Volume 125, Issue 3

17 July 2020

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Vertical soap film flowing past a rigid plate without (left) and with (right) a trailing closed flexible silk filament. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Shape Deformation and Drag Variation of a Coupled Rigid-Flexible System in a Flowing Soap Film
Song Gao (高颂), Song Pan (潘松), Huaicheng Wang (王怀成), and Xinliang Tian (田新亮)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 034502 (2020)

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Observation of Magnetic Solitons in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Farolfi, D. Trypogeorgos, C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi, and G. Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030401 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Experiments generate self-reinforcing magnetic waves in a condensate containing both spin-up and spin-down atoms.

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Magnetic Solitons in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate

X. Chai, D. Lao, Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, Masahito Ueda, and C. Raman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030402 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Experiments generate self-reinforcing magnetic waves in a condensate containing both spin-up and spin-down atoms.

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Bragg Diffraction of Large Organic Molecules

Christian Brand, Filip Kiałka, Stephan Troyer, Christian Knobloch, Ksenija Simonović, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033604 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

Researchers create diffraction patterns using beams made of large organic molecules, a first step toward creating an interferometer for these systems.

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Reconstruction of the Instantaneous Earth Rotation Vector with Sub-Arcsecond Resolution Using a Large Scale Ring Laser Array

André Gebauer, Monika Tercjak, Karl Ulrich Schreiber, Heiner Igel, Jan Kodet, Urs Hugentobler, Joachim Wassermann, Felix Bernauer, Chin-Jen Lin, Stefanie Donner, Sven Egdorf, Andrea Simonelli, and Jon-Paul R. Wells

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033605 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

An array of ring lasers provides the first continuous measurement of Earth’s motion from a single location.

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Shape Deformation and Drag Variation of a Coupled Rigid-Flexible System in a Flowing Soap Film

Song Gao (高颂), Song Pan (潘松), Huaicheng Wang (王怀成), and Xinliang Tian (田新亮)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 034502 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

A wire loop attached to a flat bar perpendicular to water flow inside a soap film adjusts its shape to reduce drag by as much as 10%.

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Helical Edge States and Quantum Phase Transitions in Tetralayer Graphene

Shi Che, Yanmeng Shi, Jiawei Yang, Haidong Tian, Ruoyu Chen, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Dmitry Smirnov, Chun Ning Lau, Efrat Shimshoni, Ganpathy Murthy, and Herbert A. Fertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036803 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Tetralayer graphene tuned via a gate voltage displays a striking phase diagram consisting of one insulating and two metallic phases.

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Nature of Magnetic Excitations in the High-Field Phase of $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

A. N. Ponomaryov, L. Zviagina, J. Wosnitza, P. Lampen-Kelley, A. Banerjee, J.-Q. Yan, C. A. Bridges, D. G. Mandrus, S. E. Nagler, and S. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037202 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Low-temperature electron spin resonance measurements reveal that the spectrum of elementary excitations in the field-induced magnetically disordered phase in $α$ -RuCl $_{3}$ is dominated by single- and two-particle processes with magnons.

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Cutting and Slicing Weak Solids

Serge Mora and Yves Pomeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 038002 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Tangential sliding motion sets the maximum speed at which a blade can slice a soft solid.

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Solid-Liquid Transition of Deformable and Overlapping Active Particles

Benjamin Loewe, Michael Chiang, Davide Marenduzzo, and M. Cristina Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 038003 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

The solid-liquid transition in cellular monolayers changes from continuous to first-order-like when deformable cells are allowed to overlap.

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

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Observation of Magnetic Solitons in Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

A. Farolfi, D. Trypogeorgos, C. Mordini, G. Lamporesi, and G. Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030401 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Experiments generate self-reinforcing magnetic waves in a condensate containing both spin-up and spin-down atoms.

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Magnetic Solitons in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate

X. Chai, D. Lao, Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, Masahito Ueda, and C. Raman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030402 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Experiments generate self-reinforcing magnetic waves in a condensate containing both spin-up and spin-down atoms.

