Volume 125, Issue 6

7 August 2020

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Snapshots of two-dimensional turbulent flow showing coherent structures, comparing experiment (left) and the corresponding unstable periodic orbit (right).

From the article:

Capturing Turbulent Dynamics and Statistics in Experiments with Unstable Periodic Orbits
Balachandra Suri, Logan Kageorge, Roman O. Grigoriev, and Michael F. Schatz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064501 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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No-Go Theorems for Quantum Resource Purification

Kun Fang and Zi-Wen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060405 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

A new theoretical study identifies fundamental tradeoffs that limit the amount of noise reduction in quantum information systems.

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Resonant Dipolar Collisions of Ultracold Molecules Induced by Microwave Dressing

Zoe Z. Yan, Jee Woo Park, Yiqi Ni, Huanqian Loh, Sebastian Will, Tijs Karman, and Martin Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063401 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Interactions between molecules can be tuned using microwaves, a finding that could be leveraged for studying quantum systems.

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Controlled Optofluidic Crystallization of Colloids Tethered at Interfaces

Alessio Caciagli, Rajesh Singh, Darshana Joshi, R. Adhikari, and Erika Eiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 068001 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

An optofluidic effect causes a group of fluid-suspended particles to “freeze” when one of them is heated, potentially allowing greater control over these systems.

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Quantum Metamaterials with Magnetic Response at Optical Frequencies

Rasoul Alaee, Burak Gurlek, Mohammad Albooyeh, Diego Martín-Cano, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063601 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

A metamaterial made of quantum emitters with only electric dipole transition moments is expected to have a strong magnetic response at optical frequencies.

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Geometric Origin of the Tennis Racket Effect

P. Mardešić, G. J. Gutierrez Guillen, L. Van Damme, and D. Sugny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064301 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

An explanation for why a tennis racket rotating in its plane does a half turn around its long axis is also relevant to a difficult skateboard trick.

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Constructing Quantum Spin Liquids Using Combinatorial Gauge Symmetry

Claudio Chamon, Dmitry Green, and Zhi-Cheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067203 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Quantum spin liquids may be constructed from two-body and single-body terms via rotations, permutations, and swapping of spins satisfying certain commutation and anticommutation relations.

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Excitation Ladder of Cavity Polaritons

Travis M. Autry, Gaël Nardin, Christopher L. Smallwood, Kevin Silverman, Daniele Bajoni, Aristide Lemaître, Sophie Bouchoule, Jacqueline Bloch, and Steven Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067403 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Higher-order dressed states and their associated avoided crossings in a semiconductor microcavity are demonstrated by an innovative four-wave mixing technique.

LETTERS

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

Lieb-Liniger Bosons in a Shallow Quasiperiodic Potential: Bose Glass Phase and Fractal Mott Lobes

Hepeng Yao, Thierry Giamarchi, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060401 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

Protecting Spin Coherence in a Tunable Heisenberg Model

Emily J. Davis, Avikar Periwal, Eric S. Cooper, Gregory Bentsen, Simon J. Evered, Katherine Van Kirk, and Monika H. Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060402 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

Emergence of a Pseudogap in the BCS-BEC Crossover

Adam Richie-Halford, Joaquín E. Drut, and Aurel Bulgac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060403 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Experimental Quantification of Coherence of a Tunable Quantum Detector

Huichao Xu, Feixiang Xu, Thomas Theurer, Dario Egloff, Zi-Wen Liu, Nengkun Yu, Martin B. Plenio, and Lijian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060404 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

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No-Go Theorems for Quantum Resource Purification

Kun Fang and Zi-Wen Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060405 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

A new theoretical study identifies fundamental tradeoffs that limit the amount of noise reduction in quantum information systems.

Self-Testing of Physical Theories, or, Is Quantum Theory Optimal with Respect to Some Information-Processing Task?

Mirjam Weilenmann and Roger Colbeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060406 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Resource-Efficient Topological Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation with Hybrid Entanglement of Light

Srikrishna Omkar, Yong Siah Teo, and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060501 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Experimental Observation of Coherent-Information Superadditivity in a Dephrasure Channel

Shang Yu, Yu Meng, Raj B. Patel, Yi-Tao Wang, Zhi-Jin Ke, Wei Liu, Zhi-Peng Li, Yuan-Ze Yang, Wen-Hao Zhang, Jian-Shun Tang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060502 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Contracting Arbitrary Tensor Networks: General Approximate Algorithm and Applications in Graphical Models and Quantum Circuit Simulations

Feng Pan, Pengfei Zhou, Sujie Li, and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060503 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Time Crystals Protected by Floquet Dynamical Symmetry in Hubbard Models

