Volume 121, Issue 18

2 November 2018

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Simulated (top) and measured (bottom) intensity of lattices of optical spin-orbit beams post-selected on clockwise (left) and anticlockwise (right) polarizations.

From the article:

Generation of a Lattice of Spin-Orbit Beams via Coherent Averaging
D. Sarenac, D. G. Cory, J. Nsofini, I. Hincks, P. Miguel, M. Arif, Charles W. Clark, M. G. Huber, and D. A. Pushin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183602 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Superallowed $α$ Decay to Doubly Magic ${}^{100}{Sn}$

K. Auranen, D. Seweryniak, M. Albers, A. D. Ayangeakaa, S. Bottoni, M. P. Carpenter, C. J. Chiara, P. Copp, H. M. David, D. T. Doherty, J. Harker, C. R. Hoffman, R. V. F. Janssens, T. L. Khoo, S. A. Kuvin, T. Lauritsen, G. Lotay, A. M. Rogers, J. Sethi, C. Scholey, R. Talwar, W. B. Walters, P. J. Woods, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 182501 (2018) - Published 30 October, 2018

The detection of unusually fast alpha emission from a heavy isotope could lead to new ways of testing the nuclear shell model.

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Phonon-Number-Sensitive Electromechanics

J. J. Viennot, X. Ma, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183601 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

Two teams demonstrate that they can count the number of quantized vibrations, or phonons, in cold mechanical oscillators by measuring the energy in the vibrations.

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Nonlocal Spin Transport Mediated by a Vortex Liquid in Superconductors

Se Kwon Kim, Roberto Myers, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 187203 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

A proposed method for transporting spin from one place to another utilizes superconducting vortices as carriers of spin information.

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Density-Driven Flows in Evaporating Binary Liquid Droplets

A. M. J. Edwards, P. S. Atkinson, C. S. Cheung, H. Liang, D. J. Fairhurst, and F. F. Ouali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 184501 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

The direction in which fluid circulates in binary drops doesn’t change when the drops are tilted, implicating gravity—not surface tension—as the driver of flow in these systems.

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Observation of the Bogoliubov Dispersion in a Fluid of Light

Q. Fontaine, T. Bienaimé, S. Pigeon, E. Giacobino, A. Bramati, and Q. Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183604 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

At room temperature light propagates like a superfluid through an atomic vapor.

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Observation of a Space-Time Crystal in a Superfluid Quantum Gas

J. Smits, L. Liao, H. T. C. Stoof, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185301 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

A space-time crystal can be created in a superfluid quantum gas by simultaneously breaking discrete time and spatial translation symmetries.

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Sticky Matters: Jamming and Rigid Cluster Statistics with Attractive Particle Interactions

Dion J. Koeze and Brian P. Tighe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 188002 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

A large system of particles with even a small attractive component jams differently than systems made of purely repulsive particles.

LETTERS

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

Beliaev Damping of a Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensate

Rukuan Wu and Zhaoxin Liang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180401 (2018) - Published 30 October, 2018

Resilient Entangling Gates for Trapped Ions

A. E. Webb, S. C. Webster, S. Collingbourne, D. Bretaud, A. M. Lawrence, S. Weidt, F. Mintert, and W. K. Hensinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180501 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

Robust Entanglement Gates for Trapped-Ion Qubits

Yotam Shapira, Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180502 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

Device-Independent Entanglement Certification of All Entangled States

Joseph Bowles, Ivan Šupić, Daniel Cavalcanti, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180503 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

Quantum Limited Superresolution of an Incoherent Source Pair in Three Dimensions

Zhixian Yu and Sudhakar Prasad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180504 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Certifying the Building Blocks of Quantum Computers from Bell’s Theorem

Pavel Sekatski, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Sebastian Wagner, and Nicolas Sangouard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180505 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Experimental Realization of an Information Machine with Tunable Temporal Correlations

Tamir Admon, Saar Rahav, and Yael Roichman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 180601 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Assessing Near-Future Direct Dark Matter Searches with Benchmark-Free Forecasting

Thomas D. P. Edwards, Bradley J. Kavanagh, and Christoph Weniger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 181101 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Transition Radiation as a Probe of the Chiral Anomaly

Xu-Guang Huang and Kirill Tuchin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 182301 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

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Superallowed $α$ Decay to Doubly Magic ${}^{100}{Sn}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 182501 (2018) - Published 30 October, 2018

The detection of unusually fast alpha emission from a heavy isotope could lead to new ways of testing the nuclear shell model.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum-Mechanical Relation between Atomic Dipole Polarizability and the van der Waals Radius

Dmitry V. Fedorov, Mainak Sadhukhan, Martin Stöhr, and Alexandre Tkatchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183401 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

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Phonon-Number-Sensitive Electromechanics

J. J. Viennot, X. Ma, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183601 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

Two teams demonstrate that they can count the number of quantized vibrations, or phonons, in cold mechanical oscillators by measuring the energy in the vibrations.

