Volume 122, Issue 19

17 May 2019

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Three-dimensional simulation of a collision between two compressed and focused high-energy electron beams.

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Prospect of Studying Nonperturbative QED with Beam-Beam Collisions
V. Yakimenko, S. Meuren, F. Del Gaudio, C. Baumann, A. Fedotov, F. Fiuza, T. Grismayer, M. J. Hogan, A. Pukhov, L. O. Silva, and G. White
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190404 (2019)

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Analytical Black-Hole Binary Merger Waveforms

Sean T. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191102 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

An analytical model may provide a faster and more accurate way to analyze the gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers.

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Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Tin Isotopes: A Discontinuity in Charge Radii across the $N = 82$ Shell Closure

C. Gorges et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192502 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

The observation that tin nuclei suddenly increase in size when the number of neutrons they contain reaches a “magic” number helps test models of nucleon interactions.

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Sign-Changing Photon-Mediated Atom Interactions in Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193601 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Cavity-mediated interactions can force two Bose-Einstein condensates into one of two mutually exclusive states, potentially allowing for quantum simulation of spin frustration.

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Bond-Level Imaging of the 3D Conformation of Adsorbed Organic Molecules Using Atomic Force Microscopy with Simultaneous Tunneling Feedback

Daniel Martin-Jimenez, Sebastian Ahles, Doreen Mollenhauer, Hermann A. Wegner, Andre Schirmeisen, and Daniel Ebeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 196101 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

A new trick simplifies the atomic force microscope imaging of the 3D structure of nonflat molecules.

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Compressed Ultrafast Spectral-Temporal Photography

Yu Lu, Terence T. W. Wong, Feng Chen, and Lidai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193904 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

A new technique produces long-lasting movies of nonluminous objects with just a few hundred femtoseconds between frames.

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Hunting Axion Dark Matter with Protoplanetary Disk Polarimetry

Tomohiro Fujita, Ryo Tazaki, and Kenji Toma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191101 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

A new study finds that protoplanetary disks are an ideal target to see the effects of axion dark matter.

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Constraints on Symmetries from Holography

Daniel Harlow and Hirosi Ooguri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191601 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Insights from the AdS/CFT correspondence provide a glimpse of what global kinematical properties of viable quantum theories of gravity might be.

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Search for Lepton-Universality Violation in $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191801 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

With the inclusion of 67% more data, the lepton-universality anomaly in semileptonic $B$ meson decays, $R_{K}$ , persists at the 2.5σ level

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New Isotope ${}^{220}{Np}$ : Probing the Robustness of the $N = 126$ Shell Closure in Neptunium

Z. Y. Zhang (张志远), Z. G. Gan (甘再国), H. B. Yang (杨华彬), L. Ma (马龙), M. H. Huang (黄明辉), C. L. Yang (杨春莉), M. M. Zhang (张明明), Y. L. Tian (田玉林), Y. S. Wang (王永生), M. D. Sun (孙明道), H. Y. Lu (卢洪洋), W. Q. Zhang (张文强), H. B. Zhou (周厚兵), X. Wang (王翔), C. G. Wu (武晨光), L. M. Duan (段利敏), W. X. Huang (黄文学), Z. Liu (刘忠), Z. Z. Ren (任中洲), S. G. Zhou (周善贵), X. H. Zhou (周小红), H. S. Xu (徐瑚珊), Yu. S. Tsyganov, A. A. Voinov, and A. N. Polyakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192503 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

A newly discovered isotope of neptunium tests the stability of the N=126 shell closure.

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Tomographic Extraction of the Internuclear Separation Based on Two-Center Interference with Aligned Diatomic Molecules

RenPing Sun, XuanYang Lai, ShaoGang Yu, YanLan Wang, SongPo Xu, Wei Quan, and XiaoJun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193202 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

An improved self-imaging method for molecules that fixes the detected electron momentum while rotating the internuclear axis of the molecular target has the advantage of not requiring a priori knowledge of the atomic differential cross-section.

