Volume 122, Issue 2

18 January 2019

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On the Cover

Topology for two types of soliton reactions: reconnection of the branches of two vortex lines (top), and separation of a loop from a parent line (bottom).

From the article:

Irreversible Hysteresis of Internal Structure of Tangle Dissipative Optical Solitons
S. V. Fedorov, N. A. Veretenov, and N. N. Rosanov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023903 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Curving to Fly: Synthetic Adaptation Unveils Optimal Flight Performance of Whirling Fruits

Jean Rabault, Richard A. Fauli, and Andreas Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 024501 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Whirling fruits have evolved wing-like structures that are optimized to generate maximum lift, according to a new study.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Evidence for Superconductivity above 260 K in Lanthanum Superhydride at Megabar Pressures

Maddury Somayazulu, Muhtar Ahart, Ajay K. Mishra, Zachary M. Geballe, Maria Baldini, Yue Meng, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027001 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Two independent studies report superconductivity at record high temperatures in hydrogen-rich materials under extreme pressure.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black-Box Quantum State Preparation without Arithmetic

Yuval R. Sanders, Guang Hao Low, Artur Scherer, and Dominic W. Berry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020502 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

A new algorithm for quantum state preparation uses fewer gates than existing ones, by two orders of magnitude.

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Experimental Observation of Momentum-Space Chiral Edge Currents in Room-Temperature Atoms

Han Cai, Jinhong Liu, Jinze Wu, Yanyan He, Shi-Yao Zhu, Jun-Xiang Zhang, and Da-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023601 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Topological effects were observed for the first time in an ensemble of atoms at room temperature.

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Competing Fractional Quantum Hall and Electron Solid Phases in Graphene

Shaowen Chen, Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau, Kang Yang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Mark O. Goerbig, and Cory R. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026802 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Graphene shows a many-body phase arising from competition between an electron solid and the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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Heterogeneous Activation, Local Structure, and Softness in Supercooled Colloidal Liquids

Xiaoguang Ma, Zoey S. Davidson, Tim Still, Robert J. S. Ivancic, S. S. Schoenholz, A. J. Liu, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 028001 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Multiple exponential relaxation channels in a glass-forming supercooled liquid give rise to non-exponential behavior in a local order parameter associated with “softness.”

LETTERS

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

Diffusive Heat Waves in Random Conformal Field Theory

Edwin Langmann and Per Moosavi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020201 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Dynamic Shear Suppression in Quantum Phase Space

Maxime Oliva and Ole Steuernagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020401 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Simulating Dynamic Quantum Phase Transitions in Photonic Quantum Walks

Kunkun Wang, Xingze Qiu, Lei Xiao, Xiang Zhan, Zhihao Bian, Wei Yi, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020501 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Black-Box Quantum State Preparation without Arithmetic

Yuval R. Sanders, Guang Hao Low, Artur Scherer, and Dominic W. Berry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020502 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

A new algorithm for quantum state preparation uses fewer gates than existing ones, by two orders of magnitude.

Experimental Engineering of Arbitrary Qudit States with Discrete-Time Quantum Walks

Taira Giordani, Emanuele Polino, Sabrina Emiliani, Alessia Suprano, Luca Innocenti, Helena Majury, Lorenzo Marrucci, Mauro Paternostro, Alessandro Ferraro, Nicolò Spagnolo, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020503 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Learning a Local Hamiltonian from Local Measurements

Eyal Bairey, Itai Arad, and Netanel H. Lindner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020504 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Glassy Phase of Optimal Quantum Control

Alexandre G. R. Day, Marin Bukov, Phillip Weinberg, Pankaj Mehta, and Dries Sels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020601 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

First Passage under Restart with Branching

Arnab Pal, Iddo Eliazar, and Shlomi Reuveni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020602 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Slow Growth of Out-of-Time-Order Correlators and Entanglement Entropy in Integrable Disordered Systems

