Volume 124, Issue 25

26 June 2020

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Physical characteristics of the encoding of single photons from an experiment using two spatial light modulators. Each image shows the spatial amplitude overlaid by the phase profile for a particular quantum-system dimension.

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Hiding Ignorance Using High Dimensions
M. J. Kewming, S. Shrapnel, A. G. White, and J. Romero
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250401 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521g

M. J. Graham et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251102 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Astronomers have detected a brightening of a distant quasar that coincided with a potential gravitational-wave signature of a pair of merging black holes.

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Signals of a Quantum Universe

Daniel Green and Rafael A. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251302 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Certain galaxy patterns might encode whether the Universe’s primordial density fluctuations were quantum or classical in nature.

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Forming a Single Molecule by Magnetoassociation in an Optical Tweezer

Jessie T. Zhang, Yichao Yu, William B. Cairncross, Kenneth Wang, Lewis R. B. Picard, Jonathan D. Hood, Yen-Wei Lin, Jeremy M. Hutson, and Kang-Kuen Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253401 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Researchers merge two atoms into a molecule that has a precise, reversible quantum state and that lives long enough to measure.

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Giant Anisotropy of Spin Relaxation and Spin-Valley Mixing in a Silicon Quantum Dot

Xin Zhang, Rui-Zi Hu, Hai-Ou Li, Fang-Ming Jing, Yuan Zhou, Rong-Long Ma, Ming Ni, Gang Luo, Gang Cao, Gui-Lei Wang, Xuedong Hu, Hong-Wen Jiang, Guang-Can Guo, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257701 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

The rate at which electron spins relax in silicon quantum dots is controlled by the strength and direction of external magnetic fields.

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Identification of the New Isotope ${}^{244}{Md}$

J. L. Pore, J. M. Gates, R. Orford, C. M. Campbell, R. M. Clark, H. L. Crawford, N. E. Esker, P. Fallon, J. A. Gooding, J. T. Kwarsick, A. O. Macchiavelli, C. Morse, D. Rudolph, A. Såmark-Roth, C. Santamaria, R. S. Shah, and M. A. Stoyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 252502 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

A new isotope of an element with Z=101, mendelevium has been identified. Because it is very neutron deficient, it is difficult to produce.

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Interfacial Rashba-Effect-Induced Anisotropy in Nonmagnetic-Material–Ferrimagnetic-Insulator Bilayers

Aidan J. Lee, Adam S. Ahmed, Brendan A. McCullian, Side Guo, Menglin Zhu, Sisheng Yu, Patrick M. Woodward, Jinwoo Hwang, P. Chris Hammel, and Fengyuan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257202 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

A systematic study of a ferrimagnetic insulator in a bilayer structure with a succession of nonmagnetic metals opens a possibility of tuning magnetic anisotropy, and also highlights a clear distinction between transition metals and non-transition metals.

LETTERS

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

Hiding Ignorance Using High Dimensions

M. J. Kewming, S. Shrapnel, A. G. White, and J. Romero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250401 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

Topological Switch for Non-Hermitian Skin Effect in Cold-Atom Systems with Loss

Linhu Li, Ching Hua Lee, and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250402 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

Quantum Control beyond the Adiabatic Regime in 2D Curved Matter-Wave Guides

François Impens, Romain Duboscq, and David Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250403 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

Experimental Observation of Equilibrium and Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions via Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators

Xinfang Nie, Bo-Bo Wei, Xi Chen, Ze Zhang, Xiuzhu Zhao, Chudan Qiu, Yu Tian, Yunlan Ji, Tao Xin, Dawei Lu, and Jun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250601 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

Direct Evidence for Universal Statistics of Stationary Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Interfaces

Takayasu Iwatsuka, Yohsuke T. Fukai, and Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250602 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Efficiency Fluctuations of Stochastic Machines Undergoing a Phase Transition

Hadrien Vroylandt, Massimiliano Esposito, and Gatien Verley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250603 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Pulsar Timing Array Constraints on Primordial Black Holes with NANOGrav 11-Year Dataset

Zu-Cheng Chen, Chen Yuan, and Qing-Guo Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251101 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

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Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521g

M. J. Graham et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251102 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Astronomers have detected a brightening of a distant quasar that coincided with a potential gravitational-wave signature of a pair of merging black holes.

