Volume 128, Issue 20

20 May 2022

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On the Cover

Spectrum of an intense few-cycle light pulse as it crosses from vacuum (left of orange line) into a resonant nonlinear medium (right) and stops.

From the article:

Self-Stopping of Light
Mikhail Arkhipov, Rostislav Arkhipov, Ihar Babushkin, and Nikolay Rosanov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203901 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, a Mirror World Dark Sector, and the Hubble Constant

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Fei Ge, and Lloyd Knox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 201301 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022

A discrepancy between different measurements of the Hubble constant could be removed by the existence of an exotic form of dark matter.

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Water Wave Polaritons

Linkang Han, Shiming Chen, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 204501 (2022) - Published 16 May, 2022

A water wave incident on a grooved wall is shown to be analogous to electromagnetic waves called surface plasmon polaritons.

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Accurate Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Reconstruction via Semidiscrete Optimal Transport

Sebastian von Hausegger, Bruno Lévy, and Roya Mohayaee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 201302 (2022) - Published 19 May, 2022

Developments in computer science could allow astrophysicists to reverse the cosmic distribution of matter from today back to any point in the Universe’s history.

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Thermodynamic Principle for Quantum Metrology

Yaoming Chu and Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200501 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022

A system-independent relation quantifying the energetic cost of a measurement is derived for quantum metrological protocols.

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Relaxed Phase-Matching Constraints in Zero-Index Waveguides

Justin R. Gagnon, Orad Reshef, Daniel H. G. Espinosa, M. Zahirul Alam, Daryl I. Vulis, Erik N. Knall, Jeremy Upham, Yang Li, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Eric Mazur, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203902 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Experiments in Dirac-cone metamaterials present the first observation of direction-independent phase matching in a medium where phase matching is relevant for parametric nonlinear optical processes.

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Exceptional Points of $P T$ -Symmetric Reflectionless States in Complex Scattering Systems

Clément Ferise, Philipp del Hougne, Simon Félix, Vincent Pagneux, and Matthieu Davy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203904 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Reflectionless exceptional points, at which two eigenstates coalesce, have been observed in complex scattering systems.

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Differentiable Preisach Modeling for Characterization and Optimization of Particle Accelerator Systems with Hysteresis

R. Roussel, A. Edelen, D. Ratner, K. Dubey, J. P. Gonzalez-Aguilera, Y. K. Kim, and N. Kuklev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 204801 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

A classical model for arbitrary systems exhibiting hysteresis is combined with machine learning techniques to efficiently create models for characterizing hysteresis in accelerator magnets and to improve model-based optimization.

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Coexistence of Robust Edge States and Superconductivity in Few-Layer Stanene

Chenxiao Zhao, Leiqiang Li, Liying Zhang, Jin Qin, Hongyuan Chen, Bing Xia, Bo Yang, Hao Zheng, Shiyong Wang, Canhua Liu, Yaoyi Li, Dandan Guan, Ping Cui, Zhenyu Zhang, and Jinfeng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206802 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Coexistence of nontrivial topology and intrinsic superconductivity is observed in few-layer stanene films on a Bi(111) substrate.

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Quasiparticle Trapping at Vortices Producing Josephson Supercurrent Enhancement

Yosuke Sato, Kento Ueda, Yuusuke Takeshige, Hiroshi Kamata, Kan Li, Lars Samuelson, H. Q. Xu, Sadashige Matsuo, and Seigo Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 207001 (2022) - Published 19 May, 2022

Enhancement of the supercurrent, induced by a magnetic field in a nanowire, is caused by quasiparticle trapping rather than Majorana fermions.

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Finite-Size Effect in Phonon-Induced Elliott-Yafet Spin Relaxation in Al

J. D. Watts, J. T. Batley, N. A. Rabideau, J. P. Hoch, L. O’Brien, P. A. Crowell, and C. Leighton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 207201 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

The constant for phonon-induced spin relaxation in the Elliot-Yafet mechanism is not constant, but instead decreases by one order of magnitude as the thickness of an Al film is varied from 8.5 to 300 nm.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Demonstration of Remotely Creating Wigner Negativity via Quantum Steering

Shuheng Liu, Dongmei Han, Na Wang, Yu Xiang, Fengxiao Sun, Meihong Wang, Zhongzhong Qin, Qihuang Gong, Xiaolong Su, and Qiongyi He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200401 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Bragg Scattering from a Random Potential

Donghwan Kim and Eric J. Heller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200402 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

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Thermodynamic Principle for Quantum Metrology

Yaoming Chu and Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200501 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022

A system-independent relation quantifying the energetic cost of a measurement is derived for quantum metrological protocols.

