Volume 120, Issue 12

23 March 2018

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Coherent structures in the out-of-plane magnetic field in a 2D two-fluid magnetohydrodynamics simulation of a turbulent plasma.

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Coherent Structures and Spectral Energy Transfer in Turbulent Plasma: A Space-Filter Approach
E. Camporeale, L. Sorriso-Valvo, F. Califano, and A. Retinò
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125101 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Cosmological Signature of the Standard Model Higgs Vacuum Instability: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

J. R. Espinosa, D. Racco, and A. Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121301 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

A proposed instability in the Higgs field could have seeded the Universe with primordial black holes that now serve as dark matter.

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Exceeding the Asymptotic Limit of Polymer Drag Reduction

George H. Choueiri, Jose M. Lopez, and Björn Hof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124501 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Adding polymer to a liquid was thought to reduce drag only up to a point, but new experiments have found exceptions to the usual limit.

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Decay Rate of the Nuclear Isomer ${}^{229}{Th} (3 / 2^{+}, 7.8 eV)$ in a Dielectric Sphere, Thin Film, and Metal Cavity

E. V. Tkalya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 122501 (2018) - Published 21 March, 2018

The rate of a nuclear transition of thorium-229 can be controlled by placing the atom in a cavity or in a thin film—an effect that could lead to ultraprecise nuclear clocks.

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Momentum-Space Josephson Effects

Junpeng Hou, Xi-Wang Luo, Kuei Sun, Thomas Bersano, Vandna Gokhroo, Sean Mossman, Peter Engels, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120401 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

An analogy to the Josephson effect, but in momentum space, is proposed in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate.

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Thermal Transport and Phonon Hydrodynamics in Strontium Titanate

Valentina Martelli, Julio Larrea Jiménez, Mucio Continentino, Elisa Baggio-Saitovitch, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125901 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

In strontium titanate phonons drift like a cloud under the influence of a thermal gradient.

LETTERS

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

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Momentum-Space Josephson Effects

Junpeng Hou, Xi-Wang Luo, Kuei Sun, Thomas Bersano, Vandna Gokhroo, Sean Mossman, Peter Engels, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120401 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

An analogy to the Josephson effect, but in momentum space, is proposed in a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate.

Quantum Dynamics of $H_{2}$ Trapped within Organic Clathrate Cages

Timothy A. Strobel, Anibal J. Ramirez-Cuesta, Luke L. Daemen, Venkata S. Bhadram, Timothy A. Jenkins, Craig M. Brown, and Yongqiang Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120402 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Experimental Observation of a Generalized Thouless Pump with a Single Spin

Wenchao Ma, Longwen Zhou, Qi Zhang, Min Li, Chunyang Cheng, Jianpei Geng, Xing Rong, Fazhan Shi, Jiangbin Gong, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120501 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Enhanced Communication with the Assistance of Indefinite Causal Order

Daniel Ebler, Sina Salek, and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120502 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Narrow Escape of Interacting Diffusing Particles

Tal Agranov and Baruch Meerson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120601 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Strong Coupling Corrections in Quantum Thermodynamics

M. Perarnau-Llobet, H. Wilming, A. Riera, R. Gallego, and J. Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120602 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Ising-like Models with Energy-Volume Coupling

Claudio A. Cerdeiriña and H. Eugene Stanley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 120603 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Pulsar TeV Halos Explain the Diffuse TeV Excess Observed by Milagro

Tim Linden and Benjamin J. Buckman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121101 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

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Cosmological Signature of the Standard Model Higgs Vacuum Instability: Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

J. R. Espinosa, D. Racco, and A. Riotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121301 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

A proposed instability in the Higgs field could have seeded the Universe with primordial black holes that now serve as dark matter.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Fine Grained Chaos in ${AdS}_{2}$ Gravity

Felix M. Haehl and Moshe Rozali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121601 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Toward a Definition of Complexity for Quantum Field Theory States

Shira Chapman, Michal P. Heller, Hugo Marrochio, and Fernando Pastawski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121602 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Elliptic Double-Box Integrals: Massless Scattering Amplitudes beyond Polylogarithms

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Andrew J. McLeod, Marcus Spradlin, Matt von Hippel, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121603 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions $B (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ τ^{+} ν_{τ}) / B (B_{c}^{+} \to J / ψ μ^{+} ν_{μ})$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 121801 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Next-to-Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to the Transverse Momentum Distribution of Weak Gauge Bosons

A. Gehrmann-De Ridder, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover, A. Huss, and D. M. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 122001 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Nuclear Physics

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Decay Rate of the Nuclear Isomer ${}^{229}{Th} (3 / 2^{+}, 7.8 eV)$ in a Dielectric Sphere, Thin Film, and Metal Cavity

E. V. Tkalya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 122501 (2018) - Published 21 March, 2018

The rate of a nuclear transition of thorium-229 can be controlled by placing the atom in a cavity or in a thin film—an effect that could lead to ultraprecise nuclear clocks.

