Volume 127, Issue 25

17 December 2021

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Depiction of the Parker Solar Probe entering and sampling the solar corona, the first spacecraft to do so. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona
J. C. Kasper et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255101 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Searching for Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions with the NANOGrav 12.5-Year Dataset

Zaven Arzoumanian et al. (NANOGrav Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251302 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Astronomical observations of pulsars have provided new information about a possible phase transition in the early Universe.

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Constraining Cosmological Phase Transitions with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Xiao Xue, Ligong Bian, Jing Shu, Qiang Yuan, Xingjiang Zhu, N. D. Ramesh Bhat, Shi Dai, Yi Feng, Boris Goncharov, George Hobbs, Eric Howard, Richard N. Manchester, Christopher J. Russell, Daniel J. Reardon, Ryan M. Shannon, Renée Spiewak, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, and Jingbo Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251303 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Astronomical observations of pulsars have provided new information about a possible phase transition in the early Universe.

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New Definition of the Neutrino Floor for Direct Dark Matter Searches

Ciaran A. J. O’Hare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251802 (2021) - Published 16 December, 2021

A new definition of the “neutrino floor” in dark matter experiments clarifies the challenges ahead in differentiating neutrinos from WIMPs.

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Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona

J. C. Kasper et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255101 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

The Parker Solar Probe entered, for the first time, the Sun’s magnetic atmosphere, starting to gather data that could help researchers solve some of the greatest mysteries of solar physics.

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Dissipative Topological Phase Transition with Strong System-Environment Coupling

Wei Nie, Mauro Antezza, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250402 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

Topological edge states that are modified by an electromagnetic environment are stable and robust in a 1D topological emitter array.

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General Rules Governing the Dynamical Encircling of an Arbitrary Number of Exceptional Points

Feng Yu, Xu-Lin Zhang, Zhen-Nan Tian, Qi-Dai Chen, and Hong-Bo Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253901 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

A versatile on-chip photonic system reveals a general rule governing the dynamical encircling of exceptional points, indicating the potential for mode-switching applications in multistate non-Hermitian systems.

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Probing Two-Electron Multiplets in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

S. Möller, L. Banszerus, A. Knothe, C. Steiner, E. Icking, S. Trellenkamp, F. Lentz, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. I. Glazman, V. I. Fal’ko, C. Volk, and C. Stampfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256802 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

The two-particle ground state in bilayer graphene quantum dots can be tuned via spin and valley properties in ways that are not possible in semiconductor quantum dots.

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Coulomb Drag between a Carbon Nanotube and Monolayer Graphene

Laurel Anderson, Austin Cheng, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257701 (2021) - Published 13 December, 2021

Measurements of the Coulomb drag between a nanotube and graphene show subtleties depending on temperature, carrier density, and distance in both linear and nonlinear regimes.

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Contrarians Synchronize beyond the Limit of Pairwise Interactions

K. Kovalenko, X. Dai, K. Alfaro-Bittner, A. M. Raigorodskii, M. Perc, and S. Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 258301 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

The presence of higher order interactions may induce a coherent, synchronous state in a population composed of pure contrarians.

LETTERS

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

Operational Characterization of Infinite-Dimensional Quantum Resources

Erkka Haapasalo, Tristan Kraft, Juha-Pekka Pellonpää, and Roope Uola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250401 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

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Dissipative Topological Phase Transition with Strong System-Environment Coupling

Wei Nie, Mauro Antezza, Yu-xi Liu, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250402 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

Topological edge states that are modified by an electromagnetic environment are stable and robust in a 1D topological emitter array.

Quantum Entanglement from Classical Trajectories

Johan E. Runeson and Jeremy O. Richardson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250403 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Convergence Guarantees for Discrete Mode Approximations to Non-Markovian Quantum Baths

Rahul Trivedi, Daniel Malz, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250404 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Photon-Mediated Stroboscopic Quantum Simulation of a $Z_{2}$ Lattice Gauge Theory

Tsafrir Armon, Shachar Ashkenazi, Gerardo García-Moreno, Alejandro González-Tudela, and Erez Zohar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250501 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Improved Approximation Algorithms for Bounded-Degree Local Hamiltonians

Anurag Anshu, David Gosset, Karen J. Morenz Korol, and Mehdi Soleimanifar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250502 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Weak and Ultrastrong Coupling Limits of the Quantum Mean Force Gibbs State

J. D. Cresser and J. Anders

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250601 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Nonextensive Supercluster States in Aggregation with Fragmentation

Nikolai V. Brilliantov, Wendy Otieno, and P. L. Krapivsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 250602 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Beating the Lyth Bound by Parametric Resonance during Inflation

