Volume 128, Issue 6

11 February 2022

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Optical image of a ReS₂ flake with terraces corresponding to 1–10 layers.

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Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity in $1 T^{'}$ - ${ReS}_{2}$ Multilayers
Yi Wan, Ting Hu, Xiaoyu Mao, Jun Fu, Kai Yuan, Yu Song, Xuetao Gan, Xiaolong Xu, Mingzhu Xue, Xing Cheng, Chengxi Huang, Jinbo Yang, Lun Dai, Hualing Zeng, and Erjun Kan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067601 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Coupling Two Laser-Cooled Ions via a Room-Temperature Conductor

Da An, Alberto M. Alonso, Clemens Matthiesen, and Hartmut Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 063201 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

Two separate teams have demonstrated a way to couple two ions through a metal wire, offering a way to remotely cool ions.

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Elastic Orbital Angular Momentum

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 064301 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Waves of vibration moving through the walls of a pipe can carry orbital angular momentum that could be used for several purposes, according to new theoretical work.

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Pauli Blockade of Tunable Two-Electron Spin and Valley States in Graphene Quantum Dots

Chuyao Tong, Annika Kurzmann, Rebekka Garreis, Wei Wister Huang, Samuel Jele, Marius Eich, Lev Ginzburg, Christopher Mittag, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Klaus Ensslin, and Thomas Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067702 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

An electron’s spin and valley information can be determined by monitoring how easily that electron passes through a qubit.

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Holographic Plasma Lenses

M. R. Edwards, V. R. Munirov, A. Singh, N. M. Fasano, E. Kur, N. Lemos, J. M. Mikhailova, J. S. Wurtele, and P. Michel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065003 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Researchers propose inducing density variations in a plasma to create a lens that can focus a petawatt-scale laser beam without being damaged.

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Evidence for a New Structure in the $J / ψ p$ and $J / ψ \bar{p}$ Systems in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ p \bar{p}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 062001 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

Evidence of a new structure in the decay of $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ p \bar{p}$ is compatible with a pentaquark state.

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Observation of Transient Parity-Time Symmetry in Electronic Systems

Xin Yang, Jiawen Li, Yifei Ding, Mengwei Xu, Xue-Feng Zhu, and Jie Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065701 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

Incorporation of a transient $P T$ -symmetric Hamiltonian in electronic switching theory suggests a path to greater efficiency and a reduction of unwanted oscillations.

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Observation of the Orbital Rashba-Edelstein Magnetoresistance

Shilei Ding, Zhongyu Liang, Dongwook Go, Chao Yun, Mingzhu Xue, Zhou Liu, Sven Becker, Wenyun Yang, Honglin Du, Changsheng Wang, Yingchang Yang, Gerhard Jakob, Mathias Kläui, Yuriy Mokrousov, and Jinbo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067201 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

The observation of magnetoresistance in copper-oxide and Permalloy-based heterostructures without heavy metals could be due to the orbital Rashba-Edelstein magnetoresistance, an effect of orbital angular momentum transport.

LETTERS

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

Nonlocality for Generic Networks

Marc-Olivier Renou and Salman Beigi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 060401 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

Transverse Mode-Encoded Quantum Gate on a Silicon Photonic Chip

Lan-Tian Feng, Ming Zhang, Xiao Xiong, Di Liu, Yu-Jie Cheng, Fang-Ming Jing, Xiao-Zhuo Qi, Yang Chen, De-Yong He, Guo-Ping Guo, Guang-Can Guo, Dao-Xin Dai, and Xi-Feng Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 060501 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

Deterministic Time-Bin Entanglement between a Single Photon and an Atomic Ensemble

Peng-Fei Sun, Yong Yu, Zi-Ye An, Jun Li, Chao-Wei Yang, Xiao-Hui Bao, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 060502 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

All-Optical Entanglement Swapping

Shengshuai Liu, Yanbo Lou, Yingxuan Chen, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 060503 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Exact Emergent Quantum State Designs from Quantum Chaotic Dynamics

Wen Wei Ho and Soonwon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 060601 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Self-Consistent Rotating Neutron Stars with Mixed Poloidal and Toroidal Magnetic Fields

Antonios Tsokaros, Milton Ruiz, Stuart L. Shapiro, and Kōji Uryū

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 061101 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Why Must Primordial Non-Gaussianity Be Very Small?

Jason Kristiano and Jun’ichi Yokoyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 061301 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Critical Field Theories with $OSp (1 | 2 M)$ Symmetry

Igor R. Klebanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 061601 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

Searching for Hidden Neutrons with a Reactor Neutrino Experiment: Constraints from the STEREO Experiment

H. Almazán et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 061801 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

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Evidence for a New Structure in the $J / ψ p$ and $J / ψ \bar{p}$ Systems in $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ p \bar{p}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 062001 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

Evidence of a new structure in the decay of $B_{s}^{0} \to J / ψ p \bar{p}$ is compatible with a pentaquark state.

