Volume 128, Issue 9

4 March 2022

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Simulation of the evolution of an unequal-mass neutron-star binary shown at successive times. Blue, green, and yellow represent the scalar field, which is initially centered on each star and then develops into a common “envelope,” and dark orange represents the fluid density.

From the article:

No Evidence of Kinetic Screening in Simulations of Merging Binary Neutron Stars beyond General Relativity
Miguel Bezares, Ricard Aguilera-Miret, Lotte ter Haar, Marco Crisostomi, Carlos Palenzuela, and Enrico Barausse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091103 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Spin Quantum Heat Engine Quantified by Quantum Steering

Wentao Ji, Zihua Chai, Mengqi Wang, Yuhang Guo, Xing Rong, Fazhan Shi, Changliang Ren, Ya Wang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090602 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

New experiments make clear how quantum effects—in the form of quantum correlations—can make an engine perform better than classical limits.

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First Directional Measurement of Sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino

M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091803 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

A new measurement method allows researchers to obtain directional information about low-energy solar neutrinos, something that was previously hard to do.

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Dirac Magnons, Nodal Lines, and Nodal Plane in Elemental Gadolinium

A. Scheie, Pontus Laurell, P. A. McClarty, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, R. Moessner, and S. E. Nagler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 097201 (2022) - Published 2 March, 2022

Neutron scattering experiments provide the evidence of massless spin waves, called Dirac magnons, in a single-element magnetic crystal, offering a new window into topological magnetism.

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Accurate Determination of Hubble Attenuation and Amplification in Expanding and Contracting Cold-Atom Universes

S. Banik, M. Gutierrez Galan, H. Sosa-Martinez, M. J. Anderson, S. Eckel, I. B. Spielman, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090401 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Using phonons as an analog to cosmological scalar fields, Hubble attenuation and amplification can be accurately measured in laboratory Bose-Einstein condensates.

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Hydrodynamic Relaxation in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Xin Wang, Xiang Li, Ilya Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090402 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

Thermal conductivity and shear viscosity in a universal normal fluid have been measured independently for the first time.

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Observation of Edge Solitons in Topological Trimer Arrays

Y. V. Kartashov, A. A. Arkhipova, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. N. Skryabin, I. V. Dyakonov, A. A. Kalinkin, S. P. Kulik, V. O. Kompanets, S. V. Chekalin, L. Torner, and V. N. Zadkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093901 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Topological edge solitons in photonic trimer arrays can exhibit two topological bandgaps, where edge states possess different internal structures and symmetry.

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Nonadiabatic Born Effective Charges in Metals and the Drude Weight

Cyrus E. Dreyer, Sinisa Coh, and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 095901 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

First-principles calculations confirm the existence of nonadiabatic Born effective charges which are proportional to the Drude weight in metals.

LETTERS

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

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Accurate Determination of Hubble Attenuation and Amplification in Expanding and Contracting Cold-Atom Universes

S. Banik, M. Gutierrez Galan, H. Sosa-Martinez, M. J. Anderson, S. Eckel, I. B. Spielman, and G. K. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090401 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Using phonons as an analog to cosmological scalar fields, Hubble attenuation and amplification can be accurately measured in laboratory Bose-Einstein condensates.

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Hydrodynamic Relaxation in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Xin Wang, Xiang Li, Ilya Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090402 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

Thermal conductivity and shear viscosity in a universal normal fluid have been measured independently for the first time.

Autoregressive Neural Network for Simulating Open Quantum Systems via a Probabilistic Formulation

Di Luo, Zhuo Chen, Juan Carrasquilla, and Bryan K. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090501 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Wave-Shape-Tolerant Photonic Quantum Gates

I. Babushkin, A. Demircan, M. Kues, and U. Morgner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090502 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Phase Diagram of $1 + 1 D$ Abelian-Higgs Model and Its Critical Point

Titas Chanda, Maciej Lewenstein, Jakub Zakrzewski, and Luca Tagliacozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090601 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

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Spin Quantum Heat Engine Quantified by Quantum Steering

Wentao Ji, Zihua Chai, Mengqi Wang, Yuhang Guo, Xing Rong, Fazhan Shi, Changliang Ren, Ya Wang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090602 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

New experiments make clear how quantum effects—in the form of quantum correlations—can make an engine perform better than classical limits.

