Volume 127, Issue 16

15 October 2021

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Temperature-dependent transition between expanded (left) and collapsed (right) conformations of aqueous polypropylene oxide.

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Hydrogen Bonding Sequence Directed Coil-Globule Transition in Water Soluble Thermoresponsive Polymers
Rasika Dahanayake and Elena E. Dormidontova
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167801 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New Relativistic Theory for Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Constantinos Skordis and Tom Złośnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161302 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

A cosmological model that doesn’t require dark matter has passed a major hurdle in matching observations from the cosmic microwave background.

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Improved Neutron Lifetime Measurement with $UCN τ$

F. M. Gonzalez et al. ( $UCN τ$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162501 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021

An improved version of a “bottle” experiment lets researchers lower the uncertainty on this important parameter—but a tantalizing discrepancy remains.

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Superfluidity of Light and Its Breakdown in Optical Mesh Lattices

Martin Wimmer, Monika Monika, Iacopo Carusotto, Ulf Peschel, and Hannah M. Price

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163901 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Researchers have turned light into a superfluid by using a “synthetic” dimension, which is created by using temporal degrees of freedom to mimic spatial degrees of freedom

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Individual Barkhausen Pulses of Ferroelastic Nanodomains

Reinis Ignatans, Dragan Damjanovic, and Vasiliki Tileli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167601 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Researchers have visualized the nanoscale jumps in a ferroelectric’s polarization that are thought to play a key role in how well some ferroelectric devices function.

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Stretch-Induced Bending of Soft Ribbed Strips

Emmanuel Siéfert, Nicolas Cattaud, Etienne Reyssat, Benoît Roman, and José Bico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 168002 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

Patterning grooves into the surface of an elastic ribbon can cause the ribbon to curl into a tube shape when it is stretched.

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Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation and Thermodynamic Speed Limit in Deterministic Chemical Reaction Networks

Kohei Yoshimura and Sosuke Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160601 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation and speed limit provide fundamental bounds relating basic properties of chemical reaction networks and their diffusion coefficients.

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Electron Pulse Compression with Optical Beat Note

Zhexin Zhao, Kenneth J. Leedle, Dylan S. Black, Olav Solgaard, Robert L. Byer, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 164802 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

The beat note generated by two near-infrared lasers can be used to compress an electron pulse with the duration of hundreds of optical cycles into a single density peak.

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Atomic Structure Optimization with Machine-Learning Enabled Interpolation between Chemical Elements

Sami Kaappa, Casper Larsen, and Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166001 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

A machine learning technique that includes interpolation between chemical elements provides an efficient means to identify likely candidates for minimum-energy bulk, surface, and cluster structures.

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Correlated Insulating States and Transport Signature of Superconductivity in Twisted Trilayer Graphene Superlattices

Xi Zhang, Kan-Ting Tsai, Ziyan Zhu, Wei Ren, Yujie Luo, Stephen Carr, Mitchell Luskin, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Ke Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166802 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

At an extremely low carrier density in twisted trilayer graphene, correlated insulating states as well as zero-resistance transport behavior indicate possible superconductivity.

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Probing Magnetic Exchange Interactions with Helium

C. Trainer, C. M. Yim, C. Heil, L. S. Farrar, V. Tsurkan, A. Loidl, and P. Wahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166803 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

The presence of helium reduces the spin-polarization in a magnetic tunnel junction. Ejecting the helium through the application of a voltage reverses the effect, providing electrical control of spin polarization.

LETTERS

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

Lieb-Robinson Light Cone for Power-Law Interactions

Minh C. Tran, Andrew Y. Guo, Christopher L. Baldwin, Adam Ehrenberg, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160401 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Neither Contextuality nor Nonlocality Admits Catalysts

Martti Karvonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160402 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021

Scaling Laws for the Sensitivity Enhancement of Non-Gaussian Spin States

Youcef Baamara, Alice Sinatra, and Manuel Gessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160501 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

Measurement-Device-Independent Verification of a Quantum Memory

Yong Yu, Peng-Fei Sun, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Bing Bai, Yu-Qiang Fang, Xi-Yu Luo, Zi-Ye An, Jun Li, Jun Zhang, Feihu Xu, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160502 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

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Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation and Thermodynamic Speed Limit in Deterministic Chemical Reaction Networks

Kohei Yoshimura and Sosuke Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160601 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

The thermodynamic uncertainty relation and speed limit provide fundamental bounds relating basic properties of chemical reaction networks and their diffusion coefficients.

