Volume 125, Issue 10

4 September 2020

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Gravitational-wave detection of the largest black hole merger observed to date. Columns depict the event as seen by LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, and Virgo. Top: signal vs time; bottom: frequency vs time. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of $150 M_{⊙}$
R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101102 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of $150 M_{⊙}$

R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101102 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The heaviest black hole merger detected to date provides evidence for a progenitor black hole in a theoretically forbidden gap and for a resulting black hole in the long-sought intermediate mass range.

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Partial Cloaking of a Gold Particle by a Single Molecule

Johannes Zirkelbach, Benjamin Gmeiner, Jan Renger, Pierre Türschmann, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 103603 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

A nanoparticle can be made partially transparent by placing a molecule in front of it, forming a system that might work as an optical switch.

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Observation of the Magneto-Thomson Effect

Ken-ichi Uchida, Masayuki Murata, Asuka Miura, and Ryo Iguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106601 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The first thermal images of an elusive thermoelectric effect reveal that the effect significantly increases when a magnetic field is applied to the material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Time Landauer Principle

Karel Proesmans, Jannik Ehrich, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100602 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Entropy produced by erasure of information in finite time can be minimized regardless of the final state by the use of optimal protocols that control the potential landscape.

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Dynamic Nuclear Spin Polarization Induced by the Edelstein Effect at Bi(111) Surfaces

Zijian Jiang, V. Soghomonian, and J. J. Heremans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106802 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The transfer of spin polarization between carriers and nuclei through purely electrical means is demonstrated in a thin film of bismuth.

LETTERS

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

Deep Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Cartpoles

Zhikang T. Wang, Yuto Ashida, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100401 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

High-Precision Quantum-Enhanced Gravimetry with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Stuart S. Szigeti, Samuel P. Nolan, John D. Close, and Simon A. Haine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100402 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in ( $1 + 1$ )-Dimensional Quantum Cellular Automata with Controllable Quantum Correlations

Edward Gillman, Federico Carollo, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100403 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Narrowing the Parameter Space of Collapse Models with Ultracold Layered Force Sensors

A. Vinante, M. Carlesso, A. Bassi, A. Chiasera, S. Varas, P. Falferi, B. Margesin, R. Mezzena, and H. Ulbricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100404 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Superresolution Limits from Measurement Crosstalk

Manuel Gessner, Claude Fabre, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100501 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Condition on the Rényi Entanglement Entropy under Stochastic Local Manipulation

Hyukjoon Kwon, A. J. Paige, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100502 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Quantum Many-Body Dynamics in Two Dimensions with Artificial Neural Networks

Markus Schmitt and Markus Heyl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100503 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Half-Integer Quantized Topological Response in Quasiperiodically Driven Quantum Systems

P. J. D. Crowley, I. Martin, and A. Chandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100601 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Time Landauer Principle

Karel Proesmans, Jannik Ehrich, and John Bechhoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 100602 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Entropy produced by erasure of information in finite time can be minimized regardless of the final state by the use of optimal protocols that control the potential landscape.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Neutrino and Positron Constraints on Spinning Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter

Basudeb Dasgupta, Ranjan Laha, and Anupam Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101101 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

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GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of $150 M_{⊙}$

R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101102 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Astrophysical Implications of GW190412 as a Remnant of a Previous Black-Hole Merger

Davide Gerosa, Salvatore Vitale, and Emanuele Berti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101103 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Asymptotic Gravitational Charges

Hadi Godazgar, Mahdi Godazgar, and Malcolm J. Perry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 101301 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Studies of Charm Quark Diffusion inside Jets Using Pb-Pb and $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 102001 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Systematic Matter and Binding-Energy Distributions from a Dispersive Optical Model Analysis

C. D. Pruitt, R. J. Charity, L. G. Sobotka, M. C. Atkinson, and W. H. Dickhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 102501 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

Shape Coexistence at Zero Spin in ${}^{64}{Ni}$ Driven by the Monopole Tensor Interaction

N. Mărginean et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 102502 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Accessing the Single-Particle Structure of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in ${}^{208}{Pb}$

M. Spieker, A. Heusler, B. A. Brown, T. Faestermann, R. Hertenberger, G. Potel, M. Scheck, N. Tsoneva, M. Weinert, H.-F. Wirth, and A. Zilges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 102503 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Fission of ${}^{240}{Pu}$ with Symmetry-Restored Density Functional Theory

P. Marević and N. Schunck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 102504 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Emergent $Sp (3, R)$ Dynamical Symmetry in the Nuclear Many-Body System from an Ab Initio Description

Anna E. McCoy, Mark A. Caprio, Tomáš Dytrych, and Patrick J. Fasano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 102505 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Resolving Anharmonic Lattice Dynamics in Molecular Crystals with X-Ray Diffraction and Terahertz Spectroscopy

