Volume 96, Issue 10

15 November 2017

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Shape of the acoustic gravitational wave power spectrum from a first order phase transition

Mark Hindmarsh, Stephan J. Huber, Kari Rummukainen, and David J. Weir

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103520 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

The authors present the largest numerical simulations to date of first order phase transitions in the early universe, in order to explore the shape of acoustically generated gravitational waves and forecast the prospects for detection with LISA. The latter, a space-based gravitational wave observatory due to launch in about a decade, is an ideal instrument to observe gravitational wave signals from phase transitions in the electroweak era, corresponding to roughly 10 pico-seconds after the big bang.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermal diffusivity and chaos in metals without quasiparticles

Mike Blake, Richard A. Davison, and Subir Sachdev

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106008 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

The authors study the Fermi surface in “strange” metals, where there are no well defined quasiparticle excitations. They show that in holographic models, the thermal conductivity is related solely to the gravitational metric near the horizon.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Reassessing the link between $B$ -modes and inflation

Gabriel León, Abhishek Majhi, Elias Okon, and Daniel Sudarsky

Phys. Rev. D 96, 101301(R) (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Averaged energy conditions and bouncing universes

Massimo Giovannini

Phys. Rev. D 96, 101302(R) (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Measurement of Hubble constant with stellar-mass binary black holes

Atsushi Nishizawa

Phys. Rev. D 96, 101303(R) (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Exact solution of the Schwarzian theory

Vladimir V. Belokurov and Evgeniy T. Shavgulidze

Phys. Rev. D 96, 101701(R) (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Curved Witten-Dijkgraaf-Verlinde-Verlinde equation and $N = 4$ mechanics

Nikolay Kozyrev, Sergey Krivonos, Olaf Lechtenfeld, Armen Nersessian, and Anton Sutulin

Phys. Rev. D 96, 101702(R) (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Condition on Ramond-Ramond fluxes for factorization of worldsheet scattering in anti–de Sitter space

Linus Wulff

Phys. Rev. D 96, 101901(R) (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

ARTICLES

Calibration uncertainty for Advanced LIGO’s first and second observing runs

Craig Cahillane, Joe Betzwieser, Duncan A. Brown, Evan Goetz, Evan D. Hall, Kiwamu Izumi, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Sudarshan Karki, Jeff S. Kissel, Greg Mendell, Richard L. Savage, Darkhan Tuyenbayev, Alex Urban, Aaron Viets, Madeline Wade, and Alan J. Weinstein

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102001 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Performance comparison of multidetector detection statistics in targeted compact binary coalescence gravitational wave searches

K. Haris and Archana Pai

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102002 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

BICEP2 / Keck Array IX: New bounds on anisotropies of CMB polarization rotation and implications for axionlike particles and primordial magnetic fields

P. A. R. Ade et al. (Keck Array and BICEP2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102003 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Challenges for testing the no-hair theorem with current and planned gravitational-wave detectors

Eric Thrane, Paul D. Lasky, and Yuri Levin

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102004 (2017) - Published 14 November, 2017

Quantum time: Experimental multitime correlations

Ekaterina Moreva, Marco Gramegna, Giorgio Brida, Lorenzo Maccone, and Marco Genovese

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102005 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

Hidden Markov model tracking of continuous gravitational waves from a binary neutron star with wandering spin. II. Binary orbital phase tracking

S. Suvorova, P. Clearwater, A. Melatos, L. Sun, W. Moran, and R. J. Evans

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102006 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

Exploring the dark matter inelastic frontier with 79.6 days of PandaX-II data

Xun Chen et al. (PandaX-II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102007 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Spline based search method for unmodeled transient gravitational wave chirps

Soumya D. Mohanty

Phys. Rev. D 96, 102008 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Warm asymmetric quark matter and protoquark stars within the confined isospin-density-dependent mass model

Peng-Cheng Chu and Lie-Wen Chen

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103001 (2017) - Published 3 November, 2017

Primordial black holes from scalar field evolution in the early universe

Eric Cotner and Alexander Kusenko

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103002 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays from tidally-ignited white dwarfs

Rafael Alves Batista and Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103003 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Ultrahigh energy neutrino afterglows of nearby long duration gamma-ray bursts

