Volume 123, Issue 18

1 November 2019

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The gapped (001) surface states of transition metal dichalcogenide β-MoTe₂ calculated from first principles.

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Higher-Order Topology, Monopole Nodal Lines, and the Origin of Large Fermi Arcs in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides $X {Te}_{2}$ ( $X = Mo, W$ )
Zhijun Wang, Benjamin J. Wieder, Jian Li, Binghai Yan, and B. Andrei Bernevig
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186401 (2019)

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Y. Yang, I. Bartos, V. Gayathri, K. E. S. Ford, Z. Haiman, S. Klimenko, B. Kocsis, S. Márka, Z. Márka, B. McKernan, and R. O’Shaughnessy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181101 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

A multiple merger scenario occurring in the centers of galaxies might explain some surprisingly large merger events recorded by gravitational-wave detectors.

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Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

S. Raghunathan et al. (SPTpol and DES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181301 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

The first detection of gravitational lensing in the polarization pattern of the cosmic microwave background offers a more precise way to measure the mass of galaxy clusters.

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Quantum Network Nodes Based on Diamond Qubits with an Efficient Nanophotonic Interface

C. T. Nguyen, D. D. Sukachev, M. K. Bhaskar, B. Machielse, D. S. Levonian, E. N. Knall, P. Stroganov, R. Riedinger, H. Park, M. Lončar, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183602 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

A solid-state qubit satisfies three key requirements of a building block for a quantum network.

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Measurement of Motion beyond the Quantum Limit by Transient Amplification

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A new technique allows for more precise measurements of a quantum oscillator’s time-varying displacement, with potential applications in quantum information.

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Polyelectrolyte Conformation Controlled by a Trivalent-Rich Ion Jacket

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A new model explains the deformation of polymers in an ionic solution in terms of the concentration and distribution of ions.

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Fractional Hydrodynamic Memory and Superdiffusion in Tilted Washboard Potentials

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Hydrodynamic memory effects can lead to a giant inertial enhancement of nonlinear diffusion.

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Properties of Cosmic Helium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181102 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

The AMS collaboration’s measurement of $^{3}$ He and $^{4}$ He fluxes over the course of six years will help understand the composition, sources, and propagation of cosmic rays.

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Quantum Rydberg Central Spin Model

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183001 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Rydberg excitations in ultracold atoms provide a new type of quantum impurity system unifying key features of three fundamental models: the Kondo model, the Bose polaron model, and the central spin model.

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Superhigh-Resolution Recognition of Optical Vortex Modes Assisted by a Deep-Learning Method

Zhanwei Liu, Shuo Yan, Haigang Liu, and Xianfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183902 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Separation of angular momentum modes of light, combined with machine learning technology enables high-resolution image transfer through an optical communication system.

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

Anomaly Matching and Symmetry-Protected Critical Phases in $S U (N)$ Spin Systems in $1 + 1$ Dimensions

Yuan Yao, Chang-Tse Hsieh, and Masaki Oshikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180201 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Device-Independent Tests of Structures of Measurement Incompatibility

Marco Túlio Quintino, Costantino Budroni, Erik Woodhead, Adán Cabello, and Daniel Cavalcanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180401 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Controlling Quantum Transport via Dissipation Engineering

François Damanet, Eduardo Mascarenhas, David Pekker, and Andrew J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180402 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Distinct Bound of the Quantum Speed Limit via the Gauge Invariant Distance

Shuning Sun (孙舒宁) and Yujun Zheng (郑雨军)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180403 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

Quantum Noise Theory of Exceptional Point Amplifying Sensors

Mengzhen Zhang, William Sweeney, Chia Wei Hsu, Lan Yang, A. D. Stone, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180501 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Phonon Pair Creation by Inflating Quantum Fluctuations in an Ion Trap

Matthias Wittemer, Frederick Hakelberg, Philip Kiefer, Jan-Philipp Schröder, Christian Fey, Ralf Schützhold, Ulrich Warring, and Tobias Schaetz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180502 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Enhanced Multiqubit Phase Estimation in Noisy Environments by Local Encoding

Massimiliano Proietti, Martin Ringbauer, Francesco Graffitti, Peter Barrow, Alexander Pickston, Dmytro Kundys, Daniel Cavalcanti, Leandro Aolita, Rafael Chaves, and Alessandro Fedrizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180503 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