Quantum Simulation of the Two-Dimensional Weyl Equation in a Magnetic Field

Y. Jiang, M.-L. Cai, Y.-K. Wu, Q.-X. Mei, W.-D. Zhao, X.-Y. Chang, L. Yao, L. He, Z.-C. Zhou, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200502 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Non-Markovian Feedback Control and Acausality: An Experimental Study

Maxime Debiossac, Martin Luc Rosinberg, Eric Lutz, and Nikolai Kiesel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200601 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Driven-Dissipative Criticality within the Discrete Truncated Wigner Approximation

Vijay Pal Singh and Hendrik Weimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200602 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Optimal Resetting Brownian Bridges via Enhanced Fluctuations

Benjamin De Bruyne, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 200603 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Monopoles from an Atmospheric Fixed Target Experiment

Syuhei Iguro, Ryan Plestid, and Volodymyr Takhistov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 201101 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Symmetry of Cosmological Observables, a Mirror World Dark Sector, and the Hubble Constant

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, Fei Ge, and Lloyd Knox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 201301 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022

A discrepancy between different measurements of the Hubble constant could be removed by the existence of an exotic form of dark matter.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Accurate Baryon Acoustic Oscillations Reconstruction via Semidiscrete Optimal Transport

Sebastian von Hausegger, Bruno Lévy, and Roya Mohayaee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 201302 (2022) - Published 19 May, 2022

Developments in computer science could allow astrophysicists to reverse the cosmic distribution of matter from today back to any point in the Universe’s history.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Probing Parton Saturation and the Gluon Dipole via Diffractive Jet Production at the Electron-Ion Collider

E. Iancu, A. H. Mueller, and D. N. Triantafyllopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202001 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Measurements of ${}_{Λ}^{3}H$ and ${}_{Λ}^{4}H$ Lifetimes and Yields in $Au + Au$ Collisions in the High Baryon Density Region

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202301 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Pursuing the Precision Study for Color Glass Condensate in Forward Hadron Productions

Yu Shi, Lei Wang, Shu-Yi Wei, and Bo-Wen Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202302 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Measurements of Proton High-Order Cumulants in $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 3 GeV$ $Au + Au$ Collisions and Implications for the QCD Critical Point

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202303 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Accessing the Pion 3D Structure at US and China Electron-Ion Colliders

José Manuel Morgado Chávez, Valerio Bertone, Feliciano De Soto Borrero, Maxime Defurne, Cédric Mezrag, Hervé Moutarde, José Rodríguez-Quintero, and Jorge Segovia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202501 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Improved Limit on Tensor Currents in the Weak Interaction from ${}^{8}{Li}$ $β$ Decay

M. T. Burkey et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202502 (2022) - Published 19 May, 2022

Impact of Clustering on the ${}^{8}{Li}$ $β$ Decay and Recoil Form Factors

G. H. Sargsyan, K. D. Launey, M. T. Burkey, A. T. Gallant, N. D. Scielzo, G. Savard, A. Mercenne, T. Dytrych, D. Langr, L. Varriano, B. Longfellow, T. Y. Hirsh, and J. P. Draayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202503 (2022) - Published 19 May, 2022

How Perturbative QCD Constrains the Equation of State at Neutron-Star Densities

Oleg Komoltsev and Aleksi Kurkela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 202701 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Evidence Against Nuclear Polarization as Source of Fine-Structure Anomalies in Muonic Atoms

Igor A. Valuev, Gianluca Colò, Xavier Roca-Maza, Christoph H. Keitel, and Natalia S. Oreshkina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203001 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Exotic Superfluid Phases in Spin-Polarized Fermi Gases in Optical Lattices

Ettore Vitali, Peter Rosenberg, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203201 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Electric-Field-Controlled Cold Dipolar Collisions between Trapped ${CH}_{3} F$ Molecules

M. Koller, F. Jung, J. Phrompao, M. Zeppenfeld, I. M. Rabey, and G. Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203401 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Observation of Coherent Coupling between Super- and Subradiant States of an Ensemble of Cold Atoms Collectively Coupled to a Single Propagating Optical Mode

Riccardo Pennetta, Daniel Lechner, Martin Blaha, Arno Rauschenbeutel, Philipp Schneeweiss, and Jürgen Volz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203601 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Nonreciprocal Single-Photon Band Structure

Jiang-Shan Tang, Wei Nie, Lei Tang, Mingyuan Chen, Xin Su, Yanqing Lu, Franco Nori, and Keyu Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203602 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Coherent Interactions between Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Matthew W. Day, Kelsey M. Bates, Christopher L. Smallwood, Rachel C. Owen, Tim Schröder, Edward Bielejec, Ronald Ulbricht, and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203603 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Self-Stopping of Light

Mikhail Arkhipov, Rostislav Arkhipov, Ihar Babushkin, and Nikolay Rosanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203901 (2022) - Published 16 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Relaxed Phase-Matching Constraints in Zero-Index Waveguides

Justin R. Gagnon, Orad Reshef, Daniel H. G. Espinosa, M. Zahirul Alam, Daryl I. Vulis, Erik N. Knall, Jeremy Upham, Yang Li, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Eric Mazur, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203902 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Experiments in Dirac-cone metamaterials present the first observation of direction-independent phase matching in a medium where phase matching is relevant for parametric nonlinear optical processes.

