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Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order

Rajesh Singh, Elsen Tjhung, and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032024(R) (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This work presents a two dimensional model of self-propulsion in active droplets, such as cells, involving two scalar fields, representing the cytoplasm and a contractile cortex. An active stress couples the two scalar fields. The self-propulsion results from the activity when rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken.

Layer-dependent electronic and magnetic properties of Nb3I8

Felice Conte, Domenico Ninno, and Giovanni Cantele

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033001 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This work studies the electronic and magnetic properties of few-layer Nb3I8 using first principles. The authors observe layer-dependent magnetism and compare their results with experimental work function measurements.

General and consistent statistics for cosmological observations

Ermis Mitsou, Jaiyul Yoo, Ruth Durrer, Fulvio Scaccabarozzi, and Vittorio Tansella

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033004 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This paper provides a method to construct the reduced angular N-point spectra of observables and their covariance matrices, which can be applied to arbitrary N. This method also allows the authors to explore some issues regarding their theoretical computation which can impact accuracy at non-linear order in cosmological perturbation theory.

Emergent conformal symmetry in nonunitary random dynamics of free fermions

Xiao Chen, Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033017 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This work explores random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension and show that this model is critical and has space-time conformal symmetry.

Diffusive scaling of Rényi entanglement entropy

Tianci Zhou and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033020 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

The authors show a diffusive diffusive growth behavior in a random unitary circuit with a conservation law, and provide numerical evidence of its onset in a generic chaotic quantum spin chain possessing energy conservation.

Scale-dependent measure of network centrality from diffusion dynamics

Alexis Arnaudon, Robert L. Peach, and Mauricio Barahona

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033104 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The authors use intrinsic properties of diffusion dynamics on graphs to define a scale-dependent node centrality measure. The time horizon of the diffusion plays the role of a natural scale factor. As the diffusion increasingly probes the surroundings of a node, it goes from capturing local properties to global ones

Microscopic origin of the anomalous Hall effect in noncollinear kagome magnets

Oliver Busch, Börge Göbel, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033112 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors establish a microscopic understanding of the anomalous Hall effect of electrons in several Kagome magnets. The spin-orbit coupling together with the inversion-symmetry breaking in these materials can effectively be described by a virtual texture that is canted out of the Kagome plane, even though the actual magnetic texture is coplanar. The uncompensated virtual texture has a finite scalar spin chirality effectively giving rise to a topologically induced Hall effect.

Chiral photoelectron angular distributions from ionization of achiral atomic and molecular species

Andreas Pier, Kilian Fehre, Sven Grundmann, Isabel Vela-Perez, Nico Strenger, Max Kircher, Dimitrios Tsitsonis, Joshua B. Williams, Arne Senftleben, Thomas Baumert, Markus S. Schöffler, Philipp V. Demekhin, Florian Trinter, Till Jahnke, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033209 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This paper shows that the combination of two achiral components targets and a circularly polarized photon in the dipole approximation yield chirally structured photoelectron angular distributions.

Thermal Nieh-Yan anomaly in Weyl superfluids

J. Nissinen and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033269 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This paper proposes that anomalous momentum conservation at finite temperatures in topological Weyl superfluids (and superconductors) is due to universal thermal quantum effects of Weyl fermions on curved spacetimes.

Robustness of gauge-invariant dynamics against defects in ultracold-atom gauge theories

Jad C. Halimeh, Robert Ott, Ian P. McCulloch, Bing Yang, and Philipp Hauke

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033361 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

This paper investigates the effects of gauge-violating defects in the initial state on the gauge-invariant dynamics of a ultracold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator.

Observation of a strongly ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

SeungJung Huh, Kyungtae Kim, Kiryang Kwon, and Jae-yoon Choi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033471 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

The authors show strongly ferromagnetic spinor condensates of 7Li atoms, where the spin interaction energy is comparable to the spin-independent energy.

Beyond linear coupling in microwave optomechanics

D. Cattiaux, X. Zhou, S. Kumar, I. Golokolenov, R. R. Gazizulin, A. Luck, L. Mercier de Lépinay, M. Sillanpää, A. D. Armour, A. Fefferman, and E. Collin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033480 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This paper investigates the nonlinear effects that imprint the self-oscillating state of a nanomechanical oscillator embedded in a microwave cavity.

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Magnetism and Néel skyrmion dynamics in GaV4S8ySey

T. J. Hicken, S. J. R. Holt, K. J. A. Franke, Z. Hawkhead, A. Štefančič, M. N. Wilson, M. Gomilšek, B. M. Huddart, S. J. Clark, M. R. Lees, F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, G. Balakrishnan, and T. Lancaster

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032001(R) (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This paper explores the influence of low-levels of chemical substitution on the magnetism in GaV4S8ySey. In the y = 0 and 0.1 materials the authors use muon spin spectroscopy to reveal a gradual crossover of the ground state between ferromagnetic and cycloidal order, with chemical substitution leading to growth of localized regions of increased spin density. The authors also show, through dynamics detectable with muons, that chemical substitution leads to skyrmionic precursors over a wide range of temperatures.

Zero-bias conductance peak in Dirac semimetal-superconductor devices

W. Yu, Rafael Haenel, M. A. Rodriguez, S. R. Lee, F. Zhang, M. Franz, D. I. Pikulin, and W. Pan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032002(R) (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

The authors report the observation of a large zero bias conductance peak in junction structures of several materials, with a value close to four times that of the normal state conductance. Their analysis suggest that this can be attributed to the existence of a supercurrent between two far-separated superconducting Al electrodes.

Ramsey interferometry of non-Hermitian quantum impurities

F. Tonielli, N. Chakraborty, F. Grusdt, and J. Marino

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032003(R) (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

The authors introduce a Ramsey pulse scheme which allows to probe the Loschmidt echo of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. They study a model of an impurity atom which is dissipatively coupled to a surrounding Bose gas and identify a many-body quantum Zeno effect in the corresponding non-Hermitian Loschmidt echo.

Manipulation of the nanoscale heliconical structure of a twist-bend nematic material with polarized light

C. Feng, J. Feng, R. Saha, Y. Arakawa, J. Gleeson, S. Sprunt, C. Zhu, and A. Jákli

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032004(R) (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The authors use x-ray scattering to show direct evidence of the manipulation of the long-term and pitch of nanoscale heliconical structures of twist-bend nematic liquid crystals.

Toy model of boundary states with spurious topological entanglement entropy

Kohtaro Kato and Fernando G. S. L. Brandão

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032005(R) (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper studies the mechanism behind the corrections to topological entanglement entropy in the trivial topologically ordered systems. The authors show that the existence of the spurious correction is connected to the existence of non-trivial phases at the boundary when the gapped ground state is given by a stabilizer state.

Complex dynamics in nanoscale phase separated supercooled liquids

S. Cazzato, A. Chrissanthopoulos, M. Micoulaut, T. Scopigno, and S. N. Yannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032007(R) (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

The authors show the onset of supercooled liquid dynamics in binary chalcogenides using infra-red photon correlation spectroscopy. The paper uncovers two relaxation channels, associated with local heterogeneities , and studies the relaxation dynamics and the topological constraints of the system.

Photoinduced η-pairing at finite temperatures

Satoshi Ejima, Tatsuya Kaneko, Florian Lange, Seiji Yunoki, and Holger Fehske

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032008(R) (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

The paper presents photoinduced η-pairing in a half-filled infinite Hubbard chain at finite temperatures by means of unbiased numerical techniques. The authors excite the Mott insulating phase by a light pulse and monitor the time-evolution of the many-body system after irradiation, and show the enhancement of η-pairing correlations and how to control it.

Omnidirectional transport and navigation of Janus particles through a nematic liquid crystal film

Dinesh Kumar Sahu, Swapnil Kole, Sriram Ramaswamy, and Surajit Dhara

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032009(R) (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

This paper uncovers a self-propelling mechanism by which metal-dielectric Janus colloids in a liquid-crystalline film move by converting the energy of an oscillating electric field. The authors are able to control their trajectories by varying the field amplitude and frequency, further showing that propulsive flows arise around the particles, resembling those generated by swimming microorganisms, through force dipoles with centers displaced towards the metallic hemisphere.

Random-matrix perspective on many-body entanglement with a finite localization length

Marcin Szyniszewski and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032010(R) (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

The authors introduce a random-matrix framework that Page’s law for ergodic many-body systems by incorporating a finite entanglement localization length. The paper uncovers signatures of universality, and suggests that the effective localization length is a universal combination of model parameters up until it drops down to the microscopic scale.

Theory of a resonantly interacting impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Moritz Drescher, Manfred Salmhofer, and Tilman Enss

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032011(R) (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

This paper investigates an impurity particle that strongly perturbs a surrounding Bose-Einstein condensate. The authors propose a new theoretical description of locally deformed Bose gases that includes strong short-range correlations, which leads to a nonlocal extension of Gross-Pitaevskii theory.

Minimal model of charge and pairing density waves in x-ray scattering experiments

David Dentelski and Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032012(R) (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

This paper provides a way to identify charge and pairing density waves in X-ray scattering experiments performed on cuprates. The authors calculate two dimensional scattering maps with energy and momentum resolution, and conclude that the experimental findings are best explained assuming a predominance of pairing density waves.

Observation of algebraic time order for two-dimensional dipolar excitons

Suzanne Dang, Marta Zamorano, Stephan Suffit, Kenneth West, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, Markus Holzmann, and François Dubin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032013(R) (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This paper quantifies the quasi-condensation of two-dimensional excitons in a GaAs bilayer at sub-Kelvin temperatures. The authors shows that the excitons quasi-condensation leads to a net change in their temporal coherence, which decay evolves from an exponential to algebraic decay with a characteristic exponent compatible with the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless theory.

Orientation of point nodes and nonunitary triplet pairing tuned by the easy-axis magnetization in UTe2

Shunichiro Kittaka, Yusei Shimizu, Toshiro Sakakibara, Ai Nakamura, Dexin Li, Yoshiya Homma, Fuminori Honda, Dai Aoki, and Kazushige Machida

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032014(R) (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This paper studies the field-angle dependencies of high-quality single crystal of UTe2 in standard and superconductivity states. The results suggest the presence of point nodes along the a axis in the superconducting gap.

High-order nonlinear optical response of a twisted bilayer graphene

Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032015(R) (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

This paper reports nonperturbative numerical calculations for nonlinear optical responses of a twisted bilayer graphene. The twist has shown to activate various orders of harmonics that cannot occur in monolayer or conventional bilayer graphene.

Performance evaluation of adiabatic quantum computation via quantum speed limits and possible applications to many-body systems

Keisuke Suzuki and Kazutaka Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032016(R) (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

The authors use the quantum speed limit method to find a lower boundary for adiabatic quantum computation

Synthetic dimensions and topological chiral currents in mesoscopic rings

Hannah M. Price, Tomoki Ozawa, and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032017(R) (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

This work proposes a realization of topological states by introducing the concept of a synthetic dimension to a mesoscopic hybrid device consisting of a nanomagnet coupled to a one-dimensional Aharanov-Bohm ring. The authors show that this system can be mapped to a two-dimensional quantum Hall model and can support topologically-protected chiral currents in which the nanomagnet’s spin is locked to the propagation direction of electrons circling the ring.

Stereodynamic control of overlapping resonances in cold molecular collisions

Masato Morita, Qian Yao, Changjian Xie, Hua Guo, and Naduvalath Balakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032018(R) (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

This paper reports the possibility of robust stereo-dynamic control of rotational quenching in cold molecular collisions. By controlling the orientation and alignment of the molecule before collision, the authors show control of multiple peaks due to resonances associated with disparate partial waves.

Accurate optical spectra through time-dependent density functional theory based on screening-dependent hybrid functionals

Alexey Tal, Peitao Liu, Georg Kresse, and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032019(R) (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

This paper presents an approach for optical absorption calculations based on nonempirical dielectric-dependent hybrid functionals with an accuracy similar to the Bethe-Salpeter equation but at a dramatically reduced cost. This approach relies on the consistent use of a spatially dependent screening of the Coulomb interaction in the functional and in the calculation of the spectra

Kibble-Zurek scaling in quantum speed limits for shortcuts to adiabaticity

Ricardo Puebla, Sebastian Deffner, and Steve Campbell

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032020(R) (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The authors use shortcuts to adiabaticity, quantum speed limit, and the Kibble-Zurek mechanism to probe and understand non-equilibrium dynamics through the lens of coherent control.

Anomalous hydrodynamic transport in interacting noncentrosymmetric metals

Riki Toshio, Kazuaki Takasan, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032021(R) (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The authors propose a hydrodynamic theory for noncentrosymmetric highly-conductive metals, which suggests a nontrivial analogy between the electron fluids and chiral fluids, and thereby predicts a variety of anomalous transport phenomena such as asymmetric Poiseuille flow.

Slow light of dark pulses in a photorefractive crystal

Nacera Bouldja, Alexander Grabar, Marc Sciamanna, and Delphine Wolfersberger

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032022(R) (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

This paper demonstrates how dark pulses may be decelerating in a photorefractive crystal at room temperature. The authors show the conditions that allow to achieve delay larger than the input dark pulse width. When the input pulse duration is close to the crystal response time, the fractional delay is close to unity.

Stabilizing even-parity chiral superconductivity in Sr2RuO4

Han Gyeol Suh, Henri Menke, P. M. R. Brydon, Carsten Timm, Aline Ramires, and Daniel F. Agterberg

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032023(R) (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

This paper proposes an even-parity chiral superconducting order parameter for strontium ruthenate. Using a three-dimensional three-band model for the band structure, the authors show that local interactions can stabilize such an even-parity pairing state at weak coupling but only once small symmetry-allowed inter-layer spin-orbit coupling terms are taken into account.

Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order

Rajesh Singh, Elsen Tjhung, and Michael E. Cates

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032024(R) (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This work presents a two dimensional model of self-propulsion in active droplets, such as cells, involving two scalar fields, representing the cytoplasm and a contractile cortex. An active stress couples the two scalar fields. The self-propulsion results from the activity when rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken.

Autonomous Maxwell's demon in a cavity QED system

Baldo-Luis Najera-Santos, Patrice A. Camati, Valentin Métillon, Michel Brune, Jean-Michel Raimond, Alexia Auffèves, and Igor Dotsenko

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032025(R) (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This work exploits a cavity QED system to investigate the connection between energy, information and the thermodynamic arrow of time in the quantum realm. The paper proposes an autonomous scheme of the Maxwell’s demon with a single Rydberg atom and a microwave resonator and studies the change of the mutual information between the demon and the qubit-cavity system

Robust skyrmion-bubble textures in SrRuO3 thin films stabilized by magnetic anisotropy

P. Zhang, A. Das, E. Barts, M. Azhar, L. Si, K. Held, M. Mostovoy, and T. Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032026(R) (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

The authors show that the stability of magnetic bubbles in materials with strong spin-orbit coupling extends beyond the region predicted by the Kooy-Enz model, when the film thickness becomes comparable to the cylindrical domain wall width.

Charge stiffness and long-range correlation in the optically induced η-pairing state of the one-dimensional Hubbard model

Tatsuya Kaneko, Seiji Yunoki, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032027(R) (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

This paper shows that superconducting properties including a nonzero charge stiffness and long-ranged pairing correlations can be induced by applying a pump electric field to the Mott insulating phase of the Hubbard model.

Large zero point density fluctuations in fluids

Peter Wu and L. H. Ford

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032028(R) (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

This paper proposes a method, based on light scattering in fluids, to show that quantum zero point motion and vacuum fluctuations become more relevant when probed at smaller length scales

Optimal mean first-passage time for a Brownian searcher subjected to resetting: Experimental and theoretical results

Benjamin Besga, Alfred Bovon, Artyom Petrosyan, Satya N. Majumdar, and Sergio Ciliberto

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032029(R) (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

The authors study the optimal mean time needed by a free diffusing Brownian particle to reach a target at a certain distance from a randomly distributed initial position in the presence of resetting. The authors compute and measure the full first-passage probability distribution and show that it displays spikes immediately after each resetting time

Minimum thickness of carbon coating for multipacting suppression

M. Angelucci, A. Novelli, L. Spallino, A. Liedl, R. Larciprete, and R. Cimino

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032030(R) (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

The authors perform a secondary electron yield study on amorphous Carbon deposited on atomically clean Cu and use X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy, to determine the layer thickness. The paper reports on the reduction of secondary electron yield with thin layer of about 10 nm.

Enhanced diffusion and non-Gaussian dynamics in driven magnetic nanoparticles

Ralph Lukas Stoop and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032031(R) (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

This manuscript shows that an ensemble of paramagnetic nanoparticles driven across a periodic potential display diffusive yet non-Gaussian dynamics with a linear mean-square displacement and a non-Gaussian distribution of displacement. This behavior results from the coexistence of two types of dynamics, namely confined particles around magnetic domains and delocalized ones that propel along the lattice

Transport controlled by Poincaré orbit topology in a driven inhomogeneous lattice gas

Alec Cao, Roshan Sajjad, Ethan Q. Simmons, Cora J. Fujiwara, Toshihiko Shimasaki, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032032(R) (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

This paper explores the transport properties of a quantum gas in a modulated optical lattice subjected to an inhomogeneous field. The authors show that qualitatively different classes of dynamical behaviors arise from different Poincaré orbit topologies in the associated semiclassical phase space.

Ultraviolet catastrophe of a fluctuating curved dislocation line

Max Boleininger, Thomas D. Swinburne, Laurent Dupuy, and Sergei L. Dudarev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032033(R) (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

The authors demonstrate that the line tension expression for dislocation core energy and the regularization of elastic fields near the core fundamentally emerge from the periodicity of the discrete atomic lattice. A continuum model for the dislocation core is presented which addresses the problem of short wavelength instability of dislocation lines inherent to linear elasticity theory, and predicts configurational energies.

Breakdown of ergodicity in disordered U(1) lattice gauge theories

G. Giudici, F. M. Surace, J. E. Ebot, A. Scardicchio, and M. Dalmonte

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032034(R) (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This work studies the signatures of ergodicity breaking in U(1) lattice gauge theories in the presence of a random charge background.

Fractional quantum Hall effect at ν=2+4/9

Ajit C. Balram and A. Wójs

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032035(R) (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

This paper proposes a partonic fractional quantum Hall effect that could arise in the second Landau level of semiconductors. This parton state is topologically different from the corresponding lowest Landau level state which is a composite fermion state.

Thick target inverse kinematics approach for neutron emission

V. Z. Goldberg, E. M. Gazeeva, M. S. Golovkov, A. A. Bezbakh, D. K. Nauruzbayev, A. K. Nurmukhanbetova, Zh. Kurmanaliyev, A. Serikov, B. Zalewski, and G. V. Rogachev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032036(R) (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

The paper presents an extension of the Thick Target Inverse Kinematic method to study resonances decaying by neutrons.

Constructing clock-transition-based two-qubit gates from dimers of molecular nanomagnets

Charles A. Collett, Paolo Santini, Stefano Carretta, and Jonathan R. Friedman

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032037(R) (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

This work presents a theoretical scheme for implementing clock-transition-based quantum gates in a molecular nanomagnet heterodimer, enabling the realization of one- and two-qubit gates with high fidelities.

Lack of a genuine time crystal in a chiral soliton model

Andrzej Syrwid, Arkadiusz Kosior, and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032038(R) (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

The authors provide an argument to show the impossibility of a time crystal in the chiral soliton model.

Coexistence of localized and extended phases: Many-body localization in a harmonic trap

Titas Chanda, Ruixiao Yao, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032039(R) (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

This work shows that interacting particles in a one dimensional optical lattice with strong harmonic confinement behave in a unique way, resulting in an exotic coexistence between spatially separated regions of localized and extended domains. The position of the border between two regions is estimated using local static field arguments coming from Stark localization

Stability of ionic liquid modeled by composite Coulomb-Yukawa potentials

Guilherme Volpe Bossa and Sylvio May

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032040(R) (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

This paper presents a mean-field model for an ionic liquid with a composite, ion-specific, Coulomb-Yukawa interaction potential. If the Yukawa contribution is attractive, it triggers a structural instability near an immersed electrode

Strong-field-gated buildup of a Rydberg series

Veit Stooß, Paul Birk, Alexander Blättermann, Maximilian Hartmann, Gergana D. Borisova, Christian Ott, and Thomas Pfeifer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032041(R) (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

The authors study the ultrafast buildup of a doubly excited Rydberg series in helium. They observe how individual resonances emerge out of the continuous background absorption and quantify the time for individual spectral lines to be separated.

Origin of universality in the onset of superdiffusion in Lévy walks

Asaf Miron

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032042(R) (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This work uncovers the underlying mechanisms responsible for the universal transition in the approach of superdiffusive systems towards their long-time, asymptotic behavior

Quasicrystal formation in binary soft matter mixtures

A. Scacchi, W. R. C. Somerville, D. M. A. Buzza, and A. J. Archer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032043(R) (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

This paper presents an strategy to identify regimes inn which soft matter mixtures may form quasicrystals. The method relies in tuning locations of maxima in the dispersion relation, or equivalently in the liquid state partial static structure factors.

Exchange-driven all-optical magnetic switching in compensated 3d ferrimagnets

C. S. Davies, G. Bonfiglio, K. Rode, J. Besbas, C. Banerjee, P. Stamenov, J. M. D. Coey, A. V. Kimel, and A. Kirilyuk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032044(R) (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

The authors experimentally resolve the pulse- and temperature-dependent limits of single-shot alloptical magnetic switching in the compensated three dimensional ferrimagnet, revealing that the process is driven by exchange relaxation.

Many-body localization transition in large quantum spin chains: The mobility edge

Titas Chanda, Piotr Sierant, and Jakub Zakrzewski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032045(R) (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

This work shows the existence of many-body mobility edge in large disordered Heisenberg chain. The time dynamics of initial product states reveal that the transition between localized and extended phases depends on the average energy of the initial states.

Versatile multipartite Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering via a quantum frequency comb

Yin Cai, Yu Xiang, Yang Liu, Qiongyi He, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032046(R) (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

This work demonstrates multipartite EPR steering with a multimode quantum resource, based on parametric down conversion from an optical frequency comb. It shows how mode shaping at the receiver side enhances the steerability, without changing the optical circuit

Elasticity of jammed packings of sticky disks

Dion J. Koeze, Lingtjien Hong, Abhishek Kumar, and Brian P. Tighe

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032047(R) (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

The authors determine the elastic moduli of a model for soft amorphous solids such as foams, emulsions, and pastes. The paper shows that the amplitude of the moduli and the packing fraction where the solid phase appears depend on the binding force between particles.

Weak values from path integrals

A. Matzkin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032048(R) (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

This work gives an account of weak values in terms of path integrals. The author shows how a weak value depends on the Feynman paths connecting the pre-selection to the post-selection regions that cross the area in which the weak interaction between the system observable and the pointer takes place

High-energy γ-photon polarization in nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production and γ polarimetry

Feng Wan, Yu Wang, Ren-Tong Guo, Yue-Yue Chen, Rashid Shaisultanov, Zhong-Feng Xu, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, Christoph H. Keitel, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032049(R) (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

The authors elucidate the impact of intermediate photon polarization on the pair’s yield in nonlinear Breit-Wheeler process, and propose a two-stage method to observe the signature of intermediate photon polarization.

One-dimensional nature of protein low-energy vibrations

Minhao Yu, Pan Tan, Yiyang Ye, David J. Voneshen, Xiangjun Xing, and Liang Hong

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032050(R) (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

The authors use inelastic neutron scattering on a perdeuterated protein to show that the low-energy vibration modes are correlated primarily through peptide bonds, which can be described by a one-dimensional harmonic chain model.

Machine learning corrected quantum dynamics calculations

A. Jasinski, J. Montaner, R. C. Forrey, B. H. Yang, P. C. Stancil, N. Balakrishnan, J. Dai, R. A. Vargas-Hernández, and R. V. Krems

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032051(R) (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

This work illustrates a general machine-learning approach to reduce the errors of quantum dynamics approximations.

Integrability and dark states in an anisotropic central spin model

Tamiro Villazon, Anushya Chandran, and Pieter W. Claeys

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032052(R) (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

The authors show that the fully anisotropic central spin Hamiltonian with XX Heisenberg interactions is integrable, and identify two classes of eigenstates.

Magnetization-dependent spin Hall effect in a perpendicular magnetized film

T. C. Chuang, D. Qu, S. Y. Huang, and S. F. Lee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032053(R) (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

The authors demonstrate the magnetization dependent spin Hall effect where the spin polarization of pure spin current can be additionally manipulated by the magnetization.

Collisional spin transfer in an atomic heteronuclear spinor Bose gas

Fang Fang, Joshua A. Isaacs, Aaron Smull, Katinka Horn, L. Dalila Robledo-De Basabe, Yimeng Wang, Chris H. Greene, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032054(R) (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

This work studies heteronuclear spinor gases and characterizes the collision channels that can transfer magnetization from one element to another, using spin relaxation from different initial states.

Distinct reduction of Knight shift in superconducting state of Sr2RuO4 under uniaxial strain

Austin W. Lindquist and Hae-Young Kee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032055(R) (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

This paper studies the effect of strain on the Knight shift in the superconducting state of Sr2RuO4 to explain recently observed drops in the Knight shift below the transition temperature.

Flocking-enhanced social contagion

Demian Levis, Albert Diaz-Guilera, Ignacio Pagonabarraga, and Michele Starnini

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032056(R) (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

The authors show that a dynamical feedback between information spreading and motility of agents triggers the formation of coherently moving structures, or swarms, which in turn are responsible for enhancing social contagion across the population.

Robust localized zero-energy modes from locally embedded PT-symmetric defects

Fatemeh Mostafavi, Cem Yuce, Omar S. Maganã-Loaiza, Henning Schomerus, and Hamidreza Ramezani

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032057(R) (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

This work provides an approach to creating localized zero-energy states inside a lattice by insertion of a PT-symmetric defect with local gain and loss values that exceed the gain and loss value required by the exceptional point.

Curvature-induced skyrmion mass

Alexander Pavlis and Christina Psaroudaki

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032058(R) (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

This paper investigates the dynamics of magnetic skyrmions on curvilinear geometries and shows that for a skyrmion stabilized by a curvilinear defect, an inertia term and a pinning potential are generated by the varying curvature, while both of these terms vanish in the flat-space limit

Reducing urban traffic congestion due to localized routing decisions

Bo Li, David Saad, and Andrey Y. Lokhov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032059(R) (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

This paper introduces a dynamical model comprising users who make their own routing choices and those who consider routing advice based on localized inducement. The work discovers paradoxical traffic patterns emerging within the model, and develops a method for identifying mechanisms to minimize congestion

Wave-function positivization via automatic differentiation

Giacomo Torlai, Juan Carrasquilla, Matthew T. Fishman, Roger G. Melko, and Matthew P. A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032060(R) (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The authors introduce a numerical algorithm combining combines tensor networks and automatic differentiation to uncover a local unitary transformation that removes the sign structure from a quantum wavefunction.

Synchronization in leader-follower switching dynamics

Jinha Park and B. Kahng

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032061(R) (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The authors propose a dynamic rule for Kuramoto oscillators and analyze its synchronization transitions, showing a hybrid phase transition and a leader-follower switching dynamics

Efficiency fluctuations of a quantum heat engine

Tobias Denzler and Eric Lutz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032062(R) (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The authors derive a formula for the efficiency distribution of a paradigmatic quantum Otto engine and apply it to an analytically solvable two-level motor

Symmetry deduction from spectral fluctuations in complex quantum systems

S. Harshini Tekur and M. S. Santhanam

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032063(R) (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

This work shows that it is possible to deduce the number of discrete symmetries present in a complex quantum system by analyzing its corresponding spectrum. This can be done by calculating higher order level spacing ratios and using results from random matrix theory.

Sensitive dependence on molecular interactions of length scales in sheared soft matter

A. Scacchi, M. G. Mazza, and A. J. Archer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032064(R) (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

The authors find that external shear can either selectively enhance or suppress the characteristic length-scales in the interparticle correlations, depending on small details of the molecular interactions.

