Volume 122, Issue 21

31 May 2019

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Color map of the Fano parameter 1/q in the T vs x plane for Ba_1-xK_xFe₂As₂.

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Scaling of the Fano Effect of the In-Plane Fe-As Phonon and the Superconducting Critical Temperature in ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$
B. Xu, E. Cappelluti, L. Benfatto, B. P. P. Mallett, P. Marsik, E. Sheveleva, F. Lyzwa, Th. Wolf, R. Yang, X. G. Qiu, Y. M. Dai, H. H. Wen, R. P. S. M. Lobo, and C. Bernhard
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217002 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of $C P$ Violation in Charm Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211803 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

A study of particles containing charm quarks has uncovered a violation of so-called CP symmetry, which could help in understanding why matter dominates antimatter in the Universe.

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Large-Scale Photonic Ising Machine by Spatial Light Modulation

D. Pierangeli, G. Marcucci, and C. Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213902 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

A new optical processor for solving hard optimization problems breaks previous size records and is based on a highly scalable technology.

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Experimental Evidence of a Hydrodynamic Soliton Gas

Ivan Redor, Eric Barthélemy, Hervé Michallet, Miguel Onorato, and Nicolas Mordant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214502 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Waves in a shallow water tank are made to behave like a gas of solitons, demonstrating an experimental platform for future investigations.

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Continuously Sheared Granular Matter Reproduces in Detail Seismicity Laws

S. Lherminier, R. Planet, V. Levy dit Vehel, G. Simon, L. Vanel, K. J. Måløy, and O. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 218501 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

A 2D array of disks under stress has replicated several statistical features of earthquakes, suggesting that this system is an accurate model of seismic phenomena.

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Periodicity Disruption of a Model Quasibiennial Oscillation of Equatorial Winds

Antoine Renaud, Louis-Philippe Nadeau, and Antoine Venaille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214504 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

A new model provides a possible explanation for why Earth’s equatorial winds missed their scheduled direction switch from westerly to easterly flow.

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Operator Size at Finite Temperature and Planckian Bounds on Quantum Dynamics

Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 216601 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

There may be a universal bound on the dissipative timescale in a many-body quantum system for the decay of a small operator into a combination of large operators.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Measurement of the Quantum Metric Tensor and Related Topological Phase Transition with a Superconducting Qubit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Zhen Yang, Ji Chu, Yan-Qing Zhu, Danyu Li, Xiaopei Yang, Shuqing Song, Zhikun Han, Zhiyuan Li, Yuqian Dong, Hai-Feng Yu, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210401 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Von Neumann Entropy from Unitarity

Paul Boes, Jens Eisert, Rodrigo Gallego, Markus P. Müller, and Henrik Wilming

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210402 (2019) - Published 28 May, 2019

Quantum Storage of Single-Photon and Two-Photon Fock States with an All-Optical Quantum Memory

M. Bouillard, G. Boucher, J. Ferrer Ortas, B. Pointard, and R. Tualle-Brouri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210501 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Sample Complexity of Device-Independently Certified “Quantum Supremacy”

Dominik Hangleiter, Martin Kliesch, Jens Eisert, and Christian Gogolin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210502 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Machine Learning Topological Phases with a Solid-State Quantum Simulator

Wenqian Lian, Sheng-Tao Wang, Sirui Lu, Yuanyuan Huang, Fei Wang, Xinxing Yuan, Wengang Zhang, Xiaolong Ouyang, Xin Wang, Xianzhi Huang, Li He, Xiuying Chang, Dong-Ling Deng, and Luming Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210503 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Dissipative Charging of a Quantum Battery

Felipe Barra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210601 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Physics in the Quantum Heisenberg Magnet

Marko Ljubotina, Marko Žnidarič, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210602 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Reduced-Order Modeling with Artificial Neurons for Gravitational-Wave Inference

Alvin J. K. Chua, Chad R. Galley, and Michele Vallisneri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211101 (2019) - Published 28 May, 2019

Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter: LISA Serendipity

N. Bartolo, V. De Luca, G. Franciolini, A. Lewis, M. Peloso, and A. Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211301 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Price of Asymptotic Safety

Andrew D. Bond and Daniel F. Litim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211601 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

