Volume 127, Issue 1

2 July 2021

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Schematic top view of a cubic lattice of atoms showing the local frequency shifts of electronic transitions interrogated by a laser. Warm (cool) colors: positive (negative) shifts.

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Dipole-Dipole Frequency Shifts in Multilevel Atoms
A. Cidrim, A. Piñeiro Orioli, C. Sanner, R. B. Hutson, J. Ye, R. Bachelard, and A. M. Rey
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013401 (2021)

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Testing the Black-Hole Area Law with GW150914

Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Matthew Giesler, Mark A. Scheel, and Saul A. Teukolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011103 (2021) - Published 1 July, 2021

By comparing the sizes of black holes before and after a merger, researchers have tested Hawking’s theorem on black hole areas.

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Cornucopia of Antineutrons and Hyperons from a Super $J / ψ$ Factory for Next-Generation Nuclear and Particle Physics High-Precision Experiments

Chang-Zheng Yuan and Marek Karliner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 012003 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Antineutrons and hyperons are challenging to produce and study, but researchers propose a new approach that would generate these particles using existing and planned accelerators.

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Diffractive Guiding of Waves by a Periodic Array of Slits

Dror Weisman, C. Moritz Carmesin, Georgi Gary Rozenman, Maxim A. Efremov, Lev Shemer, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 014303 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

A new waveguide design uses a series of apertures, or slits, to keep waves confined to a narrow path.

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Experimental Test of the Edwards Volume Ensemble for Tapped Granular Packings

Ye Yuan, Yi Xing, Jie Zheng, Zhifeng Li, Houfei Yuan, Shuyang Zhang, Zhikun Zeng, Chengjie Xia, Hua Tong, Walter Kob, Jie Zhang, and Yujie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 018002 (2021) - Published 28 June, 2021

The results of new experiments validate the idea that there exists a statistical mechanics framework for granular materials.

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Radiation-Balanced Silica Fiber Amplifier

Jennifer M. Knall, Magnus Engholm, Tommy Boilard, Martin Bernier, and Michel J. F. Digonnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013903 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

The first optically cooled fiber amplifier, cooled internally by anti-Stokes fluorescence, exhibits 17 dB of gain.

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Thermal Buckling Transition of Crystalline Membranes in a Field

Pierre Le Doussal and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 015702 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

A crystalline membrane with imposed stress and anisotropy exhibits a buckling transition that is in a new universality class.

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RETRACTED: Colossal Density-Driven Resistance Response in the Negative Charge Transfer Insulator ${MnS}_{2}$

Dylan Durkee, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, G. Alexander Smith, Elliot Snider, Dean Smith, Christian Childs, Simon A. J. Kimber, Keith V. Lawler, Ranga P. Dias, and Ashkan Salamat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016401 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Compression at moderate pressures of 12 GPa drives MnS $_{2}$ into a metallic state resulting in a seven orders of magnitude drop in resistance.

LETTERS

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

Entanglement Quantification in Atomic Ensembles

Matteo Fadel, Ayaka Usui, Marcus Huber, Nicolai Friis, and Giuseppe Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 010401 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Parity-Odd Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction with a Single Electron Spin Quantum Sensor

Man Jiao, Maosen Guo, Xing Rong, Yi-Fu Cai, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 010501 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Waveform Estimation from Approximate Quantum Nondemolition Measurements

Sami Boulebnane, Mischa P. Woods, and Joseph M. Renes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 010502 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

On-Demand Storage and Retrieval of Microwave Photons Using a Superconducting Multiresonator Quantum Memory

Zenghui Bao, Zhiling Wang, Yukai Wu, Yan Li, Cheng Ma, Yipu Song, Hongyi Zhang, and Luming Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 010503 (2021) - Published 1 July, 2021

Designing Codes around Interactions: The Case of a Spin

Jonathan A. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 010504 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Microscopic Theory of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics in Nonlinear Lattices

Keiji Saito, Masaru Hongo, Abhishek Dhar, and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 010601 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton Accretion in a Reactive Medium: Detonation Ignition and a Mechanism for Type Ia Supernovae

Heinrich Steigerwald and Emilio Tejeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011101 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Edges and Endpoints in 21-cm Observations from Resonant Photon Production

Andrea Caputo, Hongwan Liu, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Maxim Pospelov, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Alfredo Urbano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011102 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

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Testing the Black-Hole Area Law with GW150914

Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Matthew Giesler, Mark A. Scheel, and Saul A. Teukolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011103 (2021) - Published 1 July, 2021

By comparing the sizes of black holes before and after a merger, researchers have tested Hawking’s theorem on black hole areas.

