Volume 126, Issue 6

12 February 2021

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Event seen by the J-PARC E07 Collaboration. A Ξ⁻ particle interacts with a ¹⁴N nucleus at A, creating two Λ hypernuclei which decay at B (to particles #3–6) and C (to particles #7–9). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Observation of Coulomb-Assisted Nuclear Bound State of $Ξ^{-} - {}^{14}N$ System
S. H. Hayakawa et al. (J-PARC E07 Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 062501 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Coulomb-Assisted Nuclear Bound State of $Ξ^{-} - {}^{14}N$ System

S. H. Hayakawa et al. (J-PARC E07 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 062501 (2021) - Published 11 February, 2021

Particle physicists have detected a short-lived nucleus containing two strange quarks, whose properties could provide new insights into the behavior of other nuclear particles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Catastrophic Phase Inversion in High-Reynolds-Number Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow

Dennis Bakhuis, Rodrigo Ezeta, Pim A. Bullee, Alvaro Marin, Detlef Lohse, Chao Sun, and Sander G. Huisman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 064501 (2021) - Published 11 February, 2021

Turning an emulsion of oil droplets in water into one consisting of water droplets in oil drastically changes the fluid’s properties.

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Postselection-Free Entanglement Dynamics via Spacetime Duality

Matteo Ippoliti and Vedika Khemani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060501 (2021) - Published 9 February, 2021

A protocol based on space-time duality is used to find the purity of a quantum state for simulations of a class of nonunitary circuits, without any postselection.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Massively Multiplexed Electrohydrodynamic Tip Streaming from a Thin Disc

Z. Wang, Y. Tian, C. Zhang, Y. Wang, and W. Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 064502 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Radial electric fields applied to an ethanol-wetted foil disk generate more than a thousand thin jets with a uniform jet spacing of thirty microns around the circumference of the disk.

LETTERS

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

Faster State Preparation across Quantum Phase Transition Assisted by Reinforcement Learning

Shuai-Feng Guo, Feng Chen, Qi Liu, Ming Xue, Jun-Jie Chen, Jia-Hao Cao, Tian-Wei Mao, Meng Khoon Tey, and Li You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060401 (2021) - Published 9 February, 2021

Many-Body Decay of the Gapped Lowest Excitation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Jinyi Zhang, Christoph Eigen, Wei Zheng, Jake A. P. Glidden, Timon A. Hilker, Samuel J. Garratt, Raphael Lopes, Nigel R. Cooper, Zoran Hadzibabic, and Nir Navon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060402 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Postselection-Free Entanglement Dynamics via Spacetime Duality

Matteo Ippoliti and Vedika Khemani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060501 (2021) - Published 9 February, 2021

A protocol based on space-time duality is used to find the purity of a quantum state for simulations of a class of nonunitary circuits, without any postselection.

Quantum-Enabled Communication without a Phase Reference

Quntao Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060502 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

All-Optical Optimal $N$ -to- $M$ Quantum Cloning of Coherent States

Shengshuai Liu, Yanbo Lou, Yingxuan Chen, and Jietai Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060503 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Exact Critical Casimir Amplitude of Anisotropic Systems from Conformal Field Theory and Self-Similarity of Finite-Size Scaling Functions in $d \geq 2$ Dimensions

Volker Dohm and Stefan Wessel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 060601 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Combining Electromagnetic and Gravitational-Wave Constraints on Neutron-Star Masses and Radii

Mohammad Al-Mamun, Andrew W. Steiner, Joonas Nättilä, Jacob Lange, Richard O’Shaughnessy, Ingo Tews, Stefano Gandolfi, Craig Heinke, and Sophia Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061101 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Searching for Vector Dark Matter with an Optomechanical Accelerometer

Jack Manley, Mitul Dey Chowdhury, Daniel Grin, Swati Singh, and Dalziel J. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061301 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Fast Flavor Depolarization of Supernova Neutrinos

Soumya Bhattacharyya and Basudeb Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061302 (2021) - Published 11 February, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

Stable Nonsupersymmetric Anti–de Sitter Vacua of Massive IIA Supergravity

Adolfo Guarino, Emanuel Malek, and Henning Samtleben

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061601 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Twistorial Foundation for the Classical Double Copy