Yi-Fu Cai, Jie Jiang, Misao Sasaki, Valeri Vardanyan, and Zihan Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251301 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

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Searching for Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Phase Transitions with the NANOGrav 12.5-Year Dataset

Zaven Arzoumanian et al. (NANOGrav Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251302 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Astronomical observations of pulsars have provided new information about a possible phase transition in the early Universe.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Cosmological Phase Transitions with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251303 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Astronomical observations of pulsars have provided new information about a possible phase transition in the early Universe.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Rigorous Bounds on the Analytic $S$ Matrix

Andrea Guerrieri and Amit Sever

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251601 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Demonstration of Confinement and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in $SO (N_{c})$ Gauge Theories

Csaba Csáki, Andrew Gomes, Hitoshi Murayama, and Ofri Telem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251602 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Elliptic Double Box and Symbology Beyond Polylogarithms

Alexander Kristensson, Matthias Wilhelm, and Chi Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251603 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Cosmological Scattering Equations

Humberto Gomez, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, and Arthur Lipstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251604 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Towards an Independent Determination of Muon $g - 2$ from Muonium Spectroscopy

Cédric Delaunay, Ben Ohayon, and Yotam Soreq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251801 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

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New Definition of the Neutrino Floor for Direct Dark Matter Searches

Ciaran A. J. O’Hare

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 251802 (2021) - Published 16 December, 2021

A new definition of the “neutrino floor” in dark matter experiments clarifies the challenges ahead in differentiating neutrinos from WIMPs.

Quark and Gluon Momentum Fractions in the Pion from $N_{f} = 2 + 1 + 1$ Lattice QCD

Constantia Alexandrou, Simone Bacchio, Georg Bergner, Jacob Finkenrath, Andrew Gasbarro, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou, Karl Jansen, Bartosz Kostrzewa, Konstantin Ottnad, Marcus Petschlies, Ferenc Pittler, Fernanda Steffens, Carsten Urbach, and Urs Wenger (Extended Twisted Mass Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 252001 (2021) - Published 13 December, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Cone-Size Dependence of Jet Suppression in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Yacine Mehtar-Tani, Daniel Pablos, and Konrad Tywoniuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 252301 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Calculation of Hyperfine Constants for Extracting Nuclear Moments of ${}^{229}{Th}$

S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253001 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Realization of a Periodically Driven Open Three-Level Dicke Model

Phatthamon Kongkhambut, Hans Keßler, Jim Skulte, Ludwig Mathey, Jayson G. Cosme, and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253601 (2021) - Published 13 December, 2021

Superresolution Linear Optical Imaging in the Far Field

A. A. Pushkina, G. Maltese, J. I. Costa-Filho, P. Patel, and A. I. Lvovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253602 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Nonreciprocal Frequency Domain Beam Splitter

Nils T. Otterstrom, Shai Gertler, Eric A. Kittlaus, Michael Gehl, Andrew L. Starbuck, Christina M. Dallo, Andrew T. Pomerene, Douglas C. Trotter, Peter T. Rakich, Paul S. Davids, and Anthony L. Lentine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253603 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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General Rules Governing the Dynamical Encircling of an Arbitrary Number of Exceptional Points

Feng Yu, Xu-Lin Zhang, Zhen-Nan Tian, Qi-Dai Chen, and Hong-Bo Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253901 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

Optimal Control of Coherent Light Scattering for Binary Decision Problems

Dorian Bouchet, Lukas M. Rachbauer, Stefan Rotter, Allard P. Mosk, and Emmanuel Bossy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 253902 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Isostables for Stochastic Oscillators

Alberto Pérez-Cervera, Benjamin Lindner, and Peter J. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 254101 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

Fast Water Waves in Stationary Surface Disk Arrays

Xinyu Zhao, Xinhua Hu, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 254501 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Broken Mirror Symmetry of Tracer’s Trajectories in Turbulence

S. Angriman, P. J. Cobelli, M. Bourgoin, S. G. Huisman, R. Volk, and P. D. Mininni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 254502 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Parker Solar Probe Enters the Magnetically Dominated Solar Corona

J. C. Kasper et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255101 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

The Parker Solar Probe entered, for the first time, the Sun’s magnetic atmosphere, starting to gather data that could help researchers solve some of the greatest mysteries of solar physics.

