Volume 125, Issue 13

25 September 2020

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First four Brillouin zones of an optical kagome lattice, constructed by overlaying triangular lattices using short- and long-wavelength light.

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Interaction-Enhanced Group Velocity of Bosons in the Flat Band of an Optical Kagome Lattice
Tsz-Him Leung, Malte N. Schwarz, Shao-Wen Chang, Charles D. Brown, Govind Unnikrishnan, and Dan Stamper-Kurn
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133001 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Backaction on kg-Scale Mirrors: Observation of Radiation Pressure Noise in the Advanced Virgo Detector

F. Acernese et al. (The Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131101 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The Virgo experiment measures a previously unobserved quantum effect acting at the macroscopic scale.

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Topological Anderson Insulator in Disordered Photonic Crystals

Gui-Geng Liu, Yihao Yang, Xin Ren, Haoran Xue, Xiao Lin, Yuan-Hang Hu, Hong-xiang Sun, Bo Peng, Peiheng Zhou, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133603 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

By varying the amount of disorder in a photonic crystal, researchers can control several topological features of the crystal.

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Weakly Magnetized, Hall Dominated Plasma Couette Flow

K. Flanagan, J. Milhone, J. Egedal, D. Endrizzi, J. Olson, E. E. Peterson, R. Sassella, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 135001 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Electromagnetic fields rotate a plasma and produce conditions that resemble the region around a newly forming star.

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Depth-Resolved Magnetization Dynamics Revealed by X-Ray Reflectometry Ferromagnetic Resonance

D. M. Burn, S. L. Zhang, G. Q. Yu, Y. Guang, H. J. Chen, X. P. Qiu, G. van der Laan, and T. Hesjedal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 137201 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Researchers combine ferromagnetic resonance with x-ray reflectivity to map out the complex spin behavior of a magnetic multilayer.

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First Precision Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Cold Neutron Capture on ${}^{3}{He}$

M. T. Gericke et al. ( $n {}^{3}{He}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131803 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

A new measurement from the $n^{3}$ He Collaboration advances understanding of parity violation in few-nucleon systems.

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Crowding-Enhanced Diffusion: An Exact Theory for Highly Entangled Self-Propelled Stiff Filaments

Suvendu Mandal, Christina Kurzthaler, Thomas Franosch, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 138002 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

A dense network inhibits the rotation of self-propelled protein filaments but unexpectedly promotes their overall diffusivity.

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Computing the Heat Conductivity of Fluids from Density Fluctuations

Bingqing Cheng and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 130602 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

Analyzing particle density fluctuations in space and time provides an alternative method for computing thermal conductivity of liquids.

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Solar Axions Cannot Explain the XENON1T Excess

Luca Di Luzio, Marco Fedele, Maurizio Giannotti, Federico Mescia, and Enrico Nardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131804 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Solar-axion explanations for the excess of electron recoil events reported by the XENON1T experiment are in severe tension with astrophysical data.

LETTERS

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

Quantifying Dynamical Coherence with Dynamical Entanglement

Thomas Theurer, Saipriya Satyajit, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 130401 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Renormalization Group Flow of the Jaynes-Cummings Model

Anton Ilderton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 130402 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Minimal Model for Fast Scrambling

Ron Belyansky, Przemyslaw Bienias, Yaroslav A. Kharkov, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 130601 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

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Computing the Heat Conductivity of Fluids from Density Fluctuations

Bingqing Cheng and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 130602 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

Analyzing particle density fluctuations in space and time provides an alternative method for computing thermal conductivity of liquids.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Quantum Backaction on kg-Scale Mirrors: Observation of Radiation Pressure Noise in the Advanced Virgo Detector

F. Acernese et al. (The Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131101 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The Virgo experiment measures a previously unobserved quantum effect acting at the macroscopic scale.

New Freezeout Mechanism for Strongly Interacting Dark Matter

Juri Smirnov and John F. Beacom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131301 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Unreasonable Effectiveness of Higher Derivative Supergravity in ${AdS}_{4}$ Holography

Nikolay Bobev, Anthony M. Charles, Kiril Hristov, and Valentin Reys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131601 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Quantum Temporal Superposition: The Case of Quantum Field Theory

Laura J. Henderson, Alessio Belenchia, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Costantino Budroni, Magdalena Zych, Časlav Brukner, and Robert B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131602 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Symmetry Breaking at All Temperatures

Noam Chai, Soumyadeep Chaudhuri, Changha Choi, Zohar Komargodski, Eliezer Rabinovici, and Michael Smolkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131603 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

