Volume 126, Issue 8

26 February 2021

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Photoelastic response of a monolayer of bidisperse disks made of a birefringent material and confined to an area of approximately 0.5 x 0.5m².

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Spongelike Rigid Structures in Frictional Granular Packings
Kuang Liu, Jonathan E. Kollmer, Karen E. Daniels, J. M. Schwarz, and Silke Henkes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 088002 (2021)

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Thermodynamics of Gambling Demons

Gonzalo Manzano, Diego Subero, Olivier Maillet, Rosario Fazio, Jukka P. Pekola, and Édgar Roldán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080603 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

In a new version of Maxwell’s demon, the tiny being plays the role of a gambler who knows when to quit.

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Two-Particle Interference with Double Twin-Atom Beams

F. Borselli, M. Maiwöger, T. Zhang, P. Haslinger, V. Mukherjee, A. Negretti, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, I. Mazets, M. Bonneau, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083603 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Entangled pairs of ultracold atoms interfere in a double waveguide.

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Magnetic Confinement of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma

G. M. Gorman, M. K. Warrens, S. J. Bradshaw, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085002 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Researchers have demonstrated that an ultracold neutral plasma can be magnetically confined, paving the way toward experiments that simulate its hot astrophysical counterparts.

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Control of Helical Navigation by Three-Dimensional Flagellar Beating

Dario Cortese and Kirsty Y. Wan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 088003 (2021) - Published 24 February, 2021

High-speed imaging and simulations show that the single-celled organism called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii beats its flagella on separate planes, explaining how it generates its helical movement.

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Properties of Heavy Secondary Fluorine Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081102 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Measurement of secondary fluorine cosmic rays by the AMS experiment unexpectedly shows a rigidity dependence distinct from the other primary classes.

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Harnessing Mechanical Deformation to Reduce Spherical Aberration in Soft Lenses

Ahmad Zareei, Eder Medina, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 084301 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Large mechanical deformation may achieve the complex profiles required to minimize aberration and thus produce superior soft lenses.

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Fermion Doubling Theorems in Two-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Systems for Fermi Points and Exceptional Points

Zhesen Yang, A. P. Schnyder, Jiangping Hu, and Ching-Kai Chiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 086401 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Exceptional points in non-Hermitian topological lattices obey doubling theorems just like Weyl and Dirac points which necessarily appear in pairs in Hermitian materials.

LETTERS

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

Scalable Evaluation of Quantum-Circuit Error Loss Using Clifford Sampling

Zhen Wang, Yanzhu Chen, Zixuan Song, Dayue Qin, Hekang Li, Qiujiang Guo, H. Wang, Chao Song, and Ying Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080501 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Metrological Detection of Multipartite Entanglement from Young Diagrams

Zhihong Ren, Weidong Li, Augusto Smerzi, and Manuel Gessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080502 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Inverse Power Law Scaling of Energy Dissipation Rate in Nonequilibrium Reaction Networks

Qiwei Yu, Dongliang Zhang, and Yuhai Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080601 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Many-Body Critical Phase: Extended and Nonthermal

Yucheng Wang, Chen Cheng, Xiong-Jun Liu, and Dapeng Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080602 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

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Thermodynamics of Gambling Demons

Gonzalo Manzano, Diego Subero, Olivier Maillet, Rosario Fazio, Jukka P. Pekola, and Édgar Roldán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 080603 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

In a new version of Maxwell’s demon, the tiny being plays the role of a gambler who knows when to quit.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

GW190521 as a Merger of Proca Stars: A Potential New Vector Boson of $8.7 \times 10^{- 13} eV$

Juan Calderón Bustillo, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Alejandro Torres-Forné, José A. Font, Avi Vajpeyi, Rory Smith, Carlos Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, and Samson H. W. Leong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081101 (2021) - Published 24 February, 2021

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Properties of Heavy Secondary Fluorine Cosmic Rays: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081102 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Measurement of secondary fluorine cosmic rays by the AMS experiment unexpectedly shows a rigidity dependence distinct from the other primary classes.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Pseudo-Entropy in Free Quantum Field Theories

Ali Mollabashi, Noburo Shiba, Tadashi Takayanagi, Kotaro Tamaoka, and Zixia Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081601 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

