Volume 126, Issue 3

22 January 2021

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At 50% ambient relative humidity and half a second after a cough, droplets 0.01 mm in diameter (blue) remain afloat in turbulent eddies while ones that are 10 times (green) or 100 times (red) larger fall away.

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Extended Lifetime of Respiratory Droplets in a Turbulent Vapor Puff and Its Implications on Airborne Disease Transmission
Kai Leong Chong, Chong Shen Ng, Naoki Hori, Rui Yang, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034502 (2021)

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Spectroscopy along Flerovium Decay Chains: Discovery of ${}^{280}{Ds}$ and an Excited State in ${}^{282}{Cn}$

A. Såmark-Roth et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 032503 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

The discovery that copernicium can decay into a new isotope of darmstadtium and the observation of a previously unseen excited state of copernicium provide clues to the location of the “island of stability.”

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Transport of a Single Cold Ion Immersed in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. Dieterle, M. Berngruber, C. Hölzl, R. Löw, K. Jachymski, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 033401 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Direct observation of an ion moving through a Bose-Einstein condensate identifies the effect of ion-atom collisions on charge transport in an ultracold gas.

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Scalar Signatures of Chaotic Mixing in Porous Media

J. Heyman, D. R. Lester, and T. Le Borgne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034505 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Video from a new technique reveals the chaotic motion of a fluid flowing through a pile of gravel.

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Faceting and Flattening of Emulsion Droplets: A Mechanical Model

Ireth García-Aguilar, Piermarco Fonda, Eli Sloutskin, and Luca Giomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038001 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Researchers uncover the mechanism that makes some oil droplets change shape from spheres to icosahedrons to flattened plates.

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Many-Body Chaos in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Bryce Kobrin, Zhenbin Yang, Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer, Christopher T. Olund, Joel E. Moore, Douglas Stanford, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 030602 (2021) - Published 20 January, 2021

A numerical technique allows the verification of analytical bounds for the SYK model and the investigation of chaotic behavior in generic quantum many-body systems of high dimensions.

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High-Frequency Acoustic Droplet Vaporization is Initiated by Resonance

Guillaume Lajoinie, Tim Segers, and Michel Versluis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034501 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Resonant ultrasonic vaporization of droplets can be important in applications ranging from cancer therapy to combustion efficiency.

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

Probing the Hall Voltage in Synthetic Quantum Systems

Maximilian Buser, Sebastian Greschner, Ulrich Schollwöck, and Thierry Giamarchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 030501 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Information Scrambling over Bipartitions: Equilibration, Entropy Production, and Typicality

Georgios Styliaris, Namit Anand, and Paolo Zanardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 030601 (2021) - Published 20 January, 2021

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Many-Body Chaos in the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Bryce Kobrin, Zhenbin Yang, Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer, Christopher T. Olund, Joel E. Moore, Douglas Stanford, and Norman Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 030602 (2021) - Published 20 January, 2021

A numerical technique allows the verification of analytical bounds for the SYK model and the investigation of chaotic behavior in generic quantum many-body systems of high dimensions.

Nucleation of Ergodicity by a Single Mobile Impurity in Supercooled Insulators

Ulrich Krause, Théo Pellegrin, Piet W. Brouwer, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Michele Filippone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 030603 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Absence of Fast Scrambling in Thermodynamically Stable Long-Range Interacting Systems

Tomotaka Kuwahara and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 030604 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Constraints on Axionlike Particles from a Hard X-Ray Observation of Betelgeuse

Mengjiao Xiao, Kerstin M. Perez, Maurizio Giannotti, Oscar Straniero, Alessandro Mirizzi, Brian W. Grefenstette, Brandon M. Roach, and Melania Nynka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 031101 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Constraints on Low-Energy Effective Theories from Weak Cosmic Censorship

Baoyi Chen, Feng-Li Lin, Bo Ning, and Yanbei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 031102 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Rindler Physics on the String Worldsheet

Arjun Bagchi, Aritra Banerjee, and Shankhadeep Chakrabortty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 031601 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Operator Product Expansion for Form Factors

Amit Sever, Alexander G. Tumanov, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 031602 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Estimation of Thermodynamic Observables in Lattice Field Theories with Deep Generative Models

Kim A. Nicoli, Christopher J. Anders, Lena Funcke, Tobias Hartung, Karl Jansen, Pan Kessel, Shinichi Nakajima, and Paolo Stornati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 032001 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Convergence of Eigenvector Continuation

