Volume 126, Issue 10

12 March 2021

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Complete unitary time evolution represented by repeated application of staggered two-site gates. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Ergodic and Nonergodic Dual-Unitary Quantum Circuits with Arbitrary Local Hilbert Space Dimension
Pieter W. Claeys and Austen Lamacraft
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100603 (2021)

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Robust and Efficient High-Dimensional Quantum State Tomography

Markus Rambach, Mahdi Qaryan, Michael Kewming, Christopher Ferrie, Andrew G. White, and Jacquiline Romero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100402 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

With a technique called self-guided tomography, researchers accurately measure the states of qudits—quantum systems like qubits but with more than two dimensions.

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Ergodic and Nonergodic Dual-Unitary Quantum Circuits with Arbitrary Local Hilbert Space Dimension

Pieter W. Claeys and Austen Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100603 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

A large class of solvable dual-unitary quantum circuit models are used to construct 1D lattice models.

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Traversable Wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell Theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Christian Knoll, and Eugen Radu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101102 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

New theories of wormholes—postulated tunnels through spacetime—explore whether they could be traversable by humans.

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Observation of a Near-Threshold Structure in the $K^{+}$ Recoil-Mass Spectra in $e^{+} e^{-} \to K^{+} (D_{s}^{-} D^{* 0} + D_{s}^{* -} D^{0})$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 102001 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

The detection of a new particle containing both charm and strange quarks could offer new insights into how hadrons form.

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Emergent Field-Driven Robot Swarm States

Gao Wang, Trung V. Phan, Shengkai Li, Michael Wombacher, Junle Qu, Yan Peng, Guo Chen, Daniel I. Goldman, Simon A. Levin, Robert H. Austin, and Liyu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 108002 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Using a swarm of puck-shaped robots, researchers simulate interactions between biological organisms and their environment.

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Rigorous Results on the Ground State of the Attractive $SU (N)$ Hubbard Model

Hironobu Yoshida and Hosho Katsura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100201 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Three theorems addressing the degeneracy, the fermion number, and a relevant quantum number may provide significant progress in the study of the attractive SU(N) Hubbard model.

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Wide Critical Fluctuations of the Field-Induced Phase Transition in Graphite

Christophe Marcenat, Thierry Klein, David LeBoeuf, Alexandre Jaoui, Gabriel Seyfarth, Jozef Kačmarčík, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Hervé Cercellier, Hervé Aubin, Kamran Behnia, and Benoît Fauqué

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106801 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

In high magnetic fields calorimetric measurements of the electronic specific heat of graphite exhibit a second-order phase transition jump due to electron-electron correlations.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Rigorous Results on the Ground State of the Attractive $SU (N)$ Hubbard Model

Hironobu Yoshida and Hosho Katsura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100201 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Three theorems addressing the degeneracy, the fermion number, and a relevant quantum number may provide significant progress in the study of the attractive SU(N) Hubbard model.

What Are the Minimal Conditions Required to Define a Symmetric Informationally Complete Generalized Measurement?

Isabelle Jianing Geng, Kimberly Golubeva, and Gilad Gour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100401 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

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Robust and Efficient High-Dimensional Quantum State Tomography

Markus Rambach, Mahdi Qaryan, Michael Kewming, Christopher Ferrie, Andrew G. White, and Jacquiline Romero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100402 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

With a technique called self-guided tomography, researchers accurately measure the states of qudits—quantum systems like qubits but with more than two dimensions.

Weak Measurement of a Superconducting Qubit Reconciles Incompatible Operators

Jonathan T. Monroe, Nicole Yunger Halpern, Taeho Lee, and Kater W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100403 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Security Analysis of Quantum Key Distribution with Small Block Length and Its Application to Quantum Space Communications

Charles Ci-Wen Lim, Feihu Xu, Jian-Wei Pan, and Artur Ekert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100501 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Nondispersing Wave Packets in Lattice Floquet Systems

Zhoushen Huang, Aashish Clerk, and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100601 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

Universality Classes of Hitting Probabilities of Jump Processes

Nicolas Levernier, Olivier Bénichou, and Raphaël Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100602 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

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Ergodic and Nonergodic Dual-Unitary Quantum Circuits with Arbitrary Local Hilbert Space Dimension

Pieter W. Claeys and Austen Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100603 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

A large class of solvable dual-unitary quantum circuit models are used to construct 1D lattice models.

