Volume 127, Issue 5

30 July 2021

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Snapshot from a simulation of a reconnecting magnetosphere around a black hole. Green curves represent surfaces of magnetic flux and background colors represent components of the plasma velocity. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Magnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres
Ashley Bransgrove, Bart Ripperda, and Alexander Philippov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055101 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bell Nonlocality Is Not Sufficient for the Security of Standard Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

Máté Farkas, Maria Balanzó-Juandó, Karol Łukanowski, Jan Kołodyński, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050503 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Bell nonlocality is insufficient to ensure the security of a type of secure quantum-communications protocol known as DI-QKD.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres

Ashley Bransgrove, Bart Ripperda, and Alexander Philippov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055101 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

First-principles plasma simulations show that black holes can’t keep their magnetic fields.

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Fingerprinting Heatwaves and Cold Spells and Assessing Their Response to Climate Change Using Large Deviation Theory

Vera Melinda Galfi and Valerio Lucarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 058701 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

A new statistical mechanical model indicates how to improve predictive power for heatwaves and cold spells, and also explains the connection between two exceptional events which occurred in 2010, as well as the natural climate variability.

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Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging with Picosecond Temporal Resolution

Bin Wang, Ming-Yang Zheng, Jin-Jian Han, Xin Huang, Xiu-Ping Xie, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053602 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

An update to a technique for imaging around corners allows researchers to capture objects out of the line of sight that have a width of a few human hairs, 100 times tinier than previous demonstrations.

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Deexcitation Dynamics of Muonic Atoms Revealed by High-Precision Spectroscopy of Electronic $K$ X Rays

T. Okumura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053001 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Decay dynamics of iron atoms after capturing muons is measured with unprecedented resolution using superconducting microcalorimeters.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Phase Transition in Magnetic Reconnection

J. Jara-Almonte and H. Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055102 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Fully kinetic plasma simulations in combination with concepts from condensed matter physics, show that the transition from collisional (Sweet-Parker) reconnection to collisionless (Hall) reconnection may be viewed as a thermodynamic phase transition.

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Infinite Berry Curvature of Weyl Fermi Arcs

Dennis Wawrzik, Jhih-Shih You, Jorge I. Facio, Jeroen van den Brink, and Inti Sodemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 056601 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

A divergence of Berry curvature occurring over an entire line in the surface momentum space of Weyl semimetals growing as the inverse distance square to such line, opens the possibility of finding a variety of enhanced Berry-curvature-driven physical effects.

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Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Energy Gaps: Role of Electron Layer Thickness

K. A. Villegas Rosales, P. T. Madathil, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 056801 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

Energy gaps of the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall effect states in GaAs 2D electron systems decrease with increasing layer thickness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong Interminivalley Scattering in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Revealed by High-Temperature Magneto-Oscillations

I. Y. Phinney, D. A. Bandurin, C. Collignon, I. A. Dmitriev, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and P. Jarillo-Herrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 056802 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

A finite displacement field applied across layers in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene points to scattering mechanisms with large momentum transfer.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stability of Superdiffusion in Nearly Integrable Spin Chains

Jacopo De Nardis, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur, and Brayden Ware

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 057201 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Combined analytical and numerical approaches in a range of spin chains at finite temperature point to diffusive transport that may be robust in the presence of external environments.

LETTERS

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

Universal Constraint for Relaxation Rates for Quantum Dynamical Semigroup

Dariusz Chruściński, Gen Kimura, Andrzej Kossakowski, and Yasuhito Shishido

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050401 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Fast Preparation and Detection of a Rydberg Qubit Using Atomic Ensembles

Wenchao Xu, Aditya V. Venkatramani, Sergio H. Cantú, Tamara Šumarac, Valentin Klüsener, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050501 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Engineering Purely Nonlinear Coupling between Superconducting Qubits Using a Quarton

Yufeng Ye, Kaidong Peng, Mahdi Naghiloo, Gregory Cunningham, and Kevin P. O’Brien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050502 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bell Nonlocality Is Not Sufficient for the Security of Standard Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Protocols

Máté Farkas, Maria Balanzó-Juandó, Karol Łukanowski, Jan Kołodyński, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050503 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Bell nonlocality is insufficient to ensure the security of a type of secure quantum-communications protocol known as DI-QKD.

