Volume 123, Issue 15

11 October 2019

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On the Cover

Evolution of the distribution of a two-dimensional time-multiplexed quantum walker in a photonic platform.

From the article:

Synthetic Gauge Field for Two-Dimensional Time-Multiplexed Quantum Random Walks
Hamidreza Chalabi, Sabyasachi Barik, Sunil Mittal, Thomas E. Murphy, Mohammad Hafezi, and Edo Waks
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150503 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Direct Measurement of a Nonlocal Entangled Quantum State

Wei-Wei Pan, Xiao-Ye Xu, Yaron Kedem, Qin-Qin Wang, Zhe Chen, Munsif Jan, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Yong-Jian Han, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150402 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Researchers have directly measured the components of a nonlocal, entangled wave function, rather than relying on indirect tomographic or reconstructive techniques.

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Shear-Jammed, Fragile, and Steady States in Homogeneously Strained Granular Materials

Yiqiu Zhao (赵逸秋), Jonathan Barés, Hu Zheng (郑虎), Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 158001 (2019) - Published 7 October, 2019

The characterization of a new transition in sheared grains helps to fill in the phase diagram for granular materials.

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Transmission Electron Microscope Using a Linear Accelerator

Takumi Sannomiya, Yoshihiro Arai, Kuniaki Nagayama, and Yukinori Nagatani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150801 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

A linear accelerator delivers high-energy electrons that can be used to image samples too thick for conventional transmission electron microscopes.

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Period- $n$ Discrete Time Crystals and Quasicrystals with Ultracold Bosons

Andrea Pizzi, Johannes Knolle, and Andreas Nunnenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150601 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

A realistic and experimentally realizable model of a driven quantum system displays discrete time-crystal dynamics due to the nonlinearity induced by the many-body interaction.

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Surface-Bulk Interplay in Vapor-Deposited Glasses: Crossover Length and the Origin of Front Transformation

Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco, Marta Gonzalez-Silveira, Joan Ràfols-Ribé, Ana Vila-Costa, Julio Cesar Martinez-Garcia, and Javier Rodríguez-Viejo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 155501 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Both ultrastable and ordinary glasses show front propagation on melting, with an intermediate liquid layer between the glass and the liquid.

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Environmental Nanoparticle-Induced Toughening and Pinning of a Growing Crack in a Biopolymer Hydrogel

O. Ronsin, I. Naassaoui, A. Marcellan, and T. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 158002 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

A single drop of silica nanoparticle solution deposited at the tip of a crack inside a stretched hydrogel material stops the crack from propagating further and strengthens the hydrogel material.

LETTERS

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

How to Quantify a Dynamical Quantum Resource

Gilad Gour and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150401 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Measurement of a Nonlocal Entangled Quantum State

Wei-Wei Pan, Xiao-Ye Xu, Yaron Kedem, Qin-Qin Wang, Zhe Chen, Munsif Jan, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Yong-Jian Han, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150402 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Researchers have directly measured the components of a nonlocal, entangled wave function, rather than relying on indirect tomographic or reconstructive techniques.

In Situ Characterization of Qubit Control Lines: A Qubit as a Vector Network Analyzer

Markus Jerger, Anatoly Kulikov, Zénon Vasselin, and Arkady Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150501 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Causal Limit on Quantum Communication

Robert Pisarczyk, Zhikuan Zhao, Yingkai Ouyang, Vlatko Vedral, and Joseph F. Fitzsimons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150502 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Synthetic Gauge Field for Two-Dimensional Time-Multiplexed Quantum Random Walks

Hamidreza Chalabi, Sabyasachi Barik, Sunil Mittal, Thomas E. Murphy, Mohammad Hafezi, and Edo Waks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150503 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Period- $n$ Discrete Time Crystals and Quasicrystals with Ultracold Bosons

Andrea Pizzi, Johannes Knolle, and Andreas Nunnenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150601 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

A realistic and experimentally realizable model of a driven quantum system displays discrete time-crystal dynamics due to the nonlinearity induced by the many-body interaction.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Transmission Electron Microscope Using a Linear Accelerator

Takumi Sannomiya, Yoshihiro Arai, Kuniaki Nagayama, and Yukinori Nagatani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 150801 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