Generation of a Lattice of Spin-Orbit Beams via Coherent Averaging

D. Sarenac, D. G. Cory, J. Nsofini, I. Hincks, P. Miguel, M. Arif, Charles W. Clark, M. G. Huber, and D. A. Pushin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183602 (2018) - Published 30 October, 2018

Optically Addressing Single Rare-Earth Ions in a Nanophotonic Cavity

Tian Zhong, Jonathan M. Kindem, John G. Bartholomew, Jake Rochman, Ioana Craiciu, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Andrew D. Beyer, and Andrei Faraon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183603 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

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Observation of the Bogoliubov Dispersion in a Fluid of Light

Q. Fontaine, T. Bienaimé, S. Pigeon, E. Giacobino, A. Bramati, and Q. Glorieux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183604 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

At room temperature light propagates like a superfluid through an atomic vapor.

Collective Effects in Casimir-Polder Forces

Kanupriya Sinha, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, and Pierre Meystre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183605 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

Manipulation of the Vacuum to Control Its Field-Induced Decay

Q. Z. Lv, Q. Su, and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 183606 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Density-Driven Flows in Evaporating Binary Liquid Droplets

A. M. J. Edwards, P. S. Atkinson, C. S. Cheung, H. Liang, D. J. Fairhurst, and F. F. Ouali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 184501 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

The direction in which fluid circulates in binary drops doesn’t change when the drops are tilted, implicating gravity—not surface tension—as the driver of flow in these systems.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stimulated Excitation of an Optical Cavity by a Multibunch Electron Beam via Coherent-Diffraction-Radiation Process

Yosuke Honda, Miho Shimada, Alexander Aryshev, Ryukou Kato, Tsukasa Miyajima, Takashi Obina, Ryota Takai, Takashi Uchiyama, and Naoto Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 184801 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Experimental Measurements of Ion Heating in Collisional Plasma Shocks and Interpenetrating Supersonic Plasma Flows

Samuel J. Langendorf, Kevin C. Yates, Scott C. Hsu, Carsten Thoma, and Mark Gilmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185001 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Self-Similar Multimode Bubble-Front Evolution of the Ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Two and Three Dimensions

H. Zhang, R. Betti, R. Yan, D. Zhao, D. Shvarts, and H. Aluie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185002 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of a Space-Time Crystal in a Superfluid Quantum Gas

J. Smits, L. Liao, H. T. C. Stoof, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185301 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018

A space-time crystal can be created in a superfluid quantum gas by simultaneously breaking discrete time and spatial translation symmetries.

Majorana Doublets, Flat Bands, and Dirac Nodes in $s$ -Wave Superfluids

Haiping Hu, Fan Zhang, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185302 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Multiscale Energy Dissipation Mechanism in Tough and Self-Healing Hydrogels

Kunpeng Cui, Tao Lin Sun, Xiaobin Liang, Ken Nakajima, Ya Nan Ye, Liang Chen, Takayuki Kurokawa, and Jian Ping Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185501 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Boson Peak Decouples from Elasticity in Glasses with Low Connectivity

A. Giuntoli and D. Leporini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185502 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Microscopic Theory of Two-Step Yielding in Attractive Colloids

Ada Altieri, Pierfrancesco Urbani, and Francesco Zamponi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185503 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Oscillating Electric Fields in Liquids Create a Long-Range Steady Field

Aref Hashemi, Scott C. Bukosky, Sean P. Rader, William D. Ristenpart, and Gregory H. Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185504 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Thermal Expansion of Single-Crystal $H_{2} O$ and $D_{2} O$ Ice Ih

David T. W. Buckingham, J. J. Neumeier, Sueli H. Masunaga, and Yi-Kuo Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185505 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Random-Length Random Walks and Finite-Size Scaling in High Dimensions

Zongzheng Zhou, Jens Grimm, Sheng Fang, Youjin Deng, and Timothy M. Garoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185701 (2018) - Published 31 October, 2018

Understanding the Enhancement of Surface Diffusivity by Dimerization

C. Zaum and K. Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 185901 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Experimental Observation of Hidden Berry Curvature in Inversion-Symmetric Bulk $2 H − {WSe}_{2}$

Soohyun Cho, Jin-Hong Park, Jisook Hong, Jongkeun Jung, Beom Seo Kim, Garam Han, Wonshik Kyung, Yeongkwan Kim, S.-K. Mo, J. D. Denlinger, Ji Hoon Shim, Jung Hoon Han, Changyoung Kim, and Seung Ryong Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 186401 (2018) - Published 29 October, 2018