Volume 119, Issue 15

13 October 2017

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b′-projected convergent beam electron diffraction pattern of (Ca,Sr)₃Ti₂O₇ showing Bragg-scattered disks with dynamical interference fringes in the bright field (center) and thermal diffused Kikuchi bands in the whole pattern (outer).

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Hidden Antipolar Order Parameter and Entangled Néel-Type Charged Domain Walls in Hybrid Improper Ferroelectrics
M. H. Lee, C.-P. Chang, F.-T. Huang, G. Y. Guo, B. Gao, C. H. Chen, S.-W. Cheong, and M.-W. Chu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157601 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Precision Measurement of the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment Using Trapped Molecular Ions

William B. Cairncross, Daniel N. Gresh, Matt Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Tanya S. Roussy, Yiqi Ni, Yan Zhou, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153001 (2017) - Published 9 October, 2017

New precision experiments using trapped molecular ions provide an alternative method for determining if the electron has an electric dipole moment.

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Spectroscopy and Directed Transport of Topological Solitons in Crystals of Trapped Ions

J. Brox, P. Kiefer, M. Bujak, T. Schaetz, and H. Landa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153602 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Researchers have directed the motion of a domain-wall-like topological defect through a crystal of trapped ions.

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Generating Single-Spike Hard X-Ray Pulses with Nonlinear Bunch Compression in Free-Electron Lasers

S. Huang, Y. Ding, Y. Feng, E. Hemsing, Z. Huang, J. Krzywinski, A. A. Lutman, A. Marinelli, T. J. Maxwell, and D. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 154801 (2017) - Published 10 October, 2017

X-ray free-electron lasers have been used to generate single spikes of hard x rays that are only 200 attoseconds long.

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Scalable Creation of Long-Lived Multipartite Entanglement

H. Kaufmann, T. Ruster, C. T. Schmiegelow, M. A. Luda, V. Kaushal, J. Schulz, D. von Lindenfels, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. G. Poschinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150503 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

A four-qubit entangled state is created in a scalable ion trap system, with fidelity exceeding 90%.

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How a Small Quantum Bath Can Thermalize Long Localized Chains

David J. Luitz, François Huveneers, and Wojciech De Roeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150602 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Numerical simulations show that an imperfection as small as three units can destabilize the many-body localized phase of a one-dimensional chain.

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Topological Hopf and Chain Link Semimetal States and Their Application to ${Co}_{2} Mn G a$

Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Xiaoting Zhou, Shin-Ming Huang, Bahadur Singh, Baokai Wang, Ilya Belopolski, Jiaxin Yin, Songtian Zhang, Arun Bansil, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 156401 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

A new topological semimetal state is predicted, featuring three-dimensional band crossings that manifest as perpendicular, nontrivial links.

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Giant Quantum Hall Plateau in Graphene Coupled to an InSe van der Waals Crystal

Z. R. Kudrynskyi, M. A. Bhuiyan, O. Makarovsky, J. D. G. Greener, E. E. Vdovin, Z. D. Kovalyuk, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, K. S. Novoselov, P. H. Beton, L. Eaves, and A. Patanè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157701 (2017) - Published 10 October, 2017

Induced transfer of charge carriers is demonstrated in a graphene-based field-effect transistor, leading to a quantum Hall plateau.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Study of Optimal Measurements for Quantum State Tomography

H. Sosa-Martinez, N. K. Lysne, C. H. Baldwin, A. Kalev, I. H. Deutsch, and P. S. Jessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150401 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Phase Transitions in Electron Spin Resonance Under Continuous Microwave Driving

A. Karabanov, D. C. Rose, W. Köckenberger, J. P. Garrahan, and I. Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150402 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Observation of Two-Dimensional Localized Jones-Roberts Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates

Nadine Meyer, Harry Proud, Marisa Perea-Ortiz, Charlotte O’Neale, Mathis Baumert, Michael Holynski, Jochen Kronjäger, Giovanni Barontini, and Kai Bongs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150403 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Quantum Parametric Oscillator with Trapped Ions

