Volume 128, Issue 12

25 March 2022

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On the Cover

Topographic images of a seven-quintuple-layer Sb₂Te₃ film (top) featuring an n-p circular junction (magnified in the lower insets).

From the article:

Berry-Phase Switch in Electrostatically Confined Topological Surface States
Jun Zhang, Ye-Ping Jiang, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126402 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Cooper-Pair Injection into a Semiconductor Structure by Resonant Tunneling

Shlomi Bouscher, Dmitry Panna, Krishna Balasubramanian, Shimon Cohen, Dan Ritter, and Alex Hayat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 127701 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Engineering a semiconductor’s energy bands allows pairs of electrons to tunnel into it more easily from a superconductor.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Gravity of Dust Collapse: Shock Waves from Black Holes

Viqar Husain, Jarod George Kelly, Robert Santacruz, and Edward Wilson-Ewing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 121301 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

New black hole simulations that incorporate quantum gravity indicate that when a black hole dies, it produces a gravitational shock wave that radiates information, a finding that could solve the information paradox.

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Excitation of Initial Waves by Wind: A Theoretical Model and Its Experimental Verification

Meital Geva and Lev Shemer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 124501 (2022) - Published 21 March, 2022

Laboratory water-tank experiments and model calculations reveal a complex interaction between wind and the resulting surface water waves.

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Spectroscopic Visualization of Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Twisted Monolayer-Bilayer Graphene: Coexistence of Localization and Delocalization

Ling-Hui Tong, Qingjun Tong, Li-Zhen Yang, Yue-Ying Zhou, Qilong Wu, Yuan Tian, Li Zhang, Lijie Zhang, Zhihui Qin, and Long-Jing Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126401 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

Flat bands in magic-angle twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene are shown to be delocalized on the bilayer side and localized on the monolayer side.

LETTERS

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

Non-Hermitian Edge Burst

Wen-Tan Xue, Yu-Min Hu, Fei Song, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120401 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

Demonstrating Shareability of Multipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Ze-Yan Hao, Kai Sun, Yan Wang, Zheng-Hao Liu, Mu Yang, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120402 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Robust Nonequilibrium Edge Currents with and without Band Topology

Mark T. Mitchison, Ángel Rivas, and Miguel A. Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120403 (2022) - Published 25 March, 2022

Spin-Holstein Models in Trapped-Ion Systems

J. Knörzer, T. Shi, E. Demler, and J. I. Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120404 (2022) - Published 25 March, 2022

Toward a Quantum Memory in a Fiber Cavity Controlled by Intracavity Frequency Translation

Philip J. Bustard, Kent Bonsma-Fisher, Cyril Hnatovsky, Dan Grobnic, Stephen J. Mihailov, Duncan England, and Benjamin J. Sussman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120501 (2022) - Published 21 March, 2022

Variational Quantum-Neural Hybrid Eigensolver

Shi-Xin Zhang, Zhou-Quan Wan, Chee-Kong Lee, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Shengyu Zhang, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120502 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Quantum Optimization via Four-Body Rydberg Gates

Clemens Dlaska, Kilian Ender, Glen Bigan Mbeng, Andreas Kruckenhauser, Wolfgang Lechner, and Rick van Bijnen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120503 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Eigenvalues of Random Matrices with Generalized Correlations: A Path Integral Approach

Joseph W. Baron, Thomas Jun Jewell, Christopher Ryder, and Tobias Galla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 120601 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Scalar Field Dark Matter from Colocated Michelson Interferometers

Lorenzo Aiello, Jonathan W. Richardson, Sander M. Vermeulen, Hartmut Grote, Craig Hogan, Ohkyung Kwon, and Chris Stoughton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 121101 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Neutrino Flavor Pendulum Reloaded: The Case of Fast Pairwise Conversion

Ian Padilla-Gay, Irene Tamborra, and Georg G. Raffelt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 121102 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Gravity of Dust Collapse: Shock Waves from Black Holes

Viqar Husain, Jarod George Kelly, Robert Santacruz, and Edward Wilson-Ewing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 121301 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Kinematic Hopf Algebra for Bern-Carrasco-Johansson Numerators in Heavy-Mass Effective Field Theory and Yang-Mills Theory

