Volume 124, Issue 24

19 June 2020

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Stable (right) and unstable (center and left) complex patterns generated in a colloidal gel. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Criterion for Fingering Instabilities in Colloidal Gels
Thibaut Divoux, Asheesh Shukla, Badis Marsit, Yacouba Kaloga, and Irmgard Bischofberger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248006 (2020)

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Full Counting Statistics of Topological Defects after Crossing a Phase Transition

Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz, Jack J. Mayo, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240602 (2020) - Published 17 June, 2020

A theoretical study of phase transitions reveals new universal nonequilibrium features in the statistics of topological defects.

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Physical Implications of a Fundamental Period of Time

Garrett Wendel, Luis Martínez, and Martin Bojowald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 241301 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Theorists have determined $10^{- 33}$ seconds as the upper limit for the period of a universal oscillator, which could help in constructing a quantum theory of gravity.

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Evidence for Unbounded Growth of the Number Entropy in Many-Body Localized Phases

Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, Razmik Unanyan, Michael Fleischhauer, and Jesko Sirker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 243601 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Simulations show that an isolated quantum system—previously thought to remain out of equilibrium indefinitely—may thermalize after all.

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Origin of Pulsar Radio Emission

Alexander Philippov, Andrey Timokhin, and Anatoly Spitkovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 245101 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

Calculations link coherent pulsar emission to fluctuations in electron-positron production.

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St. Petersburg Paradox and Failure Probability

Jake Fontana and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 245501 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Stretching fibers until they fail reveals a correspondence between material strength and a 300-year-old math puzzle involving coin flips.

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Criterion for Fingering Instabilities in Colloidal Gels

Thibaut Divoux, Asheesh Shukla, Badis Marsit, Yacouba Kaloga, and Irmgard Bischofberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248006 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Experiments show that when a non-Newtonian fluid is displaced by air, the input energy determines whether the fluid surface forms simple or elaborate patterns.

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Sound Propagation and Quantum-Limited Damping in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Markus Bohlen, Lennart Sobirey, Niclas Luick, Hauke Biss, Tilman Enss, Thomas Lompe, and Henning Moritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240403 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Measurements of the speed and damping of sound waves in a homogeneous 2D Fermi gas across the BEC-BCS crossover probe the thermodynamic and transport properties of this gas and reveals that it realizes a nearly perfect fluid.

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Quantum Information Scrambling in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator with Tunable Range Interactions

Manoj K. Joshi, Andreas Elben, Benoît Vermersch, Tiff Brydges, Christine Maier, Peter Zoller, Rainer Blatt, and Christian F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240505 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Quantum scrambling is simulated using a ten-qubit trapped-ion quantum simulator.

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Nanoscale Electrometry Based on a Magnetic-Field-Resistant Spin Sensor

Rui Li, Fei Kong, Pengju Zhao, Zhi Cheng, Zhuoyang Qin, Mengqi Wang, Qi Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Ya Wang, Fazhan Shi, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 247701 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

A novel electrometry method using a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond as a probe is insensitive to magnetic fields but maximally sensitive to electric ones.

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Shape-Anisotropy-Induced Ordered Packings in Cylindrical Confinement

Weiwei Jin (金炜炜), Ho-Kei Chan (陈浩基), and Zheng Zhong (仲政)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248002 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Packing prolate and oblate spheroids into cylinders creates new types of packings not seen for perfect spheres.

LETTERS

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

Generating Multipartite Spin States with Fermionic Atoms in a Driven Optical Lattice

Mikhail Mamaev and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240401 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Electromagnetically Induced Acoustic Transparency with a Superconducting Circuit

Gustav Andersson, Maria K. Ekström, and Per Delsing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240402 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

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Sound Propagation and Quantum-Limited Damping in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

Markus Bohlen, Lennart Sobirey, Niclas Luick, Hauke Biss, Tilman Enss, Thomas Lompe, and Henning Moritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240403 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Topological Field Theory Far from Equilibrium

F. Tonielli, J. C. Budich, A. Altland, and S. Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240404 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Measuring Effective Temperatures of Qubits Using Correlations

Anatoly Kulikov, Rohit Navarathna, and Arkady Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240501 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

Remote Entanglement via Adiabatic Passage Using a Tunably Dissipative Quantum Communication System

H.-S. Chang, Y. P. Zhong, A. Bienfait, M.-H. Chou, C. R. Conner, É. Dumur, J. Grebel, G. A. Peairs, R. G. Povey, K. J. Satzinger, and A. N. Cleland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240502 (2020) - Published 17 June, 2020