Shiqian Ding, Gleb Maslennikov, Roland Hablützel, Huanqian Loh, and Dzmitry Matsukevich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150404 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Maximum Relative Entropy of Coherence: An Operational Coherence Measure

Kaifeng Bu, Uttam Singh, Shao-Ming Fei, Arun Kumar Pati, and Junde Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150405 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Mirrorless Optical Parametric Oscillation with Tunable Threshold in Cold Atoms

Yefeng Mei, Xianxin Guo, Luwei Zhao, and Shengwang Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150406 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Unconstrained Capacities of Quantum Key Distribution and Entanglement Distillation for Pure-Loss Bosonic Broadcast Channels

Masahiro Takeoka, Kaushik P. Seshadreesan, and Mark M. Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150501 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Universal Stabilization of a Parametrically Coupled Qubit

Yao Lu, S. Chakram, N. Leung, N. Earnest, R. K. Naik, Ziwen Huang, Peter Groszkowski, Eliot Kapit, Jens Koch, and David I. Schuster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150502 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

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Scalable Creation of Long-Lived Multipartite Entanglement

H. Kaufmann, T. Ruster, C. T. Schmiegelow, M. A. Luda, V. Kaushal, J. Schulz, D. von Lindenfels, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. G. Poschinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150503 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

A four-qubit entangled state is created in a scalable ion trap system, with fidelity exceeding 90%.

Stochastic Neural Network Approach for Learning High-Dimensional Free Energy Surfaces

Elia Schneider, Luke Dai, Robert Q. Topper, Christof Drechsel-Grau, and Mark E. Tuckerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150601 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

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How a Small Quantum Bath Can Thermalize Long Localized Chains

David J. Luitz, François Huveneers, and Wojciech De Roeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 150602 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Numerical simulations show that an imperfection as small as three units can destabilize the many-body localized phase of a one-dimensional chain.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Minimal Unified Resolution to $R_{K^{()}}$ and $R (D^{()})$ Anomalies with Lepton Mixing

Debajyoti Choudhury, Anirban Kundu, Rusa Mandal, and Rahul Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 151801 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Search for Supersymmetry in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ in the Single-Lepton Final State Using the Sum of Masses of Large-Radius Jets

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 151802 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Precise Predictions for Dijet Production at the LHC

J. Currie, A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover, A. Huss, and J. Pires

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 152001 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of the $B^{\pm}$ Meson Nuclear Modification Factor in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 152301 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Precision Measurement of the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment Using Trapped Molecular Ions

William B. Cairncross, Daniel N. Gresh, Matt Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Tanya S. Roussy, Yiqi Ni, Yan Zhou, Jun Ye, and Eric A. Cornell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153001 (2017) - Published 9 October, 2017

New precision experiments using trapped molecular ions provide an alternative method for determining if the electron has an electric dipole moment.

Multiphoton Scattering Tomography with Coherent States

Tomás Ramos and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153601 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

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Spectroscopy and Directed Transport of Topological Solitons in Crystals of Trapped Ions

J. Brox, P. Kiefer, M. Bujak, T. Schaetz, and H. Landa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153602 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Researchers have directed the motion of a domain-wall-like topological defect through a crystal of trapped ions.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Kuznetsov-Ma Soliton Dynamics Based on the Mechanical Effect of Light

Hao Xiong, Jinghui Gan, and Ying Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153901 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Roughness-Facilitated Local $1 / 2$ Scaling Does Not Imply the Onset of the Ultimate Regime of Thermal Convection

Xiaojue Zhu, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 154501 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Water-Based Peeling of Thin Hydrophobic Films

Sepideh Khodaparast, François Boulogne, Christophe Poulard, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 154502 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Verification of a Dynamic Scaling for the Pair Correlation Function during the Slow Drainage of a Porous Medium

Marcel Moura, Knut Jørgen Måløy, Eirik Grude Flekkøy, and Renaud Toussaint

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 154503 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Generating Single-Spike Hard X-Ray Pulses with Nonlinear Bunch Compression in Free-Electron Lasers

S. Huang, Y. Ding, Y. Feng, E. Hemsing, Z. Huang, J. Krzywinski, A. A. Lutman, A. Marinelli, T. J. Maxwell, and D. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 154801 (2017) - Published 10 October, 2017

X-ray free-electron lasers have been used to generate single spikes of hard x rays that are only 200 attoseconds long.

