Volume 119, Issue 17

27 October 2017

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Tunneling spectrum of the superconducting gap of a wire defined in a two-dimensional epitaxial InAs/Al heterostructure in zero magnetic field.

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Zero-Energy Modes from Coalescing Andreev States in a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrid Platform
H. J. Suominen, M. Kjaergaard, A. R. Hamilton, J. Shabani, C. J. Palmstrøm, C. M. Marcus, and F. Nichele
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176805 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Origin of Spectral Band Patterns in the Cosmic Unidentified Infrared Emission

Héctor Álvaro Galué and Grisell Díaz Leines

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171102 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

A theoretical study shows how hydrocarbons with structural defects might produce unexplained peaks in the cosmic infrared spectrum.

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Detection of Microwave Transitions between Ortho and Para States in a Free Isolated Molecule

Hideto Kanamori, Zeinab. T. Dehghani, Asao Mizoguchi, and Yasuki Endo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173401 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Microwave emission from a simple molecule reveals a highly forbidden transition between two nuclear spin states.

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Separation of Isotopes in Space and Time by Gas-Surface Atomic Diffraction

Kevin J. Nihill, Jacob D. Graham, and S. J. Sibener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176001 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Atomic-beam diffraction emerges as a viable approach to separating isotopes within the beam.

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Control of Chiral Magnetism Through Electric Fields in Multiferroic Compounds above the Long-Range Multiferroic Transition

J. Stein, M. Baum, S. Holbein, T. Finger, T. Cronert, C. Tölzer, T. Fröhlich, S. Biesenkamp, K. Schmalzl, P. Steffens, C. H. Lee, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177201 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

An applied electric field can be used to control a twisted form of magnetic ordering inside small domains of multiferroic materials.

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Two-Particle Four-Mode Interferometer for Atoms

Pierre Dussarrat, Maxime Perrier, Almazbek Imanaliev, Raphael Lopes, Alain Aspect, Marc Cheneau, Denis Boiron, and Christoph I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173202 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

A prototype interferometer for massive particles is demonstrated. Such a device could enable Bell test measurements on atoms.

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Axicon Lens for Electrons Using a Magnetic Vortex: The Efficient Generation of a Bessel Beam

Changlin Zheng, Timothy C. Petersen, Holm Kirmse, Wolfgang Neumann, Michael J. Morgan, and Joanne Etheridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 174801 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

A magnetic vortex texture array is used to create an electromagnetic lens that focuses a plane wave into a focal line, rather than a point as for conventional lenses.

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Superanomalous Skin Effect for Surface Plasmon Polaritons

I. A. Larkin, K. Keil, A. Vagov, M. D. Croitoru, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176801 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

A third regime of electric field decay at a metal-dielectric interface is predicted, in which the field decays even more slowly than the previously known regimes.

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Anisotropy and Suppression of Spin-Orbit Interaction in a GaAs Double Quantum Dot

A. Hofmann, V. F. Maisi, T. Krähenmann, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176807 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Spin orbit interactions in GaAs quantum wells are switched on and off by tuning the spin-flip tunneling rate.

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Dimensional Crossover-Induced Topological Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator

Chang Liu, Yunyi Zang, Wei Ruan, Yan Gong, Ke He, Xucun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue, and Yayu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176809 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

A topological variant of the Hall effect that relies on spin chirality is observed in a topological insulator at four quantum layers, but vanishes for fewer and more layers.

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Emergent Bistability and Switching in a Nonequilibrium Crystal

Guram Gogia and Justin C. Burton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178004 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Bistable switching between a crystalline condensed state and a gaslike excited state is demonstrated in a system of charged microparticles.

