Volume 123, Issue 4

26 July 2019

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RGB image of type Ia supernova remnant N103B with the green area showing coronal [Fe XIV] emission. The yellow dot marks the region from which the spectrum was extracted. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

From the article:

Optical Tomography of Chemical Elements Synthesized in Type Ia Supernovae
I. R. Seitenzahl, P. Ghavamian, J. M. Laming, and F. P. A. Vogt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041101 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Optical Tomography of Chemical Elements Synthesized in Type Ia Supernovae

I. R. Seitenzahl, P. Ghavamian, J. M. Laming, and F. P. A. Vogt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041101 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

A new optical spectroscopy method can characterize the chemical composition of different layers of the material ejected from type Ia supernovae, delivering clues to the star’s history.

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Metric Space of Collider Events

Patrick T. Komiske, Eric M. Metodiev, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041801 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

A new way to measure the “distance” between high-energy particle collision events can help researchers interpret events involving, for example, the production of Higgs bosons or of top quarks.

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Twenty-Five-Fold Reduction in Measurement Uncertainty for a Molecular Line Intensity

Adam J. Fleisher, Erin M. Adkins, Zachary D. Reed, Hongming Yi, David A. Long, Hélène M. Fleurbaey, and Joseph T. Hodges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043001 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

More accurate measurements of CO $_{2}$ in the atmosphere can be obtained by accounting for discrepancies in spectroscopy hardware.

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Photonic Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect

Sunil Mittal, Venkata Vikram Orre, Daniel Leykam, Y. D. Chong, and Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043201 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Researchers engineered semiconductor systems that sustain exotic phases of matter.

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Electronic Compressibility of Magic-Angle Graphene Superlattices

S. L. Tomarken, Y. Cao, A. Demir, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Jarillo-Herrero, and R. C. Ashoori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 046601 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

A capacitance bridge enables measurements of the thermodynamic density of states of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

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Quantum Electrodynamical Bloch Theory with Homogeneous Magnetic Fields

Vasil Rokaj, Markus Penz, Michael A. Sentef, Michael Ruggenthaler, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047202 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

A general theory of quantum electrodynamics shows that translational symmetry can be restored for Bloch electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field by including its fluctuations.

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Approaching Quantization in Macroscopic Quantum Spin Hall Devices through Gate Training

Lukas Lunczer, Philipp Leubner, Martin Endres, Valentin L. Müller, Christoph Brüne, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047701 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

Using controlled gate training, the scattering lengths in HgTe edge channels can be extended by an order of magnitude, opening up the feasibility of macroscopic applications.

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From Stress Chains to Acoustic Emission

Ke Gao, Robert Guyer, Esteban Rougier, Christopher X. Ren, and Paul A. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 048003 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Acoustics emissions in granular systems can be related to the dynamics of chains of particles pressing against each other.

LETTERS

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

Completely Positive Divisibility Does Not Mean Markovianity

Simon Milz, M. S. Kim, Felix A. Pollock, and Kavan Modi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040401 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

Retrieving Ideal Precision in Noisy Quantum Optical Metrology

Kai Bai, Zhen Peng, Hong-Gang Luo, and Jun-Hong An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040402 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Control-Enhanced Sequential Scheme for General Quantum Parameter Estimation at the Heisenberg Limit

Zhibo Hou, Rui-Jia Wang, Jun-Feng Tang, Haidong Yuan, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040501 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Emergent Glassy Dynamics in a Quantum Dimer Model

Johannes Feldmeier, Frank Pollmann, and Michael Knap

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040601 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

Probing Bayesian Credible Regions Intrinsically: A Feasible Error Certification for Physical Systems

Changhun Oh, Yong Siah Teo, and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040602 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Statistical Physics Approach to the Optimal Transport Problem

Patrice Koehl, Marc Delarue, and Henri Orland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 040603 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Tomography of Chemical Elements Synthesized in Type Ia Supernovae

I. R. Seitenzahl, P. Ghavamian, J. M. Laming, and F. P. A. Vogt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041101 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

A new optical spectroscopy method can characterize the chemical composition of different layers of the material ejected from type Ia supernovae, delivering clues to the star’s history.

Black-Hole Remnants from Black-Hole–Neutron-Star Mergers

Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Francesco Pannarale, Michela Mapelli, and Nicola Giacobbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041102 (2019) - Published 25 July, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Unruh Effect without Thermality

Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Luis J. Garay, Eduardo Martín-Martínez, and José de Ramón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041601 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Weyl Consistency Conditions and $γ_{5}$

C. Poole and A. E. Thomsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041602 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

All Master Integrals for Three-Jet Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

D. Chicherin, T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn, P. Wasser, Y. Zhang, and S. Zoia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041603 (2019) - Published 25 July, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Metric Space of Collider Events

Patrick T. Komiske, Eric M. Metodiev, and Jesse Thaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 041801 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

A new way to measure the “distance” between high-energy particle collision events can help researchers interpret events involving, for example, the production of Higgs bosons or of top quarks.

