Volume 127, Issue 2

9 July 2021

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On the Cover

Density plot of conductance in a higher-order topological insulator against the strength (vertical axis) and angle (horizontal axis) of the magnetic field.

From the article:

Higher-Order Fabry-Pérot Interferometer from Topological Hinge States
Chang-An Li, Song-Bo Zhang, Jian Li, and Björn Trauzettel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026803 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes

Amir A. Pahlavan, Lisong Yang, Colin D. Bain, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 024501 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Droplets made of a mixture of two liquids with different volatilities take on a pancake shape.

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Strain-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in Magic-Angle Graphene

Daniel E. Parker, Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Johannes Hauschild, Michael P. Zaletel, and Nick Bultinck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 027601 (2021) - Published 6 July, 2021

Numerical simulations show that discrepancies between experiments on graphene bilayers can be attributed to tiny amounts of strain applied to the samples.

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Pinning-Induced Folding-Unfolding Asymmetry in Adhesive Creases

Michiel A. J. van Limbeek, Martin H. Essink, Anupam Pandey, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Stefan Karpitschka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028001 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Contact line pinning inhibits complete unfolding of creases in soft interfaces, leading to memory of folding history.

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Torsional Stiffness of Extended and Plectonemic DNA

Xiang Gao, Yifeng Hong, Fan Ye, James T. Inman, and Michelle D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028101 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

A new technique allows measurements of DNA’s resistance to twisting under previously hard-to-access, biologically relevant conditions.

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Dynamical Fermionization in One-Dimensional Spinor Quantum Gases

Shah Saad Alam, Timothy Skaras, Li Yang, and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023002 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Dynamical fermionization is shown to occur in general spinor systems and the momentum distribution of each spin component approaches asymptotically its initial real-space distribution.

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New High-Confinement Regime with Fast Ions in the Core of Fusion Plasmas

A. Di Siena, R. Bilato, T. Görler, A. Bañón Navarro, E. Poli, V. Bobkov, D. Jarema, E. Fable, C. Angioni, Ye. O. Kazakov, R. Ochoukov, P. Schneider, M. Weiland, F. Jenko, and the ASDEX Upgrade Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025002 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

A novel type of transport barrier for reducing turbulent transport in the core of a high temperature magnetically confined fusion plasma has been observed during experiments performed on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak.

LETTERS

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

Nonlocality, Steering, and Quantum State Tomography in a Single Experiment

Chang-Jiang Huang, Guo-Yong Xiang, Yu Guo, Kang-Da Wu, Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020401 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

Entangling Power and Quantum Circuit Complexity

J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020501 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Continuous-Variable Assisted Thermal Quantum Simulation

Dan-Bo Zhang, Guo-Qing Zhang, Zheng-Yuan Xue, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020502 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

Radial Two-Dimensional Ion Crystals in a Linear Paul Trap

Marissa D’Onofrio, Yuanheng Xie, A. J. Rasmusson, Evangeline Wolanski, Jiafeng Cui, and Philip Richerme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020503 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Experimental Simulation of Open Quantum System Dynamics via Trotterization

J. Han, W. Cai, L. Hu, X. Mu, Y. Ma, Y. Xu, W. Wang, H. Wang, Y. P. Song, C.-L. Zou, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020504 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Spatial Bloch Oscillations of a Quantum Gas in a “Beat-Note” Superlattice

L. Masi, T. Petrucciani, G. Ferioli, G. Semeghini, G. Modugno, M. Inguscio, and M. Fattori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020601 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Observation of Strong and Weak Thermalization in a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Fusheng Chen, Zheng-Hang Sun, Ming Gong, Qingling Zhu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Yulin Wu, Yangsen Ye, Chen Zha, Shaowei Li, Shaojun Guo, Haoran Qian, He-Liang Huang, Jiale Yu, Hui Deng, Hao Rong, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Lihua Sun, Cheng Guo, Na Li, Futian Liang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Heng Fan, Xiaobo Zhu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 020602 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Properties of a New Group of Cosmic Nuclei: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on Sodium, Aluminum, and Nitrogen