Anderson Localization of Composite Particles

Fumika Suzuki, Mikhail Lemeshko, Wojciech H. Zurek, and Roman V. Krems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 160602 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

First Constraints on Nuclear Coupling of Axionlike Particles from the Binary Neutron Star Gravitational Wave Event GW170817

Jun Zhang, Zhenwei Lyu, Junwu Huang, Matthew C. Johnson, Laura Sagunski, Mairi Sakellariadou, and Huan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161101 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Dissecting the Inner Galaxy with $γ$ -Ray Pixel Count Statistics

F. Calore, F. Donato, and S. Manconi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161102 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021

Dynamical Formation of Scalarized Black Holes and Neutron Stars through Stellar Core Collapse

Hao-Jui Kuan, Daniela D. Doneva, and Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161103 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

Matter-Driven Change of Spacetime Topology

J. Ambjørn, Z. Drogosz, J. Gizbert-Studnicki, A. Görlich, J. Jurkiewicz, and D. Németh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161301 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

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New Relativistic Theory for Modified Newtonian Dynamics

Constantinos Skordis and Tom Złośnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161302 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

A cosmological model that doesn’t require dark matter has passed a major hurdle in matching observations from the cosmic microwave background.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Integrable Systems and Spacetime Dynamics

Marcela Cárdenas, Francisco Correa, Kristiansen Lara, and Miguel Pino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161601 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Testing Bell Inequalities at the LHC with Top-Quark Pairs

M. Fabbrichesi, R. Floreanini, and G. Panizzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 161801 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

Probing Gluon Spin-Momentum Correlations in Transversely Polarized Protons through Midrapidity Isolated Direct Photons in $p^{↑} + p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200 GeV$

U. A. Acharya et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162001 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Exact Top-Quark Mass Dependence in Hadronic Higgs Production

M. Czakon, R. V. Harlander, J. Klappert, and M. Niggetiedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162002 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Soft Interactions in Cold Quark Matter

Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Risto Paatelainen, Saga Säppi, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162003 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

Nuclear Physics

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Improved Neutron Lifetime Measurement with $UCN τ$

F. M. Gonzalez et al. ( $UCN τ$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 162501 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021

An improved version of a “bottle” experiment lets researchers lower the uncertainty on this important parameter—but a tantalizing discrepancy remains.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Polarization Enhanced Deep Optical Dipole Trapping of $Λ$ -Cooled Polar Molecules

Thomas K. Langin, Varun Jorapur, Yuqi Zhu, Qian Wang, and David DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163201 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Probing Photoinduced Two-Body Loss of Ultracold Nonreactive Bosonic ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{87}{Rb}$ and ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{39}K$ Molecules

Philipp Gersema, Kai K. Voges, Mara Meyer zum Alten Borgloh, Leon Koch, Torsten Hartmann, Alessandro Zenesini, Silke Ospelkaus, Junyu Lin, Junyu He, and Dajun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163401 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Single-Photon Hologram of a Zero-Area Pulse

Michał Lipka and Michał Parniak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163601 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Superfluidity of Light and Its Breakdown in Optical Mesh Lattices

Martin Wimmer, Monika Monika, Iacopo Carusotto, Ulf Peschel, and Hannah M. Price

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163901 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Researchers have turned light into a superfluid by using a “synthetic” dimension, which is created by using temporal degrees of freedom to mimic spatial degrees of freedom

Multifrequency Solitons in Commensurate-Incommensurate Photonic Moiré Lattices

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Fangwei Ye, Vladimir V. Konotop, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163902 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

Shortening X-Ray Pulse Duration via Saturable Absorption

Ichiro Inoue, Yuichi Inubushi, Taito Osaka, Jumpei Yamada, Kenji Tamasaku, Hitoki Yoneda, and Makina Yabashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 163903 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Subfemtosecond Wakefield Injector and Accelerator Based on an Undulating Plasma Bubble Controlled by a Laser Phase

Jihoon Kim, Tianhong Wang, Vladimir Khudik, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 164801 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

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Electron Pulse Compression with Optical Beat Note

Zhexin Zhao, Kenneth J. Leedle, Dylan S. Black, Olav Solgaard, Robert L. Byer, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 164802 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

The beat note generated by two near-infrared lasers can be used to compress an electron pulse with the duration of hundreds of optical cycles into a single density peak.

