Volume 128, Issue 19

13 May 2022

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Mechanical compression of a random packing of sticks bounded in a cylinder. The left-most photograph shows the experimental setup and the middle panel zooms in on the critical parts. The computational counterparts of the setup appear in the right-most panel, the relaxed state at the top and the compressed state at the bottom. Selected for a Focus in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion.

From the article:

Micromechanical Origin of Plasticity and Hysteresis in Nestlike Packings
Yashraj Bhosale, Nicholas Weiner, Alex Butler, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, and Hunter King
Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 198003 (2022)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Evidence of Large Recoil Velocity from a Black Hole Merger Signal

Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Tousif Islam, Feroz H. Shaik, Carl-Johan Haster, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Scott E. Field, and Salvatore Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191102 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

Analysis of the gravitational waves from a black hole merger suggests that the final black hole received a kick that will send it out of its galaxy.

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Effect of Strongly Magnetized Electrons and Ions on Heat Flow and Symmetry of Inertial Fusion Implosions

A. Bose et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195002 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

A powerful external magnetic field can transform both the heat flow and the shape of the implosion associated with inertial-confinement fusion—a laser-driven fusion technique.

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Parametric Amplifiers Based on Quantum Dots

Laurence Cochrane, Theodor Lundberg, David J. Ibberson, Lisa A. Ibberson, Louis Hutin, Benoit Bertrand, Nadia Stelmashenko, Jason W. A. Robinson, Maud Vinet, Ashwin A. Seshia, and M. Fernando Gonzalez-Zalba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197701 (2022) - Published 10 May, 2022

A new design based on the quantum capacitance of a silicon quantum dot could enable scalable, high-fidelity qubit readout.

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Micromechanical Origin of Plasticity and Hysteresis in Nestlike Packings

Yashraj Bhosale, Nicholas Weiner, Alex Butler, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, and Hunter King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 198003 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Experiments and simulations explain the unusual nature of the structure’s springiness.

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Self-Lensing Flares from Black Hole Binaries: Observing Black Hole Shadows via Light Curve Tomography

Jordy Davelaar and Zoltán Haiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191101 (2022) - Published 9 May, 2022

A new technique for measuring the shadows cast by a black hole binary could enable astronomers to glean details about these massive systems.

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Two-Dimensional Supersolid Formation in Dipolar Condensates

T. Bland, E. Poli, C. Politi, L. Klaus, M. A. Norcia, F. Ferlaino, L. Santos, and R. N. Bisset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195302 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Researchers have created a disk-shaped supersolid, an achievement that could provide new routes to exploring previously unseen states of matter.

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Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon Hierarchy and Generalized Hydrodynamics

Bruno Bertini, Fabian H. L. Essler, and Etienne Granet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190401 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

A generalized hydrodynamics approach provides a systematic procedure to construct conserved charges in one-dimensional systems of interacting fermions.

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Tests of Lepton Universality Using $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B^{+} \to K^{* +} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191802 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

Two new $B$ meson decays are observed and used to probe lepton universality, with results fitting the overall picture of a persistent but not yet compelling deviation from the Standard Model of particle physics.

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Thermally Assisted Heterogeneous Cavitation through Gas Supersaturation

Patricia Pfeiffer, Julian Eisener, Hendrik Reese, Mingbo Li, Xiaotong Ma, Chao Sun, and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 194501 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

Laser-induced heating of a gold thin film in contact with a water thin film generates cavitation bubbles in water in a controllable manner.

LETTERS

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

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Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Kirkwood-Yvon Hierarchy and Generalized Hydrodynamics

Bruno Bertini, Fabian H. L. Essler, and Etienne Granet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190401 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

A generalized hydrodynamics approach provides a systematic procedure to construct conserved charges in one-dimensional systems of interacting fermions.

Spectral Filtering Induced by Non-Hermitian Evolution with Balanced Gain and Loss: Enhancing Quantum Chaos

Julien Cornelius, Zhenyu Xu, Avadh Saxena, Aurélia Chenu, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190402 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Classical Simulation of Boson Sampling Based on Graph Structure

Changhun Oh, Youngrong Lim, Bill Fefferman, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190501 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Synthesizing Five-Body Interaction in a Superconducting Quantum Circuit

Ke Zhang, Hekang Li, Pengfei Zhang, Jiale Yuan, Jinyan Chen, Wenhui Ren, Zhen Wang, Chao Song, Da-Wei Wang, H. Wang, Shiyao Zhu, Girish S. Agarwal, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190502 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Experimental Side-Channel-Secure Quantum Key Distribution

Chi Zhang, Xiao-Long Hu, Cong Jiang, Jiu-Peng Chen, Yang Liu, Weijun Zhang, Zong-Wen Yu, Hao Li, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Xiang-Bin Wang, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190503 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Bound on Eigenstate Thermalization from Transport

Anatoly Dymarsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 190601 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Self-Lensing Flares from Black Hole Binaries: Observing Black Hole Shadows via Light Curve Tomography

Jordy Davelaar and Zoltán Haiman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191101 (2022) - Published 9 May, 2022

A new technique for measuring the shadows cast by a black hole binary could enable astronomers to glean details about these massive systems.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Evidence of Large Recoil Velocity from a Black Hole Merger Signal

Vijay Varma, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Tousif Islam, Feroz H. Shaik, Carl-Johan Haster, Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Scott E. Field, and Salvatore Vitale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191102 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

Analysis of the gravitational waves from a black hole merger suggests that the final black hole received a kick that will send it out of its galaxy.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exactly Marginal Deformations and Their Supergravity Duals