Emergent Ergodicity at the Transition between Many-Body Localized Phases

Rahul Sahay, Francisco Machado, Bingtian Ye, Chris R. Laumann, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 100604 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dark Matter Annihilation Can Produce a Detectable Antihelium Flux through ${\bar{Λ}}_{b}$ Decays

Martin Wolfgang Winkler and Tim Linden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101101 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

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Traversable Wormholes in Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell Theory

Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo, Christian Knoll, and Eugen Radu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101102 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

New theories of wormholes—postulated tunnels through spacetime—explore whether they could be traversable by humans.

Weyl Double Copy for Gravitational Waves

Hadi Godazgar, Mahdi Godazgar, Ricardo Monteiro, David Peinador Veiga, and C. N. Pope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101103 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Accretion of Dark Matter onto a Moving Schwarzschild Black Hole: An Exact Solution

Patryk Mach and Andrzej Odrzywołek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101104 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Detectable Environmental Effects in GW190521-like Black-Hole Binaries with LISA

Alexandre Toubiana, Laura Sberna, Andrea Caputo, Giulia Cusin, Sylvain Marsat, Karan Jani, Stanislav Babak, Enrico Barausse, Chiara Caprini, Paolo Pani, Alberto Sesana, and Nicola Tamanini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101105 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Complexity and Thermodynamic Volume

Abdulrahim Al Balushi, Robie A. Hennigar, Hari K. Kunduri, and Robert B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101601 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Double Copy for Celestial Amplitudes

Eduardo Casali and Andrea Puhm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101602 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Foliated Quantum Field Theory of Fracton Order

Kevin Slagle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 101603 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

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Observation of a Near-Threshold Structure in the $K^{+}$ Recoil-Mass Spectra in $e^{+} e^{-} \to K^{+} (D_{s}^{-} D^{* 0} + D_{s}^{* -} D^{0})$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 102001 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

The detection of a new particle containing both charm and strange quarks could offer new insights into how hadrons form.

Two-Loop Analysis of the Pion Mass Dependence of the $ρ$ Meson

Malwin Niehus, Martin Hoferichter, Bastian Kubis, and Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 102002 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Flavor Decomposition for the Proton Helicity Parton Distribution Functions

Constantia Alexandrou, Martha Constantinou, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou, Karl Jansen, and Floriano Manigrasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 102003 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Role of Chiral Two-Body Currents in ${}^{6}{Li}$ Magnetic Properties in Light of a New Precision Measurement with the Relative Self-Absorption Technique

U. Friman-Gayer, C. Romig, T. Hüther, K. Albe, S. Bacca, T. Beck, M. Berger, J. Birkhan, K. Hebeler, O. J. Hernandez, J. Isaak, S. König, N. Pietralla, P. C. Ries, J. Rohrer, R. Roth, D. Savran, M. Scheck, A. Schwenk, R. Seutin, and V. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 102501 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Power-Law Intensity Distribution of $γ$ -Decay Cascades: Nuclear Structure as a Scale-Free Random Network

Keisuke Fujii and Julian C. Berengut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 102502 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Free Molecule Studies by Perturbed $γ − γ$ Angular Correlation: A New Path to Accurate Nuclear Quadrupole Moments

Heinz Haas, Jens Röder, Joao G. Correia, J. Schell, Abel S. Fenta, Reiner Vianden, Emil M. H. Larsen, Patrick A. Aggelund, Rasmus Fromsejer, Lars B. S. Hemmingsen, Stephan P. A. Sauer, Doru C. Lupascu, and Vitor S. Amaral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103001 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Emergent Bloch Oscillations in a Kinetically Constrained Rydberg Spin Lattice

Matteo Magoni, Paolo P. Mazza, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103002 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Spin-Twisted Optical Lattices: Tunable Flat Bands and Larkin-Ovchinnikov Superfluids

Xi-Wang Luo and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103201 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

