Volume 122, Issue 15

19 April 2019

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Encoding mechanical memories in an amorphous bubble raft by cyclic shear. Image shows the particle displacement map after the first “write” cycle for a training amplitude near the yield strain. Particle color indicates displacement magnitude. Selected for an Editors’ Selection.

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Strength of Mechanical Memories is Maximal at the Yield Point of a Soft Glass
Srimayee Mukherji, Neelima Kandula, A. K. Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158001 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Optomechanics in a Liquid

A. B. Shkarin, A. D. Kashkanova, C. D. Brown, S. Garcia, K. Ott, J. Reichel, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153601 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Quantum optomechanical effects have been observed for the first time using a liquid—superfluid helium—confined in an optical cavity.

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Transitions across Melancholia States in a Climate Model: Reconciling the Deterministic and Stochastic Points of View

Valerio Lucarini and Tamás Bódai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158701 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Calculations show that small fluctuations in solar radiation could cause a transition between a warm Earth and an icy Earth.

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Bouncing Oil Droplet in a Stratified Liquid and its Sudden Death

Yanshen Li, Christian Diddens, Andrea Prosperetti, Kai Leong Chong, Xuehua Zhang, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 154502 (2019) - Published 17 April, 2019

Oil drops falling through a layered liquid with ethanol at the top and water at the bottom repeatedly jump inside the fluid.

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Geometric Mechanics of Origami Patterns Exhibiting Poisson’s Ratio Switch by Breaking Mountain and Valley Assignment

Phanisri P. Pratapa, Ke Liu, and Glaucio H. Paulino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155501 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

A folding pattern produces a metamaterial with properties that can be tuned over a wide range.

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Optimal Probabilistic Work Extraction beyond the Free Energy Difference with a Single-Electron Device

Olivier Maillet, Paolo A. Erdman, Vasco Cavina, Bibek Bhandari, Elsa T. Mannila, Joonas T. Peltonen, Andrea Mari, Fabio Taddei, Christopher Jarzynski, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150604 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

In very small systems like a single electron transistor, sometimes thermal fluctuations allow single shot extraction of work from the system beyond the bounds of the second law of thermodynamics.

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Free-Surface Variational Principle for an Incompressible Fluid with Odd Viscosity

Alexander G. Abanov and Gustavo M. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 154501 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Fluids in which both time-reversal and parity are broken can exhibit odd viscosity, which is dissipationless and affects the free fluid surface rather than the bulk.

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Low-Scaling Algorithm for Nudged Elastic Band Calculations Using a Surrogate Machine Learning Model

José A. Garrido Torres, Paul C. Jennings, Martin H. Hansen, Jacob R. Boes, and Thomas Bligaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 156001 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

A machine-learning-accelerated method for transition-state search greatly accelerates the rate of convergence of computationally expensive Nudged Elastic Band calculations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strength of Mechanical Memories is Maximal at the Yield Point of a Soft Glass

Srimayee Mukherji, Neelima Kandula, A. K. Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158001 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Cyclic shearing of a bubble raft shows that memory formation persists beyond the yield strain.

LETTERS

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

Breaking the Fluctuation-Dissipation Relation by Universal Transport Processes

Asier Piñeiro Orioli and Jürgen Berges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150401 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Generic Bound Coherence under Strictly Incoherent Operations

Ludovico Lami, Bartosz Regula, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150402 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Confined Quasiparticle Dynamics in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Spin Chains

Fangli Liu, Rex Lundgren, Paraj Titum, Guido Pagano, Jiehang Zhang, Christopher Monroe, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150601 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Dynamical Computation of the Density of States and Bayes Factors Using Nonequilibrium Importance Sampling

Grant M. Rotskoff and Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150602 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Thermodynamics of Quantum Information Flows

Krzysztof Ptaszyński and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150603 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optimal Probabilistic Work Extraction beyond the Free Energy Difference with a Single-Electron Device

Olivier Maillet, Paolo A. Erdman, Vasco Cavina, Bibek Bhandari, Elsa T. Mannila, Joonas T. Peltonen, Andrea Mari, Fabio Taddei, Christopher Jarzynski, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150604 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

In very small systems like a single electron transistor, sometimes thermal fluctuations allow single shot extraction of work from the system beyond the bounds of the second law of thermodynamics.

