Volume 129, Issue 24

9 December 2022

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Simulation of a 3D polar skyrmion structure with arrows representing dipoles from the ferroelectric polarization.

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Structural Chirality of Polar Skyrmions Probed by Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering
Margaret R. McCarter, Kook Tae Kim, Vladimir A. Stoica, Sujit Das, Christoph Klewe, Elizabeth P. Donoway, David M. Burn, Padraic Shafer, Fanny Rodolakis, Mauro A. P. Gonçalves, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Jorge Íñiguez, Pablo García-Fernández, Javier Junquera, Stephen W. Lovesey, Gerrit van der Laan, Se Young Park, John W. Freeland, Lane W. Martin, Dong Ryeol Lee, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247601 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New Measurement Resolves Key Astrophysical Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

Steffen Kühn, Charles Cheung, Natalia S. Oreshkina, René Steinbrügge, Moto Togawa, Sonja Bernitt, Lukas Berger, Jens Buck, Moritz Hoesch, Jörn Seltmann, Florian Trinter, Christoph H. Keitel, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Sergey G. Porsev, Ming Feng Gu, F. Scott Porter, Thomas Pfeifer, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Zoltán Harman, Marianna S. Safronova, José R. Crespo López-Urrutia, and Chintan Shah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 245001 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Researchers have solved a long-standing puzzle surrounding iron emission lines, which are used to characterize laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

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Probing the Critical Nucleus Size in the Metal-Insulator Phase Transition of ${VO}_{2}$

Lei Jin, Yin Shi, Frances I. Allen, Long-Qing Chen, and Junqiao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 245701 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

A textbook theory for the freezing of water also explains the growth of a new phase in a more complicated phase transition of a different material.

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Quasiparticle Interference as a Direct Experimental Probe of Bulk Odd-Frequency Superconducting Pairing

Debmalya Chakraborty and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247001 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

An innovative technique will allow scientists to probe superconductivity involving an unusual type of electron pairing called odd-frequency pairing.

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Coherent Coupling between Phonons, Magnons, and Photons

Zhen Shen, Guan-Ting Xu, Mai Zhang, Yan-Lei Zhang, Yu Wang, Cheng-Zhe Chai, Chang-Ling Zou, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243601 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

A pair of microspheres can convert microwave signals over a wide frequency range into optical signals, which will be essential for future quantum technologies.

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In Situ Measurement of Electron Energy Evolution in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator

S. Bohlen, T. Brümmer, F. Grüner, C. A. Lindstrøm, M. Meisel, T. Staufer, M. J. V. Streeter, M. C. Veale, J. C. Wood, R. D’Arcy, K. Põder, and J. Osterhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 244801 (2022) - Published 6 December, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated a noninvasive technique for measuring the energy evolution of an electron bunch inside a laser-plasma accelerator.

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Near-Monochromatic Tuneable Cryogenic Niobium Electron Field Emitter

C. W. Johnson, A. K. Schmid, M. Mankos, R. Röpke, N. Kerker, E. K. Wong, D. F. Ogletree, A. M. Minor, and A. Stibor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 244802 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated a new electron field emitter with unprecedented brightness and spectral purity, promising a breakthrough in electron microscope spectroscopy.

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Perturbative Confinement in Thermal Yang-Mills Theories Induced by Imaginary Angular Velocity

Shi Chen, Kenji Fukushima, and Yusuke Shimada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242002 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

A mathematical framework where gluons rotate with an imaginary angular velocity provides new insight into the problem of color confinement.

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Observation of a Strongly Isospin-Mixed Doublet in ${}^{26}{Si}$ via $β$ -Delayed Two-Proton Decay of ${}^{26}P$

J. J. Liu (刘嘉健) et al. (RIBLL Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242502 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

The isospin mixing between two daughter states from the beta-delayed proton decay of $^{26}$ P is three times larger than any previously observed mixing.

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Dynamic Response of an Electron Gas: Towards the Exact Exchange-Correlation Kernel

James P. F. LeBlanc, Kun Chen, Kristjan Haule, Nikolay V. Prokof’ev, and Igor S. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246401 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

The first accurate prediction of the dynamic charge response and its characterization in terms of the exchange-correlation kernel comes from a new technique based on combining analytic considerations, quantum field theory rules for Feynman diagrams, and stochastic Monte Carlo sampling.

