Volume 125, Issue 21

20 November 2020

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Michelson-Sagnac optomechanical interferometer, cryogenically cooled and improved by broadband squeezed-light injection.

From the article:

Squeezed-Light Interferometry on a Cryogenically Cooled Micromechanical Membrane
L. Kleybolte, P. Gewecke, A. Sawadsky, M. Korobko, and R. Schnabel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213601 (2020)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Promoting Inclusive and Respectful Communications

Michael Thoennessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210001 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bosonic Bott Index and Disorder-Induced Topological Transitions of Magnons

X. S. Wang, Arne Brataas, and Roberto E. Troncoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217202 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

A useful metric for characterizing the topological behavior of fermions can be extended to bosonic systems as well.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Heterogeneity Improves Speed and Accuracy in Social Networks

Bhargav Karamched, Megan Stickler, William Ott, Benjamin Lindner, Zachary P. Kilpatrick, and Krešimir Josić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 218302 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Collective decision-making in a social network is better when there are both early adopters and laggards.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Type-Independent Characterization of Spacelike Separated Resources

Denis Rosset, David Schmid, and Francesco Buscemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210402 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Quantum resources shared by spacelike separated parties are subsumed into a unified framework.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Universal Programming of Unitary Gates

Yuxiang Yang, Renato Renner, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210501 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Using a gate-learning protocol, it is shown how the number of qubits required to store an optimal quantum program scales with the desired accuracy of the implementation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Higher-Order Topological Bound State in the Continuum

Alexander Cerjan, Marius Jürgensen, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Sebabrata Mukherjee, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213901 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Boundary-localized topological states can still exist even if they are not in a bandgap, dramatically expanding the space of systems which can exhibit such topological states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology-Controlled Photonic Cavity Based on the Near-Conservation of the Valley Degree of Freedom

Yandong Li, Yang Yu, Fengyu Liu, Baile Zhang, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213902 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

A new topological photonic cavity design based on delaying the reflection at the cavity termination represents a new fundamental concept for optical energy confinement.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mott Metal-Insulator Transition from Steady-State Density Functional Theory

David Jacob, Gianluca Stefanucci, and Stefan Kurth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216401 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

A formally rigorous and computationally efficient DFT-method to compute band structures and spectral functions of solids leads to a viable approximation to deal with strong correlation effects and a description of the Mott metal-insulator transition.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revealing Hidden Orbital Pseudospin Texture with Time-Reversal Dichroism in Photoelectron Angular Distributions

S. Beaulieu, J. Schusser, S. Dong, M. Schüler, T. Pincelli, M. Dendzik, J. Maklar, A. Neef, H. Ebert, K. Hricovini, M. Wolf, J. Braun, L. Rettig, J. Minár, and R. Ernstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216404 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

A new experimental method reveals the orbital pseudospin component of entangled spin-orbital texture in multiorbital systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrogen Pentagraphenelike Structure Stabilized by Hafnium: A High-Temperature Conventional Superconductor

Hui Xie, Yansun Yao, Xiaolei Feng, Defang Duan, Hao Song, Zihan Zhang, Shuqing Jiang, Simon A. T. Redfern, Vladimir Z. Kresin, Chris J. Pickard, and Tian Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217001 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

First-principles density-functional models predict a new family of hydrogenated compounds that become near-room-temperature superconductors under high pressures.

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Anomalous Cyclotron Motion in Graphene Superlattice Cavities

Rainer Kraft, Ming-Hao Liu (劉明豪), Pranauv Balaji Selvasundaram, Szu-Chao Chen (陳思超), Ralph Krupke, Klaus Richter, and Romain Danneau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217701 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Electronic interferometry shows that the moiré quasiparticles in graphene do not follow the expected cyclotron motions at low magnetic field but instead trajectories that are based on the band structure.