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 021101 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Chaos in the Quantum Field Theory $S$ -Matrix

Vladimir Rosenhaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 021601 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Correlating $h \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$ to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon via Leptoquarks

Andreas Crivellin, Dario Müller, and Francesco Saturnino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 021801 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Variational Monte Carlo Calculations of $A \leq 4$ Nuclei with an Artificial Neural-Network Correlator Ansatz

Corey Adams, Giuseppe Carleo, Alessandro Lovato, and Noemi Rocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 022502 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ensemble Reduced Density Matrix Functional Theory for Excited States and Hierarchical Generalization of Pauli’s Exclusion Principle

Christian Schilling and Stefano Pittalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023001 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

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Dynamical Fermionization in One-Dimensional Spinor Quantum Gases

Shah Saad Alam, Timothy Skaras, Li Yang, and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023002 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Dynamical fermionization is shown to occur in general spinor systems and the momentum distribution of each spin component approaches asymptotically its initial real-space distribution.

Synthetic Dimension-Induced Conical Intersections in Rydberg Molecules

Frederic Hummel, Matthew T. Eiles, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023003 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Optical Excitation and Trapping of ${}^{81}{Kr}$

J. S. Wang, F. Ritterbusch, X.-Z. Dong, C. Gao, H. Li, W. Jiang, S.-Y. Liu, Z.-T. Lu, W.-H. Wang, G.-M. Yang, Y.-S. Zhang, and Z.-Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023201 (2021) - Published 6 July, 2021

Autoionizing Polaritons in Attosecond Atomic Ionization

N. Harkema, C. Cariker, E. Lindroth, L. Argenti, and A. Sandhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023202 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Measurement of the Static Structure Factor in a Paraxial Fluid of Light Using Bragg-like Spectroscopy

Clara Piekarski, Wei Liu, Jeff Steinhauer, Elisabeth Giacobino, Alberto Bramati, and Quentin Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023401 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Large Quantum Delocalization of a Levitated Nanoparticle Using Optimal Control: Applications for Force Sensing and Entangling via Weak Forces

T. Weiss, M. Roda-Llordes, E. Torrontegui, M. Aspelmeyer, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023601 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Single Photon Frequency Conversion for Frequency Multiplexed Quantum Networks in the Telecom Band

Paul Fisher, Robert Cernansky, Ben Haylock, and Mirko Lobino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023602 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Realization of a Townes Soliton in a Two-Component Planar Bose Gas

B. Bakkali-Hassani, C. Maury, Y.-Q. Zou, É. Le Cerf, R. Saint-Jalm, P. C. M. Castilho, S. Nascimbene, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023603 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Observation of Scale Invariance in Two-Dimensional Matter-Wave Townes Solitons

Cheng-An Chen and Chen-Lung Hung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023604 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Point-Defect-Localized Bound States in the Continuum in Photonic Crystals and Structured Fibers

Sachin Vaidya, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Alexander Cerjan, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 023605 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Evaporation of Binary-Mixture Liquid Droplets: The Formation of Picoliter Pancakelike Shapes

Amir A. Pahlavan, Lisong Yang, Colin D. Bain, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 024501 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Droplets made of a mixture of two liquids with different volatilities take on a pancake shape.

Thermal Marangoni Flow Impacts the Shape of Single Component Volatile Droplets on Thin, Completely Wetting Substrates

Samira Shiri, Shayandev Sinha, Dieter A. Baumgartner, and Nate J. Cira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 024502 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multiscale Chirping Modes Driven by Thermal Ions in a Plasma with Reactor-Relevant Ion Temperature

X. D. Du, R. J. Hong, W. W. Heidbrink, X. Jian, H. Wang, N. W. Eidietis, M. A. Van Zeeland, M. E. Austin, Y. Liu, N. A. Crocker, T. L. Rhodes, K. Särkimäki, A. Snicker, W. Wu, and M. Knolker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025001 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

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New High-Confinement Regime with Fast Ions in the Core of Fusion Plasmas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025002 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

Nonresonant Diffusion in Alpha Channeling

Ian E. Ochs and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025003 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pairing and Pair Superfluid Density in One-Dimensional Two-Species Fermionic and Bosonic Hubbard Models

