Volume 123, Issue 11

13 September 2019

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Schematics (top) and corresponding electron microscope images (bottom) of various bending modes of multilayer van der Waals materials. (Microscope images reproduced with permission from Refs. [4,8,14,15,17] of the Letter.) Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Bending of Multilayer van der Waals Materials
Guorui Wang, Zhaohe Dai, Junkai Xiao, ShiZhe Feng, Chuanxin Weng, Luqi Liu, Zhiping Xu, Rui Huang, and Zhong Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116101 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Photon Bunching in a Rotating Reference Frame

Sara Restuccia, Marko Toroš, Graham M. Gibson, Hendrik Ulbricht, Daniele Faccio, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110401 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

A well-known quantum experiment is performed on a rotating lab table—offering a probe of quantum physics in a noninertial reference frame.

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Testing the No-Hair Theorem with GW150914

Maximiliano Isi, Matthew Giesler, Will M. Farr, Mark A. Scheel, and Saul A. Teukolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111102 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

A fresh look at data from the first detected black-hole merger supports the “no hair” theorem and proves the potential of black-hole spectroscopy.

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State Preparation and Tomography of a Nanomechanical Resonator with Fast Light Pulses

Juha T. Muhonen, Giada R. La Gala, Rick Leijssen, and Ewold Verhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113601 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

Quantum nondemolition measurements with fast pulses present the best method to the date for achieving a motional ground state of a nanomechanical resonator.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bending of Multilayer van der Waals Materials

Guorui Wang, Zhaohe Dai, Junkai Xiao, ShiZhe Feng, Chuanxin Weng, Luqi Liu, Zhiping Xu, Rui Huang, and Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116101 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

Direct measurement of the bending rigidity of multilayer graphene, molybdenum disulfide, and hexagonal boron nitride, shows a response of the multilayers consistent with nonlinear plate theory.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Realization of a Quantum Dot Energy Harvester

G. Jaliel, R. K. Puddy, R. Sánchez, A. N. Jordan, B. Sothmann, I. Farrer, J. P. Griffiths, D. A. Ritchie, and C. G. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117701 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

It’s now possible to harvest energy at the mesoscopic scale by exploiting the resonant tunneling in a nanoscale thermoelectric device consisting of two quantum dots.

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Absence of Interlayer Tunnel Coupling of $K$ -Valley Electrons in Bilayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Riccardo Pisoni, Tim Davatz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117702 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

Detailed low temperature magnetotransport measurements of encapsulated bilayer MoS $_{2}$ reveal that, in contrast to bilayer graphene, in this system the two layers behave as independent electronic systems with no tunnel coupling.

LETTERS

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

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Photon Bunching in a Rotating Reference Frame

Sara Restuccia, Marko Toroš, Graham M. Gibson, Hendrik Ulbricht, Daniele Faccio, and Miles J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110401 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

A well-known quantum experiment is performed on a rotating lab table—offering a probe of quantum physics in a noninertial reference frame.

Resource Theory of Coherence Based on Positive-Operator-Valued Measures

Felix Bischof, Hermann Kampermann, and Dagmar Bruß

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110402 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Memory Effects in Quantum Metrology

Yuxiang Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110501 (2019) - Published 11 September, 2019

Quantum Error Correcting Codes in Eigenstates of Translation-Invariant Spin Chains

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Elizabeth Crosson, M. Burak Şahinoğlu, and John Bowen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110502 (2019) - Published 11 September, 2019

Probing Qubit Memory Errors at the Part-per-Million Level

M. A. Sepiol, A. C. Hughes, J. E. Tarlton, D. P. Nadlinger, T. G. Ballance, C. J. Ballance, T. P. Harty, A. M. Steane, J. F. Goodwin, and D. M. Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110503 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Localization as an Entanglement Phase Transition in Boundary-Driven Anderson Models

Michael J. Gullans and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110601 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

Fluctuation Theorem Uncertainty Relation

Yoshihiko Hasegawa and Tan Van Vu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110602 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Information-Theoretical Bound of the Irreversibility in Thermal Relaxation Processes

Naoto Shiraishi and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110603 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Few-Mode Geometric Description of a Driven-Dissipative Phase Transition in an Open Quantum System

Dmitry O. Krimer and Mikhail Pletyukhov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 110604 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

LISA Pathfinder Performance Confirmed in an Open-Loop Configuration: Results from the Free-Fall Actuation Mode

M. Armano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111101 (2019) - Published 11 September, 2019

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Testing the No-Hair Theorem with GW150914

Maximiliano Isi, Matthew Giesler, Will M. Farr, Mark A. Scheel, and Saul A. Teukolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111102 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

A fresh look at data from the first detected black-hole merger supports the “no hair” theorem and proves the potential of black-hole spectroscopy.