Universality of Curvature Invariants in Critical Vacuum Gravitational Collapse

Tomáš Ledvinka and Anton Khirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011104 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization as a Tool to Constrain the Optical Properties of the Universe

Margherita Lembo, Massimiliano Lattanzi, Luca Pagano, Alessandro Gruppuso, Paolo Natoli, and Francesco Forastieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011301 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Combined Explanation of the $Z \to b \bar{b}$ Forward-Backward Asymmetry, the Cabibbo Angle Anomaly, and $τ \to μ ν ν$ and $b \to s ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Data

Andreas Crivellin, Claudio Andrea Manzari, Marcel Algueró, and Joaquim Matias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 011801 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Two-Loop QCD Corrections to $W b \bar{b}$ Production at Hadron Colliders

Simon Badger, Heribertus Bayu Hartanto, and Simone Zoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 012001 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

$D^{\pm} D^{* \mp}$ Hadronic Atom as a Key to Revealing the $X (3872)$ Mystery

Zhen-Hua Zhang and Feng-Kun Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 012002 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

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Cornucopia of Antineutrons and Hyperons from a Super $J / ψ$ Factory for Next-Generation Nuclear and Particle Physics High-Precision Experiments

Chang-Zheng Yuan and Marek Karliner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 012003 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Antineutrons and hyperons are challenging to produce and study, but researchers propose a new approach that would generate these particles using existing and planned accelerators.

Nuclear Physics

Microscopic Description of $2 α$ Decay in ${}^{212}{Po}$ and ${}^{224}{Ra}$ Isotopes

F. Mercier, J. Zhao, J.-P. Ebran, E. Khan, T. Nikšić, and D. Vretenar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 012501 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Prospects of a ${Pb}^{2 +}$ Ion Clock

K. Beloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013201 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Fast Control of Atom-Light Interaction in a Narrow Linewidth Cavity

A. Bertoldi, C.-H. Feng, D. S. Naik, B. Canuel, P. Bouyer, and M. Prevedelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013202 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Dipole-Dipole Frequency Shifts in Multilevel Atoms

A. Cidrim, A. Piñeiro Orioli, C. Sanner, R. B. Hutson, J. Ye, R. Bachelard, and A. M. Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013401 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Nuclear Spin Squeezing in Helium-3 by Continuous Quantum Nondemolition Measurement

Alan Serafin, Matteo Fadel, Philipp Treutlein, and Alice Sinatra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013601 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Fermi’s Golden Rule for Spontaneous Emission in Absorptive and Amplifying Media

Sebastian Franke, Juanjuan Ren, Marten Richter, Andreas Knorr, and Stephen Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013602 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Efficient Interaction of Heralded X-Ray Photons with a Beam Splitter

E. Strizhevsky, D. Borodin, A. Schori, S. Francoual, R. Röhlsberger, and S. Shwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013603 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Probing Rotated Weyl Physics on Nonlinear Lithium Niobate-on-Insulator Chips

Zhi-Wei Yan, Qiang Wang, Meng Xiao, Yu-Le Zhao, Shi-Ning Zhu, and Hui Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013901 (2021) - Published 1 July, 2021

Unitary Excitation Transfer between Coupled Cavities Using Temporal Switching

Yarden Mazor, Michele Cotrufo, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013902 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

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Radiation-Balanced Silica Fiber Amplifier

Jennifer M. Knall, Magnus Engholm, Tommy Boilard, Martin Bernier, and Michel J. F. Digonnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 013903 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

The first optically cooled fiber amplifier, cooled internally by anti-Stokes fluorescence, exhibits 17 dB of gain.

