Volume 122, Issue 24

21 June 2019

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Oscillations in concentration (represented by color) of a reaction product induced by Marangoni- and buoyancy-driven convection. Vertical axis is time, pointing down. Horizontal axis is space. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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Making a Simple $A + B \to C$ Reaction Oscillate by Coupling to Hydrodynamic Effect
M. A. Budroni, V. Upadhyay, and L. Rongy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244502 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Polarons from First Principles, without Supercells

Weng Hong Sio, Carla Verdi, Samuel Poncé, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246403 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

A new way to model polarons combines the intuition of modeling with the realism of simulations, allowing these quasiparticles to be studied in a broader range of materials.

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Elastocapillary Ridge as a Noninteger Disclination

Robin Masurel, Matthieu Roché, Laurent Limat, Ioan Ionescu, and Julien Dervaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 248004 (2019) - Published 18 June, 2019

A new theory that incorporates nonlinear properties of rubber-like materials correctly describes the shape of the ridge that forms when the material is strongly deformed by an object.

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Measurement of the Weak Axial-Vector Coupling Constant in the Decay of Free Neutrons Using a Pulsed Cold Neutron Beam

B. Märkisch, H. Mest, H. Saul, X. Wang, H. Abele, D. Dubbers, M. Klopf, A. Petoukhov, C. Roick, T. Soldner, and D. Werder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 242501 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

The most precise measurement of the axial-vector coupling constant has been made using a pulsed neutron beam.

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Stability Limit of Electrified Droplets

J. Beroz, A. J. Hart, and J. W. M. Bush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244501 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

A theory of the breakup of conducting droplets subjected to an electric field can produce design criteria for industrial processes.

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Making a Simple $A + B \to C$ Reaction Oscillate by Coupling to Hydrodynamic Effect

M. A. Budroni, V. Upadhyay, and L. Rongy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244502 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Any chemical reaction of the type A + B -> C, between two reactant species (A and B), can be made to oscillate in time and space if the interface region where C forms obeys certain fluid convection properties.

LETTERS

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

Geometry of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations

H. Chau Nguyen, Huy-Viet Nguyen, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240401 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

Many-Body Localization in the Presence of a Central Qudit

Nathan Ng and Michael Kolodrubetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240402 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Anonymity for Practical Quantum Networks

Anupama Unnikrishnan, Ian J. MacFarlane, Richard Yi, Eleni Diamanti, Damian Markham, and Iordanis Kerenidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240501 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Partial Fermionization: Spectral Universality in 1D Repulsive Bose Gases

Quirin Hummel, Juan Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240601 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

Efficiency of a Quantum Otto Heat Engine Operating under a Reservoir at Effective Negative Temperatures

Rogério J. de Assis, Taysa M. de Mendonça, Celso J. Villas-Boas, Alexandre M. de Souza, Roberto S. Sarthour, Ivan S. Oliveira, and Norton G. de Almeida

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240602 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Evidence for Supersymmetry in the Random-Field Ising Model at $D = 5$

Nikolaos G. Fytas, Víctor Martín-Mayor, Giorgio Parisi, Marco Picco, and Nicolas Sourlas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240603 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Work Distributions on Quantum Fields

Alvaro Ortega, Emma McKay, Álvaro M. Alhambra, and Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240604 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Topologically Protected Long Edge Coherence Times in Symmetry-Broken Phases

Daniel E. Parker, Romain Vasseur, and Thomas Scaffidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240605 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Integrability-Protected Adiabatic Reversibility in Quantum Spin Chains

Alvise Bastianello and Andrea De Luca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 240606 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Inferring the Flavor of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos at Their Sources

Mauricio Bustamante and Markus Ahlers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 241101 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Spectral Walls in Soliton Collisions

C. Adam, K. Oles, T. Romanczukiewicz, and A. Wereszczynski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 241601 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

From the Weyl Anomaly to Entropy of Two-Dimensional Boundaries and Defects

Kristan Jensen, Andy O’Bannon, Brandon Robinson, and Ronnie Rodgers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 241602 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Flavor Symmetries and Unitarity Bounds in $N = 2$ Superconformal Field Theories

Christopher Beem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 241603 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Bootstrapping QCD Using Pion Scattering Amplitudes

