Volume 125, Issue 12

18 September 2020

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Simulated acoustic radiation pattern of an optomechanical resonator surrounded by four oblong blackbodies. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Detecting Acoustic Blackbody Radiation with an Optomechanical Antenna
Robinjeet Singh and Thomas P. Purdy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120603 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Detecting Acoustic Blackbody Radiation with an Optomechanical Antenna

Robinjeet Singh and Thomas P. Purdy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120603 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A nanomechanical resonator detects and isolates acoustic waves from a remote thermal source.

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Features of the Energy Spectrum of Cosmic Rays above $2.5 \times 10^{18} eV$ Using the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Aab et al. (The Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121106 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

New results from the Pierre Auger Observatory could narrow down the search for the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.

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Evidence for Nonlinear Isotope Shift in ${Yb}^{+}$ Search for New Boson

Ian Counts, Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Honggi Jeon, Calvin Leung, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Akio Kawasaki, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123002 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A signal predicted for a type of dark matter appears in the spectra of ytterbium isotopes.

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Improved Isotope-Shift-Based Bounds on Bosons beyond the Standard Model through Measurements of the ${{}^{2}D}_{3 / 2} - {{}^{2}D}_{5 / 2}$ Interval in ${Ca}^{+}$

Cyrille Solaro, Steffen Meyer, Karin Fisher, Julian C. Berengut, Elina Fuchs, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123003 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A signal predicted for a type of dark matter appears in the spectra of ytterbium isotopes.

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Boundary Criticality of $PT$ -Invariant Topology and Second-Order Nodal-Line Semimetals

Kai Wang, Jia-Xiao Dai, L. B. Shao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Y. X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126403 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

New theoretical predictions overthrow the assumption that a material’s bulk topological properties are linked to the same properties at its surface.

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Mechanical Control of Cell Proliferation Increases Resistance to Chemotherapeutic Agents

Ilaria Francesca Rizzuti, Pietro Mascheroni, Silvia Arcucci, Zacchari Ben-Mériem, Audrey Prunet, Catherine Barentin, Charlotte Rivière, Hélène Delanoë-Ayari, Haralampos Hatzikirou, Julie Guillermet-Guibert, and Morgan Delarue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 128103 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Pressure that develops as a tumor grows can limit the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments.

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Dissipation-Time Uncertainty Relation

Gianmaria Falasco and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120604 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

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Demonstrating a Continuous Set of Two-Qubit Gates for Near-Term Quantum Algorithms

B. Foxen et al. (Google AI Quantum)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120504 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A family of two-qubit gate combinations that can decrease the circuit depth for NISQ processors is demonstrated using gmon superconducting qubits.

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Correspondence between Winding Numbers and Skin Modes in Non-Hermitian Systems

Kai Zhang, Zhesen Yang, and Chen Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126402 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

An exact bulk-edge correspondence between winding (in the bulk) and skin modes (on the surface) in non-Hermitian systems establishes that a nonzero winding number in the bulk leads to skin effect on the edge, and vice versa.

LETTERS

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

Dipole-Phonon Quantum Logic with Trapped Polar Molecular Ions

Wesley C. Campbell and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120501 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Identification of Symmetry-Protected Topological States on Noisy Quantum Computers

Daniel Azses, Rafael Haenel, Yehuda Naveh, Robert Raussendorf, Eran Sela, and Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120502 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Fully Arbitrary Control of Frequency-Bin Qubits

Hsuan-Hao Lu, Emma M. Simmerman, Pavel Lougovski, Andrew M. Weiner, and Joseph M. Lukens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120503 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Demonstrating a Continuous Set of Two-Qubit Gates for Near-Term Quantum Algorithms

B. Foxen et al. (Google AI Quantum)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120504 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A family of two-qubit gate combinations that can decrease the circuit depth for NISQ processors is demonstrated using gmon superconducting qubits.

Single-Shot Non-Gaussian Measurements for Optical Phase Estimation

M. T. DiMario and F. E. Becerra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120505 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Beyond the Storage Capacity: Data-Driven Satisfiability Transition

Pietro Rotondo, Mauro Pastore, and Marco Gherardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120601 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Quantum Quenches in Isolated Quantum Glasses out of Equilibrium

S. J. Thomson, P. Urbani, and M. Schiró

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120602 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

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Detecting Acoustic Blackbody Radiation with an Optomechanical Antenna

Robinjeet Singh and Thomas P. Purdy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120603 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A nanomechanical resonator detects and isolates acoustic waves from a remote thermal source.

