strict Confinement

Zhi-Cheng Yang, Fangli Liu, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Thomas Iadecola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 207602 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

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

Jamming with Tunable Roughness

Harukuni Ikeda, Carolina Brito, Matthieu Wyart, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208001 (2020) - Published 18 May, 2020

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Spontaneous Electrokinetic Magnus Effect

Zachary M. Sherman and James W. Swan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208002 (2020) - Published 19 May, 2020

A small charged particle suspended in an electrolyte can swerve like a spinning baseball when exposed to a strong enough electric field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Compaction Model for Highly Deformable Particle Assemblies

David Cantor, Manuel Cárdenas-Barrantes, Itthichai Preechawuttipong, Mathieu Renouf, and Emilien Azéma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208003 (2020) - Published 20 May, 2020

A physical model describes the compaction of highly deformed grains beyond jamming.

Colloidal Dynamics on a Choreographic Time Crystal

András Libál, Tünde Balázs, C. Reichhardt, and C. J. O. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208004 (2020) - Published 21 May, 2020

Tetrahedrality Dictates Dynamics in Hard Sphere Mixtures

Susana Marín-Aguilar, Henricus H. Wensink, Giuseppe Foffi, and Frank Smallenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208005 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Phase Separation by Entanglement of Active Polymerlike Worms

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208006 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

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Velocity Distribution of a Homogeneously Cooling Granular Gas

Peidong Yu, Matthias Schröter, and Matthias Sperl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208007 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

Experiments in near-zero gravity establish the validity of the fundamental theory of granular gases.

Optimal Transport Flows for Distributed Production Networks

Julius B. Kirkegaard and Kim Sneppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 208101 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Direct Lifetime Measurements of the Excited States in ${}^{72}{Ni}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122502 (2016)]

K. Kolos, D. Miller, R. Grzywacz, H. Iwasaki, M. Al-Shudifat, D. Bazin, C. R. Bingham, T. Braunroth, G. Cerizza, A. Gade, A. Lemasson, S. N. Liddick, M. Madurga, C. Morse, M. Portillo, M. M. Rajabali, F. Recchia, L. L. Riedinger, P. Voss, W. B. Walters, D. Weisshaar, K. Whitmore, K. Wimmer, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 209901 (2020) - Published 22 May, 2020