Volume 125, Issue 16

16 October 2020

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Emission of a sound pulse following a vortex reconnection in a quantum fluid. The white line marks the reconnected vortex, the blue and red areas show density fluctuations.

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Irreversible Dynamics of Vortex Reconnections in Quantum Fluids
Alberto Villois, Davide Proment, and Giorgio Krstulovic
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 164501 (2020)

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XENON1T Excess from Anomaly-Free Axionlike Dark Matter and Its Implications for Stellar Cooling Anomaly

Fuminobu Takahashi, Masaki Yamada, and Wen Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161801 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

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Neutrino Self-Interactions and XENON1T Electron Recoil Excess

Andreas Bally, Sudip Jana, and Andreas Trautner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161802 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

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Explaining the XENON1T Excess with Luminous Dark Matter

Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Sumit Ghosh, Jason Kumar, and Jayden L. Newstead

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161803 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

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Boosted Dark Matter Interpretation of the XENON1T Excess

Bartosz Fornal, Pearl Sandick, Jing Shu, Meng Su, and Yue Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161804 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

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Electric But Not Eclectic: Thermal Relic Dark Matter for the XENON1T Excess

Joseph Bramante and Ningqiang Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161805 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

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Double Core-Hole Generation in $O_{2}$ Molecules Using an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser: Molecular-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions

Gregor Kastirke et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163201 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

The angular distribution of the photoelectrons emitted in double core-hole ionization of molecular oxygen is revealed by the coincidence measurement of molecular fragments.

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Demonstration of Muon-Beam Transverse Phase-Space Compression

A. Antognini, N. J. Ayres, I. Belosevic, V. Bondar, A. Eggenberger, M. Hildebrandt, R. Iwai, D. M. Kaplan, K. S. Khaw, K. Kirch, A. Knecht, A. Papa, C. Petitjean, T. J. Phillips, F. M. Piegsa, N. Ritjoho, A. Stoykov, D. Taqqu, and G. Wichmann (muCool Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 164802 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

An important step towards a high brightness, low energy, muon beam is achieved by compressing a positive muon beam from a vertical spread of 10 mm to 0.7 mm within a few microseconds.

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Topological Phase Transitions in Disordered Electric Quadrupole Insulators

Chang-An Li, Bo Fu, Zi-Ang Hu, Jian Li, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166801 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

The quantization of electric quadrupole moments is protected by chiral symmetry even in the presence of strong disorder.

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Analog of a Quantum Heat Engine Using a Single-Spin Qubit

K. Ono, S. N. Shevchenko, T. Mori, S. Moriyama, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166802 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

An experimental realization and a theoretical description of heat-engine-like cycles for highly controllable spin-1/2 states is achieved using impurity electron spin in a silicon tunnel field-effect transistor.

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Cluster Frustration in the Breathing Pyrochlore Magnet ${LiGaCr}_{4} S_{8}$

Ganesh Pokharel, Hasitha Suriya Arachchige, Travis J. Williams, Andrew F. May, Randy S. Fishman, Gabriele Sala, Stuart Calder, Georg Ehlers, David S. Parker, Tao Hong, Andrew Wildes, David Mandrus, Joseph A. M. Paddison, and Andrew D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 167201 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

A frustrated magnetic phase of ferromagnetic clusters in the breathing pyrochlore material LiGaCr $_{4}$ S $_{8}$ is revealed by inelastic neutron scattering.

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

Setting Up Experimental Bell Tests with Reinforcement Learning

Alexey A. Melnikov, Pavel Sekatski, and Nicolas Sangouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160401 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Universal Gate Set for Continuous-Variable Quantum Computation with Microwave Circuits

Timo Hillmann, Fernando Quijandría, Göran Johansson, Alessandro Ferraro, Simone Gasparinetti, and Giulia Ferrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160501 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

Integrated Quantum-Walk Structure and NAND Tree on a Photonic Chip

Yao Wang, Zi-Wei Cui, Yong-Heng Lu, Xiao-Ming Zhang, Jun Gao, Yi-Jun Chang, Man-Hong Yung, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160502 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Digital Simulation of Topological Matter on Programmable Quantum Processors