Coherent Soliton States Hidden in Phase Space and Stabilized by Gravitational Incoherent Structures

Josselin Garnier, Kilian Baudin, Adrien Fusaro, and Antonio Picozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 014101 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Gain-Free Parity-Time Symmetry for Evanescent Fields

Huanan Li, Ahmed Mekawy, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 014301 (2021) - Published 1 July, 2021

Observation of Ultraslow Shock Waves in a Tunable Magnetic Lattice

Jian Li, S Chockalingam, and Tal Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 014302 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

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Diffractive Guiding of Waves by a Periodic Array of Slits

Dror Weisman, C. Moritz Carmesin, Georgi Gary Rozenman, Maxim A. Efremov, Lev Shemer, Wolfgang P. Schleich, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 014303 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

A new waveguide design uses a series of apertures, or slits, to keep waves confined to a narrow path.

Persistent Response in an Ultrastrongly Driven Mechanical Membrane Resonator

Fan Yang, Felicitas Hellbach, Felix Rochau, Wolfgang Belzig, Eva M. Weig, Gianluca Rastelli, and Elke Scheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 014304 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of Non-Maxwellian Electron Distribution Functions and Their Effect on Laser Heating

A. L. Milder, J. Katz, R. Boni, J. P. Palastro, M. Sherlock, W. Rozmus, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 015001 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Realizing Hopf Insulators in Dipolar Spin Systems

Thomas Schuster, Felix Flicker, Ming Li, Svetlana Kotochigova, Joel E. Moore, Jun Ye, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 015301 (2021) - Published 28 June, 2021

Plasticity in Amorphous Solids Is Mediated by Topological Defects in the Displacement Field

Matteo Baggioli, Ivan Kriuchevskyi, Timothy W. Sirk, and Alessio Zaccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 015501 (2021) - Published 2 July, 2021

Insight into Liquid Polymorphism from the Complex Phase Behavior of a Simple Model

Albert P. Bartók, György Hantal, and Livia B. Pártay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 015701 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

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Thermal Buckling Transition of Crystalline Membranes in a Field

Pierre Le Doussal and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 015702 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

A crystalline membrane with imposed stress and anisotropy exhibits a buckling transition that is in a new universality class.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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RETRACTED: Colossal Density-Driven Resistance Response in the Negative Charge Transfer Insulator ${MnS}_{2}$

Dylan Durkee, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, G. Alexander Smith, Elliot Snider, Dean Smith, Christian Childs, Simon A. J. Kimber, Keith V. Lawler, Ranga P. Dias, and Ashkan Salamat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016401 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Compression at moderate pressures of 12 GPa drives MnS $_{2}$ into a metallic state resulting in a seven orders of magnitude drop in resistance.

Efficient Time-Domain Approach for Linear Response Functions

Michel Panhans and Frank Ortmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016601 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Delocalization Transition of a Disordered Axion Insulator

Zhi-Da Song, Biao Lian, Raquel Queiroz, Roni Ilan, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016602 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Many-Electron System on Helium and Color Center Spectroscopy

A. D. Chepelianskii, D. Konstantinov, and M. I. Dykman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016801 (2021) - Published 28 June, 2021

Ultrafast Adsorbate Excitation Probed with Subpicosecond-Resolution X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Elias Diesen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016802 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021

Interfacial Electron-Phonon Coupling Constants Extracted from Intrinsic Replica Bands in Monolayer $FeSe / SrTi O_{3}$

Brendan D. Faeth, Saien Xie, Shuolong Yang, Jason K. Kawasaki, Jocienne N. Nelson, Shuyuan Zhang, Christopher Parzyck, Pramita Mishra, Chen Li, Christopher Jozwiak, Aaron Bostwick, Eli Rotenberg, Darrell G. Schlom, and Kyle M. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 016803 (2021) - Published 30 June, 2021

Freezing of a Disorder Induced Spin Liquid with Strong Quantum Fluctuations

Xiao Hu, Daniel M. Pajerowski, Depei Zhang, Andrey A. Podlesnyak, Yiming Qiu, Qing Huang, Haidong Zhou, Israel Klich, Alexander I. Kolesnikov, Matthew B. Stone, and Seung-Hun Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 017201 (2021) - Published 29 June, 2021