Volume 128, Issue 21

27 May 2022

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Photograph of the liquid lithium film charge stripper in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

From the article:

Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper
T. Kanemura, M. LaVere, R. Madendorp, F. Marti, T. Maruta, Y. Momozaki, P. N. Ostroumov, A. S. Plastun, J. Wei, and Q. Zhao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212301 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Formation and Stability of Dense Methane-Hydrogen Compounds

Umbertoluca Ranieri, Lewis J. Conway, Mary-Ellen Donnelly, Huixin Hu, Mengnan Wang, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Eugene Gregoryanz, Andreas Hermann, and Ross T. Howie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 215702 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Researchers have uncovered a methane-hydrogen compound containing more than 50% hydrogen, a finding that could help better understand the interior dynamics of planets, including Earth.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper

T. Kanemura, M. LaVere, R. Madendorp, F. Marti, T. Maruta, Y. Momozaki, P. N. Ostroumov, A. S. Plastun, J. Wei, and Q. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212301 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

A liquid-metal jet can strip electrons from a high-intensity, accelerator-based ion beam, increasing the beam’s charge and enhancing accelerator performance.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-Loop Gluon Scattering in QCD and the Gluon Regge Trajectory

Fabrizio Caola, Amlan Chakraborty, Giulio Gambuti, Andreas von Manteuffel, and Lorenzo Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212001 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Three-loop corrections to a complicated four-parton scattering amplitude in full QCD will aid precision calculations at hadron colliders.

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Universal Properties of Weakly Bound Two-Neutron Halo Nuclei

Masaru Hongo and Dam Thanh Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212501 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

An effective field theory of a two-neutron halo nucleus uncovers unexpected universal behavior.

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Superlocalization Reveals Long-Range Synchronization of Vibrating Soliton Molecules

Said Hamdi, Aurélien Coillet, Benoit Cluzel, Philippe Grelu, and Pierre Colman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213902 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

A high-resolution point-spread function deconvolution method is applied to achieve superresolution in the time domain, enabling the demonstration of long range interaction between soliton molecules.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Periodic Wave Trains in Nonlinear Media: Talbot Revivals, Akhmediev Breathers, and Asymmetry Breaking

Georgi Gary Rozenman, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Lev Shemer, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 214101 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

By measuring the propagation dynamics of surface gravity water waves, the absence of fractional Talbot-effect due to interference of the periodic wavepackets in a nonlinear medium is observed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Surface Resonant Raman Scattering from Cu(110)

M. Denk, E. Speiser, J. Plaickner, S. Chandola, S. Sanna, P. Zeppenfeld, and N. Esser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216101 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Raman scattering from surface phonons on a pristine metal surface is demonstrated for the first time.

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Chiral Excitonics in Monolayer Semiconductors on Patterned Dielectrics

Xu-Chen Yang, Hongyi Yu, and Wang Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217402 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Nano-optical excitation can inject exciton flow with left-right directionality controlled by circular polarization and angular directionality controlled by location of the excitation.

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Sign Change of Spin-Orbit Torque in $Pt / NiO / CoFeB$ Structures

Dapeng Zhu, Tianrui Zhang, Xiao Fu, Runrun Hao, Amir Hamzić, Huaiwen Yang, Xueying Zhang, Hui Zhang, Ao Du, Danrong Xiong, Kewen Shi, Shishen Yan, Shufeng Zhang, Albert Fert, and Weisheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217702 (2022) - Published 25 May, 2022

A dampinglike spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnetic insulator shows a temperature-dependent sign reversal that can provide a new way to control spin-orbit torque through tuning magnetic structure.

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Colossal Orbital Edelstein Effect in Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors

Luca Chirolli, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Claudio Guarcello, Francesco Giazotto, and Mario Cuoco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217703 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

A proposed orbital Edelstein effect is one order of magnitude higher than the spin-Edelstein effect.