Ballistic Spin Transport in a Periodically Driven Integrable Quantum System

Marko Ljubotina, Lenart Zadnik, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150605 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Entanglement-Guided Search for Parent Hamiltonians

X. Turkeshi, T. Mendes-Santos, G. Giudici, and M. Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 150606 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Echo Technique to Distinguish Flavors of Astrophysical Neutrinos

Shirley Weishi Li, Mauricio Bustamante, and John F. Beacom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 151101 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Spontaneous Breaking of Lepton Number and the Cosmological Domain Wall Problem

George Lazarides, Mario Reig, Qaisar Shafi, Rahul Srivastava, and José W. F. Valle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 151301 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Production of a Long-Lived Neutral Particle Decaying within the ATLAS Hadronic Calorimeter in Association with a $Z$ Boson from $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 151801 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Search for $W$ Boson Decays to Three Charged Pions

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 151802 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Jet Shapes of Isolated Photon-Tagged Jets in Pb-Pb and $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 152001 (2019) - Published 17 April, 2019

Model-Independent Observation of Exotic Contributions to $B^{0} \to J / ψ K^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 152002 (2019) - Published 17 April, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Nonperturbative Extraction of the Effective Mass in Neutron Matter

Mateusz Buraczynski, Nawar Ismail, and Alexandros Gezerlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 152701 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Virtual Photon Approximation for Three-Body Interatomic Coulombic Decay

Robert Bennett, Petra Votavová, Přemysl Kolorenč, Tsveta Miteva, Nicolas Sisourat, and Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153401 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Optomechanics in a Liquid

A. B. Shkarin, A. D. Kashkanova, C. D. Brown, S. Garcia, K. Ott, J. Reichel, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153601 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Quantum optomechanical effects have been observed for the first time using a liquid—superfluid helium—confined in an optical cavity.

Conductivity Spectrum of Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice

Rhys Anderson, Fudong Wang, Peihang Xu, Vijin Venu, Stefan Trotzky, Frédéric Chevy, and Joseph H. Thywissen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153602 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Ion-Based Quantum Sensor for Optical Cavity Photon Numbers

Moonjoo Lee, Konstantin Friebe, Dario A. Fioretto, Klemens Schüppert, Florian R. Ong, David Plankensteiner, Valentin Torggler, Helmut Ritsch, Rainer Blatt, and Tracy E. Northup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153603 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Fourier Transform for Analysis of Coherent Structures in Dissipative Systems

I. S. Chekhovskoy, O. V. Shtyrina, M. P. Fedoruk, S. B. Medvedev, and S. K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153901 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Sensing with Exceptional Surfaces in Order to Combine Sensitivity with Robustness

Q. Zhong, J. Ren, M. Khajavikhan, D. N. Christodoulides, Ş. K. Özdemir, and R. El-Ganainy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153902 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Coherent Wave Propagation in Multimode Systems with Correlated Noise

Yaxin Li, Doron Cohen, and Tsampikos Kottos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153903 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Broadband Topological Slow Light through Higher Momentum-Space Winding

Jonathan Guglielmon and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153904 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Enhancement of the Raman Effect by Infrared Pumping

V. Yu. Shishkov, E. S. Andrianov, A. A. Pukhov, A. P. Vinogradov, and A. A. Lisyansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153905 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Strong Nonlinear Coupling in a ${Si}_{3} N_{4}$ Ring Resonator

Sven Ramelow, Alessandro Farsi, Zachary Vernon, Stephane Clemmen, Xingchen Ji, J. E. Sipe, Marco Liscidini, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153906 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Singularities and Poincaré Indices of Electromagnetic Multipoles

