Volume 123, Issue 9

30 August 2019

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At 250 GPa the clathrate structure of Li₂MgH₁₆ with the space group Fd3m is predicted to possess room-temperature or even higher temperature superconductivity. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Route to a Superconducting Phase above Room Temperature in Electron-Doped Hydride Compounds under High Pressure
Ying Sun, Jian Lv, Yu Xie, Hanyu Liu, and Yanming Ma
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097001 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Route to a Superconducting Phase above Room Temperature in Electron-Doped Hydride Compounds under High Pressure

Ying Sun, Jian Lv, Yu Xie, Hanyu Liu, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097001 (2019) - Published 26 August, 2019

A proposed hydrogen-rich solid would superconduct above the boiling point of water—though the material would need to be subjected to a colossal pressure.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet-Engineering Counterdiabatic Protocols in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Pieter W. Claeys, Mohit Pandey, Dries Sels, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090602 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Adiabatic processes in complex quantum systems can be sped up by introducing simple oscillations to the control Hamiltonian.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Statistical Properties of the Nonlinear Stage of Modulation Instability in Fiber Optics

Adrien E. Kraych, Dmitry Agafontsev, Stéphane Randoux, and Pierre Suret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093902 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Experimental observation of modulation instability and its statistical properties reveal the spatiotemporal dynamics of a plane wave of light propagating through a nonlinear optical fiber subject to random noise.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Resonance Frequencies of a Stable Torus of Fluid

Claude Laroche, Jean-Claude Bacri, Martin Devaud, Timothée Jamin, and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 094502 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

The unwetting property of a metal liquid allows for the generation of a stable torus of fluid, making it possible for the first time to study the resonance frequencies of these otherwise transient structures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Route to High Hole Mobility in GaN via Reversal of Crystal-Field Splitting

Samuel Poncé, Debdeep Jena, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096602 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

State of the art first-principles techniques predict strategies for significantly boosting the hole mobility in GaN, making it increasingly attractive for CMOS applications.

LETTERS

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

Spin Models, Dynamics, and Criticality with Atoms in Tilted Optical Superlattices

Anton S. Buyskikh, Luca Tagliacozzo, Dirk Schuricht, Chris A. Hooley, David Pekker, and Andrew J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090401 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Efficient Simulation of Finite-Temperature Open Quantum Systems

D. Tamascelli, A. Smirne, J. Lim, S. F. Huelga, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090402 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Induced by Quantum Monitoring

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Diego Tielas, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090403 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Relativistic Quantum Reference Frames: The Operational Meaning of Spin

Flaminia Giacomini, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, and Časlav Brukner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090404 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

$σ$ Models on Quantum Computers

Andrei Alexandru, Paulo F. Bedaque, Henry Lamm, and Scott Lawrence (NuQS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090501 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Quantum Coherence Witness with Untrusted Measurement Devices

You-Qi Nie, Hongyi Zhou, Jian-Yu Guan, Qiang Zhang, Xiongfeng Ma, Jun Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090502 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Efficient Accessible Bounds to the Classical Capacity of Quantum Channels

Chiara Macchiavello and Massimiliano F. Sacchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090503 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Entropy Governed by the Absorbing State of Directed Percolation

Kenji Harada and Naoki Kawashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090601 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet-Engineering Counterdiabatic Protocols in Quantum Many-Body Systems

Pieter W. Claeys, Mohit Pandey, Dries Sels, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090602 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Adiabatic processes in complex quantum systems can be sped up by introducing simple oscillations to the control Hamiltonian.

Non-Hermitian Many-Body Localization

Ryusuke Hamazaki, Kohei Kawabata, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090603 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations from Exchange Fluctuation Theorems

André M. Timpanaro, Giacomo Guarnieri, John Goold, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090604 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Emergent Prethermalization Signatures in Out-of-Time Ordered Correlations

Ken Xuan Wei, Pai Peng (彭湃), Oles Shtanko, Iman Marvian, Seth Lloyd, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, and Paola Cappellaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 090605 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Probing Dark Matter Using Precision Measurements of Stellar Accelerations

Aakash Ravi, Nicholas Langellier, David F. Phillips, Malte Buschmann, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Ronald L. Walsworth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 091101 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Coherent Transition Radiation from the Geomagnetically Induced Current in Cosmic-Ray Air Showers: Implications for the Anomalous Events Observed by ANITA

Krijn D. de Vries and Steven Prohira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 091102 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Obtaining Precision Constraints on Modified Gravity with Helioseismology

Ippocratis D. Saltas and Ilídio Lopes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 091103 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Neutron Star Stability in Light of the Neutron Decay Anomaly

Benjamín Grinstein, Chris Kouvaris, and Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 091601 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Extraction of form Factors from a Four-Dimensional Angular Analysis of $\bar{B} \to D^{*} ℓ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{ℓ}$

