Volume 128, Issue 1

7 January 2022

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To turn on an acoustic transistor, ultrasound arriving at the gate (bottom) heats and expands the base plate, changing the spacing in two lattices of slightly different-sized pillars and inducing a topological transition that guides sound along the interface. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Topological Phononic Logic
Harris Pirie, Shuvom Sadhuka, Jennifer Wang, Radu Andrei, and Jennifer E. Hoffman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015501 (2022)

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Fate of Measurement-Induced Phase Transition in Long-Range Interactions

Takaaki Minato, Koudai Sugimoto, Tomotaka Kuwahara, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010603 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new study predicts the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits.

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Measurement-Induced Transition in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Circuits

Maxwell Block, Yimu Bao, Soonwon Choi, Ehud Altman, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010604 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new study predicts the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits.

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Measurement-Induced Dark State Phase Transitions in Long-Ranged Fermion Systems

T. Müller, S. Diehl, and M. Buchhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010605 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new study predicts the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits.

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Nonreciprocal and Non-Hermitian Material Response Inspired by Semiconductor Transistors

Sylvain Lannebère, David E. Fernandes, Tiago A. Morgado, and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013902 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

A new metamaterial device can amplify and manipulate electromagnetic waves, a capability necessary for advancing photonics platforms.

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Dionysian Hard Sphere Packings Are Mechanically Stable at Vanishingly Low Densities

R. C. Dennis and E. I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 018002 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new strategy for packing hard spheres of different sizes could lead to novel ways of creating strong, lightweight materials.

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Guiding Self-Assembly of Active Colloids by Temporal Modulation of Activity

Bo Zhang, Alexey Snezhko, and Andrey Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 018004 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Active particles organize into mesmerizing patterns in response to a time-varying electric field.

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Self-Consistent-Field Method for Correlated Many-Electron Systems with an Entropic Cumulant Energy

Jian Wang and Evert Jan Baerends

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

A self-consistent method based on density matrix functional theory delivers accurate and computationally efficient calculation of many-electron correlations.

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Measurement of Penrose Superradiance in a Photon Superfluid

Maria Chiara Braidotti, Radivoje Prizia, Calum Maitland, Francesco Marino, Angus Prain, Ilya Starshynov, Niclas Westerberg, Ewan M. Wright, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013901 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

The analogue of Penrose superradiance is observed in a nonlinear photonics platform.

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Topological Phononic Logic

Harris Pirie, Shuvom Sadhuka, Jennifer Wang, Radu Andrei, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015501 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

The degeneracy of a topological acoustic logic gate exploiting a large phase space of accidental degeneracies in a honeycomb lattice can be broken by tuning parameters such as temperature.

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Direct Atomic-Scale Observation of Ultrasmall Ag Nanowires that Exhibit fcc, bcc, and hcp Structures under Bending

Shiduo Sun, Dongwei Li, Chenpeng Yang, Libo Fu, Deli Kong, Yan Lu, Yizhong Guo, Danmin Liu, Pengfei Guan, Ze Zhang, Jianghua Chen, Wenquan Ming, Lihua Wang, and Xiaodong Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015701 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Bending silver nanowires leads to a previously unseen series of phase transformations, FCC $\to$ BCC $\to$ HCP $\to$ FCC, where the last is a twin version of the starting FCC structure.

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Real-Time $G W$ : Toward an Ab Initio Description of the Ultrafast Carrier and Exciton Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Materials

E. Perfetto, Y. Pavlyukh, and G. Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 016801 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

The GW method, a popular tool to calculate electronic and optical properties of correlated ground states, is extended to the time domain to study ultrafast quantum phenomena in 2D materials.