Demonstrating Quantum Coherence and Metrology that is Resilient to Transversal Noise

Chao Zhang, Thomas R. Bromley, Yun-Feng Huang, Huan Cao, Wei-Min Lv, Bi-Heng Liu, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Marco Cianciaruso, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180504 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

Multifractal Scalings Across the Many-Body Localization Transition

Nicolas Macé, Fabien Alet, and Nicolas Laflorencie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180601 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Collisional Quantum Thermometry

Stella Seah, Stefan Nimmrichter, Daniel Grimmer, Jader P. Santos, Valerio Scarani, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180602 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

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Fractional Hydrodynamic Memory and Superdiffusion in Tilted Washboard Potentials

Igor Goychuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180603 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Hydrodynamic memory effects can lead to a giant inertial enhancement of nonlinear diffusion.

Repeated Interactions and Quantum Stochastic Thermodynamics at Strong Coupling

Philipp Strasberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 180604 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

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Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei

Y. Yang, I. Bartos, V. Gayathri, K. E. S. Ford, Z. Haiman, S. Klimenko, B. Kocsis, S. Márka, Z. Márka, B. McKernan, and R. O’Shaughnessy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181101 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

A multiple merger scenario occurring in the centers of galaxies might explain some surprisingly large merger events recorded by gravitational-wave detectors.

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Properties of Cosmic Helium Isotopes Measured by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181102 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

The AMS collaboration’s measurement of $^{3}$ He and $^{4}$ He fluxes over the course of six years will help understand the composition, sources, and propagation of cosmic rays.

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Detection of CMB-Cluster Lensing using Polarization Data from SPTpol

S. Raghunathan et al. (SPTpol and DES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181301 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

The first detection of gravitational lensing in the polarization pattern of the cosmic microwave background offers a more precise way to measure the mass of galaxy clusters.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measuring Higgs Couplings without Higgs Bosons

Brian Henning, Davide Lombardo, Marc Riembau, and Francesco Riva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181801 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Constraints on Light Dark Matter Particles Interacting with Electrons from DAMIC at SNOLAB

A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (DAMIC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 181802 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

binary junipr: An Interpretable Probabilistic Model for Discrimination

Anders Andreassen, Ilya Feige, Christopher Frye, and Matthew D. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 182001 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Kaon Photoproduction and the $Λ$ Decay Parameter $α_{-}$

D. G. Ireland, M. Döring, D. I. Glazier, J. Haidenbauer, M. Mai, R. Murray-Smith, and D. Rönchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 182301 (2019) - Published 28 October, 2019

Microcanonical Particlization with Local Conservation Laws

Dmytro Oliinychenko and Volker Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 182302 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

Unique Access to $u$ -Channel Physics: Exclusive Backward-Angle Omega Meson Electroproduction

W. B. Li et al. (Jefferson Lab $F_{π}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 182501 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Quantum Rydberg Central Spin Model

Yuto Ashida, Tao Shi, Richard Schmidt, H. R. Sadeghpour, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183001 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Experimental Realization of $P T$ -Symmetric Flat Bands

Tobias Biesenthal, Mark Kremer, Matthias Heinrich, and Alexander Szameit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183601 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

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Quantum Network Nodes Based on Diamond Qubits with an Efficient Nanophotonic Interface

C. T. Nguyen, D. D. Sukachev, M. K. Bhaskar, B. Machielse, D. S. Levonian, E. N. Knall, P. Stroganov, R. Riedinger, H. Park, M. Lončar, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183602 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

A solid-state qubit satisfies three key requirements of a building block for a quantum network.

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Measurement of Motion beyond the Quantum Limit by Transient Amplification

R. D. Delaney, A. P. Reed, R. W. Andrews, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183603 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

A new technique allows for more precise measurements of a quantum oscillator’s time-varying displacement, with potential applications in quantum information.

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Acoustic Radiation Force and Torque on Small Particles as Measures of the Canonical Momentum and Spin Densities

I. D. Toftul, K. Y. Bliokh, M. I. Petrov, and F. Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183901 (2019) - Published 28 October, 2019

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Superhigh-Resolution Recognition of Optical Vortex Modes Assisted by a Deep-Learning Method

Zhanwei Liu, Shuo Yan, Haigang Liu, and Xianfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183902 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Separation of angular momentum modes of light, combined with machine learning technology enables high-resolution image transfer through an optical communication system.

