Volume 124, Issue 6

14 February 2020

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Nonlinear simulation of density fluctuations during the primordial dark ages of the Universe. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

From the article:

Lighting the Dark: Evolution of the Postinflationary Universe
Nathan Musoke, Shaun Hotchkiss, and Richard Easther
Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061301 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lighting the Dark: Evolution of the Postinflationary Universe

Nathan Musoke, Shaun Hotchkiss, and Richard Easther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061301 (2020) - Published 10 February, 2020

Numerical calculations explain how density fluctuations in the Universe grew by orders of magnitude during the “primordial dark ages.”

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Free-Electron–Bound-Electron Resonant Interaction

Avraham Gover and Amnon Yariv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 064801 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Electrons with a modulated wave function might enable improvements in electron microscopy and quantum computing.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Tuning Contact Line Dynamics and Deposition Patterns in Volatile Liquid Mixtures

Asher P. Mouat, Clay E. Wood, Justin E. Pye, and Justin C. Burton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 064502 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

A spreading drop containing a mixture of two liquids breaks into fingers or spherical droplets, depending on the fluids.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Predicting the Speed of Epidemics Spreading in Networks

Sam Moore and Tim Rogers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 068301 (2020) - Published 12 February, 2020

A new analysis predicts the speed at which an infectious disease spreads to specific individuals in a network.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Learning the Physics of Pattern Formation from Images

Hongbo Zhao, Brian D. Storey, Richard D. Braatz, and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060201 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Pixels in 2D video data provide information regarding the physics of pattern formation via an extension of the inversion problem applied to still images.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric-Field-Induced Pattern Formation in Layers of DNA Molecules at the Interface between Two Immiscible Liquids

Steffen Hardt, Johannes Hartmann, Sicheng Zhao, and Aditya Bandopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 064501 (2020) - Published 12 February, 2020

A novel 2D cellular structure is formed by DNA at the interface of two immiscible liquids in a perpendicular electric field.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Learning the Physics of Pattern Formation from Images

Hongbo Zhao, Brian D. Storey, Richard D. Braatz, and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060201 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Pixels in 2D video data provide information regarding the physics of pattern formation via an extension of the inversion problem applied to still images.

Departing from Thermality of Analogue Hawking Radiation in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. Isoard and N. Pavloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060401 (2020) - Published 10 February, 2020

Machine-Designed Sensor to Make Optimal Use of Entanglement-Generating Dynamics for Quantum Sensing

Simon A. Haine and Joseph J. Hope

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060402 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Quantum Teleportation of Shared Quantum Secret

Sang Min Lee, Seung-Woo Lee, Hyunseok Jeong, and Hee Su Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060501 (2020) - Published 11 February, 2020

Experimental Optimal Orienteering via Parallel and Antiparallel Spins

Jun-Feng Tang, Zhibo Hou, Jiangwei Shang, Huangjun Zhu, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060502 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Beyond the Swap Test: Optimal Estimation of Quantum State Overlap

M. Fanizza, M. Rosati, M. Skotiniotis, J. Calsamiglia, and V. Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060503 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Interfaces with Curved Initial Shapes and Variational Formula

Yohsuke T. Fukai and Kazumasa A. Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060601 (2020) - Published 10 February, 2020

Precooling Strategy Allows Exponentially Faster Heating

A. Gal and O. Raz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060602 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Packets of Diffusing Particles Exhibit Universal Exponential Tails

Eli Barkai and Stanislav Burov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 060603 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Standard Sirens as a Novel Probe of Dark Energy

William J. Wolf and Macarena Lagos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061101 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Probing Axions with Event Horizon Telescope Polarimetric Measurements

Yifan Chen, Jing Shu, Xiao Xue, Qiang Yuan, and Yue Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061102 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lighting the Dark: Evolution of the Postinflationary Universe

Nathan Musoke, Shaun Hotchkiss, and Richard Easther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061301 (2020) - Published 10 February, 2020

Numerical calculations explain how density fluctuations in the Universe grew by orders of magnitude during the “primordial dark ages.”

