Volume 126, Issue 18

7 May 2021

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Coexistence of solid (purple) and fluid (green) phases in a three-dimensional simulation of active Brownian hard spheres. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Spheres: Crystallization and the Metastability of Motility-Induced Phase Separation
Ahmad K. Omar, Katherine Klymko, Trevor GrandPre, and Phillip L. Geissler
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 188002 (2021)

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Astrophysical and Theoretical Physics Implications from Multimessenger Neutron Star Observations

Hector O. Silva, A. Miguel Holgado, Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181101 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

The combination of gravitational-wave and x-ray observations of neutron stars provides new information on the mass distribution in these stars as well as new confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravity.

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Microscale Hydrodynamic Cloaking and Shielding via Electro-Osmosis

Evgeniy Boyko, Vesna Bacheva, Michael Eigenbrod, Federico Paratore, Amir D. Gat, Steffen Hardt, and Moran Bercovici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 184502 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

By injecting momentum into the fluid around an object, researchers can freely switch between obscuring the object’s presence and cancelling hydrodynamic forces on it.

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Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Spheres: Crystallization and the Metastability of Motility-Induced Phase Separation

Ahmad K. Omar, Katherine Klymko, Trevor GrandPre, and Phillip L. Geissler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 188002 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Under the right conditions, self-propelled particles collectively transition from a state of liquid-gas coexistence to one where the particles can crystalize, according to simulations.

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GW190521 from the Merger of Ultradwarf Galaxies

Antonella Palmese and Christopher J. Conselice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181103 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

The hard-to-explain masses of two coalescing black holes could be accounted for if they were the central black holes in two distant, tiny galaxies that merged.

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Cooperative Chain Dynamics of Tracer Chains in Highly Entangled Polyethylene Melts

M. Zamponi, M. Kruteva, M. Monkenbusch, L. Willner, A. Wischnewski, I. Hoffmann, and D. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187801 (2021) - Published 4 May, 2021

According to the results of new neutron scattering experiments, polymer molecules in plastics move in ways that aren’t captured by commonly used models.

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Machine Learning Conservation Laws from Trajectories

Ziming Liu and Max Tegmark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180604 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

A machine learning algorithm for auto-discovering conserved quantities has been tested on five Hamiltonian systems, including the gravitational 3-body problem.

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Chiral Anomaly in Interacting Condensed Matter Systems

Colin Rylands, Alireza Parhizkar, Anton A. Burkov, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185303 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Anomalous chiral symmetry breaking is affected by interactions.

LETTERS

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

Enhanced Sensing of Weak Anharmonicities through Coherences in Dissipatively Coupled Anti-PT Symmetric Systems

Jayakrishnan M. P. Nair, Debsuvra Mukhopadhyay, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180401 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Quantum Microwave Radiometry with a Superconducting Qubit

Zhixin Wang, Mingrui Xu, Xu Han, Wei Fu, Shruti Puri, S. M. Girvin, Hong X. Tang, S. Shankar, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180501 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

Quantum Sequential Hypothesis Testing

Esteban Martínez Vargas, Christoph Hirche, Gael Sentís, Michalis Skotiniotis, Marta Carrizo, Ramon Muñoz-Tapia, and John Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180502 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Photon Transport in a Bose-Hubbard Chain of Superconducting Artificial Atoms

G. P. Fedorov, S. V. Remizov, D. S. Shapiro, W. V. Pogosov, E. Egorova, I. Tsitsilin, M. Andronik, A. A. Dobronosova, I. A. Rodionov, O. V. Astafiev, and A. V. Ustinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180503 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Latent Symmetry Induced Degeneracies

M. Röntgen, M. Pyzh, C. V. Morfonios, N. E. Palaiodimopoulos, F. K. Diakonos, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180601 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Numerical Evidence for Many-Body Localization in Two and Three Dimensions

Eli Chertkov, Benjamin Villalonga, and Bryan K. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180602 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Probing Quantum Speed Limits with Ultracold Gases

Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180603 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

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Machine Learning Conservation Laws from Trajectories

Ziming Liu and Max Tegmark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180604 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

A machine learning algorithm for auto-discovering conserved quantities has been tested on five Hamiltonian systems, including the gravitational 3-body problem.

