Volume 128, Issue 11

18 March 2022

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Artist rendition of the proton decay of a newly discovered isotope of lutetium. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Nanosecond-Scale Proton Emission from Strongly Oblate-Deformed ${}^{149}{Lu}$
K. Auranen et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112501 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Detecting Heat Leaks with Trapped Ion Qubits

D. Pijn, O. Onishchenko, J. Hilder, U. G. Poschinger, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Uzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110601 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

By determining whether two qubits are coupled to a third “hidden” one, researchers can detect whether energy is irreversibly lost from a quantum system.

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Single-Crystal Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes: High Efficiency in the Ultrathin Limit

C. T. Parzyck, A. Galdi, J. K. Nangoi, W. J. I. DeBenedetti, J. Balajka, B. D. Faeth, H. Paik, C. Hu, T. A. Arias, M. A. Hines, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and J. M. Maxson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114801 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Researchers demonstrate a single-crystal photocathode that can emit electrons with higher efficiency than its predecessors.

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Projectively Enriched Symmetry and Topology in Acoustic Crystals

Haoran Xue, Zihao Wang, Yue-Xin Huang, Zheyu Cheng, Letian Yu, Y. X. Foo, Y. X. Zhao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116802 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

By manipulating symmetries in acoustic lattices, two independent groups have created a topological insulator with a new, exotic topology.

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Acoustic Möbius Insulators from Projective Symmetry

Tianzi Li, Juan Du, Qicheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Xiying Fan, Fan Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116803 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

By manipulating symmetries in acoustic lattices, two independent groups have created a topological insulator with a new, exotic topology.

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Angle Locking of a Levitating Diamond Using Spin Diamagnetism

M. Perdriat, P. Huillery, C. Pellet-Mary, and G. Hétet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117203 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

By tuning the magnetic properties of a tiny levitating diamond, researchers control its orientation in a magnetic field.

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Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current $Δ$ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111801 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

The MicroBooNE collaboration rules out a promising standard model explanation for the MiniBooNE low-energy excess: ∆ baryon radiative decay.

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Nanosecond-Scale Proton Emission from Strongly Oblate-Deformed ${}^{149}{Lu}$

K. Auranen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112501 (2022) - Published 16 March, 2022

An isotope of Lutetium, synthesized for the first time, is found to be the most oblate deformed proton emitter.

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Magnetic-Field Effect as a Tool to Investigate Electron Correlation in Strong-Field Ionization

Kang Lin, Xiang Chen, Sebastian Eckart, Hui Jiang, Alexander Hartung, Daniel Trabert, Kilian Fehre, Jonas Rist, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Markus S. Schöffler, Till Jahnke, Maksim Kunitski, Feng He, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113201 (2022) - Published 16 March, 2022

The role of the magnetic field of light in double ionization explains the lack of nondipole contributions from initial tunneling to recollision.

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Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity

Hanqing Liu, Emilie Huffman, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117202 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in 2D electrons exhibits unexpected symmetry effects.

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Proof for Minimum Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions, a Fractal Bound, and Implications for Biology

H. Çoban and A. Kabakçıoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 118101 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Nested canalizing functions are shown to be the minimum-sensitivity Boolean functions for any activity ratio, a result relevant for explaining the robustness of biological networks.

LETTERS

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

Enhancing Gravitational Interaction between Quantum Systems by a Massive Mediator

Julen S. Pedernales, Kirill Streltsov, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110401 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Decoherence-Induced Exceptional Points in a Dissipative Superconducting Qubit

Weijian Chen, Maryam Abbasi, Byung Ha, Serra Erdamar, Yogesh N. Joglekar, and Kater W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110402 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

Efficient Bipartite Entanglement Detection Scheme with a Quantum Adversarial Solver

Xu-Fei Yin, Yuxuan Du, Yue-Yang Fei, Rui Zhang, Li-Zheng Liu, Yingqiu Mao, Tongliang Liu, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Dacheng Tao, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110501 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Stabilizing a Bosonic Qubit Using Colored Dissipation

Harald Putterman, Joseph Iverson, Qian Xu, Liang Jiang, Oskar Painter, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, and Kyungjoo Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110502 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Universal Unitary Transfer of Continuous-Variable Quantum States into a Few Qubits

Jacob Hastrup, Kimin Park, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Radim Filip, and Ulrik Lund Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110503 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Calibrated Decoders for Experimental Quantum Error Correction

Edward H. Chen, Theodore J. Yoder, Youngseok Kim, Neereja Sundaresan, Srikanth Srinivasan, Muyuan Li, Antonio D. Córcoles, Andrew W. Cross, and Maika Takita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110504 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

Probabilistic Transformations of Quantum Resources

Bartosz Regula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110505 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Random Postselection

Feihu Xu, Yu-Zhe Zhang, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110506 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

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Detecting Heat Leaks with Trapped Ion Qubits

D. Pijn, O. Onishchenko, J. Hilder, U. G. Poschinger, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and R. Uzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110601 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

By determining whether two qubits are coupled to a third “hidden” one, researchers can detect whether energy is irreversibly lost from a quantum system.

