Volume 120, Issue 13

30 March 2018

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2D x-ray diffraction image of shock-compressed SiO_2 showing transformation from amorphous to crystalline phase (rings). Bright spots (red) are single-crystal diffraction from the LiF impactor. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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In situ X-Ray Diffraction of Shock-Compressed Fused Silica
Sally June Tracy, Stefan J. Turneaure, and Thomas S. Duffy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135702 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via $0 ν β β$ Decay of ${}^{130}{Te}$

C. Alduino et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132501 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

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Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay in ${}^{76}{Ge}$ with the Majorana Demonstrator

C. E. Aalseth et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132502 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

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Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay of ${}^{76}{Ge}$ from GERDA Phase II

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132503 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

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Demonstration of Single-Barium-Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging

A. D. McDonald et al. (NEXT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132504 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

A device that can detect individual barium ions could be the heart of an experiment that takes the next step toward probing the nature of the neutrino.

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In situ X-Ray Diffraction of Shock-Compressed Fused Silica

Sally June Tracy, Stefan J. Turneaure, and Thomas S. Duffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135702 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

The rapid compression of silica to pressures of 36 gigapascals and higher transforms it from an amorphous material to a tetragonal crystal.

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Mechanistic Insights into Human Brain Impact Dynamics through Modal Analysis

Kaveh Laksari, Mehmet Kurt, Hessam Babaee, Svein Kleiven, and David Camarillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138101 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

A numerical study suggests that head impacts primarily induce a few low-frequency vibrations in brain tissue, a finding that could inform the design of sports helmets.

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Derivation of the Boltzmann Equation for Financial Brownian Motion: Direct Observation of the Collective Motion of High-Frequency Traders

Kiyoshi Kanazawa, Takumi Sueshige, Hideki Takayasu, and Misako Takayasu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138301 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Using data on the activity of individual financial traders, researchers have devised a microscopic financial model that can explain macroscopic market trends.

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Topological Maxwell Metal Bands in a Superconducting Qutrit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Qiang Liu, Guangming Xue, Hai-Feng Yu, Yan-Qing Zhu, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130503 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

A superconducting qutrit simulates the topological phase transition from a metal with an exotic band structure to a trivial insulator.

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Ultracold Anions for High-Precision Antihydrogen Experiments

G. Cerchiari, A. Kellerbauer, M. S. Safronova, U. I. Safronova, and P. Yzombard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133205 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

The atomic anion La $^{-}$ is shown to be the first negative laser cooling candidate.

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Coherent Spin Amplification Using a Beam Splitter

Chengyu Yan, Sanjeev Kumar, Kalarikad Thomas, Patrick See, Ian Farrer, David Ritchie, Jonathan Griffiths, Geraint Jones, and Michael Pepper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137701 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Spin-transistor action without spin-orbit interaction increases the range of spintronic materials beyond those with a large spin-orbit coupling.

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Edge-Induced Shear Banding in Entangled Polymeric Fluids

Ewan J. Hemingway and Suzanne M. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138002 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Small disturbances at the air-fluid interface of entangled polymeric fluids can produce strong apparent banding that invades deep into the bulk.

LETTERS

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

Optimal Classical Simulation of State-Independent Quantum Contextuality

Adán Cabello, Mile Gu, Otfried Gühne, and Zhen-Peng Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130401 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Synthetic Landau Levels and Spinor Vortex Matter on a Haldane Spherical Surface with a Magnetic Monopole

Xiang-Fa Zhou, Congjun Wu, Guang-Can Guo, Ruquan Wang, Han Pu, and Zheng-Wei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130402 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

Noncontextual Wirings

Barbara Amaral, Adán Cabello, Marcelo Terra Cunha, and Leandro Aolita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130403 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

Proposal for Quantum Simulation via All-Optically-Generated Tensor Network States

I. Dhand, M. Engelkemeier, L. Sansoni, S. Barkhofen, C. Silberhorn, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130501 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Generalized Entanglement Entropies of Quantum Designs

Zi-Wen Liu, Seth Lloyd, Elton Yechao Zhu, and Huangjun Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130502 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

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Topological Maxwell Metal Bands in a Superconducting Qutrit

Xinsheng Tan, Dan-Wei Zhang, Qiang Liu, Guangming Xue, Hai-Feng Yu, Yan-Qing Zhu, Hui Yan, Shi-Liang Zhu, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130503 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

A superconducting qutrit simulates the topological phase transition from a metal with an exotic band structure to a trivial insulator.

Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in Spin Chains with Long-Range Interactions: Merging Different Concepts of Nonequilibrium Criticality

Bojan Žunkovič, Markus Heyl, Michael Knap, and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130601 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Multicritical Point on the de Almeida–Thouless Line in Spin Glasses in $d > 6$ Dimensions

M. A. Moore and N. Read

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130602 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

Chaotic Dynamical Ferromagnetic Phase Induced by Nonequilibrium Quantum Fluctuations

Alessio Lerose, Jamir Marino, Bojan Žunkovič, Andrea Gambassi, and Alessandro Silva

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 130603 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Fate of Large-Scale Structure in Modified Gravity After GW170817 and GRB170817A

Luca Amendola, Martin Kunz, Ippocratis D. Saltas, and Ignacy Sawicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131101 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Evasion of No-Hair Theorems and Novel Black-Hole Solutions in Gauss-Bonnet Theories

G. Antoniou, A. Bakopoulos, and P. Kanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131102 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

New Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes with Curvature-Induced Scalarization in Extended Scalar-Tensor Theories

Daniela D. Doneva and Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131103 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Spontaneous Scalarization of Black Holes and Compact Stars from a Gauss-Bonnet Coupling

Hector O. Silva, Jeremy Sakstein, Leonardo Gualtieri, Thomas P. Sotiriou, and Emanuele Berti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131104 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Distance-Dependent Sign Reversal in the Casimir-Lifshitz Torque

Priyadarshini Thiyam, Prachi Parashar, K. V. Shajesh, Oleksandr I. Malyi, Mathias Boström, Kimball A. Milton, Iver Brevik, and Clas Persson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131601 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Quantum Forces from Dark Matter and Where to Find Them

Sylvain Fichet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131801 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Self-Heating Dark Matter via Semiannihilation

Ayuki Kamada, Hee Jung Kim, Hyungjin Kim, and Toyokazu Sekiguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 131802 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

Precision Measurement of the $e^{+} e^{-} \to Λ_{c}^{+} {\bar{Λ}}_{c}^{-}$ Cross Section Near Threshold

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132001 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

Nuclear Physics

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First Results from CUORE: A Search for Lepton Number Violation via $0 ν β β$ Decay of ${}^{130}{Te}$

C. Alduino et al. (CUORE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132501 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Search for Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay in ${}^{76}{Ge}$ with the Majorana Demonstrator

C. E. Aalseth et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132502 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Limit on Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay of ${}^{76}{Ge}$ from GERDA Phase II

M. Agostini et al. (GERDA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132503 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

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Demonstration of Single-Barium-Ion Sensitivity for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay Using Single-Molecule Fluorescence Imaging

A. D. McDonald et al. (NEXT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132504 (2018) - Published 26 March, 2018

A device that can detect individual barium ions could be the heart of an experiment that takes the next step toward probing the nature of the neutrino.

First Determination of the Level Structure of an $s d$ -Shell Hypernucleus, ${}_{Λ}^{19}F$

S. B. Yang et al. (J-PARC E13 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 132505 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Anomalous Rabi Oscillations in Multilevel Quantum Systems

B. Y. Chang, I. R. Sola, and Vladimir S. Malinovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133201 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Near- $K$ -Edge Double and Triple Detachment of the $F^{-}$ Negative Ion: Observation of Direct Two-Electron Ejection by a Single Photon

A. Müller, A. Borovik, Jr., S. Bari, T. Buhr, K. Holste, M. Martins, A. Perry-Saßmannshausen, R. A. Phaneuf, S. Reinwardt, S. Ricz, K. Schubert, and S. Schippers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133202 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Stimulated X-Ray Emission Spectroscopy in Transition Metal Complexes

