Volume 122, Issue 9

8 March 2019

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On the Cover

The total field when the input is the chiral reverse of a coherent perfect absorption exceptional point mode in an absorbing microdisk (outlined in blue), with scatterers (small blue rings) and curves of constant phase (white). The arrow shows the chirality of the input.

From the article:

Perfectly Absorbing Exceptional Points and Chiral Absorbers
William R. Sweeney, Chia Wei Hsu, Stefan Rotter, and A. Douglas Stone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093901 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Generalized Hydrodynamics on an Atom Chip

M. Schemmer, I. Bouchoule, B. Doyon, and J. Dubail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090601 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Experiments confirm predictions of a new hydrodynamic approach to describing a 1D Bose gas, paving the way to better theories for more complex quantum gases.

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Boiling a Unitary Fermi Liquid

Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Richard J. Fletcher, Julian Struck, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093401 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Experiments with ultracold atoms track the smooth transformation of a quantum Fermi liquid into a Boltzmann gas.

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Grooves Accelerate Dew Shedding

Pierre-Brice Bintein, Henri Lhuissier, Anne Mongruel, Laurent Royon, and Daniel Beysens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098005 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Dew condensing on an inclined, grooved surface rapidly forms large drops that roll quickly to the bottom for collection.

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Initialization of Single Spin Dressed States using Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

J. Kölbl, A. Barfuss, M. S. Kasperczyk, L. Thiel, A. A. Clerk, H. Ribeiro, and P. Maletinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090502 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Fast, high-fidelity initialization, and efficient readout of coherence-protected dressed states is implemented in a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, using shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols.

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Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS+ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091803 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

No evidence for sterile neutrinos was found by the MINOS+ collaboration, a result which is in tension with the signal seen by MiniBooNE.

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Predicted Pressure-Induced Superconducting Transition in Electride ${Li}_{6} P$

Ziyuan Zhao, Shoutao Zhang, Tong Yu, Haiyang Xu, Aitor Bergara, and Guochun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097002 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

First-principles swarm structure calculations predict a pressure-induced superconducting phase in the electride, Li $_{6}$ P, at high temperatures.

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Elastocapillary Crease

Qihan Liu, Tetsu Ouchi, Lihua Jin, Ryan Hayward, and Zhigang Suo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098003 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

A new model that includes surface tension reconciles conflicting experiments that show how soft, elastic materials crease when compressed.

LETTERS

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

Simple Wave-Optical Superpositions as Prime Number Sieves

T. C. Petersen, M. Ceko, I. D. Svalbe, M. J. Morgan, A. I. Bishop, and D. M. Paganin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090201 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Collisions of Self-Bound Quantum Droplets

Giovanni Ferioli, Giulia Semeghini, Leonardo Masi, Giovanni Giusti, Giovanni Modugno, Massimo Inguscio, Albert Gallemí, Alessio Recati, and Marco Fattori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090401 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Experimental Realization of Robust Self-Testing of Bell State Measurements

Wen-Hao Zhang, Geng Chen, Xing-Xiang Peng, Xiang-Jun Ye, Peng Yin, Xiao-Ye Xu, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090402 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Order in the Interference of a Long Chain of Bose Condensates with Unrestricted Phases

Vasiliy Makhalov and Andrey Turlapov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090403 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Error-Disturbance Trade-off in Sequential Quantum Measurements

Ya-Li Mao, Zhi-Hao Ma, Rui-Bo Jin, Qi-Chao Sun, Shao-Ming Fei, Qiang Zhang, Jingyun Fan, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090404 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Computationally Universal Phase of Quantum Matter

Robert Raussendorf, Cihan Okay, Dong-Sheng Wang, David T. Stephen, and Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090501 (2019) - Published 4 March, 2019

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Initialization of Single Spin Dressed States using Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

J. Kölbl, A. Barfuss, M. S. Kasperczyk, L. Thiel, A. A. Clerk, H. Ribeiro, and P. Maletinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090502 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Fast, high-fidelity initialization, and efficient readout of coherence-protected dressed states is implemented in a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, using shortcuts to adiabaticity protocols.

