Volume 124, Issue 7

21 February 2020

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Proposed new-particle (yellow) interpretation for recently reported rare kaon (blue) decays to neutral pions (orange). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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New Physics Implications of Recent Search for $K_{L} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$ at KOTO
Teppei Kitahara, Takemichi Okui, Gilad Perez, Yotam Soreq, and Kohsaku Tobioka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071801 (2020)

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New Physics Implications of Recent Search for $K_{L} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$ at KOTO

Teppei Kitahara, Takemichi Okui, Gilad Perez, Yotam Soreq, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071801 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Previously unpredicted particles or a new type of particle interaction could explain the unexpected rare kaon decay events reported by the KOTO experiment in Japan.

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Blessing and Curse: How a Supercapacitor’s Large Capacitance Causes its Slow Charging

Cheng Lian, Mathijs Janssen, Honglai Liu, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076001 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

A new model more accurately predicts the charging time of real supercapacitors by better accounting for the structure of the device’s porous electrodes.

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Strange Metal in Magic-Angle Graphene with near Planckian Dissipation

Yuan Cao, Debanjan Chowdhury, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, T. Senthil, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076801 (2020) - Published 18 February, 2020

Experiments on magic-angle graphene reveal a “strange metal” phase and transport behavior consistent with so-called Planckian dissipation.

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Photonic Refrigeration from Time-Modulated Thermal Emission

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Wei Li, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 077402 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

A device described in a new proposal would cool an object by causing it to radiate extra heat.

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Direct Measurements of Collisional Dynamics in Cold Atom Triads

L. A. Reynolds, E. Schwartz, U. Ebling, M. Weyland, J. Brand, and M. F. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073401 (2020) - Published 18 February, 2020

Using optical tweezers, researchers bring together three atoms in a controlled manner, allowing them to observe three-body collisions.

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Quantum Rifling: Protecting a Qubit from Measurement Back Action

Daniel Szombati, Alejandro Gomez Frieiro, Clemens Müller, Tyler Jones, Markus Jerger, and Arkady Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070401 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

The state of a superconducting qubit can be preserved by increasing the drive strength, thus introducing further control over decoherence processes.

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Sending-or-Not-Sending with Independent Lasers: Secure Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution over 509 km

Jiu-Peng Chen, Chi Zhang, Yang Liu, Cong Jiang, Weijun Zhang, Xiao-Long Hu, Jian-Yu Guan, Zong-Wen Yu, Hai Xu, Jin Lin, Ming-Jun Li, Hao Chen, Hao Li, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070501 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

Secure twin-field quantum key distribution over 509 km in optical fiber has been achieved, using independent lasers with a remote frequency-locking technique.

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Tunable Layer Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Twisted Bilayers

Yang Gao, Yinhan Zhang, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 077401 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Circularly polarized light at normal incidence is predicted to induce a static out-of-plane dipole moment in twisted bilayer structures.

LETTERS

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

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Quantum Rifling: Protecting a Qubit from Measurement Back Action

Daniel Szombati, Alejandro Gomez Frieiro, Clemens Müller, Tyler Jones, Markus Jerger, and Arkady Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070401 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

The state of a superconducting qubit can be preserved by increasing the drive strength, thus introducing further control over decoherence processes.

Tunable Nonreciprocal Quantum Transport through a Dissipative Aharonov-Bohm Ring in Ultracold Atoms

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070402 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

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Sending-or-Not-Sending with Independent Lasers: Secure Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution over 509 km

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070501 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

Secure twin-field quantum key distribution over 509 km in optical fiber has been achieved, using independent lasers with a remote frequency-locking technique.

Tomography of a Feedback Measurement with Photon Detection

Shuro Izumi, Jonas S. Neergaard-Nielsen, and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070502 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Unitary and Nonunitary Quantum Cellular Automata with Rydberg Arrays

T. M. Wintermantel, Y. Wang, G. Lochead, S. Shevate, G. K. Brennen, and S. Whitlock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070503 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Numerical Simulation of Finite-Temperature Field Theory for Interacting Bosons

Kris T. Delaney, Henri Orland, and Glenn H. Fredrickson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 070601 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Great Impostors: Extremely Compact, Merging Binary Neutron Stars in the Mass Gap Posing as Binary Black Holes

Antonios Tsokaros, Milton Ruiz, Stuart L. Shapiro, Lunan Sun, and Kōji Uryū

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071101 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Critical Collapse of a Scalar Field in Semiclassical Loop Quantum Gravity

Florencia Benítez, Rodolfo Gambini, Luis Lehner, Steve Liebling, and Jorge Pullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071301 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

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New Physics Implications of Recent Search for $K_{L} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$ at KOTO

Teppei Kitahara, Takemichi Okui, Gilad Perez, Yotam Soreq, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071801 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Previously unpredicted particles or a new type of particle interaction could explain the unexpected rare kaon decay events reported by the KOTO experiment in Japan.

