Volume 127, Issue 20

12 November 2021

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Trajectory (top) and snapshots (bottom) of an acetonitrile droplet (tinted) bouncing several times against a larger water drop until the droplets coalesce. Selected for a Video story in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Triple Leidenfrost Effect: Preventing Coalescence of Drops on a Hot Plate
F. Pacheco-Vázquez, R. Ledesma-Alonso, J. L. Palacio-Rangel, and F. Moreau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 204501 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Triple Leidenfrost Effect: Preventing Coalescence of Drops on a Hot Plate

F. Pacheco-Vázquez, R. Ledesma-Alonso, J. L. Palacio-Rangel, and F. Moreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 204501 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Droplets floating on vapor cushions can bounce off each other when they are composed of different liquids.

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Femtosecond Visualization of hcp-Iron Strength and Plasticity under Shock Compression

Sébastien Merkel, Sovanndara Hok, Cynthia Bolme, Dylan Rittman, Kyle James Ramos, Benjamin Morrow, Hae Ja Lee, Bob Nagler, Eric Galtier, Eduardo Granados, Akel Hashim, Wendy L Mao, and Arianna E Gleason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205501 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021

Femtosecond-resolved x-ray diffraction images of iron’s crystals as they deform under an extreme load show that the material’s elastic-plastic transition comes after a surprisingly long elastic phase.

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Quantifying Spin-Mixed States in Ferromagnets

Justin M. Shaw, Ronny Knut, Abigail Armstrong, Sumanta Bhandary, Yaroslav Kvashnin, Danny Thonig, Erna K. Delczeg-Czirjak, Olof Karis, T. J. Silva, Eugen Weschke, Hans T. Nembach, Olle Eriksson, and Dario A. Arena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207201 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Experiments with thin magnetic films show that mixing between spin states has a larger than expected effect on spectroscopic measurements used to probe magnetic interactions in materials.

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Experimental Realization of the 1D Random Field Ising Model

N. S. Bingham, S. Rooke, J. Park, A. Simon, W. Zhu, X. Zhang, J. Batley, J. D. Watts, C. Leighton, K. A. Dahmen, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207203 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Researchers accurately replicate the predictions of the 1D random-field Ising model in an artificial spin ice.

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Search and Localization Dynamics of the CRISPR-Cas9 System

Qiao Lu (路桥), Deepak Bhat, Darya Stepanenko, and Simone Pigolotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 208102 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021

A model of facilitated diffusion and the theory of Anderson localization help explain how the Cas9 protein explores DNA in search of its targets.

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Solving the Puzzles of the Decay of the Heaviest Known Proton-Emitting Nucleus ${}^{185}{Bi}$

D. T. Doherty et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 202501 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Two complementary experiments confirm the inversion of high- and low-spin states in $^{185}$ Bi, results that act as a key benchmark for the theory of proton emitters.

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Möbius Strip Microlasers: A Testbed for Non-Euclidean Photonics

Yalei Song, Yann Monceaux, Stefan Bittner, Kimhong Chao, Héctor M. Reynoso de la Cruz, Clément Lafargue, Dominique Decanini, Barbara Dietz, Joseph Zyss, Alain Grigis, Xavier Checoury, and Melanie Lebental

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 203901 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Laser modes in Möbius strip microlasers are shown to be localized on periodic geodesics.

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Existence of Replica-Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Glasses

Hajo Leschke, Chokri Manai, Rainer Ruder, and Simone Warzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207204 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

A rigorous proof shows for the first time that the replica-symmetry-breaking phase is not immediately destroyed by adding a finite transverse field to a Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.

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Efficient First-Principles Methodology for the Calculation of the All-Phonon Inelastic Scattering in Solids

Marios Zacharias, Hélène Seiler, Fabio Caruso, Daniela Zahn, Feliciano Giustino, Pantelis C. Kelires, and Ralph Ernstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207401 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021

First-principles methodology explains diffuse inelastic phonon scattering in black phosphorous and other solid materials.

