Volume 126, Issue 4

29 January 2021

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Buckling instability and fracture of a dry pasta rod subject to axial impact from above.

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Mode Coarsening or Fracture: Energy Transfer Mechanisms in Dynamic Buckling of Rods
E. Villermaux, K. Keremidis, N. Vandenberghe, M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi, and F.-J. Ulm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 045501 (2021)

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NANOGrav Data Hints at Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

V. De Luca, G. Franciolini, and A. Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041303 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A theoretical analysis lays out a plausibility scenario for interpreting data reported recently by the NANOGrav collaboration in terms of gravitational waves produced during the formation of primordial black holes.

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Cosmic String Interpretation of NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Data

John Ellis and Marek Lewicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041304 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A pulsar survey has detected a potential signal from low-frequency gravitational waves, which theorists are eager to explain.

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Has NANOGrav Found First Evidence for Cosmic Strings?

Simone Blasi, Vedran Brdar, and Kai Schmitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041305 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A pulsar survey has detected a potential signal from low-frequency gravitational waves, which theorists are eager to explain.

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Twist Angle-Dependent Interlayer Exciton Lifetimes in van der Waals Heterostructures

Junho Choi, Matthias Florian, Alexander Steinhoff, Daniel Erben, Kha Tran, Dong Seob Kim, Liuyang Sun, Jiamin Quan, Robert Claassen, Somak Majumder, Jennifer A. Hollingsworth, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Keiji Ueno, Akshay Singh, Galan Moody, Frank Jahnke, and Xiaoqin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047401 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Varying the twist angle between layers of a 2D semiconductor can prolong the duration of resonances that give the material its unique optoelectronic properties.

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Topological Metric Detects Hidden Order in Disordered Media

Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song, Hannah Jeckel, Eric Jelli, Knut Drescher, and Jörn Dunkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048101 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Eighteenth century mathematics of soil transport helps uncover hidden order in disordered systems, such as tissues and glasses.

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Properties of Iron Primary Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041104 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A spectrometer on the International Space Station has measured the energy spectrum of iron—the heaviest cosmic-ray element characterized to date.

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Interactions and Mobility Edges: Observing the Generalized Aubry-André Model

Fangzhao Alex An, Karmela Padavić, Eric J. Meier, Suraj Hegde, Sriram Ganeshan, J. H. Pixley, Smitha Vishveshwara, and Bryce Gadway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 040603 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

A system that hosts an analytical mobility edge has been realized in a Bose-Einstein condensate through the use of laser-coupled momentum modes.

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Self-Switching Kerr Oscillations of Counterpropagating Light in Microresonators

Michael T. M. Woodley, Lewis Hill, Leonardo Del Bino, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Pascal Del’Haye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 043901 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

High-power counter-propagating light in optical microresonators leads to instabilities and oscillatory light states, exposing a fundamental limitation on the amount of light that can be stored in these systems.

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Certifying the Adiabatic Preparation of Ultracold Lattice Bosons in the Vicinity of the Mott Transition

Cécile Carcy, Gaétan Hercé, Antoine Tenart, Tommaso Roscilde, and David Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 045301 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Thermometry of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice shows adiabatic preparation of finite-entropy states across the superfluid—Mott-insulator quantum critical point.

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Skyrmion Spin Ice in Liquid Crystals

Ayhan Duzgun and Cristiano Nisoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047801 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Artificial spin ice can be realized and controlled in a skyrmion liquid crystal.

LETTERS

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

Genuine Multipartite Nonlocality Is Intrinsic to Quantum Networks

Patricia Contreras-Tejada, Carlos Palazuelos, and Julio I. de Vicente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 040501 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Random Multipolar Driving: Tunably Slow Heating through Spectral Engineering

Hongzheng Zhao, Florian Mintert, Roderich Moessner, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 040601 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

Entanglement View of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions

Stefano De Nicola, Alexios A. Michailidis, and Maksym Serbyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 040602 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

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Interactions and Mobility Edges: Observing the Generalized Aubry-André Model

Fangzhao Alex An, Karmela Padavić, Eric J. Meier, Suraj Hegde, Sriram Ganeshan, J. H. Pixley, Smitha Vishveshwara, and Bryce Gadway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 040603 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

A system that hosts an analytical mobility edge has been realized in a Bose-Einstein condensate through the use of laser-coupled momentum modes.

