Volume 125, Issue 17

23 October 2020

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Triangular (top left), square (top right), pentagon (bottom left), and star (bottom right) resonant modes excited by a 632 nm laser in a high quality factor whispering gallery microcavity.

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Polygon Coherent Modes in a Weakly Perturbed Whispering Gallery Microresonator for Efficient Second Harmonic, Optomechanical, and Frequency Comb Generations
Zhiwei Fang, Sanaul Haque, Saeed Farajollahi, Haipeng Luo, Jintian Lin, Rongbo Wu, Jianhao Zhang, Zhe Wang, Min Wang, Ya Cheng, and Tao Lu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173901 (2020)

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SENSEI: Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a New Skipper CCD

Liron Barak, Itay M. Bloch, Mariano Cababie, Gustavo Cancelo, Luke Chaplinsky, Fernando Chierchie, Michael Crisler, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Rouven Essig, Juan Estrada, Erez Etzion, Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Daniel Gift, Sravan Munagavalasa, Aviv Orly, Dario Rodrigues, Aman Singal, Miguel Sofo Haro, Leandro Stefanazzi, Javier Tiffenberg, Sho Uemura, Tomer Volansky, and Tien-Tien Yu (SENSEI Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171802 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

A new sensor provides world-leading sensitivity for distinguishing lightweight dark matter from background noise.

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Overdoping Graphene beyond the van Hove Singularity

Philipp Rosenzweig, Hrag Karakachian, Dmitry Marchenko, Kathrin Küster, and Ulrich Starke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176403 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

New experiments with doped graphene take the two-dimensional material beyond its “Van Hove singularity” to regions that may host exotic states of matter.

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Imaging Charge Localization in a Conjugated Oligophenylene

Laerte L. Patera, Fabian Queck, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176803 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

A new technique determines both the charge distribution and the structural distortions that result from the addition of a single charge to a molecule.

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Understanding Frothing of Liquid Mixtures: A Surfactantlike Effect at the Origin of Enhanced Liquid Film Lifetimes

H.-P. Tran, M. Arangalage, L. Jørgensen, N. Passade-Boupat, F. Lequeux, and L. Talini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178002 (2020) - Published 21 October, 2020

Frothing can arise in mixtures of two fully miscible liquids with nonlinear composition-dependent surface tensions.

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Shear-Induced Gelation of Self-Yielding Active Networks

David A. Gagnon, Claudia Dessi, John P. Berezney, Remi Boros, Daniel T.-N. Chen, Zvonimir Dogic, and Daniel L. Blair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178003 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Experiments show how to tune the viscosity of “active” filaments found in cells, something that could help in the design of biomimetic materials.

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Green Bank and Effelsberg Radio Telescope Searches for Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Joshua W. Foster, Yonatan Kahn, Oscar Macias, Zhiquan Sun, Ralph P. Eatough, Vladislav I. Kondratiev, Wendy M. Peters, Christoph Weniger, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171301 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

Radio observations of neutron stars demonstrate a way to search for axions through their expected conversion to electromagnetic waves in a star’s magnetic field.

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Why Two-Dimensional Semiconductors Generally Have Low Electron Mobility

Long Cheng, Chenmu Zhang, and Yuanyue Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177701 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

The density of scattering determines why electron mobility at room temperature in two-dimensional semiconductors is typically lower than that in silicon.

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Optimal Control of Active Nematics

Michael M. Norton, Piyush Grover, Michael F. Hagan, and Seth Fraden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178005 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Optimal control theory finds spatiotemporal inputs that produce desired behaviors in active nematics.

LETTERS

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

Collisions of Three-Component Vector Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Stefan Lannig, Christian-Marcel Schmied, Maximilian Prüfer, Philipp Kunkel, Robin Strohmaier, Helmut Strobel, Thomas Gasenzer, Panayotis G. Kevrekidis, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170401 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Origin of Antibunching in Resonance Fluorescence

Lukas Hanschke, Lucas Schweickert, Juan Camilo López Carreño, Eva Schöll, Katharina D. Zeuner, Thomas Lettner, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Marcus Reindl, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, Rinaldo Trotta, Jonathan J. Finley, Armando Rastelli, Elena del Valle, Fabrice P. Laussy, Val Zwiller, Kai Müller, and Klaus D. Jöns

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170402 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Topological Quantum Compiling with Reinforcement Learning

Yuan-Hang Zhang, Pei-Lin Zheng, Yi Zhang, and Dong-Ling Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170501 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

High-Fidelity Software-Defined Quantum Logic on a Superconducting Qudit

Xian Wu, S. L. Tomarken, N. Anders Petersson, L. A. Martinez, Yaniv J. Rosen, and Jonathan L. DuBois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170502 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

Ergodic-Localized Junctions in a Periodically Driven Spin Chain

Chen Zha, V. M. Bastidas, Ming Gong, Yulin Wu, Hao Rong, Rui Yang, Yangsen Ye, Shaowei Li, Qingling Zhu, Shiyu Wang, Youwei Zhao, Futian Liang, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, J. Schmiedmayer, Kae Nemoto, Hui Deng, W. J. Munro, Xiaobo Zhu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170503 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Effective Gaps Are Not Effective: Quasipolynomial Classical Simulation of Obstructed Stoquastic Hamiltonians