Fully consistent density functional theory determination of the insulator-metal transition boundary in warm dense hydrogen

Joshua Hinz, Valentin V. Karasiev, S. X. Hu, Mohamed Zaghoo, Daniel Mejía-Rodríguez, S. B. Trickey, and L. Calderín

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032065(R) (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

This works provides a density functional theory determination for the pressure-temperature boundary of the insulator-metal transition of warm dense fluid hydrogen

Fundamental relations for anomalous thermoelectric transport coefficients in the nonlinear regime

Chuanchang Zeng, Snehasish Nandy, and Sumanta Tewari

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032066(R) (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

The authors predict the nonlinear anomalous thermal Hall effect for time-reversal symmetry invariant but inversion broken systems.

First-principles calculations of steady-state voltage-controlled magnetism: Application to x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiments

Alberto Marmodoro, Sebastian Wimmer, Ondřej Šipr, Masako Ogura, and Hubert Ebert

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032067(R) (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

The authors provide a theoretical description of the electric field induced XMCD for a conducting system under steady-state condition, using the first-principles non-equilibrium Green function formalism.

Braiding Majorana corner modes in a second-order topological superconductor

Tudor E. Pahomi, Manfred Sigrist, and Alexey A. Soluyanov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032068(R) (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

This work studies a possible scheme for braiding Majorana quasiparticles in a two-dimensional topological superconductor.

Underground Sagnac gyroscope with sub-prad/s rotation rate sensitivity: Toward general relativity tests on Earth

Angela D. V. Di Virgilio, Andrea Basti, Nicolò Beverini, Filippo Bosi, Giorgio Carelli, Donatella Ciampini, Francesco Fuso, Umberto Giacomelli, Enrico Maccioni, Paolo Marsili, Antonello Ortolan, Alberto Porzio, Andrea Simonelli, and Giuseppe Terreni

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032069(R) (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

This work uses an statistical approach to study the sensitivity of the large ring laser gyroscope GINGERINO, comparing its recorded data with the long time variations of the Earth rotation rate in the range of fractions of prad/s.

Hints for the nematic pseudogap in the nearly optimally doped La2xSrxCuO4 superconductor

Marcin Matusiak, Tadashi Adachi, Yoichi Tanabe, and Yoji Koike

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032070(R) (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

The authors study the in-plane thermoelectrical anisotropy in the high-Tc superconductor under uniaxial pressure.

Deconfined metal-insulator transitions in quantum Hall bilayers

Liujun Zou and Debanjan Chowdhury

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032071(R) (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

This paper show that an interaction-driven metal-insulator quantum phase transition is continuous

Electronic correlation and geometrical frustration in molecular solids: A systematic ab initio study of βX[Pd(dmit)2]2

Takahiro Misawa, Kazuyoshi Yoshimi, and Takao Tsumuraya

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032072(R) (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

The authors derive ab initio low-energy effective Hamiltonians for molecular solids Pd(dmit)2 salts and explore their solution in the magnetic properties of their compounds.

Fragmented monopole crystal, dimer entropy, and Coulomb interactions in Dy2Ir2O7

V. Cathelin, E. Lefrançois, J. Robert, P. C. Guruciaga, C. Paulsen, D. Prabhakaran, P. Lejay, F. Damay, J. Ollivier, B. Fåk, L. C. Chapon, R. Ballou, V. Simonet, P. C. W. Holdsworth, and E. Lhotel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032073(R) (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

This paper shows that the Dy2Ir2O7 pyrochlore compound stabilizes a fragmented monopole crystal phase at low temperature, and that it yields the residual entropy predicted by theory.

Josephson effect in graphene bilayers with adjustable relative displacement

Mohammad Alidoust, Antti-Pekka Jauho, and Jaakko Akola

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 032074(R) (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors study the response of supercurrent to relative displacement of pristine graphene sheets, considering antiferromagnetic intralayer and interlayer electron-electron pairings, and propose supercurrent as a probe for characterizing the mechanism underlying superconductivity in a bilayer graphene system.

ARTICLES

Layer-dependent electronic and magnetic properties of Nb3I8

Felice Conte, Domenico Ninno, and Giovanni Cantele

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033001 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This work studies the electronic and magnetic properties of few-layer Nb3I8 using first principles. The authors observe layer-dependent magnetism and compare their results with experimental work function measurements.

Gapped Dirac cones and spin texture in thin film topological insulator

Peter Thalmeier and Alireza Akbari

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033002 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This work predicts the quasiparticle interference spectrum in thin films of topological insulators under the influence of intersurface hybridization and intrasurface warping using a full t-matrix calculation.

Quantum Hall effect and Landau levels in the three-dimensional topological insulator HgTe

J. Ziegler, D. A. Kozlov, N. N. Mikhailov, S. Dvoretsky, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033003 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This paper analyzes the magnetoconductance and the manifestations of the different charge carrier species in the entire parameter space of transport channels in three dimensional topological insulators

General and consistent statistics for cosmological observations

Ermis Mitsou, Jaiyul Yoo, Ruth Durrer, Fulvio Scaccabarozzi, and Vittorio Tansella

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033004 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This paper provides a method to construct the reduced angular N-point spectra of observables and their covariance matrices, which can be applied to arbitrary N. This method also allows the authors to explore some issues regarding their theoretical computation which can impact accuracy at non-linear order in cosmological perturbation theory.

Descendant distributions for the impact of mutant contagion on networks

Jonas S. Juul and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033005 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

The authors tackle the problem of infection spreading of mutant strains and how it is influenced by the structure of the network. The paper finds that the probability distributions that describe the impact of mutant contagion are similar if the spreading takes place on any infinite-dimensional network.

Tunable terahertz oscillation arising from Bloch-point dynamics in chiral magnets

Yu Li, Leonardo Pierobon, Michalis Charilaou, Hans-Benjamin Braun, Niels R. Walet, Jörg F. Löffler, James J. Miles, and Christoforos Moutafis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033006 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

This work reveals that an ultra-fast emergent electric field can be generated during the ultra-fast propagation of Bloch points in skyrmionic textures. The authors show the feasibility of tuning the generation process, as well as the amplitude and frequency of this electric signal by demonstrating a manipulation of Bloch-point dynamics.

Complex phase diagram of doped XXZ ladder: Localization and pairing

Rong-Yang Sun, Zheng Zhu, and Zheng-Yu Weng

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033007 (2020) - Published 1 July, 2020

The authors study the phase diagram of a lightly doped XXZ ladder. The paper identifies distinct phases and quantum phase transitions triggered by changes in the anisotropy

Rapid fair sampling of the XY spin Hamiltonian with a laser simulator

Vishwa Pal, Simon Mahler, Chene Tradonsky, Asher A. Friesem, and Nir Davidson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033008 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

This paper presents a new simulator based on dissipatively coupled lasers for rapid and efficient fair sampling of XY spin Hamiltonian with complex ground state manifolds. The authors use the multiple longitudinal modes of each laser to form an ensemble of identical but independent simulators to provide statistical fair sampling.

Lee-Yang theory of the Curie-Weiss model and its rare fluctuations

Aydin Deger and Christian Flindt

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033009 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The authors study the partition function of zeros for the Curie-Weiss model using a cumulant method. The paper elucidates the the Lee-Yang zeros and report on the critical behavior of the system.

Uniqueness of all fundamental noncontextuality inequalities

Kishor Bharti, Atul Singh Arora, Leong Chuan Kwek, and Jérémie Roland

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033010 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The authors combine graph theoretic techniques and a form of duality, to show how one can uniquely probe contextuality of a quantum system using the exclusivity graph approach.

Rethinking αRuCl3

P. A. Maksimov and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033011 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The authors demonstrate that the available phenomenology restricts the allowed model parameters for α-RuCl3. The anisotropic couplings in the presented model produce a spectrum of spin excitations that consists of a broad continuum coexisting with well-defined modes. The paper uncovers that α-RuCl3 can be described as a fluctuating ferro-antiferromagnet in a proximity to an incommensurate state.

Nonlinear walkers and efficient exploration of congested networks

Timoteo Carletti, Malbor Asllani, Duccio Fanelli, and Vito Latora

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033012 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

This work explores the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting random walkers, hopping among nodes of a given network. The nodes are endowed with finite carrying capacity. A nonlinear function of the available space at the destination node, controls the tendency of the walkers to avoid nodes occupied by other walkers. Using the entropy rate the paper shows that an optimal crowding amount exists that maximizes the ability of the walkers to perform the network exploration.

Exceeding the Landau speed limit with topological Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces

S. Autti, J. T. Mäkinen, J. Rysti, G. E. Volovik, V. V. Zavjalov, and V. B. Eltsov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033013 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The authors show that topological superfluid 3He can flow without friction in a phase which possesses a line of zero energy in the excitation spectrum, although the Landau’s limit for superflow is zero. The flow expands the node line to a Fermi surface for Bogoliubov quasipartices, which is usually absent in Cooper-paired systems, but may appear in unconventional superconductors and superfluids with certain broken symmetries.

Semi-device-independent self-testing of unsharp measurements

Nikolai Miklin, Jakub J. Borkała, and Marcin Pawłowski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033014 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This work studies unsharp quantum measurements as a resource in scenarios where one faces the trade-off between information gain and disturbance. The authors introduce a prepare-transform-measure scenario in which unsharp measurements outperform their sharp counterparts, as well as any stochastic strategy involving dichotomic projective measurements.

Theory of magnetostriction for multipolar quantum spin ice in pyrochlore materials

Adarsh S. Patri, Masashi Hosoi, SungBin Lee, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033015 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

The authors propose a magnetostriction signature of multipolar quantum spin ice, which is shown to be distinct from themagnetostriction behavior of the symmetry-broken ordered phasesfound in non-Kramers and Kramers pyrochlore compounds.

Entanglement entropy in low-energy field theories at a finite chemical potential

Ivan Morera, Irénée Frérot, Artur Polls, and Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033016 (2020) - Published 2 July, 2020

This work shows how the entanglement entropy behaves in a general system at finite chemical potential with an O(2) symmetry. In addition, a connection between the Higgs gap and the leading area-law term for the entanglement entropy is established.

Emergent conformal symmetry in nonunitary random dynamics of free fermions

Xiao Chen, Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, and Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033017 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This work explores random quantum circuit models for non-unitary quantum dynamics of free fermions in one spatial dimension and show that this model is critical and has space-time conformal symmetry.

Critical fluctuations at a many-body exceptional point

Ryo Hanai and Peter B. Littlewood

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033018 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This paper proposes a non-Hermitian class of dynamic critical phenomenon beyond the classification by Hohenberg and Halperin triggered by the coalescence of the collective eigenmodes to the Goldstone mode. The authors find an anomalous enhancement of fluctuations that diverge at d4, and many-body correlation effects that become relevant at d<8.

Signature of pseudodiffusive transport in mesoscopic topological insulators

Saurav Islam, Semonti Bhattacharyya, Hariharan Nhalil, Suja Elizabeth, and Arindam Ghosh

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033019 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This manuscript demonstrates signatures of pseudodiffusive electrical transport through evanescent modes in topological insulator surface states. Pseudodiffusive transport is a property unique to Dirac Fermions at low number density, and disorder. The authors show that flicker noise or 1/f noise can detect the crossover from pseudodiffusive to diffusive regime in Dirac systems beyond graphene.

Diffusive scaling of Rényi entanglement entropy

Tianci Zhou and Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033020 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

The authors show a diffusive diffusive growth behavior in a random unitary circuit with a conservation law, and provide numerical evidence of its onset in a generic chaotic quantum spin chain possessing energy conservation.

Bifurcating entanglement-renormalization group flows of fracton stabilizer models

Arpit Dua, Pratyush Sarkar, Dominic J. Williamson, and Meng Cheng

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033021 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This paper studies the structure of three-dimensional translation invariant Pauli stabilizer models. The authors find that when a model has a bosonic particle which is mobile in two dimensions, a stack of two-dimensional toric code can be extracted from it using a local unitary. Similarly, when a model has a bosonic particle that is mobile in all three dimensions, the three-dimensional toric code can be extracted from it using a local unitary.

Protection of parity-time symmetry in topological many-body systems: Non-Hermitian toric code and fracton models

Henry Shackleton and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033022 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This paper demonstrates that the ground state subspace of systems with topological order - such as the toric code and systems with fracton order - can stay real under a robust set of non-Hermitian perturbations. This preservation of the reality of eigenvalues is sensitive to the size of the system, the conditions for which can be formulated both algebraically and geometrically.

Temporal-contrast imperfections as drivers for ultrafast laser modifications in bulk silicon

Andong Wang, Amlan Das, and David Grojo

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033023 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This paper uncovers the role of the temporal contrast in achieving internal modifications in semiconductors with ultrafast lasers and explores how it may influence three dimensional fabrication of monolithic silicon microsystems.

Magnetic field induced tunability of spin Hamiltonians: Resonances and Efimov states in Yb2Ti2O7

Yasuyuki Kato, Shang-Shun Zhang, Yusuke Nishida, and C. D. Batista

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033024 (2020) - Published 6 July, 2020

This paper proposes a mechanism to realize a high degree of magnetic field-induced tunability of the scattering length for the collision between magnons in quantum magnets with strong spin-orbit coupling.

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev superconductivity: Quantum Kuramoto and generalized Richardson models

Hanteng Wang, A. L. Chudnovskiy, Alexander Gorsky, and Alex Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033025 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper introduces a minimal generalization of the SYK model, which exhibits a superconducting dome. A pseudogap phase, which appears next to the dome, is dominated by the strong quantum fluctuations. The pseudogap-superconductivity transition can be described as a nonlinear synchronization phenomenon, which is captured by a quantum version of the classical Kuramoto model.

Hydroshearing poorly connected preexisting fractures in the presence of stress anisotropy as a random percolation process

Mohammed G. Alhashim and Donald L. Koch

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033026 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

This work shows that the hydraulic fracturing process in shale formations, where natural fractures are abundant but are poorly connected, is universal. The authors demonstrate that the correlation length of the natural fractures and the anisotropy in the stress field do not influence fluid propagation and the universality class of the fracturing process is the same as that of opening bonds randomly in a diluted bond lattice.

Stochastic resetting on comblike structures

Viktor Domazetoski, Axel Masó-Puigdellosas, Trifce Sandev, Vicenç Méndez, Alexander Iomin, and Ljupco Kocarev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033027 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper investigates the effect of stochastic resetting in a diffusion process on a three-dimensional comb geometry. The authors analyze the transient dynamics for three different types of resetting: global resetting to the initial position, resetting from a finger to the corresponding backbone and resetting from secondary fingers to the main fingers, and show the solutions for the stationary distribution and the mean square displacement.

Optical and magnetic excitations in the underscreened quasiquartet Kondo lattice

Alireza Akbari and Peter Thalmeier

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033028 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper investigates the non-conventional quasiparticle bands of the underscreened Kondo lattice with quasi-quartet crystalline electric field splitting and their signature in optical and magnetic dynamics. The authors show that a central heavy band inside the main hybridization gap leads to direct optical transitions already for frequencies corresponding to the low energy Kondo scale.

Type-II quadrupole topological insulators

Yan-Bin Yang, Kai Li, L.-M. Duan, and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033029 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper demonstrates a quadrupole topological insulator with zero-energy corner modes and a pair of edge polarizations. The authors also find that such topological phenomena can arise from quench dynamics in non-equilibrium systems.

Volume and topological invariants of quantum many-body systems

Xiao-Gang Wen and Zhenghan Wang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033030 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper proposes a method to extract topological invariance date from path integrals. The authors rely on a choice of space-time manifolds and quantum volume, given by a vector rather than a positive number.

X-ray coherent diffraction imaging with an objective lens: Towards three-dimensional mapping of thick polycrystals

A. F. Pedersen, V. Chamard, C. Detlefs, T. Zhou, D. Carbone, and H. F. Poulsen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033031 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This work demonstrates a new x-ray coherent imaging method, which combines high spatial resolution with the ability to map grains within thick polycrystalline specimens. The authors illustrate their method with a half-micron Pt grain embedded in a polycrystalline Pt matrix

Maximum velocity quantum circuits

Pieter W. Claeys and Austen Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033032 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

This work presents analytical calculations of out-of-time-order correlators in quantum many-body systems where the dynamics are governed by unitary circuits with maximal butterfly velocity. In the case of dual-unitary circuits, the decay rate is explicitly related to that of the time-ordered correlation functions

Quantum to classical crossover of Floquet engineering in correlated quantum systems

Michael A. Sentef, Jiajun Li, Fabian Künzel, and Martin Eckstein

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033033 (2020) - Published 7 July, 2020

This paper connects the complementary limits of manipulating quantum many-body systems with classical light and quantum light. The authors describe two different pathways towards achieving Floquet engineering of matter: (i) many-photon states at weak light-matter coupling, or (ii) few-photon states at strong coupling.

Quantum-classical hypothesis tests in macroscopic matter-wave interferometry

Björn Schrinski, Stefan Nimmrichter, and Klaus Hornberger

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033034 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

The authors use interference experiments with delocalized molecules and Bose-Einstein-Condensates to probe the quantum superposition principle. The degree of macroscopicity reached can be quantified by a Bayesian hypothesis test based on the direct measurement data.

Dirac Hamiltonians for bosonic spectra

P. Sathish Kumar, Igor F. Herbut, and R. Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033035 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

The authors provide a framework to adapt a fermionic Hamiltonian to be used in bosonic systems. The paper applies this method to the Dirac equation.

Exchange interaction of hole-spin qubits in double quantum dots in highly anisotropic semiconductors

Bence Hetényi, Christoph Kloeffel, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033036 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

This paper presents a definition of a hole-spin qubit based on a twofold symmetry that is applicable for a variety of materials and device geometries. If such symmetry is preserved, exchange interaction between two hole-spin qubits greatly simplifies increasing the fidelity of two-qubit gates. Exchange anisotropy in a silicon nanowire double quantum dot is studied in detail for both conserved and broken mirror symmetry.

Probing ultrafast electron correlations in high harmonic generation

Ofer Neufeld and Oren Cohen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033037 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

This paper develops an optical method to probe ultrafast electron correlations, based on bielliptical high harmonic generation. The authors use ab-initio numerical results to show that, with this approach, correlations are imprinted on the harmonic emission spectra, appear in a wide energy range, and persist far from any material resonant behavior.

Ferroelectric atomic displacement in multiferroic tetragonal perovskite Sr1/2Ba1/2MnO3

D. Okuyama, K. Yamauchi, H. Sakai, Y. Taguchi, Y. Tokura, K. Sugimoto, T. J. Sato, and T. Oguchi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033038 (2020) - Published 8 July, 2020

This paper discusses the competing mechanism of two ferroelectric origins from the p-d hybridization and the magnetic exchange-striction in the multiferroic phase of tetragonal perovskite (Sr,Ba)MnO3.The authors perform a quantitative comparison between the experimental result from the analysis of the crystal structure analysis and a first principles calculation.

Solving Gauss's law on digital quantum computers with loop-string-hadron digitization

Indrakshi Raychowdhury and Jesse R. Stryker

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033039 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper describes the qubit digitization of a loop-string-hadron formulation of SU(2) lattice gauge theories coupled to staggered fermions.

Self-driven oscillation in Coulomb blockaded suspended carbon nanotubes

Kyle Willick and Jonathan Baugh

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033040 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper demonstrates that, under certain conditions, self-driven oscillations in suspended carbon nanotube transistors can be large enough to produce significant current within normally Coulomb-blockaded low-temperature transport.

Disorder-induced coupling of Weyl nodes in WTe2

Steffen Sykora, Johannes Schoop, Lukas Graf, Grigory Shipunov, Igor V. Morozov, Saicharan Aswartham, Bernd Büchner, Christian Hess, Romain Giraud, and Joseph Dufouleur

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033041 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper uses transport measurements in WTe2 to measure the coupling between two Weyl nodes of different chiralities. The authors show the onset of internode scattering, as evidenced by the comparison of experimental results with a theoretical model that accounts for both the disorder and the band structure of WTe2 including its spin polarization.

Linear-time maximum likelihood decoding of surface codes over the quantum erasure channel

Nicolas Delfosse and Gilles Zémor

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033042 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper presents a decoding algorithm for the correction of erasure or qubit loss using surface codes. The peeling decoder identifies an optimal correction and it can be implemented in linear time. It corrects up to 50% of qubit loss.

Linear-response functions of molecules on a quantum computer: Charge and spin responses and optical absorption

Taichi Kosugi and Yu-ichiro Matsushita

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033043 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This work proposes a generic construction scheme for the quantum circuit implementing a nonunitary operator appearing in electronic-structure calculations. The authors demonstrate that the scheme enables one via probabilistic state preparation to calculate the linear-response functions of diatomic molecules, where simulated measurements and full configuration-interaction results are compared.

Slow thermalization of exact quantum many-body scar states under perturbations

Cheng-Ju Lin, Anushya Chandran, and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033044 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

The authors study the effects of perturbations on the exact quantum many-body scar states. The paper shows that in finite-size numerics the deformed scars survive and can be described by perturbation theory, while the finite-size scaling result suggests their eventual thermalization.

Floquet and anomalous Floquet Weyl semimetals

Yufei Zhu, Tao Qin, Xinxin Yang, Gao Xianlong, and Zhaoxin Liang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033045 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper uncovers and analyzes two kinds of nonequilibrium Weyl semimetals, i.e. Floquet and anomalous Floquet weyl semimetals which do not show a counterpart in equilibrium

Dissipative Rabi model in the dispersive regime

Clemens Müller

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033046 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper presents analytic results on the dispersive regime of the dissipative Rabi model, without taking the rotating wave approximation of the underlying Hamiltonian. The analytic expressions for all dynamical parameters show qualitative differences at intermediate and large detuning, which allows the author to update the model of the interaction between qubits and resonators.

Spectral signature of back reaction in correlated electron dynamics in intense electromagnetic fields

Alba de las Heras, Carlos Hernández-García, and Luis Plaja

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033047 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper reports a back-reaction mechanism in multielectron correlation dynamics of helium atoms irradiated by strong laser fields. The signature of back-reaction in high harmonic spectroscopy is a secondary plateau of high-order harmonics extending the emission towards higher frequencies, beyond the standard cut-off frequency.

Unified framework for the entropy production and the stochastic interaction based on information geometry

Sosuke Ito, Masafumi Oizumi, and Shun-ichi Amari

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033048 (2020) - Published 9 July, 2020

This paper investigates a new formula of the total entropy production as an information-geometric projection. This formula also leads the definition of the partial entropy production for the subsystem introduced in the context of Maxwell’s demon. To compare the total entropy production with the partial entropy production from the viewpoint of information geometry, the authors find a connection between the entropy production and the stochastic interaction, which is a measure of information integration.

Photon propagation through dissipative Rydberg media at large input rates

Przemyslaw Bienias, James Douglas, Asaf Paris-Mandoki, Paraj Titum, Ivan Mirgorodskiy, Christoph Tresp, Emil Zeuthen, Michael J. Gullans, Marco Manzoni, Sebastian Hofferberth, Darrick Chang, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033049 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

The authors study the regime of high incoming photon rates by developing two strategies. The paper shows that the creation of unwanted pollutants inside the medium invalidates the experimental configuration from realizing large trains of single photons.

Intrinsic topological superconductivity with exactly flat surface bands in the quasi-one-dimensional A2Cr3As3 (A=Na, K, Rb, Cs) superconductors

Cheng-Cheng Liu, Chen Lu, Li-Da Zhang, Xianxin Wu, Chen Fang, and Fan Yang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033050 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

The authors propose a new class of time-reversal invariant topological superconductivity, which is protected by the spin-U(1) symmetry. The integer-Z-valued topological winding number of this class can lead to flat bands all over the surface Brillouin zone

Quantum criticality of loops with topologically constrained dynamics

Zhehao Dai and Adam Nahum

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033051 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

This paper studies quantum critical loop models by defining topological types of local operators, studying their renormalization group transformation, and obtaining analytical and numerical results on various scaling exponents.

Winding numbers and generalized mobility edges in non-Hermitian systems

Qi-Bo Zeng and Yong Xu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033052 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

This paper presents a self-dual symmetry which determines the Anderson localization in non-Hermitian quasiperiodic lattices. The authors show that the mobility edges in non-Hermitian quasiperiodic systems are of topological nature, due to the energy spectra for the extended states and localized states displaying different structures

Effect of mediated interactions on a Hubbard chain in mixed-dimensional fermionic cold atoms

Junichi Okamoto, Wen-Min Huang, Kyle Irwin, David K. Campbell, and Shan-Wen Tsai

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033054 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

This work studies a one-dimensional Fermi gas embedded in a two-dimensional noninteracting Fermi gas. The authors demonstrate that various quantum phases emerge due to the mediated interaction among the one-dimensional gas, which can be controlled by varying the density of the two-dimensional Fermi gas.

First-principles study of electronic transport and structural properties of Cu12Sb4S13 in its high-temperature phase

Cono Di Paola, Francesco Macheda, Savio Laricchia, Cedric Weber, and Nicola Bonini

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033055 (2020) - Published 10 July, 2020

This work uses first-principles calculations to show that the structural variety of the Cu-Sb-S network allows a description of tetrahedrite in terms of a fematinite-like crystal modified by an ordered arrangement of S-vacancies that are at the origin of the metallic character of this complex compound.

Strong coupling as an interplay of quantum emitter hybridization with plasmonic dark and bright modes

Benjamin Rousseaux, Denis G. Baranov, Tomasz J. Antosiewicz, Timur Shegai, and Göran Johansson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033056 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This paper shows that when a single quantum emitter couples strongly to the dark mode, it can result in the vacuum Rabi splitting of a bright dipolar mode. Emitters with very low contrast due to short wavelengths could then transfer their oscillator strength to bright plasmon modes with lower energies

Physics of psychophysics: Large dynamic range in critical square lattices of spiking neurons

Emilio F. Galera and Osame Kinouchi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033057 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This paper shows that a retina-like sensor composed of two layers of excitable cells presents a power law with a small Stevens’ exponent and a huge dynamic range.

Generic phase diagram of spin relaxation in solids and the Loschmidt echo

Gábor Csősz, Lénárd Szolnoki, Annamária Kiss, Balázs Dóra, and Ferenc Simon

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033058 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

The authors study the generic phase diagram of spin relaxation time, τs, in semiconductors using a stochastic model which considers the temporal evolution of a spin ensemble on the Bloch sphere. The strength of the quasiparticle scattering rate, Γ, the spin-orbit coupling, L, and that of a magnetic term, ΔZ due to the Zeeman effect was considered.

Spontaneous formation of a macroscopically extended coherent state

C. Braggio, F. Chiossi, G. Carugno, A. Ortolan, and G. Ruoso

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033059 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

The authors show superfluorescent emission by a large ensemble of ions (\,10^12) embedded in a rare earth doped crystal. The paper shows how the spontaneous formation of a single macroscopic dipole takes place, triggered by excited ions coherently interacting via a common light field and initiated by the vacuum fluctuations.

Control of microswimmers by spiral nematic vortices: Transition from individual to collective motion and contraction, expansion, and stable circulation of bacterial swirls

Runa Koizumi, Taras Turiv, Mikhail M. Genkin, Robert J. Lastowski, Hao Yu, Irakli Chaganava, Qi-Huo Wei, Igor S. Aranson, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033060 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

The authors introduce a method to control swimming bacteria by a liquid crystal environment. The paper shows that a liquid crystal nematic patterned as a spiral vortex causes an individual-to-collective transition as the bacterial concentration increases, in which non-polar swimming of individual bacteria is replaced by a unipolar circular swirling of condensed swarms.

Electronic-structure calculations for nonisothermal warm dense matter

John Jasper Bekx, Sang-Kil Son, Beata Ziaja, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033061 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This paper introduces a scheme for calculating the electronic structure of periodic systems at finite temperatures, using a hybrid basis of plane waves and responsive atomic orbitals. The framework is applied to a transient system of nonisothermal warm dense matter, present during the first 100 fs after irradiation of a solid sample with an x-ray free-electron laser, wherein the electrons are warm and thermalized and the ions constitute a cold periodic system.

Pairing in graphene-based moiré superlattices

Mathias S. Scheurer and Rhine Samajdar

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033062 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This work provides a systematic classification and energetic analysis of superconducting instabilities in different moiré superlattices of graphene. The authors show that these systems, even in the absence of spin-orbit coupling, can naturally exhibit spin-singlet and triplet admixture. The paper studies which of the possible pairing states can be realized in the weak coupling limit, and investigates the consequences of additional fluctuation corrections of nearby correlated insulators.

