Volume 128, Issue 17

29 April 2022

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Artistic rendition of relevant interactions for tau lepton appearance from high-energy neutrino interactions (in the rectangular inset). The envisaged ice and water Cherenkov detectors are represented on the center left, while Earth-skimming and space-based observatories are shown on the center right. Image credit: Jackapan Pairin

From the article:

Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions
A. Garcia Soto, P. Zhelnin, I. Safa, and C. A. Argüelles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171101 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Laughlin’s Topological Charge Pump in an Atomic Hall Cylinder

Aurélien Fabre, Jean-Baptiste Bouhiron, Tanish Satoor, Raphael Lopes, and Sylvain Nascimbene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173202 (2022) - Published 25 April, 2022

Using atomic spin to represent a synthetic dimension, researchers have experimentally verified the predictions of a long-unrealized thought experiment.

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Observation of Degenerate Zero-Energy Topological States at Disclinations in an Acoustic Lattice

Yuanchen Deng, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Ze-Guo Chen, Mourad Oudich, Guancong Ma, and Yun Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174301 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

A new technique creates defects in a topological acoustic system that don’t destroy the system’s chiral symmetry, protecting its topological states.

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Motile Topological Defects Hinder Dynamical Arrest in Dense Liquids of Active Ellipsoids

Pragya Arora, A. K. Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178002 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

At packing densities where particles in many liquid-like systems stop moving, 3D-printed ellipsoids can keep scuttling because of the presence of packing “defects.”

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Quantum Fluctuation Theorem under Quantum Jumps with Continuous Measurement and Feedback

Toshihiro Yada, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170601 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

A generalized fluctuation theorem is derived for quantum systems undergoing continuous measurement and feedback.

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Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter at the PandaX-II Experiment

Xiangyi Cui et al. (PandaX-II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171801 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

A large unexplored region of parameter space has been ruled out for hypothetical sub-GeV dark matter which was boosted in energy from collisions with cosmic rays.

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Exact Quasiparticle Properties of a Heavy Polaron in BCS Fermi Superfluids

Jia Wang, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175301 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

An exact theoretical model of polarons rigorously demonstrates universal properties of their spectrum structure.

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Hierarchy of Ideal Flatbands in Chiral Twisted Multilayer Graphene Models

Jie Wang and Zhao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176403 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

A class of models generalize the ideal quantum geometry of chiral magic angle twisted bilayer graphene to arbitrary numbers of layers and various stacking patterns.

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Family of Ideal Chern Flatbands with Arbitrary Chern Number in Chiral Twisted Graphene Multilayers

Patrick J. Ledwith, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Eslam Khalaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176404 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

A class of models generalize the ideal quantum geometry of chiral magic angle twisted bilayer graphene to arbitrary numbers of layers and various stacking patterns.

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Curved Magnetism in ${CrI}_{3}$

Alexander Edström, Danila Amoroso, Silvia Picozzi, Paolo Barone, and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177202 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

The effect of curvature on the noncollinear magnetic order of a 2D magnet, CrI $_{3}$ has been calculated using a continuum model with parameters fully determined by noncollinear spin DFT.

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Shear-Driven Solidification and Nonlinear Elasticity in Epithelial Tissues

Junxiang Huang, James O. Cochran, Suzanne M. Fielding, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Dapeng Bi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178001 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

A minimal cell-based computational model demonstrates that fluid-like epithelial tissues become rigid above a critical applied strain, a process similar to shear-driven rigidity in other soft matter systems.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Relativity of Subsystems

Shadi Ali Ahmad, Thomas D. Galley, Philipp A. Höhn, Maximilian P. E. Lock, and Alexander R. H. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170401 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Quantum State Transfer over 1200 km Assisted by Prior Distributed Entanglement

Bo Li, Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Wen-Qi Cai, Wei-Yue Liu, Ji-Gang Ren, Sheng-Kai Liao, Hui-Nan Wu, Shuang-Lin Li, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, Juan Yin, Yu-Ao Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170501 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

Classical Simulation and Theory of Quantum Annealing in a Thermal Environment

Hiroki Oshiyama, Sei Suzuki, and Naokazu Shibata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170502 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Protocol for Generating Optical Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States with Cavity QED

Jacob Hastrup and Ulrik L. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170503 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

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Quantum Fluctuation Theorem under Quantum Jumps with Continuous Measurement and Feedback

Toshihiro Yada, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170601 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

A generalized fluctuation theorem is derived for quantum systems undergoing continuous measurement and feedback.

