Volume 124, Issue 4

31 January 2020

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Place fields of neurons in a recurrent neural network in two spatial maps. Each color identifies one neuron. The place field defines the region in which the neuron is active.

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Capacity-Resolution Trade-Off in the Optimal Learning of Multiple Low-Dimensional Manifolds by Attractor Neural Networks
Aldo Battista and Rémi Monasson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 048302 (2020)

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Testing the Seesaw Mechanism and Leptogenesis with Gravitational Waves

Jeff A. Dror, Takashi Hiramatsu, Kazunori Kohri, Hitoshi Murayama, and Graham White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041804 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Upcoming gravitational-wave observatories could find evidence of a new type of neutrino, supporting a popular theory for why matter dominates over antimatter.

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Negative Refraction in Time-Varying Strongly Coupled Plasmonic-Antenna–Epsilon-Near-Zero Systems

V. Bruno, C. DeVault, S. Vezzoli, Z. Kudyshev, T. Huq, S. Mignuzzi, A. Jacassi, S. Saha, Y. D. Shah, S. A. Maier, D. R. S. Cumming, A. Boltasseva, M. Ferrera, M. Clerici, D. Faccio, R. Sapienza, and V. M. Shalaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043902 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

A thin film patterned with nanoantennas exhibits negative refraction of light, a useful feature for subwavelength imaging.

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Full Electrostatic Control of Nanomechanical Buckling

Selcuk Oguz Erbil, Utku Hatipoglu, Cenk Yanik, Mahyar Ghavami, Atakan B. Ari, Mert Yuksel, and M. Selim Hanay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046101 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

An electromechanical device allows researchers to control and study how a nanoscale beam buckles when compressed.

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Universal Spectral Features of Ultrastrongly Coupled Systems

Simone Felicetti and Alexandre Le Boité

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040404 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Superradiant phases, previously known in the context of critical phenomena, are shown to be an intrinsic property of the ultrastrong coupling limit.

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Extreme Fermi Surface Smearing in a Maximally Disordered Concentrated Solid Solution

Hannah C. Robarts, Thomas E. Millichamp, Daniel A. Lagos, Jude Laverock, David Billington, Jonathan A. Duffy, Daniel O’Neill, Sean R. Giblin, Jonathan W. Taylor, Grazyna Kontrym-Sznajd, Małgorzata Samsel-Czekała, Hongbin Bei, Sai Mu, German D. Samolyuk, G. Malcolm Stocks, and Stephen B. Dugdale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046402 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

High-resolution x-ray Compton scattering reveals that the Fermi surface of an alloy survives extreme levels of disorder.

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Electronic Griffiths Phase in Disordered Mott-Transition Systems

Riku Yamamoto, Tetsuya Furukawa, Kazuya Miyagawa, Takahiko Sasaki, Kazushi Kanoda, and Tetsuaki Itou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046404 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

In an organic disordered Mott-transition system a combination of randomness and correlation results in soft-matter behavior, producing a phenomenon which could be called an ”electronic Griffiths phase.”

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Spin-Momentum-Locking Inhomogeneities as a Source of Bilinear Magnetoresistance in Topological Insulators

A. Dyrdał, J. Barnaś, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046802 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

A new model for bilinear magnetoresistance, so called because it is linear in both the electric and the magnetic field, proposes another origin mechanism that accounts for recent contradictory experimental observations.

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Magnetic Domains without Domain Walls: A Unique Effect of ${He}^{+}$ Ion Bombardment in Ferrimagnetic $Tb / Co$ Films

Łukasz Frąckowiak, Piotr Kuświk, Gabriel David Chaves-O’Flynn, Maciej Urbaniak, Michał Matczak, Paweł Piotr Michałowski, Andrzej Maziewski, Meike Reginka, Arno Ehresmann, and Feliks Stobiecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047203 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

Magnetic domain texture without domain walls is created by helium-ion bombardment of a rare earth/transition metal ferrimagnetic heterostructure.

