Volume 126, Issue 16

23 April 2021

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Numerical results for fluid flow in a digitized Berea sandstone sample. White, blue, black, and orange represent speeds between 10^-4 and 1 m/s.

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Pore-Scale Mixing and the Evolution of Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Porous Media
Alexandre Puyguiraud, Philippe Gouze, and Marco Dentz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164501 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Exact Thermalization Dynamics in the “Rule 54” Quantum Cellular Automaton

Katja Klobas, Bruno Bertini, and Lorenzo Piroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160602 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

New studies provide analytical descriptions and exact solutions for various aspects of thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems.

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Exoplanets as Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors

Rebecca K. Leane and Juri Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161101 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Measuring the temperatures of massive exoplanets could reveal the effect of dark matter, potentially allowing researchers to confirm the galactic distribution of this mysterious substance.

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Bekenstein-Hod Universal Bound on Information Emission Rate Is Obeyed by LIGO-Virgo Binary Black Hole Remnants

Gregorio Carullo, Danny Laghi, John Veitch, and Walter Del Pozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161102 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

An analysis of the gravitational waves emitted from black hole mergers confirms that black holes are the fastest known information dissipaters.

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Topological Lower Bound on Quantum Chaos by Entanglement Growth

Zongping Gong, Lorenzo Piroli, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160601 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

New studies provide analytical descriptions and exact solutions for various aspects of thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems.

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Simulating the Same Physics with Two Distinct Hamiltonians

Karol Gietka, Ayaka Usui, Jianqiao Deng, and Thomas Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160402 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

A new framework allows one to use a quantum simulation of one Hamiltonian to study another.

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Proof-of-Principle Direct Measurement of Landau Damping Strength at the Large Hadron Collider with an Antidamper

S. A. Antipov, D. Amorim, N. Biancacci, X. Buffat, E. Métral, N. Mounet, A. Oeftiger, and D. Valuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164801 (2021) - Published 20 April, 2021

A new proof-of-principle experiment has been performed to measure the strength of Landau damping created by the LHC octupole system at 450 GeV injection energy with single low intensity bunches.

LETTERS

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

Solving the Liouvillian Gap with Artificial Neural Networks

Dong Yuan, He-Ran Wang, Zhong Wang, and Dong-Ling Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160401 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Simulating the Same Physics with Two Distinct Hamiltonians

Karol Gietka, Ayaka Usui, Jianqiao Deng, and Thomas Busch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160402 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

A new framework allows one to use a quantum simulation of one Hamiltonian to study another.

Upper Bounds on Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Matthias Christandl, Roberto Ferrara, and Karol Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160501 (2021) - Published 21 April, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Topological Lower Bound on Quantum Chaos by Entanglement Growth

Zongping Gong, Lorenzo Piroli, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160601 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

New studies provide analytical descriptions and exact solutions for various aspects of thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Thermalization Dynamics in the “Rule 54” Quantum Cellular Automaton

Katja Klobas, Bruno Bertini, and Lorenzo Piroli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160602 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

New studies provide analytical descriptions and exact solutions for various aspects of thermodynamics in quantum many-body systems.

Breakdown of Tan’s Relation in Lossy One-Dimensional Bose Gases

I. Bouchoule and J. Dubail

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160603 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Long-Range Phase Order in Two Dimensions under Shear Flow

Hiroyoshi Nakano, Yuki Minami, and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 160604 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Exoplanets as Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectors

Rebecca K. Leane and Juri Smirnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161101 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Measuring the temperatures of massive exoplanets could reveal the effect of dark matter, potentially allowing researchers to confirm the galactic distribution of this mysterious substance.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bekenstein-Hod Universal Bound on Information Emission Rate Is Obeyed by LIGO-Virgo Binary Black Hole Remnants

Gregorio Carullo, Danny Laghi, John Veitch, and Walter Del Pozzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161102 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

An analysis of the gravitational waves emitted from black hole mergers confirms that black holes are the fastest known information dissipaters.

Einstein-Cartan Portal to Dark Matter

Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Andrey Shkerin, Inar Timiryasov, and Sebastian Zell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161301 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Novel Representation of an Integrated Correlator in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Daniele Dorigoni, Michael B. Green, and Congkao Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161601 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Solutions of Modular Bootstrap Constraints from Quantum Codes

Anatoly Dymarsky and Alfred Shapere

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161602 (2021) - Published 21 April, 2021

Test of Lepton-Flavor Universality in $B \to K^{*} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays at Belle

S. Wehle et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161801 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Angular Analysis of the $B^{+} \to K^{* +} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decay

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 161802 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Elliptic Flow of Electrons from Beauty-Hadron Decays in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162001 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Global Polarization of $Ξ$ and $Ω$ Hyperons in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162301 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Measurement of the Charge-Averaged Elastic Lepton-Proton Scattering Cross Section by the OLYMPUS Experiment

J. C. Bernauer et al. (OLYMPUS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162501 (2021) - Published 21 April, 2021

Probing the Symmetry Energy with the Spectral Pion Ratio

J. Estee et al. ( $S π RIT$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162701 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Was GW190814 a Black Hole–Strange Quark Star System?

