Volume 124, Issue 5

7 February 2020

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Renormalization group flow from UV to IR points in an angular space for ’t Hooft couplings of an SU(N) gauge field theory.

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Conformality Loss, Walking, and 4D Complex Conformal Field Theories at Weak Coupling
Francesco Benini, Cristoforo Iossa, and Marco Serone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051602 (2020)

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Time-Integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051103 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Ten years of observations from the IceCube detector show that researchers are closing in on identifying the astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos.

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Longitudinal Wobbling Motion in ${}^{187}{Au}$

N. Sensharma, U. Garg, Q. B. Chen, S. Frauendorf, D. P. Burdette, J. L. Cozzi, K. B. Howard, S. Zhu, M. P. Carpenter, P. Copp, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, J. Li, D. Seweryniak, J. Wu, A. D. Ayangeakaa, D. J. Hartley, R. V. F. Janssens, A. M. Forney, W. B. Walters, S. S. Ghugre, and R. Palit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 052501 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

A rare kind of nuclear spinning motion has been detected in an isotope of gold.

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Femtosecond Compression Dynamics and Timing Jitter Suppression in a THz-driven Electron Bunch Compressor

E. C. Snively, M. A. K. Othman, M. Kozina, B. K. Ofori-Okai, S. P. Weathersby, S. Park, X. Shen, X. J. Wang, M. C. Hoffmann, R. K. Li, and E. A. Nanni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054801 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Terahertz radiation can be used to produce short and well-timed pulses of electrons—which could benefit electron diffraction schemes used to image ultrafast atomic and molecular dynamics.

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Femtosecond Relativistic Electron Beam with Reduced Timing Jitter from THz Driven Beam Compression

Lingrong Zhao, Heng Tang, Chao Lu, Tao Jiang, Pengfei Zhu, Long Hu, Wei Song, Huida Wang, Jiaqi Qiu, Chunguang Jing, Sergey Antipov, Dao Xiang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054802 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Terahertz radiation can be used to produce short and well-timed pulses of electrons—which could benefit electron diffraction schemes used to image ultrafast atomic and molecular dynamics.

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Gravimeter Search for Compact Dark Matter Objects Moving in the Earth

C. J. Horowitz and R. Widmer-Schnidrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051102 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Using ten years of data from gravimeters placed around the globe, mountain-sized bounds are placed on the mass of hypothetical compact dark objects moving inside the Earth.

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Self-Organized Synchronization of Phonon Lasers

Jiteng Sheng, Xinrui Wei, Cheng Yang, and Haibin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053604 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

The demonstration of synchronization of two mechanical membranes leads to the first experimental optomechanics-based observation of mechanical phase locking, and the realization of a phononic memory.

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Wake Induced Long Range Repulsion of Aqueous Dunes

Karol A. Bacik, Sean Lovett, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, and Nathalie M. Vriend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054501 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Underwater dunes repel each other due to turbulent flow structures produced by the upstream dune.

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

Activation of Nonlocality in Bound Entanglement

Lucas Tendick, Hermann Kampermann, and Dagmar Bruß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050401 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Fractons from Vector Gauge Theory

Leo Radzihovsky and Michael Hermele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050402 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

How Fast Do Quantum Walks Mix?

Shantanav Chakraborty, Kyle Luh, and Jérémie Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050501 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Topological Quantum Walks in Momentum Space with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Dizhou Xie, Tian-Shu Deng, Teng Xiao, Wei Gou, Tao Chen, Wei Yi, and Bo Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050502 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Conditional Quantum One-Time Pad

Kunal Sharma, Eyuri Wakakuwa, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050503 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Thermodynamic Cost and Benefit of Memory

Susanne Still

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050601 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Universal Entanglement of Typical States in Constrained Systems

S. C. Morampudi, A. Chandran, and C. R. Laumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050602 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Energetic Self-Optimization Induced by Stability in Low-Dissipation Heat Engines

J. Gonzalez-Ayala, J. Guo, A. Medina, J. M. M. Roco, and A. Calvo Hernández

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 050603 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Second-order Fermi Reacceleration Mechanisms and Large-Scale Synchrotron Radio Emission in Intracluster Bridges

Gianfranco Brunetti and Franco Vazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051101 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

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Gravimeter Search for Compact Dark Matter Objects Moving in the Earth

C. J. Horowitz and R. Widmer-Schnidrig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051102 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Using ten years of data from gravimeters placed around the globe, mountain-sized bounds are placed on the mass of hypothetical compact dark objects moving inside the Earth.

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Time-Integrated Neutrino Source Searches with 10 Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051103 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Ten years of observations from the IceCube detector show that researchers are closing in on identifying the astrophysical sources of high-energy neutrinos.

