Volume 122, Issue 13

5 April 2019

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Distillation of a single-photon state (blue) from the random photon number of a coherent state (pink) via interaction with an atom in a cavity. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion. (Image by Christoph Hohmann, NIM)

From the article:

Single-Photon Distillation via a Photonic Parity Measurement Using Cavity QED
Severin Daiss, Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Lin Li, and Gerhard Rempe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133603 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of a Dipolar Quantum Gas with Metastable Supersolid Properties

L. Tanzi, E. Lucioni, F. Famà, J. Catani, A. Fioretti, C. Gabbanini, R. N. Bisset, L. Santos, and G. Modugno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130405 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

A novel regime of ultracold atoms is found in which a stable density modulation, known as stripes, is observed simultaneously with quantum droplets, resulting in an important advance in the search for a dipolar supersolid.

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Observation of Two Excited $B_{c}^{+}$ States and Measurement of the $B_{c}^{+} (2 S)$ Mass in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 132001 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

A huge dataset recorded at the highest particle collision energy so-far observed resolves a puzzle by revealing two meson excited states.

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Correlations from Ion Pairing and the Nernst-Einstein Equation

Arthur France-Lanord and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 136001 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

A reliable and computationally cheap way of calculating the ionic conductivity of a concentrated electrolyte in a battery involves modeling ion clusters.

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Probing the in situ Elastic Nonlinearity of Rocks with Earth Tides and Seismic Noise

Christoph Sens-Schönfelder and Tom Eulenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 138501 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Seismic measurements reveal the influences of lunar gravitational forces and solar heat on the properties of rocks.

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Sustained Neutron Production from a Sheared-Flow Stabilized $Z$ Pinch

Y. Zhang, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, R. P. Golingo, T. R. Weber, A. D. Stepanov, E. L. Claveau, E. G. Forbes, Z. T. Draper, J. M. Mitrani, H. S. McLean, K. K. Tummel, D. P. Higginson, and C. M. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135001 (2019) - Published 4 April, 2019

Researchers spot the signatures of nuclear fusion in a table-top-sized setup commonly used to study the plasmas found in stars and other astrophysical objects.

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Results of a Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using 2013 LUX Data

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131301 (2019) - Published 1 April, 2019

Liquid-xenon-detector searches for weakly interacting dark matter particles have been extended down to 0.4 GeV by taking into account contributions from Bremsstrahlung and Migdal effects.

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First Direct Search for Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter with COSINE-100

C. Ha et al. (COSINE-100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131802 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

The first search for relativistically boosted dark matter particles using a terrestrial detector yields new bounds on these hypothetical particles.

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Single-Photon Distillation via a Photonic Parity Measurement Using Cavity QED

Severin Daiss, Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Lin Li, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133603 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

High-fidelity photon states are distilled from a weak coherent state through a photonic parity measurement using cavity QED.

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Dynamical Structural Probe of Hydrogen under High Pressure

Bartomeu Monserrat, Sharon E. Ashbrook, and Chris J. Pickard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135501 (2019) - Published 1 April, 2019

NMR unambiguously resolves the structure of the observed high pressure phases of hydrogen, a task which has evaded experimental determination.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Investigation of Quantum Decay at Short, Intermediate, and Long Times via Integrated Photonics

Andrea Crespi, Francesco V. Pepe, Paolo Facchi, Fabio Sciarrino, Paolo Mataloni, Hiromichi Nakazato, Saverio Pascazio, and Roberto Osellame

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130401 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

Quantum Incompatibility Witnesses

Claudio Carmeli, Teiko Heinosaari, and Alessandro Toigo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130402 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

All Sets of Incompatible Measurements give an Advantage in Quantum State Discrimination

Paul Skrzypczyk, Ivan Šupić, and Daniel Cavalcanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130403 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

Quantifying Quantum Resources with Conic Programming

Roope Uola, Tristan Kraft, Jiangwei Shang, Xiao-Dong Yu, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130404 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

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Observation of a Dipolar Quantum Gas with Metastable Supersolid Properties

L. Tanzi, E. Lucioni, F. Famà, J. Catani, A. Fioretti, C. Gabbanini, R. N. Bisset, L. Santos, and G. Modugno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130405 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

Assisted Work Distillation

Benjamin Morris, Ludovico Lami, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130601 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

Optimal Random Deposition of Interacting Particles

Adrian Baule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130602 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Nonthermal States Arising from Confinement in One and Two Dimensions

Andrew J. A. James, Robert M. Konik, and Neil J. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130603 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Positivity of the Spectral Densities of Retarded Floquet Green Functions

Götz S. Uhrig, Mona H. Kalthoff, and James K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130604 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Unraveling the Large Deviation Statistics of Markovian Open Quantum Systems

Federico Carollo, Robert L. Jack, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 130605 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Results of a Search for Sub-GeV Dark Matter Using 2013 LUX Data

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131301 (2019) - Published 1 April, 2019

Liquid-xenon-detector searches for weakly interacting dark matter particles have been extended down to 0.4 GeV by taking into account contributions from Bremsstrahlung and Migdal effects.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Enhancing Long-Lived Particles Searches at the LHC with Precision Timing Information

Jia Liu, Zhen Liu, and Lian-Tao Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131801 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

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First Direct Search for Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter with COSINE-100

C. Ha et al. (COSINE-100 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131802 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

The first search for relativistically boosted dark matter particles using a terrestrial detector yields new bounds on these hypothetical particles.

Mono- $τ$ Signatures at the LHC Constrain Explanations of $B$ -decay Anomalies

Admir Greljo, Jorge Martin Camalich, and José David Ruiz-Álvarez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 131803 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

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Observation of Two Excited $B_{c}^{+}$ States and Measurement of the $B_{c}^{+} (2 S)$ Mass in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 132001 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

A huge dataset recorded at the highest particle collision energy so-far observed resolves a puzzle by revealing two meson excited states.

