Volume 121, Issue 11

14 September 2018

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A gallery of trilobitelike ghost bonds in Rydberg molecules shown as isosurfaces of electronic probability, cut away to reveal the inner structure. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion.

From the article:

Theoretical Prediction of the Creation and Observation of a Ghost Trilobite Chemical Bond
Matthew T. Eiles, Zhengjia Tong, and Chris H. Greene
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113203 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Effective Field Theories with Machine Learning

Johann Brehmer, Kyle Cranmer, Gilles Louppe, and Juan Pavez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 111801 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

A proposed machine-learning approach could speed up the analysis that underlies searches for new particles in high-energy collisions.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theoretical Prediction of the Creation and Observation of a Ghost Trilobite Chemical Bond

Matthew T. Eiles, Zhengjia Tong, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113203 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

A series of electric and magnetic pulses applied to an atom could cause one of its electrons to behave as if “bonded” to an empty point in space.

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Unveiling the Superconducting Mechanism of ${Ba}_{0.51} K_{0.49} {BiO}_{3}$

C. H. P. Wen, H. C. Xu, Q. Yao, R. Peng, X. H. Niu, Q. Y. Chen, Z. T. Liu, D. W. Shen, Q. Song, X. Lou, Y. F. Fang, X. S. Liu, Y. H. Song, Y. J. Jiao, T. F. Duan, H. H. Wen, P. Dudin, G. Kotliar, Z. P. Yin, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117002 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Photoemission experiments challenge the long-held belief that the high-temperature superconductivity of certain bismuth oxides is of the unconventional type.

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Field Theory for Amorphous Solids

E. DeGiuli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 118001 (2018) - Published 10 September, 2018

Theorists are coming closer to a comprehensive description of the mechanics of solids with an amorphous structure, such as glass, cement, and compacted sand.

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Electron Ghost Imaging

S. Li, F. Cropp, K. Kabra, T. J. Lane, G. Wetzstein, P. Musumeci, and D. Ratner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 114801 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Ghost imaging—a sensitive imaging technique previously demonstrated with visible and x-ray light—has been extended to electrons.

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Dark Matter Search Results from a One Ton-Year Exposure of XENON1T

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 111302 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

World-leading bounds are placed on the spin-independent elastic scatter cross-section for weakly interacting particle masses above 6 GeV.

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Unraveling the Stereodynamics of Cold Controlled $HD − H_{2}$ Collisions

James F. E. Croft, Naduvalath Balakrishnan, Meng Huang, and Hua Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113401 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

First principles simulations of the HD-H $_{2}$ collisions show that a single scattering resonance controls the stereochemistry of bimolecular collisions near 1 K.

LETTERS

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

Relativistic Measurement Backaction in the Quantum Dirac Oscillator

Keye Zhang, Lu Zhou, Pierre Meystre, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110401 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Correlation Functions of the Quantum Sine-Gordon Model in and out of Equilibrium

I. Kukuljan, S. Sotiriadis, and G. Takacs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110402 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Uncertainty Relations in Implementation of Unitary Operations

Hiroyasu Tajima, Naoto Shiraishi, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110403 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Single-Loop Realization of Arbitrary Nonadiabatic Holonomic Single-Qubit Quantum Gates in a Superconducting Circuit

Y. Xu, W. Cai, Y. Ma, X. Mu, L. Hu, Tao Chen, H. Wang, Y. P. Song, Zheng-Yuan Xue, Zhang-qi Yin, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110501 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Quantum-Limited Atomic Receiver in the Electrically Small Regime

Kevin C. Cox, David H. Meyer, Fredrik K. Fatemi, and Paul D. Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110502 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Hyperentanglement of Photons Emitted by a Quantum Dot

Maximilian Prilmüller, Tobias Huber, Markus Müller, Peter Michler, Gregor Weihs, and Ana Predojević

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110503 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Electron-Phonon Systems on a Universal Quantum Computer

Alexandru Macridin, Panagiotis Spentzouris, James Amundson, and Roni Harnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110504 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Fundamental Quantum Limits of Multicarrier Optomechanical Sensors

