Volume 127, Issue 15

8 October 2021

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Frequency controlled spin-wave-induced domain wall motion, for low (top) and high (bottom) frequencies. Linearly polarized spin waves move the domain wall away from (top) or towards (bottom) the spin-wave source.

From the article:

Spin-Wave Driven Bidirectional Domain Wall Motion in Kagome Antiferromagnets
D. R. Rodrigues, A. Salimath, K. Everschor-Sitte, and K. M. D. Hals
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157203 (2021)

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Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

P. A. R. Ade et al. (BICEP/Keck Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151301 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021

An updated search for primordial gravitational waves has not found a signal, which implies that some popular early Universe models are becoming less viable.

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Direct Measurement of the Astrophysical ${}^{19}F (p, α γ) {}^{16}O$ Reaction in the Deepest Operational Underground Laboratory

L. Y. Zhang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152702 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

The first results from the Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics particle accelerator refine a key reaction rate for the destruction of fluorine in stars.

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Experimental Observations of Laser-Driven Tin Ejecta Microjet Interactions

A. M. Saunders, C. V. Stan, K. K. Mackay, B. Morgan, J. A. K. Horwitz, S. J. Ali, H. G. Rinderknecht, T. Haxhimali, Y. Ping, F. Najjar, J. Eggert, and H.-S. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155002 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Researchers have successfully imaged the collision of a pair of micrometer-wide jets made of tin particles.

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Inversion of Solvent Migration in Charged Membranes

Alain Boldini and Maurizio Porfiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156001 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

The process of osmosis is predicted—under certain conditions—to act in the opposite direction within charged membranes.

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Multiscale Microrheology Using Fluctuating Filaments as Stealth Probes

Kengo Nishi, Fred C. MacKintosh, and Christoph F. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158001 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Researchers have demonstrated a method of probing a soft material’s properties that could allow them to capture those properties more accurately and for smaller systems than current methods.

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Coherence Switching with Metamaterials

Matias Koivurova, Tommi K. Hakala, Jari Turunen, Ari T. Friberg, Humeyra Caglayan, and Marco Ornigotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 153902 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

The spatial coherence of emitted laser light from nearly incoherent to fully coherent can be controlled by exploiting the peculiar sensitivity of an enhanced epsilon-near-zero mirror to the polarization of light.

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Magnetoconduction in the Correlated Semiconductor FeSi in Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields up to a Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition

D. Nakamura, Y. H. Matsuda, A. Ikeda, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, S. Takeyama, and T. Kanomata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156601 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Measurement of the magnetoresistance of FeSi under ultrahigh magnetic fields of up to 500 Tesla shows a substantial Zeeman shift of band-edge causes a phase transition into a field-induced metallic state.

LETTERS

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

General Bound on the Performance of Counter-Diabatic Driving Acting on Dissipative Spin Systems

Ken Funo, Neill Lambert, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150401 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Bounding the Benefit of Adaptivity in Quantum Metrology Using the Relative Fidelity

Jason L. Pereira, Leonardo Banchi, and Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150501 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Hierarchy of Nonlinear Entanglement Dynamics for Continuous Variables

Da Zhang, David Barral, Yin Cai, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, and Kamel Bencheikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150502 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Catalytic Transformations of Pure Entangled States

Tulja Varun Kondra, Chandan Datta, and Alexander Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150503 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Analyzing Nonequilibrium Quantum States through Snapshots with Artificial Neural Networks

A. Bohrdt, S. Kim, A. Lukin, M. Rispoli, R. Schittko, M. Knap, M. Greiner, and J. Léonard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150504 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

Orthogonal Quantum Many-Body Scars

Hongzheng Zhao, Adam Smith, Florian Mintert, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150601 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithms for Active Matter Systems

Juliane U. Klamser, Olivier Dauchot, and Julien Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150602 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s Third Observing Run

