Volume 128, Issue 17

29 April 2022
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Artistic rendition of relevant interactions for tau lepton appearance from high-energy neutrino interactions (in the rectangular inset). The envisaged ice and water Cherenkov detectors are represented on the center left, while Earth-skimming and space-based observatories are shown on the center right. Image credit: Jackapan Pairin

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Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions
A. Garcia Soto, P. Zhelnin, I. Safa, and C. A. Argüelles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171101 (2022)

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174301 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Family of Ideal Chern Flatbands with Arbitrary Chern Number in Chiral Twisted Graphene Multilayers
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LETTERS

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

Quantum Relativity of Subsystems
Shadi Ali Ahmad, Thomas D. Galley, Philipp A. Höhn, Maximilian P. E. Lock, and Alexander R. H. Smith
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170401 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Quantum State Transfer over 1200 km Assisted by Prior Distributed Entanglement
Bo Li, Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Wen-Qi Cai, Wei-Yue Liu, Ji-Gang Ren, Sheng-Kai Liao, Hui-Nan Wu, Shuang-Lin Li, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, Juan Yin, Yu-Ao Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei Pan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170501 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Classical Simulation and Theory of Quantum Annealing in a Thermal Environment
Hiroki Oshiyama, Sei Suzuki, and Naokazu Shibata
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170502 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Protocol for Generating Optical Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill States with Cavity QED
Jacob Hastrup and Ulrik L. Andersen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170503 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Quantum Fluctuation Theorem under Quantum Jumps with Continuous Measurement and Feedback
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170601 (2022) – Published 28 April 2022

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Information Thermodynamics of the Transition-Path Ensemble
Miranda D. Louwerse and David A. Sivak
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170602 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Gap Statistics for Confined Particles with Power-Law Interactions
S. Santra, J. Kethepalli, S. Agarwal, A. Dhar, M. Kulkarni, and A. Kundu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 170603 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Tau Appearance from High-Energy Neutrino Interactions
A. Garcia Soto, P. Zhelnin, I. Safa, and C. A. Argüelles
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171101 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Limits on the Light Dark Matter–Proton Cross Section from Cosmic Large-Scale Structure
Keir K. Rogers, Cora Dvorkin, and Hiranya V. Peiris
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171301 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Embeddings and Integrable Charges for Extended Corner Symmetry
Luca Ciambelli, Robert G. Leigh, and Pin-Chun Pai
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171302 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Elementary Particles and Fields

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Search for Cosmic-Ray Boosted Sub-GeV Dark Matter at the PandaX-II Experiment
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 171801 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022

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Resonant Self-Interacting Dark Matter from Dark QCD
Yu-Dai Tsai, Robert McGehee, and Hitoshi Murayama
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172001 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Lattice QCD Calculation of the Two-Photon Exchange Contribution to the Muonic-Hydrogen Lamb Shift
Yang Fu, Xu Feng, Lu-Chang Jin, and Chen-Fei Lu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172002 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Massive Vector Form Factors to Three Loops
Matteo Fael, Fabian Lange, Kay Schönwald, and Matthias Steinhauser
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172003 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Improved Standard-Model Prediction for π0→e+e−
Martin Hoferichter, Bai-Long Hoid, Bastian Kubis, and Jan Lüdtke
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172004 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Polarization of Λ and Λ¯ Hyperons along the Beam Direction in Pb-Pb Collisions at sNN=5.02  TeV
S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172005 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Nuclear Physics