Lattice QCD Study of Transverse-Momentum Dependent Soft Function

Yuan Li, Shi-Cheng Xia, Constantia Alexandrou, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Xu Feng, Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou, Karl Jansen, Chuan Liu, Aurora Scapellato, Fernanda Steffens, and Jacopo Tarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 062002 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Prediction for the Photon-Pion Form Factor

Jing Gao, Tobias Huber, Yao Ji, and Yu-Ming Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 062003 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Measurement of the Cross Section for $e^{+} e^{-} \to Hadrons$ at Energies from 2.2324 to 3.6710 GeV

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 062004 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

Multidimensional, High Precision Measurements of Beam Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-inclusive $π^{+}$ Electroproduction off Protons in the Valence Region

S. Diehl et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 062005 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Isolating Attosecond Electron Dynamics in Molecules where Nuclei Move Fast

Laura Cattaneo, Luca Pedrelli, Roger Y. Bello, Alicia Palacios, Phillip D. Keathley, Fernando Martín, and Ursula Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 063001 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

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Coupling Two Laser-Cooled Ions via a Room-Temperature Conductor

Da An, Alberto M. Alonso, Clemens Matthiesen, and Hartmut Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 063201 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

Two separate teams have demonstrated a way to couple two ions through a metal wire, offering a way to remotely cool ions.

Ultradilute Quantum Liquid of Dipolar Atoms in a Bilayer

G. Guijarro, G. E. Astrakharchik, and J. Boronat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 063401 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

Many-Body Quantum State Diffusion for Non-Markovian Dynamics in Strongly Interacting Systems

S. Flannigan, F. Damanet, and A. J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 063601 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Heralding Multiple Photonic Pulsed Bell Pairs via Frequency-Resolved Entanglement Swapping

Sofiane Merkouche, Valérian Thiel, Alex O. C. Davis, and Brian J. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 063602 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Elastic Orbital Angular Momentum

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 064301 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Waves of vibration moving through the walls of a pipe can carry orbital angular momentum that could be used for several purposes, according to new theoretical work.

Frequency Conversion Cascade by Crossing Multiple Space and Time Interfaces

Benjamin Apffel and Emmanuel Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 064501 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Low-Threshold Induced-Side-Scattering Instability at the Tokamak Edge Transport Barrier Predicted in O-Mode Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating Experiments

E. Z. Gusakov and A. Yu. Popov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065001 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

Production of a Chiral Magnetic Anomaly with Emerging Turbulence and Mean-Field Dynamo Action

Jennifer Schober, Igor Rogachevskii, and Axel Brandenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065002 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

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Holographic Plasma Lenses

M. R. Edwards, V. R. Munirov, A. Singh, N. M. Fasano, E. Kur, N. Lemos, J. M. Mikhailova, J. S. Wurtele, and P. Michel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065003 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Researchers propose inducing density variations in a plasma to create a lens that can focus a petawatt-scale laser beam without being damaged.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Exact Analytical Solution for the Density Matrix of a Nonequilibrium Polariton Bose-Einstein Condensate

Vladislav Yu. Shishkov, Evgeny S. Andrianov, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, and Yurii E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065301 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

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Observation of Transient Parity-Time Symmetry in Electronic Systems

Xin Yang, Jiawen Li, Yifei Ding, Mengwei Xu, Xue-Feng Zhu, and Jie Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065701 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

Incorporation of a transient $P T$ -symmetric Hamiltonian in electronic switching theory suggests a path to greater efficiency and a reduction of unwanted oscillations.

Degradation of Phonons in Disordered Moiré Superlattices

Héctor Ochoa and Rafael M. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 065901 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

SU(4) $Valley + Spin$ Fluctuation Interference Mechanism for Nematic Order in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene: The Impact of Vertex Corrections

Seiichiro Onari and Hiroshi Kontani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 066401 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

Nonlinear Quantum Electrodynamics in Dirac Materials

Aydın Cem Keser, Yuli Lyanda-Geller, and Oleg P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 066402 (2022) - Published 11 February, 2022

Dissipationless Spin-Charge Conversion in Excitonic Pseudospin Superfluid

Yeyang Zhang and Ryuichi Shindou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 066601 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Bicircular Light Floquet Engineering of Magnetic Symmetry and Topology and Its Application to the Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Thaís V. Trevisan, Pablo Villar Arribi, Olle Heinonen, Robert-Jan Slager, and Peter P. Orth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 066602 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Copropagating Edge States Produced by the Interaction between Electrons and Chiral Phonons in Two-Dimensional Materials

Joaquín Medina Dueñas, Hernán L. Calvo, and Luis E. F. Foa Torres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 066801 (2022) - Published 7 February, 2022

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Observation of the Orbital Rashba-Edelstein Magnetoresistance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067201 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022

Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity in $1 T^{'}$ - ${ReS}_{2}$ Multilayers

Yi Wan, Ting Hu, Xiaoyu Mao, Jun Fu, Kai Yuan, Yu Song, Xuetao Gan, Xiaolong Xu, Mingzhu Xue, Xing Cheng, Chengxi Huang, Jinbo Yang, Lun Dai, Hualing Zeng, and Erjun Kan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067601 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

Cycle Flux Ranking of Network Analysis in Quantum Thermal Devices

Luqin Wang, Zi Wang, Chen Wang, and Jie Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067701 (2022) - Published 8 February, 2022

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Pauli Blockade of Tunable Two-Electron Spin and Valley States in Graphene Quantum Dots

Chuyao Tong, Annika Kurzmann, Rebekka Garreis, Wei Wister Huang, Samuel Jele, Marius Eich, Lev Ginzburg, Christopher Mittag, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Klaus Ensslin, and Thomas Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 067702 (2022) - Published 9 February, 2022

An electron’s spin and valley information can be determined by monitoring how easily that electron passes through a qubit.

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Dark Matter from Exponential Growth [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 191802 (2021)]

Torsten Bringmann, Paul Frederik Depta, Marco Hufnagel, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Kai Schmidt-Hoberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 069901 (2022) - Published 10 February, 2022