Volume 122, Issue 22

7 June 2019

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Chiral PPO molecules (propylene oxide) in a molecular jet are spun by the field of an optical centrifuge (long corkscrew shape) and Coulomb exploded with a probe pulse (short diamond shape) between the plates of a velocity map imaging spectrometer. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Controlled Enantioselective Orientation of Chiral Molecules with an Optical Centrifuge
Alexander A. Milner, Jordan A. M. Fordyce, Ian MacPhail-Bartley, Walter Wasserman, Valery Milner, Ilia Tutunnikov, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 223201 (2019)

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A discrepancy between measurements of the cosmic expansion rate might be resolved by adding an extra form of dark energy.

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Observation of a Narrow Pentaquark State, $P_{c} (4312)^{+}$ , and of the Two-Peak Structure of the $P_{c} (4450)^{+}$

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Contact Networks Enhance Shear Thickening in Attractive Colloid-Polymer Mixtures

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Adding long polymers to a fluid that becomes more viscous as it’s stirred amplifies the effect, in contrast to results with short polymers.

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Emergent SU(2) Dynamics and Perfect Quantum Many-Body Scars

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Long-lived dynamics in a constrained spin model suggests that quantum scars are stable in the thermodynamic limit.

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Controlled Enantioselective Orientation of Chiral Molecules with an Optical Centrifuge

Alexander A. Milner, Jordan A. M. Fordyce, Ian MacPhail-Bartley, Walter Wasserman, Valery Milner, Ilia Tutunnikov, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 223201 (2019) - Published 3 June, 2019

By using properly shaped laser pulses (essentially creating an optical centrifuge) the rotational motion of molecular enantiomers can be changed in a way that depends on their handedness.

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Phase Transitions of Hybrid Perovskites Simulated by Machine-Learning Force Fields Trained on the Fly with Bayesian Inference

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 225701 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

An on-the-fly machine learning approach that bypasses the construction of myriad reference datasets is used to study phase transitions in complex hybrid perovskites.

LETTERS

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Entanglement Detection by Violations of Noisy Uncertainty Relations: A Proof of Principle

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Novel Technique for Robust Optimal Algorithmic Cooling

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Eigenstate Correlations, Thermalization, and the Butterfly Effect

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 220601 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Quantum Martingale Theory and Entropy Production

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 220603 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Long-lived dynamics in a constrained spin model suggests that quantum scars are stable in the thermodynamic limit.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Early Dark Energy can Resolve the Hubble Tension

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A discrepancy between measurements of the cosmic expansion rate might be resolved by adding an extra form of dark energy.

Dark Energy from Quantum Gravity Discreteness

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 221302 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Numerical Results for the Lightest Bound States in $N = 1$ Supersymmetric SU(3) Yang-Mills Theory

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 221601 (2019) - Published 4 June, 2019

Causality of the Einstein-Israel-Stewart Theory with Bulk Viscosity

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 221602 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Hadronic $τ$ Decays as New Physics Probes in the LHC Era

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 221801 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Experimental Approach to Search for Free Neutron-Antineutron Oscillations Based on Coherent Neutron and Antineutron Mirror Reflection

V. V. Nesvizhevsky, V. Gudkov, K. V. Protasov, W. M. Snow, and A. Yu. Voronin

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Observation of a Narrow Pentaquark State, $P_{c} (4312)^{+}$ , and of the Two-Peak Structure of the $P_{c} (4450)^{+}$

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 222001 (2019) - Published 5 June, 2019

New Large Hadron Collider data reveal that exotic quark quintets, discovered in 2016, are composites of quark-antiquark mesons and three-quark baryons.

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Improved Value for the Gamow-Teller Strength of the ${}^{100}{Sn}$ Beta Decay

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Constraints on the Dark Matter Interpretation $n \to χ + e^{+} e^{-}$ of the Neutron Decay Anomaly with the PERKEO II Experiment

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Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Laser Cooling of Radium Ions

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 223001 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

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Controlled Enantioselective Orientation of Chiral Molecules with an Optical Centrifuge

Alexander A. Milner, Jordan A. M. Fordyce, Ian MacPhail-Bartley, Walter Wasserman, Valery Milner, Ilia Tutunnikov, and Ilya Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 223201 (2019) - Published 3 June, 2019

By using properly shaped laser pulses (essentially creating an optical centrifuge) the rotational motion of molecular enantiomers can be changed in a way that depends on their handedness.