LETTERS

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

Separable and Inseparable Quantum Trajectories

J. Sperling and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170401 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

No Thermalization without Correlations

Dmitry V. Zhdanov, Denys I. Bondar, and Tamar Seideman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170402 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Bell Correlations in a Many-Body System with Finite Statistics

Sebastian Wagner, Roman Schmied, Matteo Fadel, Philipp Treutlein, Nicolas Sangouard, and Jean-Daniel Bancal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170403 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

State-Independent Uncertainty Relations and Entanglement Detection in Noisy Systems

René Schwonnek, Lars Dammeier, and Reinhard F. Werner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170404 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Gaussian Boson Sampling

Craig S. Hamilton, Regina Kruse, Linda Sansoni, Sonja Barkhofen, Christine Silberhorn, and Igor Jex

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170501 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Two-Hierarchy Entanglement Swapping for a Linear Optical Quantum Repeater

Ping Xu, Hai-Lin Yong, Luo-Kan Chen, Chang Liu, Tong Xiang, Xing-Can Yao, He Lu, Zheng-Da Li, Nai-Le Liu, Li Li, Tao Yang, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Bo Zhao, Yu-Ao Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170502 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Fast Quantum State Transfer and Entanglement Renormalization Using Long-Range Interactions

Zachary Eldredge, Zhe-Xuan Gong, Jeremy T. Young, Ali Hamed Moosavian, Michael Foss-Feig, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170503 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Universal Quantum Computation with Gapped Boundaries

Iris Cong, Meng Cheng, and Zhenghan Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170504 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Fundamental Bounds on First Passage Time Fluctuations for Currents

Todd R. Gingrich and Jordan M. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170601 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Universal Coherence-Induced Power Losses of Quantum Heat Engines in Linear Response

Kay Brandner, Michael Bauer, and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170602 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Chemical Enhancements in Shock-Accelerated Particles: Ab initio Simulations

Damiano Caprioli, Dennis T. Yi, and Anatoly Spitkovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171101 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

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Origin of Spectral Band Patterns in the Cosmic Unidentified Infrared Emission

Héctor Álvaro Galué and Grisell Díaz Leines

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171102 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

A theoretical study shows how hydrocarbons with structural defects might produce unexplained peaks in the cosmic infrared spectrum.

Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Mergers inside Stars

Joseph M. Fedrow, Christian D. Ott, Ulrich Sperhake, Jonathan Blackman, Roland Haas, Christian Reisswig, and Antonio De Felice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171103 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

No Smooth Beginning for Spacetime

Job Feldbrugge, Jean-Luc Lehners, and Neil Turok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171301 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Loop Corrections to Supergravity on ${AdS}_{5} \times S^{5}$

Luis F. Alday and Agnese Bissi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171601 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Search for $C P$ Violation and Measurement of the Branching Fraction in the Decay $D^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$

N. Dash et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 171801 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Pure Even Harmonic Generation from Oriented CO in Linearly Polarized Laser Fields

Hongtao Hu, Na Li, Peng Liu, Ruxin Li, and Zhizhan Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173201 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

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Two-Particle Four-Mode Interferometer for Atoms

Pierre Dussarrat, Maxime Perrier, Almazbek Imanaliev, Raphael Lopes, Alain Aspect, Marc Cheneau, Denis Boiron, and Christoph I. Westbrook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173202 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

A prototype interferometer for massive particles is demonstrated. Such a device could enable Bell test measurements on atoms.

Analytic Solutions to Coherent Control of the Dirac Equation

Andre G. Campos, Renan Cabrera, Herschel A. Rabitz, and Denys I. Bondar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173203 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

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Detection of Microwave Transitions between Ortho and Para States in a Free Isolated Molecule

Hideto Kanamori, Zeinab. T. Dehghani, Asao Mizoguchi, and Yasuki Endo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173401 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Microwave emission from a simple molecule reveals a highly forbidden transition between two nuclear spin states.

Observation of the Borromean Three-Body Förster Resonances for Three Interacting Rb Rydberg Atoms

D. B. Tretyakov, I. I. Beterov, E. A. Yakshina, V. M. Entin, I. I. Ryabtsev, P. Cheinet, and P. Pillet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173402 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Possibility to Probe Negative Values of a Wigner Function in Scattering of a Coherent Superposition of Electronic Wave Packets by Atoms

Dmitry V. Karlovets and Valeriy G. Serbo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173601 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Giant Interatomic Energy-Transport Amplification with Nonreciprocal Photonic Topological Insulators

Pierre Doyeux, S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj, George W. Hanson, and Mauro Antezza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173901 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Electrokinetic Control of Viscous Fingering

