Volume 125, Issue 2

10 July 2020

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Light production by the marine dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula as its cell wall is deformed by fluid flow, with a closeup in the right panel. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Focus in Physics.

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Stress-Induced Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence at the Single Cell Level
Maziyar Jalaal, Nico Schramma, Antoine Dode, Hélène de Maleprade, Christophe Raufaste, and Raymond E. Goldstein
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028102 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Laser Resonance Chromatography of Superheavy Elements

Mustapha Laatiaoui, Alexei A. Buchachenko, and Larry A. Viehland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023002 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

A proposed technique could allow researchers to measure spectra of elements above atomic number 102, despite the tiny quantities in which they are produced.

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Stress-Induced Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence at the Single Cell Level

Maziyar Jalaal, Nico Schramma, Antoine Dode, Hélène de Maleprade, Christophe Raufaste, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028102 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Experiments detail how mechanical stress triggers marine microbes to light up.

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Ribosome Composition Maximizes Cellular Growth Rates in E. coli

Sarah Kostinski and Shlomi Reuveni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028103 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

The composition of a cell‘s protein-synthesis machinery is tuned to optimize the cell‘s reproduction rate.

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Bounds on Lorentz Invariance Violation from MAGIC Observation of GRB 190114C

V. A. Acciari et al. (MAGIC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 021301 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

An analysis of the speed of the most energetic photons ever observed from a gamma-ray burst sets new constraints on certain theories of quantum gravity.

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Detection of Quantum Interference without an Interference Pattern

Iliya Esin, Alessandro Romito, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020405 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

A new measurement protocol is defined for a Mach-Zehnder geometry with a finite signal when quantum interference is concerned, but vanishes for classical waves or particles.

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Observation of Bistable Turbulence in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superflow

E. Varga, V. Vadakkumbatt, A. J. Shook, P. H. Kim, and J. P. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 025301 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Experiments find long-lived bistable turbulent behavior in the steady-state flow of superfluid $^{4}$ He restricted to a quasi-two-dimensional channel.

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Characterization of a Microscale Superlubric Graphite Interface

Kunqi Wang, Cangyu Qu, Jin Wang, Baogang Quan, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026101 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

A new technique allows the separation of a microscale contact pair for the characterization of its two component surfaces for van der Waals materials.

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Observation of Magnon Polarization

Y. Nambu, J. Barker, Y. Okino, T. Kikkawa, Y. Shiomi, M. Enderle, T. Weber, B. Winn, M. Graves-Brook, J. M. Tranquada, T. Ziman, M. Fujita, G. E. W. Bauer, E. Saitoh, and K. Kakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027201 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

The mode-resolved direction of the precessional motion of the magnetic order – magnon polarization – has been observed through analysis of the chiral term of inelastic polarized neutron scattering spectra.

LETTERS

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

Complex Density of Continuum States in Resonant Quantum Tunneling

Pavel Stránský, Milan Šindelka, Michal Kloc, and Pavel Cejnar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020401 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Activating Hidden Metrological Usefulness

Géza Tóth, Tamás Vértesi, Paweł Horodecki, and Ryszard Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020402 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Dissipative Distillation of Supercritical Quantum Gases

Jorge Mellado Muñoz, Xi Wang, Thomas Hewitt, Anna U. Kowalczyk, Rahul Sawant, and Giovanni Barontini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020403 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Experimental Demonstration of Robust Quantum Steering

Sabine Wollmann, Roope Uola, and Ana C. S. Costa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020404 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detection of Quantum Interference without an Interference Pattern

Iliya Esin, Alessandro Romito, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020405 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

A new measurement protocol is defined for a Mach-Zehnder geometry with a finite signal when quantum interference is concerned, but vanishes for classical waves or particles.

Minimal Tradeoff and Ultimate Precision Limit of Multiparameter Quantum Magnetometry under the Parallel Scheme

Zhibo Hou, Zhao Zhang, Guo-Yong Xiang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Hongzhen Chen, Liqiang Liu, and Haidong Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020501 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Tripartite Genuine Non-Gaussian Entanglement in Three-Mode Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion

A. Agustí, C. W. Sandbo Chang, F. Quijandría, G. Johansson, C. M. Wilson, and C. Sabín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020502 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Quantum Flags and New Bounds on the Quantum Capacity of the Depolarizing Channel

Marco Fanizza, Farzad Kianvash, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020503 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Quantum Simulation for Three-Dimensional Chiral Topological Insulator

Wentao Ji, Lin Zhang, Mengqi Wang, Long Zhang, Yuhang Guo, Zihua Chai, Xing Rong, Fazhan Shi, Xiong-Jun Liu, Ya Wang, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020504 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Thermal Efficiency of Quantum Memory Compression

Samuel P. Loomis and James P. Crutchfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020601 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Instantons for the Destabilization of the Inner Solar System

Eric Woillez and Freddy Bouchet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 021101 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

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Bounds on Lorentz Invariance Violation from MAGIC Observation of GRB 190114C

V. A. Acciari et al. (MAGIC Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 021301 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

An analysis of the speed of the most energetic photons ever observed from a gamma-ray burst sets new constraints on certain theories of quantum gravity.