Global Quenches after Localized Perturbations

Maurizio Fagotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110602 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

Finite-Time Dynamical Phase Transition in Nonequilibrium Relaxation

Jan Meibohm and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 110603 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Searching for New Physics with a Levitated-Sensor-Based Gravitational-Wave Detector

Nancy Aggarwal, George P. Winstone, Mae Teo, Masha Baryakhtar, Shane L. Larson, Vicky Kalogera, and Andrew A. Geraci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111101 (2022) - Published 16 March, 2022

Destabilizing the Fundamental Mode of Black Holes: The Elephant and the Flea

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Kyriakos Destounis, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, Emanuele Berti, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111103 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Detecting Subsolar-Mass Primordial Black Holes in Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals with LISA and Einstein Telescope

Susanna Barsanti, Valerio De Luca, Andrea Maselli, and Paolo Pani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111104 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Quantum Hair from Gravity

Xavier Calmet, Roberto Casadio, Stephen D. H. Hsu, and Folkert Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111301 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Kramers-Wannier-like Duality Defects in $(3 + 1) D$ Gauge Theories

Justin Kaidi, Kantaro Ohmori, and Yunqin Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111601 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Folding Amplitudes into Form Factors: An Antipodal Duality

Lance J. Dixon, Ömer Gürdoğan, Andrew J. McLeod, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111602 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

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Search for Neutrino-Induced Neutral-Current $Δ$ Radiative Decay in MicroBooNE and a First Test of the MiniBooNE Low Energy Excess under a Single-Photon Hypothesis

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 111801 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

The MicroBooNE collaboration rules out a promising standard model explanation for the MiniBooNE low-energy excess: ∆ baryon radiative decay.

Novel Coupled Channel Framework Connecting the Quark Model and Lattice QCD for the Near-threshold $D_{s}$ States

Zhi Yang, Guang-Juan Wang, Jia-Jun Wu, Makoto Oka, and Shi-Lin Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112001 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Mixed Leptonic and Hadronic Corrections to the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

Martin Hoferichter and Thomas Teubner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112002 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Nuclear Physics

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Nanosecond-Scale Proton Emission from Strongly Oblate-Deformed ${}^{149}{Lu}$

K. Auranen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112501 (2022) - Published 16 March, 2022

An isotope of Lutetium, synthesized for the first time, is found to be the most oblate deformed proton emitter.

Measurements of Strong-Interaction Effects in Kaonic-Helium Isotopes at Sub-eV Precision with X-Ray Microcalorimeters

T. Hashimoto et al. (J-PARC E62 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 112503 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Energy, Momentum, and Angular Momentum Transfer between Electrons and Nuclei

Chen Li, Ryan Requist, and E. K. U. Gross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113001 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

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Magnetic-Field Effect as a Tool to Investigate Electron Correlation in Strong-Field Ionization

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113201 (2022) - Published 16 March, 2022

The role of the magnetic field of light in double ionization explains the lack of nondipole contributions from initial tunneling to recollision.

Tunable Directional Emission and Collective Dissipation with Quantum Metasurfaces

D. Fernández-Fernández and A. González-Tudela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113601 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Realizing Distance-Selective Interactions in a Rydberg-Dressed Atom Array

Simon Hollerith, Kritsana Srakaew, David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Daniel Adler, Pascal Weckesser, Andreas Kruckenhauser, Valentin Walther, Rick van Bijnen, Jun Rui, Christian Gross, Immanuel Bloch, and Johannes Zeiher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113602 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Chern Number Governs Soliton Motion in Nonlinear Thouless Pumps

Marius Jürgensen and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 113901 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Navier-Stokes Equations Do Not Describe the Smallest Scales of Turbulence in Gases

Ryan M. McMullen, Michael C. Krygier, John R. Torczynski, and Michael A. Gallis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114501 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Universality and Intermittency of Pair Dispersion in Turbulence

Shiyong Tan and Rui Ni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114502 (2022) - Published 17 March, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Single-Crystal Alkali Antimonide Photocathodes: High Efficiency in the Ultrathin Limit

C. T. Parzyck, A. Galdi, J. K. Nangoi, W. J. I. DeBenedetti, J. Balajka, B. D. Faeth, H. Paik, C. Hu, T. A. Arias, M. A. Hines, D. G. Schlom, K. M. Shen, and J. M. Maxson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 114801 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Researchers demonstrate a single-crystal photocathode that can emit electrons with higher efficiency than its predecessors.