All-Loop Result for the Strong Magnetic Field Limit of the Heisenberg-Euler Effective Lagrangian

Felix Karbstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211602 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

String Amplitudes from Field-Theory Amplitudes and Vice Versa

Song He, Fei Teng, and Yong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211603 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

Scalar Nonstandard Interactions in Neutrino Oscillation

Shao-Feng Ge and Stephen J. Parke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211801 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Toward a First-Principles Calculation of Electroweak Box Diagrams

Chien-Yeah Seng and Ulf-G. Meißner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211802 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

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Observation of $C P$ Violation in Charm Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 211803 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

A study of particles containing charm quarks has uncovered a violation of so-called CP symmetry, which could help in understanding why matter dominates antimatter in the Universe.

Quark-Hadron Continuity beyond the Ginzburg-Landau Paradigm

Yuji Hirono and Yuya Tanizaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 212001 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

Nuclear Physics

${}^{93 m}{Mo}$ Isomer Depletion via Beam-Based Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture

Yuanbin Wu, Christoph H. Keitel, and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 212501 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Proton Shell Evolution below ${}^{132}{Sn}$ : First Measurement of Low-Lying $β$ -Emitting Isomers in ${}^{123, 125}{Ag}$

Z. Q. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 212502 (2019) - Published 28 May, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dispersion Energy from Local Polarizability Density

Muhammad Shahbaz and Krzysztof Szalewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213001 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

Chiral Metamaterials with $P T$ Symmetry and Beyond

Sotiris Droulias, Ioannis Katsantonis, Maria Kafesaki, Costas M. Soukoulis, and Eleftherios N. Economou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213201 (2019) - Published 28 May, 2019

Microwave-Cavity-Detected Spin Blockade in a Few-Electron Double Quantum Dot

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213601 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quantization of Quasinormal Modes for Open Cavities and Plasmonic Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics

Sebastian Franke, Stephen Hughes, Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli, Philip Trøst Kristensen, Kurt Busch, Andreas Knorr, and Marten Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213901 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

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Large-Scale Photonic Ising Machine by Spatial Light Modulation

D. Pierangeli, G. Marcucci, and C. Conti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 213902 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

A new optical processor for solving hard optimization problems breaks previous size records and is based on a highly scalable technology.

Shear-Induced Anisotropy in Rough Elastomer Contact

R. Sahli, G. Pallares, A. Papangelo, M. Ciavarella, C. Ducottet, N. Ponthus, and J. Scheibert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214301 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

Density-Dependent Speed-up of Particle Transport in Channels

Karolis Misiunas and Ulrich F. Keyser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214501 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

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Experimental Evidence of a Hydrodynamic Soliton Gas

Ivan Redor, Eric Barthélemy, Hervé Michallet, Miguel Onorato, and Nicolas Mordant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214502 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Waves in a shallow water tank are made to behave like a gas of solitons, demonstrating an experimental platform for future investigations.

Phase Transition to Large Scale Coherent Structures in Two-Dimensional Active Matter Turbulence

Moritz Linkmann, Guido Boffetta, M. Cristina Marchetti, and Bruno Eckhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214503 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

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Periodicity Disruption of a Model Quasibiennial Oscillation of Equatorial Winds

Antoine Renaud, Louis-Philippe Nadeau, and Antoine Venaille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214504 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

A new model provides a possible explanation for why Earth’s equatorial winds missed their scheduled direction switch from westerly to easterly flow.

Edge Wave and Boundary Layer of Vortex Matter

A. Bogatskiy and P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214505 (2019) - Published 30 May, 2019

Efficient Transport Between Disjoint Nanochannels by a Water Bridge

Muhammad Sahimi and Fatemeh Ebrahimi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214506 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Polarized Laser-WakeField-Accelerated Kiloampere Electron Beams

Meng Wen, Matteo Tamburini, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 214801 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Is Hydrogen Diffusion along Grain Boundaries Fast or Slow? Atomistic Origin and Mechanistic Modeling

Xiao Zhou, Normand Mousseau, and Jun Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 215501 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Revealing Inherent Structural Characteristics of Jammed Particulate Packings

Hua Tong, Hao Hu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu, and Hajime Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 215502 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Operator Size at Finite Temperature and Planckian Bounds on Quantum Dynamics

Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 216601 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

There may be a universal bound on the dissipative timescale in a many-body quantum system for the decay of a small operator into a combination of large operators.

