Volume 127, Issue 7

13 August 2021

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Partition of the global distribution of ocean surface currents into dynamically coherent patches.

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State Aggregations in Markov Chains and Block Models of Networks
Mauro Faccin, Michael T. Schaub, and Jean-Charles Delvenne
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 078301 (2021)

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Observation of Mechanical Faraday Effect in Gaseous Media

Alexander A. Milner, Uri Steinitz, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073901 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Experiments confirm that a light beam’s polarization rotates when it travels through a gas of spinning molecules, a phenomenon previously observed only in rotating solids.

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Spectral Universality of Elastoinertial Turbulence

Sami Yamani, Bavand Keshavarz, Yashasvi Raj, Tamer A. Zaki, Gareth H. McKinley, and Irmgard Bischofberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074501 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

The addition of polymers to fluids leads to the emergence of a new kind of turbulence in fluid jets—as revealed by high-speed imaging experiments.

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Self-Propulsion of Boiling Droplets on Thin Heated Oil Films

Victor Julio Leon and Kripa K. Varanasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074502 (2021) - Published 12 August, 2021

When placed on hot oil films, water droplets self-propel as they boil off, reaching speeds significantly faster than those achieved via most other self-propulsion mechanisms.

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Optimal Non-Markovian Search Strategies with $n$ -Step Memory

Hugues Meyer and Heiko Rieger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070601 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Memory of past events can improve the ability of a random searcher to locate a target.

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Nonclassical Exciton Diffusion in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Koloman Wagner, Jonas Zipfel, Roberto Rosati, Edith Wietek, Jonas D. Ziegler, Samuel Brem, Raül Perea-Causín, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Mikhail M. Glazov, Ermin Malic, and Alexey Chernikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 076801 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

Dark excitons, living for over hundreds of picoseconds as opposed to short-lived bright ones, enable the study of exciton diffusion in 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides under thermal equilibrium conditions.

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

Converting Contextuality into Nonlocality

Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070401 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Liouvillian Skin Effect: Slowing Down of Relaxation Processes without Gap Closing

Taiki Haga, Masaya Nakagawa, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070402 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Lieb-Robinson Bound and Almost-Linear Light Cone in Interacting Boson Systems

Tomotaka Kuwahara and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070403 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Non-Markovian Search Strategies with $n$ -Step Memory

Hugues Meyer and Heiko Rieger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070601 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Memory of past events can improve the ability of a random searcher to locate a target.

Surpassing the Energy Resolution Limit with Ferromagnetic Torque Sensors

Andrea Vinante, Chris Timberlake, Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Hendrik Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070801 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Low Mechanical Loss ${TiO}_{2} : {GeO}_{2}$ Coatings for Reduced Thermal Noise in Gravitational Wave Interferometers

Gabriele Vajente, Le Yang, Aaron Davenport, Mariana Fazio, Alena Ananyeva, Liyuan Zhang, Garilynn Billingsley, Kiran Prasai, Ashot Markosyan, Riccardo Bassiri, Martin M. Fejer, Martin Chicoine, François Schiettekatte, and Carmen S. Menoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 071101 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Rare Events Detected with a Bulk Acoustic Wave High Frequency Gravitational Wave Antenna

Maxim Goryachev, William M. Campbell, Ik Siong Heng, Serge Galliou, Eugene N. Ivanov, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 071102 (2021) - Published 12 August, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Collective Coordinate Model of Kink-Antikink Collisions in $ϕ^{4}$ Theory

N. S. Manton, K. Oleś, T. Romańczukiewicz, and A. Wereszczyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 071601 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

Fermi Constant from Muon Decay Versus Electroweak Fits and Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Unitarity

Andreas Crivellin, Martin Hoferichter, and Claudio Andrea Manzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 071801 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Higgs $p_{T}$ Spectrum and Total Cross Section with Fiducial Cuts at Third Resummed and Fixed Order in QCD

Georgios Billis, Bahman Dehnadi, Markus A. Ebert, Johannes K. L. Michel, and Frank J. Tackmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 072001 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Fully Differential Higgs Boson Production to Third Order in QCD

X. Chen, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover, A. Huss, B. Mistlberger, and A. Pelloni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 072002 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Dibaryon with Highest Charm Number near Unitarity from Lattice QCD

Yan Lyu, Hui Tong, Takuya Sugiura, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Jie Meng, and Takaya Miyamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 072003 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Evolution of Non-Gaussian Hydrodynamic Fluctuations

Xin An, Gökçe Başar, Mikhail Stephanov, and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 072301 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Ab Initio Computation of the Longitudinal Response Function in ${}^{40}{Ca}$

J. E. Sobczyk, B. Acharya, S. Bacca, and G. Hagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 072501 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

