Volume 124, Issue 21

29 May 2020

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Samples from a simulated quantum internet network, with increasing number of nodes uniformly distributed in a disk of radius representative of the US area. Green (blue) nodes are more (less) connected. Grey and red edges represent fiber-optic networks and photonic links, respectively.

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Statistical Properties of the Quantum Internet
Samuraí Brito, Askery Canabarro, Rafael Chaves, and Daniel Cavalcanti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210501 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Properties of Neon, Magnesium, and Silicon Primary Cosmic Rays Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211102 (2020) - Published 29 May, 2020

Clean spectra for heavier cosmic rays measured on the International Space Station provide new opportunities to learn about the particles’ origins and the interstellar medium.

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Coherent Transfer of Spin Angular Momentum by Evanescent Spin Waves within Antiferromagnetic NiO

Maciej Dąbrowski, Takafumi Nakano, David M. Burn, Andreas Frisk, David G. Newman, Christoph Klewe, Qian Li, Mengmeng Yang, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Thorsten Hesjedal, Gerrit van der Laan, Zi Q. Qiu, and Robert J. Hicken

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217201 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Experiments show that a spin current moves as a coherent evanescent spin wave through an antiferromagnet layer sandwiched between two ferromagnets.

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Lindemann Unjamming of Emulsions

Rodrigo E. Guerra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 218001 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

An emulsion’s rigidity disappears when the droplets’ random thermal motion overcomes the confining pressure that binds them.

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Enhanced Energy Transfer to an Optomechanical Piston from Indistinguishable Photons

Zoë Holmes, Janet Anders, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210601 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Energy transfer between photons and a mechanical object may depend on the degree of indistinguishability between the photons.

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Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via ${}^{3}H$ and ${}^{3}{He}$ $(e, e^{'} p) pn$ Cross-Section Measurements

R. Cruz-Torres et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212501 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

High-energy electron scattering on Helium-3 and Tritium serve as a crucial benchmark for few-body nuclear theory.

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Halo Structure of the Neutron-Dripline Nucleus ${}^{19}B$

K. J. Cook et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212503 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Coulomb dissociation experiments demonstrate that the heaviest bound isotope of boron, $^{19} B$ , has a prominent two-neutron halo.

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Electrical Switching of the Nonreciprocal Directional Microwave Response in a Triplon Bose-Einstein Condensate

Shojiro Kimura, Masashige Matsumoto, and Hidekazu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217401 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Fast electrical switching of nonreciprocal directional dichroism is demonstrated experimentally in the microwave range.

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Magnetochiral Dichroism in a Collinear Antiferromagnet with No Magnetization

Tatsuki Sato, Nobuyuki Abe, Shojiro Kimura, Yusuke Tokunaga, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217402 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

An antiferromagnet acts like a dichroic crystal for an incident beam of light in the presence of external electric and magnetic fields.

LETTERS

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

Universal Compressive Characterization of Quantum Dynamics

Yosep Kim, Yong Siah Teo, Daekun Ahn, Dong-Gil Im, Young-Wook Cho, Gerd Leuchs, Luis L. Sánchez-Soto, Hyunseok Jeong, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210401 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Statistical Properties of the Quantum Internet

Samuraí Brito, Askery Canabarro, Rafael Chaves, and Daniel Cavalcanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210501 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Observing Information Backflow from Controllable Non-Markovian Multichannels in Diamond

Ya-Nan Lu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Gang-Qin Liu, Franco Nori, Heng Fan, and Xin-Yu Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210502 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Resource Reduction for Distributed Quantum Information Processing Using Quantum Multiplexed Photons

Nicolò Lo Piparo, Michael Hanks, Claude Gravel, Kae Nemoto, and William J. Munro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210503 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Cold-Atom Temporally Multiplexed Quantum Memory with Cavity-Enhanced Noise Suppression

Lukas Heller, Pau Farrera, Georg Heinze, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210504 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

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Enhanced Energy Transfer to an Optomechanical Piston from Indistinguishable Photons

Zoë Holmes, Janet Anders, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210601 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Energy transfer between photons and a mechanical object may depend on the degree of indistinguishability between the photons.

Statistics of Extremes in Eigenvalue-Counting Staircases

Yan V. Fyodorov and Pierre Le Doussal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210602 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Quantum Statistical Enhancement of the Collective Performance of Multiple Bosonic Engines

Gentaro Watanabe, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, Peter Talkner, Myung-Joong Hwang, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210603 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Family-Vicsek Scaling of Roughness Growth in a Strongly Interacting Bose Gas

Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Yuki Kawaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210604 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Universality Classes of Spin Transport in One-Dimensional Isotropic Magnets: The Onset of Logarithmic Anomalies

Jacopo De Nardis, Marko Medenjak, Christoph Karrasch, and Enej Ilievski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210605 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Universal Error Bound for Constrained Quantum Dynamics

Zongping Gong, Nobuyuki Yoshioka, Naoyuki Shibata, and Ryusuke Hamazaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 210606 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black Hole Superradiant Instability from Ultralight Spin-2 Fields

Richard Brito, Sara Grillo, and Paolo Pani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211101 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

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Properties of Neon, Magnesium, and Silicon Primary Cosmic Rays Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211102 (2020) - Published 29 May, 2020

Clean spectra for heavier cosmic rays measured on the International Space Station provide new opportunities to learn about the particles’ origins and the interstellar medium.

