Volume 128, Issue 3

21 January 2022

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A circularly polarized high-frequency laser can control topological spin structures and magnon band topology of multiferroic insulators.

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Laser-Controlled Real- and Reciprocal-Space Topology in Multiferroic Insulators
Tomoki Hirosawa, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, and Sebastián A. Díaz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 037201 (2022)

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Magnetic Fields with Precise Quasisymmetry for Plasma Confinement

Matt Landreman and Elizabeth Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035001 (2022) - Published 18 January, 2022

Magnetic-field configurations that improve confinement of fusion plasmas in stellarators can be achieved more precisely than previously thought, according to a numerical study.

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Superionic Silica-Water and Silica-Hydrogen Compounds in the Deep Interiors of Uranus and Neptune

Hao Gao, Cong Liu, Jiuyang Shi, Shuning Pan, Tianheng Huang, Xiancai Lu, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035702 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

Computer simulations uncover new high-pressure minerals that may explain the origin of Earth’s water and of Uranus’ and Neptune’s magnetic fields.

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Ultrahigh-Pressure Magnesium Hydrosilicates as Reservoirs of Water in Early Earth

Han-Fei Li, Artem R. Oganov, Haixu Cui, Xiang-Feng Zhou, Xiao Dong, and Hui-Tian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035703 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

Computer simulations uncover new high-pressure minerals that may explain the origin of Earth’s water and of Uranus’ and Neptune’s magnetic fields.

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Simulation of Quantum Circuits Using the Big-Batch Tensor Network Method

Feng Pan and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 030501 (2022) - Published 19 January, 2022

A tensor network method is used to compute amplitudes and probabilities for a large number of correlated bitstrings in the final state of a quantum circuit.

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Cosmic Coincidences of Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter

Yi-Peng Wu, Elena Pinetti, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 031102 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

A scenario where baryogenesis is triggered by single-field inflation models for primordial black hole formation can explain the cosmic coincidence between the densities of dark matter and baryons.

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Geometric Test for Topological States of Matter

S. Klevtsov and D. Zvonkine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 036602 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

A geometric criterion applicable to degenerate system ground states distinguishes between topological and nontopological states of matter.

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Intrinsic Superconducting Diode Effect

Akito Daido, Yuhei Ikeda, and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 037001 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

A proposed diode effect in intrinsic bulk superconductors permits electric current flow in one direction and blocks current flow in the opposite direction.

LETTERS

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

Control of the Geometric Phase and Nonequivalence between Geometric-Phase Definitions in the Adiabatic Limit

Xiaosong Zhu, Peixiang Lu, and Manfred Lein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 030401 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

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Simulation of Quantum Circuits Using the Big-Batch Tensor Network Method

Feng Pan and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 030501 (2022) - Published 19 January, 2022

A tensor network method is used to compute amplitudes and probabilities for a large number of correlated bitstrings in the final state of a quantum circuit.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Hints of Spin-Orbit Resonances in the Binary Black Hole Population

Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, and Salvatore Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 031101 (2022) - Published 19 January, 2022

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Cosmic Coincidences of Primordial-Black-Hole Dark Matter

Yi-Peng Wu, Elena Pinetti, and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 031102 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

A scenario where baryogenesis is triggered by single-field inflation models for primordial black hole formation can explain the cosmic coincidence between the densities of dark matter and baryons.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Evidence for X(3872) in Pb-Pb Collisions and Studies of its Prompt Production at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 032001 (2022) - Published 19 January, 2022

Interpretation of Neutral Charm Mesons near Threshold as Unparticles

Eric Braaten and Hans-Werner Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 032002 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Lattice Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Neural Networks

Matteo Favoni, Andreas Ipp, David I. Müller, and Daniel Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 032003 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Zwitter Ionization of Glycine at Outer Space Conditions due to Microhydration by Six Water Molecules

Gerhard Schwaab, Ricardo Pérez de Tudela, Devendra Mani, Nitish Pal, Tarun Kumar Roy, Fabio Gabas, Riccardo Conte, Laura Durán Caballero, Michele Ceotto, Dominik Marx, and Martina Havenith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033001 (2022) - Published 19 January, 2022

Trapping Alkaline Earth Rydberg Atoms Optical Tweezer Arrays

J. T. Wilson, S. Saskin, Y. Meng, S. Ma, R. Dilip, A. P. Burgers, and J. D. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033201 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Radium Ion Optical Clock

