Volume 124, Issue 17

1 May 2020

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Buildup and relaxation of force chains as an intruder impacts a granular bed of photoelastic disks.

From the article:

Power-Law Scaling of Early-Stage Forces during Granular Impact
Nasser Krizou and Abram H. Clark
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 178002 (2020)

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Sensing Individual Nuclear Spins with a Single Rare-Earth Electron Spin

Thomas Kornher, Da-Wu Xiao, Kangwei Xia, Fiammetta Sardi, Nan Zhao, Roman Kolesov, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170402 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

The measurement of a single nuclear spin in a noisy spin environment opens up new possibilities for quantum technologies.

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Frequency-Dependent Squeezed Vacuum Source for Broadband Quantum Noise Reduction in Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Yuhang Zhao, Naoki Aritomi, Eleonora Capocasa, Matteo Leonardi, Marc Eisenmann, Yuefan Guo, Eleonora Polini, Akihiro Tomura, Koji Arai, Yoichi Aso, Yao-Chin Huang, Ray-Kuang Lee, Harald Lück, Osamu Miyakawa, Pierre Prat, Ayaka Shoda, Matteo Tacca, Ryutaro Takahashi, Henning Vahlbruch, Marco Vardaro, Chien-Ming Wu, Matteo Barsuglia, and Raffaele Flaminio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171101 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Researchers demonstrate frequency-dependent quantum squeezing, which could double the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors.

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Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO

L. McCuller, C. Whittle, D. Ganapathy, K. Komori, M. Tse, A. Fernandez-Galiana, L. Barsotti, P. Fritschel, M. MacInnis, F. Matichard, K. Mason, N. Mavalvala, R. Mittleman, Haocun Yu, M. E. Zucker, and M. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171102 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Researchers demonstrate frequency-dependent quantum squeezing, which could double the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors.

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Unexpected Propagation of Ultra-Lean Hydrogen Flames in Narrow Gaps

Fernando Veiga-López, Mike Kuznetsov, Daniel Martínez-Ruiz, Eduardo Fernández-Tarrazo, Joachim Grune, and Mario Sánchez-Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 174501 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Hydrogen-burning flames can propagate in surprisingly narrow spaces and with little fuel by breaking up into fractal patterns.

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Bose-Einstein Condensate Comagnetometer

Pau Gomez, Ferran Martin, Chiara Mazzinghi, Daniel Benedicto Orenes, Silvana Palacios, and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170401 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

High-precision magnetometry using BEC opens the possibilities for spin amplification and exotic physics searches.

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Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Oscillator to Its Zero-Point Energy

Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Paul Seidler, and Tobias J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173601 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

A mechanical oscillator can be cooled optomechanically close to its ground state.

LETTERS

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

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Bose-Einstein Condensate Comagnetometer

Pau Gomez, Ferran Martin, Chiara Mazzinghi, Daniel Benedicto Orenes, Silvana Palacios, and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170401 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

High-precision magnetometry using BEC opens the possibilities for spin amplification and exotic physics searches.

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Sensing Individual Nuclear Spins with a Single Rare-Earth Electron Spin

Thomas Kornher, Da-Wu Xiao, Kangwei Xia, Fiammetta Sardi, Nan Zhao, Roman Kolesov, and Jörg Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170402 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

The measurement of a single nuclear spin in a noisy spin environment opens up new possibilities for quantum technologies.

Eliminating Leakage Errors in Hyperfine Qubits

D. Hayes, D. Stack, B. Bjork, A. C. Potter, C. H. Baldwin, and R. P. Stutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170501 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

Hybrid Quantum Computing with Conditional Beam Splitter Gate in Trapped Ion System

H. C. J. Gan, Gleb Maslennikov, Ko-Wei Tseng, Chihuan Nguyen, and Dzmitry Matsukevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170502 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

Quantum Trajectory Analysis of Single Microwave Photon Detection by Nanocalorimetry

Bayan Karimi and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170601 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Rydberg Atom Engine

Federico Carollo, Filippo M. Gambetta, Kay Brandner, Juan P. Garrahan, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170602 (2020) - Published 30 April, 2020

Work Statistics across a Quantum Phase Transition

Zhaoyu Fei, Nahuel Freitas, Vasco Cavina, H. T. Quan, and Massimiliano Esposito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 170603 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Frequency-Dependent Squeezed Vacuum Source for Broadband Quantum Noise Reduction in Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171101 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Researchers demonstrate frequency-dependent quantum squeezing, which could double the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors.

