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Spatial profile of the lateral optical force acting on a spherical particle in air or vacuum illuminated by five plane wave interference fields with a regular distribution of incident angles. Dark red and blue indicate extremes of the force.

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Lateral Optical Force due to the Breaking of Electric-Magnetic Symmetry
Huajin Chen, Hongxia Zheng, Wanli Lu, Shiyang Liu, Jack Ng, and Zhifang Lin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073901 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P. Adamson et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration, MINOS+ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 071801 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Neutrino experiments place the most stringent limits to date on a hypothetical fourth neutrino, but the possibility that such a particle exists remains open.

Precision Microwave Spectroscopy of the Positronium n=2 Fine Structure

L. Gurung, T. J. Babij, S. D. Hogan, and D. B. Cassidy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073002 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

A high-precision measurement of positronium’s fine structure delivers a puzzling discrepancy with predictions from quantum electrodynamics.

Electronic Population Transfer via Impulsive Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulses

Jordan T. O’Neal et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073203 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Ultrashort pulses of x rays swap electrons around in molecules of nitric oxide, an important first step to tracking charge motion in molecules.

Optical Guiding in Meter-Scale Plasma Waveguides

B. Miao, L. Feder, J. E. Shrock, A. Goffin, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 074801 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

A scheme for guiding high-intensity laser light allows a new level of control of the waveguide’s properties, which could boost the performance of laser-based particle accelerators.

Model Construction and a Possibility of Cupratelike Pairing in a New d9 Nickelate Superconductor (Nd,Sr)NiO2

Hirofumi Sakakibara, Hidetomo Usui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Takao Kotani, Hideo Aoki, and Kazuhiko Kuroki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077003 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

A newly discovered superconductor has a surprisingly low transition temperature, but its electronic structure points the way to materials that superconduct at higher temperatures.

Energy Harvesting from Drops Impacting onto Charged Surfaces

Hao Wu, Niels Mendel, Dirk van den Ende, Guofu Zhou, and Frieder Mugele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078301 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

A clever coupling of triboelectric charging and the hydrophobic effect leads to a remarkably efficient electrical nanogenerator.

Direct Visualization of Ambipolar Mott Transition in Cuprate CuO2 Planes

Yong Zhong, Jia-Qi Fan, Rui-Feng Wang, ShuZe Wang, Xuefeng Zhang, Yuying Zhu, Ziyuan Dou, Xue-Qing Yu, Yang Wang, Ding Zhang, Jing Zhu, Can-Li Song, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077002 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Doping-dependent scanning tunneling measurements uncover a metal to Mott insulator transition in infinite-layer cuprate thin films.

LETTERS

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

Significance and Sensor Utility of Phase in Quantum Localization Transition

Kunal K. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070401 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Creating Ensembles of Dual Unitary and Maximally Entangling Quantum Evolutions

Suhail Ahmad Rather, S. Aravinda, and Arul Lakshminarayan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070501 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Demonstration of Channel Multiplexing Quantum Communication Exploiting Entangled Sideband Modes

Shaoping Shi, Long Tian, Yajun Wang, Yaohui Zheng, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070502 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains

Jacopo De Nardis, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Enej Ilievski, and Romain Vasseur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070601 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Algebraic Construction of Current Operators in Integrable Spin Chains

Balázs Pozsgay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070602 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Quantum Refrigeration with Indefinite Causal Order

David Felce and Vlatko Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070603 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Signatures of Associative Memory Behavior in a Multimode Dicke Model

Eliana Fiorelli, Matteo Marcuzzi, Pietro Rotondo, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070604 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Eigenstate Thermalization in a Locally Perturbed Integrable System

Marlon Brenes, Tyler LeBlond, John Goold, and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070605 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Scalable Probes of Measurement-Induced Criticality

Michael J. Gullans and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 070606 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Joining Bits and Pieces of Reionization History

Dhiraj Kumar Hazra, Daniela Paoletti, Fabio Finelli, and George F. Smoot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 071301 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Improved Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Mixing from Disappearance Searches in the MINOS, MINOS+, Daya Bay, and Bugey-3 Experiments

P. Adamson et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration, MINOS+ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 071801 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Neutrino experiments place the most stringent limits to date on a hypothetical fourth neutrino, but the possibility that such a particle exists remains open.