Max McGinley, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 020603 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for the Higgs Boson Decaying to Two Muons in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 021801 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Search for $K_{L} \to π^{0} ν \bar{ν}$ and $K_{L} \to π^{0} X^{0}$ Decays at the J-PARC KOTO Experiment

J. K. Ahn et al. (KOTO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 021802 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Light-Neutrino Exchange and Long-Distance Contributions to $0 ν 2 β$ Decays: An Exploratory Study on $π π \to e e$

Xu Feng, Lu-Chang Jin, Xin-Yu Tuo, and Shi-Cheng Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 022001 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Revealing Color Forces with Transverse Polarized Electron Scattering

W. Armstrong et al. (SANE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 022002 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Precise Determination of the Branching Ratio of the Neutral-Pion Dalitz Decay

Tomáš Husek, Evgueni Goudzovski, and Karol Kampf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 022003 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Observation of Momentum-Space Chiral Edge Currents in Room-Temperature Atoms

Han Cai, Jinhong Liu, Jinze Wu, Yanyan He, Shi-Yao Zhu, Jun-Xiang Zhang, and Da-Wei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023601 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Topological effects were observed for the first time in an ensemble of atoms at room temperature.

Quantum Effects in a Mechanically Modulated Single-Photon Emitter

Mehdi Abdi and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023602 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Dirac Vacuum as a Transport Medium for Information

Q. Su and R. Grobe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023603 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Fate of a Soliton in a High Order Spatial Mode of a Multimode Fiber

A. Antikainen, L. Rishøj, B. Tai, S. Ramachandran, and G. P. Agrawal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023901 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Evidence for Collective Nonlinear Interactions in X Ray into Ultraviolet Parametric Down-Conversion

D. Borodin, A. Schori, J.-P. Rueff, J. M. Ablett, and S. Shwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023902 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Irreversible Hysteresis of Internal Structure of Tangle Dissipative Optical Solitons

S. V. Fedorov, N. A. Veretenov, and N. N. Rosanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 023903 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Quantum and Classical Lyapunov Exponents in Atom-Field Interaction Systems

Jorge Chávez-Carlos, B. López-del-Carpio, Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani, Pavel Stránský, Sergio Lerma-Hernández, Lea F. Santos, and Jorge G. Hirsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 024101 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Self-Driven Fractional Rotational Diffusion of the Harmonic Three-Mass System

Ori Saporta Katz and Efi Efrati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 024102 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Chiral Optical Stern-Gerlach Newtonian Experiment

Nina Kravets, Artur Aleksanyan, and Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 024301 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Curving to Fly: Synthetic Adaptation Unveils Optimal Flight Performance of Whirling Fruits

Jean Rabault, Richard A. Fauli, and Andreas Carlson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 024501 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Whirling fruits have evolved wing-like structures that are optimized to generate maximum lift, according to a new study.

Plasma and Beam Physics

New Optical Manipulation of Relativistic Vortex Cutter

W. P. Wang, C. Jiang, B. F. Shen, F. Yuan, Z. M. Gan, H. Zhang, S. H. Zhai, and Z. Z. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 024801 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Dynamics of the Electromagnetic Fields Induced by Fast Electron Propagation in Near-Solid-Density Media

L. Romagnani, A. P. L. Robinson, R. J. Clarke, D. Doria, L. Lancia, W. Nazarov, M. M. Notley, A. Pipahl, K. Quinn, B. Ramakrishna, P. A. Wilson, J. Fuchs, O. Willi, and M. Borghesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 025001 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Probing Quantum Dynamical Couple Correlations with Time-Domain Interferometry

Salvatore Castrignano and Jörg Evers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 025301 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Influence of Pore Size on the van der Waals Interaction in Two-Dimensional Molecules and Materials

Yan Yang, Ka Un Lao, and Robert A. DiStasio, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026001 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Size-Dependent Lattice Dynamics of Atomically Precise Cadmium Selenide Quantum Dots

Chenyang Shi, Alexander N. Beecher, Yan Li, Jonathan S. Owen, Bogdan M. Leu, Ayman H. Said, Michael Y. Hu, and Simon J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026101 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

How Do Ice Crystals Grow inside Quasiliquid Layers?