Engineering a Kerr-Based Deterministic Cubic Phase Gate via Gaussian Operations

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Edwin Ng, Logan G. Wright, Peter L. McMahon, and Hideo Mabuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240503 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Quantum Communication between Multiplexed Atomic Quantum Memories

C. Li, N. Jiang, Y.-K. Wu, W. Chang, Y.-F. Pu, S. Zhang, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240504 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

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Quantum Information Scrambling in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator with Tunable Range Interactions

Manoj K. Joshi, Andreas Elben, Benoît Vermersch, Tiff Brydges, Christine Maier, Peter Zoller, Rainer Blatt, and Christian F. Roos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240505 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Quantum scrambling is simulated using a ten-qubit trapped-ion quantum simulator.

Landauer’s Principle at Zero Temperature

André M. Timpanaro, Jader P. Santos, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240601 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

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Full Counting Statistics of Topological Defects after Crossing a Phase Transition

Fernando J. Gómez-Ruiz, Jack J. Mayo, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240602 (2020) - Published 17 June, 2020

A theoretical study of phase transitions reveals new universal nonequilibrium features in the statistics of topological defects.

Nonequilibrium Green’s Function’s Approach to the Calculation of Work Statistics

Zhaoyu Fei and H. T. Quan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240603 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Stealth Entropy Production in Active Field Theories near Ising Critical Points

Fernando Caballero and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 240604 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

ADMX SLIC: Results from a Superconducting LC Circuit Investigating Cold Axions

N. Crisosto, P. Sikivie, N. S. Sullivan, D. B. Tanner, J. Yang, and G. Rybka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 241101 (2020) - Published 17 June, 2020

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Physical Implications of a Fundamental Period of Time

Garrett Wendel, Luis Martínez, and Martin Bojowald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 241301 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Theorists have determined $10^{- 33}$ seconds as the upper limit for the period of a universal oscillator, which could help in constructing a quantum theory of gravity.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Emergence of Maximal Symmetry

Csaba Csáki, Teng Ma, Jing Shu, and Jiang-Hao Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 241801 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

Determination of Strong-Phase Parameters in $D \to K_{S, L}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 241802 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

Measurements of Absolute Branching Fractions of Fourteen Exclusive Hadronic $D$ Decays to $η$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 241803 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Study of Open-Charm Decays and Radiative Transitions of the X(3872)

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 242001 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Excitation of ${}^{229 m}{Th}$ at Inelastic Scattering of Low Energy Electrons

E. V. Tkalya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 242501 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Individual Correlations in Ensemble Density Functional Theory: State- and Density-Driven Decompositions without Additional Kohn-Sham Systems

Emmanuel Fromager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 243001 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

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Evidence for Unbounded Growth of the Number Entropy in Many-Body Localized Phases

Maximilian Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, Razmik Unanyan, Michael Fleischhauer, and Jesko Sirker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 243601 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Simulations show that an isolated quantum system—previously thought to remain out of equilibrium indefinitely—may thermalize after all.

Observation of Protected Photonic Edge States Induced by Real-Space Topological Lattice Defects

Qiang Wang, Haoran Xue, Baile Zhang, and Y. D. Chong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 243602 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Asymmetric Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons via Paired Slot Antennas for Angstrom Displacement Sensing

Tianyang Zang, Haofeng Zang, Zheng Xi, Jing Du, Han Wang, Yonghua Lu, and Pei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 243901 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Periodic Table of the Ordinary and Supersymmetric Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models

Fadi Sun and Jinwu Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 244101 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

High-Brightness Continuous-Wave Electron Beams from Superconducting Radio-Frequency Photoemission Gun

I. Petrushina et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 244801 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

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Origin of Pulsar Radio Emission

Alexander Philippov, Andrey Timokhin, and Anatoly Spitkovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 245101 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

Calculations link coherent pulsar emission to fluctuations in electron-positron production.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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St. Petersburg Paradox and Failure Probability

Jake Fontana and Peter Palffy-Muhoray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 245501 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Stretching fibers until they fail reveals a correspondence between material strength and a 300-year-old math puzzle involving coin flips.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Tensor Network Representations of Parton Wave Functions

Ying-Hai Wu, Lei Wang, and Hong-Hao Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 246401 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Quasiparticle Tunneling across an Exciton Condensate

