Volume 126, Issue 21

28 May 2021

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On the Cover

3D simulation of a dilute ultrarelativistic electron beam propagating through an electron-ion background, showing the magnetic field strength (top) and ion density (bottom), with blue lowest and red highest in both panels.

From the article:

Magnetic Field Amplification by a Nonlinear Electron Streaming Instability
J. R. Peterson, S. Glenzer, and F. Fiuza
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 215101 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Influenza’s Spike Motor Works

Falko Ziebert and Igor M. Kulić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 218101 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

To infect a cell, the flu virus needs to move, and a new theory suggests how it does that.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electric-Field Control of a Single-Atom Polar Bond

M. Omidian, S. Leitherer, N. Néel, M. Brandbyge, and J. Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216801 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

A scheme that uses a voltage to control a chemical bond’s strength allows the tip of an atomic force microscope to pluck a graphene sheet from a substrate.

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Proposal for Realizing Quantum Scars in the Tilted 1D Fermi-Hubbard Model

Jean-Yves Desaules, Ana Hudomal, Christopher J. Turner, and Zlatko Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210601 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

A new mechanism associated with a free spin-1 paramagnet predicts the occurrence of quantum manybody scars in 1D Fermi–Hubbard chains.

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Path-Dependent Supercooling of the ${}^{3}{He}$ Superfluid $A - B$ Transition

Dmytro Lotnyk, Anna Eyal, Nikolay Zhelev, Abhilash Sebastian, Yefan Tian, Aldo Chavez, Eric Smith, John Saunders, Erich Mueller, and Jeevak Parpia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 215301 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Transition from the A phase to the B phase of superfluid $^{3}$ He is experimentally shown to be path-dependent, which is not consistent with any of the existing models of the transition.

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Dielectric Constant of Liquid Water Determined with Neural Network Quantum Molecular Dynamics

Aravind Krishnamoorthy, Ken-ichi Nomura, Nitish Baradwaj, Kohei Shimamura, Pankaj Rajak, Ankit Mishra, Shogo Fukushima, Fuyuki Shimojo, Rajiv Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216403 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Two neural networks were used to compute the exact dielectric constant of liquid water.

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Topological Field Theory of Non-Hermitian Systems

Kohei Kawabata, Ken Shiozaki, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216405 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

A field theory formulated in just spatial degrees of freedom, as opposed to spacetime ones, provides new insights into non-Hermitian topological phenomena.

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Vanishing Thermal Equilibration for Hole-Conjugate Fractional Quantum Hall States in Graphene

Saurabh Kumar Srivastav, Ravi Kumar, Christian Spånslätt, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Alexander D. Mirlin, Yuval Gefen, and Anindya Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216803 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Quantization differences of electrical and thermal conductance indicate that, independent of the wave function symmetry, charge transport is in equilibrium while heat transport is in nonequilibrium.

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Twisted Boundary Condition and Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Ingappability for Discrete Symmetries

Yuan Yao and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 217201 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem shows that gapless excitations above a ground state or a degeneracy within one is possible in arbitrary dimensions and not just in one dimension.

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Bending Response of a Book with Internal Friction

Samuel Poincloux, Tian Chen, Basile Audoly, and Pedro M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 218004 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Rich, nontrivial physics underpins the bending response of a book.

LETTERS

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

Open Quantum Systems’ Decay across Time

Juliane Klatt, Chahan M. Kropf, and Stefan Y. Buhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210401 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

Evaluating Energy Differences on a Quantum Computer with Robust Phase Estimation

A. E. Russo, K. M. Rudinger, B. C. A. Morrison, and A. D. Baczewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210501 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

Efficient Classical Simulation and Benchmarking of Quantum Processes in the Weyl Basis

Daniel Stilck França, Sergii Strelchuk, and Michał Studziński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210502 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

Semi-Device-Independent Framework Based on Restricted Distrust in Prepare-and-Measure Experiments

Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210503 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Qutrit Randomized Benchmarking

A. Morvan, V. V. Ramasesh, M. S. Blok, J. M. Kreikebaum, K. O’Brien, L. Chen, B. K. Mitchell, R. K. Naik, D. I. Santiago, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210504 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Multicopy Adaptive Local Discrimination: Strongest Possible Two-Qubit Nonlocal Bases

Manik Banik, Tamal Guha, Mir Alimuddin, Guruprasad Kar, Saronath Halder, and Some Sankar Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210505 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

Many-Body Nonlocality as a Resource for Quantum-Enhanced Metrology

Artur Niezgoda and Jan Chwedeńczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210506 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

Experimental Demonstration of a Multifunctional All-Optical Quantum State Transfer Machine

Yanbo Lou, Shengshuai Liu, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210507 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proposal for Realizing Quantum Scars in the Tilted 1D Fermi-Hubbard Model

Jean-Yves Desaules, Ana Hudomal, Christopher J. Turner, and Zlatko Papić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210601 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

A new mechanism associated with a free spin-1 paramagnet predicts the occurrence of quantum manybody scars in 1D Fermi–Hubbard chains.