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

Tenfold Way for Quadratic Lindbladians

Simon Lieu, Max McGinley, and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040401 (2020) - Published 27 January, 2020

Experimental Self-Characterization of Quantum Measurements

Aonan Zhang, Jie Xie, Huichao Xu, Kaimin Zheng, Han Zhang, Yiu-Tung Poon, Vlatko Vedral, and Lijian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040402 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Universal Dynamics of a Degenerate Bose Gas Quenched to Unitarity

Chao Gao, Mingyuan Sun, Peng Zhang, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040403 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

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Universal Spectral Features of Ultrastrongly Coupled Systems

Simone Felicetti and Alexandre Le Boité

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040404 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Superradiant phases, previously known in the context of critical phenomena, are shown to be an intrinsic property of the ultrastrong coupling limit.

Second Law of Thermodynamics at Stopping Times

Izaak Neri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040601 (2020) - Published 27 January, 2020

Thermodynamic Geometry of Microscopic Heat Engines

Kay Brandner and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040602 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Quantitative Impact of Integrals of Motion on the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

Marcin Mierzejewski and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040603 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Conformal Fields and Operator Product Expansion in Critical Quantum Spin Chains

Yijian Zou, Ashley Milsted, and Guifre Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040604 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Multipartite Entanglement Structure in the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

Marlon Brenes, Silvia Pappalardi, John Goold, and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 040605 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Finite-Size Dark Matter and its Effect on Small-Scale Structure

Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041101 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Learning Bayesian Posteriors with Neural Networks for Gravitational-Wave Inference

Alvin J. K. Chua and Michele Vallisneri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041102 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Gravitational Waves, CMB Polarization, and the Hubble Tension

Donghui Jeong and Marc Kamionkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041301 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Spacetime Structure near Generic Horizons and Soft Hair

Daniel Grumiller, Alfredo Pérez, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Ricardo Troncoso, and Céline Zwikel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041601 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Search for $A^{'} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041801 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Probing Muonphilic Force Carriers and Dark Matter at Kaon Factories

Gordan Krnjaic, Gustavo Marques-Tavares, Diego Redigolo, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041802 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Search for Supersymmetry with a Compressed Mass Spectrum in Events with a Soft $τ$ Lepton, a Highly Energetic Jet, and Large Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041803 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

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Testing the Seesaw Mechanism and Leptogenesis with Gravitational Waves

Jeff A. Dror, Takashi Hiramatsu, Kazunori Kohri, Hitoshi Murayama, and Graham White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041804 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Upcoming gravitational-wave observatories could find evidence of a new type of neutrino, supporting a popular theory for why matter dominates over antimatter.

Zee-Burst: A New Probe of Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions at IceCube

K. S. Babu, P. S. Bhupal Dev, Sudip Jana, and Yicong Sui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 041805 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Measurement of Proton Electromagnetic Form Factors in $e^{+} e^{-} \to p \bar{p}$ in the Energy Region 2.00–3.08 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 042001 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Distinguishing Quarks and Gluons in Pion and Kaon Parton Distribution Functions

Kyle D. Bednar, Ian C. Cloët, and Peter C. Tandy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 042002 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Hadronization and Charm-Hadron Ratios in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Min He and Ralf Rapp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 042301 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Physics of Nuclei: Key Role of an Emergent Symmetry

T. Dytrych, K. D. Launey, J. P. Draayer, D. J. Rowe, J. L. Wood, G. Rosensteel, C. Bahri, D. Langr, and R. B. Baker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 042501 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Convenient Location of a Near-Threshold Proton-Emitting Resonance in ${}^{11}B$

J. Okołowicz, M. Płoszajczak, and W. Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 042502 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Evolution of Octupole Deformation in Radium Nuclei from Coulomb Excitation of Radioactive ${}^{222}{Ra}$ and ${}^{228}{Ra}$ Beams

P. A. Butler et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 042503 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions with Correspondence in an Excited State Phase Diagram

T. Tian, H.-X. Yang, L.-Y. Qiu, H.-Y. Liang, Y.-B. Yang, Y. Xu, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043001 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Photon Momentum Transfer in Single-Photon Double Ionization of Helium