Efficient Implementation of a Quantum Algorithm in a Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Center of Diamond

Jingfu Zhang, Swathi S. Hegde, and Dieter Suter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030501 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Quantum Circuits with Classically Simulable Operator Scrambling

Mike Blake and Noah Linden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030502 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Reliability of Lattice Gauge Theories

Jad C. Halimeh and Philipp Hauke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030503 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Simulating Twistronics without a Twist

Tymoteusz Salamon, Alessio Celi, Ravindra W. Chhajlany, Irénée Frérot, Maciej Lewenstein, Leticia Tarruell, and Debraj Rakshit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030504 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Quantum Error Correction in Scrambling Dynamics and Measurement-Induced Phase Transition

Soonwon Choi, Yimu Bao, Xiao-Liang Qi, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030505 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Experimental Optimal Verification of Entangled States Using Local Measurements

Wen-Hao Zhang, Chao Zhang, Zhe Chen, Xing-Xiang Peng, Xiao-Ye Xu, Peng Yin, Shang Yu, Xiang-Jun Ye, Yong-Jian Han, Jin-Shi Xu, Geng Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030506 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Emergent Hydrodynamics in Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems

Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Christopher David White, Roger S. K. Mong, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030601 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Electron Beam Aberration Correction Using Optical Near Fields

Andrea Konečná and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 030801 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Supernova-Produced ${}^{53}{Mn}$ on Earth

G. Korschinek, T. Faestermann, M. Poutivtsev, A. Arazi, K. Knie, G. Rugel, and A. Wallner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 031101 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Universality in the Classical Limit of Massless Gravitational Scattering

Zvi Bern, Harald Ita, Julio Parra-Martinez, and Michael S. Ruf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 031601 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Universal Holographic Prediction for Quantum-Critical Dynamics

Sergei Khlebnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 031602 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Exactly Solvable Magnet of Conformal Spins in Four Dimensions

Sergey Derkachov and Enrico Olivucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 031603 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Classifying Nearest-Neighbor Interactions and Deformations of AdS

Marius de Leeuw, Chiara Paletta, Anton Pribytok, Ana L. Retore, and Paul Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 031604 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Cornering Spontaneous $C P$ Violation with Charged-Higgs-Boson Searches

Ulrich Nierste, Mustafa Tabet, and Robert Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 031801 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Inclusive Semileptonic Decays from Lattice QCD

Paolo Gambino and Shoji Hashimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 032001 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Quenching of Light Hadron Spectra in $p$ -A Collisions from Fully Coherent Energy Loss

François Arleo and Stéphane Peigné

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 032301 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Nuclear Excitation of the ${}^{229}{Th}$ Isomer via Defect States in Doped Crystals

Brenden S. Nickerson, Martin Pimon, Pavlo V. Bilous, Johannes Gugler, Kjeld Beeks, Tomas Sikorsky, Peter Mohn, Thorsten Schumm, and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 032501 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Short-Lived $α$ -Emitting Isotope ${}^{222}{Np}$ and the Stability of the $N = 126$ Magic Shell

L. Ma (马龙), Z. Y. Zhang (张志远), Z. G. Gan (甘再国), X. H. Zhou (周小红), H. B. Yang (杨华彬), M. H. Huang (黄明辉), C. L. Yang (杨春莉), M. M. Zhang (张明明), Y. L. Tian (田玉林), Y. S. Wang (王永生), H. B. Zhou (周厚兵), X. T. He (贺晓涛), Y. C. Mao (毛英臣), W. Hua (滑伟), L. M. Duan (段利敏), W. X. Huang (黄文学), Z. Liu (刘忠), X. X. Xu (徐新星), Z. Z. Ren (任中洲), S. G. Zhou (周善贵), and H. S. Xu (徐瑚珊)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 032502 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Direct Measurement of the ${}^{7}{Be}$ $L / K$ Capture Ratio in Ta-Based Superconducting Tunnel Junctions

S. Fretwell, K. G. Leach, C. Bray, G. B. Kim, J. Dilling, A. Lennarz, X. Mougeot, F. Ponce, C. Ruiz, J. Stackhouse, and S. Friedrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 032701 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Identification of ${Dy}^{3 +} / {Dy}^{2 +}$ as Electron Trap in Persistent Phosphors