Improvement for Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law at the Submillimeter Range

Wen-Hai Tan, An-Bin Du, Wen-Can Dong, Shan-Qing Yang, Cheng-Gang Shao, Sheng-Guo Guan, Qing-Lan Wang, Bi-Fu Zhan, Peng-Shun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, and Jun Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051301 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonrenormalization and Operator Mixing via On-Shell Methods

Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, and Eric Sawyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051601 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Conformality Loss, Walking, and 4D Complex Conformal Field Theories at Weak Coupling

Francesco Benini, Cristoforo Iossa, and Marco Serone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051602 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Discovery and Spectroscopy of Dark Matter and Dark Sectors with Microscopic Black Holes at Next Generation Colliders

Ningqiang Song and Aaron C. Vincent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051801 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Nonresonant Searches for Axionlike Particles at the LHC

M. B. Gavela, J. M. No, V. Sanz, and J. F. de Trocóniz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 051802 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Jet Suppression From a Small to Intermediate to Large Radius

Daniel Pablos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 052301 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

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Longitudinal Wobbling Motion in ${}^{187}{Au}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 052501 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

A rare kind of nuclear spinning motion has been detected in an isotope of gold.

Study of Quasielastic Barrier Distributions as a Step towards the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Hot Fusion Reactions

T. Tanaka, K. Morita, K. Morimoto, D. Kaji, H. Haba, R. A. Boll, N. T. Brewer, S. Van Cleve, D. J. Dean, S. Ishizawa, Y. Ito, Y. Komori, K. Nishio, T. Niwase, B. C. Rasco, J. B. Roberto, K. P. Rykaczewski, H. Sakai, D. W. Stracener, and K. Hagino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 052502 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Second-Scale Coherence Measured at the Quantum Projection Noise Limit with Hundreds of Molecular Ions

Yan Zhou, Yuval Shagam, William B. Cairncross, Kia Boon Ng, Tanya S. Roussy, Tanner Grogan, Kevin Boyce, Antonio Vigil, Madeline Pettine, Tanya Zelevinsky, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053201 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Ion Imaging via Long-Range Interaction with Rydberg Atoms

Christian Gross, Thibault Vogt, and Wenhui Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053401 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Optical Traps for Sympathetic Cooling of Ions with Ultracold Neutral Atoms

J. Schmidt, P. Weckesser, F. Thielemann, T. Schaetz, and L. Karpa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053402 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

$N$ -Phonon Bundle Emission via the Stokes Process

Qian Bin, Xin-You Lü, Fabrice P. Laussy, Franco Nori, and Ying Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053601 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Steady Bell State Generation via Magnon-Photon Coupling

H. Y. Yuan, Peng Yan, Shasha Zheng, Q. Y. He, Ke Xia, and Man-Hong Yung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053602 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Direct Generation of Tailored Pulse-Mode Entanglement

Francesco Graffitti, Peter Barrow, Alexander Pickston, Agata M. Brańczyk, and Alessandro Fedrizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053603 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Organized Synchronization of Phonon Lasers

Jiteng Sheng, Xinrui Wei, Cheng Yang, and Haibin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053604 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

The demonstration of synchronization of two mechanical membranes leads to the first experimental optomechanics-based observation of mechanical phase locking, and the realization of a phononic memory.

Spatial Coherence of Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose Gases

Andika Putra, F. Salces-Cárcoba, Yuchen Yue, Seiji Sugawa, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053605 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Optical Spin-Wave Storage in a Solid-State Hybridized Electron-Nuclear Spin Ensemble

M. Businger, A. Tiranov, K. T. Kaczmarek, S. Welinski, Z. Zhang, A. Ferrier, P. Goldner, and M. Afzelius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053606 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Synthetic Anti-PT Symmetry in a Single Microcavity

Fangxing Zhang, Yaming Feng, Xianfeng Chen, Li Ge, and Wenjie Wan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053901 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Direct Visualizing the Spin Hall Effect of Light via Ultrahigh-Order Modes

Hailang Dai, Luqi Yuan, Cheng Yin, Zhuangqi Cao, and Xianfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053902 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

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Wake Induced Long Range Repulsion of Aqueous Dunes

Karol A. Bacik, Sean Lovett, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, and Nathalie M. Vriend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054501 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Underwater dunes repel each other due to turbulent flow structures produced by the upstream dune.

Direct Measurement of the Elastohydrodynamic Lift Force at the Nanoscale

Zaicheng Zhang, Vincent Bertin, Muhammad Arshad, Elie Raphaël, Thomas Salez, and Abdelhamid Maali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054502 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Femtosecond Compression Dynamics and Timing Jitter Suppression in a THz-driven Electron Bunch Compressor

E. C. Snively, M. A. K. Othman, M. Kozina, B. K. Ofori-Okai, S. P. Weathersby, S. Park, X. Shen, X. J. Wang, M. C. Hoffmann, R. K. Li, and E. A. Nanni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054801 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Terahertz radiation can be used to produce short and well-timed pulses of electrons—which could benefit electron diffraction schemes used to image ultrafast atomic and molecular dynamics.

