Volume 129, Issue 8

19 August 2022

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Axion signatures from coherent Primakoff-Bragg scattering over a 24-hour period.

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Search for Solar Axions via Axion-Photon Coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator
I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 081803 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Oscillations of Drops with Mobile Contact Lines on the International Space Station: Elucidation of Terrestrial Inertial Droplet Spreading

J. McCraney, V. Kern, J. B. Bostwick, S. Daniel, and P. H. Steen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 084501 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

Experiments in zero-gravity show how a static droplet oscillates on a vibrating hydrophobic surface.

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Nonvolatile Electric Field Control of Thermal Magnons in the Absence of an Applied Magnetic Field

Eric Parsonnet, Lucas Caretta, Vikram Nagarajan, Hongrui Zhang, Hossein Taghinejad, Piush Behera, Xiaoxi Huang, Pravin Kavle, Abel Fernandez, Dmitri Nikonov, Hai Li, Ian Young, James Analytis, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087601 (2022) - Published 15 August, 2022

A new experiment shows that spin currents can be controlled electrically in the room temperature multiferroic material BiFeO3.

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Imaging the Breakdown of Ohmic Transport in Graphene

Alec Jenkins, Susanne Baumann, Haoxin Zhou, Simon A. Meynell, Yang Daipeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Andrew Lucas, Andrea F. Young, and Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087701 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

A special microscope has visualized changes of electron current distribution that clearly indicate a transition from ohmic to viscous electron flow in graphene.

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Direct Measurements of Surface Strain-Mediated Lateral Interactions between Adsorbates in Colloidal Heteroepitaxy

Manodeep Mondal and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 088003 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

By epitaxially growing films from colloids, researchers show that they can monitor interactions and behaviors of the particles that are difficult—and sometimes impossible—to capture for similar films grown from atoms.

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Solitons in Overdamped Brownian Dynamics

Alexander P. Antonov, Artem Ryabov, and Philipp Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 080601 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

Soliton propagation in driven overdamped Brownian motion allows particle transport in overcrowded systems.

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Observing the Influence of Reduced Dimensionality on Fermionic Superfluids

Lennart Sobirey, Hauke Biss, Niclas Luick, Markus Bohlen, Henning Moritz, and Thomas Lompe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 083601 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Measurements of the excitation spectrum and superfluid gap of quasi-2D Fermi gases indicate that there is no inherent difference in the stability of two-dimensional and three-dimensional fermionic superfluids.

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Experimental Realization of Weyl Exceptional Rings in a Synthetic Three-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Phononic Crystal

Jing-jing Liu, Zheng-wei Li, Ze-Guo Chen, Weiyuan Tang, An Chen, Bin Liang, Guancong Ma, and Jian-Chun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 084301 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

A synthetic Weyl exceptional ring is experimentally demonstrated in a 1D phononic crystal with non-Hermiticity introduced by active acoustic components.

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Non-Hermitian Physics without Gain or Loss: The Skin Effect of Reflected Waves

Selma Franca, Viktor Könye, Fabian Hassler, Jeroen van den Brink, and Cosma Fulga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 086601 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Waves reflected from the boundaries of topological insulators exhibit phenomena usually associated with non-Hermitian systems.

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Ion-Induced Surface Charge Dynamics in Freestanding Monolayers of Graphene and ${MoS}_{2}$ Probed by the Emission of Electrons

Anna Niggas, Janine Schwestka, Karsten Balzer, David Weichselbaum, Niclas Schlünzen, René Heller, Sascha Creutzburg, Heena Inani, Mukesh Tripathi, Carsten Speckmann, Niall McEvoy, Toma Susi, Jani Kotakoski, Ziyang Gan, Antony George, Andrey Turchanin, Michael Bonitz, Friedrich Aumayr, and Richard A. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 086802 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

Studies of the surface charge dynamics on the femtosecond timescale in 2D materials following ion impact yield six times higher electron emission for graphene in comparison to MoS $_{2}$ , bridging the gap from ultrafast laser physics to ion beams.

LETTERS

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

Search for Spontaneous Radiation from Wave Function Collapse in the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 080401 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

Floquet Engineering a Bosonic Josephson Junction

Si-Cong Ji, Thomas Schweigler, Mohammadamin Tajik, Federica Cataldini, João Sabino, Frederik S. Møller, Sebastian Erne, and Jörg Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 080402 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

Measurement-Induced Power-Law Negativity in an Open Monitored Quantum Circuit

Zack Weinstein, Yimu Bao, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 080501 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

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Solitons in Overdamped Brownian Dynamics

Alexander P. Antonov, Artem Ryabov, and Philipp Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 080601 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

Soliton propagation in driven overdamped Brownian motion allows particle transport in overcrowded systems.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Impact of Dynamical Tides on the Reconstruction of the Neutron Star Equation of State

Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt, and Natalie Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 081102 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

Elementary Particles and Fields

Perfect Fluid Hydrodynamic Picture of Domain Wall Velocities at Strong Coupling

Romuald A. Janik, Matti Järvinen, Hesam Soltanpanahi, and Jacob Sonnenschein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 081601 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

Measurement of the Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Cross Section on CsI by COHERENT

D. Akimov et al. (COHERENT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 081801 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Search for Higgs Boson Pair Production in the Four $b$ Quark Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. Tumasyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 081802 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

Search for Solar Axions via Axion-Photon Coupling with the Majorana Demonstrator

I. J. Arnquist et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 081803 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

Learning Uncertainties the Frequentist Way: Calibration and Correlation in High Energy Physics

Rikab Gambhir, Benjamin Nachman, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 082001 (2022) - Published 15 August, 2022

Renormalization of Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Parton Distribution on the Lattice

