Volume 126, Issue 1

8 January 2021

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Off-diagonal components of the quantum metric for a synthesized tensor monopole in a 4D parameter space built in superconducting quantum circuits. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Experimental Observation of Tensor Monopoles with a Superconducting Qudit
Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Wen Zheng, Xiaopei Yang, Shuqing Song, Zhikun Han, Yuqian Dong, Zhimin Wang, Dong Lan, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017702 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy-Dependent $π^{+} π^{+} π^{+}$ Scattering Amplitude from QCD

Maxwell T. Hansen, Raul A. Briceño, Robert G. Edwards, Christopher E. Thomas, and David J. Wilson (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 012001 (2021) - Published 5 January, 2021

A three-hadron scattering amplitude is computed using lattice QCD for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Spin-Photon Interface with Waveguide Induced Cycling Transitions

Martin Hayhurst Appel, Alexey Tiranov, Alisa Javadi, Matthias C. Löbl, Ying Wang, Sven Scholz, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Richard J. Warburton, and Peter Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 013602 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

The quantum dot optical cycling transition is realized simultaneously with high fidelity spin initialization and coherent optical spin control in a photonic crystal waveguide.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universality of Boundary Charge Fluctuations

Clara S. Weber, Kiryl Piasotski, Mikhail Pletyukhov, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, Herbert Schoeller, and Dante M. Kennes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016803 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

Quantum boundary charge fluctuations can be used as a probe of the topological properties of insulators.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Creation of a Chiral Bobber Lattice in Helimagnet-Multilayer Heterostructures

Kejing Ran, Yizhou Liu, Yao Guang, David M. Burn, Gerrit van der Laan, Thorsten Hesjedal, Haifeng Du, Guoqiang Yu, and Shilei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017204 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

A novel way to stabilize elusive chiral bobbers works by proximity coupling of two independent skyrmion lattice states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of Tensor Monopoles with a Superconducting Qudit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Wen Zheng, Xiaopei Yang, Shuqing Song, Zhikun Han, Yuqian Dong, Zhimin Wang, Dong Lan, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017702 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

A quantum-simulated tensor monopole characterized by the topological Dixmier-Douady invariant has been observed in four-dimensional parameter space of a superconducting qudit.

LETTERS

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

Knots and Non-Hermitian Bloch Bands

Haiping Hu and Erhai Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 010401 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

State Readout of a Trapped Ion Qubit Using a Trap-Integrated Superconducting Photon Detector

S. L. Todaro, V. B. Verma, K. C. McCormick, D. T. C. Allcock, R. P. Mirin, D. J. Wineland, S. W. Nam, A. C. Wilson, D. Leibfried, and D. H. Slichter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 010501 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Dynamic Framework for Criticality-Enhanced Quantum Sensing

Yaoming Chu, Shaoliang Zhang, Baiyi Yu, and Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 010502 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Long-Distance Entanglement Purification for Quantum Communication

Xiao-Min Hu, Cen-Xiao Huang, Yu-Bo Sheng, Lan Zhou, Bi-Heng Liu, Yu Guo, Chao Zhang, Wen-Bo Xing, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 010503 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

Geometrical Bounds of the Irreversibility in Markovian Systems

Tan Van Vu and Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 010601 (2021) - Published 4 January, 2021

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for General Open Quantum Systems

Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 010602 (2021) - Published 5 January, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Cosmological Advection Flows in the Presence of Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter and Formation of First Sources

A. Kashlinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011101 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Improved Limits for Violations of Local Position Invariance from Atomic Clock Comparisons

R. Lange, N. Huntemann, J. M. Rahm, C. Sanner, H. Shao, B. Lipphardt, Chr. Tamm, S. Weyers, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011102 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Spin-Induced Scalarized Black Holes

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, Hector O. Silva, Thomas P. Sotiriou, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011103 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

Spin-Induced Black Hole Scalarization in Einstein-Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet Theory

Emanuele Berti, Lucas G. Collodel, Burkhard Kleihaus, and Jutta Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011104 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

Using the Marked Power Spectrum to Detect the Signature of Neutrinos in Large-Scale Structure

Elena Massara, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Shirley Ho, Neal Dalal, and David N. Spergel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011301 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Partial Wave Amplitude Basis and Selection Rules in Effective Field Theories

Minyuan Jiang, Jing Shu, Ming-Lei Xiao, and Yu-Hui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011601 (2021) - Published 4 January, 2021

Breaking up the Proton: An Affair with Dark Forces

Graham D. Kribs, David McKeen, and Nirmal Raj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 011801 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy-Dependent $π^{+} π^{+} π^{+}$ Scattering Amplitude from QCD

Maxwell T. Hansen, Raul A. Briceño, Robert G. Edwards, Christopher E. Thomas, and David J. Wilson (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 012001 (2021) - Published 5 January, 2021

A three-hadron scattering amplitude is computed using lattice QCD for the first time.