Unitary Long-Time Evolution with Quantum Renormalization Groups and Artificial Neural Networks

Heiko Burau and Markus Heyl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050601 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Rigorous Bounds on the Heating Rate in Thue-Morse Quasiperiodically and Randomly Driven Quantum Many-Body Systems

Takashi Mori, Hongzheng Zhao, Florian Mintert, Johannes Knolle, and Roderich Moessner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 050602 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Deep Search for Decaying Dark Matter with XMM-Newton Blank-Sky Observations

Joshua W. Foster, Marius Kongsore, Christopher Dessert, Yujin Park, Nicholas L. Rodd, Kyle Cranmer, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 051101 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scattering Massive String Resonances through Field-Theory Methods

Max Guillen, Henrik Johansson, Renann Lipinski Jusinskas, and Oliver Schlotterer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 051601 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Moving Mirrors, Page Curves, and Bulk Entropies in ${AdS}_{2}$

Ignacio A. Reyes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 051602 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Anomalous $Z b \bar{b}$ Couplings: From LEP to LHC

Bin Yan and C.-P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 051801 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Search for Displaced Leptons in $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 051802 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Generating Spin Polarization from Vorticity through Nonlocal Collisions

Nora Weickgenannt, Enrico Speranza, Xin-li Sheng, Qun Wang, and Dirk H. Rischke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 052301 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Measurement of $e^{+} e^{-}$ Momentum and Angular Distributions from Linearly Polarized Photon Collisions

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 052302 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Unusual Features of QCD Low-Energy Modes in the Infrared Phase

Andrei Alexandru and Ivan Horváth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 052303 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

Exciting the Isomeric ${}^{229}{Th}$ Nuclear State via Laser-Driven Electron Recollision

Wu Wang, Jie Zhou, Boqun Liu, and Xu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 052501 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Deexcitation Dynamics of Muonic Atoms Revealed by High-Precision Spectroscopy of Electronic $K$ X Rays

T. Okumura et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053001 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

Decay dynamics of iron atoms after capturing muons is measured with unprecedented resolution using superconducting microcalorimeters.

Identity Test of Single ${NV}^{-}$ Centers in Diamond at Hz-Precision Level

Tianyu Xie, Zhiyuan Zhao, Maosen Guo, Mengqi Wang, Fazhan Shi, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053601 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

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Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging with Picosecond Temporal Resolution

Bin Wang, Ming-Yang Zheng, Jin-Jian Han, Xin Huang, Xiu-Ping Xie, Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053602 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

Casimir Light in Dispersive Nanophotonics

Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, John D. Joannopoulos, and Marin Soljačić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053603 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Bench-Top Cooling of a Microwave Mode Using an Optically Pumped Spin Refrigerator

Hao Wu, Shamil Mirkhanov, Wern Ng, and Mark Oxborrow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053604 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Temporal Boundary Solitons and Extreme Superthermal Light Statistics

Chunhao Liang, Sergey A. Ponomarenko, Fei Wang, and Yangjian Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053901 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Ultrafast Frequency-Shift Dynamics at Temporal Boundary Induced by Structural-Dispersion Switching of Waveguides

Fumiaki Miyamaru, Chihiro Mizuo, Toshihiro Nakanishi, Yosuke Nakata, Kakeru Hasebe, Shintaro Nagase, Yu Matsubara, Yusuke Goto, Joel Pérez-Urquizo, Julien Madéo, and Keshav M. Dani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 053902 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Direct Measurements of DT Fuel Preheat from Hot Electrons in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion

A. R. Christopherson, R. Betti, C. J. Forrest, J. Howard, W. Theobald, J. A. Delettrez, M. J. Rosenberg, A. A. Solodov, C. Stoeckl, D. Patel, V. Gopalaswamy, D. Cao, J. L. Peebles, D. H. Edgell, W. Seka, R. Epstein, M. S. Wei, M. Gatu Johnson, R. Simpson, S. P. Regan, and E. M. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055001 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

Neoclassical Tearing Mode Seeding by Nonlinear Three-Wave Interactions in Tokamaks

L. Bardóczi, N. C. Logan, and E. J. Strait

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055002 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Hair and Reconnection in Black Hole Magnetospheres