Jessymol K. Thomas, Reetanjali Moharana, and Soebur Razzaque

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103004 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Solar and nuclear physics uncertainties in cosmic-ray propagation

Nicola Tomassetti

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103005 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

Solar atmospheric neutrinos: A new neutrino floor for dark matter searches

Kenny C. Y. Ng, John F. Beacom, Annika H. G. Peter, and Carsten Rott

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103006 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

Measurement of light and charge yield of low-energy electronic recoils in liquid xenon

L. W. Goetzke, E. Aprile, M. Anthony, G. Plante, and M. Weber

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103007 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

Neutrino signal from pair-instability supernovae

Warren P. Wright, Matthew S. Gilmer, Carla Fröhlich, and James P. Kneller

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103008 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

Newtonian analysis of multiscalar boson stars with large self-couplings

Nahomi Kan and Kiyoshi Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103009 (2017) - Published 14 November, 2017

Modified Schrodinger-Poisson equation: Quantum polytropes

Jeremy Heyl, Matthew W. Choptuik, and David Shinkaruk

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103010 (2017) - Published 14 November, 2017

Modeling differential rotations of compact stars in equilibriums

Kōji Uryū, Antonios Tsokaros, Luca Baiotti, Filippo Galeazzi, Keisuke Taniguchi, and Shin’ichirou Yoshida

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103011 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

Evolution of the magnetic field in neutron stars

M. E. Gusakov, E. M. Kantor, and D. D. Ofengeim

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103012 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

HAWC observations strongly favor pulsar interpretations of the cosmic-ray positron excess

Dan Hooper, Ilias Cholis, Tim Linden, and Ke Fang

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103013 (2017) - Published 17 November, 2017

Astrophysical haloscopes

Günter Sigl

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103014 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Upper-twin-peak quasiperiodic oscillation in x-ray binaries and the energy from tidal circularization of relativistic orbits

C. Germanà

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103015 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Using HAWC to discover invisible pulsars

Tim Linden, Katie Auchettl, Joseph Bramante, Ilias Cholis, Ke Fang, Dan Hooper, Tanvi Karwal, and Shirley Weishi Li

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103016 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

Spin-flavor oscillations of ultrahigh-energy cosmic neutrinos in interstellar space: The role of neutrino magnetic moments

Podist Kurashvili, Konstantin A. Kouzakov, Levan Chotorlishvili, and Alexander I. Studenikin

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103017 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

A unified approach to $χ^{2}$ discriminators for searches of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences

Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Anuradha Gupta, Bhooshan Gadre, and Sukanta Bose

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103018 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

Anisotropy of the astrophysical gravitational wave background: Analytic expression of the angular power spectrum and correlation with cosmological observations

Giulia Cusin, Cyril Pitrou, and Jean-Philippe Uzan

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103019 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Thermodynamic constraints on a varying cosmological-constant-like term from the holographic equipartition law with a power-law corrected entropy

Nobuyoshi Komatsu

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103507 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Small-scale effects of thermal inflation on halo abundance at high- $z$ , galaxy substructure abundance, and 21-cm power spectrum

Sungwook E. Hong, Heeseung Zoe, and Kyungjin Ahn

Phys. Rev. D 96, 103515 (2017) - Published 14 November, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Curvature invariant characterization of event horizons of four-dimensional black holes conformal to stationary black holes

David D. McNutt

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104022 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

New method for enhanced efficiency in detection of gravitational waves from supernovae using coherent network of detectors

S. Mukherjee, L. Salazar, J. Mittelstaedt, and O. Valdez

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104033 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Dimensional regularization of the IR divergences in the Fokker action of point-particle binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian order

Laura Bernard, Luc Blanchet, Alejandro Bohé, Guillaume Faye, and Sylvain Marsat

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104043 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Black hole horizons at the extremal limit in Lorentz-violating gravity

Nicola Franchini, Mehdi Saravani, and Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104044 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Principle of least decoherence for Newtonian semiclassical gravity

Antoine Tilloy and Lajos Diósi

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104045 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Stochastic gravitational wave background from smoothed cosmic string loops

