Volume 126, Issue 22

4 June 2021

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An intensity profile of the deconfined phase of a Majorana zero mode in a vortex lattice shows a pronounced periodic modulation in the x direction, parallel to the superflow, with bifurcation points at the vortex cores.

From the article:

Deconfinement of Majorana Vortex Modes Produces a Superconducting Landau Level
M. J. Pacholski, G. Lemut, O. Ovdat, İ. Adagideli, and C. W. J. Beenakker
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 226801 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement-Based Variational Quantum Eigensolver

R. R. Ferguson, L. Dellantonio, A. Al Balushi, K. Jansen, W. Dür, and C. A. Muschik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220501 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

A proposal combines classical optimization using a cost function with measurement-based quantum computation, which would allow one to run efficient VQEs on photonic architectures.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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How Activity Landscapes Polarize Microswimmers without Alignment Forces

Nicola Andreas Söker, Sven Auschra, Viktor Holubec, Klaus Kroy, and Frank Cichos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228001 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

A self-propelled particle trapped in a potential well defined by energy availability, has a unique swimming pattern that comes from hidden currents in the fluid in which it swims.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interfacial Flow around Brownian Colloids

Mehdi Molaei, Nicholas G. Chisholm, Jiayi Deng, John C. Crocker, and Kathleen J. Stebe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228003 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

A new technique for measuring displacements of tiny particles in a fluid reveals a previously unseen hydrodynamic flow pattern that could provide intel on the interface’s mechanical properties.

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Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Bilayer Photonic Crystals at Small Twists

Kaichen Dong, Tiancheng Zhang, Jiachen Li, Qingjun Wang, Fuyi Yang, Yoonsoo Rho, Danqing Wang, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Junqiao Wu, and Jie Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 223601 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

As an analogy of the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, a coupled-mode theory is formulated for low-angle twisted bilayer honeycomb photonic crystals, discovering magic-angle photonic flat bands with a non-Anderson-type localization.

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Observation of Negative Terahertz Photoconductivity in Large Area Type-II Dirac Semimetal ${PtTe}_{2}$

Peng Suo, Huiyun Zhang, Shengnan Yan, Wenjie Zhang, Jibo Fu, Xian Lin, Song Hao, Zuanming Jin, Yuping Zhang, Chao Zhang, Feng Miao, Shi-Jun Liang, and Guohong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227402 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Ultrafast pulses of infrared light generate electron-phonon polarons that cause a short dip in the effective temperature of semimetal PtTe $_{2}$ thin films during the first few picoseconds after photoexcitation.

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Invisible Gateway by Superscattering Effect of Metamaterials

Kang-Ping Ye, Wen-Jin Pei, Zhong-Hao Sa, Huanyang Chen, and Rui-Xin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227403 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

An invisible gateway experiment at microwave frequencies is demonstrated, providing a real observation of the superscattering effects of metamaterials in electromagnetic waves.

LETTERS

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

Bilocal Bell Inequalities Violated by the Quantum Elegant Joint Measurement

Armin Tavakoli, Nicolas Gisin, and Cyril Branciard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220401 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

Low Field Nano-NMR via Three-Level System Control

J. Cerrillo, S. Oviedo Casado, and J. Prior

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220402 (2021) - Published 3 June, 2021

Information Causality without Concatenation

Nikolai Miklin and Marcin Pawłowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220403 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Set Coherence: Basis-Independent Quantification of Quantum Coherence

Sébastien Designolle, Roope Uola, Kimmo Luoma, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220404 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Measurement-Based Variational Quantum Eigensolver

R. R. Ferguson, L. Dellantonio, A. Al Balushi, K. Jansen, W. Dür, and C. A. Muschik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220501 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

A proposal combines classical optimization using a cost function with measurement-based quantum computation, which would allow one to run efficient VQEs on photonic architectures.