Global Fit to Modified Neutrino Couplings and the Cabibbo-Angle Anomaly

Antonio M. Coutinho, Andreas Crivellin, and Claudio Andrea Manzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 071802 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Probing the Partonic Degrees of Freedom in High-Multiplicity pPb collisions at sNN=5.02TeV

Wenbin Zhao, Che Ming Ko, Yu-Xin Liu, Guang-You Qin, and Huichao Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 072301 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Detection of the Lowest-Lying Odd-Parity Atomic Levels in Actinium

Ke Zhang, Dominik Studer, Felix Weber, Vadim M. Gadelshin, Nina Kneip, Sebastian Raeder, Dmitry Budker, Klaus Wendt, Tom Kieck, Sergey G. Porsev, Charles Cheung, Marianna S. Safronova, and Mikhail G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073001 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Precision Microwave Spectroscopy of the Positronium n=2 Fine Structure

L. Gurung, T. J. Babij, S. D. Hogan, and D. B. Cassidy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073002 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

A high-precision measurement of positronium’s fine structure delivers a puzzling discrepancy with predictions from quantum electrodynamics.

Observation of a π-Type Dipole-Bound State in Molecular Anions

Dao-Fu Yuan, Yuan Liu, Chen-Hui Qian, Yue-Rou Zhang, Brenda M. Rubenstein, and Lai-Sheng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073003 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

Slow Decay Processes of Electrostatically Trapped Rydberg NO Molecules

A. Deller, M. H. Rayment, and S. D. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073201 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Theory of Subcycle Linear Momentum Transfer in Strong-Field Tunneling Ionization

Hongcheng Ni, Simon Brennecke, Xiang Gao, Pei-Lun He, Stefan Donsa, Iva Březinová, Feng He, Jian Wu, Manfred Lein, Xiao-Min Tong, and Joachim Burgdörfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073202 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Electronic Population Transfer via Impulsive Stimulated X-Ray Raman Scattering with Attosecond Soft-X-Ray Pulses

Jordan T. O’Neal et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073203 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Ultrashort pulses of x rays swap electrons around in molecules of nitric oxide, an important first step to tracking charge motion in molecules.

Realization and Detection of Nonergodic Critical Phases in an Optical Raman Lattice

Yucheng Wang, Long Zhang, Sen Niu, Dapeng Yu, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073204 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Kerker Conditions upon Lossless, Absorption, and Optical Gain Regimes

Jorge Olmos-Trigo, Cristina Sanz-Fernández, Diego R. Abujetas, Jon Lasa-Alonso, Nuno de Sousa, Aitzol García-Etxarri, José A. Sánchez-Gil, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, and Juan José Sáenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073205 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Photon Blockade with Ground-State Neutral Atoms

A. Cidrim, T. S. do Espirito Santo, J. Schachenmayer, R. Kaiser, and R. Bachelard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073601 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Superatom Picture of Collective Nonclassical Light Emission and Dipole Blockade in Atom Arrays

L. A. Williamson, M. O. Borgh, and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073602 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Lateral Optical Force due to the Breaking of Electric-Magnetic Symmetry

Huajin Chen, Hongxia Zheng, Wanli Lu, Shiyang Liu, Jack Ng, and Zhifang Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 073901 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Orbital Angular Momentum Reversal and Asymmetry in Acoustic Vortex Beam Reflection

Zheguang Zou, Robert Lirette, and Likun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 074301 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Multiple States in Turbulent Large-Aspect-Ratio Thermal Convection: What Determines the Number of Convection Rolls?

Qi Wang, Roberto Verzicco, Detlef Lohse, and Olga Shishkina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 074501 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Optical Guiding in Meter-Scale Plasma Waveguides

B. Miao, L. Feder, J. E. Shrock, A. Goffin, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 074801 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

A scheme for guiding high-intensity laser light allows a new level of control of the waveguide’s properties, which could boost the performance of laser-based particle accelerators.

