Volume 125, Issue 25

18 December 2020

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Ab initio self-consistent electronic density calculated for an atomic ultracell of LiF in an external long-range electrostatic potential. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics

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Extending Solid-State Calculations to Ultra-Long-Range Length Scales
T. Müller, S. Sharma, E. K. U. Gross, and J. K. Dewhurst
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256402 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Final Results of GERDA on the Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 252502 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

The GERDA hunt for neutrinoless double-beta decay comes to an end with no evidence that neutrinos are their own antiparticle.

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Quantitative Experimental Observation of Weak Inertial-Wave Turbulence

Eduardo Monsalve, Maxime Brunet, Basile Gallet, and Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254502 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020

A new experiment in wave turbulence achieves the long-sought goal of generating “pure” interacting waves that behave as theory predicts.

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Hydrodynamic Elastocapillary Morphing of Hair Bundles

Jonghyun Ha, Yun Seong Kim, Kaiying Jiang, Ryan Siu, and Sameh Tawfick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254503 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

Experiments show that hair-like bundles form different shapes depending on the speed at which they are dried.

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Extending Solid-State Calculations to Ultra-Long-Range Length Scales

T. Müller, S. Sharma, E. K. U. Gross, and J. K. Dewhurst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256402 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

An efficient new approach makes density-functional simulations feasible over larger length scales.

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Faraday-Wave Contact-Line Shear Gradient Induces Streaming and Tracer Self-Organization: From Vortical to Hedgehoglike Patterns

Héctor Alarcón, Matías Herrera-Muñoz, Nicolas Périnet, Nicolás Mujica, Pablo Gutiérrez, and Leonardo Gordillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254505 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Swirling vortices and prickly hedgehog shapes are among the new patterns seen when a fluid containing floating particles is vibrated.

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Physical Observation of a Robust Acoustic Pumping in Waveguides with Dynamic Boundary

Xianchen Xu, Qian Wu, Hui Chen, Hussein Nassar, Yangyang Chen, Andrew Norris, Michael R. Haberman, and Guoliang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253901 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

A helix rotating around a slotted tube at a controllable speed creates time-space modulated interfacial conditions, breaking time-reversal symmetry to realize one-way wave propagation.

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Observation of a Charge-2 Photonic Weyl Point in the Infrared

Sachin Vaidya, Jiho Noh, Alexander Cerjan, Christina Jörg, Georg von Freymann, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253902 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

A charge-2 photonic Weyl point has been observed in a low-index-contrast photonic crystal fabricated by two-photon polymerization.

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Counterflow-Induced Inverse Energy Cascade in Three-Dimensional Superfluid Turbulence

Juan Ignacio Polanco and Giorgio Krstulovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254504 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

At a critical counterflow velocity, the macroscopic dynamics of the quantum fluid changes abruptly from three-dimensional to two-dimensional turbulent behavior.

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Direct Observation of Homogeneous Cavitation in Nanopores

V. Doebele, A. Benoit-Gonin, F. Souris, L. Cagnon, P. Spathis, P. E. Wolf, A. Grosman, M. Bossert, I. Trimaille, and E. Rolley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255701 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Ink bottle shaped nanopores in aluminum membranes are a promising platform for the study of liquids in deeply metastable states.

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Topological Phase Transition in Coupled Rock-Paper-Scissors Cycles

Johannes Knebel, Philipp M. Geiger, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 258301 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

Chains of rock-paper-scissors games undergo topological phase transitions.