Comparison of Fragmentation Functions for Jets Dominated by Light Quarks and Gluons from $p p$ and $Pb + Pb$ Collisions in ATLAS

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 042001 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

Quark-Mass Dependence of Elastic $π K$ Scattering from QCD

David J. Wilson, Raúl A. Briceño, Jozef J. Dudek, Robert G. Edwards, and Christopher E. Thomas (for the Hadron Spectrum Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 042002 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Searching for Flavor Dependence in Nuclear Quark Behavior

J. Arrington and N. Fomin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 042501 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

First Measurement of the Total Neutron Cross Section on Argon between 100 and 800 MeV

B. Bhandari et al. (CAPTAIN Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 042502 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

$γ W$ Box Inside Out: Nuclear Polarizabilities Distort the Beta Decay Spectrum

Mikhail Gorchtein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 042503 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Twenty-Five-Fold Reduction in Measurement Uncertainty for a Molecular Line Intensity

Adam J. Fleisher, Erin M. Adkins, Zachary D. Reed, Hongming Yi, David A. Long, Hélène M. Fleurbaey, and Joseph T. Hodges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043001 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

More accurate measurements of CO $_{2}$ in the atmosphere can be obtained by accounting for discrepancies in spectroscopy hardware.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photonic Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect

Sunil Mittal, Venkata Vikram Orre, Daniel Leykam, Y. D. Chong, and Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043201 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Researchers engineered semiconductor systems that sustain exotic phases of matter.

Recovery of High-Energy Photoelectron Circular Dichroism through Fano Interference

G. Hartmann, M. Ilchen, Ph. Schmidt, C. Küstner-Wetekam, C. Ozga, F. Scholz, J. Buck, F. Trinter, J. Viefhaus, A. Ehresmann, M. S. Schöffler, A. Knie, and Ph. V. Demekhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043202 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Oriented Polar Molecules Trapped in Cold Helium Nanodropets: Electrostatic Deflection, Size Separation, and Charge Migration

John W. Niman, Benjamin S. Kamerin, Daniel J. Merthe, Lorenz Kranabetter, and Vitaly V. Kresin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043203 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Nonadiabatic Molecular Association in Thermal Gases Driven by Radio-Frequency Pulses

P. Giannakeas, L. Khaykovich, Jan-Michael Rost, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043204 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Stereodynamical Control of a Quantum Scattering Resonance in Cold Molecular Collisions

Pablo G. Jambrina, James F. E. Croft, Hua Guo, Mark Brouard, Naduvalath Balakrishnan, and F. Javier Aoiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043401 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Faithful Hierarchy of Genuine $n$ -Photon Quantum Non-Gaussian Light

Lukáš Lachman, Ivo Straka, Josef Hloušek, Miroslav Ježek, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043601 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Quantum-Limited Measurements Using an Optical Cavity with Modulated Intrinsic Loss

Alexander K. Tagantsev and Sergey A. Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043602 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spin Hall Effect of Light in a Random Medium

Tamara Bardon-brun, Dominique Delande, and Nicolas Cherroret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043901 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Third Order Dispersion in Time-Delayed Systems

C. Schelte, P. Camelin, M. Marconi, A. Garnache, G. Huyet, G. Beaudoin, I. Sagnes, M. Giudici, J. Javaloyes, and S. V. Gurevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 043902 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Superradiant Amplification of Acoustic Beams via Medium Rotation

D. Faccio and E. M. Wright

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 044301 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Enhancement of the Inelastic Nuclear Interaction Rate in Crystals via Antichanneling

E. Bagli, D. De Salvador, L. Bacci, F. Sgarbossa, L. Bandiera, R. Camattari, G. Germogli, A. Mazzolari, A. Sytov, and G. Guidi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 044801 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Supersolid Stripe Crystal from Finite-Range Interactions on a Lattice

Guido Masella, Adriano Angelone, Fabio Mezzacapo, Guido Pupillo, and Nikolay V. Prokof’ev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 045301 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

High Precision Detection of Change in Intermediate Range Order of Amorphous Zirconia-Doped Tantala Thin Films Due to Annealing

K. Prasai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 045501 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Measurement of Body-Centered Cubic Gold and Melting under Shock Compression

R. Briggs, F. Coppari, M. G. Gorman, R. F. Smith, S. J. Tracy, A. L. Coleman, A. Fernandez-Pañella, M. Millot, J. H. Eggert, and D. E. Fratanduono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 045701 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Structural Transformation and Melting in Gold Shock Compressed to 355 GPa

