Volume 127, Issue 4

23 July 2021

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Calculated corrections to the angular dependence of Hawking radiation emitted by an evaporating nonspinning black hole as measured by distant observers show a quantum superposition of patterns of concentric bands (colors) of confined mode fluctuations.

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Order-Unity Correction to Hawking Radiation
Eanna E. Flanagan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 041301 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of a Dissipative Time Crystal

Hans Keßler, Phatthamon Kongkhambut, Christoph Georges, Ludwig Mathey, Jayson G. Cosme, and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043602 (2021) - Published 19 July, 2021

Experiments successfully capture signatures of a discrete time crystal phase in an open, quantum many-body system.

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Space-Time Quantum Metasurfaces

Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Abul K. Azad, and Diego A. R. Dalvit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043603 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

When it’s modulated by laser beams, a surface made of polarizable meta-atoms can entangle a photon’s properties in multiple, controllable ways.

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Coherent Jetting from a Gate-Defined Channel in Bilayer Graphene

Carolin Gold, Angelika Knothe, Annika Kurzmann, Aitor Garcia-Ruiz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vladimir Fal’ko, Klaus Ensslin, and Thomas Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046801 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Studying the current that flows in bilayer graphene, researchers have isolated electron jets associated with specific valley states.

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Electrical Control of Valley-Zeeman Spin-Orbit-Coupling–Induced Spin Precession at Room Temperature

Josep Ingla-Aynés, Franz Herling, Jaroslav Fabian, Luis E. Hueso, and Fèlix Casanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047202 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

Researchers demonstrate that they can control the polarization direction of a spin current without having to apply a magnetic field, which could aid in implementing energy-efficient spintronics devices.

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Skyrmion Dynamics at Finite Temperatures: Beyond Thiele’s Equation

Markus Weißenhofer, Levente Rózsa, and Ulrich Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047203 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Adding a friction term to models helps them better account for how spin textures evolve experimentally at room temperature.

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Deeply Subwavelength Localization with Reverberation-Coded Aperture

Michael del Hougne, Sylvain Gigan, and Philipp del Hougne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043903 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

An echo chamber captures small-scale information about an object without the need for up-close probing.

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On-Demand Bulk Nanobubble Generation through Pulsed Laser Illumination

Juan Manuel Rosselló and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 044502 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

An optical technique uses a pump (laser pulse) and probe (collimated laser beam) to generate nanosized gas bubbles in water.

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Elastoplasticity Mediates Dynamical Heterogeneity Below the Mode Coupling Temperature

Rahul N. Chacko, François P. Landes, Giulio Biroli, Olivier Dauchot, Andrea J. Liu, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 048002 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

As a cooling liquid nears the glass transition temperature, the dynamic facilitation of heterogeneous rearrangements becomes increasingly long-ranged and elastically-mediated.

LETTERS

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

Optimal Entanglement Witnesses: A Scalable Data-Driven Approach

Irénée Frérot and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040401 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Direct Tomography of High-Dimensional Density Matrices for General Quantum States of Photons

Yiyu Zhou, Jiapeng Zhao, Darrick Hay, Kendrick McGonagle, Robert W. Boyd, and Zhimin Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040402 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Triangle Measure of Tripartite Entanglement

Songbo Xie and Joseph H. Eberly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040403 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Quantum Simulation with Hybrid Tensor Networks

Xiao Yuan, Jinzhao Sun, Junyu Liu, Qi Zhao, and You Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040501 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Entanglement-Assisted Entanglement Purification

F. Riera-Sàbat, P. Sekatski, A. Pirker, and W. Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040502 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

Optically Heralded Entanglement of Superconducting Systems in Quantum Networks

Stefan Krastanov, Hamza Raniwala, Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Kurt Jacobs, Marko Lončar, Matthew J. Reagor, and Dirk R. Englund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040503 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Experimental Quantum Target Detection Approaching the Fundamental Helstrom Limit

Feixiang Xu, Xiao-Ming Zhang, Liang Xu, Tao Jiang, Man-Hong Yung, and Lijian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040504 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Rodeo Algorithm for Quantum Computing

Kenneth Choi, Dean Lee, Joey Bonitati, Zhengrong Qian, and Jacob Watkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040505 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Experimental Single-Copy Entanglement Distillation

Sebastian Ecker, Philipp Sohr, Lukas Bulla, Marcus Huber, Martin Bohmann, and Rupert Ursin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040506 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Tensor-Network Codes

Terry Farrelly, Robert J. Harris, Nathan A. McMahon, and Thomas M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040507 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Wigner Crystallization of Electrons in a One-Dimensional Lattice: A Condensation in the Space of States

Massimo Ostilli and Carlo Presilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040601 (2021) - Published 19 July, 2021

Work Generation from Thermal Noise by Quantum Phase-Sensitive Observation

Tomas Opatrný, Avijit Misra, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040602 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Eigenstate Entanglement: Crossover from the Ground State to Volume Laws