LETTERS

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

Observation of Universal Quench Dynamics and Townes Soliton Formation from Modulational Instability in Two-Dimensional Bose Gases

Cheng-An Chen and Chen-Lung Hung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 250401 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Localization on Certain Graphs with Strongly Correlated Disorder

Sthitadhi Roy and David E. Logan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 250402 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Optimal Robust Quantum Control by Inverse Geometric Optimization

Ghassen Dridi, Kaipeng Liu, and Stéphane Guérin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 250403 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

Closing Gaps of a Quantum Advantage with Short-Time Hamiltonian Dynamics

J. Haferkamp, D. Hangleiter, A. Bouland, B. Fefferman, J. Eisert, and J. Bermejo-Vega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 250501 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

Many-Body Level Statistics of Single-Particle Quantum Chaos

Yunxiang Liao, Amit Vikram, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 250601 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Exponential Ramp in the Quadratic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Michael Winer, Shao-Kai Jian, and Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 250602 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring Parity Asymmetry of Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with a Heliocentric Detector Network in the mHz Band

Naoki Seto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 251101 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Direct Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Carbon and Oxygen Spectra from $10 GeV / n$ to $2.2 TeV / n$ with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 251102 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

What Becomes of Giant Vortices in the Abelian Higgs Model

Alexander A. Penin and Quinten Weller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 251601 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Simple Encoding of Higher-Derivative Gauge and Gravity Counterterms

John Joseph M. Carrasco, Laurentiu Rodina, Zanpeng Yin, and Suna Zekioğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 251602 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Mu-Tau Neutrinos: Influencing Fast Flavor Conversions in Supernovae

Francesco Capozzi, Madhurima Chakraborty, Sovan Chakraborty, and Manibrata Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 251801 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

Search for Heavy Resonances Decaying into a Photon and a Hadronically Decaying Higgs Boson in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 251802 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Surface Localization of the Dineutron in ${}^{11}{Li}$

Y. Kubota et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 252501 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

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Final Results of GERDA on the Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 252502 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

The GERDA hunt for neutrinoless double-beta decay comes to an end with no evidence that neutrinos are their own antiparticle.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hyperfine Structure of the First Rotational Level in $H_{2}$ , $D_{2}$ and HD Molecules and the Deuteron Quadrupole Moment

Mariusz Puchalski, Jacek Komasa, and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253001 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

$S U (1, 1)$ Echoes for Breathers in Quantum Gases

Chenwei Lv, Ren Zhang, and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253002 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

Geometrizing Quantum Dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Changyuan Lyu, Chenwei Lv, and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253401 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Conformal Analytical Potential for All the Rare Gas Dimers over the Full Range of Internuclear Distances

Xiaowei Sheng, J. Peter Toennies, and K. T. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253402 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

Subradiant Emission from Regular Atomic Arrays: Universal Scaling of Decay Rates from the Generalized Bloch Theorem

Yu-Xiang Zhang and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253601 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020

Rugged mHz-Linewidth Superradiant Laser Driven by a Hot Atomic Beam

Haonan Liu, Simon B. Jäger, Xianquan Yu, Steven Touzard, Athreya Shankar, Murray J. Holland, and Travis L. Nicholson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253602 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical Observation of a Robust Acoustic Pumping in Waveguides with Dynamic Boundary

Xianchen Xu, Qian Wu, Hui Chen, Hussein Nassar, Yangyang Chen, Andrew Norris, Michael R. Haberman, and Guoliang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253901 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

A helix rotating around a slotted tube at a controllable speed creates time-space modulated interfacial conditions, breaking time-reversal symmetry to realize one-way wave propagation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Charge-2 Photonic Weyl Point in the Infrared

Sachin Vaidya, Jiho Noh, Alexander Cerjan, Christina Jörg, Georg von Freymann, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 253902 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

A charge-2 photonic Weyl point has been observed in a low-index-contrast photonic crystal fabricated by two-photon polymerization.