LETTERS

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

Observation of Massless and Massive Collective Excitations with Faraday Patterns in a Two-Component Superfluid

R. Cominotti, A. Berti, A. Farolfi, A. Zenesini, G. Lamporesi, I. Carusotto, A. Recati, and G. Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 210401 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

First-Order Trotter Error from a Second-Order Perspective

David Layden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 210501 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Quantifying Qubit Magic Resource with Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Encoding

Oliver Hahn, Alessandro Ferraro, Lina Hultquist, Giulia Ferrini, and Laura García-Álvarez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 210502 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

How Stickiness Can Speed Up Diffusion in Confined Systems

A. Alexandre, M. Mangeat, T. Guérin, and D. S. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 210601 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

$γ$ -Ray Flashes from Dark Photons in Neutron Star Mergers

Melissa D. Diamond and Gustavo Marques-Tavares

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 211101 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

Gravitational Wave Signatures of Black Hole Quasinormal Mode Instability

José Luis Jaramillo, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, and Lamis Al Sheikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 211102 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Three-Loop Gluon Scattering in QCD and the Gluon Regge Trajectory

Fabrizio Caola, Amlan Chakraborty, Giulio Gambuti, Andreas von Manteuffel, and Lorenzo Tancredi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212001 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Three-loop corrections to a complicated four-parton scattering amplitude in full QCD will aid precision calculations at hadron colliders.

Quark and Gluon Form Factors in Four-Loop QCD

Roman N. Lee, Andreas von Manteuffel, Robert M. Schabinger, Alexander V. Smirnov, Vladimir A. Smirnov, and Matthias Steinhauser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212002 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Nuclear Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Experimental Demonstration of the Thin-Film Liquid-Metal Jet as a Charge Stripper

T. Kanemura, M. LaVere, R. Madendorp, F. Marti, T. Maruta, Y. Momozaki, P. N. Ostroumov, A. S. Plastun, J. Wei, and Q. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212301 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

A liquid-metal jet can strip electrons from a high-intensity, accelerator-based ion beam, increasing the beam’s charge and enhancing accelerator performance.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Universal Properties of Weakly Bound Two-Neutron Halo Nuclei

Masaru Hongo and Dam Thanh Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212501 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

An effective field theory of a two-neutron halo nucleus uncovers unexpected universal behavior.

Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture in Excited Ions

Simone Gargiulo, Ivan Madan, and Fabrizio Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212502 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Experimental Search for Neutron to Mirror Neutron Oscillations as an Explanation of the Neutron Lifetime Anomaly

L. J. Broussard, J. L. Barrow, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, T. Dennis, M. R. Fitzsimmons, M. J. Frost, C. E. Gilbert, F. M. Gonzalez, L. Heilbronn, E. B. Iverson, A. Johnston, Y. Kamyshkov, M. Kline, P. Lewiz, C. Matteson, J. Ternullo, L. Varriano, and S. Vavra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 212503 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Molecular Laser Cooling in a Dynamically Tunable Repulsive Optical Trap

Yukai Lu, Connor M. Holland, and Lawrence W. Cheuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213201 (2022) - Published 25 May, 2022

Realization of a Floquet-Engineered Moat Band for Ultracold Atoms

C. A. Bracamontes, J. Maslek, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213401 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

Precision Calibration of the Duffing Oscillator with Phase Control

Marc T. Cuairan, Jan Gieseler, Nadine Meyer, and Romain Quidant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213601 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Optical Entanglement of Distinguishable Quantum Emitters

D. S. Levonian, R. Riedinger, B. Machielse, E. N. Knall, M. K. Bhaskar, C. M. Knaut, R. Bekenstein, H. Park, M. Lončar, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213602 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Deterministic Photon Sorting in Waveguide QED Systems

Fan Yang, Mads M. Lund, Thomas Pohl, Peter Lodahl, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213603 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

Generally Applicable Holographic Torque Measurement for Optically Trapped Particles

Franziska Strasser, Stephen M. Barnett, Monika Ritsch-Marte, and Gregor Thalhammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213604 (2022) - Published 25 May, 2022

Nonreciprocity in Photon Pair Correlations of Classically Reciprocal Systems

Austin Graf, Steven D. Rogers, Jeremy Staffa, Usman A. Javid, Dana H. Griffith, and Qiang Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213605 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Thermalization Dynamics of Nonlinear Non-Hermitian Optical Lattices

Georgios G. Pyrialakos, Huizhong Ren, Pawel S. Jung, Mercedeh Khajavikhan, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213901 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superlocalization Reveals Long-Range Synchronization of Vibrating Soliton Molecules

Said Hamdi, Aurélien Coillet, Benoit Cluzel, Philippe Grelu, and Pierre Colman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213902 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

A high-resolution point-spread function deconvolution method is applied to achieve superresolution in the time domain, enabling the demonstration of long range interaction between soliton molecules.

