Volume 125, Issue 19

6 November 2020

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In a two-dimensional driven Hubbard model, spin-1/2 fermions (arrows) can hop between the neighboring sites (circles), while nearest neighbor singlet pairs (ellipses) are bound by a superexchange energy and can hop from one bond to a neighboring bond.

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Anomalous Spin-Charge Separation in a Driven Hubbard System
Hongmin Gao, Jonathan R. Coulthard, Dieter Jaksch, and Jordi Mur-Petit
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195301 (2020)

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Orbital and Spin Dynamics of Single Neutrally-Charged Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

S. Baier, C. E. Bradley, T. Middelburg, V. V. Dobrovitski, T. H. Taminiau, and R. Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193601 (2020) - Published 4 November, 2020

New experiments characterize the excitation levels of electrically neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers, information needed for quantum information applications.

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Streamwise Dissolution Patterns Created by a Flowing Water Film

Adrien Guérin, Julien Derr, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, and Michael Berhanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 194502 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Rainwater runoff can erode the surface of a water-soluble rock, scarring it with hundreds of parallel channels.

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Frictionless Motion of Lattice Defects

N. Gorbushin, G. Mishuris, and L. Truskinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195502 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Placing an acoustic source on a sample could eliminate the energy dissipation caused by atomic defects moving through the solid.

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Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Vesicles

Hendrik T. Spanke, Robert W. Style, Claire François-Martin, Maria Feofilova, Manuel Eisentraut, Holger Kress, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, and Eric R. Dufresne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 198102 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Researchers find the conditions for when a cell membrane will wrap around a plastic bead, providing insight into how living things interact with viruses, microplastics, and other objects.

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Single-Cycle Optical Control of Beam Electrons

Yuya Morimoto and Peter Baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193202 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Researchers generate isolated, high-energy electron pulses that promise ultrafast electron imaging and more.

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Blue Phosphorene Bilayer Is a Two-Dimensional Metal and an Unambiguous Classification Scheme for Buckled Hexagonal Bilayers

Jessica Arcudia, Roman Kempt, Miguel Eduardo Cifuentes-Quintal, Thomas Heine, and Gabriel Merino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196401 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

A scheme to identify and label honeycomb bilayers indicates that a configuration of blue phosphorene might be a 2D metal rather than an indirect band gap semiconductor.

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Electric Auxetic Effect in Piezoelectrics

Jian Liu, Shi Liu, Jia-Yue Yang, and Linhua Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197601 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

First-principles calculations predict that some piezoelectrics contract or expand in all directions, and not just one, in response to an electric field applied along a crystal axis.

LETTERS

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

Emergence and Disruption of Spin-Charge Separation in One-Dimensional Repulsive Fermions

Feng He, Yu-Zhu Jiang, Hai-Qing Lin, Randall G. Hulet, Han Pu, and Xi-Wen Guan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 190401 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Quantum Cellular Automata, Tensor Networks, and Area Laws

Lorenzo Piroli and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 190402 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Geometric Pathway to Scalable Quantum Sensing

Mattias T. Johnsson, Nabomita Roy Mukty, Daniel Burgarth, Thomas Volz, and Gavin K. Brennen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 190403 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Monte Carlo Renormalization Group for Classical Lattice Models with Quenched Disorder

Yantao Wu and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 190601 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Atom-Interferometric Test of the Equivalence Principle at the $10^{- 12}$ Level

Peter Asenbaum, Chris Overstreet, Minjeong Kim, Joseph Curti, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 191101 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Exploring the Small Mass Ratio Binary Black Hole Merger via Zeno’s Dichotomy Approach

Carlos O. Lousto and James Healy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 191102 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Tidal Effects in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion

Clifford Cheung and Mikhail P. Solon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 191601 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Universal Location of the Yang-Lee Edge Singularity in $O (N)$ Theories

Andrew Connelly, Gregory Johnson, Fabian Rennecke, and Vladimir V. Skokov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 191602 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Search for Sub-eV Sterile Neutrinos at RENO

J. H. Choi et al. (RENO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 191801 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Lattice QCD Calculations of Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Soft Function through Large-Momentum Effective Theory

Qi-An Zhang, Jun Hua, Yikai Huo, Xiangdong Ji, Yizhuang Liu, Yu-Sheng Liu, Maximilian Schlemmer, Andreas Schäfer, Peng Sun, Wei Wang, and Yi-Bo Yang (Lattice Parton Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192001 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Self-Contained Definition of the Collins-Soper Kernel

Alexey A. Vladimirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192002 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Observable Signatures of Initial State Momentum Anisotropies in Nuclear Collisions