Si-Ge Chen, Wei-Chao Jiang, S. Grundmann, F. Trinter, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, R. Dörner, Hao Liang, Mu-Xue Wang, Liang-You Peng, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043201 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Attosecond-Scale Streaking Methods for Strong-Field Ionization by Tailored Fields

Nicolas Eicke, Simon Brennecke, and Manfred Lein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043202 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Two-Electron Interference in Strong-Field Ionization of He by a Short Intense Extreme Ultraviolet Laser Pulse

Wei-Chao Jiang, Si-Ge Chen, Liang-You Peng, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043203 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

Enhanced Superexchange in a Tilted Mott Insulator

Ivana Dimitrova, Niklas Jepsen, Anton Buyskikh, Araceli Venegas-Gomez, Jesse Amato-Grill, Andrew Daley, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043204 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Dissociative Recombination of Cold ${HeH}^{+}$ Ions

Roman Čurík, Dávid Hvizdoš, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043401 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice

F. M. Gambetta, W. Li, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and I. Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043402 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Multistability of Driven-Dissipative Quantum Spins

Haggai Landa, Marco Schiró, and Grégoire Misguich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043601 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Long-Lived Entanglement Generation of Nuclear Spins Using Coherent Light

Or Katz, Roy Shaham, Eugene S. Polzik, and Ofer Firstenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043602 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Non-Markovian Collective Emission from Macroscopically Separated Emitters

Kanupriya Sinha, Pierre Meystre, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Fredrik K. Fatemi, S. L. Rolston, and Pablo Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043603 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Carrier-Wave Subcycle Structures Associated with Supercritical Collapse of Long-Wavelength Intense Pulses Propagating in Weakly Anomalously Dispersive Media

A. Hofstrand and J. V. Moloney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043901 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

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Negative Refraction in Time-Varying Strongly Coupled Plasmonic-Antenna–Epsilon-Near-Zero Systems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 043902 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

A thin film patterned with nanoantennas exhibits negative refraction of light, a useful feature for subwavelength imaging.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Testing Strong Field QED Close to the Fully Nonperturbative Regime Using Aligned Crystals

A. Di Piazza, T. N. Wistisen, M. Tamburini, and U. I. Uggerhøj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 044801 (2020) - Published 28 January, 2020

Single Shot Characterization of High Transformer Ratio Wakefields in Nonlinear Plasma Acceleration

R. Roussel, G. Andonian, W. Lynn, K. Sanwalka, R. Robles, C. Hansel, A. Deng, G. Lawler, J. B. Rosenzweig, G. Ha, J. Seok, J. G. Power, M. Conde, E. Wisniewski, D. S. Doran, and C. E. Whiteford

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 044802 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Electron Heating by Debye-Scale Turbulence in Guide-Field Reconnection

Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, D. B. Graham, K. Steinvall, L. Alm, A. Vaivads, A. Johlander, C. Norgren, W. Li, A. Divin, H. S. Fu, K.-J. Hwang, J. L. Burch, N. Ahmadi, O. Le Contel, D. J. Gershman, C. T. Russell, and R. B. Torbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 045101 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Critical Transport and Vortex Dynamics in a Thin Atomic Josephson Junction

K. Xhani, E. Neri, L. Galantucci, F. Scazza, A. Burchianti, K.-L. Lee, C. F. Barenghi, A. Trombettoni, M. Inguscio, M. Zaccanti, G. Roati, and N. P. Proukakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 045301 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Curvature Corrections Remove the Inconsistencies of Binary Classical Nucleation Theory

Ailo Aasen, David Reguera, and Øivind Wilhelmsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 045701 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Rotating a Supersolid Dipolar Gas

S. M. Roccuzzo, A. Gallemí, A. Recati, and S. Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 045702 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

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Full Electrostatic Control of Nanomechanical Buckling

Selcuk Oguz Erbil, Utku Hatipoglu, Cenk Yanik, Mahyar Ghavami, Atakan B. Ari, Mert Yuksel, and M. Selim Hanay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046101 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

An electromechanical device allows researchers to control and study how a nanoscale beam buckles when compressed.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Non-Hermitian Exceptional Landau Quantization in Electric Circuits

Xiao-Xiao Zhang and Marcel Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046401 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

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Extreme Fermi Surface Smearing in a Maximally Disordered Concentrated Solid Solution

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046402 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

High-resolution x-ray Compton scattering reveals that the Fermi surface of an alloy survives extreme levels of disorder.

