Volume 125, Issue 8

21 August 2020

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On the Cover

Setup uses a weak-value amplification scheme (center) to detect light signals from the laser (left) by overcoming the saturation and noise-floor limitations of the detector (right).

From the article:

Approaching Quantum-Limited Metrology with Imperfect Detectors by Using Weak-Value Amplification
Liang Xu, Zexuan Liu, Animesh Datta, George C. Knee, Jeff S. Lundeen, Yan-qing Lu, and Lijian Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080501 (2020)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Benchmarking a High-Fidelity Mixed-Species Entangling Gate

A. C. Hughes, V. M. Schäfer, K. Thirumalai, D. P. Nadlinger, S. R. Woodrow, D. M. Lucas, and C. J. Ballance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080504 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

Researchers halve the number of lasers needed to implement a quantum logic gate between two different atomic species, a feat that could help to create a scalable quantum computer.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Power-Law Scaling in Granular Rheology across Flow Geometries

Seongmin Kim and Ken Kamrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 088002 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

A new model can predict how packed particles move through both 2D and 3D channels.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Potential of Attosecond Coherent Diffractive Imaging

Arjun Rana, Jianhua Zhang, Minh Pham, Andrew Yuan, Yuan Hung Lo, Huaidong Jiang, Stanley J. Osher, and Jianwei Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086101 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

A new algorithm could allow researchers to capture attosecond, multiwavelength images of an object.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

In Situ Thermometry of a Cold Fermi Gas via Dephasing Impurities

Mark T. Mitchison, Thomás Fogarty, Giacomo Guarnieri, Steve Campbell, Thomas Busch, and John Goold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080402 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

A new method is proposed to accurately infer the temperature of a noninteracting Fermi gas from the nonequilibrium dynamics of impurities.

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Experimental Assessment of Entropy Production in a Continuously Measured Mechanical Resonator

Massimiliano Rossi, Luca Mancino, Gabriel T. Landi, Mauro Paternostro, Albert Schliesser, and Alessio Belenchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080601 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Continuous observation of a mesoscopic mechanical membrane in the quantum regime reveals the entropy production due to quantum measurement.

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Negative Delta- $T$ Noise in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

J. Rech, T. Jonckheere, B. Grémaud, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086801 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

Tunneling of quasiparticles at a temperature-biased quantum point contact leads to signatures of negative noise, in sharp contrast with the positive signal in noninteracting and strong backscattering regimes.

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Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System

J. M. Wilkinson and S. J. Blundell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 087201 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

The way in which quantum information stored in an implanted muon is decohered by interactions with the environment occurs in a well-defined way that can be precisely modeled.

LETTERS

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

Strong Interaction of Slow Electrons with Near-Field Light Visited from First Principles

Nahid Talebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080401 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

In Situ Thermometry of a Cold Fermi Gas via Dephasing Impurities

Mark T. Mitchison, Thomás Fogarty, Giacomo Guarnieri, Steve Campbell, Thomas Busch, and John Goold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080402 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

A new method is proposed to accurately infer the temperature of a noninteracting Fermi gas from the nonequilibrium dynamics of impurities.

Experimental Characterization of Unsharp Qubit Observables and Sequential Measurement Incompatibility via Quantum Random Access Codes

Hammad Anwer, Sadiq Muhammad, Walid Cherifi, Nikolai Miklin, Armin Tavakoli, and Mohamed Bourennane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080403 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Approaching Quantum-Limited Metrology with Imperfect Detectors by Using Weak-Value Amplification

Liang Xu, Zexuan Liu, Animesh Datta, George C. Knee, Jeff S. Lundeen, Yan-qing Lu, and Lijian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080501 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

Rates of Multipartite Entanglement Transformations

A. Streltsov, C. Meignant, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080502 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

Encoding an Oscillator into Many Oscillators

Kyungjoo Noh, S. M. Girvin, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080503 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Benchmarking a High-Fidelity Mixed-Species Entangling Gate

A. C. Hughes, V. M. Schäfer, K. Thirumalai, D. P. Nadlinger, S. R. Woodrow, D. M. Lucas, and C. J. Ballance

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080504 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

Researchers halve the number of lasers needed to implement a quantum logic gate between two different atomic species, a feat that could help to create a scalable quantum computer.