All Tree-Level Correlators for M Theory on ${AdS}_{7} \times S^{4}$

Luis F. Alday and Xinan Zhou (周稀楠)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131604 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Dijet Resonance Search with Weak Supervision Using $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ $p p$ Collisions in the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131801 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Precision Constraints for Three-Flavor Neutrino Oscillations from the Full $MINOS +$ and MINOS Dataset

P. Adamson et al. ( $MINOS +$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131802 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

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First Precision Measurement of the Parity Violating Asymmetry in Cold Neutron Capture on ${}^{3}{He}$

M. T. Gericke et al. ( $n {}^{3}{He}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131803 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

A new measurement from the $n^{3}$ He Collaboration advances understanding of parity violation in few-nucleon systems.

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Solar Axions Cannot Explain the XENON1T Excess

Luca Di Luzio, Marco Fedele, Maurizio Giannotti, Federico Mescia, and Enrico Nardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131804 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Solar-axion explanations for the excess of electron recoil events reported by the XENON1T experiment are in severe tension with astrophysical data.

Inverse Primakoff Scattering as a Probe of Solar Axions at Liquid Xenon Direct Detection Experiments

James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Jayden L. Newstead, and Adrian Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131805 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Reexamining the Solar Axion Explanation for the XENON1T Excess

Christina Gao, Jia Liu, Lian-Tao Wang, Xiao-Ping Wang, Wei Xue, and Yi-Ming Zhong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 131806 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Factorization Theorem Connecting the Light-Cone Distribution Amplitudes of Heavy-Flavor Mesons in QCD and Heavy-Quark Effective Theory

Saadi Ishaq, Yu Jia, Xiaonu Xiong, and De-Shan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 132001 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Hydrodynamic Attractors in Phase Space

Michal P. Heller, Ro Jefferson, Michał Spaliński, and Viktor Svensson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 132301 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

First Observation of Multiple Transverse Wobbling Bands of Different Kinds in ${}^{183}{Au}$

S. Nandi, G. Mukherjee, Q. B. Chen, S. Frauendorf, R. Banik, Soumik Bhattacharya, Shabir Dar, S. Bhattacharyya, C. Bhattacharya, S. Chatterjee, S. Das, S. Samanta, R. Raut, S. S. Ghugre, S. Rajbanshi, Sajad Ali, H. Pai, Md. A. Asgar, S. Das Gupta, P. Chowdhury, and A. Goswami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 132501 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Interaction-Enhanced Group Velocity of Bosons in the Flat Band of an Optical Kagome Lattice

Tsz-Him Leung, Malte N. Schwarz, Shao-Wen Chang, Charles D. Brown, Govind Unnikrishnan, and Dan Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133001 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Self-Guiding of Long-Wave Infrared Laser Pulses Mediated by Avalanche Ionization

D. Woodbury, A. Goffin, R. M. Schwartz, J. Isaacs, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133201 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Quasiparticle Lifetime of the Repulsive Fermi Polaron

Haydn S. Adlong, Weizhe Edward Liu, Francesco Scazza, Matteo Zaccanti, Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Simon Fölling, Meera M. Parish, and Jesper Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133401 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Simultaneous Excitation of Two Noninteracting Atoms with Time-Frequency Correlated Photon Pairs in a Superconducting Circuit

Wenhui Ren, Wuxin Liu, Chao Song, Hekang Li, Qiujiang Guo, Zhen Wang, Dongning Zheng, Girish S. Agarwal, Marlan O. Scully, Shi-Yao Zhu, H. Wang, and Da-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133601 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Long-Range Multibody Interactions and Three-Body Antiblockade in a Trapped Rydberg Ion Chain

Filippo M. Gambetta, Chi Zhang, Markus Hennrich, Igor Lesanovsky, and Weibin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133602 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

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Topological Anderson Insulator in Disordered Photonic Crystals

Gui-Geng Liu, Yihao Yang, Xin Ren, Haoran Xue, Xiao Lin, Yuan-Hang Hu, Hong-xiang Sun, Bo Peng, Peiheng Zhou, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133603 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

By varying the amount of disorder in a photonic crystal, researchers can control several topological features of the crystal.