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Ground-State Spin Blockade in a Single-Molecule Junction

J. de Bruijckere, P. Gehring, M. Palacios-Corella, M. Clemente-León, E. Coronado, J. Paaske, P. Hedegård, and H. S. J. van der Zant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 197701 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Charge transport through a nanoscale junction is suppressed by a blockade phenomenon that is due to a particular configuration of ground-state spins.

LETTERS

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

Confidence Polytopes in Quantum State Tomography

Jinzhao Wang, Volkher B. Scholz, and Renato Renner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190401 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Quantum State Smoothing for Linear Gaussian Systems

Kiarn T. Laverick, Areeya Chantasri, and Howard M. Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190402 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Multielectron Ground State Electroluminescence

Mauro Cirio, Nathan Shammah, Neill Lambert, Simone De Liberato, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190403 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Prospect of Studying Nonperturbative QED with Beam-Beam Collisions

V. Yakimenko, S. Meuren, F. Del Gaudio, C. Baumann, A. Fedotov, F. Fiuza, T. Grismayer, M. J. Hogan, A. Pukhov, L. O. Silva, and G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190404 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

Quantifying Operations with an Application to Coherence

Thomas Theurer, Dario Egloff, Lijian Zhang, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190405 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Single-Shot Holographic Compression from the Area Law

H. Wilming and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190501 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Complexity of Causal Order Structure in Distributed Quantum Information Processing: More Rounds of Classical Communication Reduce Entanglement Cost

Eyuri Wakakuwa, Akihito Soeda, and Mio Murao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190502 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

Initialization and Readout of Nuclear Spins via a Negatively Charged Silicon-Vacancy Center in Diamond

Mathias H. Metsch, Katharina Senkalla, Benedikt Tratzmiller, Jochen Scheuer, Michael Kern, Jocelyn Achard, Alexandre Tallaire, Martin B. Plenio, Petr Siyushev, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190503 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Supersolid-Based Gravimeter in a Ring Cavity

Karol Gietka, Farokh Mivehvar, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 190801 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Hunting Axion Dark Matter with Protoplanetary Disk Polarimetry

Tomohiro Fujita, Ryo Tazaki, and Kenji Toma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191101 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

A new study finds that protoplanetary disks are an ideal target to see the effects of axion dark matter.

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Analytical Black-Hole Binary Merger Waveforms

Sean T. McWilliams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191102 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

An analytical model may provide a faster and more accurate way to analyze the gravitational-wave signals from black hole mergers.

Wobbly Dark Matter Signals at Cherenkov Telescopes from Long-Lived Mediator Decays

Stefania Gori, Stefano Profumo, and Bibhushan Shakya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191103 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Constraints on Holographic Multifield Inflation and Models Based on the Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism

Ana Achúcarro, Sebastián Céspedes, Anne-Christine Davis, and Gonzalo A. Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191301 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

Search for Axionlike Dark Matter with a Liquid-State Nuclear Spin Comagnetometer

Teng Wu, John W. Blanchard, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Antoine Garcon, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Surjeet Rajendran, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Alexander O. Sushkov, Arne Wickenbrock, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191302 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Constraints on Symmetries from Holography

Daniel Harlow and Hirosi Ooguri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191601 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Insights from the AdS/CFT correspondence provide a glimpse of what global kinematical properties of viable quantum theories of gravity might be.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Lepton-Universality Violation in $B^{+} \to K^{+} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191801 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

With the inclusion of 67% more data, the lepton-universality anomaly in semileptonic $B$ meson decays, $R_{K}$ , persists at the 2.5σ level

Inflating to the Weak Scale

Michael Geller, Yonit Hochberg, and Eric Kuflik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191802 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Search for $C P$ Violation in $D_{s}^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+}$ , $D^{+} \to K_{S}^{0} K^{+}$ , and $D^{+} \to ϕ π^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191803 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Observation of $B_{(s)}^{0} \to J / ψ p \bar{p}$ Decays and Precision Measurements of the $B_{(s)}^{0}$ Masses