LETTERS

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

Eavesdropping on the Decohering Environment: Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Origin of Objective Classical Reality

Akram Touil, Bin Yan, Davide Girolami, Sebastian Deffner, and Wojciech Hubert Zurek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010401 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Exceptional Bound States and Negative Entanglement Entropy

Ching Hua Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010402 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Full Network Nonlocality

Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Nicolas Gisin, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010403 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Ultimate Accuracy Limit of Quantum Pulse-Compression Ranging

Quntao Zhuang and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010501 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Scaling of Entanglement Entropy at Deconfined Quantum Criticality

Jiarui Zhao, Yan-Cheng Wang, Zheng Yan, Meng Cheng, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010601 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Finite-Time Quantum Landauer Principle and Quantum Coherence

Tan Van Vu and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010602 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

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Fate of Measurement-Induced Phase Transition in Long-Range Interactions

Takaaki Minato, Koudai Sugimoto, Tomotaka Kuwahara, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010603 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new study predicts the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits.

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Measurement-Induced Transition in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Circuits

Maxwell Block, Yimu Bao, Soonwon Choi, Ehud Altman, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010604 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new study predicts the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits.

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Measurement-Induced Dark State Phase Transitions in Long-Ranged Fermion Systems

T. Müller, S. Diehl, and M. Buchhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010605 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new study predicts the measurement-induced phase-transition behavior for quantum systems that have long-range coupling between their qubits.

Thermodynamic Stability Implies Causality

L. Gavassino, M. Antonelli, and B. Haskell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010606 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Sequential Generation of Projected Entangled-Pair States

Zhi-Yuan Wei, Daniel Malz, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 010607 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Bremsstrahlung and Hidden Supersymmetry of Spinning Bodies

Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, and Jan Steinhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 011101 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Model of Persistent Breaking of Discrete Symmetry

Noam Chai, Anatoly Dymarsky, and Michael Smolkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 011601 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Exponentially Small Cosmological Constant in String Theory

Mehmet Demirtas, Manki Kim, Liam McAllister, Jakob Moritz, and Andres Rios-Tascon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 011602 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

First Direct Detection Constraints on Planck-Scale Mass Dark Matter with Multiple-Scatter Signatures Using the DEAP-3600 Detector

P. Adhikari et al. (DEAP Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 011801 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Precision Measurement of the Lamb Shift in Muonium

B. Ohayon, G. Janka, I. Cortinovis, Z. Burkley, L. de Sousa Borges, E. Depero, A. Golovizin, X. Ni, Z. Salman, A. Suter, C. Vigo, T. Prokscha, and P. Crivelli (Mu-MASS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 011802 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

First Measurement of Polarizations in the Decay $D^{0} \to ω φ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 011803 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Measurement of Prompt $D^{0}$ , $Λ_{c}^{+}$ , and $Σ_{c}^{0, + +} (2455)$ Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 012001 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Mixed Strong-Electroweak Corrections to the Drell-Yan Process

Roberto Bonciani, Luca Buonocore, Massimiliano Grazzini, Stefan Kallweit, Narayan Rana, Francesco Tramontano, and Alessandro Vicini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 012002 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Jet Tomography in Heavy-Ion Collisions with Deep Learning

Yi-Lun Du, Daniel Pablos, and Konrad Tywoniuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 012301 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Self-Consistent-Field Method for Correlated Many-Electron Systems with an Entropic Cumulant Energy

Jian Wang and Evert Jan Baerends

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013001 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

A self-consistent method based on density matrix functional theory delivers accurate and computationally efficient calculation of many-electron correlations.

