Volume 128, Issue 2

14 January 2022

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Certain chiral liquid crystals confined to quasi-two-dimensional curved shells (cholesteric shells) support topological phases that are absent in flat geometries.

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Cholesteric Shells: Two-Dimensional Blue Fog and Finite Quasicrystals
L. N. Carenza, G. Gonnella, D. Marenduzzo, G. Negro, and E. Orlandini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 027801 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Morphological Attractors in Natural Convective Dissolution

Jinzi Mac Huang and Nicholas J. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024501 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

The shape and curvature evolution of dissolving rocks can be predicted using a new theory.

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Electrically Controllable Kondo Correlation in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Quantum Point Contacts

Luke W. Smith, Hong-Bin Chen, Che-Wei Chang, Chien-Wei Wu, Shun-Tsung Lo, Shih-Hsiang Chao, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Tse-Ming Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 027701 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Spin-polarized electrons can suppress the experimental signature of the quantum many-body phenomenon known as the Kondo effect.

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Ultrastable Free-Space Laser Links for a Global Network of Optical Atomic Clocks

D. R. Gozzard, L. A. Howard, B. P. Dix-Matthews, S. F. E. Karpathakis, C. T. Gravestock, and S. W. Schediwy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020801 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

Researchers demonstrated an optical link for communication between distant atomic clocks that is 100 times more stable than previous links and that could enable new precision tests of general relativity.

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Sliding Naturalness: New Solution to the Strong- $C P$ and Electroweak-Hierarchy Problems

Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo and Daniele Teresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021803 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

A new model that assumes that a multitude of universes existed when our Universe first formed may explain why the Higgs mass is smaller than traditional models predict.

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Efficient Experimental Verification of Quantum Gates with Local Operations

Rui-Qi Zhang, Zhibo Hou, Jun-Feng Tang, Jiangwei Shang, Huangjun Zhu, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020502 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

A quantum gate verification protocol is experimentally demonstrated for a two-qubit controlled-NOT gate and a three-qubit Toffoli gate, using only local state preparations and measurements.

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Magnetic-Field Effect in High-Order Above-Threshold Ionization

Kang Lin, Simon Brennecke, Hongcheng Ni, Xiang Chen, Alexander Hartung, Daniel Trabert, Kilian Fehre, Jonas Rist, Xiao-Min Tong, Joachim Burgdörfer, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Markus S. Schöffler, Till Jahnke, Maksim Kunitski, Feng He, Manfred Lein, Sebastian Eckart, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 023201 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

A target-sensitive nondipole effect is experimentally observed for the first time in strong-field ionization.

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Turbulence Statistics of Arbitrary Moments of Wall-Bounded Shear Flows: A Symmetry Approach

Martin Oberlack, Sergio Hoyas, Stefanie V. Kraheberger, Francisco Alcántara-Ávila, and Jonathan Laux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024502 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Validated with simulations at an unprecedentedly high Reynolds number, a strategy based on symmetries can be used to overcome challenges related to the closure problem in turbulence.

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Fluctuation-Induced Interaction in Turbulent Flows

M. Davoodianidalik, H. Punzmann, H. Kellay, H. Xia, M. Shats, and N. Francois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024503 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence is experimentally shown to exert a fluctuation-induced attractive force on confining walls.

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Laboratory Observations of Electron Heating and Non-Maxwellian Distributions at the Kinetic Scale during Electron-Only Magnetic Reconnection

Peiyun Shi, Prabhakar Srivastav, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul A. Cassak, Earl E. Scime, and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 025002 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

In a first for a laboratory plasma experiment, non-Maxwellian electron velocity distribution functions have been measured during electron-only magnetic reconnection, showing evidence of bidirectional flows away from the X-point that are consistent with magnetospheric observations.

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Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in $d = 2$ and $d = 3$

Alessio Zaccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028002 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Using a simple approach that relies only on the statistical properties of jammed packings, the random close packing volume fraction of hard spheres in two and three dimensions can be analytically derived.

