Volume 120, Issue 11

16 March 2018

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Formation of the critical nucleus for crystallization of the Ag₆Cu₄ system, showing the crystal nucleus (cyan), a crystal-like ordered region (orange), icosahedral short-range order (yellow), and liquidlike regions (white).

From the article:

Unusual Crystallization Behavior Close to the Glass Transition
Caroline Desgranges and Jerome Delhommelle
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 115701 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Three Phase-Grating Moiré Neutron Interferometer for Large Interferometer Area Applications

D. Sarenac, D. A. Pushin, M. G. Huber, D. S. Hussey, H. Miao, M. Arif, D. G. Cory, A. D. Cronin, B. Heacock, D. L. Jacobson, J. M. LaManna, and H. Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113201 (2018) - Published 12 March, 2018

A new and more flexible neutron interferometer design relies on the moiré effect, in which two periodic patterns are combined to give a longer-period pattern.

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Janus and Huygens Dipoles: Near-Field Directionality Beyond Spin-Momentum Locking

Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V. Zayats, and Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117402 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

A proposed dipole source of electromagnetic waves can selectively couple its emission into either of two neighboring waveguides.

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Photon Subtraction by Many-Body Decoherence

C. R. Murray, I. Mirgorodskiy, C. Tresp, C. Braun, A. Paris-Mandoki, A. V. Gorshkov, S. Hofferberth, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113601 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

A new decoherence-suppression mechanism in photon-photon scattering is revealed in a Rydberg electromagnetically-induced transparent medium.

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Nonresonant Local Fields Enhance Second-Harmonic Generation from Metal Nanoislands with Dielectric Cover

Semyon Chervinskii, Kalle Koskinen, Sergey Scherbak, Martti Kauranen, and Andrey Lipovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113902 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Second-harmonic generation from Au metal nanoislands is significantly enhanced by covering the nanoislands with a thin dielectric film of titanium dioxide.

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Origin of Negative Capacitance in Bipolar Organic Diodes

Quan Niu, N. Irina Crăciun, Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer, and Paul W. M. Blom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116602 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Trap-assisted recombination is identified as the mechanism responsible for the negative contribution to the capacitance in bipolar organic diodes.

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Higgs Mode in the $d$ -Wave Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + x}$ Driven by an Intense Terahertz Pulse

Kota Katsumi, Naoto Tsuji, Yuki I. Hamada, Ryusuke Matsunaga, John Schneeloch, Ruidan D. Zhong, Genda D. Gu, Hideo Aoki, Yann Gallais, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117001 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Terahertz-pulse excitation experiments provide evidence for a Higgs mode in a d-wave-type, high-temperature cuprate superconductor.

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Laser-Induced Skyrmion Writing and Erasing in an Ultrafast Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscope

G. Berruto, I. Madan, Y. Murooka, G. M. Vanacore, E. Pomarico, J. Rajeswari, R. Lamb, P. Huang, A. J. Kruchkov, Y. Togawa, T. LaGrange, D. McGrouther, H. M. Rønnow, and F. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117201 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Experiments on the optical writing and erasing of magnetic skyrmions in FeGe indicate that more efficient skyrmion generation can be achieved in a cooled sample.

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Macroscopically Degenerate Exactly Solvable Point in the Spin- $1 / 2$ Kagome Quantum Antiferromagnet

Hitesh J. Changlani, Dmitrii Kochkov, Krishna Kumar, Bryan K. Clark, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117202 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

A previously unseen macroscopic degeneracy is predicted in spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnets, explaining the presence and absence of spin liquids in various regions of the phase diagram.

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High-Power Collective Charging of a Solid-State Quantum Battery

Dario Ferraro, Michele Campisi, Gian Marcello Andolina, Vittorio Pellegrini, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117702 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Theoretical predictions suggest a quantum battery could be implemented in either nanofabricated semiconductor quantum dots in a photonic cavity or superconducting qubits.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure with Linear Depth and Connectivity

Ian D. Kivlichan, Jarrod McClean, Nathan Wiebe, Craig Gidney, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, and Ryan Babbush

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110501 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

Visibility-Based Hypothesis Testing Using Higher-Order Optical Interference

Michał Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna, Michał Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski, and Konrad Banaszek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110502 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Possible Many-Body Localization in a Long-Lived Finite-Temperature Ultracold Quasineutral Molecular Plasma

John Sous and Edward Grant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110601 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Duality in Power-Law Localization in Disordered One-Dimensional Systems

X. Deng, V. E. Kravtsov, G. V. Shlyapnikov, and L. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110602 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Clean Floquet Time Crystals: Models and Realizations in Cold Atoms

Biao Huang, Ying-Hai Wu, and W. Vincent Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 110603 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational-Wave Luminosity of Binary Neutron Stars Mergers

Francesco Zappa, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, David Radice, Albino Perego, and Tim Dietrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 111101 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Directional Sensitivity in Light-Mass Dark Matter Searches with Single-Electron-Resolution Ionization Detectors

