Volume 124, Issue 3

24 January 2020

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Effect of water on growth morphogenesis of a floating lotus leaf. Left column: leaf lying on the water; middle and right columns: leaf with edges suspended above the water. Top row: theoretical modeling; middle row: natural leaf; bottom row: experiment with artificial leaf. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Focus in Physics.

From the article:

Water Affects Morphogenesis of Growing Aquatic Plant Leaves
Fan Xu, Chenbo Fu, and Yifan Yang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 038003 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Several Sources of $C P$ Violation in $B^{+} \to π^{+} π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 031801 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

Measurements show large matter-versus-antimatter differences in three-pion decays of $B$ mesons, yielding new insights into the strong interaction dynamics that control these decays.

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Water Affects Morphogenesis of Growing Aquatic Plant Leaves

Fan Xu, Chenbo Fu, and Yifan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 038003 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

A new theory accurately predicts a wide range of leaf shapes and explains the differences between dry lotus leaves and those that grow on water.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermalization and Sub-Poissonian Density Fluctuations in a Degenerate Molecular Fermi Gas

William G. Tobias, Kyle Matsuda, Giacomo Valtolina, Luigi De Marco, Jun-Ru Li, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033401 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Collisions between molecules and free atoms determine the final temperature of a dilute molecular Fermi gas.

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Transition from Static to Dynamic Friction in an Array of Frictional Disks

Harish Charan, Joyjit Chattoraj, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 030602 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

A simple model of a row of frictional disks predicts an oscillatory instability that leads to dynamic friction.

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Coexistence of Reflection Asymmetric and Symmetric Shapes in ${}^{144}{Ba}$

S. J. Zhu (朱胜江), E. H. Wang, J. H. Hamilton, A. V. Ramayya, Y. X. Liu (刘艳鑫), N. T. Brewer, Y. X. Luo, J. O. Rasmussen, Z. G. Xiao (肖志刚), Y. Huang (黄彦), G. M. Ter-Akopian, and Ts. Oganessian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 032501 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

$γ$ -ray spectroscopy of high-spin states in the neutron-rich $^{144}$ Ba nucleus finds the first indication of shape coexistence between octupole and well-deformed prolate shapes.

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Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Phase Transition in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Nerea Sebastián, Luka Cmok, Richard J. Mandle, María Rosario de la Fuente, Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Martin Čopič, and Alenka Mertelj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037801 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

A particular (splay to uniaxial) liquid crystal phase transition is ferroelectric, which raises fundamental questions about polar order in liquids.

LETTERS

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

Reservoir-Mediated Quantum Correlations in Non-Hermitian Optical System

Wanxia Cao, Xingda Lu, Xin Meng, Jian Sun, Heng Shen, and Yanhong Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 030401 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

$π$ -Corrected Heisenberg Limit

Wojciech Górecki, Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański, Howard M. Wiseman, and Dominic W. Berry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 030501 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Experimental Transmission of Quantum Information Using a Superposition of Causal Orders

Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Zhi-Bo Hou, Huan Cao, Jin-Ming Cui, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 030502 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Perturbation Independent Decay of the Loschmidt Echo in a Many-Body System

C. M. Sánchez, A. K. Chattah, K. X. Wei, L. Buljubasich, P. Cappellaro, and H. M. Pastawski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 030601 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transition from Static to Dynamic Friction in an Array of Frictional Disks

Harish Charan, Joyjit Chattoraj, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, and Itamar Procaccia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 030602 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

A simple model of a row of frictional disks predicts an oscillatory instability that leads to dynamic friction.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Estimator for Gravitational Lensing Using Galaxy and Intensity Mapping Surveys

Mona Jalilvand, Elisabetta Majerotto, Camille Bonvin, Fabien Lacasa, Martin Kunz, Warren Naidoo, and Kavilan Moodley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 031101 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Dynamical Phase Transition from Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Dark Solitons

Minyong Guo, Esko Keski-Vakkuri, Hong Liu, Yu Tian, and Hongbao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 031601 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Several Sources of $C P$ Violation in $B^{+} \to π^{+} π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 031801 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

Measurements show large matter-versus-antimatter differences in three-pion decays of $B$ mesons, yielding new insights into the strong interaction dynamics that control these decays.

