Volume 127, Issue 9

27 August 2021

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On the Cover

Cardiac tissue with fibrosis (a) and subsequent snapshots (b)--(f) show the formation and persistence of turbulent rotational activity, called reentry (blue box), related to the onset of arrhythmia.

From the article:

Minimal Functional Clusters Predict the Probability of Reentry in Cardiac Fibrotic Tissue
Farhad Pashakhanloo and Alexander V. Panfilov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098101 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Statistics of Waves in a Random Time-Varying Medium

R. Carminati, H. Chen, R. Pierrat, and B. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 094101 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

A general model for wave propagation in a random time-dependent medium demonstrates the existence of universal statistical distributions of the wave energy.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unraveling the Secrets of Turbulence in a Fluid Puff

Andrea Mazzino and Marco Edoardo Rosti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 094501 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Bulk properties constitute only a small component of the dynamics in turbulent clouds of droplets.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anapole Meta-Atoms: Nonradiating Electric and Magnetic Sources

Esmaeel Zanganeh, Andrey Evlyukhin, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Mingzhao Song, Elizaveta Nenasheva, and Polina Kapitanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096804 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

A single ultrahigh permittivity dielectric hollow disk excited by electric or magnetic pointlike dipole antennae can act as an electric or magnetic nonradiating source.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractional Excitations in Non-Euclidean Elastic Plates

Kai Sun and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098001 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Excitations in a classical elastic plate provide an analog of fractional topological excitations in strongly correlated systems, leading to novel robust topological mechanical phenomena.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision of Protein Thermometry

Michael Vennettilli, Soutick Saha, Ushasi Roy, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098102 (2021) - Published 26 August, 2021

A derivation of the fundamental limits to the precision of cellular temperature sensing reveals that the extrinsic limit, based on thermal fluctuations in the environment, is orders of magnitude more precise than observed for cells.

LETTERS

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

Observation of Non-Hermitian Topology with Nonunitary Dynamics of Solid-State Spins

Wengang Zhang, Xiaolong Ouyang, Xianzhi Huang, Xin Wang, Huili Zhang, Yefei Yu, Xiuying Chang, Yanqing Liu, Dong-Ling Deng, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090501 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Conditionally Rigorous Mitigation of Multiqubit Measurement Errors

Michael R. Geller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090502 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Recovering Quantum Correlations in Optical Lattices from Interaction Quenches

Marek Gluza and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090503 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

High-Efficiency Arbitrary Quantum Operation on a High-Dimensional Quantum System

W. Cai, J. Han, L. Hu, Y. Ma, X. Mu, W. Wang, Y. Xu, Z. Hua, H. Wang, Y. P. Song, J.-N. Zhang, C.-L. Zou, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090504 (2021) - Published 26 August, 2021

Between Shor and Steane: A Unifying Construction for Measuring Error Syndromes

Shilin Huang and Kenneth R. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090505 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Universal Approximation Property of Quantum Machine Learning Models in Quantum-Enhanced Feature Spaces

Takahiro Goto, Quoc Hoan Tran, and Kohei Nakajima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090506 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Dynamical Scaling of Surface Roughness and Entanglement Entropy in Disordered Fermion Models

Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Yuki Kawaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090601 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Discrete Time-Crystalline Order Enabled by Quantum Many-Body Scars: Entanglement Steering via Periodic Driving

N. Maskara, A. A. Michailidis, W. W. Ho, D. Bluvstein, S. Choi, M. D. Lukin, and M. Serbyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 090602 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Thermodynamics of AdS Black Holes: Critical Behavior of the Central Charge

Wan Cong, David Kubizňák, and Robert B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 091301 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Impact of Dynamical Collapse Models on Inflationary Cosmology

A. Gundhi, J. L. Gaona-Reyes, M. Carlesso, and A. Bassi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 091302 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Breaking of Gauge Symmetry in Lattice Gauge Theories

