Volume 126, Issue 17

30 April 2021

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On the Cover

The High Resolution Spectrometer in Hall A at Jefferson Lab used by the PREX-2 experiment. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of ${}^{208}{Pb}$ through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering
D. Adhikari et al. (PREX Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172502 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of ${}^{208}{Pb}$ through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering

D. Adhikari et al. (PREX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172502 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Researchers make the most precise measurement yet of the neutron distribution in a heavy nucleus, with implications for the structure of neutron stars.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

3D Imaging from Multipath Temporal Echoes

Alex Turpin, Valentin Kapitany, Jack Radford, Davide Rovelli, Kevin Mitchell, Ashley Lyons, Ilya Starshynov, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174301 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

With a one-pixel detector and a pulsed emitting device, researchers are able to produce a 3D image of a room from multiple echoes.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Atomtronic Matter-Wave Lensing

Saurabh Pandey, Hector Mas, Georgios Vasilakis, and Wolf von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170402 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

A new “lensing” technique counters the spreading of an ultracold cloud of atoms inside a tiny waveguide.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spatially Shaping Waves to Penetrate Deep inside a Forbidden Gap

Ravitej Uppu, Manashee Adhikary, Cornelis A. M. Harteveld, and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177402 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

By shaping the phase of a light beam, researchers demonstrate that they can guide its path through an otherwise light-impenetrable material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scattering Amplitudes and Conservative Binary Dynamics at $O (G^{4})$

Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, Radu Roiban, Michael S. Ruf, Chia-Hsien Shen, Mikhail P. Solon, and Mao Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171601 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

In a fruitful cross-pollination of ideas, quantum field theory techniques are used to compute hitherto unknown details of gravitational dynamics of inspiraling compact objects.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Implications of PREX-2 on the Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Matter

Brendan T. Reed, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, and J. Piekarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172503 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

An analysis including the recent measurement of the neutron skin thickness of $^{208}$ Pb by the PREX-2 experiment provides limits on both the radius and deformability of a 1.4 solar mass neutron star.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered van der Waals Bonded ${BeN}_{4}$ Polymorph

Maxim Bykov, Timofey Fedotenko, Stella Chariton, Dominique Laniel, Konstantin Glazyrin, Michael Hanfland, Jesse S. Smith, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Mohammad F. Mahmood, Alexander F. Goncharov, Alena V. Ponomareva, Ferenc Tasnádi, Alexei I. Abrikosov, Talha Bin Masood, Ingrid Hotz, Alexander N. Rudenko, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Igor A. Abrikosov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175501 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

The layered compound BeN $_{4}$ , berillontirene, is a Dirac semimetal with linear dispersion in the vicinity of the Fermi energy and two Dirac points coinciding with the Fermi energy, similar to graphene.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interrelation of Elasticity and Thermal Bath in Nanotube Cantilevers

S. Tepsic, G. Gruber, C. B. Møller, C. Magén, P. Belardinelli, E. R. Hernández, F. Alijani, P. Verlot, and A. Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175502 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

Optomechanical spectroscopy of nanoresonators provides high-sensitivity determination of the Young’s modulus of individual carbon nanotubes, which allows estimation of the effect of temperature on their stiffness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring Density Functional Parameters from Electron Diffraction Patterns

Ding Peng and Philip N. H. Nakashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176402 (2021) - Published 29 April, 2021

Density functional theory has been integrated into quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction to refine density functional model parameters using electron densities exclusively.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Complexity in Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulators ${MnBi}_{4} {Te}_{7}$ and ${MnBi}_{6} {Te}_{10}$

R. C. Vidal, H. Bentmann, J. I. Facio, T. Heider, P. Kagerer, C. I. Fornari, T. R. F. Peixoto, T. Figgemeier, S. Jung, C. Cacho, B. Büchner, J. van den Brink, C. M. Schneider, L. Plucinski, E. F. Schwier, K. Shimada, M. Richter, A. Isaeva, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176403 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Dirac-like dispersion in topological surface states is strongly perturbed by hybridization with valence-band states for Bi $_{2}$ Te $_{3}$ -terminated surfaces, but remains preserved for MnBi $_{2}$ Te $_{4}$ -terminated surfaces.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chirality Memory Stored in Magnetic Domain Walls in the Ferromagnetic State of MnP

