Volume 128, Issue 24

17 June 2022

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Confocal image of small silica colloids gathered into blobs (red) and large silica microspheres (green). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Flow-Switched Bistability in a Colloidal Gel with Non-Brownian Grains
Yujie Jiang, Soichiro Makino, John R. Royer, and Wilson C. K. Poon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 248002 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241801 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

New neutrino-oscillation data show no sign of an anomalous signal seen in previous studies, but the analyses can’t yet fully rule out its presence.

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MicroBooNE and the $ν_{e}$ Interpretation of the MiniBooNE Low-Energy Excess

C. A. Argüelles, I. Esteban, M. Hostert, K. J. Kelly, J. Kopp, P. A. N. Machado, I. Martinez-Soler, and Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241802 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

New neutrino-oscillation data show no sign of an anomalous signal seen in previous studies, but the analyses can’t yet fully rule out its presence.

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Femtosecond Rotational Dynamics of $D_{2}$ Molecules in Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Junjie Qiang, Lianrong Zhou, Peifen Lu, Kang Lin, Yongzhe Ma, Shengzhe Pan, Chenxu Lu, Wenyu Jiang, Fenghao Sun, Wenbin Zhang, Hui Li, Xiaochun Gong, Ilya Sh. Averbukh, Yehiam Prior, Constant A. Schouder, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Igor N. Cherepanov, Mikhail Lemeshko, Wolfgang Jäger, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243201 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

A laser nudges deuterium molecules into friction-free motion within a superfluid.

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Experimental Realization of a Fermionic Spin-Momentum Lattice

Paul Lauria, Wei-Ting Kuo, Nigel R. Cooper, and Julio T. Barreiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 245301 (2022) - Published 15 June, 2022

Defining a fermionic lattice using spin and momentum instead of spatial coordinates opens the door for interacting-fermion simulations with more complex lattice geometries.

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Cerium Ruthenium Low-Energy Antineutrino Measurements for Safeguarding Military Naval Reactors

Bernadette K. Cogswell and Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241803 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Monitoring the fissile material aboard nuclear-powered submarines is notoriously difficult. Researchers may now have a way to safeguard this weapons-grade substance.

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Observation of Non-Abelian Thouless Pump

Oubo You, Shanjun Liang, Biye Xie, Wenlong Gao, Weimin Ye, Jie Zhu, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 244302 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

An acoustic waveguide array makes it possible to observe non-Abelian Thouless pumping.

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Coherent and Incoherent Tunneling into Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States Revealed by Atomic Scale Shot-Noise Spectroscopy

U. Thupakula, V. Perrin, A. Palacio-Morales, L. Cario, M. Aprili, P. Simon, and F. Massee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247001 (2022) - Published 15 June, 2022

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy combined with shot-noise measurements provides a method to probe the elusive energy and time scales of coherent transfers of charge 2 $e$ through Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in a 2H-NbSe $_{2}$ superconductor.

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Flow-Switched Bistability in a Colloidal Gel with Non-Brownian Grains

Yujie Jiang, Soichiro Makino, John R. Royer, and Wilson C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 248002 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Non-Brownian grains dispersed in a colloidal gel render the system rheologically bistable, switching between distinct solidlike and liquidlike states depending on shear rate.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Wheatstone Bridge

Kasper Poulsen, Alan C. Santos, and Nikolaj T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240401 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

Retrieving High-Dimensional Quantum Steering from a Noisy Environment with $N$ Measurement Settings

Rui Qu, Yunlong Wang, Min An, Feiran Wang, Quan Quan, Hongrong Li, Hong Gao, Fuli Li, and Pei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240402 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Correlation in Catalysts Enables Arbitrary Manipulation of Quantum Coherence

Ryuji Takagi and Naoto Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240501 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

Entanglement of Skeletal Regions

Clément Berthiere and William Witczak-Krempa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240502 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Efficient Backcasting Search for Optical Quantum State Synthesis

Kosuke Fukui, Shuntaro Takeda, Mamoru Endo, Warit Asavanant, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Peter van Loock, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240503 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Quantum Asymmetry and Noisy Multimode Interferometry

Francesco Albarelli, Mateusz Mazelanik, Michał Lipka, Alexander Streltsov, Michał Parniak, and Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240504 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Entanglement Phase Transition with Spin Glass Criticality

Jeremy Côté and Stefanos Kourtis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 240601 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scattering Amplitudes: Celestial and Carrollian

Arjun Bagchi, Shamik Banerjee, Rudranil Basu, and Sudipta Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241601 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Black Hole Supertranslations and Hydrodynamic Enstrophy