LETTERS

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

Minimizing Backaction through Entangled Measurements

Kang-Da Wu, Elisa Bäumer, Jun-Feng Tang, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210401 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Type-Independent Characterization of Spacelike Separated Resources

Denis Rosset, David Schmid, and Francesco Buscemi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210402 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Quantum resources shared by spacelike separated parties are subsumed into a unified framework.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Universal Programming of Unitary Gates

Yuxiang Yang, Renato Renner, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210501 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Using a gate-learning protocol, it is shown how the number of qubits required to store an optimal quantum program scales with the desired accuracy of the implementation.

Cloning of Quantum Entanglement

Li-Chao Peng, Dian Wu, Han-Sen Zhong, Yi-Han Luo, Yuan Li, Yi Hu, Xiao Jiang, Ming-Cheng Chen, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Kae Nemoto, William J. Munro, Barry C. Sanders, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210502 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Heisenberg-Limited Noisy Atomic Clock Using a Hybrid Coherent and Squeezed State Protocol

Luca Pezzè and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210503 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Projected Entangled Pair States: Fundamental Analytical and Numerical Limitations

G. Scarpa, A. Molnár, Y. Ge, J. J. García-Ripoll, N. Schuch, D. Pérez-García, and S. Iblisdir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210504 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Multimode Storage of Quantum Microwave Fields in Electron Spins over 100 ms

V. Ranjan, J. O’Sullivan, E. Albertinale, B. Albanese, T. Chanelière, T. Schenkel, D. Vion, D. Esteve, E. Flurin, J. J. L. Morton, and P. Bertet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210505 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Experimental Test of the $1 / τ$ -Scaling Entropy Generation in Finite-Time Thermodynamics

Yu-Han Ma, Ruo-Xun Zhai, Jinfu Chen, C. P. Sun, and Hui Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210601 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Universality of Entanglement Transitions from Stroboscopic to Continuous Measurements

M. Szyniszewski, A. Romito, and H. Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 210602 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

What Is the Price of Abandoning Dark Matter? Cosmological Constraints on Alternative Gravity Theories

Kris Pardo and David N. Spergel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 211101 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Virtual Hawking Radiation

Walter Goldberger and Ira Z. Rothstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 211301 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Gravitational Wave Bursts as Harbingers of Cosmic Strings Diluted by Inflation

Yanou Cui, Marek Lewicki, and David E. Morrissey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 211302 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

String Theory and Non-Riemannian Geometry

Jeong-Hyuck Park (朴廷爀) and Shigeki Sugimoto (杉本茂樹)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 211601 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

String Universality and Non-Simply-Connected Gauge Groups in 8D

Mirjam Cvetič, Markus Dierigl, Ling Lin, and Hao Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 211602 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Observation of Enhanced Double Parton Scattering in Proton-Lead Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 8.16 TeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 212001 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Shadowing in Inelastic Nucleon-Nucleon Cross Section?

Kari J. Eskola, Ilkka Helenius, Mikko Kuha, and Hannu Paukkunen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 212301 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

Gamow-Teller Strength in ${}^{48}{Ca}$ and ${}^{78}{Ni}$ with the Charge-Exchange Subtracted Second Random-Phase Approximation

D. Gambacurta, M. Grasso, and J. Engel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 212501 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonadiabatic, Relativistic, and Leading-Order QED Corrections for Rovibrational Intervals of ${}^{4}{He}_{2}^{+}$ ( $X {{}^{2}Σ}_{u}^{+}$ )

Dávid Ferenc, Vladimir I. Korobov, and Edit Mátyus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213001 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Tailoring Multiloop Atom Interferometers with Adjustable Momentum Transfer

L. A. Sidorenkov, R. Gautier, M. Altorio, R. Geiger, and A. Landragin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213201 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Nonexponential Tunneling due to Mean-Field-Induced Swallowtails

