Volume 128, Issue 25

24 June 2022

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Time evolution of the spreading and freezing of a water droplet on a cold substrate at -13°C. Nucleation is designated by arrows at t = 0.8 ms. Local pinning events are emphasized with arrows at t = 3.7 ms. [Rodolphe Grivet et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 254501 (2022)]

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Contact Line Catch Up by Growing Ice Crystals
Rodolphe Grivet, Antoine Monier, Axel Huerre, Christophe Josserand, and Thomas Séon
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 254501 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Amplification of Acoustic Forces Using Microbubble Arrays Enables Manipulation of Centimeter-Scale Objects

Rahul Goyal, Athanasios G. Athanassiadis, Zhichao Ma, and Peer Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 254502 (2022) - Published 24 June, 2022

Centimeter-scale objects in liquid can be manipulated using the mutual attraction of two arrays of air bubbles in the presence of sound waves.

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Scattering of Ultrastrong Electromagnetic Waves by Magnetized Particles

Andrei M. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255003 (2022) - Published 24 June, 2022

Predictions indicate that when a neutron star radiates a burst of radio waves, interactions of the burst with the star’s magnetic field should produce observable x rays.

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Controlling the Shape of Small Clusters with and without Macroscopic Fields

Francesco Boccardo and Olivier Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256102 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

Simulations suggest that thermal fluctuations combined with macroscopic forces could be used to quickly generate specific configurations of few-atom nanoclusters.

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Nonlinear Phototaxis and Instabilities in Suspensions of Light-Seeking Algae

Aina Ramamonjy, Julien Dervaux, and Philippe Brunet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 258101 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

A population of photosynthetic algae has been shown to exhibit a highly nonlinear response to light, forming dynamic structures in light-intensity gradients.

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Topological Order in an Antiferromagnetic Tetratic Phase

Daniel Abutbul and Daniel Podolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255501 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

Melting an antiferromagnetic lattice with strong spin interactions leads to a tetratic phase with topological order, between the solid and liquid phases.

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Acoustically Induced Giant Synthetic Hall Voltages in Graphene

Pai Zhao, Chithra H. Sharma, Renrong Liang, Christian Glasenapp, Lev Mourokh, Vadim M. Kovalev, Patrick Huber, Marta Prada, Lars Tiemann, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256601 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

A surface acoustic wave in a piezoelectric substrate induces synthetic Hall potentials that can be tuned by carrier characteristics in a graphene layer.

LETTERS

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

Closing the Locality and Detection Loopholes in Multiparticle Entanglement Self-Testing

Dian Wu, Qi Zhao, Can Wang, Liang Huang, Yang-Fan Jiang, Bing Bai, You Zhou, Xue-Mei Gu, Feng-Ming Liu, Ying-Qiu Mao, Qi-Chao Sun, Ming-Cheng Chen, Jun Zhang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Xiao-Bo Zhu, Qiang Zhang, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 250401 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

Observation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition in a Two-Dimensional Bose Gas via Matter-Wave Interferometry

S. Sunami, V. P. Singh, D. Garrick, A. Beregi, A. J. Barker, K. Luksch, E. Bentine, L. Mathey, and C. J. Foot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 250402 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

Entanglement Detection with Imprecise Measurements

Simon Morelli, Hayata Yamasaki, Marcus Huber, and Armin Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 250501 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Information Geometry under Hierarchical Quantum Measurement

Hongzhen Chen, Yu Chen, and Haidong Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 250502 (2022) - Published 24 June, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Glint: Detectable Gravitational Wave Tails from Stars and Compact Objects

Craig Copi and Glenn D. Starkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 251101 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Index Theorems, Generalized Hall Currents, and Topology for Gapless Defect Fermions

David B. Kaplan and Srimoyee Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 251601 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Third-Order Fiducial Predictions for Drell-Yan Production at the LHC

Xuan Chen, Thomas Gehrmann, Nigel Glover, Alexander Huss, Pier Francesco Monni, Emanuele Re, Luca Rottoli, and Paolo Torrielli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252001 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Cross Section at High Bjorken $x_{B}$

F. Georges et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252002 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

Hypertriton Production in $p$ -Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (A Large Ion Collider Experiment Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252003 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Observation of the $B_{c}^{+}$ Meson in Pb-Pb and $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$ and Measurement of its Nuclear Modification Factor

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252301 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Transient Relativistic Fluid Dynamics in a General Hydrodynamic Frame

Jorge Noronha, Michał Spaliński, and Enrico Speranza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252302 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

Electric Monopole Transition from the Superdeformed Band in ${}^{40}{Ca}$

E. Ideguchi (井手口栄治), T. Kibédi, J. T. H. Dowie, T. H. Hoang, M. Kumar Raju, N. Aoi (青井考), A. J. Mitchell, A. E. Stuchbery, N. Shimizu (清水則孝), Y. Utsuno (宇都野穣), A. Akber, L. J. Bignell, B. J. Coombes, T. K. Eriksen, T. J. Gray, G. J. Lane, and B. P. McCormick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252501 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Resonance Excitations in ${}^{7}{Be} (d, p) {}^{8}{Be}^{*}$ to Address the Cosmological Lithium Problem