Interaction Control and Bright Solitons in Coherently Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. Sanz, A. Frölian, C. S. Chisholm, C. R. Cabrera, and L. Tarruell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013201 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

Enhanced Coupling of Electron and Nuclear Spins by Quantum Tunneling Resonances

Anatoli Tsinovoy, Or Katz, Arie Landau, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013401 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics in Hyperbolic Space: From Photon Bound States to Frustrated Spin Models

Przemyslaw Bienias, Igor Boettcher, Ron Belyansky, Alicia J. Kollár, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013601 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Intensive Cavity-Magnomechanical Cooling of a Levitated Macromagnet

A. Kani, B. Sarma, and J. Twamley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013602 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

Localization and Criticality in Antiblockaded Two-Dimensional Rydberg Atom Arrays

Fangli Liu, Zhi-Cheng Yang, Przemyslaw Bienias, Thomas Iadecola, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013603 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Active Frequency Measurement on Superradiant Strontium Clock Transitions

Yuan Zhang, Chongxin Shan, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013604 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Measurement of Penrose Superradiance in a Photon Superfluid

Maria Chiara Braidotti, Radivoje Prizia, Calum Maitland, Francesco Marino, Angus Prain, Ilya Starshynov, Niclas Westerberg, Ewan M. Wright, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013901 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

The analogue of Penrose superradiance is observed in a nonlinear photonics platform.

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Nonreciprocal and Non-Hermitian Material Response Inspired by Semiconductor Transistors

Sylvain Lannebère, David E. Fernandes, Tiago A. Morgado, and Mário G. Silveirinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 013902 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

A new metamaterial device can amplify and manipulate electromagnetic waves, a capability necessary for advancing photonics platforms.

Coherence of Velocity Fluctuations in Turbulent Flows

G. Prabhudesai, S. Perrard, F. Pétrélis, and S. Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 014501 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

Phase Transition to Turbulence in Spatially Extended Shear Flows

Lukasz Klotz, Grégoire Lemoult, Kerstin Avila, and Björn Hof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 014502 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Self-Generated Plasma Rotation in a Z-Pinch Implosion with Preembedded Axial Magnetic Field

M. Cvejić, D. Mikitchuk, E. Kroupp, R. Doron, P. Sharma, Y. Maron, A. L. Velikovich, A. Fruchtman, I. E. Ochs, E. J. Kolmes, and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015001 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Triangular Pair Density Wave in Confined Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$

Pramodh Senarath Yapa, Rufus Boyack, and Joseph Maciejko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015301 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

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Topological Phononic Logic

Harris Pirie, Shuvom Sadhuka, Jennifer Wang, Radu Andrei, and Jennifer E. Hoffman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015501 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

The degeneracy of a topological acoustic logic gate exploiting a large phase space of accidental degeneracies in a honeycomb lattice can be broken by tuning parameters such as temperature.

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Direct Atomic-Scale Observation of Ultrasmall Ag Nanowires that Exhibit fcc, bcc, and hcp Structures under Bending

Shiduo Sun, Dongwei Li, Chenpeng Yang, Libo Fu, Deli Kong, Yan Lu, Yizhong Guo, Danmin Liu, Pengfei Guan, Ze Zhang, Jianghua Chen, Wenquan Ming, Lihua Wang, and Xiaodong Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015701 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Bending silver nanowires leads to a previously unseen series of phase transformations, FCC $\to$ BCC $\to$ HCP $\to$ FCC, where the last is a twin version of the starting FCC structure.

Optical Control of Multistage Phase Transition via Phonon Coupling in ${MoTe}_{2}$

Meng-Xue Guan, Xin-Bao Liu, Da-Qiang Chen, Xuan-Yi Li, Ying-Peng Qi, Qing Yang, Pei-Wei You, and Sheng Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015702 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Different Critical Exponents on Two Sides of a Transition: Observation of Crossover from Ising to Heisenberg Exchange in Skyrmion Host ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

Harish Chandr Chauhan, Birendra Kumar, Ankita Tiwari, Jeetendra Kumar Tiwari, and Subhasis Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015703 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

Disorder-Induced Ordering in Gallium Oxide Polymorphs

Alexander Azarov, Calliope Bazioti, Vishnukanthan Venkatachalapathy, Ponniah Vajeeston, Edouard Monakhov, and Andrej Kuznetsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015704 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Dynamic Strength of Iron at High Pressures and Strain Rates

