Volume 119, Issue 7

18 August 2017

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Snapshots of the spreading behavior of a microfilm of bacteria showing arrested (left) and continuous (right) spreading. The transition is triggered by the addition of a surfactant.

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Continuous versus Arrested Spreading of Biofilms at Solid-Gas Interfaces: The Role of Surface Forces
Sarah Trinschek, Karin John, Sigolène Lecuyer, and Uwe Thiele
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 078003 (2017)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Rotationally Cold ${OH}^{-}$ Ions in the Cryogenic Electrostatic Ion-Beam Storage Ring DESIREE

H. T. Schmidt, G. Eklund, K. C. Chartkunchand, E. K. Anderson, M. Kamińska, N. de Ruette, R. D. Thomas, M. K. Kristiansson, M. Gatchell, P. Reinhed, S. Rosén, A. Simonsson, A. Källberg, P. Löfgren, S. Mannervik, H. Zettergren, and H. Cederquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073001 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Two research teams have created the coldest molecular beams ever, putting molecules in their ground states of rotation and providing improved experimental stand-ins for interstellar gas clouds.

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Stress Transmission and Failure in Disordered Porous Media

Hadrien Laubie, Farhang Radjai, Roland Pellenq, and Franz-Josef Ulm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075501 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Simulations of porous materials exhibit internal stress patterns like those in granular materials, despite the fact that these two systems are practically “negative images” of each other.

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Thermal Conductance of a Single-Electron Transistor

B. Dutta, J. T. Peltonen, D. S. Antonenko, M. Meschke, M. A. Skvortsov, B. Kubala, J. König, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077701 (2017) - Published 15 August, 2017

A single-electron transistor carries more heat than that predicted by the Wiedemann-Franz law linking thermal and electrical conductivities.

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Determination of the Spin and Parity of the $Z_{c} (3900)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 072001 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

An analysis of electron-positron collision data has determined the spin and parity of a particle thought to consist of four quarks.

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Melting and High $P − T$ Transitions of Hydrogen up to 300 GPa

Chang-sheng Zha, Hanyu Liu, John S. Tse, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075302 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Measurements of the melting curve of hydrogen at unprecedentedly high pressures call for a refinement of the theories describing the material.

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Full-Gap Superconductivity Robust against Disorder in Heavy-Fermion ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

T. Takenaka, Y. Mizukami, J. A. Wilcox, M. Konczykowski, S. Seiro, C. Geibel, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Kasahara, C. Putzke, Y. Matsuda, A. Carrington, and T. Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077001 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Magnetic penetration depth measurements show that the superconducting gap in this iconic heavy-fermion superconductor is robust against the introduction of disorder, ruling out some superconductivity mechanisms as explanations.

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Spin Current Generation Using a Surface Acoustic Wave Generated via Spin-Rotation Coupling

D. Kobayashi, T. Yoshikawa, M. Matsuo, R. Iguchi, S. Maekawa, E. Saitoh, and Y. Nozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077202 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

An alternating spin current has been generated at unprecedented GHz frequencies in a copper film, by exploiting an acoustic phenomenon.

LETTERS

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

Bridging Perturbative Expansions with Tensor Networks

Laurens Vanderstraeten, Michaël Mariën, Jutho Haegeman, Norbert Schuch, Julien Vidal, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 070401 (2017) - Published 15 August, 2017

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Mass–Angular-Momentum Inequality For Black Ring Spacetimes

Aghil Alaee, Marcus Khuri, and Hari Kunduri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 071101 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gluing Ladder Feynman Diagrams into Fishnets

Benjamin Basso and Lance J. Dixon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 071601 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Anti–de Sitter Space from Optimization of Path Integrals in Conformal Field Theories

Pawel Caputa, Nilay Kundu, Masamichi Miyaji, Tadashi Takayanagi, and Kento Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 071602 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

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Determination of the Spin and Parity of the $Z_{c} (3900)$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 072001 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

An analysis of electron-positron collision data has determined the spin and parity of a particle thought to consist of four quarks.