Giuliano Giacalone, Björn Schenke, and Chun Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192301 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Competition between Allowed and First-Forbidden $β$ Decay: The Case of ${}^{208}{Hg} \to {}^{208}{Tl}$

R. J. Carroll et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192501 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Ab Initio Nuclear Thermodynamics

Bing-Nan Lu, Ning Li, Serdar Elhatisari, Dean Lee, Joaquín E. Drut, Timo A. Lähde, Evgeny Epelbaum, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192502 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Large Isospin Asymmetry in ${}^{22}{Si} / {}^{22}O$ Mirror Gamow-Teller Transitions Reveals the Halo Structure of ${}^{22}{Al}$

J. Lee (李晓菁) et al. (RIBLL Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192503 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Predominance of Triaxial Shapes in Transitional Super-Heavy Nuclei: Ground-State Deformation and Shape Coexistence along the Flerovium ( $Z = 114$ ) Chain of Isotopes

J. Luis Egido and Andrea Jungclaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192504 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Properties of ${}^{187}{Ta}$ Revealed through Isomeric Decay

P. M. Walker, Y. Hirayama, G. J. Lane, H. Watanabe, G. D. Dracoulis, M. Ahmed, M. Brunet, T. Hashimoto, S. Ishizawa, F. G. Kondev, Yu. A. Litvinov, H. Miyatake, J. Y. Moon, M. Mukai, T. Niwase, J. H. Park, Zs. Podolyák, M. Rosenbusch, P. Schury, M. Wada, X. Y. Watanabe, W. Y. Liang, and F. R. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 192505 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Collective Dissipative Molecule Formation in a Cavity

David Wellnitz, Stefan Schütz, Shannon Whitlock, Johannes Schachenmayer, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193201 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

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Single-Cycle Optical Control of Beam Electrons

Yuya Morimoto and Peter Baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193202 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Researchers generate isolated, high-energy electron pulses that promise ultrafast electron imaging and more.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital and Spin Dynamics of Single Neutrally-Charged Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

S. Baier, C. E. Bradley, T. Middelburg, V. V. Dobrovitski, T. H. Taminiau, and R. Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193601 (2020) - Published 4 November, 2020

New experiments characterize the excitation levels of electrically neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers, information needed for quantum information applications.

Boosting Entanglement Generation in Down-Conversion with Incoherent Illumination

Lucas Hutter, G. Lima, and S. P. Walborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193602 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonconservation of Topological Charge and Cusps in a One-Dimensional Laser Scheme

N. A. Veretenov, S. V. Fedorov, and N. N. Rosanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193901 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Penrose Superradiance in Nonlinear Optics

Maria Chiara Braidotti, Daniele Faccio, and Ewan M. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 193902 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Discontinuous Transitions and Rhythmic States in the D-Dimensional Kuramoto Model Induced by a Positive Feedback with the Global Order Parameter

X. Dai, X. Li, H. Guo, D. Jia, M. Perc, P. Manshour, Z. Wang, and S. Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 194101 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Mechanics of a Snap Fit

Keisuke Yoshida and Hirofumi Wada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 194301 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Motion of Long Levitating Drops in Tubes in an Anti-Bretherton Configuration

Peter Favreau, Alexis Duchesne, Farzam Zoueshtiagh, and Michaël Baudoin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 194501 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

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Streamwise Dissolution Patterns Created by a Flowing Water Film

Adrien Guérin, Julien Derr, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, and Michael Berhanu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 194502 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Rainwater runoff can erode the surface of a water-soluble rock, scarring it with hundreds of parallel channels.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Probing the Electronic Structure of Warm Dense Nickel via Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

O. S. Humphries, R. S. Marjoribanks, Q. Y. van den Berg, E. C. Galtier, M. F. Kasim, H. J. Lee, A. J. F. Miscampbell, B. Nagler, R. Royle, J. S. Wark, and S. M. Vinko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195001 (2020) - Published 4 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anomalous Spin-Charge Separation in a Driven Hubbard System

Hongmin Gao, Jonathan R. Coulthard, Dieter Jaksch, and Jordi Mur-Petit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195301 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Consistent Theory of Self-Bound Quantum Droplets with Bosonic Pairing

Hui Hu and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195302 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Spin-Nematic Vortex States in Cold Atoms

Li Chen, Yunbo Zhang, and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195303 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Melting Curve and Isostructural Solid Transition in Superionic Ice

J.-A. Queyroux, J.-A. Hernandez, G. Weck, S. Ninet, T. Plisson, S. Klotz, G. Garbarino, N. Guignot, M. Mezouar, M. Hanfland, J.-P. Itié, and F. Datchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195501 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

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Frictionless Motion of Lattice Defects

N. Gorbushin, G. Mishuris, and L. Truskinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195502 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Placing an acoustic source on a sample could eliminate the energy dissipation caused by atomic defects moving through the solid.