Axion Dark Matter Search with Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors

Koji Nagano, Tomohiro Fujita, Yuta Michimura, and Ippei Obata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111301 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Tensionless Path from Closed to Open Strings

Arjun Bagchi, Aritra Banerjee, and Pulastya Parekh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111601 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

Generalized Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis in 2D Conformal Field Theories

Anatoly Dymarsky and Kirill Pavlenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111602 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Extraction of the ${}^{235}U$ and ${}^{239}{Pu}$ Antineutrino Spectra at Daya Bay

D. Adey et al. (Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 111801 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Amplitude Analysis of $D_{s}^{+} \to π^{+} π^{0} η$ and First Observation of the $W$ -Annihilation Dominant Decays $D_{s}^{+} \to a_{0} (980)^{+} π^{0}$ and $D_{s}^{+} \to a_{0} (980)^{0} π^{+}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 112001 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

First Observation of an Attractive Interaction between a Proton and a Cascade Baryon

S. Acharya et al. (A Large Ion Collider Experiment Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 112002 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Harmonic Potential Theorem: Extension to Spin-, Velocity-, and Density-Dependent Interactions

S. Zanoli, X. Roca-Maza, G. Colò, and Shihang Shen (申时行)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 112501 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory with Complex, Spin-Restricted Orbitals: Accessing a New Class of Densities without the Symmetry Dilemma

Joonho Lee, Luke W. Bertels, David W. Small, and Martin Head-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113001 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

Quantum Quench and Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Lattice-Confined Spinor Condensates

Z. Chen, T. Tang, J. Austin, Z. Shaw, L. Zhao, and Y. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113002 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

Narrow-line Cooling and Determination of the Magic Wavelength of Cd

A. Yamaguchi, M. S. Safronova, K. Gibble, and H. Katori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113201 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

How to Observe the Vacuum Decay in Low-Energy Heavy-Ion Collisions

I. A. Maltsev, V. M. Shabaev, R. V. Popov, Y. S. Kozhedub, G. Plunien, X. Ma, Th. Stöhlker, and D. A. Tumakov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113401 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Positron Binding and Annihilation in Alkane Molecules

A. R. Swann and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113402 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

State Preparation and Tomography of a Nanomechanical Resonator with Fast Light Pulses

Juha T. Muhonen, Giada R. La Gala, Rick Leijssen, and Ewold Verhagen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113601 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

Quantum nondemolition measurements with fast pulses present the best method to the date for achieving a motional ground state of a nanomechanical resonator.

Interference-Induced Quantum Squeezing Enhancement in a Two-beam Phase-Sensitive Amplifier

Shengshuai Liu, Yanbo Lou, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113602 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

All-Optical Storage of Phase-Sensitive Quantum States of Light

Yosuke Hashimoto, Takeshi Toyama, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Kenzo Makino, Fumiya Okamoto, Rei Sakakibara, Shuntaro Takeda, Peter van Loock, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113603 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Orbital Angular Momentum Coupling in Elastic Photon-Photon Scattering

R. Aboushelbaya, K. Glize, A. F. Savin, M. Mayr, B. Spiers, R. Wang, J. Collier, M. Marklund, R. M. G. M. Trines, R. Bingham, and P. A. Norreys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113604 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Polariton Exchange Interactions in Multichannel Optical Networks

Mohammadsadegh Khazali, Callum R. Murray, and Thomas Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113605 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Polariton Fluids in a Flatband Reveal Discrete Gap Solitons

V. Goblot, B. Rauer, F. Vicentini, A. Le Boité, E. Galopin, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, A. Harouri, I. Sagnes, S. Ravets, C. Ciuti, A. Amo, and J. Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 113901 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Probabilistic Hysteresis in Integrable and Chaotic Isolated Hamiltonian Systems

Ralf Bürkle, Amichay Vardi, Doron Cohen, and James R. Anglin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 114101 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Large-Scale Pattern Formation in the Presence of Small-Scale Random Advection

Gregor Ibbeken, Gerrit Green, and Michael Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 114501 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Formation of a High Pressure Staircase Pedestal with Suppressed Edge Localized Modes in the DIII-D Tokamak

Arash Ashourvan, R. Nazikian, E. Belli, J. Candy, D. Eldon, B. A. Grierson, W. Guttenfelder, S. R. Haskey, C. Lasnier, G. R. McKee, and C. C. Petty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 115001 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Probing Ground-State Phase Transitions through Quench Dynamics

Paraj Titum, Joseph T. Iosue, James R. Garrison, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Zhe-Xuan Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 115701 (2019) - Published 11 September, 2019

Critical Jammed Phase of the Linear Perceptron

Silvio Franz, Antonio Sclocchi, and Pierfrancesco Urbani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 115702 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bending of Multilayer van der Waals Materials

Guorui Wang, Zhaohe Dai, Junkai Xiao, ShiZhe Feng, Chuanxin Weng, Luqi Liu, Zhiping Xu, Rui Huang, and Zhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116101 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

Direct measurement of the bending rigidity of multilayer graphene, molybdenum disulfide, and hexagonal boron nitride, shows a response of the multilayers consistent with nonlinear plate theory.

