Volume 123, Issue 26

31 December 2019

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Density map for the three distinct populations of electrons past the plasma-vacuum boundary (blue colormap) and the coherent transition radiation magnetic field generated by the escaping electrons (green-red colormap).

From the article:

THz Generation from Relativistic Plasmas Driven by Near- to Far-Infrared Laser Pulses
J. Déchard, X. Davoine, and L. Bergé
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 264801 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Discovery of an Exceptionally Strong $β$ -Decay Transition of ${}^{20}F$ and Implications for the Fate of Intermediate-Mass Stars

O. S. Kirsebom, S. Jones, D. F. Strömberg, G. Martínez-Pinedo, K. Langanke, F. K. Röpke, B. A. Brown, T. Eronen, H. O. U. Fynbo, M. Hukkanen, A. Idini, A. Jokinen, A. Kankainen, J. Kostensalo, I. Moore, H. Möller, S. T. Ohlmann, H. Penttilä, K. Riisager, S. Rinta-Antila, P. C. Srivastava, J. Suhonen, W. H. Trzaska, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 262701 (2019) - Published 24 December, 2019

The discovery of an exceptionally strong “forbidden” beta decay involving fluorine and neon could change our understanding of the fate of intermediate-mass stars.

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Subfemtosecond Tracing of Molecular Dynamics during Strong-Field Interaction

Václav Hanus, Sarayoo Kangaparambil, Seyedreza Larimian, Martin Dorner-Kirchner, Xinhua Xie (谢新华), Markus S. Schöffler, Gerhard G. Paulus, Andrius Baltuška, André Staudte, and Markus Kitzler-Zeiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 263201 (2019) - Published 23 December, 2019

Experiments capture the motion of an ionized molecule with an unprecedented combination of spatial and temporal resolution.

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Spin-Wave Multiplexed Atom-Cavity Electrodynamics

Kevin C. Cox, David H. Meyer, Zachary A. Castillo, Fredrik K. Fatemi, and Paul D. Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 263601 (2019) - Published 24 December, 2019

Researchers demonstrate a method for storing quantum information by “painting” spin-wave patterns onto an ensemble of atoms.

LETTERS

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

Dissipation Induced Nonstationarity in a Quantum Gas

Berislav Buča and Dieter Jaksch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260401 (2019) - Published 23 December, 2019

Quantitative Acoustic Models for Superfluid Circuits

Guillaume Gauthier, Stuart S. Szigeti, Matthew T. Reeves, Mark Baker, Thomas A. Bell, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Matthew J. Davis, and Tyler W. Neely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260402 (2019) - Published 27 December, 2019

Heralded Generation of Macroscopic Superposition States in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

L. Pezzè, M. Gessner, P. Feldmann, C. Klempt, L. Santos, and A. Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260403 (2019) - Published 27 December, 2019

Quantum Neuromorphic Platform for Quantum State Preparation

Sanjib Ghosh, Tomasz Paterek, and Timothy C. H. Liew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260404 (2019) - Published 27 December, 2019

Emergent Periodic and Quasiperiodic Lattices on Surfaces of Synthetic Hall Tori and Synthetic Hall Cylinders

Yangqian Yan, Shao-Liang Zhang, Sayan Choudhury, and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260405 (2019) - Published 30 December, 2019

Experimental Measurement of the Hilbert-Schmidt Distance between Two-Qubit States as a Means for Reducing the Complexity of Machine Learning

Vojtěch Trávníček, Karol Bartkiewicz, Antonín Černoch, and Karel Lemr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260501 (2019) - Published 23 December, 2019

Scattering-Based Geometric Shaping of Photon-Photon Interactions

Shahaf Asban and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260502 (2019) - Published 26 December, 2019

Robust and Resource-Efficient Microwave Near-Field Entangling ${}^{9}{Be}^{+}$ Gate

G. Zarantonello, H. Hahn, J. Morgner, M. Schulte, A. Bautista-Salvador, R. F. Werner, K. Hammerer, and C. Ospelkaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260503 (2019) - Published 26 December, 2019

Efficient Verification of Pure Quantum States in the Adversarial Scenario

Huangjun Zhu and Masahito Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260504 (2019) - Published 27 December, 2019

Variational Spin-Squeezing Algorithms on Programmable Quantum Sensors

Raphael Kaubruegger, Pietro Silvi, Christian Kokail, Rick van Bijnen, Ana Maria Rey, Jun Ye, Adam M. Kaufman, and Peter Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260505 (2019) - Published 30 December, 2019

Eigenstate Thermalization and Rotational Invariance in Ergodic Quantum Systems

Laura Foini and Jorge Kurchan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260601 (2019) - Published 23 December, 2019

Active Hard Spheres in Infinitely Many Dimensions

Thibaut Arnoulx de Pirey, Gustavo Lozano, and Frédéric van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 260602 (2019) - Published 26 December, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Testing New Physics Explanations of the MiniBooNE Anomaly at Neutrino Scattering Experiments

Carlos A. Argüelles, Matheus Hostert, and Yu-Dai Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 261801 (2019) - Published 26 December, 2019

Detecting Light Dark Matter via Inelastic Cosmic Ray Collisions

James Alvey, Miguel D. Campos, Malcolm Fairbairn, and Tevong You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 261802 (2019) - Published 31 December, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Hydrodynamic Attractors, Initial State Energy, and Particle Production in Relativistic Nuclear Collisions

Giuliano Giacalone, Aleksas Mazeliauskas, and Sören Schlichting

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 262301 (2019) - Published 30 December, 2019

Evidence of Single State Dominance in the Two-Neutrino Double- $β$ Decay of ${}^{82}{Se}$ with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 262501 (2019) - Published 23 December, 2019

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Discovery of an Exceptionally Strong $β$ -Decay Transition of ${}^{20}F$ and Implications for the Fate of Intermediate-Mass Stars

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 262701 (2019) - Published 24 December, 2019

The discovery of an exceptionally strong “forbidden” beta decay involving fluorine and neon could change our understanding of the fate of intermediate-mass stars.