Breakdown of Spin-to-Helicity Locking at the Nanoscale in Topological Photonic Crystal Edge States

S. Arora, T. Bauer, N. Parappurath, R. Barczyk, E. Verhagen, and L. Kuipers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203903 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exceptional Points of $P T$ -Symmetric Reflectionless States in Complex Scattering Systems

Clément Ferise, Philipp del Hougne, Simon Félix, Vincent Pagneux, and Matthieu Davy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 203904 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Reflectionless exceptional points, at which two eigenstates coalesce, have been observed in complex scattering systems.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Water Wave Polaritons

Linkang Han, Shiming Chen, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 204501 (2022) - Published 16 May, 2022

A water wave incident on a grooved wall is shown to be analogous to electromagnetic waves called surface plasmon polaritons.

Global Stability of Fluid Flows Despite Transient Growth of Energy

Federico Fuentes, David Goluskin, and Sergei Chernyshenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 204502 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Differentiable Preisach Modeling for Characterization and Optimization of Particle Accelerator Systems with Hysteresis

R. Roussel, A. Edelen, D. Ratner, K. Dubey, J. P. Gonzalez-Aguilera, Y. K. Kim, and N. Kuklev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 204801 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Microscopic Model for Cyclic Voltammetry of Porous Electrodes

Yiting Lin, Cheng Lian, Mikel Unibaso Berrueta, Honglai Liu, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206001 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022

Quantum Dynamics with Electronic Friction

Rocco Martinazzo and Irene Burghardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206002 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi Surface Expansion above Critical Temperature in a Hund Ferromagnet

Yusuke Nomura, Shiro Sakai, and Ryotaro Arita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206401 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Quantum-Critical Resistivity of Strange Metals in a Magnetic Field

Chandra M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206601 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Phonon-Limited Mobility in $h$ -BN Encapsulated $A B$ -Stacked Bilayer Graphene

Cheng Tan, Davoud Adinehloo, James Hone, and Vasili Perebeinos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206602 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Atomic-Site-Specific Surface Valence-Band Structure from X-Ray Standing-Wave Excited Photoemission

Yanna Chen, Leighton O. Jones, Tien Lin Lee, Anusheela Das, Martín A. Mosquera, Denis T. Keane, George C. Schatz, and Michael J. Bedzyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206801 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coexistence of Robust Edge States and Superconductivity in Few-Layer Stanene

Chenxiao Zhao, Leiqiang Li, Liying Zhang, Jin Qin, Hongyuan Chen, Bing Xia, Bo Yang, Hao Zheng, Shiyong Wang, Canhua Liu, Yaoyi Li, Dandan Guan, Ping Cui, Zhenyu Zhang, and Jinfeng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206802 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Coexistence of nontrivial topology and intrinsic superconductivity is observed in few-layer stanene films on a Bi(111) substrate.

Nanoscale Heating of an Ultrathin Oxide Film Studied by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Shuyi Liu, Martin Wolf, and Takashi Kumagai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206803 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Atomic-Scale Photon Mapping Revealing Spin-Current Relaxation

Shunji Yamamoto, Hiroshi Imada, and Yousoo Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206804 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

Realizing Valley-Polarized Energy Spectra in Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots via Continuously Tunable Berry Phases

Ya-Ning Ren, Qiang Cheng, Qing-Feng Sun, and Lin He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 206805 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quasiparticle Trapping at Vortices Producing Josephson Supercurrent Enhancement

Yosuke Sato, Kento Ueda, Yuusuke Takeshige, Hiroshi Kamata, Kan Li, Lars Samuelson, H. Q. Xu, Sadashige Matsuo, and Seigo Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 207001 (2022) - Published 19 May, 2022

Enhancement of the supercurrent, induced by a magnetic field in a nanowire, is caused by quasiparticle trapping rather than Majorana fermions.

Unveiling Unequivocal Charge Stripe Order in a Prototypical Cuprate Superconductor

J. Choi, Q. Wang, S. Jöhr, N. B. Christensen, J. Küspert, D. Bucher, D. Biscette, M. H. Fischer, M. Hücker, T. Kurosawa, N. Momono, M. Oda, O. Ivashko, M. v. Zimmermann, M. Janoschek, and J. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 207002 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Size Effect in Phonon-Induced Elliott-Yafet Spin Relaxation in Al

J. D. Watts, J. T. Batley, N. A. Rabideau, J. P. Hoch, L. O’Brien, P. A. Crowell, and C. Leighton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 207201 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Moiré-Induced Optical Nonlinearities: Single- and Multiphoton Resonances

A. Camacho-Guardian and N. R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 207401 (2022) - Published 20 May, 2022

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Flow Navigation by Smart Microswimmers via Reinforcement Learning [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 158004 (2017)]

Simona Colabrese, Kristian Gustavsson, Antonio Celani, and Luca Biferale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 209901 (2022) - Published 17 May, 2022

Erratum: Fluids in Extreme Confinement [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 240601 (2012)]

Thomas Franosch and Rolf Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 209902 (2022) - Published 18 May, 2022