A linear accelerator delivers high-energy electrons that can be used to image samples too thick for conventional transmission electron microscopes.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measuring Spin of the Remnant Black Hole from Maximum Amplitude

Deborah Ferguson, Sudarshan Ghonge, James A. Clark, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Pablo Laguna, and Deirdre Shoemaker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151101 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

General Solution to the U(1) Anomaly Equations

Davi B. Costa, Bogdan A. Dobrescu, and Patrick J. Fox

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151601 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Loop-Tree Duality for Multiloop Numerical Integration

Zeno Capatti, Valentin Hirschi, Dario Kermanschah, and Ben Ruijl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151602 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Hide and Seek with Massive Fields in Modulus Mediation

Ken-ichi Okumura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151801 (2019) - Published 7 October, 2019

Detecting Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superconducting Nanowires

Yonit Hochberg, Ilya Charaev, Sae-Woo Nam, Varun Verma, Marco Colangelo, and Karl K. Berggren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151802 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

First measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters using neutrinos and antineutrinos by NOvA

M. A. Acero et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 151803 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Observation of New Resonances in the $Λ_{b}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ System

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 152001 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Purcell-Enhanced Spontaneous Emission of Molecular Vibrations

Bernd Metzger, Eric Muller, Jun Nishida, Benjamin Pollard, Mario Hentschel, and Markus B. Raschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153001 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Resolved-Sideband Cooling of a Levitated Nanoparticle in the Presence of Laser Phase Noise

Nadine Meyer, Andrés de los Rios Sommer, Pau Mestres, Jan Gieseler, Vijay Jain, Lukas Novotny, and Romain Quidant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153601 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

Highly Polarizable Rydberg Ion in a Paul Trap

Gerard Higgins, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, and Markus Hennrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153602 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Shuttling of Rydberg Ions for Fast Entangling Operations

J. Vogel, W. Li, A. Mokhberi, I. Lesanovsky, and F. Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153603 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Accurate Detection of Arbitrary Photon Statistics

Josef Hloušek, Michal Dudka, Ivo Straka, and Miroslav Ježek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153604 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Arnold Tongues in Coupled Soliton Kerr Frequency Combs

Jae K. Jang, Xingchen Ji, Chaitanya Joshi, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Michal Lipson, and Alexander L. Gaeta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153901 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Time-Resolved sub-Ångström Metrology by Temporal Phase Interferometry near X-Ray Resonances of Nuclei

Stephan Goerttler, Kilian Heeg, Andreas Kaldun, Patrick Reiser, Cornelius Strohm, Johann Haber, Christian Ott, Rajagopalan Subramanian, Ralf Röhlsberger, Jörg Evers, and Thomas Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 153902 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Laminar Chaos in Experiments: Nonlinear Systems with Time-Varying Delays and Noise

Joseph D. Hart, Rajarshi Roy, David Müller-Bender, Andreas Otto, and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 154101 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Lifetime of a Nanodroplet: Kinetic Effects and Regime Transitions

A. S. Rana, D. A. Lockerby, and J. E. Sprittles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 154501 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Starting Flow Past an Airfoil and its Acquired Lift in a Superfluid

Seth Musser, Davide Proment, Miguel Onorato, and William T. M. Irvine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 154502 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Surface-Bulk Interplay in Vapor-Deposited Glasses: Crossover Length and the Origin of Front Transformation

Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco, Marta Gonzalez-Silveira, Joan Ràfols-Ribé, Ana Vila-Costa, Julio Cesar Martinez-Garcia, and Javier Rodríguez-Viejo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 155501 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Both ultrastable and ordinary glasses show front propagation on melting, with an intermediate liquid layer between the glass and the liquid.

Relation between Heterogeneous Frozen Regions in Supercooled Liquids and Non-Debye Spectrum in the Corresponding Glasses

Matteo Paoluzzi, Luca Angelani, Giorgio Parisi, and Giancarlo Ruocco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 155502 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Supercompliant and Soft ${({CH}_{3} {NH}_{3})}_{3} {Bi}_{2} I_{9}$ Crystal with Ultralow Thermal Conductivity

Hao Ma, Chen Li, Yunwei Ma, Heng Wang, Zachary W. Rouse, Zhuolei Zhang, Carla Slebodnick, Ahmet Alatas, Shefford P. Baker, Jeffrey J. Urban, and Zhiting Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 155901 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Vibrational Relaxation Lifetime of a Physisorbed Molecule at a Metal Surface