J. P. Lees et al. (The BaBar Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 091801 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Boosting Quantum Vacuum Signatures by Coherent Harmonic Focusing

Felix Karbstein, Alexander Blinne, Holger Gies, and Matt Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 091802 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Interpretation of the LHCb $P_{c} (4312)^{+}$ Signal

C. Fernández-Ramírez, A. Pilloni, M. Albaladejo, A. Jackura, V. Mathieu, M. Mikhasenko, J. A. Silva-Castro, and A. P. Szczepaniak (Joint Physics Analysis Center)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 092001 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Optical Potentials and Nucleon Scattering on Medium Mass Nuclei

A. Idini, C. Barbieri, and P. Navrátil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 092501 (2019) - Published 26 August, 2019

Towards the Limits of Existence of Nuclear Structure: Observation and First Spectroscopy of the Isotope ${}^{31}K$ by Measuring Its Three-Proton Decay

D. Kostyleva et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 092502 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

First Direct Measurement of Isotopic Fission-Fragment Yields of ${}^{239}U$

D. Ramos et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 092503 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Suppression of Parahydrogen Superfluidity in a Doped Nanoscale Bose Fluid Mixture

Hui Li, Xiao-Long Zhang, Tao Zeng, Robert J. Le Roy, and Pierre-Nicholas Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093001 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Relativistic Nondipole Effects in Strong-Field Atomic Ionization at Moderate Intensities

Nida Haram, Igor Ivanov, Han Xu, Kyung Taec Kim, A. Atia-tul-Noor, U. Satya Sainadh, R. D. Glover, D. Chetty, I. V. Litvinyuk, and R. T. Sang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093201 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Ab initio QED Treatment of the Two-Photon Annihilation of Positrons with Bound Electrons

V. A. Zaytsev, A. V. Volotka, D. Yu, S. Fritzsche, X. Ma, H. Hu, and V. M. Shabaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093401 (2019) - Published 26 August, 2019

Environmental Nonadditivity and Franck-Condon physics in Nonequilibrium Quantum Systems

Henry Maguire, Jake Iles-Smith, and Ahsan Nazir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093601 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Conditional Dynamics of Optomechanical Two-Tone Backaction-Evading Measurements

Matteo Brunelli, Daniel Malz, and Andreas Nunnenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093602 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Elimination of Thermomechanical Noise in Piezoelectric Optomechanical Crystals

H. Ramp, B. D. Hauer, K. C. Balram, T. J. Clark, K. Srinivasan, and J. P. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093603 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Revealing the Transition Dynamics from $Q$ Switching to Mode Locking in a Soliton Laser

Xueming Liu, Daniel Popa, and Nail Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093901 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Statistical Properties of the Nonlinear Stage of Modulation Instability in Fiber Optics

Adrien E. Kraych, Dmitry Agafontsev, Stéphane Randoux, and Pierre Suret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 093902 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Resolving the Apparent Line Tension of Sessile Droplets and Understanding its Sign Change at a Critical Wetting Angle

Binyu Zhao, Shuang Luo, Elmar Bonaccurso, Günter K. Auernhammer, Xu Deng, Zhigang Li, and Longquan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 094501 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Resonance Frequencies of a Stable Torus of Fluid

Claude Laroche, Jean-Claude Bacri, Martin Devaud, Timothée Jamin, and Eric Falcon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 094502 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Coherent Diffraction Radiation of Relativistic Terahertz Pulses from a Laser-Driven Microplasma Waveguide

Longqing Yi and Tünde Fülöp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 094801 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Nonambipolar Transport due to Electrons with 3D Resistive Response in the KSTAR Tokamak

S. M. Yang, J.-K. Park, Yong-Su Na, Z. R. Wang, W. H. Ko, Y. In, J. H. Lee, K. D. Lee, and S. K. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 095001 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Unconventional Bloch-Grüneisen Scattering in Hybrid Bose-Fermi Systems

K. H. A. Villegas, Meng Sun, V. M. Kovalev, and I. G. Savenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 095301 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Many-Body Quantum Dynamics by the Reduced Density Matrix Based on Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

Vladimir U. Nazarov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 095302 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Bi-Arrhenius Diffusion and Surface Trapping of ${}^{8}{L i^{+}}$ in Rutile ${TiO}_{2}$

A. Chatzichristos, R. M. L. McFadden, M. H. Dehn, S. R. Dunsiger, D. Fujimoto, V. L. Karner, I. McKenzie, G. D. Morris, M. R. Pearson, M. Stachura, J. Sugiyama, J. O. Ticknor, W. A. MacFarlane, and R. F. Kiefl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 095901 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Dielectric Modulation of Two-Dimensional Dipolar Materials

Ziwei Wang and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096101 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Rational Design Principles of the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in Superlatticelike Magnetic Topological Insulators

