Volume 119, Issue 26

29 December 2017

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Orthographic projection of the Northern hemisphere with 1000 stars. The black (red) lines show movement tracks for a linearly plus-polarized (cross-polarized) simulated gravitational wave emanating from the North pole (black dot). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and for a Focus story in Physics.

From the article:

Astrometric Search Method for Individually Resolvable Gravitational Wave Sources with Gaia
Christopher J. Moore, Deyan P. Mihaylov, Anthony Lasenby, and Gerard Gilmore
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261102 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Astrometric Search Method for Individually Resolvable Gravitational Wave Sources with Gaia

Christopher J. Moore, Deyan P. Mihaylov, Anthony Lasenby, and Gerard Gilmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261102 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

A passing gravitational wave produces shifts in the apparent positions of the stars, and these motions should be detectable with the Gaia space telescope.

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Sorting Photons by Radial Quantum Number

Yiyu Zhou, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Dongzhi Fu, Jiapeng Zhao, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Alan E. Willner, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263602 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

A new method groups photons based on the radial component of their angular momentum.

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Three-Dimensional Tracking of Interfacial Hopping Diffusion

Dapeng Wang, Haichao Wu, and Daniel K. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 268001 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

The 3D motion of molecules at a solid-liquid interface is directly imaged for the first time.

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Atom Interferometry with the Sr Optical Clock Transition

Liang Hu, Nicola Poli, Leonardo Salvi, and Guglielmo M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263601 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

A single-photon interaction atom interferometer is demonstrated using the ultra-narrow optical clock transition of strontium atoms.

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Breakdown of the Chiral Anomaly in Weyl Semimetals in a Strong Magnetic Field

Pilkwang Kim, Ji Hoon Ryoo, and Cheol-Hwan Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266401 (2017) - Published 26 December, 2017

A gap is predicted to open in the band structure of a Weyl semimetal when under a high magnetic field, challenging the chiral anomaly picture for these topological materials.

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Group Velocity Engineering of Confined Ultrafast Magnons

Y.-J. Chen, Kh. Zakeri, A. Ernst, H. J. Qin, Y. Meng, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 267201 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

Researchers observe the coexistence of counter-propagating, quantum-confined magnon modes localized at different atomic layers of an ultrathin cobalt film.

LETTERS

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

Observation of Slow Dynamics near the Many-Body Localization Transition in One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Systems

Henrik P. Lüschen, Pranjal Bordia, Sebastian Scherg, Fabien Alet, Ehud Altman, Ulrich Schneider, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 260401 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

Landau Phonon-Roton Theory Revisited for Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ and Fermi Gases

Yvan Castin, Alice Sinatra, and Hadrien Kurkjian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 260402 (2017) - Published 26 December, 2017

High-Resolution Quantum Sensing with Shaped Control Pulses

J. Zopes, K. Sasaki, K. S. Cujia, J. M. Boss, K. Chang, T. F. Segawa, K. M. Itoh, and C. L. Degen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 260501 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Oscillations in Aggregation-Shattering Processes

S. A. Matveev, P. L. Krapivsky, A. P. Smirnov, E. E. Tyrtyshnikov, and N. V. Brilliantov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 260601 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Liquid-Gas Transitions in Steady Heat Conduction

Naoko Nakagawa and Shin-ichi Sasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 260602 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Dynamical Formation of Kerr Black Holes with Synchronized Hair: An Analytic Model

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro and Eugen Radu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261101 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

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Astrometric Search Method for Individually Resolvable Gravitational Wave Sources with Gaia

Christopher J. Moore, Deyan P. Mihaylov, Anthony Lasenby, and Gerard Gilmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261102 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

A passing gravitational wave produces shifts in the apparent positions of the stars, and these motions should be detectable with the Gaia space telescope.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Real-Time Dynamics and Phase Separation in a Holographic First-Order Phase Transition

Romuald A. Janik, Jakub Jankowski, and Hesam Soltanpanahi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261601 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Color Memory: A Yang-Mills Analog of Gravitational Wave Memory

Monica Pate, Ana-Maria Raclariu, and Andrew Strominger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261602 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Universal Entropy of Conformal Critical Theories on a Klein Bottle

Hong-Hao Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261603 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Asymptotic One-Point Functions in Gauge-String Duality with Defects

Isak Buhl-Mortensen, Marius de Leeuw, Asger C. Ipsen, Charlotte Kristjansen, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261604 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Spectral Decomposition of Missing Transverse Energy at Hadron Colliders

Kyu Jung Bae, Tae Hyun Jung, and Myeonghun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261801 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Asymptotically Safe Standard Model via Vectorlike Fermions

R. B. Mann, J. R. Meffe, F. Sannino, T. G. Steele, Z. W. Wang, and C. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 261802 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

High-Energy Limit of QCD beyond the Sudakov Approximation

Tao Liu and Alexander A. Penin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 262001 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Peeling Off Neutron Skins from Neutron-Rich Nuclei: Constraints on the Symmetry Energy from Neutron-Removal Cross Sections

T. Aumann, C. A. Bertulani, F. Schindler, and S. Typel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 262501 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Short-Range Correlations and the EMC Effect in Effective Field Theory

Jiunn-Wei Chen, William Detmold, Joel E. Lynn, and Achim Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 262502 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Recoil Effect on the $g$ Factor of Li-Like Ions

V. M. Shabaev, D. A. Glazov, A. V. Malyshev, and I. I. Tupitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263001 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Measurement of the Frequency of the $2 {}^{3}S - 2 {}^{3}P$ Transition of ${}^{4}{He}$

X. Zheng (郑昕), Y. R. Sun (孙羽), J.-J. Chen (陈娇娇), W. Jiang (蒋蔚), K. Pachucki, and S.-M. Hu (胡水明)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263002 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Ultrafast Charge Transfer Processes Accompanying $K L L$ Auger Decay in Aqueous KCl Solution