Higher-Order Topological Phase of Interacting Photon Pairs

Andrei A. Stepanenko, Mark D. Lyubarov, and Maxim A. Gorlach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213903 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Intrinsic Spin-Momentum Dynamics of Surface Electromagnetic Waves in Dispersive Interfaces

Peng Shi, Xinrui Lei, Qiang Zhang, Heng Li, Luping Du, and Xiaocong Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213904 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Periodic Wave Trains in Nonlinear Media: Talbot Revivals, Akhmediev Breathers, and Asymmetry Breaking

Georgi Gary Rozenman, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Lev Shemer, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 214101 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

By measuring the propagation dynamics of surface gravity water waves, the absence of fractional Talbot-effect due to interference of the periodic wavepackets in a nonlinear medium is observed.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Boundary Criticality of the 3D O( $N$ ) Model: From Normal to Extraordinary

Francesco Parisen Toldin and Max A. Metlitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 215701 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation and Stability of Dense Methane-Hydrogen Compounds

Umbertoluca Ranieri, Lewis J. Conway, Mary-Ellen Donnelly, Huixin Hu, Mengnan Wang, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Miriam Peña-Alvarez, Eugene Gregoryanz, Andreas Hermann, and Ross T. Howie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 215702 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Researchers have uncovered a methane-hydrogen compound containing more than 50% hydrogen, a finding that could help better understand the interior dynamics of planets, including Earth.

Fluctuations in Heat Current and Scaling Dimension

Hiromi Ebisu, Noam Schiller, and Yuval Oreg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 215901 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Elastodynamically Induced Spin and Charge Pumping in Bulk Heavy Metals

Farzad Mahfouzi and Nicholas Kioussis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 215902 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Surface Resonant Raman Scattering from Cu(110)

M. Denk, E. Speiser, J. Plaickner, S. Chandola, S. Sanna, P. Zeppenfeld, and N. Esser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216101 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Raman scattering from surface phonons on a pristine metal surface is demonstrated for the first time.

Flexible Superlubricity Unveiled in Sidewinding Motion of Individual Polymeric Chains

J. G. Vilhena, Rémy Pawlak, Philipp D’Astolfo, Xunshan Liu, Enrico Gnecco, Marcin Kisiel, Thilo Glatzel, Rúben Pérez, Robert Häner, Silvio Decurtins, Alexis Baratoff, Giacomo Prampolini, Shi-Xia Liu, and Ernst Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216102 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ab Initio Multiplet-Plus-Cumulant Approach for Correlation Effects in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

J. J. Kas, J. J. Rehr, and T. P. Devereaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216401 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Excited-State Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance of Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Zhao Mu, Hongbing Cai, Disheng Chen, Jonathan Kenny, Zhengzhi Jiang, Shihao Ru, Xiaodan Lyu, Teck Seng Koh, Xiaogang Liu, Igor Aharonovich, and Weibo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216402 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Tracking Valley Topology with Synthetic Weyl Paths

Xiying Fan, Tianzhi Xia, Huahui Qiu, Qicheng Zhang, and Chunyin Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216403 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Zero Magnetic Field Plateau Phase Transition in Higher Chern Number Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators

Yi-Fan Zhao, Ruoxi Zhang, Ling-Jie Zhou, Ruobing Mei, Zi-Jie Yan, Moses H. W. Chan, Chao-Xing Liu, and Cui-Zu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 216801 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Tunable Magnonic Chern Bands and Chiral Spin Currents in Magnetic Multilayers

Zhongqiang Hu, Liang Fu, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217201 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Nonlocal Interactions in Moiré Hubbard Systems

Nicolás Morales-Durán, Nai Chao Hu, Pawel Potasz, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217202 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

