Volume 121, Issue 16

19 October 2018

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On the Cover

In quantum Darwinism, information about a system (the brown cat in the middle) becomes classical and objective when multiple observers (the painters) indirectly probe the quantum state of the system (bottom) by accessing different parts of its environment. (Artwork by Joseph Hollis)

From the article:

Generic Emergence of Objectivity of Observables in Infinite Dimensions
Paul A. Knott, Tommaso Tufarelli, Marco Piani, and Gerardo Adesso
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160401 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Determination of Irreversible Entropy Production in out-of-Equilibrium Mesoscopic Quantum Systems

M. Brunelli, L. Fusco, R. Landig, W. Wieczorek, J. Hoelscher-Obermaier, G. Landi, F. L. Semião, A. Ferraro, N. Kiesel, T. Donner, G. De Chiara, and M. Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160604 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Physicists observe entropy production in two intermediate-scale quantum systems, indicating that the systems have undergone an irreversible process.

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Observation of an Unusual Upward-Going Cosmic-Ray-like Event in the Third Flight of ANITA

P. W. Gorham et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161102 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

A fountain of high-energy particles that resembles an upside-down cosmic-ray shower is detected for the second time by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna.

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Atomic Step Flow on a Nanofacet

Jean-Christophe Harmand, Gilles Patriarche, Frank Glas, Federico Panciera, Ileana Florea, Jean-Luc Maurice, Laurent Travers, and Yannick Ollivier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166101 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

An electron microscope captures new atomic layers forming and spreading across the surface of a growing nanocrystal.

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Emergent Dirac Gullies and Gully-Symmetry-Breaking Quantum Hall States in $A B A$ Trilayer Graphene

A. A. Zibrov, P. Rao, C. Kometter, E. M. Spanton, J. I. A. Li, Cory R. Dean, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. Serbyn, and A. F. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 167601 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Researchers observe new features in the band structure of multilayer graphene that point to enhanced electron interactions.

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Initiating and Monitoring the Evolution of Single Electrons Within Atom-Defined Structures

Mohammad Rashidi, Wyatt Vine, Thomas Dienel, Lucian Livadaru, Jacob Retallick, Taleana Huff, Konrad Walus, and Robert A. Wolkow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166801 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

An atomic force microscope can move single-electrons at selected atomic positions on a silicon surface.

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Geometrical Bounds on Irreversibility in Open Quantum Systems

Luca Mancino, Vasco Cavina, Antonella De Pasquale, Marco Sbroscia, Robert I. Booth, Emanuele Roccia, Ilaria Gianani, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marco Barbieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160602 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Theoretical bounds on irreversible entropy production in a thermalizing quantum system are supported by experiments simulating the thermalization of a qubit using a quantum photonic architecture.

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GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161101 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Analysis of the GW170817 event by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations constrains the radii of the progenitor neutron stars and obtains observational input on the neutron star equation of state.

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Coherent Control of Penning and Associative Ionization: Insights from Symmetries

Juan J. Omiste, Johannes Floß, and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163405 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

By taking into account formerly-neglected symmetry conditions, coherent control in atomic collision processes, such as control of Penning and Associative ionization, may be possible.

LETTERS

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

Generic Emergence of Objectivity of Observables in Infinite Dimensions

Paul A. Knott, Tommaso Tufarelli, Marco Piani, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160401 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Dephrasure Channel and Superadditivity of Coherent Information

Felix Leditzky, Debbie Leung, and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160501 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

NOON States of Nine Quantized Vibrations in Two Radial Modes of a Trapped Ion

Junhua Zhang, Mark Um, Dingshun Lv, Jing-Ning Zhang, Lu-Ming Duan, and Kihwan Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160502 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

Brownian Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process

Dominik Lips, Artem Ryabov, and Philipp Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160601 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

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Geometrical Bounds on Irreversibility in Open Quantum Systems

Luca Mancino, Vasco Cavina, Antonella De Pasquale, Marco Sbroscia, Robert I. Booth, Emanuele Roccia, Ilaria Gianani, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marco Barbieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160602 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Theoretical bounds on irreversible entropy production in a thermalizing quantum system are supported by experiments simulating the thermalization of a qubit using a quantum photonic architecture.