Ken-ichiro Murata, Ken Nagashima, and Gen Sazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026102 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Effects of Random Domains on the Zero Hall Plateau in the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect

Chui-Zhen Chen, Haiwen Liu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026601 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Band-Edge Quasiparticles from Electron-Phonon Coupling and Resistivity Saturation

Edward Perepelitsky and B. Sriram Shastry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026602 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Kohn-Luttinger Superconductivity in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

J. González and T. Stauber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026801 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Competing Fractional Quantum Hall and Electron Solid Phases in Graphene

Shaowen Chen, Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau, Kang Yang, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, James Hone, Mark O. Goerbig, and Cory R. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 026802 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Graphene shows a many-body phase arising from competition between an electron solid and the fractional quantum Hall effect.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence for Superconductivity above 260 K in Lanthanum Superhydride at Megabar Pressures

Maddury Somayazulu, Muhtar Ahart, Ajay K. Mishra, Zachary M. Geballe, Maria Baldini, Yue Meng, Viktor V. Struzhkin, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027001 (2019) - Published 14 January, 2019

Two independent studies report superconductivity at record high temperatures in hydrogen-rich materials under extreme pressure.

Theory of Chiral $p$ -Wave Superconductivity with Near Nodes for ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Wan-Sheng Wang, Cong-Cong Zhang, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Qiang-Hua Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027002 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Locating the Missing Superconducting Electrons in the Overdoped Cuprates ${La}_{2 - x} {Sr}_{x} {CuO}_{4}$

Fahad Mahmood, Xi He, Ivan Božović, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027003 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Nontopological Majorana Zero Modes in Inhomogeneous Spin Ladders

Neil J. Robinson, Alexander Altland, Reinhold Egger, Niklas M. Gergs, Wei Li, Dirk Schuricht, Alexei M. Tsvelik, Andreas Weichselbaum, and Robert M. Konik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027201 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019

Anomalously Damped Heat-Assisted Route for Precessional Magnetization Reversal in an Iron Garnet

C. S. Davies, K. H. Prabhakara, M. D. Davydova, K. A. Zvezdin, T. B. Shapaeva, S. Wang, A. K. Zvezdin, A. Kirilyuk, Th. Rasing, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027202 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Nonlinearity in the Dark: Broadband Terahertz Generation with Extremely High Efficiency

Ming Fang, Nian-Hai Shen, Wei E. I. Sha, Zhixiang Huang, Thomas Koschny, and Costas M. Soukoulis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 027401 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Heterogeneous Activation, Local Structure, and Softness in Supercooled Colloidal Liquids

Xiaoguang Ma, Zoey S. Davidson, Tim Still, Robert J. S. Ivancic, S. S. Schoenholz, A. J. Liu, and A. G. Yodh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 028001 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

Multiple exponential relaxation channels in a glass-forming supercooled liquid give rise to non-exponential behavior in a local order parameter associated with “softness.”

Nanoscale Poroelasticity of the Tectorial Membrane Determines Hair Bundle Deflections

Jonathan B. Sellon, Mojtaba Azadi, Ramin Oftadeh, Hadi Tavakoli Nia, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Alan J. Grodzinsky, and Dennis M. Freeman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 028101 (2019) - Published 16 January, 2019

Dependence of DNA Persistence Length on Ionic Strength and Ion Type

Sébastien Guilbaud, Laurence Salomé, Nicolas Destainville, Manoel Manghi, and Catherine Tardin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 028102 (2019) - Published 18 January, 2019

ERRATA

Erratum: Three-Nucleon Low-Energy Constants from the Consistency of Interactions and Currents in Chiral Effective Field Theory [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 102502 (2009)]

Doron Gazit, Sofia Quaglioni, and Petr Navrátil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 029901 (2019) - Published 15 January, 2019