N. Jiang, Y. Nii, H. Arisawa, E. Saitoh, J. Ohe, and Y. Onose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177205 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Magnetic chirality persists as the handedness of domain walls in an itinerant helimagnet even after being driven into a ferromagnetic state and back.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon-Assisted Ballistic Current from First-Principles Calculations

Zhenbang Dai, Aaron M. Schankler, Lingyuan Gao, Liang Z. Tan, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177403 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

The ab initio calculation of the ballistic current using the full electronic structure and phonon dispersion shows that much larger current responses can exist away from the band-edge, and provides a qualitatively different understanding of ballistic current for real materials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deep-Learning Approach to First-Principles Transport Simulations

Marius Bürkle, Umesha Perera, Florian Gimbert, Hisao Nakamura, Masaaki Kawata, and Yoshihiro Asai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177701 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Machine learning combined with first-principles transport calculations leads to improved predictions of conductance in alkali metal nanowires.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structural Landscapes in Geometrically Frustrated Smectics

Jingmin Xia, Scott MacLachlan, Timothy J. Atherton, and Patrick E. Farrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177801 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

A free energy model of smectic liquid crystals successfully reproduces known structures and identifies new candidates in scenarios involving geometric frustration.

LETTERS

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

Near Field Propulsion Forces from Nonreciprocal Media

David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Noah Graham, Mehran Kardar, and Matthias Krüger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170401 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Atomtronic Matter-Wave Lensing

Saurabh Pandey, Hector Mas, Georgios Vasilakis, and Wolf von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170402 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

A new “lensing” technique counters the spreading of an ultracold cloud of atoms inside a tiny waveguide.

Impulsively Excited Gravitational Quantum States: Echoes and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy

I. Tutunnikov, K. V. Rajitha, A. Yu. Voronin, V. V. Nesvizhevsky, and I. Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170403 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Quantum Correlations beyond Entanglement and Discord

S. Köhnke, E. Agudelo, M. Schünemann, O. Schlettwein, W. Vogel, J. Sperling, and B. Hage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170404 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Concurrence Percolation in Quantum Networks

Xiangyi Meng, Jianxi Gao, and Shlomo Havlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170501 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Quantifying the Difference between Many-Body Quantum States

Davide Girolami and Fabio Anzà

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170502 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Entanglement and Purification Transitions in Non-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics

Sarang Gopalakrishnan and Michael J. Gullans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170503 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Quantum State Learning via Single-Shot Measurements

Sang Min Lee, Hee Su Park, Jinhyoung Lee, Jaewan Kim, and Jeongho Bang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170504 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Photonic Implementation of Quantum Information Masking

Zheng-Hao Liu, Xiao-Bin Liang (梁晓斌), Kai Sun, Qiang Li, Yu Meng, Mu Yang, Bo Li, Jing-Ling Chen, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170505 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Dynamically Encircling an Exceptional Point in a Real Quantum System

Wenquan Liu, Yang Wu, Chang-Kui Duan, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170506 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Information and Thermodynamics: Fast and Precise Approach to Landauer’s Bound in an Underdamped Micromechanical Oscillator

Salambô Dago, Jorge Pereda, Nicolas Barros, Sergio Ciliberto, and Ludovic Bellon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170601 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Entanglement Transition in a Monitored Free-Fermion Chain: From Extended Criticality to Area Law

O. Alberton, M. Buchhold, and S. Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170602 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Efficient Tensor Network Ansatz for High-Dimensional Quantum Many-Body Problems

Timo Felser, Simone Notarnicola, and Simone Montangero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 170603 (2021) - Published 29 April, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Direct Detection of Hawking Radiation from Asteroid-Mass Primordial Black Holes

Adam Coogan, Logan Morrison, and Stefano Profumo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171101 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Prospects for Measuring the Hubble Constant with Neutron-Star–Black-Hole Mergers

Stephen M. Feeney, Hiranya V. Peiris, Samaya M. Nissanke, and Daniel J. Mortlock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171102 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

New Spin on LIGO-Virgo Binary Black Holes

Sylvia Biscoveanu, Maximiliano Isi, Salvatore Vitale, and Vijay Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171103 (2021) - Published 29 April, 2021

Experimental Constraint on Axionlike Particles over Seven Orders of Magnitude in Mass

Tanya S. Roussy, Daniel A. Palken, William B. Cairncross, Benjamin M. Brubaker, Daniel N. Gresh, Matt Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Kia Boon Ng, Yuval Shagam, Yan Zhou, Victor V. Flambaum, Konrad W. Lehnert, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171301 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Scattering Amplitudes and Conservative Binary Dynamics at $O (G^{4})$

Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, Radu Roiban, Michael S. Ruf, Chia-Hsien Shen, Mikhail P. Solon, and Mao Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171601 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

In a fruitful cross-pollination of ideas, quantum field theory techniques are used to compute hitherto unknown details of gravitational dynamics of inspiraling compact objects.

