Volume 119, Issue 22

1 December 2017

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Top view of a perfectly stacked column of dice that was created by repeatedly twisting an initially jumbled dice pile. Selected for a Focus in Physics and an Editors' Suggestion.

From the article:

Experimental Study of Ordering of Hard Cubes by Shearing
K. Asencio, M. Acevedo, I. Zuriguel, and D. Maza
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 228002 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Buckling Instability Causes Inertial Thrust for Spherical Swimmers at All Scales

Adel Djellouli, Philippe Marmottant, Henda Djeridi, Catherine Quilliet, and Gwennou Coupier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 224501 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

A sphere that alternately collapses and re-inflates makes a simple device that can propel itself and could work on the microscale for medical purposes.

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Switching Magnetism and Superconductivity with Spin-Polarized Current in Iron-Based Superconductor

Seokhwan Choi, Hyoung Joon Choi, Jong Mok Ok, Yeonghoon Lee, Won-Jun Jang, Alex Taekyung Lee, Young Kuk, SungBin Lee, Andreas J. Heinrich, Sang-Wook Cheong, Yunkyu Bang, Steven Johnston, Jun Sung Kim, and Jhinhwan Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227001 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

A current of electrons with aligned spins can be used to modify magnetic order and superconductivity in an iron-based superconductor.

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Experimental Study of Ordering of Hard Cubes by Shearing

K. Asencio, M. Acevedo, I. Zuriguel, and D. Maza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 228002 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

A jumble of thousands of cubic dice, agitated by an oscillating rotation, can rapidly become completely ordered, a result that is hard to produce with more conventional shaking.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Maximum Redshift of Gravitational Wave Merger Events

Savvas M. Koushiappas and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221104 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Observations of black hole mergers in the very distant Universe could indicate whether all black holes form from stars.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stability Landscape of Shell Buckling

Emmanuel Virot, Tobias Kreilos, Tobias M. Schneider, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 224101 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Experiments reveal what kinds of dents render a can and other metal shells crushable.

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Coherent Control of a Single Trapped Rydberg Ion

Gerard Higgins, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, Quentin Bodart, and Markus Hennrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220501 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

A single-qubit phase gate is performed on an ion through coherent Rydberg excitation, demonstrating one element of a trapped Rydberg ion quantum computer.

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Universal Scaling and Critical Exponents of the Anisotropic Quantum Rabi Model

Maoxin Liu, Stefano Chesi, Zu-Jian Ying, Xiaosong Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220601 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Theoretical predictions establish the phase diagram, scaling functions, and critical exponents of the quantum phase transition in the anisotropic quantum Rabi model, which describes a two-level system coupled to a single electromagnetic mode.

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Phase Memory Preserving Harmonics from Abruptly Autofocusing Beams

Anastasios D. Koulouklidis, Dimitris G. Papazoglou, Vladimir Yu. Fedorov, and Stelios Tzortzakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223901 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Experiments on autofocusing ring-Airy beams reveal that the harmonics preserve the phase distribution of the fundamental beam. This “phase memory” inherits the harmonics of the abrupt autofocusing behavior of the Airy beam.

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Transport Signatures of the Hall Viscosity

Luca V. Delacrétaz and Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226602 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

A method is proposed for measuring the classical Hall viscosity of a two-dimensional electron gas under a magnetic field, via signatures of hydrodynamic transport.

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Two-Dimensional Dirac Fermions Protected by Space-Time Inversion Symmetry in Black Phosphorus

Jimin Kim, Seung Su Baik, Sung Won Jung, Yeongsup Sohn, Sae Hee Ryu, Hyoung Joon Choi, Bohm-Jung Yang, and Keun Su Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226801 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Experimental evidence is presented for the realization of a 2D Dirac semimetal in black phosphorous, a material in which, unlike graphene, the Dirac point remains stable despite spin-orbit coupling.

