Volume 125, Issue 22

27 November 2020

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Torque-driven spherical spinners settled on a surface with hydrodynamic interactions can experience a phase separation of particle dense and dilute regions.

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Two-Phase Crystallization in a Carpet of Inertial Spinners
Zaiyi Shen and Juho S. Lintuvuori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228002 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New Extraction of the Cosmic Birefringence from the Planck 2018 Polarization Data

Yuto Minami and Eiichiro Komatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221301 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

A new analysis of the cosmic microwave background shows that its polarization may be rotated by exotic effects indicating beyond-standard-model physics.

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Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering

Matthijs R. Panman, Elisa Biasin, Oskar Berntsson, Markus Hermann, Stephan Niebling, Ashley J. Hughes, Joachim Kübel, Kalina Atkovska, Emil Gustavsson, Amke Nimmrich, Asmus O. Dohn, Mads Laursen, Diana B. Zederkof, Alireza Honarfar, Kensuke Tono, Tetsuo Katayama, Shigeki Owada, Tim B. van Driel, Kasper Kjaer, Martin M. Nielsen, Jan Davidsson, Jens Uhlig, Kristoffer Haldrup, Jochen S. Hub, and Sebastian Westenhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226001 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Extremely brilliant, extremely short x-ray pulses let researchers film a femtosecond-resolution movie of a chemical reaction, revealing unexpected dynamics.

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Signatures Consistent with Multifrequency Tipping in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Andrew Keane, Bernd Krauskopf, and Timothy M. Lenton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228701 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

The complicated sequence of bifurcations involved in M-tipping provides a possible explanation for behavior observed near tipping in climate models.

LETTERS

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

Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner-Type Theorems for Equilibrium Models of Flocking

Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 220601 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Exactly Solvable System of One-Dimensional Trapped Bosons with Short- and Long-Range Interactions

M. Beau, S. M. Pittman, G. E. Astrakharchik, and A. del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 220602 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New Extraction of the Cosmic Birefringence from the Planck 2018 Polarization Data

Yuto Minami and Eiichiro Komatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221301 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

A new analysis of the cosmic microwave background shows that its polarization may be rotated by exotic effects indicating beyond-standard-model physics.

Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter with a Multiple-Cell Haloscope

Junu Jeong, SungWoo Youn, Sungjae Bae, Jihngeun Kim, Taehyeon Seong, Jihn E. Kim, and Yannis K. Semertzidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221302 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Dark Photon Oscillations in Our Inhomogeneous Universe

Andrea Caputo, Hongwan Liu, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, and Joshua T. Ruderman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221303 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Distinguishing Fuzzballs from Black Holes through Their Multipolar Structure

Massimo Bianchi, Dario Consoli, Alfredo Grillo, Josè Francisco Morales, Paolo Pani, and Guilherme Raposo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221601 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Multipole Ratios: A New Window into Black Holes

Iosif Bena and Daniel R. Mayerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221602 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Sub-TeV $H^{+}$ Boson Production as Probe of Extra Top Yukawa Couplings

Dilip Kumar Ghosh, Wei-Shu Hou, and Tanmoy Modak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221801 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Search for Higgs Boson Decays into a $Z$ Boson and a Light Hadronically Decaying Resonance Using 13 TeV $p p$ Collision Data from the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 221802 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Evidence for Top Quark Production in Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 222001 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Predictions for $Z$ -Boson Production in Association with a $b$ -Jet at $O (α_{s}^{3})$

R. Gauld, A. Gehrmann–De Ridder, E. W. N. Glover, A. Huss, and I. Majer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 222002 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

$R (J / ψ)$ and $B_{c}^{-} \to J / ψ ℓ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{l}$ Lepton Flavor Universality Violating Observables from Lattice QCD

Judd Harrison, Christine T. H. Davies, and Andrew Lytle (HPQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 222003 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Probing the Neutron Skin with Ultrarelativistic Isobaric Collisions

Hanlin Li, Hao-jie Xu, Ying Zhou, Xiaobao Wang, Jie Zhao, Lie-Wen Chen, and Fuqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 222301 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin Squeezing with Short-Range Spin-Exchange Interactions

Michael A. Perlin, Chunlei Qu, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 223401 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Deterministic Generation of Loss-Tolerant Photonic Cluster States with a Single Quantum Emitter

Yuan Zhan and Shuo Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 223601 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Demonstration of Dynamic Topological Pumping across Incommensurate Bilayered Acoustic Metamaterials

Wenting Cheng, Emil Prodan, and Camelia Prodan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 224301 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Conduction-Radiation Coupling between Two Closely Separated Solids

M. Reina, R. Messina, and P. Ben-Abdallah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 224302 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Capturing Velocity Gradients and Particle Rotation Rates in Turbulence

Leonhard A. Leppin and Michael Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 224501 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Turbulent Energization of Electron Power Law Tails during Magnetic Reconnection

Giovanni Lapenta, Jean Berchem, Mostafa El Alaoui, and Raymond Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 225101 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Flat Frequency Bands at Open Edges and Antiphase Boundary Seams in Topological Mechanical Metamaterials

Kai Qian, Linghua Zhu, Keun Hyuk Ahn, and Camelia Prodan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 225501 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Absence of a Crystal Direction Regime in which Sputtering Corresponds to Amorphous Material

