Volume 126, Issue 9

5 March 2021

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A Kohn anomaly in the phonon dispersion of α-uranium compared with inelastic neutron scattering measurements is indicated by the white arrow.

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Quasi-One-Dimensional Fermi Surface Nesting and Hidden Nesting Enable Multiple Kohn Anomalies in $α$ -Uranium
Aditya Prasad Roy, Naini Bajaj, Ranjan Mittal, Peram D. Babu, and Dipanshu Bansal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 096401 (2021)

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Terahertz Polaron Oscillations of Electrons Solvated in Liquid Water

Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Klaus Reimann, Thomas Elsaesser, and Michael Woerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 097401 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

In water, single electrons can cluster with water molecules to form a quasiparticle that oscillates in size, a behavior that could influence the equilibration speed of chemical reactions in the system.

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Kinetics of Network Formation and Heterogeneous Dynamics of an Egg White Gel Revealed by Coherent X-Ray Scattering

Nafisa Begam, Anastasia Ragulskaya, Anita Girelli, Hendrik Rahmann, Sivasurender Chandran, Fabian Westermeier, Mario Reiser, Michael Sprung, Fajun Zhang, Christian Gutt, and Frank Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098001 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

An x-ray scattering technique reveals how egg whites gel on a range of length and timescales.

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Evidence for Quasicritical Brain Dynamics

Leandro J. Fosque, Rashid V. Williams-García, John M. Beggs, and Gerardo Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098101 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

A constant bombardment of stimuli drives the brain’s dynamics away from a critical point to a “quasicritical” state.

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Enforcing Analytic Constraints in Neural Networks Emulating Physical Systems

Tom Beucler, Michael Pritchard, Stephan Rasp, Jordan Ott, Pierre Baldi, and Pierre Gentine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098302 (2021) - Published 4 March, 2021

A neural network can be made to produce more reliable predictions of nonlinear systems if it is created with conservation laws built in.

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Operational Resource Theory of Imaginarity

Kang-Da Wu, Tulja Varun Kondra, Swapan Rana, Carlo Maria Scandolo, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Alexander Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090401 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

There exist real quantum states which can be perfectly distinguished via local operations and classical communication, but which cannot be distinguished with any nonzero probability if one of the parties has no access to imaginarity.

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Emulating Quantum Teleportation of a Majorana Zero Mode Qubit

He-Liang Huang, Marek Narożniak, Futian Liang, Youwei Zhao, Juno Clark, Ming Gong, Yulin Wu, Shiyu Wang, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Hui Deng, Hao Rong, Jonathan P. Dowling, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Tim Byrnes, Xiaobo Zhu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090502 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

A multiqubit topological quantum protocol is implemented using a superconducting quantum simulator to braid non-Abelian anyons.

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Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

E. O. Nadler et al. (DES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091101 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

The strongest limits on three dark matter paradigms are found using state-of-the-art modeling of the Milky Way satellite galaxy population. Image by Anja von der Linden and Ralf Kaehler.

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Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ${}^{8}B$ Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091301 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

A search for coherent elastic scattering of solar neutrinos from liquid xenon nuclei places new limits on dark matter-nucleus interactions.

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Measurement of $C P$ Violation in the Decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} π^{0}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091802 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

A measurement of the $C P$ -violating asymmetry in a charged B meson K $π$ decay disagrees with that of a neutral B meson K $π$ decay, though they should be equal by isospin symmetry.

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Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking in Lasers with Large Modal Dispersion

Yihang Ding, Xiaosheng Xiao, Kewei Liu, Shuzheng Fan, Xiaoguang Zhang, and Changxi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 093901 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

Spatiotemporal mode locking in large mode-volume lasers in which an active step-index fiber is used to control the dispersion provides a unique tool to explore complex nonlinear spatiotemporal dynamics.

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

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Operational Resource Theory of Imaginarity

Kang-Da Wu, Tulja Varun Kondra, Swapan Rana, Carlo Maria Scandolo, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Alexander Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090401 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

Universality Classes of the Anderson Transitions Driven by Non-Hermitian Disorder

Xunlong Luo, Tomi Ohtsuki, and Ryuichi Shindou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090402 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Cavity-Enhanced Atom-Photon Entanglement with Subsecond Lifetime

Xu-Jie Wang, Sheng-Jun Yang, Peng-Fei Sun, Bo Jing, Jun Li, Ming-Ti Zhou, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090501 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

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Emulating Quantum Teleportation of a Majorana Zero Mode Qubit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090502 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

A multiqubit topological quantum protocol is implemented using a superconducting quantum simulator to braid non-Abelian anyons.