Anthony Ashmore, Michela Petrini, Edward Lødøen Tasker, and Daniel Waldram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191601 (2022) - Published 9 May, 2022

Quantum Thermodynamics of Holographic Quenches and Bounds on the Growth of Entanglement from the Quantum Null Energy Condition

Tanay Kibe, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, and Pratik Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191602 (2022) - Published 9 May, 2022

Impact of Dark Compton Scattering on Direct Dark Matter Absorption Searches

Yonit Hochberg, Belina von Krosigk, Eric Kuflik, and To Chin Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191801 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tests of Lepton Universality Using $B^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ and $B^{+} \to K^{* +} ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191802 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

Observation of the Decay $Λ_{b}^{0} \to Λ_{c}^{+} τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 191803 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonrelativistic Conformal Invariance in Mesoscopic Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases

Viktor Bekassy and Johannes Hofmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 193401 (2022) - Published 9 May, 2022

Intrinsic Optical Spatial Differentiation Enabled Quantum Dark-Field Microscopy

Jiawei Liu, Qiang Yang, Shizhen Chen, Zhicheng Xiao, Shuangchun Wen, and Hailu Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 193601 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Transverse Kerker Effect for Dipole Sources

Feifei Qin, Zhanyuan Zhang, Kanpei Zheng, Yi Xu, Songnian Fu, Yuncai Wang, and Yuwen Qin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 193901 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

Twisted Two-Dimensional Material Stacks for Polarization Optics

Kaveh Khaliji, Luis Martín-Moreno, Phaedon Avouris, Sang-Hyun Oh, and Tony Low

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 193902 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermally Assisted Heterogeneous Cavitation through Gas Supersaturation

Patricia Pfeiffer, Julian Eisener, Hendrik Reese, Mingbo Li, Xiaotong Ma, Chao Sun, and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 194501 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

Laser-induced heating of a gold thin film in contact with a water thin film generates cavitation bubbles in water in a controllable manner.

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Indirect Drive Experiment Using a Six-Cylinder-Port Hohlraum

Xin Li et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195001 (2022) - Published 9 May, 2022

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Effect of Strongly Magnetized Electrons and Ions on Heat Flow and Symmetry of Inertial Fusion Implosions

A. Bose et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195002 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

A powerful external magnetic field can transform both the heat flow and the shape of the implosion associated with inertial-confinement fusion—a laser-driven fusion technique.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Coherence of Pairs of Cooper Pairs as Quasi-Long-Range Order of Half-Vortex Pairs in a Two-Dimensional Bilayer System

Feng-Feng Song and Guang-Ming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195301 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

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Two-Dimensional Supersolid Formation in Dipolar Condensates

T. Bland, E. Poli, C. Politi, L. Klaus, M. A. Norcia, F. Ferlaino, L. Santos, and R. N. Bisset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195302 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Researchers have created a disk-shaped supersolid, an achievement that could provide new routes to exploring previously unseen states of matter.

Casimir Contribution to the Interfacial Hamiltonian for 3D Wetting

Alessio Squarcini, José M. Romero-Enrique, and Andrew O. Parry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 195701 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fragmentation and Emergent Integrable Transport in the Weakly Tilted Ising Chain

Alvise Bastianello, Umberto Borla, and Sergej Moroz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 196601 (2022) - Published 11 May, 2022

Tunneling Magnetoresistance in Noncollinear Antiferromagnetic Tunnel Junctions

Jianting Dong, Xinlu Li, Gautam Gurung, Meng Zhu, Peina Zhang, Fanxing Zheng, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Jia Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197201 (2022) - Published 10 May, 2022

Observation of Spin Splitting Torque in a Collinear Antiferromagnet ${RuO}_{2}$

H. Bai, L. Han, X. Y. Feng, Y. J. Zhou, R. X. Su, Q. Wang, L. Y. Liao, W. X. Zhu, X. Z. Chen, F. Pan, X. L. Fan, and C. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197202 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Nanometer-Scale Spatial and Spectral Mapping of Exciton Polaritons in Structured Plasmonic Cavities

Marc R. Bourgeois, Elliot K. Beutler, Siamak Khorasani, Nicole Panek, and David J. Masiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197401 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

Convert Widespread Paraelectric Perovskite to Ferroelectrics

Hongwei Wang, Fujie Tang, Massimiliano Stengel, Hongjun Xiang, Qi An, Tony Low, and Xifan Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197601 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Parametric Amplifiers Based on Quantum Dots

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197701 (2022) - Published 10 May, 2022

A new design based on the quantum capacitance of a silicon quantum dot could enable scalable, high-fidelity qubit readout.

Signatures of Interactions in the Andreev Spectrum of Nanowire Josephson Junctions

F. J. Matute-Cañadas, C. Metzger, Sunghun Park, L. Tosi, P. Krogstrup, J. Nygård, M. F. Goffman, C. Urbina, H. Pothier, and A. Levy Yeyati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 197702 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022

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

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Micromechanical Origin of Plasticity and Hysteresis in Nestlike Packings

Yashraj Bhosale, Nicholas Weiner, Alex Butler, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, and Hunter King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 198003 (2022) - Published 13 May, 2022

Experiments and simulations explain the unusual nature of the structure’s springiness.

ERRATA

Erratum: Anharmonicity and Universal Response of Linear Carbon Chain Mechanical Properties under Hydrostatic Pressure [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 105501 (2020)]

Keshav Sharma, Nathalia L. Costa, Yoong Ahm Kim, Hiroyuki Muramatsu, Newton M. Barbosa Neto, Luiz G. P. Martins, Jing Kong, Alexandre Rocha Paschoal, and Paulo T. Araujo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 199901 (2022) - Published 12 May, 2022