Pitch-Angle Anisotropy Controls Particle Acceleration and Cooling in Radiative Relativistic Plasma Turbulence

Luca Comisso and Lorenzo Sironi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255102 (2021) - Published 16 December, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spatial and Temporal Coherence in Strongly Coupled Plasmonic Bose-Einstein Condensates

Antti J. Moilanen, Konstantinos S. Daskalakis, Jani M. Taskinen, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255301 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Dynamical Mechanisms of Vortex Pinning in Superfluid Thin Films

Oliver R. Stockdale, Matthew T. Reeves, and Matthew J. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255302 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

Borromean Supercounterfluidity

Emil Blomquist, Andrzej Syrwid, and Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255303 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

3D Hinge Transport in Acoustic Higher-Order Topological Insulators

Qiang Wei, Xuewei Zhang, Weiyin Deng, Jiuyang Lu, Xueqin Huang, Mou Yan, Gang Chen, Zhengyou Liu, and Suotang Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 255501 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Water as a Lévy Rotor

David A. Faux, Arifah A. Rahaman, and Peter J. McDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256001 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Observation of Spin-Dependent Dual Ferromagnetism in Perovskite Ruthenates

Sungsoo Hahn, Byungmin Sohn, Minjae Kim, Jeong Rae Kim, Soonsang Huh, Younsik Kim, Wonshik Kyung, Minsoo Kim, Donghan Kim, Youngdo Kim, Tae Won Noh, Ji Hoon Shim, and Changyoung Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256401 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Magnetic Suppression of Non-Hermitian Skin Effects

Ming Lu, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, and Marcel Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256402 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

Signatures of Weyl Fermion Annihilation in a Correlated Kagome Magnet

Ilya Belopolski, Tyler A. Cochran, Xiaoxiong Liu, Zi-Jia Cheng, Xian P. Yang, Zurab Guguchia, Stepan S. Tsirkin, Jia-Xin Yin, Praveen Vir, Gohil S. Thakur, Songtian S. Zhang, Junyi Zhang, Konstantine Kaznatcheev, Guangming Cheng, Guoqing Chang, Daniel Multer, Nana Shumiya, Maksim Litskevich, Elio Vescovo, Timur K. Kim, Cephise Cacho, Nan Yao, Claudia Felser, Titus Neupert, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256403 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Intraband Spin-Dependent Recombination of Bound Holes in Silicon

Daejin Eom and Ja-Yong Koo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256801 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

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Probing Two-Electron Multiplets in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

S. Möller, L. Banszerus, A. Knothe, C. Steiner, E. Icking, S. Trellenkamp, F. Lentz, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, L. I. Glazman, V. I. Fal’ko, C. Volk, and C. Stampfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 256802 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

The two-particle ground state in bilayer graphene quantum dots can be tuned via spin and valley properties in ways that are not possible in semiconductor quantum dots.

Quasiparticle Nodal Plane in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State of FeSe

S. Kasahara, H. Suzuki, T. Machida, Y. Sato, Y. Ukai, H. Murayama, S. Suetsugu, Y. Kasahara, T. Shibauchi, T. Hanaguri, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257001 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Using Disorder to Identify Bogoliubov Fermi-Surface States

Hanbit Oh, Daniel F. Agterberg, and Eun-Gook Moon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257002 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Field-Driven Dynamics of Magnetic Hopfions

David Raftrey and Peter Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257201 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

Light-Tunable Charge Density Wave Orders in ${MoTe}_{2}$ and ${WTe}_{2}$ Single Layers

Giovanni Marini and Matteo Calandra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257401 (2021) - Published 17 December, 2021

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Coulomb Drag between a Carbon Nanotube and Monolayer Graphene

Laurel Anderson, Austin Cheng, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257701 (2021) - Published 13 December, 2021

Measurements of the Coulomb drag between a nanotube and graphene show subtleties depending on temperature, carrier density, and distance in both linear and nonlinear regimes.

Infrared Light-Emitting Devices from Antenna-Coupled Luttinger Liquid Plasmons In Carbon Nanotubes

SeokJae Yoo, Sihan Zhao, and Feng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 257702 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

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

Finite-Size Scaling at the Edge of Disorder in a Time-Delay Vicsek Model

Viktor Holubec, Daniel Geiss, Sarah A. M. Loos, Klaus Kroy, and Frank Cichos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 258001 (2021) - Published 14 December, 2021

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Contrarians Synchronize beyond the Limit of Pairwise Interactions

K. Kovalenko, X. Dai, K. Alfaro-Bittner, A. M. Raigorodskii, M. Perc, and S. Boccaletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 258301 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021

The presence of higher order interactions may induce a coherent, synchronous state in a population composed of pure contrarians.

ERRATA

Erratum: Disorder Criterion and Explicit Solution for the Disc Random Packing Problem [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 118002 (2021)]

Raphael Blumenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 259901 (2021) - Published 15 December, 2021