Volume 126, Issue 7

19 February 2021

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Photonic system consisting of three modules—preparation, evolution, and measurement—used to study the simultaneous saturation of two Heisenberg scaling limits in quantum metrology.

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“Super-Heisenberg” and Heisenberg Scalings Achieved Simultaneously in the Estimation of a Rotating Field
Zhibo Hou, Yan Jin, Hongzhen Chen, Jun-Feng Tang, Chang-Jiang Huang, Haidong Yuan, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070503 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Shape Changes in the Mirror Nuclei ${}^{70}{Kr}$ and ${}^{70}{Se}$

K. Wimmer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 072501 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Two “mirror” nuclei, in which the numbers of neutrons and protons are interchanged, have markedly different shapes—a finding that defies current nuclear theories.

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Universal Bound to the Amplitude of the Vortex Nernst Signal in Superconductors

Carl Willem Rischau, Yuke Li, Benoît Fauqué, Hisashi Inoue, Minu Kim, Christopher Bell, Harold Y. Hwang, Aharon Kapitulnik, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 077001 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

In contrast with predictions, researchers find no variation in a thermoelectric signal (known as the Nernst signal) for different types of superconductor.

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Nonadiabatic Phase Transition with Broken Chiral Symmetry

Bin Yan, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, Wojciech H. Zurek, and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070602 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

A spin system crossing a quantum phase transition nonadiabatically may undergo exponential suppression of excitations in the presence of asymmetries.

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Probing Band Topology Using Modulational Instability

Daniel Leykam, Ekaterina Smolina, Aleksandra Maluckov, Sergej Flach, and Daria A. Smirnova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 073901 (2021) - Published 17 February, 2021

Nonlinear modulational instability is sensitive to the bulk topological properties of energy bands, providing a new way to measure the Chern number.

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Low-Energy Collective Oscillations and Bogoliubov Sound in an Exciton-Polariton Condensate

E. Estrecho, M. Pieczarka, M. Wurdack, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075301 (2021) - Published 15 February, 2021

A new technique for studying exciton-polariton condensates adds the ability to resolve individual normal modes in time to previous frequency-resolved studies.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical Origin of the Mechanochemical Coupling at Interfaces

Zhuohan Li and Izabela Szlufarska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076001 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Contrary to what has been previously assumed for solids, the bulk contributes significantly to the mechanochemical coupling at the surface/interface.

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Quench Dynamics of Collective Modes in Fractional Quantum Hall Bilayers

Zhao Liu, Ajit C. Balram, Zlatko Papić, and Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076604 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Fractional quantum Hall bilayers provide a tunable platform to study collective excitations with rich topological and geometric properties.

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Spin-Polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States in an Iron-Based Superconductor

Dongfei Wang, Jens Wiebe, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076802 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy reveals finite-energy bound states as well as zero-energy states inside the superconducting gap.

LETTERS

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

Decomposing Magnetic Dark-Field Contrast in Spin Analyzed Talbot-Lau Interferometry: A Stern-Gerlach Experiment without Spatial Beam Splitting

Jacopo Valsecchi, Malgorzata G. Makowska, Youngju Kim, Seung Wook Lee, Christian Grünzweig, Florian M. Piegsa, Michel A. Thijs, Jeroen Plomp, and Markus Strobl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070401 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Circumventing Detector Backaction on a Quantum Cyclotron

X. Fan and G. Gabrielse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070402 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Coherent Beam Splitting of Flying Electrons Driven by a Surface Acoustic Wave

R. Ito, S. Takada, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, S. Tarucha, and M. Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070501 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

Verifying Random Quantum Circuits with Arbitrary Geometry Using Tensor Network States Algorithm

Chu Guo, Youwei Zhao, and He-Liang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070502 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

“Super-Heisenberg” and Heisenberg Scalings Achieved Simultaneously in the Estimation of a Rotating Field

Zhibo Hou, Yan Jin, Hongzhen Chen, Jun-Feng Tang, Chang-Jiang Huang, Haidong Yuan, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070503 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Quantum Solver of Contracted Eigenvalue Equations for Scalable Molecular Simulations on Quantum Computing Devices

Scott E. Smart and David A. Mazziotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070504 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Optimal Protocols in Quantum Annealing and Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm Problems

Lucas T. Brady, Christopher L. Baldwin, Aniruddha Bapat, Yaroslav Kharkov, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070505 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Energy-Resolved Information Scrambling in Energy-Space Lattices