Entanglement Entropy in the Ising Model with Topological Defects

Ananda Roy and Hubert Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090603 (2022) - Published 2 March, 2022

Absence of Normal Fluctuations in an Integrable Magnet

Žiga Krajnik, Enej Ilievski, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090604 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

Finite Time Large Deviations via Matrix Product States

Luke Causer, Mari Carmen Bañuls, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090605 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Squeezing Quantum Many-Body Scars

Bennet Windt and Hannes Pichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 090606 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Invariants in Polarimetric Interferometry: A Non-Abelian Gauge Theory

Joseph Samuel, Rajaram Nityananda, and Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091101 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Upper Limit on the QCD Axion Mass from Isolated Neutron Star Cooling

Malte Buschmann, Christopher Dessert, Joshua W. Foster, Andrew J. Long, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091102 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

No Evidence of Kinetic Screening in Simulations of Merging Binary Neutron Stars beyond General Relativity

Miguel Bezares, Ricard Aguilera-Miret, Lotte ter Haar, Marco Crisostomi, Carlos Palenzuela, and Enrico Barausse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091103 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

Traversable Wormholes in General Relativity

R. A. Konoplya and A. Zhidenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091104 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Quantum Aspects of Stimulated Hawking Radiation in an Optical Analog White-Black Hole Pair

Ivan Agullo, Anthony J. Brady, and Dimitrios Kranas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091301 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Cosmic Birefringence from the Planck Data Release 4

P. Diego-Palazuelos, J. R. Eskilt, Y. Minami, M. Tristram, R. M. Sullivan, A. J. Banday, R. B. Barreiro, H. K. Eriksen, K. M. Górski, R. Keskitalo, E. Komatsu, E. Martínez-González, D. Scott, P. Vielva, and I. K. Wehus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091302 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Model-Independent Test of $T$ Violation in Neutrino Oscillations

Thomas Schwetz and Alejandro Segarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091801 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

X17 Discovery Potential in the $γ N \to e^{+} e^{-} N$ Process at Electron Scattering Facilities

Johannes Backens and Marc Vanderhaeghen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091802 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

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First Directional Measurement of Sub-MeV Solar Neutrinos with Borexino

M. Agostini et al. (Borexino Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091803 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

A new measurement method allows researchers to obtain directional information about low-energy solar neutrinos, something that was previously hard to do.

Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in $ϒ (3 S) \to e^{\pm} μ^{\mp}$

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 091804 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Search for the Chiral Magnetic Effect via Charge-Dependent Azimuthal Correlations Relative to Spectator and Participant Planes in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

M. S. Abdallah et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 092301 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Disentangling Pauli Blocking of Atomic Decay from Cooperative Radiation and Atomic Motion in a 2D Fermi Gas

Thomas Bilitewski, Asier Piñeiro Orioli, Christian Sanner, Lindsay Sonderhouse, Ross B. Hutson, Lingfeng Yan, William R. Milner, Jun Ye, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093001 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Quantum-State-Sensitive Detection of Alkali Dimers on Helium Nanodroplets by Laser-Induced Coulomb Explosion

Henrik H. Kristensen, Lorenz Kranabetter, Constant A. Schouder, Christoph Stapper, Jacqueline Arlt, Marcel Mudrich, and Henrik Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093201 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Preparation of the Spin-Mott State: A Spinful Mott Insulator of Repulsively Bound Pairs

Julius de Hond, Jinggang Xiang (项晶罡), Woo Chang Chung, Enid Cruz-Colón, Wenlan Chen, William Cody Burton, Colin J. Kennedy, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093401 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Dissipative Phase Transition with Driving-Controlled Spatial Dimension and Diffusive Boundary Conditions

Zejian Li, Ferdinand Claude, Thomas Boulier, Elisabeth Giacobino, Quentin Glorieux, Alberto Bramati, and Cristiano Ciuti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093601 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Free-Fermion Multiply Excited Eigenstates and Their Experimental Signatures in 1D Arrays of Two-Level Atoms

Yu-Xiang Zhang and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093602 (2022) - Published 3 March, 2022

Stimulated Generation of Indistinguishable Single Photons from a Quantum Ladder System

Friedrich Sbresny, Lukas Hanschke, Eva Schöll, William Rauhaus, Bianca Scaparra, Katarina Boos, Eduardo Zubizarreta Casalengua, Hubert Riedl, Elena del Valle, Jonathan J. Finley, Klaus D. Jöns, and Kai Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093603 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Observation of Edge Solitons in Topological Trimer Arrays

Y. V. Kartashov, A. A. Arkhipova, S. A. Zhuravitskii, N. N. Skryabin, I. V. Dyakonov, A. A. Kalinkin, S. P. Kulik, V. O. Kompanets, S. V. Chekalin, L. Torner, and V. N. Zadkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093901 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Topological edge solitons in photonic trimer arrays can exhibit two topological bandgaps, where edge states possess different internal structures and symmetry.

