Volume 127, Issue 3

16 July 2021

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On the Cover

Significance map of the gamma-ray emission sources detected above 10 TeV in the direction of Cygnus OB2. The vertical and horizontal axes represent the declination and ascension of the sources respectively.

From the article:

Gamma-Ray Observation of the Cygnus Region in the 100-TeV Energy Region
M. Amenomori et al. (Tibet ${AS}_{γ}$ Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 031102 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isotope Shifts of Radium Monofluoride Molecules

S. M. Udrescu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033001 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

New research shows that radioactive molecules can be used to study the variation in the shapes and sizes of exotic nuclei that are particularly sensitive to fundamental symmetry violations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Directly Measuring a Multiparticle Quantum Wave Function via Quantum Teleportation

Ming-Cheng Chen, Yuan Li, Run-Ze Liu, Dian Wu, Zu-En Su, Xi-Lin Wang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030402 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

A new method using quantum teleportation to directly measure multipartite wave functions is proposed and demonstrated with a two-photon state.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Atomic Cluster ${Au}_{10}^{+}$ Is a Strong Broadband Midinfrared Chromophore

Alice E. Green, Alexander S. Gentleman, Wieland Schöllkopf, André Fielicke, and Stuart R. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033002 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

An extraordinary intense broad absorption band in the Au $_{10}$ $^{+}$ cluster is observed in the midinfrared stemming from low-energy electronic excitations that could be used for efficient catalytic activity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas in an Orbital Optical Lattice

M. Hachmann, Y. Kiefer, J. Riebesehl, R. Eichberger, and A. Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033201 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

An experimental study of ultracold fermions prepared in selected excited bands of a bipartite square lattice forms the basis for simulating fermionic superfluidity in orbital optical lattices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Behavior of a Heavy Impurity Strongly Coupled to a Bose Gas

Jesper Levinsen, Luis A. Peña Ardila, Shuhei M. Yoshida, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033401 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

The physics of a heavy impurity inside an ultracold bosonic gas may involve screening by a single boson for short-range interaction and logarithmic energy dependence for longer ranges.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Long-Range Anomalous Decay of the Correlation in Jammed Packings

Paolo Rissone, Eric I. Corwin, and Giorgio Parisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038001 (2021) - Published 12 July, 2021

Correlation functions in static observables other than density support the hypothesis that randomly jammed packings are hyperuniform.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Random Close Packing as a Dynamical Phase Transition

Sam Wilken, Rodrigo E. Guerra, Dov Levine, and Paul M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038002 (2021) - Published 12 July, 2021

Random Close Packing configurations are consistent with a dynamical phase transition in the Biased Random Organization model of sphere packing.

LETTERS

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

Entropic Bounds on Information Backflow

Nina Megier, Andrea Smirne, and Bassano Vacchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030401 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Directly Measuring a Multiparticle Quantum Wave Function via Quantum Teleportation

Ming-Cheng Chen, Yuan Li, Run-Ze Liu, Dian Wu, Zu-En Su, Xi-Lin Wang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030402 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

A new method using quantum teleportation to directly measure multipartite wave functions is proposed and demonstrated with a two-photon state.

Dynamical Decoupling of Spin Ensembles with Strong Anisotropic Interactions

Benjamin Merkel, Pablo Cova Fariña, and Andreas Reiserer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030501 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Single-Atom Verification of the Noise-Resilient and Fast Characteristics of Universal Nonadiabatic Noncyclic Geometric Quantum Gates

J. W. Zhang, L.-L. Yan, J. C. Li, G. Y. Ding, J. T. Bu, L. Chen, S.-L. Su, F. Zhou, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030502 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Efficient Estimation of Pauli Observables by Derandomization

Hsin-Yuan Huang, Richard Kueng, and John Preskill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030503 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Quantum Ergodicity in the Many-Body Localization Problem

Felipe Monteiro, Masaki Tezuka, Alexander Altland, David A. Huse, and Tobias Micklitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030601 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