Quantum transport in self-similar graphene carpets

G. Bouzerar and D. Mayou

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033063 (2020) - Published 13 July, 2020

This paper explores the impact of self-similarity on the quantum electronic transport in graphene-based systems. When the Fermi level coincides with the flat-band energy, an unusual form of electronic transport is found. Despite a vanishing velocity and a gapped spectrum, a supermetallic phase is revealed. The conductivity is purely of inter-band nature and robust against the inelastic scattering amplitude.

Fast enantioconversion of chiral mixtures based on a four-level double-Δ model

Chong Ye, Quansheng Zhang, Yu-Yuan Chen, and Yong Li

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033064 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

The authors propose a fast method for enantioconversion based on a four-level double-Δ model. By designing the applied electromagnetic fields, the four-level double-Δ model can be simplified to two effective two-level sub-systems. Upon this, after three coherent operations, the initial chiral mixture can be converted to the enantiopure sample

Dissipation-induced topological transitions in continuous Weyl materials

Kunal Shastri and Francesco Monticone

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033065 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

This paper investigates the impact of dissipation on continuous topological Weyl materials, comparing two possible realizations of a Weyl-point dispersion based on breaking time-reversal symmetry or inversion symmetry.

Noise reduction in gravitational-wave data via deep learning

Rich Ormiston, Tri Nguyen, Michael Coughlin, Rana X. Adhikari, and Erik Katsavounidis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033066 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

The authors present a method to extend the reach of gravitational wave detectors, which applies machine learning algorithms to the detector data and interprets data from on-site sensors monitoring the instrument to reduce the noise in the time-series due to instrumental artifacts and environmental contamination.

Effect of Van Hove singularities in the onset of pseudogap states in Mott insulators

Wei Wu, Mathias S. Scheurer, Michel Ferrero, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033067 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

This paper studies why doping a Mott insulator does not necessarily lead to a pseudogap in two dimensions. The authors propose a criterion for the appearance of strong-coupling pseudogap in the doped Hubbard model.

Pseudogap opening in the two-dimensional Hubbard model: A functional renormalization group analysis

Cornelia Hille, Daniel Rohe, Carsten Honerkamp, and Sabine Andergassen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033068 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

The authors propose a Schwinger-Dyson form for the renormalization group flow of the self-energy, that captures the pseudogap opening in the two-dimensional Hubbard model at half filling as it accounts for the impact of the antiferromagnetic fluctuations.

Entanglement spectrum and entropy in topological non-Hermitian systems and nonunitary conformal field theory

Po-Yao Chang, Jhih-Shih You, Xueda Wen, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033069 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

This paper studies the entanglement properties of free-fermion systems without hermiticity. From the entanglement entropy scaling, the authors identify the non-unitary conformal field theory with c=-2 in a PT-symmetric non-Hermitian lattice system hosting topological phases. The entanglement spectrum also can detect the topological properties in the gapped phases, including the PT-symmetric Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model and the non-Hermitian Chern insulator.

Eternal discrete time crystal beating the Heisenberg limit

Changyuan Lyu, Sayan Choudhury, Chenwei Lv, Yangqian Yan, and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033070 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

This work shows that an all-to-all interaction delivers a discrete time crystal that is robust against spatially inhomogeneous perturbations.

Kane-Mele with a twist: Quasicrystalline higher-order topological insulators with fractional mass kinks

Stephen Spurrier and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033071 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

This paper develops an analytical low-energy theory describing a higher-order topological phase in a quasicrystalline model consisting of two stacked Haldane models with 30 degree twist—akin to the Kane-Mele model with a twist. Instead of regular mass inversions, the authors show the onset of fractional mass kinks in the edge theory, which protect fractional corner localized charges.

High-enthalpy crystalline phases of cadmium telluride

Adebayo O. Adeniyi, Martin Kunz, Elissaios Stavrou, and Yansun Yao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033072 (2020) - Published 14 July, 2020

The authors investigate the high-pressure structural behavior of CdTe and characterize the crystal structure of the post-Cmcm phase. The paper finds that above 34 GPa the enthalpy of CdTe is constantly higher than the enthalpy sum of Cd and Te. This indicates that CdTe is a high-enthalpy compound which is stabilized by a large kinetic barrier.

Ground state phase diagram of the doped Hubbard model on the four-leg cylinder

Yi-Fan Jiang, Jan Zaanen, Thomas P. Devereaux, and Hong-Chen Jiang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033073 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

The authors determine the ground state phase diagram of the lightly-doped Hubbard model on four leg cylinders with next-nearest-neighbor hopping, t’. The paper shows that, while the system remains insulating without t’, it quickly evolves into two distinct superconducting Luther-Emery liquids for small t’ with different spin and single particle properties.

Propagation and adsorption of nanoparticles in porous medium as traveling waves

G. Gerber, D. A. Weitz, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033074 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

This paper shows that a deposited distribution of nanoparticles transported by a liquid through a porous media is akin to a traveling wave propagating with a shape and velocity depending on the flow rate and the availability of particles with regard to the adsorption capacity. Confinements effects due to smaller pore size regions induce delayed deposition also described by traveling waves

Neural network wave functions and the sign problem

Attila Szabó and Claudio Castelnovo

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033075 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

This paper proposes a neural network architecture and learning protocol to solve the problem of convergence to ground states with a nontrivial sign structure. The authors apply their scheme to conventional antiferromagnets and show that, while it works well on those systems, it is unable to find ground states on frustrated magnets, finding instead low-energy states that exhibit the unfrustrated Marshall sign rule

Resistive contribution in electrical-switching experiments with antiferromagnets

Tristan Matalla-Wagner, Jan-Michael Schmalhorst, Günter Reiss, Nobumichi Tamura, and Markus Meinert

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033077 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

This paper shows that current-driven local annealing and electromigration facilitated by high switching currents can give rise to read-out signals of nonmagnetic origin that may mask the magnetic signal and can even be the dominant contribution to the signal.

Adaptive phase estimation through a genetic algorithm

Kartikeya Rambhatla, Simone Evaldo D'Aurelio, Mauro Valeri, Emanuele Polino, Nicolò Spagnolo, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033078 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

The authors propose and experimentally demonstrate an adaptive phase estimation protocol using a genetic algorithm, showing convergence to the true parameter value by using very limited data.

Quantum state transmission over partially corrupted quantum information network

Masahito Hayashi and Seunghoan Song

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033079 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

This paper derives the limit of the quantum network transmission rate when some of the quantum network channels are corrupted. The authors propose a quantum code that works efficiently even in the one-shot setting when the network operations are Clifford operations.

Revealing the two-electron cusp in the ground states of He and H2 via quasifree double photoionization

Sven Grundmann, Vladislav V. Serov, Florian Trinter, Kilian Fehre, Nico Strenger, Andreas Pier, Max Kircher, Daniel Trabert, Miriam Weller, Jonas Rist, Leon Kaiser, Alexander W. Bray, Lothar Ph. H. Schmidt, Joshua B. Williams, Till Jahnke, Reinhard Dörner, Markus S. Schöffler, and Anatoli S. Kheifets

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033080 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

This work studies quasifree double photoionization using reaction microscopy and companion ab initio calculations. The quasifree mechanism is confirmed for H2 and introduced as a probe for the electron-electron cusp density in the ground state of a two-electron target.

Dynamics of laser-driven heavy-ion acceleration clarified by ion charge states

M. Nishiuchi et al.

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033081 (2020) - Published 15 July, 2020

In this paper, high temperature (~10 keV) solid density silver plasma is generated experimentally by exposing a thin silver foil to the extreme fields of a tightly focused high-power laser. The authors demonstrate that such a plasma is an efficient source of highly charged, high energy heavy ions, with generation of ultra-strong electric fields

Single-atom verification of the information-theoretical bound of irreversibility at the quantum level

J. W. Zhang, K. Rehan, M. Li, J. C. Li, L. Chen, S.-L. Su, L.-L. Yan, F. Zhou, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033082 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors show that irreversibility is not always valid in the quantum regime. The paper extends this to any two-level system experiencing quantum relaxation processes

Quantum-enhanced finite-time Otto cycle

Arpan Das and Victor Mukherjee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033083 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors study a finite-time quantum Otto cycle, where the working medium is periodically modulated during the thermalization strokes resulting a non-Markovian anti-Zeno dynamics.

Quantum phase transition in the Yukawa-SYK model

Yuxuan Wang and Andrey V. Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033084 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors analyze the quantum phases in a Yukawa-SYK model. They show that the model has a maximally chaotic non-Fermi liquid phase and an incompressible insulating phase.

Pairing transition in a double layer with interlayer Coulomb repulsion

Andreas Sinner, Yurii E. Lozovik, and Klaus Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033085 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The paper studies the formation and measurable features of a correlated state which emerges in an electronic double layer when repulsive Coulomb interaction exceeds a certain critical value. The paper introduces a duality between two electronic layers and a double layer with electrons and holes.

Transport theory within a generalized Boltzmann equation for multiband wave packets

T. Stedman and L. M. Woods

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033086 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors present a multiband transport theory of thermoelectric currents that relies on a density operator for multiband wave packets, whose dynamics is captured in a generalized equation of motion.

Band topology, Hubbard model, Heisenberg model, and Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in twisted bilayer WSe2

Haining Pan, Fengcheng Wu, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033087 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

This work theoretically analyzes single-particle and many-body properties of twisted bilayer WSe2.

Effect of charge self-consistency in DFT+DMFT calculations for complex transition metal oxides

Alexander Hampel, Sophie Beck, and Claude Ederer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033088 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors demonstrate how a quantitative description of charge redistribution phenomena in correlated transition metal oxides, such as orbital polarization or charge ordering, is influenced by the inclusion of charge self-consistency in the DFT+DMFT method.

Universal relation between thermodynamic driving force and one-way fluxes in a nonequilibrium chemical reaction with complex mechanism

Yongli Peng, Hong Qian, Daniel A. Beard, and Hao Ge

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033089 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors propose a definition of the steady-state kinetic one-way flux in general chemical reaction networks far from equilibrium. The paper derives a fundamental relation between kinetic one-way fluxes and thermodynamic forces and shows various cycle decomposition of steady-state entropy production rates.

Nonlinear Onsager relations for Gaussian quantum maps

Domingos S. P. Salazar and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033090 (2020) - Published 16 July, 2020

The authors show that for Gaussian quantum dynamics a nonlinear type of Onsager relation can be derived for systems arbitrarily far from equilibrium.

Nondestructive photon counting in waveguide QED

Daniel Malz and J. Ignacio Cirac

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033091 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

The authors propose to use arrays of multilevel atoms coupled to waveguides as photon detectors capable of resolving the number of photons. Both destructive and nondestructive detectors can be constructed in this way

Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and dipole-dipole interactions affect coupling-based Landau-Majorana-Stückelberg-Zener transitions

R. Grimaudo, H. Nakazato, A. Messina, and N. V. Vitanov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033092 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

This work shows how Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and dipole-dipole interactions enhance the coupling-based Landau-Majorana-Stueckelberg-Zener transition effect.

Degradation of light carrying orbital angular momentum by ballistic scattering

Shaun Viola, Zhaozhong Chen, Alison M. Yao, Manousos Valyrakis, Anthony E. Kelly, David McKee, and Martin P. J. Lavery

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033093 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

This paper studies the phase structure of light carrying Orbital Angular Momentum as it propagates through a dense scattering environments. The authors show that it can be used to identify the size of scattering particles present under underwater or in free-space optical channels.

Identifying the atomic configuration of the tip apex using STM and frequency-modulation AFM with CO on Pt(111)

O. Gretz, A. J. Weymouth, and F. J. Giessibl

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033094 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

The authors use STM and AFM observations to show how individual atoms at the tip apex are visible, due localized tunneling between each atom and the carbon monoxide molecule.

Beyond the limits of conventional Stark deceleration

David Reens, Hao Wu, Alexander Aeppli, Anna McAuliffe, Piotr Wcisło, Tim Langen, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033095 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

The authors propose a strategy for Stark decelerators and provide a proof-of-principle of its functioning. The paper highlights its effect on the coupling between transverse and longitudinal motion and shows its influence over the hydroxyl radical flux.

Limitations of entropic inequalities for detecting nonclassicality in the postselected Bell causal structure

V. Vilasini and Roger Colbeck

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033096 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

This paper gives evidence that entropic inequalities are in general insufficient for detecting whether a distribution can be generated with classical resources in the bipartite Bell causal structure. The authors use both Shannon and Tsallis entropic inequalities as well as a general class of post-processing operations on the observed distributions to reach this conclusion.

Simple implementation of high fidelity controlled-iswap gates and quantum circuit exponentiation of non-Hermitian gates

S. E. Rasmussen and N. T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033097 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

This paper presents a implementation for a controlled-iSWAP gate working by applying a single lux pulse. The gate can be implemented using superconducting circuits or other systems which natively features an XY-interaction. The paper also discuss a quantum circuit for probabilistic exponentiating the iSWAP gate and other non-Hermitian gates.

Cold atoms in micromachined waveguides: A new platform for atom-photon interactions

E. Da Ros, N. Cooper, J. Nute, and L. Hackermueller

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033098 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

The authors demonstrate insertion of laser-cooled atoms into a microscopic, transverse through-hole in an optical fiber, where they overlap directly with the guided light. This is a proof-of-principle prototype for the efficient combination of cold atomic ensembles with chip-based photonic circuits.

Local integrals of motion for topologically ordered many-body localized systems

Thorsten B. Wahl and Benjamin Béri

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033099 (2020) - Published 17 July, 2020

This work introduces a concept of local integrals of motion that captures topologically ordered many-body localized systems in spite of their inherent nonlocality due to topology.

Consequences of time-reversal-symmetry breaking in the light-matter interaction: Berry curvature, quantum metric, and diabatic motion

Tobias Holder, Daniel Kaplan, and Binghai Yan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033100 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

This work generalizes the theory of nonlinear optical response in terms of the anomalous acceleration of the electronic quasiparticle, thus making the physical origin of the semiclassical contributions and the shift and injection currents transparent for materials with broken time-reversal symmetry.

Long-lasting desynchronization by decoupling stimulation

Justus A. Kromer and Peter A. Tass

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033101 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The authors use decoupling stimulation to study neuronal synchronization. The paper analyzes the decoupling potential of different stimulation patterns and present a random reset stimulation algorithm which induces parameter-robust long-lasting desynchronization that persists after cessation of stimulation

Structural, electronic, elastic, power, and transport properties of βGa2O3 from first principles

Samuel Poncé and Feliciano Giustino

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033102 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

This paper presents a study of the structural, vibrational, elastic, electrical, power and transport properties of β-Ga2O3 using first-principles simulation tools. The authors find that high energy optical phonons of Bu character account for most of the scattering limiting the carrier mobility.

Enhanced connectivity of quantum hardware with digital-analog control

Asier Galicia, Borja Ramon, Enrique Solano, and Mikel Sanz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033103 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

This work introduces an algorithm to simulate an arbitrary all-to-all Ising Hamiltonian employing as a resource any given inhomogeneous nearest-neighbor Ising Hamiltonian and single-qubit rotations.

Scale-dependent measure of network centrality from diffusion dynamics

Alexis Arnaudon, Robert L. Peach, and Mauricio Barahona

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033104 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The authors use intrinsic properties of diffusion dynamics on graphs to define a scale-dependent node centrality measure. The time horizon of the diffusion plays the role of a natural scale factor. As the diffusion increasingly probes the surroundings of a node, it goes from capturing local properties to global ones

Universal behavior in the Nernst effect of heavy fermion materials

Yi-feng Yang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033105 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

The author discovers a universal temperature scaling in the Nernst effect of heavy fermion materials. The scaling follows the prediction of the two-fluid model and the Nernst signal is explained by the asymmetric energy dependence of the emergent heavy electron density of states.

Nonlinear phase-amplitude reduction of delay-induced oscillations

Kiyoshi Kotani, Yutaro Ogawa, Sho Shirasaka, Akihiko Akao, Yasuhiko Jimbo, and Hiroya Nakao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033106 (2020) - Published 20 July, 2020

This paper formulates a nonlinear phase-amplitude reduction theory for limit-cycle oscillators described by delay-differential equations, which is applicable when the oscillator is subjected to perturbations of moderate intensity. The authors analyze a model of gene-regulatory oscillators and show that the reduced phase-amplitude equations elucidate the mechanism of nontrivial bistable dynamics under non-weak perturbations

Learning the constitutive relation of polymeric flows with memory

Naoki Seryo, Takeshi Sato, John J. Molina, and Takashi Taniguchi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033107 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors develop a learning strategy to study the relationship between the macroscopic flow properties of polymeric materials and their components. The paper shows how to obtain a constitutive relation from a limited number of small-scale microscopic simulations.

Discovery of a low-temperature orthorhombic phase of the Cd2Re2O7 superconductor

Konrad J. Kapcia, Maureen Reedyk, Mojtaba Hajialamdari, Andrzej Ptok, Przemysław Piekarz, Armin Schulz, Fereidoon S. Razavi, Reinhard K. Kremer, and Andrzej M. Oleś

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033108 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors use inelastic light scattering experiments and density functional calculations to study instabilities of the tetragonal crystal structure of Cd2Re2O7. The paper shows a splitting of specific phonon modes below 80 K which is related to a phase transition to a new orthorhombic crystal structure described by the space group F222.

Topologically ordered zigzag nanoribbon: e/2 fractional edge charge, spin-charge separation, and ground-state degeneracy

S.-R. Eric Yang, Min-Chul Cha, Hye Jeong Lee, and Young Heon Kim

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033109 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors show that zigzag nanoribbons have e/2 charges and display spin-charge separation.

Neural network solutions to differential equations in nonconvex domains: Solving the electric field in the slit-well microfluidic device

Martin Magill, Andrew M. Nagel, and Hendrick W. de Haan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033110 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

This work uses a neural network to solve partial differential equations describing the electric field in the slit-well microfluidic device.

Quasiparticle origin of dynamical quantum phase transitions

Jad C. Halimeh, Maarten Van Damme, Valentin Zauner-Stauber, and Laurens Vanderstraeten

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033111 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

This paper establishes a direct connection between the equilibrium quasiparticle spectrum of a model and the nonanalytic behavior appearing in its Loschmidt return rate. For small quenches within the ordered phase, nonanalytic behavior in the form of so-called anomalous cusps occurs in the return rate only when the lowest-lying quasiparticles are local excitations.

Microscopic origin of the anomalous Hall effect in noncollinear kagome magnets

Oliver Busch, Börge Göbel, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033112 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors establish a microscopic understanding of the anomalous Hall effect of electrons in several Kagome magnets. The spin-orbit coupling together with the inversion-symmetry breaking in these materials can effectively be described by a virtual texture that is canted out of the Kagome plane, even though the actual magnetic texture is coplanar. The uncompensated virtual texture has a finite scalar spin chirality effectively giving rise to a topologically induced Hall effect.

Quantum walks: The mean first detected transition time

Q. Liu, R. Yin, K. Ziegler, and E. Barkai

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033113 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors study the time it takes for a quantum particle to reach a target state, using a stroboscopic measurement protocol. In certain cases, the mean time for detection can diverge, even for small systems, and the paper uncovers an Einstein-like relation that connects strong fluctuations in the system with the mean hitting time.

Quantum limits for precisely estimating the orientation and wobble of dipole emitters

Oumeng Zhang and Matthew D. Lew

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033114 (2020) - Published 21 July, 2020

The authors use quantum estimation theory to quantify this limit and propose a dual-objective interferometric imaging system to measure the orientations of rotationally fixed molecules with quantum-limited measurement precision.

Unveiling the complete dispersion of the giant Rashba split surface states of ferroelectric αGeTe(111) by alkali doping

G. Kremer, T. Jaouen, B. Salzmann, L. Nicolaï, M. Rumo, C. W. Nicholson, B. Hildebrand, J. H. Dil, J. Minár, G. Springholz, J. Krempaský, and C. Monney

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033115 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

This paper shows how the detailed dispersion of the giant Rashba split surface states in the ferroelectric α–GeTe(111) can be resolved by static ARPES and surface potassium doping. The authors further confirm the Rashba mechanism for these states by moving them into the occupied part of the band structure, in good agreement with state of the art DFT calculations.

Quasi-exact quantum computation

Dong-Sheng Wang, Guanyu Zhu, Cihan Okay, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033116 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

This work proposes a generalization of the standard framework of fault-tolerant quantum computing using two central concepts: quasi codes and quasi universality.

Trapped-ion entangling gates robust against qubit frequency errors

Jake Lishman and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033117 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

This paper shows that ion trap entangling gates can be simultaneously made robust against noise and mis-sets in the qubit frequencies using a simple shaped drive with very few frequencies.

Electron-phonon interactions and two-phonon modes associated with charge density wave in single crystalline 1TVSe2

Juhi Pandey and Ajay Soni

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033118 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

This paper showcases new modes in the Raman spectra of 1T-VSe2 at low temperatures which emphasizes the onset of incommensurate and commensurate charge density wave in 1T-VSe2. The strong modulation of Raman intensity of the Eg mode with charge density wave shows the interaction of phonons with electron density.

Positive geometries for all scalar theories from twisted intersection theory

Nikhil Kalyanapuram and Raghav G. Jha

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033119 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

The authors have developed a formulation of quantum field theory that recasts scattering amplitudes for a wide class of scalar field theories as topological quantities known as twisted intersection numbers. Feynman diagrams are collected as vertices of certain polytopes, the intersection numbers of which are shown to reproduce the correct scattering amplitudes

Full counting statistics of spin-flip and spin-conserving charge transitions in Pauli-spin blockade

Sadashige Matsuo, Kazuyuki Kuroyama, Shunsuke Yabunaka, Sascha R. Valentin, Arne Ludwig, Andreas D. Wieck, and Seigo Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033120 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

The authors study full counting statistics of Pauli spin-blockade in a GaAs double quantum dot and compare with other methods. They find two significant features: a tail structure and a parity effect

Unifying continuous, discrete, and hybrid susceptible-infected-recovered processes on networks

Lucas Böttcher and Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033121 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

This paper introduces a shortest-path kinetic Monte Carlo framework to model SIR-like processes with general continuous, discrete, and hybrid infection and recovery time distributions. The authors use their framework to study various Markovian and non-Markovian SIR processes.

Optimal percolation in correlated multilayer networks with overlap

Andrea Santoro and Vincenzo Nicosia

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033122 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

This work shows that the minimal number of nodes to be removed to fragment a multiplex network is dictated by the interplay between edge overlap and interlayer degree correlations.

Local incompressibility of fractional quantum Hall states at a filling factor of 3/2

L. V. Kulik, V. A. Kuznetsov, A. S. Zhuravlev, V. Umansky, and I. V. Kukushkin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033123 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

The authors show that excitations near 3/2 quantum Hall state exhibit complex photoluminescence and relaxation dynamics

Fracton hydrodynamics

Andrey Gromov, Andrew Lucas, and Rahul M. Nandkishore

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033124 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

The authors use quantum field theory to propose a framework for fracton hydrodynamics arising from constrained dynamics.

Expressive power of parametrized quantum circuits

Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, and Dacheng Tao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033125 (2020) - Published 22 July, 2020

The authors demonstrate that parametrized quantum circuits possess a better expressive power than classical neural networks, such as restricted and deep Boltzmann machines. Based on the advanced expressive power, the authors propose a Bayesian quantum circuit that enables parametrized quantum circuits to perform machine learning tasks

Magnetoelectric polarizability: A microscopic perspective

Perry T. Mahon and J. E. Sipe

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033126 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

The authors extend a microscopic theory of polarization and magnetization to the study the effects of non-static and non-uniform electromagnetic fields in crystalline systems.

Localization in non-Hermitian asymmetric rhombic lattice

S. M. Zhang and L. Jin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033127 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This paper proposes a non-Hermitian asymmetric rhombic lattice which supports fully flat spectrum and Aharonov-Bohm caging formed by the oppositely oriented unidirectional couplings at the exceptional point. The localization area of excitation can be manipulated by the distribution of the gain and loss

Practical trapped-ion protocols for universal qudit-based quantum computing

Pei Jiang Low, Brendan M. White, Andrew A. Cox, Matthew L. Day, and Crystal Senko

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033128 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This work uses multi-level qudit systems for quantum computation in the context of trapped ions and show all of the necessary operations for qudit quantum computation with trapped ions along with realistic error estimates.

Subdiffusion in strongly tilted lattice systems

Pengfei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033129 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This work studies interacting lattice systems with a strong tilt potential and find that the charge relaxation shows subdiffusion due to the emergence of the reflection symmetry and dipole moment conservation.

Generative network model of transcriptome patterns in disease cohorts with tunable signal strength

Piotr Nyczka and Marc-Thorsten Hütt

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033130 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This paper uses well-established tools of statistical mechanics to provide a model of gene expression profiles for clinical cohorts in medical research. The model reveals under which conditions the true set of disease-associated genes can be recovered.

Nonlinear semiclassical dynamics of the unbalanced, open Dicke model

Kevin C. Stitely, Andrus Giraldo, Bernd Krauskopf, and Scott Parkins

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033131 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This paper studies the nonlinear dynamics of a generalized Dicke model in the transition to superradiance.

Overdoped end of the cuprate phase diagram

Thomas A. Maier, Seher Karakuzu, and Douglas J. Scalapino

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033132 (2020) - Published 23 July, 2020

This work explores the disappearance of superconductivity at the end of the cuprate high-Tc dome. The authors find that the vanishing of Tc arises from the combined effects of a decrease in the strength of the pairing interaction and an increase in the impurity scattering as the doping increases.

Disordered hyperuniformity in superconducting vortex lattices

José Benito Llorens, Isabel Guillamón, Ismael G. Serrano, Rosa Córdoba, Javier Sesé, José María De Teresa, M. Ricardo Ibarra, Sebastián Vieira, Miguel Ortuño, and Hermann Suderow

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033133 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

The authors establish an analogy between randomly pinned particles and superconducting vortices and showcase the role of the degree of hyperuniformity in the interplay between pinning and interactions

Atomic-scale expressions for viscosity and fragile-strong behavior in metal alloys based on the Zwanzig-Mountain formula

G. Chevallard, K. Samwer, and A. Zaccone

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033134 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

The authors develop an atomistic analytical model of the viscosity and fragility of liquid metals. The energy barrier is expressed, through the Zwanzig-Mountain high-frequency shear modulus formula, as a function of the radial distribution function and the interatomic interactions.

Reexamining the principle of mean-variance preservation for neural network initialization

Kyle Luther and H. Sebastian Seung

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033135 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This paper examines neural network parameter initialization schemes by distinguishing between two sorts of randomness: randomness in network parameters and randomness in network inputs. The authors show that in higher layers of a deep network fluctuations arising from input randomness can decay to zero while the scale of fluctuations arising from parameter randomness remains constant.

Flexibility-induced effects in the Brownian motion of colloidal trimers

Ruben W. Verweij, Pepijn G. Moerman, Nathalie E. G. Ligthart, Loes P. P. Huijnen, Jan Groenewold, Willem K. Kegel, Alfons van Blaaderen, and Daniela J. Kraft

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033136 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This paper studies the diffusive motion of a segmentally flexible colloidal model system through experiments and numerical calculations. The authors observe hydrodynamic couplings between conformational changes and displacements, which may have implications for the transport and function of synthetic and biological flexible objects at the microscale

Theoretical assessment of transitions across thermionic, field, and space-charge-limited emission

Adam M. Darr, Caleb R. Darr, and Allen L. Garner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033137 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This paper presents a theory of field emission and thermionic emission, including the subsequent transition to the space-charge limited emission regime. Since transitions between mechanisms can influence the full solution even orders of magnitude distant in voltage or current density, the paper develops a new tool to identify transitions within a diode’s geometric and electric parameter spaces.