Spontaneous Creation of Circularly Polarized Photons in Chiral Astrophysical Systems

Adrian del Rio, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Vassilios Mewes, Ivan Agullo, José A. Font, and Jose Navarro-Salas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211301 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Two-Loop Four-Graviton Scattering Amplitudes

S. Abreu, F. Febres Cordero, H. Ita, M. Jaquier, B. Page, M. S. Ruf, and V. Sotnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211601 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Open Loop Amplitudes and Causality to All Orders and Powers from the Loop-Tree Duality

J. Jesús Aguilera-Verdugo, Félix Driencourt-Mangin, Roger J. Hernández-Pinto, Judith Plenter, Selomit Ramírez-Uribe, Andrés E. Rentería-Olivo, Germán Rodrigo, Germán F. R. Sborlini, William J. Torres Bobadilla, and Szymon Tracz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211602 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Vacua with Small Flux Superpotential

Mehmet Demirtas, Manki Kim, Liam McAllister, and Jakob Moritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211603 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Scalars Gliding through an Expanding Universe

Anson Hook, Gustavo Marques-Tavares, and Yuhsin Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211801 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Search for the Rare Decays $B_{s}^{0} \to e^{+} e^{-}$ and $B^{0} \to e^{+} e^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211802 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Axionlike Particles, Lepton-Flavor Violation, and a New Explanation of $a_{μ}$ and $a_{e}$

Martin Bauer, Matthias Neubert, Sophie Renner, Marvin Schnubel, and Andrea Thamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211803 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

New Directions for Axion Searches via Scattering at Reactor Neutrino Experiments

James B. Dent, Bhaskar Dutta, Doojin Kim, Shu Liao, Rupak Mahapatra, Kuver Sinha, and Adrian Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 211804 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Very Heavy Flavored Dibaryons

Jean-Marc Richard, Alfredo Valcarce, and Javier Vijande

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212001 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Nuclear Physics

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Probing Few-Body Nuclear Dynamics via ${}^{3}H$ and ${}^{3}{He}$ $(e, e^{'} p) pn$ Cross-Section Measurements

R. Cruz-Torres et al. (Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212501 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

High-energy electron scattering on Helium-3 and Tritium serve as a crucial benchmark for few-body nuclear theory.

How Different is the Core of ${}^{25}F$ from ${}^{24}{O_{g . s .}}$ ?

T. L. Tang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212502 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

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Halo Structure of the Neutron-Dripline Nucleus ${}^{19}B$

K. J. Cook et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212503 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Coulomb dissociation experiments demonstrate that the heaviest bound isotope of boron, $^{19} B$ , has a prominent two-neutron halo.

Timescales of Quantum Equilibration, Dissipation and Fluctuation in Nuclear Collisions

C. Simenel, K. Godbey, and A. S. Umar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212504 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Can Extreme Electromagnetic Fields Accelerate the $α$ Decay of Nuclei?

Adriana Pálffy and Sergey V. Popruzhenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 212505 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Precision Measurements in Few-Electron Molecules: The Ionization Energy of Metastable ${}^{4}{He}_{2}$ and the First Rotational Interval of ${}^{4}{He}_{2}^{+}$

Luca Semeria, Paul Jansen, Gian-Marco Camenisch, Federico Mellini, Hansjürg Schmutz, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 213001 (2020) - Published 29 May, 2020

Supercorrelated Radiance in Nonlinear Photonic Waveguides

Zhihai Wang, Tuomas Jaako, Peter Kirton, and Peter Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 213601 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Mesoscopic Limit Cycles in Coupled Nanolasers

Mathias Marconi, Fabrice Raineri, Ariel Levenson, Alejandro M. Yacomotti, Julien Javaloyes, Si H. Pan, Abdelkrim El Amili, and Yeshaiahu Fainman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 213602 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Direct Temporal Mode Measurement for the Characterization of Temporally Multiplexed High Dimensional Quantum Entanglement in Continuous Variables

Nan Huo, Yuhong Liu, Jiamin Li, Liang Cui, Xin Chen, Rithwik Palivela, Tianqi Xie, Xiaoying Li, and Z. Y. Ou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 213603 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Magnetostrictively Induced Stationary Entanglement between Two Microwave Fields

