Volume 127, Issue 26

24 December 2021

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Laboratory laser setup for trapping and cooling yttrium monoxide molecules in an optical lattice down to the record low temperature of 1 μK. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

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High Phase-Space Density of Laser-Cooled Molecules in an Optical Lattice
Yewei Wu, Justin J. Burau, Kameron Mehling, Jun Ye, and Shiqian Ding
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263201 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dark Matter Search Results from the PandaX-4T Commissioning Run

Yue Meng et al. (PandaX-4T Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 261802 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

New dark matter results strengthen constraints on axions and WIMPs.

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Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter in the $3.3 - 4.2 μ eV$ Mass Range

C. Bartram et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 261803 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

New dark matter results strengthen constraints on axions and WIMPs.

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First Observation of the Four-Proton Unbound Nucleus ${}^{18}{Mg}$

Y. Jin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 262502 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Experimental detection of the unstable nucleus magnesium-18 hints at a weakening of the so-called magic number for the closed shell of eight neutrons.

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Zeeman-Sisyphus Deceleration of Molecular Beams

Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Alexander Frenett, Hiromitsu Sawaoka, Christian Hallas, Nathaniel B. Vilas, Abdullah Nasir, Zack D. Lasner, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263002 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

A magnetic-field based method can slow molecular beams that cannot be slowed using other techniques, unlocking the door to ultracold polyatomic molecular physics.

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High Phase-Space Density of Laser-Cooled Molecules in an Optical Lattice

Yewei Wu, Justin J. Burau, Kameron Mehling, Jun Ye, and Shiqian Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263201 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021

Researchers achieve the lowest temperature yet for laser-cooled molecules trapped in an optical lattice.

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Picometer-Resolved Photoemission Position within the Molecule by Strong-Field Photoelectron Holography

Wenhai Xie, Jiaqing Yan, Min Li, Chuanpeng Cao, Keyu Guo, Yueming Zhou, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263202 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

A new technique pinpoints, with picometer resolution, the location from which an emitted electron originates within a molecule.

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Superfluid $β$ phase of ${}^{3}{He}$

V. V. Dmitriev, M. S. Kutuzov, A. A. Soldatov, and A. N. Yudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 265301 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Confining helium-3 in an aerogel container and subjecting it to a magnetic field reveals a long-predicted superfluid phase.

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Topographic Control of Order in Quasi-2D Granular Phase Transitions

J. G. Downs, N. D. Smith, K. K. Mandadapu, J. P. Garrahan, and M. I. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268002 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021

Modifying surface and boundary features lets researchers control how a 2D model system transitions from a fluid to a crystalline phase.

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Topological Defects in Solids with Odd Elasticity

Lara Braverman, Colin Scheibner, Bryan VanSaders, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268001 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

In solids with odd elastic moduli, the effects of topological defects are modified and isolated dislocations can self-propel.

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Evolutionary Game Model of Group Choice Dilemmas on Hypergraphs

Andrea Civilini, Nejat Anbarci, and Vito Latora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268301 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

Game theory and hypergraph modeling of social systems help in understanding how making decisions in groups influences group polarization and irrational herding behaviors.

LETTERS

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

Learning Temporal Quantum Tomography

Quoc Hoan Tran and Kohei Nakajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260401 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Entropy and Reversible Catalysis

H. Wilming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260402 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Quantum Fisher Information from Randomized Measurements

Aniket Rath, Cyril Branciard, Anna Minguzzi, and Benoît Vermersch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260501 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Using Optical Tweezers and Electric Fields

M. Mazzanti, R. X. Schüssler, J. D. Arias Espinoza, Z. Wu, R. Gerritsma, and A. Safavi-Naini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260502 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Hilbert Space Shattering and Disorder-Free Localization in Polar Lattice Gases

Wei-Han Li, Xiaolong Deng, and Luis Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 260601 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of Differential Branching Fractions of Inclusive $B \to X_{u} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$ Decays

L. Cao et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 261801 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

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Dark Matter Search Results from the PandaX-4T Commissioning Run

Yue Meng et al. (PandaX-4T Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 261802 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

New dark matter results strengthen constraints on axions and WIMPs.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter in the $3.3 - 4.2 μ eV$ Mass Range

C. Bartram et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 261803 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

New dark matter results strengthen constraints on axions and WIMPs.