Universal dynamics in the expansion of vortex clusters in a dissipative two-dimensional superfluid

Oliver R. Stockdale, Matthew T. Reeves, Xiaoquan Yu, Guillaume Gauthier, Kwan Goddard-Lee, Warwick P. Bowen, Tyler W. Neely, and Matthew J. Davis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033138 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This work uncovers a new universality class in the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of vortices in finite temperature, two-dimensional superfluids. The authors show that any initial vortex distribution expands to form a uniform cluster - a process that is forbidden in viscous, classical fluids.

Ergoregion instabilities in rotating two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates: Perspectives on the stability of quantized vortices

Luca Giacomelli and Iacopo Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033139 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This paper shows that multiply quantized vortices in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates display instabilities analogous to the ergoregion instabilities of rotating relativistic spacetimes. This implies that multiply quantized vortices are dynamically unstable in an otherwise uniform condensate.

In-plane electronic anisotropy resulted from ordered magnetic moment in iron-based superconductors

S.-F. Wu, W.-L. Zhang, V. K. Thorsmølle, G. F. Chen, G. T. Tan, P. C. Dai, Y. G. Shi, C. Q. Jin, T. Shibauchi, S. Kasahara, Y. Matsuda, A. S. Sefat, H. Ding, P. Richard, and G. Blumberg

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033140 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This paper studies the relationship between electronic anisotropy, magnetic order parameter and Raman intensity of As phonon mode for multiple families of iron based superconductors

Strong coupling in a two-dimensional semiconductor/noble metal multilayer platform

Vasilios Karanikolas, Ioannis Thanopulos, and Emmanuel Paspalakis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033141 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This paper shows that the semiconducting/noble metal multilayer structure, supporting an exciton-plasmon mode, can be a platform facilitating light-matter interactions at the strong coupling regime. A nearby placed quantum emitter has an emission spectrum showing a transition from a single peak, weak coupling regime, to three peaks, strong coupling regime, as it approaches thesemiconducting/noble metal multilayer structure

Strong-coupling Bose polarons in one dimension: Condensate deformation and modified Bogoliubov phonons

J. Jager, R. Barnett, M. Will, and M. Fleischhauer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033142 (2020) - Published 24 July, 2020

This work investigates Bose polarons in one dimension. The authors develop a model to take into account the backaction of the impurity on the condensate and where quantum fluctuations are described as modified Bogoliubov phonons on a deformed background.

Topological pumping assisted by Bloch oscillations

Yongguan Ke, Shi Hu, Bo Zhu, Jiangbin Gong, Yuri Kivshar, and Chaohong Lee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033143 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

This paper provides a scheme for quantized pumping without a uniform band occupation in a time-modulated and tilted lattice. The authors propose using Bloch oscillations to sample the momentum space uniformly.

Screened Coulomb interactions of general macroions with nonzero particle volume

Jeffrey C. Everts

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033144 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

The author shows that rigid colloidal particles of various shapes can be mapped to an effective point, line, or surface charge distributions. This allows closed-form integral expressions for the electrostatic potential and effective pair potential for particles of possibly arbitrary shape and particle configuration.

Generation of relativistic vortex laser beams by spiral shaped plasma

Tianyun Long, Cangtao Zhou, Libao Ju, Taiwu Huang, Mingyang Yu, Ke Jiang, Chaoneng Wu, Sizhong Wu, Hua Zhang, Bin Qiao, Shuangchen Ruan, and Xiantu He

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033145 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

The authors propose a scheme utilizing an underdense plasma of spiral thickness in generating relativistic vortex laser light with axial orbital angular momentum. The laser ponderomotive and the plasma charge-separation forces exert a torque on the plasma ions, resulting in creation of oppositely directed forces in the plasma ions and the laser light.

Experimental characterization of autonomous heat engine based on minimal dynamical-system model

Shoichi Toyabe and Yuki Izumida

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033146 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

This paper shows that the dynamics of autonomous heat engine can be described by simple two-variable equations connecting mechanics and thermodynamics. The authors use the low-temperature-differential Stirling engine as the model system of the autonomous heat engine.

Nonlinear response in the cumulant expansion for core-level photoemission

Marilena Tzavala, J. J. Kas, Lucia Reining, and J. J. Rehr

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033147 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

The authors derive an approximation for the cumulant Green’s function using the Kadanoff-Baym functional differential equation. The paper provides a compact expression for the cumulant that includes nonlinear corrections.

Parametrization of speckle intensity correlations over object position for coherent sensing and imaging in heavily scattering random media

Qiaoen Luo and Kevin J. Webb

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033148 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

The authors provide an statistical treatment of speckle intensity correlations as a function of the position of an obscured moving object and perform experiments to compare with their theory

Emergent localized states at the interface of a twofold PT-symmetric lattice

Jung-Wan Ryu, Nojoon Myoung, Ara Go, Sungjong Woo, Sang-Jun Choi, and Hee Chul Park

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033149 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

This paper provides the emergent phases of localized states at the interface of two-fold parity-time symmetric quasi-one-dimensional systems. The localization lengths of the states are robust against the non-Hermitian parameters. The phase boundaries are related to the non-Hermitian PT-phase transition at the exceptional points.

Topological flat bands and correlated states in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene

Louk Rademaker, Ivan V. Protopopov, and Dmitry A. Abanin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033150 (2020) - Published 27 July, 2020

The authors predict a quantum anomalous Hall state at filling factors ν=1,3 in twisted monolayer-bilayer graphene

Floquet theory for the electronic stopping of projectiles in solids

Nicolò Forcellini and Emilio Artacho

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033151 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

The authors use Floquet theory to analyze the electronic stopping of charged particles.

Angular stripe phase in spin-orbital-angular-momentum coupled Bose condensates

Xiao-Long Chen, Shi-Guo Peng, Peng Zou, Xia-Ji Liu, and Hui Hu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033152 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This paper studies a supersolid-like superfluid angular stripe phase in a spin-orbital-angular-momentum coupled Bose gas, using density modulation with ultracold 41K and 87Rb atoms.

Acoustic diamond resonators with ultrasmall mode volumes

Mikołaj K. Schmidt, Christopher G. Poulton, and Michael J. Steel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033153 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

The authors propose a design for an elementary quantum acoustics setup, comprising a nanoscale diamond with embedded emitters of non-classical GHz acoustic waves. The scheme amplifies the emitter-cavity interaction by concentrating the acoustic waves into deeply subwavelength volumes through an acoustic analogue of the lightning-rod effect.

Transition to a many-body localized regime in a two-dimensional disordered quantum dimer model

Hugo Théveniaut, Zhihao Lan, Gabriel Meyer, and Fabien Alet

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033154 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This work analyses numerically the localization properties of a disordered quantum dimer model on the square lattice. The authors find a transition from an ergodic to a many-body localized regime as a function of the disorder strength.

Quantum storage and manipulation of heralded single photons in atomic memories based on electromagnetically induced transparency

Pin-Ju Tsai, Ya-Fen Hsiao, and Ying-Cheng Chen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033155 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This paper demonstrates the storage and manipulation of heralded single photons generated from a cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion source in atomic memories based on electromagnetically induced transparency. By varying the intensity of the coupling beam during retrieval process, the authors show that the waveform, bandwidth, and nonclassical correlation of the heralded single photons can be manipulated.

Cation order control of correlations in double perovskite Sr2VNbO6

Arpita Paul and Turan Birol

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033156 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This paper studies the double perovskite Sr2VNbO6 using first principles DFT+DMFT, and shows that the charge transfer between the B-site cations can lead to strongly correlated behavior. The authors also observe that the crystal structure parameters predicted by DFT+DMFT and DFT+U can be different, and these subtle differences can result in different electronic structures.

Second order phase dispersion by optimized rotation pulses

David L. Goodwin, Martin R. M. Koos, and Burkhard Luy

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033157 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This work presents a new class of pulse to perform a broadband universal rotation on two-level systems, independent of the system preparation, using a phase dispersion function. The authors present a method of optimal control to avoid traps on the control manifold, and find pulses of half the duration compared to the previous best universal rotation pulses.

Josephson radiation in a superconductor-quantum dot-superconductor junction

Baptiste Lamic, Julia S. Meyer, and Manuel Houzet

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033158 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This work shows that nonadiabatic transitions may yield a fractional Josephson effect in a conventional Josephson junction containing a quantum dot, and explore the robustness of the fractional Josephson effect as a probe of topological superconductivity.

Domain wall mobility and roughening in doped ferroelectric hexagonal manganites

D. R. Småbråten, T. S. Holstad, D. M. Evans, Z. Yan, E. Bourret, D. Meier, and S. M. Selbach

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033159 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

This work demonstrates a relationship between ferroelectric domain wall pinning by dopants and the local order parameter amplitude around the dopants. The authors propose that such pinning can be predicted from the free-energy landscape of polarization switching.

Dynamic tuning of the director field in liquid crystal shells using block copolymers

JungHyun Noh, Yiwei Wang, Hsin-Ling Liang, Venkata Subba Rao Jampani, Apala Majumdar, and Jan P. F. Lagerwall

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033160 (2020) - Published 28 July, 2020

The authors use a thermally responsive block copolymer as interfacial stabilizer to demonstrate tunability and topological diversity in liquid crystal shells

Lithium diffusion in LiMnPO4 detected with μ±SR

Jun Sugiyama, Ola Kenji Forslund, Elisabetta Nocerino, Nami Matsubara, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Yasmine Sassa, Stephen P. Cottrell, Adrian D. Hillier, Katsuhiko Ishida, Martin Månsson, and Jess H. Brewer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033161 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

The authors use a combination of positive and negative muon spin rotation and relaxation to investigate fluctuations of nuclear magnetic fields in an olivinetype Li-ion battery material.

Duality between atomic configurations and Bloch states in twistronic materials

Stephen Carr, Daniel Massatt, Mitchell Luskin, and Efthimios Kaxiras

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033162 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

In this work, crystal momentum and atomic stacking configuration are introduced as dual variables in electronic moiré systems. Within the context of this duality, the authors explain the microscopic origins of several twistronic spectral features and provide multiple approaches for predicting them in new materials.

Inelastic collisions in radiofrequency-dressed mixtures of ultracold atoms

Elliot Bentine, Adam J. Barker, Kathrin Luksch, Shinichi Sunami, Tiffany L. Harte, Ben Yuen, Christopher J. Foot, Daniel J. Owens, and Jeremy M. Hutson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033163 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

The authors measure and characterise the inelastic loss that occurs when a mixture of Rubidium isotopes is dressed with radiofrequency radiation. The large inelastic rate coefficients are explained through detailed quantum scattering calculations.

Multiplex Markov chains: Convection cycles and optimality

Dane Taylor

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033164 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

This paper proposes a multiplex generalization of Markov chains, whereby a set of Markov chain layers is coupled by a set of interlayer Markov chains. The resulting system gives rise to emergent convection cycles that are optimized, along with the convergence rate, when the transition probabilities within and between layers are balanced. The authors support these findings with spectral perturbation theory and an empirical study of frequency-multiplexed brain-activity data.

Model for self-replicating, self-assembling electric circuits with self-controlled growth

Rojoba Yasmin, Max Garzon, and Russell Deaton

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033165 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

The authors propose a tile assembly model (rcTAM) to study self-assembly, self-controlled growth, and self-replication. The paper shows how self-replication can be achieved without biological mechanisms or organic chemistry.

Arrow of time across five centuries of classical music

Alfredo González-Espinoza, Gustavo Martínez-Mekler, and Lucas Lacasa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033166 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

This paper considers classical music pieces as stochastic trajectories and explores the extent to which these display statistical time irreversibility, i.e. whether a preferential time arrow emerges with an associated entropy production. Since 1/f noise —a paradigm to explain the complexity of music— is by construction time reversible, finding clear signatures of time irreversibility in music suggests that linear temporal correlations are not sufficient to explain the statistical patterns underlying musical compositions.

Work-distribution quantumness and irreversibility when crossing a quantum phase transition in finite time

Krissia Zawadzki, Roberto M. Serra, and Irene D'Amico

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033167 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

This work discusses the effects of many-body interactions on the statistics of work in inhomogeneous fermionic chains driven for finite times and across the precursor to the metal-Mott insulator quantum phase transition. For dynamics beyond sudden quenches, a change in sign and a variation in value of the skewness signal the transition, while entropy production dominates work fluctuations even for slow processes, in contrast to the classical work fluctuation dissipation relation.

Superconducting Kondo phase in an orbitally separated bilayer

Sebastião dos Anjos Sousa-Júnior, José P. de Lima, Natanael C. Costa, and Raimundo R. dos Santos

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033168 (2020) - Published 29 July, 2020

The authors find that proximity effects of an additional metallic/superconducting layer close to a Kondo-lattice modify the collective transport properties relative to separate layers. The Kondo-insulator state is suppressed, and a superconducting Kondo phase sets in, with the occurrence of unconventional pairing amplitudes involving f-electrons

Experimental realization of the classical Dicke model

Mario A. Quiroz-Juárez, Jorge Chávez-Carlos, José L. Aragón, Jorge G. Hirsch, and Roberto de J. León-Montiel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033169 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

The authors report on the first experimental realization of the classical Dicke model. This is performed by making use of two nonlinearly coupled, synthetic LC circuits, implemented by means of active electrical networks. The presented setup is used to experimentally monitor important features of the Dicke model, such as the ground-state and excited-phase transitions, the co-existence of periodic and chaotic trajectories, and the classical version of the fidelity out-of-time-order-correlator or FOTOC.

Kinetic Monte Carlo model for homoepitaxial growth of Ga2O3

Wolfram Miller, Dennis Meiling, Robert Schewski, Andreas Popp, Saud Bin Anooz, and Martin Albrecht

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033170 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

The authors propose a statistical model for Kinetic Monte Carlo computations of the homoepitaxial growth of Ga2O3 and compare it with experimental results.

Classes of critical avalanche dynamics in complex networks

Filippo Radicchi, Claudio Castellano, Alessandro Flammini, Miguel A. Muñoz, and Daniele Notarmuzi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033171 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

This paper studies statistical properties of avalanche dynamical models on complex network topologies. The authors provide numerical and theoretical evidence of a universal critical behavior. Both the size and the duration of avalanches obey power-law distributions characterized by two distinct scaling regimes: at small scales, the statistics of the avalanches is model and network dependent; at large scale instead, the distribution of the avalanche sizes and durations is identical for all networks and types of dynamics.

Global T operator bounds on electromagnetic scattering: Upper bounds on far-field cross sections

Sean Molesky, Pengning Chao, Weiliang Jin, and Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033172 (2020) - Published 30 July, 2020

This paper shows how the conservation of real and reactive power sets limits on the potential of any finite and arbitrary geometry to scatter and absorb propagating waves.

Single spin-polarized Fermi surface in SrTiO3 thin films

Eduardo B. Guedes, Stefan Muff, Mauro Fanciulli, Andrew P. Weber, Marco Caputo, Zhiming Wang, Nicholas C. Plumb, Milan Radović, and J. Hugo Dil

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033173 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

This work investigates a two dimensional electron gas formed on the surface of nominally insulating SrTiO3 thin films grown on Nb-doped substrates. The authors show that, for a particular Nb concentration, the system presents a single spin-polarized Fermi surface.

Evidence for an extended critical fluctuation region above the polar ordering transition in LiOsO3

Jun-Yi Shan, A. de la Torre, N. J. Laurita, L. Zhao, C. D. Dashwood, D. Puggioni, C. X. Wang, K. Yamaura, Y. Shi, J. M. Rondinelli, and D. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033174 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

This paper uses optical second harmonic generation rotational anisotropy, in combination with a model of hyper-polarizable bonds, to show that screening of long-range Coulomb interactions in a polar metal can lead to an extended critical fluctuation region above the polar transition temperature

Search for encapsulation of platinum, silver, and gold at the surface of graphite

Ann Lii-Rosales, Yong Han, Dapeng Jing, Michael C. Tringides, and Patricia A. Thiel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033175 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

This work provides a platform to predict metal encapsulation atop the surface of graphite. The authors show a linear scaling between the optimal encapsulation temperature and the metal’s cohesive energy; and use density functional theory to validate their experiments.

Thermal and field-induced transitions in ferroquadrupolar Kondo systems

Frederic Freyer, SungBin Lee, Yong Baek Kim, Simon Trebst, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033176 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

This paper shows the influence multi-spin interactions in multipolar Kondo materials to pin the ordered moment and to track its evolution with magnetic field.

Phoretic dynamics of colloids in a phase separating critical liquid mixture

Thomas Zinn, Lewis Sharpnack, and Theyencheri Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033177 (2020) - Published 31 July, 2020

This article presents the emergent dynamics of Stöber and Janus colloids upon the spinodal phase separation of the suspending medium investigated by dynamic X-ray scattering. Both colloids manifest an enhanced dynamics dominated by strong velocity fluctuations and anomalous diffusion akin to superdiffusion.

Superadiabatic thermalization of a quantum oscillator by engineered dephasing

L. Dupays, I. L. Egusquiza, A. del Campo, and A. Chenu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033178 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

This paper proposes the fast control of open quantum systems in Gaussian states through experimentally implementable protocols. The authors develop shortcuts to adiabaticity for the fast thermalization of a quantum oscillator using stochastic parametric driving.

Evidence of Fermi surface reconstruction at the metamagnetic transition of the strongly correlated superconductor UTe2

Q. Niu, G. Knebel, D. Braithwaite, D. Aoki, G. Lapertot, M. Vališka, G. Seyfarth, W. Knafo, T. Helm, J.-P. Brison, J. Flouquet, and A. Pourret

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033179 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

The authors use thermoelectric power and Hall-effect measurements to give evidence of a magnetic field-induced Fermi surface reconstruction in the heavy fermion superconductor UTe2 at the metamagnetic transition, which coincides with the abrupt suppression of superconductivity at 35 T for magnetic field applied along the hard magnetization axis.

Phonon dynamics in the Kitaev spin liquid

Mengxing Ye, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Natalia B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033180 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

The authors show that in the Kitaev spin liquid, while the Majorana fermions evade a strong decay due to the gradient form of the spin-lattice coupling, the study of phonon dynamics is an indirect probe of fractionalization of spin degrees of freedom.

Probing the wave functions of correlated states in magic angle graphene

Zhiming Zhang, Rachel Myers, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Brian J. LeRoy

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033181 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

The authors demonstrate the difference in the spatial dependence of the wave functions at different partial commensurate fillings of the flat bands in graphene. The paper shows that at partial filling the wave functions of the lower band become delocalized while the upper band changes becomes localized at different locations depending on filling.

Ising model with stochastic resetting

Matteo Magoni, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033182 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

The authors study the nonequilibrium stationary state of the Ising model driven away from thermal equilibrium at temperature T by a stochastic resetting protocol. The paper shows that the associated resetting produces pseudo-ferro’ phase in the (T,r) plane, characteriszd by a magnetization distribution that vanishes as mζ as m0

Kibble-Zurek dynamics in a trapped ultracold Bose gas

I-Kang Liu, Jacek Dziarmaga, Shih-Chuan Gou, Franco Dalfovo, and Nick P. Proukakis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033183 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

This work examines the growth of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a trapped ultracold bosonic gas quenched across the phase transition. The validity of the Kibble-Zurek framework in the early stages of the symmetry-breaking dynamics is assessed, clarifying the role of different time and spatial scales in the quench and filling in the gap between the early evolution and the corresponding long-time evolution observed in the experiments.

Giant anisotropic magnetoresistance through a tilted molecular π-orbital

Dongzhe Li, Fabian Pauly, and Alexander Smogunov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033184 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

This paper shows that for tilted π molecules the spin-orbit coupling can open a new conduction channel which depends strongly on the magnetization orientation of electrodes due to symmetry-selective coupling and quantum interference effects.

Null-eigenvalue localization of quantum walks on complex networks

Ruben Bueno and Naomichi Hatano

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033185 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

This work shows that the high nullity of the adjacency matrix associated to a network induces the localization of a continuous-time quantum walk on the long-term average. This localization is caused to geometric constrictions, as opposed to the Anderson localization.

Giant ratchet magneto-photocurrent in graphene lateral superlattices

S. Hubmann, V. V. Bel'kov, L. E. Golub, V. Yu. Kachorovskii, M. Drienovsky, J. Eroms, D. Weiss, and S. D. Ganichev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033186 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

The authors report on the observation of the terahertz-radiation induced magnetic quantum ratchet effect in graphene with a lateral dual-grating top gate superlattice. The corresponding photocurrent shows sign-alternating magneto-oscillations corresponding to the Shubnikov-de Haas effect.

Lattice modulation spectroscopy of one-dimensional quantum gases: Universal scaling of the absorbed energy

R. Citro, E. Demler, T. Giamarchi, M. Knap, and E. Orignac

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033187 (2020) - Published 3 August, 2020

The authors show that in a one-dimensional geometry realizing the Tomonaga Luttinger liquid regime, the absorbed power has a universal scaling at variance with the non-universal behaviors generically obtained in such state.

Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson model for an ultracold plasma: Density waves and solitons

Hidetsugu Sakaguchi and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033188 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

The paper proposes a plasma composed of cations and anions in the quantum-degenerate state, with both ionic components cooled down into the state of a Bose-Einstein condensate and explore its nonlinear, specially solitonic, behavior.

Conditional wave theory of environmental interactions with a quantum particle

Rory van Geleuken and Andrew V. Martin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033189 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

This paper presents a Conditional Wave Theory of collisional quantum decoherence, which reproduces the behavior of the Joos-Zeh master equation via a Schrödinger-like equation with a time-dependent logarithmic non-linearity.

Radiative topological biphoton states in modulated qubit arrays

Yongguan Ke, Janet Zhong, Alexander V. Poshakinskiy, Yuri S. Kivshar, Alexander N. Poddubny, and Chaohong Lee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033190 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

This paper uncovers radiative topological biphoton states in a spatially-modulated qubit array coupled to a waveguide. The topology originates from nontrivial bound-state bands which are characterized by the Chern number in the parameter space created by the center-of-mass momentum and modulation phase being a synthetic dimension.

Interferometric sensing of the tilt angle of a Gaussian beam

S. P. Walborn, G. H. Aguilar, P. L. Saldanha, L. Davidovich, and R. L. de Matos Filho

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033191 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

The authors investigate interferometric methods for estimating the mechanical tilt angle of an object, using quantum metrology. The paper shows that these schemes provide a precision gain that arises from the initial transverse displacement of the beam.

Higher-order entanglement and many-body invariants for higher-order topological phases

Yizhi You, Julian Bibo, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033192 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

This paper focuses on the characterization of higher order symmetry protected topological phases, using two methods, namely by introducing a many-body invariant related to the discrete Wen-Zee response, or by exploring the entanglement structure of these phases

Momentum-dependent mass and AC Hall conductivity of quantum anomalous Hall insulators and their relation to the parity anomaly

Christian Tutschku, Jan Böttcher, René Meyer, and E. M. Hankiewicz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033193 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

The authors calculate the AC Hall conductivity of 2+1dimensional Chern insulators including a Dirac, as well asmomentum-dependent mass term

Enhancing survival resonances with engineered dissipation

Shijie Chai and Mikkel F. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033194 (2020) - Published 4 August, 2020

This work shows a method to utilize detrimental dissipation to enhance the performance of a quantum technology, by driving the thermal atoms into a comb-like atomic array

Atomic responses to general dark matter-electron interactions

Riccardo Catena, Timon Emken, Nicola A. Spaldin, and Walter Tarantino

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033195 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

This paper develops an effective theoretical framework describing atomic ionizations induced by general dark matter-electron interactions and their phenomenology in xenon and argon target detectors.

Spectral characterization of non-Gaussian quantum noise: Keldysh approach and application to photon shot noise

Yu-Xin Wang and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033196 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

This work provides a universal characterization of nonclassical, non-Gaussian environmental fluctuations in the frequency domain, based on the Keldysh approach to quantum noise characterization. The authors also present a calculation of frequency-resolved third cumulant, i.e., quantum bispectrum, of a nontrivial quantum bath. They show that the quantum bispectrum reveals that quantum fluctuations can break detailed balance.

Proposed ordering of textured spin singlets in a bulk infinite-layer nickelate

Hyo-Sun Jin, Warren E. Pickett, and Kwan-Woo Lee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033197 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

The authors use first principles to obtain an intra-atomic singlet spin configuration on the Ni ion in an infinite layer structure nickelate. The paper shows that this singlet has internal orbital texture with nonzero and anisotropic net coupling to neighboring singlets.

Energy localization in an atomic chain with a topological soliton

L. Timm, H. Weimer, L. Santos, and T. E. Mehlstäubler

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033198 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

Atomic chains with a topological defect feature a sliding-to-pinningtransition which changes the friction properties of the system. The authors study the impact of this phase transition on the energy transport inside an ion Coulomb crystal and find that the defect acts as a highly sensitive and tunable valve for energytransport.

Quantum-inspired algorithm for general minimum conical hull problems

Yuxuan Du, Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Tongliang Liu, and Dacheng Tao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033199 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

The authors devise a quantum-inspired algorithm that tackles the general minimum conical hull problems in polylogarithmic time with respect to the input size.

Detecting topology through dynamics in interacting fermionic wires

Andreas Haller, Pietro Massignan, and Matteo Rizzi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033200 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

This work describe a dynamical method to characterize one dimensional chiral models, based on the direct observation of time-evolving bulk excitations. The protocol is tested on top of a readily-feasible experimental set-up of an interacting Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain which realizes both topological and symmetry-broken phases.

Excitonic magnetism at the intersection of spin-orbit coupling and crystal-field splitting

Teresa Feldmaier, Pascal Strobel, Michael Schmid, Philipp Hansmann, and Maria Daghofer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033201 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

The authors present a numerical investigation into the magnetically ordered state of Ca2RuO4 and establish it as an excitonic antiferromagnet. While the excitonic character coexists with strong orbital polarization, spin-orbit coupling leads to some deviations from perfect orbital order and from a pure spin scenario.

Suppressing thermalization and constructing weak solutions in truncated inviscid equations of hydrodynamics: Lessons from the Burgers equation

Sugan Durai Murugan, Uriel Frisch, Sergey Nazarenko, Nicolas Besse, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033202 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

The authors propose a method to obtain weak, dissipative solutions of Galerkin-truncated, inviscid equations of hydrodynamics.

Superfluid flow in disordered superconductors with Dynes pair-breaking scattering: Depairing current, kinetic inductance, and superheating field

Takayuki Kubo

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033203 (2020) - Published 5 August, 2020

The author investigates the effects of the Dynes parameter on the depairing current density, the current-dependent nonlinear kinetic- inductance, and the superheating field in diffusive superconductors based on the Eilenberger-Usadel theory.

Charge-spin conversion in layered semimetal TaTe2 and spin injection in van der Waals heterostructures

Anamul Md. Hoque, Dmitrii Khokhriakov, Bogdan Karpiak, and Saroj P. Dash

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033204 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This paper demonstrates electrical creation of spin polarization in a layered semimetal TaTe2 via the charge-spin conversion process at room temperature. Using a hybrid device of TaTe2 in a van der Waals heterostructure with graphene, the spin-polarization in TaTe2 is injected and detected by nonlocal spin-switch, Hanle spin precession, and inverse spin Hall effect measurements.

Experimental demonstration of sequential quantum random access codes

Giulio Foletto, Luca Calderaro, Giuseppe Vallone, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033205 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This work demonstrates that weak measurements can improve quantum random access codes, allowing two sequential decoders to find non-classical correlations with one encoder. Their decoding performance can provide a semi-device-independent bound on some properties of the states and the measurements involved in the code.

Probability backflow for correlated quantum states

Arseni Goussev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033206 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This paper addresses the effect of probability backflow in quantum states with position-momentum correlations. The author constructs correlated states that are accompanied by classically-forbidden probability transfer exceeding its largest possible value for uncorrelated states, the so-called Bracken-Melloy bound

Confinement-induced demixing and crystallization

Gerhard Jung and Charlotte F. Petersen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033207 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

The authors calculate the phase diagram of a mixture of size-disperse hard spheres in confinement. Despite the fact that this mixture is the prototypical model of a glass forming liquid, the authors find that when it is confined between walls, crystals form at densities below the glass transition point.

Ritz method for transition paths and quasipotentials of rare diffusive events

Lukas Kikuchi, Rajesh Singh, M. E. Cates, and R. Adhikari

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033208 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

The authors present a Ritz method for finding most probable transition paths between meta-stable states of stochastic dynamical systems. This provides a route to constructing non-equilibrium potentials by repeatedly sampling transition paths asymptotically in time.

