Volume 125, Issue 4

24 July 2020

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Calculated Berry curvature Ω_x on the Fermi surface of T_d-MoTe₂.

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Engineering Weyl Phases and Nonlinear Hall Effects in $T_{d}$ - ${MoTe}_{2}$
Sobhit Singh, Jinwoong Kim, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046402 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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CBETA: First Multipass Superconducting Linear Accelerator with Energy Recovery

A. Bartnik, N. Banerjee, D. Burke, J. Crittenden, K. Deitrick, J. Dobbins, C. Gulliford, G. H. Hoffstaetter, Y. Li, W. Lou, P. Quigley, D. Sagan, K. Smolenski, J. S. Berg, S. Brooks, R. Hulsart, G. Mahler, F. Meot, R. Michnoff, S. Peggs, T. Roser, D. Trbojevic, N. Tsoupas, and T. Miyajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 044803 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

A test electron accelerator reuses the energy of the particles in order to achieve a brighter beam without drawing more power from the grid.

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Effect of Resource Dynamics on Species Packing in Diverse Ecosystems

Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland, III, and Pankaj Mehta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048101 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

A model that treats species and food sources as spins in a spin glass finds a surprising limit on species diversity for some types of ecosystems.

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Thermal Habitat for RNA Amplification and Accumulation

Annalena Salditt, Lorenz M. R. Keil, David P. Horning, Christof B. Mast, Gerald F. Joyce, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048104 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

RNA can replicate in conditions that could be found on the early Earth, suggesting a possible step in the origin of life.

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Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Loïc Anderegg, Yicheng Bao, Sean Burchesky, Scarlett S. Yu, Wolfgang Ketterle, Kang-Kuen Ni, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043401 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Two single molecules trapped in separate optical tweezers are prepared in desired initial states and subsequently made to interact in a controlled fashion.

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Contact in the Unitary Fermi Gas across the Superfluid Phase Transition

S. Jensen, C. N. Gilbreth, and Y. Alhassid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043402 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

The temperature dependence of the contact in the unitary Fermi gas is calculated across the superfluid phase transition, giving results in excellent agreement with the most recent precision ultracold atomic gas experiments.

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Ultralong Spin-Coherence Times for Rubidium Atoms in Solid Parahydrogen via Dynamical Decoupling

Sunil Upadhyay, Ugne Dargyte, David Patterson, and Jonathan D. Weinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043601 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Electron spin coherence times of 100 ms are experimentally demonstrated for an ensemble of rubidium atoms trapped in a solid parahydrogen matrix.

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Precise Experimental Test of the Luttinger Theorem and Particle-Hole Symmetry for a Strongly Correlated Fermionic System

Md. Shafayat Hossain, M. A. Mueed, M. K. Ma, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046601 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The verification of the applicability of the Luttinger theorem and particle-hole symmetry to describe the composite fermion Fermi sea also reveals a deviation from the predictions of existing (Dirac and Halperin-Lee-Read) theories.

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Gate-Tuned Interlayer Coupling in van der Waals Ferromagnet ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$ Nanoflakes

Guolin Zheng, Wen-Qiang Xie, Sultan Albarakati, Meri Algarni, Cheng Tan, Yihao Wang, Jingyang Peng, James Partridge, Lawrence Farrar, Jiabao Yi, Yimin Xiong, Mingliang Tian, Yu-Jun Zhao, and Lan Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047202 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Increasing the proton numbers in a van der Waals magnet leads to increased interlayer coupling, opening the possibility of controlling the coupling for applications.