Easy Access to Energy Fluctuations in Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Systems

Marcela Herrera, John P. S. Peterson, Roberto M. Serra, and Irene D’Amico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 030602 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dynamical Descalarization in Binary Black Hole Mergers

Hector O. Silva, Helvi Witek, Matthew Elley, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 031101 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Gamma-Ray Observation of the Cygnus Region in the 100-TeV Energy Region

M. Amenomori et al. (Tibet ${AS}_{γ}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 031102 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

General Relativistic Decoherence with Applications to Dark Matter Detection

Itamar J. Allali and Mark P. Hertzberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 031301 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isotope Shifts of Radium Monofluoride Molecules

S. M. Udrescu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033001 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

New research shows that radioactive molecules can be used to study the variation in the shapes and sizes of exotic nuclei that are particularly sensitive to fundamental symmetry violations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Atomic Cluster ${Au}_{10}^{+}$ Is a Strong Broadband Midinfrared Chromophore

Alice E. Green, Alexander S. Gentleman, Wieland Schöllkopf, André Fielicke, and Stuart R. Mackenzie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033002 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas in an Orbital Optical Lattice

M. Hachmann, Y. Kiefer, J. Riebesehl, R. Eichberger, and A. Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033201 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

An experimental study of ultracold fermions prepared in selected excited bands of a bipartite square lattice forms the basis for simulating fermionic superfluidity in orbital optical lattices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Behavior of a Heavy Impurity Strongly Coupled to a Bose Gas

Jesper Levinsen, Luis A. Peña Ardila, Shuhei M. Yoshida, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033401 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

The physics of a heavy impurity inside an ultracold bosonic gas may involve screening by a single boson for short-range interaction and logarithmic energy dependence for longer ranges.

Doubly Modulated Optical Lattice Clock: Interference and Topology

Xiao-Tong Lu (卢晓同), Tao Wang (汪涛), Ting Li, Chi-Hua Zhou, Mo-Juan Yin, Ye-Bing Wang, Xue-Feng Zhang (张学锋), and Hong Chang (常宏)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033601 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Proposal for a Deterministic Single-Atom Source of Quasisuperradiant $N$ -Photon Pulses

Caspar Groiseau, Alexander E. J. Elliott, Stuart J. Masson, and Scott Parkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033602 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Suppression of Parasitic Nonlinear Processes in Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing with Linearly Uncoupled Resonators

Federico Andrea Sabattoli, Houssein El Dirani, Laurène Youssef, Francesco Garrisi, Davide Grassani, Luca Zatti, Camille Petit-Etienne, Erwine Pargon, J. E. Sipe, Marco Liscidini, Corrado Sciancalepore, Daniele Bajoni, and Matteo Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033901 (2021) - Published 13 July, 2021

Resonant Stimulated Photorefractive Scattering

Jingliang Liu, Thomas Stace, Jian Dai, Kun Xu, Andre Luiten, and Fred Baynes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 033902 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Asymmetric Loop Spectra and Unbroken Phase Protection due to Nonlinearities in $PT$ -Symmetric Periodic Potentials

Yongping Zhang, Zhu Chen, Biao Wu, Thomas Busch, and Vladimir V. Konotop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 034101 (2021) - Published 13 July, 2021

Direct Measurement of Topological Properties of an Exceptional Parabola

Weiyuan Tang, Kun Ding, and Guancong Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 034301 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Hot-Tail Runaway Seed Landscape during the Thermal Quench in Tokamaks

Ida Svenningsson, Ola Embreus, Mathias Hoppe, Sarah L. Newton, and Tünde Fülöp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 035001 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Temperature Equilibration due to Charge State Fluctuations in Dense Plasmas

R. A. Baggott, S. J. Rose, and S. P. D. Mangles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 035002 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Coherent Electromagnetic Emission from Relativistic Magnetized Shocks

