Volume 119, Issue 14

6 October 2017

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Upper bound on diffusivity in terms of the operator growth velocity and equilibration time. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Upper Bound on Diffusivity
Thomas Hartman, Sean A. Hartnoll, and Raghu Mahajan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 141601 (2017)

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Upper Bound on Diffusivity

Thomas Hartman, Sean A. Hartnoll, and Raghu Mahajan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 141601 (2017) - Published 2 October, 2017

Quantum mechanical arguments give a hitherto unknown upper limit on the diffusion constant of any local conserved quantity.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 147201 (2017) - Published 2 October, 2017

A rare example of a highly frustrated metal is identified, where the frustration is due to competing exchange interactions of spins, and not due to the spin geometry.

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

Epidemic Dynamics in Open Quantum Spin Systems

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Structure of the Resource Theory of Quantum Coherence

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Holonomic Quantum Control by Coherent Optical Excitation in Diamond

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Correlations and Entanglement of Microwave Photons Emitted in a Cascade Decay

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Exact Identification of a Quantum Change Point

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High-Temperature Nonequilibrium Bose Condensation Induced by a Hot Needle

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Localization Transition Induced by Learning in Random Searches

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Generic Properties of Stochastic Entropy Production

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 140604 (2017) - Published 4 October, 2017

Spin Resonance Clock Transition of the Endohedral Fullerene ${}^{15}N @ C_{60}$

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The first simultaneous detection of gravitational radiation by the LIGO and Virgo detectors greatly improves localization of the source and permits a novel test of general relativity.

QCD-Electroweak First-Order Phase Transition in a Supercooled Universe

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Upper Bound on Diffusivity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 141601 (2017) - Published 2 October, 2017

Quantum mechanical arguments give a hitherto unknown upper limit on the diffusion constant of any local conserved quantity.

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Radiatively Generating the Higgs Potential and Electroweak Scale via the Seesaw Mechanism

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Nucleon Spin and Momentum Decomposition Using Lattice QCD Simulations

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Inducing and Manipulating Heteroelectronic States in a Single ${MoS}_{2}$ Thin Flake

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 147002 (2017) - Published 5 October, 2017

Electric fields applied on either side of a thin, semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide create a superconducting layer atop a metallic layer within the material.

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Effective One-Dimensional Coupling in the Highly Frustrated Square-Lattice Itinerant Magnet ${CaCo}_{2 - y} {As}_{2}$

A. Sapkota, B. G. Ueland, V. K. Anand, N. S. Sangeetha, D. L. Abernathy, M. B. Stone, J. L. Niedziela, D. C. Johnston, A. Kreyssig, A. I. Goldman, and R. J. McQueeney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 147201 (2017) - Published 2 October, 2017

A rare example of a highly frustrated metal is identified, where the frustration is due to competing exchange interactions of spins, and not due to the spin geometry.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 147801 (2017) - Published 3 October, 2017

Single base-pair mismatches in DNA can be pinpointed by twisting the molecule until it buckles.