Mohammad Mirzadeh and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 174501 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Oxidation-Mediated Fingering in Liquid Metals

Collin B. Eaker, David C. Hight, John D. O’Regan, Michael D. Dickey, and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 174502 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Axicon Lens for Electrons Using a Magnetic Vortex: The Efficient Generation of a Bessel Beam

Changlin Zheng, Timothy C. Petersen, Holm Kirmse, Wolfgang Neumann, Michael J. Morgan, and Joanne Etheridge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 174801 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

A magnetic vortex texture array is used to create an electromagnetic lens that focuses a plane wave into a focal line, rather than a point as for conventional lenses.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Melting Can Hinder Impact-Induced Adhesion

Mostafa Hassani-Gangaraj, David Veysset, Keith A. Nelson, and Christopher A. Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 175701 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Measurement of Body-Centered-Cubic Aluminum at 475 GPa

D. N. Polsin, D. E. Fratanduono, J. R. Rygg, A. Lazicki, R. F. Smith, J. H. Eggert, M. C. Gregor, B. H. Henderson, J. A. Delettrez, R. G. Kraus, P. M. Celliers, F. Coppari, D. C. Swift, C. A. McCoy, C. T. Seagle, J.-P. Davis, S. J. Burns, G. W. Collins, and T. R. Boehly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 175702 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

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Separation of Isotopes in Space and Time by Gas-Surface Atomic Diffraction

Kevin J. Nihill, Jacob D. Graham, and S. J. Sibener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176001 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Atomic-beam diffraction emerges as a viable approach to separating isotopes within the beam.

Joint Space-Time Coherent Vibration Driven Conformational Transitions in a Single Molecule

Shaowei Li (李绍巍), Siyu Chen (陈思宇), Jie Li, Ruqian Wu, and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176002 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Critical Role of the Exchange Interaction for the Electronic Structure and Charge-Density-Wave Formation in ${TiSe}_{2}$

Maria Hellgren, Jacopo Baima, Raffaello Bianco, Matteo Calandra, Francesco Mauri, and Ludger Wirtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176401 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Electronic-Structure Origin of Cation Disorder in Transition-Metal Oxides

Alexander Urban, Aziz Abdellahi, Stephen Dacek, Nongnuch Artrith, and Gerbrand Ceder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176402 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Finite Temperature Green’s Function Approach for Excited State and Thermodynamic Properties of Cool to Warm Dense Matter

J. J. Kas and J. J. Rehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176403 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Absence of Ergodicity without Quenched Disorder: From Quantum Disentangled Liquids to Many-Body Localization

A. Smith, J. Knolle, R. Moessner, and D. L. Kovrizhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176601 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

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Superanomalous Skin Effect for Surface Plasmon Polaritons

I. A. Larkin, K. Keil, A. Vagov, M. D. Croitoru, and V. M. Axt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176801 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

A third regime of electric field decay at a metal-dielectric interface is predicted, in which the field decays even more slowly than the previously known regimes.

Disorder-Induced Dephasing in Backscattering-Free Quantum Transport

Clemens Gneiting and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176802 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

High-Resolution Valley Spectroscopy of Si Quantum Dots

X. Mi, Csaba G. Péterfalvi, Guido Burkard, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176803 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Chiral Anomaly as the Origin of the Planar Hall Effect in Weyl Semimetals

S. Nandy, Gargee Sharma, A. Taraphder, and Sumanta Tewari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176804 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Zero-Energy Modes from Coalescing Andreev States in a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrid Platform

H. J. Suominen, M. Kjaergaard, A. R. Hamilton, J. Shabani, C. J. Palmstrøm, C. M. Marcus, and F. Nichele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176805 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Interatomic Spin Coupling in Manganese Clusters Registered on Graphene

Jindong Ren, Haiming Guo, Jinbo Pan, Yan-Fang Zhang, Yifeng Yang, Xu Wu, Shixuan Du, Min Ouyang, and Hong-Jun Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176806 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

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Anisotropy and Suppression of Spin-Orbit Interaction in a GaAs Double Quantum Dot

A. Hofmann, V. F. Maisi, T. Krähenmann, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, K. Ensslin, and T. Ihn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176807 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Spin orbit interactions in GaAs quantum wells are switched on and off by tuning the spin-flip tunneling rate.