Jose J. Blanco-Pillado and Ken D. Olum

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104046 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Exotic compact objects and how to quench their ergoregion instability

Elisa Maggio, Paolo Pani, and Valeria Ferrari

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104047 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Foundations of an effective-one-body model for coalescing binaries on eccentric orbits

Tanja Hinderer and Stanislav Babak

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104048 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Autonomous dynamical system approach for $f (R)$ gravity

S. D. Odintsov and V. K. Oikonomou

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104049 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Particle collisions and optical effects in the mining Kerr-Newman spacetimes

Zdeněk Stuchlík, Martin Blaschke, and Jan Schee

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104050 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Evolutions of centered Brill waves with a pseudospectral method

David Hilditch, Andreas Weyhausen, and Bernd Brügmann

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104051 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Multipole analysis for linearized $f (R)$ gravity with irreducible Cartesian tensors

Bofeng Wu and Chao-Guang Huang

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104052 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Komar fluxes of circularly polarized light beams and cylindrical metrics

D. Lynden-Bell and J. Bičák

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104053 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Fractal dimension of turbulent black holes

John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104054 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Penrose inequality in anti–de Sitter space

Viqar Husain and Suprit Singh

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104055 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Rotating and twisting locally rotationally symmetric imperfect fluids

Norbert Van den Bergh

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104056 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Stress-energy tensor of quantized massive fields in static wormhole spacetimes

Ewa Kocuper, Jerzy Matyjasek, and Kasia Zwierzchowska

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104057 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Gravitational wave signatures of highly compact boson star binaries

Carlos Palenzuela, Paolo Pani, Miguel Bezares, Vitor Cardoso, Luis Lehner, and Steven Liebling

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104058 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Early-time cosmology with stiff era from modified gravity

S. D. Odintsov and V. K. Oikonomou

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104059 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

First law of black holes with a universal horizon

Costantino Pacilio and Stefano Liberati

Phys. Rev. D 96, 104060 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Localization of observables in the Rindler wedge

M. Asorey, A. P. Balachandran, G. Marmo, and A. R. de Queiroz

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105001 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

$S O (10)$ thick branes and perturbative stability

Rafael Chavez, Rommel Guerrero, and R. Omar Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105002 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

One loop corrected conformally coupled scalar mode equations during inflation

Sibel Boran, Emre Onur Kahya, and Sohyun Park

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105003 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

Quantum estimation of parameters of classical spacetimes

T. G. Downes, J. R. van Meter, E. Knill, G. J. Milburn, and C. M. Caves

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105004 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

General treatment of quantum and classical spinning particles in external fields

Yuri N. Obukhov, Alexander J. Silenko, and Oleg V. Teryaev

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105005 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Covariant kinematics of light in media and a generalized Raychaudhuri equation

Robert T. Thompson and Mohsen Fathi

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105006 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

Nonlocal effective actions in semiclassical gravity: Thermal effects in stationary geometries

M. Elías, F. D. Mazzitelli, and L. G. Trombetta

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105007 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Twisted statistics and the structure of Lie-deformed Minkowski spaces

D. Meljanac, S. Meljanac, D. Pikutić, and Kumar S. Gupta

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105008 (2017) - Published 9 November, 2017

One-loop effective potential in the nonlocal supersymmetric gauge theory

F. S. Gama, J. R. Nascimento, A. Yu. Petrov, and P. J. Porfírio

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105009 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

Casimir energy of Sierpinski triangles

K. V. Shajesh, Prachi Parashar, Inés Cavero-Peláez, Jerzy Kocik, and Iver Brevik

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105010 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

Double-winding Wilson loops in the $S U (N)$ Yang-Mills theory

Ryutaro Matsudo and Kei-Ichi Kondo

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105011 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

Cosmology in the laboratory: An analogy between hyperbolic metamaterials and the Milne universe

David Figueiredo, Fernando Moraes, Sébastien Fumeron, and Bertrand Berche

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105012 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

Large gauge transformations and little group for soft photons

Yuta Hamada, Min-Seok Seo, and Gary Shiu

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105013 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

World sheets of spinning particles

D. S. Kaparulin and S. L. Lyakhovich

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105014 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

