Volume 125, Issue 20

13 November 2020

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Heat maps of a neutron star crust within a neutron star binary system at three different stages of the inspiral phase.

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Probing Crust Meltdown in Inspiraling Binary Neutron Stars
Zhen Pan, Zhenwei Lyu, Béatrice Bonga, Néstor Ortiz, and Huan Yang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201102 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Precision Metrology Meets Cosmology: Improved Constraints on Ultralight Dark Matter from Atom-Cavity Frequency Comparisons

Colin J. Kennedy, Eric Oelker, John M. Robinson, Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, William R. Milner, G. Edward Marti, Andrei Derevianko, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201302 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Researchers use precise clocks and an extremely stable optical cavity to find new constraints on how the dilaton, a hypothesized dark matter particle, interacts with ordinary matter.

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Theory for the Charge-Density-Wave Mechanism of 3D Quantum Hall Effect

Fang Qin (覃昉), Shuai Li, Z. Z. Du, C. M. Wang, Wenqing Zhang, Dapeng Yu, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206601 (2020) - Published 9 November, 2020

Theorists invoke electron-phonon interactions to explain the recent observation of the quantum Hall effect in a 3D electronic system.

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Lamellar to Micellar Phases and Beyond: When Tactic Active Systems Admit Free Energy Functionals

J. O’Byrne and J. Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208003 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Researchers make systems of self-propelled particles produce the same large-scale dynamics as passive-particle systems.

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Moiré Fringe Induced Gauge Field in Photonics

Wenhui Wang, Wenlong Gao, Xiaodong Chen, Fulong Shi, Guixin Li, Jianwen Dong, Yuanjiang Xiang, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 203901 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

The first observation of moiré-fringe-induced gauge fields in a photonic honeycomb lattice, and the correlation between the momentum and orbital position of the Landau modes, serves as evidence of the noncommuteness between the orthogonal components of the momentum.

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${IrO}_{2}$ Surface Complexions Identified through Machine Learning and Surface Investigations

Jakob Timmermann, Florian Kraushofer, Nikolaus Resch, Peigang Li, Yu Wang, Zhiqiang Mao, Michele Riva, Yonghyuk Lee, Carsten Staacke, Michael Schmid, Christoph Scheurer, Gareth S. Parkinson, Ulrike Diebold, and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206101 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

A novel machine learning methodology is combined with experimental verification to identify new terminations of rutile (101) and (111) surfaces that make these facets highly stable in reducing conditions.

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Electron Doping of the Iron-Arsenide Superconductor CeFeAsO Controlled by Hydrostatic Pressure

K. Mydeen, A. Jesche, K. Meier-Kirchner, U. Schwarz, C. Geibel, H. Rosner, and M. Nicklas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207001 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Upon applying pressure to CeFeAsO, the material’s characteristics change from that of an iron-pnictide superconductor to a heavy-fermion metal.

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Broadband Electromagnetic Wave Tunneling with Transmuted Material Singularity

Yichao Liu, Fei Sun, Yibiao Yang, Zhihui Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, Sailing He, and Yungui Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207401 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

The new concept of a near-zero-index-featured medium can realize the same functions of near-zero-index media but using normal dielectrics.

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Syneresis of Colloidal Gels: Endogenous Stress and Interfacial Mobility Drive Compaction

Q. Wu, J. van der Gucht, and T. E. Kodger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208004 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Particle deformability strongly affects the expulsion of a liquid in colloidal gels.

LETTERS

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

Generalizing Optimal Bell Inequalities

Fabian Bernards and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200401 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Mixed-State Entanglement from Local Randomized Measurements

Andreas Elben, Richard Kueng, Hsin-Yuan (Robert) Huang, Rick van Bijnen, Christian Kokail, Marcello Dalmonte, Pasquale Calabrese, Barbara Kraus, John Preskill, Peter Zoller, and Benoît Vermersch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200501 (2020) - Published 11 November, 2020

Single-Copies Estimation of Entanglement Negativity

You Zhou, Pei Zeng, and Zhenhuan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200502 (2020) - Published 11 November, 2020

High-Contrast $Z Z$ Interaction Using Superconducting Qubits with Opposite-Sign Anharmonicity

Peng Zhao, Peng Xu, Dong Lan, Ji Chu, Xinsheng Tan, Haifeng Yu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200503 (2020) - Published 11 November, 2020

Suppression of Unwanted $Z Z$ Interactions in a Hybrid Two-Qubit System

Jaseung Ku, Xuexin Xu, Markus Brink, David C. McKay, Jared B. Hertzberg, Mohammad H. Ansari, and B. L. T. Plourde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200504 (2020) - Published 11 November, 2020

Noisy Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Continuous Nondemolition Measurement

Matteo A. C. Rossi, Francesco Albarelli, Dario Tamascelli, and Marco G. Genoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200505 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Symmetry-Enhanced Boundary Qubits at Infinite Temperature