Raja Marjieh, Natalia Pinzani-Fokeeva, Bar Tavor, and Amos Yarom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241602 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Quivers, Lattice Gauge Theories, and Fractons

Sebastián Franco and Diego Rodríguez-Gómez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241603 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

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Search for an Excess of Electron Neutrino Interactions in MicroBooNE Using Multiple Final-State Topologies

P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241801 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

New neutrino-oscillation data show no sign of an anomalous signal seen in previous studies, but the analyses can’t yet fully rule out its presence.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

MicroBooNE and the $ν_{e}$ Interpretation of the MiniBooNE Low-Energy Excess

C. A. Argüelles, I. Esteban, M. Hostert, K. J. Kelly, J. Kopp, P. A. N. Machado, I. Martinez-Soler, and Y. F. Perez-Gonzalez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241802 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

New neutrino-oscillation data show no sign of an anomalous signal seen in previous studies, but the analyses can’t yet fully rule out its presence.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Cerium Ruthenium Low-Energy Antineutrino Measurements for Safeguarding Military Naval Reactors

Bernadette K. Cogswell and Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241803 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Monitoring the fissile material aboard nuclear-powered submarines is notoriously difficult. Researchers may now have a way to safeguard this weapons-grade substance.

Quark and Lepton Compositeness: A Renormalizable Model

Bogdan A. Dobrescu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241804 (2022) - Published 15 June, 2022

Searching for Invisible Axion Dark Matter with an 18 T Magnet Haloscope

Youngjae Lee, Byeongsu Yang, Hojin Yoon, Moohyun Ahn, Heejun Park, Byeonghun Min, DongLak Kim, and Jonghee Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 241805 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Perturbative Quantum Monte Carlo Method for Nuclear Physics

Bing-Nan Lu, Ning Li, Serdar Elhatisari, Yuan-Zhuo Ma, Dean Lee, and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 242501 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Probing ${}^{93 m}{Mo}$ Isomer Depletion with an Isomer Beam

S. Guo (郭松) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 242502 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Femtosecond Rotational Dynamics of $D_{2}$ Molecules in Superfluid Helium Nanodroplets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243201 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

A laser nudges deuterium molecules into friction-free motion within a superfluid.

Entanglement-Optimal Trajectories of Many-Body Quantum Markov Processes

Tatiana Vovk and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243601 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Thermalization of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams in Multimode Optical Fibers

E. V. Podivilov, F. Mangini, O. S. Sidelnikov, M. Ferraro, M. Gervaziev, D. S. Kharenko, M. Zitelli, M. P. Fedoruk, S. A. Babin, and S. Wabnitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 243901 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Independent Flexural Wave Frequency Conversion by a Linear Active Metalayer

Qian Wu, Xiaodong Zhang, P. Shivashankar, Yangyang Chen, and Guoliang Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 244301 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Non-Abelian Thouless Pump

Oubo You, Shanjun Liang, Biye Xie, Wenlong Gao, Weimin Ye, Jie Zhu, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 244302 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

An acoustic waveguide array makes it possible to observe non-Abelian Thouless pumping.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Demonstration of Efficient Harmonic Generation via Surface Plasma Compression with Lasers

B. Y. Li, F. Liu, M. Chen, F. Y. Wu, J. W. Wang, L. Lu, J. L. Li, X. L. Ge, X. H. Yuan, W. C. Yan, L. M. Chen, Z. M. Sheng, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 244801 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Ideal MHD Limited Electron Temperature in Spherical Tokamaks

S. C. Jardin, N. M. Ferraro, W. Guttenfelder, S. M. Kaye, and S. Munaretto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 245001 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Experimental Realization of a Fermionic Spin-Momentum Lattice

Paul Lauria, Wei-Ting Kuo, Nigel R. Cooper, and Julio T. Barreiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 245301 (2022) - Published 15 June, 2022

Defining a fermionic lattice using spin and momentum instead of spatial coordinates opens the door for interacting-fermion simulations with more complex lattice geometries.