Vorticity, Kinetic Energy, and Suppressed Gravitational-Wave Production in Strong First-Order Phase Transitions

Daniel Cutting, Mark Hindmarsh, and David J. Weir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 021302 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Eigenstate Thermalization and Disorder Averaging in Gravity

Jason Pollack, Moshe Rozali, James Sully, and David Wakeham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 021601 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Higgs Boson Emerging from the Dark

Chengfeng Cai, Hong-Hao Zhang, Giacomo Cacciapaglia, Martin Rosenlyst, and Mads T. Frandsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 021801 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Probing the Effects of Strong Electromagnetic Fields with Charge-Dependent Directed Flow in Pb-Pb Collisions at the LHC

S. Acharya et al. (A Large Ion Collider Experiment Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 022301 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sub-ppb Measurement of a Fundamental Band Rovibrational Transition in HD

Arthur Fast and Samuel A. Meek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023001 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Laser Resonance Chromatography of Superheavy Elements

Mustapha Laatiaoui, Alexei A. Buchachenko, and Larry A. Viehland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023002 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

A proposed technique could allow researchers to measure spectra of elements above atomic number 102, despite the tiny quantities in which they are produced.

Tune-Out and Magic Wavelengths for Ground-State ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{40}K$ Molecules

Roman Bause, Ming Li, Andreas Schindewolf, Xing-Yan Chen, Marcel Duda, Svetlana Kotochigova, Immanuel Bloch, and Xin-Yu Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023201 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Generalized Phase Sensitivity of Directional Bond Breaking in the Laser-Molecule Interaction

Sarayoo Kangaparambil, Václav Hanus, Martin Dorner-Kirchner, Peilun He, Seyedreza Larimian, Gerhard Paulus, Andrius Baltuška, Xinhua Xie (谢新华), Kaoru Yamanouchi, Feng He, Erik Lötstedt, and Markus Kitzler-Zeiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023202 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Single-Photon Cooling in Microwave Magnetomechanics

D. Zoepfl, M. L. Juan, C. M. F. Schneider, and G. Kirchmair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023601 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Motional Dynamical Decoupling for Interferometry with Macroscopic Particles

Julen S. Pedernales, Gavin W. Morley, and Martin B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023602 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

Nonreciprocal Transport Based on Cavity Floquet Modes in Optomechanics

Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Caspar F. Ockeloen-Korppi, Daniel Malz, and Mika A. Sillanpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 023603 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Coexistence of Ballistic and Fourier Regimes in the $β$ Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Lattice

Giovanni Dematteis, Lamberto Rondoni, Davide Proment, Francesco De Vita, and Miguel Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 024101 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum of a Composite System

Ningyu Liu, Joseph R. Dwyer, and Julia N. Tilles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 025101 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Constraining Ion-Scale Heating and Spectral Energy Transfer in Observations of Plasma Turbulence

Trevor A. Bowen, Alfred Mallet, Stuart D. Bale, J. W. Bonnell, Anthony W. Case, Benjamin D. G. Chandran, Alexandros Chasapis, Christopher H. K. Chen, Die Duan, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Keith Goetz, Jasper S. Halekas, Peter R. Harvey, J. C. Kasper, Kelly E. Korreck, Davin Larson, Roberto Livi, Robert J. MacDowall, David M. Malaspina, Michael D. McManus, Marc Pulupa, Michael Stevens, and Phyllis Whittlesey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 025102 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Lower-Hybrid Drift Waves Driving Electron Nongyrotropic Heating and Vortical Flows in a Magnetic Reconnection Layer

L.-J. Chen, S. Wang, O. Le Contel, A. Rager, M. Hesse, J. Drake, J. Dorelli, J. Ng, N. Bessho, D. Graham, Lynn B. Wilson, III, T. Moore, B. Giles, W. Paterson, B. Lavraud, K. Genestreti, R. Nakamura, Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, R. E. Ergun, R. B. Torbert, J. Burch, C. Pollock, C. T. Russell, P.-A. Lindqvist, and L. Avanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 025103 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Bistable Turbulence in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superflow

E. Varga, V. Vadakkumbatt, A. J. Shook, P. H. Kim, and J. P. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 025301 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Experiments find long-lived bistable turbulent behavior in the steady-state flow of superfluid $^{4}$ He restricted to a quasi-two-dimensional channel.