Martin Hutereau, Peter A. Banks, Ben Slater, J. Axel Zeitler, Andrew D. Bond, and Michael T. Ruggiero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 103001 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Breathing Mode of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea

Piotr T. Grochowski, Tomasz Karpiuk, Mirosław Brewczyk, and Kazimierz Rzążewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 103401 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Morphing Supermodes: A Full Characterization for Enabling Multimode Quantum Optics

Élie Gouzien, Sébastien Tanzilli, Virginia D’Auria, and Giuseppe Patera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 103601 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Controlling the Dipole Blockade and Ionization Rate of Rydberg Atoms in Strong Electric Fields

Markus Stecker, Raphael Nold, Lea-Marina Steinert, Jens Grimmel, David Petrosyan, József Fortágh, and Andreas Günther

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 103602 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

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Partial Cloaking of a Gold Particle by a Single Molecule

Johannes Zirkelbach, Benjamin Gmeiner, Jan Renger, Pierre Türschmann, Tobias Utikal, Stephan Götzinger, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 103603 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

A nanoparticle can be made partially transparent by placing a molecule in front of it, forming a system that might work as an optical switch.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Frustrated Bearings

R. S. Pires, A. A. Moreira, H. J. Herrmann, and J. S. Andrade, Jr.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 104301 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

Singular Measures and Information Capacity of Turbulent Cascades

Michal Shavit and Gregory Falkovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 104501 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Steady and Unsteady Buckling of Viscous Capillary Jets and Liquid Bridges

Jingxuan Tian, Neil M. Ribe, Xiaoxiao Wu, and Ho Cheung Shum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 104502 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Effects of the Transverse Instability and Wave Breaking on the Laser-Driven Thin Foil Acceleration

Y. Wan, I. A. Andriyash, W. Lu, W. B. Mori, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 104801 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

Species Separation and Hydrogen Streaming upon Shock Release from Polystyrene under Inertial Confinement Fusion Conditions

Shuai Zhang and S. X. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 105001 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Turbulence Suppression by Energetic Particle Effects in Modern Optimized Stellarators

A. Di Siena, A. Bañón Navarro, and F. Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 105002 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Anharmonicity and Universal Response of Linear Carbon Chain Mechanical Properties under Hydrostatic Pressure

Keshav Sharma, Nathalia L. Costa, Yoong Ahm Kim, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Newton M. Barbosa Neto, Luiz G. P. Martins, Jing Kong, Alexandre Rocha Paschoal, and Paulo T. Araujo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 105501 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Asymmetric Damage Avalanche Shape in Quasibrittle Materials and Subavalanche (Aftershock) Clusters

Chi-Cong Vu and Jérôme Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 105502 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

Hydration of ${NH}_{4}^{+}$ in Water: Bifurcated Hydrogen Bonding Structures and Fast Rotational Dynamics

Jianqing Guo, Liying Zhou, Andrea Zen, Angelos Michaelides, Xifan Wu, Enge Wang, Limei Xu, and Ji Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106001 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

Weak Dimensionality Dependence and Dominant Role of Ionic Fluctuations in the Charge-Density-Wave Transition of ${NbSe}_{2}$

Raffaello Bianco, Lorenzo Monacelli, Matteo Calandra, Francesco Mauri, and Ion Errea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106101 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxial Growth of Single-Layer Graphene in an Unconventional Orientation on SiC

F. C. Bocquet, Y.-R. Lin (林又容), M. Franke, N. Samiseresht, S. Parhizkar, S. Soubatch, T.-L. Lee (李天麟), C. Kumpf, and F. S. Tautz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106102 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Floquet Topological Phase of Nondriven $p$ -Wave Nonequilibrium Excitonic Insulators

E. Perfetto and G. Stefanucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106401 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

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Observation of the Magneto-Thomson Effect

Ken-ichi Uchida, Masayuki Murata, Asuka Miura, and Ryo Iguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106601 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The first thermal images of an elusive thermoelectric effect reveal that the effect significantly increases when a magnetic field is applied to the material.

Shot Noise of a Temperature-Biased Tunnel Junction

Samuel Larocque, Edouard Pinsolle, Christian Lupien, and Bertrand Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106801 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamic Nuclear Spin Polarization Induced by the Edelstein Effect at Bi(111) Surfaces

Zijian Jiang, V. Soghomonian, and J. J. Heremans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 106802 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The transfer of spin polarization between carriers and nuclei through purely electrical means is demonstrated in a thin film of bismuth.

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

Finite Dimensional Vestige of Spinodal Criticality above the Dynamical Glass Transition

Ludovic Berthier, Patrick Charbonneau, and Joyjit Kundu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 108001 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

Programming Impulsive Deformation with Mechanical Metamaterials

Xudong Liang and Alfred J. Crosby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 108002 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020