Search for Magnetic Monopoles and Stable High-Electric-Charge Objects in 13 Tev Proton-Proton Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 031802 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

$I = 3$ Three-Pion Scattering Amplitude from Lattice QCD

Tyler D. Blanton, Fernando Romero-López, and Stephen R. Sharpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 032001 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Measurement of the Cross Section for $e^{+} e^{-} \to Ξ^{-} {\bar{Ξ}}^{+}$ and Observation of an Excited $Ξ$ Baryon

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 032002 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coexistence of Reflection Asymmetric and Symmetric Shapes in ${}^{144}{Ba}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 032501 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

$γ$ -ray spectroscopy of high-spin states in the neutron-rich $^{144}$ Ba nucleus finds the first indication of shape coexistence between octupole and well-deformed prolate shapes.

Early Signal of Emerging Nuclear Collectivity in Neutron-Rich ${}^{129}{Sb}$

T. J. Gray, J. M. Allmond, A. E. Stuchbery, C.-H. Yu, C. Baktash, A. Gargano, A. Galindo-Uribarri, D. C. Radford, J. C. Batchelder, J. R. Beene, C. R. Bingham, L. Coraggio, A. Covello, M. Danchev, C. J. Gross, P. A. Hausladen, N. Itaco, W. Krolas, J. F. Liang, E. Padilla-Rodal, J. Pavan, D. W. Stracener, and R. L. Varner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 032502 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin-Orbit Interactions in Ultrafast Molecular Processes

Francesco Talotta, Sabine Morisset, Nathalie Rougeau, David Lauvergnat, and Federica Agostini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033001 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Helicity-Preserving Optical Cavity Modes for Enhanced Sensing of Chiral Molecules

Joshua Feis, Dominik Beutel, Julian Köpfler, Xavier Garcia-Santiago, Carsten Rockstuhl, Martin Wegener, and Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033201 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Thermalization and Sub-Poissonian Density Fluctuations in a Degenerate Molecular Fermi Gas

William G. Tobias, Kyle Matsuda, Giacomo Valtolina, Luigi De Marco, Jun-Ru Li, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033401 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Collisions between molecules and free atoms determine the final temperature of a dilute molecular Fermi gas.

Unraveling the Quantum Nature of Atomic Self-Ordering in a Ring Cavity

Stefan Ostermann, Wolfgang Niedenzu, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033601 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Radiative Cooling of a Superconducting Resonator

Mingrui Xu, Xu Han, Chang-Ling Zou, Wei Fu, Yuntao Xu, Changchun Zhong, Liang Jiang, and Hong X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033602 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Rydberg Atom Entanglements in the Weak Coupling Regime

Hanlae Jo, Yunheung Song, Minhyuk Kim, and Jaewook Ahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033603 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Entangling Macroscopic Light States by Delocalized Photon Addition

Nicola Biagi, Luca S. Costanzo, Marco Bellini, and Alessandro Zavatta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033604 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Electromagnetic Funnel: Reflectionless Transmission and Guiding of Waves through Subwavelength Apertures

Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri, Nader Engheta, and Raphael Kastner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033901 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Pattern Revivals from Fractional Gouy Phases in Structured Light

B. Pinheiro da Silva, V. A. Pinillos, D. S. Tasca, L. E. Oxman, and A. Z. Khoury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 033902 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Cavitation Nuclei Regeneration in a Water-Particle Suspension

Adrien Bussonnière, Qingxia Liu, and Peichun Amy Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 034501 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Petapascal Pressure Driven by Fast Isochoric Heating with a Multipicosecond Intense Laser Pulse

Kazuki Matsuo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 035001 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Stability of Vicinal Surfaces: Beyond the Quasistatic Approximation

L. Guin, M. E. Jabbour, L. Shaabani-Ardali, L. Benoit-Maréchal, and N. Triantafyllidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036101 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

General Nanomolding of Ordered Phases

Naijia Liu, Yujun Xie, Guannan Liu, Sungwoo Sohn, Arindam Raj, Guoxing Han, Bozhao Wu, Judy J. Cha, Ze Liu, and Jan Schroers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036102 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Pfaffian Formalism for Higher-Order Topological Insulators

