Volume 126, Issue 13

2 April 2021

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Cuts of the Fermi surface (yellow) of a quasi-two-dimensional thin film and closed loop where the pairing function changes sign (green dashed line), indicating the presence of a helical topological superconductor phase.

From the article:

Intrinsic Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductivity in Thin Films of Iron-Based Superconductors
Rui-Xing Zhang and S. Das Sarma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137001 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Actinide Crystallization and Fission Reactions in Cooling White Dwarf Stars

C. J. Horowitz and M. E. Caplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131101 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

White dwarf explosions may be initiated by uranium in the stellar core detonating like a nuclear weapon.

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Spinning Black Holes Fall in Love

Alexandre Le Tiec and Marc Casals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131102 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

New calculations show that spinning black holes—unlike nonspinning ones—can be tidally deformed by a nonsymmetric gravitational field.

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Transverse Beam Emittance Measurement by Undulator Radiation Power Noise

Ihar Lobach, Sergei Nagaitsev, Valeri Lebedev, Aleksandr Romanov, Giulio Stancari, Alexander Valishev, Aliaksei Halavanau, Zhirong Huang, and Kwang-Je Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 134802 (2021) - Published 1 April, 2021

A new way of measuring a vital property of electron beams helps prepare researchers for next-generation synchrotron light sources.

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Electron Acceleration during Macroscale Magnetic Reconnection

H. Arnold, J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, F. Guo, J. T. Dahlin, B. Chen, G. Fleishman, L. Glesener, E. Kontar, T. Phan, and C. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 135101 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

The first self-consistent macroscale simulation of magnetic reconnection with electron acceleration shows, consistently with the observation of the solar flare on September 10, 2017, that nonthermal electrons can contain up to 80% of the total electron energy and depend strongly on the ambient guide field.

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Theory for Twisted Bilayer Photonic Crystal Slabs

Beicheng Lou, Nathan Zhao, Momchil Minkov, Cheng Guo, Meir Orenstein, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136101 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

A numerical technique enables the computational study of twisted photonic structures.

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Active Viscoelasticity of Odd Materials

Debarghya Banerjee, Vincenzo Vitelli, Frank Jülicher, and Piotr Surówka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138001 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

The odd viscoelastic response of active chiral materials can be described by generalizations of canonical hydrodynamic theories of viscoelasticity.

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Charge Regulation Effects in Nanoparticle Self-Assembly

Tine Curk and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138003 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

A computational scheme that combines Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods dynamically accounts for charge regulation in associating nanoparticles.

LETTERS

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

Disorder-Free Localization in an Interacting 2D Lattice Gauge Theory

P. Karpov, R. Verdel, Y.-P. Huang, M. Schmitt, and M. Heyl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 130401 (2021) - Published 1 April, 2021

Physics and Metaphysics of Wigner’s Friends: Even Performed Premeasurements Have No Results

Marek Żukowski and Marcin Markiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 130402 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Collision Models Can Efficiently Simulate Any Multipartite Markovian Quantum Dynamics

Marco Cattaneo, Gabriele De Chiara, Sabrina Maniscalco, Roberta Zambrini, and Gian Luca Giorgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 130403 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Supercompact Photonic Quantum Logic Gate on a Silicon Chip

Ming Zhang, Lantian Feng, Ming Li, Yang Chen, Long Zhang, Deyong He, Guoping Guo, Guangcan Guo, Xifeng Ren, and Daoxin Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 130501 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Quantum Teleportation between Remote Qubit Memories with Only a Single Photon as a Resource

Stefan Langenfeld, Stephan Welte, Lukas Hartung, Severin Daiss, Philip Thomas, Olivier Morin, Emanuele Distante, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 130502 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Actinide Crystallization and Fission Reactions in Cooling White Dwarf Stars

C. J. Horowitz and M. E. Caplan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131101 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

White dwarf explosions may be initiated by uranium in the stellar core detonating like a nuclear weapon.

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Spinning Black Holes Fall in Love

Alexandre Le Tiec and Marc Casals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131102 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

New calculations show that spinning black holes—unlike nonspinning ones—can be tidally deformed by a nonsymmetric gravitational field.

Sensor Noise in LISA Pathfinder: In-Flight Performance of the Optical Test Mass Readout

M. Armano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131103 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

NANOGrav Results and LIGO-Virgo Primordial Black Holes in Axionlike Curvaton Models

Keisuke Inomata, Masahiro Kawasaki, Kyohei Mukaida, and Tsutomu T. Yanagida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131301 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Parity-Violating Møller Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order: Closed Fermion Loops

Yong Du, Ayres Freitas, Hiren H. Patel, and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 131801 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Coupled-Channel Interpretation of the LHCb Double- $J / ψ$ Spectrum and Hints of a New State Near the $J / ψ J / ψ$ Threshold