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191804 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Muon-Electron Scattering at Next-To-Next-To-Leading Order: The Hadronic Corrections

M. Fael and M. Passera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192001 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Triple Prompt $J / ψ$ Hadroproduction as a Hard Probe of Multiple-Parton Scatterings

Hua-Sheng Shao and Yu-Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192002 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Lepton-Jet Correlations in Deep Inelastic Scattering at the Electron-Ion Collider

Xiaohui Liu, Felix Ringer, Werner Vogelsang, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192003 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Precision Analysis of the ${}^{136}{Xe}$ Two-Neutrino $β β$ Spectrum in KamLAND-Zen and Its Impact on the Quenching of Nuclear Matrix Elements

A. Gando et al. (KamLAND-Zen Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192501 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

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Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich Tin Isotopes: A Discontinuity in Charge Radii across the $N = 82$ Shell Closure

C. Gorges et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192502 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

The observation that tin nuclei suddenly increase in size when the number of neutrons they contain reaches a “magic” number helps test models of nucleon interactions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Isotope ${}^{220}{Np}$ : Probing the Robustness of the $N = 126$ Shell Closure in Neptunium

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 192503 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

A newly discovered isotope of neptunium tests the stability of the N=126 shell closure.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Emergent Universality in a Quantum Tricritical Dicke Model

Youjiang Xu and Han Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193201 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

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Tomographic Extraction of the Internuclear Separation Based on Two-Center Interference with Aligned Diatomic Molecules

RenPing Sun, XuanYang Lai, ShaoGang Yu, YanLan Wang, SongPo Xu, Wei Quan, and XiaoJun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193202 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Rotational Echoes as a Tool for Investigating Ultrafast Collisional Dynamics of Molecules

H. Zhang, B. Lavorel, F. Billard, J.-M. Hartmann, E. Hertz, O. Faucher, Junyang Ma, Jian Wu, Erez Gershnabel, Yehiam Prior, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193401 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

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Sign-Changing Photon-Mediated Atom Interactions in Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193601 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Cavity-mediated interactions can force two Bose-Einstein condensates into one of two mutually exclusive states, potentially allowing for quantum simulation of spin frustration.

Quantum Optical Signatures in a Strong Laser Pulse after Interaction with Semiconductors

N. Tsatrafyllis, S. Kühn, M. Dumergue, P. Foldi, S. Kahaly, E. Cormier, I. A. Gonoskov, B. Kiss, K. Varju, S. Varro, and P. Tzallas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193602 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Variational Theory of Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics

Nicholas Rivera, Johannes Flick, and Prineha Narang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193603 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

Observation of Coherent Multiorbital Polarons in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

N. Darkwah Oppong, L. Riegger, O. Bettermann, M. Höfer, J. Levinsen, M. M. Parish, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193604 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Dissipation-Induced Instabilities of a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate Inside an Optical Cavity

E. I. Rodríguez Chiacchio and A. Nunnenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193605 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Reciprocal-Space-Trajectory Perspective on High-Harmonic Generation in Solids

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Xiaosong Zhu, Tengfei Huang, Qingbin Zhang, Manfred Lein, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193901 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Metastability of Quantum Droplet Clusters

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Boris A. Malomed, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193902 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Direct Observation of Topology from Single-Photon Dynamics

Yao Wang, Yong-Heng Lu, Feng Mei, Jun Gao, Zhan-Ming Li, Hao Tang, Shi-Liang Zhu, Suotang Jia, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193903 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

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Compressed Ultrafast Spectral-Temporal Photography

Yu Lu, Terence T. W. Wong, Feng Chen, and Lidai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193904 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

A new technique produces long-lasting movies of nonluminous objects with just a few hundred femtoseconds between frames.