Metadynamics of Paths

Davide Mandelli, Barak Hirshberg, and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026001 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Characterization of a Microscale Superlubric Graphite Interface

Kunqi Wang, Cangyu Qu, Jin Wang, Baogang Quan, and Quanshui Zheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026101 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

A new technique allows the separation of a microscale contact pair for the characterization of its two component surfaces for van der Waals materials.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interplay of Magnetism and Topological Superconductivity in Bilayer Kagome Metals

Santu Baidya, Aabhaas Vineet Mallik, Subhro Bhattacharjee, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026401 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Thermoelectric Transport in a Three-Channel Charge Kondo Circuit

T. K. T. Nguyen and M. N. Kiselev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026801 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Proximity-Induced Odd-Frequency Superconductivity in a Topological Insulator

Jonas A. Krieger, Anna Pertsova, Sean R. Giblin, Max Döbeli, Thomas Prokscha, Christof W. Schneider, Andreas Suter, Thorsten Hesjedal, Alexander V. Balatsky, and Zaher Salman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 026802 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Superconducting Dome in ${Nd}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {NiO}_{2}$ Infinite Layer Films

Danfeng Li, Bai Yang Wang, Kyuho Lee, Shannon P. Harvey, Motoki Osada, Berit H. Goodge, Lena F. Kourkoutis, and Harold Y. Hwang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027001 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Collective Modes at a Disordered Quantum Phase Transition

Martin Puschmann, Jack Crewse, José A. Hoyos, and Thomas Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027002 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Magnon Polarization

Y. Nambu, J. Barker, Y. Okino, T. Kikkawa, Y. Shiomi, M. Enderle, T. Weber, B. Winn, M. Graves-Brook, J. M. Tranquada, T. Ziman, M. Fujita, G. E. W. Bauer, E. Saitoh, and K. Kakurai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027201 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Momentum-Dependent Magnon Lifetime in the Metallic Noncollinear Triangular Antiferromagnet ${CrB}_{2}$

Pyeongjae Park, Kisoo Park, Taehun Kim, Yusuke Kousaka, Ki Hoon Lee, T. G. Perring, Jaehong Jeong, Uwe Stuhr, Jun Akimitsu, Michel Kenzelmann, and Je-Geun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027202 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Origin of Magnetic Ordering in a Structurally Perfect Quantum Kagome Antiferromagnet

T. Arh, M. Gomilšek, P. Prelovšek, M. Pregelj, M. Klanjšek, A. Ozarowski, S. J. Clark, T. Lancaster, W. Sun, J.-X. Mi, and A. Zorko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027203 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Anisotropy-Induced Soliton Excitation in Magnetized Strong-Rung Spin Ladders

Yu. V. Krasnikova, S. C. Furuya, V. N. Glazkov, K. Yu. Povarov, D. Blosser, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027204 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

Enhanced Magnon-Photon Coupling at the Angular Momentum Compensation Point of Ferrimagnets

Jaechul Shim, Seok-Jong Kim, Se Kwon Kim, and Kyung-Jin Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027205 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Topology-Dependent Brownian Gyromotion of a Single Skyrmion

Le Zhao, Zidong Wang, Xichao Zhang, Xue Liang, Jing Xia, Keyu Wu, Heng-An Zhou, Yiqing Dong, Guoqiang Yu, Kang L. Wang, Xiaoxi Liu, Yan Zhou, and Wanjun Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027206 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

Frequency Upshift of the Transverse Optical Phonon Resonance in GaAs by Femtosecond Electron-Hole Excitation

Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Christos Flytzanis, and Klaus Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027401 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

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

Molecular Packing in Double Gyroid Cubic Phases Revealed via Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering

Yu Cao, Mohamed Alaasar, Asritha Nallapaneni, Mirosław Salamończyk, Peter Marinko, Ewa Gorecka, Carsten Tschierske, Feng Liu, Nataša Vaupotič, and Chenhui Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 027801 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Rotational Transport via Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Vibrated Disk Packings

Cristian Fernando Moukarzel, Gonzalo Peraza-Mues, and Osvaldo Carvente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028001 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

Edge of Chaos and Avalanches in Neural Networks with Heavy-Tailed Synaptic Weight Distribution

Łukasz Kuśmierz, Shun Ogawa, and Taro Toyoizumi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028101 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

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Stress-Induced Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence at the Single Cell Level

Maziyar Jalaal, Nico Schramma, Antoine Dode, Hélène de Maleprade, Christophe Raufaste, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028102 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

Experiments detail how mechanical stress triggers marine microbes to light up.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ribosome Composition Maximizes Cellular Growth Rates in E. coli

Sarah Kostinski and Shlomi Reuveni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 028103 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

The composition of a cell‘s protein-synthesis machinery is tuned to optimize the cell‘s reproduction rate.

ERRATA

Erratum: Axion Dark Matter Detection Using Atomic Transitions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 201301 (2014)]

P. Sikivie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 029901 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

Erratum: Realization of a Metallic State in $1 T$ - ${TaS}_{2}$ with Persisting Long-Range Order of a Charge Density Wave [Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 206405 (2019)]

Xin-Yang Zhu, Shi Wang, Zhen-Yu Jia, Li Zhu, Qi-Yuan Li, Wei-Min Zhao, Cheng-Long Xue, Yong-Jie Xu, Zhen Ma, Jinsheng Wen, Shun-Li Yu, Jian-Xin Li, and Shao-Chun Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 029902 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020