Information Thermodynamics of the Transition-Path Ensemble

Miranda D. Louwerse and David A. Sivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170602 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Gap Statistics for Confined Particles with Power-Law Interactions

S. Santra, J. Kethepalli, S. Agarwal, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, and A. Kundu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170603 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions

A. Garcia Soto, P. Zhelnin, I. Safa, and C. A. Argüelles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171101 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Limits on the Light Dark Matter–Proton Cross Section from Cosmic Large-Scale Structure

Keir K. Rogers, Cora Dvorkin, and Hiranya V. Peiris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171301 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Embeddings and Integrable Charges for Extended Corner Symmetry

Luca Ciambelli, Robert G. Leigh, and Pin-Chun Pai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171302 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter at the PandaX-II Experiment

Xiangyi Cui et al. (PandaX-II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171801 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

A large unexplored region of parameter space has been ruled out for hypothetical sub-GeV dark matter which was boosted in energy from collisions with cosmic rays.

Resonant Self-Interacting Dark Matter from Dark QCD

Yu-Dai Tsai, Robert McGehee, and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172001 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Lattice QCD Calculation of the Two-Photon Exchange Contribution to the Muonic-Hydrogen Lamb Shift

Yang Fu, Xu Feng, Lu-Chang Jin, and Chen-Fei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172002 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Massive Vector Form Factors to Three Loops

Matteo Fael, Fabian Lange, Kay Schönwald, and Matthias Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172003 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Improved Standard-Model Prediction for $π^{0} \to e^{+} e^{-}$

Martin Hoferichter, Bai-Long Hoid, Bastian Kubis, and Jan Lüdtke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172004 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Polarization of $Λ$ and $\bar{Λ}$ Hyperons along the Beam Direction in Pb-Pb Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 5.02 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172005 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Dynamical Synthesis of ${}^{4}{He}$ in the Scission Phase of Nuclear Fission

Z. X. Ren, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, P. W. Zhao, J. Zhao, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172501 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantitative Study of Enantiomer-Specific State Transfer

JuHyeon Lee, Johannes Bischoff, A. O. Hernandez-Castillo, Boris Sartakov, Gerard Meijer, and Sandra Eibenberger-Arias

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173001 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Carrier-Envelope Phase-Dependent Strong-Field Excitation

D. Chetty, R. D. Glover, X. M. Tong, B. A. deHarak, H. Xu, N. Haram, K. Bartschat, A. J. Palmer, A. N. Luiten, P. S. Light, I. V. Litvinyuk, and R. T. Sang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173201 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

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Laughlin’s Topological Charge Pump in an Atomic Hall Cylinder

Aurélien Fabre, Jean-Baptiste Bouhiron, Tanish Satoor, Raphael Lopes, and Sylvain Nascimbene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173202 (2022) - Published 25 April, 2022

Using atomic spin to represent a synthetic dimension, researchers have experimentally verified the predictions of a long-unrealized thought experiment.

Transient Density-Induced Dipolar Interactions in a Thin Vapor Cell

Florian Christaller, Max Mäusezahl, Felix Moumtsilis, Annika Belz, Harald Kübler, Hadiseh Alaeian, Charles S. Adams, Robert Löw, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173401 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Subdiffraction Quantum Imaging with Undetected Photons

Elkin A. Santos, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt, and Sina Saravi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173601 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Quantum Squeezing and Sensing with Pseudo-Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry

Xi-Wang Luo, Chuanwei Zhang, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173602 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonreciprocity and Faraday Rotation at Time Interfaces

Huanan Li, Shixiong Yin, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173901 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

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Observation of Degenerate Zero-Energy Topological States at Disclinations in an Acoustic Lattice

Yuanchen Deng, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Ze-Guo Chen, Mourad Oudich, Guancong Ma, and Yun Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174301 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

A new technique creates defects in a topological acoustic system that don’t destroy the system’s chiral symmetry, protecting its topological states.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Helicity Transfer in Strong Laser Fields via the Electron Anomalous Magnetic Moment

Yan-Fei Li, Yue-Yue Chen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174801 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Terahertz Pulse Generation by Strongly Magnetized, Laser-Created Plasmas

C. Tailliez, X. Davoine, A. Debayle, L. Gremillet, and L. Bergé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174802 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Ultrabright Electron Bunch Injection in a Plasma Wakefield Driven by a Superluminal Flying Focus Electron Beam

F. Li, T. N. Dalichaouch, J. R. Pierce, X. Xu, F. S. Tsung, W. Lu, C. Joshi, and W. B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174803 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Available Energy of Trapped Electrons and Its Relation to Turbulent Transport

R. J. J. Mackenbach, J. H. E. Proll, and P. Helander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175001 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Exact Quasiparticle Properties of a Heavy Polaron in BCS Fermi Superfluids

Jia Wang, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175301 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

An exact theoretical model of polarons rigorously demonstrates universal properties of their spectrum structure.