LETTERS

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

No Bipartite-Nonlocal Causal Theory Can Explain Nature’s Correlations

Xavier Coiteux-Roy, Elie Wolfe, and Marc-Olivier Renou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200401 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021

Fisher Information Universally Identifies Quantum Resources

Kok Chuan Tan, Varun Narasimhachar, and Bartosz Regula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200402 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Experimental Quantum State Measurement with Classical Shadows

Ting Zhang, Jinzhao Sun, Xiao-Xu Fang, Xiao-Ming Zhang, Xiao Yuan, and He Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200501 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Hardware-Efficient Microwave-Activated Tunable Coupling between Superconducting Qubits

Bradley K. Mitchell, Ravi K. Naik, Alexis Morvan, Akel Hashim, John Mark Kreikebaum, Brian Marinelli, Wim Lavrijsen, Kasra Nowrouzi, David I. Santiago, and Irfan Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200502 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021

Importance Sampling of Randomized Measurements for Probing Entanglement

Aniket Rath, Rick van Bijnen, Andreas Elben, Peter Zoller, and Benoît Vermersch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200503 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Strict Hierarchy between Parallel, Sequential, and Indefinite-Causal-Order Strategies for Channel Discrimination

Jessica Bavaresco, Mio Murao, and Marco Túlio Quintino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200504 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Error Mitigation for Universal Gates on Encoded Qubits

Christophe Piveteau, David Sutter, Sergey Bravyi, Jay M. Gambetta, and Kristan Temme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200505 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Error Mitigation and Quantum-Assisted Simulation in the Error Corrected Regime

M. Lostaglio and A. Ciani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200506 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Observation of Many-Body Quantum Phase Transitions beyond the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism

Qi Huang, Ruixiao Yao, Libo Liang, Shuai Wang, Qinpei Zheng, Dingping Li, Wei Xiong, Xiaoji Zhou, Wenlan Chen, Xuzong Chen, and Jiazhong Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200601 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Periodically Driven Quantum Thermal Machines from Warming up to Limit Cycle

Junjie Liu, Kenneth A. Jung, and Dvira Segal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200602 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Renyi Entropy for Bosonic Many-Particle Systems

Ahana Chakraborty and Rajdeep Sensarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 200603 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Active-Sterile Antineutrino Mixing Using Neutral-Current Interactions with the NOvA Experiment

M. A. Acero et al. (The NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 201801 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Nuclear Physics

$Λ_{c}^{+}$ Production and Baryon-to-Meson Ratios in $p p$ and $p$ -Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$ at the LHC

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 202301 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021

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Solving the Puzzles of the Decay of the Heaviest Known Proton-Emitting Nucleus ${}^{185}{Bi}$

D. T. Doherty et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 202501 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Two complementary experiments confirm the inversion of high- and low-spin states in $^{185}$ Bi, results that act as a key benchmark for the theory of proton emitters.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rydberg Series Excitation of a Single Trapped ${}^{40}{Ca}^{+}$ Ion for Precision Measurements and Principal Quantum Number Scalings

J. Andrijauskas, J. Vogel, A. Mokhberi, and F. Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 203001 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Attosecond Intramolecular Scattering and Vibronic Delays

Bejan Ghomashi, Nicolas Douguet, and Luca Argenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 203201 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Probing the Helium Dimer by Relativistic Highly Charged Projectiles

B. Najjari, Z. Wang, and A. B. Voitkiv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 203401 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Beyond-Mean-Field Effects in Rabi-Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate

L. Lavoine, A. Hammond, A. Recati, D. S. Petrov, and T. Bourdel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 203402 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Möbius Strip Microlasers: A Testbed for Non-Euclidean Photonics

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 203901 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Laser modes in Möbius strip microlasers are shown to be localized on periodic geodesics.

Statistics of Complex Wigner Time Delays as a Counter of $S$ -Matrix Poles: Theory and Experiment

Lei Chen, Steven M. Anlage, and Yan V. Fyodorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 204101 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

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Triple Leidenfrost Effect: Preventing Coalescence of Drops on a Hot Plate

F. Pacheco-Vázquez, R. Ledesma-Alonso, J. L. Palacio-Rangel, and F. Moreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 204501 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Droplets floating on vapor cushions can bounce off each other when they are composed of different liquids.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Solid-Density Ion Temperature from Redshifted and Double-Peaked Stark Line Shapes

B. F. Kraus, Lan Gao, K. W. Hill, M. Bitter, P. C. Efthimion, T. A. Gomez, A. Moreau, R. Hollinger, Shoujun Wang, Huanyu Song, J. J. Rocca, and R. C. Mancini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205001 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quasiparticle Nature of the Bose Polaron at Finite Temperature

Gerard Pascual and Jordi Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205301 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021

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Femtosecond Visualization of hcp-Iron Strength and Plasticity under Shock Compression

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205501 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021

Orientation Gradients in Rapidly Solidified Pure Aluminum Thin Films: Comparison of Experiments and Phase-Field Crystal Simulations

Paul Jreidini, Tatu Pinomaa, Jörg M. K. Wiezorek, Joseph T. McKeown, Anssi Laukkanen, and Nikolas Provatas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 205701 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonlinear Ballistic Response of Quantum Spin Hall Edge States