Spatial Properties of High-Order Harmonic Beams from Plasma Mirrors: A Ptychographic Study

A. Leblanc, S. Monchocé, H. Vincenti, S. Kahaly, J.-L. Vay, and F. Quéré

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 155001 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Kinetic Simulations of the Interruption of Large-Amplitude Shear-Alfvén Waves in a High- $β$ Plasma

J. Squire, M. W. Kunz, E. Quataert, and A. A. Schekochihin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 155101 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Dipolar Crystals: The Crucial Role of the Clinohexagonal Prism Phase

Ludovic Spiteri and René Messina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 155501 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Simple Theory for the Dynamics of Mean-Field-Like Models of Glass-Forming Fluids

Grzegorz Szamel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 155502 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Polarized Neutron Study of Ni-Mn-Ga Alloys: Site-Specific Spin Density Affected by Martensitic Transformation

P. Lázpita, J. M. Barandiarán, J. Gutiérrez, C. Mondelli, A. Sozinov, and V. A. Chernenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 155701 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Topological Hopf and Chain Link Semimetal States and Their Application to ${Co}_{2} Mn G a$

Guoqing Chang, Su-Yang Xu, Xiaoting Zhou, Shin-Ming Huang, Bahadur Singh, Baokai Wang, Ilya Belopolski, Jiaxin Yin, Songtian Zhang, Arun Bansil, Hsin Lin, and M. Zahid Hasan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 156401 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

A new topological semimetal state is predicted, featuring three-dimensional band crossings that manifest as perpendicular, nontrivial links.

Time Evolution of the Kondo Resonance in Response to a Quench

H. T. M. Nghiem and T. A. Costi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 156601 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Electron Accumulation and Emergent Magnetism in ${LaMnO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterostructures

Zuhuang Chen, Zhanghui Chen, Z. Q. Liu, M. E. Holtz, C. J. Li, X. Renshaw Wang, W. M. Lü, M. Motapothula, L. S. Fan, J. A. Turcaud, L. R. Dedon, C. Frederick, R. J. Xu, R. Gao, A. T. N’Diaye, E. Arenholz, J. A. Mundy, T. Venkatesan, D. A. Muller, L.-W. Wang, Jian Liu, and L. W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 156801 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Hole Spin Resonance and Spin-Orbit Coupling in a Silicon Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor

K. Ono, G. Giavaras, T. Tanamoto, T. Ohguro, X. Hu, and F. Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 156802 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Substantially Enhancing Quantum Coherence of Electrons in Graphene via Electron-Plasmon Coupling

Guanghui Cheng, Wei Qin, Meng-Hsien Lin, Laiming Wei, Xiaodong Fan, Huayang Zhang, Shangjr Gwo, Changgan Zeng, J. G. Hou, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 156803 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Unified Phase Diagram for Iron-Based Superconductors

Yanhong Gu, Zhaoyu Liu, Tao Xie, Wenliang Zhang, Dongliang Gong, Ding Hu, Xiaoyan Ma, Chunhong Li, Lingxiao Zhao, Lifang Lin, Zhuang Xu, Guotai Tan, Genfu Chen, Zi Yang Meng, Yi-feng Yang, Huiqian Luo, and Shiliang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157001 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Disorder-Induced Mimicry of a Spin Liquid in ${YbMgGaO}_{4}$

Zhenyue Zhu, P. A. Maksimov, Steven R. White, and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157201 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Nematic Bond Theory of Heisenberg Helimagnets