Local Dynamical Heterogeneity in Simple Glass Formers

Giulio Biroli, Patrick Charbonneau, Giampaolo Folena, Yi Hu, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175501 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetic Weyl Semimetal in $K_{2} {Mn}_{3} ({AsO}_{4})_{3}$ with the Minimum Number of Weyl Points

Simin Nie, Tatsuki Hashimoto, and Fritz B. Prinz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176401 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Chiral Central Charge from a Single Bulk Wave Function

Isaac H. Kim, Bowen Shi, Kohtaro Kato, and Victor V. Albert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176402 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

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Hierarchy of Ideal Flatbands in Chiral Twisted Multilayer Graphene Models

Jie Wang and Zhao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176403 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

A class of models generalize the ideal quantum geometry of chiral magic angle twisted bilayer graphene to arbitrary numbers of layers and various stacking patterns.

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Family of Ideal Chern Flatbands with Arbitrary Chern Number in Chiral Twisted Graphene Multilayers

Patrick J. Ledwith, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Eslam Khalaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176404 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

A class of models generalize the ideal quantum geometry of chiral magic angle twisted bilayer graphene to arbitrary numbers of layers and various stacking patterns.

Is There a Polaron Signature in Angle-Resolved Photoemission of ${CsPbBr}_{3}$ ?

Maryam Sajedi, Maxim Krivenkov, Dmitry Marchenko, Jaime Sánchez-Barriga, Anoop K. Chandran, Andrei Varykhalov, Emile D. L. Rienks, Irene Aguilera, Stefan Blügel, and Oliver Rader

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176405 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Boundary Modes from Periodic Magnetic and Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene

Võ Tiến Phong and E. J. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176406 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Orbital Dynamics in Centrosymmetric Systems

Seungyun Han, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Kyoung-Whan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176601 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

Gigantic Magnetochiral Anisotropy in the Topological Semimetal ${ZrTe}_{5}$

Yongjian Wang, Henry F. Legg, Thomas Bömerich, Jinhong Park, Sebastian Biesenkamp, A. A. Taskin, Markus Braden, Achim Rosch, and Yoichi Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176602 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Valley Splitting in Silicon from the Interference Pattern of Quantum Oscillations

M. Lodari, L. Lampert, O. Zietz, R. Pillarisetty, J. S. Clarke, and G. Scappucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176603 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

Electronic Self-Passivation of Single Vacancy in Black Phosphorus via Ionization

Hanyan Fang, Aurelio Gallardo, Dikshant Dulal, Zhizhan Qiu, Jie Su, Mykola Telychko, Harshitra Mahalingam, Pin Lyu, Yixuan Han, Yi Zheng, Yongqing Cai, Aleksandr Rodin, Pavel Jelínek, and Jiong Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176801 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

Spectral Function of the Chiral One-Dimensional Fermi Liquid in the Regime of Strong Interactions

K. A. Matveev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176802 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

Theory of the Supercurrent Diode Effect in Rashba Superconductors with Arbitrary Disorder

S. Ilić and F. S. Bergeret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177001 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

Geometric Frustration on the Trillium Lattice in a Magnetic Metal-Organic Framework

Johnathan M. Bulled, Joseph A. M. Paddison, Andrew Wildes, Elsa Lhotel, Simon J. Cassidy, Breogán Pato-Doldán, L. Claudia Gómez-Aguirre, Paul J. Saines, and Andrew L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177201 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

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Curved Magnetism in ${CrI}_{3}$

Alexander Edström, Danila Amoroso, Silvia Picozzi, Paolo Barone, and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177202 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

The effect of curvature on the noncollinear magnetic order of a 2D magnet, CrI $_{3}$ has been calculated using a continuum model with parameters fully determined by noncollinear spin DFT.

Low-Temperature Photophysics of Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Jodok Happacher, David A. Broadway, Juanita Bocquel, Patrick Reiser, Alejandro Jimenéz, Märta A. Tschudin, Lucas Thiel, Dominik Rohner, Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert, Brendan Shields, Jeronimo R. Maze, Vincent Jacques, and Patrick Maletinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177401 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022

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

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Shear-Driven Solidification and Nonlinear Elasticity in Epithelial Tissues

Junxiang Huang, James O. Cochran, Suzanne M. Fielding, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Dapeng Bi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178001 (2022) - Published 27 April, 2022

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Motile Topological Defects Hinder Dynamical Arrest in Dense Liquids of Active Ellipsoids

Pragya Arora, A. K. Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178002 (2022) - Published 28 April, 2022

At packing densities where particles in many liquid-like systems stop moving, 3D-printed ellipsoids can keep scuttling because of the presence of packing “defects.”

Formulation of Chromatin Mobility as a Function of Nuclear Size during C. elegans Embryogenesis Using Polymer Physics Theories

Aiya K. Yesbolatova, Ritsuko Arai, Takahiro Sakaue, and Akatsuki Kimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178101 (2022) - Published 26 April, 2022

Biofilm Growth under Elastic Confinement

George T. Fortune, Nuno M. Oliveira, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178102 (2022) - Published 29 April, 2022