Searching for Fossil Fields in the Gravity Sector

Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni, Matteo Fasiello, and Gianmassimo Tasinato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061302 (2020) - Published 12 February, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Entanglement Entropy after Double Excitation as an Interaction Measure

Yuya Kusuki and Masamichi Miyaji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 061601 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox and Quantum Entanglement at Subnucleonic Scales

Zhoudunming Tu, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, and Thomas Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 062001 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Isospin Properties of Nuclear Pair Correlations from the Level Structure of the Self-Conjugate Nucleus ${}^{88}{Ru}$

B. Cederwall et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 062501 (2020) - Published 12 February, 2020

First Exploration of Neutron Shell Structure below Lead and beyond $N = 126$

T. L. Tang et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 062502 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Long Rotational Coherence Times of Molecules in a Magnetic Trap

L. Caldwell, H. J. Williams, N. J. Fitch, J. Aldegunde, Jeremy M. Hutson, B. E. Sauer, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063001 (2020) - Published 10 February, 2020

Absolute Frequency Measurement of ${}^{6}{Li}$ $D$ Lines with khz-Level Uncertainty

Rui Li, Yuelong Wu, Yang Rui, Bo Li, Yanyi Jiang, Longsheng Ma, and Haibin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063002 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Transverse-Field Ising Dynamics in a Rydberg-Dressed Atomic Gas

V. Borish, O. Marković, J. A. Hines, S. V. Rajagopal, and M. Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063601 (2020) - Published 11 February, 2020

Strong Coupling of Two Individually Controlled Atoms via a Nanophotonic Cavity

Polnop Samutpraphoot, Tamara Đorđević, Paloma L. Ocola, Hannes Bernien, Crystal Senko, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063602 (2020) - Published 11 February, 2020

Light of Two Atoms in Free Space: Bunching or Antibunching?

Sebastian Wolf, Stefan Richter, Joachim von Zanthier, and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063603 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Bright Sub-Poissonian Light through Intrinsic Feedback and External Control

V. S. C. Canela and H. J. Carmichael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063604 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Stellar Representation of Non-Gaussian Quantum States

Ulysse Chabaud, Damian Markham, and Frédéric Grosshans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063605 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coupling between Exciton-Polariton Corner Modes through Edge States

R. Banerjee, S. Mandal, and T. C. H. Liew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063901 (2020) - Published 11 February, 2020

Revealing Strong Plasmon-Exciton Coupling between Nanogap Resonators and Two-Dimensional Semiconductors at Ambient Conditions

Jian Qin, Yu-Hui Chen, Zhepeng Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang, Richard J. Blaikie, Boyang Ding, and Min Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 063902 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electric-Field-Induced Pattern Formation in Layers of DNA Molecules at the Interface between Two Immiscible Liquids

Steffen Hardt, Johannes Hartmann, Sicheng Zhao, and Aditya Bandopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 064501 (2020) - Published 12 February, 2020

A novel 2D cellular structure is formed by DNA at the interface of two immiscible liquids in a perpendicular electric field.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Tuning Contact Line Dynamics and Deposition Patterns in Volatile Liquid Mixtures

Asher P. Mouat, Clay E. Wood, Justin E. Pye, and Justin C. Burton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 064502 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020

A spreading drop containing a mixture of two liquids breaks into fingers or spherical droplets, depending on the fluids.

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Free-Electron–Bound-Electron Resonant Interaction

Avraham Gover and Amnon Yariv

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 064801 (2020) - Published 13 February, 2020

Electrons with a modulated wave function might enable improvements in electron microscopy and quantum computing.

Observational Evidence for Stochastic Shock Drift Acceleration of Electrons at the Earth’s Bow Shock

T. Amano, T. Katou, N. Kitamura, M. Oka, Y. Matsumoto, M. Hoshino, Y. Saito, S. Yokota, B. L. Giles, W. R. Paterson, C. T. Russell, O. Le Contel, R. E. Ergun, P.-A. Lindqvist, D. L. Turner, J. F. Fennell, and J. B. Blake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 065101 (2020) - Published 14 February, 2020