Ultimate Limits for Multiple Quantum Channel Discrimination

Quntao Zhuang and Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080505 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Assessment of Entropy Production in a Continuously Measured Mechanical Resonator

Massimiliano Rossi, Luca Mancino, Gabriel T. Landi, Mauro Paternostro, Albert Schliesser, and Alessio Belenchia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080601 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Continuous observation of a mesoscopic mechanical membrane in the quantum regime reveals the entropy production due to quantum measurement.

Dynamical Enhancement of Symmetries in Many-Body Systems

Kartiek Agarwal and Ivar Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 080602 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Elementary Particles and Fields

Flavor Constraints from Unitarity and Analyticity

Grant N. Remmen and Nicholas L. Rodd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 081601 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Search for Axionlike and Scalar Particles with the NA64 Experiment

D. Banerjee et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 081801 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

Jet Production in Polarized Deep Inelastic Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order

Ignacio Borsa, Daniel de Florian, and Iván Pedron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 082001 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

On-the-Fly Ab Initio Semiclassical Evaluation of Electronic Coherences in Polyatomic Molecules Reveals a Simple Mechanism of Decoherence

Nikolay V. Golubev, Tomislav Begušić, and Jiří Vaníček

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 083001 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

Ultracold Gas of Bosonic ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{39}K$ Ground-State Molecules

Kai K. Voges, Philipp Gersema, Mara Meyer zum Alten Borgloh, Torben A. Schulze, Torsten Hartmann, Alessandro Zenesini, and Silke Ospelkaus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 083401 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

Quantum Noise Correlations of an Optical Parametric Oscillator Based on a Nondegenerate Four Wave Mixing Process in Hot Alkali Atoms

A. Montaña Guerrero, P. Nussenzveig, M. Martinelli, A. M. Marino, and H. M. Florez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 083601 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Propagation Induced Dephasing in Semiconductor High-Harmonic Generation

Isak Kilen, Miroslav Kolesik, Jorg Hader, Jerome V. Moloney, Ulrich Huttner, Maria K. Hagen, and Stephan W. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 083901 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Pseudochirality: A Manifestation of Noether’s Theorem in Non-Hermitian Systems

Jose D. H. Rivero and Li Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 083902 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Experimental Observation of Ultrashort Hyperchaotic Dark Multisoliton Complexes in a Magnonic Active Ring Resonator

Anastasia S. Bir, Sergei V. Grishin, Olga I. Moskalenko, Alexey N. Pavlov, Maksim O. Zhuravlev, and David Osuna Ruiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 083903 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Electronic Density Response in Warm Dense Matter

Tobias Dornheim, Jan Vorberger, and Michael Bonitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085001 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Low-Frequency Vibrational Modes in Silica Glasses

Silvia Bonfanti, Roberto Guerra, Chandana Mondal, Itamar Procaccia, and Stefano Zapperi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085501 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Universality of the Nonphononic Vibrational Spectrum across Different Classes of Computer Glasses

David Richard, Karina González-López, Geert Kapteijns, Robert Pater, Talya Vaknin, Eran Bouchbinder, and Edan Lerner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085502 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Machine Learning Discovery of Computational Model Efficacy Boundaries

Michael S. Murillo, Mathieu Marciante, and Liam G. Stanton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085503 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Anharmonic Origin of the Giant Thermal Expansion of NaBr

Y. Shen, C. N. Saunders, C. M. Bernal, D. L. Abernathy, M. E. Manley, and B. Fultz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085504 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

Ultrastable Metallic Glasses In Silico

Anshul D. S. Parmar, Misaki Ozawa, and Ludovic Berthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085505 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

Microscopic Mechanisms of Glasslike Lattice Thermal Transport in Cubic ${Cu}_{12} {Sb}_{4} S_{13}$ Tetrahedrites

Yi Xia, Vidvuds Ozoliņš, and Chris Wolverton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085901 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

Outstanding Thermal Conductivity of Single Atomic Layer Isotope-Modified Boron Nitride

Qiran Cai, Declan Scullion, Wei Gan, Alexey Falin, Pavel Cizek, Song Liu, James H. Edgar, Rong Liu, Bruce C. C. Cowie, Elton J. G. Santos, and Lu Hua Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 085902 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

How Can Protons Migrate in Extremely Compressed Liquid Water?