High-Fidelity Controlled- $Z$ Gate with Maximal Intermediate Leakage Operating at the Speed Limit in a Superconducting Quantum Processor

V. Negîrneac, H. Ali, N. Muthusubramanian, F. Battistel, R. Sagastizabal, M. S. Moreira, J. F. Marques, W. J. Vlothuizen, M. Beekman, C. Zachariadis, N. Haider, A. Bruno, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220502 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Efficient Stabilized Two-Qubit Gates on a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

Reinhold Blümel, Nikodem Grzesiak, Nhung H. Nguyen, Alaina M. Green, Ming Li, Andrii Maksymov, Norbert M. Linke, and Yunseong Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220503 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Quantum Scars from Zero Modes in an Abelian Lattice Gauge Theory on Ladders

Debasish Banerjee and Arnab Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220601 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Enhanced Weak-Value Amplification via Photon Recycling

Courtney Krafczyk, Andrew N. Jordan, Michael E. Goggin, and Paul G. Kwiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 220801 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Two-Carrier Scheme: Evading the 3 dB Quantum Penalty of Heterodyne Readout in Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Teng Zhang, Philip Jones, Jiří Smetana, Haixing Miao, Denis Martynov, Andreas Freise, and Stefan W. Ballmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 221301 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonperturbative Infrared Finiteness in a Superrenormalizable Scalar Quantum Field Theory

Guido Cossu, Luigi Del Debbio, Andreas Jüttner, Ben Kitching-Morley, Joseph K. L. Lee, Antonin Portelli, Henrique Bergallo Rocha, and Kostas Skenderis (LatCos Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 221601 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Nonlinear Constraints on Relativistic Fluids Far from Equilibrium

Fábio S. Bemfica, Marcelo M. Disconzi, Vu Hoang, Jorge Noronha, and Maria Radosz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 222301 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing the Spin-Orbit Time Delay of Multiphoton Ionization of Kr by Bicircular Fields

Peipei Ge, Yiqi Fang, Zhenning Guo, Xueyan Ma, Xiaoyang Yu, Meng Han, Chengyin Wu, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 223001 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Bilayer Photonic Crystals at Small Twists

Kaichen Dong, Tiancheng Zhang, Jiachen Li, Qingjun Wang, Fuyi Yang, Yoonsoo Rho, Danqing Wang, Costas P. Grigoropoulos, Junqiao Wu, and Jie Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 223601 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

Controlling Interactions between Quantum Emitters Using Atom Arrays

Taylor L. Patti, Dominik S. Wild, Ephraim Shahmoon, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Susanne F. Yelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 223602 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Nonreciprocity and Quantum Correlations of Light Transport in Hot Atoms via Reservoir Engineering

Xingda Lu, Wanxia Cao, Wei Yi, Heng Shen, and Yanhong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 223603 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Concurrent Passive Mode-Locked and Self- $Q$ -Switched Operation in Laser Systems

J. Guo, S. T. Cundiff, J. M. Soto-Crespo, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 224101 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Scallop Theorem and Swimming at the Mesoscale

M. Hubert, O. Trosman, Y. Collard, A. Sukhov, J. Harting, N. Vandewalle, and A.-S. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 224501 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

Log-Skew-Normality of Ocean Turbulence

B. B. Cael and Ali Mashayek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 224502 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Global Theory of Microtearing Modes in the Tokamak Pedestal

J. L. Larakers, M. Curie, D. R. Hatch, R. D. Hazeltine, and S. M. Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 225001 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Isotope Quantum Effects in the Metallization Transition in Liquid Hydrogen

Sebastiaan van de Bund, Heather Wiebe, and Graeme J. Ackland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 225701 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

Two-Dimensional Room-Temperature Giant Antiferrodistortive ${SrTiO}_{3}$ at a Grain Boundary

Bo Han, Ruixue Zhu, Xiaomei Li, Mei Wu, Ryo Ishikawa, Bin Feng, Xuedong Bai, Yuichi Ikuhara, and Peng Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 225702 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Intrinsic Vibrational Angular Momentum from Nonadiabatic Effects in Noncollinear Magnetic Molecules

Oliviero Bistoni, Francesco Mauri, and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 225703 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Multistep Dissociation of Fluorine Molecules under Extreme Compression