Weijin Chen, Yuntian Chen, and Wei Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 153907 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Spatial Modulation of Nonlinear Flexural Vibrations of Membrane Resonators

Fan Yang, Felix Rochau, Jana S. Huber, Alexandre Brieussel, Gianluca Rastelli, Eva M. Weig, and Elke Scheer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 154301 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Free-Surface Variational Principle for an Incompressible Fluid with Odd Viscosity

Alexander G. Abanov and Gustavo M. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 154501 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Fluids in which both time-reversal and parity are broken can exhibit odd viscosity, which is dissipationless and affects the free fluid surface rather than the bulk.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Bouncing Oil Droplet in a Stratified Liquid and its Sudden Death

Yanshen Li, Christian Diddens, Andrea Prosperetti, Kai Leong Chong, Xuehua Zhang, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 154502 (2019) - Published 17 April, 2019

Oil drops falling through a layered liquid with ethanol at the top and water at the bottom repeatedly jump inside the fluid.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ultrarelativistic Electron-Beam Polarization in Single-Shot Interaction with an Ultraintense Laser Pulse

Yan-Fei Li, Rashid Shaisultanov, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Feng Wan, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 154801 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Picosecond Thermodynamics in Underdense Plasmas Measured with Thomson Scattering

A. S. Davies, D. Haberberger, J. Katz, S. Bucht, J. P. Palastro, W. Rozmus, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155001 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

Monochromatic 2D $K α$ Emission Images Revealing Short-Pulse Laser Isochoric Heating Mechanism

H. Sawada, Y. Sentoku, T. Yabuuchi, U. Zastrau, E. Förster, F. N. Beg, H. Chen, A. J. Kemp, H. S. McLean, P. K. Patel, and Y. Ping

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155002 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Excitation Mechanism of Low- $n$ Edge Harmonic Oscillations in Edge Localized Mode-Free, High Performance, Tokamak Plasmas

D. Brunetti, J. P. Graves, E. Lazzaro, A. Mariani, S. Nowak, W. A. Cooper, and C. Wahlberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155003 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nonperturbative Functional Renormalization-Group Approach to the Sine-Gordon Model and the Lukyanov-Zamolodchikov Conjecture

R. Daviet and N. Dupuis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155301 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

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Geometric Mechanics of Origami Patterns Exhibiting Poisson’s Ratio Switch by Breaking Mountain and Valley Assignment

Phanisri P. Pratapa, Ke Liu, and Glaucio H. Paulino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155501 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

A folding pattern produces a metamaterial with properties that can be tuned over a wide range.

Thermal Conductivity Enhancement in ${MoS}_{2}$ under Extreme Strain

Xianghai Meng, Tribhuwan Pandey, Jihoon Jeong, Suyu Fu, Jing Yang, Ke Chen, Akash Singh, Feng He, Xiaochuan Xu, Jianshi Zhou, Wen-Pin Hsieh, Abhishek K. Singh, Jung-Fu Lin, and Yaguo Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 155901 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Low-Scaling Algorithm for Nudged Elastic Band Calculations Using a Surrogate Machine Learning Model

José A. Garrido Torres, Paul C. Jennings, Martin H. Hansen, Jacob R. Boes, and Thomas Bligaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 156001 (2019) - Published 15 April, 2019

A machine-learning-accelerated method for transition-state search greatly accelerates the rate of convergence of computationally expensive Nudged Elastic Band calculations.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Closed-Form Weak Localization Magnetoconductivity in Quantum Wells with Arbitrary Rashba and Dresselhaus Spin-Orbit Interactions

D. C. Marinescu, Pirmin J. Weigele, Dominik M. Zumbühl, and J. Carlos Egues

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 156601 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Ubiquity of Superconducting Domes in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Theory with Finite-Range Potentials