I. Bombaci, A. Drago, D. Logoteta, G. Pagliara, and I. Vidaña

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 162702 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Bosonic Continuum Theory of One-Dimensional Lattice Anyons

Martin Bonkhoff, Kevin Jägering, Sebastian Eggert, Axel Pelster, Michael Thorwart, and Thore Posske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163201 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Selective Enhancement of Spectroscopic Features by Quantum Optimal Control

Daniel Keefer and Shaul Mukamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163202 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Tunable Single-Ion Anisotropy in Spin-1 Models Realized with Ultracold Atoms

Woo Chang Chung, Julius de Hond, Jinggang Xiang (项晶罡), Enid Cruz-Colón, and Wolfgang Ketterle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163203 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Probing Surface-Bound Atoms with Quantum Nanophotonics

Daniel Hümmer, Oriol Romero-Isart, Arno Rauschenbeutel, and Philipp Schneeweiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163601 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Topological Two-Dimensional Floquet Lattice on a Single Superconducting Qubit

Daniel Malz and Adam Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163602 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Cooling Nanorotors by Elliptic Coherent Scattering

Jonas Schäfer, Henning Rudolph, Klaus Hornberger, and Benjamin A. Stickler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163603 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Dissipatively Controlled Optomechanical Interaction via Cascaded Photon-Phonon Coupling

Zhen Shen, Yan-Lei Zhang, Chang-Ling Zou, Guang-Can Guo, and Chun-Hua Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163604 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Non-Hermiticity-Governed Active Photonic Resonances

Jose D. H. Rivero, Mingsen Pan, Konstantinos G. Makris, Liang Feng, and Li Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163901 (2021) - Published 21 April, 2021

Disordered Photonic Time Crystals

Yonatan Sharabi, Eran Lustig, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 163902 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Synchronizing Chaos with Imperfections

Yoshiki Sugitani, Yuanzhao Zhang, and Adilson E. Motter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164101 (2021) - Published 20 April, 2021

Pore-Scale Mixing and the Evolution of Hydrodynamic Dispersion in Porous Media

Alexandre Puyguiraud, Philippe Gouze, and Marco Dentz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164501 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Powerful Acoustogeometric Streaming from Dynamic Geometric Nonlinearity

Naiqing Zhang, Amihai Horesh, Ofer Manor, and James Friend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164502 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Proof-of-Principle Direct Measurement of Landau Damping Strength at the Large Hadron Collider with an Antidamper

S. A. Antipov, D. Amorim, N. Biancacci, X. Buffat, E. Métral, N. Mounet, A. Oeftiger, and D. Valuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164801 (2021) - Published 20 April, 2021

A new proof-of-principle experiment has been performed to measure the strength of Landau damping created by the LHC octupole system at 450 GeV injection energy with single low intensity bunches.

Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma

F. Batsch et al. (AWAKE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 164802 (2021) - Published 20 April, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Extended Defects in Graphene and Their Contribution to the Excess Specific Heat at High Temperatures

M. V. Kondrin, Y. B. Lebed, and V. V. Brazhkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 165501 (2021) - Published 23 April, 2021

Surface Chirality Influences Molecular Rotation upon Desorption

Sabine C. Matysik, David J. Wales, and Stephen J. Jenkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 166101 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonunitary Scaling Theory of Non-Hermitian Localization

Kohei Kawabata and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 166801 (2021) - Published 22 April, 2021

Impact of Water Coadsorption on the Electrode Potential of H-Pt(1 1 1)-Liquid Water Interfaces

Sudarsan Surendralal, Mira Todorova, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 166802 (2021) - Published 21 April, 2021

Two-Dimensional Superconducting Fluctuations Associated with Charge-Density-Wave Stripes in ${La}_{1.87} {Sr}_{0.13} {Cu}_{0.99} {Fe}_{0.01} O_{4}$

H. Huang, S.-J. Lee, Y. Ikeda, T. Taniguchi, M. Takahama, C.-C. Kao, M. Fujita, and J.-S. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 167001 (2021) - Published 21 April, 2021

Exciton-Exciton Interaction beyond the Hydrogenic Picture in a ${MoSe}_{2}$ Monolayer in the Strong Light-Matter Coupling Regime

Petr Stepanov, Amit Vashisht, Martin Klaas, Nils Lundt, Sefaattin Tongay, Mark Blei, Sven Höfling, Thomas Volz, Anna Minguzzi, Julien Renard, Christian Schneider, and Maxime Richard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 167401 (2021) - Published 19 April, 2021

Hinge Spin Polarization in Magnetic Topological Insulators Revealed by Resistance Switch

Pablo M. Perez-Piskunow and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 167701 (2021) - Published 20 April, 2021