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Negative Spin Exchange in a Multielectron Quantum Dot

Frederico Martins, Filip K. Malinowski, Peter D. Nissen, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227701 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Experiments show that a semiconducting quantum dot containing nearly 100 electrons can operate as an effective spin 1/2 qubit.

LETTERS

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

Dissociation of One-Dimensional Matter-Wave Breathers due to Quantum Many-Body Effects

Vladimir A. Yurovsky, Boris A. Malomed, Randall G. Hulet, and Maxim Olshanii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220401 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Communication Games Reveal Preparation Contextuality

Alley Hameedi, Armin Tavakoli, Breno Marques, and Mohamed Bourennane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220402 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Experimental Detection of Information Deficit in a Photonic Contextuality Scenario

Xiang Zhan, Paweł Kurzyński, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Kunkun Wang, Zhihao Bian, Yongsheng Zhang, and Peng Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220403 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

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Coherent Control of a Single Trapped Rydberg Ion

Gerard Higgins, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, Quentin Bodart, and Markus Hennrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220501 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

A single-qubit phase gate is performed on an ion through coherent Rydberg excitation, demonstrating one element of a trapped Rydberg ion quantum computer.

Universal Extensions of Restricted Classes of Quantum Operations

Michał Oszmaniec and Zoltán Zimborás

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220502 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Optimal Quantum Spatial Search on Random Temporal Networks

Shantanav Chakraborty, Leonardo Novo, Serena Di Giorgio, and Yasser Omar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220503 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Generic Local Hamiltonians are Gapless

Ramis Movassagh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220504 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Fast Dynamical Decoupling of the Mølmer-Sørensen Entangling Gate

Tom Manovitz, Amit Rotem, Ravid Shaniv, Itsik Cohen, Yotam Shapira, Nitzan Akerman, Alex Retzker, and Roee Ozeri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220505 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Private States, Quantum Data Hiding, and the Swapping of Perfect Secrecy

Matthias Christandl and Roberto Ferrara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220506 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Arrow of Time for Continuous Quantum Measurement

Justin Dressel, Areeya Chantasri, Andrew N. Jordan, and Alexander N. Korotkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220507 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

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Universal Scaling and Critical Exponents of the Anisotropic Quantum Rabi Model

Maoxin Liu, Stefano Chesi, Zu-Jian Ying, Xiaosong Chen, Hong-Gang Luo, and Hai-Qing Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220601 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Variational Approach to Monte Carlo Renormalization Group

Yantao Wu and Roberto Car

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220602 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Entanglement Entropy of Eigenstates of Quantum Chaotic Hamiltonians

Lev Vidmar and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220603 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Solvable Hydrodynamics of Quantum Integrable Systems

Vir B. Bulchandani, Romain Vasseur, Christoph Karrasch, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220604 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Factorization and Criticality in Finite $X X Z$ Systems of Arbitrary Spin

M. Cerezo, R. Rossignoli, N. Canosa, and E. Ríos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 220605 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Turbulence of Weak Gravitational Waves in the Early Universe

Sébastien Galtier and Sergey V. Nazarenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221101 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Beyond the Boost: Measuring the Intrinsic Dipole of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using the Spectral Distortions of the Monopole and Quadrupole

Siavash Yasini and Elena Pierpaoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221102 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Recognizing Axionic Dark Matter by Compton and de Broglie Scale Modulation of Pulsar Timing

Ivan De Martino, Tom Broadhurst, S.-H. Henry Tye, Tzihong Chiueh, Hsi-Yu Schive, and Ruth Lazkoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221103 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

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Maximum Redshift of Gravitational Wave Merger Events

Savvas M. Koushiappas and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221104 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Observations of black hole mergers in the very distant Universe could indicate whether all black holes form from stars.

