Volume 125, Issue 18

30 October 2020

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On the Cover

Nanoscopic structure model of hydrogenated amorphous silicon (gray haze) from x-ray, neutron, and TEM data. Dense ordered domains and voids are shown as blue and red spheres, respectively. Closeups show specific atomic models.

From the article:

Quantification of Nanoscale Density Fluctuations in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon
Eike Gericke, Jimmy Melskens, Robert Wendt, Markus Wollgarten, Armin Hoell, and Klaus Lips
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 185501 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Automatic Fine-Tuning in the Two-Flavor Schwinger Model

Howard Georgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181601 (2020) - Published 26 October, 2020

A theoretical model illustrates that phenomena that might appear to be the result of ad hoc fine tuning at low energies may have a natural explanation in terms of physical principles that apply only at higher energy scales.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modeling the Microstructure and Stress in Dense Suspensions under Inhomogeneous Flow

J. J. J. Gillissen and C. Ness

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 184503 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Incorporating shear rate fluctuations into a tensorial model captures the microstructural features of dense suspensions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of Quantum Hall Edge Strips on Valley Splitting in Silicon Quantum Wells

Brian Paquelet Wuetz, Merritt P. Losert, Alberto Tosato, Mario Lodari, Peter L. Bavdaz, Lucas Stehouwer, Payam Amin, James S. Clarke, Susan N. Coppersmith, Amir Sammak, Menno Veldhorst, Mark Friesen, and Giordano Scappucci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186801 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Valley splitting in low-disorder silicon quantum wells in the quantum Hall regime increases with electric field at the edge of the device at a rate consistent with predictions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Semiconductor Quantum Plasmonics

Angela Vasanelli, Simon Huppert, Andrew Haky, Thibault Laurent, Yanko Todorov, and Carlo Sirtori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 187401 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

A full quantum treatment of plasmons confined in a semiconductor layer, going beyond the commonly employed electromagnetic models, indicates the existence of higher order longitudinal modes that are subsequently experimentally observed.

LETTERS

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

What is a Quantum Shock Wave?

S. A. Simmons, F. A. Bayocboc, Jr., J. C. Pillay, D. Colas, I. P. McCulloch, and K. V. Kheruntsyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180401 (2020) - Published 26 October, 2020

Measurement of Identical Particle Entanglement and the Influence of Antisymmetrization

J. H. Becher, E. Sindici, R. Klemt, S. Jochim, A. J. Daley, and P. M. Preiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180402 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Non-Hermitian Topological Sensors

Jan Carl Budich and Emil J. Bergholtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180403 (2020) - Published 29 October, 2020

Demonstration of Adiabatic Variational Quantum Computing with a Superconducting Quantum Coprocessor

Ming-Cheng Chen, Ming Gong, Xiaosi Xu, Xiao Yuan, Jian-Wen Wang, Can Wang, Chong Ying, Jin Lin, Yu Xu, Yulin Wu, Shiyu Wang, Hui Deng, Futian Liang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Simon C. Benjamin, Xiaobo Zhu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180501 (2020) - Published 26 October, 2020

Entanglement-Assisted Absorption Spectroscopy

Haowei Shi, Zheshen Zhang, Stefano Pirandola, and Quntao Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180502 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Manipulating Complex Hybrid Entanglement and Testing Multipartite Bell Inequalities in a Superconducting Circuit

Y. Ma, X. Pan, W. Cai, X. Mu, Y. Xu, L. Hu, W. Wang, H. Wang, Y. P. Song, Zhen-Biao Yang, Shi-Biao Zheng, and L. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180503 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Implementation of a Walsh-Hadamard Gate in a Superconducting Qutrit

M. A. Yurtalan, J. Shi, M. Kononenko, A. Lupascu, and S. Ashhab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180504 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Dynamical Entanglement

Gilad Gour and Carlo Maria Scandolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180505 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Aging in the Long-Range Ising Model

Henrik Christiansen, Suman Majumder, Malte Henkel, and Wolfhard Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180601 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Variational Approach for Many-Body Systems at Finite Temperature