Photonic Excitation of a Micromechanical Cantilever in Electrostatic Fields

A. Barsella, M. A. Hurier, M. D. Pichois, M. Vomir, H. Hasan, L. Mager, B. Donnio, J. L. Gallani, and M. V. Rastei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254301 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Resonances in Pulsatile Channel Flow with an Elastic Wall

Duo Xu, Matthias Heil, Thomas Seeböck, and Marc Avila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254501 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantitative Experimental Observation of Weak Inertial-Wave Turbulence

Eduardo Monsalve, Maxime Brunet, Basile Gallet, and Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254502 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020

A new experiment in wave turbulence achieves the long-sought goal of generating “pure” interacting waves that behave as theory predicts.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Hydrodynamic Elastocapillary Morphing of Hair Bundles

Jonghyun Ha, Yun Seong Kim, Kaiying Jiang, Ryan Siu, and Sameh Tawfick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254503 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

Experiments show that hair-like bundles form different shapes depending on the speed at which they are dried.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Counterflow-Induced Inverse Energy Cascade in Three-Dimensional Superfluid Turbulence

Juan Ignacio Polanco and Giorgio Krstulovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254504 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

At a critical counterflow velocity, the macroscopic dynamics of the quantum fluid changes abruptly from three-dimensional to two-dimensional turbulent behavior.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Faraday-Wave Contact-Line Shear Gradient Induces Streaming and Tracer Self-Organization: From Vortical to Hedgehoglike Patterns

Héctor Alarcón, Matías Herrera-Muñoz, Nicolas Périnet, Nicolás Mujica, Pablo Gutiérrez, and Leonardo Gordillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254505 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Swirling vortices and prickly hedgehog shapes are among the new patterns seen when a fluid containing floating particles is vibrated.

Impact of the Wetting Length on Flexible Blade Spreading

Marion Krapez, Anaïs Gauthier, Hamid Kellay, Jean-Baptiste Boitte, Odile Aubrun, Jean-François Joanny, and Annie Colin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254506 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Refractive Guide Switching a Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser for High Peak and Average Power Hard X Rays

Gabriel Marcus, Alex Halavanau, Zhirong Huang, Jacek Krzywinski, James MacArthur, Rachel Margraf, Tor Raubenheimer, and Diling Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 254801 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Measurements of the Growth and Saturation of Electron Weibel Instability in Optical-Field Ionized Plasmas

Chaojie Zhang, Jianfei Hua, Yipeng Wu, Yu Fang, Yue Ma, Tianliang Zhang, Shuang Liu, Bo Peng, Yunxiao He, Chen-Kang Huang, Ken A. Marsh, Warren B. Mori, Wei Lu, and Chan Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255001 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Experimental Evidence of Harnessed Expansion of a High- $Z$ Plasma Using the Hollow Wall Design for Indirect Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion

S. Depierreux, V. Tassin, D. Antigny, R. E. Bahr, N. Botrel, R. Bourdenet, G. DeDemo, L. DeLaval, O. Dubos, J. Fariaut, M. Ferri, T. Filkins, S. LeTacon, C. Sorce, B. Villette, and M. Vandenboomgaerde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255002 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Curvature of Radial Electric Field Aggravates Edge Magnetohydrodynamics Mode in Toroidally Confined Plasmas

Y. Zhang, Z. B. Guo, and P. H. Diamond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255003 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Phase Transitions of Trilayer Excitons in Atomically Thin Heterostructures

Yevgeny Slobodkin, Yotam Mazuz-Harpaz, Sivan Refaely-Abramson, Snir Gazit, Hadar Steinberg, and Ronen Rapaport

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255301 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Effect of Confinement on Capillary Phase Transition in Granular Aggregates

Siavash Monfared, Tingtao Zhou, José E. Andrade, Katerina Ioannidou, Farhang Radjaï, Franz-Josef Ulm, and Roland J.-M. Pellenq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255501 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Helical Higher-Order Topological States in an Acoustic Crystalline Insulator

Zhang-Zhao Yang, Xin Li, Yao-Yin Peng, Xin-Ye Zou, and Jian-Chun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255502 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Homogeneous Cavitation in Nanopores

V. Doebele, A. Benoit-Gonin, F. Souris, L. Cagnon, P. Spathis, P. E. Wolf, A. Grosman, M. Bossert, I. Trimaille, and E. Rolley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255701 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Ink bottle shaped nanopores in aluminum membranes are a promising platform for the study of liquids in deeply metastable states.

