Volume 129, Issue 11

9 September 2022

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Schematic for a device which couples spin-induced polarization (yellow arrows) and magnetization (red arrows) in a double-perovskite bilayer placed between two electrodes (orange).

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Coexistence and Coupling of Spin-Induced Ferroelectricity and Ferromagnetism in Perovskites
Junting Zhang, Ying Zhou, Fan Wang, Xiaofan Shen, Jianli Wang, and Xiaomei Lu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117603 (2022)

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Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914

Roberto Cotesta, Gregorio Carullo, Emanuele Berti, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111102 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

A new analysis questions whether researchers found so-called overtones in the first detected gravitational-wave signal from a black hole merger.

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Subrecoil Clock-Transition Laser Cooling Enabling Shallow Optical Lattice Clocks

X. Zhang, K. Beloy, Y. S. Hassan, W. F. McGrew, C.-C. Chen, J. L. Siegel, T. Grogan, and A. D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 113202 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Researchers have cooled ytterbium atoms to a few tens of nanokelvin, which might usher in the next generation of optical atomic clocks.

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Observation of Axisymmetric Standard Magnetorotational Instability in the Laboratory

Yin Wang, Erik P. Gilson, Fatima Ebrahimi, Jeremy Goodman, and Hantao Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 115001 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Magnetorotational instability—a process that might explain the dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks—has finally been observed in the laboratory.

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Resonance-Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules on a Superconductor

Jan Homberg, Alexander Weismann, Troels Markussen, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116801 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Using superconducting materials can increase the strength of scanning-tunneling-spectroscopy signals by up to a factor of 50, allowing the detection of tiny changes in a single molecule’s vibration energy.

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Rotation-Time Symmetry Breaking in Frustrated Chiral Nematic Driven by a Pulse-Train Waveform

Vitaly P. Panov, Jiseon Yang, L. K. Migara, Hyun-Jin Yoon, and Jang-Kun Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117801 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

A liquid crystal can support traveling waves that demonstrate a new ability to control the molecules’ orientations.

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Active Nematic Flows over Curved Surfaces

Samuel Bell, Shao-Zhen Lin, Jean-François Rupprecht, and Jacques Prost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 118001 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

When epithelial tissue cells move on curved surfaces, they display different patterns from those they form on flat surfaces—according to a new theory.

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Decomposing the Local Arrow of Time in Interacting Systems

Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek, and David J. Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 118101 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

Researchers have developed a way to quantitatively evaluate irreversibility in complex networks.

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Final Result on the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ${}^{82}{Se}$ with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111801 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

The CUPID-0 experiment has demonstrated a new detector technology that targets neutrinoless double beta decay.

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Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals in the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

H. Abdalla et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111101 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

A search for dark matter annihilation signals from a new gamma-ray survey of the Galactic Center sets new exclusion limits on the annihilation cross section.

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Proximity-Induced Gap Opening by Twisted Plumbene in Epitaxial Graphene

Chitran Ghosal, Markus Gruschwitz, Julian Koch, Sibylle Gemming, and Christoph Tegenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116802 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Intercalation-stabilized plumbene, a lead-based graphene analog, shows a gap at low temperatures that results in a metal-insulator transition.

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Heat Equilibration of Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Edge Modes in Graphene

G. Le Breton, R. Delagrange, Y. Hong, M. Garg, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Ribeiro-Palau, P. Roulleau, P. Roche, and F. D. Parmentier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116803 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Neutral modes — chargeless, chiral transport channels that carry energy against the flow of electric current along the edges of the sample — can be coupled to the whole set of charged channels.

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Moiré Landau Fans and Magic Zeros

Nisarga Paul, Philip J. D. Crowley, Trithep Devakul, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116804 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Universal conditions under which electrons of generic dispersion in a moiré superlattice and magnetic field realize perfectly flat Chern bands have been identified.

LETTERS

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

Impossibility of Superluminal Signaling in Minkowski Spacetime Does Not Rule Out Causal Loops

V. Vilasini and Roger Colbeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 110401 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

Quantum Monge-Kantorovich Problem and Transport Distance between Density Matrices

Shmuel Friedland, Michał Eckstein, Sam Cole, and Karol Życzkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 110402 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Impact of Dissipation on Universal Fluctuation Dynamics in Open Quantum Systems

Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Yuki Kawaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 110403 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Energetics of a Single Qubit Gate

J. Stevens, D. Szombati, M. Maffei, C. Elouard, R. Assouly, N. Cottet, R. Dassonneville, Q. Ficheux, S. Zeppetzauer, A. Bienfait, A. N. Jordan, A. Auffèves, and B. Huard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 110601 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals in the H.E.S.S. Inner Galaxy Survey

H. Abdalla et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111101 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

A search for dark matter annihilation signals from a new gamma-ray survey of the Galactic Center sets new exclusion limits on the annihilation cross section.

