Volume 125, Issue 1

3 July 2020

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Scanning electron micrograph of a topological vortex laser based on non-Hermitian photonic crystals. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Spin-Momentum-Locked Edge Mode for Topological Vortex Lasing
Zhen-Qian Yang, Zeng-Kai Shao, Hua-Zhou Chen, Xin-Rui Mao, and Ren-Min Ma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013903 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement of $C P$ -Averaged Observables in the $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011802 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The LHCb Collaboration increases the statistical significance of a result relating to the decay rate of $B^{0}$ mesons that diverges from standard model predictions.

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Observation of Quantum Phase Synchronization in Spin-1 Atoms

Arif Warsi Laskar, Pratik Adhikary, Suprodip Mondal, Parag Katiyar, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Saikat Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013601 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Using a light pulse, researchers sync up phases in quantum states of roughly a million rubidium atoms, thus demonstrating quantum synchronization for the first time.

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Pentadiamond: A Hard Carbon Allotrope of a Pentagonal Network of ${sp}^{2}$ and ${sp}^{3}$ C Atoms

Yasumaru Fujii, Mina Maruyama, Nguyen Thanh Cuong, and Susumu Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 016001 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Calculations indicate that a form of carbon synthesized from pentagonal hydrocarbon molecules could have unusual electrical and mechanical properties.

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Evidence of Spin-Orbital Angular Momentum Interactions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

S. Acharya et al. (The ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 012301 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

The measured spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions is consistent with that expected from the spin-orbit coupling of quarks with the large angular momentum of the collision.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Momentum-Locked Edge Mode for Topological Vortex Lasing

Zhen-Qian Yang, Zeng-Kai Shao, Hua-Zhou Chen, Xin-Rui Mao, and Ren-Min Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013903 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

A topological vortex laser that relies on a novel feature in non-Hermitian topological photonic systems is demonstrated.

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Liquid-Solid Slip on Charged Walls: The Dramatic Impact of Charge Distribution

Yanbo Xie, Li Fu, Thomas Niehaus, and Laurent Joly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 014501 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

Molecular dynamics simulations show a significant reduction of liquid-solid slip lengths for sodium chloride solutions in contact with charged graphene wall surfaces.

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Magnetic-Field-Independent Subgap States in Hybrid Rashba Nanowires

Christian Jünger, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Denis Chevallier, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly A. Dick, Claes Thelander, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, Andreas Baumgartner, and Christian Schönenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017701 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Topologically trivial subgap states that are independent of the external magnetic field are found using quantum dots directly integrated into nanowires during the growth process.

LETTERS

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

Universal Algebraic Growth of Entanglement Entropy in Many-Body Localized Systems with Power-Law Interactions

Xiaolong Deng, Guido Masella, Guido Pupillo, and Luis Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 010401 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

Quantum Bubbles in Microgravity

A. Tononi, F. Cinti, and L. Salasnich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 010402 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

Robust Bilayer Charge Pumping for Spin- and Density-Resolved Quantum Gas Microscopy

Joannis Koepsell, Sarah Hirthe, Dominik Bourgund, Pimonpan Sompet, Jayadev Vijayan, Guillaume Salomon, Christian Gross, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 010403 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

Photon-Mediated Peierls Transition of a 1D Gas in a Multimode Optical Cavity

Colin Rylands, Yudan Guo, Benjamin L. Lev, Jonathan Keeling, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 010404 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

Variational Quantum Simulation of General Processes

Suguru Endo, Jinzhao Sun, Ying Li, Simon C. Benjamin, and Xiao Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 010501 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

Long-Distance Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution over 202.81 km of Fiber

Yichen Zhang, Ziyang Chen, Stefano Pirandola, Xiangyu Wang, Chao Zhou, Binjie Chu, Yijia Zhao, Bingjie Xu, Song Yu, and Hong Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 010502 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Hidden Cores of Active Galactic Nuclei as the Origin of Medium-Energy Neutrinos: Critical Tests with the MeV Gamma-Ray Connection

