Volume 120, Issue 1

5 January 2018

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On the Cover

In a class of crystalline materials in the noncentrosymmetric space group, the topological surface state in the whole Brillouin zone is a double helicoid.

From the article:

Double-Weyl Phonons in Transition-Metal Monosilicides
Tiantian Zhang, Zhida Song, A. Alexandradinata, Hongming Weng, Chen Fang, Ling Lu, and Zhong Fang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016401 (2018)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: A Tale of Two Anniversaries: 125 Years of the Physical Review and 25 Years of Physical Review E

Matthew Salter and Michael Thoennessen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010001 (2018) - Published 2 January, 2018

Announcement: Corrections in Physical Review Publications

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010002 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Melting Attracts Grain Boundaries in Colloidal Polycrystals

Caitlin E. Cash, Jeremy Wang, Maya M. Martirossyan, B. Kemper Ludlow, Alejandro E. Baptista, Nina M. Brown, Eli J. Weissler, Jatin Abacousnac, and Sharon J. Gerbode

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 018002 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

A new technique allows researchers complete control over the shapes of individual subcrystals within a larger crystal, which could lead to new ways to modify material properties.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Shrinking of Rapidly Evaporating Water Microdroplets Reveals their Extreme Supercooling

Claudia Goy, Marco A. C. Potenza, Sebastian Dedera, Marilena Tomut, Emmanuel Guillerm, Anton Kalinin, Kay-Obbe Voss, Alexander Schottelius, Nikolaos Petridis, Alexey Prosvetov, Guzmán Tejeda, José M. Fernández, Christina Trautmann, Frédéric Caupin, Ulrich Glasmacher, and Robert E. Grisenti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 015501 (2018) - Published 2 January, 2018

A new technique has measured the lowest temperature ever recorded for liquid water.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Verification of a Jarzynski-Related Information-Theoretic Equality by a Single Trapped Ion

T. P. Xiong, L. L. Yan, F. Zhou, K. Rehan, D. F. Liang, L. Chen, W. L. Yang, Z. H. Ma, M. Feng, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010601 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Strong spin-orbit coupling in an iridate compound causes anisotropic lattice expansion when a small current is applied.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of High-Power High-Intensity Short X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Pulses

Marc W. Guetg, Alberto A. Lutman, Yuantao Ding, Timothy J. Maxwell, Franz-Josef Decker, Uwe Bergmann, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 014801 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

The power of a free-electron-laser is increased by more than 300%, a key step towards imaging single particles, which requires short, intense photon pulses.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Quantum Hall Effect in Confined Films of the Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Timo Schumann, Luca Galletti, David A. Kealhofer, Honggyu Kim, Manik Goyal, and Susanne Stemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016801 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

Realizing the quantum Hall effect in topological materials is notoriously difficult due to remanent bulk conduction in the material. This feat has now been achieved in a Dirac semimetal by growing a sufficiently thin film of the material, thus eliminating bulk conduction.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cyclotron Orbits of Composite Fermions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Insun Jo, Hao Deng, Yang Liu, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016802 (2018) - Published 4 January, 2018

Cyclotron orbits have been observed in a bilayer semiconductor with coexisting Wigner crystal and composite fermion phases. The result reveals that composite fermions retain their cyclotron orbits even in the strong quantum Hall regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Noise of a Chargeless Fermi Liquid

Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Christophe Mora, Ireneusz Weymann, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016803 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

A chargeless Fermi liquid state is identified in a superconductor-quantum dot-normal metal junction by probing the charge of the elementary excitations at the junction in the presence of strong interactions.

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Electrical Control of Structural and Physical Properties via Strong Spin-Orbit Interactions in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

G. Cao, J. Terzic, H. D. Zhao, H. Zheng, L. E. De Long, and Peter S. Riseborough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017201 (2018) - Published 4 January, 2018

Strong spin-orbit coupling in an iridate compound causes anisotropic lattice expansion when a small current is applied.

