Volume 123, Issue 6

9 August 2019

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Heterogeneous excitation of the microscopic acoustic wave turbulence of a cold 2D dusty plasma liquid.

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Multiscale Coherent Excitations in Microscopic Acoustic Wave Turbulence of Cold Dusty Plasma Liquids
Hao-Wei Hu, Wen Wang, and Lin I
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 065002 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Realization of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox Using Radial Position and Radial Momentum Variables

Lixiang Chen, Tianlong Ma, Xiaodong Qiu, Dongkai Zhang, Wuhong Zhang, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060403 (2019) - Published 8 August, 2019

Correlations between the radial position and radial momentum of entangled photons demonstrate the suitability of these properties for quantum information applications.

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Rotational and Rotational-Vibrational Raman Spectroscopy of Air to Characterize Astronomical Spectrographs

Frédéric P. A. Vogt, Florian Kerber, Andrea Mehner, Shanshan Yu, Thomas Pfrommer, Gaspare Lo Curto, Pedro Figueira, Diego Parraguez, Francesco A. Pepe, Denis Mégevand, Marco Riva, Paolo Di Marcantonio, Christophe Lovis, Manuel Amate, Paolo Molaro, Alexandre Cabral, and Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061101 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Laser-generated “stars”—used at telescopes to correct for atmospheric turbulence—could help researchers calibrate the wavelengths of certain astrophysical observations.

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Charge-Induced Structural Changes in a Single Molecule Investigated by Atomic Force Microscopy

Philipp Scheuerer, Laerte L. Patera, Felix Simbürger, Fabian Queck, Ingmar Swart, Bruno Schuler, Leo Gross, Nikolaj Moll, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066001 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Atomic force microscopy detects the subtle structural changes that take place when a molecule is ionized.

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Non-Abelian Geometric Dephasing

Kyrylo Snizhko, Reinhold Egger, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060405 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Fluctuations in adiabatic quantum transport in systems coupled to a bath result in a type of geometric dephasing with clear signatures in interference experiments.

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Dark Matter from Scalar Field Fluctuations

Tommi Tenkanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061302 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

A model postulates that dark matter may have been generated during inflation, sourced by fluctuations of a massive scalar field minimally coupled only to gravity.

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Scaling Laws of an Exploding Liquid Column under an Intense Ultrashort X-Ray Pulse

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 064501 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

A proposed general formulation of the partial destruction of a liquid object in vacuum impacted by an ultrashort x-ray pulse suggests that energy instantaneously raises the pressure of a portion of the liquid to extreme values and causes its explosive expansion into vacuum.

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Theory of a Planckian Metal

Aavishkar A. Patel and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066601 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

A generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model realizes a compressible metal in which the resistivity is linear in temperature and independent of the strength of the interactions.

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Landauer Formula for a Superconducting Quantum Point Contact

Sergey S. Pershoguba, Thomas Veness, and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 067001 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

The Landauer formula, which relates the conductance of a mesoscopic conductor to the transmission coefficient for electrons passing through it, is reformulated for a superconducting point contact.

LETTERS

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

Observing the Quantum Wave Nature of Free Electrons through Spontaneous Emission

Roei Remez, Aviv Karnieli, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Niv Shapira, Ido Kaminer, Yossi Lereah, and Ady Arie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060401 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Majorana Corner Modes with Solitons in an Attractive Hubbard-Hofstadter Model of Cold Atom Optical Lattices

Chuanchang Zeng, T. D. Stanescu, Chuanwei Zhang, V. W. Scarola, and Sumanta Tewari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060402 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

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Realization of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox Using Radial Position and Radial Momentum Variables

Lixiang Chen, Tianlong Ma, Xiaodong Qiu, Dongkai Zhang, Wuhong Zhang, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060403 (2019) - Published 8 August, 2019

Correlations between the radial position and radial momentum of entangled photons demonstrate the suitability of these properties for quantum information applications.

Benchmarking Maximum-Likelihood State Estimation with an Entangled Two-Cavity State

V. Métillon, S. Gerlich, M. Brune, J. M. Raimond, P. Rouchon, and I. Dotsenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060404 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

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Non-Abelian Geometric Dephasing

Kyrylo Snizhko, Reinhold Egger, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060405 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Fluctuations in adiabatic quantum transport in systems coupled to a bath result in a type of geometric dephasing with clear signatures in interference experiments.