S. Pegahan, I. Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070601 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

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Nonadiabatic Phase Transition with Broken Chiral Symmetry

Bin Yan, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, Wojciech H. Zurek, and Nikolai A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 070602 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

A spin system crossing a quantum phase transition nonadiabatically may undergo exponential suppression of excitations in the presence of asymmetries.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Test for the Origin of Solar Mass Black Holes

Volodymyr Takhistov, George M. Fuller, and Alexander Kusenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071101 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

Enhanced Supernova Axion Emission and Its Implications

Pierluca Carenza, Bryce Fore, Maurizio Giannotti, Alessandro Mirizzi, and Sanjay Reddy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071102 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Unusual Near-Horizon Cosmic-Ray-like Events Observed by ANITA-IV

P. W. Gorham et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071103 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Searching for Scalar Dark Matter via Coupling to Fundamental Constants with Photonic, Atomic, and Mechanical Oscillators

William M. Campbell, Ben T. McAllister, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene N. Ivanov, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071301 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Strong Bound on Canonical Ultralight Axion Dark Matter from the Lyman-Alpha Forest

Keir K. Rogers and Hiranya V. Peiris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071302 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Sound Speed Resonance of the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Yi-Fu Cai, Chunshan Lin, Bo Wang, and Sheng-Feng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071303 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Counting Nambu-Goldstone Modes of Higher-Form Global Symmetries

Yoshimasa Hidaka, Yuji Hirono, and Ryo Yokokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071601 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

Gauge/Gravity Dynamics for Composite Higgs Models and the Top Mass

Johanna Erdmenger, Nick Evans, Werner Porod, and Konstantinos S. Rigatos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071602 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

First Search for Dyons with the Full MoEDAL Trapping Detector in 13 TeV $p p$ Collisions

B. Acharya et al. (MoEDAL Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 071801 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Extraction of Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD Calculations

Zheng-Yang Li, Yan-Qing Ma, and Jian-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 072001 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Calculation of Quasiparton Distribution Functions

Long-Bin Chen, Wei Wang, and Ruilin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 072002 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Medium-Induced Modification of $Z$ -Tagged Charged Particle Yields in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 072301 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shape Changes in the Mirror Nuclei ${}^{70}{Kr}$ and ${}^{70}{Se}$

K. Wimmer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 072501 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Two “mirror” nuclei, in which the numbers of neutrons and protons are interchanged, have markedly different shapes—a finding that defies current nuclear theories.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Chiral Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum

Adam Overvig, Nanfang Yu, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 073001 (2021) - Published 17 February, 2021

Approaching Single-Photon Pulses

Jan Gulla and Johannes Skaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 073601 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Band Topology Using Modulational Instability

Daniel Leykam, Ekaterina Smolina, Aleksandra Maluckov, Sergej Flach, and Daria A. Smirnova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 073901 (2021) - Published 17 February, 2021

Nonlinear modulational instability is sensitive to the bulk topological properties of energy bands, providing a new way to measure the Chern number.

Extreme Frequency Conversion from Soliton Resonant Interactions

Myungwon Hwang and Andres F. Arrieta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 073902 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Turbulence is an Ineffective Mixer when Schmidt Numbers Are Large

Dhawal Buaria, Matthew P. Clay, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and P. K. Yeung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 074501 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Symmetric Set of Transport Coefficients for Collisional Magnetized Plasma

James D. Sadler, Christopher A. Walsh, and Hui Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075001 (2021) - Published 15 February, 2021

Cross-Beam Energy Transfer Saturation by Ion Heating

A. M. Hansen, K. L. Nguyen, D. Turnbull, B. J. Albright, R. K. Follett, R. Huff, J. Katz, D. Mastrosimone, A. L. Milder, L. Yin, J. P. Palastro, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075002 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low-Energy Collective Oscillations and Bogoliubov Sound in an Exciton-Polariton Condensate

E. Estrecho, M. Pieczarka, M. Wurdack, M. Steger, K. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, D. W. Snoke, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075301 (2021) - Published 15 February, 2021

A new technique for studying exciton-polariton condensates adds the ability to resolve individual normal modes in time to previous frequency-resolved studies.