Search for Long-Lived Particles Decaying in the CMS End Cap Muon Detectors in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 261804 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Two-Loop Helicity Amplitudes for Diphoton Plus Jet Production in Full Color

Bakul Agarwal, Federico Buccioni, Andreas von Manteuffel, and Lorenzo Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 262001 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the Sixth-Order Cumulant of Net-Proton Multiplicity Distributions in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 27$ , 54.4, and 200 GeV at RHIC

M. S. Abdallah et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 262301 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

First Measurement of Timelike Compton Scattering

P. Chatagnon et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 262501 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

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First Observation of the Four-Proton Unbound Nucleus ${}^{18}{Mg}$

Y. Jin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 262502 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Experimental detection of the unstable nucleus magnesium-18 hints at a weakening of the so-called magic number for the closed shell of eight neutrons.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

QED Effect on the Nuclear Magnetic Shielding of ${}^{3}{He}$

Dominik Wehrli, Anna Spyszkiewicz-Kaczmarek, Mariusz Puchalski, and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263001 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

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Zeeman-Sisyphus Deceleration of Molecular Beams

Benjamin L. Augenbraun, Alexander Frenett, Hiromitsu Sawaoka, Christian Hallas, Nathaniel B. Vilas, Abdullah Nasir, Zack D. Lasner, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263002 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

A magnetic-field based method can slow molecular beams that cannot be slowed using other techniques, unlocking the door to ultracold polyatomic molecular physics.

Inseparable Time-Crystal Geometries on the Möbius Strip

Krzysztof Giergiel, Arkadiusz Kuroś, Arkadiusz Kosior, and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263003 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases in a Rydberg Glass

Kai Li, Jiong-Hao Wang, Yan-Bin Yang, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263004 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

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High Phase-Space Density of Laser-Cooled Molecules in an Optical Lattice

Yewei Wu, Justin J. Burau, Kameron Mehling, Jun Ye, and Shiqian Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263201 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021

Researchers achieve the lowest temperature yet for laser-cooled molecules trapped in an optical lattice.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Picometer-Resolved Photoemission Position within the Molecule by Strong-Field Photoelectron Holography

Wenhai Xie, Jiaqing Yan, Min Li, Chuanpeng Cao, Keyu Guo, Yueming Zhou, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263202 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

A new technique pinpoints, with picometer resolution, the location from which an emitted electron originates within a molecule.

Splashing of Large Helium Nanodroplets upon Surface Collisions

Paul Martini, Simon Albertini, Felix Laimer, Miriam Meyer, Michael Gatchell, Olof Echt, Fabio Zappa, and Paul Scheier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263401 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Photonic Angular Superresolution Using Twisted N00N States

Markus Hiekkamäki, Frédéric Bouchard, and Robert Fickler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263601 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Quantum Nonlinear Optics Based on Two-Dimensional Rydberg Atom Arrays

M. Moreno-Cardoner, D. Goncalves, and D. E. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263602 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Super-resolved Imaging of a Single Cold Atom on a Nanosecond Timescale

Zhong-Hua Qian, Jin-Ming Cui, Xi-Wang Luo, Yong-Xiang Zheng, Yun-Feng Huang, Ming-Zhong Ai, Ran He, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263603 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Reduction of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer by a Speckle Pattern

A. Oudin, A. Debayle, C. Ruyer, and D. Bénisti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 265001 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Superfluid $β$ phase of ${}^{3}{He}$

V. V. Dmitriev, M. S. Kutuzov, A. A. Soldatov, and A. N. Yudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 265301 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Confining helium-3 in an aerogel container and subjecting it to a magnetic field reveals a long-predicted superfluid phase.

Evolution and Nonreciprocity of Loss-Induced Topological Phase Singularity Pairs

Mengqi Liu, Chen Zhao, Yixuan Zeng, Yang Chen, Changying Zhao, and Cheng-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266101 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

Temperature-Dependent Bending Rigidity of $A B$ -Stacked Bilayer Graphene

S. D. Eder, S. K. Hellner, S. Forti, J. M. Nordbotten, J. R. Manson, C. Coletti, and B. Holst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266102 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Realizing Kagome Band Structure in Two-Dimensional Kagome Surface States of $R V_{6} {Sn}_{6}$ ( $R = Gd$ , Ho)

Shuting Peng, Yulei Han, Ganesh Pokharel, Jianchang Shen, Zeyu Li, Makoto Hashimoto, Donghui Lu, Brenden R. Ortiz, Yang Luo, Houchen Li, Mingyao Guo, Bingqian Wang, Shengtao Cui, Zhe Sun, Zhenhua Qiao, Stephen D. Wilson, and Junfeng He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266401 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021

