Volume 119, Issue 21

24 November 2017

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Schematic view of the Mn₁₂-^tBuAc molecule. Red and blue circles are for Mn³⁺ and Mn⁴⁺ ions, respectively; the lines represent the possible exchange interactions. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Magnetic Exchange Interactions in the Molecular Nanomagnet ${Mn}_{12}$
A. Chiesa, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, S. Ansbro, G. A. Timco, I. Vitorica-Yrezabal, E. Garlatti, G. Amoretti, R. E. P. Winpenny, and P. Santini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217202 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correlated Three-Dimensional Imaging of Dislocations: Insights into the Onset of Thermal Slip in Semiconductor Wafers

D. Hänschke, A. Danilewsky, L. Helfen, E. Hamann, and T. Baumbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215504 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

A combination of imaging techniques provides an unprecedented 3D view of a network of crystal defects known as dislocations.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Magnetic Exchange Interactions in the Molecular Nanomagnet ${Mn}_{12}$

A. Chiesa, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, S. Ansbro, G. A. Timco, I. Vitorica-Yrezabal, E. Garlatti, G. Amoretti, R. E. P. Winpenny, and P. Santini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217202 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

Researchers characterize the spin couplings in the prototypical single-molecule magnet Mn $_{12}$ using an advanced neutron scattering technique.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Inductive Spikes in the Crab Nebula: A Theory of $γ$ -Ray Flares

John G. Kirk and Gwenael Giacinti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211101 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

A mysterious gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula—a giant interstellar cloud of gas—may be due to fluctuations in the wind blown out from the pulsar in the nebula’s center.

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State-of-the-Art Calculation of the Decay Rate of Electroweak Vacuum in the Standard Model

So Chigusa, Takeo Moroi, and Yutaro Shoji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211801 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

A gauge-invariant calculation of the decay rate of the metastable vacuum removes some theoretical uncertainty in the Universe’s estimated lifetime.

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Revealing the Topology of Quasicrystals with a Diffraction Experiment

A. Dareau, E. Levy, M. Bosch Aguilera, R. Bouganne, E. Akkermans, F. Gerbier, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215304 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

An arrangement of lasers and mirrors is used to map the topology patterns of quasicrystals.

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Observation of Bogoliubov Band Hybridization in the Optimally Doped Trilayer ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{10 + δ}$

So Kunisada, Shintaro Adachi, Shiro Sakai, Nae Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Nakayama, Shuntaro Akebi, Kenta Kuroda, Takao Sasagawa, Takao Watanabe, Shik Shin, and Takeshi Kondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217001 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

The experimental observation of band hybridization in a cuprate superconductor explains why the highest superconducting transition temperatures occur in samples with only three coupled copper dioxide layers.

LETTERS

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

Topological Edge States in Periodically Driven Trapped-Ion Chains

Pedro Nevado, Samuel Fernández-Lorenzo, and Diego Porras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 210401 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Nonlocal Entanglement of 1D Thermal States Induced by Fermion Exchange Statistics

YeJe Park, Jeongmin Shim, S.-S. B. Lee, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 210501 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Efficient Low-Order Approximation of First-Passage Time Distributions

David Schnoerr, Botond Cseke, Ramon Grima, and Guido Sanguinetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 210601 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Inductive Spikes in the Crab Nebula: A Theory of $γ$ -Ray Flares

John G. Kirk and Gwenael Giacinti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211101 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

A mysterious gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula—a giant interstellar cloud of gas—may be due to fluctuations in the wind blown out from the pulsar in the nebula’s center.

Hořava Gravity is Asymptotically Free in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

Andrei O. Barvinsky, Diego Blas, Mario Herrero-Valea, Sergey M. Sibiryakov, and Christian F. Steinwachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211301 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Probing Sub-GeV Mass Strongly Interacting Dark Matter with a Low-Threshold Surface Experiment

Jonathan H. Davis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211302 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Asymptotic Safety Guaranteed in Supersymmetry

Andrew D. Bond and Daniel F. Litim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211601 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

State-of-the-Art Calculation of the Decay Rate of Electroweak Vacuum in the Standard Model

So Chigusa, Takeo Moroi, and Yutaro Shoji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 211801 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

A gauge-invariant calculation of the decay rate of the metastable vacuum removes some theoretical uncertainty in the Universe’s estimated lifetime.

Threshold and Jet Radius Joint Resummation for Single-Inclusive Jet Production

Xiaohui Liu, Sven-Olaf Moch, and Felix Ringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 212001 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Cavity QED Engineering of Spin Dynamics and Squeezing in a Spinor Gas

Stuart J. Masson, M. D. Barrett, and Scott Parkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 213601 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three Dimensional Photonic Dirac Points in Metamaterials

Qinghua Guo, Biao Yang, Lingbo Xia, Wenlong Gao, Hongchao Liu, Jing Chen, Yuanjiang Xiang, and Shuang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 213901 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

What Controls Thermo-osmosis? Molecular Simulations Show the Critical Role of Interfacial Hydrodynamics

Li Fu, Samy Merabia, and Laurent Joly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 214501 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Double Contact During Drop Impact on a Solid Under Reduced Air Pressure