Sk M. Ali, D. Gupta, K. Kundalia, Swapan K. Saha, O. Tengblad, J. D. Ovejas, A. Perea, I. Martel, J. Cederkall, J. Park, and S. Szwec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 252701 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Effects with Nitrogen Vacancy Center Spins Coupled to Room Temperature Microwave Resonators

Yuan Zhang, Qilong Wu, Shi-Lei Su, Qing Lou, Chongxin Shan, and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 253601 (2022) - Published 24 June, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Moiré Quasibound States in the Continuum

Lei Huang, Weixuan Zhang, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 253901 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Contact Line Catch Up by Growing Ice Crystals

Rodolphe Grivet, Antoine Monier, Axel Huerre, Christophe Josserand, and Thomas Séon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 254501 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

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Amplification of Acoustic Forces Using Microbubble Arrays Enables Manipulation of Centimeter-Scale Objects

Rahul Goyal, Athanasios G. Athanassiadis, Zhichao Ma, and Peer Fischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 254502 (2022) - Published 24 June, 2022

Centimeter-scale objects in liquid can be manipulated using the mutual attraction of two arrays of air bubbles in the presence of sound waves.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Harmonic Generation and Inverse Cascade in the z-Pinch Driven, Preseeded Multimode, Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

D. E. Ruiz, D. A. Yager-Elorriaga, K. J. Peterson, D. B. Sinars, M. R. Weis, D. G. Schroen, K. Tomlinson, J. R. Fein, and K. Beckwith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255001 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Synergy of Turbulent Momentum Drive and Magnetic Braking

R. Varennes, X. Garbet, L. Vermare, Y. Sarazin, G. Dif-Pradalier, V. Grandgirard, P. Ghendrih, P. Donnel, M. Peret, K. Obrejan, and E. Bourne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255002 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

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Scattering of Ultrastrong Electromagnetic Waves by Magnetized Particles

Andrei M. Beloborodov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255003 (2022) - Published 24 June, 2022

Predictions indicate that when a neutron star radiates a burst of radio waves, interactions of the burst with the star’s magnetic field should produce observable x rays.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Supertransport by Superclimbing Dislocations in ${}^{4}{He}$ : When All Dimensions Matter

Anatoly B. Kuklov, Lode Pollet, Nikolay V. Prokof’ev, and Boris V. Svistunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255301 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

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Topological Order in an Antiferromagnetic Tetratic Phase

Daniel Abutbul and Daniel Podolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 255501 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

Melting an antiferromagnetic lattice with strong spin interactions leads to a tetratic phase with topological order, between the solid and liquid phases.

Reciprocity Constraints on Reflection

Cheng Guo and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256101 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

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Controlling the Shape of Small Clusters with and without Macroscopic Fields

Francesco Boccardo and Olivier Pierre-Louis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256102 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

Simulations suggest that thermal fluctuations combined with macroscopic forces could be used to quickly generate specific configurations of few-atom nanoclusters.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Acoustically Induced Giant Synthetic Hall Voltages in Graphene

Pai Zhao, Chithra H. Sharma, Renrong Liang, Christian Glasenapp, Lev Mourokh, Vadim M. Kovalev, Patrick Huber, Marta Prada, Lars Tiemann, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 256601 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

A surface acoustic wave in a piezoelectric substrate induces synthetic Hall potentials that can be tuned by carrier characteristics in a graphene layer.

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

Local Plastic Response and Slow Heterogeneous Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids

Yan-Wei Li, Yugui Yao, and Massimo Pica Ciamarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 258001 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

Origin of Two Distinct Stress Relaxation Regimes in Shear Jammed Dense Suspensions

Sachidananda Barik and Sayantan Majumdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 258002 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

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Nonlinear Phototaxis and Instabilities in Suspensions of Light-Seeking Algae

Aina Ramamonjy, Julien Dervaux, and Philippe Brunet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 258101 (2022) - Published 21 June, 2022

A population of photosynthetic algae has been shown to exhibit a highly nonlinear response to light, forming dynamic structures in light-intensity gradients.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Ultrahigh Convergent Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes from Comprehensive Atomistic Modeling”

Daniel Bruns, Alireza Nojeh, A. Srikantha Phani, and Jörg Rottler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 259601 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

Barbalinardo et al. Reply:

Giuseppe Barbalinardo, Zekun Chen, Haikuan Dong, Zheyong Fan, and Davide Donadio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 259602 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum-Impurity Relaxometry of Magnetization Dynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 187204 (2018)]

B. Flebus and Y. Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 259901 (2022) - Published 22 June, 2022

Erratum: Elastic Orbital Angular Momentum [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 064301 (2022)]

G. J. Chaplain, J. M. De Ponti, and R. V. Craster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 259902 (2022) - Published 23 June, 2022