Ashley Bransgrove, Bart Ripperda, and Alexander Philippov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055101 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

First-principles plasma simulations show that black holes can’t keep their magnetic fields.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermodynamic Phase Transition in Magnetic Reconnection

J. Jara-Almonte and H. Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055102 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Collective Excitations and Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in Dissipative Fermionic Superfluids

Kazuki Yamamoto, Masaya Nakagawa, Naoto Tsuji, Masahito Ueda, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055301 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

Ultrawide Temperature Range Super-Invar Behavior of $R_{2} {(Fe, Co)}_{17}$ Materials ( $R$ = Rare Earth)

Yili Cao, Kun Lin, Sergii Khmelevskyi, Maxim Avdeev, Keith M. Taddei, Qiang Zhang, Qingzhen Huang, Qiang Li, Kenichi Kato, Chiu Chung Tang, Alexandra Gibbs, Chin-Wei Wang, Jinxia Deng, Jun Chen, Hongjie Zhang, and Xianran Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 055501 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Infinite Berry Curvature of Weyl Fermi Arcs

Dennis Wawrzik, Jhih-Shih You, Jorge I. Facio, Jeroen van den Brink, and Inti Sodemann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 056601 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Energy Gaps: Role of Electron Layer Thickness

K. A. Villegas Rosales, P. T. Madathil, Y. J. Chung, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 056801 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

Energy gaps of the 1/3 fractional quantum Hall effect states in GaAs 2D electron systems decrease with increasing layer thickness.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong Interminivalley Scattering in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Revealed by High-Temperature Magneto-Oscillations

I. Y. Phinney, D. A. Bandurin, C. Collignon, I. A. Dmitriev, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and P. Jarillo-Herrero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 056802 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

A finite displacement field applied across layers in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene points to scattering mechanisms with large momentum transfer.

Measurement of Spin Dynamics in a Layered Nickelate Using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy: Evidence for Intrinsic Destabilization of Incommensurate Stripes at Low Temperatures

Alessandro Ricci, Nicola Poccia, Gaetano Campi, Shrawan Mishra, Leonard Müller, Boby Joseph, Bo Shi, Alexey Zozulya, Marcel Buchholz, Christoph Trabant, James C. T. Lee, Jens Viefhaus, Jeroen B. Goedkoop, Agustinus Agung Nugroho, Markus Braden, Sujoy Roy, Michael Sprung, and Christian Schüßler-Langeheine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 057001 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stability of Superdiffusion in Nearly Integrable Spin Chains

Jacopo De Nardis, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Romain Vasseur, and Brayden Ware

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 057201 (2021) - Published 30 July, 2021

Combined analytical and numerical approaches in a range of spin chains at finite temperature point to diffusive transport that may be robust in the presence of external environments.

Isotropic and Anisotropic $g$ -Factor Corrections in GaAs Quantum Dots

Leon C. Camenzind, Simon Svab, Peter Stano, Liuqi Yu, Jeramy D. Zimmerman, Arthur C. Gossard, Daniel Loss, and Dominik M. Zumbühl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 057701 (2021) - Published 29 July, 2021

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

Nonuniform Flow Dynamics Probed by Nanosecond X-Ray Speckle Visibility Spectroscopy

Yanwen Sun, Gabriella Carini, Matthieu Chollet, Franz-Josef Decker, Mike Dunne, Paul Fuoss, Stephan O. Hruszkewycz, Thomas J. Lane, Kazutaka Nakahara, Silke Nelson, Aymeric Robert, Takahiro Sato, Sanghoon Song, G. Brian Stephenson, Mark Sutton, Tim B. Van Driel, Clemens Weninger, and Diling Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 058001 (2021) - Published 28 July, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fingerprinting Heatwaves and Cold Spells and Assessing Their Response to Climate Change Using Large Deviation Theory

Vera Melinda Galfi and Valerio Lucarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 058701 (2021) - Published 27 July, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: Does Ignorance of the Whole Imply Ignorance of the Parts? Large Violations of Noncontextuality in Quantum Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030402 (2011)]

Thomas Vidick and Stephanie Wehner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 059901 (2021) - Published 26 July, 2021