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Measured Potential Profile in a Quantum Anomalous Hall System Suggests Bulk-Dominated Current Flow

Ilan T. Rosen, Molly P. Andersen, Linsey K. Rodenbach, Lixuan Tai, Peng Zhang, Kang L. Wang, M. A. Kastner, and David Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246602 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Current flows primarily through the incompressible bulk of quantum anomalous Hall systems, and not through edges as was previously thought true for both quantum Hall and quantum anomalous Hall systems.

LETTERS

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

What is Nonclassical about Uncertainty Relations?

Lorenzo Catani, Matthew Leifer, Giovanni Scala, David Schmid, and Robert W. Spekkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240401 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Nearly Optimal Quantum Algorithm for Estimating Multiple Expectation Values

William J. Huggins, Kianna Wan, Jarrod McClean, Thomas E. O’Brien, Nathan Wiebe, and Ryan Babbush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240501 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Distributed Quantum Error Correction for Chip-Level Catastrophic Errors

Qian Xu, Alireza Seif, Haoxiong Yan, Nam Mannucci, Bernard Ousmane Sane, Rodney Van Meter, Andrew N. Cleland, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240502 (2022) - Published 6 December, 2022

Quantum Metrology of Noisy Spreading Channels

Wojciech Górecki, Alberto Riccardi, and Lorenzo Maccone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240503 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Crosstalk Suppression in Individually Addressed Two-Qubit Gates in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer

Chao Fang, Ye Wang, Shilin Huang, Kenneth R. Brown, and Jungsang Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240504 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

High-Fidelity Quantum Control by Polychromatic Pulse Trains

Svetoslav S. Ivanov, Boyan T. Torosov, and Nikolay V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240505 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Phase-Separation Kinetics in the Two-Dimensional Long-Range Ising Model

Fabio Müller, Henrik Christiansen, and Wolfhard Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 240601 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Irreducible Axion Background

Kevin Langhoff, Nadav Joseph Outmezguine, and Nicholas L. Rodd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241101 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Toroidal Flux Loss due to Flux Emergence Explains why Solar Cycles Rise Differently but Decay in a Similar Way

Akash Biswas, Bidya Binay Karak, and Robert Cameron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241102 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Gravitational Waves from Extreme-Mass-Ratio Systems in Astrophysical Environments

Vitor Cardoso, Kyriakos Destounis, Francisco Duque, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, and Andrea Maselli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241103 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Search for Ultralight Dark Matter from Long-Term Frequency Comparisons of Optical and Microwave Atomic Clocks

Takumi Kobayashi, Akifumi Takamizawa, Daisuke Akamatsu, Akio Kawasaki, Akiko Nishiyama, Kazumoto Hosaka, Yusuke Hisai, Masato Wada, Hajime Inaba, Takehiko Tanabe, and Masami Yasuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241301 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Chiral Approach to Massive Higher Spins

Alexander Ochirov and Evgeny Skvortsov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241601 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Sauter-Schwinger Effect for Colliding Laser Pulses

Christian Kohlfürst, Naser Ahmadiniaz, Johannes Oertel, and Ralf Schützhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 241801 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Nuclear Modification of Transverse Momentum Dependent Parton Distribution Functions by a Global QCD Analysis

Mishary Alrashed, Daniele Anderle, Zhong-Bo Kang, John Terry, and Hongxi Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242001 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Perturbative Confinement in Thermal Yang-Mills Theories Induced by Imaginary Angular Velocity

Shi Chen, Kenji Fukushima, and Yusuke Shimada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242002 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

A mathematical framework where gluons rotate with an imaginary angular velocity provides new insight into the problem of color confinement.

Nuclear Physics

Dissipative Reactions with Intermediate-Energy Beams: A Novel Approach to Populate Complex-Structure States in Rare Isotopes

A. Gade, B. A. Brown, D. Weisshaar, D. Bazin, K. W. Brown, R. J. Charity, P. Farris, A. M. Hill, J. Li, B. Longfellow, D. Rhodes, W. Reviol, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242501 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

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Observation of a Strongly Isospin-Mixed Doublet in ${}^{26}{Si}$ via $β$ -Delayed Two-Proton Decay of ${}^{26}P$

J. J. Liu (刘嘉健) et al. (RIBLL Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242502 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

The isospin mixing between two daughter states from the beta-delayed proton decay of $^{26}$ P is three times larger than any previously observed mixing.