Claudio Bonati, Andrea Pelissetto, and Ettore Vicari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 091601 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Is the Standard Model in the Swampland? Consistency Requirements from Gravitational Scattering

Katsuki Aoki, Tran Quang Loc, Toshifumi Noumi, and Junsei Tokuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 091602 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Third Way to Interacting $p$ -Form Theories

Matteo Broccoli, Nihat Sadik Deger, and Stefan Theisen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 091603 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Fresh Extraction of the Proton Charge Radius from Electron Scattering

Zhu-Fang Cui, Daniele Binosi, Craig D. Roberts, and Sebastian M. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 092001 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Axial Anomaly in $SU (N)$ Yang-Mills Matrix Models

Nirmalendu Acharyya, Mahul Pandey, and Sachindeo Vaidya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 092002 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Observation of $D_{s}^{\pm} / D^{0}$ Enhancement in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 092301 (2021) - Published 26 August, 2021

Multiharmonic Correlations of Different Flow Amplitudes in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 092302 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ionization Energy of the Metastable $2 {}^{1}{S_{0}}$ State of ${}^{4}{He}$ from Rydberg-Series Extrapolation

Gloria Clausen, Paul Jansen, Simon Scheidegger, Josef A. Agner, Hansjürg Schmutz, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093001 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Enhancement of Above Threshold Ionization in Resonantly Excited Helium Nanodroplets

R. Michiels, M. Abu-samha, L. B. Madsen, M. Binz, U. Bangert, L. Bruder, R. Duim, A. Wituschek, A. C. LaForge, R. J. Squibb, R. Feifel, C. Callegari, M. Di Fraia, M. Danailov, M. Manfredda, O. Plekan, K. C. Prince, P. Rebernik, M. Zangrando, F. Stienkemeier, and M. Mudrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093201 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Pulse Energy and Pulse Duration Effects in the Ionization and Fragmentation of Iodomethane by Ultraintense Hard X Rays

X. Li et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093202 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexed Quantum Dense Coding

Yingxuan Chen, Shengshuai Liu, Yanbo Lou, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093601 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Generating Long-Lived Macroscopically Distinct Superposition States in Atomic Ensembles

Wei Qin, Adam Miranowicz, Hui Jing, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093602 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

Experimental Demonstration of Conjugate-Franson Interferometry

Changchen Chen, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Franco N. C. Wong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093603 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Synthetic-Space Photonic Topological Insulators Utilizing Dynamically Invariant Structure

Liat Nemirovsky, Moshe-Ishay Cohen, Yaakov Lumer, Eran Lustig, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093901 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Frequency Comb Generation by Bloch Gain Induced Giant Kerr Nonlinearity

Nikola Opačak, Sandro Dal Cin, Johannes Hillbrand, and Benedikt Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093902 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Speckle Engineering through Singular Value Decomposition of the Transmission Matrix

Louisiane Devaud, Bernhard Rauer, Jakob Melchard, Matthias Kühmayer, Stefan Rotter, and Sylvain Gigan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 093903 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Statistics of Waves in a Random Time-Varying Medium

R. Carminati, H. Chen, R. Pierrat, and B. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 094101 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

A general model for wave propagation in a random time-dependent medium demonstrates the existence of universal statistical distributions of the wave energy.

Exact Analytic Spectra of Asymmetric Modulation Instability in Systems with Self-Steepening Effect

Chong Liu, Yu-Han Wu, Shao-Chun Chen, Xiankun Yao, and Nail Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 094102 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unraveling the Secrets of Turbulence in a Fluid Puff

Andrea Mazzino and Marco Edoardo Rosti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 094501 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Bulk properties constitute only a small component of the dynamics in turbulent clouds of droplets.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Signature of Collective Plasma Effects in Beam-Driven QED Cascades

Kenan Qu, Sebastian Meuren, and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 095001 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

True Mechanism of Spontaneous Order from Turbulence in Two-Dimensional Superfluid Manifolds

Toshiaki Kanai and Wei Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 095301 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Critical Energy Dissipation in a Binary Superfluid Gas by a Moving Magnetic Obstacle