Alexander H. Nitz and Yi-Fan Wang (王一帆)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151101 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Gravitational-Wave Energy Flux for Compact Binaries through Second Order in the Mass Ratio

Niels Warburton, Adam Pound, Barry Wardell, Jeremy Miller, and Leanne Durkan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

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Improved Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves using Planck, WMAP, and BICEP/Keck Observations through the 2018 Observing Season

P. A. R. Ade et al. (BICEP/Keck Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151301 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021

An updated search for primordial gravitational waves has not found a signal, which implies that some popular early Universe models are becoming less viable.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Multiple Series Representations of $N$ -fold Mellin-Barnes Integrals

B. Ananthanarayan, Sumit Banik, Samuel Friot, and Shayan Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151601 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Bootstrapping a Two-Loop Four-Point Form Factor

Yuanhong Guo, Lei Wang, and Gang Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151602 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

Branching Fraction Measurements of the Rare $B_{s}^{0} \to ϕ μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $B_{s}^{0} \to f_{2}^{'} (1525) μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151801 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Determining Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering Rates from the Dielectric Function

Yonit Hochberg, Yonatan Kahn, Noah Kurinsky, Benjamin V. Lehmann, To Chin Yu, and Karl K. Berggren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151802 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151803 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Study of Three-Jet Production at the LHC

Michał Czakon, Alexander Mitov, and Rene Poncelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152001 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Deep Exclusive Electroproduction of $π^{0}$ at High $Q^{2}$ in the Quark Valence Regime

M. Dlamini et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152301 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Signatures of Moat Regimes in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Robert D. Pisarski and Fabian Rennecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152302 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Direct Measurement of the ${}^{13}C (α, n) {}^{16}O$ Cross Section into the $s$ -Process Gamow Peak

G. F. Ciani et al. (LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152701 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

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Direct Measurement of the Astrophysical ${}^{19}F (p, α γ) {}^{16}O$ Reaction in the Deepest Operational Underground Laboratory

L. Y. Zhang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152702 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

The first results from the Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics particle accelerator refine a key reaction rate for the destruction of fluorine in stars.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strongly Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in a Thin Film Lithium Niobate Heterostructure Cavity

Shuai Yuan, Yunkun Wu, Zhongzhou Dang, Cheng Zeng, Xiaozhuo Qi, Guangcan Guo, Xifeng Ren, and Jinsong Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 153901 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

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Coherence Switching with Metamaterials

Matias Koivurova, Tommi K. Hakala, Jari Turunen, Ari T. Friberg, Humeyra Caglayan, and Marco Ornigotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 153902 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Temporal Parity-Time Symmetry for Extreme Energy Transformations

Huanan Li, Shixiong Yin, Emanuele Galiffi, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 153903 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

Stability of the Interaction between Two Sand Dunes in an Idealized Laboratory Experiment

Karol A. Bacik, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, and Nathalie M. Vriend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 154501 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Upper Bounds on Gyrokinetic Instabilities in Magnetized Plasmas

P. Helander and G. G. Plunk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155001 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

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Experimental Observations of Laser-Driven Tin Ejecta Microjet Interactions

A. M. Saunders, C. V. Stan, K. K. Mackay, B. Morgan, J. A. K. Horwitz, S. J. Ali, H. G. Rinderknecht, T. Haxhimali, Y. Ping, F. Najjar, J. Eggert, and H.-S. Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155002 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Researchers have successfully imaged the collision of a pair of micrometer-wide jets made of tin particles.

Faster Form of Electron Magnetic Reconnection with a Finite Length X-Line

P. S. Pyakurel, M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, T. D. Phan, P. A. Cassak, and J. L. Verniero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155101 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Supersolidity in Two-Dimensional Trapped Dipolar Droplet Arrays

J. Hertkorn, J.-N. Schmidt, M. Guo, F. Böttcher, K. S. H. Ng, S. D. Graham, P. Uerlings, H. P. Büchler, T. Langen, M. Zwierlein, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155301 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

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Inversion of Solvent Migration in Charged Membranes

Alain Boldini and Maurizio Porfiri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156001 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

The process of osmosis is predicted—under certain conditions—to act in the opposite direction within charged membranes.