Kohta Murase, Shigeo S. Kimura, and Peter Mészáros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011101 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Demonstration of the Multimaterial Coating Concept to Reduce Thermal Noise in Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Simon C. Tait, Jessica Steinlechner, Maya M. Kinley-Hanlon, Peter G. Murray, Jim Hough, Graeme McGhee, Felix Pein, Sheila Rowan, Roman Schnabel, Cassady Smith, Lukas Terkowski, and Iain W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011102 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Gravitational Spin-Orbit Coupling through Third-Subleading Post-Newtonian Order: From First-Order Self-Force to Arbitrary Mass Ratios

Andrea Antonelli, Chris Kavanagh, Mohammed Khalil, Jan Steinhoff, and Justin Vines

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011103 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

Quasinormal Mode Oscillations in an Analogue Black Hole Experiment

Theo Torres, Sam Patrick, Maurício Richartz, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011301 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Axionlike Origin of the Primordial Density Perturbation

Takeshi Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011302 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

First Search for Bosonic Superweakly Interacting Massive Particles with Masses up to $1 MeV / c^{2}$ with GERDA

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011801 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

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Measurement of $C P$ -Averaged Observables in the $B^{0} \to K^{* 0} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011802 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The LHCb Collaboration increases the statistical significance of a result relating to the decay rate of $B^{0}$ mesons that diverges from standard model predictions.

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Spin-Orbital Angular Momentum Interactions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

S. Acharya et al. (The ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 012301 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

The measured spin alignment of vector mesons in heavy-ion collisions is consistent with that expected from the spin-orbit coupling of quarks with the large angular momentum of the collision.

Sequential Nature of $(p, 3 p)$ Two-Proton Knockout from Neutron-Rich Nuclei

A. Frotscher et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 012501 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Low Density In-Medium Effects on Light Clusters from Heavy-Ion Data

Helena Pais, Rémi Bougault, Francesca Gulminelli, Constança Providência, Eric Bonnet, Bernard Borderie, Abdelouahad Chbihi, John D. Frankland, Emmanuelle Galichet, Diégo Gruyer, Maxime Henri, Nicolas Le Neindre, Olivier Lopez, Loredana Manduci, Marian Parlôg, and Giuseppe Verde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 012701 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rotational Coherence Spectroscopy of Molecules in Helium Nanodroplets: Reconciling the Time and the Frequency Domains

Adam S. Chatterley, Lars Christiansen, Constant A. Schouder, Anders V. Jørgensen, Benjamin Shepperson, Igor N. Cherepanov, Giacomo Bighin, Robert E. Zillich, Mikhail Lemeshko, and Henrik Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013001 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Direct Measurement of the Forbidden $2 {{}^{3}S}_{1} \to 3 {{}^{3}S}_{1}$ Atomic Transition in Helium

K. F. Thomas, J. A. Ross, B. M. Henson, D. K. Shin, K. G. H. Baldwin, S. S. Hodgman, and A. G. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013002 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Long-Lasting Molecular Orientation Induced by a Single Terahertz Pulse

Long Xu, Ilia Tutunnikov, Erez Gershnabel, Yehiam Prior, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013201 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Quantum Phase Synchronization in Spin-1 Atoms

Arif Warsi Laskar, Pratik Adhikary, Suprodip Mondal, Parag Katiyar, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Saikat Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013601 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Using a light pulse, researchers sync up phases in quantum states of roughly a million rubidium atoms, thus demonstrating quantum synchronization for the first time.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Shape Deformation of Nanoresonator: A Quasinormal-Mode Perturbation Theory

Wei Yan, Philippe Lalanne, and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013901 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Topological Phase Transition in the Non-Hermitian Coupled Resonator Array

Yutian Ao, Xiaoyong Hu, Yilong You, Cuicui Lu, Yulan Fu, Xingyuan Wang, and Qihuang Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013902 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Momentum-Locked Edge Mode for Topological Vortex Lasing

Zhen-Qian Yang, Zeng-Kai Shao, Hua-Zhou Chen, Xin-Rui Mao, and Ren-Min Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 013903 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

A topological vortex laser that relies on a novel feature in non-Hermitian topological photonic systems is demonstrated.

Early-Time Exponential Instabilities in Nonchaotic Quantum Systems

Efim B. Rozenbaum, Leonid A. Bunimovich, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 014101 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Liquid-Solid Slip on Charged Walls: The Dramatic Impact of Charge Distribution

Yanbo Xie, Li Fu, Thomas Niehaus, and Laurent Joly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 014501 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

Molecular dynamics simulations show a significant reduction of liquid-solid slip lengths for sodium chloride solutions in contact with charged graphene wall surfaces.

