Volume 123, Issue 19

8 November 2019

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Acoustic analog of a topological superconductor vortex made of rigid cylinders of varying radii (color), arranged in a finite triangular sonic lattice.

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Majorana-like Zero Modes in Kekulé Distorted Sonic Lattices
Penglin Gao, Daniel Torrent, Francisco Cervera, Pablo San-Jose, José Sánchez-Dehesa, and Johan Christensen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196601 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantized Conductance through a Spin-Selective Atomic Point Contact

Martin Lebrat, Samuel Häusler, Philipp Fabritius, Dominik Husmann, Laura Corman, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193605 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

A spin filter for cold atoms might be used as a testbed for spintronic devices and for searches for Majorana fermions.

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Band-Gap-Dependent Electronic Compressibility of Carbon Nanotubes in the Wigner Crystal Regime

Neda Lotfizadeh, Daniel R. McCulley, Mitchell J. Senger, Han Fu, Ethan D. Minot, Brian Skinner, and Vikram V. Deshpande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197701 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Researchers have determined the energy required to add an electron to a Wigner crystal—an ordered crystalline state made of electrons rather than atoms.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Demonstration of Machine Learning-Based Model-Independent Stabilization of Source Properties in Synchrotron Light Sources

S. C. Leemann, S. Liu, A. Hexemer, M. A. Marcus, C. N. Melton, H. Nishimura, and C. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 194801 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Machine-learning algorithms could allow researchers to substantially reduce unwanted fluctuations in the widths of the electron beams produced at synchrotrons.

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Physical Limit to Concentration Sensing in a Changing Environment

Thierry Mora and Ilya Nemenman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 198101 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

A new theoretical model predicts a fundamental limit to how finely attuned a cell can be to its biochemical surroundings.

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Superheavy Thermal Dark Matter

Hyungjin Kim and Eric Kuflik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 191801 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

A new thermal freezeout mechanism for dark matter produces the correct relic abundance for elementary dark matter having mass up to 10 $^{14}$ GeV, well above a prior unitary bound.

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Light-Driven Electron-Hole Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-Like State in Bulk GaAs

Yuta Murotani, Changsu Kim, Hidefumi Akiyama, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197401 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

An electron-hole pairing state can be induced in a regular GaAs semiconductor crystal with laser light.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Simultaneous Learning of Multiple Nonclassical Correlations

Mu Yang, Chang-liang Ren, Yue-chi Ma, Ya Xiao, Xiang-Jun Ye, Lu-Lu Song, Jin-Shi Xu, Man-Hong Yung, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190401 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

$δ$ -Quench Measurement of a Pure Quantum-State Wave Function

Shanchao Zhang, Yiru Zhou, Yefeng Mei, Kaiyu Liao, Yong-Li Wen, Jianfeng Li, Xin-Ding Zhang, Shengwang Du, Hui Yan, and Shi-Liang Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190402 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Non-Hermitian Boundary State Engineering in Anomalous Floquet Topological Insulators

Bastian Höckendorf, Andreas Alvermann, and Holger Fehske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190403 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

General-Purpose Quantum Circuit Simulator with Projected Entangled-Pair States and the Quantum Supremacy Frontier

Chu Guo, Yong Liu, Min Xiong, Shichuan Xue, Xiang Fu, Anqi Huang, Xiaogang Qiang, Ping Xu, Junhua Liu, Shenggen Zheng, He-Liang Huang, Mingtang Deng, Dario Poletti, Wan-Su Bao, and Junjie Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190501 (2019) - Published 4 November, 2019

Correlating Decoherence in Transmon Qubits: Low Frequency Noise by Single Fluctuators

Steffen Schlör, Jürgen Lisenfeld, Clemens Müller, Alexander Bilmes, Andre Schneider, David P. Pappas, Alexey V. Ustinov, and Martin Weides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190502 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Fundamental Limitations to Local Energy Extraction in Quantum Systems

Álvaro M. Alhambra, Georgios Styliaris, Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones, Jamie Sikora, and Eduardo Martín-Martínez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190601 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

Evolution of Entanglement Spectra under Generic Quantum Dynamics

Po-Yao Chang, Xiao Chen, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, and J. H. Pixley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190602 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Observing Topological Charges and Dynamical Bulk-Surface Correspondence with Ultracold Atoms

Chang-Rui Yi, Long Zhang, Lin Zhang, Rui-Heng Jiao, Xiang-Can Cheng, Zong-Yao Wang, Xiao-Tian Xu, Wei Sun, Xiong-Jun Liu, Shuai Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 190603 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Fundamental Physics Implications for Higher-Curvature Theories from Binary Black Hole Signals in the LIGO-Virgo Catalog GWTC-1

Remya Nair, Scott Perkins, Hector O. Silva, and Nicolás Yunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 191101 (2019) - Published 4 November, 2019

Constraining the Self-Interacting Neutrino Interpretation of the Hubble Tension

Nikita Blinov, Kevin J. Kelly, Gordan Krnjaic, and Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 191102 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Three-Point Functions of Determinant Operators in Planar $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Yunfeng Jiang, Shota Komatsu, and Edoardo Vescovi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 191601 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superheavy Thermal Dark Matter

Hyungjin Kim and Eric Kuflik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 191801 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

A new thermal freezeout mechanism for dark matter produces the correct relic abundance for elementary dark matter having mass up to 10 $^{14}$ GeV, well above a prior unitary bound.