Predictions for the Cosmic Microwave Background from an Anisotropic Quantum Bounce

Ivan Agullo, Javier Olmedo, and V. Sreenath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251301 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

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Signals of a Quantum Universe

Daniel Green and Rafael A. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251302 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Certain galaxy patterns might encode whether the Universe’s primordial density fluctuations were quantum or classical in nature.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Generating a Higgs Potential Quartic Term

Csaba Csáki, Cong-Sen Guan, Teng Ma, and Jing Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251801 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Axion Kinetic Misalignment Mechanism

Raymond T. Co, Lawrence J. Hall, and Keisuke Harigaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 251802 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Higgs Transverse Momentum with a Jet Veto: A Double-Differential Resummation

Pier Francesco Monni, Luca Rottoli, and Paolo Torrielli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 252001 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry for Very Forward Neutral Pion Production in Polarized $p + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 510 GeV$

M. H. Kim, O. Adriani, E. Berti, L. Bonechi, R. D’Alessandro, Y. Goto, B. Hong, Y. Itow, K. Kasahara, J. H. Lee, T. Ljubicic, Y. Makino, H. Menjo, I. Nakagawa, A. Ogawa, J. S. Park, T. Sako, N. Sakurai, K. Sato, R. Seidl, K. Tanida, S. Torii, A. Tricomi, M. Ueno, and Q. D. Zhou (RHICf Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 252501 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

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Identification of the New Isotope ${}^{244}{Md}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 252502 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

A new isotope of an element with Z=101, mendelevium has been identified. Because it is very neutron deficient, it is difficult to produce.

Successful Prediction of Total $α$ -Induced Reaction Cross Sections at Astrophysically Relevant Sub-Coulomb Energies Using a Novel Approach

P. Mohr, Zs. Fülöp, Gy. Gyürky, G. G. Kiss, and T. Szücs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 252701 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Search for Nova Presolar Grains: $γ$ -Ray Spectroscopy of ${}^{34}{Ar}$ and its Relevance for the Astrophysical ${}^{33}{Cl} (p, γ)$ Reaction

A. R. L. Kennington, G. Lotay, D. T. Doherty, D. Seweryniak, C. Andreoiu, K. Auranen, M. P. Carpenter, W. N. Catford, C. M. Deibel, K. Hadyńska-Klęk, S. Hallam, D. E. M. Hoff, T. Huang, R. V. F. Janssens, S. Jazrawi, J. José, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, J. Li, A. M. Rogers, J. Saiz, G. Savard, S. Stolze, G. L. Wilson, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 252702 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Creation of Overlapping Rydberg Electrons in an Atomic BEC and Mott-Insulator Lattice

M. Mizoguchi, Y. Zhang, M. Kunimi, A. Tanaka, S. Takeda, N. Takei, V. Bharti, K. Koyasu, T. Kishimoto, D. Jaksch, A. Glaetzle, M. Kiffner, G. Masella, G. Pupillo, M. Weidemüller, and K. Ohmori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253201 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

Laser Control of Resonance Tunneling via an Exceptional Point

Anael Ben-Asher, Daniel Šimsa, Tereza Uhlířová, Milan Šindelka, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253202 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Envelope-Driven Recollisions Triggered by an Elliptically Polarized Pulse

J. Dubois, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253203 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

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Forming a Single Molecule by Magnetoassociation in an Optical Tweezer

Jessie T. Zhang, Yichao Yu, William B. Cairncross, Kenneth Wang, Lewis R. B. Picard, Jonathan D. Hood, Yen-Wei Lin, Jeremy M. Hutson, and Kang-Kuen Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253401 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Researchers merge two atoms into a molecule that has a precise, reversible quantum state and that lives long enough to measure.

Realization of Anomalous Floquet Insulators in Strongly Coupled Nanophotonic Lattices

Shirin Afzal, Tyler J. Zimmerling, Yang Ren, David Perron, and Vien Van

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253601 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Collective Shift in Resonant Light Scattering by a One-Dimensional Atomic Chain

Antoine Glicenstein, Giovanni Ferioli, Nikola Šibalić, Ludovic Brossard, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, and Antoine Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253602 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Nanoscale Coherent Light Source

Raphael Holzinger, David Plankensteiner, Laurin Ostermann, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 253603 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Turbulence-Driven Rotors

N. Francois, H. Xia, H. Punzmann, and M. Shats

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 254501 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Statistics of Kinetic Dissipation in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: MMS Observations

Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, William H. Matthaeus, Tulasi N. Parashar, Yan Yang, Alexandros Chasapis, Barbara L. Giles, Daniel J. Gershman, Craig J. Pollock, Christopher T. Russell, Robert J. Strangeway, Roy B. Torbert, Thomas E. Moore, and James L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 255101 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Dynamo in Weakly Collisional Nonmagnetized Plasmas Impeded by Landau Damping of Magnetic Fields

István Pusztai, James Juno, Axel Brandenburg, Jason M. TenBarge, Ammar Hakim, Manaure Francisquez, and Andréas Sundström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 255102 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Two-Scale Scenario of Rigidity Percolation of Sticky Particles

Yuchuan Wang, Sheng Fang, Ning Xu, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 255501 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Colossal Pressure-Induced Softening in Scandium Fluoride

Zhongsheng Wei, Lei Tan, Guanqun Cai, Anthony E. Phillips, Ivan da Silva, Mark G. Kibble, and Martin T. Dove

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 255502 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Separating Hydrocarbon Mixtures by Driving the Components in Opposite Directions: High Degree of Separation Factor and Energy Efficiency

Shubhadeep Nag, G. Ananthakrishna, Prabal K. Maiti, and Subramanian Yashonath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 255901 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Vortex End Majorana Zero Modes in Superconducting Dirac and Weyl Semimetals

Zhongbo Yan, Zhigang Wu, and Wen Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257001 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

Rigorous Results on Topological Superconductivity with Particle Number Conservation

Matthew F. Lapa and Michael Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257002 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Thermal Control of Spin Excitations in the Coupled Ising-Chain Material ${RbCoCl}_{3}$

M. Mena, N. Hänni, S. Ward, E. Hirtenlechner, R. Bewley, C. Hubig, U. Schollwöck, B. Normand, K. W. Krämer, D. F. McMorrow, and Ch. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257201 (2020) - Published 22 June, 2020

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Interfacial Rashba-Effect-Induced Anisotropy in Nonmagnetic-Material–Ferrimagnetic-Insulator Bilayers

Aidan J. Lee, Adam S. Ahmed, Brendan A. McCullian, Side Guo, Menglin Zhu, Sisheng Yu, Patrick M. Woodward, Jinwoo Hwang, P. Chris Hammel, and Fengyuan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257202 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

Nonlocal Quantum Effects in Plasmons of Graphene Superlattices

Luis Brey, T. Stauber, L. Martín-Moreno, and G. Gómez-Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257401 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

Exciton-Scattering-Induced Dephasing in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

Florian Katsch, Malte Selig, and Andreas Knorr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257402 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Nonreciprocal Metamaterial Obeying Time-Reversal Symmetry

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Alex Song, Georgia T. Papadakis, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257403 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Electronic Nematicity in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ Revisited

Liran Wang, Mingquan He, Frédéric Hardy, Dai Aoki, Kristin Willa, Jacques Flouquet, and Christoph Meingast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257601 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

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Giant Anisotropy of Spin Relaxation and Spin-Valley Mixing in a Silicon Quantum Dot

Xin Zhang, Rui-Zi Hu, Hai-Ou Li, Fang-Ming Jing, Yuan Zhou, Rong-Long Ma, Ming Ni, Gang Luo, Gang Cao, Gui-Lei Wang, Xuedong Hu, Hong-Wen Jiang, Guang-Can Guo, and Guo-Ping Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 257701 (2020) - Published 23 June, 2020

The rate at which electron spins relax in silicon quantum dots is controlled by the strength and direction of external magnetic fields.

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

Bursts Characterize Coagulation of Rods in a Quiescent Fluid

Jonasz Słomka and Roman Stocker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 258001 (2020) - Published 24 June, 2020

Self-Excited Motions of Volatile Drops on Swellable Sheets

Aditi Chakrabarti, Gary P. T. Choi, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 258002 (2020) - Published 25 June, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Direct Photon Production at Next-to–Next-to-Leading Order [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 222001 (2017)]

John M. Campbell, R. Keith Ellis, and Ciaran Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 259901 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020

Publisher’s Note: Anomalous Hall Effect in a 2D Rashba Ferromagnet [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 046601 (2016)]

I. A. Ado, I. A. Dmitriev, P. M. Ostrovsky, and M. Titov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 259902 (2020) - Published 26 June, 2020