First Measurement of Charm Production in its Fixed-Target Configuration at the LHC

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 132002 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

Observation of Single Top Quark Production in Association with a $Z$ Boson in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 132003 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Acoplanarity of a Lepton Pair to Probe the Electromagnetic Property of Quark Matter

Spencer Klein, A. H. Mueller, Bo-Wen Xiao, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 132301 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Real-Time Dynamics of the Formation of Hydrated Electrons upon Irradiation of Water Clusters with Extreme Ultraviolet Light

A. C. LaForge, R. Michiels, M. Bohlen, C. Callegari, A. Clark, A. von Conta, M. Coreno, M. Di Fraia, M. Drabbels, M. Huppert, P. Finetti, J. Ma, M. Mudrich, V. Oliver, O. Plekan, K. C. Prince, M. Shcherbinin, S. Stranges, V. Svoboda, H. J. Wörner, and F. Stienkemeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133001 (2019) - Published 4 April, 2019

Site-Specific and Coherent Manipulation of Individual Qubits in a 1D Optical Lattice with a 532-nm Site Separation

Hyok Sang Han, Hyun Gyung Lee, and D. Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133201 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Measurement of the Photon-Plasmon Coupling Phase Shift

Akbar Safari, Robert Fickler, Enno Giese, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Robert W. Boyd, and Israel De Leon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133601 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

Cavity-Mediated Electron-Photon Superconductivity

Frank Schlawin, Andrea Cavalleri, and Dieter Jaksch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133602 (2019) - Published 4 April, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single-Photon Distillation via a Photonic Parity Measurement Using Cavity QED

Severin Daiss, Stephan Welte, Bastian Hacker, Lin Li, and Gerhard Rempe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 133603 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

High-fidelity photon states are distilled from a weak coherent state through a photonic parity measurement using cavity QED.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Percolative Scale-Free Behavior in the Boiling Crisis

Limiao Zhang, Jee Hyun Seong, and Matteo Bucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 134501 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Stability, Dynamics, and Tolerance to Undersaturation of Surface Nanobubbles

Beng Hau Tan, Hongjie An, and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 134502 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Sustained Neutron Production from a Sheared-Flow Stabilized $Z$ Pinch

Y. Zhang, U. Shumlak, B. A. Nelson, R. P. Golingo, T. R. Weber, A. D. Stepanov, E. L. Claveau, E. G. Forbes, Z. T. Draper, J. M. Mitrani, H. S. McLean, K. K. Tummel, D. P. Higginson, and C. M. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135001 (2019) - Published 4 April, 2019

Researchers spot the signatures of nuclear fusion in a table-top-sized setup commonly used to study the plasmas found in stars and other astrophysical objects.

Decoupled Cascades of Kinetic and Magnetic Energy in Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Xin Bian and Hussein Aluie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135101 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a Dynamical Structural Probe of Hydrogen under High Pressure

Bartomeu Monserrat, Sharon E. Ashbrook, and Chris J. Pickard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135501 (2019) - Published 1 April, 2019

NMR unambiguously resolves the structure of the observed high pressure phases of hydrogen, a task which has evaded experimental determination.

Flexoelectric Fracture-Ratchet Effect in Ferroelectrics

Kumara Cordero-Edwards, Hoda Kianirad, Carlota Canalias, Jordi Sort, and Gustau Catalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135502 (2019) - Published 2 April, 2019

Simple Law for Third-Body Friction

Fei Deng, Georgios Tsekenis, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 135503 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

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Correlations from Ion Pairing and the Nernst-Einstein Equation

Arthur France-Lanord and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 136001 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

A reliable and computationally cheap way of calculating the ionic conductivity of a concentrated electrolyte in a battery involves modeling ion clusters.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Layer-by-Layer Resistive Switching: Multistate Functionality due to Electric-Field-Induced Healing of Dead Layers

Jon-Olaf Krisponeit, Bernd Damaschke, Vasily Moshnyaga, and Konrad Samwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 136801 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Probing Weyl Physics with One-Dimensional Sonic Crystals

Xiying Fan, Chunyin Qiu, Yuanyuan Shen, Hailong He, Meng Xiao, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 136802 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Rearrangement of Uncorrelated Valence Bonds Evidenced by Low-Energy Spin Excitations in ${YbMgGaO}_{4}$

Yuesheng Li, Sebastian Bachus, Benqiong Liu, Igor Radelytskyi, Alexandre Bertin, Astrid Schneidewind, Yoshifumi Tokiwa, Alexander A. Tsirlin, and Philipp Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 137201 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

High-Quality Magnetotransport in Graphene Using the Edge-Free Corbino Geometry

Y. Zeng, J. I. A. Li, S. A. Dietrich, O. M. Ghosh, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, J. Hone, and C. R. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 137701 (2019) - Published 3 April, 2019

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

Polarization-Modulated Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Thin Films without Layer Undulation

Cuiyu Zhang, Min Gao, R. R. Ribeiro de Almeida, Wolfgang Weissflog, Oleg D. Lavrentovich, and Antal Jákli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 137801 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

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Probing the in situ Elastic Nonlinearity of Rocks with Earth Tides and Seismic Noise

Christoph Sens-Schönfelder and Tom Eulenfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 138501 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Seismic measurements reveal the influences of lunar gravitational forces and solar heat on the properties of rocks.

COMMENTS

Comment on “‘Aether Drag’ and Moving Images”

C. S. Unnikrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 139401 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019

Leach et al. Reply:

J. Leach, A. J. Wright, J. B. Götte, J. M. Girkin, L. Allen, S. Franke-Arnold, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 139402 (2019) - Published 5 April, 2019