Elementary Particles and Fields

$χ_{c 1}$ and $χ_{c 2}$ Resonance Parameters with the Decays $χ_{c 1, c 2} \to J / ψ μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221801 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Search for Evidence of the Type-III Seesaw Mechanism in Multilepton Final States in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 221802 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

Order Parameters and Color-Flavor Center Symmetry in QCD

Aleksey Cherman, Srimoyee Sen, Mithat Ünsal, Michael L. Wagman, and Laurence G. Yaffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222001 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Role of Multichance Fission in the Description of Fission-Fragment Mass Distributions at High Energies

K. Hirose, K. Nishio, S. Tanaka, R. Léguillon, H. Makii, I. Nishinaka, R. Orlandi, K. Tsukada, J. Smallcombe, M. J. Vermeulen, S. Chiba, Y. Aritomo, T. Ohtsuki, K. Nakano, S. Araki, Y. Watanabe, R. Tatsuzawa, N. Takaki, N. Tamura, S. Goto, I. Tsekhanovich, and A. N. Andreyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222501 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

Evidence for the Role of Proton Shell Closure in Quasifission Reactions from X-Ray Fluorescence of Mass-Identified Fragments

M. Morjean, D. J. Hinde, C. Simenel, D. Y. Jeung, M. Airiau, K. J. Cook, M. Dasgupta, A. Drouart, D. Jacquet, S. Kalkal, C. S. Palshetkar, E. Prasad, D. Rafferty, E. C. Simpson, L. Tassan-Got, K. Vo-Phuoc, and E. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222502 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Neutron Skin Thickness of ${}^{48}{Ca}$ from a Nonlocal Dispersive Optical-Model Analysis

M. H. Mahzoon, M. C. Atkinson, R. J. Charity, and W. H. Dickhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222503 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Exit-Channel Suppression in Statistical Reaction Theory

G. F. Bertsch and T. Kawano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222504 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

Ab initio Calculations of the Isotopic Dependence of Nuclear Clustering

Serdar Elhatisari, Evgeny Epelbaum, Hermann Krebs, Timo A. Lähde, Dean Lee, Ning Li, Bing-nan Lu, Ulf-G. Meißner, and Gautam Rupak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222505 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

Proton Spectra from ${}^{3}{He} + T$ and ${}^{3}{He} + {}^{3}{He}$ Fusion at Low Center-of-Mass Energy, with Potential Implications for Solar Fusion Cross Sections

A. B. Zylstra, J. A. Frenje, M. Gatu Johnson, G. M. Hale, C. R. Brune, A. Bacher, D. T. Casey, C. K. Li, D. McNabb, M. Paris, R. D. Petrasso, T. C. Sangster, D. B. Sayre, and F. H. Séguin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 222701 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Acid Dissociation in HCl-Water Clusters is Temperature Dependent and Cannot be Detected Based on Dipole Moments

Ricardo Pérez de Tudela and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223001 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Ground-State Properties of Unitary Bosons: From Clusters to Matter

J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, U. van Kolck, and S. A. Vitiello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223002 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Converging High-Level Coupled-Cluster Energetics by Monte Carlo Sampling and Moment Expansions

J. Emiliano Deustua, Jun Shen, and Piotr Piecuch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223003 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Probing Low-Mass Vector Bosons with Parity Nonconservation and Nuclear Anapole Moment Measurements in Atoms and Molecules

V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and Y. V. Stadnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223201 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Steady-State Magneto-Optical Trap with 100-Fold Improved Phase-Space Density

Shayne Bennetts, Chun-Chia Chen (陳俊嘉), Benjamin Pasquiou, and Florian Schreck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223202 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

Cavity-Enhanced Transport of Charge

David Hagenmüller, Johannes Schachenmayer, Stefan Schütz, Claudiu Genes, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223601 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Silicon-Vacancy Spin Qubit in Diamond: A Quantum Memory Exceeding 10 ms with Single-Shot State Readout

D. D. Sukachev, A. Sipahigil, C. T. Nguyen, M. K. Bhaskar, R. E. Evans, F. Jelezko, and M. D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223602 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Multiphoton Effects Enhanced due to Ultrafast Photon-Number Fluctuations

Kirill Yu. Spasibko, Denis A. Kopylov, Victor L. Krutyanskiy, Tatiana V. Murzina, Gerd Leuchs, and Maria V. Chekhova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223603 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Detection Loss Tolerant Supersensitive Phase Measurement with an SU(1,1) Interferometer

