Volume 127, Issue 8

20 August 2021

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Emission of water (dyed red) from a self-propelled water droplet surrounded by a mixture of oil and surfactant. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Straight-to-Curvilinear Motion Transition of a Swimming Droplet Caused by the Susceptibility to Fluctuations
Saori Suda, Tomoharu Suda, Takuya Ohmura, and Masatoshi Ichikawa
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088005 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation Bounds the Extent of Anomalous Diffusion

David Hartich and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080601 (2021) - Published 16 August, 2021

Thermodynamics sets constraints on the time window over which anomalous diffusion can occur—a finding that may be relevant to the study of diffusion-controlled cellular processes.

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Solving the Paradox of the Solar Sodium $D_{1}$ Line Polarization

Ernest Alsina Ballester, Luca Belluzzi, and Javier Trujillo Bueno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081101 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

A new model of light-matter interactions solves a decades-old problem by reconciling theoretical predictions and experimental observations of polarized light from the Sun.

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Dynamic Speckle Holography

S. Aime, M. Sabato, L. Xiao, and D. A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088003 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Researchers demonstrate a technique that can track displacements as small as 10 nm with a sensitivity that is independent of field-of-view.

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Collective Entrainment and Confinement Amplify Transport by Schooling Microswimmers

Chenyu Jin, Yibo Chen, Corinna C. Maass, and Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088006 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

According to simulations, a collection of tiny swimming particles can corral a volume of liquid much larger than the sum of the volumes swept along by each individual.

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Origin of the Sharkskin Instability: Nonlinear Dynamics

Stylianos Varchanis, Dionisis Pettas, Yannis Dimakopoulos, and John Tsamopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088001 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

The stretching and recoiling of polymer chains leads to the characteristic ridge pattern as a soft material exits a narrow nozzle.

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Straight-to-Curvilinear Motion Transition of a Swimming Droplet Caused by the Susceptibility to Fluctuations

Saori Suda, Tomoharu Suda, Takuya Ohmura, and Masatoshi Ichikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088005 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

A new model reveals that patterns of internal fluid flow control whether self-propelling water droplets in oil follow linear or curved trajectories.

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Where Is String Theory in the Space of Scattering Amplitudes?

Andrea Guerrieri, João Penedones, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081601 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Scattering-matrix-based techniques are applied for the first time to chart out the space of ultraviolet completions of maximally supersymmetric theories of quantum gravity.

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Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves

Maulik Parikh, Frank Wilczek, and George Zahariade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081602 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

A theoretical analysis suggests that quantum gravity effects might manifest themselves as detectable random fluctuations in the motion of freely falling bodies.

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Observation of New Resonances Decaying to $J / ψ K^{+}$ and $J / ψ ϕ$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 082001 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

LHCb observes four new tetraquarks with two having novel quark content cc̄us̄.

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Three-Dimensional Soundproof Acoustic Metacage

Chenkai Liu, Jinjie Shi, Wei Zhao, Xiaoxi Zhou, Chu Ma, Ruwen Peng, Mu Wang, Zhi Hong Hang, Xiaozhou Liu, Johan Christensen, Nicholas X. Fang, and Yun Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 084301 (2021) - Published 16 August, 2021

A soundproof metamaterial cage blocks incident acoustic waves without preventing air from flowing into the enclosure through an array of portholes.

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Critical Thickness in Superconducting ${LaAlO}_{3} / KTa O_{3} (111)$ Heterostructures

Yanqiu Sun, Yuan Liu, Siyuan Hong, Zheng Chen, Meng Zhang, and Yanwu Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086804 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

The transfer of electrons between layers in an oxide heterostructure due to oxygen vacancies results in an electron gas at the interface, as shown by $i n$ $s i t u$ transport measurements during growth.

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Averaging Local Structure to Predict the Dynamic Propensity in Supercooled Liquids

Emanuele Boattini, Frank Smallenburg, and Laura Filion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088007 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Through a new insight about graph neural network methods, an efficient data-driven approach is able to make predictions about local dynamics in supercooled liquids at a relatively low computational cost.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Detection of the Correlation Rényi Entropy in the Central Spin Model

Mohamad Niknam, Lea F. Santos, and David G. Cory

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080401 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Polymer Physics by Quantum Computing

Cristian Micheletti, Philipp Hauke, and Pietro Faccioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080501 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

Catalytic Quantum Teleportation

Patryk Lipka-Bartosik and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080502 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

Driving Enhanced Quantum Sensing in Partially Accessible Many-Body Systems

Utkarsh Mishra and Abolfazl Bayat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080504 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Tunable Coupling Architecture for Fixed-Frequency Transmon Superconducting Qubits

J. Stehlik, D. M. Zajac, D. L. Underwood, T. Phung, J. Blair, S. Carnevale, D. Klaus, G. A. Keefe, A. Carniol, M. Kumph, Matthias Steffen, and O. E. Dial

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080505 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

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Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation Bounds the Extent of Anomalous Diffusion

David Hartich and Aljaž Godec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080601 (2021) - Published 16 August, 2021

Thermodynamics sets constraints on the time window over which anomalous diffusion can occur—a finding that may be relevant to the study of diffusion-controlled cellular processes.