Revealing Molecular Strong Field Autoionization Dynamics

Sizuo Luo, Jinlei Liu, Xiaokai Li, Dongdong Zhang, Xitao Yu, Dianxiang Ren, Mingxuan Li, Yizhang Yang, Zhenzhen Wang, Pan Ma, Chuncheng Wang, Jing Zhao, Zengxiu Zhao, and Dajun Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103202 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Preparation of Low Entropy Correlated Many-Body States via Conformal Cooling Quenches

Michael P. Zaletel, Adam Kaufman, Dan M. Stamper-Kurn, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103401 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Role of the Environment in Quenching the Production of $H_{3}^{+}$ from Dicationic Clusters of Methanol

Enliang Wang, Xueguang Ren, and Alexander Dorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103402 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Flat-Band Localization in Creutz Superradiance Lattices

Yanyan He, Ruosong Mao, Han Cai, Jun-Xiang Zhang, Yongqiang Li, Luqi Yuan, Shi-Yao Zhu, and Da-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103601 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

Remote Individual Addressing of Quantum Emitters with Chirped Pulses

S. Casulleras, C. Gonzalez-Ballestero, P. Maurer, J. J. García-Ripoll, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103602 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Light-Matter Interactions in Synthetic Magnetic Fields: Landau-Photon Polaritons

Daniele De Bernardis, Ze-Pei Cian, Iacopo Carusotto, Mohammad Hafezi, and Peter Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103603 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Subradiance with Saturated Atoms: Population Enhancement of the Long-Lived States

A. Cipris, N. A. Moreira, T. S. do Espirito Santo, P. Weiss, C. J. Villas-Boas, R. Kaiser, W. Guerin, and R. Bachelard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 103604 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Wavelength Selection by Interrupted Coarsening in Reaction-Diffusion Systems

Fridtjof Brauns, Henrik Weyer, Jacob Halatek, Junghoon Yoon, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 104101 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Rare Event-Triggered Transitions in Aerodynamic Bifurcation

Ariane Gayout, Mickaël Bourgoin, and Nicolas Plihon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 104501 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Universal Wind Profile for Conventionally Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layers

Luoqin Liu, Srinidhi N. Gadde, and Richard J. A. M. Stevens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 104502 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Bayesian Optimization of a Laser-Plasma Accelerator

Sören Jalas, Manuel Kirchen, Philipp Messner, Paul Winkler, Lars Hübner, Julian Dirkwinkel, Matthias Schnepp, Remi Lehe, and Andreas R. Maier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 104801 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Controllable X-Ray Pulse Trains from Enhanced Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission

Joseph P. Duris et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 104802 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Entropy in the Non-Fermi-Liquid Regime of the Doped $2 D$ Hubbard Model

Connor Lenihan, Aaram J. Kim, Fedor Šimkovic IV., and Evgeny Kozik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 105701 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Revealing the Complex Nature of Bonding in the Binary High-Pressure Compound ${FeO}_{2}$

E. Koemets, I. Leonov, M. Bykov, E. Bykova, S. Chariton, G. Aprilis, T. Fedotenko, S. Clément, J. Rouquette, J. Haines, V. Cerantola, K. Glazyrin, C. McCammon, V. B. Prakapenka, M. Hanfland, H.-P. Liermann, V. Svitlyk, R. Torchio, A. D. Rosa, T. Irifune, A. V. Ponomareva, I. A. Abrikosov, N. Dubrovinskaia, and L. Dubrovinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106001 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Enforced Long-Range Order in 1D Wires by Coupling to Higher Dimensions

Zamin Mamiyev, Christa Fink, Kris Holtgrewe, Herbert Pfnür, and Simone Sanna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106101 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Unraveling the Orbital Physics in a Canonical Orbital System ${KCuF}_{3}$

Jiemin Li, Lei Xu, Mirian Garcia-Fernandez, Abhishek Nag, H. C. Robarts, A. C. Walters, X. Liu, Jianshi Zhou, Krzysztof Wohlfeld, Jeroen van den Brink, Hong Ding, and Ke-Jin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106401 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Observation of Flat Bands in Gated Semiconductor Artificial Graphene

Lingjie Du, Ziyu Liu, Shalom J. Wind, Vittorio Pellegrini, Ken W. West, Saeed Fallahi, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Michael J. Manfra, and Aron Pinczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106402 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Giant Anomalous Hall Effect due to Double-Degenerate Quasiflat Bands