Avik Sarkar and Dean Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 032501 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Laser Spectroscopy of Neutron-Rich ${}^{207, 208}{Hg}$ Isotopes: Illuminating the Kink and Odd-Even Staggering in Charge Radii across the $N = 126$ Shell Closure

T. Day Goodacre et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 032502 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

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Spectroscopy along Flerovium Decay Chains: Discovery of ${}^{280}{Ds}$ and an Excited State in ${}^{282}{Cn}$

A. Såmark-Roth et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 032503 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Transport of a Single Cold Ion Immersed in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. Dieterle, M. Berngruber, C. Hölzl, R. Löw, K. Jachymski, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 033401 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Direct observation of an ion moving through a Bose-Einstein condensate identifies the effect of ion-atom collisions on charge transport in an ultracold gas.

Single-Phonon Addition and Subtraction to a Mechanical Thermal State

G. Enzian, J. J. Price, L. Freisem, J. Nunn, J. Janousek, B. C. Buchler, P. K. Lam, and M. R. Vanner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 033601 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Backward Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic Generation from Stacked Metasurfaces

Timo Stolt, Jeonghyun Kim, Sébastien Héron, Anna Vesala, Younghwan Yang, Jungho Mun, Minkyung Kim, Mikko. J. Huttunen, Robert Czaplicki, Martti Kauranen, Junsuk Rho, and Patrice Genevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 033901 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

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High-Frequency Acoustic Droplet Vaporization is Initiated by Resonance

Guillaume Lajoinie, Tim Segers, and Michel Versluis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034501 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Resonant ultrasonic vaporization of droplets can be important in applications ranging from cancer therapy to combustion efficiency.

Extended Lifetime of Respiratory Droplets in a Turbulent Vapor Puff and Its Implications on Airborne Disease Transmission

Kai Leong Chong, Chong Shen Ng, Naoki Hori, Rui Yang, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034502 (2021) - Published 19 January, 2021

Minimum Dissipation Theorem for Microswimmers

Babak Nasouri, Andrej Vilfan, and Ramin Golestanian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034503 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Small-Scale Isotropy and Ramp-Cliff Structures in Scalar Turbulence

Dhawal Buaria, Matthew P. Clay, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and P. K. Yeung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034504 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

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Scalar Signatures of Chaotic Mixing in Porous Media

J. Heyman, D. R. Lester, and T. Le Borgne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 034505 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Video from a new technique reveals the chaotic motion of a fluid flowing through a pile of gravel.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Persistent Sputtering Yield Reduction in Plasma-Infused Foams

Gary Z. Li and Richard E. Wirz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 035001 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Evidence of Potts-Nematic Superfluidity in a Hexagonal $s p^{2}$ Optical Lattice

Shengjie Jin, Wenjun Zhang, Xinxin Guo, Xuzong Chen, Xiaoji Zhou, and Xiaopeng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 035301 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Mixed Coordination Silica at Megabar Pressure

Cong Liu, Jiuyang Shi, Hao Gao, Junjie Wang, Yu Han, Xiancai Lu, Hui-Tian Wang, Dingyu Xing, and Jian Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 035701 (2021) - Published 20 January, 2021

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

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Faceting and Flattening of Emulsion Droplets: A Mechanical Model

Ireth García-Aguilar, Piermarco Fonda, Eli Sloutskin, and Luca Giomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038001 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Researchers uncover the mechanism that makes some oil droplets change shape from spheres to icosahedrons to flattened plates.

Phase Separation and Multibody Effects in Three-Dimensional Active Brownian Particles

Francesco Turci and Nigel B. Wilding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038002 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Optimal Elasticity of Biological Networks

Henrik Ronellenfitsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038101 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Conformational Shannon Entropy of mRNA Structures from Force Spectroscopy Measurements Predicts the Efficiency of $- 1$ Programmed Ribosomal Frameshift Stimulation

Matthew T. J. Halma, Dustin B. Ritchie, and Michael T. Woodside

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038102 (2021) - Published 21 January, 2021

Inference, Model Selection, and the Combinatorics of Growing Trees

George T. Cantwell, Guillaume St-Onge, and Jean-Gabriel Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 038301 (2021) - Published 22 January, 2021

Volume 126, Issue 3

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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