Volume 121, Issue 4

27 July 2018

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Visualization of a flexible fiber immersed in a homogenous isotropic turbulent flow. The fiber is green; the flamelike features show the contours of the enstrophy field and the orange tubelike features are isosurfaces of the vorticity field.

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Flexible Fiber Reveals the Two-Point Statistical Properties of Turbulence
Marco Edoardo Rosti, Arash Alizad Banaei, Luca Brandt, and Andrea Mazzino
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 044501 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Generative Adversarial Learning

Seth Lloyd and Christian Weedbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040502 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

Researchers have mathematically proven that a powerful classical machine learning algorithm should work on quantum computers.

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Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade

H. J. Snijders, J. A. Frey, J. Norman, H. Flayac, V. Savona, A. C. Gossard, J. E. Bowers, M. P. van Exter, D. Bouwmeester, and W. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043601 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Two separate groups have demonstrated a photon blockade effect that could be used to make practical single-photon emitters.

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Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade in the Microwave Domain

Cyril Vaneph, Alexis Morvan, Gianluca Aiello, Mathieu Féchant, Marco Aprili, Julien Gabelli, and Jérôme Estève

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043602 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Two separate groups have demonstrated a photon blockade effect that could be used to make practical single-photon emitters.

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How Structural Defects Affect the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Single Molecular Wires

Matthias Koch, Zhi Li, Christophe Nacci, Takashi Kumagai, Ignacio Franco, and Leonhard Grill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047701 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Molecular defects can improve the mechanical flexibility of graphene nanoribbons without affecting their electrical properties, new experiments show.

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Photon-Number-Resolved Measurement of an Exciton-Polariton Condensate

M. Klaas, E. Schlottmann, H. Flayac, F. P. Laussy, F. Gericke, M. Schmidt, M. v. Helversen, J. Beyer, S. Brodbeck, H. Suchomel, S. Höfling, S. Reitzenstein, and C. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047401 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

By counting the photons emitted from a microcavity, researchers shed light on the nature of an exotic condensate of quasiparticles contained in the cavity.

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Generalized Gelation Theory Describes Onset of Online Extremist Support

Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, Zhenfeng Cao, Elvira Maria Restrepo, and Neil F. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048301 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

An analogy between the growth of online networks and the formation of gels suggests ways to detect extremist groups before they become influential.

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Optical Chirality in Dispersive and Lossy Media

J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano and Alejandro Martínez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043901 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

A new general expression for the optical chirality density in lossless and lossy dispersive media is applicable to many material systems including among others dielectrics, plasmonic nanostructures, and left-handed metamaterials.

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Detaching Microparticles from a Liquid Surface

Frank Schellenberger, Periklis Papadopoulos, Michael Kappl, Stefan A. L. Weber, Doris Vollmer, and Hans-Jürgen Butt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048002 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

The force required to detach a colloidal particle from a liquid film is accurately described when taking the receding contact angle of the liquid on the particle’s surface into account.

LETTERS

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

Rotational Friction and Diffusion of Quantum Rotors

Benjamin A. Stickler, Björn Schrinski, and Klaus Hornberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040401 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Efficient Adiabatic Spin-Dependent Kicks in an Atom Interferometer

Matt Jaffe, Victoria Xu, Philipp Haslinger, Holger Müller, and Paul Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040402 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Single-Mode Phononic Wire

Rishi N. Patel, Zhaoyou Wang, Wentao Jiang, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Jeff T. Hill, and Amir H. Safavi-Naeini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040501 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

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Quantum Generative Adversarial Learning

Seth Lloyd and Christian Weedbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040502 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

Researchers have mathematically proven that a powerful classical machine learning algorithm should work on quantum computers.

Verification of a Many-Ion Simulator of the Dicke Model Through Slow Quenches across a Phase Transition

A. Safavi-Naini, R. J. Lewis-Swan, J. G. Bohnet, M. Gärttner, K. A. Gilmore, J. E. Jordan, J. Cohn, J. K. Freericks, A. M. Rey, and J. J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040503 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Conditional Decoupling of Quantum Information

Mario Berta, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Christian Majenz, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040504 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Demonstration of an Effective Ultrastrong Coupling between Two Oscillators

D. Marković, S. Jezouin, Q. Ficheux, S. Fedortchenko, S. Felicetti, T. Coudreau, P. Milman, Z. Leghtas, and B. Huard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040505 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Response Functions as Quantifiers of Non-Markovianity

