Volume 126, Issue 11

19 March 2021

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Schematic depiction of the Sauter-Schwinger mechanism in QED (left) and its analog in a BCS superconductor (right). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Sauter-Schwinger Effect in a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor
P. Solinas, A. Amoretti, and F. Giazotto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117001 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Flow Rectification in Loopy Network Models of Bird Lungs

Quynh M. Nguyen, Anand U. Oza, Joanna Abouezzi, Guanhua Sun, Stephen Childress, Christina Frederick, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 114501 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

A simple network of pipes based on the structures of a bird’s lung transforms back-and-forth flow into one-way flow.

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RETRACTED: Synthesis of Yttrium Superhydride Superconductor with a Transition Temperature up to 262 K by Catalytic Hydrogenation at High Pressures

Elliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride, Xiaoyu Wang, Noah Meyers, Keith V. Lawler, Eva Zurek, Ashkan Salamat, and Ranga P. Dias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117003 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

A new synthesis technique pushes high-temperature superconducting materials a step closer to ambient pressure.

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Switchable X-Ray Orbital Angular Momentum from an Artificial Spin Ice

Justin S. Woods, Xiaoqian M. Chen, Rajesh V. Chopdekar, Barry Farmer, Claudio Mazzoli, Roland Koch, Anton S. Tremsin, Wen Hu, Andreas Scholl, Steve Kevan, Stuart Wilkins, Wai-Kwong Kwok, Lance E. De Long, Sujoy Roy, and J. Todd Hastings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117201 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Scientists create a pattern of nanomagnets—called an artificial spin ice—that can control the orbital angular momentum of a scattered x-ray beam.

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Skyrmion-(Anti)Vortex Coupling in a Chiral Magnet-Superconductor Heterostructure

A. P. Petrović, M. Raju, X. Y. Tee, A. Louat, I. Maggio-Aprile, R. M. Menezes, M. J. Wyszyński, N. K. Duong, M. Reznikov, Ch. Renner, M. V. Milošević, and C. Panagopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117205 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Control over vortices that arise in magnet-superconductor heterostructures could lead to qubits that are immune to the effects of their environment.

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COVID-19 Superspreading Suggests Mitigation by Social Network Modulation

Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Lone Simonsen, and Kim Sneppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 118301 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

A new model shows that restricting the number of social interactions among members of a population is effective at controlling outbreaks dominated by “superspreaders,” explaining the unexpected success of last year’s lockdowns.

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Sauter-Schwinger Effect in a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor

P. Solinas, A. Amoretti, and F. Giazotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117001 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

The old Sauter-Schwinger effect, or the creation of electron-positron pairs by a strong electric field, is predicted to be finally realized in a regular low-temperature superconducting material.

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Nanosecond Random Telegraph Noise in In-Plane Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

K. Hayakawa, S. Kanai, T. Funatsu, J. Igarashi, B. Jinnai, W. A. Borders, H. Ohno, and S. Fukami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117202 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

The relaxation time of superparamagnetic tunnel junctions can be made faster by forcing the precession to take on an elliptical shape.

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Molecular View on Mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposites

Ruikun Sun, Matthew Melton, Niloofar Safaie, Robert C. Ferrier, Jr., Shiwang Cheng, Yun Liu, Xiaobing Zuo, and Yangyang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117801 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

Rheological and small angle neutron scattering methods show that nanoparticles mechanically reinforce polymer-nanoparticle composites through hydrodynamic effects.

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Theory for Durotactic Axon Guidance

Hadrien Oliveri, Kristian Franze, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 118101 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Physical theory suggests that nerve fibers use their mechanical environment to find functional targets following the laws analogous to those that govern optic rays.

LETTERS

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

Strongly Interacting Bosons in a Two-Dimensional Quasicrystal Lattice

Ronan Gautier, Hepeng Yao, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110401 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Four Postulates of Quantum Mechanics Are Three

Gabriele Carcassi, Lorenzo Maccone, and Christine A. Aidala

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110402 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

Operational Quantification of Continuous-Variable Quantum Resources

Bartosz Regula, Ludovico Lami, Giovanni Ferrari, and Ryuji Takagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110403 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Exact Liouvillian Spectrum of a One-Dimensional Dissipative Hubbard Model

Masaya Nakagawa, Norio Kawakami, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110404 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Symmetry-Induced Error Filtering in a Photonic Lieb Lattice

Yi-Jun Chang, Yong-Heng Lu, Yao Wang, Xiao-Yun Xu, Wen-Hao Zhou, Wen-Hao Cui, Xiao-Wei Wang, Jun Gao, Lu-Feng Qiao, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110501 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

Experimental Quantum Principal Component Analysis via Parametrized Quantum Circuits

Tao Xin, Liangyu Che, Cheng Xi, Amandeep Singh, Xinfang Nie, Jun Li, Ying Dong, and Dawei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110502 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Optically Unstable Phase from Ion-Ion Interactions in an Erbium-Doped Crystal