Next-to-Leading Order Computation of Exclusive Diffractive Light Vector Meson Production in a Saturation Framework

R. Boussarie, A. V. Grabovsky, D. Yu. Ivanov, L. Szymanowski, and S. Wallon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 072002 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Nuclear Physics

Study of the ${}^{26}{Al}^{m} (d, p) {}^{27}{Al}$ Reaction and the Influence of the ${}^{26}{Al}$ $0^{+}$ Isomer on the Destruction of ${}^{26}{Al}$ in the Galaxy

S. Almaraz-Calderon, K. E. Rehm, N. Gerken, M. L. Avila, B. P. Kay, R. Talwar, A. D. Ayangeakaa, S. Bottoni, A. A. Chen, C. M. Deibel, C. Dickerson, K. Hanselman, C. R. Hoffman, C. L. Jiang, S. A. Kuvin, O. Nusair, R. C. Pardo, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, J. Sethi, and C. Ugalde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 072701 (2017) - Published 17 August, 2017

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Rotationally Cold ${OH}^{-}$ Ions in the Cryogenic Electrostatic Ion-Beam Storage Ring DESIREE

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073001 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Two research teams have created the coldest molecular beams ever, putting molecules in their ground states of rotation and providing improved experimental stand-ins for interstellar gas clouds.

Equilibration Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Bosons in 2D Lattices with Disorder

Mi Yan, Hoi-Yin Hui, Marcos Rigol, and V. W. Scarola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073002 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Revealing the Sub-Barrier Phase using a Spatiotemporal Interferometer with Orthogonal Two-Color Laser Fields of Comparable Intensity

Meng Han, Peipei Ge, Yun Shao, Ming-Ming Liu, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073201 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Three-Dimensional Molecular Alignment Inside Helium Nanodroplets

Adam S. Chatterley, Benjamin Shepperson, and Henrik Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073202 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Observation and Control of Laser-Enabled Auger Decay

D. Iablonskyi, K. Ueda, K. L. Ishikawa, A. S. Kheifets, P. Carpeggiani, M. Reduzzi, H. Ahmadi, A. Comby, G. Sansone, T. Csizmadia, S. Kuehn, E. Ovcharenko, T. Mazza, M. Meyer, A. Fischer, C. Callegari, O. Plekan, P. Finetti, E. Allaria, E. Ferrari, E. Roussel, D. Gauthier, L. Giannessi, and K. C. Prince

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073203 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Trapping of Molecular Oxygen together with Lithium Atoms

Nitzan Akerman, Michael Karpov, Yair Segev, Natan Bibelnik, Julia Narevicius, and Edvardas Narevicius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073204 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Vortex-Hole Duality: A Unified Picture of Weak- and Strong-Coupling Regimes of Bosonic Ladders with Flux

S. Greschner and T. Vekua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073401 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Cutoff-Free Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Moein Malekakhlagh, Alexandru Petrescu, and Hakan E. Türeci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073601 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Momentum, Spin, and Angular Momentum in Dispersive Media

Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Aleksandr Y. Bekshaev, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073901 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Exact Fundamental Limits of the First and Second Hyperpolarizabilities

Rick Lytel, Sean Mossman, Ethan Crowell, and Mark G. Kuzyk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073902 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Plasma and Beam Physics

Benchmark Experiment for Photoionized Plasma Emission from Accretion-Powered X-Ray Sources

G. P. Loisel, J. E. Bailey, D. A. Liedahl, C. J. Fontes, T. R. Kallman, T. Nagayama, S. B. Hansen, G. A. Rochau, R. C. Mancini, and R. W. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075001 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Observation of Reverse Saturable Absorption of an X-ray Laser

B. I. Cho, M. S. Cho, M. Kim, H.-K. Chung, B. Barbrel, K. Engelhorn, T. Burian, J. Chalupský, O. Ciricosta, G. L. Dakovski, V. Hájková, M. Holmes, L. Juha, J. Krzywinski, R. W. Lee, Chang Hee Nam, D. S. Rackstraw, S. Toleikis, J. J. Turner, S. M. Vinko, J. S. Wark, U. Zastrau, and P. A. Heimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075002 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Circular Phonon Dichroism in Weyl Semimetals

Donghao Liu and Junren Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075301 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

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Melting and High $P − T$ Transitions of Hydrogen up to 300 GPa

Chang-sheng Zha, Hanyu Liu, John S. Tse, and Russell J. Hemley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075302 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Measurements of the melting curve of hydrogen at unprecedentedly high pressures call for a refinement of the theories describing the material.