Fedja Kadribasic, Nader Mirabolfathi, Kai Nordlund, Andrea E. Sand, Eero Holmström, and Flyura Djurabekova

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 111301 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Strongly $γ$ -Deformed $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory as an Integrable Conformal Field Theory

David Grabner, Nikolay Gromov, Vladimir Kazakov, and Gregory Korchemsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 111601 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Off-Shell Higgs Probe of Naturalness

Dorival Gonçalves, Tao Han, and Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 111801 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Renormalization in Large Momentum Effective Theory of Parton Physics

Xiangdong Ji, Jian-Hui Zhang, and Yong Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 112001 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Three Phase-Grating Moiré Neutron Interferometer for Large Interferometer Area Applications

D. Sarenac, D. A. Pushin, M. G. Huber, D. S. Hussey, H. Miao, M. Arif, D. G. Cory, A. D. Cronin, B. Heacock, D. L. Jacobson, J. M. LaManna, and H. Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113201 (2018) - Published 12 March, 2018

A new and more flexible neutron interferometer design relies on the moiré effect, in which two periodic patterns are combined to give a longer-period pattern.

Alignment and Imaging of the ${CS}_{2}$ Dimer Inside Helium Nanodroplets

James D. Pickering, Benjamin Shepperson, Bjarke A. K. Hübschmann, Frederik Thorning, and Henrik Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113202 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

Near-Threshold Ionization of Argon by Positron Impact

T. J. Babij, J. R. Machacek, D. J. Murtagh, S. J. Buckman, and J. P. Sullivan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113401 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

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Photon Subtraction by Many-Body Decoherence

C. R. Murray, I. Mirgorodskiy, C. Tresp, C. Braun, A. Paris-Mandoki, A. V. Gorshkov, S. Hofferberth, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113601 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

A new decoherence-suppression mechanism in photon-photon scattering is revealed in a Rydberg electromagnetically-induced transparent medium.

Accurate Mapping of Multilevel Rydberg Atoms on Interacting Spin- $1 / 2$ Particles for the Quantum Simulation of Ising Models

Sylvain de Léséleuc, Sebastian Weber, Vincent Lienhard, Daniel Barredo, Hans Peter Büchler, Thierry Lahaye, and Antoine Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113602 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Directional Dicke Subradiance with Nonclassical and Classical Light Sources

Daniel Bhatti, Raimund Schneider, Steffen Oppel, and Joachim von Zanthier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113603 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Edge-Mode Lasing in 1D Topological Active Arrays

Midya Parto, Steffen Wittek, Hossein Hodaei, Gal Harari, Miguel A. Bandres, Jinhan Ren, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Mordechai Segev, Demetrios N. Christodoulides, and Mercedeh Khajavikhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113901 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

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Nonresonant Local Fields Enhance Second-Harmonic Generation from Metal Nanoislands with Dielectric Cover

Semyon Chervinskii, Kalle Koskinen, Sergey Scherbak, Martti Kauranen, and Andrey Lipovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 113902 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Second-harmonic generation from Au metal nanoislands is significantly enhanced by covering the nanoislands with a thin dielectric film of titanium dioxide.

Acoustic Purcell Effect for Enhanced Emission

Maryam Landi, Jiajun Zhao, Wayne E. Prather, Ying Wu, and Likun Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 114301 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of High Transformer Ratio of Shaped Bunch Generated by an Emittance-Exchange Beam Line

Q. Gao, G. Ha, C. Jing, S. P. Antipov, J. G. Power, M. Conde, W. Gai, H. Chen, J. Shi, E. E. Wisniewski, D. S. Doran, W. Liu, C. E. Whiteford, A. Zholents, P. Piot, and S. S. Baturin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 114801 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

Demonstration of Cascaded Modulator-Chicane Microbunching of a Relativistic Electron Beam

N. Sudar, P. Musumeci, I. Gadjev, Y. Sakai, S. Fabbri, M. Polyanskiy, I. Pogorelsky, M. Fedurin, C. Swinson, K. Kusche, M. Babzien, and M. Palmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 114802 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Unusual Crystallization Behavior Close to the Glass Transition

Caroline Desgranges and Jerome Delhommelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 115701 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Continuous Easy-Plane Deconfined Phase Transition on the Kagome Lattice

Xue-Feng Zhang (张学锋), Yin-Chen He, Sebastian Eggert, Roderich Moessner, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 115702 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Ab Initio Calculation of the Miscibility Diagram for Hydrogen-Helium Mixtures

Manuel Schöttler and Ronald Redmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 115703 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Electrochemical Impedance Imaging via the Distribution of Diffusion Times

Juhyun Song and Martin Z. Bazant

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116001 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Resolving Point Defects in the Hydration Structure of Calcite (10.4) with Three-Dimensional Atomic Force Microscopy

Hagen Söngen, Bernhard Reischl, Kazuki Miyata, Ralf Bechstein, Paolo Raiteri, Andrew L. Rohl, Julian D. Gale, Takeshi Fukuma, and Angelika Kühnle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116101 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Localization of Interacting Dirac Fermions

Tianxing Ma, Lufeng Zhang, Chia-Chen Chang, Hsiang-Hsuan Hung, and Richard T. Scalettar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116601 (2018) - Published 12 March, 2018

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Origin of Negative Capacitance in Bipolar Organic Diodes

Quan Niu, N. Irina Crăciun, Gert-Jan A. H. Wetzelaer, and Paul W. M. Blom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116602 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Trap-assisted recombination is identified as the mechanism responsible for the negative contribution to the capacitance in bipolar organic diodes.