Yu-Hui Chen, Sebastian P. Horvath, Jevon J. Longdell, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110601 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Emergence of a Renormalized $1 / N$ Expansion in Quenched Critical Many-Body Systems

Benjamin Geiger, Juan Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110602 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Ramp-up of Hawking Radiation in Bose-Einstein-Condensate Analog Black Holes

Alessandro Fabbri and Roberto Balbinot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 111301 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

D3-Branes Wrapped on a Spindle

Pietro Ferrero, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Juan Manuel Pérez Ipiña, Dario Martelli, and James Sparks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 111601 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Resummation and Simulation of Soft Gluon Effects beyond Leading Color

Matthew De Angelis, Jeffrey R. Forshaw, and Simon Plätzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 112001 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Extraction of the Sivers Function from SIDIS, Drell-Yan, and $W^{\pm} / Z$ Data at Next-to-Next-to-Next-to Leading Order

Marcin Bury, Alexei Prokudin, and Alexey Vladimirov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 112002 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Quantum Interference in Jet Substructure from Spinning Gluons

Hao Chen, Ian Moult, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 112003 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Diphoton Amplitudes in Three-Loop Quantum Chromodynamics

Fabrizio Caola, Andreas von Manteuffel, and Lorenzo Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 112004 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

High-Order Phase-Dependent Asymmetry in the Above-Threshold Ionization Plateau

M. Kübel, P. Wustelt, Y. Zhang, S. Skruszewicz, D. Hoff, D. Würzler, H. Kang, D. Zille, D. Adolph, G. G. Paulus, A. M. Sayler, M. Dumergue, A. Nayak, R. Flender, L. Haizer, M. Kurucz, B. Kiss, S. Kühn, B. Fetić, and D. B. Milošević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113201 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Electron Wave Packet Interference in Atomic Inner-Shell Excitation

T. Kaneyasu, Y. Hikosaka, M. Fujimoto, H. Iwayama, and M. Katoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113202 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Control of Attosecond Entanglement and Coherence

Marc J. J. Vrakking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113203 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Dynamical Generation of Spin Squeezing in Ultracold Dipolar Molecules

Thomas Bilitewski, Luigi De Marco, Jun-Ru Li, Kyle Matsuda, William G. Tobias, Giacomo Valtolina, Jun Ye, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113401 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in Optomechanics

Vitaly Fedoseev, Fernando Luna, Ian Hedgepeth, Wolfgang Löffler, and Dirk Bouwmeester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113601 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Floquet Topological Phases in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Photonic Crystals

Jian Lu, Li He, Zachariah Addison, Eugene J. Mele, and Bo Zhen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113901 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Topological Rainbow Concentrator Based on Synthetic Dimension

Cuicui Lu, Chenyang Wang, Meng Xiao, Z. Q. Zhang, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 113902 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

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Flow Rectification in Loopy Network Models of Bird Lungs

Quynh M. Nguyen, Anand U. Oza, Joanna Abouezzi, Guanhua Sun, Stephen Childress, Christina Frederick, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 114501 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

A simple network of pipes based on the structures of a bird’s lung transforms back-and-forth flow into one-way flow.

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Simultaneous Acceleration of Multiple Charge States of Heavy Ion Beams in a Large-Scale Superconducting Linear Accelerator

P. N. Ostroumov, K. Fukushima, T. Maruta, A. S. Plastun, J. Wei, T. Zhang, and Q. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 114801 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Benchmark Experiment to Prove the Role of Projectile Excited States Upon the Ion Stopping in Plasmas

Y. T. Zhao, Y. N. Zhang, R. Cheng, B. He, C. L. Liu, X. M. Zhou, Y. Lei, Y. Y. Wang, J. R. Ren, X. Wang, Y. H. Chen, G. Q. Xiao, S. M. Savin, R. Gavrilin, A. A. Golubev, and D. H. H. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 115001 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Mixed Bubbles in Bose-Bose Mixtures

P. Naidon and D. S. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 115301 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity of $θ$ -Phase Tantalum Nitride

Ashis Kundu, Xiaolong Yang, Jinlong Ma, Tianli Feng, Jesús Carrete, Xiulin Ruan, Georg K. H. Madsen, and Wu Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 115901 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quantum Phase Transition in a Quantum Ising Chain at Nonzero Temperatures

K. L. Zhang and Z. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 116401 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

Vibrational Frequency Used as Internal Clock Reference to Access Molecule-Metal Charge-Transfer Times

P. Jakob and S. Thussing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 116801 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sauter-Schwinger Effect in a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor

P. Solinas, A. Amoretti, and F. Giazotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117001 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

The old Sauter-Schwinger effect, or the creation of electron-positron pairs by a strong electric field, is predicted to be finally realized in a regular low-temperature superconducting material.