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Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171102 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Researchers demonstrate frequency-dependent quantum squeezing, which could double the sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors.

Postmerger Gravitational-Wave Signatures of Phase Transitions in Binary Mergers

Lukas R. Weih, Matthias Hanauske, and Luciano Rezzolla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171103 (2020) - Published 30 April, 2020

Constraining Axion Inflation with Gravitational Waves across 29 Decades in Frequency

Peter Adshead, John T. Giblin, Jr., Mauro Pieroni, and Zachary J. Weiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171301 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

Quantum Fluxes at the Inner Horizon of a Spherical Charged Black Hole

Noa Zilberman, Adam Levi, and Amos Ori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171302 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bootstrapping the Simplest Correlator in Planar $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory to All Loops

Frank Coronado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171601 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Nonrelativistic Corners of $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Troels Harmark and Nico Wintergerst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171602 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Axion Search with a Quantum-Limited Ferromagnetic Haloscope

N. Crescini, D. Alesini, C. Braggio, G. Carugno, D. D’Agostino, D. Di Gioacchino, P. Falferi, U. Gambardella, C. Gatti, G. Iannone, C. Ligi, A. Lombardi, A. Ortolan, R. Pengo, G. Ruoso, and L. Taffarello (QUAX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171801 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Gravitational Imprints of Flavor Hierarchies

Admir Greljo, Toby Opferkuch, and Ben A. Stefanek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 171802 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Determination of the Lightest Strange Resonance $K_{0}^{*} (700)$ or $κ$ , from a Dispersive Data Analysis

J. R. Peláez and A. Rodas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 172001 (2020) - Published 30 April, 2020

Nuclear Physics

First Measurement of $Λ_{c}$ Baryon Production in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 172301 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Probing the Gluon Sivers Function with an Unpolarized Target: GTMD Distributions and the Odderons

Renaud Boussarie, Yoshitaka Hatta, Lech Szymanowski, and Samuel Wallon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 172501 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Unmixing Symmetries

Calvin W. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 172502 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spontaneous Electron Emission from Hot Silver Dimer Anions: Breakdown of the Born-Oppenheimer Approximation

E. K. Anderson, A. F. Schmidt-May, P. K. Najeeb, G. Eklund, K. C. Chartkunchand, S. Rosén, Å. Larson, K. Hansen, H. Cederquist, H. Zettergren, and H. T. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173001 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

Universal High-Energy Photoelectron Emission from Nanoclusters Beyond the Atomic Limit

Zhou Wang, Abraham Camacho Garibay, Hyunwook Park, Ulf Saalmann, Pierre Agostini, Jan M. Rost, and Louis F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173201 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Motion-Induced Transition of Positronium through a Static Periodic Magnetic Field in the Sub-THz Region

Y. Nagata, K. Michishio, T. Iizuka, H. Kikutani, L. Chiari, F. Tanaka, and Y. Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173202 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Nematic-Orbit Coupling and Nematic Density Waves in Spin-1 Condensates

Di Lao, Chandra Raman, and C. A. R. Sá de Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173203 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser Cooling of a Nanomechanical Oscillator to Its Zero-Point Energy

Liu Qiu, Itay Shomroni, Paul Seidler, and Tobias J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173601 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

A mechanical oscillator can be cooled optomechanically close to its ground state.

Quantum Interferometer Combining Squeezing and Parametric Amplification

Xiaojie Zuo, Zhihui Yan, Yanni Feng, Jingxu Ma, Xiaojun Jia, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 173602 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nature of Crack Path Instabilities in Thin Sheets Cut by Blunt Objects

Eugenio Hamm, Iryna Sivak, and Benoît Roman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 174101 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Collaborative Oscillatory Fracture

Juan-Francisco Fuentealba, Joel Marthelot, Benoît Roman, and Francisco Melo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 174102 (2020) - Published 30 April, 2020

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Unexpected Propagation of Ultra-Lean Hydrogen Flames in Narrow Gaps

Fernando Veiga-López, Mike Kuznetsov, Daniel Martínez-Ruiz, Eduardo Fernández-Tarrazo, Joachim Grune, and Mario Sánchez-Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 174501 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Hydrogen-burning flames can propagate in surprisingly narrow spaces and with little fuel by breaking up into fractal patterns.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of the Relativistic Reversal of the Ponderomotive Potential