Er Qiang Li, Kenneth R. Langley, Yuan Si Tian, Peter D. Hicks, and Sigurdur T. Thoroddsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 214502 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Critical Behavior of One-Dimensional Soft Bosons in the Continuum

Stefano Rossotti, Martina Teruzzi, Davide Pini, Davide Emilio Galli, and Gianluca Bertaina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215301 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Superfluid Filaments of Dipolar Bosons in Free Space

Fabio Cinti, Alberto Cappellaro, Luca Salasnich, and Tommaso Macrì

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215302 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Unified Description of Dynamics of a Repulsive Two-Component Fermi Gas

Piotr T. Grochowski, Tomasz Karpiuk, Mirosław Brewczyk, and Kazimierz Rzążewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215303 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revealing the Topology of Quasicrystals with a Diffraction Experiment

A. Dareau, E. Levy, M. Bosch Aguilera, R. Bouganne, E. Akkermans, F. Gerbier, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215304 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

An arrangement of lasers and mirrors is used to map the topology patterns of quasicrystals.

Correlation between Local Structure Order and Spatial Heterogeneity in a Metallic Glass

Fan Zhu, Akihiko Hirata, Pan Liu, Shuangxi Song, Yuan Tian, Jiuhui Han, Takeshi Fujita, and Mingwei Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215501 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Instabilities of Jammed Packings of Frictionless Spheres Under Load

Ning Xu, Andrea J. Liu, and Sidney R. Nagel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215502 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Enhanced Strength Through Nanotwinning in the Thermoelectric Semiconductor InSb

Guodong Li, Sergey I. Morozov, Qingjie Zhang, Qi An, Pengcheng Zhai, and G. Jeffrey Snyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215503 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Correlated Three-Dimensional Imaging of Dislocations: Insights into the Onset of Thermal Slip in Semiconductor Wafers

D. Hänschke, A. Danilewsky, L. Helfen, E. Hamann, and T. Baumbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215504 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

A combination of imaging techniques provides an unprecedented 3D view of a network of crystal defects known as dislocations.

Nonlinear Focusing in Dynamic Crack Fronts and the Microbranching Transition

Itamar Kolvin, Jay Fineberg, and Mokhtar Adda-Bedia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215505 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

Glassy Anomalies in the Low-Temperature Thermal Properties of a Minimally Disordered Crystalline Solid

J. F. Gebbia, M. A. Ramos, D. Szewczyk, A. Jezowski, A. I. Krivchikov, Y. V. Horbatenko, T. Guidi, F. J. Bermejo, and J. Ll. Tamarit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215506 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

${SiO}_{2}$ Glass Density to Lower-Mantle Pressures

Sylvain Petitgirard, Wim J. Malfait, Baptiste Journaux, Ines E. Collings, Eleanor S. Jennings, Ingrid Blanchard, Innokenty Kantor, Alexander Kurnosov, Marine Cotte, Thomas Dane, Manfred Burghammer, and David C. Rubie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 215701 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Strongly Correlated Metal Built from Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models

Xue-Yang Song, Chao-Ming Jian, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 216601 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Bogoliubov Band Hybridization in the Optimally Doped Trilayer ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{10 + δ}$

So Kunisada, Shintaro Adachi, Shiro Sakai, Nae Sasaki, Mitsuhiro Nakayama, Shuntaro Akebi, Kenta Kuroda, Takao Sasagawa, Takao Watanabe, Shik Shin, and Takeshi Kondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217001 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Thermodynamic Evidence for the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in the ${KFe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductor

Chang-woo Cho, Jonathan Haiwei Yang, Noah F. Q. Yuan, Junying Shen, Thomas Wolf, and Rolf Lortz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217002 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

Dynamical Negative Differential Resistance in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Few-Atom Spin Chains

Steffen Rolf-Pissarczyk, Shichao Yan, Luigi Malavolti, Jacob A. J. Burgess, Gregory McMurtrie, and Sebastian Loth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217201 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Exchange Interactions in the Molecular Nanomagnet ${Mn}_{12}$

A. Chiesa, T. Guidi, S. Carretta, S. Ansbro, G. A. Timco, I. Vitorica-Yrezabal, E. Garlatti, G. Amoretti, R. E. P. Winpenny, and P. Santini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217202 (2017) - Published 22 November, 2017

Researchers characterize the spin couplings in the prototypical single-molecule magnet Mn $_{12}$ using an advanced neutron scattering technique.

Mode Matching for Optical Antennas

Thorsten Feichtner, Silke Christiansen, and Bert Hecht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217401 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

$Z_{3}$ Parafermionic Zero Modes without Andreev Backscattering from the $2 / 3$ Fractional Quantum Hall State

Yahya Alavirad, David Clarke, Amit Nag, and Jay D. Sau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217701 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017

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

Microphase Separation in Oil-Water Mixtures Containing Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Ions

Nikos Tasios, Sela Samin, René van Roij, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 218001 (2017) - Published 21 November, 2017

ERRATA

Erratum: Resonance Effects in Photoemission Time Delays [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 133001 (2015)]

M. Sabbar, S. Heuser, R. Boge, M. Lucchini, T. Carette, E. Lindroth, L. Gallmann, C. Cirelli, and U. Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 219901 (2017) - Published 20 November, 2017