Volume 122, Issue 5

8 February 2019

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Secondary beam cocktail for the study of low-lying excited states of ⁴⁰Mg. The x axis is the mass to charge ratio. The y axis is the atomic number. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion.

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First Spectroscopy of the Near Drip-line Nucleus ${}^{40}{Mg}$
H. L. Crawford et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 052501 (2019)

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Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport in a 10-qubit Network

Christine Maier, Tiff Brydges, Petar Jurcevic, Nils Trautmann, Cornelius Hempel, Ben P. Lanyon, Philipp Hauke, Rainer Blatt, and Christian F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050501 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

A quantum effect in which random fluctuations help waves to propagate has been demonstrated in a chain of ten atoms.

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Near Ground-State Cooling of Two-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Crystals with More than 100 Ions

Elena Jordan, Kevin A. Gilmore, Athreya Shankar, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, Murray J. Holland, and John J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053603 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

A laser scheme cools more than a hundred vibrational modes of a 2D crystal to close to their quantum mechanical ground state.

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Experimental Observation of Plasma Wakefield Growth Driven by the Seeded Self-Modulation of a Proton Bunch

M. Turner et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054801 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

The seeded self-modulation of a relativistic, charged particle bunch in a plasma is shown to grow both along the bunch and along the plasma, resulting in transverse wakefield amplitudes that far exceed the initial seed values.

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Experimental Observation of Proton Bunch Modulation in a Plasma at Varying Plasma Densities

E. Adli et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054802 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

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Deep Into the Amplituhedron: Amplitude Singularities at All Loops and Legs

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Cameron Langer, Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant, and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 051601 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Geometric insights make it possible to mathematically probe scattering amplitudes in gauge theories at all perturbative orders and particle multiplicities for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Spectroscopy of the Near Drip-line Nucleus ${}^{40}{Mg}$

H. L. Crawford et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 052501 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

The low-lying excited states of $^{40}$ Mg have been studied for the first time following a one-proton removal reaction from $^{41}$ Al.

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Experimental Reconstruction of Entanglement Quasiprobabilities

J. Sperling, E. Meyer-Scott, S. Barkhofen, B. Brecht, and C. Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053602 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

The first experimental reconstruction of an entanglement quasiprobability distribution is achieved using a Bell state.

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

Instability of Rotationally Tuned Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

S. B. Prasad, T. Bland, B. C. Mulkerin, N. G. Parker, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050401 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Quantifying Measurement Incompatibility of Mutually Unbiased Bases

Sébastien Designolle, Paul Skrzypczyk, Florian Fröwis, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050402 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Dynamical Topological Transitions in the Massive Schwinger Model with a $θ$ Term

T. V. Zache, N. Mueller, J. T. Schneider, F. Jendrzejewski, J. Berges, and P. Hauke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050403 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Eigenstates Transition without Undergoing an Adiabatic Process

Fatemeh Mostafavi, Luqi Yuan, and Hamidreza Ramezani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050404 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

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Environment-Assisted Quantum Transport in a 10-qubit Network

Christine Maier, Tiff Brydges, Petar Jurcevic, Nils Trautmann, Cornelius Hempel, Ben P. Lanyon, Philipp Hauke, Rainer Blatt, and Christian F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050501 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

A quantum effect in which random fluctuations help waves to propagate has been demonstrated in a chain of ten atoms.

Multithermal-Multibaric Molecular Simulations from a Variational Principle

Pablo M. Piaggi and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050601 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Vortex Mass in the Three-Dimensional O(2) Scalar Theory

Gesualdo Delfino, Walter Selke, and Alessio Squarcini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 050602 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Escape of Cosmic Rays from the Galaxy and Effects on the Circumgalactic Medium

Pasquale Blasi and Elena Amato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 051101 (2019) - Published 5 February, 2019

Constraints on Minute-Scale Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Sources

M. G. Aartsen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 051102 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Deep Into the Amplituhedron: Amplitude Singularities at All Loops and Legs

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Cameron Langer, Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant, and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 051601 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Geometric insights make it possible to mathematically probe scattering amplitudes in gauge theories at all perturbative orders and particle multiplicities for the first time.

Nuclear Physics

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First Spectroscopy of the Near Drip-line Nucleus ${}^{40}{Mg}$

H. L. Crawford et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 052501 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

The low-lying excited states of $^{40}$ Mg have been studied for the first time following a one-proton removal reaction from $^{41}$ Al.

Towards Neutron Capture on Exotic Nuclei: Demonstrating $(d, p γ)$ as a Surrogate Reaction for $(n, γ)$

A. Ratkiewicz, J. A. Cizewski, J. E. Escher, G. Potel, J. T. Harke, R. J. Casperson, M. McCleskey, R. A. E. Austin, S. Burcher, R. O. Hughes, B. Manning, S. D. Pain, W. A. Peters, S. Rice, T. J. Ross, N. D. Scielzo, C. Shand, and K. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 052502 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Key ${}^{19}{Ne}$ States Identified Affecting $γ$ -Ray Emission from ${}^{18}F$ in Novae

M. R. Hall et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 052701 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Rise and Fall of a Bright Soliton in an Optical Lattice

Piero Naldesi, Juan Polo Gomez, Boris Malomed, Maxim Olshanii, Anna Minguzzi, and Luigi Amico

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053001 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Diffractive Imaging of $C_{60}$ Structural Deformations Induced by Intense Femtosecond Midinfrared Laser Fields

Harald Fuest, Yu Hang Lai, Cosmin I. Blaga, Kazuma Suzuki, Junliang Xu, Philipp Rupp, Hui Li, Pawel Wnuk, Pierre Agostini, Kaoru Yamazaki, Manabu Kanno, Hirohiko Kono, Matthias F. Kling, and Louis F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053002 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Proposal for Measuring Electron Displacement Induced by a Short Laser Pulse

Xiang-Ru Xiao, Mu-Xue Wang, Hao Liang, Qihuang Gong, and Liang-You Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053201 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Detecting and Characterizing the Nonadiabaticity of Laser-Induced Quantum Tunneling

Kunlong Liu, Siqiang Luo, Min Li, Yang Li, Yudi Feng, Baojie Du, Yueming Zhou, Peixiang Lu, and Ingo Barth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053202 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Confinement of High- and Low-Field-Seeking Rydberg Atoms Using Time-Varying Inhomogeneous Electric Fields

A. Deller and S. D. Hogan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053203 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Dynamic Double-Slit Experiment in a Single Atom

James Pursehouse, Andrew James Murray, Jonas Wätzel, and Jamal Berakdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053204 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Rigorous Results for the Ground States of the Spin-2 Bose-Hubbard Model

Hong Yang and Hosho Katsura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053401 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Realization of a Rydberg-Dressed Ramsey Interferometer and Electrometer

A. Arias, G. Lochead, T. M. Wintermantel, S. Helmrich, and S. Whitlock

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053601 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

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Experimental Reconstruction of Entanglement Quasiprobabilities

J. Sperling, E. Meyer-Scott, S. Barkhofen, B. Brecht, and C. Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053602 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

The first experimental reconstruction of an entanglement quasiprobability distribution is achieved using a Bell state.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Near Ground-State Cooling of Two-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Crystals with More than 100 Ions

Elena Jordan, Kevin A. Gilmore, Athreya Shankar, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, Murray J. Holland, and John J. Bollinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053603 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

A laser scheme cools more than a hundred vibrational modes of a 2D crystal to close to their quantum mechanical ground state.

Spectra of Ultrabroadband Squeezed Pulses and the Finite-Time Unruh-Davies Effect

T. L. M. Guedes, M. Kizmann, D. V. Seletskiy, A. Leitenstorfer, Guido Burkard, and A. S. Moskalenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053604 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Ultrafast Multiharmonic Plasmon Generation by Optically Dressed Electrons

Nicholas Rivera, Liang Jie Wong, Marin Soljačić, and Ido Kaminer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 053901 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Nonlinear Evolution of the Locally Induced Modulational Instability in Fiber Optics

Adrien E. Kraych, Pierre Suret, Gennady El, and Stéphane Randoux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054101 (2019) - Published 6 February, 2019

Dynamical Glass and Ergodization Times in Classical Josephson Junction Chains

Thudiyangal Mithun, Carlo Danieli, Yagmur Kati, and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054102 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Droplet Splashing on an Inclined Surface

Jiguang Hao, Jie Lu, Liaonan Lee, Zhihu Wu, Gengkai Hu, and J. M. Floryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054501 (2019) - Published 5 February, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Experimental Observation of Plasma Wakefield Growth Driven by the Seeded Self-Modulation of a Proton Bunch

M. Turner et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054801 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

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Experimental Observation of Proton Bunch Modulation in a Plasma at Varying Plasma Densities

E. Adli et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 054802 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Electron and Ion Energization in Relativistic Plasma Turbulence

Vladimir Zhdankin, Dmitri A. Uzdensky, Gregory R. Werner, and Mitchell C. Begelman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 055101 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Experimental Evidence for a State-Point-Dependent Density-Scaling Exponent of Liquid Dynamics

Alejandro Sanz, Tina Hecksher, Henriette Wase Hansen, Jeppe C. Dyre, Kristine Niss, and Ulf R. Pedersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 055501 (2019) - Published 8 February, 2019

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Realization of Spin Gapless Semiconductors: The Heusler Compound ${Mn}_{2} CoAl$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 100401 (2013)]

Siham Ouardi, Gerhard H. Fecher, Claudia Felser, and Jürgen Kübler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 059901 (2019) - Published 7 February, 2019

Volume 122, Issue 5

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

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ERRATA