Dominic Branford, Haixing Miao, and Animesh Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110505 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Spatially Adiabatic Frequency Conversion in Optoelectromechanical Arrays

Ondřej Černotík, Sahand Mahmoodian, and Klemens Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 110506 (2018) - Published 14 September, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Natural Explanation for 21 cm Absorption Signals via Axion-Induced Cooling

Nick Houston, Chuang Li, Tianjun Li, Qiaoli Yang, and Xin Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 111301 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dark Matter Search Results from a One Ton-Year Exposure of XENON1T

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 111302 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

World-leading bounds are placed on the spin-independent elastic scatter cross-section for weakly interacting particle masses above 6 GeV.

Constraints on Sub-GeV Dark-Matter–Electron Scattering from the DarkSide-50 Experiment

P. Agnes et al. (The DarkSide Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 111303 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Effective Field Theories with Machine Learning

Johann Brehmer, Kyle Cranmer, Gilles Louppe, and Juan Pavez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 111801 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

A proposed machine-learning approach could speed up the analysis that underlies searches for new particles in high-energy collisions.

Light-Cone Parton Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD

Constantia Alexandrou, Krzysztof Cichy, Martha Constantinou, Karl Jansen, Aurora Scapellato, and Fernanda Steffens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 112001 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Pion-Pole Contribution to Hadronic Light-By-Light Scattering in the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of the Muon

Martin Hoferichter, Bai-Long Hoid, Bastian Kubis, Stefan Leupold, and Sebastian P. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 112002 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Stellar ${}^{36, 38}{Ar} (n, γ) {}^{37, 39}{Ar}$ Reactions and Their Effect on Light Neutron-Rich Nuclide Synthesis

M. Tessler, M. Paul, S. Halfon, B. S. Meyer, R. Pardo, R. Purtschert, K. E. Rehm, R. Scott, M. Weigand, L. Weissman, S. Almaraz-Calderon, M. L. Avila, D. Baggenstos, P. Collon, N. Hazenshprung, Y. Kashiv, D. Kijel, A. Kreisel, R. Reifarth, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, A. Shor, I. Silverman, R. Talwar, D. Veltum, and R. Vondrasek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 112701 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Full Coupled-Cluster Reduction for Accurate Description of Strong Electron Correlation

Enhua Xu, Motoyuki Uejima, and Seiichiro Lenka Ten-no

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113001 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Cavity-Correlated Electron-Nuclear Dynamics from First Principles

Johannes Flick and Prineha Narang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113002 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Ultrafast Mapping of Coherent Dynamics and Density Matrix Reconstruction in a Terahertz-Assisted Laser Field

Yizhu Zhang, Tian-Min Yan, and Y. H. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113201 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Capturing Photoelectron Motion with Guiding Centers

J. Dubois, S. A. Berman, C. Chandre, and T. Uzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113202 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theoretical Prediction of the Creation and Observation of a Ghost Trilobite Chemical Bond

Matthew T. Eiles, Zhengjia Tong, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113203 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

A series of electric and magnetic pulses applied to an atom could cause one of its electrons to behave as if “bonded” to an empty point in space.

Spin–Orbital-Angular-Momentum Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

H.-R. Chen, K.-Y. Lin, P.-K. Chen, N.-C. Chiu, J.-B. Wang, C.-A. Chen, Panpan Huang, S.-K. Yip, Yuki Kawaguchi, and Y.-J. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113204 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unraveling the Stereodynamics of Cold Controlled $HD − H_{2}$ Collisions

James F. E. Croft, Naduvalath Balakrishnan, Meng Huang, and Hua Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113401 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

First principles simulations of the HD-H $_{2}$ collisions show that a single scattering resonance controls the stereochemistry of bimolecular collisions near 1 K.

Do Semilocal Density-Functional Approximations Recover Dispersion Energies at Small Intermonomer Separations?

