Volume 127, Issue 15

8 October 2021
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Frequency controlled spin-wave-induced domain wall motion, for low (top) and high (bottom) frequencies. Linearly polarized spin waves move the domain wall away from (top) or towards (bottom) the spin-wave source.

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Spin-Wave Driven Bidirectional Domain Wall Motion in Kagome Antiferromagnets
D. R. Rodrigues, A. Salimath, K. Everschor-Sitte, and K. M. D. Hals
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157203 (2021)

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Experimental Observations of Laser-Driven Tin Ejecta Microjet Interactions
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The spatial coherence of emitted laser light from nearly incoherent to fully coherent can be controlled by exploiting the peculiar sensitivity of an enhanced epsilon-near-zero mirror to the polarization of light.

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Magnetoconduction in the Correlated Semiconductor FeSi in Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields up to a Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition
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Measurement of the magnetoresistance of FeSi under ultrahigh magnetic fields of up to 500 Tesla shows a substantial Zeeman shift of band-edge causes a phase transition into a field-induced metallic state.

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LETTERS

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

General Bound on the Performance of Counter-Diabatic Driving Acting on Dissipative Spin Systems
Ken Funo, Neill Lambert, and Franco Nori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150401 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Bounding the Benefit of Adaptivity in Quantum Metrology Using the Relative Fidelity
Jason L. Pereira, Leonardo Banchi, and Stefano Pirandola
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150501 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Hierarchy of Nonlinear Entanglement Dynamics for Continuous Variables
Da Zhang, David Barral, Yin Cai, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, and Kamel Bencheikh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150502 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Catalytic Transformations of Pure Entangled States
Tulja Varun Kondra, Chandan Datta, and Alexander Streltsov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150503 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Analyzing Nonequilibrium Quantum States through Snapshots with Artificial Neural Networks
A. Bohrdt, S. Kim, A. Lukin, M. Rispoli, R. Schittko, M. Knap, M. Greiner, and J. Léonard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150504 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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Orthogonal Quantum Many-Body Scars
Hongzheng Zhao, Adam Smith, Florian Mintert, and Johannes Knolle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150601 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Kinetic Monte Carlo Algorithms for Active Matter Systems
Juliane U. Klamser, Olivier Dauchot, and Julien Tailleur
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 150602 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s Third Observing Run
Alexander H. Nitz and Yi-Fan Wang (王一帆)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151101 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Gravitational-Wave Energy Flux for Compact Binaries through Second Order in the Mass Ratio
Niels Warburton, Adam Pound, Barry Wardell, Jeremy Miller, and Leanne Durkan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Elementary Particles and Fields

Multiple Series Representations of N-fold Mellin-Barnes Integrals
B. Ananthanarayan, Sumit Banik, Samuel Friot, and Shayan Ghosh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151601 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Bootstrapping a Two-Loop Four-Point Form Factor
Yuanhong Guo, Lei Wang, and Gang Yang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151602 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Branching Fraction Measurements of the Rare Bs0→ϕμ+μ− and Bs0→f2′(1525)μ+μ− Decays
R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151801 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Determining Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering Rates from the Dielectric Function
Yonit Hochberg, Yonatan Kahn, Noah Kurinsky, Benjamin V. Lehmann, To Chin Yu, and Karl K. Berggren
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151802 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Search for a Higgs Portal Scalar Decaying to Electron-Positron Pairs in the MicroBooNE Detector
P. Abratenko et al. (MicroBooNE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151803 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Study of Three-Jet Production at the LHC
Michał Czakon, Alexander Mitov, and Rene Poncelet
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152001 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Nuclear Physics

