Volume 127, Issue 17

22 October 2021

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Small-angle neutron scattering pattern of a three-armed star polymer with deuterium labeling at the end of each arm.

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Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of the Structural Relaxation of Elongationally Oriented, Moderately Stretched Three-Arm Star Polymers
Kell Mortensen, Anine L. Borger, Jacob J. K. Kirkensgaard, Qian Huang, Ole Hassager, and Kristoffer Almdal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 177801 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Intermediate-Range Casimir-Polder Interaction Probed by High-Order Slow Atom Diffraction

C. Garcion, N. Fabre, H. Bricha, F. Perales, S. Scheel, M. Ducloy, and G. Dutier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170402 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

A new technique in which atoms move slowly through a diffraction grating lets researchers measure the tiny Casimir-Polder interaction, a force that arises from quantum vacuum fluctuations.

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Floquet Prethermalization with Lifetime Exceeding 90 s in a Bulk Hyperpolarized Solid

William Beatrez, Otto Janes, Amala Akkiraju, Arjun Pillai, Alexander Oddo, Paul Reshetikhin, Emanuel Druga, Maxwell McAllister, Mark Elo, Benjamin Gilbert, Dieter Suter, and Ashok Ajoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170603 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

Researchers have kept a Floquet system in a prethermal state for a record length of time.

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Noise-Induced Acceleration of Single Molecule Kinesin-1

Takayuki Ariga, Keito Tateishi, Michio Tomishige, and Daisuke Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178101 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Kinesin, which moves cargo around inside cells, travels more rapidly with constant buffeting than without, perhaps because it’s adapted to the crowded cellular environment.

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Deceleration and Trapping of SrF Molecules

P. Aggarwal, Y. Yin, K. Esajas, H. L. Bethlem, A. Boeschoten, A. Borschevsky, S. Hoekstra, K. Jungmann, V. R. Marshall, T. B. Meijknecht, M. C. Mooij, R. G. E. Timmermans, A. Touwen, W. Ubachs, and L. Willmann ( $NL − e EDM$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173201 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Electric deceleration brings a beam of the largest molecules yet to a standstill.

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Neural Network Representation of Tensor Network and Chiral States

Yichen Huang (黄溢辰) and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170601 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

Neural networks, with stronger expressive power than traditional tensor networks, lead to practical understanding of chiral systems such as the p-wave superconductor.

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Experimental Evidence for an Attractive $p − ϕ$ Interaction

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 172301 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

Evidence for an attractive interaction between a proton and a $ϕ$ meson is inferred from two-particle correlations.

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High Efficiency Uniform Wakefield Acceleration of a Positron Beam Using Stable Asymmetric Mode in a Hollow Channel Plasma

Shiyu Zhou, Jianfei Hua, Weiming An, Warren B. Mori, Chan Joshi, Jie Gao, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 174801 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Simulations validate a scheme for accelerating and focusing a positron beam with narrow energy spread using an electron beam to drive the wake in a hollow plasma channel.

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Efficient Narrow-Band Terahertz Radiation from Electrostatic Wakefields in Nonuniform Plasmas

Alexander Pukhov, Anton Golovanov, and Igor Kostyukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175001 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

A wakefield excited by a single laser pulse in a plasma with a smooth positive density gradient is an efficient source of narrowband THz radiation.

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Odd Diffusivity of Chiral Random Motion

Cory Hargus, Jeffrey M. Epstein, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178001 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Odd diffusivity, corresponding to an antisymmetric component of the diffusivity tensor, emerges as a result of breaking time-reversal and parity symmetries in chiral active matter.

LETTERS

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

Weak-Measurement-Induced Asymmetric Dephasing: Manifestation of Intrinsic Measurement Chirality

Kyrylo Snizhko, Parveen Kumar, Nihal Rao, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170401 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

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Intermediate-Range Casimir-Polder Interaction Probed by High-Order Slow Atom Diffraction

C. Garcion, N. Fabre, H. Bricha, F. Perales, S. Scheel, M. Ducloy, and G. Dutier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170402 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

A new technique in which atoms move slowly through a diffraction grating lets researchers measure the tiny Casimir-Polder interaction, a force that arises from quantum vacuum fluctuations.

Filter Functions for Quantum Processes under Correlated Noise

Pascal Cerfontaine, Tobias Hangleiter, and Hendrik Bluhm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170403 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

Quantum Geometry and Flat Band Bose-Einstein Condensation

Aleksi Julku, Georg M. Bruun, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170404 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Network Quantum Steering

Benjamin D. M. Jones, Ivan Šupić, Roope Uola, Nicolas Brunner, and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170405 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Quantum Variational Learning of the Entanglement Hamiltonian

Christian Kokail, Bhuvanesh Sundar, Torsten V. Zache, Andreas Elben, Benoît Vermersch, Marcello Dalmonte, Rick van Bijnen, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170501 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Neural Network Representation of Tensor Network and Chiral States

Yichen Huang (黄溢辰) and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170601 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

Neural networks, with stronger expressive power than traditional tensor networks, lead to practical understanding of chiral systems such as the p-wave superconductor.

