Volume 120, Issue 10

9 March 2018

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The building "texture" of Los Angeles used to study the increased air temperature of cities compared to their rural surroundings. Selected for a Focus in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Role of City Texture in Urban Heat Islands at Nighttime
J. M. Sobstyl, T. Emig, M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi, F.-J. Ulm, and R. J.-M. Pellenq
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 108701 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Imaging Optical Frequencies with $100 μ Hz$ Precision and $1.1 μ m$ Resolution

G. Edward Marti, Ross B. Hutson, Akihisa Goban, Sara L. Campbell, Nicola Poli, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103201 (2018) - Published 5 March, 2018

Researchers set a new record in atomic clock precision by using spectroscopic imaging to reduce frequency variations in a strontium optical lattice clock.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of City Texture in Urban Heat Islands at Nighttime

J. M. Sobstyl, T. Emig, M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi, F.-J. Ulm, and R. J.-M. Pellenq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 108701 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Mathematical analysis of the two-dimensional layout of a city reveals much about its three-dimensional structure and provides useful measures of the urban heat island effect.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analytical Computation of Energy-Energy Correlation at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Lance J. Dixon, Ming-xing Luo, Vladyslav Shtabovenko, Tong-Zhi Yang, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 102001 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

The energy-energy correlation between pairs of hadrons separated by a fixed angle is, for the first time, computed analytically at next-to-leading-order.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Results for the Nonergodicity of $d$ -Dimensional Generalized Lévy Walks

Tony Albers and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 104501 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

An analysis of the generalized Lévy walk model unlocks a new possible scenario of weak ergodicity-breaking in complex transport phenomena.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable $Γ - K$ Valley Populations in Hole-Doped Trilayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Hema C. P. Movva, Timothy Lovorn, Babak Fallahazad, Stefano Larentis, Kyounghwan Kim, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sanjay K. Banerjee, Allan H. MacDonald, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107703 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

The valence band maximum in transition metal dicalcogenides is tuned by applying a transverse electric field to the material.

LETTERS

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

Dynamics of Three-Body Correlations in Quenched Unitary Bose Gases

V. E. Colussi, J. P. Corson, and J. P. D’Incao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 100401 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Entanglement between a Photonic Time-Bin Qubit and a Collective Atomic Spin Excitation

Pau Farrera, Georg Heinze, and Hugues de Riedmatten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 100501 (2018) - Published 7 March, 2018

Evolution of Nanowire Transmon Qubits and Their Coherence in a Magnetic Field

F. Luthi, T. Stavenga, O. W. Enzing, A. Bruno, C. Dickel, N. K. Langford, M. A. Rol, T. S. Jespersen, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, and L. DiCarlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 100502 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Quantum Szilard Engine with Attractively Interacting Bosons

J. Bengtsson, M. Nilsson Tengstrand, A. Wacker, P. Samuelsson, M. Ueda, H. Linke, and S. M. Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 100601 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Search for Dark Matter Annihilation in Galaxy Groups

Mariangela Lisanti, Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, Nicholas L. Rodd, and Benjamin R. Safdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 101101 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Black Hole Entropy from Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Symmetry at the Horizon

S. Carlip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 101301 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Catching a New Force by the Tail

Simone Alioli, Marco Farina, Duccio Pappadopulo, and Joshua T. Ruderman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 101801 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Analytical Computation of Energy-Energy Correlation at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD

Lance J. Dixon, Ming-xing Luo, Vladyslav Shtabovenko, Tong-Zhi Yang, and Hua Xing Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 102001 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

The energy-energy correlation between pairs of hadrons separated by a fixed angle is, for the first time, computed analytically at next-to-leading-order.

Nuclear Physics

$D$ -Meson Azimuthal Anisotropy in Midcentral Pb-Pb Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 5.02 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 102301 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Native Frames: Disentangling Sequential from Concerted Three-Body Fragmentation

Jyoti Rajput, T. Severt, Ben Berry, Bethany Jochim, Peyman Feizollah, Balram Kaderiya, M. Zohrabi, U. Ablikim, Farzaneh Ziaee, Kanaka Raju P., D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, K. D. Carnes, B. D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103001 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Imaging Optical Frequencies with $100 μ Hz$ Precision and $1.1 μ m$ Resolution

G. Edward Marti, Ross B. Hutson, Akihisa Goban, Sara L. Campbell, Nicola Poli, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103201 (2018) - Published 5 March, 2018

Researchers set a new record in atomic clock precision by using spectroscopic imaging to reduce frequency variations in a strontium optical lattice clock.

New Methods for Testing Lorentz Invariance with Atomic Systems

R. Shaniv, R. Ozeri, M. S. Safronova, S. G. Porsev, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, and H. Häffner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103202 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Ponderomotive Generation and Detection of Attosecond Free-Electron Pulse Trains

M. Kozák, N. Schönenberger, and P. Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103203 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Ultrafast Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of a Quasifree Rotor: $J$ Scrambling and Perfectly Anticorrelated Cross Peaks

Aritra Mandal, Greg Ng Pack, Parth P. Shah, Shyamsunder Erramilli, and L. D. Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103401 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Gouy Phase Radial Mode Sorter for Light: Concepts and Experiments

Xuemei Gu, Mario Krenn, Manuel Erhard, and Anton Zeilinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 103601 (2018) - Published 7 March, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exact Results for the Nonergodicity of $d$ -Dimensional Generalized Lévy Walks

Tony Albers and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 104501 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

An analysis of the generalized Lévy walk model unlocks a new possible scenario of weak ergodicity-breaking in complex transport phenomena.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Millimeter-Wave Beam Scattering by Field-Aligned Blobs in Simple Magnetized Toroidal Plasmas