Dynamical Synthesis of He4 in the Scission Phase of Nuclear Fission
Z. X. Ren, D. Vretenar, T. Nikšić, P. W. Zhao, J. Zhao, and J. Meng
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 172501 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantitative Study of Enantiomer-Specific State Transfer
JuHyeon Lee, Johannes Bischoff, A. O. Hernandez-Castillo, Boris Sartakov, Gerard Meijer, and Sandra Eibenberger-Arias
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173001 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Carrier-Envelope Phase-Dependent Strong-Field Excitation
D. Chetty, R. D. Glover, X. M. Tong, B. A. deHarak, H. Xu, N. Haram, K. Bartschat, A. J. Palmer, A. N. Luiten, P. S. Light, I. V. Litvinyuk, and R. T. Sang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173201 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173202 (2022) – Published 25 April 2022
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Transient Density-Induced Dipolar Interactions in a Thin Vapor Cell
Florian Christaller, Max Mäusezahl, Felix Moumtsilis, Annika Belz, Harald Kübler, Hadiseh Alaeian, Charles S. Adams, Robert Löw, and Tilman Pfau
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173401 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Subdiffraction Quantum Imaging with Undetected Photons
Elkin A. Santos, Thomas Pertsch, Frank Setzpfandt, and Sina Saravi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173601 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Quantum Squeezing and Sensing with Pseudo-Anti-Parity-Time Symmetry
Xi-Wang Luo, Chuanwei Zhang, and Shengwang Du
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173602 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonreciprocity and Faraday Rotation at Time Interfaces
Huanan Li, Shixiong Yin, and Andrea Alù
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 173901 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Observation of Degenerate Zero-Energy Topological States at Disclinations in an Acoustic Lattice
Yuanchen Deng, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Ze-Guo Chen, Mourad Oudich, Guancong Ma, and Yun Jing
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174301 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
Physics logo Synopsis: Symmetrical Binding for Topological States

A new technique creates defects in a topological acoustic system that don’t destroy the system’s chiral symmetry, protecting its topological states.

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Helicity Transfer in Strong Laser Fields via the Electron Anomalous Magnetic Moment
Yan-Fei Li, Yue-Yue Chen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174801 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Terahertz Pulse Generation by Strongly Magnetized, Laser-Created Plasmas
C. Tailliez, X. Davoine, A. Debayle, L. Gremillet, and L. Bergé
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174802 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Ultrabright Electron Bunch Injection in a Plasma Wakefield Driven by a Superluminal Flying Focus Electron Beam
F. Li, T. N. Dalichaouch, J. R. Pierce, X. Xu, F. S. Tsung, W. Lu, C. Joshi, and W. B. Mori
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 174803 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Available Energy of Trapped Electrons and Its Relation to Turbulent Transport
R. J. J. Mackenbach, J. H. E. Proll, and P. Helander
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175001 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Exact Quasiparticle Properties of a Heavy Polaron in BCS Fermi Superfluids
Jia Wang, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175301 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022

An exact theoretical model of polarons rigorously demonstrates universal properties of their spectrum structure.

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Local Dynamical Heterogeneity in Simple Glass Formers
Giulio Biroli, Patrick Charbonneau, Giampaolo Folena, Yi Hu, and Francesco Zamponi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 175501 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetic Weyl Semimetal in K2Mn3(AsO4)3 with the Minimum Number of Weyl Points
Simin Nie, Tatsuki Hashimoto, and Fritz B. Prinz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176401 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Chiral Central Charge from a Single Bulk Wave Function
Isaac H. Kim, Bowen Shi, Kohtaro Kato, and Victor V. Albert
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176402 (2022) – Published 28 April 2022
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Hierarchy of Ideal Flatbands in Chiral Twisted Multilayer Graphene Models
Jie Wang and Zhao Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176403 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022

A class of models generalize the ideal quantum geometry of chiral magic angle twisted bilayer graphene to arbitrary numbers of layers and various stacking patterns.

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Family of Ideal Chern Flatbands with Arbitrary Chern Number in Chiral Twisted Graphene Multilayers
Patrick J. Ledwith, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Eslam Khalaf
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176404 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022

A class of models generalize the ideal quantum geometry of chiral magic angle twisted bilayer graphene to arbitrary numbers of layers and various stacking patterns.

