Volume 126, Issue 25

25 June 2021

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Wigner function of a three-component cat state showing interference fringes between each pair and among all three components.

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Kapitza-Dirac Blockade: A Universal Tool for the Deterministic Preparation of Non-Gaussian Oscillator States
Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, Herman Batelaan, and Markus Arndt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 253601 (2021)

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Field Test of Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution through Sending-or-Not-Sending over 428 km

Hui Liu, Cong Jiang, Hao-Tao Zhu, Mi Zou, Zong-Wen Yu, Xiao-Long Hu, Hai Xu, Shizhao Ma, Zhiyong Han, Jiu-Peng Chen, Yunqi Dai, Shi-Biao Tang, Weijun Zhang, Hao Li, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Yong Hua, Hongkun Hu, Hongbo Zhang, Fei Zhou, Qiang Zhang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Teng-Yun Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250502 (2021) - Published 22 June, 2021

Researchers achieve secure “real-world” quantum communication along 428 km of optical fiber, the longest terrestrial distance outside of a lab setting.

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Detecting an Itinerant Optical Photon Twice without Destroying It

Emanuele Distante, Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld, Lukas Hartung, Philip Thomas, Olivier Morin, Gerhard Rempe, and Stephan Welte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 253603 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Researchers have made two successive measurements of the same photon as it traveled down an optical fiber.

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Control of Nonlocal Magnon Spin Transport via Magnon Drift Currents

Richard Schlitz, Saül Vélez, Akashdeep Kamra, Charles-Henri Lambert, Michaela Lammel, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 257201 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

A symmetry-breaking mechanism allows researchers to produce and observe a directed current of magnons in a magnetic insulator, opening new possibilities in magnon-based electronics.

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Quincke Oscillations of Colloids at Planar Electrodes

Zhengyan Zhang, Hang Yuan, Yong Dou, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, and Kyle J. M. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258001 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Some micrometer-sized spheres undergo unexpected oscillations when placed in an electric field—a motion that engineers could exploit to make tiny robots.

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Self-Assembly of Biomolecular Condensates with Shared Components

William M. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258101 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

The number of distinct droplet types in a cell depends on the cell’s molecular components and on how many types of molecules end up in a droplet.

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Mechanical Frustration of Phase Separation in the Cell Nucleus by Chromatin

Yaojun Zhang, Daniel S. W. Lee, Yigal Meir, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258102 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

In cell nuclei, molecular structures called chromatin may play a role in the formation of droplets that are crucial for many cellular functions.

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Correlated Double-Electron Additions at the Edge of a Two-Dimensional Electronic System

Ahmet Demir, Neal Staley, Samuel Aronson, Spencer Tomarken, Ken West, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, and Raymond Ashoori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256802 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Single electrons tunneling into edge states of GaAs quantum dots at a certain filling factor behave similarly to Cooper pairs entering a superconducting dot.

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Properties of Equilibria and Glassy Phases of the Random Lotka-Volterra Model with Demographic Noise

Ada Altieri, Felix Roy, Chiara Cammarota, and Giulio Biroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258301 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

The disordered Lotka-Volterra model of many interacting species exhibits phases with multiple equilibria and eventually glassy behavior as demographic noise decreases.

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

Entanglement-Assisted Communication Surpassing the Ultimate Classical Capacity

Shuhong Hao, Haowei Shi, Wei Li, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Quntao Zhuang, and Zheshen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250501 (2021) - Published 22 June, 2021

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Field Test of Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution through Sending-or-Not-Sending over 428 km

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250502 (2021) - Published 22 June, 2021

Researchers achieve secure “real-world” quantum communication along 428 km of optical fiber, the longest terrestrial distance outside of a lab setting.

