Volume 119, Issue 25

22 December 2017

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Lévy flights emerging from a computer search process on a two-dimensional space. Targets are green dots; blue dots are starting points.

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Emergence of Lévy Walks from Second-Order Stochastic Optimization
Łukasz Kuśmierz and Taro Toyoizumi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250601 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Strong Constraints on Cosmological Gravity from GW170817 and GRB 170817A

T. Baker, E. Bellini, P. G. Ferreira, M. Lagos, J. Noller, and I. Sawicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251301 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Dark Energy after GW170817 and GRB170817A

Paolo Creminelli and Filippo Vernizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251302 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Implications of the Neutron Star Merger GW170817 for Cosmological Scalar-Tensor Theories

Jeremy Sakstein and Bhuvnesh Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251303 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Dark Energy After GW170817: Dead Ends and the Road Ahead

Jose María Ezquiaga and Miguel Zumalacárregui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251304 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Spin Transfer due to Quantum Magnetization Fluctuations

Andrei Zholud, Ryan Freeman, Rongxing Cao, Ajit Srivastava, and Sergei Urazhdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257201 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Quantum effects may play an important role in spin-transfer torque—a phenomenon in which a spin-polarized current controls the magnetization of a thin layer of material.

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Canceling the Gravity Gradient Phase Shift in Atom Interferometry

G. D’Amico, G. Rosi, S. Zhan, L. Cacciapuoti, M. Fattori, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253201 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

A method is demonstrated that compensates for gravity gradients in Raman-pulse atom interferometers.

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Twisted-Light–Ion Interaction: The Role of Longitudinal Fields

G. F. Quinteiro, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, and Christian T. Schmiegelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253203 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

The paraxial approximation of light propagation breaks down for strongly inhomogeneous or oddly-shaped light fields, making it hard to fit data with theory. But, including longitudinal components in the theory allows these light beams to be described accurately.

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Geometric Phase and Orbital Moment in Quantization Rules for Magnetic Breakdown

A. Alexandradinata and Leonid Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256601 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

A generalization of the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule unifies geometric phase, orbital magnetic moment, and tunneling between Fermi surfaces in topological metals near the metal-insulator transition.

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Fracton Topological Phases from Strongly Coupled Spin Chains

Gábor B. Halász, Timothy H. Hsieh, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257202 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

A realistic model of fracton topological phases using only two spins brings their experimental realization a step closer.

LETTERS

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

Multipartite Entanglement in Topological Quantum Phases

Luca Pezzè, Marco Gabbrielli, Luca Lepori, and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250401 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Dipolar Bose Supersolid Stripes

R. Bombin, J. Boronat, and F. Mazzanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250402 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

High-Energy Vacuum Birefringence and Dichroism in an Ultrastrong Laser Field

Sergey Bragin, Sebastian Meuren, Christoph H. Keitel, and Antonino Di Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250403 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Universal Scaling Laws in the Dynamics of a Homogeneous Unitary Bose Gas

Christoph Eigen, Jake A. P. Glidden, Raphael Lopes, Nir Navon, Zoran Hadzibabic, and Robert P. Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250404 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Reliable Channel-Adapted Error Correction: Bacon-Shor Code Recovery from Amplitude Damping

Álvaro Piedrafita and Joseph M. Renes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250501 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Emergence of Lévy Walks from Second-Order Stochastic Optimization

Łukasz Kuśmierz and Taro Toyoizumi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250601 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Time Crystal Behavior of Excited Eigenstates

Andrzej Syrwid, Jakub Zakrzewski, and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 250602 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Observation of the Identical Rigidity Dependence of He, C, and O Cosmic Rays at High Rigidities by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251101 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Light-Ring Stability for Ultracompact Objects

Pedro V. P. Cunha, Emanuele Berti, and Carlos A. R. Herdeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251102 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Impact of Bayesian Priors on the Characterization of Binary Black Hole Coalescences

Salvatore Vitale, Davide Gerosa, Carl-Johan Haster, Katerina Chatziioannou, and Aaron Zimmerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251103 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

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Strong Constraints on Cosmological Gravity from GW170817 and GRB 170817A

T. Baker, E. Bellini, P. G. Ferreira, M. Lagos, J. Noller, and I. Sawicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251301 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Dark Energy after GW170817 and GRB170817A

Paolo Creminelli and Filippo Vernizzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251302 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Implications of the Neutron Star Merger GW170817 for Cosmological Scalar-Tensor Theories

Jeremy Sakstein and Bhuvnesh Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251303 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

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Dark Energy After GW170817: Dead Ends and the Road Ahead

Jose María Ezquiaga and Miguel Zumalacárregui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251304 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Theorists have tightly constrained alternative theories of gravity using the recent joint detection of gravitational waves and light from a neutron star merger.