Xiang-Kun Dong, Vadim Baru, Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, and Alexey Nefediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 132001 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Observation of the Exotic Isotope ${}^{13}F$ Located Four Neutrons beyond the Proton Drip Line

R. J. Charity, T. B. Webb, J. M. Elson, D. E. M. Hoff, C. D. Pruitt, L. G. Sobotka, K. W. Brown, G. Cerizza, J. Estee, W. G. Lynch, J. Manfredi, P. Morfouace, C. Santamaria, S. Sweany, C. Y. Tsang, M. B. Tsang, Y. Zhang, K. Zhu, S. A. Kuvin, D. McNeel, J. Smith, A. H. Wuosmaa, and Z. Chajecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 132501 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

First observation of the proton rich isotope $^{13}$ F extends the chart of nuclides beyond the proton drip line.

Experimental Evidence for Common Driving Effects in Low-Energy Fission from Sublead to Actinides

C. Schmitt, A. Lemasson, K.-H. Schmidt, A. Jhingan, S. Biswas, Y. H. Kim, D. Ramos, A. N. Andreyev, D. Curien, M. Ciemala, E. Clément, O. Dorvaux, B. De Canditiis, F. Didierjean, G. Duchêne, J. Dudouet, J. Frankland, B. Jacquot, C. Raison, D. Ralet, B.-M. Retailleau, L. Stuttgé, and I. Tsekhanovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 132502 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Structure Factors of Neutron Matter at Finite Temperature

Andrei Alexandru, Paulo Bedaque, Evan Berkowitz, and Neill C. Warrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 132701 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cresting the Coulomb Barrier of Polyanionic Metal Clusters

F. Martinez, N. Iwe, M. Müller, K. Raspe, L. Schweikhard, J. Tiggesbäumker, and K.-H. Meiwes-Broer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 133001 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Molecular Modes of Attosecond Charge Migration

Aderonke S. Folorunso, Adam Bruner, François Mauger, Kyle A. Hamer, Samuel Hernandez, Robert R. Jones, Louis F. DiMauro, Mette B. Gaarde, Kenneth J. Schafer, and Kenneth Lopata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 133002 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Efficient Frequency Conversion in a Degenerate $χ^{(2)}$ Microresonator

Jia-Qi Wang, Yuan-Hao Yang, Ming Li, Xin-Xin Hu, Joshua B. Surya, Xin-Biao Xu, Chun-Hua Dong, Guang-Can Guo, Hong X. Tang, and Chang-Ling Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 133601 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Nanoscopic Charge Fluctuations in a Gallium Phosphide Waveguide Measured by Single Molecules

Alexey Shkarin, Dominik Rattenbacher, Jan Renger, Simon Hönl, Tobias Utikal, Paul Seidler, Stephan Götzinger, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 133602 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Effect of Active Photons on Dynamical Frustration in Cavity QED

Shane P. Kelly, Ana Maria Rey, and Jamir Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 133603 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Harmonic Generation and Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light in a Relativistic Oscillating Window

Longqing Yi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 134801 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

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Transverse Beam Emittance Measurement by Undulator Radiation Power Noise

Ihar Lobach, Sergei Nagaitsev, Valeri Lebedev, Aleksandr Romanov, Giulio Stancari, Alexander Valishev, Aliaksei Halavanau, Zhirong Huang, and Kwang-Je Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 134802 (2021) - Published 1 April, 2021

A new way of measuring a vital property of electron beams helps prepare researchers for next-generation synchrotron light sources.

Fractional Angular Momenta, Gouy and Berry Phases in Relativistic Bateman-Hillion-Gaussian Beams of Electrons

Robert J. Ducharme, Irismar G. da Paz, and Armen G. Hayrapetyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 134803 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

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Electron Acceleration during Macroscale Magnetic Reconnection

H. Arnold, J. F. Drake, M. Swisdak, F. Guo, J. T. Dahlin, B. Chen, G. Fleishman, L. Glesener, E. Kontar, T. Phan, and C. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 135101 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Boundary Critical Behavior of the Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Universality Class

Francesco Parisen Toldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 135701 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Microscopic Kinetics Pathway of Salt Crystallization in Graphene Nanocapillaries

Lifen Wang, Ji Chen, Stephen J. Cox, Lei Liu, Gabriele C. Sosso, Ning Li, Peng Gao, Angelos Michaelides, Enge Wang, and Xuedong Bai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136001 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Transmission Line Circuit and Equation for an Electrolyte-Filled Pore of Finite Length

Mathijs Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136002 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

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Theory for Twisted Bilayer Photonic Crystal Slabs

Beicheng Lou, Nathan Zhao, Momchil Minkov, Cheng Guo, Meir Orenstein, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136101 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

A numerical technique enables the computational study of twisted photonic structures.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Robust Surface States and Coherence Phenomena in Magnetically Alloyed ${SmB}_{6}$