Photovoltaic Effect of Atomtronics Induced by an Artificial Gauge Field

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Near-Unitary Spin Squeezing in ${}^{171}{Yb}$

Boris Braverman, Akio Kawasaki, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel, Simone Colombo, Chi Shu, Zeyang Li, Enrique Mendez, Megan Yamoah, Leonardo Salvi, Daisuke Akamatsu, Yanhong Xiao, and Vladan Vuletić

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Quadrupole Shift Cancellation Using Dynamic Decoupling

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Cold Damping of an Optically Levitated Nanoparticle to Microkelvin Temperatures

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Optimal Feedback Cooling of a Charged Levitated Nanoparticle with Adaptive Control

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Correlators Exceeding One in Continuous Measurements of Superconducting Qubits

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Generation of a Nondiffracting Superchiral Optical Needle for Circular Dichroism Imaging of Sparse Subdiffraction Objects

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Kepler Orbits in Pairs of Disks Settling in a Viscous Fluid

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Electroosmotic Flow Dipole: Experimental Observation and Flow Field Patterning

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Application of a Magnetic Mirror to Increase Total Efficiency in Relativistic Magnetrons

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Magnetized Disruption of Inertially Confined Plasma Flows

M. J.-E. Manuel, A. B. Sefkow, C. C. Kuranz, A. M. Rasmus, S. R. Klein, M. J. MacDonald, M. R. Trantham, J. R. Fein, P. X. Belancourt, R. P. Young, P. A. Keiter, B. B. Pollock, J. Park, A. U. Hazi, G. J. Williams, H. Chen, and R. P. Drake

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Formation of Nuclear-Polarized Phases of H Atoms Embedded in Solid $H_{2}$ Films

S. Sheludiakov, P. T. McColgan, D. M. Lee, V. V. Khmelenko, J. Järvinen, J. Ahokas, and S. Vasiliev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 225301 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

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Phase Transitions of Hybrid Perovskites Simulated by Machine-Learning Force Fields Trained on the Fly with Bayesian Inference

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Backflow Transformations via Neural Networks for Quantum Many-Body Wave Functions

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Ab Initio Lifetime and Concomitant Double-Excitation Character of Plasmons at Metallic Densities

Alan M. Lewis and Timothy C. Berkelbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 226402 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Large Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency Due to a Pressure-Induced Lifshitz Transition in SnSe

T. Nishimura, H. Sakai, H. Mori, K. Akiba, H. Usui, M. Ochi, K. Kuroki, A. Miyake, M. Tokunaga, Y. Uwatoko, K. Katayama, H. Murakawa, and N. Hanasaki

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$Z_{4}$ Topological Superconductivity in UCoGe

Akito Daido, Tsuneya Yoshida, and Youichi Yanase

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Quantum Criticality in the Two-Dimensional Periodic Anderson Model

T. Schäfer, A. A. Katanin, M. Kitatani, A. Toschi, and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 227201 (2019) - Published 6 June, 2019

Giant Magnetoelastic-Coupling Driven Spin-Lattice Liquid State in Molybdate Pyrochlores

Andrew Smerald and George Jackeli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 227202 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

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Tuning the Exchange Bias on a Single Atom from 1 mT to 10 T

Kai Yang, William Paul, Fabian D. Natterer, Jose L. Lado, Yujeong Bae, Philip Willke, Taeyoung Choi, Alejandro Ferrón, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Andreas J. Heinrich, and Christopher P. Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 227203 (2019) - Published 6 June, 2019

Researchers modify the magnetic field of a single atom, demonstrating a potential way to store information in tiny devices of the future.

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

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Contact Networks Enhance Shear Thickening in Attractive Colloid-Polymer Mixtures

Nayoung Park, Vikram Rathee, Daniel L. Blair, and Jacinta C. Conrad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 228003 (2019) - Published 7 June, 2019

Adding long polymers to a fluid that becomes more viscous as it’s stirred amplifies the effect, in contrast to results with short polymers.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Chiral Phase Transition in Charge Ordered $1 T$ - ${TiSe}_{2}$ ”

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