Mathieu Manceau, Gerd Leuchs, Farid Khalili, and Maria Chekhova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223604 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phase Memory Preserving Harmonics from Abruptly Autofocusing Beams

Anastasios D. Koulouklidis, Dimitris G. Papazoglou, Vladimir Yu. Fedorov, and Stelios Tzortzakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223901 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Stability Landscape of Shell Buckling

Emmanuel Virot, Tobias Kreilos, Tobias M. Schneider, and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 224101 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Experiments reveal what kinds of dents render a can and other metal shells crushable.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Buckling Instability Causes Inertial Thrust for Spherical Swimmers at All Scales

Adel Djellouli, Philippe Marmottant, Henda Djeridi, Catherine Quilliet, and Gwennou Coupier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 224501 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

A sphere that alternately collapses and re-inflates makes a simple device that can propel itself and could work on the microscale for medical purposes.

Microscopic Marangoni Flows Cannot Be Predicted on the Basis of Pressure Gradients

Yawei Liu, Raman Ganti, Hugh G. A. Burton, Xianren Zhang, Wenchuan Wang, and Daan Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 224502 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantifying Complexity in Quantum Phase Transitions via Mutual Information Complex Networks

Marc Andrew Valdez, Daniel Jaschke, David L. Vargas, and Lincoln D. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 225301 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Symmetry Protected Dynamical Symmetry in the Generalized Hubbard Models

Jinlong Yu, Ning Sun, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 225302 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Induced-Charge Enhancement of the Diffusion Potential in Membranes with Polarizable Nanopores

I. I. Ryzhkov, D. V. Lebedev, V. S. Solodovnichenko, A. V. Shiverskiy, and M. M. Simunin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226001 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Interplay of Chiral and Helical States in a Quantum Spin Hall Insulator Lateral Junction

M. R. Calvo, F. de Juan, R. Ilan, E. J. Fox, A. J. Bestwick, M. Mühlbauer, J. Wang, C. Ames, P. Leubner, C. Brüne, S. C. Zhang, H. Buhmann, L. W. Molenkamp, and D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226401 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Photoexcited Muon Spin Spectroscopy: A New Method for Measuring Excess Carrier Lifetime in Bulk Silicon

K. Yokoyama, J. S. Lord, J. Miao, P. Murahari, and A. J. Drew

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226601 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transport Signatures of the Hall Viscosity

Luca V. Delacrétaz and Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226602 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

A method is proposed for measuring the classical Hall viscosity of a two-dimensional electron gas under a magnetic field, via signatures of hydrodynamic transport.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Dimensional Dirac Fermions Protected by Space-Time Inversion Symmetry in Black Phosphorus

Jimin Kim, Seung Su Baik, Sung Won Jung, Yeongsup Sohn, Sae Hee Ryu, Hyoung Joon Choi, Bohm-Jung Yang, and Keun Su Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226801 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Experimental evidence is presented for the realization of a 2D Dirac semimetal in black phosphorous, a material in which, unlike graphene, the Dirac point remains stable despite spin-orbit coupling.

Quantum Phase Transition in Few-Layer ${NbSe}_{2}$ Probed through Quantized Conductance Fluctuations

Hemanta Kumar Kundu, Sujay Ray, Kapildeb Dolui, Vivas Bagwe, Palash Roy Choudhury, S. B. Krupanidhi, Tanmoy Das, Pratap Raychaudhuri, and Aveek Bid

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226802 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Switching Magnetism and Superconductivity with Spin-Polarized Current in Iron-Based Superconductor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227001 (2017) - Published 27 November, 2017

A current of electrons with aligned spins can be used to modify magnetic order and superconductivity in an iron-based superconductor.