D. Céolin, N. V. Kryzhevoi, Ch. Nicolas, W. Pokapanich, S. Choksakulporn, P. Songsiriritthigul, T. Saisopa, Y. Rattanachai, Y. Utsumi, J. Palaudoux, G. Öhrwall, and J.-P. Rueff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263003 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Exact Time-Dependent Exchange-Correlation Potential in Electron Scattering Processes

Yasumitsu Suzuki, Lionel Lacombe, Kazuyuki Watanabe, and Neepa T. Maitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

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Atom Interferometry with the Sr Optical Clock Transition

Liang Hu, Nicola Poli, Leonardo Salvi, and Guglielmo M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263601 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

A single-photon interaction atom interferometer is demonstrated using the ultra-narrow optical clock transition of strontium atoms.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sorting Photons by Radial Quantum Number

Yiyu Zhou, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Dongzhi Fu, Jiapeng Zhao, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, Alan E. Willner, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263602 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

A new method groups photons based on the radial component of their angular momentum.

Second-Order Temporal Interference with Thermal Light: Interference beyond the Coherence Time

Yong Sup Ihn, Yosep Kim, Vincenzo Tamma, and Yoon-Ho Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263603 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Topological Vortex and Knotted Dissipative Optical 3D Solitons Generated by 2D Vortex Solitons

N. A. Veretenov, S. V. Fedorov, and N. N. Rosanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263901 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Connecting the Kuramoto Model and the Chimera State

Tejas Kotwal, Xin Jiang, and Daniel M. Abrams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 264101 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Hydrodynamic Signatures of Stationary Marangoni-Driven Surfactant Transport

M. M. Bandi, V. S. Akella, D. K. Singh, R. S. Singh, and S. Mandre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 264501 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Egalitarianism among Bubbles in Porous Media: An Ostwald Ripening Derived Anticoarsening Phenomenon

Ke Xu, Roger Bonnecaze, and Matthew Balhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 264502 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Understanding Quality Factor Degradation in Superconducting Niobium Cavities at Low Microwave Field Amplitudes

A. Romanenko and D. I. Schuster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 264801 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ultracold Atoms in a Square Lattice with Spin-Orbit Coupling: Charge Order, Superfluidity, and Topological Signatures

Peter Rosenberg, Hao Shi, and Shiwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 265301 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Excitation Spectra in Crystal Plasticity

Markus Ovaska, Arttu Lehtinen, Mikko J. Alava, Lasse Laurson, and Stefano Zapperi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 265501 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

Role of the Pair Correlation Function in the Dynamical Transition Predicted by Mode Coupling Theory

Manoj Kumar Nandi, Atreyee Banerjee, Chandan Dasgupta, and Sarika Maitra Bhattacharyya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 265502 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Emergence of Long-Ranged Stress Correlations at the Liquid to Glass Transition

Manuel Maier, Annette Zippelius, and Matthias Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 265701 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Breakdown of the Chiral Anomaly in Weyl Semimetals in a Strong Magnetic Field

Pilkwang Kim, Ji Hoon Ryoo, and Cheol-Hwan Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266401 (2017) - Published 26 December, 2017

A gap is predicted to open in the band structure of a Weyl semimetal when under a high magnetic field, challenging the chiral anomaly picture for these topological materials.

Universality and Stability of the Edge States of Chiral-Symmetric Topological Semimetals and Surface States of the Luttinger Semimetal

Maxim Kharitonov, Julian-Benedikt Mayer, and Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266402 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Second Sound in Systems of One-Dimensional Fermions

K. A. Matveev and A. V. Andreev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266801 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

Realization of a Hole-Doped Mott Insulator on a Triangular Silicon Lattice

Fangfei Ming, Steve Johnston, Daniel Mulugeta, Tyler S. Smith, Paolo Vilmercati, Geunseop Lee, Thomas A. Maier, Paul C. Snijders, and Hanno H. Weitering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266802 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

Charge Catastrophe and Dielectric Breakdown During Exposure of Organic Thin Films to Low-Energy Electron Radiation

A. Thete, D. Geelen, S. J. van der Molen, and R. M. Tromp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266803 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

Tunable Intrinsic Plasmons due to Band Inversion in Topological Materials

Furu Zhang, Jianhui Zhou, Di Xiao, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 266804 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

Resilient Nodeless $d$ -Wave Superconductivity in Monolayer FeSe

D. F. Agterberg, T. Shishidou, J. O’Halloran, P. M. R. Brydon, and M. Weinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 267001 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

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Group Velocity Engineering of Confined Ultrafast Magnons

Y.-J. Chen, Kh. Zakeri, A. Ernst, H. J. Qin, Y. Meng, and J. Kirschner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 267201 (2017) - Published 27 December, 2017

Researchers observe the coexistence of counter-propagating, quantum-confined magnon modes localized at different atomic layers of an ultrathin cobalt film.

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

Experimental Observation of Two Features Unexpected from the Classical Theories of Rubber Elasticity

Kengo Nishi, Kenta Fujii, Ung-il Chung, Mitsuhiro Shibayama, and Takamasa Sakai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 267801 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017

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Three-Dimensional Tracking of Interfacial Hopping Diffusion

Dapeng Wang, Haichao Wu, and Daniel K. Schwartz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 268001 (2017) - Published 29 December, 2017

The 3D motion of molecules at a solid-liquid interface is directly imaged for the first time.

ERRATA

Erratum: Ultrafine Entanglement Witnessing [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 110502 (2017)]

Farid Shahandeh, Martin Ringbauer, Juan C. Loredo, and Timothy C. Ralph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 269901 (2017) - Published 28 December, 2017