Quantum and Classical Proton Diffusion in Superconducting Clathrate Hydrides

Hui Wang, Yansun Yao, Feng Peng, Hanyu Liu, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117002 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

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RETRACTED: Synthesis of Yttrium Superhydride Superconductor with a Transition Temperature up to 262 K by Catalytic Hydrogenation at High Pressures

Elliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride, Xiaoyu Wang, Noah Meyers, Keith V. Lawler, Eva Zurek, Ashkan Salamat, and Ranga P. Dias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117003 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

A new synthesis technique pushes high-temperature superconducting materials a step closer to ambient pressure.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Switchable X-Ray Orbital Angular Momentum from an Artificial Spin Ice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117201 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Scientists create a pattern of nanomagnets—called an artificial spin ice—that can control the orbital angular momentum of a scattered x-ray beam.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanosecond Random Telegraph Noise in In-Plane Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

K. Hayakawa, S. Kanai, T. Funatsu, J. Igarashi, B. Jinnai, W. A. Borders, H. Ohno, and S. Fukami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117202 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

The relaxation time of superparamagnetic tunnel junctions can be made faster by forcing the precession to take on an elliptical shape.

Scattering of Magnons at Graphene Quantum-Hall-Magnet Junctions

Nemin Wei, Chunli Huang, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117203 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Possible Inversion Symmetry Breaking in the $S = 1 / 2$ Pyrochlore Heisenberg Magnet

Imre Hagymási, Robin Schäfer, Roderich Moessner, and David J. Luitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117204 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

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Skyrmion-(Anti)Vortex Coupling in a Chiral Magnet-Superconductor Heterostructure

A. P. Petrović, M. Raju, X. Y. Tee, A. Louat, I. Maggio-Aprile, R. M. Menezes, M. J. Wyszyński, N. K. Duong, M. Reznikov, Ch. Renner, M. V. Milošević, and C. Panagopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117205 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Control over vortices that arise in magnet-superconductor heterostructures could lead to qubits that are immune to the effects of their environment.

Graphene Plasmon Excitation with Ground-State Two-Level Quantum Emitters

Xiaodong Zeng and M. Suhail Zubairy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117401 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

Merging Bound States in the Continuum at Off-High Symmetry Points

Meng Kang, Shunping Zhang, Meng Xiao, and Hongxing Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117402 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

Atomic-Scale Visualization of Ultrafast Bond Breaking in X-Ray-Excited Diamond

Ichiro Inoue, Yuka Deguchi, Beata Ziaja, Taito Osaka, Malik M. Abdullah, Zoltan Jurek, Nikita Medvedev, Victor Tkachenko, Yuichi Inubushi, Hidetaka Kasai, Kenji Tamasaku, Toru Hara, Eiji Nishibori, and Makina Yabashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117403 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

Local Probe Comparison of Ferroelectric Switching Event Statistics in the Creep and Depinning Regimes in $Pb ({Zr}_{0.2} {Ti}_{0.8}) O_{3}$ Thin Films

Philippe Tückmantel, Iaroslav Gaponenko, Nirvana Caballero, Joshua C. Agar, Lane W. Martin, Thierry Giamarchi, and Patrycja Paruch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117601 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Orbital Chern Insulator and Quantum Phase Diagram of a Kagome Electron System with Half-Filled Flat Bands

Yafei Ren, Hong-Chen Jiang, Zhenhua Qiao, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117602 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Manipulation of Magnetic Domain Walls by Ferroelectric Switching: Dynamic Magnetoelectricity at the Nanoscale

Jun Chen and Shuai Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117603 (2021) - Published 18 March, 2021

Braiding and All Quantum Operations with Majorana Modes in 1D

Viktoriia Kornich, Xiaoli Huang, Evgeny Repin, and Yuli V. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117701 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Molecular View on Mechanical Reinforcement in Polymer Nanocomposites

Ruikun Sun, Matthew Melton, Niloofar Safaie, Robert C. Ferrier, Jr., Shiwang Cheng, Yun Liu, Xiaobing Zuo, and Yangyang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 117801 (2021) - Published 16 March, 2021

Rheological and small angle neutron scattering methods show that nanoparticles mechanically reinforce polymer-nanoparticle composites through hydrodynamic effects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory for Durotactic Axon Guidance

Hadrien Oliveri, Kristian Franze, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 118101 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Physical theory suggests that nerve fibers use their mechanical environment to find functional targets following the laws analogous to those that govern optic rays.

Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions for Functional Connectivity in the Brain

Francesco Randi and Andrew M. Leifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 118102 (2021) - Published 19 March, 2021

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COVID-19 Superspreading Suggests Mitigation by Social Network Modulation

Bjarke Frost Nielsen, Lone Simonsen, and Kim Sneppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 118301 (2021) - Published 15 March, 2021

Latent Dynamical Variables Produce Signatures of Spatiotemporal Criticality in Large Biological Systems

Mia C. Morrell, Audrey J. Sederberg, and Ilya Nemenman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 118302 (2021) - Published 17 March, 2021

Volume 126, Issue 11

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

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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