Jacob Bringewatt and Michael Jarret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170504 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Correlation Lengths in the Language of Computable Information

Stefano Martiniani, Yuval Lemberg, Paul M. Chaikin, and Dov Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170601 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Stochastic Interpolation of Sparsely Sampled Time Series via Multipoint Fractional Brownian Bridges

J. Friedrich, S. Gallon, A. Pumir, and R. Grauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170602 (2020) - Published 21 October, 2020

Unsupervised Phase Discovery with Deep Anomaly Detection

Korbinian Kottmann, Patrick Huembeli, Maciej Lewenstein, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170603 (2020) - Published 21 October, 2020

Continuous Matrix Product Operator Approach to Finite Temperature Quantum States

Wei Tang, Hong-Hao Tu, and Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 170604 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Results from the First All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Small-Ellipticity Sources

Vladimir Dergachev and Maria Alessandra Papa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171101 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

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Green Bank and Effelsberg Radio Telescope Searches for Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Joshua W. Foster, Yonatan Kahn, Oscar Macias, Zhiquan Sun, Ralph P. Eatough, Vladislav I. Kondratiev, Wendy M. Peters, Christoph Weniger, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171301 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

Radio observations of neutron stars demonstrate a way to search for axions through their expected conversion to electromagnetic waves in a star’s magnetic field.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Searching for New Physics in Two-Neutrino Double Beta Decay

Frank F. Deppisch, Lukas Graf, and Fedor Šimkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171801 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

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SENSEI: Direct-Detection Results on sub-GeV Dark Matter from a New Skipper CCD

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171802 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

A new sensor provides world-leading sensitivity for distinguishing lightweight dark matter from background noise.

Standard-Model Prediction of $ε_{K}$ with Manifest Quark-Mixing Unitarity

Joachim Brod, Martin Gorbahn, and Emmanuel Stamou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 171803 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Drell-Yan Cross Section to Third Order in the Strong Coupling Constant

Claude Duhr, Falko Dulat, and Bernhard Mistlberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 172001 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Absence of Low-Energy Shape Coexistence in ${}^{80}{Ge}$ : The Nonobservation of a Proposed Excited $0_{2}^{+}$ Level at 639 keV

F. H. Garcia et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 172501 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Differentiable Optimization for the Prediction of Ground State Structures (DOGSS)

Junwoong Yoon and Zachary W. Ulissi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173001 (2020) - Published 21 October, 2020

Quadruply Ionized Barium as a Candidate for a High-Accuracy Optical Clock

K. Beloy, V. A. Dzuba, and S. M. Brewer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173002 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Clocking Enhanced Ionization of Hydrogen Molecules with Rotational Wave Packets

Yonghao Mi, Peng Peng, Nicolas Camus, Xufei Sun, Patrick Fross, Denhi Martinez, Zack Dube, P. B. Corkum, D. M. Villeneuve, André Staudte, Robert Moshammer, and Thomas Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173201 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Enhanced Resonant Positron Annihilation due to Nonfundamental Modes in Molecules

S. Ghosh, J. R. Danielson, and C. M. Surko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173401 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Controlling Exciton-Phonon Interactions via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

V. Walther, P. Grünwald, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173601 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Polygon Coherent Modes in a Weakly Perturbed Whispering Gallery Microresonator for Efficient Second Harmonic, Optomechanical, and Frequency Comb Generations

Zhiwei Fang, Sanaul Haque, Saeed Farajollahi, Haipeng Luo, Jintian Lin, Rongbo Wu, Jianhao Zhang, Zhe Wang, Min Wang, Ya Cheng, and Tao Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 173901 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

Generic Rotating-Frame-Based Approach to Chaos Generation in Nonlinear Micro- and Nanoelectromechanical System Resonators

Samer Houri, Motoki Asano, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Natsue Yoshimura, Yasuharu Koike, and Ludovico Minati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 174301 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Nonequilibrium Scaling of the Turbulent-Nonturbulent Interface Speed in Planar Jets

Gioacchino Cafiero and J. Christos Vassilicos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 174501 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

Swelling of Diffusive Fluid Threads in Microchannels

Thomas Cubaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 174502 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Characterizing Dissipation in Fluid-Fluid Displacement Using Constant-Rate Spontaneous Imbibition

B. K. Primkulov, J. Y. Y. Chui, A. A. Pahlavan, C. W. MacMinn, and R. Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 174503 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

How Fast Cracks in Brittle Solids Choose Their Path

Lital Rozen-Levy, John M. Kolinski, Gil Cohen, and Jay Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 175501 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

Anharmonicity and Phase Diagram of Magnesium Oxide in the Megabar Regime

François Soubiran and Burkhard Militzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 175701 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Orbital Angular Momentum Induced Spin Polarization of 2D Metallic Bands

Takahiro Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Nakata, Koichiro Yaji, Tatsuya Shishidou, Daniel Agterberg, Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Fumio Komori, Shik Shin, Michael Weinert, Takashi Uchihashi, and Kazuyuki Sakamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176401 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect from Frustration-Free Hamiltonians

Bo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176402 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

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Overdoping Graphene beyond the van Hove Singularity

Philipp Rosenzweig, Hrag Karakachian, Dmitry Marchenko, Kathrin Küster, and Ulrich Starke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176403 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

New experiments with doped graphene take the two-dimensional material beyond its “Van Hove singularity” to regions that may host exotic states of matter.