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Dissipation-Time Uncertainty Relation

Gianmaria Falasco and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120604 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Many-Body Dephasing in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator

Harvey B. Kaplan, Lingzhen Guo, Wen Lin Tan, Arinjoy De, Florian Marquardt, Guido Pagano, and Christopher Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 120605 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

News from Horizons in Binary Black Hole Mergers

Vaishak Prasad, Anshu Gupta, Sukanta Bose, Badri Krishnan, and Erik Schnetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121101 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Future Attractors in $2 + 1$ Dimensional $Λ$ Gravity

David Fajman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121102 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Search for Axionic Dark Matter Using the Magnetar PSR J1745-2900

Jeremy Darling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121103 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Characteristics of the Diffuse Astrophysical Electron and Tau Neutrino Flux with Six Years of IceCube High Energy Cascade Data

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121104 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Spurious Point Source Signals in the Galactic Center Excess

Rebecca K. Leane and Tracy R. Slatyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121105 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

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Features of the Energy Spectrum of Cosmic Rays above $2.5 \times 10^{18} eV$ Using the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Aab et al. (The Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121106 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

New results from the Pierre Auger Observatory could narrow down the search for the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.

Seeding Primordial Black Holes in Multifield Inflation

Gonzalo A. Palma, Spyros Sypsas, and Cristobal Zenteno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121301 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Equivariant Flow-Based Sampling for Lattice Gauge Theory

Gurtej Kanwar, Michael S. Albergo, Denis Boyda, Kyle Cranmer, Daniel C. Hackett, Sébastien Racanière, Danilo Jimenez Rezende, and Phiala E. Shanahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121601 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

Chern-Simons Origin of Superstring Integrability

Kevin Costello and Bogdan Stefański, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 121602 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Robust Jet Classifiers through Distance Correlation

Gregor Kasieczka and David Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 122001 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Gradient Tomography of Jet Quenching in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Yayun He, Long-Gang Pang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 122301 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Nonequilibrium Attractor in High-Temperature QCD Plasmas

Dekrayat Almaalol, Aleksi Kurkela, and Michael Strickland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 122302 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Mapping of a New Deformation Region around ${}^{62}{Ti}$

S. Michimasa et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 122501 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Simultaneous Determination of Neutron-Induced Fission and Radiative Capture Cross Sections from Decay Probabilities Obtained with a Surrogate Reaction

R. Pérez Sánchez, B. Jurado, V. Méot, O. Roig, M. Dupuis, O. Bouland, D. Denis-Petit, P. Marini, L. Mathieu, I. Tsekhanovich, M. Aïche, L. Audouin, C. Cannes, S. Czajkowski, S. Delpech, A. Görgen, M. Guttormsen, A. Henriques, G. Kessedjian, K. Nishio, D. Ramos, S. Siem, and F. Zeiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 122502 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Evolution of a Molecular Shape Resonance along a Stretching Chemical Bond

Felix Brausse, Florian Bach, Faruk Krečinić, Marc J. J. Vrakking, and Arnaud Rouzée

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123001 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

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Evidence for Nonlinear Isotope Shift in ${Yb}^{+}$ Search for New Boson

Ian Counts, Joonseok Hur, Diana P. L. Aude Craik, Honggi Jeon, Calvin Leung, Julian C. Berengut, Amy Geddes, Akio Kawasaki, Wonho Jhe, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123002 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A signal predicted for a type of dark matter appears in the spectra of ytterbium isotopes.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Isotope-Shift-Based Bounds on Bosons beyond the Standard Model through Measurements of the ${{}^{2}D}_{3 / 2} - {{}^{2}D}_{5 / 2}$ Interval in ${Ca}^{+}$

Cyrille Solaro, Steffen Meyer, Karin Fisher, Julian C. Berengut, Elina Fuchs, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123003 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

A signal predicted for a type of dark matter appears in the spectra of ytterbium isotopes.

Chiral Molecules as Sensitive Probes for Direct Detection of $P$ -Odd Cosmic Fields

Konstantin Gaul, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Timur A. Isaev, and Robert Berger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123004 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Unveiling Chiral Phase Evolution in Rabi Oscillations from a Photonic Setting

Ping Zhang, Qianqian Kang, Yumiao Pei, Zhaoyuan Wang, Yi Hu, Zhigang Chen, and Jingjun Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123201 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

Dressed Ion-Pair States of an Ultralong-Range Rydberg Molecule

P. Giannakeas, Matthew T. Eiles, F. Robicheaux, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123401 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Fundamental Limit of Phase Coherence in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

Yifan Li, Krzysztof Pawłowski, Boris Décamps, Paolo Colciaghi, Matteo Fadel, Philipp Treutlein, and Tilman Zibold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123402 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Quantum State Interferography