Emergent Critical Charge Fluctuations at the Kondo Breakdown of Heavy Fermions

Yashar Komijani and Piers Coleman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217001 (2019) - Published 28 May, 2019

Scaling of the Fano Effect of the In-Plane Fe-As Phonon and the Superconducting Critical Temperature in ${Ba}_{1 - x} K_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

B. Xu, E. Cappelluti, L. Benfatto, B. P. P. Mallett, P. Marsik, E. Sheveleva, F. Lyzwa, Th. Wolf, R. Yang, X. G. Qiu, Y. M. Dai, H. H. Wen, R. P. S. M. Lobo, and C. Bernhard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217002 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Coexistence of Ferromagnetic and Stripe-Type Antiferromagnetic Spin Fluctuations in ${YFe}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$

Hongliang Wo, Qisi Wang, Yao Shen, Xiaowen Zhang, Yiqing Hao, Yu Feng, Shoudong Shen, Zheng He, Bingying Pan, Wenbin Wang, K. Nakajima, S. Ohira-Kawamura, P. Steffens, M. Boehm, K. Schmalzl, T. R. Forrest, M. Matsuda, Yang Zhao, J. W. Lynn, Zhiping Yin, and Jun Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217003 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Topological Characterization of Classical Waves: The Topological Origin of Magnetostatic Surface Spin Waves

Kei Yamamoto, Guo Chuan Thiang, Philipp Pirro, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Karin Everschor-Sitte, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217201 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Magneto-Optical Functions at the $3 p$ Resonances of Fe, Co, and Ni: Ab initio Description and Experiment

F. Willems, S. Sharma, C. v. Korff Schmising, J. K. Dewhurst, L. Salemi, D. Schick, P. Hessing, C. Strüber, W. D. Engel, and S. Eisebitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217202 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Current Control of Magnetism in Two-Dimensional ${Fe}_{3} {GeTe}_{2}$

Øyvind Johansen, Vetle Risinggård, Asle Sudbø, Jacob Linder, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217203 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Spin Seebeck Effect from Antiferromagnetic Magnons and Critical Spin Fluctuations in Epitaxial ${FeF}_{2}$ Films

Junxue Li, Zhong Shi, Victor H. Ortiz, Mohammed Aldosary, Cliff Chen, Vivek Aji, Peng Wei, and Jing Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217204 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

Virtual Trions in the Photoluminescence of Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides

Dinh Van Tuan, Aaron M. Jones, Min Yang, Xiaodong Xu, and Hanan Dery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217401 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Two-Dimensional Conical Dispersion in ${ZrTe}_{5}$ Evidenced by Optical Spectroscopy

E. Martino, I. Crassee, G. Eguchi, D. Santos-Cottin, R. D. Zhong, G. D. Gu, H. Berger, Z. Rukelj, M. Orlita, C. C. Homes, and Ana Akrap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217402 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Nonreciprocal Spin Current Generation in Surface-Oxidized Copper Films

Genki Okano, Mamoru Matsuo, Yuichi Ohnuma, Sadamichi Maekawa, and Yukio Nozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217701 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

Spin-orbit Interactions for Singlet-Triplet Qubits in Silicon

Patrick Harvey-Collard, N. Tobias Jacobson, Chloé Bureau-Oxton, Ryan M. Jock, Vanita Srinivasa, Andrew M. Mounce, Daniel R. Ward, John M. Anderson, Ronald P. Manginell, Joel R. Wendt, Tammy Pluym, Michael P. Lilly, Dwight R. Luhman, Michel Pioro-Ladrière, and Malcolm S. Carroll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 217702 (2019) - Published 29 May, 2019

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

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Continuously Sheared Granular Matter Reproduces in Detail Seismicity Laws

S. Lherminier, R. Planet, V. Levy dit Vehel, G. Simon, L. Vanel, K. J. Måløy, and O. Ramos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 218501 (2019) - Published 31 May, 2019

A 2D array of disks under stress has replicated several statistical features of earthquakes, suggesting that this system is an accurate model of seismic phenomena.