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of $ϒ (1 S)$ Elliptic Flow at Forward Rapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 192301 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

New Insight in the $Q^{2}$ Dependence of Proton Generalized Polarizabilities

J. Beričič et al. (A1 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 192302 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photon-Momentum-Induced Molecular Dynamics in Photoionization of $N_{2}$ at $h ν = 40 keV$

M. Kircher, J. Rist, F. Trinter, S. Grundmann, M. Waitz, N. Melzer, I. Vela-Perez, T. Mletzko, A. Pier, N. Strenger, J. Siebert, R. Janssen, V. Honkimäki, J. Drnec, Ph. V. Demekhin, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. S. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193001 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

Fate of the Amplitude Mode in a Trapped Dipolar Supersolid

J. Hertkorn, F. Böttcher, M. Guo, J. N. Schmidt, T. Langen, H. P. Büchler, and T. Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193002 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Single-Shot Nondestructive Detection of Rydberg-Atom Ensembles by Transmission Measurement of a Microwave Cavity

S. Garcia, M. Stammeier, J. Deiglmayr, F. Merkt, and A. Wallraff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193201 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Intensity-Based Axial Localization at the Quantum Limit

J. Řeháček, M. Paúr, B. Stoklasa, D. Koutný, Z. Hradil, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193601 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Quantum Simulation Meets Nonequilibrium Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: Exploring the Periodically Driven, Strongly Correlated Fermi-Hubbard Model

Kilian Sandholzer, Yuta Murakami, Frederik Görg, Joaquín Minguzzi, Michael Messer, Rémi Desbuquois, Martin Eckstein, Philipp Werner, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193602 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Frequency-Multiplexed Photon Pairs Over 1000 Modes from a Quadratic Nonlinear Optical Waveguide Resonator with a Singly Resonant Configuration

Rikizo Ikuta, Ryoya Tani, Masahiro Ishizaki, Shigehito Miki, Masahiro Yabuno, Hirotaka Terai, Nobuyuki Imoto, and Takashi Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193603 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Anti-Parity-Time Symmetric Optical Four-Wave Mixing in Cold Atoms

Yue Jiang, Yefeng Mei, Ying Zuo, Yanhua Zhai, Jensen Li, Jianming Wen, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193604 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

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Quantized Conductance through a Spin-Selective Atomic Point Contact

Martin Lebrat, Samuel Häusler, Philipp Fabritius, Dominik Husmann, Laura Corman, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193605 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

A spin filter for cold atoms might be used as a testbed for spintronic devices and for searches for Majorana fermions.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Observation of $P T$ Symmetry Breaking near Divergent Exceptional Points

M. Sakhdari, M. Hajizadegan, Q. Zhong, D. N. Christodoulides, R. El-Ganainy, and P.-Y. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 193901 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Flow Resistance and Structures in Viscoelastic Channel Flows at Low Re

Boyang Qin, Paul F. Salipante, Steven D. Hudson, and Paulo E. Arratia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 194501 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

Tunable Electrorheological Fluid Microfluidic Rectifier: Irreversibility of Viscous Flow Due to Spatial Asymmetry Induced Memory Effects

X. Huo and G. Yossifon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 194502 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Demonstration of Machine Learning-Based Model-Independent Stabilization of Source Properties in Synchrotron Light Sources

S. C. Leemann, S. Liu, A. Hexemer, M. A. Marcus, C. N. Melton, H. Nishimura, and C. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 194801 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Machine-learning algorithms could allow researchers to substantially reduce unwanted fluctuations in the widths of the electron beams produced at synchrotrons.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Oscillations and Decay of Superfluid Currents in a One-Dimensional Bose Gas on a Ring

Juan Polo, Romain Dubessy, Paolo Pedri, Hélène Perrin, and Anna Minguzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195301 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Lévy Flights and Hydrodynamic Superdiffusion on the Dirac Cone of Graphene

Egor I. Kiselev and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195302 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Simulating Electrochemical Systems by Combining the Finite Field Method with a Constant Potential Electrode

Thomas Dufils, Guillaume Jeanmairet, Benjamin Rotenberg, Michiel Sprik, and Mathieu Salanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195501 (2019) - Published 4 November, 2019

Probing the Degree of Heterogeneity within a Shear Band of a Model Glass

Muhammad Hassani, Alexandra E. Lagogianni, and Fathollah Varnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195502 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

Hybrid Acoustic Topological Insulator in Three Dimensions

Cheng He, Si-Yuan Yu, Huaiqiang Wang, Hao Ge, Jiawei Ruan, Haijun Zhang, Ming-Hui Lu, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195503 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Smooth Flow in Diamond: Atomistic Ductility and Electronic Conductivity

Chang Liu, Xianqi Song, Quan Li, Yanming Ma, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195504 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Can Ordered Precursors Promote the Nucleation of Solid Solutions?