Search for Rare or Forbidden Decays of the $D^{0}$ Meson

J. P. Lees et al. (BaBar Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071802 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Gauge Coupling $β$ Functions to Four-Loop Order in the Standard Model

Joshua Davies, Florian Herren, Colin Poole, Matthias Steinhauser, and Anders Eller Thomsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 071803 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Interpretation of the LHCb $P_{c}$ States as Hadronic Molecules and Hints of a Narrow $P_{c} (4380)$

Meng-Lin Du, Vadim Baru, Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, Ulf-G. Meißner, José A. Oller, and Qian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 072001 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Axial Vector Form Factors from Lattice QCD that Satisfy the PCAC Relation

Yong-Chull Jang, Rajan Gupta, Boram Yoon, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 072002 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Direct Measurements of Collisional Dynamics in Cold Atom Triads

L. A. Reynolds, E. Schwartz, U. Ebling, M. Weyland, J. Brand, and M. F. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073401 (2020) - Published 18 February, 2020

Using optical tweezers, researchers bring together three atoms in a controlled manner, allowing them to observe three-body collisions.

Self-Bound Doubly Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

Chinmayee Mishra, Luis Santos, and Rejish Nath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073402 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Near-Resonant Light Scattering by a Subwavelength Ensemble of Identical Atoms

N. J. Schilder, C. Sauvan, Y. R. P. Sortais, A. Browaeys, and J.-J. Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073403 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Beyond Mean-Field Corrections to the Quasiparticle Spectrum of Superfluid Fermi Gases

Senne Van Loon, Jacques Tempere, and Hadrien Kurkjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073404 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Multiparticle Interactions for Ultracold Atoms in Optical Tweezers: Cyclic Ring-Exchange Terms

Annabelle Bohrdt, Ahmed Omran, Eugene Demler, Snir Gazit, and Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073601 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Squeezed Light Induced Symmetry Breaking Superradiant Phase Transition

C. J. Zhu, L. L. Ping, Y. P. Yang, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073602 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Topological Bands and Triply Degenerate Points in Non-Hermitian Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Junpeng Hou, Zhitong Li, Xi-Wang Luo, Qing Gu, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073603 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Topological Boundary Modes from Translational Deformations

Yosuke Nakata, Yoshitaka Ito, Yasunobu Nakamura, and Ryuichi Shindou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 073901 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Three-Dimensional Acoustic Double-Zero-Index Medium with a Fourfold Degenerate Dirac-like Point

Changqing Xu, Guancong Ma, Ze-Guo Chen, Jie Luo, Jinjie Shi, Yun Lai, and Ying Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 074501 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of Large Bandwidth Hard X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Pulses at SwissFEL

Eduard Prat, Philipp Dijkstal, Eugenio Ferrari, and Sven Reiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 074801 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Experimental Demonstration of a Dusty Plasma Ratchet Rectification and Its Reversal

Ya-feng He, Bao-quan Ai, Chao-xing Dai, Chao Song, Rui-qi Wang, Wen-tao Sun, Fu-cheng Liu, and Yan Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 075001 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Deterministic Scheme for Two-Dimensional Type-II Dirac Points and Experimental Realization in Acoustics

Xiaoxiao Wu, Xin Li, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Xiao Xiang, Jingxuan Tian, Yingzhou Huang, Shuxia Wang, Bo Hou, C. T. Chan, and Weijia Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 075501 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Stress-Measure Dependence of Phase Transformation Criterion under Finite Strains: Hierarchy of Crystal Lattice Instabilities for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Transformations

Hamed Babaei and Valery I. Levitas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 075701 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Effect of He on the Order-Disorder Transition in ${Ni}_{3} Al$ under Irradiation

Peyman Saidi, Pooyan Changizian, Eric Nicholson, He Ken Zhang, Yu Luo, Zhongwen Yao, Chandra Veer Singh, Mark R. Daymond, and Laurent Karim Béland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 075901 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Why Phonon Scattering in Glasses is Universally Small at Low Temperatures

Herve M. Carruzzo and Clare C. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 075902 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Theoretical Paradigm for Thermal Rectification via Phonon Filtering and Spectral Confinement

Brian F. Donovan and Ronald J. Warzoha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 075903 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

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Blessing and Curse: How a Supercapacitor’s Large Capacitance Causes its Slow Charging

Cheng Lian, Mathijs Janssen, Honglai Liu, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076001 (2020) - Published 20 February, 2020

A new model more accurately predicts the charging time of real supercapacitors by better accounting for the structure of the device’s porous electrodes.