First Measurement of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering on Argon

D. Akimov et al. (COHERENT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 012002 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Deciphering the Nature of X(3872) in Heavy Ion Collisions

Hui Zhang, Jinfeng Liao, Enke Wang, Qian Wang, and Hongxi Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 012301 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Pion Condensation in the Early Universe at Nonvanishing Lepton Flavor Asymmetry and Its Gravitational Wave Signatures

Volodymyr Vovchenko, Bastian B. Brandt, Francesca Cuteri, Gergely Endrődi, Fazlollah Hajkarim, and Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 012701 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Heteronuclear Long-Range Rydberg Molecules

Michael Peper and Johannes Deiglmayr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 013001 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Metasurfaces with Bound States in the Continuum Enabled by Eliminating First Fourier Harmonic Component in Lattice Parameters

Sun-Goo Lee, Seong-Han Kim, and Chul-Sik Kee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 013601 (2021) - Published 4 January, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Spin-Photon Interface with Waveguide Induced Cycling Transitions

Martin Hayhurst Appel, Alexey Tiranov, Alisa Javadi, Matthias C. Löbl, Ying Wang, Sven Scholz, Andreas D. Wieck, Arne Ludwig, Richard J. Warburton, and Peter Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 013602 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

The quantum dot optical cycling transition is realized simultaneously with high fidelity spin initialization and coherent optical spin control in a photonic crystal waveguide.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Energy-Spread Preservation and High Efficiency in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator

C. A. Lindstrøm, J. M. Garland, S. Schröder, L. Boulton, G. Boyle, J. Chappell, R. D’Arcy, P. Gonzalez, A. Knetsch, V. Libov, G. Loisch, A. Martinez de la Ossa, P. Niknejadi, K. Põder, L. Schaper, B. Schmidt, B. Sheeran, S. Wesch, J. Wood, and J. Osterhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 014801 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Molecular Impurities as a Realization of Anyons on the Two-Sphere

M. Brooks, M. Lemeshko, D. Lundholm, and E. Yakaboylu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015301 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

Simple and Broadly Applicable Definition of Shear Transformation Zones

David Richard, Geert Kapteijns, Julia A. Giannini, M. Lisa Manning, and Edan Lerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015501 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Direct Electric-Field Induced Phase Transformation in Paraelectric Zirconia via Electrical Susceptibility Mismatch

Alan Lai and Christopher A. Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015701 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Ionic Phases of Ammonia-Rich Hydrate at High Densities

Wan Xu, Victor Naden Robinson, Xiao Zhang, Hui-Chao Zhang, Mary-Ellen Donnelly, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Andreas Hermann, Xiao-Di Liu, and Eugene Gregoryanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015702 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Using Diffuse Scattering to Observe X-Ray-Driven Nonthermal Melting

N. J. Hartley, J. Grenzer, L. Huang, Y. Inubushi, N. Kamimura, K. Katagiri, R. Kodama, A. Kon, W. Lu, M. Makita, T. Matsuoka, S. Nakajima, N. Ozaki, T. Pikuz, A. V. Rode, D. Sagae, A. K. Schuster, K. Tono, K. Voigt, J. Vorberger, T. Yabuuchi, E. E. McBride, and D. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015703 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Anomalous Behavior in the Nucleation of Ice at Negative Pressures

Valentino Bianco, P. Montero de Hijes, Cintia P. Lamas, Eduardo Sanz, and Carlos Vega

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015704 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

Sizable Suppression of Thermal Hall Effect upon Isotopic Substitution in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Sangwoo Sim, Heejun Yang, Ha-Leem Kim, Matthew J. Coak, Mitsuru Itoh, Yukio Noda, and Je-Geun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 015901 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

de Gennes Narrowing and Relationship between Structure and Dynamics in Self-Organized Ion-Beam Nanopatterning

Peco Myint, Karl F. Ludwig, Jr., Lutz Wiegart, Yugang Zhang, Andrei Fluerasu, Xiaozhi Zhang, and Randall L. Headrick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016101 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

Core-Level Binding Energy Reveals Hydrogen Bonding Configurations of Water Adsorbed on ${TiO}_{2} (110)$ Surface

