Volume 123, Issue 17

25 October 2019

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Observation of multicolor light emissions from third-order sum frequency generation in ultrahigh-Q silica microcavities with an organically functionalized surface. Selected for an Editors’ Selection.

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Microcavity Nonlinear Optics with an Organically Functionalized Surface
Jin-hui Chen, Xiaoqin Shen, Shui-Jing Tang, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173902 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Parallel Implementation of High-Fidelity Multiqubit Gates with Neutral Atoms

Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Giulia Semeghini, Ahmed Omran, Tout T. Wang, Sepehr Ebadi, Hannes Bernien, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić, Hannes Pichler, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170503 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Fidelity in multiqubit gates based on trapped rubidium atoms is now competitive with other approaches and can be maintained as the device is scaled up.

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Demonstration of a Timescale Based on a Stable Optical Carrier

William R. Milner, John M. Robinson, Colin J. Kennedy, Tobias Bothwell, Dhruv Kedar, Dan G. Matei, Thomas Legero, Uwe Sterr, Fritz Riehle, Holly Leopardi, Tara M. Fortier, Jeffrey A. Sherman, Judah Levine, Jian Yao, Jun Ye, and Eric Oelker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173201 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

An all-optical clock scheme could improve time metrology standards, taking an important step toward the redefinition of the second.

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Relating Rheotaxis and Hydrodynamic Actuation using Asymmetric Gold-Platinum Phoretic Rods

Quentin Brosseau, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Enkeleida Lushi, Yang Wu, Leif Ristroph, Jun Zhang, Michael Ward, and Michael J. Shelley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 178004 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Changing the length ratio of the two segments of a microswimmer affects its ability to automatically swim against the current.

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Topological Stabilization and Dynamics of Self-Propelling Nematic Shells

Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Kyle A. Baldwin, Carsten Krüger, Christian Bahr, and Corinna C. Maass

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 178003 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Encapsulating emulsion-based microcapsules with a liquid-crystal layer helps stop the capsules from bursting—it also allows them to self-propel.

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Arrow of Causality and Quantum Gravity

John F. Donoghue and Gabriel Menezes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171601 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Causality, rather than the arrow of time, may be a more natural discriminant between the past and the future in quantum theories.

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Microcavity Nonlinear Optics with an Organically Functionalized Surface

Jin-hui Chen, Xiaoqin Shen, Shui-Jing Tang, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173902 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

The efficiency of a third-order nonlinear process is improved by four orders of magnitude in ultrahigh-Q silica cavity, opening a new regime of nonlinear optics.

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Regular-Orbit-Engineered Chaotic Photon Transport in Mixed Phase Space

Li-Kun Chen, Yu-Zhong Gu, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong, Jan Wiersig, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173903 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

A novel nanofiber technique shows that the evolution of light inside an asymmetric microcavity is engineered by regular orbits and two distinct evolution pathways emerge: regular-chaotic and pure-chaotic channels.

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Direct Observation of Infrared Plasmonic Fano Antiresonances by a Nanoscale Electron Probe

Kevin C. Smith, Agust Olafsson, Xuan Hu, Amber M. Nelson-Quillin, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Robyn Collette, Philip D. Rack, Jon P. Camden, and David J. Masiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 177401 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

First direct detection of Fano resonances in small gold disks that are proximity-coupled to long gold rods using a high-resolution transmission electron microscope.

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Networks and Hierarchies: How Amorphous Materials Learn to Remember

Muhittin Mungan, Srikanth Sastry, Karin Dahmen, and Ido Regev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 178002 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

By mapping plastic rearrangements onto a directed network model, topology is linked to dynamics to show that plastically deformed amorphous solids feature return-point-memory, a strong form of memory which was not expected to occur in these materials.

LETTERS

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

Non-Hermitian Skin Effect and Chiral Damping in Open Quantum Systems

Fei Song, Shunyu Yao, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170401 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

Experimental Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Steering and Randomness Generation Beyond Qubits

Yu Guo, Shuming Cheng, Xiaomin Hu, Bi-Heng Liu, En-Ming Huang, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Eric G. Cavalcanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170402 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Distributed Private Randomness Distillation

Dong Yang, Karol Horodecki, and Andreas Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170501 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Efficient Classical Simulation of Clifford Circuits with Nonstabilizer Input States

Kaifeng Bu and Dax Enshan Koh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170502 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Parallel Implementation of High-Fidelity Multiqubit Gates with Neutral Atoms

Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Giulia Semeghini, Ahmed Omran, Tout T. Wang, Sepehr Ebadi, Hannes Bernien, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić, Hannes Pichler, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170503 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Fidelity in multiqubit gates based on trapped rubidium atoms is now competitive with other approaches and can be maintained as the device is scaled up.