C. A. Holliman, M. Fan, A. Contractor, S. M. Brewer, and A. M. Jayich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033202 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

State-Resolved Mutual Neutralization of ${Mg}^{+}$ and $D^{-}$

Jon Grumer, Gustav Eklund, Anish M. Amarsi, Paul S. Barklem, Stefan Rosén, MingChao Ji, Ansgar Simonsson, Henrik Cederquist, Henning Zettergren, and Henning T. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033401 (2022) - Published 18 January, 2022

SU(2)-in-SU(1,1) Nested Interferometer for High Sensitivity, Loss-Tolerant Quantum Metrology

Wei Du, Jia Kong, Guzhi Bao, Peiyu Yang, Jun Jia, Sheng Ming, Chun-Hua Yuan, J. F. Chen, Z. Y. Ou, Morgan W. Mitchell, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033601 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Exact Solutions of Interacting Dissipative Systems via Weak Symmetries

A. McDonald and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033602 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dark-Bright Soliton Bound States in a Microresonator

Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, George N. Ghalanos, Niall P. Moroney, Leonardo Del Bino, and Pascal Del’Haye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 033901 (2022) - Published 18 January, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Fields with Precise Quasisymmetry for Plasma Confinement

Matt Landreman and Elizabeth Paul

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035001 (2022) - Published 18 January, 2022

Magnetic-field configurations that improve confinement of fusion plasmas in stellarators can be achieved more precisely than previously thought, according to a numerical study.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Theorem on the Compatibility of Spherical Kirigami Tessellations

Xiangxin Dang, Fan Feng, Huiling Duan, and Jianxiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035501 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

Nucleation of Grain Boundary Phases

I. S. Winter, R. E. Rudd, T. Oppelstrup, and T. Frolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035701 (2022) - Published 18 January, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superionic Silica-Water and Silica-Hydrogen Compounds in the Deep Interiors of Uranus and Neptune

Hao Gao, Cong Liu, Jiuyang Shi, Shuning Pan, Tianheng Huang, Xiancai Lu, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035702 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

Computer simulations uncover new high-pressure minerals that may explain the origin of Earth’s water and of Uranus’ and Neptune’s magnetic fields.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrahigh-Pressure Magnesium Hydrosilicates as Reservoirs of Water in Early Earth

Han-Fei Li, Artem R. Oganov, Haixu Cui, Xiang-Feng Zhou, Xiao Dong, and Hui-Tian Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 035703 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

Computer simulations uncover new high-pressure minerals that may explain the origin of Earth’s water and of Uranus’ and Neptune’s magnetic fields.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Unconventional Hysteretic Transition in a Charge Density Wave

B. Q. Lv et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 036401 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Charge-Density-Wave-Induced Peak-Dip-Hump Structure and the Multiband Superconductivity in a Kagome Superconductor ${CsV}_{3} {Sb}_{5}$

Rui Lou, Alexander Fedorov, Qiangwei Yin, Andrii Kuibarov, Zhijun Tu, Chunsheng Gong, Eike F. Schwier, Bernd Büchner, Hechang Lei, and Sergey Borisenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 036402 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Degeneracy-Projected Polarization Formulas for Hall-Type Conductivities

Noga Bashan and Assa Auerbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 036601 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Geometric Test for Topological States of Matter

S. Klevtsov and D. Zvonkine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 036602 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

A geometric criterion applicable to degenerate system ground states distinguishes between topological and nontopological states of matter.

Quantum Magnetism and Topological Superconductivity in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Chains

Jacob F. Steiner, Christophe Mora, Katharina J. Franke, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 036801 (2022) - Published 21 January, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Superconducting Diode Effect

Akito Daido, Yuhei Ikeda, and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 037001 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

A proposed diode effect in intrinsic bulk superconductors permits electric current flow in one direction and blocks current flow in the opposite direction.

Laser-Controlled Real- and Reciprocal-Space Topology in Multiferroic Insulators

Tomoki Hirosawa, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, and Sebastián A. Díaz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 037201 (2022) - Published 20 January, 2022

Microwave-Free Dynamic Nuclear Polarization via Sudden Thermal Jumps

Carlos A. Meriles and Pablo R. Zangara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 037401 (2022) - Published 19 January, 2022

Volume 128, Issue 3

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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