Feng Mei, Qihao Guo, Ya-Fei Yu, Liantuan Xiao, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Suotang Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160503 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

Neural Networks for Detecting Multimode Wigner Negativity

Valeria Cimini, Marco Barbieri, Nicolas Treps, Mattia Walschaers, and Valentina Parigi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160504 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Exploring 2D Synthetic Quantum Hall Physics with a Quasiperiodically Driven Qubit

Eric Boyers, Philip J. D. Crowley, Anushya Chandran, and Alexander O. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160505 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Building Continuous Time Crystals from Rare Events

R. Hurtado-Gutiérrez, F. Carollo, C. Pérez-Espigares, and P. I. Hurtado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160601 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Quantum Fluctuations Hinder Finite-Time Information Erasure near the Landauer Limit

Harry J. D. Miller, Giacomo Guarnieri, Mark T. Mitchison, and John Goold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 160602 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Anomaly Cancellation with an Extra Gauge Boson

B. C. Allanach, Ben Gripaios, and Joseph Tooby-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161601 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

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XENON1T Excess from Anomaly-Free Axionlike Dark Matter and Its Implications for Stellar Cooling Anomaly

Fuminobu Takahashi, Masaki Yamada, and Wen Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161801 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neutrino Self-Interactions and XENON1T Electron Recoil Excess

Andreas Bally, Sudip Jana, and Andreas Trautner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161802 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explaining the XENON1T Excess with Luminous Dark Matter

Nicole F. Bell, James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Sumit Ghosh, Jason Kumar, and Jayden L. Newstead

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161803 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Boosted Dark Matter Interpretation of the XENON1T Excess

Bartosz Fornal, Pearl Sandick, Jing Shu, Meng Su, and Yue Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161804 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric But Not Eclectic: Thermal Relic Dark Matter for the XENON1T Excess

Joseph Bramante and Ningqiang Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161805 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

A tantalizing signal reported by the XENON1T dark matter experiment has sparked theorists to investigate explanations involving new physics.

Search for Axionlike Particles Produced in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions at Belle II

F. Abudinén et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 161806 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Measurement of the Low-Energy Antideuteron Inelastic Cross Section

S. Acharya et al. (A Large Ion Collider Experiment Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 162001 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Coherent Excitation of the Highly Forbidden Electric Octupole Transition in ${}^{172}{Yb}^{+}$

H. A. Fürst, C.-H. Yeh, D. Kalincev, A. P. Kulosa, L. S. Dreissen, R. Lange, E. Benkler, N. Huntemann, E. Peik, and T. E. Mehlstäubler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163001 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

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Double Core-Hole Generation in $O_{2}$ Molecules Using an X-Ray Free-Electron Laser: Molecular-Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions

Gregor Kastirke et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163201 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

The angular distribution of the photoelectrons emitted in double core-hole ionization of molecular oxygen is revealed by the coincidence measurement of molecular fragments.

Phase Matching in Lower Dimensions

H. Tamura, H. Nguyen, P. R. Berman, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163601 (2020) - Published 13 October, 2020

Tunable and Robust Long-Range Coherent Interactions between Quantum Emitters Mediated by Weyl Bound States

Iñaki García-Elcano, Alejandro González-Tudela, and Jorge Bravo-Abad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163602 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Phase-Preserving Linear Amplifiers Not Simulable by the Parametric Amplifier

A. Chia, M. Hajdušek, R. Nair, R. Fazio, L. C. Kwek, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163603 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subharmonic Entrainment Breather Solitons in Ultrafast Lasers

Tianhao Xian, Li Zhan, Wenchao Wang, and Wenyan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 163901 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

Irreversible Dynamics of Vortex Reconnections in Quantum Fluids

Alberto Villois, Davide Proment, and Giorgio Krstulovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 164501 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Three Dimensional Alternating-Phase Focusing for Dielectric-Laser Electron Accelerators

Uwe Niedermayer, Thilo Egenolf, and Oliver Boine-Frankenheim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 164801 (2020) - Published 13 October, 2020

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Demonstration of Muon-Beam Transverse Phase-Space Compression

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 164802 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

An important step towards a high brightness, low energy, muon beam is achieved by compressing a positive muon beam from a vertical spread of 10 mm to 0.7 mm within a few microseconds.