Spectral Statistics of Non-Hermitian Matrices and Dissipative Quantum Chaos

Jiachen Li, Tomaž Prosen, and Amos Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170602 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

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Floquet Prethermalization with Lifetime Exceeding 90 s in a Bulk Hyperpolarized Solid

William Beatrez, Otto Janes, Amala Akkiraju, Arjun Pillai, Alexander Oddo, Paul Reshetikhin, Emanuel Druga, Maxwell McAllister, Mark Elo, Benjamin Gilbert, Dieter Suter, and Ashok Ajoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 170603 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

Researchers have kept a Floquet system in a prethermal state for a record length of time.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Fuzzball Shadows: Emergent Horizons from Microstructure

Fabio Bacchini, Daniel R. Mayerson, Bart Ripperda, Jordy Davelaar, Héctor Olivares, Thomas Hertog, and Bert Vercnocke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 171601 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

Three-Loop Color-Kinematics Duality: A 24-Dimensional Solution Space Induced by New Generalized Gauge Transformations

Guanda Lin, Gang Yang, and Siyuan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 171602 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Universality, Lee-Yang Singularities, and Series Expansions

Gökçe Başar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 171603 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fraction of $D_{s}^{+} \to τ^{+} ν_{τ}$ via $τ^{+} \to e^{+} ν_{e} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 171801 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

Nuclear Physics

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Experimental Evidence for an Attractive $p − ϕ$ Interaction

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 172301 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

Evidence for an attractive interaction between a proton and a $ϕ$ meson is inferred from two-particle correlations.

Advancement of Photospheric Radius Expansion and Clocked Type-I X-Ray Burst Models with the New ${}^{22}{Mg} (α, p) {}^{25}{Al}$ Reaction Rate Determined at the Gamow Energy

J. Hu (胡钧) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 172701 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

Urca Cooling in Neutron Star Crusts and Oceans: Effects of Nuclear Excitations

Long-Jun Wang, Liang Tan, Zhipan Li, G. Wendell Misch, and Yang Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 172702 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Deceleration and Trapping of SrF Molecules

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173201 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Electric deceleration brings a beam of the largest molecules yet to a standstill.

Dimerization of Many-Body Subradiant States in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Alexander V. Poshakinskiy and Alexander N. Poddubny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173601 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

High-Resolution “Magic”-Field Spectroscopy on Trapped Polyatomic Molecules

Alexander Prehn, Martin Ibrügger, Gerhard Rempe, and Martin Zeppenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173602 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

Augmenting the Sensing Performance of Entangled Photon Pairs through Asymmetry

Yoad Michael, Isaac Jonas, Leon Bello, Mallachi-Ellia Meller, Eliahu Cohen, Michael Rosenbluh, and Avi Pe’er

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173603 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

Optical-Frequency Magnetic Polarizability in a Layered Semiconductor

Ryan A. DeCrescent, Rhys M. Kennard, Michael L. Chabinyc, and Jon A. Schuller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173604 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

Stand-Off Magnetometry with Directional Emission from Sodium Vapors

Rui Zhang, Emmanuel Klinger, Felipe Pedreros Bustos, Alexander Akulshin, Hong Guo, Arne Wickenbrock, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173605 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Dicke Transition in Open Many-Body Systems Determined by Fluctuation Effects

Alla V. Bezvershenko, Catalin-Mihai Halati, Ameneh Sheikhan, Corinna Kollath, and Achim Rosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173606 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Using Disorder to Overcome Disorder: A Mechanism for Frequency and Phase Synchronization of Diode Laser Arrays

N. Nair, K. Hu, M. Berrill, K. Wiesenfeld, and Y. Braiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 173901 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High Efficiency Uniform Wakefield Acceleration of a Positron Beam Using Stable Asymmetric Mode in a Hollow Channel Plasma

Shiyu Zhou, Jianfei Hua, Weiming An, Warren B. Mori, Chan Joshi, Jie Gao, and Wei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 174801 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Simulations validate a scheme for accelerating and focusing a positron beam with narrow energy spread using an electron beam to drive the wake in a hollow plasma channel.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Narrow-Band Terahertz Radiation from Electrostatic Wakefields in Nonuniform Plasmas

Alexander Pukhov, Anton Golovanov, and Igor Kostyukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175001 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

A wakefield excited by a single laser pulse in a plasma with a smooth positive density gradient is an efficient source of narrowband THz radiation.

