Volume 127, Issue 24

10 December 2021

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Breakup of a liquid jet by a continuous-wave laser into periodic drops (right two panels) over about 100 milliseconds. Selected for a Focus in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Optofluidic Resonance of a Transparent Liquid Jet Excited by a Continuous Wave Laser
H. Liu, Z. Wang, L. Gao, Y. Huang, H. Tang, X. Zhao, and W. Deng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 244502 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Amplitudes and the Riemann Zeta Function

Grant N. Remmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241602 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Mathematical properties of a famous number-theory conjecture correspond to the physical scattering properties of a quantum field theory.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optofluidic Resonance of a Transparent Liquid Jet Excited by a Continuous Wave Laser

H. Liu, Z. Wang, L. Gao, Y. Huang, H. Tang, X. Zhao, and W. Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 244502 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

A laser beam hitting a column of liquid controls the droplet pinch-off at the bottom of the stream.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low-Frequency Excess Vibrational Modes in Two-Dimensional Glasses

Lijin Wang, Grzegorz Szamel, and Elijah Flenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 248001 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

The number of excess vibrational modes in glasses scales differently in two dimensions than it does in three.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deuteron-to-Proton Mass Ratio from Simultaneous Measurement of the Cyclotron Frequencies of $H_{2}^{+}$ and $D^{+}$

David J. Fink and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243001 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

Coupled ion measurement yields a deuteron to proton mass ratio with a fractional uncertainty of 4.5 parts per trillion.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$s$ -Wave Paired Electron and Hole Composite Fermion Trial State for Quantum Hall Bilayers with $ν = 1$

Glenn Wagner, Dung X. Nguyen, Steven H. Simon, and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246803 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

A variational wave function for quantum Hall bilayers at filling factor $ν$ =1 with composite-fermion electrons in one layer and composite-fermion holes in the other indicates BEC-BCS crossover.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unconventional Superconductivity in Systems with Annular Fermi Surfaces: Application to Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene

Areg Ghazaryan, Tobias Holder, Maksym Serbyn, and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247001 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

Long-range Coulomb interactions give rise to robust yet unconventional superconductivity in two-dimensional systems, particularly rhombohedral trilayer graphene, that have an annular Fermi surface.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Concept of the Energy-Dependent Temperature for Direct Langevin Dynamics Simulations of Rare Events in Systems with Arbitrary High Energy Barriers

Dmitry Berkov, Elena K. Semenova, and Natalia L. Gorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247201 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

By introducing the concept of the energy dependent temperature, a method to compute the transition rate over arbitrary high energy barriers by single-stage Langevin dynamics simulations becomes possible.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Thermal Hall Effect in an Insulating van der Waals Magnet

Heda Zhang, Chunqiang Xu, Caitlin Carnahan, Milos Sretenovic, Nishchay Suri, Di Xiao, and Xianglin Ke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247202 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

The observation of a magnon thermal Hall effect in a honeycomb magnet system greatly expands the candidate materials for studies of topological magnons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Near-Field Energy Transfer between Graphene and Magneto-Optic Media

Gaomin Tang, Lei Zhang, Yong Zhang, Jun Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247401 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Current-biased graphene can be used to tune the cooling or heating of an adjacent nonreciprocal medium by changing the applied electric current or magnetic field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

SU(4) Chiral Spin Liquid, Exciton Supersolid, and Electric Detection in Moiré Bilayers

Ya-Hui Zhang, D. N. Sheng, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247701 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

Twisting a pair of identical transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers close to 60 degrees can provide a platform for a spin liquid phase and enable detection of them with electrical transport measurements.

LETTERS

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

Coarse-Grained Self-Testing

Irénée Frérot and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240401 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Giant Enhancement of Unconventional Photon Blockade in a Dimer Chain

You Wang, W. Verstraelen, Baile Zhang, Timothy C. H. Liew, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240402 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Optimizing Stabilizer Parities for Improved Logical Qubit Memories

Dripto M. Debroy, Laird Egan, Crystal Noel, Andrew Risinger, Daiwei Zhu, Debopriyo Biswas, Marko Cetina, Chris Monroe, and Kenneth R. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240501 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Stark Many-Body Localization on a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Qiujiang Guo, Chen Cheng, Hekang Li, Shibo Xu, Pengfei Zhang, Zhen Wang, Chao Song, Wuxin Liu, Wenhui Ren, Hang Dong, Rubem Mondaini, and H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240502 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Subdiffusive Phases in Open Clean Long-Range Systems

Archak Purkayastha, Madhumita Saha, and Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240601 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Irreversibility, Loschmidt Echo, and Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation

Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240602 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

Statistical Physics through the Lens of Real-Space Mutual Information

Doruk Efe Gökmen, Zohar Ringel, Sebastian D. Huber, and Maciej Koch-Janusz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 240603 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Smart Readout of Nondestructive Image Sensors with Single Photon-Electron Sensitivity

Fernando Chierchie, Guillermo Fernandez Moroni, Leandro Stefanazzi, Eduardo Paolini, Javier Tiffenberg, Juan Estrada, Gustavo Cancelo, and Sho Uemura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241101 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Point Absorber Limits to Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Wenxuan Jia et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241102 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

Real-Time Gravitational Wave Science with Neural Posterior Estimation

Maximilian Dax, Stephen R. Green, Jonathan Gair, Jakob H. Macke, Alessandra Buonanno, and Bernhard Schölkopf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241103 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Galactic Potential and Dark Matter Density from Angular Stellar Accelerations

Malte Buschmann, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Katelin Schutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241104 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Stable Cosmic Vortons in Bosonic Field Theory

R. A. Battye and S. J. Cotterill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241601 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Amplitudes and the Riemann Zeta Function

Grant N. Remmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 241602 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Mathematical properties of a famous number-theory conjecture correspond to the physical scattering properties of a quantum field theory.

Isovector EMC Effect from Global QCD Analysis with MARATHON Data

C. Cocuzza, C. E. Keppel, H. Liu, W. Melnitchouk, A. Metz, N. Sato, and A. W. Thomas (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 242001 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Pion-Nucleon Sigma Term from Lattice QCD

Rajan Gupta, Sungwoo Park, Martin Hoferichter, Emanuele Mereghetti, Boram Yoon, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 242002 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

Weakly Bound $H$ Dibaryon from SU(3)-Flavor-Symmetric QCD

Jeremy R. Green, Andrew D. Hanlon, Parikshit M. Junnarkar, and Hartmut Wittig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 242003 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Impact of Nuclear Deformation on Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: Assessing Consistency in Nuclear Physics across Energy Scales

Giuliano Giacalone, Jiangyong Jia, and Chunjian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 242301 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Microscopic Structure of the Low-Energy Electric Dipole Response of ${}^{120}{Sn}$

M. Weinert, M. Spieker, G. Potel, N. Tsoneva, M. Müscher, J. Wilhelmy, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 242501 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Ab Initio Calculation of the Contact Operator Contribution in the Standard Mechanism for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

R. Wirth, J. M. Yao, and H. Hergert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 242502 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deuteron-to-Proton Mass Ratio from Simultaneous Measurement of the Cyclotron Frequencies of $H_{2}^{+}$ and $D^{+}$

David J. Fink and Edmund G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243001 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

Coupled ion measurement yields a deuteron to proton mass ratio with a fractional uncertainty of 4.5 parts per trillion.

Non-Gaussian Mechanical Motion via Single and Multiphonon Subtraction from a Thermal State

G. Enzian, L. Freisem, J. J. Price, A. Ø. Svela, J. Clarke, B. Shajilal, J. Janousek, B. C. Buchler, P. K. Lam, and M. R. Vanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243601 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Laser-Driven Superradiant Ensembles of Two-Level Atoms near Dicke Regime

G. Ferioli, A. Glicenstein, F. Robicheaux, R. T. Sutherland, A. Browaeys, and I. Ferrier-Barbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243602 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Floquet Solitons and Dynamics of Periodically Driven Matter Waves with Negative Effective Mass

Matthew Mitchell, Andrea Di Carli, Germán Sinuco-León, Arthur La Rooij, Stefan Kuhr, and Elmar Haller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243603 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Centrifugal-Force-Induced Flow Bifurcations in Turbulent Thermal Convection

Yun-Bing Hu (胡云炳), Shi-Di Huang (黄仕迪), Yi-Chao Xie (谢毅超), and Ke-Qing Xia (夏克青)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 244501 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optofluidic Resonance of a Transparent Liquid Jet Excited by a Continuous Wave Laser

H. Liu, Z. Wang, L. Gao, Y. Huang, H. Tang, X. Zhao, and W. Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 244502 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

A laser beam hitting a column of liquid controls the droplet pinch-off at the bottom of the stream.