Localization and Universality of Eigenvectors in Directed Random Graphs

Fernando Lucas Metz and Izaak Neri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 040604 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Primordial Black Holes from Long-Range Scalar Forces and Scalar Radiative Cooling

Marcos M. Flores and Alexander Kusenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041101 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

First Demonstration of 6 dB Quantum Noise Reduction in a Kilometer Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory

James Lough, Emil Schreiber, Fabio Bergamin, Hartmut Grote, Moritz Mehmet, Henning Vahlbruch, Christoph Affeldt, Marc Brinkmann, Aparna Bisht, Volker Kringel, Harald Lück, Nikhil Mukund, Severin Nadji, Borja Sorazu, Kenneth Strain, Michael Weinert, and Karsten Danzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041102 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

General Relativistic Simulations of the Quasicircular Inspiral and Merger of Charged Black Holes: GW150914 and Fundamental Physics Implications

Gabriele Bozzola and Vasileios Paschalidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041103 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

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Properties of Iron Primary Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041104 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A spectrometer on the International Space Station has measured the energy spectrum of iron—the heaviest cosmic-ray element characterized to date.

Backreaction in an Analogue Black Hole Experiment

Sam Patrick, Harry Goodhew, Cisco Gooding, and Silke Weinfurtner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041105 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Constraints on the Coupling between Axionlike Dark Matter and Photons Using an Antiproton Superconducting Tuned Detection Circuit in a Cryogenic Penning Trap

Jack A. Devlin, Matthias J. Borchert, Stefan Erlewein, Markus Fleck, James A. Harrington, Barbara Latacz, Jan Warncke, Elise Wursten, Matthew A. Bohman, Andreas H. Mooser, Christian Smorra, Markus Wiesinger, Christian Will, Klaus Blaum, Yasuyuki Matsuda, Christian Ospelkaus, Wolfgang Quint, Jochen Walz, Yasunori Yamazaki, and Stefan Ulmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041301 (2021) - Published 25 January, 2021

Potential Gravitational Wave Signatures of Quantum Gravity

Ivan Agullo, Vitor Cardoso, Adrián del Rio, Michele Maggiore, and Jorge Pullin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041302 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

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NANOGrav Data Hints at Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

V. De Luca, G. Franciolini, and A. Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041303 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

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Cosmic String Interpretation of NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Data

John Ellis and Marek Lewicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041304 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A pulsar survey has detected a potential signal from low-frequency gravitational waves, which theorists are eager to explain.

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Has NANOGrav Found First Evidence for Cosmic Strings?

Simone Blasi, Vedran Brdar, and Kai Schmitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041305 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

A pulsar survey has detected a potential signal from low-frequency gravitational waves, which theorists are eager to explain.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Parton Density Uncertainties and the Determination of Electroweak Parameters at Hadron Colliders

Emanuele Bagnaschi and Alessandro Vicini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041801 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Constraints on Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering in the Fully Coherent Regime from the CONUS Experiment

H. Bonet, A. Bonhomme, C. Buck, K. Fülber, J. Hakenmüller, G. Heusser, T. Hugle, M. Lindner, W. Maneschg, T. Rink, H. Strecker, and R. Wink (CONUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 041804 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Scandium Isotopes Refine the Evolution of $N = 32$ and $N = 34$ Shell Closures

E. Leistenschneider, E. Dunling, G. Bollen, B. A. Brown, J. Dilling, A. Hamaker, J. D. Holt, A. Jacobs, A. A. Kwiatkowski, T. Miyagi, W. S. Porter, D. Puentes, M. Redshaw, M. P. Reiter, R. Ringle, R. Sandler, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, A. A. Valverde, and I. T. Yandow (The LEBIT Collaboration and the TITAN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 042501 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Ab Initio Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Matrix Elements for ${}^{48}{Ca}$ , ${}^{76}{Ge}$ , and ${}^{82}{Se}$

A. Belley, C. G. Payne, S. R. Stroberg, T. Miyagi, and J. D. Holt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 042502 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Exploiting Isospin Symmetry to Study the Role of Isomers in Stellar Environments

S. Hallam, G. Lotay, A. Gade, D. T. Doherty, J. Belarge, P. C. Bender, B. A. Brown, J. Browne, W. N. Catford, B. Elman, A. Estradé, M. R. Hall, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, F. Montes, M. Moukaddam, P. O’Malley, W.-J. Ong, H. Schatz, D. Seweryniak, K. Schmidt, N. K. Timofeyuk, D. Weisshaar, and R. G. T. Zegers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 042701 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultralong-Range Rydberg Bimolecules

Rosario González-Férez, Janine Shertzer, and H. R. Sadeghpour

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 043401 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Direct Experimental Certification of Quantum Non-Gaussian Character and Wigner Function Negativity of Single-Photon Detectors

Josef Hloušek, Miroslav Ježek, and Jaromír Fiurášek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 043601 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Tunable Chiral Bound States with Giant Atoms

Xin Wang, Tao Liu, Anton Frisk Kockum, Hong-Rong Li, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 043602 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Self-Switching Kerr Oscillations of Counterpropagating Light in Microresonators

Michael T. M. Woodley, Lewis Hill, Leonardo Del Bino, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Pascal Del’Haye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 043901 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Lubricated Friction and the Hersey Number