Kuan Zhang, Xiangdong Ji, Yi-Bo Yang, Fei Yao, and Jian-Hui Zhang ([Lattice Parton Collaboration (LPC)])

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 082002 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of ${}^{171}{Yb}$ Atoms in an Optical Dipole Trap

T. A. Zheng, Y. A. Yang, S.-Z. Wang, J. T. Singh, Z.-X. Xiong, T. Xia, and Z.-T. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 083001 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

Tuning Long-Range Fermion-Mediated Interactions in Cold-Atom Quantum Simulators

Javier Argüello-Luengo, Alejandro González-Tudela, and Daniel González-Cuadra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 083401 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

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Observing the Influence of Reduced Dimensionality on Fermionic Superfluids

Lennart Sobirey, Hauke Biss, Niclas Luick, Markus Bohlen, Henning Moritz, and Thomas Lompe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 083601 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Unveiling the Enhancement of Spontaneous Emission at Exceptional Points

L. Ferrier, P. Bouteyre, A. Pick, S. Cueff, N. H. M Dang, C. Diederichs, A. Belarouci, T. Benyattou, J. X. Zhao, R. Su, J. Xing, Qihua Xiong, and H. S. Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 083602 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Key for a Hidden Quantum State

V. P. Stefanov, V. N. Shatokhin, D. S. Mogilevtsev, and S. Ya. Kilin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 083603 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Experimental Realization of Weyl Exceptional Rings in a Synthetic Three-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Phononic Crystal

Jing-jing Liu, Zheng-wei Li, Ze-Guo Chen, Weiyuan Tang, An Chen, Bin Liang, Guancong Ma, and Jian-Chun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 084301 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

A synthetic Weyl exceptional ring is experimentally demonstrated in a 1D phononic crystal with non-Hermiticity introduced by active acoustic components.

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Oscillations of Drops with Mobile Contact Lines on the International Space Station: Elucidation of Terrestrial Inertial Droplet Spreading

J. McCraney, V. Kern, J. B. Bostwick, S. Daniel, and P. H. Steen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 084501 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

Experiments in zero-gravity show how a static droplet oscillates on a vibrating hydrophobic surface.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Non-Hermitian Physics without Gain or Loss: The Skin Effect of Reflected Waves

Selma Franca, Viktor Könye, Fabian Hassler, Jeroen van den Brink, and Cosma Fulga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 086601 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Waves reflected from the boundaries of topological insulators exhibit phenomena usually associated with non-Hermitian systems.

Intrinsic Nonlinear Electric Spin Generation in Centrosymmetric Magnets

Cong Xiao, Huiying Liu, Weikang Wu, Hui Wang, Qian Niu, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 086602 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

Plasmonic Photocatalysis with Nonthermalized Hot Carriers

Shengxiang Wu, Yu Chen, and Shiwu Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 086801 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

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Ion-Induced Surface Charge Dynamics in Freestanding Monolayers of Graphene and ${MoS}_{2}$ Probed by the Emission of Electrons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 086802 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

Absence versus Presence of Dissipative Quantum Phase Transition in Josephson Junctions

Kanta Masuki, Hiroyuki Sudo, Masaki Oshikawa, and Yuto Ashida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087001 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Nodal and Nematic Superconducting Phases in ${NbSe}_{2}$ Monolayers from Competing Superconducting Channels

Chang-woo Cho, Jian Lyu, Liheng An, Tianyi Han, Kwan To Lo, Cheuk Yin Ng, Jiaqi Hu, Yuxiang Gao, Gaomin Li, Mingyuan Huang, Ning Wang, Jörg Schmalian, and Rolf Lortz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087002 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Spin Density Wave versus Fractional Magnetization Plateau in a Triangular Antiferromagnet

L. Facheris, K. Yu. Povarov, S. D. Nabi, D. G. Mazzone, J. Lass, B. Roessli, E. Ressouche, Z. Yan, S. Gvasaliya, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087201 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

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Nonvolatile Electric Field Control of Thermal Magnons in the Absence of an Applied Magnetic Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087601 (2022) - Published 15 August, 2022

A new experiment shows that spin currents can be controlled electrically in the room temperature multiferroic material BiFeO3.

Effective Model and Magnetic Properties of the Resistive Electron Quadrupling State

Julien Garaud and Egor Babaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087602 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022

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Imaging the Breakdown of Ohmic Transport in Graphene

Alec Jenkins, Susanne Baumann, Haoxin Zhou, Simon A. Meynell, Yang Daipeng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Andrew Lucas, Andrea F. Young, and Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 087701 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

A special microscope has visualized changes of electron current distribution that clearly indicate a transition from ohmic to viscous electron flow in graphene.

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

Exact Solution for Elastic Networks on Curved Surfaces

Yinan Dong, Roya Zandi, and Alex Travesset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 088001 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Band Theory and Boundary Modes of High-Dimensional Representations of Infinite Hyperbolic Lattices

Nan Cheng, Francesco Serafin, James McInerney, Zeb Rocklin, Kai Sun, and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 088002 (2022) - Published 18 August, 2022

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Direct Measurements of Surface Strain-Mediated Lateral Interactions between Adsorbates in Colloidal Heteroepitaxy

Manodeep Mondal and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 088003 (2022) - Published 17 August, 2022

Versatile Patterns in the Actin Cortex of Motile Cells: Self-Organized Pulses Can Coexist with Macropinocytic Ring-Shaped Waves

Arik Yochelis, Sven Flemming, and Carsten Beta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 088101 (2022) - Published 19 August, 2022

ERRATA

Erratum: First Search for Bosonic Superweakly Interacting Massive Particles with Masses up to $1 MeV / c^{2}$ with GERDA [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 011801 (2020)]

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 089901 (2022) - Published 16 August, 2022