Jeremy J. Axelrod, Sara L. Campbell, Osip Schwartz, Carter Turnbaugh, Robert M. Glaeser, and Holger Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 174801 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Orbital-Driven Rashba Effect in a Binary Honeycomb Monolayer AgTe

Maximilian Ünzelmann, Hendrik Bentmann, Philipp Eck, Tilman Kißlinger, Begmuhammet Geldiyev, Janek Rieger, Simon Moser, Raphael C. Vidal, Katharina Kißner, Lutz Hammer, M. Alexander Schneider, Thomas Fauster, Giorgio Sangiovanni, Domenico Di Sante, and Friedrich Reinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 176401 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Magneto-Optics of a Weyl Semimetal beyond the Conical Band Approximation: Case Study of TaP

S. Polatkan, M. O. Goerbig, J. Wyzula, R. Kemmler, L. Z. Maulana, B. A. Piot, I. Crassee, A. Akrap, C. Shekhar, C. Felser, M. Dressel, A. V. Pronin, and M. Orlita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 176402 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Ab initio Description of Bond Breaking in Large Electric Fields

Michael Ashton, Arpit Mishra, Jörg Neugebauer, and Christoph Freysoldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 176801 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

How Many Surface Modes Does One See on the Boundary of a Dirac Material?

Maxim Kurkov and Dmitri Vassilevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 176802 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Uncovering the Triplet Ground State of Triangular Graphene Nanoflakes Engineered with Atomic Precision on a Metal Surface

Jingcheng Li, Sofia Sanz, Jesus Castro-Esteban, Manuel Vilas-Varela, Niklas Friedrich, Thomas Frederiksen, Diego Peña, and Jose Ignacio Pascual

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177201 (2020) - Published 27 April, 2020

Ground State Properties of the Diluted Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Spin Glass

Stefan Boettcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177202 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Demonstrating the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki Spectral Gap on 2D Degree-3 Lattices

Nicholas Pomata and Tzu-Chieh Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177203 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Existence of a Spectral Gap in the Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki Model on the Hexagonal Lattice

Marius Lemm, Anders W. Sandvik, and Ling Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177204 (2020) - Published 28 April, 2020

Multiple Magnetic Bilayers and Unconventional Criticality without Frustration in ${Ba C u S i}_{2} O_{6}$

S. Allenspach, A. Biffin, U. Stuhr, G. S. Tucker, S. Ohira-Kawamura, M. Kofu, D. J. Voneshen, M. Boehm, B. Normand, N. Laflorencie, F. Mila, and Ch. Rüegg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177205 (2020) - Published 30 April, 2020

Polaron Photoconductivity in the Weak and Strong Light-Matter Coupling Regime

Nina Krainova, Alex J. Grede, Demetra Tsokkou, Natalie Banerji, and Noel C. Giebink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177401 (2020) - Published 30 April, 2020

Strain-Modulated Slater-Mott Crossover of Pseudospin-Half Square-Lattice in $({SrIrO}_{3})_{1} / ({SrTiO}_{3})_{1}$ Superlattices

Junyi Yang, Lin Hao, Derek Meyers, Tamene Dasa, Liubin Xu, Lukas Horak, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Gilberto Fabbris, Yongseong Choi, Daniel Haskel, Jenia Karapetrova, Jong-Woo Kim, Philip J. Ryan, Haixuan Xu, Cristian D. Batista, Mark P. M. Dean, and Jian Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177601 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Observation of the Spin-Orbit Gap in Bilayer Graphene by One-Dimensional Ballistic Transport

L. Banszerus, B. Frohn, T. Fabian, S. Somanchi, A. Epping, M. Müller, D. Neumaier, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, F. Libisch, B. Beschoten, F. Hassler, and C. Stampfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177701 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

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

Influence of Salt on the Viscosity of Polyelectrolyte Solutions

Guang Chen, Antonio Perazzo, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 177801 (2020) - Published 1 May, 2020

Self-Induced Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Segregating Dry Granular Flows

Umberto D’Ortona and Nathalie Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 178001 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Power-Law Scaling of Early-Stage Forces during Granular Impact

Nasser Krizou and Abram H. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 178002 (2020) - Published 29 April, 2020

Volume 124, Issue 17

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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

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