Defang Duan, Zhengtao Liu, Ziyue Lin, Hao Song, Hui Xie, Tian Cui, Chris J. Pickard, and Maosheng Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 225704 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Deconfinement of Majorana Vortex Modes Produces a Superconducting Landau Level

M. J. Pacholski, G. Lemut, O. Ovdat, İ. Adagideli, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 226801 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

Topological Corner Modes Induced by Dirac Vortices in Arbitrary Geometry

Xiaoxiao Wu, Yan Meng, Yiran Hao, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Jensen Li, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 226802 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Amplitude Mode in Quantum Magnets via Dimensional Crossover

Chengkang Zhou, Zheng Yan, Han-Qing Wu, Kai Sun, Oleg A. Starykh, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227201 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

Logarithmic Entanglement Growth from Disorder-Free Localization in the Two-Leg Compass Ladder

Oliver Hart, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Claudio Castelnovo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227202 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Thermal Gating of Magnon Exchange in Magnetic Multilayers with Antiferromagnetic Spacers

D. M. Polishchuk, Yu. O. Tykhonenko-Polishchuk, Ya. M. Lytvynenko, A. M. Rostas, O. V. Gomonay, and V. Korenivski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227203 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Phonoritons as Hybridized Exciton-Photon-Phonon Excitations in a Monolayer $h$ -BN Optical Cavity

Simone Latini, Umberto De Giovannini, Edbert J. Sie, Nuh Gedik, Hannes Hübener, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227401 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Negative Terahertz Photoconductivity in Large Area Type-II Dirac Semimetal ${PtTe}_{2}$

Peng Suo, Huiyun Zhang, Shengnan Yan, Wenjie Zhang, Jibo Fu, Xian Lin, Song Hao, Zuanming Jin, Yuping Zhang, Chao Zhang, Feng Miao, Shi-Jun Liang, and Guohong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227402 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Invisible Gateway by Superscattering Effect of Metamaterials

Kang-Ping Ye, Wen-Jin Pei, Zhong-Hao Sa, Huanyang Chen, and Rui-Xin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227403 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

An invisible gateway experiment at microwave frequencies is demonstrated, providing a real observation of the superscattering effects of metamaterials in electromagnetic waves.

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

Defect Spirograph: Dynamical Behavior of Defects in Spatially Patterned Active Nematics

Ali Mozaffari, Rui Zhang, Noe Atzin, and Juan J. de Pablo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 227801 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Activity Landscapes Polarize Microswimmers without Alignment Forces

Nicola Andreas Söker, Sven Auschra, Viktor Holubec, Klaus Kroy, and Frank Cichos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228001 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

A self-propelled particle trapped in a potential well defined by energy availability, has a unique swimming pattern that comes from hidden currents in the fluid in which it swims.

Nonlocal Effects Reflect the Jamming Criticality in Frictionless Granular Flows Down Inclines

Hugo Perrin, Matthieu Wyart, Bloen Metzger, and Yoël Forterre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228002 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Interfacial Flow around Brownian Colloids

Mehdi Molaei, Nicholas G. Chisholm, Jiayi Deng, John C. Crocker, and Kathleen J. Stebe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228003 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

A new technique for measuring displacements of tiny particles in a fluid reveals a previously unseen hydrodynamic flow pattern that could provide intel on the interface’s mechanical properties.

Modification of the Fluctuation Dynamics of Ultrathin Wetting Films

C. Clavaud, M. Maza-Cuello, C. Frétigny, L. Talini, and T. Bickel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228004 (2021) - Published 4 June, 2021

Interphase Chromatin Undergoes a Local Sol-Gel Transition upon Cell Differentiation

Iraj Eshghi, Jonah A. Eaton, and Alexandra Zidovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 228101 (2021) - Published 2 June, 2021

COMMENTS

Comment on “Universal Effect of Excitation Dispersion on the Heat Capacity and Gapped States in Fluids”

Taras Bryk, Noël Jakse, Ihor Mryglod, Giancarlo Ruocco, and Jean-François Wax

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 229601 (2021) - Published 1 June, 2021