Enhancement of the Nonresonant Streaming Instability by Particle Collisions

A. Marret, A. Ciardi, R. Smets, J. Fuchs, and L. Nicolas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115101 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Pascal’s Triangle Fractal Symmetries

Nayan E. Myerson-Jain, Shang Liu, Wenjie Ji, Cenke Xu, and Sagar Vijay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115301 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Quantum-to-Classical Crossover in Many-Body Chaos and Scrambling from Relaxation in a Glass

Surajit Bera, K. Y. Venkata Lokesh, and Sumilan Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115302 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Experimental Demonstration of Bulk-Hinge Correspondence in a Three-Dimensional Topological Dirac Acoustic Crystal

Chu-Hao Xia, Hua-Shan Lai, Xiao-Chen Sun, Cheng He, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 115701 (2022) - Published 16 March, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Imaging the Spatial Distribution of Electronic States in Graphene Using Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy: Prospect of Orbital Mapping

M. Bugnet, M. Ederer, V. K. Lazarov, L. Li, Q. M. Ramasse, S. Löffler, and D. M. Kepaptsoglou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116401 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

Hidden $k$ -Space Magnetoelectric Multipoles in Nonmagnetic Ferroelectrics

Sayantika Bhowal, Stephen P. Collins, and Nicola A. Spaldin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116402 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

Anderson Localization in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Songyang Pu, G. J. Sreejith, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116801 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

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Projectively Enriched Symmetry and Topology in Acoustic Crystals

Haoran Xue, Zihao Wang, Yue-Xin Huang, Zheyu Cheng, Letian Yu, Y. X. Foo, Y. X. Zhao, Shengyuan A. Yang, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116802 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

By manipulating symmetries in acoustic lattices, two independent groups have created a topological insulator with a new, exotic topology.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Acoustic Möbius Insulators from Projective Symmetry

Tianzi Li, Juan Du, Qicheng Zhang, Yitong Li, Xiying Fan, Fan Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 116803 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

By manipulating symmetries in acoustic lattices, two independent groups have created a topological insulator with a new, exotic topology.

Thermal Hall Effect of Magnons in Collinear Antiferromagnetic Insulators: Signatures of Magnetic and Topological Phase Transitions

Robin R. Neumann, Alexander Mook, Jürgen Henk, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117201 (2022) - Published 14 March, 2022

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Quantum Criticality of Antiferromagnetism and Superconductivity with Relativity

Hanqing Liu, Emilie Huffman, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Ribhu K. Kaul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117202 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Quantum Monte Carlo simulations of a phase transition from a massless to massive Dirac fermion phase in 2D electrons exhibits unexpected symmetry effects.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Angle Locking of a Levitating Diamond Using Spin Diamagnetism

M. Perdriat, P. Huillery, C. Pellet-Mary, and G. Hétet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117203 (2022) - Published 18 March, 2022

By tuning the magnetic properties of a tiny levitating diamond, researchers control its orientation in a magnetic field.

Stochastic Single-Shot Polarization Pinning of Polariton Condensate at High Temperatures

Y. C. Balas, E. S. Sedov, G. G. Paschos, Z. Hatzopoulos, H. Ohadi, A. V. Kavokin, and P. G. Savvidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117401 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Enhancement of the Magnetoelectric Effect Using the Dynamic Jahn-Teller Effect in a Transition-Metal Complex

Yasunao Otsuki, Shojiro Kimura, Satoshi Awaji, and Motohiro Nakano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 117601 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

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

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Proof for Minimum Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions, a Fractal Bound, and Implications for Biology

H. Çoban and A. Kabakçıoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 118101 (2022) - Published 15 March, 2022

Nested canalizing functions are shown to be the minimum-sensitivity Boolean functions for any activity ratio, a result relevant for explaining the robustness of biological networks.