Wei Jiang, Duarte J. P. de Sousa, Jian-Ping Wang, and Tony Low

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106601 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Metal-Insulator Transition and Emergent Gapped Phase in the Surface-Doped 2D Semiconductor $2 H − {MoTe}_{2}$

T. T. Han, L. Chen, C. Cai, Z. G. Wang, Y. D. Wang, Z. M. Xin, and Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106602 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

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Wide Critical Fluctuations of the Field-Induced Phase Transition in Graphite

Christophe Marcenat, Thierry Klein, David LeBoeuf, Alexandre Jaoui, Gabriel Seyfarth, Jozef Kačmarčík, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Hervé Cercellier, Hervé Aubin, Kamran Behnia, and Benoît Fauqué

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106801 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

In high magnetic fields calorimetric measurements of the electronic specific heat of graphite exhibit a second-order phase transition jump due to electron-electron correlations.

Relaxation of the Excited Rydberg States of Surface Electrons on Liquid Helium

Erika Kawakami, Asem Elarabi, and Denis Konstantinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106802 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

Reentrant Localization Transition in a Quasiperiodic Chain

Shilpi Roy, Tapan Mishra, B. Tanatar, and Saurabh Basu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106803 (2021) - Published 9 March, 2021

Diffusivity Reveals Three Distinct Phases of Interlayer Excitons in ${MoSe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterobilayers

Jue Wang, Qianhui Shi, En-Min Shih, Lin Zhou, Wenjing Wu, Yusong Bai, Daniel Rhodes, Katayun Barmak, James Hone, Cory R. Dean, and X.-Y. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106804 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Nonadiabatic Topological Energy Pumps with Quasiperiodic Driving

David M. Long, Philip J. D. Crowley, and Anushya Chandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 106805 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Short-Range Nematic Fluctuations in ${Sr}_{1 - x} {Na}_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductors

Shan Wu, Yu Song, Yu He, Alex Frano, Ming Yi, Xiang Chen, Hiroshi Uchiyama, Ahmet Alatas, Ayman H. Said, Liran Wang, Thomas Wolf, Christoph Meingast, and Robert J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 107001 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

Ultrafast Optically Induced Ferromagnetic State in an Elemental Antiferromagnet

E. Golias, I. Kumberg, I. Gelen, S. Thakur, J. Gördes, R. Hosseinifar, Q. Guillet, J. K. Dewhurst, S. Sharma, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, N. Pontius, and W. Kuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 107202 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

Classical Spin Liquid or Extended Critical Range in $h$ - ${YMnO}_{3}$ ?

Sofie Janas, Jakob Lass, Ana-Elena Ţuţueanu, Morten L. Haubro, Christof Niedermayer, Uwe Stuhr, Guangyong Xu, Dharmalingam Prabhakaran, Pascale P. Deen, Sonja Holm-Dahlin, and Kim Lefmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 107203 (2021) - Published 11 March, 2021

Fully Spin-Transparent Magnetic Interfaces Enabled by the Insertion of a Thin Paramagnetic NiO Layer

Lijun Zhu, Lujun Zhu, and Robert A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 107204 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Magnetism and Charge Order in the Honeycomb Lattice

Natanael C. Costa, Kazuhiro Seki, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 107205 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Coherent Population Trapping Combined with Cycling Transitions for Quantum Dot Hole Spins Using Triplet Trion States

Samuel G. Carter, Stefan C. Badescu, Allan S. Bracker, Michael K. Yakes, Kha X. Tran, Joel Q. Grim, and Daniel Gammon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 107401 (2021) - Published 8 March, 2021

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

Fluid Viscoelasticity Triggers Fast Transitions of a Brownian Particle in a Double Well Optical Potential

Brandon R. Ferrer, Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano, and Alejandro V. Arzola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 108001 (2021) - Published 10 March, 2021

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergent Field-Driven Robot Swarm States

Gao Wang, Trung V. Phan, Shengkai Li, Michael Wombacher, Junle Qu, Yan Peng, Guo Chen, Daniel I. Goldman, Simon A. Levin, Robert H. Austin, and Liyu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 108002 (2021) - Published 12 March, 2021

Using a swarm of puck-shaped robots, researchers simulate interactions between biological organisms and their environment.

Volume 126, Issue 10

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

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