Infrared fixed point physics in $SO (N_{c})$ and $Sp (N_{c})$ gauge theories

Thomas A. Ryttov and Robert Shrock

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105015 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

Ground state for a massive scalar field in the BTZ spacetime with Robin boundary conditions

Francesco Bussola, Claudio Dappiaggi, Hugo R. C. Ferreira, and Igor Khavkine

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105016 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

Vacua and walls of mass-deformed Kähler nonlinear sigma models on $S O (2 N) / U (N)$

Bum-Hoon Lee, Chanyong Park, and Sunyoung Shin

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105017 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Scheme-independent calculations of physical quantities in an $N = 1$ supersymmetric gauge theory

Thomas A. Ryttov and Robert Shrock

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105018 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Anisotropic Unruh temperatures

Raúl E. Arias, Horacio Casini, Marina Huerta, and Diego Pontello

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105019 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Mode-sum prescription for vacuum polarization in black hole spacetimes in even dimensions

Peter Taylor and Cormac Breen

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105020 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Scattering cross section and stability of global monopoles

J. P. M. Pitelli, V. S. Barroso, and Maurício Richartz

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105021 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Supersymmetry breaking in spatially modulated vacua

Muneto Nitta, Shin Sasaki, and Ryo Yokokura

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105022 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

UV completion of five-dimensional scalar QED and Lorentz symmetry

F. Marques, M. Gomes, and A. J. da Silva

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105023 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Direct test of the integral Yang-Mills equations through $S U (2)$ monopoles

C. P. Constantinidis, L. A. Ferreira, and G. Luchini

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105024 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Analytical study of a Kerr-Sen black hole and a charged massive scalar field

Canisius Bernard

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105025 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Decay of a massive particle in a stiff-matter–dominated universe

Juho Lankinen and Iiro Vilja

Phys. Rev. D 96, 105026 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Revisiting arithmetic solutions to the $W = 0$ condition

Keita Kanno and Taizan Watari

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106001 (2017) - Published 2 November, 2017

Light meson masses using AdS/QCD modified soft wall model

Santiago Cortés, Miguel Ángel Martín Contreras, and José Rolando Roldán

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106002 (2017) - Published 3 November, 2017

Holographic entanglement entropy in the QCD phase diagram with a critical point

J. Knaute and B. Kämpfer

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106003 (2017) - Published 3 November, 2017

Exact time-dependent states for throat quantized toroidal AdS black holes

Hideki Maeda and Gabor Kunstatter

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106004 (2017) - Published 6 November, 2017

From path integrals to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation: Time evolution in spacetimes with a spatial boundary

Justin C. Feng and Richard A. Matzner

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106005 (2017) - Published 8 November, 2017

Exact time dependence of causal correlations and nonequilibrium density matrices in holographic systems

Lata Kh Joshi, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, Florian Preis, and Pichai Ramadevi

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106006 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

Quantum theory of electromagnetic fields in a cosmological quantum spacetime

Jerzy Lewandowski, Mohammad Nouri-Zonoz, Ali Parvizi, and Yaser Tavakoli

Phys. Rev. D 96, 106007 (2017) - Published 10 November, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

COMMENTS

Comment on “Covariant version of Verlinde’s emergent gravity”

De-Chang Dai and Dejan Stojkovic

Phys. Rev. D 96, 108501 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Constraints on Kähler moduli inflation from reheating [Phys. Rev. D 96, 083522 (2017)]

Sukannya Bhattacharya, Koushik Dutta, and Anshuman Maharana

Phys. Rev. D 96, 109901 (2017) - Published 13 November, 2017

Erratum: Observational constraints on decoupled hidden sectors [Phys. Rev. D 94, 063506 (2016)]

Matti Heikinheimo, Tommi Tenkanen, Kimmo Tuominen, and Ville Vaskonen

Phys. Rev. D 96, 109902 (2017) - Published 16 November, 2017

Erratum: Black hole perturbation in the most general scalar-tensor theory with second-order field equations: The odd-parity sector [Phys. Rev. D 85, 084025 (2012)]

Tsutomu Kobayashi, Hayato Motohashi, and Teruaki Suyama

Phys. Rev. D 96, 109903 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017