Matrix Product States: Entanglement, Symmetries, and State Transformations

David Sauerwein, Andras Molnar, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Barbara Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170504 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Phase Dependent Vectorial Current Control in Symmetric Noisy Optical Ratchets

Magda G. Sánchez-Sánchez, Roberto de J. León-Montiel, and Pedro A. Quinto-Su

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170601 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Properties of the Geometry of Solutions and Capacity of Multilayer Neural Networks with Rectified Linear Unit Activations

Carlo Baldassi, Enrico M. Malatesta, and Riccardo Zecchina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170602 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Integrable Many-Body Quantum Floquet-Thouless Pumps

Aaron J. Friedman, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and Romain Vasseur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170603 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Bell Correlations at Ising Quantum Critical Points

Angelo Piga, Albert Aloy, Maciej Lewenstein, and Irénée Frérot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170604 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Unifying Paradigms of Quantum Refrigeration: A Universal and Attainable Bound on Cooling

Fabien Clivaz, Ralph Silva, Géraldine Haack, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Nicolas Brunner, and Marcus Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170605 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Universal Prethermal Dynamics in Gross-Neveu-Yukawa Criticality

Shao-Kai Jian, Shuai Yin, and Brian Swingle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 170606 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Direct Constraints on the Ultralight Boson Mass from Searches of Continuous Gravitational Waves

C. Palomba, S. D’Antonio, P. Astone, S. Frasca, G. Intini, I. La Rosa, P. Leaci, S. Mastrogiovanni, A. L. Miller, F. Muciaccia, O. J. Piccinni, L. Rei, and F. Simula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171101 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Interior of a Binary Black Hole Merger

Daniel Pook-Kolb, Ofek Birnholtz, Badri Krishnan, and Erik Schnetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171102 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

Critical Phenomena in the Gravitational Collapse of Electromagnetic Waves

Thomas W. Baumgarte, Carsten Gundlach, and David Hilditch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171103 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Spectral Lines of Quantized, Spinning Black Holes and their Astrophysical Relevance

Andrew Coates, Sebastian H. Völkel, and Kostas D. Kokkotas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171104 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics of Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings

Rachel Nguyen, Jorinde van de Vis, Evangelos I. Sfakianakis, John T. Giblin, Jr., and David I. Kaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171301 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Arrow of Causality and Quantum Gravity

John F. Donoghue and Gabriel Menezes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 171601 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Causality, rather than the arrow of time, may be a more natural discriminant between the past and the future in quantum theories.

Finite-Volume Effects in $(g - 2)_{μ}^{HVP, LO}$

Maxwell T. Hansen and Agostino Patella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 172001 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Baryon as a Quantum Hall Droplet and the Quark-Hadron Duality

Yong-Liang Ma, Maciej A. Nowak, Mannque Rho, and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 172301 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

$g$ Factor of Lithiumlike Silicon: New Challenge to Bound-State QED

D. A. Glazov, F. Köhler-Langes, A. V. Volotka, K. Blaum, F. Heiße, G. Plunien, W. Quint, S. Rau, V. M. Shabaev, S. Sturm, and G. Werth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173001 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

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Demonstration of a Timescale Based on a Stable Optical Carrier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173201 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

An all-optical clock scheme could improve time metrology standards, taking an important step toward the redefinition of the second.