Coherent $J / ψ$ Electroproduction on ${}^{4}{He}$ and ${}^{3}{He}$ at the Electron-Ion Collider: Probing Nuclear Shadowing One Nucleon at a Time

Vadim Guzey, Matteo Rinaldi, Sergio Scopetta, Mark Strikman, and Michele Viviani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 242503 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Imprinting Chirality on Atoms Using Synthetic Chiral Light Fields

Nicola Mayer, Serguei Patchkovskii, Felipe Morales, Misha Ivanov, and Olga Smirnova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243201 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Many-Body Radiative Decay in Strongly Interacting Rydberg Ensembles

Chris Nill, Kay Brandner, Beatriz Olmos, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243202 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Symmetry Breaking in Sticky Collisions between Ultracold Molecules

Marijn P. Man, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, and Tijs Karman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243401 (2022) - Published 6 December, 2022

Expansion Dynamics of a Shell-Shaped Bose-Einstein Condensate

Fan Jia, Zerong Huang, Liyuan Qiu, Rongzi Zhou, Yangqian Yan, and Dajun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243402 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

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Coherent Coupling between Phonons, Magnons, and Photons

Zhen Shen, Guan-Ting Xu, Mai Zhang, Yan-Lei Zhang, Yu Wang, Cheng-Zhe Chai, Chang-Ling Zou, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243601 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

A pair of microspheres can convert microwave signals over a wide frequency range into optical signals, which will be essential for future quantum technologies.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Imaginary Gauge Transformation in Momentum Space and Dirac Exceptional Point

Jose H. D. Rivero, Liang Feng, and Li Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 243901 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Linear Instability of Turbulent Channel Flow

Pavan V. Kashyap, Yohann Duguet, and Olivier Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 244501 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Plasma and Beam Physics

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In Situ Measurement of Electron Energy Evolution in a Laser-Plasma Accelerator

S. Bohlen, T. Brümmer, F. Grüner, C. A. Lindstrøm, M. Meisel, T. Staufer, M. J. V. Streeter, M. C. Veale, J. C. Wood, R. D’Arcy, K. Põder, and J. Osterhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 244801 (2022) - Published 6 December, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated a noninvasive technique for measuring the energy evolution of an electron bunch inside a laser-plasma accelerator.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Near-Monochromatic Tuneable Cryogenic Niobium Electron Field Emitter

C. W. Johnson, A. K. Schmid, M. Mankos, R. Röpke, N. Kerker, E. K. Wong, D. F. Ogletree, A. M. Minor, and A. Stibor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 244802 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Researchers have demonstrated a new electron field emitter with unprecedented brightness and spectral purity, promising a breakthrough in electron microscope spectroscopy.

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New Measurement Resolves Key Astrophysical Fe XVII Oscillator Strength Problem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 245001 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Researchers have solved a long-standing puzzle surrounding iron emission lines, which are used to characterize laboratory and astrophysical plasmas.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Predicting Scaling Properties from a Single Fluid Configuration

Thomas B. Schrøder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 245501 (2022) - Published 6 December, 2022

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Probing the Critical Nucleus Size in the Metal-Insulator Phase Transition of ${VO}_{2}$

Lei Jin, Yin Shi, Frances I. Allen, Long-Qing Chen, and Junqiao Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 245701 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

A textbook theory for the freezing of water also explains the growth of a new phase in a more complicated phase transition of a different material.