Obstruction and Interference in Low-Energy Models for Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Võ Tiến Phong and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176404 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Charge Instability in Single-Layer ${TiTe}_{2}$ Mediated by van der Waals Bonding to Substrates

Meng-Kai Lin, Joseph A. Hlevyack, Peng Chen, Ro-Ya Liu, Sung-Kwan Mo, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176405 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Enhanced Mobility and Large Linear Nonsaturating Magnetoresistance in the Magnetically Ordered States of ${TmNiC}_{2}$

Kamil K. Kolincio, Marta Roman, and Tomasz Klimczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176601 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Combined Minivalley and Layer Control in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

Folkert K. de Vries, Jihang Zhu, Elías Portolés, Giulia Zheng, Michele Masseroni, Annika Kurzmann, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Allan H. MacDonald, Klaus Ensslin, Thomas Ihn, and Peter Rickhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176801 (2020) - Published 20 October, 2020

Anomalous Thermodiffusion of Electrons in Graphene

Deng Pan, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176802 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

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Imaging Charge Localization in a Conjugated Oligophenylene

Laerte L. Patera, Fabian Queck, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 176803 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

A new technique determines both the charge distribution and the structural distortions that result from the addition of a single charge to a molecule.

Synergy between Hund-Driven Correlations and Boson-Mediated Superconductivity

Laura Fanfarillo, Angelo Valli, and Massimo Capone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177001 (2020) - Published 21 October, 2020

Anisotropic Fully Gapped Superconductivity Possibly Mediated by Charge Fluctuations in a Nondimeric Organic Complex

S. Imajo, H. Akutsu, R. Kurihara, T. Yajima, Y. Kohama, M. Tokunaga, K. Kindo, and Y. Nakazawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177002 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Harnessing Orbital-to-Spin Conversion of Interfacial Orbital Currents for Efficient Spin-Orbit Torques

Shilei Ding, Andrew Ross, Dongwook Go, Lorenzo Baldrati, Zengyao Ren, Frank Freimuth, Sven Becker, Fabian Kammerbauer, Jinbo Yang, Gerhard Jakob, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Mathias Kläui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177201 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Two Spin-State Crystallizations in ${LaCoO}_{3}$

Akihiko Ikeda, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, and Keisuke Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177202 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Tuning Topological Orders by a Conical Magnetic Field in the Kitaev Model

Ming-Hong Jiang, Shuang Liang, Wei Chen, Yang Qi, Jian-Xin Li, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177203 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Tailoring Magnetic Fields in Inaccessible Regions

Rosa Mach-Batlle, Mark G. Bason, Nuria Del-Valle, and Jordi Prat-Camps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177204 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

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Why Two-Dimensional Semiconductors Generally Have Low Electron Mobility

Long Cheng, Chenmu Zhang, and Yuanyue Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 177701 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

The density of scattering determines why electron mobility at room temperature in two-dimensional semiconductors is typically lower than that in silicon.

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

Self-Oscillating Membranes: Chemomechanical Sheets Show Autonomous Periodic Shape Transformation

Ido Levin, Robert Deegan, and Eran Sharon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178001 (2020) - Published 19 October, 2020

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Understanding Frothing of Liquid Mixtures: A Surfactantlike Effect at the Origin of Enhanced Liquid Film Lifetimes

H.-P. Tran, M. Arangalage, L. Jørgensen, N. Passade-Boupat, F. Lequeux, and L. Talini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178002 (2020) - Published 21 October, 2020

Frothing can arise in mixtures of two fully miscible liquids with nonlinear composition-dependent surface tensions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shear-Induced Gelation of Self-Yielding Active Networks

David A. Gagnon, Claudia Dessi, John P. Berezney, Remi Boros, Daniel T.-N. Chen, Zvonimir Dogic, and Daniel L. Blair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178003 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020

Experiments show how to tune the viscosity of “active” filaments found in cells, something that could help in the design of biomimetic materials.

Motility-Induced Microphase and Macrophase Separation in a Two-Dimensional Active Brownian Particle System

Claudio B. Caporusso, Pasquale Digregorio, Demian Levis, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, and Giuseppe Gonnella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178004 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

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Optimal Control of Active Nematics

Michael M. Norton, Piyush Grover, Michael F. Hagan, and Seth Fraden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178005 (2020) - Published 23 October, 2020

Optimal control theory finds spatiotemporal inputs that produce desired behaviors in active nematics.

Learning Credit Assignment

Chan Li and Haiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 178301 (2020) - Published 22 October, 2020