Flow of Spatiotemporal Turbulentlike Random Fields

Jason Reneuve and Laurent Chevillard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 014502 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Coherent Optical Signatures of Electron Microbunching in Laser-Driven Plasma Accelerators

A. H. Lumpkin, M. LaBerge, D. W. Rule, R. Zgadzaj, A. Hannasch, O. Zarini, B. Bowers, A. Irman, J. P. Couperus Cabadağ, A. Debus, A. Köhler, U. Schramm, and M. C. Downer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 014801 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

Reversal of Simple Hydrogenic Isotope Scaling Laws in Tokamak Edge Turbulence

E. A. Belli, J. Candy, and R. E. Waltz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 015001 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Distribution of Topological Types in Grain-Growth Microstructures

Emanuel A. Lazar, Jeremy K. Mason, Robert D. MacPherson, and David J. Srolovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 015501 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

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Pentadiamond: A Hard Carbon Allotrope of a Pentagonal Network of ${sp}^{2}$ and ${sp}^{3}$ C Atoms

Yasumaru Fujii, Mina Maruyama, Nguyen Thanh Cuong, and Susumu Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 016001 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Calculations indicate that a form of carbon synthesized from pentagonal hydrocarbon molecules could have unusual electrical and mechanical properties.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Thermal Equilibration on the Edges of Topological Liquids

Ken K. W. Ma and D. E. Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 016801 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

First- and Second-Order Topological Superconductivity and Temperature-Driven Topological Phase Transitions in the Extended Hubbard Model with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Majid Kheirkhah, Zhongbo Yan, Yuki Nagai, and Frank Marsiglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017001 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Kohn-Luttinger Mechanism Driven Exotic Topological Superconductivity on the Penrose Lattice

Ye Cao, Yongyou Zhang, Yu-Bo Liu, Cheng-Cheng Liu, Wei-Qiang Chen, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017002 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

$SU (3)_{1}$ Chiral Spin Liquid on the Square Lattice: A View from Symmetric Projected Entangled Pair States

Ji-Yao Chen, Sylvain Capponi, Alexander Wietek, Matthieu Mambrini, Norbert Schuch, and Didier Poilblanc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017201 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020

Ultrafast Electron Correlations and Memory Effects at Work: Femtosecond Demagnetization in Ni

Shree Ram Acharya, Volodymyr Turkowski, G. P. Zhang, and Talat S. Rahman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017202 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Tunable Magnon-Magnon Coupling Mediated by Dynamic Dipolar Interaction in Synthetic Antiferromagnets

Yoichi Shiota, Tomohiro Taniguchi, Mio Ishibashi, Takahiro Moriyama, and Teruo Ono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017203 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Changes of Magnetism in a Magnetic Insulator due to Proximity to a Topological Insulator

Tao Liu, James Kally, Timothy Pillsbury, Chuanpu Liu, Houchen Chang, Jinjun Ding, Yang Cheng, Maria Hilse, Roman Engel-Herbert, Anthony Richardella, Nitin Samarth, and Mingzhong Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017204 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

Linear Versus Nonlinear Electro-Optic Effects in Materials

Zhijun Jiang, Charles Paillard, Hongjun Xiang, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017401 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Multifunctional Nonlocal Metasurfaces

Adam C. Overvig, Stephanie C. Malek, and Nanfang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017402 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

Design of Two-Dimensional Multiferroics with Direct Polarization-Magnetization Coupling

Junting Zhang, Xiaofan Shen, Yancheng Wang, Chao Ji, Ying Zhou, Jianli Wang, Fengzhen Huang, and Xiaomei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017601 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic-Field-Independent Subgap States in Hybrid Rashba Nanowires

Christian Jünger, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Denis Chevallier, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly A. Dick, Claes Thelander, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, Andreas Baumgartner, and Christian Schönenberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 017701 (2020) - Published 30 June, 2020

Topologically trivial subgap states that are independent of the external magnetic field are found using quantum dots directly integrated into nanowires during the growth process.

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Pfaffian Formalism for Higher-Order Topological Insulators [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036401 (2020)]

Heqiu Li and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 019901 (2020) - Published 29 June, 2020