Vatsa Gandhi, Suraj Ravindran, and Guruswami Ravichandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015705 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Heat Conduction Theory Including Phonon Coherence

Zhongwei Zhang, Yangyu Guo, Marc Bescond, Jie Chen, Masahiro Nomura, and Sebastian Volz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 015901 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Identifying the $ν = \frac{5}{2}$ Topological Order through Charge Transport Measurements

Misha Yutushui, Ady Stern, and David F. Mross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 016401 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Phase-Manipulation-Induced Majorana Mode and Braiding Realization in Iron-Based Superconductor Fe(Te,Se)

Rui Song, Ping Zhang, and Ning Hao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 016402 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

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Real-Time $G W$ : Toward an Ab Initio Description of the Ultrafast Carrier and Exciton Dynamics in Two-Dimensional Materials

E. Perfetto, Y. Pavlyukh, and G. Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 016801 (2022) - Published 4 January, 2022

The GW method, a popular tool to calculate electronic and optical properties of correlated ground states, is extended to the time domain to study ultrafast quantum phenomena in 2D materials.

Kubo Formula for Non-Hermitian Systems and Tachyon Optical Conductivity

Doru Sticlet, Balázs Dóra, and Cătălin Paşcu Moca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 016802 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Quasiparticle Scattering in a Superconductor near a Nematic Critical Point: Resonance Mode and Multiple Attractive Channels

Dimitri Pimenov, Alex Kamenev, and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017001 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Layer-Number-Dependent Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Behavior in ${MnSb}_{2} {Te}_{4}$

Zhihao Zang, Yaozheng Zhu, Ming Xi, Shangjie Tian, Tingting Wang, Pingfan Gu, Yuxuan Peng, Shiqi Yang, Xiaolong Xu, Yanping Li, Bo Han, Liwei Liu, Yeliang Wang, Peng Gao, Jinbo Yang, Hechang Lei, Yuan Huang, and Yu Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017201 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism at an Oxide-Nitride Interface

Qiao Jin et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017202 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Domain Textures in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Ziyu Liu, Ursula Wurstbauer, Lingjie Du, Ken W. West, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Michael J. Manfra, and Aron Pinczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017401 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

Construction of Fractal Order and Phase Transition with Rydberg Atoms

Nayan E. Myerson-Jain, Stephen Yan, David Weld, and Cenke Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017601 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

Einstein–de Haas Nanorotor

W. Izumida, R. Okuyama, K. Sato, T. Kato, and M. Matsuo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 017701 (2022) - Published 3 January, 2022

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

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Dionysian Hard Sphere Packings Are Mechanically Stable at Vanishingly Low Densities

R. C. Dennis and E. I. Corwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 018002 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

A new strategy for packing hard spheres of different sizes could lead to novel ways of creating strong, lightweight materials.

Yield Stress Aging in Attractive Colloidal Suspensions

Francesco Bonacci, Xavier Chateau, Eric M. Furst, Julie Goyon, and Anaël Lemaître

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 018003 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022

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Guiding Self-Assembly of Active Colloids by Temporal Modulation of Activity

Bo Zhang, Alexey Snezhko, and Andrey Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 018004 (2022) - Published 7 January, 2022

Active particles organize into mesmerizing patterns in response to a time-varying electric field.

Activation of Topological Defects Induces a Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Epithelial Monolayers

Yixia Chen, Qigan Gao, Jingchen Li, Fangtao Mao, Ruowen Tang, and Hongyuan Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 018101 (2022) - Published 5 January, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Vibrational Frequencies of Cerium-Oxide-Bound CO: A Challenge for Conventional DFT Methods [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 256101 (2020)]

Pablo G. Lustemberg, Philipp Plessow, Yuemin Wang, Chengwu Yang, Alexei Nefedov, Felix Studt, Christof Wöll, and M. Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 019901 (2022) - Published 6 January, 2022