Volume 127, Issue 12

17 September 2021

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On the Cover

Inverse design of a flat sheet that can be deformed into multiple three-dimensional shapes by actuation.

From the article:

Multivalued Inverse Design: Multiple Surface Geometries from One Flat Sheet
Itay Griniasty, Cyrus Mostajeran, and Itai Cohen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 128001 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Chirality-Induced Spin Polarization over Macroscopic Distances in Chiral Disilicide Crystals

Kohei Shiota, Akito Inui, Yuta Hosaka, Ryoga Amano, Yoshichika Ōnuki, Masato Hedo, Takao Nakama, Daichi Hirobe, Jun-ichiro Ohe, Jun-ichiro Kishine, Hiroshi M. Yamamoto, Hiroaki Shishido, and Yoshihiko Togawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126602 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Chiral crystals can produce spin-polarized currents that propagate over tens of microns—a promising feature for application in spintronics devices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Training Variational Quantum Algorithms Is NP-Hard

Lennart Bittel and Martin Kliesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120502 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

The existence of persistent local minima can render the training of variational quantum algorithms infeasible.

LETTERS

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

Macroscopically Nonlocal Quantum Correlations

Miguel Gallego and Borivoje Dakić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120401 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Asymmetric Blockade and Multiqubit Gates via Dipole-Dipole Interactions

Jeremy T. Young, Przemyslaw Bienias, Ron Belyansky, Adam M. Kaufman, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120501 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Training Variational Quantum Algorithms Is NP-Hard

Lennart Bittel and Martin Kliesch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120502 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

The existence of persistent local minima can render the training of variational quantum algorithms infeasible.

Convergence to a Gaussian by Narrowing of Central Peak in Brownian yet Non-Gaussian Diffusion in Disordered Environments

Adrian Pacheco-Pozo and Igor M. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120601 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Dynamical Large Deviations of Two-Dimensional Kinetically Constrained Models Using a Neural-Network State Ansatz

Corneel Casert, Tom Vieijra, Stephen Whitelam, and Isaac Tamblyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120602 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Extraordinary-Log Surface Phase Transition in the Three-Dimensional $X Y$ Model

Minghui Hu, Youjin Deng, and Jian-Ping Lv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 120603 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Positivity in Multifield Effective Field Theories

Xu Li, Hao Xu, Chengjie Yang, Cen Zhang, and Shuang-Yong Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 121601 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

New Constraints on Tau-Coupled Heavy Neutral Leptons with Masses $m_{N} = 280 - 970 MeV$

R. Acciarri, C. Adams, J. Asaadi, B. Baller, V. Basque, F. Cavanna, A. de Gouvêa, R. S. Fitzpatrick, B. Fleming, P. Green, C. James, K. J. Kelly, I. Lepetic, X. Luo, O. Palamara, G. Scanavini, M. Soderberg, J. Spitz, A. M. Szelc, W. Wu, and T. Yang (ArgoNeuT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 121801 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

First Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction of $Λ \to p μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 121802 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Measurements of the Branching Fractions of the Semileptonic Decays $Ξ_{c}^{0} \to Ξ^{-} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$ and the Asymmetry Parameter of $Ξ_{c}^{0} \to Ξ^{-} π^{+}$

Y. B. Li et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 121803 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Observation of Forward Neutron Multiplicity Dependence of Dimuon Acoplanarity in Ultraperipheral Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 122001 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Equilibration of the Quark-Gluon Plasma at Finite Net-Baryon Density in QCD Kinetic Theory

Xiaojian Du and Sören Schlichting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 122301 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Core-Valence Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of Polyatomic Molecules

Nikolay V. Golubev, Jiří Vaníček, and Alexander I. Kuleff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123001 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Indirect Spin-Readout of Rare-Earth-Based Single-Molecule Magnet with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Timo Frauhammer, Hongyan Chen, Timofey Balashov, Gabriel Derenbach, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Eufemio Moreno-Pineda, Mario Ruben, and Wulf Wulfhekel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123201 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

Rotational Coherence Times of Polar Molecules in Optical Tweezers

Sean Burchesky, Loïc Anderegg, Yicheng Bao, Scarlett S. Yu, Eunmi Chae, Wolfgang Ketterle, Kang-Kuen Ni, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123202 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Broadband Topological Slow Light through Brillouin Zone Winding

Sander A. Mann and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123601 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

Unraveling Two-Photon Entanglement via the Squeezing Spectrum of Light Traveling through Nanofiber-Coupled Atoms

Jakob Hinney, Adarsh S. Prasad, Sahand Mahmoodian, Klemens Hammerer, Arno Rauschenbeutel, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Volz, and Max Schemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123602 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Engineering Long-Lived Vibrational States for an Organic Molecule

Burak Gurlek, Vahid Sandoghdar, and Diego Martin-Cano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123603 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Optimal Observables and Estimators for Practical Superresolution Imaging

Giacomo Sorelli, Manuel Gessner, Mattia Walschaers, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123604 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Sub-Kelvin Feedback Cooling and Heating Dynamics of an Optically Levitated Librator

Fons van der Laan, Felix Tebbenjohanns, René Reimann, Jayadev Vijayan, Lukas Novotny, and Martin Frimmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123605 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Localization of Dissipative Modulation Instability

Alexander U. Nielsen, Yiqing Xu, Caleb Todd, Michel Ferré, Marcel G. Clerc, Stéphane Coen, Stuart G. Murdoch, and Miro Erkintalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123901 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Void Space

Changqing Xu, Hongchen Chu, Jie Luo, Zhi Hong Hang, Ying Wu, and Yun Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 123902 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Decomposing Spectral and Phasic Differences in Nonlinear Features between Datasets