LETTERS

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

Aharonov-Bohm Phase is Locally Generated Like All Other Quantum Phases

Chiara Marletto and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040401 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Modular Bosonic Subsystem Codes

Giacomo Pantaleoni, Ben Q. Baragiola, and Nicolas C. Menicucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040501 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Cost of Quantum Entanglement Simplified

Xin Wang and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040502 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Fluctuations in Extractable Work Bound the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Alioscia Hamma, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040601 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Nonequilibrium Criticality in Quench Dynamics of Long-Range Spin Models

Paraj Titum and Mohammad F. Maghrebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040602 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

From Stochastic Spin Chains to Quantum Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Dynamics

Tony Jin, Alexandre Krajenbrink, and Denis Bernard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040603 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Too Close to Integrable: Crossover from Normal to Anomalous Heat Diffusion

Stefano Lepri, Roberto Livi, and Antonio Politi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040604 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Recovery of Damaged Information and the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators

Bin Yan and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040605 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Photonic-Crystal Scintillators: Molding the Flow of Light to Enhance X-Ray and $γ$ -Ray Detection

Yaniv Kurman, Avner Shultzman, Ohad Segal, Adi Pick, and Ido Kaminer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 040801 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Persistent Astrometric Deflections from Gravitational-Wave Memory

Dustin R. Madison

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 041101 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

First Simulations of Axion Minicluster Halos

Benedikt Eggemeier, Javier Redondo, Klaus Dolag, Jens C. Niemeyer, and Alejandro Vaquero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 041301 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Exponential Corrections to Black Hole Entropy

Ayan Chatterjee and Amit Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 041302 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bootstrapping Matrix Quantum Mechanics

Xizhi Han (韩希之), Sean A. Hartnoll, and Jorrit Kruthoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 041601 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Maximal-Helicity-Violating Scattering of Gluons and Gravitons in Chiral Strong Fields

Tim Adamo, Lionel Mason, and Atul Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 041602 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Attractive Spin-Orbit Potential from the Skyrme Model

Chris Halcrow and Derek Harland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 042501 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Distinction of Electron Dispersion in Time-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Qing Liao, Wei Cao, Qingbin Zhang, Kai Liu, Feng Wang, Peixiang Lu, and Uwe Thumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043201 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Free Space Ramsey Spectroscopy in Rubidium with Noise below the Quantum Projection Limit

Benjamin K. Malia, Julián Martínez-Rincón, Yunfan Wu, Onur Hosten, and Mark A. Kasevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043202 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

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Observation of Collisions between Two Ultracold Ground-State CaF Molecules

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Loïc Anderegg, Yicheng Bao, Sean Burchesky, Scarlett S. Yu, Wolfgang Ketterle, Kang-Kuen Ni, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043401 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Two single molecules trapped in separate optical tweezers are prepared in desired initial states and subsequently made to interact in a controlled fashion.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Contact in the Unitary Fermi Gas across the Superfluid Phase Transition

S. Jensen, C. N. Gilbreth, and Y. Alhassid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043402 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultralong Spin-Coherence Times for Rubidium Atoms in Solid Parahydrogen via Dynamical Decoupling

Sunil Upadhyay, Ugne Dargyte, David Patterson, and Jonathan D. Weinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043601 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Electron spin coherence times of 100 ms are experimentally demonstrated for an ensemble of rubidium atoms trapped in a solid parahydrogen matrix.

Direct Characteristic-Function Tomography of Quantum States of the Trapped-Ion Motional Oscillator

C. Flühmann and J. P. Home

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043602 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Photon Statistics of Filtered Resonance Fluorescence

Catherine L. Phillips, Alistair J. Brash, Dara P. S. McCutcheon, Jake Iles-Smith, Edmund Clarke, Benjamin Royall, Maurice S. Skolnick, A. Mark Fox, and Ahsan Nazir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043603 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

Mechanical Squeezing via Fast Continuous Measurement

Chao Meng, George A. Brawley, James S. Bennett, Michael R. Vanner, and Warwick P. Bowen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043604 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extraordinary Multipole Modes and Ultra-Enhanced Optical Lateral Force by Chirality

Tongtong Zhu, Yuzhi Shi, Weiqiang Ding, Din Ping Tsai, Tun Cao, Ai Qun Liu, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Juan José Sáenz, Pin Chieh Wu, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043901 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Nonstationary Intensity Statistics in Diffusive Waves