Properties of Nuclei up to $A = 16$ using Local Chiral Interactions

D. Lonardoni, J. Carlson, S. Gandolfi, J. E. Lynn, K. E. Schmidt, A. Schwenk, and X. B. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 122502 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Probing the Single-Particle Character of Rotational States in ${}^{19}F$ Using a Short-Lived Isomeric Beam

D. Santiago-Gonzalez, K. Auranen, M. L. Avila, A. D. Ayangeakaa, B. B. Back, S. Bottoni, M. P. Carpenter, J. Chen, C. M. Deibel, A. A. Hood, C. R. Hoffman, R. V. F. Janssens, C. L. Jiang, B. P. Kay, S. A. Kuvin, A. Lauer, J. P. Schiffer, J. Sethi, R. Talwar, I. Wiedenhöver, J. Winkelbauer, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 122503 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Control of Nuclear Dynamics through Conical Intersections and Electronic Coherences

Caroline Arnold, Oriol Vendrell, Ralph Welsch, and Robin Santra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123001 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Laser Cooled YbF Molecules for Measuring the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment

J. Lim, J. R. Almond, M. A. Trigatzis, J. A. Devlin, N. J. Fitch, B. E. Sauer, M. R. Tarbutt, and E. A. Hinds

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123201 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Limit on Excitation and Stabilization of Atoms in Intense Optical Laser Fields

H. Zimmermann, S. Meise, A. Khujakulov, A. Magaña, A. Saenz, and U. Eichmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123202 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Polarizability of Helium, Neon, and Argon: New Perspectives for Gas Metrology

Christof Gaiser and Bernd Fellmuth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123203 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Periodically Driven Array of Single Rydberg Atoms

Sagarika Basak, Yashwant Chougale, and Rejish Nath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123204 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Driven-Dissipative Supersolid in a Ring Cavity

Farokh Mivehvar, Stefan Ostermann, Francesco Piazza, and Helmut Ritsch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123601 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Self-Induced Backaction Optical Pulling Force

Tongtong Zhu, Yongyin Cao, Lin Wang, Zhongquan Nie, Tun Cao, Fangkui Sun, Zehui Jiang, Manuel Nieto-Vesperinas, Yongmin Liu, Cheng-Wei Qiu, and Weiqiang Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123901 (2018) - Published 21 March, 2018

Odd-Time Reversal $P T$ Symmetry Induced by an Anti- $P T$ -Symmetric Medium

Vladimir V. Konotop and Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 123902 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Chaos in Dirac Electron Optics: Emergence of a Relativistic Quantum Chimera

Hong-Ya Xu, Guang-Lei Wang, Liang Huang, and Ying-Cheng Lai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124101 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

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Exceeding the Asymptotic Limit of Polymer Drag Reduction

George H. Choueiri, Jose M. Lopez, and Björn Hof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124501 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Adding polymer to a liquid was thought to reduce drag only up to a point, but new experiments have found exceptions to the usual limit.

Unidirectional Wave Vector Manipulation in Two-Dimensional Space with an All Passive Acoustic Parity-Time-Symmetric Metamaterials Crystal

Tuo Liu, Xuefeng Zhu, Fei Chen, Shanjun Liang, and Jie Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124502 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stochastic Model of Breakdown Nucleation under Intense Electric Fields

Eliyahu Zvi Engelberg, Yinon Ashkenazy, and Michael Assaf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124801 (2018) - Published 20 March, 2018

Measurement of Transverse Wakefields Induced by a Misaligned Positron Bunch in a Hollow Channel Plasma Accelerator

C. A. Lindstrøm, E. Adli, J. M. Allen, W. An, C. Beekman, C. I. Clarke, C. E. Clayton, S. Corde, A. Doche, J. Frederico, S. J. Gessner, S. Z. Green, M. J. Hogan, C. Joshi, M. Litos, W. Lu, K. A. Marsh, W. B. Mori, B. D. O’Shea, N. Vafaei-Najafabadi, and V. Yakimenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124802 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Single-Shot Carrier-Envelope Phase Determination of Long Superintense Laser Pulses