B. Veltkamp, K. P. Velikov, C. H. Venner, and Daniel Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 044301 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Laser Wakefield Driven Generation of Isolated Carrier-Envelope-Phase Tunable Intense Subcycle Pulses

E. Siminos, I. Thiele, and C. Olofsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 044801 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Certifying the Adiabatic Preparation of Ultracold Lattice Bosons in the Vicinity of the Mott Transition

Cécile Carcy, Gaétan Hercé, Antoine Tenart, Tommaso Roscilde, and David Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 045301 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Thermometry of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice shows adiabatic preparation of finite-entropy states across the superfluid—Mott-insulator quantum critical point.

Mode Coarsening or Fracture: Energy Transfer Mechanisms in Dynamic Buckling of Rods

E. Villermaux, K. Keremidis, N. Vandenberghe, M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi, and F.-J. Ulm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 045501 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Phases of the ( $2 + 1$ ) Dimensional SO(5) Nonlinear Sigma Model with Topological Term

Zhenjiu Wang, Michael P. Zaletel, Roger S. K. Mong, and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 045701 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Solvation-Driven Electrochemical Actuation

Alain Boldini, Youngsu Cha, and Maurizio Porfiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 046001 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Index Theorem on Chiral Landau Bands for Topological Fermions

Y. X. Zhao and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 046401 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

Theory of Differential Conductance of Co on Cu(111) Including Co $s$ and $d$ Orbitals, and Surface and Bulk Cu States

J. Fernández, P. Roura-Bas, and A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 046801 (2021) - Published 25 January, 2021

Casimir-Induced Instabilities at Metallic Surfaces and Interfaces

Kun Ding, Daigo Oue, C. T. Chan, and J. B. Pendry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 046802 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

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Twist Angle-Dependent Interlayer Exciton Lifetimes in van der Waals Heterostructures

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047401 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Varying the twist angle between layers of a 2D semiconductor can prolong the duration of resonances that give the material its unique optoelectronic properties.

Plasmon-Induced Trap State Emission from Single Quantum Dots

Junyang Huang, Oluwafemi S. Ojambati, Rohit Chikkaraddy, Kamil Sokołowski, Qifang Wan, Colm Durkan, Oren A. Scherman, and Jeremy J. Baumberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047402 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Coherent Dynamics in Quantum Emitters under Dichromatic Excitation

Z. X. Koong, E. Scerri, M. Rambach, M. Cygorek, M. Brotons-Gisbert, R. Picard, Y. Ma, S. I. Park, J. D. Song, E. M. Gauger, and B. D. Gerardot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047403 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Rare-Earth-Mediated Optomechanical System in the Reversed Dissipation Regime

Ryuichi Ohta, Loïc Herpin, Victor M. Bastidas, Takehiko Tawara, Hiroshi Yamaguchi, and Hajime Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047404 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

Andreev Modes from Phase Winding in a Full-Shell Nanowire-Based Transmon

A. Kringhøj, G. W. Winkler, T. W. Larsen, D. Sabonis, O. Erlandsson, P. Krogstrup, B. van Heck, K. D. Petersson, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047701 (2021) - Published 29 January, 2021

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

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Skyrmion Spin Ice in Liquid Crystals

Ayhan Duzgun and Cristiano Nisoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 047801 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

Artificial spin ice can be realized and controlled in a skyrmion liquid crystal.

Mean-Field Predictions of Scaling Prefactors Match Low-Dimensional Jammed Packings

James D. Sartor, Sean A. Ridout, and Eric I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048001 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

X-Ray Tomography Investigation of Cyclically Sheared Granular Materials

Yi Xing, Jie Zheng, Jindong Li, Yixin Cao, Wei Pan, Jie Zhang, and Yujie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048002 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Disorder-Induced Long-Ranged Correlations in Scalar Active Matter

Sunghan Ro, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar, and Julien Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048003 (2021) - Published 26 January, 2021

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Topological Metric Detects Hidden Order in Disordered Media

Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song, Hannah Jeckel, Eric Jelli, Knut Drescher, and Jörn Dunkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048101 (2021) - Published 27 January, 2021

Eighteenth century mathematics of soil transport helps uncover hidden order in disordered systems, such as tissues and glasses.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for $d \geq 2$ ”

S. V. Buldyrev, E. P. Raposo, F. Bartumeus, S. Havlin, F. R. Rusch, M. G. E. da Luz, and G. M. Viswanathan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048901 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021

Reply to “Comment on ‘Inverse Square Lévy Walks are not Optimal Search Strategies for $d \geq 2$ ”’

Nicolas Levernier, Johannes Textor, Olivier Bénichou, and Raphaël Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 048902 (2021) - Published 28 January, 2021