Tao Shi, Eugene Demler, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180602 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Quantum Coherence and Ergotropy

G. Francica, F. C. Binder, G. Guarnieri, M. T. Mitchison, J. Goold, and F. Plastina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180603 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Eigenstate Entanglement Entropy in Random Quadratic Hamiltonians

Patrycja Łydżba, Marcos Rigol, and Lev Vidmar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180604 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Weak Integrability Breaking: Chaos with Integrability Signature in Coherent Diffusion

Marko Žnidarič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 180605 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Intermediate Mass-Ratio Black Hole Binaries: Applicability of Small Mass-Ratio Perturbation Theory

Maarten van de Meent and Harald P. Pfeiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181101 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Search for Composite Dark Matter with Optically Levitated Sensors

Fernando Monteiro, Gadi Afek, Daniel Carney, Gordan Krnjaic, Jiaxiang Wang, and David C. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181102 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Finite Quantum Gravity Amplitudes: No Strings Attached

Tom Draper, Benjamin Knorr, Chris Ripken, and Frank Saueressig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181301 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Relieving the Hubble Tension with Primordial Magnetic Fields

Karsten Jedamzik and Levon Pogosian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181302 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Exploring Primordial Black Holes from the Multiverse with Optical Telescopes

Alexander Kusenko, Misao Sasaki, Sunao Sugiyama, Masahiro Takada, Volodymyr Takhistov, and Edoardo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181304 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Automatic Fine-Tuning in the Two-Flavor Schwinger Model

Howard Georgi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181601 (2020) - Published 26 October, 2020

Silence of Binary Kerr Black Holes

Rafael Aoude, Ming-Zhi Chung, Yu-tin Huang, Camila S. Machado, and Man-Kuan Tam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181602 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Relating Gauge and Gravity Theories in the Large Mass Limit

Kays Haddad and Andreas Helset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181603 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Search for a Dark Leptophilic Scalar in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Collisions

J. P. Lees et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 181801 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Extraction of Beam-Spin Asymmetries from the Hard Exclusive $π^{+}$ Channel off Protons in a Wide Range of Kinematics

S. Diehl et al. (The CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 182001 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Ab Initio Computation of Charge Densities for Sn and Xe Isotopes

P. Arthuis, C. Barbieri, M. Vorabbi, and P. Finelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 182501 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Radiative Width of the Hoyle State from $γ$ -Ray Spectroscopy

T. Kibédi, B. Alshahrani, A. E. Stuchbery, A. C. Larsen, A. Görgen, S. Siem, M. Guttormsen, F. Giacoppo, A. I. Morales, E. Sahin, G. M. Tveten, F. L. Bello Garrote, L. Crespo Campo, T. K. Eriksen, M. Klintefjord, S. Maharramova, H.-T. Nyhus, T. G. Tornyi, T. Renstrøm, and W. Paulsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 182701 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Unified Theory to Characterize Floquet Topological Phases by Quench Dynamics

Long Zhang, Lin Zhang, and Xiong-Jun Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183001 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Precision Calculation of Hyperfine Structure and the Zemach Radii of ${}^{6, 7}{Li}^{+}$ Ions

Xiao-Qiu Qi, Pei-Pei Zhang, Zong-Chao Yan, G. W. F. Drake, Zhen-Xiang Zhong, Ting-Yun Shi, Shao-Long Chen, Yao Huang, Hua Guan, and Ke-Lin Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183002 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Jet Substructure in Fireworks Emission from Nonuniform and Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates

Han Fu, Zhendong Zhang, Kai-Xuan Yao, Lei Feng, Jooheon Yoo, Logan W. Clark, K. Levin, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183003 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Waveguide Quantum Optomechanics: Parity-Time Phase Transitions in Ultrastrong Coupling Regime

Ivan Iorsh, Alexander Poshakinskiy, and Alexander Poddubny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183601 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Collisionally Inhomogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensates with a Linear Interaction Gradient