Physically Motivated Recursively Embedded Atom Neural Networks: Incorporating Local Completeness and Nonlocality

Yaolong Zhang, Junfan Xia, and Bin Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156002 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

Stability of a Rolled-Up Conformation State for Two-Dimensional Materials in Aqueous Solutions

Maxim Trushin and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156101 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dirac Hierarchy in Acoustic Topological Insulators

Li-Yang Zheng and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156401 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

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Magnetoconduction in the Correlated Semiconductor FeSi in Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields up to a Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition

D. Nakamura, Y. H. Matsuda, A. Ikeda, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, S. Takeyama, and T. Kanomata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156601 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transitions with Long-Range Couplings

Guido Giachetti, Nicolò Defenu, Stefano Ruffo, and Andrea Trombettoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156801 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Probing Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking Topological Superconductivity in Twisted Double Layer Copper Oxides with Polar Kerr Effect

Oguzhan Can, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Catherine Kallin, and Marcel Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157001 (2021) - Published 4 October, 2021

Proposed Superconducting Electride ${Li}_{6} C$ by $s p$ -Hybridized Cage States at Moderate Pressures

Zhao Liu, Quan Zhuang, Fubo Tian, Defang Duan, Hao Song, Zihan Zhang, Fangfei Li, Hongdong Li, Da Li, and Tian Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157002 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021

In Situ Electric-Field Control of THz Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism in the Multiferroic ${Ba}_{2} {CoGe}_{2} O_{7}$

J. Vít, J. Viirok, L. Peedu, T. Rõõm, U. Nagel, V. Kocsis, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, I. Kézsmárki, P. Balla, K. Penc, J. Romhányi, and S. Bordács

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157201 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Classical Spin Liquid State in the $S = \frac{5}{2}$ Heisenberg Kagome Antiferromagnet ${Li}_{9} {Fe}_{3} {(P_{2} O_{7})}_{3} ({PO}_{4})_{2}$

E. Kermarrec, R. Kumar, G. Bernard, R. Hénaff, P. Mendels, F. Bert, P. L. Paulose, B. K. Hazra, and B. Koteswararao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157202 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Spin-Wave Driven Bidirectional Domain Wall Motion in Kagome Antiferromagnets

D. R. Rodrigues, A. Salimath, K. Everschor-Sitte, and K. M. D. Hals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157203 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

Magnetic Field Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in the Two Coupled Trillium Lattices of $K_{2} {Ni}_{2} ({SO}_{4})_{3}$

Ivica Živković, Virgile Favre, Catalina Salazar Mejia, Harald O. Jeschke, Arnaud Magrez, Bhupen Dabholkar, Vincent Noculak, Rafael S. Freitas, Minki Jeong, Nagabhushan G. Hegde, Luc Testa, Peter Babkevich, Yixi Su, Pascal Manuel, Hubertus Luetkens, Christopher Baines, Peter J. Baker, Jochen Wosnitza, Oksana Zaharko, Yasir Iqbal, Johannes Reuther, and Henrik M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157204 (2021) - Published 6 October, 2021

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

Defect Production in Compressed Filament Bundles

Valentin M. Slepukhin and Alex J. Levine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157801 (2021) - Published 7 October, 2021

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Multiscale Microrheology Using Fluctuating Filaments as Stealth Probes

Kengo Nishi, Fred C. MacKintosh, and Christoph F. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158001 (2021) - Published 5 October, 2021

Researchers have demonstrated a method of probing a soft material’s properties that could allow them to capture those properties more accurately and for smaller systems than current methods.

ERRATA

Erratum: Properties of a New Group of Cosmic Nuclei: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on Sodium, Aluminum, and Nitrogen [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 021101 (2021)]

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 159901 (2021) - Published 8 October, 2021