Michael Schecter, Olav F. Syljuåsen, and Jens Paaske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157202 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Dynamics of the Kitaev-Heisenberg Model

Matthias Gohlke, Ruben Verresen, Roderich Moessner, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157203 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Probing Magnetism in the Vortex Phase of ${PuCoGa}_{5}$ by X-Ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism

N. Magnani, R. Eloirdi, F. Wilhelm, E. Colineau, J.-C. Griveau, A. B. Shick, G. H. Lander, A. Rogalev, and R. Caciuffo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157204 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Novel Pyrochlorelike Crystal with a Photonic Band Gap Self-Assembled Using Colloids with a Simple Interaction Potential

Harini Pattabhiraman, Guido Avvisati, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157401 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Hidden Antipolar Order Parameter and Entangled Néel-Type Charged Domain Walls in Hybrid Improper Ferroelectrics

M. H. Lee, C.-P. Chang, F.-T. Huang, G. Y. Guo, B. Gao, C. H. Chen, S.-W. Cheong, and M.-W. Chu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157601 (2017) - Published 10 October, 2017

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Giant Quantum Hall Plateau in Graphene Coupled to an InSe van der Waals Crystal

Z. R. Kudrynskyi, M. A. Bhuiyan, O. Makarovsky, J. D. G. Greener, E. E. Vdovin, Z. D. Kovalyuk, Y. Cao, A. Mishchenko, K. S. Novoselov, P. H. Beton, L. Eaves, and A. Patanè

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157701 (2017) - Published 10 October, 2017

Induced transfer of charge carriers is demonstrated in a graphene-based field-effect transistor, leading to a quantum Hall plateau.

Ubiquitous Nonlocal Entanglement with Majorana Zero Modes

Alessandro Romito and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157702 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

Wannier-Mott Excitons in Nanoscale Molecular Ices

Y.-J. Chen, G. M. Muñoz Caro, S. Aparicio, A. Jiménez-Escobar, J. Lasne, A. Rosu-Finsen, M. R. S. McCoustra, A. M. Cassidy, and D. Field

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 157703 (2017) - Published 13 October, 2017

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

Rheological State Diagrams for Rough Colloids in Shear Flow

Lilian C. Hsiao, Safa Jamali, Emmanouil Glynos, Peter F. Green, Ronald G. Larson, and Michael J. Solomon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 158001 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Large Fluctuations and Dynamic Phase Transition in a System of Self-Propelled Particles

F. Cagnetta, F. Corberi, G. Gonnella, and A. Suma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 158002 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Universality and Specificity in Protein Fluctuation Dynamics

J. Copperman, M. Dinpajooh, E. R. Beyerle, and M. G. Guenza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 158101 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

Correlations in Scattered X-Ray Laser Pulses Reveal Nanoscale Structural Features of Viruses

Ruslan P. Kurta, Jeffrey J. Donatelli, Chun Hong Yoon, Peter Berntsen, Johan Bielecki, Benedikt J. Daurer, Hasan DeMirci, Petra Fromme, Max Felix Hantke, Filipe R. N. C. Maia, Anna Munke, Carl Nettelblad, Kanupriya Pande, Hemanth K. N. Reddy, Jonas A. Sellberg, Raymond G. Sierra, Martin Svenda, Gijs van der Schot, Ivan A. Vartanyants, Garth J. Williams, P. Lourdu Xavier, Andrew Aquila, Peter H. Zwart, and Adrian P. Mancuso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 158102 (2017) - Published 12 October, 2017

Evolution of a Fluctuating Population in a Randomly Switching Environment

Karl Wienand, Erwin Frey, and Mauro Mobilia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 158301 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017

ERRATA

Erratum: Sensitivity of $(d, p)$ Reactions to High $n$ - $p$ Momenta and the Consequences for Nuclear Spectroscopy Studies [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 162502 (2016)]

G. W. Bailey, N. K. Timofeyuk, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 159901 (2017) - Published 11 October, 2017