Exact Real-Time Longitudinal Correlation Functions of the Massive $X X Z$ Chain

Constantin Babenko, Frank Göhmann, Karol K. Kozlowski, Jesko Sirker, and Junji Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210602 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in Slowly Driven Quantum Heat Engines

Harry J. D. Miller, M. Hamed Mohammady, Martí Perarnau-Llobet, and Giacomo Guarnieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 210603 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Combined Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law at the Centimeter Range

Jun Ke, Jie Luo, Cheng-Gang Shao, Yu-Jie Tan, Wen-Hai Tan, and Shan-Qing Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 211101 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Instanton Particles and Monopole Strings in 5D SU(2) Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Pietro Longhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 211601 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Crossing Symmetric Dispersion Relations for Mellin Amplitudes

Rajesh Gopakumar, Aninda Sinha, and Ahmadullah Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 211602 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Compton Scattering Total Cross Section at Next-to-Leading Order

Roman N. Lee, Matthew D. Schwartz, and Xiaoyuan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 211801 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

Constraints on New Physics in Electron $g - 2$ from a Search for Invisible Decays of a Scalar, Pseudoscalar, Vector, and Axial Vector

Yu. M. Andreev et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 211802 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Search for Light Dark Matter–Electron Scattering in the PandaX-II Experiment

Chen Cheng et al. (PandaX-II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 211803 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hidden Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Christopher L. Smallwood, Ronald Ulbricht, Matthew W. Day, Tim Schröder, Kelsey M. Bates, Travis M. Autry, Geoffrey Diederich, Edward Bielejec, Mark E. Siemens, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213601 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

Quantum Noise in Fibers with Arbitrary Nonlinear Profiles

J. Bonetti, D. F. Grosz, and S. M. Hernandez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213602 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

Transverse Confinement of Photon Position in the Light-Atom Interaction

Jun Sun and Yong-Nan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213603 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

Quantum Non-Gaussian Photon Coincidences

Lukáš Lachman and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213604 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extremely Broadband Stochastic Resonance of Light and Enhanced Energy Harvesting Enabled by Memory Effects in the Nonlinear Response

K. J. H. Peters, Z. Geng, K. Malmir, J. M. Smith, and S. R. K. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 213901 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Near-GeV Electron Beams at a Few Per-Mille Level from a Laser Wakefield Accelerator via Density-Tailored Plasma

L. T. Ke, K. Feng, W. T. Wang, Z. Y. Qin, C. H. Yu, Y. Wu, Y. Chen, R. Qi, Z. J. Zhang, Y. Xu, X. J. Yang, Y. X. Leng, J. S. Liu, R. X. Li, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 214801 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Magnetic Field Amplification by a Nonlinear Electron Streaming Instability

J. R. Peterson, S. Glenzer, and F. Fiuza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 215101 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Path-Dependent Supercooling of the ${}^{3}{He}$ Superfluid $A - B$ Transition

Dmytro Lotnyk, Anna Eyal, Nikolay Zhelev, Abhilash Sebastian, Yefan Tian, Aldo Chavez, Eric Smith, John Saunders, Erich Mueller, and Jeevak Parpia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 215301 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Transition from the A phase to the B phase of superfluid $^{3}$ He is experimentally shown to be path-dependent, which is not consistent with any of the existing models of the transition.