Axion-Mediated Forces, $C P$ Violation, and Left-Right Interactions

Stefano Bertolini, Luca Di Luzio, and Fabrizio Nesti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081801 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Heavy Thermal Dark Matter from a New Collision Mechanism

Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik, Noam Levi, Nadav Joseph Outmezguine, and Joshua T. Ruderman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081802 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Upconversion Loop Oscillator Axion Detection Experiment: A Precision Frequency Interferometric Axion Dark Matter Search with a Cylindrical Microwave Cavity

Catriona A. Thomson, Ben T. McAllister, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene N. Ivanov, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081803 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

First Observation of the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{-} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ and a Measurement of $| V_{u b} | / | V_{c b} |$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 081804 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Correlated Dirac Eigenvalues and Axial Anomaly in Chiral Symmetric QCD

H.-T. Ding, S.-T. Li, Swagato Mukherjee, A. Tomiya, X.-D. Wang, and Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 082001 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Photoproduction of the $f_{2} (1270)$ Meson Using the CLAS Detector

M. Carver et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 082002 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Inclusive Hadroproduction of $P$ -Wave Heavy Quarkonia in Potential Nonrelativistic QCD

Nora Brambilla, Hee Sok Chung, and Antonio Vairo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 082003 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Ruling out Color Transparency in Quasielastic ${}^{12}C (e, e^{'} p)$ up to $Q^{2}$ of $14.2 (GeV / c)^{2}$

D. Bhetuwal et al. (for the Hall C Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 082301 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Quasifree Neutron Knockout Reaction Reveals a Small $s$ -Orbital Component in the Borromean Nucleus ${}^{17}B$

Z. H. Yang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 082501 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Observation of an Electric Quadrupole Transition in a Negative Ion: Experiment and Theory

C. W. Walter, S. E. Spielman, R. Ponce, N. D. Gibson, J. N. Yukich, C. Cheung, and M. S. Safronova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083001 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

Strong Differential Photoion Circular Dichroism in Strong-Field Ionization of Chiral Molecules

K. Fehre, S. Eckart, M. Kunitski, C. Janke, D. Trabert, M. Hofmann, J. Rist, M. Weller, A. Hartung, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, H. Braun, T. Baumert, J. Stohner, Ph. V. Demekhin, M. S. Schöffler, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083201 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Pair Correlations and Photoassociation Dynamics of Two Atoms in an Optical Tweezer

M. Weyland, S. S. Szigeti, R. A. B. Hobbs, P. Ruksasakchai, L. Sanchez, and M. F. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083401 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Pairwise Mode Locking in Dynamically Coupled Parametric Oscillators

Leon Bello, Marcello Calvanese Strinati, Shai Ben-Ami, and Avi Pe’er

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083601 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Broad Diversity of Near-Infrared Single-Photon Emitters in Silicon

A. Durand, Y. Baron, W. Redjem, T. Herzig, A. Benali, S. Pezzagna, J. Meijer, A. Yu. Kuznetsov, J.-M. Gérard, I. Robert-Philip, M. Abbarchi, V. Jacques, G. Cassabois, and A. Dréau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083602 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

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Two-Particle Interference with Double Twin-Atom Beams

F. Borselli, M. Maiwöger, T. Zhang, P. Haslinger, V. Mukherjee, A. Negretti, S. Montangero, T. Calarco, I. Mazets, M. Bonneau, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083603 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Entangled pairs of ultracold atoms interfere in a double waveguide.

Experimental Determination of $P T$ -Symmetric Exceptional Points in a Single Trapped Ion

Liangyu Ding, Kaiye Shi, Qiuxin Zhang, Danna Shen, Xiang Zhang, and Wei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083604 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Strongly Correlated States of Light and Repulsive Photons in Chiral Chains of Three-Level Quantum Emitters

Ole A. Iversen and Thomas Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083605 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Wave-Vector-Varying Pancharatnam-Berry Phase Photonic Spin Hall Effect

Wenguo Zhu, Huadan Zheng, Yongchun Zhong, Jianhui Yu, and Zhe Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 083901 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

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Harnessing Mechanical Deformation to Reduce Spherical Aberration in Soft Lenses

Ahmad Zareei, Eder Medina, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 084301 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Large mechanical deformation may achieve the complex profiles required to minimize aberration and thus produce superior soft lenses.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-Amplification of Coherent Energy Modulation in Seeded Free-Electron Lasers

