Volume 126, Issue 12

26 March 2021

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Stokes flow around an animal whisker. Colors represent streamline speeds, from highest (red) to lowest (blue).

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Symmetry Breaking of Tail-Clamped Filaments in Stokes Flow
Jian Deng, Xuerui Mao, and Luca Brandt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 124501 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Universal Relation between Instantaneous Diffusivity and Radius of Gyration of Proteins in Aqueous Solution

Eiji Yamamoto, Takuma Akimoto, Ayori Mitsutake, and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128101 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

How quickly a protein diffuses in a liquid depends directly on its radius, which changes as the protein’s conformation fluctuates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Qubit Engine Fueled by Entanglement and Local Measurements

Léa Bresque, Patrice A. Camati, Spencer Rogers, Kater Murch, Andrew N. Jordan, and Alexia Auffèves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120605 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

A two-qubit engine uses quantum measurement and entanglement as fuel.

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Study of the $K_{L} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$ Decay at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment

J. K. Ahn et al. (KOTO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121801 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

The KOTO collaboration has now carefully analyzed widely discussed preliminary data containing four signal events for a rare kaon decay—an excess suggesting physics beyond the Standard Model—and found that Standard Model background events are large enough to explain the signal.

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Assembly of a Rovibrational Ground State Molecule in an Optical Tweezer

William B. Cairncross, Jessie T. Zhang, Lewis R. B. Picard, Yichao Yu, Kenneth Wang, and Kang-Kuen Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123402 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

A single NaCs molecule is coherently created in its rotational, vibrational, and electronic ground state in an optical tweezer.

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Universal Aspects of a Strongly Interacting Impurity in a Dilute Bose Condensate

Pietro Massignan, Nikolay Yegovtsev, and Victor Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123403 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

An analytical solution of an impurity in strong local interaction with a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate shows that the properties of the polaron are universal.

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Optical Modulation of Electron Beams in Free Space

F. Javier García de Abajo and Andrea Konečná

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123901 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Intense laser beams can shape an electron beam without interaction with the material to correct electron aberrations in free space and produce on-demand electron focal spot shapes.

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Observation of Distinct Spatial Distributions of the Zero and Nonzero Energy Vortex Modes in $({Li}_{0.84} {Fe}_{0.16}) OHFeSe$

Tianzhen Zhang, Weicheng Bao, Chen Chen, Dong Li, Zouyuwei Lu, Yining Hu, Wentao Yang, Dongming Zhao, Yajun Yan, Xiaoli Dong, Qiang-Hua Wang, Tong Zhang, and Donglai Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127001 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Measuring the spatial distribution of the vortex state in (Li,Fe)OHFeSe clarifies the origin of zero-energy modes which is the key feature of topological superconductivity.

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Measuring Topological Invariants in a Polaritonic Analog of Graphene

P. St-Jean, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, B. Real, O. Jamadi, M. Milicevic, A. Lemaître, A. Harouri, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127403 (2021) - Published 25 March, 2021

Advances in spectroscopic imaging have made it possible to measure topological invariants in materials with time-reversal and chiral symmetry.

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Is Seismicity Operating at a Critical Point?

Shyam Nandan, Sumit Kumar Ram, Guy Ouillon, and Didier Sornette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128501 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

The branching ratio of the Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequence model using spatial variability of the background rate is substantially lower than previously reported using a space invariant background rate, demonstrating that the Earth’s crust is at a subcritical rather than critical state.

LETTERS

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

Universal Tripartite Entanglement in One-Dimensional Many-Body Systems

Yijian Zou, Karthik Siva, Tomohiro Soejima, Roger S. K. Mong, and Michael P. Zaletel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120501 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Quantum Limits of Superresolution in a Noisy Environment

Changhun Oh, Sisi Zhou, Yat Wong, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120502 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Incorporating Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle into Quantum Multiparameter Estimation

Xiao-Ming Lu and Xiaoguang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120503 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Level Set Percolation in the Two-Dimensional Gaussian Free Field

Xiangyu Cao and Raoul Santachiara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120601 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Test of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis Based on Local Random Matrix Theory

Shoki Sugimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120602 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

Bath-Induced Zeno Localization in Driven Many-Body Quantum Systems

Thibaud Maimbourg, Denis M. Basko, Markus Holzmann, and Alberto Rosso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120603 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

Quasisymmetry Groups and Many-Body Scar Dynamics

Jie Ren, Chenguang Liang, and Chen Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120604 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Qubit Engine Fueled by Entanglement and Local Measurements

Léa Bresque, Patrice A. Camati, Spencer Rogers, Kater Murch, Andrew N. Jordan, and Alexia Auffèves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120605 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

A two-qubit engine uses quantum measurement and entanglement as fuel.