Novel Hydrogen Clathrate Hydrate

Yu Wang, Konstantin Glazyrin, Valery Roizen, Artem R. Oganov, Ivan Chernyshov, Xiao Zhang, Eran Greenberg, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Xue Yang, Shu-qing Jiang, and Alexander F. Goncharov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 255702 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Two-Component Dynamics and the Liquidlike to Gaslike Crossover in Supercritical Water

Peihao Sun, J. B. Hastings, Daisuke Ishikawa, Alfred Q. R. Baron, and Giulio Monaco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256001 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020

Vibrational Frequencies of Cerium-Oxide-Bound CO: A Challenge for Conventional DFT Methods

Pablo G. Lustemberg, Philipp N. Plessow, Yuemin Wang, Chengwu Yang, Alexei Nefedov, Felix Studt, Christof Wöll, and M. Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256101 (2020) - Published 17 December, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

$Z_{2}$ Parton Phases in the Mixed-Dimensional $t - J_{z}$ Model

Fabian Grusdt and Lode Pollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256401 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Extending Solid-State Calculations to Ultra-Long-Range Length Scales

T. Müller, S. Sharma, E. K. U. Gross, and J. K. Dewhurst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256402 (2020) - Published 16 December, 2020

An efficient new approach makes density-functional simulations feasible over larger length scales.

Dirac Polarons and Resistivity Anomaly in ${ZrTe}_{5}$ and ${HfTe}_{5}$

Bo Fu, Huan-Wen Wang, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256601 (2020) - Published 15 December, 2020

Probing Metastable Space-Charge Potentials in a Wide Band Gap Semiconductor

Artur Lozovoi, Harishankar Jayakumar, Damon Daw, Ayesha Lakra, and Carlos A. Meriles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256602 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Canted Persistent Spin Texture and Quantum Spin Hall Effect in ${WTe}_{2}$

Jose H. Garcia, Marc Vila, Chuang-Han Hsu, Xavier Waintal, Vitor M. Pereira, and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256603 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Interaction-Induced Metallicity in a Two-Dimensional Disordered Non-Fermi Liquid

P. A. Nosov, I. S. Burmistrov, and S. Raghu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256604 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Tomography of Zero-Energy End Modes in Topological Superconducting Wires

A. A. Aligia, D. Pérez Daroca, and Liliana Arrachea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256801 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020

Non-Newtonian Topological Mechanical Metamaterials Using Feedback Control

Lea Sirota, Roni Ilan, Yair Shokef, and Yoav Lahini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256802 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Energy Relaxation in Edge Modes in the Quantum Hall Effect

Amir Rosenblatt, Sofia Konyzheva, Fabien Lafont, Noam Schiller, Jinhong Park, Kyrylo Snizhko, Moty Heiblum, Yuval Oreg, and Vladimir Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256803 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Plasmonic Dirac Cone in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Luis Brey, T. Stauber, T. Slipchenko, and L. Martín-Moreno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256804 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Interfering Tunneling Paths through Magnetic Molecules on Superconductors: Asymmetries of Kondo and Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Resonances

Laëtitia Farinacci, Gelavizh Ahmadi, Michael Ruby, Gaël Reecht, Benjamin W. Heinrich, Constantin Czekelius, Felix von Oppen, and Katharina J. Franke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256805 (2020) - Published 18 December, 2020

Quantum Criticality inside the Anomalous Metallic State of a Disordered Superconducting Thin Film

K. Ienaga, T. Hayashi, Y. Tamoto, S. Kaneko, and S. Okuma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 257001 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020

Detection of Acoustic Plasmons in Hole-Doped Lanthanum and Bismuth Cuprate Superconductors Using Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Abhishek Nag, M. Zhu, Matías Bejas, J. Li, H. C. Robarts, Hiroyuki Yamase, A. N. Petsch, D. Song, H. Eisaki, A. C. Walters, M. García-Fernández, Andrés Greco, S. M. Hayden, and Ke-Jin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 257002 (2020) - Published 14 December, 2020