Mei Yu, Heng Shen, and Jie Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 213604 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Arbitrary Multiplication and Division of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

Yuanhui Wen, Ioannis Chremmos, Yujie Chen, Yanfeng Zhang, and Siyuan Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 213901 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Suppression of Acoustic Streaming in Shape-Optimized Channels

Jacob S. Bach and Henrik Bruus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 214501 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurement of Kinetic-Scale Current Filamentation Dynamics and Associated Magnetic Fields in Interpenetrating Plasmas

G. F. Swadling, C. Bruulsema, F. Fiuza, D. P. Higginson, C. M. Huntington, H-S. Park, B. B. Pollock, W. Rozmus, H. G. Rinderknecht, J. Katz, A. Birkel, and J. S. Ross

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 215001 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Angular Momentum in Rotating Superfluid Droplets

Sean M. O. O’Connell, Rico Mayro P. Tanyag, Deepak Verma, Charles Bernando, Weiwu Pang, Camila Bacellar, Catherine A. Saladrigas, Johannes Mahl, Benjamin W. Toulson, Yoshiaki Kumagai, Peter Walter, Francesco Ancilotto, Manuel Barranco, Marti Pi, Christoph Bostedt, Oliver Gessner, and Andrey F. Vilesov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 215301 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Calculation of Mode Grüneisen Parameters Made Simple

David Cuffari and Angelo Bongiorno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 215501 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Atomic Diffusion in $α$ -iron across the Curie Point: An Efficient and Transferable Ab Initio–Based Modeling Approach

Anton Schneider, Chu-Chun Fu, Frédéric Soisson, and Cyrille Barreteau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 215901 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

High-Pressure Polymeric Nitrogen Allotrope with the Black Phosphorus Structure

Dominique Laniel, Bjoern Winkler, Timofey Fedotenko, Anna Pakhomova, Stella Chariton, Victor Milman, Vitali Prakapenka, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Natalia Dubrovinskaia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 216001 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Floquet Higher-Order Topological Insulators with Anomalous Dynamical Polarization

Biao Huang and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 216601 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020

Interplay of the Spin Density Wave and a Possible Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ in Rotating Magnetic Field

Shi-Zeng Lin, Duk Y. Kim, Eric D. Bauer, Filip Ronning, J. D. Thompson, and Roman Movshovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217001 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

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Coherent Transfer of Spin Angular Momentum by Evanescent Spin Waves within Antiferromagnetic NiO

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217201 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Experiments show that a spin current moves as a coherent evanescent spin wave through an antiferromagnet layer sandwiched between two ferromagnets.

Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction at an Oxide/Ferromagnetic Metal Interface

Weinan Lin, Baishun Yang, Andy Paul Chen, Xiaohan Wu, Rui Guo, Shaohai Chen, Liang Liu, Qidong Xie, Xinyu Shu, Yajuan Hui, Gan Moog Chow, Yuanping Feng, Giovanni Carlotti, Silvia Tacchi, Hongxin Yang, and Jingsheng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217202 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Novel Chiral Quantum Spin Liquids in Kitaev Magnets

Arnaud Ralko and Jaime Merino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217203 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Twisted Magnon as a Magnetic Tweezer

Yuanyuan Jiang, H. Y. Yuan, Z.-X. Li, Zhenyu Wang, H. W. Zhang, Yunshan Cao, and Peng Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217204 (2020) - Published 26 May, 2020

Observation of Gyromagnetic Spin Wave Resonance in NiFe Films

Yuki Kurimune, Mamoru Matsuo, and Yukio Nozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217205 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

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Electrical Switching of the Nonreciprocal Directional Microwave Response in a Triplon Bose-Einstein Condensate

Shojiro Kimura, Masashige Matsumoto, and Hidekazu Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217401 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

Fast electrical switching of nonreciprocal directional dichroism is demonstrated experimentally in the microwave range.

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Magnetochiral Dichroism in a Collinear Antiferromagnet with No Magnetization

Tatsuki Sato, Nobuyuki Abe, Shojiro Kimura, Yusuke Tokunaga, and Taka-hisa Arima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217402 (2020) - Published 27 May, 2020

An antiferromagnet acts like a dichroic crystal for an incident beam of light in the presence of external electric and magnetic fields.

Electrically Tunable Valley Dynamics in Twisted ${WSe}_{2} / {WSe}_{2}$ Bilayers

Giovanni Scuri, Trond I. Andersen, You Zhou, Dominik S. Wild, Jiho Sung, Ryan J. Gelly, Damien Bérubé, Hoseok Heo, Linbo Shao, Andrew Y. Joe, Andrés M. Mier Valdivia, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Marko Lončar, Philip Kim, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hongkun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 217403 (2020) - Published 28 May, 2020