Interaction-Induced Transparency for Strong-Coupling Polaritons

Johannes Lang, Darrick Chang, and Francesco Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133604 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Photon Hall Pinwheel Radiation of Angular Momentum by a Diffusing Magneto-Optical Medium

B. A. van Tiggelen and G. L. J. A. Rikken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 133901 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

Chaos and Quantum Scars in Bose-Josephson Junction Coupled to a Bosonic Mode

Sudip Sinha and S. Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 134101 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

Testing Critical Slowing Down as a Bifurcation Indicator in a Low-Dissipation Dynamical System

M. Marconi, C. Métayer, A. Acquaviva, J. M. Boyer, A. Gomel, T. Quiniou, C. Masoller, M. Giudici, and J. R. Tredicce

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 134102 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Saturation of the Inverse Cascade in Surface Gravity-Wave Turbulence

E. Falcon, G. Michel, G. Prabhudesai, A. Cazaubiel, M. Berhanu, N. Mordant, S. Aumaître, and F. Bonnefoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 134501 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Weakly Magnetized, Hall Dominated Plasma Couette Flow

K. Flanagan, J. Milhone, J. Egedal, D. Endrizzi, J. Olson, E. E. Peterson, R. Sassella, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 135001 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

Electromagnetic fields rotate a plasma and produce conditions that resemble the region around a newly forming star.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Activation Entropy as a Key Factor Controlling the Memory Effect in Glasses

Lijian Song, Wei Xu, Juntao Huo, Fushan Li, Li-Min Wang, M. D. Ediger, and Jun-Qiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 135501 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Direct Measurement of Electron-Phonon Coupling with Time-Resolved ARPES

Umberto De Giovannini, Hannes Hübener, Shunsuke A. Sato, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 136401 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Bethe-Salpeter Equation at the Critical End Point of the Mott Transition

Erik G. C. P. van Loon, Friedrich Krien, and Andrey A. Katanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 136402 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

Electron-Phonon beyond Fröhlich: Dynamical Quadrupoles in Polar and Covalent Solids

Guillaume Brunin, Henrique Pereira Coutada Miranda, Matteo Giantomassi, Miquel Royo, Massimiliano Stengel, Matthieu J. Verstraete, Xavier Gonze, Gian-Marco Rignanese, and Geoffroy Hautier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 136601 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Piezoelectric Electron-Phonon Interaction from Ab Initio Dynamical Quadrupoles: Impact on Charge Transport in Wurtzite GaN

Vatsal A. Jhalani, Jin-Jian Zhou, Jinsoo Park, Cyrus E. Dreyer, and Marco Bernardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 136602 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Fractional Angular Momentum and Anyon Statistics of Impurities in Laughlin Liquids

Tobias Graß, Bruno Juliá-Díaz, Niccolò Baldelli, Utso Bhattacharya, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 136801 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Multiple In-Gap States Induced by Topological Surface States in the Superconducting Topological Crystalline Insulator Heterostructure ${Sn}_{1 - x} {Pb}_{x} Te − Pb$

Hao Yang, Yao-Yi Li, Teng-Teng Liu, Dan-Dan Guan, Shi-Yong Wang, Hao Zheng, Canhua Liu, Liang Fu, and Jin-Feng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 136802 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

Dynamical Order and Superconductivity in a Frustrated Many-Body System

J. Tindall, F. Schlawin, M. Buzzi, D. Nicoletti, J. R. Coulthard, H. Gao, A. Cavalleri, M. A. Sentef, and D. Jaksch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 137001 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

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Depth-Resolved Magnetization Dynamics Revealed by X-Ray Reflectometry Ferromagnetic Resonance

D. M. Burn, S. L. Zhang, G. Q. Yu, Y. Guang, H. J. Chen, X. P. Qiu, G. van der Laan, and T. Hesjedal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 137201 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

Researchers combine ferromagnetic resonance with x-ray reflectivity to map out the complex spin behavior of a magnetic multilayer.

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

Sheared Amorphous Packings Display Two Separate Particle Transport Mechanisms

Dong Wang, Joshua A. Dijksman, Jonathan Barés, Jie Ren, and Hu Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 138001 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

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Crowding-Enhanced Diffusion: An Exact Theory for Highly Entangled Self-Propelled Stiff Filaments

Suvendu Mandal, Christina Kurzthaler, Thomas Franosch, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 138002 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

A dense network inhibits the rotation of self-propelled protein filaments but unexpectedly promotes their overall diffusivity.

Nonuniversal Power Law Distribution of Intensities of the Self-Excited Hawkes Process: A Field-Theoretical Approach

Kiyoshi Kanazawa and Didier Sornette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 138301 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Structural Origin of Enhanced Dynamics at the Surface of a Glassy Alloy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 245501 (2017)]

Gang Sun, Shibu Saw, Ian Douglass, and Peter Harrowell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 139901 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020