Hydrodynamic Diffusion in Integrable Systems

Jacopo De Nardis, Denis Bernard, and Benjamin Doyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160603 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

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Experimental Determination of Irreversible Entropy Production in out-of-Equilibrium Mesoscopic Quantum Systems

M. Brunelli, L. Fusco, R. Landig, W. Wieczorek, J. Hoelscher-Obermaier, G. Landi, F. L. Semião, A. Ferraro, N. Kiesel, T. Donner, G. De Chiara, and M. Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160604 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Physicists observe entropy production in two intermediate-scale quantum systems, indicating that the systems have undergone an irreversible process.

Density Estimation on Small Data Sets

Wei-Chia Chen, Ammar Tareen, and Justin B. Kinney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160605 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Dynamics of a Magnetic Needle Magnetometer: Sensitivity to Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert Damping

Y. B. Band, Y. Avishai, and Alexander Shnirman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 160801 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State

B. P. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161101 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Analysis of the GW170817 event by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations constrains the radii of the progenitor neutron stars and obtains observational input on the neutron star equation of state.

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Observation of an Unusual Upward-Going Cosmic-Ray-like Event in the Third Flight of ANITA

P. W. Gorham et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161102 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

A fountain of high-energy particles that resembles an upside-down cosmic-ray shower is detected for the second time by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna.

Black Hole Mergers from an Evolving Population of Globular Clusters

Giacomo Fragione and Bence Kocsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161103 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Optical Ring Cavity Search for Axion Dark Matter

Ippei Obata, Tomohiro Fujita, and Yuta Michimura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161301 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Reconstructing the Inflationary Landscape with Cosmological Data

Xingang Chen, Gonzalo A. Palma, Bruno Scheihing H., and Spyros Sypsas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161302 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Theoretical and Observational Constraints of Bound Dark Energy with Precision Cosmological Data

Axel de la Macorra and Erick Almaraz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161303 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Towards Reconstructing the Quantum Effective Action of Gravity

Benjamin Knorr and Frank Saueressig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161304 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

All Tree Level Scattering Amplitudes in Chern-Simons Theories with Fundamental Matter

Karthik Inbasekar, Sachin Jain, Pranjal Nayak, and V. Umesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161601 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Sterile Neutrino Constraints from the STEREO Experiment with 66 Days of Reactor-On Data

H. Almazán et al. (STEREO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 161801 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Transverse-Momentum-Dependent Distributions with Jets

Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes, Ignazio Scimemi, Wouter J. Waalewijn, and Lorenzo Zoppi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 162001 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

First Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Decay $Ξ_{c c}^{+ +} \to Ξ_{c}^{+} π^{+}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 162002 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Analytical Method for Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Double-Higgs Production

Roberto Bonciani, Giuseppe Degrassi, Pier Paolo Giardino, and Ramona Gröber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 162003 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Real-Time Observation of Molecular Spinning with Angular High-Harmonic Spectroscopy

Lixin He, Pengfei Lan, Anh-Thu Le, Baoning Wang, Bincheng Wang, Xiaosong Zhu, Peixiang Lu, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163201 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Direct Experimental Access to the Nonadiabatic Initial Momentum Offset upon Tunnel Ionization

S. Eckart, K. Fehre, N. Eicke, A. Hartung, J. Rist, D. Trabert, N. Strenger, A. Pier, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, M. S. Schöffler, M. Lein, M. Kunitski, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163202 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Microwave Shielding of Ultracold Polar Molecules

Tijs Karman and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163401 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Controlling the Scattering Length of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules

Lucas Lassablière and Goulven Quéméner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163402 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Effects in the Transition States of State to State Autoionization Processes

Stefano Falcinelli, Franco Vecchiocattivi, and Fernando Pirani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163403 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Probing Energy-Dependent Feshbach Resonances by Optical Control

N. Arunkumar, A. Jagannathan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163404 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

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Coherent Control of Penning and Associative Ionization: Insights from Symmetries

Juan J. Omiste, Johannes Floß, and Paul Brumer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163405 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

By taking into account formerly-neglected symmetry conditions, coherent control in atomic collision processes, such as control of Penning and Associative ionization, may be possible.