Turbulence Mechanisms of Enhanced Performance Stellarator Plasmas

P. Xanthopoulos, S. A. Bozhenkov, M. N. Beurskens, H. M. Smith, G. G. Plunk, P. Helander, C. D. Beidler, J. A. Alcusón, A. Alonso, A. Dinklage, O. Ford, G. Fuchert, J. Geiger, J. H. E. Proll, M. J. Pueschel, Y. Turkin, F. Warmer, and the W7-X Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 075001 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Test of the Dynamic-Domain and Critical Scattering Hypotheses in Cubic Methylammonium Lead Triiodide

Nicholas J. Weadock, Peter M. Gehring, Aryeh Gold-Parker, Ian C. Smith, Hemamala I. Karunadasa, and Michael F. Toney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 075701 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Silicon

M. W. C. Dharma-wardana, Dennis D. Klug, and Richard C. Remsing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 075702 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Charging Dynamics of Overlapping Double Layers in a Cylindrical Nanopore

Ankur Gupta, Pawel J. Zuk, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076001 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Anisotropic X-Ray Scattering of Transiently Oriented Water

Kyung Hwan Kim, Alexander Späh, Harshad Pathak, Cheolhee Yang, Stefano Bonetti, Katrin Amann-Winkel, Daniel Mariedahl, Daniel Schlesinger, Jonas A. Sellberg, Derek Mendez, Gijs van der Schot, Harold Y. Hwang, Jesse Clark, Owada Shigeki, Togashi Tadashi, Yoshihisa Harada, Hirohito Ogasawara, Tetsuo Katayama, Anders Nilsson, and Fivos Perakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076002 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Light-Induced Renormalization of the Dirac Quasiparticles in the Nodal-Line Semimetal ZrSiSe

G. Gatti, A. Crepaldi, M. Puppin, N. Tancogne-Dejean, L. Xian, U. De Giovannini, S. Roth, S. Polishchuk, Ph. Bugnon, A. Magrez, H. Berger, F. Frassetto, L. Poletto, L. Moreschini, S. Moser, A. Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, A. Rubio, M. Chergui, and M. Grioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076401 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Deep Learning the Hohenberg-Kohn Maps of Density Functional Theory

Javier Robledo Moreno, Giuseppe Carleo, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076402 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Spin-Reorientation-Induced Band Gap in Fe3Sn2: Optical Signatures of Weyl Nodes

A. Biswas, O. Iakutkina, Q. Wang, H. C. Lei, M. Dressel, and E. Uykur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076403 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Viscous Properties of a Degenerate One-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Wade DeGottardi and K. A. Matveev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076601 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Topological Nernst Effect of the Two-Dimensional Skyrmion Lattice

Max Hirschberger, Leonie Spitz, Takuya Nomoto, Takashi Kurumaji, Shang Gao, Jan Masell, Taro Nakajima, Akiko Kikkawa, Yuichi Yamasaki, Hajime Sagayama, Hironori Nakao, Yasujiro Taguchi, Ryotaro Arita, Taka-hisa Arima, and Yoshinori Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076602 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Quantized Circulation of Anomalous Shift in Interface Reflection

Ying Liu, Zhi-Ming Yu, Cong Xiao, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076801 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Magnetic-Field-Dependent Equilibration of Fractional Quantum Hall Edge Modes

Tanmay Maiti, Pooja Agarwal, Suvankar Purkait, G. J. Sreejith, Sourin Das, Giorgio Biasiol, Lucia Sorba, and Biswajit Karmakar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076802 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Local and Nonlocal Electron Dynamics of Au/Fe/MgO(001) Heterostructures Analyzed by Time-Resolved Two-Photon Photoemission Spectroscopy

Y. Beyazit, J. Beckord, P. Zhou, J. P. Meyburg, Florian Denizer, D. Diesing, M. Ligges, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 076803 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

Triplet Resonating Valence Bond State and Superconductivity in Hund’s Metals

Piers Coleman, Yashar Komijani, and Elio J. König

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077001 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Direct Visualization of Ambipolar Mott Transition in Cuprate CuO2 Planes

Yong Zhong, Jia-Qi Fan, Rui-Feng Wang, ShuZe Wang, Xuefeng Zhang, Yuying Zhu, Ziyuan Dou, Xue-Qing Yu, Yang Wang, Ding Zhang, Jing Zhu, Can-Li Song, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077002 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Doping-dependent scanning tunneling measurements uncover a metal to Mott insulator transition in infinite-layer cuprate thin films.

Model Construction and a Possibility of Cupratelike Pairing in a New d9 Nickelate Superconductor (Nd,Sr)NiO2

Hirofumi Sakakibara, Hidetomo Usui, Katsuhiro Suzuki, Takao Kotani, Hideo Aoki, and Kazuhiko Kuroki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077003 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

A newly discovered superconductor has a surprisingly low transition temperature, but its electronic structure points the way to materials that superconduct at higher temperatures.