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Exact Coherent Structures and Phase Space Geometry of Preturbulent 2D Active Nematic Channel Flow

Caleb G. Wagner, Michael M. Norton, Jae Sung Park, and Piyush Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028003 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

The study of exact coherent structures in an active nematic system allows the characterization and control of far-from-equilibrium dynamics.

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When Elasticity Affects Drop Coalescence

Pim J. Dekker, Michiel A. Hack, Walter Tewes, Charu Datt, Ambre Bouillant, and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028004 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

The shape of a liquid bridge in coalescing droplets is very sensitive to the presence of aqueous polymers, whereas the time evolution of a liquid bridge is not.

LETTERS

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

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Efimovian Triples in the Unitary Bose Gas

S. Musolino, H. Kurkjian, M. Van Regemortel, M. Wouters, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, and V. E. Colussi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020401 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Detecting Entanglement Structure in Continuous Many-Body Quantum Systems

Philipp Kunkel, Maximilian Prüfer, Stefan Lannig, Robin Strohmaier, Martin Gärttner, Helmut Strobel, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020402 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Reversing Lindblad Dynamics via Continuous Petz Recovery Map

Hyukjoon Kwon, Rick Mukherjee, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020403 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Variational Optimization of Continuous Matrix Product States

Benoît Tuybens, Jacopo De Nardis, Jutho Haegeman, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020501 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Efficient Experimental Verification of Quantum Gates with Local Operations

Rui-Qi Zhang, Zhibo Hou, Jun-Feng Tang, Jiangwei Shang, Huangjun Zhu, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020502 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

A quantum gate verification protocol is experimentally demonstrated for a two-qubit controlled-NOT gate and a three-qubit Toffoli gate, using only local state preparations and measurements.

Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Deconfined Quantum Critical Point in Imaginary Time

Yu-Rong Shu, Shao-Kai Jian, and Shuai Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020601 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

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Ultrastable Free-Space Laser Links for a Global Network of Optical Atomic Clocks

D. R. Gozzard, L. A. Howard, B. P. Dix-Matthews, S. F. E. Karpathakis, C. T. Gravestock, and S. W. Schediwy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 020801 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Stellar Shocks from Dark Matter Asteroid Impacts

Anirban Das, Sebastian A. R. Ellis, Philip C. Schuster, and Kevin Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021101 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Rotating Black Holes in Randall-Sundrum II Braneworlds

William D. Biggs and Jorge E. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021601 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Nonrelativistic Expansion of Closed Bosonic Strings

Jelle Hartong and Emil Have

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021602 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Renormalization Group Flows on Line Defects

Gabriel Cuomo, Zohar Komargodski, and Avia Raviv-Moshe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021603 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Duality between Weak and Strong Interactions in Quantum Gases

Etienne Granet, Bruno Bertini, and Fabian H. L. Essler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021604 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Nested Sampling for Frequentist Computation: Fast Estimation of Small $p$ -Values

Andrew Fowlie, Sebastian Hoof, and Will Handley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021801 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Search for Darkonium in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021802 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

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Sliding Naturalness: New Solution to the Strong- $C P$ and Electroweak-Hierarchy Problems

Raffaele Tito D’Agnolo and Daniele Teresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 021803 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

A new model that assumes that a multitude of universes existed when our Universe first formed may explain why the Higgs mass is smaller than traditional models predict.