Spinor Self-Ordering of a Quantum Gas in a Cavity

Ronen M. Kroeze, Yudan Guo, Varun D. Vaidya, Jonathan Keeling, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163601 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Lasing and Amplification from Two-Dimensional Atom Arrays

Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Lijun Meng, Andrea Marini, and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163602 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Directional Bistability and Nonreciprocal Lasing with Cold Atoms in a Ring Cavity

B. Megyeri, G. Harvie, A. Lampis, and J. Goldwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163603 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Control of Electromagnetic Topological Edge States

D. A. Dobrykh, A. V. Yulin, A. P. Slobozhanyuk, A. N. Poddubny, and Yu. S. Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163901 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018

Turbulence Appearance and Nonappearance in Thin Fluid Layers

Gregory Falkovich and Natalia Vladimirova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 164501 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Predicting Steady Shear Rheology of Condensed-Phase Monomolecular Films at the Air-Water Interface

Aditya Raghunandan, Amir H. Hirsa, Patrick T. Underhill, and Juan M. Lopez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 164502 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Role of Transverse Displacements in the Formation of Subaqueous Barchan Dunes

Carlos A. Alvarez and Erick M. Franklin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 164503 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Theory of the Drift-Wave Instability at Arbitrary Collisionality

R. Jorge, P. Ricci, and N. F. Loureiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165001 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Measurements of Impurity Transport Due to Drift-Wave Turbulence in a Toroidal Plasma

T. Nishizawa, M. D. Nornberg, J. Boguski, D. J. Den Hartog, J. S. Sarff, Z. R. Williams, Z. A. Xing, and D. Craig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165002 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

Role of the Plasmoid Instability in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Chuanfei Dong, Liang Wang, Yi-Min Huang, Luca Comisso, and Amitava Bhattacharjee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165101 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo Approach to Angular Momentum in Quantum Many-Particle Systems

G. Bighin, T. V. Tscherbul, and M. Lemeshko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165301 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Lattice Instability during Solid-Solid Structural Transformations under a General Applied Stress Tensor: Example of $Si I \to Si II$ with Metallization

Nikolai A. Zarkevich, Hao Chen, Valery I. Levitas, and Duane D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165701 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Zener Tunneling Breakdown in Phase-Change Materials Revealed by Intense Terahertz Pulses

Yasuyuki Sanari, Takehiro Tachizaki, Yuta Saito, Kotaro Makino, Paul Fons, Alexander V. Kolobov, Junji Tominaga, Koichiro Tanaka, Yoshihiko Kanemitsu, Muneaki Hase, and Hideki Hirori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 165702 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

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Atomic Step Flow on a Nanofacet

Jean-Christophe Harmand, Gilles Patriarche, Frank Glas, Federico Panciera, Ileana Florea, Jean-Luc Maurice, Laurent Travers, and Yannick Ollivier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166101 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

An electron microscope captures new atomic layers forming and spreading across the surface of a growing nanocrystal.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Short Note on the Density of States in 3D Weyl Semimetals

K. Ziegler and A. Sinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166401 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

Disorder-Driven Quantum Transition in Relativistic Semimetals: Functional Renormalization via the Porous Medium Equation

Ivan Balog, David Carpentier, and Andrei A. Fedorenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166402 (2018) - Published 19 October, 2018

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Initiating and Monitoring the Evolution of Single Electrons Within Atom-Defined Structures

Mohammad Rashidi, Wyatt Vine, Thomas Dienel, Lucian Livadaru, Jacob Retallick, Taleana Huff, Konrad Walus, and Robert A. Wolkow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166801 (2018) - Published 15 October, 2018

An atomic force microscope can move single-electrons at selected atomic positions on a silicon surface.

Proposal for Detecting Nodal-Line Semimetal Surface States with Resonant Spin-Flipped Reflection

Wei Chen, Kun Luo, Lin Li, and Oded Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166802 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Transconducting Transition for a Dynamic Boundary Coupled to Several Luttinger Liquids

B. Horovitz, T. Giamarchi, and P. Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 166803 (2018) - Published 17 October, 2018

Cooper-Pair Spin Current in a Strontium Ruthenate Heterostructure

Suk Bum Chung, Se Kwon Kim, Ki Hoon Lee, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 167001 (2018) - Published 16 October, 2018

Unusual Interplay between Superconductivity and Field-Induced Charge Order in ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{y}$

J. Kačmarčík, I. Vinograd, B. Michon, A. Rydh, A. Demuer, R. Zhou, H. Mayaffre, R. Liang, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, N. Doiron-Leyraud, L. Taillefer, M.-H. Julien, C. Marcenat, and T. Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 167002 (2018) - Published 18 October, 2018