Intertwining Topological Order and Broken Symmetry in a Theory of Fluctuating Spin-Density Waves

Shubhayu Chatterjee, Subir Sachdev, and Mathias S. Scheurer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227002 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Pressure-Induced Ferromagnetism due to an Anisotropic Electronic Topological Transition in ${Fe}_{1.08} Te$

K. Mydeen, D. Kasinathan, C. Koz, S. Rößler, U. K. Rößler, M. Hanfland, A. A. Tsirlin, U. Schwarz, S. Wirth, H. Rosner, and M. Nicklas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227003 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Antiferromagnetic Resonance and Terahertz Continuum in $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

A. Little, Liang Wu, P. Lampen-Kelley, A. Banerjee, S. Patankar, D. Rees, C. A. Bridges, J.-Q. Yan, D. Mandrus, S. E. Nagler, and J. Orenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227201 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Magnetic Excitations and Continuum of a Possibly Field-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid in $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

Zhe Wang, S. Reschke, D. Hüvonen, S.-H. Do, K.-Y. Choi, M. Gensch, U. Nagel, T. Rõõm, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227202 (2017) - Published 28 November, 2017

Anomalous Spin Precession under a Geometrical Torque

Christopher Stahl and Michael Potthoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227203 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Quantum Spin Ice under a [111] Magnetic Field: From Pyrochlore to Kagome

Troels Arnfred Bojesen and Shigeki Onoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227204 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Quantitative Disentanglement of the Spin Seebeck, Proximity-Induced, and Ferromagnetic-Induced Anomalous Nernst Effect in Normal-Metal–Ferromagnet Bilayers

Panagiota Bougiatioti, Christoph Klewe, Daniel Meier, Orestis Manos, Olga Kuschel, Joachim Wollschläger, Laurence Bouchenoire, Simon D. Brown, Jan-Michael Schmalhorst, Günter Reiss, and Timo Kuschel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227205 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Engineering the Eigenstates of Coupled Spin- $1 / 2$ Atoms on a Surface

Kai Yang, Yujeong Bae, William Paul, Fabian D. Natterer, Philip Willke, Jose L. Lado, Alejandro Ferrón, Taeyoung Choi, Joaquín Fernández-Rossier, Andreas J. Heinrich, and Christopher P. Lutz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227206 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Coupling between a Charge Density Wave and Magnetism in an Heusler Material

G. Lantz, M. J. Neugebauer, M. Kubli, M. Savoini, E. Abreu, K. Tasca, C. Dornes, V. Esposito, J. Rittmann, Y. W. Windsor, P. Beaud, G. Ingold, and S. L. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227207 (2017) - Published 29 November, 2017

Gapless Spin Excitations in the Field-Induced Quantum Spin Liquid Phase of $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

Jiacheng Zheng, Kejing Ran, Tianrun Li, Jinghui Wang, Pengshuai Wang, Bin Liu, Zheng-Xin Liu, B. Normand, Jinsheng Wen, and Weiqiang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227208 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

Group Theoretical Route to Deterministic Weyl Points in Chiral Photonic Lattices

Matthias Saba, Joachim M. Hamm, Jeremy J. Baumberg, and Ortwin Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227401 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Asymmetric Splitting of an Antiferromagnetic Resonance via Quartic Exchange Interactions in Multiferroic Hexagonal ${HoMnO}_{3}$

N. J. Laurita, Yi Luo, Rongwei Hu, Meixia Wu, S. W. Cheong, O. Tchernyshyov, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227601 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Negative Spin Exchange in a Multielectron Quantum Dot

Frederico Martins, Filip K. Malinowski, Peter D. Nissen, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 227701 (2017) - Published 30 November, 2017

Experiments show that a semiconducting quantum dot containing nearly 100 electrons can operate as an effective spin 1/2 qubit.

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

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Study of Ordering of Hard Cubes by Shearing

K. Asencio, M. Acevedo, I. Zuriguel, and D. Maza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 228002 (2017) - Published 1 December, 2017

A jumble of thousands of cubic dice, agitated by an oscillating rotation, can rapidly become completely ordered, a result that is hard to produce with more conventional shaking.