Chiral photoelectron angular distributions from ionization of achiral atomic and molecular species

Andreas Pier, Kilian Fehre, Sven Grundmann, Isabel Vela-Perez, Nico Strenger, Max Kircher, Dimitrios Tsitsonis, Joshua B. Williams, Arne Senftleben, Thomas Baumert, Markus S. Schöffler, Philipp V. Demekhin, Florian Trinter, Till Jahnke, and Reinhard Dörner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033209 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This paper shows that the combination of two achiral components targets and a circularly polarized photon in the dipole approximation yield chirally structured photoelectron angular distributions.

Modification of quantum many-body relaxation by perturbations exhibiting a banded matrix structure

Lennart Dabelow, Patrick Vorndamme, and Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033210 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This paper explores the relation between the response of a generic isolated many-body quantum system to a weak-to-moderate perturbation on the one hand and the perturbation’s matrix structure in the eigenbasis of the unperturbed system on the other hand. An analytical theory for this relationship is demonstrated and verified numerically.

Diagrammatic Monte Carlo method for impurity models with general interactions and hybridizations

Jia Li, Markus Wallerberger, and Emanuel Gull

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033211 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This paper introduces a diagrammatic Monte Carlo solver for general multi-orbital systems, and presents tests on known chemistry systems and on realistic quantum embedding calculations of the antiferromagnetic solid NiO.

Quantum adversarial machine learning

Sirui Lu, Lu-Ming Duan, and Dong-Ling Deng

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033212 (2020) - Published 6 August, 2020

This work uncovers the vulnerability aspect for quantum machine learning, by showing that quantum classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial perturbations. The authors give generic recipes on how to generate adversarial perturbations and mitigate the vulnerability problem in various adversarial scenarios.

Electronic g factor and magnetotransport in InSb quantum wells

Zijin Lei, Christian A. Lehner, Km Rubi, Erik Cheah, Matija Karalic, Christopher Mittag, Luca Alt, Jan Scharnetzky, Peter Märki, Uli Zeitler, Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033213 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

This paper studies high mobility InSb quantum wells with tunable carrier densities by magneto-transport experiments. The authors use the coincidence method and the temperature dependence of the Shubnikov–de Haas oscillations to obtain the effective g-factor and the electron effective mass.

Josephson oscillations of chirality and identity in two-dimensional solitons in spin-orbit-coupled condensates

Zhaopin Chen, Yongyao Li, and Boris A. Malomed

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033214 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The paper presents chirality oscillations and identity oscillations, associated to spatiotemporal helicity, for stable two dimensional solitons of semi-vortex and mixed-mode types in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates with intrinsic self-attraction, loaded in a dual-core trapping configuration.

Majorana bound states in topological insulators with hidden Dirac points

Ferdinand Schulz, Kirill Plekhanov, Daniel Loss, and Jelena Klinovaja

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033215 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The work investigates topologically nontrivial bound states, based on highly hybridized edge states of a topological insulator. The authors show that well-defined Majorana bound states can be obtained in materials with a hidden Dirac point in the presence of a magnetic strip of width comparable to the localization length of the edge states.

Efficient and robust signal sensing by sequences of adiabatic chirped pulses

Genko T. Genov, Yachel Ben-Shalom, Fedor Jelezko, Alex Retzker, and Nir Bar-Gill

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033216 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The authors propose a scheme for quantum sensing with phased, adiabatic chirped pulses, and apply the technique to sensing using NV centers in diamond.

Quantum-classical crossover in the spin-12 Heisenberg-Kitaev kagome magnet

Yang Yang, Natalia B. Perkins, Fulya Koç, Chi-Huei Lin, and Ioannis Rousochatzakis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033217 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The authors study the spin-1/2 Heisenberg-Kitaev model on the kagome lattice, which interpolates between the Heisenberg antiferromagnet and the Kitaev model in which the coupling in spin space is tied to the orientation of the bonds, and show the onset of a quantum-classical crossover.

Majorana fermions on the quantum Hall edge

Lucila Peralta Gavensky, Gonzalo Usaj, and C. A. Balseiro

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033218 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

This work studies the development of a chiral supercurrent flow between two superconductors coupled by means of quantum Hall edge states. The emergence of Majorana fermions when the superconductors are driven across a topological phase transition causes significant changes in the behavior of the critical current as a function of the flux variation in the Hall bar. The resulting Fraunhofer patterns unveil not only the presence but also the spin degree of freedom of these exotic quasiparticles

Jamming and replica symmetry breaking of weakly disordered crystals

Harukuni Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033220 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The paper studies the jamming transition of crystals with small size polydispersity. The author shows that infinitesimal polydispersity causes the replica symmetry breaking transition at the jamming transition point, leading to the same scaling laws of amorphous solids.

Visualizing probabilistic models in Minkowski space with intensive symmetrized Kullback-Leibler embedding

Han Kheng Teoh, Katherine N. Quinn, Jaron Kent-Dobias, Colin B. Clement, Qingyang Xu, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033221 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The authors show that for any N-parameter statistical model, the manifold of probability distributions can be visualized in an (N+N) dimensional Minkowski space, preserving the natural distances between model predictions.

Viscoelastic multiscaling in immersed networks

J. L. B. de Araújo, J. S. de Sousa, W. P. Ferreira, and C. L. N. Oliveira

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033222 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

This paper shows how elastic and viscous microscopic interactions influence rheological responses in soft materials. Both the standard linear solid model of viscoelasticity and the Hertz model of mechanical contact can be recovered by a coarse-grained model.

Non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state at 3/7-filled Landau level

W. N. Faugno, J. K. Jain, and Ajit C. Balram

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033223 (2020) - Published 7 August, 2020

The authors propose a plausible candidate for fractional quantum Hall effect at ν=2+3/7 in the form of electrons as bound states of fictitious partons, which themselves occupy integer quantum Hall states.

Anomalous dielectric response in insulators with the π Zak phase

Yusuke Aihara, Motoaki Hirayama, and Shuichi Murakami

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033224 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

The authors show that by applying an electric field to the π Zak phase, the polarization rises to half of the quantized value of polarization, under certain conditions, for several models and materials. This is attributed to the topological bound states, which respond sensitively to the electric field.

Superconductivity induced by fluctuations of momentum-based multipoles

Shuntaro Sumita and Youichi Yanase

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033225 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

This work reports on several superconducting states induced by ferroic fluctuations of multipoles in strongly correlated and spin-orbit coupled systems.

Active Janus particles in a complex plasma

V. Nosenko, F. Luoni, A. Kaouk, M. Rubin-Zuzic, and H. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033226 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

This work presents an experimental observation of active Janus particles suspended in a gas-discharge plasma. The Janus particles used are micron-size plastic microspheres, one half of which is coated with a thin layer of platinum. When suspended in plasma, they acquire self-propulsion and move in characteristic looped trajectories suggesting a combination of circling and spinning motion. The main force driving the particle motion is identified as photophoretic force.

Role of temperature in the decohesion of an elastic chain tethered to a substrate by onsite breakable links

Giuseppe Florio, Giuseppe Puglisi, and Stefano Giordano

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033227 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

The authors establish the effect of temperature on the decohesion process of an elastic chain tethered to a rigid substrate. This process is investigated using the tools of equilibrium statistical mechanics and, in the thermodynamic limit, it exhibits a phase transition with the critical temperature obtained in closed form.

Nonequilibrium RKKY interaction in irradiated graphene

Modi Ke, Mahmoud M. Asmar, and Wang-Kong Tse

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033228 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

This work investigates the indirect exchange interaction between magnetic impurities mediated by irradiated electrons in driven graphene. The authors develop a nonequilibrium theory that elucidates the effects of irradiation on the exchange coupling and demonstrate its tunability via the driving field.

Odd-frequency superconductivity in dilute magnetic superconductors

Flávio L. N. Santos, Vivien Perrin, François Jamet, Marcello Civelli, Pascal Simon, Maria C. O. Aguiar, Eduardo Miranda, and Marcelo J. Rozenberg

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033229 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

The authors use many-body techniques to show that conventional superconductors doped with magnetic impurities display odd-frequency superconductivity, where the superconducting gap function is odd rather than even in frequency.

Phonon spectral density in a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum dot

A. Hofmann, C. Karlewski, A. Heimes, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, G. Schön, K. Ensslin, T. Ihn, and V. F. Maisi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033230 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

The authors study phonon emission processes induced by single electrons tunneling between two energetically offset quantum dot levels, focusing on extracting the electron-phonon coupling strength in semiconductors. The paper shows contributions from piezoelectricity and deformation potential to reveal oscillations of the electron tunneling rate as a function of energy offset

Kinetics of many-body reservoir engineering

Hugo Ribeiro and Florian Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033231 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

This work presents a theoretical framework based on kinetic equations and noise spectra that can be used to describe the kinetics of many particles coupled to an engineered reservoir.

Controlling the nature of a charged impurity in a bath of Feshbach dimers

Henrik Hirzler, Eleanor Trimby, Rianne S. Lous, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Rene Gerritsma, and Jesús Pérez-Ríos

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033232 (2020) - Published 10 August, 2020

This paper studies the evolution of a trapped ion impurity immersed in a bath of Feshbach molecules. Depending on the binding- and collision energy, the impurity induces Feshbach molecule dissociation or changes its nature leading to the formation of a molecular ion, offering an alternative approach to trapped ultracold molecular ions.

Effects of collisions on the generation and suppression of temperature anisotropies and the Weibel instability

K. M. Schoeffler and L. O. Silva

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033233 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

This work explores how collisionality can affect magnetic field generation by the Biermann battery. While in marginally collisional systems the Nernst effect enhances the magnetic fields, as the collisions decrease, kinetic effects allow for even stronger Weibel filaments to develop.

Revealing structure-function relationships in functional flow networks via persistent homology

Jason W. Rocks, Andrea J. Liu, and Eleni Katifori

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033234 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

This work showcases an approach to characterizing structure-function relationships in complex networks in the context of flow networks tuned to perform specific functions. The authors find that the response of such networks encodes hidden topological features—sectors of uniform pressure—that are not apparent in the underlying network architectures, providing a universal topological description for all networks that perform these types of functions.

Ultralow-energy magnon anomaly in yttrium iron garnet

Shin-ichi Shamoto, Yukio Yasui, Masato Matsuura, Mitsuhiro Akatsu, Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Yuichi Nemoto, and Jun'ichi Ieda

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033235 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

The authors observe the closure of the Zeeman energy gap in yttrium iron garnet at low temperature, using high-energy-resolution inelastic neutron scattering when a magnetic field of approximately 0.1 T is applied along [111] direction.

4D beyond-cohomology topological phase protected by C2 symmetry and its boundary theories

Sheng-Jie Huang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033236 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

This works uses the two dimensional rotational invariant plane in bosonic symmetry protected topological phases with C2 rotational symmetry in four dimensions to classify the phases and obtain a boundary field theory as well as an anomalous topological order for the phase that is not captured by the group cohomology classification.

One-dimensional cell motility patterns

Jonathan E. Ron, Pascale Monzo, Nils C. Gauthier, Raphael Voituriez, and Nir S. Gov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033237 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

The authors propose a model that couples the force applied on the adhesion bonds to the length variations of the cell and to the polarization of the retrograde actin flow to explain cell migration patterns

Sequential nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector

Ivan Iakoupov, Yuichiro Matsuzaki, William J. Munro, and Shiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033238 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

This work proposes a nonabsorbing microwave single-photon detector that uses an artificial atom as a coherent interaction mediator between a traveling photon and a high-Q resonator. The setup achieves distinguishability in excess of 98% for realistic parameters.

First-passage-time problem for tracers in turbulent flows applied to virus spreading

Akhilesh Kumar Verma, Akshay Bhatnagar, Dhrubaditya Mitra, and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033239 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

The authors quantify droplet airborne spreading reach using turbulent advection. The paper showcases the role of the integral length scale of the turbulence as a critical parameter

Prospecting chiral multisite interactions in prototypical magnetic systems

Sascha Brinker, Manuel dos Santos Dias, and Samir Lounis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033240 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

The authors analyze the magnetic multisite and multi-spin exchange interactions and their associated symmetry rules with a special focus on chiral interactions.

Collective dynamics of active Brownian particles in three spatial dimensions: A predictive field theory

Jens Bickmann and Raphael Wittkowski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033241 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

This work presents a predictive field theory and simpler reduced models for the dynamics of interacting active Brownian spheres in three spatial dimensions. The authors apply it to relate coefficients of models from the literature to microscopic parameters and to derive analytic expressions for the particles’ density-dependent mean swimming speed.

Long term measurement of the Sr87 clock frequency at the limit of primary Cs clocks

R. Schwarz, S. Dörscher, A. Al-Masoudi, E. Benkler, T. Legero, U. Sterr, S. Weyers, J. Rahm, B. Lipphardt, and C. Lisdat

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033242 (2020) - Published 11 August, 2020

This paper reports on measurements of the transition frequency of a strontium-87 lattice clock with low uncertainty, by using two local caesium fountain clocks.

Approaching the quantum limit of precision in absorbance estimation using classical resources

Euan J. Allen, Javier Sabines-Chesterking, Alex R. McMillan, Siddarth K. Joshi, Peter S. Turner, and Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033243 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

This work investigates precision bounds in absorbance sensing via the Beer-Lambert law for quantum and classical sources of light. The authors find that by optimizing the length of the sample, classical sources of light are able to reach within 83% of the absolute quantum limit in precision. A bulk optical experiment is used to demonstrate optimization of thermal and Fock states of light

Stationary optomechanical entanglement between a mechanical oscillator and its measurement apparatus

C. Gut, K. Winkler, J. Hoelscher-Obermaier, S. G. Hofer, R. Moghadas Nia, N. Walk, A. Steffens, J. Eisert, W. Wieczorek, J. A. Slater, M. Aspelmeyer, and K. Hammerer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033244 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

The authors provide a theoretical scheme to detect entanglement between temporally ordered modes escaping from a cavity containing a mechanical oscillator.

Active motion of synthetic nanomotors in filament networks

Liyan Qiao, Mu-Jie Huang, and Raymond Kapral

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033245 (2020) - Published 12 August, 2020

This paper describes how collections of small synthetic chemically-powered motors function in complex filament networks. Like biological molecular machines, these synthetic motors derive their chemical fuel from nonequilibrium reactions in their environment, attach to filaments and move along them but, unlike biological machines, they use self-generated chemical gradients to effect propulsion. The structure of the filament network strongly influences the character of the collective motions of these motors.

Multicriticality in a one-dimensional topological band insulator

Mariana Malard, David Brandao, Paulo Eduardo de Brito, and Henrik Johannesson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033246 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

The authors study the phase diagram of a one-dimensional band insulator with spin-orbit coupled electrons, supporting trivial and topological gapped phases separated by intersecting critical surfaces. The intersections define multicritical lines across which the ground-state energy becomes nonanalytical, concurrent with a closing of the band gap, but with no phase transition taking place.

Correlation between the tolerance factor and phase transition in A4xBxNi3O10 (A and B=La,Pr,and Nd;x=0,1,2,and 3)

Shangxiong Huangfu, Xiaofu Zhang, and Andreas Schilling

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033247 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

This work shows that in the series of the Ruddlesden–Popper nickelate solid solution A4xBxNi3O10 (A and B = La, Pr and Nd; x = 0, 1, 2 and 3) the transition temperatures as well as the room-temperature resistivities strongly correlate with the Goldschmidt tolerance factor t.

Holographic angular streaking of electrons and the Wigner time delay

S. Eckart

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033248 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

This paper introduces a trajectory-based semi-classical model that allows for the retrieval of the electron wave packet’s phase gradient in momentum space at the tunnel exit from experimentally accessible quantities. The authors discuss how this phase gradient is related to position offsets and changes of the Wigner time delay in strong-field ionization

Response of macroscopic and microscopic dynamical quantifiers to the quantum critical region

Stav Haldar, Saptarshi Roy, Titas Chanda, and Aditi Sen(De)

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033249 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

The authors propose examining the scaling under dynamics of both macroscopic and microscopic quantities to locate the quantum critical region.

Irreversibility mitigation in unital non-Markovian quantum evolutions

Stefano Gherardini, Stefano Marcantoni, and Filippo Caruso

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033250 (2020) - Published 13 August, 2020

The authors provide analytical conditions for the existence of a time interval where both the average entropy production Δσ and its variance Var(Δσ) are simultaneously decreasing for specific values of some parameters α.

Hamiltonian assignment for open quantum systems

Eugene F. Dumitrescu and Pavel Lougovski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033251 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

This paper proposes methods to inferentially assign a Hamiltonian to describe the unknown interactions between constituent particles of select open quantum systems. The authors’ inferential protocol constructs the model Hamiltonians through a minimization procedure which involves static and dynamic correlation matrices, which are themselves obtained from a polynomial number of measurements

Finite-density massless two-color QCD at the isospin Roberge-Weiss point and the 't Hooft anomaly

Takuya Furusawa, Yuya Tanizaki, and Etsuko Itou

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033253 (2020) - Published 14 August, 2020

The authors explore the symmetry properties of two color massless QCD at finite temperature and density. These properties yield exact constraints on its phase diagram at the isospin Roberge-Weiss point and also show the presence of gapless excitations localized on topological defects in symmetry-broken phases

Parity-to-charge conversion in Majorana qubit readout

Morten I. K. Munk, Jens Schulenborg, Reinhold Egger, and Karsten Flensberg

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033254 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

The paper studies the readout processes of Majorana qubits using coupling to a quantum dot and a charge sensor. The dynamics of the system after switching on the measurement device is calculated by an effective Lindblad master equation going beyond the rotating-wave approximation.

Readout of Majorana qubits

Jacob F. Steiner and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033255 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

This work develops a quantum measurement theory for practical readout protocols relying on charge sensing using a tunnel-coupled quantum dot. The authors analyze the conditions for successful readout protocols and identify the conditions for implementing robust measurements of Majorana qubits.

Valley Zeeman effect and Landau levels in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

Fengyuan Xuan and Su Ying Quek

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033256 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

This work presents a parameter-free approach to quantitatively predict the response of two-dimensional valleytronics materials to an external magnetic field. The authors predict Landau levels that match well to those deduced from recent optical experiments

Crystal-field Paschen-Back effect on ruby in ultrahigh magnetic fields

Masaki Gen, Tomoki Kanda, Takashi Shitaokoshi, Yoshimitsu Kohama, and Toshihiro Nomura

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033257 (2020) - Published 17 August, 2020

This paper reports the anomalous Zeeman effect of the R lines of ruby in megagauss region. This observation owes to the Paschen-Back effect, where the Zeeman energy overcomes the crystal-field energy splitting, resulting in the renormalization of the good quantum number.

Edge manifold as a Lagrangian coherent structure in a high-dimensional state space

Miguel Beneitez, Yohann Duguet, Philipp Schlatter, and Dan S. Henningson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033258 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

The authors use concepts and tools from Lagrangian data analysis to investigate the edge manifold in hydrodynamics. The paper identifies the edge manifold as a Lagrangian coherent structure of infinite dimension.

Signatures of topology in quantum quench dynamics and their interrelation

Lorenzo Pastori, Simone Barbarino, and Jan Carl Budich

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033259 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

This paper studies the topological properties in the time evolution of a system after a quantum quench, by comparing the different signatures that can be used to detect topological properties in the out-of-equilibrium dynamics.

Featureless quantum paramagnet with frustrated criticality and competing spiral magnetism on spin-1 honeycomb lattice magnet

Jian Qiao Liu, Fei-Ye Li, Gang Chen, and Ziqiang Wang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033260 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

This work study a spin-1 honeycomb lattice magnets with frustrated change interactions. The authors show the phase diagram of the model and emphasize the effects of magnetic frustration on magnetic excitations of featureless quantum paramagnet.

Three identical bosons: Properties in noninteger dimensions and in external fields

E. Garrido and A. S. Jensen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033261 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

This work shows how the confinement from three to two dimensions of a three-body system by means of an external harmonic oscillator field can be equivalently described as a system moving in a non-integer dimensional space. The case of three identical bosons is considered.

Avalanche induced coexisting localized and thermal regions in disordered chains

P. J. D. Crowley and A. Chandran

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033262 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

The authors show that when the localization length is only marginally above the critical threshold the presence of strongly disordered regions typically stops the avalanche in many body one dimensional systems. The paper delves into this stopping process using a single interacting thermal seed coupled to an Anderson chain

Charge state dynamics and optically detected electron spin resonance contrast of shallow nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

Zhiyang Yuan, Mattias Fitzpatrick, Lila V. H. Rodgers, Sorawis Sangtawesin, Srikanth Srinivasan, and Nathalie P. de Leon

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033263 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

The authors demonstrate that diamond surface conditions can strongly affect charge state stability, and that changes in charge state dynamics can also decrease the optically detected electron spin resonance contrast.

Improved effective equation for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor nanowires

Samuel D. Escribano, Alfredo Levy Yeyati, and Elsa Prada

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033264 (2020) - Published 18 August, 2020

The authors provide a characterization of the spin-orbit coupling in semiconducting nanowires, based on a single-band equation .

Electronic structure of pristine and Ni-substituted LaFeO3 from near edge x-ray absorption fine structure experiments and first-principles simulations

Iurii Timrov, Piyush Agrawal, Xinyu Zhang, Selma Erat, Riping Liu, Artur Braun, Matteo Cococcioni, Matteo Calandra, Nicola Marzari, and Daniele Passerone

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033265 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This paper presents a joint theoretical and experimental study of the electronic structure of pristine and Ni-substituted LaFeO3. The authors analyze the peaks in the x-ray spectra using density-functional theory combined with extended Hubbard functionals

Retrocausal model of reality for quantum fields

Peter D. Drummond and Margaret D. Reid

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033266 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This paper tackles the measurement problem of quantum mechanics in a new way. The authors suggest that reality is a space-time field with vacuum fluctuations, which allows the treatment of any quantum field theory as a realistic object. With this approach, using stochastic trajectories with propagation forward and backward in time, the observation of sharp eigenvalues and Bell violations in a measurement is due to unitary quantum amplification to a macroscopic size.

Interaction-induced topological properties of two bosons in flat-band systems

G. Pelegrí, A. M. Marques, V. Ahufinger, J. Mompart, and R. G. Dias

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033267 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This work explores the properties of two interacting bosons in a flat-band system. The authors show how collective particle motion processes mediated by interactions can lead to a variety of two-body topological states. Furthermore, they identify a set of bound states that remain localized in a small region of the lattice for arbitrarily large interactions.

Comprehensive study of the phase diagram of the spin-12 Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma chain

Wang Yang, Alberto Nocera, and Ian Affleck

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033268 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This work studies the phase diagram of the one-dimensional spin-1/2 Kitaev-Heisenberg-Gamma model, showing nine distinct phases in total

Thermal Nieh-Yan anomaly in Weyl superfluids

J. Nissinen and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033269 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This paper proposes that anomalous momentum conservation at finite temperatures in topological Weyl superfluids (and superconductors) is due to universal thermal quantum effects of Weyl fermions on curved spacetimes.

Molecule-photon interactions in phononic environments

M. Reitz, C. Sommer, B. Gurlek, V. Sandoghdar, D. Martin-Cano, and C. Genes

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033270 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

The authors discuss the interplay between electronic, localized vibrational, phononic and photonic degrees of freedom in open solid-state molecular systems, based on the temporal stochastic evolution of molecular quantities. The formalism predicts vibrationally protected collective states for closely spaced molecules and quantifies the imprint of molecular and crystal vibrations onto the interaction with confined light fields.

Hofstadter butterfly and Floquet topological insulators in minimally twisted bilayer graphene

Yang-Zhi Chou, Fengcheng Wu, and Sankar Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033271 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

The authors study a triangular network model as realized in the minimally twisted bilayer graphene. In the presence of an out-of-plane magnetic field, they investigate the Hofstadter butterfly and demonstrate a possibility of realizing an effective Floquet topological insulator

Semiclassical dynamics of a dark soliton in a one-dimensional bosonic superfluid in an optical lattice

Yusuke Ozaki, Kazuma Nagao, Ippei Danshita, and Kenichi Kasamatsu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033272 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

This work analyzes effects of weak quantum fluctuations on the dynamical stability of two types of dark solitons in a one-dimensional Bose gas in an optical lattice. It reveals the classical-to-quantum crossover behavior of the soliton stability, which can be used for experimentally diagnose whether the instability of a dark soliton is due to quantum fluctuations or classical dynamical instability.

Rise of cosmological complexity: Saturation of growth and chaos

Arpan Bhattacharyya, Saurya Das, S. Shajidul Haque, and Bret Underwood

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033273 (2020) - Published 19 August, 2020

The authors compute the quantum complexity of cosmological density perturbations during the expansion of the Universe. Using complexity as a diagnostic the authors show that the amount of quantum chaos of the accelerating Universe is bounded. Further, they find that de Sitter space is the most chaotic cosmological background preserving the null energy condition

Self-accelerating beam dynamics in the space fractional Schrödinger equation

David Colas

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033274 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

This paper presents self-accelerating beam solutions of the space Fractional Schrödinger equation. The author uses a combination of spectral techniques to capture the beam dynamics at a single-mode level and to derive a general expression for the wave packet acceleration.

Rheotaxis of spheroidal squirmers in microchannel flow: Interplay of shape, hydrodynamics, active stress, and thermal fluctuations

Kai Qi, Hemalatha Annepu, Gerhard Gompper, and Roland G. Winkler

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033275 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

The authors perform mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations of spheroidal squirmers and show an enhanced wall and center depletion, and alignment of the propulsion direction parallel to the flow, which they interpret as a preferred downstream swimming for all active stresses,

Quantum fluctuations beyond the Gutzwiller approximation in the Bose-Hubbard model

Fabio Caleffi, Massimo Capone, Chiara Menotti, Iacopo Carusotto, and Alessio Recati

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033276 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

This paper presents a method based on the Gutzwiller approximation for accessing quantum fluctuations in the Bose-Hubbard model. The scheme shows a semi-analytical expression for the superfluid stiffness and compares the density correlations with numerical results close to the Mott-superfluid criticality.

Propagation of uncertainty in physicochemical data to force field predictions

Ahmet Yildirim, Mohammad Mehdi Ghahremanpour, and David van der Spoel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033277 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

This paper shows how the uncertainties in physicochemical data used for deriving the force field affect the free energies of solvation and propose a lower limit for its onset.

Computing the renormalization group flow of two-dimensional ϕ4 theory with tensor networks

Clement Delcamp and Antoine Tilloy

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033278 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

This paper presents a method to write the partition function of ϕ4 theory as a tensor network and obtain its renormalization group flow as a map in a space of tensors. The authors also compute the critical coupling constant fc=λ/μ2 in the continuum to find fccont.=11.0861(90) and compare with other methods.

Quantum coherence and criticality in irreversible work

Adalberto D. Varizi, André P. Vieira, Cecilia Cormick, Raphael C. Drumond, and Gabriel T. Landi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033279 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

The authors study the contributions from populations and coherences to the entropy production in a XY model under a quantum quench protocol. The paper shows that each contribution can signal the quantum phase transition of the model even at high temperatures and that the populations contribution is responsible for the critical behavior of the entropy production.

Proximity-induced magnetism in Pt layered with rare-earth–transition-metal ferrimagnetic alloys

C. Swindells, B. Nicholson, O. Inyang, Y. Choi, T. Hase, and D. Atkinson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033280 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

This work aims to understand the nature of proximity magnetization in Pt when layered with a ferrimagnetic material. The authors show the onset of a proximity induced moment in thin film systems of Pt layered with rare-earth-transition-metal ferrimagnetic alloys and show that the alignment of the induced Pt moment remains orientated with the transition metal sub-lattice either side of the magnetization compensation of the two competing ferrimagnetic sub-lattices

Calculation of the Green's function on near-term quantum computers

Suguru Endo, Iori Kurata, and Yuya O. Nakagawa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033281 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

The authors propose a method to calculate the Green’s function on near-term quantum computers. The method enables the calculation of several physical properties of the system of interest on near-term quantum computers.

