Volume 127, Issue 21

19 November 2021

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On the Cover

Phase transition sequence in a dark sector with heavy dark quarks. Confined phase (purple) bubbles nucleate in the deconfined phase (light blue) and grow, with vanishing pockets of deconfined phase. Free quarks annihilate or form bound states (orange dots).

From the article:

Accidentally Asymmetric Dark Matter
Pouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik, Gregory W. Ridgway, Tracy R. Slatyer, and Juri Smirnov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211101 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dynamic Multicontrast X-Ray Imaging Method Applied to Additive Manufacturing

Lorenzo Massimi, Samuel J. Clark, Sebastian Marussi, Adam Doherty, Joachim Schulz, Shashidhara Marathe, Christoph Rau, Marco Endrizzi, Peter D. Lee, and Alessandro Olivo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215503 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

Researchers have developed a technique for simultaneously monitoring the attenuation, phase shift, and dark-field scattering of an x-ray beam as it passes through a melting metal powder.

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Coexistence of Photoelectric Conversion and Storage in van der Waals Heterojunctions

Yucheng Jiang, Anpeng He, Run Zhao, Yu Chen, Guozhen Liu, Hao Lu, Jinlei Zhang, Qing Zhang, Zhuo Wang, Chen Zhao, Mingshen Long, Weida Hu, Lin Wang, Yaping Qi, Ju Gao, Quanying Wu, Xiaotian Ge, Jiqiang Ning, Andrew T. S. Wee, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217401 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

A new photoelectric device can convert light into charge that it can then store indefinitely.

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Entanglement between a Telecom Photon and an On-Demand Multimode Solid-State Quantum Memory

Jelena V. Rakonjac, Dario Lago-Rivera, Alessandro Seri, Margherita Mazzera, Samuele Grandi, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 210502 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

On-demand entanglement storage is achieved for a telecom photon and a long-lived, solid state, multimode quantum memory.

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Observation of Dislocation-Induced Topological Modes in a Three-Dimensional Acoustic Topological Insulator

Haoran Xue, Ding Jia, Yong Ge, Yi-jun Guan, Qiang Wang, Shou-qi Yuan, Hong-xiang Sun, Y. D. Chong, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 214301 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Screw dislocations induce topological helical modes in an acoustic analog of a weak three-dimensional topological insulator.

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Unifying Description of the Vibrational Anomalies of Amorphous Materials

Shivam Mahajan and Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215504 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

A long-standing controversy regarding vibrational anomalies in amorphous materials is settled by resolving the conflict between theories that attribute the anomalies to elastic disorder and localized defects.

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Mechanics of Metric Frustration in Contorted Filament Bundles: From Local Symmetry to Columnar Elasticity

Daria W. Atkinson, Christian D. Santangelo, and Gregory M. Grason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 218002 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

Exploiting local symmetries, a formalism is derived which allows an assessment of the cost of a geometric frustration between structural factors in filament bundles.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Enhanced Cavity QED Interferometer with Partially Delocalized Atoms in Lattices

Anjun Chu, Peiru He, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 210401 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021

Estimating Quantum and Private Capacities of Gaussian Channels via Degradable Extensions

Marco Fanizza, Farzad Kianvash, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 210501 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

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Entanglement between a Telecom Photon and an On-Demand Multimode Solid-State Quantum Memory

Jelena V. Rakonjac, Dario Lago-Rivera, Alessandro Seri, Margherita Mazzera, Samuele Grandi, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 210502 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

On-demand entanglement storage is achieved for a telecom photon and a long-lived, solid state, multimode quantum memory.

Quantum Energy Lines and the Optimal Output Ergotropy Problem

Salvatore Tirone, Raffaele Salvia, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 210601 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Accidentally Asymmetric Dark Matter

Pouya Asadi, Eric David Kramer, Eric Kuflik, Gregory W. Ridgway, Tracy R. Slatyer, and Juri Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211101 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Duals of Argyres-Douglas Theories

Ibrahima Bah, Federico Bonetti, Ruben Minasian, and Emily Nardoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211601 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021

Entanglement Spheres and a UV-IR Connection in Effective Field Theories

Natalie Klco and Martin J. Savage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211602 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Superstring Loop Amplitudes from the Field Theory Limit

