Volume 127, Issue 22

24 November 2021

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(top) Equilibrium electron diffraction patterns of charge-density-wave compound DyTe₃ taken at two temperatures. (bottom) Time-resolved diffractions of LaTe₃ taken before (left) and after (right) laser excitation.

From the article:

Role of Equilibrium Fluctuations in Light-Induced Order
Alfred Zong, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Anshul Kogar, Yifan Su, Xiaozhe Shen, Joshua A. W. Straquadine, Xirui Wang, Duan Luo, Michael E. Kozina, Alexander H. Reid, Renkai Li, Jie Yang, Stephen P. Weathersby, Suji Park, Edbert J. Sie, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Ian R. Fisher, Xijie Wang, Eugene Demler, and Nuh Gedik
Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 227401 (2021)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Zwitterions Raise the Dielectric Constant of Soft Materials

Wenwen Mei, August J. Rothenberger, Joshua E. Bostwick, Joshua M. Rinehart, Robert J. Hickey, and Ralph H. Colby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 228001 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

The strong polar nature of bonded molecular pairs called zwitterions boosts the dielectric constants of polar fluids.

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Mutual Information Disentangles Interactions from Changing Environments

Giorgio Nicoletti and Daniel Maria Busiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 228301 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Mutual information provides a promising method for disentangling intrinsic from extrinsic sources of noise in biological systems.

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Electronic and Vibrational Close-Coupling Method for Resonant Electron-Molecule Scattering

Liam H. Scarlett, Igor Bray, and Dmitry V. Fursa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 223401 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Incorporation of resonant phenomena into a molecular close-coupling method allows calculation of electron-molecule scattering and interference effects in a single theoretical framework.

LETTERS

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

Optimized Detection of High-Dimensional Entanglement

Xiao-Min Hu (胡晓敏), Wen-Bo Xing (邢文博), Yu Guo (郭钰), Mirjam Weilenmann, Edgar A. Aguilar, Xiaoqin Gao (高小钦), Bi-Heng Liu (柳必恒), Yun-Feng Huang (黄运锋), Chuan-Feng Li (李传锋), Guang-Can Guo (郭光灿), Zizhu Wang (王子竹), and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 220501 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Long-Lived Solid-State Optical Memory for High-Rate Quantum Repeaters

Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani, Antariksha Das, Jacob H. Davidson, Gustavo C. Amaral, Neil Sinclair, Joshua A. Slater, Sara Marzban, Charles W. Thiel, Rufus L. Cone, Daniel Oblak, and Wolfgang Tittel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 220502 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Quantum Circuits Assisted by Local Operations and Classical Communication: Transformations and Phases of Matter

Lorenzo Piroli, Georgios Styliaris, and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 220503 (2021) - Published 23 November, 2021

Algorithmic Primitives for Quantum-Assisted Quantum Control

Guru-Vamsi Policharla and Sai Vinjanampathy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 220504 (2021) - Published 23 November, 2021

Generalized Correlation Profiles in Single-File Systems

Alexis Poncet, Aurélien Grabsch, Pierre Illien, and Olivier Bénichou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 220601 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Elementary Particles and Fields

$w_{1 + \infty}$ Algebra and the Celestial Sphere: Infinite Towers of Soft Graviton, Photon, and Gluon Symmetries

Andrew Strominger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 221601 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Emergent Einstein Equation in $p$ -adic Conformal Field Theory Tensor Networks

Lin Chen, Xirong Liu, and Ling-Yan Hung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 221602 (2021) - Published 23 November, 2021

Three-Body Dynamics of the $a_{1} (1260)$ Resonance from Lattice QCD

Maxim Mai, Andrei Alexandru, Ruairí Brett, Chris Culver, Michael Döring, Frank X. Lee, and Daniel Sadasivan (GWQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 222001 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Nuclear Physics

Mass Equilibration and Fluctuations in the Angular Momentum Dependent Dynamics of Heavy Element Synthesis Reactions

T. Tanaka, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, E. Williams, K. Vo-Phuoc, C. Simenel, E. C. Simpson, D. Y. Jeung, I. P. Carter, K. J. Cook, N. R. Lobanov, D. H. Luong, C. Palshetkar, D. C. Rafferty, and K. Ramachandran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 222501 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Angular Momentum Removal by Neutron and $γ$ -Ray Emissions during Fission Fragment Decays

I. Stetcu, A. E. Lovell, P. Talou, T. Kawano, S. Marin, S. A. Pozzi, and A. Bulgac

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 222502 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Huygens-Fresnel Picture for High Harmonic Generation in Solids

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Xiaosong Zhu, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 223201 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronic and Vibrational Close-Coupling Method for Resonant Electron-Molecule Scattering

Liam H. Scarlett, Igor Bray, and Dmitry V. Fursa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 223401 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Incorporation of resonant phenomena into a molecular close-coupling method allows calculation of electron-molecule scattering and interference effects in a single theoretical framework.

Experimental Probing of Canonical Electromagnetic Spin Angular Momentum Distribution via Valley-Polarized Photoluminescence

Donghyeong Kim and Min-Kyo Seo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 223601 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Plasma and Beam Physics

Impact of Magnetic Field Configuration on Heat Transport in Stellarators and Heliotrons

Felix Warmer et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 225001 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Geometry of Triple Junctions during Grain Boundary Premelting

M. Torabi Rad, G. Boussinot, and M. Apel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 225701 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Universal Thermal Entanglement of Multichannel Kondo Effects

Donghoon Kim, Jeongmin Shim, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 226801 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Charge- $4 e$ Superconductivity from Nematic Superconductors in Two and Three Dimensions

Shao-Kai Jian, Yingyi Huang, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 227001 (2021) - Published 23 November, 2021

Nonmagnetic $J = 0$ State and Spin-Orbit Excitations in $K_{2} {RuCl}_{6}$

H. Takahashi, H. Suzuki, J. Bertinshaw, S. Bette, C. Mühle, J. Nuss, R. Dinnebier, A. Yaresko, G. Khaliullin, H. Gretarsson, T. Takayama, H. Takagi, and B. Keimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 227201 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Role of Equilibrium Fluctuations in Light-Induced Order

Alfred Zong, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Anshul Kogar, Yifan Su, Xiaozhe Shen, Joshua A. W. Straquadine, Xirui Wang, Duan Luo, Michael E. Kozina, Alexander H. Reid, Renkai Li, Jie Yang, Stephen P. Weathersby, Suji Park, Edbert J. Sie, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Ian R. Fisher, Xijie Wang, Eugene Demler, and Nuh Gedik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 227401 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

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

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Zwitterions Raise the Dielectric Constant of Soft Materials

Wenwen Mei, August J. Rothenberger, Joshua E. Bostwick, Joshua M. Rinehart, Robert J. Hickey, and Ralph H. Colby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 228001 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

The strong polar nature of bonded molecular pairs called zwitterions boosts the dielectric constants of polar fluids.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mutual Information Disentangles Interactions from Changing Environments

Giorgio Nicoletti and Daniel Maria Busiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 228301 (2021) - Published 22 November, 2021

Mutual information provides a promising method for disentangling intrinsic from extrinsic sources of noise in biological systems.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Intensity Interference in a Coherent Spin-Polarized Electron Beam”

Herman Batelaan, Sam Keramati, and T. J. Gay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 229601 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021

Kuwahara et al. Reply:

Makoto Kuwahara, Yuya Yoshida, Wataru Nagata, Kojiro Nakakura, Masato Furui, Takafumi Ishida, Koh Saitoh, Toru Ujihara, and Nobuo Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 229602 (2021) - Published 24 November, 2021