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosion Experiment in Octahedral Spherical Hohlraum

Ke Lan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 245001 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Nanoscale Electrostatic Modulation of Mega-Ampere Electron Current in Solid-Density Plasmas

R. Li, T. W. Huang, L. B. Ju, M. Y. Yu, H. Zhang, S. Z. Wu, H. B. Zhuo, C. T. Zhou, and S. C. Ruan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 245002 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Cross-Energy Couplings from Magnetosonic Waves to Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves through Cold Ion Heating inside the Plasmasphere

Kazushi Asamura, Masafumi Shoji, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Yoshiya Kasahara, Yasumasa Kasaba, Atsushi Kumamoto, Fuminori Tsuchiya, Shoya Matsuda, Ayako Matsuoka, Mariko Teramoto, Yoichi Kazama, and Iku Shinohara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 245101 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Topology by Dissipation: Majorana Bosons in Metastable Quadratic Markovian Dynamics

Vincent P. Flynn, Emilio Cobanera, and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 245701 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Transverse Viscous Transport in Classical Solid States

Akira Furukawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 245901 (2021) - Published 6 December, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Photoinduced Energy-Level Realignment at Interfaces between Organic Semiconductors and Metal-Halide Perovskites

Fengshuo Zu, Jonathan H. Warby, Martin Stolterfoht, Jinzhao Li, Dongguen Shin, Eva Unger, and Norbert Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246401 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Signatures of a Quantum Griffiths Phase Close to an Electronic Nematic Quantum Phase Transition

Pascal Reiss, David Graf, Amir A. Haghighirad, Thomas Vojta, and Amalia I. Coldea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246402 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

Exact Landau Level Description of Geometry and Interaction in a Flatband

Jie Wang, Jennifer Cano, Andrew J. Millis, Zhao Liu, and Bo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246403 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Readout of Quantum Screening Effects Using a Time-Dependent Probe

Nastaran Dashti, Matteo Acciai, Sara Kheradsoud, Maciej Misiorny, Peter Samuelsson, and Janine Splettstoesser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246802 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

$s$ -Wave Paired Electron and Hole Composite Fermion Trial State for Quantum Hall Bilayers with $ν = 1$

Glenn Wagner, Dung X. Nguyen, Steven H. Simon, and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 246803 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

A variational wave function for quantum Hall bilayers at filling factor $ν$ =1 with composite-fermion electrons in one layer and composite-fermion holes in the other indicates BEC-BCS crossover.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unconventional Superconductivity in Systems with Annular Fermi Surfaces: Application to Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene

Areg Ghazaryan, Tobias Holder, Maksym Serbyn, and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247001 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

Long-range Coulomb interactions give rise to robust yet unconventional superconductivity in two-dimensional systems, particularly rhombohedral trilayer graphene, that have an annular Fermi surface.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Concept of the Energy-Dependent Temperature for Direct Langevin Dynamics Simulations of Rare Events in Systems with Arbitrary High Energy Barriers

Dmitry Berkov, Elena K. Semenova, and Natalia L. Gorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247201 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Thermal Hall Effect in an Insulating van der Waals Magnet

Heda Zhang, Chunqiang Xu, Caitlin Carnahan, Milos Sretenovic, Nishchay Suri, Di Xiao, and Xianglin Ke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247202 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021

The observation of a magnon thermal Hall effect in a honeycomb magnet system greatly expands the candidate materials for studies of topological magnons.

Antiferromagnetism Induced by Bond Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Electron-Phonon Coupling: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study

Xun Cai, Zi-Xiang Li, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247203 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

Giant Biquadratic Exchange in 2D Magnets and Its Role in Stabilizing Ferromagnetism of ${NiCl}_{2}$ Monolayers

J. Y. Ni, X. Y. Li, D. Amoroso, X. He, J. S. Feng, E. J. Kan, S. Picozzi, and H. J. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247204 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Near-Field Energy Transfer between Graphene and Magneto-Optic Media

Gaomin Tang, Lei Zhang, Yong Zhang, Jun Chen, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247401 (2021) - Published 8 December, 2021

Current-biased graphene can be used to tune the cooling or heating of an adjacent nonreciprocal medium by changing the applied electric current or magnetic field.

Origin of Ferroelectric Domain Wall Alignment with Surface Trenches in Ultrathin Films

Jack S. Baker and David R. Bowler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 247601 (2021) - Published 10 December, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low-Frequency Excess Vibrational Modes in Two-Dimensional Glasses

Lijin Wang, Grzegorz Szamel, and Elijah Flenner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 248001 (2021) - Published 7 December, 2021

The number of excess vibrational modes in glasses scales differently in two dimensions than it does in three.

Metastability as a Mechanism for Yielding in Amorphous Solids under Cyclic Shear

Muhittin Mungan and Srikanth Sastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 248002 (2021) - Published 9 December, 2021