Lattice QCD Equation of State for Nonvanishing Chemical Potential by Resumming Taylor Expansions

Sourav Mondal, Swagato Mukherjee, and Prasad Hegde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 022001 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Two-Loop Four-Fermion Scattering Amplitude in QED

R. Bonciani, A. Broggio, S. Di Vita, A. Ferroglia, M. K. Mandal, P. Mastrolia, L. Mattiazzi, A. Primo, J. Ronca, U. Schubert, W. J. Torres Bobadilla, and F. Tramontano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 022002 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Evidence of Quadrupole and Octupole Deformations in ${}^{96}{Zr} + {}^{96}{Zr}$ and ${}^{96}{Ru} + {}^{96}{Ru}$ Collisions at Ultrarelativistic Energies

Chunjian Zhang and Jiangyong Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 022301 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

From Hydrodynamics to Jet Quenching, Coalescence, and Hadron Cascade: A Coupled Approach to Solving the $R_{A A} \otimes v_{2}$ Puzzle

Wenbin Zhao, Weiyao Ke, Wei Chen, Tan Luo, and Xin-Nian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 022302 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

Fragment Intrinsic Spins and Fragments’ Relative Orbital Angular Momentum in Nuclear Fission

Aurel Bulgac, Ibrahim Abdurrahman, Kyle Godbey, and Ionel Stetcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 022501 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Nuclear Charge Radii of the Nickel Isotopes ${}^{58 - 68, 70}{Ni}$

S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 022502 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of the $2 S_{1 / 2} - 8 D_{5 / 2}$ Transition in Hydrogen

A. D. Brandt, S. F. Cooper, C. Rasor, Z. Burkley, A. Matveev, and D. C. Yost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 023001 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic-Field Effect in High-Order Above-Threshold Ionization

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 023201 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

A target-sensitive nondipole effect is experimentally observed for the first time in strong-field ionization.

Measuring the Joint Spectral Mode of Photon Pairs Using Intensity Interferometry

G. S. Thekkadath, B. A. Bell, R. B. Patel, M. S. Kim, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 023601 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Morphological Attractors in Natural Convective Dissolution

Jinzi Mac Huang and Nicholas J. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024501 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

The shape and curvature evolution of dissolving rocks can be predicted using a new theory.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Turbulence Statistics of Arbitrary Moments of Wall-Bounded Shear Flows: A Symmetry Approach

Martin Oberlack, Sergio Hoyas, Stefanie V. Kraheberger, Francisco Alcántara-Ávila, and Jonathan Laux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024502 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Validated with simulations at an unprecedentedly high Reynolds number, a strategy based on symmetries can be used to overcome challenges related to the closure problem in turbulence.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fluctuation-Induced Interaction in Turbulent Flows

M. Davoodianidalik, H. Punzmann, H. Kellay, H. Xia, M. Shats, and N. Francois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024503 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Two-dimensional hydrodynamic turbulence is experimentally shown to exert a fluctuation-induced attractive force on confining walls.

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Brilliance Ultranarrow-Band X Rays via Electron Radiation in Colliding Laser Pulses

Q. Z. Lv, E. Raicher, C. H. Keitel, and K. Z. Hatsagortsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 024801 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

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Laboratory Observations of Electron Heating and Non-Maxwellian Distributions at the Kinetic Scale during Electron-Only Magnetic Reconnection

Peiyun Shi, Prabhakar Srivastav, M. Hasan Barbhuiya, Paul A. Cassak, Earl E. Scime, and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 025002 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

How Zonal Flow Affects Trapped-Electron-Driven Turbulence in Tokamak Plasmas

Haotian Chen and Liu Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 025003 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Kinetic Heating by Alfvén Waves in Magnetic Shears

Fabio Bacchini, Francesco Pucci, Francesco Malara, and Giovanni Lapenta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 025101 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stress-Induced Acceleration and Ordering in Solid-State Dewetting

Francesco Boccardo, Fabrizio Rovaris, Ashwani Tripathi, Francesco Montalenti, and Olivier Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026101 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Observation of an Incommensurate Charge Density Wave in Monolayer ${TiSe}_{2} / CuSe / Cu (111)$ Heterostructure

Zhipeng Song, Jierui Huang, Shuai Zhang, Yun Cao, Chen Liu, Ruizi Zhang, Qi Zheng, Lu Cao, Li Huang, Jiaou Wang, Tian Qian, Hong Ding, Wu Zhou, Yu-Yang Zhang, Hongliang Lu, Chengmin Shen, Xiao Lin, Shixuan Du, and Hong-Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026401 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Valley-Polarized Quantum Anomalous Hall State in Moiré ${MoTe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Heterobilayers