Routing a Chiral Raman Signal Based on Spin-Orbit Interaction of Light

Quanbing Guo, Tong Fu, Jibo Tang, Deng Pan, Shunping Zhang, and Hongxing Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 183903 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

Many-Body Synchronization in a Classical Hamiltonian System

Reyhaneh Khasseh, Rosario Fazio, Stefano Ruffo, and Angelo Russomanno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 184301 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Hydrodynamic $X$ Waves

James N. Steer, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Miguel Onorato, Amin Chabchoub, and Ton S. van den Bremer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 184501 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Isotope Effect on Energy Confinement Time and Thermal Transport in Neutral-Beam-Heated Stellarator-Heliotron Plasmas

H. Yamada, K. Tanaka, R. Seki, C. Suzuki, K. Ida, K. Fujii, M. Goto, S. Murakami, M. Osakabe, T. Tokuzawa, M. Yokoyama, M. Yoshinuma, and LHD Experiment Group

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 185001 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Slow Dynamics in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Binary Complex Plasma

Cheng-Ran Du, Vladimir Nosenko, Hubertus M. Thomas, Yi-Fei Lin, Gregor E. Morfill, and Alexei V. Ivlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 185002 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Effect of Pinning on the Yielding Transition of Amorphous Solids

Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik, Pinaki Chaudhuri, and Smarajit Karmakar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 185501 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Giant Electrophononic Response in ${PbTiO}_{3}$ by Strain Engineering

Pol Torres, Jorge Íñiguez, and Riccardo Rurali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 185901 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Shaping Magnetite Nanoparticles from First Principles

Hongsheng Liu and Cristiana Di Valentin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186101 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

Surface Phase Metastability during Langmuir Evaporation

K. Hannikainen, D. Gomez, J. Pereiro, Y. R. Niu, and D. E. Jesson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186102 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Higher-Order Topology, Monopole Nodal Lines, and the Origin of Large Fermi Arcs in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides $X {Te}_{2}$ ( $X = Mo, W$ )

Zhijun Wang, Benjamin J. Wieder, Jian Li, Binghai Yan, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186401 (2019) - Published 28 October, 2019

Emergent Geometric Frustration and Flat Band in Moiré Bilayer Graphene

Hridis K. Pal, Stephen Spitz, and Markus Kindermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186402 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Anomalous Spin Diffusion in One-Dimensional Antiferromagnets

Jacopo De Nardis, Marko Medenjak, Christoph Karrasch, and Enej Ilievski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186601 (2019) - Published 28 October, 2019

Optimal Thermoelectricity with Quantum Spin Hall Edge States

Daniel Gresta, Mariano Real, and Liliana Arrachea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 186801 (2019) - Published 28 October, 2019

Spin-to-Charge Conversion in Magnetic Weyl Semimetals

Steven S.-L. Zhang, Anton A. Burkov, Ivar Martin, and Olle G. Heinonen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 187201 (2019) - Published 30 October, 2019

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

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Polyelectrolyte Conformation Controlled by a Trivalent-Rich Ion Jacket

Sarah N. Innes-Gold, Philip A. Pincus, Mark J. Stevens, and Omar A. Saleh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 187801 (2019) - Published 29 October, 2019

A new model explains the deformation of polymers in an ionic solution in terms of the concentration and distribution of ions.

Direct Observation of Dynamic Tube Dilation in Entangled Polymer Blends: A Combination of Neutron Scattering and Dielectric Techniques

Paula Malo de Molina, Angel Alegría, Jürgen Allgaier, Margarita Kruteva, Ingo Hoffmann, Sylvain Prévost, Michael Monkenbusch, Dieter Richter, Arantxa Arbe, and Juan Colmenero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 187802 (2019) - Published 1 November, 2019

COMMENTS

Comment on “Experimental Evidence for a State-Point-Dependent Density-Scaling Exponent of Liquid Dynamics”

T. C. Ransom, R. Casalini, D. Fragiadakis, A. P. Holt, and C. M. Roland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 189601 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019

Sanz et al. Reply:

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 189602 (2019) - Published 31 October, 2019