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Stress Transmission and Failure in Disordered Porous Media

Hadrien Laubie, Farhang Radjai, Roland Pellenq, and Franz-Josef Ulm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075501 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Simulations of porous materials exhibit internal stress patterns like those in granular materials, despite the fact that these two systems are practically “negative images” of each other.

Temperature-Independent Nuclear Quantum Effects on the Structure of Water

Kyung Hwan Kim, Harshad Pathak, Alexander Späh, Fivos Perakis, Daniel Mariedahl, Jonas A. Sellberg, Tetsuo Katayama, Yoshihisa Harada, Hirohito Ogasawara, Lars G. M. Pettersson, and Anders Nilsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075502 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

Fixed Points of Wegner-Wilson Flows and Many-Body Localization

David Pekker, Bryan K. Clark, Vadim Oganesyan, and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075701 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Two Universality Classes for the Many-Body Localization Transition

Vedika Khemani, D. N. Sheng, and David A. Huse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075702 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Spatiotemporal Coherent Control of Thermal Excitations in Solids

M. Sander, M. Herzog, J. E. Pudell, M. Bargheer, N. Weinkauf, M. Pedersen, G. Newby, J. Sellmann, J. Schwarzkopf, V. Besse, V. V. Temnov, and P. Gaal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075901 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Exceptionally Strong Phonon Scattering by B Substitution in Cubic SiC

Ankita Katre, Jesús Carrete, Bonny Dongre, Georg K. H. Madsen, and Natalio Mingo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 075902 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Phases in Graphene Nanoribbons: Junction States, Spin Centers, and Quantum Spin Chains

Ting Cao, Fangzhou Zhao, and Steven G. Louie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 076401 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Generic Coexistence of Fermi Arcs and Dirac Cones on the Surface of Time-Reversal Invariant Weyl Semimetals

Alexander Lau, Klaus Koepernik, Jeroen van den Brink, and Carmine Ortix

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 076801 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

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Full-Gap Superconductivity Robust against Disorder in Heavy-Fermion ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$

T. Takenaka, Y. Mizukami, J. A. Wilcox, M. Konczykowski, S. Seiro, C. Geibel, Y. Tokiwa, Y. Kasahara, C. Putzke, Y. Matsuda, A. Carrington, and T. Shibauchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077001 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Tuning Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy by Oxygen Octahedral Rotations in $({La}_{1 - x} {Sr}_{x} {MnO}_{3}) / ({SrIrO}_{3})$ Superlattices

Di Yi, Charles L. Flint, Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Krishnamurthy Mahalingam, Brittany Urwin, Arturas Vailionis, Alpha T. N’Diaye, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Yongseong Choi, Kevin H. Stone, Jiun-Haw Chu, Brandon M. Howe, Jian Liu, Ian R. Fisher, and Yuri Suzuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077201 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

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Spin Current Generation Using a Surface Acoustic Wave Generated via Spin-Rotation Coupling

D. Kobayashi, T. Yoshikawa, M. Matsuo, R. Iguchi, S. Maekawa, E. Saitoh, and Y. Nozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077202 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

An alternating spin current has been generated at unprecedented GHz frequencies in a copper film, by exploiting an acoustic phenomenon.