Chimera Time-Crystalline Order in Quantum Spin Networks

A. Sakurai, V. M. Bastidas, W. J. Munro, and Kae Nemoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 120606 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Nano-Hz Gravitational-Wave Signature from Axion Dark Matter

Naoya Kitajima, Jiro Soda, and Yuko Urakawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121301 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

$T \bar{T}$ -Deformed Conformal Field Theories out of Equilibrium

Marko Medenjak, Giuseppe Policastro, and Takato Yoshimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121601 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Signatures of Chaos in Nonintegrable Models of Quantum Field Theories

Miha Srdinšek, Tomaž Prosen, and Spyros Sotiriadis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121602 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Light-Cone Bootstrap of Higher Point Functions and Wilson Loop Duality

Carlos Bercini, Vasco Gonçalves, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121603 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Study of the $K_{L} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$ Decay at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment

J. K. Ahn et al. (KOTO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121801 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

Search for Dark Matter Produced in Association with a Dark Higgs Boson Decaying into $W^{\pm} W^{\mp}$ or $Z Z$ in Fully Hadronic Final States from $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ $p p$ Collisions Recorded with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 121802 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Evidence for $X (3872) \to J / ψ π^{+} π^{-}$ Produced in Single-Tag Two-Photon Interactions

Y. Teramoto et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 122001 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

Observation of a New Excited $D_{s}^{+}$ Meson in $B^{0} \to D^{-} D^{+} K^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 122002 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Longitudinal Flow Decorrelations in $Xe + Xe$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.44 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 122301 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhancing Circular Dichroism Signals with Vector Beams

Lyuzhou Ye, Longqing Yang, Xiao Zheng, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123001 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Franck-Condon Tuning of Optical Cycling Centers by Organic Functionalization

Claire E. Dickerson, Han Guo, Ashley J. Shin, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Justin R. Caram, Wesley C. Campbell, and Anastassia N. Alexandrova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123002 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Self-Isolated Raman Lasing with a Chiral Dielectric Metasurface

Jefferson Dixon, Mark Lawrence, David R. Barton, III, and Jennifer Dionne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123201 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

Hydrodynamic Stabilization of Self-Organized Criticality in a Driven Rydberg Gas

K. Klocke, T. M. Wintermantel, G. Lochead, S. Whitlock, and M. Buchhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123401 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Assembly of a Rovibrational Ground State Molecule in an Optical Tweezer

William B. Cairncross, Jessie T. Zhang, Lewis R. B. Picard, Yichao Yu, Kenneth Wang, and Kang-Kuen Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123402 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

A single NaCs molecule is coherently created in its rotational, vibrational, and electronic ground state in an optical tweezer.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Aspects of a Strongly Interacting Impurity in a Dilute Bose Condensate

Pietro Massignan, Nikolay Yegovtsev, and Victor Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123403 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

An analytical solution of an impurity in strong local interaction with a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate shows that the properties of the polaron are universal.

High-Dimensional Two-Photon Interference Effects in Spatial Modes

Markus Hiekkamäki and Robert Fickler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123601 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Ultranarrow Superradiant Lasing by Dark Atom-Photon Dressed States

Yuan Zhang, Chongxin Shan, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123602 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Synthetic Gauge Fields in a Single Optomechanical Resonator

Yuan Chen, Yan-Lei Zhang, Zhen Shen, Chang-Ling Zou, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123603 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Entanglement Entropy Scaling Transition under Competing Monitoring Protocols

Mathias Van Regemortel, Ze-Pei Cian, Alireza Seif, Hossein Dehghani, and Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123604 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Modulation of Electron Beams in Free Space

F. Javier García de Abajo and Andrea Konečná

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123901 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Intense laser beams can shape an electron beam without interaction with the material to correct electron aberrations in free space and produce on-demand electron focal spot shapes.

Symmetry Breaking of Tail-Clamped Filaments in Stokes Flow

Jian Deng, Xuerui Mao, and Luca Brandt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 124501 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Marangoni Instability of a Drop in a Stably Stratified Liquid

Yanshen Li, Christian Diddens, Andrea Prosperetti, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 124502 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Quasisymmetric Optimization of Nonaxisymmetry in Tokamaks

J.-K. Park, S. M. Yang, N. C. Logan, Q. Hu, C. Zhu, M. C. Zarnstorff, R. Nazikian, C. Paz-Soldan, Y. M. Jeon, and W. H. Ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125001 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Magnetic Topology of Actively Evolving and Passively Convecting Structures in the Turbulent Solar Wind

B. Hnat, S. C. Chapman, and N. W. Watkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125101 (2021) - Published 25 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Intensity Interference in a Coherent Spin-Polarized Electron Beam