Incremental least action principle in the framework of thermodynamics of irreversible processes

V. Magnenet and J. Schmittbuhl

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033282 (2020) - Published 20 August, 2020

The authors propose a formulation of the least action principle in dissipative systems through Lagrange equations.

Unquantized thermal Hall effect in quantum spin liquids with spinon Fermi surfaces

Yanting Teng, Yunchao Zhang, Rhine Samajdar, Mathias S. Scheurer, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033283 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

This paper investigates the thermal Hall conductivity across the magnetic-field-induced transition from a gapped to a gapless quantum spin liquid for two systems: Kitaev honeycomb materials, and Heisenberg antiferromagnets on the triangular lattice.

Exact Floquet quantum many-body scars under Rydberg blockade

Kaoru Mizuta, Kazuaki Takasan, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033284 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

The authors propose quantum many-body scars in periodically-driven systems in the presence of Rydberg blockade. While almost all states relax to infinite temperature states, the states in a subspace spanned by exact Floquet scar eigenstates completely avoid thermalization and show persistent oscillation in both microscopic and stroboscopic time

Minimal quantum heat manager boosted by bath spectral filtering

M. Tahir Naseem, Avijit Misra, Özgür E. Müstecaplioğlu, and Gershon Kurizki

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033285 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

The authors propose a general mechanism of bath spectral filtering to boost the performance of a quantum heat manager.

Anomalous transport independent of gauge fields

Mamiya Kawaguchi and Ken Kikuchi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033286 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

The authors uncover a new universal anomalous transport effect independent of external vectorlike sources, such that the current survives even in the absence of background gauge fields.

Thermodynamic and transport coefficients from the dynamic structure factor of Yukawa liquids

Hanno Kählert

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033287 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

This work uses the dynamic structure factor of strongly coupled Yukawa liquids as a diagnostic tool. Various thermodynamic and transport coefficients are determined and compared with results from other methods.

Anisotropic exciton excitations and optical properties of Hittorf's phosphorene

Ju Zhou, Tian-Yi Cai, and Sheng Ju

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033288 (2020) - Published 21 August, 2020

This paper presents a first-principles approach to the quasiparticle electronic structure, exciton, and optical properties in two dimensional Hittorf’s phosphorene. The authors show the onset of exciton-enhanced optical absorption and strong polarization-dependent electron-hole excitation.

Synchronizing the simplest classical system and then quantizing it

Paweł Kurzyński

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033289 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

The paper introduces a synchronization model of two classical discrete d-level systems and then considers the outcome if superposition of states is allowed. The resulting quantum model allows to observe phase locking of two-qudit dynamics (d>1) and exhibits various asymptotic behaviors that depend on the initial state of the system.

Fractionalized time reversal, parity, and charge conjugation symmetry in a topological superconductor: A possible origin of three generations of neutrinos and mass mixing

Zheng-Cheng Gu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033290 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

This paper proposes that by assuming a relativistic Majorana fermion can be divided into four topological Majorana zero modes at cut-off energy scale, the origin of three generations of neutrinos can be explained as three distinguishable ways of forming a pair of complex fermions out of four topological Majorana zero modes.

Combined spontaneous symmetry-breaking and symmetry-protected topological order from cluster charge interactions

Chen Peng, Rong-Qiang He, Yuan-Yao He, and Zhong-Yi Lu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033291 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

This work studies the Kane-Mele model with cluster charge interactions by the quantum Monte-Carlo method. The authors identify a quantum phase transition from a QSH phase with spin Chern number Cs=+1 to a Kekule´ valence-bond-solid state with Cs=1 and show the quantum phase transition has no mean-field correspondence

Increasing communication capacity via superposition of order

K. Goswami, Y. Cao, G. A. Paz-Silva, J. Romero, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033292 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

The authors combine noisy and clean channels with certain superposition in the order and explore the possibility of transmitting information through.

Tensor network compressed sensing with unsupervised machine learning

Shi-Ju Ran, Zheng-Zhi Sun, Shao-Ming Fei, Gang Su, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033293 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

The authors incorporate the ideas of compressed sensing, tensor network, and machine learning, and propose the tensor-network compressed sensing that permits compressed samplings and efficient communications of real-life data by implementing designed projections on the generative tensor network states.

Enhancement of charge transfer in thermally-expanded and strain-stabilized TIPS-pentacene thin films

Yang Li, Jing Wan, Detlef-M. Smilgies, Richards Miller, and Randall L. Headrick

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033294 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

The authors show the effect of strain in the charge carrier mobility and the energy of charge transfer excitons in crystalline TIPS-pentacene thin films.

Real-time calibration of coherent-state receivers: Learning by trial and error

M. Bilkis, M. Rosati, R. Morral Yepes, and J. Calsamiglia

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033295 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

This paper casts the discrimination of two coherent states of light as a reinforcement learning problem, in which an agent has to choose among a large number of configurations of a receiver, composed of simple linear optics elements, on/off photodetectors and feedback.

Terahertz conductivity of heavy-fermion systems from time-resolved spectroscopy

Chia-Jung Yang, Shovon Pal, Farzaneh Zamani, Kristin Kliemt, Cornelius Krellner, Oliver Stockert, Hilbert v. Löhneysen, Johann Kroha, and Manfred Fiebig

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033296 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

The authors exploit a characteristic time delay in the time-resolved terahertz conductivity of a heavy fermion compound to separate the Drude response of the quasiparticles within the heavy Fermi liquid from the break-up and recovery of quasiparticles.

Universal graph description for one-dimensional exchange models

Jean Decamp, Jiangbin Gong, Huanqian Loh, and Christian Miniatura

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033297 (2020) - Published 24 August, 2020

The authors show the application of graph theory on one-dimensional quantum and classical exchange models in the context of magnetism, adiabatic quantum computing and the Bethe Ansatz.

Josephson junction dynamics in a two-dimensional ultracold Bose gas

Vijay Pal Singh, Niclas Luick, Lennart Sobirey, and Ludwig Mathey

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033298 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

This study establishes a connection between the Josephson junction dynamics and the condensate in two dimensions. The authors find various dynamical regimes of this junction, such as multimode, second-harmonic, ideal junction, and over-damped, and confirm the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless scaling for the critical current in the ideal junction regime

Multimode cold-damping optomechanics with delayed feedback

Christian Sommer, Alekhya Ghosh, and Claudiu Genes

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033299 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

This work analyzes the influence of intrinsic and induced electronic time delay on the efficient simultaneous cooling of many mechanical resonances.

Systematic construction of gapped nonliquid states

Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033300 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

This paper use 2+1D topological orders, or domain walls between 3+1D topological orders, to construct the microscopic cellular structure of a 3+1D gapped non-liquid state by glueing those 2+1D topological orders, or domain walls, together. The author further shows that this construction could produce gapped non-liquid states with fractal-like excitations.

From spin chains to real-time thermal field theory using tensor networks

Mari Carmen Bañuls, Michal P. Heller, Karl Jansen, Johannes Knaute, and Viktor Svensson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033301 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

The authors use tensor network simulations combined with signal analysis techniques to explore the analytic structure of correlators in (1+1)-dimensional thermal field theories.

Effect of interorbital scattering on superconductivity in doped Dirac semimetals

David Dentelski, Vladyslav Kozii, and Jonathan Ruhman

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033302 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

The authors show that chiral and time-reversal symmetry in Dirac materials protects fully gapped topological superconductors against magnetic and non-magnetic disorder, in contrast with nodal topological superconductivity.

Interatomic-distance dependence of resonant energy-transfer phenomena

F. Grüll, A. B. Voitkiv, and C. Müller

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033303 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

The authors show that the efficiency of interatomic processes, which rely on two-center electron correlations and are triggered by a resonant electromagnetic field, can exhibit a nonmonotonous distance dependence and be strongly reduced when the atoms come closer

Initial states for quantum field simulations in phase space

Peter D. Drummond and Bogdan Opanchuk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033304 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

This paper studies methods for numerical simulations of many-body quantum systems, useful for simulating photonic networks and some quantum computers. The authors show that different phase-space methods have an exponentially large range of efficiency and speed for computing high-order correlations. The results can be either exponentially faster or slower than experimental measurement.

Universal fault-tolerant measurement-based quantum computation

Benjamin J. Brown and Sam Roberts

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033305 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

The authors show how to map models for scalable quantum computation that have been designed for more conventional static qubits onto into a measurement-based picture; a model of quantum computation that is well suited for qubits that fly through space at the speed of light. The paper shows how to simulate braids between Majorana fermions with photonic qubits to perform the fault-tolerant logic gates of a scalable quantum computer.

Spread of infectious disease and social awareness as parasitic contagions on clustered networks

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Dina Mistry, and Benjamin M. Althouse

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033306 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This study models the interactions between spreading and social campaigns as a system of parasitic contagions and looks at their complex interplay with network structure.

Superconductivity in a disordered metal with Coulomb interactions

Svetlana V. Postolova, Alexey Yu. Mironov, Víctor Barrena, Jose Benito-Llorens, Jose Gabriel Rodrigo, Hermann Suderow, Mikhail R. Baklanov, Tatyana I. Baturina, and Valerii M. Vinokur

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033307 (2020) - Published 25 August, 2020

This work studies the low energy density of states of a disordered superconductor and finds that the Fermi liquid regime in the normal phase is lost.

Influence of deposition parameters on the optical absorption of amorphous silicon thin films

Lukas Terkowski, Iain W. Martin, Daniel Axmann, Malte Behrendsen, Felix Pein, Angus Bell, Roman Schnabel, Riccardo Bassiri, Martin M. Fejer, Jim Hough, Ashot Markosyan, Sheila Rowan, and Jessica Steinlechner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033308 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This work explores the change in optical absorption at near infraredwavelengths and other material properties of amorphous siliconcoatings by systematically varying deposition parameters. The results elucidate the underlying absorption mechanisms and showcorrelations between deposition parameters and coating properties.

Topology of superconductors beyond mean-field theory

Matthew F. Lapa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033309 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This work presents a study of topological invariants for superconductors in the number-conserving setting. The authors show that their approximation predicts the value of a certain topological invariant for a large family of number-conserving models of spinless superconductors.

Protecting quantum coherences from static noise and disorder

Chahan M. Kropf

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033311 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This work presents generalized quantum master equations for the effective dynamics of perturbative quantum systems with static noise/disorder which are valid on all time scales.

Thermodynamic costs of Turing machines

Artemy Kolchinsky and David H. Wolpert

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033312 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

The authors analyze the minimal thermodynamic costs involved in performing computations using Turing machines. The resulting costs demonstrate the connections between statistical physics and algorithmic information theory.

Linear stability analysis of large dynamical systems on random directed graphs

Izaak Neri and Fernando Lucas Metz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033313 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This work analyzes how network architecture affects the linear stability of fixed points in dynamical systems defined on random, directed graphs. The authors derive results for the leading eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix representing the network and propose a phase diagram that separates a stable from an unstable regime

Three-dimensional structure of a string-fluid complex plasma

M. Y. Pustylnik, B. Klumov, M. Rubin-Zuzic, A. M. Lipaev, V. Nosenko, D. Erdle, A. D. Usachev, A. V. Zobnin, V. I. Molotkov, G. Joyce, H. M. Thomas, M. H. Thoma, O. F. Petrov, V. E. Fortov, and O. Kononenko

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033314 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This paper presents an analysis of three dimensional structures in dusty plasmas. The authors identify the presence of small inclusions of solid string-like clusters in a suspension with bulk fluid order.

Quantum machines powered by correlated baths

Gabriele De Chiara and Mauro Antezza

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033315 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This work analyzes the performance of quantum thermal engines and refrigerators connected to correlated baths. To achieve the optimal performance, the machines need correlations in the system steady state and between system and environment.

Entanglement bounds on the performance of quantum computing architectures

Zachary Eldredge, Leo Zhou, Aniruddha Bapat, James R. Garrison, Abhinav Deshpande, Frederic T. Chong, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033316 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

This work studies a new metric for benchmarking quantum computer architectures via the time required for creating large entangled states. The authors derive a lower bound on the creation time, and provide a protocol that saturates the bound up to a logarithmic factor.

Topological transition on the conformal manifold

Wenjie Ji, Shu-Heng Shao, and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033317 (2020) - Published 26 August, 2020

The authors show the onset of a topological transition in the space of (1+1)d critical phases with fermionic degrees of freedom described by a continuous family of conformal field theories.

Tensor network wave function of S=1 Kitaev spin liquids

Hyun-Yong Lee, Naoki Kawashima, and Yong Baek Kim

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033318 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

This work studies the ground state and the response to magnetic fields of the spin-one Kitaev honeycomb model, utilizing the tensor network representation.

Vortex-lattice melting and paramagnetic depairing in the nematic superconductor FeSe

F. Hardy, L. Doussoulin, T. Klein, M. He, A. Demuer, R. Willa, K. Willa, A.-A. Haghighirad, T. Wolf, M. Merz, C. Meingast, and C. Marcenat

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033319 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

This work studies the influence of simultaneous strong thermal fluctuations and strong Pauli depairing on the phase diagram of type II superconductors, using using high-resolution thermodynamic probes in the nematic superconductor, FeSe

Long light storage time in an optical fiber

Wui Seng Leong, Mingjie Xin, Chang Huang, Zilong Chen, and Shau-Yu Lan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033320 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

The authors demonstrate storage of light in an optical fiber over 50 ms. The result is equivalent to 8.7X105 dB/μs or 2.9X104 dB/km of propagation loss in the fiber.

Multiorbital antiferromagnetic metal induced by intramolecular self-doping

Rina Takagi, Hiro Gangi, Kazuya Miyagawa, Eiji Nishibori, Hidetaka Kasai, Hitoshi Seo, Biao Zhou, Akiko Kobayashi, and Kazushi Kanoda

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033321 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

The authors examine the spin and charge states in a multiorbital system through orbital selective NMR spectroscopy combined with fine-structure-resolvable synchrotron X-ray diffractometry. The results show an intramolecular electron redistribution leading to interorbital self-doping

Quantum atmosphere of Reissner-Nordström black holes

Yen Chin Ong and Michael R. R. Good

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033322 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

This paper examines the notion of quantum atmosphere of a black hole, Hawking radiation originated from in a black hole spacetime. The authors show that the peak of the emission position extends further away from the black hole as extremality is approached in the case of Reissner-Nordström black hole

Thermodynamics of two-dimensional bosons in the lowest Landau level

Bhilahari Jeevanesan and Sergej Moroz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033323 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

The authors study the quantum many-body problem of two dimensional short-range interacting bosons in the lowest Landau level limit. They show that at high temperatures the partition function simplifies to a function of a single combination of state variables and they use this fact to derive exact thermodynamic relations.

Quantum computation of molecular response properties

Xiaoxia Cai, Wei-Hai Fang, Heng Fan, and Zhendong Li

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033324 (2020) - Published 27 August, 2020

This work introduced a quantum algorithm for computing linear and nonlinear response properties of molecules, which scales only polynomially in the system size as opposed to exponentially in existing classical simulation techniques.

Phase transitions and optimal algorithms for semisupervised classifications on graphs: From belief propagation to graph convolution network

Pengfei Zhou, Tianyi Li, and Pan Zhang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033325 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

This work proposes a graph convolution neural network based on the belief propagation algorithm for the task of semi-supervised classification on graphs.

Quantum simulation of extended polaron models using compound atom-ion systems

Krzysztof Jachymski and Antonio Negretti

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033326 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

This work studies the prospects for quantum simulation using a compound system of co-trapped cold ions and atoms.

Second-order topological insulator under strong magnetic field: Landau levels, Zeeman effect, and magnetotransport

B. A. Levitan and T. Pereg-Barnea

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033327 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

The authors study how an applied magnetic field affects the one dimensional metallic hinge modes of a second-order topological insulator. They show that a magnetic gauge field restricts the bandwidth of the hinge modes, directly modifying the quantized conductance along a small wire.

Reentrant incommensurate order and anomalous magnetic torque in the Kitaev magnet βLi2IrO3

Mengqun Li, Ioannis Rousochatzakis, and Natalia B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033328 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

The authors show the intertwining of field-induced phases and magnetic phase transitions in β-Li2IrO3, a three-dimensional Kitaev magnet, as manifested by a reentrance of the incommensurate counter-rotating order for fields in the ab-plane, and the onset of characteristic torque discontinuities

Berry phase in the composite Fermi liquid

Guangyue Ji (棘广跃) and Junren Shi (施均仁)

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033329 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

This work discusses how the Berry phase can be properly defined for a composite Fermi-liquid system.

Subsystem symmetry enriched topological order in three dimensions

David T. Stephen, José Garre-Rubio, Arpit Dua, and Dominic J. Williamson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033331 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

The authors introduce a type of three-dimensional topological orderenriched by planar subsystem symmetries, and show that it ischaracterized by the fractionalization of the symmetries on loop-likeexcitations, an increased value of the topological entanglemententropy, and the emergence of non-abelian fracton excitations upongauging the symmetry

Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and fundamental photon commutation relations in lossy nanostructures using quasinormal modes

Sebastian Franke, Juanjuan Ren, Stephen Hughes, and Marten Richter

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033332 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

This work presents detailed derivations on the nonabsorptive limit for field quantization in dissipative media and applications of an associated quantized quasinormal mode model for three dimensional dielectric cavities

Role of electron scattering on the high-order harmonic generation from solids

Chang-Ming Wang, Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Massimo Altarelli, Angel Rubio, and Shunsuke A. Sato

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033333 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

The authors study the role of electron scattering on high-order harmonic generation from solids based on a semiclassical trajectory picture. They find that inclusion of the scattering process accounts for the multi-plateau feature and the wavelength independency of the cut-off energy.

Functional thermodynamics of Maxwellian ratchets: Constructing and deconstructing patterns, randomizing and derandomizing behaviors

Alexandra M. Jurgens and James P. Crutchfield

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033334 (2020) - Published 28 August, 2020

The paper shows that Maxwell-demon ratchets operate by manipulating a fractal continuum of internal states to leverage randomness and structure in their environments.

Feshbach engine in the Thomas-Fermi regime

Tim Keller, Thomás Fogarty, Jing Li, and Thomas Busch

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033335 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

This paper presents a shortcut to adiabaticity for ramps of the interparticle interaction strength of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the Thomas-Fermi regime. The authors show how the method can be used to increase the power and efficiency of a Feshbach engine.

Phase-controlled spin and charge currents in a superconductor-ferromagnet hybrid

Ali Rezaei, Robert Hussein, Akashdeep Kamra, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033336 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

The authors suggest a four terminal superconductor-ferromagnet device in which the quantum mechanical phase is used to control nonequilibrium current flows involving spin-polarized triplet Cooper pairs.

Damping of elementary excitations in one-dimensional dipolar Bose gases

Hadrien Kurkjian and Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033337 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

The authors calculate the low temperature lifetime of quasiparticles in a one-dimensional dipolar Bose gas, focusing on proton excitations

Predicting bursting in a complete graph of mixed population through reservoir computing

Suman Saha, Arindam Mishra, Subrata Ghosh, Syamal K. Dana, and Chittaranjan Hens

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033338 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

This article presents a prediction of spiking and bursting dynamics in globally coupled networks, using reservoir computing-based learning procedure.

Attosecond x-ray probing of laser-induced electron rescattering in atoms

Li Zhang (张丽) and Xinhua Xie (谢新华)

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033339 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

The authors use time-domain spectroscopy with attosecond X-ray pulses to access the time and energy information of rescattering electrons simultaneously.

Strain effect on circularly polarized electroluminescence in transition metal dichalcogenides

Sake Wang, M. Shoufie Ukhtary, and Riichiro Saito

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033340 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

The authors study the effect of stress in transitional metal dichalcogenides and its effect on electroluminescence and its polarization

Spin selection in single-frequency two-photon excitation of alkali-metal atoms

Krishnapriya Subramonian Rajasree, Ratnesh Kumar Gupta, Vandna Gokhroo, Fam Le Kien, Thomas Nieddu, Tridib Ray, Síle Nic Chormaic, and Georgiy Tkachenko

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033341 (2020) - Published 31 August, 2020

The authors develop a theoretical framework for spin selection in single-frequency, two-photon excitation of alkali-metal atoms, and show the polarization dependence of the two-photon transition rate using a gas of rubidium atoms under excitation by paraxial laser beams in a vapor cell or by evanescent fields near an optical nanofiber.

Signature of band inversion in the antiferromagnetic phase of axion insulator candidate EuIn2As2

Takafumi Sato, Zhiwei Wang, Daichi Takane, Seigo Souma, Chaoxi Cui, Yongkai Li, Kosuke Nakayama, Tappei Kawakami, Yuya Kubota, Cephise Cacho, Timur K. Kim, Arian Arab, Vladimir N. Strocov, Yugui Yao, and Takashi Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033342 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

This paper reports angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy of EuIn2As2 which is predicted to host axion insulator and higher-order topological phases. The authors show direct evidence for a marked reconstruction of bulk-band structure associated with the antiferromagnetic transition at low temperature.

Relativistic Heisenberg principle for vortices of light from Planck to Hubble scales

F. Tamburini, Ignazio Licata, and B. Thidé

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033343 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

This study establishes a connection between the Relativistic Heisenberg principle for light carrying orbital angular momentum and the Planck scales and Hubble radius.

Relation between chiral central charge and ground-state degeneracy in (2+1)-dimensional topological orders

Liang Kong and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033344 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

This paper shows that the quantization of the chiral central charge in two-dimensional gapped quantum systems depends on the ground state degeneracies on Riemannian surfaces.

Rational boundary charge in one-dimensional systems with interaction and disorder

Mikhail Pletyukhov, Dante M. Kennes, Kiryl Piasotski, Jelena Klinovaja, Daniel Loss, and Herbert Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033345 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

This work establishes rational quantization of the charge accumulated at the boundary of a generic semi-infinite insulator, which follows from non-local symmetries

Chiral-anomaly-induced angular narrowing of the positive longitudinal magnetoconductivity in Weyl semimetals

Ming-Xun Deng, Jia-Yan Ba, R. Ma, Wei Luo, Rui-Qiang Wang, L. Sheng, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033346 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

The authors develop a method for magnetotransport study in finite-size systems and use it to evaluate magnetoconductivity of a disordered Weyl semimetal for both the ballistic and diffusive regimes.

Measurement-induced steering of quantum systems

Sthitadhi Roy, J. T. Chalker, I. V. Gornyi, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033347 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

The work describes a quantum measurement based protocol for steering many-body quantum states to class of non-trivial target states starting from arbitrary initial conditions.

Emergent QCD3 quantum phase transitions of fractional Chern insulators

Ruochen Ma and Yin-Chen He

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033348 (2020) - Published 1 September, 2020

The authors study a universality class of phase transitions of fractional Chern insulators, described by Dirac fermions interacting with emergent non-Abelian gauge fields.

Quench dynamics of a weakly interacting disordered Bose gas in momentum space

Thibault Scoquart, Thomas Wellens, Dominique Delande, and Nicolas Cherroret

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033349 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

This work explores the nonequilibrium dynamics of a weakly interacting Bose gas launched with a finite velocity in a random potential and shows how particle thermalization emerges from disorder scattering to reveal a mechanism of relaxation of coherent backscattering by particle collisions.

Extrapolating continuous color emotions through deep learning

Vishaal Ram, Laura P. Schaposnik, Nikos Konstantinou, Eliz Volkan, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Banu Manav, Domicele Jonauskaite, and Christine Mohr

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033350 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The authors use deep learning to implement an RGB extrapolation of emotions associated to color, and do a mathematical study of the results obtained through this neural network to extract trends.

Kosterlitz-Thouless-type caging-uncaging transition in a quasi-one-dimensional hard disk system

A. Huerta, T. Bryk, V. M. Pergamenshchik, and A. Trokhymchuk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033351 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The authors show that a densely packed solid zigzag develops windowlike defects through which disks move across the pore and gain entropy as it approaches its fluid phase.

Adiabatic and nonadiabatic behavior of the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill sequence in time-dependent magnetic fields

Martin D. Hürlimann, Shin Utsuzawa, and Chang-Yu Hou

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033352 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

This paper studies the response of the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill sequence under time-dependent magnetic fields. The authors describe the dynamics of the magnetization in the fast pulsing regime, with an effective Hamiltonian.

Unveiling mechanisms of electric field effects on superconductors by a magnetic field response

Lennart Bours, Maria Teresa Mercaldo, Mario Cuoco, Elia Strambini, and Francesco Giazotto

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033353 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The paper combines magneto-transport measurements with a microscopic theory to get insight into the mechanisms behind the recently discovered electric field effect in metallic low temperature superconductors

Predicting brain evoked response to external stimuli from temporal correlations of spontaneous activity

A. Sarracino, O. Arviv, O. Shriki, and L. de Arcangelis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033355 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The authors use a coarse-grained model for neuronal populations to uncover the relation between spontaneous and stimulated brain activity. The results show that the response to an external stimulus is controlled by the correlations of activity fluctuations in the rest state.

Superconducting mechanism for the cuprate Ba2CuO3+δ based on a multiorbital Lieb lattice model

Kimihiro Yamazaki, Masayuki Ochi, Daisuke Ogura, Kazuhiko Kuroki, Hiroshi Eisaki, Shinichi Uchida, and Hideo Aoki

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033356 (2020) - Published 2 September, 2020

The authors introduce a multiorbital model with a Lieb-lattice structure to show that the disrupted CuO network in Ba2CuO3+δ can accommodate new pairing mechanisms

Electrical band flattening, valley flux, and superconductivity in twisted trilayer graphene

Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla and J. L. Lado

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033357 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The paper shows that an interlayer bias allows controlling flat bands and creating internal valley currents in twisted trilayer graphene. The authors also show that the introduction of interactions leads to the the emergence of a nonuniform superconducting state that impacts high energy bands

Ultrabroadband density of states of amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O

Kyle T. Vogt, Christopher E. Malmberg, Jacob C. Buchanan, George W. Mattson, G. Mirek Brandt, Dylan B. Fast, Paul H.-Y. Cheong, John F. Wager, and Matt W. Graham

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033358 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The density of states of amorphous-InGaZnOx was measured on thin-film transistors, and the spectral and temporal photoconductive responses classify each sub-gap peak as either electron-donor or acceptor vacancies.

Higher topological charge and the QCD vacuum

Fabian Rennecke

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033359 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The authors show that gauge field configurations with higher topological charge modify the structure of the QCD vacuum, which is reflected in its dependence on the CP-violating topological phase θ.

Valley dependent superconducting proximity effect in a twisted van der Waals heterojunction

Jing-Jing Xian, Li Chen, Xin Liu, Wen-Hao Zhang, Lang Peng, Rui Li, Min Cai, Jingsi Qiao, and Ying-Shuang Fu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033360 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The authors uncover a valley dependent superconducting proximity effect in a heterostructure, realized by growth of multi-domain Bi(111) films on NbSe2 substrate, with twisted overlapping.

Robustness of gauge-invariant dynamics against defects in ultracold-atom gauge theories

Jad C. Halimeh, Robert Ott, Ian P. McCulloch, Bing Yang, and Philipp Hauke

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033361 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

This paper investigates the effects of gauge-violating defects in the initial state on the gauge-invariant dynamics of a ultracold-atom gauge-theory quantum simulator.

Microscopic theory for nematic fractional quantum Hall effect

Bo Yang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033362 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

This work derives microscopic relations in the fractional quantum Hall systems to study the quantum critical point at which both the topological Hall plateau and anisotropic transport coexist at low temperature.

Quantum criticality of magnetic catalysis in two-dimensional correlated Dirac fermions

Yasuhiro Tada

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033363 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

This work studies quantum criticality of the magnetic catalysis which is a magnetic field induced phase transition in a Dirac semimetal. The critical exponents are calculated based on a scaling ansatz.

Variational quantum simulation of ultrastrong light-matter coupling

Agustin Di Paolo, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Ivano Tavernelli, and Alexandre Blais

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033364 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

This work uses a modified version of the polaron Ansatz, developed by the quantum optics and condensed matter communities, to estimate the ultrastrong-coupling ground state of the multimode Dicke Hamiltonian in a quantum computer.