Q. Guan, M. K. H. Ome, T. M. Bersano, S. Mossman, P. Engels, and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213401 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Squeezed-Light Interferometry on a Cryogenically Cooled Micromechanical Membrane

L. Kleybolte, P. Gewecke, A. Sawadsky, M. Korobko, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213601 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Geometric Control of Collective Spontaneous Emission

Yizun He, Lingjing Ji, Yuzhuo Wang, Liyang Qiu, Jian Zhao, Yudi Ma, Xing Huang, Saijun Wu, and Darrick E. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213602 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Interferometric Unruh Detectors for Bose-Einstein Condensates

Cisco Gooding, Steffen Biermann, Sebastian Erne, Jorma Louko, William G. Unruh, Jörg Schmiedmayer, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213603 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Local Versus Global Two-Photon Interference in Quantum Networks

Thomas Nitsche, Syamsundar De, Sonja Barkhofen, Evan Meyer-Scott, Johannes Tiedau, Jan Sperling, Aurél Gábris, Igor Jex, and Christine Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213604 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Higher-Order Topological Bound State in the Continuum

Alexander Cerjan, Marius Jürgensen, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Sebabrata Mukherjee, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213901 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Boundary-localized topological states can still exist even if they are not in a bandgap, dramatically expanding the space of systems which can exhibit such topological states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology-Controlled Photonic Cavity Based on the Near-Conservation of the Valley Degree of Freedom

Yandong Li, Yang Yu, Fengyu Liu, Baile Zhang, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 213902 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

A new topological photonic cavity design based on delaying the reflection at the cavity termination represents a new fundamental concept for optical energy confinement.

Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Vibrating Plates

María Rosendo López, Fernando Peñaranda, Johan Christensen, and Pablo San-Jose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 214301 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Competition between Ekman Plumes and Vortex Condensates in Rapidly Rotating Thermal Convection

Andrés J. Aguirre Guzmán, Matteo Madonia, Jonathan S. Cheng, Rodolfo Ostilla-Mónico, Herman J. H. Clercx, and Rudie P. J. Kunnen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 214501 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Energy Flow in Thin Shell Implosions and Explosions

J. J. Ruby, J. R. Rygg, D. A. Chin, J. A. Gaffney, P. J. Adrian, C. J. Forrest, V. Yu. Glebov, N. V. Kabadi, P. M. Nilson, Y. Ping, C. Stoeckl, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215001 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Vortices in Nonequilibrium Photon Condensates

Vladimir N. Gladilin and Michiel Wouters

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215301 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Additional Transition Line in Jammed Asymmetric Bidisperse Granular Packings

Juan C. Petit, Nishant Kumar, Stefan Luding, and Matthias Sperl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215501 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Length Scale Effect in Frictional Aging of Silica Contacts

Shen Li, Shuai Zhang, Zhe Chen, Xi-Qiao Feng, and Qunyang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215502 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Statistical Mechanics of Low Angle Grain Boundaries in Two Dimensions

Grace H. Zhang and David R. Nelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215503 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Finite-Temperature Topological Invariant for Interacting Systems

Razmik Unanyan, Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, and Michael Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215701 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

Crystal Structure and Melting of Fe Shock Compressed to 273 GPa: In Situ X-Ray Diffraction

Stefan J. Turneaure, Surinder M. Sharma, and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 215702 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

Multidimensional Hydrogen Tunneling in Supported Molecular Switches: The Role of Surface Interactions

Yair Litman and Mariana Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216001 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mott Metal-Insulator Transition from Steady-State Density Functional Theory

David Jacob, Gianluca Stefanucci, and Stefan Kurth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216401 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Radial Spin Texture of the Weyl Fermions in Chiral Tellurium

G. Gatti et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216402 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Visualizing Half-Metallic Bulk Band Structure with Multiple Weyl Cones of the Heusler Ferromagnet

Takashi Kono, Masaaki Kakoki, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Xiaoxiao Wang, Kazuki Goto, Takayuki Muro, Rie Y. Umetsu, and Akio Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216403 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revealing Hidden Orbital Pseudospin Texture with Time-Reversal Dichroism in Photoelectron Angular Distributions

S. Beaulieu, J. Schusser, S. Dong, M. Schüler, T. Pincelli, M. Dendzik, J. Maklar, A. Neef, H. Ebert, K. Hricovini, M. Wolf, J. Braun, L. Rettig, J. Minár, and R. Ernstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216404 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

A new experimental method reveals the orbital pseudospin component of entangled spin-orbital texture in multiorbital systems.