K. Schlueter, K. Nordlund, G. Hobler, M. Balden, F. Granberg, O. Flinck, T. F. da Silva, and R. Neu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 225502 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Observation of Transient and Asymptotic Driven Structural States of Tungsten Exposed to Radiation

Daniel R. Mason, Suchandrima Das, Peter M. Derlet, Sergei L. Dudarev, Andrew J. London, Hongbing Yu, Nicholas W. Phillips, David Yang, Kenichiro Mizohata, Ruqing Xu, and Felix Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 225503 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Nondestructive Prediction of the Buckling Load of Imperfect Shells

Anaïs Abramian, Emmanuel Virot, Emilio Lozano, Shmuel M. Rubinstein, and Tobias M. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 225504 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Unsupervised Machine Learning of Quantum Phase Transitions Using Diffusion Maps

Alexander Lidiak and Zhexuan Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 225701 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

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Observing the Structural Evolution in the Photodissociation of Diiodomethane with Femtosecond Solution X-Ray Scattering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226001 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Extremely brilliant, extremely short x-ray pulses let researchers film a femtosecond-resolution movie of a chemical reaction, revealing unexpected dynamics.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Current-Induced Reversal of Anomalous Hall Conductance in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Ying Su and Shi-Zeng Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226401 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Non-Hermitian Bulk-Boundary Correspondence and Auxiliary Generalized Brillouin Zone Theory

Zhesen Yang, Kai Zhang, Chen Fang, and Jiangping Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226402 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Band Engineering of Large-Twist-Angle $Graphene / h − BN$ Moiré Superlattices with Pressure

Yang Gao, Xianqing Lin, Thomas Smart, Penghong Ci, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Raymond Jeanloz, Jun Ni, and Junqiao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226403 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Absence of Magnetic Proximity Effect at the Interface of ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ and $(Bi, Sb)_{2} {Te}_{3}$ with EuS

A. I. Figueroa, F. Bonell, M. G. Cuxart, M. Valvidares, P. Gargiani, G. van der Laan, A. Mugarza, and S. O. Valenzuela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226801 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Misorientation-Controlled Cross-Plane Thermoelectricity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Phanibhusan S. Mahapatra, Bhaskar Ghawri, Manjari Garg, Shinjan Mandal, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Manish Jain, Subroto Mukerjee, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 226802 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Plasmonic Skyrmion Lattice Based on the Magnetoelectric Effect

X.-G. Wang, L. Chotorlishvili, N. Arnold, V. K. Dugaev, I. Maznichenko, J. Barnaś, P. A. Buczek, S. S. P. Parkin, and A. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227201 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Electrical Access to Ising Anyons in Kitaev Spin Liquids

Rodrigo G. Pereira and Reinhold Egger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227202 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Bloch Chirality Induced by an Interlayer Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Ferromagnetic Multilayers

Shawn D. Pollard, Joseph A. Garlow, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Shaobo Cheng, Kaiming Cai, Yimei Zhu, and Hyunsoo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227203 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

DMFT Reveals the Non-Hermitian Topology and Fermi Arcs in Heavy-Fermion Systems

Yuki Nagai, Yang Qi, Hiroki Isobe, Vladyslav Kozii, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227204 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Stacking-Dependent Spin Interactions in $Pd / Fe$ Bilayers on Re(0001)

W. Li, S. Paul, K. von Bergmann, S. Heinze, and R. Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227205 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Nonvanishing Subgap Photocurrent as a Probe of Lifetime Effects

Daniel Kaplan, Tobias Holder, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227401 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Localizing Fractional Quasiparticles on Graphene Quantum Hall Antidots

S. M. Mills, D. V. Averin, and X. Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227701 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Voltage-Controlled Magnetic Reversal in Orbital Chern Insulators

Jihang Zhu, Jung-Jung Su, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 227702 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

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

Continuum Model Applied to Granular Analogs of Droplets and Puddles

Jean-Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Tanel Lorand, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228001 (2020) - Published 24 November, 2020

Two-Phase Crystallization in a Carpet of Inertial Spinners

Zaiyi Shen and Juho S. Lintuvuori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228002 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

Exploring the Design Rules for Efficient Membrane-Reshaping Nanostructures

Joel C. Forster, Johannes Krausser, Manish R. Vuyyuru, Buzz Baum, and Anđela Šarić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228101 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

Thermodynamics of Animal Locomotion

E. Herbert, H. Ouerdane, Ph. Lecoeur, V. Bels, and Ch. Goupil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228102 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020

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Signatures Consistent with Multifrequency Tipping in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Andrew Keane, Bernd Krauskopf, and Timothy M. Lenton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 228701 (2020) - Published 25 November, 2020

The complicated sequence of bifurcations involved in M-tipping provides a possible explanation for behavior observed near tipping in climate models.

ERRATA

Erratum: Salt-Dependent Rheology and Surface Tension of Protein Condensates Using Optical Traps [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 258101 (2018)]

Louise M. Jawerth, Mahdiye Ijavi, Martine Ruer, Shambaditya Saha, Marcus Jahnel, Anthony A. Hyman, Frank Jülicher, and Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 229901 (2020) - Published 23 November, 2020