Edwin Langmann, Christopher Triola, and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 157001 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Quasiparticle Screening near a Bosonic Superconductor-Insulator Transition Revealed by Magnetic Impurity Doping

Xue Zhang, James C. Joy, Chunshu Wu, Jin Ho Kim, J. M. Xu, and James M. Valles, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 157002 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Overdamped Antiferromagnetic Strange Metal State in ${Sr}_{3} {IrRuO}_{7}$

Julian L. Schmehr, Thomas R. Mion, Zach Porter, Michael Aling, Huibo Cao, Mary H. Upton, Zahirul Islam, Rui-Hua He, Rajdeep Sensarma, Nandini Trivedi, and Stephen D. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 157201 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Angular Momentum Flow During Ultrafast Demagnetization of a Ferrimagnet

Martin Hennecke, Ilie Radu, Radu Abrudan, Torsten Kachel, Karsten Holldack, Rolf Mitzner, Arata Tsukamoto, and Stefan Eisebitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 157202 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Synergetic Enhancement of Light-Matter Interaction by Nonlocality and Band Degeneracy in ZnO Thin Films

Takashi Kinoshita, Takuya Matsuda, Takuya Takahashi, Masayoshi Ichimiya, Masaaki Ashida, Yoshiaki Furukawa, Masaaki Nakayama, and Hajime Ishihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 157401 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strength of Mechanical Memories is Maximal at the Yield Point of a Soft Glass

Srimayee Mukherji, Neelima Kandula, A. K. Sood, and Rajesh Ganapathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158001 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Cyclic shearing of a bubble raft shows that memory formation persists beyond the yield strain.

Quantum Fluctuations in the Fröhlich Condensate of Molecular Vibrations Driven Far From Equilibrium

Zhedong Zhang, Girish S. Agarwal, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158101 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

Detecting Hidden Units and Network Size from Perceptible Dynamics

Hauke Haehne, Jose Casadiego, Joachim Peinke, and Marc Timme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158301 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Chebyshev Approximation and the Global Geometry of Model Predictions

Katherine N. Quinn, Heather Wilber, Alex Townsend, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158302 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Self-Similar Processes Follow a Power Law in Discrete Logarithmic Space

Mitchell G. Newberry and Van M. Savage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158303 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transitions across Melancholia States in a Climate Model: Reconciling the Deterministic and Stochastic Points of View

Valerio Lucarini and Tamás Bódai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158701 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Calculations show that small fluctuations in solar radiation could cause a transition between a warm Earth and an icy Earth.

Exactly Solvable Record Model for Rainfall

Satya N. Majumdar, Philipp von Bomhard, and Joachim Krug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 158702 (2019) - Published 19 April, 2019

COMMENTS

Comment on “Relativistic Quantum Dynamics of Twisted Electron Beams in Arbitrary Electric and Magnetic Fields”

Iwo Bialynicki-Birula and Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 159301 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Silenko, Zhang, and Zou Reply:

Alexander J. Silenko, Pengming Zhang, and Liping Zou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 159302 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

ERRATA

Erratum: Ultrafast Doublon Dynamics in Photoexcited $1 T − {TaS}_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 166401 (2018)]

M. Ligges, I. Avigo, D. Golež, H. U. R. Strand, Y. Beyazit, K. Hanff, F. Diekmann, L. Stojchevska, M. Kalläne, P. Zhou, K. Rossnagel, M. Eckstein, P. Werner, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 159901 (2019) - Published 16 April, 2019

Erratum: Tensor Network Simulation of Non-Markovian Dynamics in Organic Polaritons [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 227401 (2018)]

Javier del Pino, Florian A. Y. N. Schröder, Alex W. Chin, Johannes Feist, and Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 159902 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019

Erratum: Large Unidirectional Magnetoresistance in a Magnetic Topological Insulator [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 127202 (2016)]

K. Yasuda, A. Tsukazaki, R. Yoshimi, K. S. Takahashi, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 159903 (2019) - Published 18 April, 2019