Sho Imoto and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086001 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

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Potential of Attosecond Coherent Diffractive Imaging

Arjun Rana, Jianhua Zhang, Minh Pham, Andrew Yuan, Yuan Hung Lo, Huaidong Jiang, Stanley J. Osher, and Jianwei Miao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086101 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

A new algorithm could allow researchers to capture attosecond, multiwavelength images of an object.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

High-Temperature Quantum Anomalous Hall Insulators in Lithium-Decorated Iron-Based Superconductor Materials

Yang Li, Jiaheng Li, Yang Li, Meng Ye, Fawei Zheng, Zetao Zhang, Jingheng Fu, Wenhui Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086401 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Characteristic Timescales of the Local Moment Dynamics in Hund’s Metals

C. Watzenböck, M. Edelmann, D. Springer, G. Sangiovanni, and A. Toschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086402 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Quantum Hall Network Models as Floquet Topological Insulators

Andrew C. Potter, J. T. Chalker, and Victor Gurarie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086601 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Local Disorder-Induced Elevation of Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Conductance in an Electron-Doped Magnetic Weyl Semimetal

Jianlei Shen, Qiushi Yao, Qingqi Zeng, Hongyi Sun, Xuekui Xi, Guangheng Wu, Wenhong Wang, Baogen Shen, Qihang Liu, and Enke Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086602 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Negative Delta- $T$ Noise in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

J. Rech, T. Jonckheere, B. Grémaud, and T. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086801 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

Enhanced Proximity Effect in Zigzag-Shaped Majorana Josephson Junctions

Tom Laeven, Bas Nijholt, Michael Wimmer, and Anton R. Akhmerov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086802 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

Evidence of Rotational Fröhlich Coupling in Polaronic Trions

Maxim Trushin, Soumya Sarkar, Sinu Mathew, Sreetosh Goswami, Prasana Sahoo, Yan Wang, Jieun Yang, Weiwei Li, Judith L. MacManus-Driscoll, Manish Chhowalla, Shaffique Adam, and T. Venkatesan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086803 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Unitary Subharmonic Response and Floquet Majorana Modes

Oles Shtanko and Ramis Movassagh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 086804 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

Spin Relaxation in $s$ -Wave Superconductors in the Presence of Resonant Spin-Flip Scatterers

Denis Kochan, Michael Barth, Andreas Costa, Klaus Richter, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 087001 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

Long-Range Propagation and Interference of $d$ -Wave Superconducting Pairs in Graphene

D. Perconte, K. Seurre, V. Humbert, C. Ulysse, A. Sander, J. Trastoy, V. Zatko, F. Godel, P. R. Kidambi, S. Hofmann, X. P. Zhang, D. Bercioux, F. S. Bergeret, B. Dlubak, P. Seneor, and Javier E. Villegas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 087002 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

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Information and Decoherence in a Muon-Fluorine Coupled System

J. M. Wilkinson and S. J. Blundell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 087201 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

The way in which quantum information stored in an implanted muon is decohered by interactions with the environment occurs in a well-defined way that can be precisely modeled.

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

When Is a Helix Stable?

Andy Borum and Timothy Bretl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 088001 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

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Power-Law Scaling in Granular Rheology across Flow Geometries

Seongmin Kim and Ken Kamrin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 088002 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

A new model can predict how packed particles move through both 2D and 3D channels.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Hiding the Cosmological Constant”

Qingdi Wang and William G. Unruh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 089001 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

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S. Carlip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 089002 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020