Andreas Brandhuber, Gang Chen, Henrik Johansson, Gabriele Travaglini, and Congkao Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 121601 (2022) - Published 25 March, 2022

$m_{b}$ at $m_{H}$ : The Running Bottom Quark Mass and the Higgs Boson

Javier Aparisi, Juan Fuster, Adrián Irles, Germán Rodrigo, Marcel Vos, Hitoshi Yamamoto, André Hoang, Christopher Lepenik, Michael Spira, Seidai Tairafune, and Ryo Yonamine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 122001 (2022) - Published 21 March, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Using $Z$ Boson Events to Study Parton-Medium Interactions in Pb-Pb Collisions

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 122301 (2022) - Published 23 March, 2022

Hydrodynamic Gradient Expansion Diverges beyond Bjorken Flow

Michal P. Heller, Alexandre Serantes, Michał Spaliński, Viktor Svensson, and Benjamin Withers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 122302 (2022) - Published 25 March, 2022

Probing the Gluonic Structure of the Deuteron with $J / ψ$ Photoproduction in $d + Au$ Ultraperipheral Collisions

M. S. Abdallah et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 122303 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Trapped Alkali-Metal Rydberg Qubit

Y. Mei, Y. Li, H. Nguyen, P. R. Berman, and A. Kuzmich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 123601 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

Quantum Mollow Quadruplet in Nonlinear Cavity QED

Thomas Allcock, Wolfgang Langbein, and Egor A. Muljarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 123602 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

High Photon Number Entangled States and Coherent State Superposition from the Extreme Ultraviolet to the Far Infrared

Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Theocharis Lamprou, Emilio Pisanty, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Paraskevas Tzallas, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 123603 (2022) - Published 25 March, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Thermalization of Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum in Nonlinear Multimode Waveguide Systems

Fan O. Wu, Qi Zhong, Huizhong Ren, Pawel S. Jung, Konstantinos G. Makris, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 123901 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Excitation of Initial Waves by Wind: A Theoretical Model and Its Experimental Verification

Meital Geva and Lev Shemer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 124501 (2022) - Published 21 March, 2022

Laboratory water-tank experiments and model calculations reveal a complex interaction between wind and the resulting surface water waves.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Turbulence Spreading into an Edge Stochastic Magnetic Layer Induced by Magnetic Fluctuation and Its Impact on Divertor Heat Load

M. Kobayashi, K. Tanaka, K. Ida, Y. Hayashi, Y. Takemura, and T. Kinoshita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 125001 (2022) - Published 23 March, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Propagating Ferrodark Solitons in a Superfluid: Exact Solutions and Anomalous Dynamics

Xiaoquan Yu and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 125301 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopic Visualization of Flat Bands in Magic-Angle Twisted Monolayer-Bilayer Graphene: Coexistence of Localization and Delocalization

Ling-Hui Tong, Qingjun Tong, Li-Zhen Yang, Yue-Ying Zhou, Qilong Wu, Yuan Tian, Li Zhang, Lijie Zhang, Zhihui Qin, and Long-Jing Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126401 (2022) - Published 22 March, 2022

Flat bands in magic-angle twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene are shown to be delocalized on the bilayer side and localized on the monolayer side.

Berry-Phase Switch in Electrostatically Confined Topological Surface States

Jun Zhang, Ye-Ping Jiang, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126402 (2022) - Published 25 March, 2022

Microscopic Theory of the Current-Voltage Characteristics of Josephson Tunnel Junctions

Sang-Jun Choi and Björn Trauzettel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126801 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Understanding Signatures of Emergent Magnetism in Topological Insulator/Ferrite Bilayers

Lauren J. Riddiford, Alexander J. Grutter, Timothy Pillsbury, Max Stanley, Danielle Reifsnyder Hickey, Peng Li, Nasim Alem, Nitin Samarth, and Yuri Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126802 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022

Dynamics of Hole Singlet-Triplet Qubits with Large $g$ -Factor Differences

Daniel Jirovec, Philipp M. Mutter, Andrea Hofmann, Alessandro Crippa, Marek Rychetsky, David L. Craig, Josip Kukucka, Frederico Martins, Andrea Ballabio, Natalia Ares, Daniel Chrastina, Giovanni Isella, Guido Burkard, and Georgios Katsaros

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 126803 (2022) - Published 24 March, 2022