Jonas J. Joos, Katleen Korthout, Lucia Amidani, Pieter Glatzel, Dirk Poelman, and Philippe F. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033001 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Probing Spin Correlations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Near the Single-Atom Level

An Qu, Bertrand Evrard, Jean Dalibard, and Fabrice Gerbier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033401 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Two-Photon Spontaneous Emission in Atomically Thin Plasmonic Nanostructures

Y. Muniz, A. Manjavacas, C. Farina, D. A. R. Dalvit, and W. J. M. Kort-Kamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033601 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Vibrational Dressing in Kinetically Constrained Rydberg Spin Systems

Paolo P. Mazza, Richard Schmidt, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033602 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

$P T$ -Symmetric Topological Edge-Gain Effect

Alex Y. Song, Xiao-Qi Sun, Avik Dutt, Momchil Minkov, Casey Wojcik, Haiwen Wang, Ian A. D. Williamson, Meir Orenstein, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033603 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

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Bragg Diffraction of Large Organic Molecules

Christian Brand, Filip Kiałka, Stephan Troyer, Christian Knobloch, Ksenija Simonović, Benjamin A. Stickler, Klaus Hornberger, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033604 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

Researchers create diffraction patterns using beams made of large organic molecules, a first step toward creating an interferometer for these systems.

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Reconstruction of the Instantaneous Earth Rotation Vector with Sub-Arcsecond Resolution Using a Large Scale Ring Laser Array

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033605 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

An array of ring lasers provides the first continuous measurement of Earth’s motion from a single location.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Non-Abelian Nodal Links in Photonics

Erchan Yang, Biao Yang, Oubo You, Hsun-Chi Chan, Peng Mao, Qinghua Guo, Shaojie Ma, Lingbo Xia, Dianyuan Fan, Yuanjiang Xiang, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033901 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Stretched-Pulse Soliton Kerr Resonators

Xue Dong, Qian Yang, Christopher Spiess, Victor G. Bucklew, and William H. Renninger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 033902 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Mode Hopping in Oscillating Systems with Stochastic Delays

Vladimir Klinshov, Dmitry Shchapin, and Otti D’Huys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 034101 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Orientation Dynamics of Sedimenting Anisotropic Particles in Turbulence

Prateek Anand, Samriddhi Sankar Ray, and Ganesh Subramanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 034501 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

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Shape Deformation and Drag Variation of a Coupled Rigid-Flexible System in a Flowing Soap Film

Song Gao (高颂), Song Pan (潘松), Huaicheng Wang (王怀成), and Xinliang Tian (田新亮)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 034502 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

A wire loop attached to a flat bar perpendicular to water flow inside a soap film adjusts its shape to reduce drag by as much as 10%.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Hollow Plasma Acceleration Driven by a Relativistic Reflected Hollow Laser

W. P. Wang, C. Jiang, H. Dong, X. M. Lu, J. F. Li, R. J. Xu, Y. J. Sun, L. H. Yu, Z. Guo, X. Y. Liang, Y. X. Leng, R. X. Li, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 034801 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Stabilization of Liner Implosions via a Dynamic Screw Pinch

Paul C. Campbell, T. M. Jones, J. M. Woolstrum, N. M. Jordan, P. F. Schmit, J. B. Greenly, W. M. Potter, E. S. Lavine, B. R. Kusse, D. A. Hammer, and R. D. McBride

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 035001 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Superfluid Flow of Polaron Polaritons above Landau’s Critical Velocity

K. Knakkergaard Nielsen, A. Camacho-Guardian, G. M. Bruun, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 035301 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Gapless Criterion for Crystals from Effective Axion Field

Jiabin Yu, Zhi-Da Song, and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036401 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Thermal and Quantum Melting Phase Diagrams for a Magnetic-Field-Induced Wigner Solid

Meng K. Ma, K. A. Villegas Rosales, H. Deng, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, R. Winkler, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036601 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

