Volume 126, Issue 15

16 April 2021

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Simulation of active chromatin inside a cell nucleus, with encapsulating lamin protein layer shown in blue.

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Dynamic Nuclear Structure Emerges from Chromatin Cross-Links and Motors
Kuang Liu, Alison E. Patteson, Edward J. Banigan, and J. M. Schwarz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158101 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New $α$ -Emitting Isotope ${}^{214}U$ and Abnormal Enhancement of $α$ -Particle Clustering in Lightest Uranium Isotopes

Z. Y. Zhang (张志远) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152502 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Researchers have observed the lightest uranium isotope to date, offering insight into models of nuclear structure.

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Disorder-Enhanced and Disorder-Independent Transport with Long-Range Hopping: Application to Molecular Chains in Optical Cavities

Nahum C. Chávez, Francesco Mattiotti, J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez, Fausto Borgonovi, and G. Luca Celardo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153201 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

A study of long-range interactions in disordered systems yields a surprising result: Transport can increase with disorder.

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Collisions between Ultracold Molecules and Atoms in a Magnetic Trap

S. Jurgilas, A. Chakraborty, C. J. H. Rich, L. Caldwell, H. J. Williams, N. J. Fitch, B. E. Sauer, Matthew D. Frye, Jeremy M. Hutson, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153401 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

An experiment shows the circumstances under which ultracold atoms are quick to kick molecules out of a trap, providing clues for how to use atoms as a refrigerant for molecules.

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Experimental Determination of the Energy per Particle in Partially Filled Landau Levels

Fangyuan Yang, Alexander A. Zibrov, Ruiheng Bai, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156802 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Researchers demonstrate a method for measuring the chemical potential in a many-electron system, providing a way to validate numerical calculations.

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Droplets Sit and Slide Anisotropically on Soft, Stretched Substrates

Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Qin Xu, Stefanie Heyden, Nicolas Bain, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Eric R. Dufresne, and Robert W. Style

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158004 (2021) - Published 15 April, 2021

Experiments show that stretching the substrate changes the shape and dynamics of droplets, suggesting a new way to control fluid motion in microfluidic chips.

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Experimentally Driven Automated Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential for a Refractory Oxide

Ganesh Sivaraman, Leighanne Gallington, Anand Narayanan Krishnamoorthy, Marius Stan, Gábor Csányi, Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia, and Chris J. Benmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156002 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Synchrotron x-ray and neutron diffraction measurements train a machine learning model to enable molecular dynamics simulations with quantum mechanical precision in ceramics.

LETTERS

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

Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser Stability for Conserved Quantities in Finite-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Daniel Burgarth, Paolo Facchi, Hiromichi Nakazato, Saverio Pascazio, and Kazuya Yuasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150401 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Model-Independent Simulation Complexity of Complex Quantum Dynamics

Aiman Khan, David Quigley, Max Marcus, Erling Thyrhaug, and Animesh Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150402 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Bound Entanglement from Randomized Measurements

Satoya Imai, Nikolai Wyderka, Andreas Ketterer, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150501 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Quantum Thermodynamics of Correlated-Catalytic State Conversion at Small Scale

Naoto Shiraishi and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150502 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Using Quantum Metrological Bounds in Quantum Error Correction: A Simple Proof of the Approximate Eastin-Knill Theorem

Aleksander Kubica and Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150503 (2021) - Published 15 April, 2021

Success-or-Draw: A Strategy Allowing Repeat-Until-Success in Quantum Computation

Qingxiuxiong Dong, Marco Túlio Quintino, Akihito Soeda, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150504 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Chaos and Ergodicity across the Energy Spectrum of Interacting Bosons

Lukas Pausch, Edoardo G. Carnio, Alberto Rodríguez, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150601 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Learning the Fuzzy Phases of Small Photonic Condensates

João D. Rodrigues, Himadri S. Dhar, Benjamin T. Walker, Jason M. Smith, Rupert F. Oulton, Florian Mintert, and Robert A. Nyman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 150602 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Topological Stars and Black Holes

Ibrahima Bah and Pierre Heidmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151101 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Constraints on Ultralight Scalar Bosons within Black Hole Spin Measurements from the LIGO-Virgo GWTC-2

Ken K. Y. Ng, Salvatore Vitale, Otto A. Hannuksela, and Tjonnie G. F. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151102 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Implications for First-Order Cosmological Phase Transitions from the Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Run

Alba Romero, Katarina Martinovic, Thomas A. Callister, Huai-Ke Guo, Mario Martínez, Mairi Sakellariadou, Feng-Wei Yang, and Yue Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151301 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Left-Right Symmetry and Leading Contributions to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Gang Li, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, and Juan Carlos Vasquez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 151801 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Explaining the Many Threshold Structures in the Heavy-Quark Hadron Spectrum