Thermodynamic Analogy for Electrons Interacting with a Magnetic Nozzle

Kazunori Takahashi, Christine Charles, Rod W. Boswell, and Akira Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165001 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Hanbury Brown and Twiss Bunching of Phonons and of the Quantum Depletion in an Interacting Bose Gas

Hugo Cayla, Salvatore Butera, Cécile Carcy, Antoine Tenart, Gaétan Hercé, Marco Mancini, Alain Aspect, Iacopo Carusotto, and David Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165301 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

Direct Visualization of Trimerized States in $1 T^{'} − {TaTe}_{2}$

Ismail El Baggari, Nikhil Sivadas, Gregory M. Stiehl, Jacob Waelder, Daniel C. Ralph, Craig J. Fennie, and Lena F. Kourkoutis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165302 (2020) - Published 13 October, 2020

Equation of State of ${CO}_{2}$ Shock Compressed to 1 TPa

L. E. Crandall, J. R. Rygg, D. K. Spaulding, T. R. Boehly, S. Brygoo, P. M. Celliers, J. H. Eggert, D. E. Fratanduono, B. J. Henderson, M. F. Huff, R. Jeanloz, A. Lazicki, M. C. Marshall, D. N. Polsin, M. Zaghoo, M. Millot, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165701 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Fluctuations and Correlations of Transmission Eigenchannels in Diffusive Media

Nicholas Bender, Alexey Yamilov, Hasan Yılmaz, and Hui Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165901 (2020) - Published 14 October, 2020

Incompleteness of Atomic Structure Representations

Sergey N. Pozdnyakov, Michael J. Willatt, Albert P. Bartók, Christoph Ortner, Gábor Csányi, and Michele Ceriotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166001 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

${Sr}_{2} {MoO}_{4}$ and ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ : Disentangling the Roles of Hund’s and van Hove Physics

Jonathan Karp, Max Bramberger, Martin Grundner, Ulrich Schollwöck, Andrew J. Millis, and Manuel Zingl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166401 (2020) - Published 12 October, 2020

Osmates on the Verge of a Hund’s-Mott Transition: The Different Fates of ${NaOsO}_{3}$ and ${LiOsO}_{3}$

Daniel Springer, Bongjae Kim, Peitao Liu, Sergii Khmelevskyi, Severino Adler, Massimo Capone, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Cesare Franchini, and Alessandro Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166402 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

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Topological Phase Transitions in Disordered Electric Quadrupole Insulators

Chang-An Li, Bo Fu, Zi-Ang Hu, Jian Li, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166801 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

The quantization of electric quadrupole moments is protected by chiral symmetry even in the presence of strong disorder.

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Analog of a Quantum Heat Engine Using a Single-Spin Qubit

K. Ono, S. N. Shevchenko, T. Mori, S. Moriyama, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166802 (2020) - Published 15 October, 2020

Dirac-Harper Theory for One-Dimensional Moiré Superlattices

Abigail Timmel and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 166803 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Strong Coupling Limit of the Holstein-Hubbard Model

Zhaoyu Han, Steven A. Kivelson, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 167001 (2020) - Published 13 October, 2020

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Cluster Frustration in the Breathing Pyrochlore Magnet ${LiGaCr}_{4} S_{8}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 167201 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

A frustrated magnetic phase of ferromagnetic clusters in the breathing pyrochlore material LiGaCr $_{4}$ S $_{8}$ is revealed by inelastic neutron scattering.

Observation of Photoinduced Terahertz Gain in GaAs Quantum Wells: Evidence for Radiative Two-Exciton-to-Biexciton Scattering

Xinwei Li, Katsumasa Yoshioka, Qi Zhang, Nicolas Marquez Peraca, Fumiya Katsutani, Weilu Gao, G. Timothy Noe, II, John D. Watson, Michael J. Manfra, Ikufumi Katayama, Jun Takeda, and Junichiro Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 167401 (2020) - Published 16 October, 2020

Volume 125, Issue 16

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Elementary Particles and Fields

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