String Dualities at Order $α^{' 3}$

Tomas Codina, Olaf Hohm, and Diego Marques

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171602 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

Relative Entropy of Random States and Black Holes

Jonah Kudler-Flam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171603 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Universal AdS Black Holes in Theories with 16 Supercharges and Their Microstates

Seyed Morteza Hosseini and Alberto Zaffaroni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171604 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Measurement of the $2 ν β β$ Decay Half-Life of ${}^{130}{Te}$ with CUORE

D. Q. Adams et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171801 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Thermodynamics of a Two-Step Electroweak Phase Transition

Lauri Niemi, Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf, Tuomas V. I. Tenkanen, and David J. Weir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171802 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Qubit Regularization of Asymptotic Freedom

Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Alexander J. Buser, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, Rajan Gupta, and Hersh Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172001 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Toward Complete Leading-Order Predictions for Neutrinoless Double $β$ Decay

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Wouter Dekens, Jordy de Vries, Martin Hoferichter, and Emanuele Mereghetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172002 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Nuclear Physics

New and Practical Formulation for Overlaps of Bogoliubov Vacua

B. G. Carlsson and J. Rotureau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172501 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Accurate Determination of the Neutron Skin Thickness of ${}^{208}{Pb}$ through Parity-Violation in Electron Scattering

D. Adhikari et al. (PREX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172502 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Researchers make the most precise measurement yet of the neutron distribution in a heavy nucleus, with implications for the structure of neutron stars.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Implications of PREX-2 on the Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Matter

Brendan T. Reed, F. J. Fattoyev, C. J. Horowitz, and J. Piekarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 172503 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Testing Quantum Electrodynamics with Exotic Atoms

Nancy Paul, Guojie Bian, Toshiyuki Azuma, Shinji Okada, and Paul Indelicato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173001 (2021) - Published 29 April, 2021

Tunable Three-Body Loss in a Nonlinear Rydberg Medium

D. P. Ornelas-Huerta, Przemyslaw Bienias, Alexander N. Craddock, Michael J. Gullans, Andrew J. Hachtel, Marcin Kalinowski, Mary E. Lyon, Alexey V. Gorshkov, S. L. Rolston, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173401 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

Cavity-QED Quantum Simulator of Dynamical Phases of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor

Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Diego Barberena, Julia R. K. Cline, Dylan J. Young, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173601 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Imaging Trapped Ion Structures via Fluorescence Cross-Correlation Detection

Stefan Richter, Sebastian Wolf, Joachim von Zanthier, and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173602 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Gaussian versus Non-Gaussian Filtering of Phase-Insensitive Nonclassicality

B. Kühn, W. Vogel, V. Thiel, S. Merkouche, and B. J. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173603 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Demonstration of Self-Starting Nonlinear Mode Locking in Random Lasers

Fabrizio Antenucci, Giovanni Lerario, Blanca Silva Fernandéz, Luisa De Marco, Milena De Giorgi, Dario Ballarini, Daniele Sanvitto, and Luca Leuzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173901 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Tunable Size Dependence of Quantum Plasmon of Charged Gold Nanoparticles

Song Ma, Da-Jie Yang, Si-Jing Ding, Jia Liu, Wei Wang, Zhi-Yong Wu, Xiao-Dan Liu, Li Zhou, and Qu-Quan Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173902 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Unifying Frequency Combs in Active and Passive Cavities: Temporal Solitons in Externally Driven Ring Lasers

L. Columbo, M. Piccardo, F. Prati, L. A. Lugiato, M. Brambilla, A. Gatti, C. Silvestri, M. Gioannini, N. Opačak, B. Schwarz, and F. Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 173903 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Modeling and Observation of Nonlinear Damping in Dissipation-Diluted Nanomechanical Resonators