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Charged Polaron Polaritons in an Organic Semiconductor Microcavity

Chiao-Yu Cheng, Rijul Dhanker, Christopher L. Gray, Sukrit Mukhopadhyay, Eric R. Kennehan, John B. Asbury, Anatoliy Sokolov, and Noel C. Giebink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017402 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

Strong coupling between light and polaron optical excitations is demonstrated in a doped organic semiconductor microcavity at room temperature.

LETTERS

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

High-Fidelity Preservation of Quantum Information During Trapped-Ion Transport

Peter Kaufmann, Timm F. Gloger, Delia Kaufmann, Michael Johanning, and Christof Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010501 (2018) - Published 2 January, 2018

Controlled-phase Gate for Photons Based on Stationary Light

Ivan Iakoupov, Johannes Borregaard, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010502 (2018) - Published 4 January, 2018

High-Speed Device-Independent Quantum Random Number Generation without a Detection Loophole

Yang Liu, Xiao Yuan, Ming-Han Li, Weijun Zhang, Qi Zhao, Jiaqiang Zhong, Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Luo-Kan Chen, Hao Li, Tianyi Peng, Yu-Ao Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng, Sheng-Cai Shi, Zhen Wang, Lixing You, Xiongfeng Ma, Jingyun Fan, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010503 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Verification of a Jarzynski-Related Information-Theoretic Equality by a Single Trapped Ion

T. P. Xiong, L. L. Yan, F. Zhou, K. Rehan, D. F. Liang, L. Chen, W. L. Yang, Z. H. Ma, M. Feng, and V. Vedral

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 010601 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Strong spin-orbit coupling in an iridate compound causes anisotropic lattice expansion when a small current is applied.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Enhanced Electromagnetic Corrections to the Rare Decay $B_{s, d} \to μ^{+} μ^{-}$

Martin Beneke, Christoph Bobeth, and Robert Szafron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 011801 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Relativistic Fluid Dynamics Far From Local Equilibrium

Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 012301 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Collective Longitudinal Polarization in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions at Very High Energy

F. Becattini and Iu. Karpenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 012302 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron Correlation from the Adiabatic Connection for Multireference Wave Functions

Katarzyna Pernal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 013001 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Under-the-Tunneling-Barrier Recollisions in Strong-Field Ionization

Michael Klaiber, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 013201 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Improved Limits on Axionlike-Particle-Mediated $P$ , $T$ -Violating Interactions between Electrons and Nucleons from Electric Dipole Moments of Atoms and Molecules

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 013202 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Single-Atom Transistor as a Precise Magnetic Field Sensor

Krzysztof Jachymski, Tomasz Wasak, Zbigniew Idziaszek, Paul S. Julienne, Antonio Negretti, and Tommaso Calarco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 013401 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

Negative-Mass Instability of the Spin and Motion of an Atomic Gas Driven by Optical Cavity Backaction

Jonathan Kohler, Justin A. Gerber, Emma Dowd, and Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 013601 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Light Stops at Exceptional Points

Tamar Goldzak, Alexei A. Mailybaev, and Nimrod Moiseyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 013901 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of High-Power High-Intensity Short X-Ray Free-Electron-Laser Pulses

Marc W. Guetg, Alberto A. Lutman, Yuantao Ding, Timothy J. Maxwell, Franz-Josef Decker, Uwe Bergmann, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 014801 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

The power of a free-electron-laser is increased by more than 300%, a key step towards imaging single particles, which requires short, intense photon pulses.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Shrinking of Rapidly Evaporating Water Microdroplets Reveals their Extreme Supercooling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 015501 (2018) - Published 2 January, 2018

A new technique has measured the lowest temperature ever recorded for liquid water.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Double-Weyl Phonons in Transition-Metal Monosilicides

Tiantian Zhang, Zhida Song, A. Alexandradinata, Hongming Weng, Chen Fang, Ling Lu, and Zhong Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016401 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

$4 f$ Crystal Field Ground State of the Strongly Correlated Topological Insulator ${SmB}_{6}$