Deep Exclusive Electroproduction of π0 at High Q2 in the Quark Valence Regime
M. Dlamini et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152301 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Signatures of Moat Regimes in Heavy-Ion Collisions
Robert D. Pisarski and Fabian Rennecke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152302 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Direct Measurement of the C13(α,n)O16 Cross Section into the s-Process Gamow Peak
G. F. Ciani et al. (LUNA Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 152701 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strongly Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in a Thin Film Lithium Niobate Heterostructure Cavity
Shuai Yuan, Yunkun Wu, Zhongzhou Dang, Cheng Zeng, Xiaozhuo Qi, Guangcan Guo, Xifeng Ren, and Jinsong Xia
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 153901 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Coherence Switching with Metamaterials
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Temporal Parity-Time Symmetry for Extreme Energy Transformations
Huanan Li, Shixiong Yin, Emanuele Galiffi, and Andrea Alù
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 153903 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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Stability of the Interaction between Two Sand Dunes in an Idealized Laboratory Experiment
Karol A. Bacik, Colm-cille P. Caulfield, and Nathalie M. Vriend
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 154501 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Plasma and Beam Physics

Upper Bounds on Gyrokinetic Instabilities in Magnetized Plasmas
P. Helander and G. G. Plunk
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155001 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Experimental Observations of Laser-Driven Tin Ejecta Microjet Interactions
A. M. Saunders, C. V. Stan, K. K. Mackay, B. Morgan, J. A. K. Horwitz, S. J. Ali, H. G. Rinderknecht, T. Haxhimali, Y. Ping, F. Najjar, J. Eggert, and H.-S. Park
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155002 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Researchers have successfully imaged the collision of a pair of micrometer-wide jets made of tin particles.

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Faster Form of Electron Magnetic Reconnection with a Finite Length X-Line
P. S. Pyakurel, M. A. Shay, J. F. Drake, T. D. Phan, P. A. Cassak, and J. L. Verniero
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155101 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Supersolidity in Two-Dimensional Trapped Dipolar Droplet Arrays
J. Hertkorn, J.-N. Schmidt, M. Guo, F. Böttcher, K. S. H. Ng, S. D. Graham, P. Uerlings, H. P. Büchler, T. Langen, M. Zwierlein, and T. Pfau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 155301 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Inversion of Solvent Migration in Charged Membranes
Alain Boldini and Maurizio Porfiri
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156001 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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The process of osmosis is predicted—under certain conditions—to act in the opposite direction within charged membranes.

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Physically Motivated Recursively Embedded Atom Neural Networks: Incorporating Local Completeness and Nonlocality
Yaolong Zhang, Junfan Xia, and Bin Jiang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156002 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Stability of a Rolled-Up Conformation State for Two-Dimensional Materials in Aqueous Solutions
Maxim Trushin and A. H. Castro Neto
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156101 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dirac Hierarchy in Acoustic Topological Insulators
Li-Yang Zheng and Johan Christensen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156401 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Magnetoconduction in the Correlated Semiconductor FeSi in Ultrastrong Magnetic Fields up to a Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition
D. Nakamura, Y. H. Matsuda, A. Ikeda, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, S. Takeyama, and T. Kanomata
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156601 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021

Measurement of the magnetoresistance of FeSi under ultrahigh magnetic fields of up to 500 Tesla shows a substantial Zeeman shift of band-edge causes a phase transition into a field-induced metallic state.