O. Chellaï, S. Alberti, M. Baquero-Ruiz, I. Furno, T. Goodman, F. Manke, G. Plyushchev, L. Guidi, A. Koehn, O. Maj, E. Poli, K. Hizanidis, L. Figini, and D. Ricci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 105001 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Fully Kinetic Simulation of 3D Kinetic Alfvén Turbulence

Daniel Grošelj, Alfred Mallet, Nuno F. Loureiro, and Frank Jenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 105101 (2018) - Published 5 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spatial Distortion of Vibration Modes via Magnetic Correlation of Impurities

F. S. Krasniqi, Y. Zhong, S. W. Epp, L. Foucar, M. Trigo, J. Chen, D. A. Reis, H. L. Wang, J. H. Zhao, H. T. Lemke, D. Zhu, M. Chollet, D. M. Fritz, R. Hartmann, L. Englert, L. Strüder, I. Schlichting, and J. Ullrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 105501 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Quartic Anharmonicity of Rattlers and Its Effect on Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Clathrates from First Principles

Terumasa Tadano and Shinji Tsuneyuki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 105901 (2018) - Published 7 March, 2018

Role of Sink Density in Nonequilibrium Chemical Redistribution in Alloys

Enrique Martínez, Oriane Senninger, Alfredo Caro, Frédéric Soisson, Maylise Nastar, and Blas P. Uberuaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106101 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Charge Transfer Effects in Naturally Occurring van der Waals Heterostructures $(PbSe)_{1.16} ({TiSe}_{2})_{m}$ ( $m = 1$ , 2)

Q. Yao, D. W. Shen, C. H. P. Wen, C. Q. Hua, L. Q. Zhang, N. Z. Wang, X. H. Niu, Q. Y. Chen, P. Dudin, Y. H. Lu, Y. Zheng, X. H. Chen, X. G. Wan, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106401 (2018) - Published 7 March, 2018

Setting Boundaries with Memory: Generation of Topological Boundary States in Floquet-Induced Synthetic Crystals

Yuval Baum and Gil Refael

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106402 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Symmorphic Intersecting Nodal Rings in Semiconducting Layers

Cheng Gong, Yuee Xie, Yuanping Chen, Heung-Sik Kim, and David Vanderbilt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106403 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Nonadiabatic Breaking of Topological Pumping

Lorenzo Privitera, Angelo Russomanno, Roberta Citro, and Giuseppe E. Santoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106601 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Suppression of Quasiparticle Scattering Signals in Bilayer Graphene Due to Layer Polarization and Destructive Interference

Wouter Jolie, Jonathan Lux, Mathias Pörtner, Daniela Dombrowski, Charlotte Herbig, Timo Knispel, Sabina Simon, Thomas Michely, Achim Rosch, and Carsten Busse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106801 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Strong Anisotropic Spin-Orbit Interaction Induced in Graphene by Monolayer ${WS}_{2}$

T. Wakamura, F. Reale, P. Palczynski, S. Guéron, C. Mattevi, and H. Bouchiat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 106802 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Interplay of Phonon and Exciton-Mediated Superconductivity in Hybrid Semiconductor-Superconductor Structures

Petros Skopelitis, Evgenia D. Cherotchenko, Alexey V. Kavokin, and Anna Posazhennikova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107001 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

$\frac{1}{2} (e^{2} / h)$ Conductance Plateau without 1D Chiral Majorana Fermions

Wenjie Ji and Xiao-Gang Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107002 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of Frustrated Kondo Lattice Models

Toshihiro Sato, Fakher F. Assaad, and Tarun Grover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107201 (2018) - Published 8 March, 2018

Macroscopic Magnetization Control by Symmetry Breaking of Photoinduced Spin Reorientation with Intense Terahertz Magnetic Near Field

Takayuki Kurihara, Hiroshi Watanabe, Makoto Nakajima, Shutaro Karube, Kenichi Oto, YoshiChika Otani, and Tohru Suemoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107202 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Ultrafast Terahertz Nonlinear Optics of Landau Level Transitions in a Monolayer Graphene

Go Yumoto, Ryusuke Matsunaga, Hiroki Hibino, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107401 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Landauer-Büttiker Approach to Strongly Coupled Quantum Thermodynamics: Inside-Outside Duality of Entropy Evolution

Anton Bruch, Caio Lewenkopf, and Felix von Oppen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107701 (2018) - Published 5 March, 2018

Emission Noise in an Interacting Quantum Dot: Role of Inelastic Scattering and Asymmetric Coupling to the Reservoirs

A. Crépieux, S. Sahoo, T. Q. Duong, R. Zamoum, and M. Lavagna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107702 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable $Γ - K$ Valley Populations in Hole-Doped Trilayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Hema C. P. Movva, Timothy Lovorn, Babak Fallahazad, Stefano Larentis, Kyounghwan Kim, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Sanjay K. Banerjee, Allan H. MacDonald, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107703 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

The valence band maximum in transition metal dicalcogenides is tuned by applying a transverse electric field to the material.

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

In Silico Measurement of Elastic Moduli of Nematic Liquid Crystals

Hythem Sidky, Juan J. de Pablo, and Jonathan K. Whitmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 107801 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of City Texture in Urban Heat Islands at Nighttime

J. M. Sobstyl, T. Emig, M. J. Abdolhosseini Qomi, F.-J. Ulm, and R. J.-M. Pellenq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 108701 (2018) - Published 9 March, 2018

Mathematical analysis of the two-dimensional layout of a city reveals much about its three-dimensional structure and provides useful measures of the urban heat island effect.