Jack Kemp, Norman Y. Yao, and Chris R. Laumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200506 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Freezing Transition in the Barrier Crossing Rate of a Diffusing Particle

Sanjib Sabhapandit and Satya N. Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200601 (2020) - Published 9 November, 2020

Uncertainty Relations and Fluctuation Theorems for Bayes Nets

David H. Wolpert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200602 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Loop-Cluster Coupling and Algorithm for Classical Statistical Models

Lei Zhang, Manon Michel, Eren M. Elçi, and Youjin Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200603 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Observing Localization in a 2D Quasicrystalline Optical Lattice

Matteo Sbroscia, Konrad Viebahn, Edward Carter, Jr-Chiun Yu, Alexander Gaunt, and Ulrich Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 200604 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Multiparameter Tests of General Relativity Using Multiband Gravitational-Wave Observations

Anuradha Gupta, Sayantani Datta, Shilpa Kastha, Ssohrab Borhanian, K. G. Arun, and B. S. Sathyaprakash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201101 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Probing Crust Meltdown in Inspiraling Binary Neutron Stars

Zhen Pan, Zhenwei Lyu, Béatrice Bonga, Néstor Ortiz, and Huan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201102 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Systematic Uncertainty of Standard Sirens from the Viewing Angle of Binary Neutron Star Inspirals

Hsin-Yu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201301 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

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Precision Metrology Meets Cosmology: Improved Constraints on Ultralight Dark Matter from Atom-Cavity Frequency Comparisons

Colin J. Kennedy, Eric Oelker, John M. Robinson, Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, William R. Milner, G. Edward Marti, Andrei Derevianko, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201302 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Researchers use precise clocks and an extremely stable optical cavity to find new constraints on how the dilaton, a hypothesized dark matter particle, interacts with ordinary matter.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Convex Geometry Perspective on the (Standard Model) Effective Field Theory Space

Cen Zhang and Shuang-Yong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201601 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

First-Principles Simulations of $1 + 1 D$ Quantum Field Theories at $θ = π$ and Spin Chains

Tin Sulejmanpasic, Daniel Göschl, and Christof Gattringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201602 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Quantum Correction to Generalized $T$ Dualities

Riccardo Borsato and Linus Wulff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201603 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Accurate Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Yield of ${}^{235}U$ Fissions from the STEREO Experiment with 119 Days of Reactor-On Data

H. Almazán et al. (STEREO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201801 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

New Limits on Anomalous Spin-Spin Interactions

Attaallah Almasi, Junyi Lee, Himawan Winarto, Marc Smiciklas, and Michael V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201802 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

First Measurement of Differential Charged Current Quasielasticlike $ν_{μ}$ -Argon Scattering Cross Sections with the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 201803 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Nuclear Physics

First Direct Measurement of ${}^{22}{Mg} (α, p) {}^{25}{Al}$ and Implications for X-Ray Burst Model-Observation Comparisons

J. S. Randhawa et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 202701 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

How Well Do We Know the Neutron-Matter Equation of State at the Densities Inside Neutron Stars? A Bayesian Approach with Correlated Uncertainties

C. Drischler, R. J. Furnstahl, J. A. Melendez, and D. R. Phillips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 202702 (2020) - Published 11 November, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Heisenberg-Limited Spin Squeezing via Bosonic Parametric Driving

Peter Groszkowski, Hoi-Kwan Lau, C. Leroux, L. C. G. Govia, and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 203601 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Hierarchical Construction of Higher-Order Exceptional Points

Q. Zhong, J. Kou, Ş. K. Özdemir, and R. El-Ganainy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 203602 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Bayesian Optimal Control of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger States in Rydberg Lattices

Rick Mukherjee, Harry Xie, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 203603 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Moiré Fringe Induced Gauge Field in Photonics

Wenhui Wang, Wenlong Gao, Xiaodong Chen, Fulong Shi, Guixin Li, Jianwen Dong, Yuanjiang Xiang, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 203901 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Deformation-Induced Chemical Inhomogeneity and Short-Circuit Diffusion in Shear Bands of a Bulk Metallic Glass

M. R. Chellali, S. H. Nandam, and H. Hahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 205501 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Nonclassical Chiral Elasticity of the Gyroid Lattice

D. R. Reasa and R. S. Lakes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 205502 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Embracing the Chaos: Alloying Adds Stochasticity to Twin Embryo Growth

Yang Hu, Vladyslav Turlo, Irene J. Beyerlein, Subhash Mahajan, Enrique J. Lavernia, Julie M. Schoenung, and Timothy J. Rupert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 205503 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Structural Evolution of ${SiO}_{2}$ Glass with Si Coordination Number Greater than 6

Yoshio Kono, Yu Shu, Curtis Kenney-Benson, Yanbin Wang, and Guoyin Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 205701 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

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${IrO}_{2}$ Surface Complexions Identified through Machine Learning and Surface Investigations

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206101 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Deep Field: Data-Driven Wave Function, Electron Density Generation, and Atomization Energy Prediction and Extrapolation with Machine Learning

Masashi Tsubaki and Teruyasu Mizoguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206401 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Anomalous Topological Edge States in Non-Hermitian Piezophononic Media

Penglin Gao, Morten Willatzen, and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206402 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

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Theory for the Charge-Density-Wave Mechanism of 3D Quantum Hall Effect

Fang Qin (覃昉), Shuai Li, Z. Z. Du, C. M. Wang, Wenqing Zhang, Dapeng Yu, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206601 (2020) - Published 9 November, 2020

Theorists invoke electron-phonon interactions to explain the recent observation of the quantum Hall effect in a 3D electronic system.