Andrea Di Carli, Grant Henderson, Stuart Flannigan, Craig D. Colquhoun, Matthew Mitchell, Gian-Luca Oppo, Andrew J. Daley, Stefan Kuhr, and Elmar Haller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183602 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Spectral Compression of Narrowband Single Photons with a Resonant Cavity

Mathias A. Seidler, Xi Jie Yeo, Alessandro Cerè, and Christian Kurtsiefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183603 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Photonic Dissipation Control for Kerr Soliton Generation in Strongly Raman-Active Media

Zheng Gong, Ming Li, Xianwen Liu, Yuntao Xu, Juanjuan Lu, Alexander Bruch, Joshua B. Surya, Changling Zou, and Hong X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183901 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Creation and Characterization of Matter-Wave Breathers

D. Luo, Y. Jin, J. H. V. Nguyen, B. A. Malomed, O. V. Marchukov, V. A. Yurovsky, V. Dunjko, M. Olshanii, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 183902 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Revival and Expansion of the Theory of Coherent Lattices

Dmitry Kouznetsov, Qingzhong Deng, Pol Van Dorpe, and Niels Verellen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 184101 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Pattern Formation during the Impact of a Partially Frozen Binary Droplet on a Cold Surface

Pallav Kant, Henrik Müller-Groeling, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 184501 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Topography-Dependent Effective Contact Line in Droplet Depinning

Youhua Jiang, Yujin Sun, Jaroslaw W. Drelich, and Chang-Hwan Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 184502 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modeling the Microstructure and Stress in Dense Suspensions under Inhomogeneous Flow

J. J. J. Gillissen and C. Ness

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 184503 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Incorporating shear rate fluctuations into a tensorial model captures the microstructural features of dense suspensions.

Droplet Ejection at Controlled Angles via Acoustofluidic Jetting

William Connacher, Jeremy Orosco, and James Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 184504 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantification of Nanoscale Density Fluctuations in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon

Eike Gericke, Jimmy Melskens, Robert Wendt, Markus Wollgarten, Armin Hoell, and Klaus Lips

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 185501 (2020) - Published 29 October, 2020

Metafluids beyond the Bulk Modulus

Fengming Liu, Ziyu Wang, Manzhu Ke, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 185502 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Shock Response of Full Density Nanopolycrystalline Diamond

Kento Katagiri, Norimasa Ozaki, Yuhei Umeda, Tetsuo Irifune, Nobuki Kamimura, Kohei Miyanishi, Takayoshi Sano, Toshimori Sekine, and Ryosuke Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 185701 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Quantum Theory of Triboelectricity

Robert Alicki and Alejandro Jenkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186101 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Coexistence of Superconductivity and Charge Density Waves in Tantalum Disulfide: Experiment and Theory

Y. Kvashnin, D. VanGennep, M. Mito, S. A. Medvedev, R. Thiyagarajan, O. Karis, A. N. Vasiliev, O. Eriksson, and M. Abdel-Hafiez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186401 (2020) - Published 27 October, 2020

Semi-Dirac Transport and Anisotropic Localization in Polariton Honeycomb Lattices

B. Real, O. Jamadi, M. Milićević, N. Pernet, P. St-Jean, T. Ozawa, G. Montambaux, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaître, L. Le Gratiet, A. Harouri, S. Ravets, J. Bloch, and A. Amo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186601 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of Quantum Hall Edge Strips on Valley Splitting in Silicon Quantum Wells

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186801 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Valley splitting in low-disorder silicon quantum wells in the quantum Hall regime increases with electric field at the edge of the device at a rate consistent with predictions.

Non-Hermitian Skin Modes Induced by On-Site Dissipations and Chiral Tunneling Effect

Yifei Yi and Zhesen Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186802 (2020) - Published 28 October, 2020

Nanoscale Conductivity Imaging of Correlated Electronic States in ${WSe}_{2} / {WS}_{2}$ Moiré Superlattices

Zhaodong Chu, Emma C. Regan, Xuejian Ma, Danqing Wang, Zifan Xu, M. Iqbal Bakti Utama, Kentaro Yumigeta, Mark Blei, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Sefaattin Tongay, Feng Wang, and Keji Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 186803 (2020) - Published 30 October, 2020