Thermalizing Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

Rasmus S. L. Hansen and Stefan Vogl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251305 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

Gravitational Mechanisms to Self-Tune the Cosmological Constant: Obstructions and Ways Forward

Florian Niedermann and Antonio Padilla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251306 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Supersymmetric Gauge Theories with Decoupled Operators and Chiral Ring Stability

Sergio Benvenuti and Simone Giacomelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251601 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

Neutral $D \to K K^{*}$ Decays as Discovery Channels for Charm $C P$ Violation

Ulrich Nierste and Stefan Schacht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 251801 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to the Hadronic Width of Pseudoscalar Quarkonium

Feng Feng, Yu Jia, and Wen-Long Sang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 252001 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Estimating Parameter Uncertainty in Binding-Energy Models by the Frequency-Domain Bootstrap

G. F. Bertsch and Derek Bingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 252501 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Hyperpolarizability and Operational Magic Wavelength in an Optical Lattice Clock

R. C. Brown, N. B. Phillips, K. Beloy, W. F. McGrew, M. Schioppo, R. J. Fasano, G. Milani, X. Zhang, N. Hinkley, H. Leopardi, T. H. Yoon, D. Nicolodi, T. M. Fortier, and A. D. Ludlow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253001 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

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Canceling the Gravity Gradient Phase Shift in Atom Interferometry

G. D’Amico, G. Rosi, S. Zhan, L. Cacciapuoti, M. Fattori, and G. M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253201 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

A method is demonstrated that compensates for gravity gradients in Raman-pulse atom interferometers.

Visualizing and Steering Dissociative Frustrated Double Ionization of Hydrogen Molecules

Wenbin Zhang, Zuqing Yu, Xiaochun Gong, Junping Wang, Peifen Lu, Hui Li, Qiying Song, Qinying Ji, Kang Lin, Junyang Ma, Hanxiao Li, Fenghao Sun, Junjie Qiang, Heping Zeng, Feng He, and Jian Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253202 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

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Twisted-Light–Ion Interaction: The Role of Longitudinal Fields

G. F. Quinteiro, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, and Christian T. Schmiegelow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253203 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Tin-Vacancy Quantum Emitters in Diamond

Takayuki Iwasaki, Yoshiyuki Miyamoto, Takashi Taniguchi, Petr Siyushev, Mathias H. Metsch, Fedor Jelezko, and Mutsuko Hatano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253601 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Surface Plasmons Carry the Pancharatnam-Berry Geometric Phase

Salman Daniel, Kimmo Saastamoinen, Toni Saastamoinen, Ismo Vartiainen, Ari T. Friberg, and Taco D. Visser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253901 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Parametric Down-Conversion of X Rays into the Optical Regime

A. Schori, C. Bömer, D. Borodin, S. P. Collins, B. Detlefs, M. Moretti Sala, S. Yudovich, and S. Shwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253902 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Enhanced Control of Transient Raman Scattering Using Buffered Hydrogen in Hollow-Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

P. Hosseini, D. Novoa, A. Abdolvand, and P. St. J. Russell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253903 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Bistable Topological Insulator with Exciton-Polaritons

Yaroslav V. Kartashov and Dmitry V. Skryabin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 253904 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Statistical Model for the Orientation of Nonspherical Particles Settling in Turbulence

K. Gustavsson, J. Jucha, A. Naso, E. Lévêque, A. Pumir, and B. Mehlig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 254501 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of Gigawatt Circularly Polarized Attosecond-Pulse Pairs

K. Hu and H.-C. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 254801 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Coupling of Noncrossing Wave Modes in a Two-Dimensional Plasma Crystal

J. K. Meyer, I. Laut, S. K. Zhdanov, V. Nosenko, and H. M. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255001 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

Enhancement of Quasistationary Shocks and Heating via Temporal Staging in a Magnetized Laser-Plasma Jet

D. P. Higginson, B. Khiar, G. Revet, J. Béard, M. Blecher, M. Borghesi, K. Burdonov, S. N. Chen, E. Filippov, D. Khaghani, K. Naughton, H. Pépin, S. Pikuz, O. Portugall, C. Riconda, R. Riquier, R. Rodriguez, S. N. Ryazantsev, I. Yu. Skobelev, A. Soloviev, M. Starodubtsev, T. Vinci, O. Willi, A. Ciardi, and J. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255002 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Coarsening Dynamics of an Isotropic Ferromagnetic Superfluid

L. A. Williamson and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255301 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Collective Excitations of Self-Bound Droplets of a Dipolar Quantum Fluid

D. Baillie, R. M. Wilson, and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255302 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Friction of Shear-Fracture Zones

T. I. Riikilä, J. I. Pylväinen, and J. Åström

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255501 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Phonon Spectroscopy with Chirped Shear and Compressive Acoustic Pulses

C. L. Poyser, W. B. York, D. Srikanthreddy, B. A. Glavin, T. L. Linnik, R. P. Campion, A. V. Akimov, and A. J. Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255502 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Direct Observations of a Dynamically Driven Phase Transition with in situ X-Ray Diffraction in a Simple Ionic Crystal