Kondo Breakdown in a Spin- $1 / 2$ Chain of Adatoms on a Dirac Semimetal

Bimla Danu, Matthias Vojta, Fakher F. Assaad, and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206602 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Spectral Properties of Stochastic Resonance in Quantum Transport

Robert Hussein, Sigmund Kohler, Johannes C. Bayer, Timo Wagner, and Rolf J. Haug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206801 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Effect of Deep-Defects Excitation on Mechanical Energy Dissipation of Single-Crystal Diamond

Huanying Sun, Liwen Sang, Haihua Wu, Zilong Zhang, Tokuyuki Teraji, Tie-Fu Li, J. Q. You, Masaya Toda, Satoshi Koizumi, and Meiyong Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206802 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Molecular Quantum Rings Formed from a $π$ -Conjugated Macrocycle

Chris J. Judd, Anton S. Nizovtsev, Rikke Plougmann, Dmitry V. Kondratuk, Harry L. Anderson, Elena Besley, and Alex Saywell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 206803 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

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Electron Doping of the Iron-Arsenide Superconductor CeFeAsO Controlled by Hydrostatic Pressure

K. Mydeen, A. Jesche, K. Meier-Kirchner, U. Schwarz, C. Geibel, H. Rosner, and M. Nicklas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207001 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Upon applying pressure to CeFeAsO, the material’s characteristics change from that of an iron-pnictide superconductor to a heavy-fermion metal.

Fragility of the Fractional Josephson Effect in Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductors

Christina Knapp, Aaron Chew, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207002 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Strong Zero Modes from Geometric Chirality in Quasi-One-Dimensional Mott Insulators

Raul A. Santos and Benjamin Béri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207201 (2020) - Published 9 November, 2020

Antiferromagnet-Based Neuromorphics Using Dynamics of Topological Charges

Shu Zhang and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207202 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Nonlocal Stimulation of Three-Magnon Splitting in a Magnetic Vortex

L. Körber, K. Schultheiss, T. Hula, R. Verba, J. Fassbender, A. Kákay, and H. Schultheiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207203 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Magnonic Quadrupole Topological Insulator in Antiskyrmion Crystals

Tomoki Hirosawa, Sebastián A. Díaz, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207204 (2020) - Published 12 November, 2020

Generalized Spin Drift-Diffusion Formalism in the Presence of Spin-Orbit Interaction of Ferromagnets

Kyoung-Whan Kim and Kyung-Jin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207205 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

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Broadband Electromagnetic Wave Tunneling with Transmuted Material Singularity

Yichao Liu, Fei Sun, Yibiao Yang, Zhihui Chen, Jianzhong Zhang, Sailing He, and Yungui Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207401 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

The new concept of a near-zero-index-featured medium can realize the same functions of near-zero-index media but using normal dielectrics.

Rydberg Series of Dark Excitons in ${Cu}_{2} O$

Andreas Farenbruch, Dietmar Fröhlich, Dmitri R. Yakovlev, and Manfred Bayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207402 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

Phase Switching as the Origin of Large Piezoelectric Response in Organic-Inorganic Perovskites: A First-Principles Study

P. S. Ghosh, Sergey Lisenkov, and Inna Ponomareva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 207601 (2020) - Published 11 November, 2020

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

Fluctuating Motion in an Active Environment

Christian Maes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208001 (2020) - Published 9 November, 2020

Microscopic Picture of Erosion and Sedimentation Processes in Dense Granular Flows

Denis Dumont, Pierre Soulard, Thomas Salez, Elie Raphaël, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208002 (2020) - Published 10 November, 2020

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Lamellar to Micellar Phases and Beyond: When Tactic Active Systems Admit Free Energy Functionals

J. O’Byrne and J. Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208003 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Researchers make systems of self-propelled particles produce the same large-scale dynamics as passive-particle systems.

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Syneresis of Colloidal Gels: Endogenous Stress and Interfacial Mobility Drive Compaction

Q. Wu, J. van der Gucht, and T. E. Kodger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208004 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020

Particle deformability strongly affects the expulsion of a liquid in colloidal gels.

Motor-Free Contractility in Active Gels

Sihan Chen, Tomer Markovich, and Fred C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 208101 (2020) - Published 13 November, 2020