Scattering and Perturbation Theory for Discrete-Time Dynamics

Alessandro Bisio, Nicola Mosco, and Paolo Perinotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250503 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Quantum Simulation of Three-Body Interactions in Weakly Driven Quantum Systems

Francesco Petiziol, Mahdi Sameti, Stefano Carretta, Sandro Wimberger, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250504 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Efficient Entanglement of Spin Qubits Mediated by a Hot Mechanical Oscillator

Emma Rosenfeld, Ralf Riedinger, Jan Gieseler, Martin Schuetz, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250505 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

Quantum Oscillator Noise Spectroscopy via Displaced Cat States

Alistair R. Milne, Cornelius Hempel, Li Li, Claire L. Edmunds, Harry J. Slatyer, Harrison Ball, Michael R. Hush, and Michael J. Biercuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250506 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Quantum Harmonic Oscillator Spectrum Analyzers

Jonas Keller, Pan-Yu Hou, Katherine C. McCormick, Daniel C. Cole, Stephen D. Erickson, Jenny J. Wu, Andrew C. Wilson, and Dietrich Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 250507 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino Fast Flavor Conversions in Neutron-Star Postmerger Accretion Disks

Xinyu Li (李昕宇) and Daniel M. Siegel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 251101 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Magnetic Field and Gravitational Waves from the First-Order Phase Transition

Yuefeng Di, Jialong Wang, Ruiyu Zhou, Ligong Bian, Rong-Gen Cai, and Jing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 251102 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Some Exact Results in QCD-like Theories

Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 251601 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Nuclear Matter Effects on Jet Production at Electron-Ion Colliders

Hai Tao Li and Ivan Vitev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 252001 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Measurement of the $W γ$ Production Cross Section in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ and Constraints on Effective Field Theory Coefficients

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 252002 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Observation of a New Excited Beauty Strange Baryon Decaying to $Ξ_{b}^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 252003 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Pairing Forces Govern Population of Doubly Magic ${}^{54}{Ca}$ from Direct Reactions

F. Browne et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 252501 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Kapitza-Dirac Blockade: A Universal Tool for the Deterministic Preparation of Non-Gaussian Oscillator States

Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, Herman Batelaan, and Markus Arndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 253601 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Propagating Wigner-Negative States Generated from the Steady-State Emission of a Superconducting Qubit

Yong Lu, Ingrid Strandberg, Fernando Quijandría, Göran Johansson, Simone Gasparinetti, and Per Delsing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 253602 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

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Detecting an Itinerant Optical Photon Twice without Destroying It

Emanuele Distante, Severin Daiss, Stefan Langenfeld, Lukas Hartung, Philip Thomas, Olivier Morin, Gerhard Rempe, and Stephan Welte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 253603 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Researchers have made two successive measurements of the same photon as it traveled down an optical fiber.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extremize Optical Chiralities through Polarization Singularities

Weijin Chen, Qingdong Yang, Yuntian Chen, and Wei Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 253901 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

Oscillations Modulating Power Law Exponents in Isotropic Turbulence: Comparison of Experiments with Simulations

Kartik P. Iyer, Gregory P. Bewley, Luca Biferale, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and P. K. Yeung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 254501 (2021) - Published 22 June, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Models for the Yielding Behavior of Amorphous Solids

Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 255501 (2021) - Published 22 June, 2021

Hidden Effects of Negative Stacking Fault Energies in Complex Concentrated Alloys

Zongrui Pei, Biswanath Dutta, Fritz Körmann, and Mingwei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 255502 (2021) - Published 21 June, 2021

Melting of Tantalum at Multimegabar Pressures on the Nanosecond Timescale

R. G. Kraus, F. Coppari, D. E. Fratanduono, R. F. Smith, A. Lazicki, C. Wehrenberg, J. H. Eggert, J. R. Rygg, and G. W. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 255701 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Thermal Dynamics of Charge Density Wave Pinning in ${ZrTe}_{3}$

Limin Liu, Changjiang Zhu, Z. Y. Liu, Hanbin Deng, X. B. Zhou, Yuan Li, Yingkai Sun, Xiong Huang, Shuaishuai Li, Xin Du, Zheng Wang, Tong Guan, Hanqing Mao, Y. Sui, Rui Wu, Jia-Xin Yin, J.-G. Cheng, and Shuheng H. Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256401 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Roles of the Narrow Electronic Band near the Fermi Level in $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ -Related Layered Materials