Qiang Miao and Thomas Barthel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040603 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Intimate Relationship between Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter and $Δ N_{eff}$

Kevin J. Kelly, Manibrata Sen, and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 041101 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Exciting Modes due to the Aberration of Gravitational Waves: Measurability for Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Alejandro Torres-Orjuela, Pau Amaro Seoane, Zeyuan Xuan, Alvin J. K. Chua, Mara J. B. Rosell, and Xian Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 041102 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Order-Unity Correction to Hawking Radiation

Eanna E. Flanagan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 041301 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Completing Multiparticle Representations of the Poincaré Group

Csaba Csáki, Sungwoo Hong, Yuri Shirman, Ofri Telem, and John Terning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 041601 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Four-Loop Gauge and Three-Loop Yukawa Beta Functions in a General Renormalizable Theory

Alexander Bednyakov and Andrey Pikelner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 041801 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Novel Relaxation Time Approximation to the Relativistic Boltzmann Equation

Gabriel S. Rocha, Gabriel S. Denicol, and Jorge Noronha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 042301 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Soft-Dielectron Excess in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (A Large Ion Collider Experiment Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 042302 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Speed of Sound and Baryon Cumulants in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Agnieszka Sorensen, Dmytro Oliinychenko, Volker Koch, and Larry McLerran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 042303 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Novel Approach to ${}^{93 m}{Mo}$ Isomer Depletion: Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture in Resonant Transfer Process

J. Rzadkiewicz, M. Polasik, K. Słabkowska, Ł. Syrocki, J. J. Carroll, and C. J. Chiara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 042501 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Influence of a Supercritical Electric Dipole Moment on the Photodetachment of $C_{3} N^{-}$

Malcolm Simpson, Markus Nötzold, Tim Michaelsen, Robert Wild, Franco A. Gianturco, and Roland Wester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043001 (2021) - Published 19 July, 2021

Borromean Droplet in Three-Component Ultracold Bose Gases

Yinfeng Ma, Cheng Peng, and Xiaoling Cui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043002 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Linear Probing of Molecules at Micrometric Distances from a Surface with Sub-Doppler Frequency Resolution

J. Lukusa Mudiayi, I. Maurin, T. Mashimo, J. C. de Aquino Carvalho, D. Bloch, S. K. Tokunaga, B. Darquié, and A. Laliotis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043201 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Laser-Driven Anharmonic Oscillator: Ground-State Dissociation of the Helium Hydride Molecular Ion by Midinfrared Pulses

Philipp Wustelt, Florian Oppermann, Saurabh Mhatre, Matthias Kübel, A. Max Sayler, Manfred Lein, Stefanie Gräfe, and Gerhard G. Paulus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043202 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Emission of Spin-Correlated Matter-Wave Jets from Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Kyungtae Kim, Junhyeok Hur, SeungJung Huh, Soonwon Choi, and Jae-yoon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043401 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Autoheterodyne Characterization of Narrow-Band Photon Pairs

Vindhiya Prakash, Aleksandra Sierant, and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043601 (2021) - Published 19 July, 2021

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Observation of a Dissipative Time Crystal

Hans Keßler, Phatthamon Kongkhambut, Christoph Georges, Ludwig Mathey, Jayson G. Cosme, and Andreas Hemmerich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043602 (2021) - Published 19 July, 2021

Experiments successfully capture signatures of a discrete time crystal phase in an open, quantum many-body system.

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Space-Time Quantum Metasurfaces

Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp, Abul K. Azad, and Diego A. R. Dalvit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043603 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

When it’s modulated by laser beams, a surface made of polarizable meta-atoms can entangle a photon’s properties in multiple, controllable ways.

One-Photon Solutions to the Multiqubit Multimode Quantum Rabi Model for Fast $W$ -State Generation

Jie Peng, Juncong Zheng, Jing Yu, Pinghua Tang, G. Alvarado Barrios, Jianxin Zhong, Enrique Solano, F. Albarrán-Arriagada, and Lucas Lamata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043604 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Polarization Singularities of Photonic Quasicrystals in Momentum Space

Zhiyuan Che, Yanbin Zhang, Wenzhe Liu, Maoxiong Zhao, Jiajun Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Fang Guan, Xiaohan Liu, Wei Liu, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043901 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Experimental Observation of Phase Transitions in Spatial Photonic Ising Machine

Yisheng Fang, Junyi Huang, and Zhichao Ruan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043902 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

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Deeply Subwavelength Localization with Reverberation-Coded Aperture

Michael del Hougne, Sylvain Gigan, and Philipp del Hougne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043903 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

An echo chamber captures small-scale information about an object without the need for up-close probing.

Optically Reconfigurable Spin-Valley Hall Effect of Light in Coupled Nonlinear Ring Resonator Lattice

Haofan Yang, Jing Xu, Zhongfei Xiong, Xinda Lu, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Hanghang Li, Yuntian Chen, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 043904 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Using Frost to Promote Cassie Ice on Hydrophilic Pillars

Hyunggon Park, S. Farzad Ahmadi, and Jonathan B. Boreyko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 044501 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

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On-Demand Bulk Nanobubble Generation through Pulsed Laser Illumination

Juan Manuel Rosselló and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 044502 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

An optical technique uses a pump (laser pulse) and probe (collimated laser beam) to generate nanosized gas bubbles in water.