M. Sundermann, H. Yavaş, K. Chen, D. J. Kim, Z. Fisk, D. Kasinathan, M. W. Haverkort, P. Thalmeier, A. Severing, and L. H. Tjeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016402 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Invariance of Topological Indices Under Hilbert Space Truncation

Zhoushen Huang, W. Zhu, Daniel P. Arovas, Jian-Xin Zhu, and Alexander V. Balatsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016403 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Fast Data Sorting with Modified Principal Component Analysis to Distinguish Unique Single Molecular Break Junction Trajectories

J. M. Hamill, X. T. Zhao, G. Mészáros, M. R. Bryce, and M. Arenz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016601 (2018) - Published 2 January, 2018

Exact Boson-Fermion Duality on a 3D Euclidean Lattice

Jing-Yuan Chen, Jun Ho Son, Chao Wang, and S. Raghu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016602 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Mirror Anomaly in Dirac Semimetals

A. A. Burkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016603 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of the Quantum Hall Effect in Confined Films of the Three-Dimensional Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Timo Schumann, Luca Galletti, David A. Kealhofer, Honggyu Kim, Manik Goyal, and Susanne Stemmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016801 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cyclotron Orbits of Composite Fermions in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime

Insun Jo, Hao Deng, Yang Liu, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016802 (2018) - Published 4 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Noise of a Chargeless Fermi Liquid

Cătălin Paşcu Moca, Christophe Mora, Ireneusz Weymann, and Gergely Zaránd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 016803 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

Chiral Topological Superconductors Enhanced by Long-Range Interactions

Oscar Viyuela, Liang Fu, and Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017001 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrical Control of Structural and Physical Properties via Strong Spin-Orbit Interactions in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$

G. Cao, J. Terzic, H. D. Zhao, H. Zheng, L. E. De Long, and Peter S. Riseborough

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017201 (2018) - Published 4 January, 2018

Strong spin-orbit coupling in an iridate compound causes anisotropic lattice expansion when a small current is applied.

Evolution of Temporal Coherence in Confined Exciton-Polariton Condensates

M. Klaas, H. Flayac, M. Amthor, I. G. Savenko, S. Brodbeck, T. Ala-Nissila, S. Klembt, C. Schneider, and S. Höfling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017401 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charged Polaron Polaritons in an Organic Semiconductor Microcavity

Chiao-Yu Cheng, Rijul Dhanker, Christopher L. Gray, Sukrit Mukhopadhyay, Eric R. Kennehan, John B. Asbury, Anatoliy Sokolov, and Noel C. Giebink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017402 (2018) - Published 3 January, 2018

Strong coupling between light and polaron optical excitations is demonstrated in a doped organic semiconductor microcavity at room temperature.

Spin Switching via Quantum Dot Spin Valves

N. M. Gergs, S. A. Bender, R. A. Duine, and D. Schuricht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 017701 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

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

Rate Dependence of Elementary Rearrangements and Spatiotemporal Correlations in the 3D Flow of Soft Solids

Vishwas V. Vasisht, Sudeep K. Dutta, Emanuela Del Gado, and Daniel L. Blair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 018001 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Local Melting Attracts Grain Boundaries in Colloidal Polycrystals

Caitlin E. Cash, Jeremy Wang, Maya M. Martirossyan, B. Kemper Ludlow, Alejandro E. Baptista, Nina M. Brown, Eli J. Weissler, Jatin Abacousnac, and Sharon J. Gerbode

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 018002 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

A new technique allows researchers complete control over the shapes of individual subcrystals within a larger crystal, which could lead to new ways to modify material properties.

Immotile Active Matter: Activity from Death and Reproduction

Arben Kalziqi, David Yanni, Jacob Thomas, Siu Lung Ng, Skanda Vivek, Brian K. Hammer, and Peter J. Yunker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 018101 (2018) - Published 5 January, 2018

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Enhancing Coherent Light-Matter Interactions through Microcavity-Engineered Plasmonic Resonances [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 233901 (2017)]

Pai Peng (彭湃), Yong-Chun Liu, Da Xu, Qi-Tao Cao, Guowei Lu, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 019901 (2018) - Published 4 January, 2018