Autonomous Implementation of Thermodynamic Cycles at the Nanoscale

Philipp Strasberg, Christopher W. Wächtler, and Gernot Schaller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 180605 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Astrophysical and Theoretical Physics Implications from Multimessenger Neutron Star Observations

Hector O. Silva, A. Miguel Holgado, Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181101 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Radio-frequency Dark Photon Dark Matter across the Sun

Haipeng An, Fa Peng Huang, Jia Liu, and Wei Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181102 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

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GW190521 from the Merger of Ultradwarf Galaxies

Antonella Palmese and Christopher J. Conselice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181103 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

The hard-to-explain masses of two coalescing black holes could be accounted for if they were the central black holes in two distant, tiny galaxies that merged.

Testing Loop Quantum Gravity from Observational Consequences of Nonsingular Rotating Black Holes

Suddhasattwa Brahma, Che-Yu Chen, and Dong-han Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181301 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Crossing Symmetric Dispersion Relations in Quantum Field Theories

Aninda Sinha and Ahmadullah Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181601 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Dark Photon and Muon $g - 2$ Inspired Inelastic Dark Matter Models at the High-Energy Intensity Frontier

Yu-Dai Tsai, Patrick deNiverville, and Ming Xiong Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181801 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

New Limit for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay of ${}^{100}{Mo}$ from the CUPID-Mo Experiment

E. Armengaud et al. (CUPID-Mo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 181802 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Some Remarks on the Discovery of ${}^{244}{Md}$

F. P. Heßberger, M. Block, Ch. E. Düllmann, A. Yakushev, M. Leino, and J. Uusitalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 182501 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Coupled-Cluster Calculations of Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay in ${}^{48}{Ca}$

S. Novario, P. Gysbers, J. Engel, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, T. D. Morris, P. Navrátil, T. Papenbrock, and S. Quaglioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 182502 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ab initio Calculations of Energy Levels in Be-Like Xenon: Strong Interference between Electron-Correlation and QED Effects

A. V. Malyshev, D. A. Glazov, Y. S. Kozhedub, I. S. Anisimova, M. Y. Kaygorodov, V. M. Shabaev, and I. I. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 183001 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Ultrafast Transfer and Transient Entrapment of Photoexcited Mg Electron in $Mg @ C_{60}$

Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, Esam Ali, Marcelo Carignano, Oriol Vendrell, and Himadri S. Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 183002 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

Self-Induced Glassy Phase in Multimodal Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

V. Erba, M. Pastore, and P. Rotondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 183601 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantitative Analysis of Shock Wave Dynamics in a Fluid of Light

T. Bienaimé, M. Isoard, Q. Fontaine, A. Bramati, A. M. Kamchatnov, Q. Glorieux, and N. Pavloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 183901 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

Generalized Pancharatnam-Berry Phase in Rotationally Symmetric Meta-Atoms

Xin Xie, Mingbo Pu, Jinjin Jin, Mingfeng Xu, Yinghui Guo, Xiong Li, Ping Gao, Xiaoliang Ma, and Xiangang Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 183902 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Feasibility of Metal Pad Roll Instability Experiments at Room Temperature

C. Nore, L. Cappanera, J.-L. Guermond, T. Weier, and W. Herreman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 184501 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

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Microscale Hydrodynamic Cloaking and Shielding via Electro-Osmosis

Evgeniy Boyko, Vesna Bacheva, Michael Eigenbrod, Federico Paratore, Amir D. Gat, Steffen Hardt, and Moran Bercovici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 184502 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

By injecting momentum into the fluid around an object, researchers can freely switch between obscuring the object’s presence and cancelling hydrodynamic forces on it.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Novel Target Designs to Mitigate Hydrodynamic Instabilities Growth in Inertial Confinement Fusion

Xiumei Qiao and Ke Lan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185001 (2021) - Published 4 May, 2021

Ion Heating and Flow Driven by an Instability Found in Plasma Couette Flow

J. Milhone, K. Flanagan, J. Egedal, D. Endrizzi, J. Olson, E. E. Peterson, J. C. Wright, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185002 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Three-Dimensional Dirac Phonons with Inversion Symmetry

Z. J. Chen, R. Wang, B. W. Xia, B. B. Zheng, Y. J. Jin, Yu-Jun Zhao, and H. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185301 (2021) - Published 5 May, 2021

Universal Dynamical Scaling of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortices in a Strongly Interacting Fermionic Superfluid

Xiang-Pei Liu, Xing-Can Yao, Youjin Deng, Xiao-Qiong Wang, Yu-Xuan Wang, Chun-Jiong Huang, Xiaopeng Li, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185302 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

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Chiral Anomaly in Interacting Condensed Matter Systems

Colin Rylands, Alireza Parhizkar, Anton A. Burkov, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185303 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Anomalous chiral symmetry breaking is affected by interactions.