Ding Zhang, Joseph Falson, Stefan Schmult, Werner Dietsche, and Jurgen H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 246801 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Observation of Vanishing Charge Dispersion of a Nearly Open Superconducting Island

Arno Bargerbos, Willemijn Uilhoorn, Chung-Kai Yang, Peter Krogstrup, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Gijs de Lange, Bernard van Heck, and Angela Kou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 246802 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Suppressed Charge Dispersion via Resonant Tunneling in a Single-Channel Transmon

A. Kringhøj, B. van Heck, T. W. Larsen, O. Erlandsson, D. Sabonis, P. Krogstrup, L. Casparis, K. D. Petersson, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 246803 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Photoinduced Persistent Electron Accumulation and Depletion in ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Quantum Wells

Yu Chen, Yoann Lechaux, Blai Casals, Bruno Guillet, Albert Minj, Jaume Gázquez, Laurence Méchin, and Gervasi Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 246804 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Pairing Obstructions in Topological Superconductors

Frank Schindler, Barry Bradlyn, Mark H. Fischer, and Titus Neupert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 247001 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

Isostructural Spin-Density-Wave and Superconducting Gap Anisotropies in Iron-Arsenide Superconductors

T. T. Han, L. Chen, C. Cai, Y. D. Wang, Z. G. Wang, Z. M. Xin, and Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 247002 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Atomistic Perspective of Long Lifetimes of Small Skyrmions at Room Temperature

Markus Hoffmann, Gideon P. Müller, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 247201 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

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Nanoscale Electrometry Based on a Magnetic-Field-Resistant Spin Sensor

Rui Li, Fei Kong, Pengju Zhao, Zhi Cheng, Zhuoyang Qin, Mengqi Wang, Qi Zhang, Pengfei Wang, Ya Wang, Fazhan Shi, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 247701 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

A novel electrometry method using a nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond as a probe is insensitive to magnetic fields but maximally sensitive to electric ones.

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

Symmetries and Dualities in the Theory of Elasticity

Michel Fruchart and Vincenzo Vitelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248001 (2020) - Published 15 June, 2020

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Shape-Anisotropy-Induced Ordered Packings in Cylindrical Confinement

Weiwei Jin (金炜炜), Ho-Kei Chan (陈浩基), and Zheng Zhong (仲政)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248002 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Packing prolate and oblate spheroids into cylinders creates new types of packings not seen for perfect spheres.

Surface Tensions between Active Fluids and Solid Interfaces: Bare vs Dressed

R. Zakine, Y. Zhao, M. Knežević, A. Daerr, Y. Kafri, J. Tailleur, and F. van Wijland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248003 (2020) - Published 17 June, 2020

Non-Faradaic Electric Currents in the Nernst-Planck Equations and Nonlocal Diffusiophoresis of Suspended Colloids in Crossed Salt Gradients

Patrick B. Warren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248004 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

Shear Thickening and Jamming of Dense Suspensions: The “Roll” of Friction

Abhinendra Singh, Christopher Ness, Ryohei Seto, Juan J. de Pablo, and Heinrich M. Jaeger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248005 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

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Criterion for Fingering Instabilities in Colloidal Gels

Thibaut Divoux, Asheesh Shukla, Badis Marsit, Yacouba Kaloga, and Irmgard Bischofberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248006 (2020) - Published 18 June, 2020

Experiments show that when a non-Newtonian fluid is displaced by air, the input energy determines whether the fluid surface forms simple or elaborate patterns.

Covering Problems and Core Percolations on Hypergraphs

Bruno Coelho Coutinho, Ang-Kun Wu, Hai-Jun Zhou, and Yang-Yu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248301 (2020) - Published 17 June, 2020

Statistical Physics of Unsupervised Learning with Prior Knowledge in Neural Networks

Tianqi Hou and Haiping Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 248302 (2020) - Published 16 June, 2020

COMMENTS

Comment on “Sign-Reversing Hall Effect in Atomically Thin High-Temperature ${Bi}_{2.1} {Sr}_{1.9} {CaCu}_{2.0} O_{8 + δ}$ Superconductors”

Ping Ao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 249701 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020

Zhao et al. Reply:

S. Y. Frank Zhao, Nicola Poccia, Margaret G. Panetta, Cyndia Yu, Jedediah W. Johnson, Hyobin Yoo, Ruidan Zhong, G. D. Gu, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Svetlana V. Postolova, Valerii M. Vinokur, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 249702 (2020) - Published 19 June, 2020