Many-Body Entanglement in Short-Range Interacting Fermi Gases for Metrology

Leonardo Lucchesi and Maria Luisa Chiofalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060406 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Randomized Benchmarking for Individual Quantum Gates

E. Onorati, A. H. Werner, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060501 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Deterministic Entanglement Swapping in a Superconducting Circuit

Wen Ning, Xin-Jie Huang, Pei-Rong Han, Hekang Li, Hui Deng, Zhen-Biao Yang, Zhi-Rong Zhong, Yan Xia, Kai Xu, Dongning Zheng, and Shi-Biao Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060502 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Absence of Energy Currents in an Equilibrium State and Chiral Anomalies

Anton Kapustin and Lev Spodyneiko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060601 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Rotational and Rotational-Vibrational Raman Spectroscopy of Air to Characterize Astronomical Spectrographs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061101 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Laser-generated “stars”—used at telescopes to correct for atmospheric turbulence—could help researchers calibrate the wavelengths of certain astrophysical observations.

Experiment to Detect Dark Energy Forces Using Atom Interferometry

D. O. Sabulsky, I. Dutta, E. A. Hinds, B. Elder, C. Burrage, and Edmund J. Copeland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061102 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Downward Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flash Observed in a Winter Thunderstorm

Y. Wada, T. Enoto, K. Nakazawa, Y. Furuta, T. Yuasa, Y. Nakamura, T. Morimoto, T. Matsumoto, K. Makishima, and H. Tsuchiya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061103 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

X-Ray Signatures of Axion Conversion in Magnetic White Dwarf Stars

Christopher Dessert, Andrew J. Long, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061104 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Transverse Velocities with the Moving Lens Effect

Selim C. Hotinli, Joel Meyers, Neal Dalal, Andrew H. Jaffe, Matthew C. Johnson, James B. Mertens, Moritz Münchmeyer, Kendrick M. Smith, and Alexander van Engelen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061301 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

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Dark Matter from Scalar Field Fluctuations

Tommi Tenkanen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061302 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

A model postulates that dark matter may have been generated during inflation, sourced by fluctuations of a massive scalar field minimally coupled only to gravity.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Searching for Beyond the Standard Model Physics with COHERENT Energy and Timing Data

Bhaskar Dutta, Shu Liao, Samiran Sinha, and Louis E. Strigari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061801 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Dynamical Generation of Elementary Fermion Mass: First Lattice Evidence

S. Capitani, P. Dimopoulos, R. Frezzotti, M. Garofalo, B. Kostrzewa, F. Pittler, G. C. Rossi, and C. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 061802 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Precision QCD Event Shapes at Hadron Colliders: The Transverse Energy-Energy Correlator in the Back-to-Back Limit

AnJie Gao, Hai Tao Li, Ian Moult, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 062001 (2019) - Published 5 August, 2019

Chiral Phase Transition Temperature in ( $2 + 1$ )-Flavor QCD

H.-T. Ding, P. Hegde, O. Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, Anirban Lahiri, S.-T. Li, Swagato Mukherjee, H. Ohno, P. Petreczky, C. Schmidt, and P. Steinbrecher (HotQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 062002 (2019) - Published 8 August, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Quantum Transport of Rydberg Excitons with Synthetic Spin-Exchange Interactions

Fan Yang, Shuo Yang, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063001 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Suppressing Inhomogeneous Broadening in a Lutetium Multi-ion Optical Clock

T. R. Tan, R. Kaewuam, K. J. Arnold, S. R. Chanu, Zhiqiang Zhang, M. S. Safronova, and M. D. Barrett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063201 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Imaging Recoil Ions from Optical Collisions between Ultracold, Metastable Neon Isotopes

B. Ohayon, H. Rahangdale, J. Chocron, Y. Mishnayot, R. Kosloff, O. Heber, and G. Ron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063401 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Entanglement between a Diamond Spin Qubit and a Photonic Time-Bin Qubit at Telecom Wavelength

Anna Tchebotareva, Sophie L. N. Hermans, Peter C. Humphreys, Dirk Voigt, Peter J. Harmsma, Lun K. Cheng, Ad L. Verlaan, Niels Dijkhuizen, Wim de Jong, Anaïs Dréau, and Ronald Hanson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063601 (2019) - Published 5 August, 2019

Photon Pair Condensation by Engineered Dissipation

Ze-Pei Cian, Guanyu Zhu, Su-Kuan Chu, Alireza Seif, Wade DeGottardi, Liang Jiang, and Mohammad Hafezi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063602 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Simultaneous Readout of Noncommuting Collective Spin Observables beyond the Standard Quantum Limit

Philipp Kunkel, Maximilian Prüfer, Stefan Lannig, Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, Alexis Bonnin, Martin Gärttner, Helmut Strobel, and Markus K. Oberthaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063603 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strong Nonreciprocity in Modulated Resonator Chains through Synthetic Electric and Magnetic Fields

Christopher W. Peterson, Wladimir A. Benalcazar, Mao Lin, Taylor L. Hughes, and Gaurav Bahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 063901 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Nonreciprocal Willis Coupling in Zero-Index Moving Media