Surinder M. Sharma, Stefan J. Turneaure, J. M. Winey, Yuelin Li, Paulo Rigg, Adam Schuman, Nicholas Sinclair, Y. Toyoda, Xiaoming Wang, Nicholas Weir, Jun Zhang, and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 045702 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Nanosecond Optically Induced Phase Transformation in Compressively Strained ${BiFeO}_{3}$ on ${LaAlO}_{3}$

Youngjun Ahn, Anastasios Pateras, Samuel D. Marks, Han Xu, Tao Zhou, Zhenlin Luo, Zuhuang Chen, Lang Chen, Xiaoyi Zhang, Anthony D. DiChiara, Haidan Wen, and Paul G. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 045703 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Quantum Transition Driven by Charge-Phonon Coupling in the Haldane Chern Insulator

L. M. Cangemi, A. S. Mishchenko, N. Nagaosa, V. Cataudella, and G. De Filippis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 046401 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic Compressibility of Magic-Angle Graphene Superlattices

S. L. Tomarken, Y. Cao, A. Demir, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, P. Jarillo-Herrero, and R. C. Ashoori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 046601 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

A capacitance bridge enables measurements of the thermodynamic density of states of magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

Quantum Anomalous Parity Hall Effect in Magnetically Disordered Topological Insulator Films

Arbel Haim, Roni Ilan, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 046801 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

Tuning the Distance to a Possible Ferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in $A_{2} {Cr}_{3} {As}_{3}$

J. Luo, J. Yang, R. Zhou, Q. G. Mu, T. Liu, Zhi-an Ren, C. J. Yi, Y. G. Shi, and Guo-qing Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047001 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Magnetic-Competition-Induced Colossal Magnetoresistance in $n$ -Type ${HgCr}_{2} {Se}_{4}$ under High Pressure

J. P. Sun, Y. Y. Jiao, C. J. Yi, S. E. Dissanayake, M. Matsuda, Y. Uwatoko, Y. G. Shi, Y. Q. Li, Z. Fang, and J.-G. Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047201 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Electrodynamical Bloch Theory with Homogeneous Magnetic Fields

Vasil Rokaj, Markus Penz, Michael A. Sentef, Michael Ruggenthaler, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047202 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

A general theory of quantum electrodynamics shows that translational symmetry can be restored for Bloch electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field by including its fluctuations.

Unveiling Electronic Correlation and the Ferromagnetic Superexchange Mechanism in the van der Waals Crystal ${CrSiTe}_{3}$

Jiaxin Zhang, Xiaochan Cai, Wei Xia, Aiji Liang, Junwei Huang, Chengwei Wang, Lexian Yang, Hongtao Yuan, Yulin Chen, Shilei Zhang, Yanfeng Guo, Zhongkai Liu, and Gang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047203 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

Gigahertz Frequency Antiferromagnetic Resonance and Strong Magnon-Magnon Coupling in the Layered Crystal ${CrCl}_{3}$

David MacNeill, Justin T. Hou, Dahlia R. Klein, Pengxiang Zhang, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047204 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Self-Trapping of Exciton-Polariton Condensates in GaAs Microcavities

Dario Ballarini, Igor Chestnov, Davide Caputo, Milena De Giorgi, Lorenzo Dominici, Kenneth West, Loren N. Pfeiffer, Giuseppe Gigli, Alexey Kavokin, and Daniele Sanvitto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047401 (2019) - Published 23 July, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Approaching Quantization in Macroscopic Quantum Spin Hall Devices through Gate Training

Lukas Lunczer, Philipp Leubner, Martin Endres, Valentin L. Müller, Christoph Brüne, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 047701 (2019) - Published 22 July, 2019

Using controlled gate training, the scattering lengths in HgTe edge channels can be extended by an order of magnitude, opening up the feasibility of macroscopic applications.

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

From Stress Chains to Acoustic Emission

Ke Gao, Robert Guyer, Esteban Rougier, Christopher X. Ren, and Paul A. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 048003 (2019) - Published 26 July, 2019

Acoustics emissions in granular systems can be related to the dynamics of chains of particles pressing against each other.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Hydrophobic Surface Enhances Electrostatic Interaction in Water”

Philip Loche, Amanuel Wolde-Kidan, Alexander Schlaich, Douwe Jan Bonthuis, and Roland R. Netz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 049601 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019

Ohnuki et al. Reply:

Jun Ohnuki, Takato Sato, Tohru Sasaki, Koji Umezawa, and Mitsunori Takano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 049602 (2019) - Published 24 July, 2019