Letizia Catalini, Massimiliano Rossi, Eric C. Langman, and Albert Schliesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174101 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Chaos-Assisted Long-Range Tunneling for Quantum Simulation

Maxime Martinez, Olivier Giraud, Denis Ullmo, Juliette Billy, David Guéry-Odelin, Bertrand Georgeot, and Gabriel Lemarié

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174102 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

3D Imaging from Multipath Temporal Echoes

Alex Turpin, Valentin Kapitany, Jack Radford, Davide Rovelli, Kevin Mitchell, Ashley Lyons, Ilya Starshynov, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174301 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

With a one-pixel detector and a pulsed emitting device, researchers are able to produce a 3D image of a room from multiple echoes.

Stabilization of Unsteady Nonlinear Waves by Phase-Space Manipulation

Alexis Gomel, Amin Chabchoub, Maura Brunetti, Stefano Trillo, Jérôme Kasparian, and Andrea Armaroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174501 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Rising and Sinking in Resonance: Mass Distribution Critically Affects Buoyancy-Driven Spheres via Rotational Dynamics

Jelle B. Will and Dominik Krug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174502 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Near-Field Probe of Thermal Fluctuations of a Hemispherical Bubble Surface

Z. Zhang, Y. Wang, Y. Amarouchene, R. Boisgard, H. Kellay, A. Würger, and A. Maali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174503 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Optimal Beam Loading in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator

Manuel Kirchen, Sören Jalas, Philipp Messner, Paul Winkler, Timo Eichner, Lars Hübner, Thomas Hülsenbusch, Laurids Jeppe, Trupen Parikh, Matthias Schnepp, and Andreas R. Maier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 174801 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

Demonstration of Safe Termination of Megaampere Relativistic Electron Beams in Tokamaks

Cédric Reux, Carlos Paz-Soldan, Pavel Aleynikov, Vinodh Bandaru, Ondrej Ficker, Scott Silburn, Matthias Hoelzl, Stefan Jachmich, Nicholas Eidietis, Michael Lehnen, Sundaresan Sridhar, and JET contributors

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175001 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered van der Waals Bonded ${BeN}_{4}$ Polymorph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175501 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interrelation of Elasticity and Thermal Bath in Nanotube Cantilevers

S. Tepsic, G. Gruber, C. B. Møller, C. Magén, P. Belardinelli, E. R. Hernández, F. Alijani, P. Verlot, and A. Bachtold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175502 (2021) - Published 26 April, 2021

Liquid Structure of Tantalum under Internal Negative Pressure

K. Katagiri, N. Ozaki, S. Ohmura, B. Albertazzi, Y. Hironaka, Y. Inubushi, K. Ishida, M. Koenig, K. Miyanishi, H. Nakamura, M. Nishikino, T. Okuchi, T. Sato, Y. Seto, K. Shigemori, K. Sueda, Y. Tange, T. Togashi, Y. Umeda, M. Yabashi, T. Yabuuchi, and R. Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 175503 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Atomistic Mechanism Underlying the $Si (111) − (7 \times 7)$ Surface Reconstruction Revealed by Artificial Neural-Network Potential

Lin Hu, Bing Huang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176101 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Sierpiński Structure and Electronic Topology in Bi Thin Films on InSb(111)B Surfaces

Chen Liu, Yinong Zhou, Guanyong Wang, Yin Yin, Can Li, Haili Huang, Dandan Guan, Yaoyi Li, Shiyong Wang, Hao Zheng, Canhua Liu, Yong Han, James W. Evans, Feng Liu, and Jinfeng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176102 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Approaching Charge Separation Efficiency to Unity without Charge Recombination

Sa Zhang, Jianfeng Wang, Shizheng Wen, Ming Jiang, Haiyan Xiao, Xiang Ding, Ning Wang, Menglu Li, Xiaotao Zu, Sean Li, ChiYung Yam, Bing Huang, and Liang Qiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176401 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring Density Functional Parameters from Electron Diffraction Patterns

Ding Peng and Philip N. H. Nakashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176402 (2021) - Published 29 April, 2021

Density functional theory has been integrated into quantitative convergent beam electron diffraction to refine density functional model parameters using electron densities exclusively.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital Complexity in Intrinsic Magnetic Topological Insulators ${MnBi}_{4} {Te}_{7}$ and ${MnBi}_{6} {Te}_{10}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176403 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Non-Hermitian Skin Effects in Hermitian Correlated or Disordered Systems: Quantities Sensitive or Insensitive to Boundary Effects and Pseudo-Quantum-Number