Jiawei Yan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 084801 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

Demonstration of Geometric Effects and Resonant Scattering in the X-Ray Spectra of High-Energy-Density Plasmas

G. Pérez-Callejo, E. V. Marley, D. A. Liedahl, L. C. Jarrott, G. E. Kemp, R. F. Heeter, J. A. Emig, M. E. Foord, M. B. Schneider, S. J. Rose, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085001 (2021) - Published 23 February, 2021

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Magnetic Confinement of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma

G. M. Gorman, M. K. Warrens, S. J. Bradshaw, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085002 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Researchers have demonstrated that an ultracold neutral plasma can be magnetically confined, paving the way toward experiments that simulate its hot astrophysical counterparts.

Experimental Observation of Magnetic Island Heteroclinic Bifurcation in Tokamaks

L. Bardóczi and T. E. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085003 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Aging and Failure of a Polymer Chain under Tension

Harish Charan, Alex Hansen, H. G. E. Hentschel, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085501 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Universal Density of Low-Frequency States in Amorphous Solids at Finite Temperatures

Prasenjit Das and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085502 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Revisiting the Power Law Characteristics of the Plastic Shock Front under Shock Loading

Songlin Yao, Jidong Yu, Yinan Cui, Xiaoyang Pei, Yuying Yu, and Qiang Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 085503 (2021) - Published 26 February, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Fermion Doubling Theorems in Two-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Systems for Fermi Points and Exceptional Points

Zhesen Yang, A. P. Schnyder, Jiangping Hu, and Ching-Kai Chiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 086401 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Exceptional points in non-Hermitian topological lattices obey doubling theorems just like Weyl and Dirac points which necessarily appear in pairs in Hermitian materials.

Dissipative Floquet Majorana Modes in Proximity-Induced Topological Superconductors

Zhesen Yang, Qinghong Yang, Jiangping Hu, and Dong E. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 086801 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Remote Mesoscopic Signatures of Induced Magnetic Texture in Graphene

N. Arabchigavkani, R. Somphonsane, H. Ramamoorthy, G. He, J. Nathawat, S. Yin, B. Barut, K. He, M. D. Randle, R. Dixit, K. Sakanashi, N. Aoki, K. Zhang, L. Wang, W.-N. Mei, P. A. Dowben, J. Fransson, and J. P. Bird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 086802 (2021) - Published 25 February, 2021

Strong Superexchange in a $d^{9 - δ}$ Nickelate Revealed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

J. Q. Lin, P. Villar Arribi, G. Fabbris, A. S. Botana, D. Meyers, H. Miao, Y. Shen, D. G. Mazzone, J. Feng, S. G. Chiuzbăian, A. Nag, A. C. Walters, M. García-Fernández, Ke-Jin Zhou, J. Pelliciari, I. Jarrige, J. W. Freeland, Junjie Zhang, J. F. Mitchell, V. Bisogni, X. Liu, M. R. Norman, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 087001 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Temperature-Dependent Spin Transport and Current-Induced Torques in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Heterostructures

M. Müller, L. Liensberger, L. Flacke, H. Huebl, A. Kamra, W. Belzig, R. Gross, M. Weiler, and M. Althammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 087201 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Dissipative Equation of Motion for Electromagnetic Radiation in Quantum Dynamics

Carlos M. Bustamante, Esteban D. Gadea, Andrew Horsfield, Tchavdar N. Todorov, Mariano C. González Lebrero, and Damián A. Scherlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 087401 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

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

Memory Formation in Jammed Hard Spheres

Patrick Charbonneau and Peter K. Morse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 088001 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

Spongelike Rigid Structures in Frictional Granular Packings

Kuang Liu, Jonathan E. Kollmer, Karen E. Daniels, J. M. Schwarz, and Silke Henkes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 088002 (2021) - Published 22 February, 2021

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Control of Helical Navigation by Three-Dimensional Flagellar Beating

Dario Cortese and Kirsty Y. Wan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 088003 (2021) - Published 24 February, 2021

High-speed imaging and simulations show that the single-celled organism called Chlamydomonas reinhardtii beats its flagella on separate planes, explaining how it generates its helical movement.