Muhammad Shahbaz and Krzysztof Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113402 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Two-Dimensional Drexhage Experiment for Electric- and Magnetic-Dipole Sources on Plasmonic Interfaces

Raphael Brechbühler, Freddy T. Rabouw, Patrik Rohner, Boris le Feber, Dimos Poulikakos, and David J. Norris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 113601 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Electron Ghost Imaging

S. Li, F. Cropp, K. Kabra, T. J. Lane, G. Wetzstein, P. Musumeci, and D. Ratner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 114801 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Ghost imaging—a sensitive imaging technique previously demonstrated with visible and x-ray light—has been extended to electrons.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Two Diverging Length Scales in the Structure of Jammed Packings

Daniel Hexner, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 115501 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Torque-Induced Change in Configuration of a Single NO Molecule on Cu(110)

Akitoshi Shiotari, Takafumi Odani, and Yoshiaki Sugimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116101 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Spontaneous Exciton Valley Coherence in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers Interfaced with an Anisotropic Metasurface

Pankaj K. Jha, Nir Shitrit, Xuexin Ren, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116102 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Core Electrons in the Electronic Stopping of Heavy Ions

Rafi Ullah, Emilio Artacho, and Alfredo A. Correa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116401 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Topological Switch between Second-Order Topological Insulators and Topological Crystalline Insulators

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116801 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Crystallization in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime Induced by Landau-Level Mixing

Jianyun Zhao, Yuhe Zhang, and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116802 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

High-Mobility Spin-Polarized Two-Dimensional Electron Gases at $EuO / {KTaO}_{3}$ Interfaces

Hongrui Zhang, Yu Yun, Xuejing Zhang, Hui Zhang, Yang Ma, Xi Yan, Fei Wang, Gang Li, Rui Li, Tahira Khan, Yuansha Chen, Wei Liu, Fengxia Hu, Banggui Liu, Baogen Shen, Wei Han, and Jirong Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 116803 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Loss Mechanisms and Quasiparticle Dynamics in Superconducting Microwave Resonators Made of Thin-Film Granular Aluminum

Lukas Grünhaupt, Nataliya Maleeva, Sebastian T. Skacel, Martino Calvo, Florence Levy-Bertrand, Alexey V. Ustinov, Hannes Rotzinger, Alessandro Monfardini, Gianluigi Catelani, and Ioan M. Pop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117001 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unveiling the Superconducting Mechanism of ${Ba}_{0.51} K_{0.49} {BiO}_{3}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117002 (2018) - Published 13 September, 2018

Photoemission experiments challenge the long-held belief that the high-temperature superconductivity of certain bismuth oxides is of the unconventional type.

Giant Pressure Dependence and Dimensionality Switching in a Metal-Organic Quantum Antiferromagnet

B. Wehinger, C. Fiolka, A. Lanza, R. Scatena, M. Kubus, A. Grockowiak, W. A. Coniglio, D. Graf, M. Skoulatos, J.-H. Chen, J. Gukelberger, N. Casati, O. Zaharko, P. Macchi, K. W. Krämer, S. Tozer, C. Mudry, B. Normand, and Ch. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117201 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

Anomalous Quantum-Critical Scaling Corrections in Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

Nvsen Ma, Phillip Weinberg, Hui Shao, Wenan Guo, Dao-Xin Yao, and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117202 (2018) - Published 12 September, 2018

Direct Magnetization-Polarization Coupling in ${BaCuF}_{4}$

A. C. Garcia-Castro, W. Ibarra-Hernandez, Eric Bousquet, and Aldo H. Romero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117601 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

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

Scaling Behavior of Anisotropy Relaxation in Deformed Polymers

Christopher N. Lam, Wen-Sheng Xu, Wei-Ren Chen, Zhe Wang, Christopher B. Stanley, Jan-Michael Y. Carrillo, David Uhrig, Weiyu Wang, Kunlun Hong, Yun Liu, Lionel Porcar, Changwoo Do, Gregory S. Smith, Bobby G. Sumpter, and Yangyang Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 117801 (2018) - Published 11 September, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Field Theory for Amorphous Solids

E. DeGiuli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 118001 (2018) - Published 10 September, 2018

Theorists are coming closer to a comprehensive description of the mechanics of solids with an amorphous structure, such as glass, cement, and compacted sand.