Nobuyuki Okuma and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176601 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Probing Molecular Excited States by Atomic Force Microscopy

Shadi Fatayer, Florian Albrecht, Ivano Tavernelli, Mats Persson, Nikolaj Moll, and Leo Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 176801 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

Floquet Engineering Correlated Materials with Unpolarized Light

V. L. Quito and R. Flint

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177201 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Ultrafast Double Pulse All-Optical Reswitching of a Ferrimagnet

C. Banerjee, K. Rode, G. Atcheson, S. Lenne, P. Stamenov, J. M. D. Coey, and J. Besbas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177202 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Nonlinear Decay of Quantum Confined Magnons in Itinerant Ferromagnets

Kh. Zakeri, A. Hjelt, I. V. Maznichenko, P. Buczek, and A. Ernst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177203 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Time-Domain Anyon Interferometry in Kitaev Honeycomb Spin Liquids and Beyond

Kai Klocke, David Aasen, Roger S. K. Mong, Eugene A. Demler, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177204 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chirality Memory Stored in Magnetic Domain Walls in the Ferromagnetic State of MnP

N. Jiang, Y. Nii, H. Arisawa, E. Saitoh, J. Ohe, and Y. Onose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177205 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Magnetic chirality persists as the handedness of domain walls in an itinerant helimagnet even after being driven into a ferromagnetic state and back.

Optimal Control of Magnetization Reversal in a Monodomain Particle by Means of Applied Magnetic Field

Grzegorz J. Kwiatkowski, Mohammad H. A. Badarneh, Dmitry V. Berkov, and Pavel F. Bessarab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177206 (2021) - Published 29 April, 2021

Detection of the Faraday Chiral Anisotropy

José M. Caridad, Christos Tserkezis, Jaime E. Santos, Paulina Plochocka, Munuswamy Venkatesan, J. M. D. Coey, N. Asger Mortensen, Geert L. J. A. Rikken, and Vojislav Krstić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177401 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Spatially Shaping Waves to Penetrate Deep inside a Forbidden Gap

Ravitej Uppu, Manashee Adhikary, Cornelis A. M. Harteveld, and Willem L. Vos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177402 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

By shaping the phase of a light beam, researchers demonstrate that they can guide its path through an otherwise light-impenetrable material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon-Assisted Ballistic Current from First-Principles Calculations

Zhenbang Dai, Aaron M. Schankler, Lingyuan Gao, Liang Z. Tan, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177403 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Tailored Subcycle Nonlinearities of Ultrastrong Light-Matter Coupling

J. Mornhinweg, M. Halbhuber, C. Ciuti, D. Bougeard, R. Huber, and C. Lange

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177404 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Charge Condensation and Lattice Coupling Drives Stripe Formation in Nickelates

Y. Shen, G. Fabbris, H. Miao, Y. Cao, D. Meyers, D. G. Mazzone, T. A. Assefa, X. M. Chen, K. Kisslinger, D. Prabhakaran, A. T. Boothroyd, J. M. Tranquada, W. Hu, A. M. Barbour, S. B. Wilkins, C. Mazzoli, I. K. Robinson, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177601 (2021) - Published 30 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deep-Learning Approach to First-Principles Transport Simulations

Marius Bürkle, Umesha Perera, Florian Gimbert, Hisao Nakamura, Masaaki Kawata, and Yoshihiro Asai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177701 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

Machine learning combined with first-principles transport calculations leads to improved predictions of conductance in alkali metal nanowires.

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structural Landscapes in Geometrically Frustrated Smectics

Jingmin Xia, Scott MacLachlan, Timothy J. Atherton, and Patrick E. Farrell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 177801 (2021) - Published 27 April, 2021

A free energy model of smectic liquid crystals successfully reproduces known structures and identifies new candidates in scenarios involving geometric frustration.

Breakdown of Ergodicity and Self-Averaging in Polar Flocks with Quenched Disorder

Yu Duan, Benoît Mahault, Yu-qiang Ma, Xia-qing Shi, and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 178001 (2021) - Published 28 April, 2021

Volume 126, Issue 17

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

COMMENTS