Inefficient Magnetic-Field Amplification in Supersonic Laser-Plasma Turbulence

A. F. A. Bott, L. Chen, G. Boutoux, T. Caillaud, A. Duval, M. Koenig, B. Khiar, I. Lantuéjoul, L. Le-Deroff, B. Reville, R. Rosch, D. Ryu, C. Spindloe, B. Vauzour, B. Villette, A. A. Schekochihin, D. Q. Lamb, P. Tzeferacos, G. Gregori, and A. Casner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175002 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Investigation of Nonequilibrium Electronic Dynamics of Warm Dense Copper with Femtosecond X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

Jong-Won Lee, Minju Kim, Gyeongbo Kang, Sam M. Vinko, Leejin Bae, Min Sang Cho, Hyun-Kyung Chung, Minseok Kim, Soonnam Kwon, Gyusang Lee, Chang Hee Nam, Sang Han Park, Jang Hyeob Sohn, Seong Hyeok Yang, Ulf Zastrau, and Byoung Ick Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175003 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Mechanism and Prediction of Hydrogen Embrittlement in fcc Stainless Steels and High Entropy Alloys

Xiao Zhou, Ali Tehranchi, and William A. Curtin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175501 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

Structure of High-Pressure Supercooled and Glassy Water

Riccardo Foffi and Francesco Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175502 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

Grain Boundary Solute Drag Model in Regular Solution Alloys

Malek Alkayyali and Fadi Abdeljawad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 175503 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Dynamics of Topological Polarization Singularity in Momentum Space

Yixuan Zeng, Guangwei Hu, Kaipeng Liu, Zhixiang Tang, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 176101 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Eightfold Degenerate Fermions in Two Dimensions

Peng-Jie Guo, Yi-Wen Wei, Kai Liu, Zheng-Xin Liu, and Zhong-Yi Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 176401 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Coulomb Instabilities of a Three-Dimensional Higher-Order Topological Insulator

Peng-Lu Zhao, Xiao-Bin Qiang, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 176601 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

Entropy Wave Instability in Dirac and Weyl Semimetals

P. O. Sukhachov, E. V. Gorbar, and I. A. Shovkovy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 176602 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

Viscometry of Electron Fluids from Symmetry

Caleb Q. Cook and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 176603 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Enhancement of Spin-Charge Conversion in Dilute Magnetic Alloys by Kondo Screening

Chunli Huang, Ilya V. Tokatly, and Miguel A. Cazalilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 176801 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Nature of Unconventional Pairing in the Kagome Superconductors $A V_{3} {Sb}_{5}$ ( $A = K, Rb, Cs$ )

Xianxin Wu, Tilman Schwemmer, Tobias Müller, Armando Consiglio, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Domenico Di Sante, Yasir Iqbal, Werner Hanke, Andreas P. Schnyder, M. Michael Denner, Mark H. Fischer, Titus Neupert, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 177001 (2021) - Published 19 October, 2021

Long-Range Photon Fluctuations Enhance Photon-Mediated Electron Pairing and Superconductivity

Ahana Chakraborty and Francesco Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 177002 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Dirac Surface States in Magnonic Analogs of Topological Crystalline Insulators

Hiroki Kondo and Yutaka Akagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 177201 (2021) - Published 20 October, 2021

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

Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of the Structural Relaxation of Elongationally Oriented, Moderately Stretched Three-Arm Star Polymers

Kell Mortensen, Anine L. Borger, Jacob J. K. Kirkensgaard, Qian Huang, Ole Hassager, and Kristoffer Almdal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 177801 (2021) - Published 18 October, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Odd Diffusivity of Chiral Random Motion

Cory Hargus, Jeffrey M. Epstein, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178001 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Odd diffusivity, corresponding to an antisymmetric component of the diffusivity tensor, emerges as a result of breaking time-reversal and parity symmetries in chiral active matter.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Noise-Induced Acceleration of Single Molecule Kinesin-1

Takayuki Ariga, Keito Tateishi, Michio Tomishige, and Daisuke Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 178101 (2021) - Published 22 October, 2021

Kinesin, which moves cargo around inside cells, travels more rapidly with constant buffeting than without, perhaps because it’s adapted to the crowded cellular environment.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Universal Origin of Boson Peak Vibrational Anomalies in Ordered Crystals and in Amorphous Materials”

Andrij Shvaika, Mykola Shpot, Walter Schirmacher, Taras Bryk, and Giancarlo Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 179601 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021

Baggioli and Zaccone Reply:

Matteo Baggioli and Alessio Zaccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 179602 (2021) - Published 21 October, 2021