Propagative Oscillations in Codirectional Polariton Waveguide Couplers

J. Beierlein, E. Rozas, O. A. Egorov, M. Klaas, A. Yulin, H. Suchomel, T. H. Harder, M. Emmerling, M. D. Martín, I. A. Shelykh, C. Schneider, U. Peschel, L. Viña, S. Höfling, and S. Klembt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075302 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

Frictional Granular Matter: Protocol Dependence of Mechanical Properties

Anaël Lemaître, Chandana Mondal, Itamar Procaccia, Saikat Roy, Yinqiao Wang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075501 (2021) - Published 17 February, 2021

Multishock to Quasi-Isentropic Compression of Dense Gaseous Deuterium-Helium Mixtures up to 120 GPa: Probing the Sound Velocities Relevant to Planetary Interiors

Guo-Jun Li, Zhi-Guo Li, Qi-Feng Chen, Yun-Jun Gu, Wei Zhang, Lei Liu, Hua-Yun Geng, Zhao-Qi Wang, Yang-Shun Lan, Yong Hou, Jia-Yu Dai, and Xiang-Rong Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 075701 (2021) - Published 15 February, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical Origin of the Mechanochemical Coupling at Interfaces

Zhuohan Li and Izabela Szlufarska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076001 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Contrary to what has been previously assumed for solids, the bulk contributes significantly to the mechanochemical coupling at the surface/interface.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Self-Consistent Potential Correction for Charged Periodic Systems

Mauricio Chagas da Silva, Michael Lorke, Bálint Aradi, Meisam Farzalipour Tabriz, Thomas Frauenheim, Angel Rubio, Dario Rocca, and Peter Deák

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076401 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Quasiparticle and Nonquasiparticle Transport in Doped Quantum Paraelectrics

Abhishek Kumar, Vladimir I. Yudson, and Dmitrii L. Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076601 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Unconventional Transverse Transport above and below the Magnetic Transition Temperature in Weyl Semimetal ${EuCd}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Y. Xu, L. Das, J. Z. Ma, C. J. Yi, S. M. Nie, Y. G. Shi, A. Tiwari, S. S. Tsirkin, T. Neupert, M. Medarde, M. Shi, J. Chang, and T. Shang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076602 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Hall Coefficient of Semimetals

Abhisek Samanta, Daniel P. Arovas, and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076603 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quench Dynamics of Collective Modes in Fractional Quantum Hall Bilayers

Zhao Liu, Ajit C. Balram, Zlatko Papić, and Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076604 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

Fractional quantum Hall bilayers provide a tunable platform to study collective excitations with rich topological and geometric properties.

Criticality of Two-Dimensional Disordered Dirac Fermions in the Unitary Class and Universality of the Integer Quantum Hall Transition

Björn Sbierski, Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus, Joel E. Moore, and Ilya A. Gruzberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076801 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spin-Polarized Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States in an Iron-Based Superconductor

Dongfei Wang, Jens Wiebe, Ruidan Zhong, Genda Gu, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076802 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy reveals finite-energy bound states as well as zero-energy states inside the superconducting gap.

Hydrodynamic and Ballistic Transport over Large Length Scales in $GaAs / AlGaAs$

Adbhut Gupta, J. J. Heremans, Gitansh Kataria, Mani Chandra, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, and M. J. Manfra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076803 (2021) - Published 18 February, 2021

Universal Theory of Dynamic Force Microscopy for Exact and Robust Force Reconstruction Using Multiharmonic Signal Analysis

Sunghoon Kim, Joon-Hyuk Ko, and Wonho Jhe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 076804 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021

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Universal Bound to the Amplitude of the Vortex Nernst Signal in Superconductors

Carl Willem Rischau, Yuke Li, Benoît Fauqué, Hisashi Inoue, Minu Kim, Christopher Bell, Harold Y. Hwang, Aharon Kapitulnik, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 077001 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

In contrast with predictions, researchers find no variation in a thermoelectric signal (known as the Nernst signal) for different types of superconductor.

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

Magnetic Microswimmers Exhibit Bose-Einstein-like Condensation

Fanlong Meng, Daiki Matsunaga, Benoît Mahault, and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 078001 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

Disentangling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Gene Expression Noise in Growing Cells

Jie Lin and Ariel Amir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 078101 (2021) - Published 16 February, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: Large Deviation Principle Linking Lineage Statistics to Fitness in Microbial Populations [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 048102 (2020)]

Ethan Levien, Trevor GrandPre, and Ariel Amir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 079901 (2021) - Published 19 February, 2021