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Femtosecond Relativistic Electron Beam with Reduced Timing Jitter from THz Driven Beam Compression

Lingrong Zhao, Heng Tang, Chao Lu, Tao Jiang, Pengfei Zhu, Long Hu, Wei Song, Huida Wang, Jiaqi Qiu, Chunguang Jing, Sergey Antipov, Dao Xiang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 054802 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Terahertz radiation can be used to produce short and well-timed pulses of electrons—which could benefit electron diffraction schemes used to image ultrafast atomic and molecular dynamics.

Suppression of the Biermann Battery and Stabilization of the Thermomagnetic Instability in Laser Fusion Conditions

M. Sherlock and J. J. Bissell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 055001 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Theory of the Tertiary Instability and the Dimits Shift from Reduced Drift-Wave Models

Hongxuan Zhu, Yao Zhou, and I. Y. Dodin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 055002 (2020) - Published 4 February, 2020

Effect of Electron Capture on Spectral Line Broadening in Hot Dense Plasmas

T. A. Gomez, T. Nagayama, C. J. Fontes, D. P. Kilcrease, S. B. Hansen, M. C. Zammit, D. V. Fursa, A. S. Kadyrov, and I. Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 055003 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Solving the ${CH}_{4}^{-}$ Riddle: The Fundamental Role of Spin to Explain Metastable Anionic Methane

Alejandro Ramírez-Solís, Jacques Vigué, Guillermo Hinojosa, and Humberto Saint-Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056001 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Visualizing Anisotropic Oxygen Diffusion in Ceria under Activated Conditions

Liang Zhu, Xin Jin, Yu-Yang Zhang, Shixuan Du, Lei Liu, Tijana Rajh, Zhi Xu, Wenlong Wang, Xuedong Bai, Jianguo Wen, and Lifen Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056002 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Artificial Neural Network Approach to the Analytic Continuation Problem

Romain Fournier, Lei Wang, Oleg V. Yazyev, and QuanSheng Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056401 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Photoemission Spectroscopic Evidence for the Dirac Nodal Line in the Monoclinic Semimetal ${SrAs}_{3}$

Y. K. Song, G. W. Wang, S. C. Li, W. L. Liu, X. L. Lu, Z. T. Liu, Z. J. Li, J. S. Wen, Z. P. Yin, Z. H. Liu, and D. W. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056402 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Controlled dc Monitoring of a Superconducting Qubit

A. Kringhøj, T. W. Larsen, B. van Heck, D. Sabonis, O. Erlandsson, I. Petkovic, D. I. Pikulin, P. Krogstrup, K. D. Petersson, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056801 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Non-Hermitian Boundary Modes and Topology

Dan S. Borgnia, Alex Jura Kruchkov, and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 056802 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Dynamical Singularities of Floquet Higher-Order Topological Insulators

Haiping Hu, Biao Huang, Erhai Zhao, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057001 (2020) - Published 3 February, 2020

Chiral Magnetism and High-Temperature Skyrmions in B20-Ordered Co-Si

Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Priyanka Manchanda, Rabindra Pahari, Zhen Chen, Wenyong Zhang, Shah R. Valloppilly, Xingzhong Li, Anandakumar Sarella, Lanping Yue, Ahsan Ullah, Pratibha Dev, David A. Muller, Ralph Skomski, George C. Hadjipanayis, and David J. Sellmyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057201 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Invariance Principle for Wave Propagation inside Inhomogeneously Disordered Materials

Yiming Huang, Chushun Tian, Victor A. Gopar, Ping Fang, and Azriel Z. Genack

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057401 (2020) - Published 5 February, 2020

Strong Terahertz Radiation via Rapid Polarization Reduction in Photoinduced Ionic-To-Neutral Transition in Tetrathiafulvalene- $p$ -Chloranil

Yuto Kinoshita, Noriaki Kida, Yusuke Magasaki, Takeshi Morimoto, Tsubasa Terashige, Tatsuya Miyamoto, and Hiroshi Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057402 (2020) - Published 6 February, 2020

Ultrafast Control of the Dimensionality of Exciton-Exciton Annihilation in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus

Vivek Pareek, Julien Madéo, and Keshav M. Dani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057403 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Hybridization Dynamics in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ Revealed by Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy

Y. P. Liu, Y. J. Zhang, J. J. Dong, H. Lee, Z. X. Wei, W. L. Zhang, C. Y. Chen, H. Q. Yuan, Yi-feng Yang, and J. Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 057404 (2020) - Published 7 February, 2020

Volume 124, Issue 5

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