Volume 124, Issue 23

12 June 2020

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Three-dimensional network of achiral rods lends isotropic properties to a chiral quasicrystalline mechanical metamaterial.

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Isotropic Chiral Acoustic Phonons in 3D Quasicrystalline Metamaterials
Yi Chen, Muamer Kadic, Sébastien Guenneau, and Martin Wegener
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 235502 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Photoion Backward Emission in Photoionization of He and $N_{2}$

Sven Grundmann, Max Kircher, Isabel Vela-Perez, Giammarco Nalin, Daniel Trabert, Nils Anders, Niklas Melzer, Jonas Rist, Andreas Pier, Nico Strenger, Juliane Siebert, Philipp V. Demekhin, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Florian Trinter, Markus S. Schöffler, Till Jahnke, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 233201 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Experiments confirm that photonionized molecules get a backward kick, as predicted by theory.

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Vibrational Properties of Hard and Soft Spheres Are Unified at Jamming

Francesco Arceri and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 238002 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

A new way to use the hard sphere model lets researchers connect the jammed states of grains and the glass transition of molecules.

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Unified Model for Size-Dependent to Size-Independent Transition in Yield Strength of Crystalline Metallic Materials

Wenbin Liu, Ying Liu, Yangyang Cheng, Lirong Chen, Long Yu, Xin Yi, and Huiling Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 235501 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

A unified model reveals the underlying mechanism for the yield strength transition in crystalline metals as they shrink from bulk to nanoscale.

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Topological Singularity Induced Chiral Kohn Anomaly in a Weyl Semimetal

Thanh Nguyen, Fei Han, Nina Andrejevic, Ricardo Pablo-Pedro, Anuj Apte, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, Zhiwei Ding, Kunyan Zhang, Ahmet Alatas, Ercan E. Alp, Songxue Chi, Jaime Fernandez-Baca, Masaaki Matsuda, David Alan Tennant, Yang Zhao, Zhijun Xu, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Shengxi Huang, and Mingda Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236401 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Combining field-theory with x-ray and neutron scattering shows a novel Kohn anomaly in TaP, a Weyl semimetal, occurs at the Weyl points with power-law divergence and chirality selection.

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Massive Suppression of Proximity Pairing in Topological ${({Bi}_{1 - x} {Sb}_{x})}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ Films on Niobium

Joseph A. Hlevyack, Sahand Najafzadeh, Meng-Kai Lin, Takahiro Hashimoto, Tsubaki Nagashima, Akihiro Tsuzuki, Akiko Fukushima, Cédric Bareille, Yang Bai, Peng Chen, Ro-Ya Liu, Yao Li, David Flötotto, José Avila, James N. Eckstein, Shik Shin, Kozo Okazaki, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236402 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Massive attenuation of surface superconductivity in (Bi $_{1 - x}$ Sb $_{x}$ ) $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ /Nb compared to Bi $_{2}$ Se $_{3}$ /Nb suggests that quantum-mechanical coupling between bulk and surface states largely dominates the proximity effect in topological insulator films on Nb.

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Noncontact Spin Pumping by Microwave Evanescent Fields

Tao Yu and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236801 (2020) - Published 8 June, 2020

Contactless spin pumping is proposed to eliminate the systematic difficulties endemic in contact spin pumping methods.

LETTERS

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

Proof of the Peres Conjecture for Contextuality

Zhen-Peng Xu, Jing-Ling Chen, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230401 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Experimental Investigation of State Distinguishability in Parity-Time Symmetric Quantum Dynamics

Yi-Tao Wang, Zhi-Peng Li, Shang Yu, Zhi-Jin Ke, Wei Liu, Yu Meng, Yuan-Ze Yang, Jian-Shun Tang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230402 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Small, Highly Accurate Quantum Processor for Intermediate-Depth Quantum Simulations

Nathan K. Lysne, Kevin W. Kuper, Pablo M. Poggi, Ivan H. Deutsch, and Poul S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230501 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Noisy Preprocessing Facilitates a Photonic Realization of Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