Mapping Shear Bands in Metallic Glasses: From Atomic Structure to Bulk Dynamics

Huaping Sheng, Daniel Şopu, Simon Fellner, Jürgen Eckert, and Christoph Gammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 245501 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Ab Initio Approach for Thermodynamic Surface Phases with Full Consideration of Anharmonic Effects: The Example of Hydrogen at Si(100)

Yuanyuan Zhou, Chunye Zhu, Matthias Scheffler, and Luca M. Ghiringhelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246101 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Anomalous Contribution to the Nematic Electronic States from the Structural Transition in FeSe Revealed by Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Yuanyuan Yang, Qisi Wang, Shaofeng Duan, Hongliang Wo, Chaozhi Huang, Shichong Wang, Lingxiao Gu, Dao Xiang, Dong Qian, Jun Zhao, and Wentao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246401 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

Multiple Magnetorotons and Spectral Sum Rules in Fractional Quantum Hall Systems

Dung Xuan Nguyen, F. D. M. Haldane, E. H. Rezayi, Dam Thanh Son, and Kun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246402 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

Experimental Observation of Non-Abelian Earring Nodal Links in Phononic Crystals

Mudi Wang, Shan Liu, Qiyun Ma, Ruo-Yang Zhang, Dongyang Wang, Qinghua Guo, Biao Yang, Manzhu Ke, Zhengyou Liu, and C. T. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246601 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Thouless Pumps and Bulk-Boundary Correspondence in Higher-Order Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases

Julian F. Wienand, Friederike Horn, Monika Aidelsburger, Julian Bibo, and Fabian Grusdt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246602 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Absence of Superdiffusion in Certain Random Spin Models

Pieter W. Claeys, Austen Lamacraft, and Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 246603 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

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Coherent and Incoherent Tunneling into Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States Revealed by Atomic Scale Shot-Noise Spectroscopy

U. Thupakula, V. Perrin, A. Palacio-Morales, L. Cario, M. Aprili, P. Simon, and F. Massee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247001 (2022) - Published 15 June, 2022

Detection of Quantum Phase Boundary at Finite Temperatures in Integrable Spin Models

Protyush Nandi, Sirshendu Bhattacharyya, and Subinay Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247201 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

Fourfold Anisotropic Magnetoresistance of ${L 1}_{0}$ FePt Due to Relaxation Time Anisotropy

Y. Dai, Y. W. Zhao, L. Ma, M. Tang, X. P. Qiu, Y. Liu, Z. Yuan, and S. M. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247202 (2022) - Published 15 June, 2022

Observation of Collective Resonance Modes in a Chiral Spin Soliton Lattice with Tunable Magnon Dispersion

Y. Shimamoto, Y. Matsushima, T. Hasegawa, Y. Kousaka, I. Proskurin, J. Kishine, A. S. Ovchinnikov, F. J. T. Goncalves, and Y. Togawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247203 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Quantifying Spin-Orbit Torques in Antiferromagnet–Heavy-Metal Heterostructures

Egecan Cogulu, Hantao Zhang, Nahuel N. Statuto, Yang Cheng, Fengyuan Yang, Ran Cheng, and Andrew D. Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247204 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Intersubband Polariton-Polariton Scattering in a Dispersive Microcavity

M. Knorr, J. M. Manceau, J. Mornhinweg, J. Nespolo, G. Biasiol, N. L. Tran, M. Malerba, P. Goulain, X. Lafosse, M. Jeannin, M. Stefinger, I. Carusotto, C. Lange, R. Colombelli, and R. Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247401 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Correlated Insulators, Density Wave States, and Their Nonlinear Optical Response in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Shihao Zhang, Xin Lu, and Jianpeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247402 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022

Charge-Noise Resilience of Two-Electron Quantum Dots in $Si / SiGe$ Heterostructures

H. Ekmel Ercan, Mark Friesen, and S. N. Coppersmith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247701 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

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

Characterizing the Asymmetry in Hardness between Synthesis and Destruction of Heteropolymers

Ikumi Kobayashi and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 247801 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

Probing Gardner Physics in an Active Quasithermal Pressure-Controlled Granular System of Noncircular Particles

Hongyi Xiao, Andrea J. Liu, and Douglas J. Durian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 248001 (2022) - Published 13 June, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flow-Switched Bistability in a Colloidal Gel with Non-Brownian Grains

Yujie Jiang, Soichiro Makino, John R. Royer, and Wilson C. K. Poon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 248002 (2022) - Published 16 June, 2022

Non-Brownian grains dispersed in a colloidal gel render the system rheologically bistable, switching between distinct solidlike and liquidlike states depending on shear rate.

Run-to-Tumble Variability Controls the Surface Residence Times of E. coli Bacteria

Gaspard Junot, Thierry Darnige, Anke Lindner, Vincent A. Martinez, Jochen Arlt, Angela Dawson, Wilson C. K. Poon, Harold Auradou, and Eric Clément

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 248101 (2022) - Published 14 June, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Symmetry and Higher-Order Exceptional Points [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 186601 (2021)]

Ipsita Mandal and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 249901 (2022) - Published 17 June, 2022