Pankaj Bhalla, Ming-Xun Deng, Rui-Qiang Wang, Lan Wang, and Dimitrie Culcer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 206801 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Magnon Spin Current Induced by Triplet Cooper Pair Supercurrents

Lina G. Johnsen, Haakon T. Simensen, Arne Brataas, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207001 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021

Quantum Transport Evidence of Topological Band Structures of Kagome Superconductor ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Yang Fu (付阳), Ningning Zhao (赵宁宁), Zheng Chen (陈正), Qiangwei Yin (殷蔷薇), Zhijun Tu (涂志俊), Chunsheng Gong (龚春生), Chuanying Xi (郗传英), Xiangde Zhu (朱相德), Yuping Sun (孙玉平), Kai Liu (刘凯), and Hechang Lei (雷和畅)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207002 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

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Quantifying Spin-Mixed States in Ferromagnets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207201 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Experiments with thin magnetic films show that mixing between spin states has a larger than expected effect on spectroscopic measurements used to probe magnetic interactions in materials.

Direct Observation of Collective Electronuclear Modes about a Quantum Critical Point

M. Libersky, R. D. McKenzie, D. M. Silevitch, P. C. E. Stamp, and T. F. Rosenbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207202 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

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Experimental Realization of the 1D Random Field Ising Model

N. S. Bingham, S. Rooke, J. Park, A. Simon, W. Zhu, X. Zhang, J. Batley, J. D. Watts, C. Leighton, K. A. Dahmen, and P. Schiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207203 (2021) - Published 11 November, 2021

Researchers accurately replicate the predictions of the 1D random-field Ising model in an artificial spin ice.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Existence of Replica-Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Glasses

Hajo Leschke, Chokri Manai, Rainer Ruder, and Simone Warzel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207204 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

A rigorous proof shows for the first time that the replica-symmetry-breaking phase is not immediately destroyed by adding a finite transverse field to a Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.

Orbital Isotropy of Magnetic Fluctuations in Correlated Electron Materials Induced by Hund’s Exchange Coupling

Evgeny A. Stepanov, Yusuke Nomura, Alexander I. Lichtenstein, and Silke Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207205 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Magnonic Unidirectional Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in a Heavy-Metal–Ferromagnetic-Insulator Bilayer

G. Liu, Xi-guang Wang, Z. Z. Luan, L. F. Zhou, S. Y. Xia, B. Yang, Y. Z. Tian, Guang-hua Guo, J. Du, and D. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207206 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

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Efficient First-Principles Methodology for the Calculation of the All-Phonon Inelastic Scattering in Solids

Marios Zacharias, Hélène Seiler, Fabio Caruso, Daniela Zahn, Feliciano Giustino, Pantelis C. Kelires, and Ralph Ernstorfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207401 (2021) - Published 9 November, 2021

First-principles methodology explains diffuse inelastic phonon scattering in black phosphorous and other solid materials.

$P T$ -Symmetry-Enabled Spin Circular Photogalvanic Effect in Antiferromagnetic Insulators

Ruixiang Fei, Wenshen Song, Lauren Pusey-Nazzaro, and Li Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 207402 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

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

Surface Tension and the Strain-Dependent Topography of Soft Solids

Nicolas Bain, Anand Jagota, Katrina Smith-Mannschott, Stefanie Heyden, Robert W. Style, and Eric R. Dufresne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 208001 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

Effective Resource Competition Model for Species Coexistence

Deepak Gupta, Stefano Garlaschi, Samir Suweis, Sandro Azaele, and Amos Maritan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 208101 (2021) - Published 8 November, 2021

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Search and Localization Dynamics of the CRISPR-Cas9 System

Qiao Lu (路桥), Deepak Bhat, Darya Stepanenko, and Simone Pigolotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 208102 (2021) - Published 10 November, 2021

A model of facilitated diffusion and the theory of Anderson localization help explain how the Cas9 protein explores DNA in search of its targets.

Synchronization and Enhanced Catalysis of Mechanically Coupled Enzymes

Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Tunrayo Adeleke-Larodo, Pierre Illien, and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 208103 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

COMMENTS

Comment on “Spin-Momentum-Locked Edge Mode for Topological Vortex Lasing”

Xiao-Chen Sun, Xing-Xiang Wang, Tomohiro Amemiya, and Xiao Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 209401 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021

Yang et al. Reply:

Zhen-Qian Yang, Zeng-Kai Shao, Hua-Zhou Chen, Xin-Rui Mao, and Ren-Min Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 209402 (2021) - Published 12 November, 2021