3D Quantum Hall Effect and a Global Picture of Edge States in Weyl Semimetals

Hailong Li, Haiwen Liu, Hua Jiang, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036602 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Non-Abelian Braiding of Dirac Fermionic Modes Using Topological Corner States in Higher-Order Topological Insulator

Yijia Wu, Hua Jiang, Jie Liu, Haiwen Liu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036801 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Bound Hole States Associated to Individual Vanadium Atoms Incorporated into Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Pierre Mallet, Florian Chiapello, Hanako Okuno, Hervé Boukari, Matthieu Jamet, and Jean-Yves Veuillen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036802 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

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Helical Edge States and Quantum Phase Transitions in Tetralayer Graphene

Shi Che, Yanmeng Shi, Jiawei Yang, Haidong Tian, Ruoyu Chen, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Dmitry Smirnov, Chun Ning Lau, Efrat Shimshoni, Ganpathy Murthy, and Herbert A. Fertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036803 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Tetralayer graphene tuned via a gate voltage displays a striking phase diagram consisting of one insulating and two metallic phases.

Defect-Selective Charge-Density-Wave Condensation in $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

Eunseok Oh, Gyeongcheol Gye, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 036804 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Vortex and Surface Phase Transitions in Superconducting Higher-order Topological Insulators

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Taylor L. Hughes, and Enrico Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037001 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Robust $A$ -Type Order and Spin-Flop Transition on the Surface of the Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator ${MnBi}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Paul M. Sass, Jinwoong Kim, David Vanderbilt, Jiaqiang Yan, and Weida Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037201 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

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Nature of Magnetic Excitations in the High-Field Phase of $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

A. N. Ponomaryov, L. Zviagina, J. Wosnitza, P. Lampen-Kelley, A. Banerjee, J.-Q. Yan, C. A. Bridges, D. G. Mandrus, S. E. Nagler, and S. A. Zvyagin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037202 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Electric-Field Switching of Magnetic Topological Charge in Type-I Multiferroics

Changsong Xu, Peng Chen, Hengxin Tan, Yurong Yang, Hongjun Xiang, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037203 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Coexistence and Interaction of Spinons and Magnons in an Antiferromagnet with Alternating Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Quantum Spin Chains

H. Zhang, Z. Zhao, D. Gautreau, M. Raczkowski, A. Saha, V. O. Garlea, H. Cao, T. Hong, H. O. Jeschke, Subhendra D. Mahanti, T. Birol, F. F. Assaad, and X. Ke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037204 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Anomalous Auger Recombination in PbSe

Xie Zhang, Jimmy-Xuan Shen, and Chris G. Van de Walle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037401 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

Flat Bands and Chiral Optical Response of Moiré Insulators

H. Ochoa and A. Asenjo-Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037402 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Ultrafast Topological Engineering in Metamaterials

Renwen Yu, Rasoul Alaee, Robert W. Boyd, and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037403 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

Observation of Seeded Mn $K β$ Stimulated X-Ray Emission Using Two-Color X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Pulses

Thomas Kroll, Clemens Weninger, Franklin D. Fuller, Marc W. Guetg, Andrei Benediktovitch, Yu Zhang, Agostino Marinelli, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Andy Aquila, Mengning Liang, Jason E. Koglin, Jake Koralek, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Diling Zhu, Jan Kern, Junko Yano, Vittal K. Yachandra, Nina Rohringer, Alberto Lutman, and Uwe Bergmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037404 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

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

Topological-Defect-Induced Surface Charge Heterogeneities in Nematic Electrolytes

Miha Ravnik and Jeffrey C. Everts

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 037801 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

Jamming Below Upper Critical Dimension

Harukuni Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 038001 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cutting and Slicing Weak Solids

Serge Mora and Yves Pomeau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 038002 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

Tangential sliding motion sets the maximum speed at which a blade can slice a soft solid.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Solid-Liquid Transition of Deformable and Overlapping Active Particles

Benjamin Loewe, Michael Chiang, Davide Marenduzzo, and M. Cristina Marchetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 038003 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

The solid-liquid transition in cellular monolayers changes from continuous to first-order-like when deformable cells are allowed to overlap.