Entanglement Renormalization of Thermofield Double States

Cheng-Ju Lin, Zhi Li, and Timothy H. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080602 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Liquid-Liquid Critical Point in Phosphorus

Manyi Yang, Tarak Karmakar, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 080603 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Solving the Paradox of the Solar Sodium $D_{1}$ Line Polarization

Ernest Alsina Ballester, Luca Belluzzi, and Javier Trujillo Bueno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081101 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

A new model of light-matter interactions solves a decades-old problem by reconciling theoretical predictions and experimental observations of polarized light from the Sun.

Bayesian Inference for Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Mergers in Third Generation Observatories

Rory Smith, Ssohrab Borhanian, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Francisco Hernandez Vivanco, Scott E. Field, Paul Lasky, Ilya Mandel, Soichiro Morisaki, David Ottaway, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, Eric Thrane, Daniel Töyrä, and Salvatore Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081102 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Atomic Ionization by Scalar Dark Matter and Solar Scalars

H. B. Tran Tan, A. Derevianko, V. A. Dzuba, and V. V. Flambaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081301 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Where Is String Theory in the Space of Scattering Amplitudes?

Andrea Guerrieri, João Penedones, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081601 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Scattering-matrix-based techniques are applied for the first time to chart out the space of ultraviolet completions of maximally supersymmetric theories of quantum gravity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Mechanics of Gravitational Waves

Maulik Parikh, Frank Wilczek, and George Zahariade

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081602 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

A theoretical analysis suggests that quantum gravity effects might manifest themselves as detectable random fluctuations in the motion of freely falling bodies.

Boundary Causality Violating Metrics in Holography

Sergio Hernández-Cuenca, Gary T. Horowitz, Gabriel Treviño, and Diandian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081603 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter with ABRACADABRA-10 cm

Chiara P. Salemi, Joshua W. Foster, Jonathan L. Ouellet, Andrew Gavin, Kaliroë M. W. Pappas, Sabrina Cheng, Kate A. Richardson, Reyco Henning, Yonatan Kahn, Rachel Nguyen, Nicholas L. Rodd, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Lindley Winslow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081801 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Constraints on Lightly Ionizing Particles from CDMSlite

I. Alkhatib et al. (SuperCDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081802 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Consistent Treatment of Axions in the Weak Chiral Lagrangian

Martin Bauer, Matthias Neubert, Sophie Renner, Marvin Schnubel, and Andrea Thamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081803 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Dark Matter Detection with Bound Nuclear Targets: The Poisson Phonon Tail

Yonatan Kahn, Gordan Krnjaic, and Bashi Mandava

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081804 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Migdal Effect in Semiconductors

Simon Knapen, Jonathan Kozaczuk, and Tongyan Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 081805 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

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Observation of New Resonances Decaying to $J / ψ K^{+}$ and $J / ψ ϕ$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 082001 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

LHCb observes four new tetraquarks with two having novel quark content cc̄us̄.

Direct Measurement of the Branching Fractions $B (ψ (3686) \to J / ψ X)$ and $B (ψ (3770) \to J / ψ X)$ , and Observation of the State $R (3760)$ in $e^{+} e^{-} \to J / ψ X$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 082002 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Search for the Elusive Jet-Induced Diffusion Wake in $Z / γ$ -Jets with 2D Jet Tomography in High-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

Wei Chen, Zhong Yang, Yayun He, Weiyao Ke, Long-Gang Pang, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 082301 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Nondissipative Second-Order Transport, Spin, and Pseudogauge Transformations in Hydrodynamics

Shiyong Li, Mikhail A. Stephanov, and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 082302 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Triangle Singularity as the Origin of the $a_{1} (1420)$

G. D. Alexeev et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 082501 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Motional Squeezing for Trapped Ion Transport and Separation

R. T. Sutherland, S. C. Burd, D. H. Slichter, S. B. Libby, and D. Leibfried

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 083201 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Optical Energy-Difference Conservation in a Synthetic Anti-PT-Symmetric System

Sebae Park, Dongjin Lee, Kyungdeuk Park, Heedeuk Shin, Youngsun Choi, and Jae Woong Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 083601 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Generating Stable Spin Squeezing by Squeezed-Reservoir Engineering

Si-Yuan Bai and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 083602 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Unveiling the Link between Airy-like Self-Acceleration and Diametric Drive Acceleration

Ping Zhang, Yi Hu, Domenico Bongiovanni, Zhili Li, Roberto Morandotti, Zhigang Chen, and Jingjun Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 083901 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

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Three-Dimensional Soundproof Acoustic Metacage

Chenkai Liu, Jinjie Shi, Wei Zhao, Xiaoxi Zhou, Chu Ma, Ruwen Peng, Mu Wang, Zhi Hong Hang, Xiaozhou Liu, Johan Christensen, Nicholas X. Fang, and Yun Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 084301 (2021) - Published 16 August, 2021

A soundproof metamaterial cage blocks incident acoustic waves without preventing air from flowing into the enclosure through an array of portholes.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Direct Correlation Function of a Crystalline Solid