Purely Cubic Spin Splittings with Persistent Spin Textures

Hong Jian Zhao, Hiro Nakamura, Rémi Arras, Charles Paillard, Peng Chen, Julien Gosteau, Xu Li, Yurong Yang, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216405 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Kibble-Zurek Behavior in Disordered Chern Insulators

Lara Ulčakar, Jernej Mravlje, and Tomaž Rejec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216601 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

Fermi Liquid Theory for Nonlinear Transport through a Multilevel Anderson Impurity

Yoshimichi Teratani, Rui Sakano, and Akira Oguri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 216801 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrogen Pentagraphenelike Structure Stabilized by Hafnium: A High-Temperature Conventional Superconductor

Hui Xie, Yansun Yao, Xiaolei Feng, Defang Duan, Hao Song, Zihan Zhang, Shuqing Jiang, Simon A. T. Redfern, Vladimir Z. Kresin, Chris J. Pickard, and Tian Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217001 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020

First-principles density-functional models predict a new family of hydrogenated compounds that become near-room-temperature superconductors under high pressures.

Raman Study of Cooper Pairing Instabilities in $({Li}_{1 - x} {Fe}_{x}) OHFeSe$

G. He, D. Li, D. Jost, A. Baum, P. P. Shen, X. L. Dong, Z. X. Zhao, and R. Hackl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217002 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

Multiband Material with a Quasi-1D Band as a Robust High-Temperature Superconductor

T. T. Saraiva, P. J. F. Cavalcanti, A. Vagov, A. S. Vasenko, A. Perali, L. Dell’Anna, and A. A. Shanenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217003 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

Reduction of the Spin Susceptibility in the Superconducting State of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ Observed by Polarized Neutron Scattering

A. N. Petsch, M. Zhu, Mechthild Enderle, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, I. I. Mazin, and S. M. Hayden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217004 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

Proposed Model of the Giant Thermal Hall Effect in Two-Dimensional Superconductors: An Extension to the Superconducting Fluctuation Regime

A. V. Kavokin, Y. M. Galperin, and A. A. Varlamov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217005 (2020) - Published 20 November, 2020

Observation of Magnon Polarons in a Uniaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Junxue Li, Haakon T. Simensen, Derek Reitz, Qiyang Sun, Wei Yuan, Chen Li, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Arne Brataas, and Jing Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217201 (2020) - Published 17 November, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bosonic Bott Index and Disorder-Induced Topological Transitions of Magnons

X. S. Wang, Arne Brataas, and Roberto E. Troncoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217202 (2020) - Published 18 November, 2020

A useful metric for characterizing the topological behavior of fermions can be extended to bosonic systems as well.

Nonreciprocal Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya Magnetoacoustic Waves

M. Küß, M. Heigl, L. Flacke, A. Hörner, M. Weiler, M. Albrecht, and A. Wixforth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217203 (2020) - Published 19 November, 2020

Subterahertz Momentum Drag and Violation of Matthiessen’s Rule in an Ultraclean Ferromagnetic ${SrRuO}_{3}$ Metallic Thin Film

Youcheng Wang, G. Bossé, H. P. Nair, N. J. Schreiber, J. P. Ruf, B. Cheng, C. Adamo, D. E. Shai, Y. Lubashevsky, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 217401 (2020) - Published 16 November, 2020