Kinetic Theory of Electronic Transport in Random Magnetic Fields

Andrew Lucas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116603 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

Topological $π$ Junctions from Crossed Andreev Reflection in the Quantum Hall Regime

F. Finocchiaro, F. Guinea, and P. San-Jose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116801 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Valley Topological Phases in Bilayer Sonic Crystals

Jiuyang Lu, Chunyin Qiu, Weiyin Deng, Xueqin Huang, Feng Li, Fan Zhang, Shuqi Chen, and Zhengyou Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 116802 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

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Higgs Mode in the $d$ -Wave Superconductor ${Bi}_{2} {Sr}_{2} {CaCu}_{2} O_{8 + x}$ Driven by an Intense Terahertz Pulse

Kota Katsumi, Naoto Tsuji, Yuki I. Hamada, Ryusuke Matsunaga, John Schneeloch, Ruidan D. Zhong, Genda D. Gu, Hideo Aoki, Yann Gallais, and Ryo Shimano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117001 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Terahertz-pulse excitation experiments provide evidence for a Higgs mode in a d-wave-type, high-temperature cuprate superconductor.

Charge Order and Superconductivity in Underdoped ${YBa}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{7 - δ}$ under Pressure

Carsten Putzke, Jake Ayres, Jonathan Buhot, Salvatore Licciardello, Nigel E. Hussey, Sven Friedemann, and Antony Carrington

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117002 (2018) - Published 16 March, 2018

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Laser-Induced Skyrmion Writing and Erasing in an Ultrafast Cryo-Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscope

G. Berruto, I. Madan, Y. Murooka, G. M. Vanacore, E. Pomarico, J. Rajeswari, R. Lamb, P. Huang, A. J. Kruchkov, Y. Togawa, T. LaGrange, D. McGrouther, H. M. Rønnow, and F. Carbone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117201 (2018) - Published 14 March, 2018

Experiments on the optical writing and erasing of magnetic skyrmions in FeGe indicate that more efficient skyrmion generation can be achieved in a cooled sample.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Macroscopically Degenerate Exactly Solvable Point in the Spin- $1 / 2$ Kagome Quantum Antiferromagnet

Hitesh J. Changlani, Dmitrii Kochkov, Krishna Kumar, Bryan K. Clark, and Eduardo Fradkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117202 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

A previously unseen macroscopic degeneracy is predicted in spin-1/2 kagome antiferromagnets, explaining the presence and absence of spin liquids in various regions of the phase diagram.

Avalanches and Criticality in Driven Magnetic Skyrmions

S. A. Díaz, C. Reichhardt, D. P. Arovas, A. Saxena, and C. J. O. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117203 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Unusual Phonon Heat Transport in $α − {RuCl}_{3}$ : Strong Spin-Phonon Scattering and Field-Induced Spin Gap

Richard Hentrich, Anja U. B. Wolter, Xenophon Zotos, Wolfram Brenig, Domenic Nowak, Anna Isaeva, Thomas Doert, Arnab Banerjee, Paula Lampen-Kelley, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler, Jennifer Sears, Young-June Kim, Bernd Büchner, and Christian Hess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117204 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

On-Demand Generation of Neutral and Negatively Charged Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Siddharth Dhomkar, Pablo R. Zangara, Jacob Henshaw, and Carlos A. Meriles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117401 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

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Janus and Huygens Dipoles: Near-Field Directionality Beyond Spin-Momentum Locking

Michela F. Picardi, Anatoly V. Zayats, and Francisco J. Rodríguez-Fortuño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117402 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

A proposed dipole source of electromagnetic waves can selectively couple its emission into either of two neighboring waveguides.

Prediction of a Large-Gap and Switchable Kane-Mele Quantum Spin Hall Insulator

Antimo Marrazzo, Marco Gibertini, Davide Campi, Nicolas Mounet, and Nicola Marzari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117701 (2018) - Published 13 March, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

High-Power Collective Charging of a Solid-State Quantum Battery

Dario Ferraro, Michele Campisi, Gian Marcello Andolina, Vittorio Pellegrini, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 117702 (2018) - Published 15 March, 2018

Theoretical predictions suggest a quantum battery could be implemented in either nanofabricated semiconductor quantum dots in a photonic cavity or superconducting qubits.