Jian-Xing Li, Yue-Yue Chen, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 124803 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Subpercent-Scale Control of 3D Low Modes of Targets Imploded in Direct-Drive Configuration on OMEGA

D. T. Michel, I. V. Igumenshchev, A. K. Davis, D. H. Edgell, D. H. Froula, D. W. Jacobs-Perkins, V. N. Goncharov, S. P. Regan, A. Shvydky, and E. M. Campbell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125001 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Coherent Structures and Spectral Energy Transfer in Turbulent Plasma: A Space-Filter Approach

E. Camporeale, L. Sorriso-Valvo, F. Califano, and A. Retinò

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125101 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of Dynamical Super-Efimovian Expansion in a Unitary Fermi Gas

Shujin Deng, Pengpeng Diao, Fang Li, Qianli Yu, Shi Yu, and Haibin Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125301 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Nonreciprocal Thermal Material by Spatiotemporal Modulation

Daniel Torrent, Olivier Poncelet, and Jean-Chirstophe Batsale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125501 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Revealing the Link between Structural Relaxation and Dynamic Heterogeneity in Glass-Forming Liquids

Lijin Wang, Ning Xu, W. H. Wang, and Pengfei Guan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125502 (2018) - Published 21 March, 2018

Predicting Shear Transformation Events in Metallic Glasses

Bin Xu, Michael L. Falk, J. F. Li, and L. T. Kong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125503 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Abnormal Strain Rate Sensitivity Driven by a Unit Dislocation-Obstacle Interaction in bcc Fe

Zhitong Bai and Yue Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125504 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

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Thermal Transport and Phonon Hydrodynamics in Strontium Titanate

Valentina Martelli, Julio Larrea Jiménez, Mucio Continentino, Elisa Baggio-Saitovitch, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 125901 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

In strontium titanate phonons drift like a cloud under the influence of a thermal gradient.

Identification of a Catalytically Highly Active Surface Phase for CO Oxidation over PtRh Nanoparticles under Operando Reaction Conditions

U. Hejral, D. Franz, S. Volkov, S. Francoual, J. Strempfer, and A. Stierle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 126101 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Orbit Coupling and Electronic Correlations in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Minjae Kim, Jernej Mravlje, Michel Ferrero, Olivier Parcollet, and Antoine Georges

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 126401 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Coherent Electron Transfer at the $Ag / Graphite$ Heterojunction Interface

Shijing Tan, Yanan Dai, Shengmin Zhang, Liming Liu, Jin Zhao, and Hrvoje Petek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 126801 (2018) - Published 21 March, 2018

Higher-Order Fermi-Liquid Corrections for an Anderson Impurity Away from Half Filling

Akira Oguri and A. C. Hewson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 126802 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Spin-Torque Excitation of Perpendicular Standing Spin Waves in Coupled $YIG / Co$ Heterostructures

Stefan Klingler, Vivek Amin, Stephan Geprägs, Kathrin Ganzhorn, Hannes Maier-Flaig, Matthias Althammer, Hans Huebl, Rudolf Gross, Robert D. McMichael, Mark D. Stiles, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, and Mathias Weiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 127201 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Floquet Engineering in Quantum Chains

D. M. Kennes, A. de la Torre, A. Ron, D. Hsieh, and A. J. Millis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 127601 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

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

Ion Correlation Effects in Salt-Doped Block Copolymers

Jonathan R. Brown, Youngmi Seo, and Lisa M. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 127801 (2018) - Published 22 March, 2018

Relaxation Dynamics of a Granular Pile on a Vertically Vibrating Plate

Daisuke Tsuji, Michio Otsuki, and Hiroaki Katsuragi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128001 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Deciphering mRNA Sequence Determinants of Protein Production Rate

Juraj Szavits-Nossan, Luca Ciandrini, and M. Carmen Romano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128101 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Minimum Action Path Theory Reveals the Details of Stochastic Transitions Out of Oscillatory States

Roberto de la Cruz, Ruben Perez-Carrasco, Pilar Guerrero, Tomas Alarcon, and Karen M. Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128102 (2018) - Published 19 March, 2018

Metastable Prepores in Tension-Free Lipid Bilayers

Christina L. Ting, Neha Awasthi, Marcus Müller, and Jochen S. Hub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128103 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

Coupling between Inclusions and Membranes at the Nanoscale

Florent Bories, Doru Constantin, Paolo Galatola, and Jean-Baptiste Fournier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 128104 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Shrinking of Rapidly Evaporating Water Microdroplets Reveals their Extreme Supercooling [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 015501 (2018)]

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, 129901 (2018) - Published 23 March, 2018