Pervasive beyond Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in a Doped van der Waals Magnet

Xiang Chen, Yu-Tsun Shao, Rui Chen, Sandhya Susarla, Tom Hogan, Yu He, Hongrui Zhang, Siqi Wang, Jie Yao, Peter Ercius, David A. Muller, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Robert J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217203 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

Direct Electro Plasmonic and Optic Modulation via a Nanoscopic Electron Reservoir

Wancong Li, Qiang Zhou, Pu Zhang, and Xue-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217401 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chiral Excitonics in Monolayer Semiconductors on Patterned Dielectrics

Xu-Chen Yang, Hongyi Yu, and Wang Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217402 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Nano-optical excitation can inject exciton flow with left-right directionality controlled by circular polarization and angular directionality controlled by location of the excitation.

Observation of Reentrant Correlated Insulators and Interaction-Driven Fermi-Surface Reconstructions at One Magnetic Flux Quantum per Moiré Unit Cell in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Ipsita Das, Cheng Shen, Alexandre Jaoui, Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Aaron Chew, Chang-Woo Cho, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Benjamin A. Piot, B. Andrei Bernevig, and Dmitri K. Efetov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217701 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sign Change of Spin-Orbit Torque in $Pt / NiO / CoFeB$ Structures

Dapeng Zhu, Tianrui Zhang, Xiao Fu, Runrun Hao, Amir Hamzić, Huaiwen Yang, Xueying Zhang, Hui Zhang, Ao Du, Danrong Xiong, Kewen Shi, Shishen Yan, Shufeng Zhang, Albert Fert, and Weisheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217702 (2022) - Published 25 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Colossal Orbital Edelstein Effect in Noncentrosymmetric Superconductors

Luca Chirolli, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Claudio Guarcello, Francesco Giazotto, and Mario Cuoco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217703 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022

A proposed orbital Edelstein effect is one order of magnitude higher than the spin-Edelstein effect.

Mesoscopic Transport of Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in the Submicron Size Regime

Gang Qiu, Peng Zhang, Peng Deng, Su Kong Chong, Lixuan Tai, Christopher Eckberg, and Kang L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 217704 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

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

Small Obstacle in a Large Polar Flock

Joan Codina, Benoît Mahault, Hugues Chaté, Jure Dobnikar, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Xia-qing Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218001 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Hyperuniform Active Chiral Fluids with Tunable Internal Structure

Bo Zhang and Alexey Snezhko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218002 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Extending the Lifespan of Multicellular Organisms via Periodic and Stochastic Intercellular Competition

Tao Wen, Kang Hao Cheong, Joel Weijia Lai, Jin Ming Koh, and Eugene V. Koonin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218101 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Asymptotic Absorption-Time Distributions in Extinction-Prone Markov Processes

David Hathcock and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 218301 (2022) - Published 24 May, 2022

COMMENTS

Comment on “Anharmonicity and Universal Response of Linear Carbon Chain Mechanical Properties under Hydrostatic Pressure”

Enlai Gao, Ke Zhou, Lei Shi, and Zhiping Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 219601 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

Sharma et al. Reply:

Keshav Sharma, Nathalia L. Costa, Yoong Ahm Kim, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Newton M. Barbosa Neto, Luiz G. P. Martins, Jing Kong, Alexandre Rocha Paschoal, and Paulo T. Araujo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 219602 (2022) - Published 27 May, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Capillary Interfacial Tension in Active Phase Separation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 068001 (2021)]

G. Fausti, E. Tjhung, M. E. Cates, and C. Nardini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 219901 (2022) - Published 23 May, 2022

Erratum: Stronger Interlayer Interactions Contribute to Faster Hot Carrier Cooling of Bilayer Graphene under Pressure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 027402 (2021)]

Kun Ni, Jinxiang Du, Jin Yang, Shujuan Xu, Xin Cong, Na Shu, Kai Zhang, Aolei Wang, Fei Wang, Liangbing Ge, Jin Zhao, Yan Qu, Kostya S. Novoselov, Pingheng Tan, Fuhai Su, and Yanwu Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 219902 (2022) - Published 26 May, 2022