Metrological Nonlinear Squeezing Parameter

Manuel Gessner, Augusto Smerzi, and Luca Pezzè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090503 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Quantum Simulation of Resonant Transitions for Solving the Eigenproblem of an Effective Water Hamiltonian

Zhaokai Li, Xiaomei Liu, Hefeng Wang, Sahel Ashhab, Jiangyu Cui, Hongwei Chen, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090504 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

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Generalized Hydrodynamics on an Atom Chip

M. Schemmer, I. Bouchoule, B. Doyon, and J. Dubail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 090601 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Experiments confirm predictions of a new hydrodynamic approach to describing a 1D Bose gas, paving the way to better theories for more complex quantum gases.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Collisional Triggering of Fast Flavor Conversions of Supernova Neutrinos

Francesco Capozzi, Basudeb Dasgupta, Alessandro Mirizzi, Manibrata Sen, and Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091101 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Detecting Coupled Domain Walls in Laboratory Experiments

Claudio Llinares and Philippe Brax

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091102 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Percent-Level Test of Isotropic Expansion Using Type Ia Supernovae

John Soltis, Arya Farahi, Dragan Huterer, and C. Michael Liberato, II

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091301 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Classical de Sitter Solutions of 10-Dimensional Supergravity

Clay Córdova, G. Bruno De Luca, and Alessandro Tomasiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091601 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Theory of Diffusive Fluctuations

Xinyi Chen-Lin, Luca V. Delacrétaz, and Sean A. Hartnoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091602 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Probing the Triple Higgs Self-Interaction at the Large Hadron Collider

Jeong Han Kim, Kyoungchul Kong, Konstantin T. Matchev, and Myeonghun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091801 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Can the Inflaton Also Be a Weakly Interacting Massive Particle?

Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, Andrew J. Long, and Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091802 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

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Search for Sterile Neutrinos in MINOS and MINOS+ Using a Two-Detector Fit

P. Adamson et al. (MINOS+ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 091803 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

No evidence for sterile neutrinos was found by the MINOS+ collaboration, a result which is in tension with the signal seen by MiniBooNE.

Nuclear Physics

Approaching the Gamow Window with Stored Ions: Direct Measurement of ${}^{124}{X e} (p, γ)$ in the ESR Storage Ring

J. Glorius et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 092701 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Boiling a Unitary Fermi Liquid

Zhenjie Yan, Parth B. Patel, Biswaroop Mukherjee, Richard J. Fletcher, Julian Struck, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093401 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Experiments with ultracold atoms track the smooth transformation of a quantum Fermi liquid into a Boltzmann gas.

Double Electron Capture in $H^{+} + H^{-}$ Collisions

J. W. Gao, Y. Wu, J. G. Wang, A. Dubois, and N. Sisourat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093402 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Pair-Breaking Collective Branch in BCS Superconductors and Superfluid Fermi Gases

H. Kurkjian, S. N. Klimin, J. Tempere, and Y. Castin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093403 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Subradiant Bell States in Distant Atomic Arrays

P.-O. Guimond, A. Grankin, D. V. Vasilyev, B. Vermersch, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093601 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Perfectly Absorbing Exceptional Points and Chiral Absorbers

William R. Sweeney, Chia Wei Hsu, Stefan Rotter, and A. Douglas Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 093901 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

One-Way Localized Adiabatic Passage in an Acoustic System

Ya-Xi Shen, Yu-Gui Peng, De-Gang Zhao, Xin-Cheng Chen, Jie Zhu, and Xue-Feng Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 094501 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Determination of the Ion Temperature in a High-Energy-Density Plasma Using the Stark Effect

Dror Alumot, Eyal Kroupp, Evgeny Stambulchik, Alexander Starobinets, Ingo Uschmann, and Yitzhak Maron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 095001 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Wall-Vortex Composite Defects in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Seji Kang, Sang Won Seo, Hiromitsu Takeuchi, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 095301 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Observation of Topological Edge Modes in a Quasiperiodic Acoustic Waveguide

David J. Apigo, Wenting Cheng, Kyle F. Dobiszewski, Emil Prodan, and Camelia Prodan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 095501 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Oxygen-Vacancy Dynamics and Entanglement with Polaron Hopping at the Reduced ${CeO}_{2} (111)$ Surface

Dawei Zhang, Zhong-Kang Han, Gustavo E. Murgida, M. Verónica Ganduglia-Pirovano, and Yi Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 096101 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermi Volume Evolution and Crystal-Field Excitations in Heavy-Fermion Compounds Probed by Time-Domain Terahertz Spectroscopy

S. Pal, C. Wetli, F. Zamani, O. Stockert, H. v. Löhneysen, M. Fiebig, and J. Kroha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 096401 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Direct Measurement of Hyperfine Shifts and Radio Frequency Manipulation of Nuclear Spins in Individual $CdTe / ZnTe$ Quantum Dots