Load and Velocity Dependence of Friction Mediated by Dynamics of Interfacial Contacts

Wengen Ouyang, Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna, Antonella Rossi, Michael Urbakh, Nicholas D. Spencer, and Andrea Arcifa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116102 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

Does Flexoelectricity Drive Triboelectricity?

C. A. Mizzi, A. Y. W. Lin, and L. D. Marks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116103 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Circularly Polarized States Spawning from Bound States in the Continuum

Wenzhe Liu, Bo Wang, Yiwen Zhang, Jiajun Wang, Maoxiong Zhao, Fang Guan, Xiaohan Liu, Lei Shi, and Jian Zi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116104 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Topology of Disordered 3D Graphene Networks

Jacob W. Martin, Carla de Tomas, Irene Suarez-Martinez, Markus Kraft, and Nigel A. Marks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116105 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Discovery of Weyl Nodal Lines in a Single-Layer Ferromagnet

Baojie Feng, Run-Wu Zhang, Ya Feng, Botao Fu, Shilong Wu, Koji Miyamoto, Shaolong He, Lan Chen, Kehui Wu, Kenya Shimada, Taichi Okuda, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116401 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Tomographic Dynamics and Scale-Dependent Viscosity in 2D Electron Systems

Patrick Ledwith, Haoyu Guo, Andrey Shytov, and Leonid Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116601 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Supercurrent Detection of Topologically Trivial Zero-Energy States in Nanowire Junctions

Oladunjoye A. Awoga, Jorge Cayao, and Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117001 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Strong Orbital Polarization in a Cobaltate-Titanate Oxide Heterostructure

Sangjae Lee, Alex Taekyung Lee, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Gilberto Fabbris, Myung-Geun Han, Yimei Zhu, John W. Freeland, Ankit S. Disa, Yichen Jia, Mark P. M. Dean, Frederick J. Walker, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, and Charles H. Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117201 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

Magnon Pairs and Spin-Nematic Correlation in the Spin Seebeck Effect

Daichi Hirobe, Masahiro Sato, Masato Hagihala, Yuki Shiomi, Takatsugu Masuda, and Eiji Saitoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117202 (2019) - Published 12 September, 2019

Nonlocal Spin Transport as a Probe of Viscous Magnon Fluids

Camilo Ulloa, A. Tomadin, J. Shan, M. Polini, B. J. van Wees, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117203 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Exchange-Enhanced Ultrastrong Magnon-Magnon Coupling in a Compensated Ferrimagnet

Lukas Liensberger, Akashdeep Kamra, Hannes Maier-Flaig, Stephan Geprägs, Andreas Erb, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Rudolf Gross, Wolfgang Belzig, Hans Huebl, and Mathias Weiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117204 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Optical Phase Transition in Semiconductor Quantum Metamaterials

Adrian Hierro, Miguel Montes Bajo, Mario Ferraro, Julen Tamayo-Arriola, Nolwenn Le Biavan, Maxime Hugues, Jose M. Ulloa, Massimo Giudici, Jean-Michel Chauveau, and Patrice Genevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117401 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Realization of a Quantum Dot Energy Harvester

G. Jaliel, R. K. Puddy, R. Sánchez, A. N. Jordan, B. Sothmann, I. Farrer, J. P. Griffiths, D. A. Ritchie, and C. G. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117701 (2019) - Published 9 September, 2019

It’s now possible to harvest energy at the mesoscopic scale by exploiting the resonant tunneling in a nanoscale thermoelectric device consisting of two quantum dots.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Absence of Interlayer Tunnel Coupling of $K$ -Valley Electrons in Bilayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Riccardo Pisoni, Tim Davatz, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 117702 (2019) - Published 10 September, 2019

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Enhanced Strength Through Nanotwinning in the Thermoelectric Semiconductor InSb”

Bo Yang, Xianghe Peng, Cheng Huang, Yinbo Zhao, and Tao Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 119601 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019

Li, An, and Morozov Reply:

Guodong Li, Qi An, and Sergey I. Morozov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 119602 (2019) - Published 13 September, 2019