Li Quan, Dimitrios L. Sounas, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 064301 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

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Scaling Laws of an Exploding Liquid Column under an Intense Ultrashort X-Ray Pulse

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 064501 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Rarefaction Flows and Mitigation of Imprint in Direct-Drive Implosions

I. V. Igumenshchev, A. L. Velikovich, V. N. Goncharov, R. Betti, E. M. Campbell, J. P. Knauer, S. P. Regan, A. J. Schmitt, R. C. Shah, and A. Shvydky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 065001 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Multiscale Coherent Excitations in Microscopic Acoustic Wave Turbulence of Cold Dusty Plasma Liquids

Hao-Wei Hu, Wen Wang, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 065002 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Symmetry-Protected Ideal Type-II Weyl Phonons in CdTe

B. W. Xia, R. Wang, Z. J. Chen, Y. J. Zhao, and H. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 065501 (2019) - Published 5 August, 2019

High-Pressure Melt Curve and Phase Diagram of Lithium

Mungo Frost, Jongjin B. Kim, Emma E. McBride, J. Ryan Peterson, Jesse S. Smith, Peihao Sun, and Siegfried H. Glenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 065701 (2019) - Published 5 August, 2019

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Charge-Induced Structural Changes in a Single Molecule Investigated by Atomic Force Microscopy

Philipp Scheuerer, Laerte L. Patera, Felix Simbürger, Fabian Queck, Ingmar Swart, Bruno Schuler, Leo Gross, Nikolaj Moll, and Jascha Repp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066001 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Atomic force microscopy detects the subtle structural changes that take place when a molecule is ionized.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

$K$ -Shell Core-Electron Excitations in Electronic Stopping of Protons in Water from First Principles

Yi Yao, Dillon C. Yost, and Yosuke Kanai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066401 (2019) - Published 5 August, 2019

Momentum Dependence of the Nematic Order Parameter in Iron-Based Superconductors

H. Pfau, S. D. Chen, M. Yi, M. Hashimoto, C. R. Rotundu, J. C. Palmstrom, T. Chen, P.-C. Dai, J. Straquadine, A. Hristov, R. J. Birgeneau, I. R. Fisher, D. Lu, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066402 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Floquet Chiral Magnetic Effect

Sho Higashikawa, Masaya Nakagawa, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066403 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Non-Bloch Band Theory of Non-Hermitian Systems

Kazuki Yokomizo and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066404 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

Classification of Exceptional Points and Non-Hermitian Topological Semimetals

Kohei Kawabata, Takumi Bessho, and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066405 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Exactly Solvable Quantum Impurity Model with Inverse-Square Interactions

Hong-Hao Tu and Ying-Hai Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066406 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Theory of a Planckian Metal

Aavishkar A. Patel and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066601 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

A generalization of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model realizes a compressible metal in which the resistivity is linear in temperature and independent of the strength of the interactions.

Quantum Rings Engineered by Atom Manipulation

Van Dong Pham, Kiyoshi Kanisawa, and Stefan Fölsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066801 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Precursors to Exciton Condensation in Quantum Hall Bilayers

J. P. Eisenstein, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066802 (2019) - Published 8 August, 2019

Circular Dichroism in Rotating Particles

Deng Pan, Hongxing Xu, and F. Javier García de Abajo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066803 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

Large Contribution of Fermi Arcs to the Conductivity of Topological Metals

M. Breitkreiz and P. W. Brouwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 066804 (2019) - Published 9 August, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Landauer Formula for a Superconducting Quantum Point Contact

Sergey S. Pershoguba, Thomas Veness, and Leonid I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 067001 (2019) - Published 7 August, 2019

The Landauer formula, which relates the conductance of a mesoscopic conductor to the transmission coefficient for electrons passing through it, is reformulated for a superconducting point contact.

Evidence for the Single-Site Quadrupolar Kondo Effect in the Dilute Non-Kramers System $Y_{1 - x} \Pr_{x} {Ir}_{2} {Zn}_{20}$

T. Yanagisawa, H. Hidaka, H. Amitsuka, S. Zherlitsyn, J. Wosnitza, Y. Yamane, and T. Onimaru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 067201 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019

Quantum Critical Dynamics of a Heisenberg-Ising Chain in a Longitudinal Field: Many-Body Strings versus Fractional Excitations

Zhe Wang, M. Schmidt, A. Loidl, Jianda Wu, Haiyuan Zou, Wang Yang, Chao Dong, Y. Kohama, K. Kindo, D. I. Gorbunov, S. Niesen, O. Breunig, J. Engelmayer, and T. Lorenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 067202 (2019) - Published 6 August, 2019