M. Ho, P. Sekatski, E. Y.-Z. Tan, R. Renner, J.-D. Bancal, and N. Sangouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230502 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Experimental Implementation of Universal Nonadiabatic Geometric Quantum Gates in a Superconducting Circuit

Y. Xu, Z. Hua, Tao Chen, X. Pan, X. Li, J. Han, W. Cai, Y. Ma, H. Wang, Y. P. Song, Zheng-Yuan Xue, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230503 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Truncated Nonlinear Interferometry for Quantum-Enhanced Atomic Force Microscopy

R. C. Pooser, N. Savino, E. Batson, J. L. Beckey, J. Garcia, and B. J. Lawrie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230504 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Entanglement Oscillations near a Quantum Critical Point

Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo, Máté Lencsés, István M. Szécsényi, and Jacopo Viti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230601 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Universal Anti-Kibble-Zurek Scaling in Fully Connected Systems

Ricardo Puebla, Andrea Smirne, Susana F. Huelga, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 230602 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Axionlike-Particle-Induced Prompt $γ$ -Ray Emission from Extragalactic Core-Collapse Supernovae with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Manuel Meyer and Tanja Petrushevska (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231101 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Positive Energy Functional for Massless Scalars in Rotating Black Hole Backgrounds of Maximal Ungauged Supergravity

M. Cvetič, G. W. Gibbons, C. N. Pope, and B. F. Whiting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231102 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Testing the Sensitivity of the Galactic Center Excess to the Point Source Mask

Yi-Ming Zhong, Samuel D. McDermott, Ilias Cholis, and Patrick J. Fox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231103 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

First Observation of $D^{+} \to η μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ and Measurement of Its Decay Dynamics

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 231801 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Treatment of Collective Correlations and the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ${}^{48}{Ca}$

J. M. Yao, B. Bally, J. Engel, R. Wirth, T. R. Rodríguez, and H. Hergert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 232501 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Measurement of the Spectral Shape of the $β$ -Decay of ${}^{137}{Xe}$ to the Ground State of ${}^{137}{Cs}$ in EXO-200 and Comparison with Theory

S. Al Kharusi et al. (EXO-200 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 232502 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation of Photoion Backward Emission in Photoionization of He and $N_{2}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 233201 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Experiments confirm that photonionized molecules get a backward kick, as predicted by theory.

Dissecting Strong-Field Excitation Dynamics with Atomic-Momentum Spectroscopy

A. W. Bray, U. Eichmann, and S. Patchkovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 233202 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Vibrational Excitation Hindering an Ion-Molecule Reaction: The $c − C_{3} {H_{2}}^{+} - H_{2}$ Collision Complex

Charles R. Markus, Oskar Asvany, Thomas Salomon, Philipp C. Schmid, Sandra Brünken, Filippo Lipparini, Jürgen Gauss, and Stephan Schlemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 233401 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Large Fluctuations in Nonideal Coarse-Grained Systems

M. Reza Parsa and Alexander J. Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 234501 (2020) - Published 8 June, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Unified Model for Size-Dependent to Size-Independent Transition in Yield Strength of Crystalline Metallic Materials

Wenbin Liu, Ying Liu, Yangyang Cheng, Lirong Chen, Long Yu, Xin Yi, and Huiling Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 235501 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

A unified model reveals the underlying mechanism for the yield strength transition in crystalline metals as they shrink from bulk to nanoscale.

Isotropic Chiral Acoustic Phonons in 3D Quasicrystalline Metamaterials

Yi Chen, Muamer Kadic, Sébastien Guenneau, and Martin Wegener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 235502 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

What Determines the fcc-bcc Structural Transformation in Shock Compressed Noble Metals?

Surinder M. Sharma, Stefan J. Turneaure, J. M. Winey, and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 235701 (2020) - Published 8 June, 2020

Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Reveals Hidden Local Transitions of the Aqueous OH Radical

L. Kjellsson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236001 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Topological Singularity Induced Chiral Kohn Anomaly in a Weyl Semimetal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236401 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Combining field-theory with x-ray and neutron scattering shows a novel Kohn anomaly in TaP, a Weyl semimetal, occurs at the Weyl points with power-law divergence and chirality selection.