Xiang-Kun Dong, Feng-Kun Guo, and Bing-Song Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152001 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Measurement of the Fluctuations in the Number of Muons in Extensive Air Showers with the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Aab et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152002 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Path from Lattice QCD to the Short-Distance Contribution to $0 ν β β$ Decay with a Light Majorana Neutrino

Zohreh Davoudi and Saurabh V. Kadam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152003 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Beam Spin Asymmetries in the Process $e p \to e^{'} π^{+} π^{-} X$ with CLAS12

T. B. Hayward et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152501 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

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New $α$ -Emitting Isotope ${}^{214}U$ and Abnormal Enhancement of $α$ -Particle Clustering in Lightest Uranium Isotopes

Z. Y. Zhang (张志远) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152502 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Researchers have observed the lightest uranium isotope to date, offering insight into models of nuclear structure.

New ${}^{59}{Fe}$ Stellar Decay Rate with Implications for the ${}^{60}{Fe}$ Radioactivity in Massive Stars

B. Gao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 152701 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Disorder-Enhanced and Disorder-Independent Transport with Long-Range Hopping: Application to Molecular Chains in Optical Cavities

Nahum C. Chávez, Francesco Mattiotti, J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez, Fausto Borgonovi, and G. Luca Celardo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153201 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

A study of long-range interactions in disordered systems yields a surprising result: Transport can increase with disorder.

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Collisions between Ultracold Molecules and Atoms in a Magnetic Trap

S. Jurgilas, A. Chakraborty, C. J. H. Rich, L. Caldwell, H. J. Williams, N. J. Fitch, B. E. Sauer, Matthew D. Frye, Jeremy M. Hutson, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153401 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

An experiment shows the circumstances under which ultracold atoms are quick to kick molecules out of a trap, providing clues for how to use atoms as a refrigerant for molecules.

Spin Susceptibility above the Superfluid Onset in Ultracold Fermi Gases

Yun Long, Feng Xiong, and Colin V. Parker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153402 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Complete Quantum Coherent Control of Ultracold Molecular Collisions

Adrien Devolder, Paul Brumer, and Timur V. Tscherbul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153403 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Observation of Microcanonical Atom Number Fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. B. Christensen, T. Vibel, A. J. Hilliard, M. B. Kruk, K. Pawłowski, D. Hryniuk, K. Rzążewski, M. A. Kristensen, and J. J. Arlt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153601 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Unconditional Preparation of Squeezed Vacuum from Rabi Interactions

Jacob Hastrup, Kimin Park, Radim Filip, and Ulrik Lund Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153602 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics at Arbitrary Light-Matter Coupling Strengths

Yuto Ashida, Ataç İmamoğlu, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153603 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Three-Dimensional Matter-Wave Interferometry of a Trapped Single Ion

Ami Shinjo, Masato Baba, Koya Higashiyama, Ryoichi Saito, and Takashi Mukaiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153604 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Controlled Transportation of Light by Light at the Microscale

Manuel Crespo-Ballesteros and Misha Sumetsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153901 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Dissipative Light Bullets in Kerr Cavities: Multistability, Clustering, and Rogue Waves

S. S. Gopalakrishnan, K. Panajotov, M. Taki, and M. Tlidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 153902 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stabilization of Alfvén Eigenmodes in DIII-D via Controlled Energetic Ion Density Ramp and Validation of Theory and Simulations

S. X. Tang, T. A. Carter, N. A. Crocker, W. W. Heidbrink, J. B. Lestz, R. I. Pinsker, K. E. Thome, M. A. Van Zeeland, and E. V. Belova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 155001 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Theoretical Justification of Single-Ended Dislocation-Source-Controlled Deformation of Micropillar fcc Crystals

Shin Takeuchi, Keiichi Edagawa, and Yasushi Kamimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 155501 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Monoclinic ${EuSn}_{2} {As}_{2}$ : A Novel High-Pressure Network Structure

Lin Zhao, Changjiang Yi, Chang-Tian Wang, Zhenhua Chi, Yunyu Yin, Xiaoli Ma, Jianhong Dai, Pengtao Yang, Binbin Yue, Jinguang Cheng, Fang Hong, Jian-Tao Wang, Yonghao Han, Youguo Shi, and Xiaohui Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 155701 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Ultrafast Diffusion at the Onset of Growth: $O / Ru (0001)$

Jack Kelsall, Peter S. M. Townsend, John Ellis, Andrew P. Jardine, and Nadav Avidor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 155901 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Mechanism of Indirect Photon-Induced Desorption at the Water Ice Surface

R. Dupuy, M. Bertin, G. Féraud, X. Michaut, P. Marie-Jeanne, P. Jeseck, L. Philippe, V. Baglin, R. Cimino, C. Romanzin, and J.-H. Fillion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156001 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimentally Driven Automated Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential for a Refractory Oxide

Ganesh Sivaraman, Leighanne Gallington, Anand Narayanan Krishnamoorthy, Marius Stan, Gábor Csányi, Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia, and Chris J. Benmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156002 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Synchrotron x-ray and neutron diffraction measurements train a machine learning model to enable molecular dynamics simulations with quantum mechanical precision in ceramics.