Chenhaoping Wen, Jingjing Gao, Yuan Xie, Qing Zhang, Pengfei Kong, Jinghui Wang, Yilan Jiang, Xuan Luo, Jun Li, Wenjian Lu, Yu-Ping Sun, and Shichao Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256402 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Generating a Topological Anomalous Hall Effect in a Nonmagnetic Conductor: An In-Plane Magnetic Field as a Direct Probe of the Berry Curvature

James H. Cullen, Pankaj Bhalla, E. Marcellina, A. R. Hamilton, and Dimitrie Culcer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256601 (2021) - Published 21 June, 2021

Anomalous Hydrodynamics in a One-Dimensional Electronic Fluid

I. V. Protopopov, R. Samanta, A. D. Mirlin, and D. B. Gutman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256801 (2021) - Published 22 June, 2021

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Correlated Double-Electron Additions at the Edge of a Two-Dimensional Electronic System

Ahmet Demir, Neal Staley, Samuel Aronson, Spencer Tomarken, Ken West, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, and Raymond Ashoori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256802 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Single electrons tunneling into edge states of GaAs quantum dots at a certain filling factor behave similarly to Cooper pairs entering a superconducting dot.

Synchronizing Bloch-Oscillating Free Carriers in Moiré Flat Bands

Ali Fahimniya, Zhiyu Dong, Egor I. Kiselev, and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 256803 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

Homotopic Action: A Pathway to Convergent Diagrammatic Theories

Aaram J. Kim, Nikolay V. Prokof’ev, Boris V. Svistunov, and Evgeny Kozik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 257001 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Friedel Oscillations of Vortex Bound States under Extreme Quantum Limit in ${KCa}_{2} {Fe}_{4} {As}_{4} F_{2}$

Xiaoyu Chen, Wen Duan, Xinwei Fan, Wenshan Hong, Kailun Chen, Huan Yang, Shiliang Li, Huiqian Luo, and Hai-Hu Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 257002 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

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Control of Nonlocal Magnon Spin Transport via Magnon Drift Currents

Richard Schlitz, Saül Vélez, Akashdeep Kamra, Charles-Henri Lambert, Michaela Lammel, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 257201 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

A symmetry-breaking mechanism allows researchers to produce and observe a directed current of magnons in a magnetic insulator, opening new possibilities in magnon-based electronics.

Bright Optical Eigenmode of $1 {nm}^{3}$ Mode Volume

Wancong Li, Qiang Zhou, Pu Zhang, and Xue-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 257401 (2021) - Published 25 June, 2021

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

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Quincke Oscillations of Colloids at Planar Electrodes

Zhengyan Zhang, Hang Yuan, Yong Dou, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, and Kyle J. M. Bishop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258001 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

Some micrometer-sized spheres undergo unexpected oscillations when placed in an electric field—a motion that engineers could exploit to make tiny robots.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Assembly of Biomolecular Condensates with Shared Components

William M. Jacobs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258101 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

The number of distinct droplet types in a cell depends on the cell’s molecular components and on how many types of molecules end up in a droplet.

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Mechanical Frustration of Phase Separation in the Cell Nucleus by Chromatin

Yaojun Zhang, Daniel S. W. Lee, Yigal Meir, Clifford P. Brangwynne, and Ned S. Wingreen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258102 (2021) - Published 24 June, 2021

In cell nuclei, molecular structures called chromatin may play a role in the formation of droplets that are crucial for many cellular functions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Properties of Equilibria and Glassy Phases of the Random Lotka-Volterra Model with Demographic Noise

Ada Altieri, Felix Roy, Chiara Cammarota, and Giulio Biroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 258301 (2021) - Published 23 June, 2021

The disordered Lotka-Volterra model of many interacting species exhibits phases with multiple equilibria and eventually glassy behavior as demographic noise decreases.

Volume 126, Issue 25

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.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

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