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Massive Suppression of Proximity Pairing in Topological ${({Bi}_{1 - x} {Sb}_{x})}_{2} {Te}_{3}$ Films on Niobium

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236402 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Non-Hermitian Dirac Cones

Haoran Xue, Qiang Wang, Baile Zhang, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236403 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Edge-Dependent Topology in Kekulé Lattices

S. E. Freeney, J. J. van den Broeke, A. J. J. Harsveld van der Veen, I. Swart, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236404 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Temperature-Induced Lifshitz Transition and Possible Excitonic Instability in ZrSiSe

F. C. Chen, Y. Fei, S. J. Li, Q. Wang, X. Luo, J. Yan, W. J. Lu, P. Tong, W. H. Song, X. B. Zhu, L. Zhang, H. B. Zhou, F. W. Zheng, P. Zhang, A. L. Lichtenstein, M. I. Katsnelson, Y. Yin, Ning Hao, and Y. P. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236601 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

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Noncontact Spin Pumping by Microwave Evanescent Fields

Tao Yu and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236801 (2020) - Published 8 June, 2020

Contactless spin pumping is proposed to eliminate the systematic difficulties endemic in contact spin pumping methods.

Breakdown of Diffusion on Chiral Edges

Luca V. Delacrétaz and Paolo Glorioso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236802 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Proposal for Unambiguous Electrical Detection of Spin-Charge Conversion in Lateral Spin Valves

Stuart A. Cavill, Chunli Huang, Manuel Offidani, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Miguel A. Cazalilla, and Aires Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236803 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Supersymmetry in the Standard Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Jan Behrends and Benjamin Béri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 236804 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Controlling $T_{c}$ through Band Structure and Correlation Engineering in Collapsed and Uncollapsed Phases of Iron Arsenides

Swagata Acharya, Dimitar Pashov, Francois Jamet, and Mark van Schilfgaarde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 237001 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

Fractionalized Excitations Revealed by Entanglement Entropy

Wen-Jun Hu, Yi Zhang, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, Elbio Dagotto, Qimiao Si, and Hsin-Hua Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 237201 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Cubic Rashba Effect in the Surface Spin Structure of Rare-Earth Ternary Materials

D. Yu. Usachov, I. A. Nechaev, G. Poelchen, M. Güttler, E. E. Krasovskii, S. Schulz, A. Generalov, K. Kliemt, A. Kraiker, C. Krellner, K. Kummer, S. Danzenbächer, C. Laubschat, A. P. Weber, J. Sánchez-Barriga, E. V. Chulkov, A. F. Santander-Syro, T. Imai, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, and D. V. Vyalikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 237202 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

Multiband Quantum Criticality of Polar Metals

Pavel A. Volkov and Premala Chandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 237601 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

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

Subsonic to Intersonic Transition in Sliding Friction for Soft Solids

Takuya Yashiki, Takehiro Morita, Yoshinori Sawae, and Tetsuo Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 238001 (2020) - Published 8 June, 2020

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Vibrational Properties of Hard and Soft Spheres Are Unified at Jamming

Francesco Arceri and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 238002 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020

A new way to use the hard sphere model lets researchers connect the jammed states of grains and the glass transition of molecules.

Topology Restricts Quasidegeneracy in Sheared Square Colloidal Ice

Erdal C. Oğuz, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, Hadas Shem-Tov, Eric Babià-Soler, Pietro Tierno, and Yair Shokef

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 238003 (2020) - Published 12 June, 2020

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Time-Reversal-Breaking Weyl Fermions in Magnetic Heusler Alloys [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 236401 (2016)]

Zhijun Wang, M. G. Vergniory, S. Kushwaha, Max Hirschberger, E. V. Chulkov, A. Ernst, N. P. Ong, Robert J. Cava, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 239901 (2020) - Published 9 June, 2020

Publisher’s Note: ${MoTe}_{2}$ : A Type-II Weyl Topological Metal [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 056805 (2016)]

Zhijun Wang, Dominik Gresch, Alexey A. Soluyanov, Weiwei Xie, S. Kushwaha, Xi Dai, Matthias Troyer, Robert J. Cava, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 239902 (2020) - Published 11 June, 2020