Patricia Kalita, Paul Specht, Seth Root, Nicholas Sinclair, Adam Schuman, Melanie White, Andrew L. Cornelius, Jesse Smith, and Stanislav Sinogeikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255701 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Pseudospins and Topological Effects of Phonons in a Kekulé Lattice

Yizhou Liu, Chao-Sheng Lian, Yang Li, Yong Xu, and Wenhui Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 255901 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Anomalous Tensile Detwinning in Twinned Nanowires

Guangming Cheng, Sheng Yin, Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Gunther Richter, Huajian Gao, and Yong Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256101 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Intrinsic Compressive Stress in Polycrystalline Films is Localized at Edges of the Grain Boundaries

Enrique Vasco and Celia Polop

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256102 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonperturbative Series Expansion of Green’s Functions: The Anatomy of Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering in the Doped Hubbard Model

Yi Lu and Maurits W. Haverkort

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256401 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Prediction of Ideal Topological Semimetals with Triply Degenerate Points in the ${NaCu}_{3} {Te}_{2}$ Family

Jianfeng Wang, Xuelei Sui, Wujun Shi, Jinbo Pan, Shengbai Zhang, Feng Liu, Su-Huai Wei, Qimin Yan, and Bing Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256402 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Spin-Orbit Semimetal ${SrIrO}_{3}$ in the Two-Dimensional Limit

D. J. Groenendijk, C. Autieri, J. Girovsky, M. Carmen Martinez-Velarte, N. Manca, G. Mattoni, A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, N. Gauquelin, J. Verbeeck, A. F. Otte, M. Gabay, S. Picozzi, and A. D. Caviglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256403 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Dimensionality-Driven Metal-Insulator Transition in Spin-Orbit-Coupled ${SrIrO}_{3}$

P. Schütz, D. Di Sante, L. Dudy, J. Gabel, M. Stübinger, M. Kamp, Y. Huang, M. Capone, M.-A. Husanu, V. N. Strocov, G. Sangiovanni, M. Sing, and R. Claessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256404 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

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Geometric Phase and Orbital Moment in Quantization Rules for Magnetic Breakdown

A. Alexandradinata and Leonid Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256601 (2017) - Published 19 December, 2017

Theory of the Spin Galvanic Effect at Oxide Interfaces

Götz Seibold, Sergio Caprara, Marco Grilli, and Roberto Raimondi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256801 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Ripplonic Lamb Shift for Electrons on Liquid Helium

M. I. Dykman, K. Kono, D. Konstantinov, and M. J. Lea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 256802 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

Magnetic-Field-Induced Superconductivity in Ultrathin Pb Films with Magnetic Impurities

Masato Niwata, Ryuichi Masutomi, and Tohru Okamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257001 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Multicomponent Electron-Hole Superfluidity and the BCS-BEC Crossover in Double Bilayer Graphene

S. Conti, A. Perali, F. M. Peeters, and D. Neilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257002 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

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Spin Transfer due to Quantum Magnetization Fluctuations

Andrei Zholud, Ryan Freeman, Rongxing Cao, Ajit Srivastava, and Sergei Urazhdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257201 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Quantum effects may play an important role in spin-transfer torque—a phenomenon in which a spin-polarized current controls the magnetization of a thin layer of material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fracton Topological Phases from Strongly Coupled Spin Chains

Gábor B. Halász, Timothy H. Hsieh, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257202 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

A realistic model of fracton topological phases using only two spins brings their experimental realization a step closer.

Anomalous Composition-Induced Crossover in the Magnetic Properties of the Itinerant-Electron Antiferromagnet ${Ca}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {Co}_{2 - y} {As}_{2}$

N. S. Sangeetha, V. Smetana, A.-V. Mudring, and D. C. Johnston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257203 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Orphan Spins in the $S = \frac{5}{2}$ Antiferromagnet ${CaFe}_{2} O_{4}$

C. Stock, E. E. Rodriguez, N. Lee, F. Demmel, P. Fouquet, M. Laver, Ch. Niedermayer, Y. Su, K. Nemkovski, M. A. Green, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, J. W. Kim, L. Zhang, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 257204 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017

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

Entropy Production and Fluctuation Theorems for Active Matter

Dibyendu Mandal, Katherine Klymko, and Michael R. DeWeese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 258001 (2017) - Published 18 December, 2017

Filament Tension and Phase Locking of Meandering Scroll Waves

Hans Dierckx, I. V. Biktasheva, H. Verschelde, A. V. Panfilov, and V. N. Biktashev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 258101 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Acid Dissociation in HCl-Water Clusters is Temperature Dependent and Cannot be Detected Based on Dipole Moments [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 223001 (2017)]

Ricardo Pérez de Tudela and Dominik Marx

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 259901 (2017) - Published 20 December, 2017

Erratum: Constraints on Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources from a Search for Neutrinos Above 10 PeV with IceCube [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 241101 (2016)]

M. G. Aartsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 259902 (2017) - Published 21 December, 2017

Erratum: Analytic Solutions to Coherent Control of the Dirac Equation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 173203 (2017)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 259903 (2017) - Published 22 December, 2017