C. Kamal, Nader Stenberg, Lars Erik Walle, Davide Ragazzon, Anne Borg, Per Uvdal, Natalia V. Skorodumova, Michael Odelius, and Anders Sandell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016102 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Phase Transition and Phonon-Space Dirac Topology Surfaces in ${ZrTe}_{5}$

Niraj Aryal, Xilian Jin, Q. Li, A. M. Tsvelik, and Weiguo Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016401 (2021) - Published 5 January, 2021

Many-Body Invariants for Chern and Chiral Hinge Insulators

Byungmin Kang, Wonjun Lee, and Gil Young Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016402 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Robust Fermi-Surface Morphology of ${CeRhIn}_{5}$ across the Putative Field-Induced Quantum Critical Point

S. Mishra, J. Hornung, M. Raba, J. Klotz, T. Förster, H. Harima, D. Aoki, J. Wosnitza, A. McCollam, and I. Sheikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016403 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

WKB Estimate of Bilayer Graphene’s Magic Twist Angles

Yafei Ren, Qiang Gao, A. H. MacDonald, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016404 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Charge Neutral Current Generation in a Spontaneous Quantum Hall Antiferromagnet

Miuko Tanaka, Yuya Shimazaki, Ivan Valerievich Borzenets, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Seigo Tarucha, and Michihisa Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016801 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Detecting Bulk Topology of Quadrupolar Phase from Quench Dynamics

Tomonari Mizoguchi, Yoshihito Kuno, and Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016802 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universality of Boundary Charge Fluctuations

Clara S. Weber, Kiryl Piasotski, Mikhail Pletyukhov, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, Herbert Schoeller, and Dante M. Kennes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 016803 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

Quantum boundary charge fluctuations can be used as a probe of the topological properties of insulators.

Coupled Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States Induced by a Many-Body Molecular Spin on a Superconductor

Carmen Rubio-Verdú, Javier Zaldívar, Rok Žitko, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017001 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

From One- to Two-Magnon Excitations in the $S = 3 / 2$ Magnet $β − {CaCr}_{2} O_{4}$

M. Songvilay, S. Petit, F. Damay, G. Roux, N. Qureshi, H. C. Walker, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, B. Gao, S.-W. Cheong, and C. Stock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017201 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Microwave Spectroscopy of the Low-Temperature Skyrmion State in ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

Aisha Aqeel, Jan Sahliger, Takuya Taniguchi, Stefan Mändl, Denis Mettus, Helmuth Berger, Andreas Bauer, Markus Garst, Christian Pfleiderer, and Christian H. Back

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017202 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

Configurable Artificial Spin Ice with Site-Specific Local Magnetic Fields

Vineeth Mohanan Parakkat, Gavin M. Macauley, Robert L. Stamps, and Kannan M. Krishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017203 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Creation of a Chiral Bobber Lattice in Helimagnet-Multilayer Heterostructures

Kejing Ran, Yizhou Liu, Yao Guang, David M. Burn, Gerrit van der Laan, Thorsten Hesjedal, Haifeng Du, Guoqiang Yu, and Shilei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017204 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

A novel way to stabilize elusive chiral bobbers works by proximity coupling of two independent skyrmion lattice states.

Mediated Interactions and Photon Bound States in an Exciton-Polariton Mixture

A. Camacho-Guardian, M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, and G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017401 (2021) - Published 4 January, 2021

Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of the 2D Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Model

Bo Xing, Wei-Ting Chiu, Dario Poletti, R. T. Scalettar, and George Batrouni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017601 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

Long-Distance Superexchange between Semiconductor Quantum-Dot Electron Spins

Haifeng Qiao, Yadav P. Kandel, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Xuedong Hu, and John M. Nichol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017701 (2021) - Published 6 January, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of Tensor Monopoles with a Superconducting Qudit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Wen Zheng, Xiaopei Yang, Shuqing Song, Zhikun Han, Yuqian Dong, Zhimin Wang, Dong Lan, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 017702 (2021) - Published 7 January, 2021

A quantum-simulated tensor monopole characterized by the topological Dixmier-Douady invariant has been observed in four-dimensional parameter space of a superconducting qudit.

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Search for $η^{'}$ Bound Nuclei in the ${}^{12}C (γ, p)$ Reaction with Simultaneous Detection of Decay Products”

H. Fujioka, K. Itahashi, V. Metag, M. Nanova, and Y. K. Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 019201 (2021) - Published 8 January, 2021

Comment on “Free-Electron–Bound-Electron Resonant Interaction”

F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 019501 (2021) - Published 5 January, 2021

Gover and Yariv Reply:

Avraham Gover and Amnon Yariv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 019502 (2021) - Published 5 January, 2021