Mechanisms of hydrodynamic instability in concentration polarization

P. Kumar, S. M. Rubinstein, I. Rubinstein, and B. Zaltzman

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033365 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

The authors use experimental and theoretical results to study ionic transport through a charge-selective membrane system and show the nonequilibrium, short-wave, nature of electro-convective instability.

Time-dependent effects in melting and phase change for laser-shocked iron

S. White, B. Kettle, J. Vorberger, C. L. S. Lewis, S. H. Glenzer, E. Gamboa, B. Nagler, F. Tavella, H. J. Lee, C. D. Murphy, D. O. Gericke, and D. Riley

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033366 (2020) - Published 3 September, 2020

This paper shows that when iron is shock compressed to high density on nanosecond time-scales, it can maintain crystalline structure despite being expected to have a temperature in excess of the expected equilibrium melting temperature.

Non-Fermi liquid transport in the vicinity of the nematic quantum critical point of superconducting FeSe1xSx

W. K. Huang, S. Hosoi, M. Čulo, S. Kasahara, Y. Sato, K. Matsuura, Y. Mizukami, M. Berben, N. E. Hussey, H. Kontani, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033367 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

This paper reports anomalous charge transport properties near the nematic quantum critical point of FeSe1xSx

Dark solitons revealed in Lieb-Liniger eigenstates

Weronika Golletz, Wojciech Górecki, Rafał Ołdziejewski, and Krzysztof Pawłowski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033368 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The paper shows the ansatz for the type-II elementary excitations of the weakly interacting Bose gas and how it gives rise to the dark soliton in linear many-body systems.

Probing the universality of topological defect formation in a quantum annealer: Kibble-Zurek mechanism and beyond

Yuki Bando, Yuki Susa, Hiroki Oshiyama, Naokazu Shibata, Masayuki Ohzeki, Fernando Javier Gómez-Ruiz, Daniel A. Lidar, Sei Suzuki, Adolfo del Campo, and Hidetoshi Nishimori

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033369 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The authors show that the prediction of the universal Kibble-Zurek mechanism for an open quantum system reproduces the mean number of topological defects generated in a quantum annealer, providing a benchmark for the latter.

Fragility of the Kondo insulating gap against disorder: Relevance to recent puzzles in topological Kondo insulators

Sudeshna Sen, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, Eduardo Miranda, Vladimir Dobrosavljević, and Wei Ku

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033370 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

This paper shows a microscopic mechanism for the metallic specific heat with an insulating resistivity in topological Kondo insulators

Liquid crystal phases with unusual structures and physical properties formed by acute-angle bent core molecules

Bing-Xiang Li, Yuriy A. Nastishin, Hao Wang, Min Gao, Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Ruipeng Li, Masafumi Fukuto, Quan Li, Sergij V. Shiyanovskii, and Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033371 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The work explores liquid crystalline phases formed by acute-angle bent-core molecules. The material shows a very small splay modulus in the uniaxial nematic phase and a tetragonal positionally ordered columnar phase consisting of columns with alternating polar and non-polar packing of molecular pairs.

Quantitative functional renormalization group description of the two-dimensional Hubbard model

Cornelia Hille, Fabian B. Kugler, Christian J. Eckhardt, Yuan-Yao He, Anna Kauch, Carsten Honerkamp, Alessandro Toschi, and Sabine Andergassen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033372 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The authors use the functional renormalization group to analyze the two-dimensional Hubbard model and to illustrate how its flows can be described quantitatively.

Collision dynamics and reactions of fractional vortex molecules in coherently coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Minoru Eto, Kazuki Ikeno, and Muneto Nitta

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033373 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The authors numerically simulate collision dynamics of hadronic molecules of quantum vortices, and find that their dynamics is very similar to that of real QCD.

Multiobject operational tasks for convex quantum resource theories of state-measurement pairs

Andrés F. Ducuara, Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, and Paul Skrzypczyk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033374 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

This paper studies the combination of resources theories of quantum states and measurements, and shows that there exist operational discrimination and exclusions tasks an advantage is gain by using resourceful pairs.

Casimir effect with machine learning

M. N. Chernodub, Harold Erbin, I. V. Grishmanovskii, V. A. Goy, and A. V. Molochkov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033375 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The authors design a convolutional neural network for computing Casimir energies associated with static defects in a (2+1)-dimensional free scalar field theory, and compare it with Monte Carlo simulations.

Two-dimensional rogue waves on zero background in a Benney-Roskes model

Lijuan Guo, Jingsong He, Lihong Wang, Yi Cheng, D. J. Frantzeskakis, T. S. van den Bremer, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033376 (2020) - Published 8 September, 2020

The authors the Daroboux transformation and the higher-order Taylor expansion of the eigenfunction to describe two-dimensional rational rogue waves in the Benney-Roskes model.

Phase separation of polymer-bound particles induced by loop-mediated one dimensional effective long-range interactions

G. David, J.-C. Walter, C. P. Broedersz, J. Dorignac, F. Geniet, A. Parmeggiani, N.-O. Walliser, and J. Palmeri

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033377 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The authors propose a physical mechanism by which polymer-bound particles can undergo phase separation and give rise to membraneless compartments in cells.

Nonperturbative leakage elimination for a logical qubit encoded in a mechanical oscillator

Shasha Zheng, Qiongyi He, Mark S. Byrd, and Lian-Ao Wu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033378 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

This work presents a theoretical scheme to suppress decoherence-induced leakage errors of a single-mode harmonic oscillator used to encode a qubit in continuous-variable systems by introducing a nonperturbative leakage elimination operator.

Ultrafast molecular dynamics in terahertz-STM experiments: Theoretical analysis using the Anderson-Holstein model

Tao Shi, J. Ignacio Cirac, and Eugene Demler

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033379 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The authors investigate the electron transport under a ultrafast THz pulse, through the Anderson impurity coupled to a phonon mode using non-Gaussian state theory. The paper shows the onset of long-lived oscillations of the phonon persisting long after the end of the pulse.

Pump-probe spectroscopy of Bose polarons: Dynamical formation and coherence

S. I. Mistakidis, G. C. Katsimiga, G. M. Koutentakis, Th. Busch, and P. Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033380 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The authors propose a pump-probe spectroscopy scheme for monitoring the time-resolved dynamics of polaronic excitations by utilizing impurity atoms with spin-dependent interactions with their environment.

Covariant formulation of nonlinear Langevin theory with multiplicative Gaussian white noises

Mingnan Ding, Zhanchun Tu, and Xiangjun Xing

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033381 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

This work discusses a covariant formulation of nonlinear Langevin dynamics with multiplicative white Gaussian noises, as well as the conditions of detailed balance

Quantum trimer models and topological SU(3) spin liquids on the kagome lattice

Sven Jandura, Mohsin Iqbal, and Norbert Schuch

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033382 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

This work constructs resonating trimer models and analyzes their ground state properties and phase diagram by combining analytical and numerical tensor network methods.

Magnetotransport of electrically induced two-dimensional hole gases in undoped GaSb quantum wells

Kenji Shibata, Matija Karalic, Christopher Mittag, Thomas Tschirky, Christian Reichl, Hiromu Ito, Katsushi Hashimoto, Toru Tomimatsu, Yoshiro Hirayama, Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033383 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The authors characterize the effective mass and phase coherence length for electrically induced two-dimensional hole gases in undoped GaSb/AlSb quantum wells.

Possible experimental test of the nonlinear phononics interpretation of light-induced superconductivity

M. Altarelli

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033384 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

This paper shows that the onset of nonlinear couplings of excited phonon modes in some superconductors arise from a softening of phonon frequencies at the critical temperature.

Detecting chiral pairing and topological superfluidity using circular dichroism

J. M. Midtgaard, Zhigang Wu, N. Goldman, and G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033385 (2020) - Published 9 September, 2020

The authors show that chiral pairing in a two-dimensional superfluid can be detected by measuring the difference in the heating rates induced by a clockwise and a counterclockwise rotating force. For weak pairing, this difference is given by the Chern number of the superfluid.

Resonant laser excitation and time-domain imaging of chiral topological polariton edge states

Damian Hofmann and Michael A. Sentef

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033386 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

This work investigates the selective excitation of chiral edge states by numerical simulation of a tight-binding lattice model, using time-resolved spectral and complementary real-space imaging.

Kondo-assisted switching between three conduction states in capacitively coupled quantum dots

Pierre Lombardo, Roland Hayn, Denis Zhuravel, and Steffen Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033387 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

The authors study a T-shaped double quantum dot in the presence of strong Coulomb correlations, and show the onset of a transition between three conductance regimes at low temperatures.

Efficient learning of a one-dimensional density functional theory

M. Michael Denner, Mark H. Fischer, and Titus Neupert

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033388 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

This work presents a machine learning scheme to free density functional theory that represents the density functional of a one dimensional fermionic system by a neural network, and allows predictions of ground-state energies and density-density correlators of symmetry-breaking and topological phase transitions.

Quantum sensing of open systems: Estimation of damping constants and temperature

J. Wang, L. Davidovich, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033389 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

The authors determine quantum limits for estimates of damping constants and temperature of lossy bosonic channels, and apply these results to show that sequential pre-thermalization measurements leads to gains in precision

Bilocal quantum criticality

Harley D. Scammell, Mathias S. Scheurer, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033390 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

The authors develop and explore a bilocal quantum critical theory, which arises from the coupling of a Fermi surface to SU(2) charged bosons at criticality. A strongly-coupled fixed point is identified, with a dynamic critical exponent z > 1 and a finite enhancement of the specific heat near the critical point.

Real spectra in non-Hermitian topological insulators

Kohei Kawabata and Masatoshi Sato

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033391 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

This work shows the real spectra for both bulk and edges even in non-Hermitian topological insulators using the interplay of pseudo-Hermiticity and reciprocity

θ-dependence of light nuclei and nucleosynthesis

Dean Lee, Ulf-G. Meißner, Keith A. Olive, Mikhail Shifman, and Thomas Vonk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033392 (2020) - Published 10 September, 2020

The authors explore how the properties of light nuclei and their synthesis in the early universe depend on the properties of vacuum of quantum chromodynamics, as characterized by θ.

Efficient phase coding in hippocampal place cells

Pavithraa Seenivasan and Rishikesh Narayanan

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033393 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

The authors develop an information-theoretic framework to assess the efficiency of phase coding in hippocampal neurons.

Tight bound on finite-resolution quantum thermometry at low temperatures

Mathias R. Jørgensen, Patrick P. Potts, Matteo G. A. Paris, and Jonatan B. Brask

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033394 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

This work analyzes the fundamental precision limits for thermometry on cold quantum systems, taking into account constraints due to finite measurement resolution. It derives a tight bound on the optimal precision scaling with temperature, as the temperature approaches zero, showing that the variance in any temperature estimate must decrease slower than linearly.

Optical atomic clock comparison through turbulent air

Martha I. Bodine et al.

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033395 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

The authors compare two state-of-the-art, ytterbium and strontium, optical atomic clocks across a 1.5-km open-air path between two laboratories. The ratio measured across the open air is in agreement with the simultaneous ratio measurement obtained using a conventional noise-cancelled fiber link.

Optimally controlled quantum discrimination and estimation

Daniel Basilewitsch, Haidong Yuan, and Christiane P. Koch

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033396 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

This work shows how to improve distinguishability between two qubit states and stabilize the maximally achievable distinguishability for times longer than the typical decay time by replacing the Ramsey protocol by one employing temporally shaped pulses.

Systematic construction of square-root topological insulators and superconductors

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033397 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

The authors propose a method to construct squre-root topological insulators and superconductors by introducing subdivided graphs based on the graph theory.

Parametric down-conversion beyond the semiclassical approximation

Filippus S. Roux

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033398 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

The author express a parametric down-converted state beyond the semi-classical approximation using a perturbative approach applied to the Wigner functional representation of the state.

General framework for constructing fast and near-optimal machine-learning-based decoder of the topological stabilizer codes

Amarsanaa Davaasuren, Yasunari Suzuki, Keisuke Fujii, and Masato Koashi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033399 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

This work introduces a framework of machine-learning-based decoders for quantum error correction. Specifically, the authors show necessary and sufficient conditions for constructing high-performance decoders.

Simultaneous certification of entangled states and measurements in bounded dimensional semiquantum games

Xingjian Zhang and Qi Zhao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033400 (2020) - Published 11 September, 2020

This work introduces a specific type of bounded-dimensional semiquantum games, which can be used to certify any pure entangled state and Bell state measurement operators simultaneously.

Theory of current-induced angular momentum transfer dynamics in spin-orbit coupled systems

Dongwook Go, Frank Freimuth, Jan-Philipp Hanke, Fei Xue, Olena Gomonay, Kyung-Jin Lee, Stefan Blügel, Paul M. Haney, Hyun-Woo Lee, and Yuriy Mokrousov

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033401 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

This paper presents a formalism which tracks angular momentum transfer between various degrees of freedom in solids and helps describing the microscopic mechanisms of the spin-orbit torque.

Investigating quantum approximate optimization algorithms under bang-bang protocols

Daniel Liang, Li Li (李力), and Stefan Leichenauer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033402 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

The authors use a stochastic optimization strategy for a variant of the Quantum Approximation Optimization Algorithm with fixed total time to examine both the relation of the parameter p in the performance of the algorithm, as well as its relationship with Adiabatic Quantum Computation

Noncommutative generalized Gibbs ensemble in isolated integrable quantum systems

Kouhei Fukai, Yuji Nozawa, Koji Kawahara, and Tatsuhiko N. Ikeda

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033403 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

The authors study an extension of the generalized Gibbs ensemble by incorporating noncommutative conserved quantities and discuss how their approach describes long-time behaviorsof observables at different system sizes.

Shear flow in a three-dimensional complex plasma in microgravity conditions

V. Nosenko, M. Pustylnik, M. Rubin-Zuzic, A. M. Lipaev, A. V. Zobnin, A. D. Usachev, H. M. Thomas, M. H. Thoma, V. E. Fortov, O. Kononenko, and A. Ovchinin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033404 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

This work presents an experimental estimate of the shear viscosity of a complex plasma in microgravity conditions using Plasmakristall-4 (PK-4) instrument on board the International Space Station.

Boundary driven unconventional mechanism of macroscopic magnetic field generation in beam-plasma interaction

Amita Das, Atul Kumar, Chandrasekhar Shukla, Ratan Kumar Bera, Deepa Verma, Devshree Mandal, Ayushi Vashishta, Bhavesh Patel, Y. Hayashi, K. A. Tanaka, G. Chatterjee, Amit D. Lad, G. Ravindra Kumar, and Predhiman Kaw

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033405 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

This paper presents a mechanism for magnetic field generation in charged particle beam-plasma interaction that shows that the magnetic field originates at the boundary of the beam.

Pseudospin modulation in coupled graphene systems

Chen-Di Han, Hong-Ya Xu, and Ying-Cheng Lai

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033406 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

The authors show the onset of an asymmetrically coupled cavity-waveguide system to enable pseudospin modulation in graphene through the mechanism of chaos-assisted tunneling.

Lattice orientation of cholesteric blue phases in contact with surfaces enforcing unidirectional planar anchoring

Jun-ichi Fukuda (福田順一) and Slobodan Žumer

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033407 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

The authors study numerically how unidirectional surface anchoring affects the lattice orientation of cholesteric blue phases. The results specify the optimum lattice orientation with respect to the surface anchoring direction.

Abrupt change in hybridization gap at the valence transition of YbInCu4

Hiroaki Anzai, Suzuna Ishihara, Kojiro Mimura, Hitoshi Sato, Masashi Arita, Tao Zhuang, and Koichi Hiraoka

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033408 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

This work reports how a hybridization gap develops at valence-transition temperature of a rare-earth compound. The authors show that the gap increases below the transition temperature, along with an energy shift of electron-like conduction band.

Baryon stopping as a relativistic Markov process in phase space

Johannes Hoelck and Georg Wolschin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033409 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

The authors investigate baryon stopping in relativistic heavy-ion collisions in a nonequilibrium-statistical framework, combining a formulation based on quantum chromodynamics with a relativistic diffusion model through a suitably derived fluctuation-dissipation relation.

Multiorder Laplacian for synchronization in higher-order networks

Maxime Lucas, Giulia Cencetti, and Federico Battiston

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033410 (2020) - Published 14 September, 2020

The authors introduce an analytical framework to compute the stability of synchronization in populations of phase oscillators with higher-order interactions up to any order, and arbitrary complex topology.

Constructions of k-uniform and absolutely maximally entangled states beyond maximum distance codes

Zahra Raissi, Adam Teixidó, Christian Gogolin, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033411 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

The authors present a method to construct maximally multipartite entangled states.

Designing adiabatic time evolution from high-frequency bichromatic sources

Álvaro Gómez-León and Gloria Platero

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033412 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

The authors show a mechanism to drive a quantum system adiabatically by combining two detuned high frequency drives.

Charging assisted by thermalization

Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Felipe Barra, and Alberto Imparato

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033413 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

The authors use a system coupled to a thermal bath as a battery charging setup, by using the fact that the equilibrium state of a system strongly coupled to a bath is not a Gibbs state and can thus store extractable work after being decoupled from the bath.

2kF density wave instability of composite Fermi liquid

Shao-Kai Jian and Zheng Zhu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033414 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

The authors study the 2k_F density-wave instability of non-Fermi liquid states at zeroth Landau level, using diagonalization to identify a transition towards a unidirectional charge-density-wave state.

Thermodynamics and feature extraction by machine learning

Shotaro Shiba Funai and Dimitrios Giataganas

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033415 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

The authors show how the training of neural networks is linked to the physical and thermodynamic properties of natural systems with discrete degrees of freedom.

Spin and charge currents driven by the Higgs mode in high-field superconductors

Mikhail A. Silaev, Risto Ojajärvi, and Tero T. Heikkilä

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033416 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

This work shows how spin splitting in superconductors couples the Higgs mode to spin dynamics and enable its direct observation.

Categorical symmetry and noninvertible anomaly in symmetry-breaking and topological phase transitions

Wenjie Ji and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033417 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

The authors show that one of the strongly correlated gapless states at the critical point of Landau symmetry breaking transition has an unbroken dual algebraic (n-1)-symmetry G^(n-1) in n-dimensional space, in addition to the usual unbroken symmetry G.

Capture of femtosecond plasmon excitation on transient nonequilibrium states of the metal surface

Bo Zhao, Jianjun Yang, Jinluo Cheng, and Chunlei Guo

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033418 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

This paper utilizes the time dependent orientation change of the laser-induced periodic subwavelength structures to capture the nonequilibrium states on copper metal surface.

Wehrl entropy production rate across a dynamical quantum phase transition

B. O. Goes, G. T. Landi, E. Solano, M. Sanz, and L. C. Céleri

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033419 (2020) - Published 15 September, 2020

This paper proposes the Husimi-Q function based entropy as a suitable quantity to describe the thermodynamic properties of dynamical phase transitions, and establishes a relation between dynamical criticality and entropy production.

Weak form of self-testing

Jędrzej Kaniewski

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033420 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

This work presents a weak form of self-testing in which the state is uniquely determined while the measurements are not, and shows that it can generate secure and inherently quantum randomness

Orbital optimized unitary coupled cluster theory for quantum computer

Wataru Mizukami, Kosuke Mitarai, Yuya O. Nakagawa, Takahiro Yamamoto, Tennin Yan, and Yu-ya Ohnishi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033421 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

This paper presents a wave-function method based on unitary coupled-cluster theory for quantum computers, to determine the quantum circuit parameters and molecular orbital parameters simultaneously, as well as molecular-geometry optimizations

Synchronization boost with single-photon dissipation in the deep quantum regime

W.-K. Mok, L.-C. Kwek, and H. Heimonen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033422 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

The authors investigate the quantum van der Pol oscillator near the ground state with additional dissipation and show that it leads to an increase in synchronization.

Dynamic scaling in the quenched disordered classical N-vector model

Sudip Mukherjee and Abhik Basu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033423 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

This work explores the universal critical dynamics of the nonconserved O(N) order parameter with cubic anisotropy in the presence of rotational symmetry-breaking quenched disorders. The authors show that the symmetry-breaking disorder induces a thresholdless instability in the fixed point of the model without such symmetry-breaking disorder.

Long-distance continuous-variable measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with postselection

Kieran N. Wilkinson, Panagiotis Papanastasiou, Carlo Ottaviani, Tobias Gehring, and Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033424 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

The authors introduce a protocol for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution under a continuous-variable regime using post-selection. The scheme allows two parties to construct a secret key when communicating through an untrusted relay in the presence of an eavesdropper.

Nontrivial topology in the continuous spectrum of a magnetized plasma

Jeffrey B. Parker, J. W. Burby, J. B. Marston, and Steven M. Tobias

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033425 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

This work finds a nontrivial topological phase in a magnetized conducting fluid that depends on the sign of the magnetic shear. A topological phase transition therefore occurs where the magnetic shear changes sign, establishing the reversed shear Alfven eigenmode as a topological edge state.

Spatial applications of topological data analysis: Cities, snowflakes, random structures, and spiders spinning under the influence

Michelle Feng and Mason A. Porter

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033426 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

The authors use topological methods to analyze a variety of spatial data sets from different applications, including random spatial networks, city-street networks, spiderwebs, and snowflakes. They demonstrate that these methods can capture information about the size and regularity of various network features, allowing them to describe city blocks, classify the effects of drugs on the webs spun by spiders, and more.

Brillouin light scattering of spin waves inaccessible with free-space light

Ryan Freeman, Robert Lemasters, Tomi Kalejaiye, Feng Wang, Guanxiong Chen, Jinjun Ding, Mingzhong Wu, Vladislav E. Demidov, Sergej O. Demokritov, Hayk Harutyunyan, and Sergei Urazhdin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033427 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

The authors shows that a nanoscale antenna can be used to increase the spectral range of Brillouin light scattering from magnons in thin magnetic films. The paper derives an expression for its spectra that connects the antenna geometry and the wavevectors of magnons involved in scattering

Fate of fractional quantum Hall states in open quantum systems: Characterization of correlated topological states for the full Liouvillian

Tsuneya Yoshida, Koji Kudo, Hosho Katsura, and Yasuhiro Hatsugai

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033428 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

The authors use the pseudo-spin Chern number of the Liouvillian, as defined by twisting the boundary conditions only for one of the subspaces of the doubled Hilbert space, to characterize correlated topological states in open quantum systems.

Ab initio solution of the many-electron Schrödinger equation with deep neural networks

David Pfau, James S. Spencer, Alexander G. D. G. Matthews, and W. M. C. Foulkes

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033429 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

This paper presents a deep neural network that can be used as a wavefunction Ansatz for variational quantum Monte Carlo on many-electron systems.

Ferromagnetic kinetic exchange interaction in magnetic insulators

Zhishuo Huang, Dan Liu, Akseli Mansikkamäki, Veacheslav Vieru, Naoya Iwahara, and Liviu F. Chibotaru

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033430 (2020) - Published 16 September, 2020

This work studies the onset of ferromagnetism in the presence of exchange interactions using first principles.

Strongly coupled quantum phonon fluid in a solvable model

Evyatar Tulipman and Erez Berg

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033431 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

This work studies a solvable model of strongly coupled phonons that can be viewed as a bosonic variant of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model. In addition to the high-temperature classical and low-temperature semiclassical regimes, the authors show that the model have an intermediate-temperature ‘Planckian’ regime where the quasiparticle picture fails as the phonon lifetime is of the order of the Planckian time scale.

Kondo screening in Co adatoms with full Coulomb interaction

Angelo Valli, Marc Philipp Bahlke, Alexander Kowalski, Michael Karolak, Carmen Herrmann, and Giorgio Sangiovanni

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033432 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

This article revisits the prototypical Co/Cu(001) Kondo system and shows that different parameterizations of the Coulomb interaction yield different screening properties and Kondo scenarios.

Quenched dynamics of artificial colloidal spin ice

A. Libál, A. del Campo, C. Nisoli, C. Reichhardt, and C. J. O. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033433 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

The authors uncover a competition between critical coarsening and the universal Kibble-Zurek mechanism in artificial spin ice through quenches across the interaction regime, and show how the former governs the dynamics in the presence of strong Coulomb interaction between monopoles for quenches near the critical point.

Slope invariant T-linear resistivity from local self-energy

Peter Cha, Aavishkar A. Patel, Emanuel Gull, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033434 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

This paper compares lattice models of coupled SYK quantum dots and the Hubbard model in single-site DMFT to study the slope-invariant T-linear resistivity.

Evidence of half-integer Shapiro steps originated from nonsinusoidal current phase relation in a short ballistic InAs nanowire Josephson junction

Kento Ueda, Sadashige Matsuo, Hiroshi Kamata, Yosuke Sato, Yuusuke Takeshige, Kan Li, Lars Samuelson, Hongqi Xu, and Seigo Tarucha

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033435 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

This paper reports on half-integer Shapiro steps in a short ballistic InAs nanowire Josephson junction and show that the half-integer steps are originated from the skewed current phase relation.

Domain walls in vertically vibrated monolayers of cylinders confined in annuli

Ariel Díaz-De Armas, Martín Maza-Cuello, Yuri Martínez-Ratón, and Enrique Velasco

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033436 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

The authors show the presence of four point-likedefects in the tetratic order parameter field of vertically vibratedgranular rods confined in annuli. The defects are embedded into fourdomain walls with tetratic order which separate four annular sectorswith smectic order.

Stability and dynamics of optically levitated dielectric disks in a Gaussian standing wave beyond the harmonic approximation

T. Seberson and F. Robicheaux

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033437 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

This article describes the coupling between rotation and translational modes in levitated dielectric nanodisks trapped in a Gaussian standing wave. The coupling arises from a third order term in the potential due to the Gaussian and standing wave geometry of the beam.

Robustness of quantized transport through edge states of finite length: Imaging current density in Floquet topological versus quantum spin and anomalous Hall insulators

Utkarsh Bajpai, Mark J. H. Ku, and Branislav K. Nikolić

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033438 (2020) - Published 17 September, 2020

The authors use computational quantum transport to obtain images of charge current density within irradiated graphene as the realization of a time-dependent Floquet topological insulator.

Probing quantum spin liquids in equilibrium using the inverse spin Hall effect

Joshua Aftergood and So Takei

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033439 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

This paper applies ideas from spintronics to propose a bilayer system as a spectral probe of spin fluctuations in two-dimensional quantum spin liquids.

Multilevel coherences in quantum dots

Martin T. Maurer, Jürgen König, and Herbert Schoeller

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033440 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

The authors introduce the concept of flavor polarization for multilevel quantum dots coupled to generic reservoirs. They derive kinetic equations for the dot flavor polarization and identify flavor rotation as the cause of off-resonance negative differential conductance.

Low-dimensional fluctuations and pseudogap in Gaudin-Yang Fermi gases

Hiroyuki Tajima, Shoichiro Tsutsui, and Takahiro M. Doi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033441 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

The authors investigate the Gaudin-Yang model within the many-body T-matrix approach and explore the low-dimensional fluctuations, pseudogap effects, and its limitations

Field master equation theory of the self-excited Hawkes process

Kiyoshi Kanazawa and Didier Sornette

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033442 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

The authors solve the self-excited Hawkes process by introducing a field master equation that transforms non-Markovian stochastic processes into Markov fields. This theory predicts a power law distribution of the activity rates with a non-universal exponent near criticality.

Comparisons of wave dynamics in Hodgkin-Huxley and Markov-state formalisms for the sodium (Na) channel in some mathematical models for human cardiac tissue

Mahesh Kumar Mulimani, Alok Ranjan Nayak, and Rahul Pandit

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033443 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

The authors compare two different Markov models with that of a Hodgkin-Huxley model for the wild-type and mutant Na ion-channel in a cardiac myocyte and study the differences in the resultant wave dynamics.

Fault-tolerant quantum speedup from constant depth quantum circuits

Rawad Mezher, Joe Ghalbouni, Joseph Dgheim, and Damian Markham

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033444 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

This work shows how to obtain a quantum-over-classical advantage which is robust to noise, by using quantum circuits of constant depth.