Transverse Scattering and Generalized Kerker Effects in All-Dielectric Mie-Resonant Metaoptics

Hadi K. Shamkhi, Kseniia V. Baryshnikova, Andrey Sayanskiy, Polina Kapitanova, Pavel D. Terekhov, Pavel Belov, Alina Karabchevsky, Andrey B. Evlyukhin, Yuri Kivshar, and Alexander S. Shalin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 193905 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Coalescence of Bubbles with Mobile Interfaces in Water

Bo Liu, Rogerio Manica, Qingxia Liu, Evert Klaseboer, Zhenghe Xu, and Guangyuan Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 194501 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Linear Response Theory for One-Point Statistics in the Inertial Sublayer of Wall-Bounded Turbulence

Yukio Kaneda, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Yoshiyuki Tsuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 194502 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

Active Particles Powered by Quincke Rotation in a Bulk Fluid

Debasish Das and Eric Lauga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 194503 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

Asymptotic Dynamics of High Dynamic Range Stratified Turbulence

G. D. Portwood, S. M. de Bruyn Kops, and C. P. Caulfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 194504 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Non-Hermitian Sonic Second-Order Topological Insulator

Zhiwang Zhang, María Rosendo López, Ying Cheng, Xiaojun Liu, and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 195501 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

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Bond-Level Imaging of the 3D Conformation of Adsorbed Organic Molecules Using Atomic Force Microscopy with Simultaneous Tunneling Feedback

Daniel Martin-Jimenez, Sebastian Ahles, Doreen Mollenhauer, Hermann A. Wegner, Andre Schirmeisen, and Daniel Ebeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 196101 (2019) - Published 13 May, 2019

A new trick simplifies the atomic force microscope imaging of the 3D structure of nonflat molecules.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin and Charge Transport of Multiorbital Quantum Spin Hall Insulators

Luis M. Canonico, Tatiana G. Rappoport, and R. B. Muniz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 196601 (2019) - Published 16 May, 2019

In Situ Control of Diamagnetism by Electric Current in ${Ca}_{3} ({Ru}_{1 - x} {Ti}_{x})_{2} O_{7}$

Chanchal Sow, Ryo Numasaki, Giordano Mattoni, Shingo Yonezawa, Naoki Kikugawa, Shinya Uji, and Yoshiteru Maeno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 196602 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Weak Localization and Antilocalization in Nodal-Line Semimetals: Dimensionality and Topological Effects

Wei Chen, Hai-Zhou Lu, and Oded Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 196603 (2019) - Published 17 May, 2019

Superstructure-Induced Splitting of Dirac Cones in Silicene

Baojie Feng, Hui Zhou, Ya Feng, Hang Liu, Shaolong He, Iwao Matsuda, Lan Chen, Eike F. Schwier, Kenya Shimada, Sheng Meng, and Kehui Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 196801 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Backscattering Immunity of Dipole-Exchange Magnetostatic Surface Spin Waves

M. Mohseni, R. Verba, T. Brächer, Q. Wang, D. A. Bozhko, B. Hillebrands, and P. Pirro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 197201 (2019) - Published 14 May, 2019

Sawtooth Torque in Anisotropic $j_{eff} = 1 / 2$ Magnets: Application to $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

Kira Riedl, Ying Li, Stephen M. Winter, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 197202 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Incommensurate Magnetism Near Quantum Criticality in CeNiAsO

Shan Wu, W. A. Phelan, L. Liu, J. R. Morey, J. A. Tutmaher, J. C. Neuefeind, Ashfia Huq, Matthew B. Stone, M. Feygenson, David W. Tam, Benjamin A. Frandsen, Benjamin Trump, Cheng Wan, S. R. Dunsiger, T. M. McQueen, Y. J. Uemura, and C. L. Broholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 197203 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019

Tracking Ultrafast Photocurrents in the Weyl Semimetal TaAs Using THz Emission Spectroscopy

N. Sirica, R. I. Tobey, L. X. Zhao, G. F. Chen, B. Xu, R. Yang, B. Shen, D. A. Yarotski, P. Bowlan, S. A. Trugman, J.-X. Zhu, Y. M. Dai, A. K. Azad, N. Ni, X. G. Qiu, A. J. Taylor, and R. P. Prasankumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 197401 (2019) - Published 15 May, 2019