Cascades between Light and Heavy Fermions in the Normal State of Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Jian Kang, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Oskar Vafek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266402 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Strange Metals from Melting Correlated Insulators in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Peter Cha, Aavishkar A. Patel, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266601 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Oscillations of the Spacing between van Hove Singularities Induced by sub-Ångstrom Fluctuations of Interlayer Spacing in Graphene Superlattices

Ya-Xin Zhao, Xiao-Feng Zhou, Yu Zhang, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266801 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Competition between Coulomb and van der Waals Interactions in $Xe − {Cs}^{+}$ Aggregates on Cu(111) Surfaces

J. Thomas, C. Bertram, J. Daru, J. Patwari, I. Langguth, P. Zhou, D. Marx, K. Morgenstern, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 266802 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Controllable Enhancement of $p$ -Wave Superconductivity via Magnetic Coupling to a Conventional Superconductor

Linde A. B. Olde Olthof, Lina G. Johnsen, Jason W. A. Robinson, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 267001 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Observation of 4- and 6-Magnon Bound States in the Spin-Anisotropic Frustrated Antiferromagnet ${FeI}_{2}$

Anaëlle Legros, Shang-Shun Zhang, Xiaojian Bai, Hao Zhang, Zhiling Dun, W. Adam Phelan, Cristian D. Batista, Martin Mourigal, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 267201 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

Heat Transport in Herbertsmithite: Can a Quantum Spin Liquid Survive Disorder?

Y. Y. Huang, Y. Xu, Le Wang, C. C. Zhao, C. P. Tu, J. M. Ni, L. S. Wang, B. L. Pan, Ying Fu, Zhanyang Hao, Cai Liu, Jia-Wei Mei, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 267202 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Topological Magnon Band Crossing in $Y_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Thi Huyen Nguyen, Jaeseok Son, Soyeun Kim, Hwanbeom Cho, Choong H. Kim, Y. P. Wang, Kenneth S. Burch, In-Sang Yang, Jaehong Jeong, Je-Geun Park, S. J. Moon, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 267203 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

General Framework of Canonical Quasinormal Mode Analysis for Extreme Nano-optics

Qiang Zhou, Pu Zhang, and Xue-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 267401 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Defects in Solids with Odd Elasticity

Lara Braverman, Colin Scheibner, Bryan VanSaders, and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268001 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

In solids with odd elastic moduli, the effects of topological defects are modified and isolated dislocations can self-propel.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topographic Control of Order in Quasi-2D Granular Phase Transitions

J. G. Downs, N. D. Smith, K. K. Mandadapu, J. P. Garrahan, and M. I. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268002 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021

Modifying surface and boundary features lets researchers control how a 2D model system transitions from a fluid to a crystalline phase.

Shear Is Not Always Simple: Rate-Dependent Effects of Flow Type on Granular Rheology

Joel T. Clemmer, Ishan Srivastava, Gary S. Grest, and Jeremy B. Lechman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268003 (2021) - Published 22 December, 2021

Swarming Bottom Feeders: Flocking at Solid-Liquid Interfaces

Niladri Sarkar, Abhik Basu, and John Toner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268004 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Role of Advective Inertia in Active Nematic Turbulence

Colin-Marius Koch and Michael Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268005 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021

Dynamics of Switching at Stall Reveals Nonequilibrium Mechanism in the Allosteric Regulation of the Bacterial Flagellar Switch

Bin Wang, Yuhui Niu, Rongjing Zhang, and Junhua Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268101 (2021) - Published 21 December, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evolutionary Game Model of Group Choice Dilemmas on Hypergraphs

Andrea Civilini, Nejat Anbarci, and Vito Latora

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 268301 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

Game theory and hypergraph modeling of social systems help in understanding how making decisions in groups influences group polarization and irrational herding behaviors.

ERRATA

Erratum: In Situ Generation of High-Energy Spin-Polarized Electrons in a Beam-Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 054801 (2021)]

Zan Nie, Fei Li, Felipe Morales, Serguei Patchkovskii, Olga Smirnova, Weiming An, Noa Nambu, Daniel Matteo, Kenneth A. Marsh, Frank Tsung, Warren B. Mori, and Chan Joshi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 269901 (2021) - Published 20 December, 2021

Retraction: Pressure-Induced Superconducting State of Europium Metal at Low Temperatures [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 197002 (2009)]

M. Debessai, T. Matsuoka, J. J. Hamlin, J. S. Schilling, and K. Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 269902 (2021) - Published 23 December, 2021