Dynamic Observation of Dendritic Quasicrystal Growth upon Laser-Induced Solid-State Transformation

Insung Han, Joseph T. McKeown, Ling Tang, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Hadi Parsamehr, Zhucong Xi, Ying-Rui Lu, Matthew J. Kramer, and Ashwin J. Shahani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 195503 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Blue Phosphorene Bilayer Is a Two-Dimensional Metal and an Unambiguous Classification Scheme for Buckled Hexagonal Bilayers

Jessica Arcudia, Roman Kempt, Miguel Eduardo Cifuentes-Quintal, Thomas Heine, and Gabriel Merino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196401 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

A scheme to identify and label honeycomb bilayers indicates that a configuration of blue phosphorene might be a 2D metal rather than an indirect band gap semiconductor.

Swapping Exchange and Spin-Orbit Coupling in 2D van der Waals Heterostructures

Klaus Zollner, Martin Gmitra, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196402 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Attractive Effect of a Strong Electronic Repulsion: The Physics of Vertex Divergences

M. Reitner, P. Chalupa, L. Del Re, D. Springer, S. Ciuchi, G. Sangiovanni, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196403 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Perturbed Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model: A Polaron in the Hyperbolic Plane

A. V. Lunkin, A. Yu. Kitaev, and M. V. Feigel’man

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196602 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Secondary Electron Emission by Plasmon-Induced Symmetry Breaking in Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite

Wolfgang S. M. Werner, Vytautas Astašauskas, Philipp Ziegler, Alessandra Bellissimo, Giovanni Stefani, Lukas Linhart, and Florian Libisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196603 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Mosaic Lattice with Exact Mobility Edges

Yucheng Wang, Xu Xia, Long Zhang, Hepeng Yao, Shu Chen, Jiangong You, Qi Zhou, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196604 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Highly Tunable Spin-Orbit Torque and Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in a Topological Insulator Thin Film Attached to Ferromagnetic Layer

Ali G. Moghaddam, Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Anna Dyrdał, and Jamal Berakdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196801 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Fractional Mutual Statistics on Integer Quantum Hall Edges

June-Young M. Lee, Cheolhee Han, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 196802 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

Impact of the Lattice on Magnetic Properties and Possible Spin Nematicity in the $S = 1$ Triangular Antiferromagnet ${NiGa}_{2} S_{4}$

Michael E. Valentine, Tomoya Higo, Yusuke Nambu, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Jiajia Wen, Collin Broholm, Satoru Nakatsuji, and Natalia Drichko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197201 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

Simulating Exotic Phases of Matter with Bond-Directed Interactions with Arrays of Majorana-Cooper Pair Boxes

A. M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197202 (2020) - Published 3 November, 2020

Ultrafast Enhancement of Ferromagnetic Spin Exchange Induced by Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer

A. Ron, S. Chaudhary, G. Zhang, H. Ning, E. Zoghlin, S. D. Wilson, R. D. Averitt, G. Refael, and D. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197203 (2020) - Published 4 November, 2020

Electronic Raman Scattering in Twistronic Few-Layer Graphene

A. García-Ruiz, J. J. P. Thompson, M. Mucha-Kruczyński, and V. I. Fal’ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197401 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Nonlinear Quantum Optics with Trion Polaritons in 2D Monolayers: Conventional and Unconventional Photon Blockade

O. Kyriienko, D. N. Krizhanovskii, and I. A. Shelykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197402 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

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Electric Auxetic Effect in Piezoelectrics

Jian Liu, Shi Liu, Jia-Yue Yang, and Linhua Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 197601 (2020) - Published 2 November, 2020

First-principles calculations predict that some piezoelectrics contract or expand in all directions, and not just one, in response to an electric field applied along a crystal axis.

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

Hidden Intermediate State and Second Pathway Determining Folding and Unfolding Dynamics of GB1 Protein at Low Forces

Zilong Guo, Haiyan Hong, Guohua Yuan, Hui Qian, Bing Li, Yi Cao, Wei Wang, Chen-Xu Wu, and Hu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 198101 (2020) - Published 6 November, 2020

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Wrapping of Microparticles by Floppy Lipid Vesicles

Hendrik T. Spanke, Robert W. Style, Claire François-Martin, Maria Feofilova, Manuel Eisentraut, Holger Kress, Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, and Eric R. Dufresne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 198102 (2020) - Published 5 November, 2020

Researchers find the conditions for when a cell membrane will wrap around a plastic bead, providing insight into how living things interact with viruses, microplastics, and other objects.