Philipp Strasberg and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040601 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Path Integral Approach to Quantum Thermodynamics

Ken Funo and H. T. Quan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040602 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

Quantum Slow Relaxation and Metastability due to Dynamical Constraints

Zhihao Lan, Merlijn van Horssen, Stephen Powell, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 040603 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Duality Between 3D Massive Thirring and Maxwell-Chern-Simons Models from 2D Bosonization

Carlos A. Hernaski and Pedro R. S. Gomes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 041601 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

Parity Anomaly Cancellation in Three-Dimensional QED with a Single Massless Dirac Fermion

Nikhil Karthik and Rajamani Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 041602 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

Constraining Gluonic Quartic Gauge Coupling Operators with $g g \to γ γ$

John Ellis and Shao-Feng Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 041801 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Novel Way to Search for Light Dark Matter in Lepton Beam-Dump Experiments

L. Marsicano, M. Battaglieri, M. Bondí, C. D. R. Carvajal, A. Celentano, M. De Napoli, R. De Vita, E. Nardi, M. Raggi, and P. Valente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 041802 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Experimental Evidence of a Variant Neutron Spectrum from the $T (t, 2 n) α$ Reaction at Center-of-Mass Energies in the Range of 16–50 keV

M. Gatu Johnson et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 042501 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

${}^{7}{Be} (n, p) {}^{7}{Li}$ Reaction and the Cosmological Lithium Problem: Measurement of the Cross Section in a Wide Energy Range at n_TOF at CERN

L. Damone et al. (The n_TOF Collaboration [www.cern.ch/ntof])

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 042701 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Phonon Lasing from Optical Frequency Comb Illumination of Trapped Ions

Michael Ip, Anthony Ransford, Andrew M. Jayich, Xueping Long, Conrad Roman, and Wesley C. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043201 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

Relativistic Quantum Dynamics of Twisted Electron Beams in Arbitrary Electric and Magnetic Fields

Alexander J. Silenko, Pengming Zhang, and Liping Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043202 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Entanglement Induced Interactions in Binary Mixtures

J. Chen, J. M. Schurer, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043401 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

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Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade

H. J. Snijders, J. A. Frey, J. Norman, H. Flayac, V. Savona, A. C. Gossard, J. E. Bowers, M. P. van Exter, D. Bouwmeester, and W. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043601 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Two separate groups have demonstrated a photon blockade effect that could be used to make practical single-photon emitters.

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Observation of the Unconventional Photon Blockade in the Microwave Domain

Cyril Vaneph, Alexis Morvan, Gianluca Aiello, Mathieu Féchant, Marco Aprili, Julien Gabelli, and Jérôme Estève

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043602 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Two separate groups have demonstrated a photon blockade effect that could be used to make practical single-photon emitters.

Floquet Spectroscopy of a Strongly Driven Quantum Dot Charge Qubit with a Microwave Resonator

J. V. Koski, A. J. Landig, A. Pályi, P. Scarlino, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, G. Burkard, A. Wallraff, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043603 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Distributed Quantum Metrology with Linear Networks and Separable Inputs

Wenchao Ge, Kurt Jacobs, Zachary Eldredge, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Michael Foss-Feig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043604 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Chirality in Dispersive and Lossy Media

J. Enrique Vázquez-Lozano and Alejandro Martínez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 043901 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Flexible Fiber Reveals the Two-Point Statistical Properties of Turbulence

Marco Edoardo Rosti, Arash Alizad Banaei, Luca Brandt, and Andrea Mazzino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 044501 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Viscous Wave Breaking and Ligament Formation in Microfluidic Systems

Xiaoyi Hu and Thomas Cubaud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 044502 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Demonstration of Model-Independent Control of the Longitudinal Phase Space of Electron Beams in the Linac-Coherent Light Source with Femtosecond Resolution

Alexander Scheinker, Auralee Edelen, Dorian Bohler, Claudio Emma, and Alberto Lutman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 044801 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spontaneous Helical Order of a Chiral $p$ -Wave Superfluid Confined in Nanoscale Channels

J. J. Wiman and J. A. Sauls

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 045301 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Kinetic Spinodal Instabilities in the Mott Transition in $V_{2} O_{3}$ : Evidence from Hysteresis Scaling and Dissipative Phase Ordering