B. Grémaud and G. G. Batrouni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025301 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Spectral Denoising for Accelerated Analysis of Correlated Ionic Transport

Nicola Molinari, Yu Xie, Ian Leifer, Aris Marcolongo, Mordechai Kornbluth, and Boris Kozinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025901 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Ultrahigh Convergent Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes from Comprehensive Atomistic Modeling

Giuseppe Barbalinardo, Zekun Chen, Haikuan Dong, Zheyong Fan, and Davide Donadio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 025902 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Emulating Heavy Fermions in Twisted Trilayer Graphene

Aline Ramires and Jose L. Lado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026401 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Supersymmetric Boundaries of One-Dimensional Phases of Fermions beyond Symmetry-Protected Topological States

Alex Turzillo and Minyoung You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026402 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Real-Frequency Response Functions at Finite Temperature

I. S. Tupitsyn, A. M. Tsvelik, R. M. Konik, and N. V. Prokof’ev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026403 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Simulating Exceptional Non-Hermitian Metals with Single-Photon Interferometry

Kunkun Wang, Lei Xiao, Jan Carl Budich, Wei Yi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026404 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Dissipative Hot-Spot-Enabled Shock and Bounce Dynamics via Terahertz Quantum Quenches in Helical Edge States

Xinghai Zhang and Matthew S. Foster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026801 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Many-Body Delocalization as Symmetry Breaking

S. J. Garratt and J. T. Chalker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026802 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

Higher-Order Fabry-Pérot Interferometer from Topological Hinge States

Chang-An Li, Song-Bo Zhang, Jian Li, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 026803 (2021) - Published 8 July, 2021

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Strain-Induced Quantum Phase Transitions in Magic-Angle Graphene

Daniel E. Parker, Tomohiro Soejima (副島智大), Johannes Hauschild, Michael P. Zaletel, and Nick Bultinck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 027601 (2021) - Published 6 July, 2021

Numerical simulations show that discrepancies between experiments on graphene bilayers can be attributed to tiny amounts of strain applied to the samples.

Multiple Charge Density Waves and Superconductivity Nucleation at Antiphase Domain Walls in the Nematic Pnictide ${Ba}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Ni}_{2} {As}_{2}$

Sangjun Lee, John Collini, Stella X.-L. Sun, Matteo Mitrano, Xuefei Guo, Chris Eckberg, Johnpierre Paglione, Eduardo Fradkin, and Peter Abbamonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 027602 (2021) - Published 6 July, 2021

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

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Pinning-Induced Folding-Unfolding Asymmetry in Adhesive Creases

Michiel A. J. van Limbeek, Martin H. Essink, Anupam Pandey, Jacco H. Snoeijer, and Stefan Karpitschka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028001 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

Contact line pinning inhibits complete unfolding of creases in soft interfaces, leading to memory of folding history.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Torsional Stiffness of Extended and Plectonemic DNA

Xiang Gao, Yifeng Hong, Fan Ye, James T. Inman, and Michelle D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028101 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

A new technique allows measurements of DNA’s resistance to twisting under previously hard-to-access, biologically relevant conditions.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Fluctuations in Extractable Work Bound the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries”

Stefano Cusumano and Łukasz Rudnicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028901 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

García-Pintos, Hamma, and del Campo Reply:

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Alioscia Hamma, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 028902 (2021) - Published 9 July, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: Improved Isotope-Shift-Based Bounds on Bosons beyond the Standard Model through Measurements of the ${}^{2}{D_{3 / 2}} - {{}^{2}D}_{5 / 2}$ Interval in ${Ca}^{+}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 123003 (2020)]

Cyrille Solaro, Steffen Meyer, Karin Fisher, Julian C. Berengut, Elina Fuchs, and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 029901 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021

Erratum: Bending Rigidity of 2D Silica [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 226101 (2018)]

C. Büchner, S. D. Eder, T. Nesse, D. Kuhness, P. Schlexer, G. Pacchioni, J. R. Manson, M. Heyde, B. Holst, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 029902 (2021) - Published 7 July, 2021