Lorenzo Sironi, Illya Plotnikov, Joonas Nättilä, and Andrei M. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 035101 (2021) - Published 13 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Effective Toughness of Heterogeneous Materials with Rate-Dependent Fracture Energy

Gabriele Albertini, Mathias Lebihain, François Hild, Laurent Ponson, and David S. Kammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 035501 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

Scanning Thermal Microscopy and Ballistic Phonon Transport in Lateral Spin Valves

G. Stefanou, F. Menges, B. Boehm, K. A. Moran, J. Adams, M. Ali, M. C. Rosamond, B. Gotsmann, R. Allenspach, G. Burnell, and B. J. Hickey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 035901 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Floquet-Bloch Oscillations and Intraband Zener Tunneling in an Oblique Spacetime Crystal

Qiang Gao and Qian Niu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 036401 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Fast Green’s Function Method for Ultrafast Electron-Boson Dynamics

Daniel Karlsson, Robert van Leeuwen, Yaroslav Pavlyukh, Enrico Perfetto, and Gianluca Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 036402 (2021) - Published 15 July, 2021

Observation of Zero-Field Transverse Resistance in ${AlO}_{x} / SrTi O_{3}$ Interface Devices

P. W. Krantz and V. Chandrasekhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 036801 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Quantifying and Controlling Entanglement in the Quantum Magnet ${Cs}_{2} {CoCl}_{4}$

Pontus Laurell, Allen Scheie, Chiron J. Mukherjee, Michael M. Koza, Mechtild Enderle, Zbigniew Tylczynski, Satoshi Okamoto, Radu Coldea, D. Alan Tennant, and Gonzalo Alvarez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037201 (2021) - Published 13 July, 2021

Magnonic Frequency Comb through Nonlinear Magnon-Skyrmion Scattering

Zhenyu Wang, H. Y. Yuan, Yunshan Cao, Z.-X. Li, Rembert A. Duine, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037202 (2021) - Published 13 July, 2021

THz-Scale Field-Induced Spin Dynamics in Ferrimagnetic Iron Garnets

T. G. H. Blank, K. A. Grishunin, E. A. Mashkovich, M. V. Logunov, A. K. Zvezdin, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037203 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Monolayer ${CrCl}_{3}$ as an Ideal Test Bed for the Universality Classes of 2D Magnetism

M. Dupont, Y. O. Kvashnin, M. Shiranzaei, J. Fransson, N. Laflorencie, and A. Kantian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037204 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Gap Sensitivity Reveals Universal Behaviors in Optimized Photonic Crystal and Disordered Networks

Michael A. Klatt, Paul J. Steinhardt, and Salvatore Torquato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037401 (2021) - Published 14 July, 2021

Excitonic and Valley-Polarization Signatures of Fractional Correlated Electronic Phases in a ${WSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Moiré Superlattice

Erfu Liu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Nathaniel M. Gabor, Yong-Tao Cui, and Chun Hung Lui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 037402 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Long-Range Anomalous Decay of the Correlation in Jammed Packings

Paolo Rissone, Eric I. Corwin, and Giorgio Parisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038001 (2021) - Published 12 July, 2021

Correlation functions in static observables other than density support the hypothesis that randomly jammed packings are hyperuniform.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Random Close Packing as a Dynamical Phase Transition

Sam Wilken, Rodrigo E. Guerra, Dov Levine, and Paul M. Chaikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038002 (2021) - Published 12 July, 2021

Random Close Packing configurations are consistent with a dynamical phase transition in the Biased Random Organization model of sphere packing.

Spatial Crossover Between Far-From-Equilibrium and Near-Equilibrium Dynamics in Locally Driven Suspensions

Ilya Svetlizky and Yael Roichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038003 (2021) - Published 16 July, 2021

Reduction Methodology for Fluctuation Driven Population Dynamics

Denis S. Goldobin, Matteo di Volo, and Alessandro Torcini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 038301 (2021) - Published 13 July, 2021