Efficient Spin Torques in Antiferromagnetic CoO/Pt Quantified by Comparing Field- and Current-Induced Switching

L. Baldrati, C. Schmitt, O. Gomonay, R. Lebrun, R. Ramos, E. Saitoh, J. Sinova, and M. Kläui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077201 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Pressure-Induced Collapse of Magnetic Order in Jarosite

Ryan A. Klein, James P. S. Walsh, Samantha M. Clarke, Zhenxian Liu, E. Ercan Alp, Wenli Bi, Yue Meng, Alison B. Altman, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, M. R. Norman, James M. Rondinelli, Steven D. Jacobsen, Danilo Puggioni, and Danna E. Freedman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077202 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Unidirectional Pumping of Phonons by Magnetization Dynamics

Xiang Zhang, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, and Tao Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077203 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

Chiral Plasmons with Twisted Atomic Bilayers

Xiao Lin, Zifei Liu, Tobias Stauber, Guillermo Gómez-Santos, Fei Gao, Hongsheng Chen, Baile Zhang, and Tony Low

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077401 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Collective Excitations at Filling Factor 5/2: The View from Superspace

Andrey Gromov, Emil J. Martinec, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077601 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

From Adiabatic to Dispersive Readout of Quantum Circuits

Sunghun Park, C. Metzger, L. Tosi, M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, H. Pothier, and A. Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077701 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

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

Chirality-Enhanced Periodic Self-Focusing of Light in Soft Birefringent Media

Guilhem Poy, Andrew J. Hess, Ivan I. Smalyukh, and Slobodan Žumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 077801 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

Controlling the Microstructure and Phase Behavior of Confined Soft Colloids by Active Interaction Switching

Arturo Moncho-Jordá and Joachim Dzubiella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078001 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

Rolling away from the Wall into Granular Matter

V. L. Díaz-Melián, A. Serrano-Muñoz, M. Espinosa, L. Alonso-Llanes, G. Viera-López, and E. Altshuler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078002 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Simple, General Criterion for Onset of Disclination Disorder on Curved Surfaces

Siddhansh Agarwal and Sascha Hilgenfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078003 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Puzzling Bubble Rise Speed Increase in Dense Granular Suspensions

Christopher Madec, Brivaël Collin, J. John Soundar Jerome, and Sylvain Joubaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078004 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Diffusible Cross-linkers Cause Superexponential Friction Forces

Harmen Wierenga and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078101 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

Paradigm Shift in Diffusion-Mediated Surface Phenomena

Denis S. Grebenkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078102 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Energy Harvesting from Drops Impacting onto Charged Surfaces

Hao Wu, Niels Mendel, Dirk van den Ende, Guofu Zhou, and Frieder Mugele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078301 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

A clever coupling of triboelectric charging and the hydrophobic effect leads to a remarkably efficient electrical nanogenerator.

Homophily Based on Few Attributes Can Impede Structural Balance

Piotr J. Górski, Klavdiya Bochenina, Janusz A. Hołyst, and Raissa M. D’Souza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078302 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Reconciliation of Experiments and Theory on Transport Properties of Iron and the Geodynamo

Youjun Zhang, Mingqiang Hou, Guangtao Liu, Chengwei Zhang, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Eran Greenberg, Yingwei Fei, R. E. Cohen, and Jung-Fu Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 078501 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

COMMENTS

Comment on “Creation of Electron-Positron Pairs in Photon-Photon Collisions Driven by 10-PW Laser Pulses”

Tao Wang and Alexey Arefiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 079501 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Comment on “Realization of a Metallic State in 1TTaS2 with Persisting Long-Range Order of a Charge Density Wave”

Jinwon Lee and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 079701 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Zhu et al. Reply:

Xin-Yang Zhu, Shi Wang, Zhen-Yu Jia, Li Zhu, Qi-Yuan Li, Wei-Min Zhao, Cheng-Long Xue, Yong-Jie Xu, Zhen Ma, Jinsheng Wen, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li, and Shao-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 079702 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

Retraction: Pentadiamond: A Hard Carbon Allotrope of a Pentagonal Network of sp2 and sp3 C Atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 016001 (2020)]

Yasumaru Fujii, Mina Maruyama, Nguyen Thanh Cuong, and Susumu Okada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 079901 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

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