Direct $Q$ -Value Determination of the $β^{-}$ Decay of ${}^{187}{Re}$

P. Filianin, C. Lyu, M. Door, K. Blaum, W. J. Huang, M. Haverkort, P. Indelicato, C. H. Keitel, K. Kromer, D. Lange, Y. N. Novikov, A. Rischka, R. X. Schüssler, Ch. Schweiger, S. Sturm, S. Ulmer, Z. Harman, and S. Eliseev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 072502 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Floquet Phonon Lasing in Multimode Optomechanical Systems

Laura Mercadé, Karl Pelka, Roel Burgwal, André Xuereb, Alejandro Martínez, and Ewold Verhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073601 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

Parity-Symmetry-Protected Multiphoton Bundle Emission

Qian Bin, Ying Wu, and Xin-You Lü

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073602 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Subradiant-to-Subradiant Phase Transition in the Bad Cavity Laser

Athreya Shankar, Jarrod T. Reilly, Simon B. Jäger, and Murray J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073603 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Observation of Vacuum-Induced Collective Quantum Beats

Hyok Sang Han, Ahreum Lee, Kanupriya Sinha, Fredrik K. Fatemi, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073604 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Observation of Mechanical Faraday Effect in Gaseous Media

Alexander A. Milner, Uri Steinitz, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, and Valery Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073901 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Experiments confirm that a light beam’s polarization rotates when it travels through a gas of spinning molecules, a phenomenon previously observed only in rotating solids.

Coherent Interference Fringes of Two-Photon Photoluminescence in Individual Au Nanoparticles: The Critical Role of the Intermediate State

Yao Li, Yonggang Yang, Chengbing Qin, Yunrui Song, Shuangping Han, Guofeng Zhang, Ruiyun Chen, Jianyong Hu, Liantuan Xiao, and Suotang Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 073902 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectral Universality of Elastoinertial Turbulence

Sami Yamani, Bavand Keshavarz, Yashasvi Raj, Tamer A. Zaki, Gareth H. McKinley, and Irmgard Bischofberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074501 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

The addition of polymers to fluids leads to the emergence of a new kind of turbulence in fluid jets—as revealed by high-speed imaging experiments.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Propulsion of Boiling Droplets on Thin Heated Oil Films

Victor Julio Leon and Kripa K. Varanasi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074502 (2021) - Published 12 August, 2021

When placed on hot oil films, water droplets self-propel as they boil off, reaching speeds significantly faster than those achieved via most other self-propulsion mechanisms.

Lévy Walks and Path Chaos in the Dispersal of Elongated Structures Moving across Cellular Vortical Flows

Shi-Yuan Hu, Jun-Jun Chu, Michael J. Shelley, and Jun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074503 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stable and Scalable Multistage Terahertz-Driven Particle Accelerator

Heng Tang, Lingrong Zhao, Pengfei Zhu, Xiao Zou, Jia Qi, Ya Cheng, Jiaqi Qiu, Xianggang Hu, Wei Song, Dao Xiang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 074801 (2021) - Published 12 August, 2021

Nonuniform Absorption and Scattered Light in Direct-Drive Implosions Driven by Polarization Smoothing

D. H. Edgell, P. B. Radha, J. Katz, A. Shvydky, D. Turnbull, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 075001 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Gauge-Field Extended $k \cdot p$ Method and Novel Topological Phases

L. B. Shao, Q. Liu, R. Xiao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Y. X. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 076401 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Pressure-Induced Excitations in the Out-of-Plane Optical Response of the Nodal-Line Semimetal ZrSiS

J. Ebad-Allah, S. Rojewski, M. Vöst, G. Eickerling, W. Scherer, E. Uykur, Raman Sankar, L. Varrassi, C. Franchini, K.-H. Ahn, J. Kuneš, and C. A. Kuntscher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 076402 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Super-Resonant Transport of Topological Surface States Subjected to In-Plane Magnetic Fields

Song-Bo Zhang, Chang-An Li, Francisco Peña-Benitez, Piotr Surówka, Roderich Moessner, Laurens W. Molenkamp, and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 076601 (2021) - Published 10 August, 2021

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Optical Frequency Up-Conversion of the Ferromagnetic Resonance in an Ultrathin Garnet Mediated by Magnetoelastic Coupling

Lucile Soumah, Davide Bossini, Abdelmadjid Anane, and Stefano Bonetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 077203 (2021) - Published 11 August, 2021

Origin of Insulating Ferromagnetism in Iron Oxychalcogenide ${Ce}_{2} O_{2} {FeSe}_{2}$

Ling-Fang Lin, Yang Zhang, Gonzalo Alvarez, Adriana Moreo, and Elbio Dagotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 077204 (2021) - Published 13 August, 2021

Real-Time Exciton Dynamics with Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

Jiuyu Sun, Cheng-Wei Lee, Alina Kononov, André Schleife, and Carsten A. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 077401 (2021) - Published 9 August, 2021

Volume 127, Issue 7

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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