Heqiu Li and Kai Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036401 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Dimensionality-Mediated Semimetal-Semiconductor Transition in Ultrathin ${PtTe}_{2}$ Films

Meng-Kai Lin, Rovi Angelo B. Villaos, Joseph A. Hlevyack, Peng Chen, Ro-Ya Liu, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, José Avila, Sung-Kwan Mo, Feng-Chuan Chuang, and T.-C. Chiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036402 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Nonlocal Conductance Spectroscopy of Andreev Bound States: Symmetry Relations and BCS Charges

Jeroen Danon, Anna Birk Hellenes, Esben Bork Hansen, Lucas Casparis, Andrew P. Higginbotham, and Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036801 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Conductance-Matrix Symmetries of a Three-Terminal Hybrid Device

G. C. Ménard, G. L. R. Anselmetti, E. A. Martinez, D. Puglia, F. K. Malinowski, J. S. Lee, S. Choi, M. Pendharkar, C. J. Palmstrøm, K. Flensberg, C. M. Marcus, L. Casparis, and A. P. Higginbotham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036802 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Higher-Order Topological Insulators in Quasicrystals

Rui Chen, Chui-Zhen Chen, Jin-Hua Gao, Bin Zhou, and Dong-Hui Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 036803 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Isometric Tensor Network States in Two Dimensions

Michael P. Zaletel and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037201 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Current-Induced Dynamics and Chaos of Antiferromagnetic Bimerons

Laichuan Shen, Jing Xia, Xichao Zhang, Motohiko Ezawa, Oleg A. Tretiakov, Xiaoxi Liu, Guoping Zhao, and Yan Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037202 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Tunable Magnon Interactions in a Ferromagnetic Spin-1 Chain

Prashant Chauhan, Fahad Mahmood, Hitesh J. Changlani, S. M. Koohpayeh, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037203 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

Tracking the Time Evolution of the Electron Distribution Function in Copper by Femtosecond Broadband Optical Spectroscopy

Manuel Obergfell and Jure Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037401 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

Valley-Layer Coupling: A New Design Principle for Valleytronics

Zhi-Ming Yu, Shan Guan, Xian-Lei Sheng, Weibo Gao, and Shengyuan A. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037701 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Phase Transition in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Nerea Sebastián, Luka Cmok, Richard J. Mandle, María Rosario de la Fuente, Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Martin Čopič, and Alenka Mertelj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 037801 (2020) - Published 21 January, 2020

A particular (splay to uniaxial) liquid crystal phase transition is ferroelectric, which raises fundamental questions about polar order in liquids.

Unexpected Cholesterol-Induced Destabilization of Lipid Membranes near Transmembrane Carbon Nanotubes

Yachong Guo, Marco Werner, Jean Baptiste Fleury, and Vladimir A. Baulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 038001 (2020) - Published 22 January, 2020

Nonlinear Poisson Effect Governed by a Mechanical Critical Transition

Jordan L. Shivers, Sadjad Arzash, and F. C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 038002 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Water Affects Morphogenesis of Growing Aquatic Plant Leaves

Fan Xu, Chenbo Fu, and Yifan Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 038003 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

A new theory accurately predicts a wide range of leaf shapes and explains the differences between dry lotus leaves and those that grow on water.

Pressure Dependent Shear Response of Jammed Packings of Frictionless Spherical Particles

Kyle VanderWerf, Arman Boromand, Mark D. Shattuck, and Corey S. O’Hern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 038004 (2020) - Published 24 January, 2020

Retraction: Néel Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Antiferromagnetic Resonance in ${Mn}_{2} Au$ Probed by Time-Domain THz Spectroscopy [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237201 (2018)]

N. Bhattacharjee, A. A. Sapozhnik, S. Yu. Bodnar, V. Yu. Grigorev, S. Y. Agustsson, J. Cao, D. Dominko, M. Obergfell, O. Gomonay, J. Sinova, M. Kläui, H.-J. Elmers, M. Jourdan, and J. Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 039901 (2020) - Published 23 January, 2020