Yvonne Geyer, Ricardo Monteiro, and Ricardo Stark-Muchão

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211603 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Precise Measurement of the $D^{0}$ and $D^{+}$ Lifetimes at Belle II

F. Abudinén et al. (Belle II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 211801 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Simulating Collider Physics on Quantum Computers Using Effective Field Theories

Christian W. Bauer, Benjamin Nachman, and Marat Freytsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 212001 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

Resummation of Super-Leading Logarithms

Thomas Becher, Matthias Neubert, and Ding Yu Shao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 212002 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Lifetime of the ${}^{2}{F_{7 / 2}}$ Level in ${Yb}^{+}$ for Spontaneous Emission of Electric Octupole Radiation

R. Lange, A. A. Peshkov, N. Huntemann, Chr. Tamm, A. Surzhykov, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213001 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Tracking the Ionization Site in Neutral Molecules

L. Ortmann, A. AlShafey, A. Staudte, and A. S. Landsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213201 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Resonance-Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization in the X-Ray Regime

Aaron C. LaForge, Sang-Kil Son (손상길), Debadarshini Mishra, Markus Ilchen, Stephen Duncanson, Eemeli Eronen, Edwin Kukk, Stanislaw Wirok-Stoletow, Daria Kolbasova, Peter Walter, Rebecca Boll, Alberto De Fanis, Michael Meyer, Yevheniy Ovcharenko, Daniel E. Rivas, Philipp Schmidt, Sergey Usenko, Robin Santra, and Nora Berrah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213202 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Correspondence between Non-Hermitian Topology and Directional Amplification in the Presence of Disorder

Clara C. Wanjura, Matteo Brunelli, and Andreas Nunnenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213601 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Realizing Einstein’s Mirror: Optomechanical Damping with a Thermal Photon Gas

A. T. M. Anishur Rahman and P. F. Barker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213602 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Multichannel High-Order Harmonic Generation from Fractal Bands in Fibonacci Quasicrystals

Jia-Qi Liu and Xue-Bin Bian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213901 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021

Midinfrared Tunable Laser with Noncritical Frequency Matching in Box Resonator Geometry

Kunpeng Jia, Xiaohan Wang, Jian Guo, Yihao Li, Xin Ni, Pengfei Fan, Qiqi Shen, Tao Wang, Xinjie Lv, Gang Zhao, Shu-Wei Huang, Xueming Yang, Zhenda Xie, and Shi-ning Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 213902 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

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Observation of Dislocation-Induced Topological Modes in a Three-Dimensional Acoustic Topological Insulator

Haoran Xue, Ding Jia, Yong Ge, Yi-jun Guan, Qiang Wang, Shou-qi Yuan, Hong-xiang Sun, Y. D. Chong, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 214301 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Screw dislocations induce topological helical modes in an acoustic analog of a weak three-dimensional topological insulator.

Synthetic Three-Dimensional $Z \times Z_{2}$ Topological Insulator in an Elastic Metacrystal

Wei Wang, Ze-Guo Chen, and Guancong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 214302 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021

Hydrodynamic Interactions Can Induce Jamming in Flow-Driven Systems

Eric Cereceda-López, Dominik Lips, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz, Artem Ryabov, Philipp Maass, and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 214501 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Structure of a Perturbed Magnetic Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region in the Earth’s Magnetotail

G. Cozzani, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, D. B. Graham, J. Egedal, M. André, A. Vaivads, A. Alexandrova, O. Le Contel, R. Nakamura, S. A. Fuselier, C. T. Russell, and J. L. Burch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215101 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Towards Glasses with Permanent Stability

Taiki Yanagishima, John Russo, Roel P. A. Dullens, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215501 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Emergent Fractal Energy Landscape as the Origin of Stress-Accelerated Dynamics in Amorphous Solids

Chaoyi Liu and Yue Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215502 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

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Dynamic Multicontrast X-Ray Imaging Method Applied to Additive Manufacturing

Lorenzo Massimi, Samuel J. Clark, Sebastian Marussi, Adam Doherty, Joachim Schulz, Shashidhara Marathe, Christoph Rau, Marco Endrizzi, Peter D. Lee, and Alessandro Olivo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215503 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

