Volume 127, Issue 19

5 November 2021

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Exponential production of dark matter χ (red) from heat bath particles (black). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Dark Matter from Exponential Growth
Torsten Bringmann, Paul Frederik Depta, Marco Hufnagel, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Kai Schmidt-Hoberg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 191802 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Superconducting-like Heat Current: Effective Cancellation of Current-Dissipation Trade-Off by Quantum Coherence

Hiroyasu Tajima and Ken Funo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190604 (2021) - Published 4 November, 2021

Predictions indicate that introducing quantum coherence into quantum heat engines can significantly reduce the friction in these systems.

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Dark Matter from Exponential Growth

Torsten Bringmann, Paul Frederik Depta, Marco Hufnagel, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 191802 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

A new model explains the current density of dark matter by proposing that conventional matter converted to dark matter in the early Universe.

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Universal Magnetic Oscillations of dc Conductivity in the Incoherent Regime of Correlated Systems

Jakša Vučičević and Rok Žitko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196601 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

At high temperatures, quantum oscillations are predicted to emerge in materials containing correlated electrons, with the oscillations behaving differently from those seen at low temperatures.

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Topology of Orientational Defects in Confined Smectic Liquid Crystals

Paul A. Monderkamp, René Wittmann, Louis B. G. Cortes, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Frank Smallenburg, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198001 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

The orientation boundaries in a liquid crystal can be characterized by a topological charge that always sums to one, no matter the shape of the container.

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Estimating Entropy Production from Waiting Time Distributions

Dominic J. Skinner and Jörn Dunkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198101 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Theorists place bounds on the energy consumption of a mesoscopic nonequilibrium system using parameters that are experimentally accessible.

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Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure

A. McIlvenny, D. Doria, L. Romagnani, H. Ahmed, N. Booth, E. J. Ditter, O. C. Ettlinger, G. S. Hicks, P. Martin, G. G. Scott, S. D. R. Williamson, A. Macchi, P. McKenna, Z. Najmudin, D. Neely, S. Kar, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 194801 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

A new laser technique could lead to ultrashort-pulse, high-energy ion beams for medical use.

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Realizing Optical Persistent Spin Helix and Stern-Gerlach Deflection in an Anisotropic Liquid Crystal Microcavity

Mateusz Król, Katarzyna Rechcińska, Helgi Sigurdsson, Przemysław Oliwa, Rafał Mazur, Przemysław Morawiak, Wiktor Piecek, Przemysław Kula, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, Michał Matuszewski, Witold Bardyszewski, Barbara Piętka, and Jacek Szczytko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190401 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Spin patterns corresponding to the persistent spin helix and the Stern-Gerlach experiment are realized in an optically anisotropic liquid crystal microcavity.

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Tip Charge Dependence of Three-Dimensional AFM Mapping of Concentrated Ionic Solutions

Simone Benaglia, Manuel R. Uhlig, Jose Hernández-Muñoz, Enrique Chacón, Pedro Tarazona, and Ricardo Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196101 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

At a liquid-solid interface, atomic force microscopy with an uncharged tip gives total particle distribution while a charged tip gives the charge density distribution.

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Competing Zero-Field Chern Insulators in Superconducting Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Petr Stepanov, Ming Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Xiaobo Lu, Allan H. MacDonald, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Dmitri K. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197701 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

The discovery of a correlated Chern insulator state in twisted bilayer graphene without hBN alignment makes it possible to tune between the superconducting and the quantum anomalous Hall state by simply applying a gate voltage.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realizing Optical Persistent Spin Helix and Stern-Gerlach Deflection in an Anisotropic Liquid Crystal Microcavity

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190401 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Spin patterns corresponding to the persistent spin helix and the Stern-Gerlach experiment are realized in an optically anisotropic liquid crystal microcavity.

Global Quantum Thermometry

Jesús Rubio, Janet Anders, and Luis A. Correa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190402 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Measurement-Based Feedback Quantum Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning for a Double-Well Nonlinear Potential

Sangkha Borah, Bijita Sarma, Michael Kewming, Gerard J. Milburn, and Jason Twamley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190403 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Complete Incompatibility, Support Uncertainty, and Kirkwood-Dirac Nonclassicality

Stephan De Bièvre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190404 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Fully Tunable Hyperfine Interactions of Hole Spin Qubits in Si and Ge Quantum Dots

Stefano Bosco and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190501 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

Quantum and Classical Data Transmission through Completely Depolarizing Channels in a Superposition of Cyclic Orders

Giulio Chiribella, Matt Wilson, and H. F. Chau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190502 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Lower Bound on Irreversibility in Thermal Relaxation of Open Quantum Systems

Tan Van Vu and Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190601 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Universal Bound on Energy Cost of Bit Reset in Finite Time

Yi-Zheng Zhen, Dario Egloff, Kavan Modi, and Oscar Dahlsten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190602 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Universal Bounds on Fluctuations in Continuous Thermal Machines

Sushant Saryal, Matthew Gerry, Ilia Khait, Dvira Segal, and Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190603 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

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Superconducting-like Heat Current: Effective Cancellation of Current-Dissipation Trade-Off by Quantum Coherence

Hiroyasu Tajima and Ken Funo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190604 (2021) - Published 4 November, 2021

Predictions indicate that introducing quantum coherence into quantum heat engines can significantly reduce the friction in these systems.