Ruitao Wu and Aristide Dogariu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 043902 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Suspension Jams in a Leaky Microfluidic Channel

J. S. Yodh, V. Spandan, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 044501 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Enhanced Self-Seeding with Ultrashort Electron Beams

Erik Hemsing, Aliaksei Halavanau, and Zhen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 044801 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Production of Highly Polarized Positron Beams via Helicity Transfer from Polarized Electrons in a Strong Laser Field

Yan-Fei Li, Yue-Yue Chen, Wei-Min Wang, and Hua-Si Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 044802 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

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CBETA: First Multipass Superconducting Linear Accelerator with Energy Recovery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 044803 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

A test electron accelerator reuses the energy of the particles in order to achieve a brighter beam without drawing more power from the grid.

Wide Operational Windows of Edge-Localized Mode Suppression by Resonant Magnetic Perturbations in the DIII-D Tokamak

Q. M. Hu, R. Nazikian, B. A. Grierson, N. C. Logan, D. M. Orlov, C. Paz-Soldan, and Q. Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 045001 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Direct Structural Identification and Quantification of the Split-Vacancy Configuration for Implanted Sn in Diamond

U. Wahl, J. G. Correia, R. Villarreal, E. Bourgeois, M. Gulka, M. Nesládek, A. Vantomme, and L. M. C. Pereira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 045301 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Anharmonicity and Ultralow Thermal Conductivity in Lead-Free Halide Double Perovskites

Johan Klarbring, Olle Hellman, Igor A. Abrikosov, and Sergei I. Simak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 045701 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Role of Interfacial Entropy in the Particle-Size Dependence of Thermophoretic Mobility

A. Arango-Restrepo and J. M. Rubi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 045901 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Many-Body Resonance in a Correlated Topological Kagome Antiferromagnet

Songtian Sonia Zhang, Jia-Xin Yin, Muhammad Ikhlas, Hung-Ju Tien, Rui Wang, Nana Shumiya, Guoqing Chang, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Youguo Shi, Changjiang Yi, Zurab Guguchia, Hang Li, Wenhong Wang, Tay-Rong Chang, Ziqiang Wang, Yi-feng Yang, Titus Neupert, Satoru Nakatsuji, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046401 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Engineering Weyl Phases and Nonlinear Hall Effects in $T_{d}$ - ${MoTe}_{2}$

Sobhit Singh, Jinwoong Kim, Karin M. Rabe, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046402 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Unraveling the Topological Phase of ${ZrTe}_{5}$ via Magnetoinfrared Spectroscopy

Y. Jiang, J. Wang, T. Zhao, Z. L. Dun, Q. Huang, X. S. Wu, M. Mourigal, H. D. Zhou, W. Pan, M. Ozerov, D. Smirnov, and Z. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046403 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

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Precise Experimental Test of the Luttinger Theorem and Particle-Hole Symmetry for a Strongly Correlated Fermionic System

Md. Shafayat Hossain, M. A. Mueed, M. K. Ma, K. A. Villegas Rosales, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046601 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Strain Tunable Semimetal–Topological-Insulator Transition in Monolayer $1 T^{'} − {WTe}_{2}$

Chenxiao Zhao, Mengli Hu, Jin Qin, Bing Xia, Canhua Liu, Shiyong Wang, DanDan Guan, Yaoyi Li, Hao Zheng, Junwei Liu, and Jinfeng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 046801 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Kitaev Spin Liquid in $3 d$ Transition Metal Compounds

Huimei Liu, Jiří Chaloupka, and Giniyat Khaliullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047201 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

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Gate-Tuned Interlayer Coupling in van der Waals Ferromagnet ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$ Nanoflakes

Guolin Zheng, Wen-Qiang Xie, Sultan Albarakati, Meri Algarni, Cheng Tan, Yihao Wang, Jingyang Peng, James Partridge, Lawrence Farrar, Jiabao Yi, Yimin Xiong, Mingliang Tian, Yu-Jun Zhao, and Lan Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047202 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Increasing the proton numbers in a van der Waals magnet leads to increased interlayer coupling, opening the possibility of controlling the coupling for applications.

Topological Magnons with Nodal-Line and Triple-Point Degeneracies: Implications for Thermal Hall Effect in Pyrochlore Iridates

Kyusung Hwang, Nandini Trivedi, and Mohit Randeria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047203 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Majorana-Mediated Spin Transport in Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquids

Tetsuya Minakawa, Yuta Murakami, Akihisa Koga, and Joji Nasu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047204 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Polarization- and Wavelength-Dependent Shell-Isolated-Nanoparticle-Enhanced Sum-Frequency Generation with High Sensitivity

Yuhan He, He Ren, En-Ming You, Petar M. Radjenovic, Shi-Gang Sun, Zhong-Qun Tian, Jian-Feng Li, and Zhaohui Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047401 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

Chiral-Anomaly-Driven Casimir-Lifshitz Torque between Weyl Semimetals

Liang Chen and Kai Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047402 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Two-Dimensional Antiferroelectricity in Nanostripe-Ordered ${In}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

Chao Xu, Yancong Chen, Xiangbin Cai, Arno Meingast, Xuyun Guo, Fakun Wang, Ziyuan Lin, Tsz Wing Lo, Christian Maunders, Sorin Lazar, Ning Wang, Dangyuan Lei, Yang Chai, Tianyou Zhai, Xin Luo, and Ye Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047601 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Measurement of Backaction from Electron Spins in a Gate-Defined GaAs Double Quantum dot Coupled to a Mesoscopic Nuclear Spin Bath

P. Bethke, R. P. G. McNeil, J. Ritzmann, T. Botzem, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, and H. Bluhm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047701 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

Quantum Quasi-Monte Carlo Technique for Many-Body Perturbative Expansions

Marjan Maček, Philipp T. Dumitrescu, Corentin Bertrand, Bill Triggs, Olivier Parcollet, and Xavier Waintal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047702 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

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

Geometry of Bend: Singular Lines and Defects in Twist-Bend Nematics

Jack Binysh, Joseph Pollard, and Gareth P. Alexander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 047801 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

Migrating Shear Bands in Shaken Granular Matter

Jonathan E. Kollmer, Tara Shreve, Joelle Claussen, Stefan Gerth, Michael Salamon, Norman Uhlmann, Matthias Schröter, and Thorsten Pöschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048001 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

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Effect of Resource Dynamics on Species Packing in Diverse Ecosystems

Wenping Cui, Robert Marsland, III, and Pankaj Mehta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048101 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

A model that treats species and food sources as spins in a spin glass finds a surprising limit on species diversity for some types of ecosystems.

Large Deviation Principle Linking Lineage Statistics to Fitness in Microbial Populations

Ethan Levien, Trevor GrandPre, and Ariel Amir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048102 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

Cell-to-Cell Information at a Feedback-Induced Bifurcation Point

Amir Erez, Tommy A. Byrd, Michael Vennettilli, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048103 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

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Thermal Habitat for RNA Amplification and Accumulation

Annalena Salditt, Lorenz M. R. Keil, David P. Horning, Christof B. Mast, Gerald F. Joyce, and Dieter Braun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048104 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

RNA can replicate in conditions that could be found on the early Earth, suggesting a possible step in the origin of life.

Population Dynamics in a Changing Environment: Random versus Periodic Switching

Ami Taitelbaum, Robert West, Michael Assaf, and Mauro Mobilia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048105 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

ERRATA

Erratum: Evolution of $π^{0}$ Suppression in $Au + Au$ Collisions from $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 39$ to 200 GeV [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 152301 (2012)]

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 049901 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020