Nonadiabatic Vibrational Damping of Molecular Adsorbates: Insights into Electronic Friction and the Role of Electronic Coherence

Simon P. Rittmeyer, Jörg Meyer, and Karsten Reuter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176808 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

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Dimensional Crossover-Induced Topological Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator

Chang Liu, Yunyi Zang, Wei Ruan, Yan Gong, Ke He, Xucun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue, and Yayu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 176809 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

A topological variant of the Hall effect that relies on spin chirality is observed in a topological insulator at four quantum layers, but vanishes for fewer and more layers.

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Control of Chiral Magnetism Through Electric Fields in Multiferroic Compounds above the Long-Range Multiferroic Transition

J. Stein, M. Baum, S. Holbein, T. Finger, T. Cronert, C. Tölzer, T. Fröhlich, S. Biesenkamp, K. Schmalzl, P. Steffens, C. H. Lee, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177201 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

An applied electric field can be used to control a twisted form of magnetic ordering inside small domains of multiferroic materials.

Spin-Wave Chirality and Its Manifestations in Antiferromagnets

Igor Proskurin, Robert L. Stamps, Alexander S. Ovchinnikov, and Jun-ichiro Kishine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177202 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

Localized Control of Curie Temperature in Perovskite Oxide Film by Capping-Layer-Induced Octahedral Distortion

S. Thomas, B. Kuiper, J. Hu, J. Smit, Z. Liao, Z. Zhong, G. Rijnders, A. Vailionis, R. Wu, G. Koster, and J. Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177203 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017

Strongly Asymmetric Spectroscopy in Plasmon-Exciton Hybrid Systems due to Interference-Induced Energy Repartitioning

Si-Jing Ding, Xiaoguang Li, Fan Nan, Yu-Ting Zhong, Li Zhou, Xudong Xiao, Qu-Quan Wang, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177401 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Numerical Study of Quantum Hall Bilayers at Total Filling $ν_{T} = 1$ : A New Phase at Intermediate Layer Distances

Zheng Zhu, Liang Fu, and D. N. Sheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177601 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Improving the Functional Control of Aged Ferroelectrics Using Insights from Atomistic Modeling

J. B. J. Chapman, R. E. Cohen, A. V. Kimmel, and D. M. Duffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177602 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

Engineering an Insulating Ferroelectric Superlattice with a Tunable Band Gap from Metallic Components

Saurabh Ghosh, Albina Y. Borisevich, and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 177603 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

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

Vortices Enhance Diffusion in Dense Granular Flows

Prashidha Kharel and Pierre Rognon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178001 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Interaction Heterogeneity can Favorably Impact Colloidal Crystal Nucleation

Ian C. Jenkins, John C. Crocker, and Talid Sinno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178002 (2017) - Published 23 October, 2017

Phase Coexistence in Insect Swarms

Michael Sinhuber and Nicholas T. Ouellette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178003 (2017) - Published 24 October, 2017

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Emergent Bistability and Switching in a Nonequilibrium Crystal

Guram Gogia and Justin C. Burton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178004 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

Bistable switching between a crystalline condensed state and a gaslike excited state is demonstrated in a system of charged microparticles.

Dynamic Scaling of Colloidal Gel Formation at Intermediate Concentrations

Qingteng Zhang (张庆腾), Divya Bahadur, Eric M. Dufresne, Pawel Grybos, Piotr Kmon, Robert L. Leheny, Piotr Maj, Suresh Narayanan, Robert Szczygiel, Subramanian Ramakrishnan, and Alec Sandy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 178006 (2017) - Published 25 October, 2017

COMMENTS

Comment on “Divergent and Ultrahigh Thermal Conductivity in Millimeter-Long Nanotubes”

Qin-Yi Li, Koji Takahashi, and Xing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 179601 (2017) - Published 26 October, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Kinetic Simulations of the Interruption of Large-Amplitude Shear-Alfvén Waves in a High- $β$ Plasma [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 155101 (2017)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 179901 (2017) - Published 27 October, 2017