Collective Excitations of Quantum Anomalous Hall Ferromagnets in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Fengcheng Wu and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046403 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

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Electronic Griffiths Phase in Disordered Mott-Transition Systems

Riku Yamamoto, Tetsuya Furukawa, Kazuya Miyagawa, Takahiko Sasaki, Kazushi Kanoda, and Tetsuaki Itou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046404 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Unhinging the Surfaces of Higher-Order Topological Insulators and Superconductors

Apoorv Tiwari, Ming-Hao Li, B. A. Bernevig, Titus Neupert, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046801 (2020) - Published 27 January, 2020

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Spin-Momentum-Locking Inhomogeneities as a Source of Bilinear Magnetoresistance in Topological Insulators

A. Dyrdał, J. Barnaś, and A. Fert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046802 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Novel Undamped Gapless Plasmon Mode in a Tilted Type-II Dirac Semimetal

Krishanu Sadhukhan, Antonio Politano, and Amit Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 046803 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Prediction of a Paramagnetic Meissner Effect in Voltage-Biased Superconductor–Normal-Metal Bilayers

Jabir Ali Ouassou, Wolfgang Belzig, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047001 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Evolution of Electronic States and Emergence of Superconductivity in the Polar Semiconductor GeTe by Doping Valence-Skipping Indium

M. Kriener, M. Sakano, M. Kamitani, M. S. Bahramy, R. Yukawa, K. Horiba, H. Kumigashira, K. Ishizaka, Y. Tokura, and Y. Taguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047002 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Effect of Structural Supermodulation on Superconductivity in Trilayer Cuprate ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{10 + δ}$

Changwei Zou, Zhenqi Hao, Haiwei Li, Xintong Li, Shusen Ye, Li Yu, Chengtian Lin, and Yayu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047003 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Dressed Rabi Oscillation in a Crystalline Organic Radical

C. Blake Wilson, Devin T. Edwards, Jessica A. Clayton, Songi Han, and Mark S. Sherwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047201 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

Spin Current as a Probe of the $Z_{2}$ -Vortex Topological Transition in the Classical Heisenberg Antiferromagnet on the Triangular Lattice

K. Aoyama and H. Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047202 (2020) - Published 29 January, 2020

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Magnetic Domains without Domain Walls: A Unique Effect of ${He}^{+}$ Ion Bombardment in Ferrimagnetic $Tb / Co$ Films

Łukasz Frąckowiak, Piotr Kuświk, Gabriel David Chaves-O’Flynn, Maciej Urbaniak, Michał Matczak, Paweł Piotr Michałowski, Andrzej Maziewski, Meike Reginka, Arno Ehresmann, and Feliks Stobiecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047203 (2020) - Published 30 January, 2020

Magnetic domain texture without domain walls is created by helium-ion bombardment of a rare earth/transition metal ferrimagnetic heterostructure.

Randomly Hopping Majorana Fermions in the Diluted Kitaev System $α$ - ${Ru}_{0.8} {Ir}_{0.2} {Cl}_{3}$

Seung-Hwan Do, C. H. Lee, T. Kihara, Y. S. Choi, Sungwon Yoon, Kangwon Kim, Hyeonsik Cheong, Wei-Tin Chen, Fangcheng Chou, H. Nojiri, and Kwang-Yong Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047204 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Generic Optical Excitations of Correlated Systems: $π$ -tons

A. Kauch, P. Pudleiner, K. Astleithner, P. Thunström, T. Ribic, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 047401 (2020) - Published 31 January, 2020

Volume 124, Issue 4

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