Surya Narayan Sahoo, Sanchari Chakraborti, Arun K. Pati, and Urbasi Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123601 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Resolution of Gauge Ambiguities in Molecular Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Michael A. D. Taylor, Arkajit Mandal, Wanghuai Zhou, and Pengfei Huo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123602 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Multiparticle Interference of Pairwise Distinguishable Photons

Alex E. Jones, Adrian J. Menssen, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Tom A. W. Wolterink, Valery S. Shchesnovich, and Ian A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123603 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Collision-Induced Broadband Optical Nonreciprocity

Chao Liang, Bei Liu, An-Ning Xu, Xin Wen, Cuicui Lu, Keyu Xia, Meng Khoon Tey, Yong-Chun Liu, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123901 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Nonreciprocal Transport of Exciton Polaritons in a Non-Hermitian Chain

S. Mandal, R. Banerjee, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, and T. C. H. Liew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123902 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Modal Majorana Sphere and Hidden Symmetries of Structured-Gaussian Beams

R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas, S. A. Wadood, A. N. Vamivakas, and M. A. Alonso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123903 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Coherent Structures Modulate Atmospheric Surface Layer Flux-Gradient Relationships

S. T. Salesky and W. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 124501 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Effect of Excitation Dispersion on the Heat Capacity and Gapped States in Fluids

Nikita P. Kryuchkov, Lukiya A. Mistryukova, Andrei V. Sapelkin, Vadim V. Brazhkin, and Stanislav O. Yurchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 125501 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

Minimization of Atomic Displacements as a Guiding Principle of the Martensitic Phase Transformation

Félix Therrien and Vladan Stevanović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 125502 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

Dynamics and Properties of the Cohesive Zone in Rapid Fracture and Friction

Neri Berman, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 125503 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Nanoscale Critical Phenomena in a Complex Fluid Studied by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

D. Sheyfer, Qingteng Zhang, J. Lal, T. Loeffler, E. M. Dufresne, A. R. Sandy, S. Narayanan, S. K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan, R. Szczygiel, P. Maj, L. Soderholm, M. R. Antonio, and G. B. Stephenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 125504 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Hyperuniform Monocrystalline Structures by Spinodal Solid-State Dewetting

Marco Salvalaglio, Mohammed Bouabdellaoui, Monica Bollani, Abdennacer Benali, Luc Favre, Jean-Benoit Claude, Jerome Wenger, Pietro de Anna, Francesca Intonti, Axel Voigt, and Marco Abbarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126101 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

Origin of Friction in Superlubric Graphite Contacts

Cangyu Qu, Kunqi Wang, Jin Wang, Yujie Gongyang, Robert W. Carpick, Michael Urbakh, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126102 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Large Polarons as Key Quasiparticles in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ and ${SrTiO}_{3}$ -Based Heterostructures

Andrey Geondzhian, Alessia Sambri, Gabriella M. De Luca, Roberto Di Capua, Emiliano Di Gennaro, Davide Betto, Matteo Rossi, Ying Ying Peng, Roberto Fumagalli, Nicholas B. Brookes, Lucio Braicovich, Keith Gilmore, Giacomo Ghiringhelli, and Marco Salluzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126401 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correspondence between Winding Numbers and Skin Modes in Non-Hermitian Systems

Kai Zhang, Zhesen Yang, and Chen Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126402 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Boundary Criticality of $PT$ -Invariant Topology and Second-Order Nodal-Line Semimetals

Kai Wang, Jia-Xiao Dai, L. B. Shao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Y. X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126403 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

New theoretical predictions overthrow the assumption that a material’s bulk topological properties are linked to the same properties at its surface.

Cause of Extremely Long-Lasting Room-Temperature Persistent Photoconductivity in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ and Related Materials

Zhiqiang Zhang and Anderson Janotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126404 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

Demonstration of Dissipative Quasihelical Edge Transport in Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators

Shu-Wei Wang, Di Xiao, Ziwei Dou, Moda Cao, Yi-Fan Zhao, Nitin Samarth, Cui-Zu Chang, Malcolm R. Connolly, and Charles G. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126801 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Linewidth Narrowing with Ultimate Confinement of an Alkali Multipole Plasmon by Modifying Surface Electronic Wave Functions with Two-Dimensional Materials

Shunsuke Tanaka, Tatsuya Yoshida, Kazuya Watanabe, Yoshiyasu Matsumoto, Tomokazu Yasuike, Marin Petrović, and Marko Kralj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 126802 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

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

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanical Control of Cell Proliferation Increases Resistance to Chemotherapeutic Agents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 128103 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

Pressure that develops as a tumor grows can limit the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments.