Volume 125, Issue 5

31 July 2020

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Spatial energy concentration at the boundary of a hyperbolic lattice.

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Topological Hyperbolic Lattices
Sunkyu Yu, Xianji Piao, and Namkyoo Park
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053901 (2020)

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Optimization in First-Passage Resetting

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050602 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

A new statistical model that optimizes a system’s output could help to maximize the efficiency of mechanical systems.

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What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

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While astronomers look for a ninth planet to explain orbits in the outer Solar System, a duo explores the possibility that the mystery object is a primordial black hole.

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Ultracold Electrons via Near-Threshold Photoemission from Single-Crystal Cu(100)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 054801 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Researchers have generated the coldest electrons to date from solid-state photocathodes, an achievement that could improve electron sources for particle accelerators and ultrafast electron microscopy applications.

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Combining Eliashberg Theory with Density Functional Theory for the Accurate Prediction of Superconducting Transition Temperatures and Gap Functions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 057001 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

A refinement of the density-functional theory used to describe conventional superconductors dramatically increases the accuracy of the theory’s predictions.

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Emergence of Scale-Free Blackout Sizes in Power Grids

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058301 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

The probabilities of electricity blackouts may be influenced by the sizes of cities more than by the details of power grids.

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Fourth- and Fifth-Order Virial Coefficients from Weak Coupling to Unitarity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050403 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Fourth- and fifth-order virial expansion coefficients of a spin-1/2 Fermi gas are theoretically determined from weak coupling to the unitary point.

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Gravitational-Wave Signature of a First-Order Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Transition in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Shuai Zha, Evan P. O’Connor, Ming-chung Chu, Lap-Ming Lin, and Sean M. Couch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051102 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Hydrodynamic simulations demonstrate the influence of a first-order QCD phase transition on the gravitational wave signal produced by core-collapse supernovae.

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Search for Heavy Higgs Bosons Decaying into Two Tau Leptons with the ATLAS Detector Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051801 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

A search for heavy neutral Higgs bosons at the LHC agrees with the Standard Model and results in a significant reduction in parameter space for two-Higgs-doublet models.

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Giant Enhancement of Air Lasing by Complete Population Inversion in $N_{2}^{+}$

Hanxiao Li, Erik Lötstedt, Helong Li, Yan Zhou, Nana Dong, Lunhua Deng, Peifen Lu, Toshiaki Ando, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yao Fu, Siqi Wang, Jian Wu, Kaoru Yamanouchi, and Huailiang Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053201 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Enhancement by five to six orders of magnitude of the nitrogen lasing line is demonstrated experimentally through efficient population inversion using stimulated Raman adiabatic passage.

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Glassy Dynamics and Memory Effects in an Intrinsically Disordered Protein Construct

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058001 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

The relaxation of stretched intrinsically disordered proteins reveals glassy dynamics and memory effects at the single-molecule level.

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Inferring the Dynamics of Underdamped Stochastic Systems

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058103 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Unbiased estimators accurately infer underlying equations of motion from discrete, imperfect observables in underdamped stochastic systems.

LETTERS

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

Signature of Short-Range van der Waals Forces Observed in Poisson Spot Diffraction with Indium Atoms

Nicolas Gack, Christian Reitz, Joshua Leo Hemmerich, Max Könne, Robert Bennett, Johannes Fiedler, Herbert Gleiter, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Horst Hahn, and Thomas Reisinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050401 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

Finite-Component Multicriticality at the Superradiant Quantum Phase Transition

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050402 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

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Fourth- and Fifth-Order Virial Coefficients from Weak Coupling to Unitarity

Y. Hou and J. E. Drut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050403 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Fourth- and fifth-order virial expansion coefficients of a spin-1/2 Fermi gas are theoretically determined from weak coupling to the unitary point.

Bipartite Postquantum Steering in Generalized Scenarios

Ana Belén Sainz, Matty J. Hoban, Paul Skrzypczyk, and Leandro Aolita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050404 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Quantum Fluctuations of the Center of Mass and Relative Parameters of Nonlinear Schrödinger Breathers

Oleksandr V. Marchukov, Boris A. Malomed, Vanja Dunjko, Joanna Ruhl, Maxim Olshanii, Randall G. Hulet, and Vladimir A. Yurovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050405 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Computer-Inspired Concept for High-Dimensional Multipartite Quantum Gates

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050501 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

Universal Logical Gates on Topologically Encoded Qubits via Constant-Depth Unitary Circuits

Guanyu Zhu, Ali Lavasani, and Maissam Barkeshli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050502 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Quantum Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for Continuous Measurement

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050601 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

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Optimization in First-Passage Resetting

B. De Bruyne, J Randon-Furling, and S. Redner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050602 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

A new statistical model that optimizes a system’s output could help to maximize the efficiency of mechanical systems.

Numerical Verification of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Isolated Quantum Systems

Jae Dong Noh, Takahiro Sagawa, and Joonhyun Yeo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 050603 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Signature of Energy Losses on the Cosmic Ray Electron Spectrum

Carmelo Evoli, Pasquale Blasi, Elena Amato, and Roberto Aloisio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051101 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

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Gravitational-Wave Signature of a First-Order Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Transition in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Shuai Zha, Evan P. O’Connor, Ming-chung Chu, Lap-Ming Lin, and Sean M. Couch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051102 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Hydrodynamic simulations demonstrate the influence of a first-order QCD phase transition on the gravitational wave signal produced by core-collapse supernovae.

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What If Planet 9 Is a Primordial Black Hole?

Jakub Scholtz and James Unwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051103 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

While astronomers look for a ninth planet to explain orbits in the outer Solar System, a duo explores the possibility that the mystery object is a primordial black hole.

Muons in Supernovae: Implications for the Axion-Muon Coupling

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051104 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Reformulation of the Cosmological Constant Problem

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051301 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Alleviating the Tension in the Cosmic Microwave Background Using Planck-Scale Physics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051302 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Heavy Higgs Bosons Decaying into Two Tau Leptons with the ATLAS Detector Using $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051801 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

A search for heavy neutral Higgs bosons at the LHC agrees with the Standard Model and results in a significant reduction in parameter space for two-Higgs-doublet models.

Novel Method to Reliably Determine the Photon Helicity in $B \to K_{1} γ$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051802 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Measuring the Weak Mixing Angle in the DUNE Near-Detector Complex

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Higgs Boson Production in Bottom-Quark Fusion to Third Order in the Strong Coupling

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QCD Crossover at Finite Chemical Potential from Lattice Simulations

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 052001 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Parton Showers beyond Leading Logarithmic Accuracy

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Kinetic Heavy Quark Mass to Three Loops

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 052003 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

$Σ^{+}$ and ${\bar{Σ}}^{-}$ Polarization in the $J / ψ$ and $ψ (3686)$ Decays

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 052004 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Nonresonant Density of States Enhancement at Low Energies for Three or Four Neutrons

Michael D. Higgins, Chris H. Greene, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 052501 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Efficient Ground-State Cooling of Large Trapped-Ion Chains with an Electromagnetically-Induced-Transparency Tripod Scheme

L. Feng, W. L. Tan, A. De, A. Menon, A. Chu, G. Pagano, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053001 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

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Giant Enhancement of Air Lasing by Complete Population Inversion in $N_{2}^{+}$

Hanxiao Li, Erik Lötstedt, Helong Li, Yan Zhou, Nana Dong, Lunhua Deng, Peifen Lu, Toshiaki Ando, Atsushi Iwasaki, Yao Fu, Siqi Wang, Jian Wu, Kaoru Yamanouchi, and Huailiang Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053201 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Enhancement by five to six orders of magnitude of the nitrogen lasing line is demonstrated experimentally through efficient population inversion using stimulated Raman adiabatic passage.

Coherent Control of Internal Conversion in Strong-Field Molecular Ionization

Brian Kaufman, Tamás Rozgonyi, Philipp Marquetand, and Thomas Weinacht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053202 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Topological Euler Class as a Dynamical Observable in Optical Lattices

F. Nur Ünal, Adrien Bouhon, and Robert-Jan Slager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053601 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

Photoinduced Electron Pairing in a Driven Cavity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053602 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Imaging and Localizing Individual Atoms Interfaced with a Nanophotonic Waveguide

Y. Meng, C. Liedl, S. Pucher, A. Rauschenbeutel, and P. Schneeweiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053603 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Quantum Persistent Tennis Racket Dynamics of Nanorotors

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053604 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

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Topological Hyperbolic Lattices

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053901 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Generation and Annihilation of Topologically Protected Bound States in the Continuum and Circularly Polarized States by Symmetry Breaking

Taiki Yoda and Masaya Notomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 053902 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Stable Nonlinear Modes Sustained by Gauge Fields

Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Vladimir V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 054101 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Zero-Index Weyl Metamaterials

Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad and Romain Fleury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 054301 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Unstable Invasion of Sedimenting Granular Suspensions

Arshad Kudrolli, Rausan Jewel, Ram Sudhir Sharma, and Alexander P. Petroff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 054501 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Elliptical Instability and Multiple-Roll Flow Modes of the Large-Scale Circulation in Confined Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Lukas Zwirner, Andreas Tilgner, and Olga Shishkina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 054502 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Ultracold Electrons via Near-Threshold Photoemission from Single-Crystal Cu(100)

Siddharth Karkare, Gowri Adhikari, W. Andreas Schroeder, J. Kevin Nangoi, Tomas Arias, Jared Maxson, and Howard Padmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 054801 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Multimode Hydrodynamic Instability Growth of Preimposed Isolated Defects in Ablatively Driven Foils