Nucleation and Growth of the Supercooled Liquid Phase Control Glass Transition in Bulk Ultrastable Glasses

A. Vila-Costa, J. Ràfols-Ribé, M. González-Silveira, A. F. Lopeandia, Ll. Abad-Muñoz, and J. Rodríguez-Viejo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076002 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Low Energy Band Structure and Symmetries of ${UTe}_{2}$ from Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Lin Miao, Shouzheng Liu, Yishuai Xu, Erica C. Kotta, Chang-Jong Kang, Sheng Ran, Johnpierre Paglione, Gabriel Kotliar, Nicholas P. Butch, Jonathan D. Denlinger, and L. Andrew Wray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076401 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Detection of Hole Pockets in the Candidate Type-II Weyl Semimetal ${MoTe}_{2}$ from Shubnikov–de Haas Quantum Oscillations

Y. J. Hu, W. C. Yu, Kwing To Lai, D. Sun, F. F. Balakirev, W. Zhang, J. Y. Xie, K. Y. Yip, E. I. Paredes Aulestia, Rajveer Jha, Ryuji Higashinaka, Tatsuma D. Matsuda, Y. Yanase, Yuji Aoki, and Swee K. Goh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076402 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Magnetic Semimetals and Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect in ${EuB}_{6}$

Simin Nie, Yan Sun, Fritz B. Prinz, Zhijun Wang, Hongming Weng, Zhong Fang, and Xi Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076403 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Achieving the Scaling Limit for Nonequilibrium Green Functions Simulations

Niclas Schlünzen, Jan-Philip Joost, and Michael Bonitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076601 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

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Strange Metal in Magic-Angle Graphene with near Planckian Dissipation

Yuan Cao, Debanjan Chowdhury, Daniel Rodan-Legrain, Oriol Rubies-Bigorda, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, T. Senthil, and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076801 (2020) - Published 18 February, 2020

Experiments on magic-angle graphene reveal a “strange metal” phase and transport behavior consistent with so-called Planckian dissipation.

Dynamical Separation of Bulk and Edge Transport in HgTe-Based 2D Topological Insulators

Matthieu C. Dartiailh, Simon Hartinger, Alexandre Gourmelon, Kalle Bendias, Hugo Bartolomei, Hiroshi Kamata, Jean-Marc Berroir, Gwendal Fève, Bernard Plaçais, Lukas Lunczer, Raimund Schlereth, Hartmut Buhmann, Laurens W. Molenkamp, and Erwann Bocquillon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 076802 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

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Tunable Layer Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Twisted Bilayers

Yang Gao, Yinhan Zhang, and Di Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 077401 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Circularly polarized light at normal incidence is predicted to induce a static out-of-plane dipole moment in twisted bilayer structures.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photonic Refrigeration from Time-Modulated Thermal Emission

Siddharth Buddhiraju, Wei Li, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 077402 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

A device described in a new proposal would cool an object by causing it to radiate extra heat.

Magnetization-Induced Band Shift in Ferromagnetic Weyl Semimetal ${Co}_{3} {Sn}_{2} S_{2}$

Run Yang, Tan Zhang, Liqin Zhou, Yaomin Dai, Zhiyu Liao, Hongming Weng, and Xianggang Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 077403 (2020) - Published 21 February, 2020

Biexciton Condensation in Electron-Hole-Doped Hubbard Bilayers: A Sign-Problem-Free Quantum Monte Carlo Study

Xu-Xin Huang, Martin Claassen, Edwin W. Huang, Brian Moritz, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 077601 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

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

Spontaneous Velocity Alignment in Motility-Induced Phase Separation

L. Caprini, U. Marini Bettolo Marconi, and A. Puglisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 078001 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020

Jamming Energy Landscape is Hierarchical and Ultrametric

R. C. Dennis and E. I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 078002 (2020) - Published 19 February, 2020