Pedro A. M. Mediano, Fernando E. Rosas, Adam B. Barrett, and Daniel Bor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 124101 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Many-Body Chaos in Thermalized Fluids

Sugan Durai Murugan, Dheeraj Kumar, Subhro Bhattacharjee, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 124501 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Leidenfrost Effect as a Directed Percolation Phase Transition

Pierre Chantelot and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 124502 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Water Film Drainage between a Very Viscous Oil Drop and a Mica Surface

Tianzi Bai, Rogerio Manica, Bo Liu, Evert Klaseboer, Zhenghe Xu, and Qingxia Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 124503 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Hydrodynamic Flows in Imploding Fusion Plasmas on the National Ignition Facility

D. J. Schlossberg et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 125001 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Fragile 3D Order in $V_{1 - x} Mo_{x} O_{2}$

Matthew A. Davenport, Matthew J. Krogstad, Logan M. Whitt, Chaowei Hu, Tyra C. Douglas, Ni Ni, Stephan Rosenkranz, Raymond Osborn, and Jared M. Allred

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 125501 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Phonon Helicity Induced by Electronic Berry Curvature in Dirac Materials

Lun-Hui Hu, Jiabin Yu, Ion Garate, and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 125901 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Solid-Phase Silicon Homoepitaxy via Shear-Induced Amorphization and Recrystallization

Thomas Reichenbach, Gianpietro Moras, Lars Pastewka, and Michael Moseler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126101 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ultrafast Modulations and Detection of a Ferro-Rotational Charge Density Wave Using Time-Resolved Electric Quadrupole Second Harmonic Generation

Xiangpeng Luo, Dimuthu Obeysekera, Choongjae Won, Suk Hyun Sung, Noah Schnitzer, Robert Hovden, Sang-Wook Cheong, Junjie Yang, Kai Sun, and Liuyan Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126401 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

Observation of Spin-Momentum-Layer Locking in a Centrosymmetric Crystal

Ke Zhang, Shixuan Zhao, Zhanyang Hao, Shiv Kumar, Eike. F. Schwier, Yingjie Zhang, Hongyi Sun, Yuan Wang, Yujie Hao, Xiaoming Ma, Cai Liu, Le Wang, Xiaoxiao Wang, Koji Miyamoto, Taichi Okuda, Chang Liu, Jiawei Mei, Kenya Shimada, Chaoyu Chen, and Qihang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126402 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Learning the Exchange-Correlation Functional from Nature with Fully Differentiable Density Functional Theory

M. F. Kasim and S. M. Vinko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126403 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Ab Initio Electron-Phonon Interactions in Correlated Electron Systems

Jin-Jian Zhou, Jinsoo Park, Iurii Timrov, Andrea Floris, Matteo Cococcioni, Nicola Marzari, and Marco Bernardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126404 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Heterostrain Determines Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Twisted Graphene Layers

Florie Mesple, Ahmed Missaoui, Tommaso Cea, Loic Huder, Francisco Guinea, Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Claude Chapelier, and Vincent T. Renard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126405 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Statistical Interactions and Boson-Anyon Duality in Fractional Quantum Hall Fluids

Bo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126406 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Light-Driven Extremely Nonlinear Bulk Photogalvanic Currents

Ofer Neufeld, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Umberto De Giovannini, Hannes Hübener, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126601 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chirality-Induced Spin Polarization over Macroscopic Distances in Chiral Disilicide Crystals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126602 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Chiral crystals can produce spin-polarized currents that propagate over tens of microns—a promising feature for application in spintronics devices.

Constraint-Induced Delocalization

Piotr Sierant, Eduardo Gonzalez Lazo, Marcello Dalmonte, Antonello Scardicchio, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126603 (2021) - Published 14 September, 2021

Rabi Regime of Current Rectification in Solids

Oles Matsyshyn, Francesco Piazza, Roderich Moessner, and Inti Sodemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126604 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

Weyl Semimetal Path to Valley Filtering in Graphene

Ahmed M. Khalifa, Ribhu K. Kaul, Efrat Shimshoni, H. A. Fertig, and Ganpathy Murthy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 126801 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

Nematicity Arising from a Chiral Superconducting Ground State in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene under In-Plane Magnetic Fields

Tao Yu, Dante M. Kennes, Angel Rubio, and Michael A. Sentef

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127001 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

Superconducting Phase Induced by a Local Structure Transition in Amorphous ${Sb}_{2} {Se}_{3}$ under High Pressure

Kai Zhang, Ming Xu, Nana Li, Meng Xu, Qian Zhang, Eran Greenberg, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Yu-Sheng Chen, Matthias Wuttig, Ho-Kwang Mao, and Wenge Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127002 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Influence of Nanosize Hole Defects and their Geometric Arrangements on the Superfluid Density in Atomically Thin Single Crystals of Indium Superconductor

Mengke Liu, Hyoungdo Nam, Jungdae Kim, Gregory A. Fiete, and Chih-Kang Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 127003 (2021) - Published 17 September, 2021

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

Multivalued Inverse Design: Multiple Surface Geometries from One Flat Sheet

Itay Griniasty, Cyrus Mostajeran, and Itai Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 128001 (2021) - Published 13 September, 2021

Maximal Diversity and Zipf’s Law

Onofrio Mazzarisi, Amanda de Azevedo-Lopes, Jeferson J. Arenzon, and Federico Corberi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 128301 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: Steady-State Coherences by Composite System-Bath Interactions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070401 (2018)]

Giacomo Guarnieri, Michal Kolář, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 129901 (2021) - Published 15 September, 2021

Erratum: Retrieving Ideal Precision in Noisy Quantum Optical Metrology [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040402 (2019)]

Kai Bai, Zhen Peng, Hong-Gang Luo, and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 129902 (2021) - Published 16 September, 2021