Hongyi Sun, Bowen Xia, Zhongjia Chen, Yingjie Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Qiushi Yao, Hong Tang, Yujun Zhao, Hu Xu, and Qihang Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096401 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Two-Dimensional Non-Fermi-Liquid Metals: A Solvable Large- $N$ Limit

Jeremias Aguilera Damia, Shamit Kachru, Srinivas Raghu, and Gonzalo Torroba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096402 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Unconventional Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous Hall Effect in ${HgCr}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

Shuai Yang, Zhilin Li, Chaojing Lin, Changjiang Yi, Youguo Shi, Dimitrie Culcer, and Yongqing Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096601 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Route to High Hole Mobility in GaN via Reversal of Crystal-Field Splitting

Samuel Poncé, Debdeep Jena, and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096602 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

State of the art first-principles techniques predict strategies for significantly boosting the hole mobility in GaN, making it increasingly attractive for CMOS applications.

Designing Multifunctionality via Assembling Dissimilar Materials: Epitaxial AlN/ScN Superlattices

Zhijun Jiang, Charles Paillard, David Vanderbilt, Hongjun Xiang, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096801 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019

Electrically Tunable Flat Bands and Magnetism in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

T. M. R. Wolf, J. L. Lado, G. Blatter, and O. Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096802 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Probing and Manipulating Valley Coherence of Dark Excitons in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

M. R. Molas, A. O. Slobodeniuk, T. Kazimierczuk, K. Nogajewski, M. Bartos, P. Kapuściński, K. Oreszczuk, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Faugeras, P. Kossacki, D. M. Basko, and M. Potemski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 096803 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Route to a Superconducting Phase above Room Temperature in Electron-Doped Hydride Compounds under High Pressure

Ying Sun, Jian Lv, Yu Xie, Hanyu Liu, and Yanming Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097001 (2019) - Published 26 August, 2019

A proposed hydrogen-rich solid would superconduct above the boiling point of water—though the material would need to be subjected to a colossal pressure.

Majorana Multipole Response of Topological Superconductors

Shingo Kobayashi, Ai Yamakage, Yukio Tanaka, and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097002 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Evolution of Magnetic Order from the Localized to the Itinerant Limit

D. G. Mazzone, N. Gauthier, D. T. Maimone, R. Yadav, M. Bartkowiak, J. L. Gavilano, S. Raymond, V. Pomjakushin, N. Casati, Z. Revay, G. Lapertot, R. Sibille, and M. Kenzelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097201 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Optical Signature of Quantum Coherence in Fully Dark Exciton Condensates

Shiue-Yuan Shiau and Monique Combescot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097401 (2019) - Published 27 August, 2019

Hard-X-Ray Spectroscopy with a Spectrographic Approach

Aleksandr I. Chumakov, Yuri Shvyd’ko, Ilya Sergueev, Dimitrios Bessas, and Rudolf Rüffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097402 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Interaction-Induced Shubnikov–de Haas Oscillations in Optical Conductivity of Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$

T. Smoleński, O. Cotlet, A. Popert, P. Back, Y. Shimazaki, P. Knüppel, N. Dietler, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, M. Kroner, and A. Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097403 (2019) - Published 30 August, 2019

Dynamical Slowing-Down in an Ultrafast Photoinduced Phase Transition

Alfred Zong, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Anshul Kogar, Emre Ergeçen, Mehmet B. Yilmaz, Ya-Qing Bie, Timm Rohwer, I-Cheng Tung, Joshua Straquadine, Xirui Wang, Yafang Yang, Xiaozhe Shen, Renkai Li, Jie Yang, Suji Park, Matthias C. Hoffmann, Benjamin K. Ofori-Okai, Michael E. Kozina, Haidan Wen, Xijie Wang, Ian R. Fisher, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, and Nuh Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097601 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Topological Phase Transition Driven by Infinitesimal Instability: Majorana Fermions in Non-Hermitian Spintronics

Nobuyuki Okuma and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 097701 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Orientational Distribution of Free $O − H$ Groups of Interfacial Water is Exponential”

Wei Gan, Ran-Ran Feng, and Hong-Fei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 099601 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

Sun et al. Reply:

Shumei Sun, Fujie Tang, Sho Imoto, Daniel R. Moberg, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Francesco Paesani, Mischa Bonn, Ellen H. G. Backus, and Yuki Nagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 099602 (2019) - Published 29 August, 2019

ERRATA

Erratum: Extremely Low Electron-ion Temperature Relaxation Rates in Warm Dense Hydrogen: Interplay between Quantum Electrons and Coupled Ions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015001 (2019)]

Qian Ma, Jiayu Dai, Dongdong Kang, M. S. Murillo, Yong Hou, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 099901 (2019) - Published 28 August, 2019