Enhancement of Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Growth by Thermal Conduction Suppression in a Magnetic Field

Kazuki Matsuo, Takayoshi Sano, Hideo Nagatomo, Toshihiro Somekawa, King Fai Farley Law, Hiroki Morita, Yasunobu Arikawa, and Shinsuke Fujioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 165001 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Retrieving Transient Magnetic Fields of Ultrarelativistic Laser Plasma via Ejected Electron Polarization

Zheng Gong, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 165002 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Spacecraft Observations and Theoretical Understanding of Slow Electron Holes

Sergey R. Kamaletdinov, Ian H. Hutchinson, Ivan Y. Vasko, Anton V. Artemyev, Ajay Lotekar, and Forrest Mozer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 165101 (2021) - Published 15 October, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Measurement of Temporal Coherence of Free Electrons by Time-Domain Electron Interferometry

M. Tsarev, A. Ryabov, and P. Baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 165501 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

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Atomic Structure Optimization with Machine-Learning Enabled Interpolation between Chemical Elements

Sami Kaappa, Casper Larsen, and Karsten Wedel Jacobsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166001 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

A machine learning technique that includes interpolation between chemical elements provides an efficient means to identify likely candidates for minimum-energy bulk, surface, and cluster structures.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Phases in Graphene Nanoribbons Tuned by Electric Fields

Fangzhou Zhao, Ting Cao, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166401 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Unified Treatment of Magnons and Excitons in Monolayer ${CrI}_{3}$ from Many-Body Perturbation Theory

Thomas Olsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166402 (2021) - Published 14 October, 2021

Anomalous Drag in Electron-Hole Condensates with Granulated Order

Hong Liu, Allan H. MacDonald, and Dmitry K. Efimkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166801 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

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Correlated Insulating States and Transport Signature of Superconductivity in Twisted Trilayer Graphene Superlattices

Xi Zhang, Kan-Ting Tsai, Ziyan Zhu, Wei Ren, Yujie Luo, Stephen Carr, Mitchell Luskin, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Ke Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166802 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

At an extremely low carrier density in twisted trilayer graphene, correlated insulating states as well as zero-resistance transport behavior indicate possible superconductivity.

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Probing Magnetic Exchange Interactions with Helium

C. Trainer, C. M. Yim, C. Heil, L. S. Farrar, V. Tsurkan, A. Loidl, and P. Wahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166803 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Quasiperiodic Floquet-Thouless Energy Pump

Frederik Nathan, Rongchun Ge, Snir Gazit, Mark Rudner, and Michael Kolodrubetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 166804 (2021) - Published 13 October, 2021

Dichotomy of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Graphene Moiré Flat Bands

Young Woo Choi and Hyoung Joon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167001 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Photon Condensation and Enhanced Magnetism in Cavity QED

Juan Román-Roche, Fernando Luis, and David Zueco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167201 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Chiral Coupling between Magnetic Layers with Orthogonal Magnetization

Can Onur Avci, Charles-Henri Lambert, Giacomo Sala, and Pietro Gambardella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167202 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Confinement and Mott Transitions of Dynamical Charges in One-Dimensional Lattice Gauge Theories

Matjaž Kebrič, Luca Barbiero, Christian Reinmoser, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167203 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

Thermal Interferometry of Anyons in Spin Liquids

Zezhu Wei, V. F. Mitrović, and D. E. Feldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167204 (2021) - Published 11 October, 2021

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Individual Barkhausen Pulses of Ferroelastic Nanodomains

Reinis Ignatans, Dragan Damjanovic, and Vasiliki Tileli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 167601 (2021) - Published 12 October, 2021

Researchers have visualized the nanoscale jumps in a ferroelectric’s polarization that are thought to play a key role in how well some ferroelectric devices function.