Chris D. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061602 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Nonplanar Cusp and Transcendental Anomalous Dimension at Four Loops in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

B. A. Kniehl and V. N. Velizhanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061603 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Entanglement Entropy in a Holographic Moving Mirror and the Page Curve

Ibrahim Akal, Yuya Kusuki, Noburo Shiba, Tadashi Takayanagi, and Zixia Wei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 061604 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Quantum Algorithm for High Energy Physics Simulations

Benjamin Nachman, Davide Provasoli, Wibe A. de Jong, and Christian W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 062001 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Beam Spin Asymmetry in Semi-Inclusive Electroproduction of Hadron Pairs

M. Mirazita et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 062002 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Nuclear Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Coulomb-Assisted Nuclear Bound State of $Ξ^{-} - {}^{14}N$ System

S. H. Hayakawa et al. (J-PARC E07 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 062501 (2021) - Published 11 February, 2021

Particle physicists have detected a short-lived nucleus containing two strange quarks, whose properties could provide new insights into the behavior of other nuclear particles.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Sub-Doppler Double-Resonance Spectroscopy of Methane Using a Frequency Comb Probe

Aleksandra Foltynowicz, Lucile Rutkowski, Isak Silander, Alexandra C. Johansson, Vinicius Silva de Oliveira, Ove Axner, Grzegorz Soboń, Tadeusz Martynkien, Paweł Mergo, and Kevin K. Lehmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063001 (2021) - Published 11 February, 2021

Clocking Dissociative Above-Threshold Double Ionization of $H_{2}$ in a Multicycle Laser Pulse

Shengzhe Pan, Wenbin Zhang, Hui Li, Chenxu Lu, Weihua Zhang, Qinying Ji, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Fei Chen, Jihong Tong, Lianrong Zhou, Wenyu Jiang, Xiaochun Gong, Peifen Lu, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063201 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

From Many-Body Oscillations to Thermalization in an Isolated Spinor Gas

Bertrand Evrard, An Qu, Jean Dalibard, and Fabrice Gerbier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063401 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Vacancy-like Dressed States in Topological Waveguide QED

Luca Leonforte, Angelo Carollo, and Francesco Ciccarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063601 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference with Imperfect Single Photon Sources

H. Ollivier, S. E. Thomas, S. C. Wein, I. Maillette de Buy Wenniger, N. Coste, J. C. Loredo, N. Somaschi, A. Harouri, A. Lemaitre, I. Sagnes, L. Lanco, C. Simon, C. Anton, O. Krebs, and P. Senellart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063602 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Unruh and Cherenkov Radiation from a Negative Frequency Perspective

Anatoly Svidzinsky, Arash Azizi, Jonathan S. Ben-Benjamin, Marlan O. Scully, and William Unruh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063603 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Brillouin-Kerr Soliton Frequency Combs in an Optical Microresonator

Yan Bai, Menghua Zhang, Qi Shi, Shulin Ding, Yingchun Qin, Zhenda Xie, Xiaoshun Jiang, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063901 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Thermal, Quantum Antibunching and Lasing Thresholds from Single Emitters to Macroscopic Devices

Mark Anthony Carroll, Giampaolo D’Alessandro, Gian Luca Lippi, Gian-Luca Oppo, and Francesco Papoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063902 (2021) - Published 10 February, 2021

Reversible Self-Replication of Spatiotemporal Kerr Cavity Patterns

Salim B. Ivars, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lluis Torner, J. Alberto Conejero, and Carles Milián

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 063903 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Catastrophic Phase Inversion in High-Reynolds-Number Turbulent Taylor-Couette Flow

Dennis Bakhuis, Rodrigo Ezeta, Pim A. Bullee, Alvaro Marin, Detlef Lohse, Chao Sun, and Sander G. Huisman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 064501 (2021) - Published 11 February, 2021

Turning an emulsion of oil droplets in water into one consisting of water droplets in oil drastically changes the fluid’s properties.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Massively Multiplexed Electrohydrodynamic Tip Streaming from a Thin Disc

Z. Wang, Y. Tian, C. Zhang, Y. Wang, and W. Deng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 064502 (2021) - Published 12 February, 2021

Radial electric fields applied to an ethanol-wetted foil disk generate more than a thousand thin jets with a uniform jet spacing of thirty microns around the circumference of the disk.