Ying-Ming Xie, Cheng-Ping Zhang, Jin-Xin Hu, Kin Fai Mak, and K. T. Law

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026402 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Spin-Polarized Nematic Order, Quantum Valley Hall States, and Field-Tunable Topological Transitions in Twisted Multilayer Graphene Systems

Shihao Zhang, Xi Dai, and Jianpeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026403 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Dirac Magic and Lifshitz Transitions in AA-Stacked Twisted Multilayer Graphene

Yantao Li, Adam Eaton, H. A. Fertig, and Babak Seradjeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026404 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Second-Order Real Nodal-Line Semimetal in Three-Dimensional Graphdiyne

Cong Chen, Xu-Tao Zeng, Ziyu Chen, Y. X. Zhao, Xian-Lei Sheng, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026405 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

Coherent Modulation of Quasiparticle Scattering Rates in a Photoexcited Charge-Density-Wave System

J. Maklar, M. Schüler, Y. W. Windsor, C. W. Nicholson, M. Puppin, P. Walmsley, I. R. Fisher, M. Wolf, R. Ernstorfer, M. A. Sentef, and L. Rettig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026406 (2022) - Published 14 January, 2022

Spin-Polarized Fractional Corner Charges and Their Photonic Realization

Ran Gladstein Gladstone, Minwoo Jung, and Gennady Shvets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026801 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Correlated States of 2D Electrons near the Landau Level Filling $ν = 1 / 7$

Yoon Jang Chung, D. Graf, L. W. Engel, K. A. Villegas Rosales, P. T. Madathil, K. W. Baldwin, K. W. West, L. N. Pfeiffer, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 026802 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Large Diamagnetism and Electromagnetic Duality in Two-Dimensional Dirac Electron System

S. Fujiyama, H. Maebashi, N. Tajima, T. Tsumuraya, H-B. Cui, M. Ogata, and R. Kato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 027201 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

Fingerprint of the Interbond Electron Hopping in Second-Order Harmonic Generation

Liang Li, Tengfei Huang, Pengfei Lan, Jiapeng Li, Yinfu Zhang, Xiaosong Zhu, Lixin He, Wei Cao, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 027401 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

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Electrically Controllable Kondo Correlation in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Quantum Point Contacts

Luke W. Smith, Hong-Bin Chen, Che-Wei Chang, Chien-Wei Wu, Shun-Tsung Lo, Shih-Hsiang Chao, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Tse-Ming Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 027701 (2022) - Published 10 January, 2022

Spin-polarized electrons can suppress the experimental signature of the quantum many-body phenomenon known as the Kondo effect.

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

Cholesteric Shells: Two-Dimensional Blue Fog and Finite Quasicrystals

L. N. Carenza, G. Gonnella, D. Marenduzzo, G. Negro, and E. Orlandini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 027801 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

Barrier Crossing in a Viscoelastic Bath

Félix Ginot, Juliana Caspers, Matthias Krüger, and Clemens Bechinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028001 (2022) - Published 11 January, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in $d = 2$ and $d = 3$

Alessio Zaccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028002 (2022) - Published 12 January, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Coherent Structures and Phase Space Geometry of Preturbulent 2D Active Nematic Channel Flow

Caleb G. Wagner, Michael M. Norton, Jae Sung Park, and Piyush Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028003 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

The study of exact coherent structures in an active nematic system allows the characterization and control of far-from-equilibrium dynamics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

When Elasticity Affects Drop Coalescence

Pim J. Dekker, Michiel A. Hack, Walter Tewes, Charu Datt, Ambre Bouillant, and Jacco H. Snoeijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 028004 (2022) - Published 13 January, 2022

The shape of a liquid bridge in coalescing droplets is very sensitive to the presence of aqueous polymers, whereas the time evolution of a liquid bridge is not.