Makoto Kuwahara, Yuya Yoshida, Wataru Nagata, Kojiro Nakakura, Masato Furui, Takafumi Ishida, Koh Saitoh, Toru Ujihara, and Nobuo Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125501 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Breaking Cassie’s Law for Condensation in a Nanopatterned Slit

Martin Láska, Andrew O. Parry, and Alexandr Malijevský

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125701 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Thermodynamics of Linear Carbon Chains

Nathalia L. Costa, Keshav Sharma, Yoong Ahm Kim, Go Bong Choi, Morinobu Endo, Newton M. Barbosa Neto, Alexandre R. Paschoal, and Paulo T. Araujo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125901 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Stochastic Kinetics of Nanocatalytic Systems

Jingyu Kang, Seong Jun Park, Ji-Hyun Kim, Peng Chen, and Jaeyoung Sung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 126001 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Thermodynamically Induced Transport Anomaly in Dilute Metals ${ZrTe}_{5}$ and ${HfTe}_{5}$

Chenjie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 126601 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Collapse of the Josephson Emission in a Carbon Nanotube Junction in the Kondo Regime

D. Watfa, R. Delagrange, A. Kadlecová, M. Ferrier, A. Kasumov, H. Bouchiat, and R. Deblock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 126801 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Distinct Spatial Distributions of the Zero and Nonzero Energy Vortex Modes in $({Li}_{0.84} {Fe}_{0.16}) OHFeSe$

Tianzhen Zhang, Weicheng Bao, Chen Chen, Dong Li, Zouyuwei Lu, Yining Hu, Wentao Yang, Dongming Zhao, Yajun Yan, Xiaoli Dong, Qiang-Hua Wang, Tong Zhang, and Donglai Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127001 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Measuring the spatial distribution of the vortex state in (Li,Fe)OHFeSe clarifies the origin of zero-energy modes which is the key feature of topological superconductivity.

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy as a Single Majorana Detector of Kitaev’s Chiral Spin Liquid

Masafumi Udagawa, Shintaro Takayoshi, and Takashi Oka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127201 (2021) - Published 24 March, 2021

Optical Properties of the Infinite-Layer ${La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {NiO}_{2}$ and Hidden Hund’s Physics

Chang-Jong Kang and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127401 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

Exciton-Trion Polaritons in Doped Two-Dimensional Semiconductors

Farhan Rana, Okan Koksal, Minwoo Jung, Gennady Shvets, A. Nick Vamivakas, and Christina Manolatou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127402 (2021) - Published 22 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring Topological Invariants in a Polaritonic Analog of Graphene

P. St-Jean, A. Dauphin, P. Massignan, B. Real, O. Jamadi, M. Milicevic, A. Lemaître, A. Harouri, L. Le Gratiet, I. Sagnes, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127403 (2021) - Published 25 March, 2021

Advances in spectroscopic imaging have made it possible to measure topological invariants in materials with time-reversal and chiral symmetry.

Antiphase Oscillations in the Time-Resolved Spin Structure Factor of a Photoexcited Mott Insulator

Kenji Tsutsui, Kazuya Shinjo, and Takami Tohyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127404 (2021) - Published 25 March, 2021

Attractive and Repulsive Exciton-Polariton Interactions Mediated by an Electron Gas

Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, Arturo Camacho-Guardian, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127405 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

Switching a Polar Metal via Strain Gradients

Asier Zabalo and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127601 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

Efficient Electrical Spin Splitter Based on Nonrelativistic Collinear Antiferromagnetism

Rafael González-Hernández, Libor Šmejkal, Karel Výborný, Yuta Yahagi, Jairo Sinova, Tomáš Jungwirth, and Jakub Železný

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 127701 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

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

Signature of Transition between Granular Solid and Fluid: Rate-Dependent Stick Slips in Steady Shearing

Jih-Chiang (JC) Tsai, Guan-Hao Huang, and Cheng-En Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128001 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

Particle Dynamics at the Onset of the Granular Gas-Liquid Transition

M. Noirhomme, A. Cazaubiel, E. Falcon, D. Fischer, Y. Garrabos, C. Lecoutre-Chabot, S. Mawet, E. Opsomer, F. Palencia, S. Pillitteri, and N. Vandewalle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128002 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Relation between Instantaneous Diffusivity and Radius of Gyration of Proteins in Aqueous Solution

Eiji Yamamoto, Takuma Akimoto, Ayori Mitsutake, and Ralf Metzler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128101 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

How quickly a protein diffuses in a liquid depends directly on its radius, which changes as the protein’s conformation fluctuates.

Connection between the Bacterial Chemotactic Network and Optimal Filtering

Kento Nakamura and Tetsuya J. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128102 (2021) - Published 23 March, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is Seismicity Operating at a Critical Point?

Shyam Nandan, Sumit Kumar Ram, Guy Ouillon, and Didier Sornette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 128501 (2021) - Published 26 March, 2021