Dynamic Nature of High-Pressure Ice VII

Qi-Jun Ye, Lin Zhuang, and Xin-Zheng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185501 (2021) - Published 3 May, 2021

Mesoscale Defect Motion in Binary Systems: Effects of Compositional Strain and Cottrell Atmospheres

Marco Salvalaglio, Axel Voigt, Zhi-Feng Huang, and Ken R. Elder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 185502 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Polarized Positronium Time-of-Flight Spectroscopy for Probing Spin-Polarized Surface Electronic States

M. Maekawa, A. Miyashita, S. Sakai, S. Li, S. Entani, A. Kawasuso, and Y. Sakuraba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 186401 (2021) - Published 4 May, 2021

Dual Orbital Degeneracy Lifting in a Strongly Correlated Electron System

R. J. Koch, R. Sinclair, M. T. McDonnell, R. Yu, M. Abeykoon, M. G. Tucker, A. M. Tsvelik, S. J. L. Billinge, H. D. Zhou, W.-G. Yin, and E. S. Bozin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 186402 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Non-Fermi Liquids in Conducting Two-Dimensional Networks

Jongjun M. Lee, Masaki Oshikawa, and Gil Young Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 186601 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Berry Curvature Effects on Quasiparticle Dynamics in Superconductors

Zhi Wang, Liang Dong, Cong Xiao, and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187001 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Resonance and Inverse Spin-Hall Voltage in Canted Antiferromagnets

I. Boventer, H. T. Simensen, A. Anane, M. Kläui, A. Brataas, and R. Lebrun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187201 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Dynamic Core Polarization in High Harmonic Generation from Solids: The Example of MgO Crystals

Liang Li, Yinfu Zhang, Pengfei Lan, Tengfei Huang, Xiaosong Zhu, Chunyang Zhai, Ke Yang, Lixin He, Qingbin Zhang, Wei Cao, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187401 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Cooperative Cluster Jahn-Teller Effect as a Possible Route to Antiferroelectricity

K. Geirhos, J. Langmann, L. Prodan, A. A. Tsirlin, A. Missiul, G. Eickerling, A. Jesche, V. Tsurkan, P. Lunkenheimer, W. Scherer, and I. Kézsmárki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187601 (2021) - Published 4 May, 2021

Sudden Collapse of Magnetic Order in Oxygen-Deficient Nickelate Films

Jiarui Li, Robert J. Green, Zhen Zhang, Ronny Sutarto, Jerzy T. Sadowski, Zhihai Zhu, Grace Zhang, Da Zhou, Yifei Sun, Feizhou He, Shriram Ramanathan, and Riccardo Comin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187602 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Theory of Transport in Ferroelectric Capacitors

Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Ryo Iguchi, and Ken-ichi Uchida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187603 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

Enhanced Coherence in Superconducting Circuits via Band Engineering

Luca Chirolli and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187701 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

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

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Cooperative Chain Dynamics of Tracer Chains in Highly Entangled Polyethylene Melts

M. Zamponi, M. Kruteva, M. Monkenbusch, L. Willner, A. Wischnewski, I. Hoffmann, and D. Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 187801 (2021) - Published 4 May, 2021

According to the results of new neutron scattering experiments, polymer molecules in plastics move in ways that aren’t captured by commonly used models.

Topological Boundary Constraints in Artificial Colloidal Ice

Carolina Rodríguez-Gallo, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 188001 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021

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Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Spheres: Crystallization and the Metastability of Motility-Induced Phase Separation

Ahmad K. Omar, Katherine Klymko, Trevor GrandPre, and Phillip L. Geissler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 188002 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Under the right conditions, self-propelled particles collectively transition from a state of liquid-gas coexistence to one where the particles can crystalize, according to simulations.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Strong Quantum Darwinism and Strong Independence Are Equivalent to Spectrum Broadcast Structure”

Alexandre Feller, Benjamin Roussel, Irénée Frérot, and Pascal Degiovanni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 188901 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

Le and Olaya-Castro Reply:

Thao P. Le and Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 188902 (2021) - Published 7 May, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: Muons in Supernovae: Implications for the Axion-Muon Coupling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051104 (2020)]

Robert Bollig, William DeRocco, Peter W. Graham, and Hans-Thomas Janka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 189901 (2021) - Published 6 May, 2021