Efficient and Low-Backaction Quantum Measurement Using a Chip-Scale Detector

Eric I. Rosenthal, Christian M. F. Schneider, Maxime Malnou, Ziyi Zhao, Felix Leditzky, Benjamin J. Chapman, Waltraut Wustmann, Xizheng Ma, Daniel A. Palken, Maximilian F. Zanner, Leila R. Vale, Gene C. Hilton, Jiansong Gao, Graeme Smith, Gerhard Kirchmair, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090503 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

Universally Optimal Verification of Entangled States with Nondemolition Measurements

Ye-Chao Liu, Jiangwei Shang, Rui Han, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090504 (2021) - Published 4 March, 2021

Quantum Computational Advantage with String Order Parameters of One-Dimensional Symmetry-Protected Topological Order

Austin K. Daniel and Akimasa Miyake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090505 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Tropical Tensor Network for Ground States of Spin Glasses

Jin-Guo Liu, Lei Wang, and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090506 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Dynamical Symmetries and Symmetry-Protected Selection Rules in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems

Georg Engelhardt and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090601 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

Extension of the Generalized Hydrodynamics to the Dimensional Crossover Regime

Frederik Møller, Chen Li, Igor Mazets, Hans-Peter Stimming, Tianwei Zhou, Zijie Zhu, Xuzong Chen, and Jörg Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 090602 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Constraints on Dark Matter Properties from Observations of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies

E. O. Nadler et al. (DES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091101 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

The strongest limits on three dark matter paradigms are found using state-of-the-art modeling of the Milky Way satellite galaxy population. Image by Anja von der Linden and Ralf Kaehler.

Dynamics of Screening in Modified Gravity

Lotte ter Haar, Miguel Bezares, Marco Crisostomi, Enrico Barausse, and Carlos Palenzuela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091102 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

Efficient Highly Subsonic Turbulent Dynamo and Growth of Primordial Magnetic Fields

Radhika Achikanath Chirakkara, Christoph Federrath, Pranjal Trivedi, and Robi Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091103 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

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Search for Coherent Elastic Scattering of Solar ${}^{8}B$ Neutrinos in the XENON1T Dark Matter Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091301 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

A search for coherent elastic scattering of solar neutrinos from liquid xenon nuclei places new limits on dark matter-nucleus interactions.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Searching for Solar Axions Using Data from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory

Aagaman Bhusal, Nick Houston, and Tianjun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091601 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

Superconformal Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Algebra in Three Dimensions

Oscar Fuentealba, Hernán A. González, Alfredo Pérez, David Tempo, and Ricardo Troncoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091602 (2021) - Published 4 March, 2021

Cluster Algebras for Feynman Integrals

Dmitry Chicherin, Johannes M. Henn, and Georgios Papathanasiou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091603 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Crunching Dilaton, Hidden Naturalness

Csaba Csáki, Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo, Michael Geller, and Ameen Ismail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091801 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

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Measurement of $C P$ Violation in the Decay $B^{+} \to K^{+} π^{0}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091802 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

A measurement of the $C P$ -violating asymmetry in a charged B meson K $π$ decay disagrees with that of a neutral B meson K $π$ decay, though they should be equal by isospin symmetry.

Bound on $3 + 1$ Active-Sterile Neutrino Mixing from the First Four-Week Science Run of KATRIN

M. Aker et al. (KATRIN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091803 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Diurnal Effect of Sub-GeV Dark Matter Boosted by Cosmic Rays

Shao-Feng Ge, Jianglai Liu, Qiang Yuan, and Ning Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 091804 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Observation of Multiplicity Dependent Prompt $χ_{c 1} (3872)$ and $ψ (2 S)$ Production in $p p$ Collisions

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 092001 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Model-Independent Determination of the Spin of the $Ω^{-}$ and Its Polarization Alignment in $ψ (3686) \to Ω^{-} {\bar{Ω}}^{+}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 092002 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Nonmonotonic Energy Dependence of Net-Proton Number Fluctuations

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 092301 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Precision Determination of Pion-Nucleon Coupling Constants Using Effective Field Theory

P. Reinert, H. Krebs, and E. Epelbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 092501 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Few-Mode Field Quantization of Arbitrary Electromagnetic Spectral Densities

Ivan Medina, Francisco J. García-Vidal, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez, and Johannes Feist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 093601 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Spatiotemporal Mode-Locking in Lasers with Large Modal Dispersion