S.-C. Lin, M. Oettel, J. M. Häring, R. Haussmann, M. Fuchs, and G. Kahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 085501 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Transient Hydrodynamic Lattice Cooling by Picosecond Laser Irradiation of Graphite

Jihoon Jeong, Xun Li, Sangyeop Lee, Li Shi, and Yaguo Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 085901 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Quasiparticle Effective Mass of the Three-Dimensional Fermi Liquid by Quantum Monte Carlo

Sam Azadi, N. D. Drummond, and W. M. C. Foulkes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086401 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Strange Metals as Ersatz Fermi Liquids

Dominic V. Else and T. Senthil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086601 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Stability of Time-Reversal Symmetry Protected Topological Phases

Tian-Shu Deng, Lei Pan, Yu Chen, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086801 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Preparation and Readout of Multielectron High-Spin States in a Gate-Defined GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Dot

H. Kiyama, K. Yoshimi, T. Kato, T. Nakajima, A. Oiwa, and S. Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086802 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Quasiparticle Energy Relaxation in a Gas of One-Dimensional Fermions with Coulomb Interaction

Zoran Ristivojevic and K. A. Matveev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086803 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

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Critical Thickness in Superconducting ${LaAlO}_{3} / KTa O_{3} (111)$ Heterostructures

Yanqiu Sun, Yuan Liu, Siyuan Hong, Zheng Chen, Meng Zhang, and Yanwu Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086804 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

Quantum-Well Bound States in Graphene Heterostructure Interfaces

Zhongwei Dai (代中伟), Zhaoli Gao, Sergey S. Pershoguba, Nikhil Tiwale, Ashwanth Subramanian, Qicheng Zhang, Calley Eads, Samuel A. Tenney, Richard M. Osgood, Chang-Yong Nam, Jiadong Zang, A. T. Charlie Johnson, and Jerzy T. Sadowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 086805 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Microwave-Induced Inverse Faraday Effect in Superconductors

A. Hamed Majedi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087001 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Four-Spin Terms and the Origin of the Chiral Spin Liquid in Mott Insulators on the Triangular Lattice

Tessa Cookmeyer, Johannes Motruk, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087201 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

Three-Dimensional Measurement of Magnetic Moment Vectors Using Electron Magnetic Chiral Dichroism at Atomic Scale

Dongsheng Song and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087202 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

Remote Generation of Magnon Schrödinger Cat State via Magnon-Photon Entanglement

Feng-Xiao Sun, Sha-Sha Zheng, Yang Xiao, Qihuang Gong, Qiongyi He, and Ke Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087203 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

Optical Gain in Solids after Ultrafast Strong-Field Excitation

Muhammad Qasim, Dmitry A. Zimin, and Vladislav S. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087401 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

Free-Carrier-Induced Ferroelectricity in Layered Perovskites

Shutong Li and Turan Birol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087601 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Ordering of Oxygen Vacancies and Related Ferroelectric Properties in ${HfO}_{2 - δ}$

Konstantin Z. Rushchanskii, Stefan Blügel, and Marjana Ležaić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 087602 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

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

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Origin of the Sharkskin Instability: Nonlinear Dynamics

Stylianos Varchanis, Dionisis Pettas, Yannis Dimakopoulos, and John Tsamopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088001 (2021) - Published 17 August, 2021

The stretching and recoiling of polymer chains leads to the characteristic ridge pattern as a soft material exits a narrow nozzle.

Self-Induced Heterogeneity in Deeply Supercooled Liquids

Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088002 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

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Dynamic Speckle Holography

S. Aime, M. Sabato, L. Xiao, and D. A. Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088003 (2021) - Published 18 August, 2021

Researchers demonstrate a technique that can track displacements as small as 10 nm with a sensitivity that is independent of field-of-view.

Defect Superdiffusion and Unbinding in a 2D XY Model of Self-Driven Rotors

Ylann Rouzaire and Demian Levis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088004 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

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Straight-to-Curvilinear Motion Transition of a Swimming Droplet Caused by the Susceptibility to Fluctuations

Saori Suda, Tomoharu Suda, Takuya Ohmura, and Masatoshi Ichikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088005 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021

A new model reveals that patterns of internal fluid flow control whether self-propelling water droplets in oil follow linear or curved trajectories.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Entrainment and Confinement Amplify Transport by Schooling Microswimmers

Chenyu Jin, Yibo Chen, Corinna C. Maass, and Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088006 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

According to simulations, a collection of tiny swimming particles can corral a volume of liquid much larger than the sum of the volumes swept along by each individual.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Averaging Local Structure to Predict the Dynamic Propensity in Supercooled Liquids

Emanuele Boattini, Frank Smallenburg, and Laura Filion

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 088007 (2021) - Published 20 August, 2021

ERRATA

Erratum: Azimuthal Anisotropy of $K_{S}^{0}$ and $Λ + \bar{Λ}$ Production at Midrapidity from $Au + Au$ Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 130 GeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 132301 (2002)]

C. Adler et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 089901 (2021) - Published 19 August, 2021