Engineering Curvature-Induced Anisotropy in Thin Ferromagnetic Films

Oleg A. Tretiakov, Massimiliano Morini, Sergiy Vasylkevych, and Valeriy Slastikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077203 (2017) - Published 17 August, 2017

Chiral Edge Mode in the Coupled Dynamics of Magnetic Solitons in a Honeycomb Lattice

Se Kwon Kim and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077204 (2017) - Published 17 August, 2017

Simultaneous control of the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and magnetic anisotropy in nanomagnetic trilayers

A. L. Balk, K-W. Kim, D. T. Pierce, M. D. Stiles, J. Unguris, and S. M. Stavis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077205 (2017) - Published 17 August, 2017

Optical Magnetoelectric Resonance in a Polar Magnet $(Fe, Zn)_{2} {Mo}_{3} O_{8}$ with Axion-Type Coupling

T. Kurumaji, Y. Takahashi, J. Fujioka, R. Masuda, H. Shishikura, S. Ishiwata, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077206 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Clustering of Topological Charges in a Kagome Classical Spin Liquid

Tomonari Mizoguchi, L. D. C. Jaubert, and Masafumi Udagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077207 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Unidirectional Excitation of Radiative-Loss-Free Surface Plasmon Polaritons in $P T$ -Symmetric Systems

Wei Wang, Lu-Qi Wang, Rui-Dong Xue, Hao-Ling Chen, Rui-Peng Guo, Yongmin Liu, and Jing Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077401 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Oxygen Passivation Mediated Tunability of Trion and Excitons in ${MoS}_{2}$

Pranjal Kumar Gogoi, Zhenliang Hu, Qixing Wang, Alexandra Carvalho, Daniel Schmidt, Xinmao Yin, Yung-Huang Chang, Lain-Jong Li, Chorng Haur Sow, A. H. Castro Neto, Mark B. H. Breese, Andrivo Rusydi, and Andrew T. S. Wee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077402 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

Doubly Dressed Bosons: Exciton Polaritons in a Strong Terahertz Field

B. Piętka, N. Bobrovska, D. Stephan, M. Teich, M. Król, S. Winnerl, A. Pashkin, R. Mirek, K. Lekenta, F. Morier-Genoud, H. Schneider, B. Deveaud, M. Helm, M. Matuszewski, and J. Szczytko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077403 (2017) - Published 16 August, 2017

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Thermal Conductance of a Single-Electron Transistor

B. Dutta, J. T. Peltonen, D. S. Antonenko, M. Meschke, M. A. Skvortsov, B. Kubala, J. König, C. B. Winkelmann, H. Courtois, and J. P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077701 (2017) - Published 15 August, 2017

A single-electron transistor carries more heat than that predicted by the Wiedemann-Franz law linking thermal and electrical conductivities.

Room-Temperature Spin-Orbit Torque Switching Induced by a Topological Insulator

Jiahao Han, A. Richardella, Saima A. Siddiqui, Joseph Finley, N. Samarth, and Luqiao Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 077702 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

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

COMMENTS

Comment on “Finding the $0^{- -}$ Glueball”

Alexandr Pimikov, Hee-Jung Lee, and Nikolai Kochelev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 079101 (2017) - Published 14 August, 2017

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Strain Engineering of the Band Gap of HgTe Quantum Wells Using Superlattice Virtual Substrates [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 086403 (2016)]

Philipp Leubner, Lukas Lunczer, Christoph Brüne, Hartmut Buhmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 079901 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Publisher’s Note: Collective Optomechanical Effects in Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 043604 (2017)]

Erika Cortese, Pavlos G. Lagoudakis, and Simone De Liberato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 079902 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Erratum: Lattice Dynamics of EuO: Evidence for Giant Spin-Phonon Coupling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185501 (2016)]

R. Pradip, P. Piekarz, A. Bosak, D. G. Merkel, O. Waller, A. Seiler, A. I. Chumakov, R. Rüffer, A. M. Oleś, K. Parlinski, M. Krisch, T. Baumbach, and S. Stankov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 079903 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017

Erratum: Franson Interference Generated by a Two-Level System [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 030501 (2017)]

M. Peiris, K. Konthasinghe, and A. Muller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 079904 (2017) - Published 18 August, 2017