Koki Chinzei and Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060601 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Quantum Jarzynski Equality in Open Quantum Systems from the One-Time Measurement Scheme

Akira Sone, Yi-Xiang Liu, and Paola Cappellaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 060602 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurements of $t \bar{t} H$ Production and the $C P$ Structure of the Yukawa Interaction between the Higgs Boson and Top Quark in the Diphoton Decay Channel

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 061801 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

$C P$ Properties of Higgs Boson Interactions with Top Quarks in the $t \bar{t} H$ and $t H$ Processes Using $H \to γ γ$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 061802 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Helicity-Dependent Cross Sections for the Photoproduction of $π^{0}$ Pairs from Nucleons

M. Dieterle et al. (A2 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 062001 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Nuclear Physics

Spin Polarizations in a Covariant Angular-Momentum-Conserved Chiral Transport Model

Shuai Y. F. Liu, Yifeng Sun, and Che Ming Ko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 062301 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

New ${}^{13}C (α, n) {}^{16}O$ Cross Section with Implications for Neutrino Mixing and Geoneutrino Measurements

M. Febbraro, R. J. deBoer, S. D. Pain, R. Toomey, F. D. Becchetti, A. Boeltzig, Y. Chen, K. A. Chipps, M. Couder, K. L. Jones, E. Lamere, Q. Liu, S. Lyons, K. T. Macon, L. Morales, W. A. Peters, D. Robertson, B. C. Rasco, K. Smith, C. Seymour, G. Seymour, M. S. Smith, E. Stech, B. Vande Kolk, and M. Wiescher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 062501 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Threshold Photodetachment Spectroscopy of the Positronium Negative Ion

Koji Michishio, Susumu Kuma, Yugo Nagata, Luca Chiari, Taro Iizuka, Riki Mikami, Toshiyuki Azuma, and Yasuyuki Nagashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063001 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

Nuclear Magnetic Moments of Francium-207–213 from Precision Hyperfine Comparisons

B. M. Roberts and J. S. M. Ginges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063002 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Radiative Toroidal Dipole and Anapole Excitations in Collectively Responding Arrays of Atoms

K. E. Ballantine and J. Ruostekoski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063201 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Laser-Induced Electron Transfer in the Dissociative Multiple Ionization of Argon Dimers

YanLan Wang, XuanYang Lai, ShaoGang Yu, RenPing Sun, XiaoJun Liu, Martin Dorner-Kirchner, Sonia Erattupuzha, Seyedreza Larimian, Markus Koch, Václav Hanus, Sarayoo Kangaparambil, Gerhard Paulus, Andrius Baltuška, Xinhua Xie (谢新华), and Markus Kitzler-Zeiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063202 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

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Resonant Dipolar Collisions of Ultracold Molecules Induced by Microwave Dressing

Zoe Z. Yan, Jee Woo Park, Yiqi Ni, Huanqian Loh, Sebastian Will, Tijs Karman, and Martin Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063401 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

Interactions between molecules can be tuned using microwaves, a finding that could be leveraged for studying quantum systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Metamaterials with Magnetic Response at Optical Frequencies

Rasoul Alaee, Burak Gurlek, Mohammad Albooyeh, Diego Martín-Cano, and Vahid Sandoghdar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 063601 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

A metamaterial made of quantum emitters with only electric dipole transition moments is expected to have a strong magnetic response at optical frequencies.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Geometric Origin of the Tennis Racket Effect

P. Mardešić, G. J. Gutierrez Guillen, L. Van Damme, and D. Sugny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064301 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

An explanation for why a tennis racket rotating in its plane does a half turn around its long axis is also relevant to a difficult skateboard trick.

Capturing Turbulent Dynamics and Statistics in Experiments with Unstable Periodic Orbits

Balachandra Suri, Logan Kageorge, Roman O. Grigoriev, and Michael F. Schatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064501 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Self-Similar Draining near a Vertical Edge

Nan Xue and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064502 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Work Extraction from Fluid Flow: The Analog of Carnot’s Efficiency

A. E. Allahverdyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064503 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Preferential Concentration of Free-Falling Heavy Particles in Turbulence

F. Falkinhoff, M. Obligado, M. Bourgoin, and P. D. Mininni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 064504 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Novel Hot-Spot Ignition Designs for Inertial Confinement Fusion with Liquid-Deuterium-Tritium Spheres

V. N. Goncharov, I. V. Igumenshchev, D. R. Harding, S. F. B. Morse, S. X. Hu, P. B. Radha, D. H. Froula, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, and E. M. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 065001 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Radio-Frequency Response and Contact of Impurities in a Quantum Gas