Researchers have developed a technique for simultaneously monitoring the attenuation, phase shift, and dark-field scattering of an x-ray beam as it passes through a melting metal powder.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unifying Description of the Vibrational Anomalies of Amorphous Materials

Shivam Mahajan and Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215504 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Electronic Origin of Non-Zone-Center Phonon Condensation: Octahedral Rotation as a Case Study

Suguru Yoshida, Hirofumi Akamatsu, and Katsuro Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 215701 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Spatial Correlation between Fluctuating and Static Fields over Metal and Dielectric Substrates

Martin Héritier, Raphael Pachlatko, Ye Tao, John M. Abendroth, Christian L. Degen, and Alexander Eichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 216101 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Direct and Converse Flexoelectricity in Two-Dimensional Materials

Matteo Springolo, Miquel Royo, and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 216801 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Correlation-Induced Triplet Pairing Superconductivity in Graphene-Based Moiré Systems

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, Jay D. Sau, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217001 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021

Unconventional Pressure Dependence of the Superfluid Density in the Nodeless Topological Superconductor $α − {PdBi}_{2}$

Debarchan Das, Ritu Gupta, Christopher Baines, Hubertus Luetkens, Dariusz Kaczorowski, Zurab Guguchia, and Rustem Khasanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217002 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Amelioration for the Sign Problem: An Adiabatic Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm

Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi, Amir-Reza Negari, Amin Moharramipour, and Abolhassan Vaezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217003 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Hybridization of Bogoliubov Quasiparticles between Adjacent ${CuO}_{2}$ Layers in the Triple-Layer Cuprate ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{10 + δ}$ Studied by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

S. Ideta, S. Johnston, T. Yoshida, K. Tanaka, M. Mori, H. Anzai, A. Ino, M. Arita, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, S. Ishida, K. Takashima, K. M. Kojima, T. P. Devereaux, S. Uchida, and A. Fujimori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217004 (2021) - Published 19 November, 2021

Superposition of Emergent Monopole and Antimonopole in CoTb Thin Films

Yao Guang, Kejing Ran, Junwei Zhang, Yizhou Liu, Senfu Zhang, Xuepeng Qiu, Yong Peng, Xixiang Zhang, Markus Weigand, Joachim Gräfe, Gisela Schütz, Gerrit van der Laan, Thorsten Hesjedal, Shilei Zhang, Guoqiang Yu, and Xiufeng Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217201 (2021) - Published 16 November, 2021

Topological Phase Transitions of Dirac Magnons in Honeycomb Ferromagnets

Yu-Shan Lu, Jian-Lin Li, and Chien-Te Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217202 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021

Nearly Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in a Pressure-Induced Correlated Metallic State of the van der Waals Insulator ${CrGeTe}_{3}$

Dilip Bhoi, Jun Gouchi, Naoka Hiraoka, Yufeng Zhang, Norio Ogita, Takumi Hasegawa, Kentaro Kitagawa, Hidenori Takagi, Kee Hoon Kim, and Yoshiya Uwatoko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217203 (2021) - Published 17 November, 2021

Magnetization Compensation Temperature and Frustration-Induced Topological Defects in Ferrimagnetic Antiperovskite ${Mn}_{4} N$

Temuujin Bayaraa, Changsong Xu, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217204 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

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

Spontaneous Elastocapillary Winding of Thin Elastic Fibers in Contact with Bubbles

Adam Fortais, Kathleen Charlesworth, Rafael D. Schulman, and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 218001 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

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Mechanics of Metric Frustration in Contorted Filament Bundles: From Local Symmetry to Columnar Elasticity

Daria W. Atkinson, Christian D. Santangelo, and Gregory M. Grason

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 218002 (2021) - Published 18 November, 2021

Exploiting local symmetries, a formalism is derived which allows an assessment of the cost of a geometric frustration between structural factors in filament bundles.

ERRATA

Erratum: Gravitational-Wave Signature of a First-Order Quantum Chromodynamics Phase Transition in Core-Collapse Supernovae [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 051102 (2020)]

Shuai Zha, Evan P. O’Connor, Ming-chung Chu, Lap-Ming Lin, and Sean M. Couch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 219901 (2021) - Published 15 November, 2021