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Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transitions with Long-Range Couplings
Guido Giachetti, Nicolò Defenu, Stefano Ruffo, and Andrea Trombettoni
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 156801 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Probing Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking Topological Superconductivity in Twisted Double Layer Copper Oxides with Polar Kerr Effect
Oguzhan Can, Xiao-Xiao Zhang, Catherine Kallin, and Marcel Franz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157001 (2021) – Published 4 October 2021
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Proposed Superconducting Electride Li6C by sp-Hybridized Cage States at Moderate Pressures
Zhao Liu, Quan Zhuang, Fubo Tian, Defang Duan, Hao Song, Zihan Zhang, Fangfei Li, Hongdong Li, Da Li, and Tian Cui
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157002 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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In Situ Electric-Field Control of THz Nonreciprocal Directional Dichroism in the Multiferroic Ba2CoGe2O7
J. Vít, J. Viirok, L. Peedu, T. Rõõm, U. Nagel, V. Kocsis, Y. Tokunaga, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, I. Kézsmárki, P. Balla, K. Penc, J. Romhányi, and S. Bordács
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157201 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Classical Spin Liquid State in the S=52 Heisenberg Kagome Antiferromagnet Li9Fe3(P2O7)3(PO4)2
E. Kermarrec, R. Kumar, G. Bernard, R. Hénaff, P. Mendels, F. Bert, P. L. Paulose, B. K. Hazra, and B. Koteswararao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157202 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Spin-Wave Driven Bidirectional Domain Wall Motion in Kagome Antiferromagnets
D. R. Rodrigues, A. Salimath, K. Everschor-Sitte, and K. M. D. Hals
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157203 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Magnetic Field Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in the Two Coupled Trillium Lattices of K2Ni2(SO4)3
Ivica Živković, Virgile Favre, Catalina Salazar Mejia, Harald O. Jeschke, Arnaud Magrez, Bhupen Dabholkar, Vincent Noculak, Rafael S. Freitas, Minki Jeong, Nagabhushan G. Hegde, Luc Testa, Peter Babkevich, Yixi Su, Pascal Manuel, Hubertus Luetkens, Christopher Baines, Peter J. Baker, Jochen Wosnitza, Oksana Zaharko, Yasir Iqbal, Johannes Reuther, and Henrik M. Rønnow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157204 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Stimulated Resonant Spin Amplification Reveals Millisecond Electron Spin Coherence Time of Rare-Earth Ions in Solids
V. V. Belykh, A. R. Korotneva, and D. R. Yakovlev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157401 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Imaging Ultrafast Dynamical Diffraction Wave Fronts in Strained Si with Coherent X Rays
Angel Rodriguez-Fernandez, Ana Diaz, Anand H. S. Iyer, Mariana Verezhak, Klaus Wakonig, Magnus H. Colliander, and Dina Carbone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157402 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Phonon-Assisted Intervalley Scattering Determines Ultrafast Exciton Dynamics in MoSe2 Bilayers
Sophia Helmrich, Kevin Sampson, Di Huang, Malte Selig, Kai Hao, Kha Tran, Alexander Achstein, Carter Young, Andreas Knorr, Ermin Malic, Ulrike Woggon, Nina Owschimikow, and Xiaoqin Li
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157403 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Inelastic Scattering of Electron Beams by Nonreciprocal Nanotructures
Renwen Yu, Andrea Konečná, and F. Javier García de Abajo
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157404 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Direct Measurement of Helicoid Surface States in RhSi Using Nonlinear Optics
Dylan Rees, Baozhu Lu, Yue Sun, Kaustuv Manna, Rüstem Özgür, Sujan Subedi, Horst Borrmann, Claudia Felser, J. Orenstein, and Darius H. Torchinsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157405 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Defect Production in Compressed Filament Bundles
Valentin M. Slepukhin and Alex J. Levine
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 157801 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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Multiscale Microrheology Using Fluctuating Filaments as Stealth Probes
Kengo Nishi, Fred C. MacKintosh, and Christoph F. Schmidt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158001 (2021) – Published 5 October 2021
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Researchers have demonstrated a method of probing a soft material’s properties that could allow them to capture those properties more accurately and for smaller systems than current methods.

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Jamming Distance Dictates Colloidal Shear Thickening
Shravan Pradeep, Mohammad Nabizadeh, Alan R. Jacob, Safa Jamali, and Lilian C. Hsiao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158002 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Universal Nonlinear Infection Kernel from Heterogeneous Exposure on Higher-Order Networks
Guillaume St-Onge, Hanlin Sun, Antoine Allard, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, and Ginestra Bianconi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158301 (2021) – Published 6 October 2021
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Large-Deviation Approach to Random Recurrent Neuronal Networks: Parameter Inference and Fluctuation-Induced Transitions
Alexander van Meegen, Tobias Kühn, and Moritz Helias
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158302 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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Exact Training of Restricted Boltzmann Machines on Intrinsically Low Dimensional Data
A. Decelle and C. Furtlehner
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 158303 (2021) – Published 7 October 2021
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ERRATA

Erratum: Properties of a New Group of Cosmic Nuclei: Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on Sodium, Aluminum, and Nitrogen [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 021101 (2021)]
M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 159901 (2021) – Published 8 October 2021
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