Weizhe Edward Liu, Zhe-Yu Shi, Jesper Levinsen, and Meera M. Parish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 065301 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Lattice Glass Model in Three Spatial Dimensions

Yoshihiko Nishikawa and Koji Hukushima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 065501 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Inversion of Many-Beam Bragg Intensities for Phasing by Iterated Projections: Removal of Multiple Scattering Artifacts from Diffraction Data

Jeffrey J. Donatelli and John C. H. Spence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 065502 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Suppression of Orientational Correlations in the Viscous-Liquid State of Hyperquenched Pressure-Densified Glycerol

Catalin Gainaru, Helge Nelson, Jan Huebinger, Markus Grabenbauer, and Roland Böhmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 065503 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Plasmonic Nonreciprocity Driven by Band Hybridization in Moiré Materials

Michał Papaj and Cyprian Lewandowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 066801 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Evolution of the Nematic Susceptibility in ${LaFe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} AsO$

Xiaochen Hong, Federico Caglieris, Rhea Kappenberger, Sabine Wurmehl, Saicharan Aswartham, Francesco Scaravaggi, Piotr Lepucki, Anja U. B. Wolter, Hans-Joachim Grafe, Bernd Büchner, and Christian Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067001 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Phase-Slip Statistics of a Single Isolated Flux-Biased Superconducting Ring

I. Petkovic, A. Lollo, and J. G. E. Harris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067002 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional Quantum Spin-Orbital Liquid: Spectroscopic Signatures of Fermionic Magnons

Willian M. H. Natori and Johannes Knolle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067201 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Unexpectedly Large Electron Correlation Measured in Auger Spectra of Ferromagnetic Iron Thin Films: Orbital-Selected Coulomb and Exchange Contributions

R. Gotter, A. Verna, M. Sbroscia, R. Moroni, F. Bisio, S. Iacobucci, F. Offi, S. R. Vaidya, A. Ruocco, and G. Stefani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067202 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

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Constructing Quantum Spin Liquids Using Combinatorial Gauge Symmetry

Claudio Chamon, Dmitry Green, and Zhi-Cheng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067203 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Quantum spin liquids may be constructed from two-body and single-body terms via rotations, permutations, and swapping of spins satisfying certain commutation and anticommutation relations.

Quantifying Photon Recycling in Solar Cells and Light-Emitting Diodes: Absorption and Emission Are Always Key

Alan R. Bowman, Miguel Anaya, Neil C. Greenham, and Samuel D. Stranks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067401 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Polariton Electric-Field Sensor

Emre Togan, Yufan Li, Stefan Faelt, Werner Wegscheider, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067402 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

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Excitation Ladder of Cavity Polaritons

Travis M. Autry, Gaël Nardin, Christopher L. Smallwood, Kevin Silverman, Daniele Bajoni, Aristide Lemaître, Sophie Bouchoule, Jacqueline Bloch, and Steven Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067403 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Higher-order dressed states and their associated avoided crossings in a semiconductor microcavity are demonstrated by an innovative four-wave mixing technique.

Spin Reversal of a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet at a Landau Level Crossing

M. Lupatini, P. Knüppel, S. Faelt, R. Winkler, M. Shayegan, A. Imamoglu, and W. Wegscheider

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067404 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Crescent States in Charge-Imbalanced Polariton Condensates

Artem Strashko, Francesca M. Marchetti, Allan H. MacDonald, and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067405 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Toward Intrinsic Ferroelectric Switching in Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

Eric Parsonnet, Yen-Lin Huang, Tanay Gosavi, Alexander Qualls, Dmitri Nikonov, Chia-Ching Lin, Ian Young, Jeffrey Bokor, Lane W. Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067601 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

Magnetic-Domain-Wall-Induced Electrical Polarization in Rare-Earth Iron Garnet Systems: A First-Principles Study

Temuujin Bayaraa, Changsong Xu, Yali Yang, Hongjun Xiang, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 067602 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

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

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Controlled Optofluidic Crystallization of Colloids Tethered at Interfaces

Alessio Caciagli, Rajesh Singh, Darshana Joshi, R. Adhikari, and Erika Eiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 068001 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

An optofluidic effect causes a group of fluid-suspended particles to “freeze” when one of them is heated, potentially allowing greater control over these systems.

ERRATA

Erratum: Formation of a Spin Texture in a Quantum Gas Coupled to a Cavity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223602 (2018)]

M. Landini, N. Dogra, K. Kroeger, L. Hruby, T. Donner, and T. Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 069901 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

Publisher’s Note: Equivalence between non-Markovian and Markovian Dynamics in Epidemic Spreading Processes [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128301 (2017)]

Michele Starnini, James P. Gleeson, and Marián Boguñá

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 069902 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020