Yihang Ding, Xiaosheng Xiao, Kewei Liu, Shuzheng Fan, Xiaoguang Zhang, and Changxi Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 093901 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

Mechanism for Strong Chimeras

Yuanzhao Zhang and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 094101 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Scalings of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability at Large Viscosity Contrasts in Porous Media

N. Sabet, H. Hassanzadeh, A. De Wit, and J. Abedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 094501 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of Terawatt Attosecond Pulses from Relativistic Transition Radiation

Xinlu Xu, David B. Cesar, Sébastien Corde, Vitaly Yakimenko, Mark J. Hogan, Chan Joshi, Agostino Marinelli, and Warren B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 094801 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

Experimental Demonstration of an Electrostatic Orbital Angular Momentum Sorter for Electron Beams

Amir H. Tavabi, Paolo Rosi, Enzo Rotunno, Alberto Roncaglia, Luca Belsito, Stefano Frabboni, Giulio Pozzi, Gian Carlo Gazzadi, Peng-Han Lu, Robert Nijland, Moumita Ghosh, Peter Tiemeijer, Ebrahim Karimi, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, and Vincenzo Grillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 094802 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Magnetic Field Amplification by the Weibel Instability at Planetary and Astrophysical Shocks with High Mach Number

Artem Bohdan, Martin Pohl, Jacek Niemiec, Paul J. Morris, Yosuke Matsumoto, Takanobu Amano, Masahiro Hoshino, and Ali Sulaiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 095101 (2021) - Published 5 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Experimental Observation of Temporal Pumping in Electromechanical Waveguides

Yiwei Xia, Emanuele Riva, Matheus I. N. Rosa, Gabriele Cazzulani, Alper Erturk, Francesco Braghin, and Massimo Ruzzene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 095501 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quasi-One-Dimensional Fermi Surface Nesting and Hidden Nesting Enable Multiple Kohn Anomalies in $α$ -Uranium

Aditya Prasad Roy, Naini Bajaj, Ranjan Mittal, Peram D. Babu, and Dipanshu Bansal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 096401 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

Electric-Field-Tunable Valley Zeeman Effect in Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures: Realization of the Spin-Orbit Valve Effect

Priya Tiwari, Saurabh Kumar Srivastav, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 096801 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

Anomalous Quantum Oscillations in a Heterostructure of Graphene on a Proximate Quantum Spin Liquid

V. Leeb, K. Polyudov, S. Mashhadi, S. Biswas, Roser Valentí, M. Burghard, and J. Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 097201 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

Controlling the Nonlinear Relaxation of Quantized Propagating Magnons in Nanodevices

M. Mohseni, Q. Wang, B. Heinz, M. Kewenig, M. Schneider, F. Kohl, B. Lägel, C. Dubs, A. V. Chumak, and P. Pirro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 097202 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

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Terahertz Polaron Oscillations of Electrons Solvated in Liquid Water

Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Benjamin P. Fingerhut, Klaus Reimann, Thomas Elsaesser, and Michael Woerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 097401 (2021) - Published 3 March, 2021

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

Activity-Induced Collapse and Arrest of Active Polymer Rings

Emanuele Locatelli, Valentino Bianco, and Paolo Malgaretti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 097801 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

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Kinetics of Network Formation and Heterogeneous Dynamics of an Egg White Gel Revealed by Coherent X-Ray Scattering

Nafisa Begam, Anastasia Ragulskaya, Anita Girelli, Hendrik Rahmann, Sivasurender Chandran, Fabian Westermeier, Mario Reiser, Michael Sprung, Fajun Zhang, Christian Gutt, and Frank Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098001 (2021) - Published 2 March, 2021

An x-ray scattering technique reveals how egg whites gel on a range of length and timescales.

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Evidence for Quasicritical Brain Dynamics

Leandro J. Fosque, Rashid V. Williams-García, John M. Beggs, and Gerardo Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098101 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

A constant bombardment of stimuli drives the brain’s dynamics away from a critical point to a “quasicritical” state.

Social Confinement and Mesoscopic Localization of Epidemics on Networks

Guillaume St-Onge, Vincent Thibeault, Antoine Allard, Louis J. Dubé, and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098301 (2021) - Published 1 March, 2021

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Enforcing Analytic Constraints in Neural Networks Emulating Physical Systems

Tom Beucler, Michael Pritchard, Stephan Rasp, Jordan Ott, Pierre Baldi, and Pierre Gentine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 098302 (2021) - Published 4 March, 2021

A neural network can be made to produce more reliable predictions of nonlinear systems if it is created with conservation laws built in.