Lin Miao, Chul-Hee Min, Yishuai Xu, Zengle Huang, Erica C. Kotta, Rourav Basak, M. S. Song, B. Y. Kang, B. K. Cho, K. Kißner, F. Reinert, Turgut Yilmaz, Elio Vescovo, Yi-De Chuang, Weida Wu, Jonathan D. Denlinger, and L. Andrew Wray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136401 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

Distinct Kondo Screening Behaviors in Heavy Fermion Filled Skutterudites with $4 f^{1}$ and $4 f^{2}$ Configurations

X. Lou, T. L. Yu, Y. H. Song, C. H. P. Wen, W. Z. Wei, A. Leithe-Jasper, Z. F. Ding, L. Shu, S. Kirchner, H. C. Xu, R. Peng, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136402 (2021) - Published 1 April, 2021

Exactly Solvable Model for Strongly Interacting Electrons in a Magnetic Field

Abhishek Anand, J. K. Jain, and G. J. Sreejith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136601 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

Quantum Phase Transition at Nonzero Doping in a Random $t − J$ Model

Leyna Shackleton, Alexander Wietek, Antoine Georges, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136602 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Discovery of Two-Dimensional Electromagnetic Plasma Waves

A. Shuvaev, V. M. Muravev, P. A. Gusikhin, J. Gospodarič, A. Pimenov, and I. V. Kukushkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136801 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

Dielectric Properties of Nanoconfined Water: A Canonical Thermopotentiostat Approach

F. Deißenbeck, C. Freysoldt, M. Todorova, J. Neugebauer, and S. Wippermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 136803 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Intrinsic Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductivity in Thin Films of Iron-Based Superconductors

Rui-Xing Zhang and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137001 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Inverse Faraday Effect for Superconducting Condensates

S. V. Mironov, A. S. Mel’nikov, I. D. Tokman, V. Vadimov, B. Lounis, and A. I. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137002 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Time Refraction of Spin Waves

K. Schultheiss, N. Sato, P. Matthies, L. Körber, K. Wagner, T. Hula, O. Gladii, J. E. Pearson, A. Hoffmann, M. Helm, J. Fassbender, and H. Schultheiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137201 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Spin-Wave Doppler Shift by Magnon Drag in Magnetic Insulators

Tao Yu, Chen Wang, Michael A. Sentef, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137202 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Enhancement of Parametric Effects in Polariton Waveguides Induced by Dipolar Interactions

D. G. Suárez-Forero, F. Riminucci, V. Ardizzone, N. Karpowicz, E. Maggiolini, G. Macorini, G. Lerario, F. Todisco, M. De Giorgi, L. Dominici, D. Ballarini, G. Gigli, A. S. Lanotte, K. West, K. Baldwin, L. Pfeiffer, and D. Sanvitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137401 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Low Temperature Relaxation of Donor Bound Electron Spins in ${}^{28}{Si} : P$

E. Sauter, N. V. Abrosimov, J. Hübner, and M. Oestreich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137402 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Quantum Interference Visibility Spectroscopy in Two-Color Photoemission from Tungsten Needle Tips

Ang Li, Yiming Pan, Philip Dienstbier, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137403 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Exciton Band Topology in Spontaneous Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators: Applications to Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Yves H. Kwan, Yichen Hu, Steven H. Simon, and S. A. Parameswaran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137601 (2021) - Published 30 March, 2021

Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit

Amir Burshtein, Roman Kuzmin, Vladimir E. Manucharyan, and Moshe Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137701 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

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

Random First Order Transition Theory for Glassy Dynamics in a Single Condensed Polymer

Hyun Woo Cho, Guang Shi, T. R. Kirkpatrick, and D. Thirumalai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 137801 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Active Viscoelasticity of Odd Materials

Debarghya Banerjee, Vincenzo Vitelli, Frank Jülicher, and Piotr Surówka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138001 (2021) - Published 29 March, 2021

The odd viscoelastic response of active chiral materials can be described by generalizations of canonical hydrodynamic theories of viscoelasticity.

Vorticity Determines the Force on Bodies Immersed in Active Fluids

Thomas Speck and Ashreya Jayaram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138002 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

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Charge Regulation Effects in Nanoparticle Self-Assembly

Tine Curk and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138003 (2021) - Published 31 March, 2021

A computational scheme that combines Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics methods dynamically accounts for charge regulation in associating nanoparticles.

Microscopic Dynamics of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation and Domain Coarsening in a Protein Solution Revealed by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

Anita Girelli, Hendrik Rahmann, Nafisa Begam, Anastasia Ragulskaya, Mario Reiser, Sivasurender Chandran, Fabian Westermeier, Michael Sprung, Fajun Zhang, Christian Gutt, and Frank Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138004 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021

Elastoplastic Approach Based on Microscopic Insights for the Steady State and Transient Dynamics of Sheared Disordered Solids

Chen Liu, Suman Dutta, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Kirsten Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 138005 (2021) - Published 2 April, 2021