Sumit Kumar, Hongyan Jiang, Michael Schwarzer, Alexander Kandratsenka, Dirk Schwarzer, and Alec M. Wodtke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156101 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Duality of Ring and Ladder Diagrams and Its Importance for Many-Electron Perturbation Theories

Andreas Irmler, Alejandro Gallo, Felix Hummel, and Andreas Grüneis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156401 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

Fractional Charge by Fixed-Node Diffusion Monte Carlo Method

Matej Ditte and Matúš Dubecký

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156402 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Nonperturbative Matrix Mechanics Approach to Spin-Split Landau Levels and the $g$ Factor in Spin-Orbit Coupled Solids

Yuki Izaki and Yuki Fuseya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156403 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Contrasting Pressure-Induced Metallization Processes in Layered Perovskites, $α$ - ${Sr}_{2} M O_{4}$ ( $M = V$ , Cr)

Touru Yamauchi, Taku Shimazu, Daisuke Nishio-Hamane, and Hiroya Sakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156601 (2019) - Published 9 October, 2019

Lattice-Symmetry-Assisted Second-Order Topological Superconductors and Majorana Patterns

Xiao-Hong Pan, Kai-Jie Yang, Li Chen, Gang Xu, Chao-Xing Liu, and Xin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156801 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

Quasinormal Modes and the Hawking-Unruh Effect in Quantum Hall Systems: Lessons from Black Hole Phenomena

Suraj S. Hegde, Varsha Subramanyan, Barry Bradlyn, and Smitha Vishveshwara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 156802 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Tuning Magnetic Chirality by Dipolar Interactions

Juriaan Lucassen, Mariëlle J. Meijer, Oleg Kurnosikov, Henk J. M. Swagten, Bert Koopmans, Reinoud Lavrijsen, Fabian Kloodt-Twesten, Robert Frömter, and Rembert A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 157201 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Terahertz Optomagnetism: Nonlinear THz Excitation of GHz Spin Waves in Antiferromagnetic ${FeBO}_{3}$

E. A. Mashkovich, K. A. Grishunin, R. V. Mikhaylovskiy, A. K. Zvezdin, R. V. Pisarev, M. B. Strugatsky, P. C. M. Christianen, Th. Rasing, and A. V. Kimel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 157202 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019

Valence Bond Orders at Charge Neutrality in a Possible Two-Orbital Extended Hubbard Model for Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Yuan Da Liao, Zi Yang Meng, and Xiao Yan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 157601 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

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

Threading the Spindle: A Geometric Study of Chiral Liquid Crystal Polymer Microparticles

Helen S. Ansell, Dae Seok Kim, Randall D. Kamien, Eleni Katifori, and Teresa Lopez-Leon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 157801 (2019) - Published 10 October, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shear-Jammed, Fragile, and Steady States in Homogeneously Strained Granular Materials

Yiqiu Zhao (赵逸秋), Jonathan Barés, Hu Zheng (郑虎), Joshua E. S. Socolar, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 158001 (2019) - Published 7 October, 2019

The characterization of a new transition in sheared grains helps to fill in the phase diagram for granular materials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Environmental Nanoparticle-Induced Toughening and Pinning of a Growing Crack in a Biopolymer Hydrogel

O. Ronsin, I. Naassaoui, A. Marcellan, and T. Baumberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 158002 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

A single drop of silica nanoparticle solution deposited at the tip of a crack inside a stretched hydrogel material stops the crack from propagating further and strengthens the hydrogel material.

ERRATA

Erratum: Directional Bistability and Nonreciprocal Lasing with Cold Atoms in a Ring Cavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 163603 (2018)]

B. Megyeri, G. Harvie, A. Lampis, and J. Goldwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 159901 (2019) - Published 8 October, 2019

Erratum: Experimental Measurement of the Quantum Metric Tensor and Related Topological Phase Transition with a Superconducting Qubit [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 210401 (2019)]

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Zhen Yang, Ji Chu, Yan-Qing Zhu, Danyu Li, Xiaopei Yang, Shuqing Song, Zhikun Han, Zhiyuan Li, Yuqian Dong, Hai-Feng Yu, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 159902 (2019) - Published 11 October, 2019