Andrea L. Guerrieri, João Penedones, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 241604 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Static Two-Body Potential at Fifth Post-Newtonian Order

Stefano Foffa, Pierpaolo Mastrolia, Riccardo Sturani, Christian Sturm, and William J. Torres Bobadilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 241605 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Emergence of a Complete Heavy-Quark Spin Symmetry Multiplet: Seven Molecular Pentaquarks in Light of the Latest LHCb Analysis

Ming-Zhu Liu, Ya-Wen Pan, Fang-Zheng Peng, Mario Sánchez Sánchez, Li-Sheng Geng, Atsushi Hosaka, and Manuel Pavon Valderrama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 242001 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measurement of the Weak Axial-Vector Coupling Constant in the Decay of Free Neutrons Using a Pulsed Cold Neutron Beam

B. Märkisch, H. Mest, H. Saul, X. Wang, H. Abele, D. Dubbers, M. Klopf, A. Petoukhov, C. Roick, T. Soldner, and D. Werder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 242501 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

The most precise measurement of the axial-vector coupling constant has been made using a pulsed neutron beam.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Frequency-Dependent Reflectors

Ondřej Černotík, Aurélien Dantan, and Claudiu Genes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 243601 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Photon Blockade in Weakly Driven Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics Systems with Many Emitters

Rahul Trivedi, Marina Radulaski, Kevin A. Fischer, Shanhui Fan, and Jelena Vučković

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 243602 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Realization of an Acoustic Third-Order Topological Insulator

Haoran Xue, Yahui Yang, Guigeng Liu, Fei Gao, Yidong Chong, and Baile Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244301 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stability Limit of Electrified Droplets

J. Beroz, A. J. Hart, and J. W. M. Bush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244501 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

A theory of the breakup of conducting droplets subjected to an electric field can produce design criteria for industrial processes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Making a Simple $A + B \to C$ Reaction Oscillate by Coupling to Hydrodynamic Effect

M. A. Budroni, V. Upadhyay, and L. Rongy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244502 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Noninvasive 3D Field Mapping of Complex Static Electric Fields

Andreas Kainz, Franz Keplinger, Wilfried Hortschitz, Matthias Kahr, Harald Steiner, Michael Stifter, James R. Hunt, Javier Resta-Lopez, Volodymyr Rodin, Carsten P. Welsch, Jan Borburgh, Matthew Alexander Fraser, and Wolfgang Bartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 244801 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Direct Observations of Particle Dynamics in Magnetized Collisionless Shock Precursors in Laser-Produced Plasmas

D. B. Schaeffer, W. Fox, R. K. Follett, G. Fiksel, C. K. Li, J. Matteucci, A. Bhattacharjee, and K. Germaschewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 245001 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dissipation-Assisted Coherence Formation in a Spinor Quantum Gas

Yujiro Eto, Hitoshi Shibayama, Kosuke Shibata, Aki Torii, Keita Nabeta, Hiroki Saito, and Takuya Hirano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 245301 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Temperature Dependence of Homogeneous Nucleation in Ice

Haiyang Niu, Yi Isaac Yang, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 245501 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Darcy’s Law for Yield Stress Fluids

Chen Liu, Andrea De Luca, Alberto Rosso, and Laurent Talon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 245502 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Rotational Instability in Superlubric Joints

Cangyu Qu, Songlin Shi, Ming Ma, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246101 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strong Coupling Phases of Partially Filled Twisted Bilayer Graphene Narrow Bands

Jian Kang and Oskar Vafek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246401 (2019) - Published 18 June, 2019

Ferromagnetic Mott state in Twisted Graphene Bilayers at the Magic Angle

Kangjun Seo, Valeri N. Kotov, and Bruno Uchoa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246402 (2019) - Published 18 June, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polarons from First Principles, without Supercells

Weng Hong Sio, Carla Verdi, Samuel Poncé, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246403 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

A new way to model polarons combines the intuition of modeling with the realism of simulations, allowing these quasiparticles to be studied in a broader range of materials.