Taming the Time Evolution in Overdamped Systems: Shortcuts Elaborated from Fast-Forward and Time-Reversed Protocols

Carlos A. Plata, Antonio Prados, Emmanuel Trizac, and David Guéry-Odelin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 190605 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Instabilities of Scalar Fields around Oscillating Stars

Taishi Ikeda, Vitor Cardoso, and Miguel Zilhão

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 191101 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurements of the Electroweak Diboson Production Cross Sections in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 5.02 TeV$ Using Leptonic Decays

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 191801 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

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Dark Matter from Exponential Growth

Torsten Bringmann, Paul Frederik Depta, Marco Hufnagel, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 191802 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

A new model explains the current density of dark matter by proposing that conventional matter converted to dark matter in the early Universe.

Nuclear Physics

Large Shape Staggering in Neutron-Deficient Bi Isotopes

A. Barzakh et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 192501 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Astrophysical Constraints on the Symmetry Energy and the Neutron Skin of ${}^{208}{Pb}$ with Minimal Modeling Assumptions

Reed Essick, Ingo Tews, Philippe Landry, and Achim Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 192701 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Squeezed-Light Enhancement and Backaction Evasion in a High Sensitivity Optically Pumped Magnetometer

C. Troullinou, R. Jiménez-Martínez, J. Kong, V. G. Lucivero, and M. W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 193601 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Mode Structure and Orbital Angular Momentum of Spatiotemporal Optical Vortex Pulses

S. W. Hancock, S. Zahedpour, and H. M. Milchberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 193901 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Basins with Tentacles

Yuanzhao Zhang and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 194101 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Constrained Reversible System for Navier-Stokes Turbulence

Alice Jaccod and Sergio Chibbaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 194501 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 194801 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

A new laser technique could lead to ultrashort-pulse, high-energy ion beams for medical use.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tip Charge Dependence of Three-Dimensional AFM Mapping of Concentrated Ionic Solutions

Simone Benaglia, Manuel R. Uhlig, Jose Hernández-Muñoz, Enrique Chacón, Pedro Tarazona, and Ricardo Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196101 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

At a liquid-solid interface, atomic force microscopy with an uncharged tip gives total particle distribution while a charged tip gives the charge density distribution.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Weak-Field Hall Resistivity and Spin-Valley Flavor Symmetry Breaking in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Ming Xie and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196401 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Identification of a Telecom Wavelength Single Photon Emitter in Silicon

Péter Udvarhelyi, Bálint Somogyi, Gergő Thiering, and Adam Gali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196402 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Quantum Internal Structure of Plasmons

Jinlyu Cao, H. A. Fertig, and Luis Brey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196403 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

Nielsen-Ninomiya Theorem with Bulk Topology: Duality in Floquet and Non-Hermitian Systems

Takumi Bessho and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196404 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Spectroscopic Evidence for a New Type of Surface Resonance at Noble-Metal Surfaces

Tobias Eul, Jürgen Braun, Benjamin Stadtmüller, Hubert Ebert, and Martin Aeschlimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196405 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

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Universal Magnetic Oscillations of dc Conductivity in the Incoherent Regime of Correlated Systems

Jakša Vučičević and Rok Žitko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196601 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

At high temperatures, quantum oscillations are predicted to emerge in materials containing correlated electrons, with the oscillations behaving differently from those seen at low temperatures.

Higher-Order Weyl-Exceptional-Ring Semimetals

Tao Liu, James Jun He, Zhongmin Yang, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 196801 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

Calculation of an Enhanced $A_{1 g}$ Symmetry Mode Induced by Higgs Oscillations in the Raman Spectrum of High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors

M. Puviani, A. Baum, S. Ono, Y. Ando, R. Hackl, and D. Manske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197001 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Phase Diagram for Light-Induced Superconductivity in $κ − (ET)_{2} − X$

M. Buzzi, D. Nicoletti, S. Fava, G. Jotzu, K. Miyagawa, K. Kanoda, A. Henderson, T. Siegrist, J. A. Schlueter, M.-S. Nam, A. Ardavan, and A. Cavalleri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197002 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Phonon-Mediated Long-Range Attractive Interaction in One-Dimensional Cuprates

Yao Wang, Zhuoyu Chen, Tao Shi, Brian Moritz, Zhi-Xun Shen, and Thomas P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197003 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

Rotational Resonances and Regge-like Trajectories in Lightly Doped Antiferromagnets

A. Bohrdt, E. Demler, and F. Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197004 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021

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Competing Zero-Field Chern Insulators in Superconducting Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Petr Stepanov, Ming Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Xiaobo Lu, Allan H. MacDonald, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Dmitri K. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197701 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

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

Orientational Correlations in Active and Passive Nematic Defects

D. J. G. Pearce, J. Nambisan, P. W. Ellis, A. Fernandez-Nieves, and L. Giomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 197801 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology of Orientational Defects in Confined Smectic Liquid Crystals

Paul A. Monderkamp, René Wittmann, Louis B. G. Cortes, Dirk G. A. L. Aarts, Frank Smallenburg, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198001 (2021) - Published 3 November, 2021

The orientation boundaries in a liquid crystal can be characterized by a topological charge that always sums to one, no matter the shape of the container.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Estimating Entropy Production from Waiting Time Distributions

Dominic J. Skinner and Jörn Dunkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198101 (2021) - Published 1 November, 2021

Theorists place bounds on the energy consumption of a mesoscopic nonequilibrium system using parameters that are experimentally accessible.

Fluid Mechanics of Mosaic Ciliated Tissues

Francesco Boselli, Jerome Jullien, Eric Lauga, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198102 (2021) - Published 2 November, 2021

Active Instability and Nonlinear Dynamics of Cell-Cell Junctions

Matej Krajnc, Tomer Stern, and Clément Zankoc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 198103 (2021) - Published 5 November, 2021