Crystal Polymorphism Induced by Surface Tension

Cédric Schoonen and James F. Lutsko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246101 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Dynamic Response of an Electron Gas: Towards the Exact Exchange-Correlation Kernel

James P. F. LeBlanc, Kun Chen, Kristjan Haule, Nikolay V. Prokof’ev, and Igor S. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246401 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

Hyperbolic Topological Band Insulators

David M. Urwyler, Patrick M. Lenggenhager, Igor Boettcher, Ronny Thomale, Titus Neupert, and Tomáš Bzdušek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246402 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

Pressure Stabilized Lithium-Aluminum Compounds with Both Superconducting and Superionic Behaviors

Xiaomeng Wang, Yong Wang, Junjie Wang, Shuning Pan, Qing Lu, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246403 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Assessing Nontrivial Topology in Weyl Semimetals by Dichroic Photoemission

J. Schusser, H. Bentmann, M. Ünzelmann, T. Figgemeier, C.-H. Min, S. Moser, J. N. Neu, T. Siegrist, and F. Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246404 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Nonequilibrium Hole Dynamics in Antiferromagnets: Damped Strings and Polarons

K. Knakkergaard Nielsen, T. Pohl, and G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246601 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

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Measured Potential Profile in a Quantum Anomalous Hall System Suggests Bulk-Dominated Current Flow

Ilan T. Rosen, Molly P. Andersen, Linsey K. Rodenbach, Lixuan Tai, Peng Zhang, Kang L. Wang, M. A. Kastner, and David Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246602 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Modulated Rashba-Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Coupling for Topology Control and Analog Simulations

Pavel Kokhanchik, Dmitry Solnyshkov, Thilo Stöferle, Barbara Piętka, Jacek Szczytko, and Guillaume Malpuech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246801 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Direct Measurement of Solid-Liquid Interfacial Energy Using a Meniscus

Jingcheng Ma, Ishrat Zarin, and Nenad Miljkovic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 246802 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

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Quasiparticle Interference as a Direct Experimental Probe of Bulk Odd-Frequency Superconducting Pairing

Debmalya Chakraborty and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247001 (2022) - Published 7 December, 2022

An innovative technique will allow scientists to probe superconductivity involving an unusual type of electron pairing called odd-frequency pairing.

Fragmented Spin Ice and Multi- $k$ Ordering in Rare-Earth Antiperovskites

Attila Szabó, Fabio Orlandi, and Pascal Manuel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247201 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

Signature of Cascade Transitions between Interlayer Excitons in a Moiré Superlattice

Qinghai Tan, Abdullah Rasmita, Zhaowei Zhang, K. S. Novoselov, and Wei-bo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247401 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Structural Chirality of Polar Skyrmions Probed by Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering

Margaret R. McCarter, Kook Tae Kim, Vladimir A. Stoica, Sujit Das, Christoph Klewe, Elizabeth P. Donoway, David M. Burn, Padraic Shafer, Fanny Rodolakis, Mauro A. P. Gonçalves, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz, Jorge Íñiguez, Pablo García-Fernández, Javier Junquera, Stephen W. Lovesey, Gerrit van der Laan, Se Young Park, John W. Freeland, Lane W. Martin, Dong Ryeol Lee, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247601 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Soft-Phonon and Charge-Density-Wave Formation in Nematic ${BaNi}_{2} {As}_{2}$

S. M. Souliou, T. Lacmann, R. Heid, C. Meingast, M. Frachet, L. Paolasini, A.-A. Haghighirad, M. Merz, A. Bosak, and M. Le Tacon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247602 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

Charge-Noise-Induced Dephasing in Silicon Hole-Spin Qubits

Ognjen Malkoc, Peter Stano, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 247701 (2022) - Published 8 December, 2022

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

Impact of Inverse Squeezing Flow on the Self-Assembly of Oppositely Charged Colloidal Particles under Electric Field

Jiaxing Yuan, Kyohei Takae, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 248001 (2022) - Published 9 December, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: Unified Approach to Polarons and Phonon-Induced Band Structure Renormalization [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 076402 (2022)]

Jon Lafuente-Bartolome, Chao Lian, Weng Hong Sio, Idoia G. Gurtubay, Asier Eiguren, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 249901 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022

Erratum: Intrinsic Correlation between the Fraction of Liquidlike Zones and the $β$ Relaxation in High-Entropy Metallic Glasses [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 175501 (2022)]

Y. J. Duan, L. T. Zhang, J. C. Qiao, Y. J. Wang, Y. Yang, T. Wada, H. Kato, J. M. Pelletier, E. Pineda, and D. Crespo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 249902 (2022) - Published 5 December, 2022