Quantum Interference Theory of Magnetoresistance in Dirac Materials

Bo Fu, Huan-Wen Wang, and Shun-Qing Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246601 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Melting of Interference in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Appearance of Neutral Modes

Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Mitali Banerjee, Moty Heiblum, Diana Mahalu, and Vladimir Umansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246801 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

Nonclassical Optical Properties of Mesoscopic Gold

Swen Großmann, Daniel Friedrich, Michael Karolak, René Kullock, Enno Krauss, Monika Emmerling, Giorgio Sangiovanni, and Bert Hecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246802 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Direct Determination of Band-Gap Renormalization in the Photoexcited Monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Fang Liu, Mark E. Ziffer, Kameron R. Hansen, Jue Wang, and Xiaoyang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 246803 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Sign-Reversing Hall Effect in Atomically Thin High-Temperature ${Bi}_{2.1} {Sr}_{1.9} {CaCu}_{2.0} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductors

S. Y. Frank Zhao, Nicola Poccia, Margaret G. Panetta, Cyndia Yu, Jedediah W. Johnson, Hyobin Yoo, Ruidan Zhong, G. D. Gu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Svetlana V. Postolova, Valerii M. Vinokur, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247001 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Superconductivity in the Surface State of Noble Metal Gold and its Fermi Level Tuning by EuS Dielectric

Peng Wei, Sujit Manna, Marius Eich, Patrick Lee, and Jagadeesh Moodera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247002 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Spin Stripe Order in a Square Planar Trilayer Nickelate

Junjie Zhang, D. M. Pajerowski, A. S. Botana, Hong Zheng, L. Harriger, J. Rodriguez-Rivera, J. P. C. Ruff, N. J. Schreiber, B. Wang, Yu-Sheng Chen, W. C. Chen, M. R. Norman, S. Rosenkranz, J. F. Mitchell, and D. Phelan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247201 (2019) - Published 18 June, 2019

Spin Pinning and Spin-Wave Dispersion in Nanoscopic Ferromagnetic Waveguides

Q. Wang, B. Heinz, R. Verba, M. Kewenig, P. Pirro, M. Schneider, T. Meyer, B. Lägel, C. Dubs, T. Brächer, and A. V. Chumak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247202 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Electron Spin Coherence in Optically Excited States of Rare-Earth Ions for Microwave to Optical Quantum Transducers

Sacha Welinski, Philip J. T. Woodburn, Nikolai Lauk, Rufus L. Cone, Christoph Simon, Philippe Goldner, and Charles W. Thiel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247401 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

Stroboscopic Tests for Thermalization of Electrons in Pump-Probe Experiments

O. P. Matveev, A. M. Shvaika, T. P. Devereaux, and J. K. Freericks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247402 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

Optical Detection of Single-Electron Tunneling into a Semiconductor Quantum Dot

A. Kurzmann, P. Stegmann, J. Kerski, R. Schott, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, J. König, A. Lorke, and M. Geller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247403 (2019) - Published 20 June, 2019

Electric-Field Control of Magnetization, Jahn-Teller Distortion, and Orbital Ordering in Ferroelectric Ferromagnets

Lan Chen, Changsong Xu, Hao Tian, Hongjun Xiang, Jorge Íñiguez, Yurong Yang, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247701 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

Chiral Voltage Propagation and Calibration in a Topolectrical Chern Circuit

Tobias Hofmann, Tobias Helbig, Ching Hua Lee, Martin Greiter, and Ronny Thomale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 247702 (2019) - Published 21 June, 2019

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

Soft Nucleation of an Elastic Crease

P. Ciarletta and L. Truskinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 248001 (2019) - Published 18 June, 2019

Signatures of Topological Phonons in Superisostatic Lattices

Olaf Stenull and T. C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 248002 (2019) - Published 17 June, 2019

Structure-Property Relationships via Recovery Rheology in Viscoelastic Materials

Johnny Ching-Wei Lee, Katie M. Weigandt, Elizabeth G. Kelley, and Simon A. Rogers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 248003 (2019) - Published 19 June, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Elastocapillary Ridge as a Noninteger Disclination

Robin Masurel, Matthieu Roché, Laurent Limat, Ioan Ionescu, and Julien Dervaux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 248004 (2019) - Published 18 June, 2019

A new theory that incorporates nonlinear properties of rubber-like materials correctly describes the shape of the ridge that forms when the material is strongly deformed by an object.