Caroline Desgranges and Jerome Delhommelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 195701 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Phases without Crystalline Counterparts

Dániel Varjas, Alexander Lau, Kim Pöyhönen, Anton R. Akhmerov, Dmitry I. Pikulin, and Ion Cosma Fulga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196401 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Higher-Order Topological Mott Insulators

Koji Kudo, Tsuneya Yoshida, and Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196402 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Berry Curvature Dipole in Strained Graphene: A Fermi Surface Warping Effect

Raffaele Battilomo, Niccoló Scopigno, and Carmine Ortix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196403 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

Majorana-like Zero Modes in Kekulé Distorted Sonic Lattices

Penglin Gao, Daniel Torrent, Francisco Cervera, Pablo San-Jose, José Sánchez-Dehesa, and Johan Christensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196601 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Anomalous Thermoelectric Effects of ${ZrTe}_{5}$ in and beyond the Quantum Limit

J. L. Zhang, C. M. Wang, C. Y. Guo, X. D. Zhu, Y. Zhang, J. Y. Yang, Y. Q. Wang, Z. Qu, L. Pi, Hai-Zhou Lu, and M. L. Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196602 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Critical Spin Fluctuation Mechanism for the Spin Hall Effect

Satoshi Okamoto, Takeshi Egami, and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196603 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Magnetic-Field Control of Topological Electronic Response near Room Temperature in Correlated Kagome Magnets

Yangmu Li, Qi Wang, Lisa DeBeer-Schmitt, Zurab Guguchia, Ryan D. Desautels, Jia-Xin Yin, Qianheng Du, Weijun Ren, Xinguo Zhao, Zhidong Zhang, Igor A. Zaliznyak, Cedomir Petrovic, Weiguo Yin, M. Zahid Hasan, Hechang Lei, and John M. Tranquada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 196604 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

One Proximate Kitaev Spin Liquid in the $K − J − Γ$ Model on the Honeycomb Lattice

Jiucai Wang, B. Normand, and Zheng-Xin Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197201 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

Spontaneous Magnetic Superdomain Wall Fluctuations in an Artificial Antiferromagnet

X. M. Chen, B. Farmer, J. S. Woods, S. Dhuey, W. Hu, C. Mazzoli, S. B. Wilkins, R. V. Chopdekar, A. Scholl, I. K. Robinson, L. E. De Long, S. Roy, and J. T. Hastings

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197202 (2019) - Published 6 November, 2019

Intrinsic Low-Temperature Magnetism in ${SmB}_{6}$

S. Gheidi, K. Akintola, K. S. Akella, A. M. Côté, S. R. Dunsiger, C. Broholm, W. T. Fuhrman, S. R. Saha, J. Paglione, and J. E. Sonier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197203 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Nonlinear Magnetization Dynamics Driven by Strong Terahertz Fields

Matthias Hudl, Massimiliano d’Aquino, Matteo Pancaldi, See-Hun Yang, Mahesh G. Samant, Stuart S. P. Parkin, Hermann A. Dürr, Claudio Serpico, Matthias C. Hoffmann, and Stefano Bonetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197204 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Light-Driven Electron-Hole Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer-Like State in Bulk GaAs

Yuta Murotani, Changsu Kim, Hidefumi Akiyama, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Ken W. West, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197401 (2019) - Published 8 November, 2019

An electron-hole pairing state can be induced in a regular GaAs semiconductor crystal with laser light.

Depinning Transition of Charge-Density Waves: Mapping onto $O (n)$ Symmetric $ϕ^{4}$ Theory with $n \to - 2$ and Loop-Erased Random Walks

Kay Jörg Wiese and Andrei A. Fedorenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197601 (2019) - Published 4 November, 2019

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Band-Gap-Dependent Electronic Compressibility of Carbon Nanotubes in the Wigner Crystal Regime

Neda Lotfizadeh, Daniel R. McCulley, Mitchell J. Senger, Han Fu, Ethan D. Minot, Brian Skinner, and Vikram V. Deshpande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197701 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

Researchers have determined the energy required to add an electron to a Wigner crystal—an ordered crystalline state made of electrons rather than atoms.

Correlated Insulating States in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene

G. William Burg, Jihang Zhu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Allan H. MacDonald, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 197702 (2019) - Published 7 November, 2019

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Physical Limit to Concentration Sensing in a Changing Environment

Thierry Mora and Ilya Nemenman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 198101 (2019) - Published 5 November, 2019

A new theoretical model predicts a fundamental limit to how finely attuned a cell can be to its biochemical surroundings.