Water-Based Coherent Detection of Broadband Terahertz Pulses

Yong Tan, Hang Zhao, Wei-Min Wang, Rui Zhang, Yue-Jin Zhao, Cun-Lin Zhang, Xi-Cheng Zhang, and Liang-Liang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 093902 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Strong Parametric Coupling between Two Ultracoherent Membrane Modes

David Hälg, Thomas Gisler, Eric C. Langman, Shobhna Misra, Oded Zilberberg, Albert Schliesser, Christian L. Degen, and Alexander Eichler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 094301 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

Vorticity-Strain Rate Dynamics and the Smallest Scales of Turbulence

Dhawal Buaria and Alain Pumir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 094501 (2022) - Published 2 March, 2022

Shear and Bulk Acceleration Viscosities in Simple Fluids

Johannes Renner, Matthias Schmidt, and Daniel de las Heras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 094502 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Experimental Implementation of Wave Propagation in Disordered Time-Varying Media

Benjamin Apffel, Sander Wildeman, Antonin Eddi, and Emmanuel Fort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 094503 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Order-Disorder Transitions in $({Ca}_{x} {Sr}_{1 - x})_{3} {Rh}_{4} {Sn}_{13}$

Puspa Upreti, Matthew Krogstad, Charlotte Haley, Mihai Anitescu, Vishwas Rao, Lekh Poudel, Omar Chmaissem, Stephan Rosenkranz, and Raymond Osborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 095701 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Giant Viscoelasticity near Mott Criticality in ${PbCrO}_{3}$ with Large Lattice Anomalies

Shanmin Wang, Jian Chen, Liusuo Wu, and Yusheng Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 095702 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

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Nonadiabatic Born Effective Charges in Metals and the Drude Weight

Cyrus E. Dreyer, Sinisa Coh, and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 095901 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

First-principles calculations confirm the existence of nonadiabatic Born effective charges which are proportional to the Drude weight in metals.

Catalysis by Dark States in Vibropolaritonic Chemistry

Matthew Du and Joel Yuen-Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 096001 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Emergent Continuous Symmetry in Anisotropic Flexible Two-Dimensional Materials

I. S. Burmistrov, V. Yu. Kachorovskii, M. J. Klug, and J. Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 096101 (2022) - Published 1 March, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Flat-Band-Induced Anomalous Anisotropic Charge Transport and Orbital Magnetism in Kagome Metal CoSn

Hao Huang, Lixuan Zheng, Zhiyong Lin, Xu Guo, Sheng Wang, Shuai Zhang, Chi Zhang, Zhe Sun, Zhengfei Wang, Hongming Weng, Lin Li, Tao Wu, Xianhui Chen, and Changgan Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 096601 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Temperature-Dependent Periodicity of the Persistent Current in Strongly Interacting Systems

Ovidiu I. Pâţu and Dmitri V. Averin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 096801 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

Spin-Nernst Effect in Time-Reversal-Invariant Topological Superconductors

Taiki Matsushita, Jiei Ando, Yusuke Masaki, Takeshi Mizushima, Satoshi Fujimoto, and Ilya Vekhter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 097001 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022

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Dirac Magnons, Nodal Lines, and Nodal Plane in Elemental Gadolinium

A. Scheie, Pontus Laurell, P. A. McClarty, G. E. Granroth, M. B. Stone, R. Moessner, and S. E. Nagler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 097201 (2022) - Published 2 March, 2022

Neutron scattering experiments provide the evidence of massless spin waves, called Dirac magnons, in a single-element magnetic crystal, offering a new window into topological magnetism.

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Mechanisms for Pressure-Induced Isostructural Phase Transitions in EuO”

V. Monteseguro, J. Ruiz-Fuertes, J. A. Barreda-Argüeso, H. L. Meyerheim, A. D. Rosa, and F. Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 099701 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

Desmarais et al. Reply:

Jacques K. Desmarais, Alessandro Erba, Yuanming Pan, Bartolomeo Civalleri, and John S. Tse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 099702 (2022) - Published 28 February, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Analysis of Charge Order in the Kagome Metal $A V_{3} {Sb}_{5}$ ( $A = K, Rb, Cs$ ) [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 217601 (2021)]

M. Michael Denner, Ronny Thomale, and Titus Neupert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 099901 (2022) - Published 4 March, 2022