C. Zulick, Y. Aglitskiy, M. Karasik, A. J. Schmitt, A. L. Velikovich, and S. P. Obenschain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 055001 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Fast and Universal Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory Algorithm for Warm Dense Matter to Hot Dense Plasma

A. J. White and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 055002 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Normal-Superfluid Phase Separation in Spin-Half Bosons at Finite Temperature

Li He, Peipei Gao, and Zeng-Qiang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 055301 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Cooperative Shear in Bulk Metallic Glass Composites Containing Metastable $β$ -Ti Dendrites

L. Zhang, R. L. Narayan, B. A. Sun, T. Y. Yan, U. Ramamurty, J. Eckert, and H. F. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 055501 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Wave-Vector Dependence of the Dynamics in Supercooled Metallic Liquids

B. Ruta, S. Hechler, N. Neuber, D. Orsi, L. Cristofolini, O. Gross, B. Bochtler, M. Frey, A. Kuball, S. S. Riegler, M. Stolpe, Z. Evenson, C. Gutt, F. Westermeier, R. Busch, and I. Gallino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 055701 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

Ions in an AC Electric Field: Strong Long-Range Repulsion between Oppositely Charged Surfaces

Łukasz Richter, Paweł J. Żuk, Piotr Szymczak, Jan Paczesny, Krzysztof M. Bąk, Tomasz Szymborski, Piotr Garstecki, Howard A. Stone, Robert Hołyst, and Carlos Drummond

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 056001 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topologically Protected Correlated End Spin Formation in Carbon Nanotubes

Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Wataru Izumida, Balázs Dóra, Örs Legeza, János K. Asbóth, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 056401 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Universal Approach to Magnetic Second-Order Topological Insulator

Cong Chen, Zhida Song, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Ziyu Chen, Zhi-Ming Yu, Xian-Lei Sheng, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 056402 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Parity-Protected Superconductor-Semiconductor Qubit

T. W. Larsen, M. E. Gershenson, L. Casparis, A. Kringhøj, N. J. Pearson, R. P. G. McNeil, F. Kuemmeth, P. Krogstrup, K. D. Petersson, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 056801 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

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Combining Eliashberg Theory with Density Functional Theory for the Accurate Prediction of Superconducting Transition Temperatures and Gap Functions

A. Sanna, C. Pellegrini, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 057001 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

A refinement of the density-functional theory used to describe conventional superconductors dramatically increases the accuracy of the theory’s predictions.

Hopf Solitons in Helical and Conical Backgrounds of Chiral Magnetic Solids

Robert Voinescu, Jung-Shen B. Tai (戴榮身), and Ivan I. Smalyukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 057201 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

Haldane Gap of the Three-Box Symmetric SU(3) Chain

Samuel Gozel, Pierre Nataf, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 057202 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

Bypassing Dynamical Freezing in Artificial Kagome Ice

V. Schánilec, B. Canals, V. Uhlíř, L. Flajšman, J. Sadílek, T. Šikola, and N. Rougemaille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 057203 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

Quantum and Thermal Phase Transitions of the Triangular SU(3) Heisenberg Model under Magnetic Fields

Daisuke Yamamoto, Chihiro Suzuki, Giacomo Marmorini, Sho Okazaki, and Nobuo Furukawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 057204 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

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

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Glassy Dynamics and Memory Effects in an Intrinsically Disordered Protein Construct

Ian L. Morgan, Ram Avinery, Gil Rahamim, Roy Beck, and Omar A. Saleh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058001 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

The relaxation of stretched intrinsically disordered proteins reveals glassy dynamics and memory effects at the single-molecule level.

To Understand Film Dynamics Look to the Bulk

Ronald P. White and Jane E. G. Lipson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058002 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

Elucidating the Origin of Heterogeneous Anomalous Diffusion in the Cytoplasm of Mammalian Cells

Adal Sabri, Xinran Xu, Diego Krapf, and Matthias Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058101 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

Elastohydrodynamic Scaling Law for Heart Rates

E. Virot, V. Spandan, L. Niu, W. M. van Rees, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058102 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

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Inferring the Dynamics of Underdamped Stochastic Systems

David B. Brückner, Pierre Ronceray, and Chase P. Broedersz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058103 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

Unbiased estimators accurately infer underlying equations of motion from discrete, imperfect observables in underdamped stochastic systems.

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Emergence of Scale-Free Blackout Sizes in Power Grids

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 058301 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

The probabilities of electricity blackouts may be influenced by the sizes of cities more than by the details of power grids.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Stabilized Pair Density Wave via Nanoscale Confinement of Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ ”

Lev V. Levitin, Xavier Rojas, Petri J. Heikkinen, Andrew J. Casey, Jeevak M. Parpia, and John Saunders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 059601 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

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