Topological Defect Engineering and $P T$ Symmetry in Non-Hermitian Electrical Circuits

Alexander Stegmaier, Stefan Imhof, Tobias Helbig, Tobias Hofmann, Ching Hua Lee, Mark Kremer, Alexander Fritzsche, Thorsten Feichtner, Sebastian Klembt, Sven Höfling, Igor Boettcher, Ion Cosma Fulga, Libo Ma, Oliver G. Schmidt, Martin Greiter, Tobias Kiessling, Alexander Szameit, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 215302 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

Bulk Crystalline $4 H$ -Silicon through a Metastable Allotropic Transition

Thomas B. Shiell, Li Zhu, Brenton A. Cook, Jodie E. Bradby, Dougal G. McCulloch, and Timothy A. Strobel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 215701 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Nonlocal Dielectric Response of Water in Nanoconfinement

G. Monet, F. Bresme, A. Kornyshev, and H. Berthoumieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216001 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Parity-Dependent Moiré Superlattices in $Graphene / h − BN$ Heterostructures: A Route to Mechanomutable Metamaterials

Wengen Ouyang, Oded Hod, and Michael Urbakh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216101 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Mitigating the Sign Problem through Basis Rotations

Ryan Levy and Bryan K. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216401 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

Simulations of Trions and Biexcitons in Layered Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Lead Halide Perovskites

Yeongsu Cho, Samuel M. Greene, and Timothy C. Berkelbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216402 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dielectric Constant of Liquid Water Determined with Neural Network Quantum Molecular Dynamics

Aravind Krishnamoorthy, Ken-ichi Nomura, Nitish Baradwaj, Kohei Shimamura, Pankaj Rajak, Ankit Mishra, Shogo Fukushima, Fuyuki Shimojo, Rajiv Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216403 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

Two neural networks were used to compute the exact dielectric constant of liquid water.

Multicellularity of Delicate Topological Insulators

Aleksandra Nelson, Titus Neupert, Tomáš Bzdušek, and A. Alexandradinata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216404 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Field Theory of Non-Hermitian Systems

Kohei Kawabata, Ken Shiozaki, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216405 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

A field theory formulated in just spatial degrees of freedom, as opposed to spacetime ones, provides new insights into non-Hermitian topological phenomena.

Anisotropic $c - f$ Hybridization in the Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Metal ${CeRh}_{6} {Ge}_{4}$

Yi Wu, Yongjun Zhang, Feng Du, Bin Shen, Hao Zheng, Yuan Fang, Michael Smidman, Chao Cao, Frank Steglich, Huiqiu Yuan, Jonathan D. Denlinger, and Yang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216406 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

Bulk-Boundary Correspondence for Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians via Green Functions

Heinrich-Gregor Zirnstein, Gil Refael, and Bernd Rosenow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216407 (2021) - Published 28 May, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Electric-Field Control of a Single-Atom Polar Bond

M. Omidian, S. Leitherer, N. Néel, M. Brandbyge, and J. Kröger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216801 (2021) - Published 25 May, 2021

A scheme that uses a voltage to control a chemical bond’s strength allows the tip of an atomic force microscope to pluck a graphene sheet from a substrate.

Quantum Interferences in Ultraclean Carbon Nanotubes

Neda Lotfizadeh, Mitchell J. Senger, Daniel R. McCulley, Ethan D. Minot, and Vikram V. Deshpande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216802 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Vanishing Thermal Equilibration for Hole-Conjugate Fractional Quantum Hall States in Graphene

Saurabh Kumar Srivastav, Ravi Kumar, Christian Spånslätt, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, Alexander D. Mirlin, Yuval Gefen, and Anindya Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216803 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Quantization differences of electrical and thermal conductance indicate that, independent of the wave function symmetry, charge transport is in equilibrium while heat transport is in nonequilibrium.

Nuclear Spin Dynamics, Noise, Squeezing, and Entanglement in Box Model

A. V. Shumilin and D. S. Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 216804 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

Voltage Fluctuations in ac Biased Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors

L. Gottardi, M. de Wit, E. Taralli, K. Nagayashi, and A. Kozorezov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 217001 (2021) - Published 26 May, 2021

Competing Nodal $d$ -Wave Superconductivity and Antiferromagnetism

Xiao Yan Xu and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 217002 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Twisted Boundary Condition and Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Ingappability for Discrete Symmetries

Yuan Yao and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 217201 (2021) - Published 24 May, 2021

The Lieb-Schultz-Mattis theorem shows that gapless excitations above a ground state or a degeneracy within one is possible in arbitrary dimensions and not just in one dimension.

Antiferromagnetic Correlations in Strongly Valence Fluctuating CeIrSn

Y. Shimura, A. Wörl, M. Sundermann, S. Tsuda, D. T. Adroja, A. Bhattacharyya, A. M. Strydom, A. D. Hillier, F. L. Pratt, A. Gloskovskii, A. Severing, T. Onimaru, P. Gegenwart, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 217202 (2021) - Published 27 May, 2021