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Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914

Roberto Cotesta, Gregorio Carullo, Emanuele Berti, and Vitor Cardoso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111102 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

A new analysis questions whether researchers found so-called overtones in the first detected gravitational-wave signal from a black hole merger.

Dark Matter Constraints from Planck Observations of the Galactic Polarized Synchrotron Emission

Silvia Manconi, Alessandro Cuoco, and Julien Lesgourgues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111103 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Probing Leptogenesis with the Cosmological Collider

Yanou Cui and Zhong-Zhi Xianyu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111301 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Dynamics and Entanglement in Quantum and Quantum-Classical Systems: Lessons for Gravity

Viqar Husain, Irfan Javed, and Suprit Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111302 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Cavity Optimization for Unruh Effect at Small Accelerations

D. Jaffino Stargen and Kinjalk Lochan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111303 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Final Result on the Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay of ${}^{82}{Se}$ with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111801 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

The CUPID-0 experiment has demonstrated a new detector technology that targets neutrinoless double beta decay.

First Results from the Taiwan Axion Search Experiment with a Haloscope at $19.6 μ eV$

Hsin Chang, Jing-Yang Chang, Yi-Chieh Chang, Yu-Han Chang, Yuan-Hann Chang, Chien-Han Chen, Ching-Fang Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yung-Fu Chen, Wei-Yuan Chiang, Wei-Chen Chien, Hien Thi Doan, Wei-Cheng Hung, Watson Kuo, Shou-Bai Lai, Han-Wen Liu, Min-Wei OuYang, Ping-I Wu, and Shin-Shan Yu (TASEH Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111802 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

Solutions to the MiniBooNE Anomaly from New Physics in Charged Meson Decays

Bhaskar Dutta, Doojin Kim, Adrian Thompson, Remington T. Thornton, and Richard G. Van de Water

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 111803 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Azimuthal Angular Correlation as a Boosted Top Jet Substructure

Zhite Yu and C.-P. Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 112001 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Higher-Order QCD Corrections to $ϒ$ Decay into Double Charmonia

Yu-Dong Zhang, Wen-Long Sang, and Hong-Fei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 112002 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Evidence for a Neutral Near-Threshold Structure in the $K_{S}^{0}$ Recoil-Mass Spectra in $e^{+} e^{-} \to K_{S}^{0} D_{s}^{+} D^{* -}$ and $e^{+} e^{-} \to K_{S}^{0} D_{s}^{* +} D^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 112003 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Nuclear Physics

Evidence of Partial Seniority Conservation in the $π g_{9 / 2}$ Shell for the $N = 50$ Isotones

R. M. Pérez-Vidal et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 112501 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Scalable Spin Squeezing from Spontaneous Breaking of a Continuous Symmetry

Tommaso Comparin, Fabio Mezzacapo, Martin Robert-de-Saint-Vincent, and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 113201 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

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Subrecoil Clock-Transition Laser Cooling Enabling Shallow Optical Lattice Clocks

X. Zhang, K. Beloy, Y. S. Hassan, W. F. McGrew, C.-C. Chen, J. L. Siegel, T. Grogan, and A. D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 113202 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Researchers have cooled ytterbium atoms to a few tens of nanokelvin, which might usher in the next generation of optical atomic clocks.

Topological Phase Transitions and Mobility Edges in Non-Hermitian Quasicrystals

Quan Lin, Tianyu Li, Lei Xiao, Kunkun Wang, Wei Yi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 113601 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Doppler Gyroscopes: Frequency vs Phase Estimation

John C. Howell, Merav Kahn, Einav Grynszpan, Ziv Roi Cohen, Stefania Residori, and Umberto Bortolozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 113901 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Burgers Turbulence in the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Chain

Matteo Gallone, Matteo Marian, Antonio Ponno, and Stefano Ruffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 114101 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stabilized Radiation Pressure Acceleration and Neutron Generation in Ultrathin Deuterated Foils

A. Alejo, H. Ahmed, A. G. Krygier, R. Clarke, R. R. Freeman, J. Fuchs, A. Green, J. S. Green, D. Jung, A. Kleinschmidt, J. T. Morrison, Z. Najmudin, H. Nakamura, P. Norreys, M. Notley, M. Oliver, M. Roth, L. Vassura, M. Zepf, M. Borghesi, and S. Kar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 114801 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

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Observation of Axisymmetric Standard Magnetorotational Instability in the Laboratory

Yin Wang, Erik P. Gilson, Fatima Ebrahimi, Jeremy Goodman, and Hantao Ji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 115001 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Magnetorotational instability—a process that might explain the dynamics of astrophysical accretion disks—has finally been observed in the laboratory.