Exploring Non-Abelian Geometric Phases in Spin-1 Ultracold Atoms

Bharath H. M., Matthew Boguslawski, Maryrose Barrios, Lin Xin, and Michael S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173202 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Recovering the Homogeneous Absorption of Inhomogeneous Media

Ohr Lahad, Ran Finkelstein, Omri Davidson, Ohad Michel, Eilon Poem, and Ofer Firstenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173203 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Strongly Correlated Quantum Gas Prepared by Direct Laser Cooling

Pablo Solano, Yiheng Duan, Yu-Ting Chen, Alyssa Rudelis, Cheng Chin, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173401 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Quantum Transducer Using a Parametric Driven-Dissipative Phase Transition

Toni L. Heugel, Matteo Biondi, Oded Zilberberg, and R. Chitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173601 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Extended Range of Dipole-Dipole Interactions in Periodically Structured Photonic Media

Lei Ying, Ming Zhou, Michael Mattei, Boyuan Liu, Paul Campagnola, Randall H. Goldsmith, and Zongfu Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173901 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Microcavity Nonlinear Optics with an Organically Functionalized Surface

Jin-hui Chen, Xiaoqin Shen, Shui-Jing Tang, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173902 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

The efficiency of a third-order nonlinear process is improved by four orders of magnitude in ultrahigh-Q silica cavity, opening a new regime of nonlinear optics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Regular-Orbit-Engineered Chaotic Photon Transport in Mixed Phase Space

Li-Kun Chen, Yu-Zhong Gu, Qi-Tao Cao, Qihuang Gong, Jan Wiersig, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173903 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Subharmonic Entrainment of Kerr Breather Solitons

Daniel C. Cole and Scott B. Papp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 173904 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Partial Time-Reversal Invariance Violation in a Flat, Superconducting Microwave Cavity with the Shape of a Chaotic Africa Billiard

B. Dietz, T. Klaus, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, and M. Wunderle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 174101 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Acoustic Scattering Mediated Single Detector Optoacoustic Tomography

X. Luís Deán-Ben, Ali Özbek, Hernán López-Schier, and Daniel Razansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 174301 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Polarized Positron Beams via Intense Two-Color Laser Pulses

Yue-Yue Chen, Pei-Lun He, Rashid Shaisultanov, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 174801 (2019) - Published 22 October, 2019

Measurement of Dielectric Multipactor Thresholds at 110 GHz

S. C. Schaub, M. A. Shapiro, and R. J. Temkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 175001 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Front-Mediated Melting of Isotropic Ultrastable Glasses

Elijah Flenner, Ludovic Berthier, Patrick Charbonneau, and Christopher J. Fullerton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 175501 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Atomic Transport in Au-Ge Droplets: Brownian and Electromigration Dynamics

F. Leroy, A. El Barraj, F. Cheynis, P. Müller, and S. Curiotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 176101 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strong Electron-Phonon Coupling and its Influence on the Transport and Optical Properties of Hole-Doped Single-Layer InSe

A. V. Lugovskoi, M. I. Katsnelson, and A. N. Rudenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 176401 (2019) - Published 23 October, 2019

Exploring the Kondo Effect of an Extended Impurity with Chains of Co Adatoms in a Magnetic Field

Bimla Danu, Fakher F. Assaad, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 176601 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Attosecond Dynamics of $s p$ -Band Photoexcitation

Johann Riemensberger, Stefan Neppl, Dionysios Potamianos, Martin Schäffer, Maximilian Schnitzenbaumer, Marcus Ossiander, Christian Schröder, Alexander Guggenmos, Ulf Kleineberg, Dietrich Menzel, Francesco Allegretti, Johannes V. Barth, Reinhard Kienberger, Peter Feulner, Andrei G. Borisov, Pedro M. Echenique, and Andrey K. Kazansky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 176801 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

Kohn-Sham Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Yayun Hu and J. K. Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 176802 (2019) - Published 25 October, 2019

Higher-Order Topological Odd-Parity Superconductors

Zhongbo Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 177001 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

Mechanism of Néel Order Switching in Antiferromagnetic Thin Films Revealed by Magnetotransport and Direct Imaging

L. Baldrati, O. Gomonay, A. Ross, M. Filianina, R. Lebrun, R. Ramos, C. Leveille, F. Fuhrmann, T. R. Forrest, F. Maccherozzi, S. Valencia, F. Kronast, E. Saitoh, J. Sinova, and M. Kläui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 177201 (2019) - Published 24 October, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Infrared Plasmonic Fano Antiresonances by a Nanoscale Electron Probe

Kevin C. Smith, Agust Olafsson, Xuan Hu, Amber M. Nelson-Quillin, Juan Carlos Idrobo, Robyn Collette, Philip D. Rack, Jon P. Camden, and David J. Masiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 177401 (2019) - Published 21 October, 2019

First direct detection of Fano resonances in small gold disks that are proximity-coupled to long gold rods using a high-resolution transmission electron microscope.