Joon Hyun Kim, Deokhwa Hong, Kyuhwan Lee, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 095302 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Transition from Homogeneous to Localized Deformation in Nanoporous Gold

Ling-Zhi Liu, Ye-Yuan Zhang, Hui Xie, and Hai-Jun Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 095501 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Designing Hyperchaos and Intermittency in Semiconductor Superlattices

E. Mompó, M. Carretero, and L. L. Bonilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096601 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Angstrom-Resolved Interfacial Structure in Buried Organic-Inorganic Junctions

Craig P. Schwartz, Sumana L. Raj, Sasawat Jamnuch, Chris J. Hull, Paolo Miotti, Royce K. Lam, Dennis Nordlund, Can B. Uzundal, Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju, Riccardo Mincigrucci, Laura Foglia, Alberto Simoncig, Marcello Coreno, Claudio Masciovecchio, Luca Giannessi, Luca Poletto, Emiliano Principi, Michael Zuerch, Tod A. Pascal, Walter S. Drisdell, and Richard J. Saykally

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096801 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Interaction-Driven Filling-Induced Metal-Insulator Transitions in 2D Moiré Lattices

Haining Pan and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096802 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Electron Waiting Times in a Strongly Interacting Quantum Dot: Interaction Effects and Higher-Order Tunneling Processes

Philipp Stegmann, Björn Sothmann, Jürgen König, and Christian Flindt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096803 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anapole Meta-Atoms: Nonradiating Electric and Magnetic Sources

Esmaeel Zanganeh, Andrey Evlyukhin, Andrey Miroshnichenko, Mingzhao Song, Elizaveta Nenasheva, and Polina Kapitanova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 096804 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

A single ultrahigh permittivity dielectric hollow disk excited by electric or magnetic pointlike dipole antennae can act as an electric or magnetic nonradiating source.

In-Plane Critical Magnetic Fields in Magic-Angle Twisted Trilayer Graphene

Wei Qin and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 097001 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

High Temperature Superconductivity in a Lightly Doped Quantum Spin Liquid

Hong-Chen Jiang and Steven A. Kivelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 097002 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Robust $d$ -Wave Superconductivity in the Square-Lattice $t − J$ Model

Shoushu Gong, W. Zhu, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 097003 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Microdynamic Study of Spin-Lattice Coupling Effects on Skyrmion Transport

Yifeng Wu, Haohua Wen, Weijin Chen, and Yue Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 097201 (2021) - Published 24 August, 2021

Supermagnonic Propagation in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

G. Fabiani, M. D. Bouman, and J. H. Mentink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 097202 (2021) - Published 25 August, 2021

Hidden Charge Order in an Iron Oxide Square-Lattice Compound

Jung-Hwa Kim, Darren C. Peets, Manfred Reehuis, Peter Adler, Andrey Maljuk, Tobias Ritschel, Morgan C. Allison, Jochen Geck, Jose R. L. Mardegan, Pablo J. Bereciartua Perez, Sonia Francoual, Andrew C. Walters, Thomas Keller, Paula M. Abdala, Philip Pattison, Pinder Dosanjh, and Bernhard Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 097203 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractional Excitations in Non-Euclidean Elastic Plates

Kai Sun and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098001 (2021) - Published 27 August, 2021

Excitations in a classical elastic plate provide an analog of fractional topological excitations in strongly correlated systems, leading to novel robust topological mechanical phenomena.

Minimal Functional Clusters Predict the Probability of Reentry in Cardiac Fibrotic Tissue

Farhad Pashakhanloo and Alexander V. Panfilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098101 (2021) - Published 23 August, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Precision of Protein Thermometry

Michael Vennettilli, Soutick Saha, Ushasi Roy, and Andrew Mugler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098102 (2021) - Published 26 August, 2021

Dynamics-Evolution Correspondence in Protein Structures

Qian-Yuan Tang and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 098103 (2021) - Published 26 August, 2021