Direct Measurement of the Return Current Instability in a Laser-Produced Plasma

A. L. Milder, J. Zielinski, J. Katz, W. Rozmus, D. Edgell, A. Hansen, M. Sherlock, C. Bruulsema, J. P. Palastro, D. Turnbull, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 115002 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Square Lattice Formation in a Monodisperse Complex Plasma

Swarnima Singh, P. Bandyopadhyay, Krishan Kumar, and A. Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 115003 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Rotation, Electric-Field Responses, and Absolute Enantioselection in Chiral Crystals

Rikuto Oiwa and Hiroaki Kusunose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116401 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

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Resonance-Enhanced Vibrational Spectroscopy of Molecules on a Superconductor

Jan Homberg, Alexander Weismann, Troels Markussen, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116801 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

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Proximity-Induced Gap Opening by Twisted Plumbene in Epitaxial Graphene

Chitran Ghosal, Markus Gruschwitz, Julian Koch, Sibylle Gemming, and Christoph Tegenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116802 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Intercalation-stabilized plumbene, a lead-based graphene analog, shows a gap at low temperatures that results in a metal-insulator transition.

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Heat Equilibration of Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Edge Modes in Graphene

G. Le Breton, R. Delagrange, Y. Hong, M. Garg, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, R. Ribeiro-Palau, P. Roulleau, P. Roche, and F. D. Parmentier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116803 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Neutral modes — chargeless, chiral transport channels that carry energy against the flow of electric current along the edges of the sample — can be coupled to the whole set of charged channels.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Moiré Landau Fans and Magic Zeros

Nisarga Paul, Philip J. D. Crowley, Trithep Devakul, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116804 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Universal conditions under which electrons of generic dispersion in a moiré superlattice and magnetic field realize perfectly flat Chern bands have been identified.

Anomalous Zero-Field Splitting for Hole Spin Qubits in Si and Ge Quantum Dots

Bence Hetényi, Stefano Bosco, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 116805 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Efficient Gating of Magnons by Proximity Superconductors

Tao Yu and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117201 (2022) - Published 7 September, 2022

Observation of Vector Spin Seebeck Effect in a Noncollinear Antiferromagnet

Jinsong Xu, Jiaming He, J.-S. Zhou, Danru Qu, Ssu-Yen Huang, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117202 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Flexoelectricity-Driven Mechanical Switching of Polarization in Metastable Ferroelectrics

Ji Hye Lee, Hong Joon Kim, Jiyong Yoon, Sanghyeon Kim, Jeong Rae Kim, Wei Peng, Se Young Park, Tae Won Noh, and Daesu Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117601 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Spectroscopy of Twisted Bilayer Graphene Correlated Insulators

Dumitru Călugăru, Nicolas Regnault, Myungchul Oh, Kevin P. Nuckolls, Dillon Wong, Ryan L. Lee, Ali Yazdani, Oskar Vafek, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117602 (2022) - Published 8 September, 2022

Coexistence and Coupling of Spin-Induced Ferroelectricity and Ferromagnetism in Perovskites

Junting Zhang, Ying Zhou, Fan Wang, Xiaofan Shen, Jianli Wang, and Xiaomei Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117603 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Near-Surface ${}^{125}{Te}^{+}$ Spins with Millisecond Coherence Lifetime

Mantas Šimėnas, James O’Sullivan, Oscar W. Kennedy, Sen Lin, Sarah Fearn, Christoph W. Zollitsch, Gavin Dold, Tobias Schmitt, Peter Schüffelgen, Ren-Bao Liu, and John J. L. Morton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117701 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

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

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Rotation-Time Symmetry Breaking in Frustrated Chiral Nematic Driven by a Pulse-Train Waveform

Vitaly P. Panov, Jiseon Yang, L. K. Migara, Hyun-Jin Yoon, and Jang-Kun Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 117801 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

A liquid crystal can support traveling waves that demonstrate a new ability to control the molecules’ orientations.

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Active Nematic Flows over Curved Surfaces

Samuel Bell, Shao-Zhen Lin, Jean-François Rupprecht, and Jacques Prost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 118001 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

When epithelial tissue cells move on curved surfaces, they display different patterns from those they form on flat surfaces—according to a new theory.

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Decomposing the Local Arrow of Time in Interacting Systems

Christopher W. Lynn, Caroline M. Holmes, William Bialek, and David J. Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 118101 (2022) - Published 6 September, 2022

Researchers have developed a way to quantitatively evaluate irreversibility in complex networks.

Dynamic and Thermodynamic Bounds for Collective Motor-Driven Transport

Matthew P. Leighton and David A. Sivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 118102 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Study of Three-Jet Production at the LHC [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152001 (2021)]

Michał Czakon, Alexander Mitov, and Rene Poncelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 119901 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022

Erratum: Time Scale for Adiabaticity Breakdown in Driven Many-Body Systems and Orthogonality Catastrophe [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 200401 (2017)]

Oleg Lychkovskiy, Oleksandr Gamayun, and Vadim Cheianov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 119902 (2022) - Published 9 September, 2022