Tapas Bar, Sujeet Kumar Choudhary, Md. Arsalan Ashraf, K. S. Sujith, Sanjay Puri, Satyabrata Raj, and Bhavtosh Bansal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 045701 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Phonon-Polariton Mediated Thermal Radiation and Heat Transfer among Molecules and Macroscopic Bodies: Nonlocal Electromagnetic Response at Mesoscopic Scales

Prashanth S. Venkataram, Jan Hermann, Alexandre Tkatchenko, and Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 045901 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

Asymmetric Free-Space Light Transport at Nonlinear Metasurfaces

Nir Shitrit, Jeongmin Kim, David S. Barth, Hamidreza Ramezani, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 046101 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spinon Fermi Surface in a Cluster Mott Insulator Model on a Triangular Lattice and Possible Application to $1 T − {Ta S}_{2}$

Wen-Yu He, Xiao Yan Xu, Gang Chen, K. T. Law, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 046401 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Direct Microwave Measurement of Andreev-Bound-State Dynamics in a Semiconductor-Nanowire Josephson Junction

M. Hays, G. de Lange, K. Serniak, D. J. van Woerkom, D. Bouman, P. Krogstrup, J. Nygård, A. Geresdi, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047001 (2018) - Published 23 July, 2018

Detecting Superconductivity in the High Pressure Hydrides and Metallic Hydrogen from Optical Properties

J. P. Carbotte, E. J. Nicol, and T. Timusk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047002 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

Quantum Criticality at the Superconductor-Insulator Transition Probed by the Nernst Effect

A. Roy, E. Shimshoni, and A. Frydman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047003 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

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Photon-Number-Resolved Measurement of an Exciton-Polariton Condensate

M. Klaas, E. Schlottmann, H. Flayac, F. P. Laussy, F. Gericke, M. Schmidt, M. v. Helversen, J. Beyer, S. Brodbeck, H. Suchomel, S. Höfling, S. Reitzenstein, and C. Schneider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047401 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

By counting the photons emitted from a microcavity, researchers shed light on the nature of an exotic condensate of quasiparticles contained in the cavity.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Structural Defects Affect the Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Single Molecular Wires

Matthias Koch, Zhi Li, Christophe Nacci, Takashi Kumagai, Ignacio Franco, and Leonhard Grill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047701 (2018) - Published 24 July, 2018

Molecular defects can improve the mechanical flexibility of graphene nanoribbons without affecting their electrical properties, new experiments show.

Correlation of Electron Tunneling and Plasmon Propagation in a Luttinger Liquid

Sihan Zhao, Sheng Wang, Fanqi Wu, Wu Shi, Iqbal Bakti Utama, Tairu Lyu, Lili Jiang, Yudan Su, Siqi Wang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Alex Zettl, Xiang Zhang, Chongwu Zhou, and Feng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047702 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

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

Relating Chain Conformations to Extensional Stress in Entangled Polymer Melts

Thomas C. O’Connor, Nicolas J. Alvarez, and Mark O. Robbins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 047801 (2018) - Published 26 July, 2018

From Bouncing to Floating: The Leidenfrost Effect with Hydrogel Spheres

Scott Waitukaitis, Kirsten Harth, and Martin van Hecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048001 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detaching Microparticles from a Liquid Surface

Frank Schellenberger, Periklis Papadopoulos, Michael Kappl, Stefan A. L. Weber, Doris Vollmer, and Hans-Jürgen Butt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048002 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

The force required to detach a colloidal particle from a liquid film is accurately described when taking the receding contact angle of the liquid on the particle’s surface into account.

Solvent Hydrodynamics Enhances the Collective Diffusion of Membrane Lipids

S. Panzuela and R. Delgado-Buscalioni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048101 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

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Generalized Gelation Theory Describes Onset of Online Extremist Support

Pedro D. Manrique, Minzhang Zheng, Zhenfeng Cao, Elvira Maria Restrepo, and Neil F. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 048301 (2018) - Published 27 July, 2018

An analogy between the growth of online networks and the formation of gels suggests ways to detect extremist groups before they become influential.

ERRATA

Erratum: Chiral Effective Field Theory Predictions for Muon Capture on Deuteron and ${}^{3}{He}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 052502 (2012)]

L. E. Marcucci, A. Kievsky, S. Rosati, R. Schiavilla, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 049901 (2018) - Published 25 July, 2018