Drops on the Underside of a Slightly Inclined Wet Substrate Move Too Fast to Grow

Etienne Jambon-Puillet, Pier Giuseppe Ledda, François Gallaire, and P.-T. Brun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 044503 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Deconfined Criticality and Bosonization Duality in Easy-Plane Chern-Simons Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

Vira Shyta, Jeroen van den Brink, and Flavio S. Nogueira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 045701 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Ultrafast X-Ray Diffraction Visualization of $B 1 − B 2$ Phase Transition in KCl under Shock Compression

Y. Y. Zhang, Y. X. Li, D. Fan, N. B. Zhang, J. W. Huang, M. X. Tang, Y. Cai, X. L. Zeng, T. Sun, K. Fezzaa, S. Chen, and S. N. Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 045702 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Experimental Adhesion Energy in van der Waals Crystals and Heterostructures from Atomically Thin Bubbles

Elena Blundo, Tanju Yildirim, Giorgio Pettinari, and Antonio Polimeni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046101 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Density Waves and Electronic Properties of Superconducting Kagome Metals

Hengxin Tan, Yizhou Liu, Ziqiang Wang, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046401 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Fractionalization and Dynamics of Anyons and Their Experimental Signatures in the $ν = n + 1 / 3$ Fractional Quantum Hall State

Ha Quang Trung and Bo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046402 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Identification of Non-Fermi Liquid Physics in a Quantum Critical Metal via Quantum Loop Topography

George Driskell, Samuel Lederer, Carsten Bauer, Simon Trebst, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046601 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Theory for Magnetic-Field-Driven 3D Metal-Insulator Transitions in the Quantum Limit

Peng-Lu Zhao, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046602 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

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Coherent Jetting from a Gate-Defined Channel in Bilayer Graphene

Carolin Gold, Angelika Knothe, Annika Kurzmann, Aitor Garcia-Ruiz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Vladimir Fal’ko, Klaus Ensslin, and Thomas Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 046801 (2021) - Published 20 July, 2021

Studying the current that flows in bilayer graphene, researchers have isolated electron jets associated with specific valley states.

Charge- $4 e$ Superconductivity from Multicomponent Nematic Pairing: Application to Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Rafael M. Fernandes and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047001 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Electric Probe for the Toric Code Phase in Kitaev Materials through the Hyperfine Interaction

Masahiko G. Yamada and Satoshi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047201 (2021) - Published 19 July, 2021

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Electrical Control of Valley-Zeeman Spin-Orbit-Coupling–Induced Spin Precession at Room Temperature

Josep Ingla-Aynés, Franz Herling, Jaroslav Fabian, Luis E. Hueso, and Fèlix Casanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047202 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

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Skyrmion Dynamics at Finite Temperatures: Beyond Thiele’s Equation

Markus Weißenhofer, Levente Rózsa, and Ulrich Nowak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047203 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

Adding a friction term to models helps them better account for how spin textures evolve experimentally at room temperature.

Dynamics of a Vortex Lattice in an Expanding Polariton Quantum Fluid

Riccardo Panico, Guido Macorini, Lorenzo Dominici, Antonio Gianfrate, Antonio Fieramosca, Milena De Giorgi, Giuseppe Gigli, Daniele Sanvitto, Alessandra S. Lanotte, and Dario Ballarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047401 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

Universal Scalings in Two-Dimensional Anisotropic Dipolar Excitonic Systems

Chern Chuang and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 047402 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

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

Odd Viscosity in Active Matter: Microscopic Origin and 3D Effects

Tomer Markovich and Tom C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 048001 (2021) - Published 21 July, 2021

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Elastoplasticity Mediates Dynamical Heterogeneity Below the Mode Coupling Temperature

Rahul N. Chacko, François P. Landes, Giulio Biroli, Olivier Dauchot, Andrea J. Liu, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 048002 (2021) - Published 22 July, 2021

As a cooling liquid nears the glass transition temperature, the dynamic facilitation of heterogeneous rearrangements becomes increasingly long-ranged and elastically-mediated.

Long-Range Nematic Order in Two-Dimensional Active Matter

Benoît Mahault and Hugues Chaté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 048003 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

COMMENTS

Comment on “Spin-Lattice Coupling and the Emergence of the Trimerized Phase in the $S = 1$ Kagome Antiferromagnet ${Na}_{2} {Ti}_{3} {Cl}_{8}$ ”

Daniel I. Khomskii, Takashi Mizokawa, and Sergey V. Streltsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 049701 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021

Paul et al. Reply:

Arpita Paul, Chia-Min Chung, Turan Birol, and Hitesh J. Changlani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 049702 (2021) - Published 23 July, 2021