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Is There a Polaron Signature in Angle-Resolved Photoemission of CsPbBr3?
Maryam Sajedi, Maxim Krivenkov, Dmitry Marchenko, Jaime Sánchez-Barriga, Anoop K. Chandran, Andrei Varykhalov, Emile D. L. Rienks, Irene Aguilera, Stefan Blügel, and Oliver Rader
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176405 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Boundary Modes from Periodic Magnetic and Pseudomagnetic Fields in Graphene
Võ Tiến Phong and E. J. Mele
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176406 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Orbital Dynamics in Centrosymmetric Systems
Seungyun Han, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Kyoung-Whan Kim
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176601 (2022) – Published 28 April 2022
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Gigantic Magnetochiral Anisotropy in the Topological Semimetal ZrTe5
Yongjian Wang, Henry F. Legg, Thomas Bömerich, Jinhong Park, Sebastian Biesenkamp, A. A. Taskin, Markus Braden, Achim Rosch, and Yoichi Ando
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176602 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Valley Splitting in Silicon from the Interference Pattern of Quantum Oscillations
M. Lodari, L. Lampert, O. Zietz, R. Pillarisetty, J. S. Clarke, and G. Scappucci
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176603 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Electronic Self-Passivation of Single Vacancy in Black Phosphorus via Ionization
Hanyan Fang, Aurelio Gallardo, Dikshant Dulal, Zhizhan Qiu, Jie Su, Mykola Telychko, Harshitra Mahalingam, Pin Lyu, Yixuan Han, Yi Zheng, Yongqing Cai, Aleksandr Rodin, Pavel Jelínek, and Jiong Lu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176801 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Spectral Function of the Chiral One-Dimensional Fermi Liquid in the Regime of Strong Interactions
K. A. Matveev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 176802 (2022) – Published 28 April 2022
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Theory of the Supercurrent Diode Effect in Rashba Superconductors with Arbitrary Disorder
S. Ilić and F. S. Bergeret
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177001 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022
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Geometric Frustration on the Trillium Lattice in a Magnetic Metal-Organic Framework
Johnathan M. Bulled, Joseph A. M. Paddison, Andrew Wildes, Elsa Lhotel, Simon J. Cassidy, Breogán Pato-Doldán, L. Claudia Gómez-Aguirre, Paul J. Saines, and Andrew L. Goodwin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177201 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Curved Magnetism in CrI3
Alexander Edström, Danila Amoroso, Silvia Picozzi, Paolo Barone, and Massimiliano Stengel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177202 (2022) – Published 28 April 2022

The effect of curvature on the noncollinear magnetic order of a 2D magnet, CrI3 has been calculated using a continuum model with parameters fully determined by noncollinear spin DFT.

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Low-Temperature Photophysics of Single Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Jodok Happacher, David A. Broadway, Juanita Bocquel, Patrick Reiser, Alejandro Jimenéz, Märta A. Tschudin, Lucas Thiel, Dominik Rohner, Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert, Brendan Shields, Jeronimo R. Maze, Vincent Jacques, and Patrick Maletinsky
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 177401 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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Shear-Driven Solidification and Nonlinear Elasticity in Epithelial Tissues
Junxiang Huang, James O. Cochran, Suzanne M. Fielding, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Dapeng Bi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178001 (2022) – Published 27 April 2022

A minimal cell-based computational model demonstrates that fluid-like epithelial tissues become rigid above a critical applied strain, a process similar to shear-driven rigidity in other soft matter systems.

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Motile Topological Defects Hinder Dynamical Arrest in Dense Liquids of Active Ellipsoids
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178002 (2022) – Published 28 April 2022
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At packing densities where particles in many liquid-like systems stop moving, 3D-printed ellipsoids can keep scuttling because of the presence of packing “defects.”

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Formulation of Chromatin Mobility as a Function of Nuclear Size during C. elegans Embryogenesis Using Polymer Physics Theories
Aiya K. Yesbolatova, Ritsuko Arai, Takahiro Sakaue, and Akatsuki Kimura
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178101 (2022) – Published 26 April 2022
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Biofilm Growth under Elastic Confinement
George T. Fortune, Nuno M. Oliveira, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 178102 (2022) – Published 29 April 2022
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