G. Ragunathan, J. Kobak, G. Gillard, W. Pacuski, K. Sobczak, J. Borysiuk, M. S. Skolnick, and E. A. Chekhovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 096801 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

Interaction of Skyrmions and Pearl Vortices in Superconductor-Chiral Ferromagnet Heterostructures

Samme M. Dahir, Anatoly F. Volkov, and Ilya M. Eremin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097001 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predicted Pressure-Induced Superconducting Transition in Electride ${Li}_{6} P$

Ziyuan Zhao, Shoutao Zhang, Tong Yu, Haiyang Xu, Aitor Bergara, and Guochun Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097002 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

First-principles swarm structure calculations predict a pressure-induced superconducting phase in the electride, Li $_{6}$ P, at high temperatures.

Giant Shot Noise from Majorana Zero Modes in Topological Trijunctions

T. Jonckheere, J. Rech, A. Zazunov, R. Egger, A. Levy Yeyati, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097003 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Magnetic Excitations of the Classical Spin Liquid ${MgCr}_{2} O_{4}$

X. Bai, J. A. M. Paddison, E. Kapit, S. M. Koohpayeh, J.-J. Wen, S. E. Dutton, A. T. Savici, A. I. Kolesnikov, G. E. Granroth, C. L. Broholm, J. T. Chalker, and M. Mourigal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097201 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Excitation of Whispering Gallery Magnons in a Magnetic Vortex

K. Schultheiss, R. Verba, F. Wehrmann, K. Wagner, L. Körber, T. Hula, T. Hache, A. Kákay, A. A. Awad, V. Tiberkevich, A. N. Slavin, J. Fassbender, and H. Schultheiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097202 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Emergent Coherent Lattice Behavior in Kondo Nanosystems

Marcin Raczkowski and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097203 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Winding Up Quantum Spin Helices: How Avoided Level Crossings Exile Classical Topological Protection

Thore Posske and Michael Thorwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097204 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Magnetoterahertz Response and Faraday Rotation from Massive Dirac Fermions in the Topological Crystalline Insulator ${Pb}_{0.5} {Sn}_{0.5} Te$

Bing Cheng, P. Taylor, P. Folkes, Charles Rong, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097401 (2019) - Published 4 March, 2019

Novel Dynamical Magnetoelectric Effects in Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

S. Omid Sayedaghaee, Bin Xu, Sergey Prosandeev, Charles Paillard, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097601 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

Metallic Phase and Temperature Dependence of the $ν = 0$ Quantum Hall State in Bilayer Graphene

Jing Li, Hailong Fu, Zhenxi Yin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Jun Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097701 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

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

Connectivity, Not Density, Dictates Percolation in Nematic Liquid Crystals of Slender Nanoparticles

Shari P. Finner, Tanja Schilling, and Paul van der Schoot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 097801 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Capillary-Induced Motion of Particles Bridging Interfaces of a Free-Standing Thin Liquid Film

Abhishek Yadav, E. John Hinch, and Mahesh S. Tirumkudulu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098001 (2019) - Published 5 March, 2019

Active matter invasion of a viscous fluid: Unstable sheets and a no-flow theorem

Christopher J. Miles, Arthur A. Evans, Michael J. Shelley, and Saverio E. Spagnolie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098002 (2019) - Published 4 March, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Elastocapillary Crease

Qihan Liu, Tetsu Ouchi, Lihua Jin, Ryan Hayward, and Zhigang Suo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098003 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

A new model that includes surface tension reconciles conflicting experiments that show how soft, elastic materials crease when compressed.

From Yielding to Shear Jamming in a Cohesive Frictional Suspension

Abhinendra Singh, Sidhant Pednekar, Jaehun Chun, Morton M. Denn, and Jeffrey F. Morris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098004 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019

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Grooves Accelerate Dew Shedding

Pierre-Brice Bintein, Henri Lhuissier, Anne Mongruel, Laurent Royon, and Daniel Beysens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098005 (2019) - Published 8 March, 2019

Dew condensing on an inclined, grooved surface rapidly forms large drops that roll quickly to the bottom for collection.

Helical Superstructure of Intermediate Filaments

Lila Bouzar, Martin Michael Müller, René Messina, Bernd Nöding, Sarah Köster, Hervé Mohrbach, and Igor M. Kulić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098101 (2019) - Published 6 March, 2019

Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap between Single-Molecular Behavior and Bulk Hydrolysis Properties of Cellulase

Takahiro Ezaki, Katsuhiro Nishinari, Masahiro Samejima, and Kiyohiko Igarashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 098102 (2019) - Published 7 March, 2019