Fluctuation-frustrated flat band instabilities in NdNiO2

Mi-Young Choi, Warren E. Pickett, and Kwan-Woo Lee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033445 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

The authors use first principles calculation to study the magnetic and conductive behavior of nonmagnetic NdNiO2 and its undoped, isostructural and isoelectronic, cuprate

Reinforcement-learning-assisted quantum optimization

Matteo M. Wauters, Emanuele Panizon, Glen B. Mbeng, and Giuseppe E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033446 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach to the quantum approximate optimization algorithm and show that the agent learns optimal adiabatic schedules on the Ising model.

Benchmarking the noise sensitivity of different parametric two-qubit gates in a single superconducting quantum computing platform

M. Ganzhorn, G. Salis, D. J. Egger, A. Fuhrer, M. Mergenthaler, C. Müller, P. Müller, S. Paredes, M. Pechal, M. Werninghaus, and S. Filipp

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033447 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

The authors propose both a exchange-type and controlled-phase gates with high fidelity on a superconducting qubit platform and analyze their susceptibility to various error sources.

Critical current for an insulating regime of an underdamped current-biased topological Josephson junction

Aleksandr E. Svetogorov, Daniel Loss, and Jelena Klinovaja

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033448 (2020) - Published 18 September, 2020

This work studies the critical supercurrent for the insulating regime of a topological Josephson junction in the presence of Majoranas.

Quantum jump approach to microscopic heat engines

Paul Menczel, Christian Flindt, and Kay Brandner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033449 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

The authors derive a family of operationally accessible thermodynamic bounds on the performance of microscopic heat engines.

Optimal control of excitable systems near criticality

Kathleen Finlinson, Woodrow L. Shew, Daniel B. Larremore, and Juan G. Restrepo

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033450 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

The authors study networks of coupled excitable systems and show that macroscopic variables are more accurately controlled for a wider range of target values when the system is near the critical regime.

Intense proton acceleration in ultrarelativistic interaction with nanochannels

L. A. Gizzi, G. Cristoforetti, F. Baffigi, F. Brandi, G. D'Arrigo, A. Fazzi, L. Fulgentini, D. Giove, P. Koester, L. Labate, G. Maero, D. Palla, M. Romé, M. Russo, D. Terzani, and P. Tomassini

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033451 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

The authors compare thin layers of nanochannels and plain thin foils as targets for ultraintense laser driven proton acceleration, showing a more intense flux of protons with higher energy with nanochannels.

Functional sensitivity and mutational robustness of proteins

Qian-Yuan Tang, Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama, and Kunihiko Kaneko

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033452 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

This paper studies the compatibility of the functional sensitivity and mutational robustness of proteins. The interplay of the two aspects leads to power-law distributions in the vibration spectra of proteins.

Synthetic flux attachment

Gerard Valentí-Rojas, Niclas Westerberg, and Patrik Öhberg

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033453 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

The authors obtain an emergent Chern-Simons gauge theory from a microscopic light-matter Hamiltonian.

Angular momentum of optical modes in a silicon channel waveguide

Dengke Zhang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033454 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

This work studies the behavior of angular momentum of highly confined optical modes in a channel waveguide, in which the influence of transverse confinement is characterized by the average transverse wavevectors

Relative entropy and catalytic relative majorization

Soorya Rethinasamy and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033455 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

The authors provide a physical interpretation of the relative entropy in a one-shot setting, when only one experiment can be conducted

Quantized quasinormal-mode description of nonlinear cavity-QED effects from coupled resonators with a Fano-like resonance

Sebastian Franke, Marten Richter, Juanjuan Ren, Andreas Knorr, and Stephen Hughes

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033456 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

This work presents a derivation of generalized input-output relations and the output electric field operator for quantized quasinormal modes, and applications towards the weak and strong light-matter coupling regime for a dielectric-metallic hybrid resonator coupled to a quantum emitter in the nonlinear cavity-QED regime.

Chain-stretch relaxation from low-frequency Fourier transform rheology

C. D. Reynolds, D. M. Hoyle, T. C. B. McLeish, and R. L. Thompson

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033457 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

This work presents experimental medium amplitude oscillatory shear rheology for near-monodisperse polymer melts and show the onset of chain stretch relaxation.

Transport across twist angle domains in moiré graphene

Bikash Padhi, Apoorv Tiwari, Titus Neupert, and Shinsei Ryu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033458 (2020) - Published 21 September, 2020

This work studies the tunneling behavior of moir\’e electrons as they move across domains of different twist angles.

Valence-bond solids, vestigial order, and emergent SO(5) symmetry in a two-dimensional quantum magnet

Jun Takahashi and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033459 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors construct a concrete spin-1/2 model that exhibits a quantum phase transition on the two dimensional square lattice.

Theoretical investigation of twin boundaries in WO3: Structure, properties, and implications for superconductivity

Noé Mascello, Nicola A. Spaldin, Awadhesh Narayan, and Quintin N. Meier

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033460 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors calculate the structure of ferroelastic domain walls in electron-doped WO3, and find that electrons accumulate at the domain walls leading to structural changes.

Fine structure of heating in a quasiperiodically driven critical quantum system

Bastien Lapierre, Kenny Choo, Apoorv Tiwari, Clément Tauber, Titus Neupert, and R. Chitra

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033461 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors study a one-dimensional critical quantum system subject to a Fibonacci quasiperiodic drive that alternates between two spatially modulated coupling profiles and find regions of fast heating as well as ultra-slow heating regions where the system remains non-heated within an experimentally accessible time.

Magnetic mixed valent semimetal EuZnSb2 with Dirac states in the band structure

Aifeng Wang (王爱峰), Sviatoslav Baranets, Yu Liu (刘育), Xiao Tong, E. Stavitski, Jing Zhang, Yisheng Chai, Wei-Guo Yin (尹卫国), Svilen Bobev, and C. Petrovic

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033462 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors describe an antiferromagnetic semimetal, EuZnSb2, with quasi-two-dimensional Dirac states in the band structure.

Interplay of quantum phase transition and flat band in hybrid lattices

Gui-Lei Zhu, Hamidreza Ramezani, Clive Emary, Jin-Hua Gao, Ying Wu, and Xin-You Lü

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033463 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors establish the connection between flat band and the quantum phase transition from normal phase to the superradiant phase in an extended Dicke-Hubbard lattice.

How to select observers

Robert Garisto

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033464 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

This paper develops a nested-set formalism for problems in which observers are part of the system. Whether observer selection effects arise in a variety of problems is shown to depend on how observers are selected.

Generation of quantum randomness by probability estimation with classical side information

Emanuel Knill, Yanbao Zhang, and Peter Bierhorst

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033465 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors use probability estimation in the general situation where the randomness can be extracted from a sequence of private data determined in an arbitrary way by the settings-dependent measurement outcomes of each trial.

Impurity-induced resonant spinon zero modes in Dirac quantum spin liquids

Guangze Chen and J. L. Lado

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033466 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

The authors show the emergence of resonant spinon zero modes in a Dirac quantum spin liquid in the presence of magnetic impurities. Such zero modes can be probed with inelastic spectroscopy and electrically-driven paramagnetic resonance with scanning tunnel microscopy.

Polarity reversal of the charge carrier in tetragonal TiHx(x=1.62.0) at low temperatures

Ryota Shimizu, Yuki Sasahara, Ikutaro Hamada, Hiroyuki Oguchi, Shohei Ogura, Tetsuroh Shirasawa, Miho Kitamura, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Shin-ichi Orimo, Katsuyuki Fukutani, and Taro Hitosugi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033467 (2020) - Published 22 September, 2020

This paper presents polarity reversal of the charge carrier in tetragonal TiHx (x = 1.6-2.0) at low temperatures. The volume change leads to the change in the aspect ratio of the tetragonal lattice, altering the contribution of electron and hole at the Fermi surface and the sign of the Hall coefficient.

Particle flows around an intruder

Satoshi Takada and Hisao Hayakawa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033468 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

The authors study the the drag force acting on a stationary spherical intruder in particle flows by controlling the ratio of the injected speed of the particles to the thermal speed, using molecular dynamics simulations.

Gate-tunable cross-plane heat dissipation in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides

Zhun-Yong Ong, Gang Zhang, Yong-Wei Zhang, and Linyou Cao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033470 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

This paper develops a theory of electronic thermal boundary conductance mediated by remote phonon scattering for the single-layer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors MoS2 and WS2.

Observation of a strongly ferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

SeungJung Huh, Kyungtae Kim, Kiryang Kwon, and Jae-yoon Choi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033471 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

The authors show strongly ferromagnetic spinor condensates of 7Li atoms, where the spin interaction energy is comparable to the spin-independent energy.

Plunging in the Dirac sea using graphene quantum dots

François Fillion-Gourdeau, Pierre Levesque, and Steve MacLean

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033472 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

The authors investigate the generation of electron-hole pairs in graphene by the Coulomb potential of a passing electron and show that charge carriers are generated via adiabatic pair production around avoided crossings.

Anomalous magnetic anisotropy and magnetic nanostructure in pure Fe induced by high-pressure torsion straining

Y. Oba, N. Adachi, Y. Todaka, E. P. Gilbert, and H. Mamiya

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033473 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

This paper shows the formation of nanosized spin misalignment in pure Fe processed via high-pressure torsion straining.

Strong zero-field Förster resonances in K-Rb Rydberg systems

J. Susanne Otto, Niels Kjærgaard, and Amita B. Deb

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033474 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

This work reveals strong interspecies Förster resonances between Rydberg-excited atomic rubidium and potassium with ultralong-range zero-field interactions. The paper shows how this may exploited in an optical transistor based on two spatially separated atomic ensembles

Fast and robust quantum state transfer in a topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chain with next-to-nearest-neighbor interactions

Felippo M. D'Angelis, Felipe A. Pinheiro, David Guéry-Odelin, Stefano Longhi, and François Impens

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033475 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

This work proposes a method of fast quantum state transfer in topological spin chains based on a dynamical control of Next-to-Nearest Neighbor interactions.

Real-space cluster dynamical mean-field theory: Center-focused extrapolation on the one- and two particle-levels

Marcel Klett, Nils Wentzell, Thomas Schäfer, Fedor Simkovic, IV, Olivier Parcollet, Sabine Andergassen, and Philipp Hansmann

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033476 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

This paper uses cellular dynamical mean-field theory for the two-dimensional Hubbard model to propose a cluster center-focused-extrapolation scheme with faster convergence.

Dynamics of transposable elements generates structure and symmetries in genetic sequences

Giampaolo Cristadoro, Mirko Degli Esposti, and Eduardo G. Altmann

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033477 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

The paper shows how the observations of symmetry and structure in DNA sequences can emerge from a dynamical system that models the action of transposal elements.

Effective self-similar expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate: Free space versus confined geometries

David Viedma and Michele Modugno

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033478 (2020) - Published 23 September, 2020

The authors numerically explore self-similar solutions of three dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in expansion, both in free space and in waveguide settings.

Chiral excitonic instability of two-dimensional tilted Dirac cones

Daigo Ohki, Michihiro Hirata, Takehiro Tani, Kazushi Kanoda, and Akito Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033479 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This work explores excitonic pairing instability in Zeeman-split two- dimensional Dirac cones with titled valleys, considering self-energy corrections via renormalization-group technique and a ladder-type vertex. The authors demonstrate how the pairing is affected by in-plane magnetic field and small carrier doping near charge neutrality.

Beyond linear coupling in microwave optomechanics

D. Cattiaux, X. Zhou, S. Kumar, I. Golokolenov, R. R. Gazizulin, A. Luck, L. Mercier de Lépinay, M. Sillanpää, A. D. Armour, A. Fefferman, and E. Collin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033480 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This paper investigates the nonlinear effects that imprint the self-oscillating state of a nanomechanical oscillator embedded in a microwave cavity.

Inclined convection in a layer of liquid water with poorly conducting boundaries

Stefano Castellini, Marina Carpineti, Fabrizio Croccolo, and Alberto Vailati

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033481 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This work reports a transition between two convective heat transfer regimes, occurring when a horizontal layer of liquid water is inclined at an angle smaller than one degree in the presence of poorly conducting boundaries.

Tuning the orbital angular momentum of high harmonics by manipulating the collinear photon channels in two-color high-harmonic generation

Zhe Wang, Weiyi Hong, Feng Wang, and Qing Liao

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033482 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This work investigates the characteristics of collinear photon channels in the two-color vortex high-order harmonic generation, and proposes a method to generate the harmonic vortices with well-defined and tunable orbital angular momentum.

Stochasticity in radiative polarization of ultrarelativistic electrons in an ultrastrong laser pulse

Ren-Tong Guo, Yu Wang, Rashid Shaisultanov, Feng Wan, Zhong-Feng Xu, Yue-Yue Chen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Jian-Xing Li

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033483 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

The authors elucidate the impact of stochastic photon emissions on the electron spin dynamics and propose two methods to qualitatively observe the signatures of the stochastic effects of photon emissions with currently achievable laser facilities.

Tunable quantum switcher and router of single atoms using localized artificial magnetic fields

Yan-Jun Zhao, Ning Tan, Dongyang Yu, Boyang Liu, and Wu-Ming Liu

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033484 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The authors propose to generate localized artificial magnetic fields for cold atoms using two thin Raman laser beams in a two-rung two-leg ladder.

Multi-delay complexity collapse

S. Kamyar Tavakoli and André Longtin

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033485 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

The authors show that increasing the number of delays in nonlinear time-delayed dynamical systems can cause a reduction of complexity, using the KS and permutation entropies in the Lang-Kobayashi semiconductor laser model as well as the Mackey-Glass equation.

Quantum Lifshitz points and fluctuation-induced first-order phase transitions in imbalanced Fermi mixtures

Piotr Zdybel and Pawel Jakubczyk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033486 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This paper discusses the nature of the superfluid quantum phase transition in imbalanced Fermi mixtures, and shows that a quantum Lifshitz point can be obtained by fine-tuning the scattering length for experimentally relevant sets of parameters.

Spin-helix-driven insulating phase in two-dimensional lattice

HaRu K. Park, Hyeok-Jun Yang, and SungBin Lee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033487 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

This paper studies the emergent SU(2) symmetry in a spin-orbit-coupled system and specifically on a two-dimensional lattice, and observe stabilization the magnetic insulator with spiral-like magnetic ordering.

On-demand generation of higher-order Fock states in quantum-dot–cavity systems

M. Cosacchi, J. Wiercinski, T. Seidelmann, M. Cygorek, A. Vagov, D. E. Reiter, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033489 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

The authors explore preparation protocols for higher-order photonic Fock states in solid-state quantum-dot–cavity systems

Spatial inhomogeneity and the metal-insulator transition in Ca3(Ru1xTix)2O7

Frank Lechermann, Qiang Han, and Andrew J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033490 (2020) - Published 24 September, 2020

The authors perform a large-scale many-body investigation of Ti-doped Ca3Ru2O7 and show that the metal-to-insulator transition is driven by the interplay of strong electronic correlations and the doping-induced spread of crystal-field levels on the Ru sublattice.

Quantum damping of skyrmion crystal eigenmodes due to spontaneous quasiparticle decay

Alexander Mook, Jelena Klinovaja, and Daniel Loss

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033491 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors reveal a magnetic-field tunable spectral magnon broadening due to spontaneous quasiparticle decay in ferromagnetic skyrmion crystals, and study their quantum damping properties.

Quantum Zermelo problem for general energy resource bounds

Josep Maria Bofill, Ángel S. Sanz, Guillermo Albareda, Ibério de P. R. Moreira, and Wolfgang Quapp

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033492 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors show how the quantum Zermelo Hamiltonian, under certain energy-resource bounds, supplies a realizable time-optimal control protocol to manipulate the evolution of quantum state.

Majorana oscillations and parity crossings in semiconductor nanowire-based transmon qubits

J. Ávila, E. Prada, P. San-Jose, and R. Aguado

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033493 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

This paper investigates the microwave response of transmon qubits based on semiconducting nanowire Josephson junctions in the topological regime.

Floquet engineering of twisted double bilayer graphene

Martin Rodriguez-Vega, Michael Vogl, and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033494 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors consider twisted double-bilayer graphene driven by a light source subjected to free space and waveguide boundary conditions.

Time-induced second-order topological superconductors

Raditya Weda Bomantara

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033495 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The author proposes the generation of second-order topological superconductors by encoding some necessary topology in the time-domain.

Interfacial-hybridization-modified Ir ferromagnetism and electronic structure in LaMnO3/SrIrO3 superlattices

Yujun Zhang, Yong Zheng Luo, Liang Wu, Motohiro Suzuki, Qinghua Zhang, Yasuyuki Hirata, Kohei Yamagami, Kou Takubo, Keisuke Ikeda, Kohei Yamamoto, Akira Yasui, Naomi Kawamura, Chun Lin, Keisuke Koshiishi, Xin Liu, Jinxing Zhang, Yasushi Hotta, X. Renshaw Wang, Atsushi Fujimori, Yuanhua Lin, Cewen Nan, Lei Shen, and Hiroki Wadati

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033496 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

This work explores the mechanism of interfacial coupling in LaMnO3/SrIrO3 superlattices by x-ray spectroscopies and first-principles calculations. The superlattice-period dependent properties of the Ir magnetic moments can be attributed to the realignment of electron spin during the formation of the interfacial molecular orbital.

Discrimination of thermal baths by single-qubit probes

Ilaria Gianani, Donato Farina, Marco Barbieri, Valeria Cimini, Vasco Cavina, and Vittorio Giovannetti

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033497 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors use indirect probing to discriminate thermal reservoirs with either bosonic or fermionic statistics and temperatures, by means of qubits

Nonequilibrium readiness and precision of Gaussian quantum thermometers

Luca Mancino, Marco G. Genoni, Marco Barbieri, and Mauro Paternostro

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033498 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors study quantum thermometers using Gaussian states and show that the speed of their response is governed by their quantum properties while their precision reaches its optimal value at thermalization.

Discovering symmetry invariants and conserved quantities by interpreting siamese neural networks

Sebastian J. Wetzel, Roger G. Melko, Joseph Scott, Maysum Panju, and Vijay Ganesh

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033499 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors train a Siamese neural network to decide whether two different descriptions describe the same physical object. The neural network learns to identify the objects by calculating the underlying invariants and conserved quantities.

Origin of large-amplitude oscillations of dust particles in a plasma sheath

Joshua Méndez Harper, Guram Gogia, Brady Wu, Zachary Laseter, and Justin C. Burton

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033500 (2020) - Published 25 September, 2020

The authors investigate the how particles levitating in a plasma extract energy from their environment to produce stable, large-amplitude vertical oscillations

Two-body mobility edge in the Anderson-Hubbard model in three dimensions: Molecular versus scattering states

Filippo Stellin and Giuliano Orso

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033501 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

The authors study the phase diagram of Anderson localization for a system of two particles moving in a random three-dimensional lattice and coupled by onsite, Hubbard, interactions.

Mitigation of strong electromagnetic pulses on the LMJ-PETAL facility

M. Bardon, B. Etchessahar, F. Lubrano, S. Bazzoli, M. Ferri, J. Ribolzi, P. Mirabel, A. Compant La Fontaine, N. Mallejac, S. Cadra, L. Chaigne, S. Depierreux, J. Baggio, N. Blanchot, G. Birindelli, A. Casner, and V. T. Tikhonchuk

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033502 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

This paper shows how electromagnetic pulses mitigation is performed on the LMJ-PETAL laser facility. In particular, the authors show mitigation suppression for joint shots with appropriate time delay between the LMJ nanosecond beams and the PETAL picosecond beam.

Collapse of the simple localized 3d1 orbital picture in Mott insulator

Shunsuke Kitou, Taishun Manjo, Naoyuki Katayama, Tatsuya Shishidou, Taka-hisa Arima, Yasujiro Taguchi, Yoshinori Tokura, Toshikazu Nakamura, Toshihiko Yokoyama, Kunihisa Sugimoto, and Hiroshi Sawa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033503 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

This work introduces a direct determination method of an orbital state in materials, using synchrotron X-ray diffraction and an electron density analysis.

Two-axis two-spin squeezed states

Jonas Kitzinger, Manish Chaudhary, Manikandan Kondappan, Valentin Ivannikov, and Tim Byrnes

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033504 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

This paper examines the properties of the states generated by the two-spin generalization of the two-axis countertwisting Hamiltonian. The spin squeezing produces correlations for arbitrary spin directions, and can violate the Bell-CHSH inequality with quadratic spin correlators

Rényi entanglement entropy of Fermi and non-Fermi liquids: Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and dynamical mean field theories

Arijit Haldar, Surajit Bera, and Sumilan Banerjee

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033505 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

The paper presents a path-integral method for calculating entanglement entropies for interacting fermions using a representation of Renyi entropies of a subsystem in terms of fermionic displacement operators.

Phase diagram of solitons in the polar phase of a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate

I-Kang Liu, Shih-Chuan Gou, and Hiromitsu Takeuchi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033506 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

This work shows the soliton structures in a spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate under the influence of quadratic Zeeman energy as well as the spin-dependent collisions between atoms.

Probing two-level systems with electron spin inversion recovery of defects at the Si/SiO2 interface

M. Belli, M. Fanciulli, and R. de Sousa

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033507 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

The authors show that measurements of nonexponential time decay of dangling-bond spin magnetization produces information about amorphous two-level systems at the silicon/silicon-oxide interface.

Work as an external quantum observable and an operational quantum work fluctuation theorem

Konstantin Beyer, Kimmo Luoma, and Walter T. Strunz

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033508 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

The authors propose an operational definition of quantum work which allows to determine free energy differences for unknown Hamiltonians.

Competing interactions in dysprosium garnets and generalized magnetic phase diagram of S=12 spins on a hyperkagome network

I. A. Kibalin, F. Damay, X. Fabrèges, A. Gukassov, and S. Petit

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033509 (2020) - Published 28 September, 2020

The authors use a combination of different neutron scattering techniques to demonstrate that the rare-earth anisotropy in the hyperkagome lattice of garnet can be tuned away from the standard Ising picture.

Exciton-polariton interference controlled by electric field

D. K. Loginov, P. A. Belov, V. G. Davydov, I. Ya. Gerlovin, I. V. Ignatiev, A. V. Kavokin, and Y. Masumoto

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033510 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The authors show how the spectral oscillations in reflectance spectra caused by the interference of exciton-polaritonic waves in a wide quantum well are sensitive to an applied electric field, which gives rise to the inversion of the oscillation phase at some critical value of the field strength.

Chiral anomalies induced transport in Weyl metals in quantizing magnetic field

Kamal Das, Sahil Kumar Singh, and Amit Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033511 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The authors explore the signatures of quantum chiral anomalies in Weyl superfluids in transport experiments at high magnetic fields.

Quantum Zeno effect appears in stages

Kyrylo Snizhko, Parveen Kumar, and Alessandro Romito

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033512 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The work investigates the stochastic dynamics of a qubit under continuous partial measurement, and show that the Zeno regime is reached via a cascade of transitions, each happening at a different measurement strength.

Parameter estimation for strong phase transitions in supranuclear matter using gravitational-wave astronomy

Peter T. H. Pang, Tim Dietrich, Ingo Tews, and Chris Van Den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033514 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

Using Bayesian inference techniques, this paper shows that a strong phase transition from hadronic matter to more exotic forms of matter can have a measurable imprint on the gravitational-wave signal of binary neutron-star mergers.

Intrinsic sign problems in topological quantum field theories

Adam Smith, Omri Golan, and Zohar Ringel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033515 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

This work shows that a class of topologically ordered lattice models have intrinsic sign-problems, which cannot be removed by any local unitary transformation. This is achieved by relating the anyonic statistics of the topological excitations to the non-negativity of the ground states.

Local chemical bonding and structural properties in Ti3AlC2 MAX phase and Ti3C2Tx MXene probed by Ti 1s x-ray absorption spectroscopy

Martin Magnuson and Lars-Åke Näslund

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033516 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The authors investigate the MAX phase material Ti3AlC2 and the corresponding MXene material Ti3C2Tx, where the latter was examined before and after a series of heat treatments. The Ti-C bond lengths in the Ti3C2-layers are altered when the stronger interacting F and O in Ti3C2Tx replace the Al-monolayer in Ti3AlC2 and an additional heat treatment to 750 °C changes the Ti-O/F coordination.

Experimental demonstration of cavity-free optical isolators and optical circulators

En-Ze Li, Dong-Sheng Ding, Yi-Chen Yu, Ming-Xin Dong, Lei Zeng, Wei-Hang Zhang, Ying-Hao Ye, Huai-Zhi Wu, Zhi-Han Zhu, Wei Gao, Guang-Can Guo, and Bao-Sen Shi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033517 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The authors present experimental results pertaining to the realization of optical isolators and circulators. This paper realizes it experimentally with a cross-Kerr nonlinearity achieved with a medium comprising a thermal vapor of N-type atoms

Time-dependent properties of interacting active matter: Dynamical behavior of one-dimensional systems of self-propelled particles

Lorenzo Caprini and Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033518 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

This paper studies the dynamical properties of a one-dimensional active matter system at high density, and observe the spontaneous alignment of the particles’ velocities giving rise to ordered velocity domains.

Geometric detection of hierarchical backbones in real networks

Elisenda Ortiz, Guillermo García-Pérez, and M. Ángeles Serrano

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033519 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

This work presents a geometric framework for the detection of hierarchical ordering in real complex networks and provides a filtering mechanism able to extract hierarchical backbones which favor cooperation in evolutionary dynamics modelling social dilemmas

Apparent superballistic dynamics in one-dimensional random walks with biased detachment

Chapin S. Korosec, David A. Sivak, and Nancy R. Forde

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033520 (2020) - Published 29 September, 2020

The authors find a random walk can be tuned to exhibit dynamics from conventional diffusion to superballistic motion by adjusting detachment from its track.

Disorder-induced quantum phase transitions in three-dimensional second-order topological insulators

C. Wang and X. R. Wang

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033521 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

This paper reports a generic quantum phase transition route of disordered three-dimensional second-order topological insulators under disorder.

Structured heterosymmetric quantum droplets

Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Boris A. Malomed, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033522 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors study quantum droplets by lending two components of the droplet different vorticities, or different multipolarities. The paper presents stability charts for the resultant hetero-symmetric states.

Binary homodyne detection for observing quadrature squeezing in satellite links

Christian R. Müller, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, Christian Peuntinger, and Christoph Marquardt

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033523 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors show that efficient detection of quantum squeezing in a field quadrature of an optical mode is possible using homodyne detection of just one-bit resolution, as is available on optical satellites already in orbit.

Balancing error and dissipation in computing

Paul M. Riechers, Alexander B. Boyd, Gregory W. Wimsatt, and James P. Crutchfield

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033524 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors establish a new bound on the energy required for computation that depends on the logical reciprocity of a computation’s memory transitions.

Cesium nDJ+6S1/2 Rydberg molecules and their permanent electric dipole moments

Suying Bai, Xiaoxuan Han, Jingxu Bai, Yuechun Jiao, Jianming Zhao, Suotang Jia, and Georg Raithel

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033525 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors investigate long-range Cs2 molecules consisting of a ground-state and a Rydberg atom, and measure and calculate permanent molecular electric-dipole moments showing that the sign of the dipole moment is negative, reflecting a deficiency of Rydberg-electron density near the ground-state constituent

Anomalous refraction into free space with all-dielectric binary metagratings

Nikolaos L. Tsitsas and Constantinos Valagiannopoulos

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033526 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors report on strong anomalous transmission in dielectric electrically thin binary structures comprising only two materials in alternating rectangular posts.

Exact bosonization in arbitrary dimensions

Yu-An Chen

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033527 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The author provides a method to map any fermionic system in any dimension to a spin system, which considers the spin system as a Z2 gauge theory with a modified gauge constraint.

Observation of modulation instability and rogue breathers on stationary periodic waves

Gang Xu, Amin Chabchoub, Dmitry E. Pelinovsky, and Bertrand Kibler

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033528 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors report on the the observation of modulation instability and rogue waves on a range of steady periodic envelopes.

Persistence homology of entangled rings

Fabio Landuzzi, Takenobu Nakamura, Davide Michieletto, and Takahiro Sakaue

Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033529 (2020) - Published 30 September, 2020

The authors apply a method of persistent homology to large datasets obtained from molecular dynamics simulations, to extract the robust topological information in system of entangled ring polymers.

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