Mechanical Vibrational Relaxation of NO Scattering from Metal and Insulator Surfaces: When and Why They Are Different

Rongrong Yin and Bin Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156101 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Valley-Selective Topological Corner States in Sonic Crystals

Xiujuan Zhang, Le Liu, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156401 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Critical Behavior and Universal Signature of an Axion Insulator State

Hailong Li, Hua Jiang, Chui-Zhen Chen, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156601 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Conductivity in a Nonuniform Electric Field

Vladyslav Kozii, Alexander Avdoshkin, Shudan Zhong, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156602 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Hybrid-Order Topological Insulators in a Phononic Crystal

Yating Yang, Jiuyang Lu, Mou Yan, Xueqin Huang, Weiyin Deng, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156801 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

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Experimental Determination of the Energy per Particle in Partially Filled Landau Levels

Fangyuan Yang, Alexander A. Zibrov, Ruiheng Bai, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Michael P. Zaletel, and Andrea F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 156802 (2021) - Published 13 April, 2021

Researchers demonstrate a method for measuring the chemical potential in a many-electron system, providing a way to validate numerical calculations.

Observing the Suppression of Superconductivity in ${RbEuFe}_{4} {As}_{4}$ by Correlated Magnetic Fluctuations

D. Collomb, S. J. Bending, A. E. Koshelev, M. P. Smylie, L. Farrar, J.-K. Bao, D. Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis, W.-K. Kwok, and U. Welp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 157001 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Electric Quadrupolar Contributions in the Magnetic Phases of ${UNi}_{4} B$

T. Yanagisawa, H. Matsumori, H. Saito, H. Hidaka, H. Amitsuka, S. Nakamura, S. Awaji, D. I. Gorbunov, S. Zherlitsyn, J. Wosnitza, K. Uhlířová, M. Vališka, and V. Sechovský

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 157201 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Generation of Current Vortex by Spin Current in Rashba Systems

Florian Lange, Satoshi Ejima, Junji Fujimoto, Tomonori Shirakawa, Holger Fehske, Seiji Yunoki, and Sadamichi Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 157202 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Total Angular Momentum Dichroism of the Terahertz Vortex Beams at the Antiferromagnetic Resonances

A. A. Sirenko, P. Marsik, L. Bugnon, M. Soulier, C. Bernhard, T. N. Stanislavchuk, Xianghan Xu, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 157401 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Presence of X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism Signal for Zero-Magnetization Antiferromagnetic State

Norimasa Sasabe, Motoi Kimata, and Tetsuya Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 157402 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

Dimensionality-Induced Change in Topological Order in Multiferroic Oxide Superlattices

Megan E. Holtz, Elliot S. Padgett, Rachel Steinhardt, Charles M. Brooks, Dennis Meier, Darrell G. Schlom, David A. Muller, and Julia A. Mundy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 157601 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

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

Nonconventional Phases of Colloidal Nanorods with a Soft Corona

Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, Marjolein Dijkstra, and Alessandro Patti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158001 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Long-Range Fluctuation-Induced Forces in Driven Electrolytes

Saeed Mahdisoltani and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158002 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

Rapid Fickian Yet Non-Gaussian Diffusion after Subdiffusion

Raffaele Pastore, Antonio Ciarlo, Giuseppe Pesce, Francesco Greco, and Antonio Sasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158003 (2021) - Published 12 April, 2021

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Droplets Sit and Slide Anisotropically on Soft, Stretched Substrates

Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Qin Xu, Stefanie Heyden, Nicolas Bain, Jacco H. Snoeijer, Eric R. Dufresne, and Robert W. Style

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158004 (2021) - Published 15 April, 2021

Experiments show that stretching the substrate changes the shape and dynamics of droplets, suggesting a new way to control fluid motion in microfluidic chips.

Dynamic Nuclear Structure Emerges from Chromatin Cross-Links and Motors

Kuang Liu, Alison E. Patteson, Edward J. Banigan, and J. M. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158101 (2021) - Published 14 April, 2021

Collective Synchronous Spiking in a Brain Network of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators

Vitaly L. Galinsky and Lawrence R. Frank

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 158102 (2021) - Published 16 April, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: GHz Rotation of an Optically Trapped Nanoparticle in Vacuum [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033602 (2018)]

Fons van der Laan, René Reimann, Michael Doderer, Erik Hebestreit, Rozenn Diehl, Martin Frimmer, Dominik Windey, Felix Tebbenjohanns, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 159901 (2021) - Published 15 April, 2021