Thomas Kroll, Clemens Weninger, Roberto Alonso-Mori, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Diling Zhu, Laurent Mercadier, Vinay P. Majety, Agostino Marinelli, Alberto Lutman, Marc W. Guetg, Franz-Josef Decker, Sébastien Boutet, Andy Aquila, Jason Koglin, Jake Koralek, Daniel P. DePonte, Jan Kern, Franklin D. Fuller, Ernest Pastor, Thomas Fransson, Yu Zhang, Junko Yano, Vittal K. Yachandra, Nina Rohringer, and Uwe Bergmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133203 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Direct Visualization of Valence Electron Motion Using Strong-Field Photoelectron Holography

Mingrui He, Yang Li, Yueming Zhou, Min Li, Wei Cao, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133204 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultracold Anions for High-Precision Antihydrogen Experiments

G. Cerchiari, A. Kellerbauer, M. S. Safronova, U. I. Safronova, and P. Yzombard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133205 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

The atomic anion La $^{-}$ is shown to be the first negative laser cooling candidate.

Optical Chirality in Nonlinear Optics: Application to High Harmonic Generation

Ofer Neufeld and Oren Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133206 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Highly Charged Rydberg Ions from the Coulomb Explosion of Clusters

D. Komar, L. Kazak, M. Almassarani, K-H. Meiwes-Broer, and J. Tiggesbäumker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133207 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Testing the Role of Recollision in $N_{2}^{+}$ Air Lasing

Mathew Britton, Patrick Laferrière, Dong Hyuk Ko, Zhengyan Li, Fanqi Kong, Graham Brown, Andrei Naumov, Chunmei Zhang, Ladan Arissian, and P. B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133208 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Scaling Law for Three-Body Collisions of Identical Fermions with $p$ -Wave Interactions

Jun Yoshida, Taketo Saito, Muhammad Waseem, Keita Hattori, and Takashi Mukaiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133401 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Theory of a Quantum Scanning Microscope for Cold Atoms

D. Yang, C. Laflamme, D. V. Vasilyev, M. A. Baranov, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133601 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Brillouin Light Scattering by Magnetic Quasivortices in Cavity Optomagnonics

A. Osada, A. Gloppe, R. Hisatomi, A. Noguchi, R. Yamazaki, M. Nomura, Y. Nakamura, and K. Usami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133602 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spectrum Control through Discrete Frequency Diffraction in the Presence of Photonic Gauge Potentials

Chengzhi Qin, Feng Zhou, Yugui Peng, Dimitrios Sounas, Xuefeng Zhu, Bing Wang, Jianji Dong, Xinliang Zhang, Andrea Alù, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 133901 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Experimental Observation of Classical Dynamical Monodromy

M. P. Nerem, D. Salmon, S. Aubin, and J. B. Delos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 134301 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

$γ$ -Ray Generation from Plasma Wakefield Resonant Wiggler

Bifeng Lei, Jingwei Wang, Vasily Kharin, Matt Zepf, and Sergey Rykovanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 134801 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Nonlinear Decay and Plasma Heating by a Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmode

Z. Qiu, L. Chen, F. Zonca, and W. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135001 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Quasistationary Plasma Predator-Prey System of Coupled Turbulence, Drive, and Sheared $E \times B$ Flow During High Performance DIII-D Tokamak Discharges

K. Barada, T. L. Rhodes, K. H. Burrell, L. Zeng, L. Bardóczi, Xi Chen, C. M. Muscatello, and W. A. Peebles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135002 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Ionization-Induced Self-Channeling of an Ultrahigh-Power Subnanosecond Microwave Beam in a Neutral Gas

G. Shafir, Ya. E. Krasik, Y. P. Bliokh, D. Levko, Y. Cao, J. G. Leopold, R. Gad, V. Bernshtam, and A. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135003 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

Interacting Multiscale Acoustic Vortices as Coherent Excitations in Dust Acoustic Wave Turbulence

Po-Cheng Lin and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135004 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

Suppressing Two-Plasmon Decay with Laser Frequency Detuning

R. K. Follett, J. G. Shaw, J. F. Myatt, J. P. Palastro, R. W. Short, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135005 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bright Soliton to Quantum Droplet Transition in a Mixture of Bose-Einstein Condensates

P. Cheiney, C. R. Cabrera, J. Sanz, B. Naylor, L. Tanzi, and L. Tarruell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135301 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Dielectric Modulation of Ion Transport near Interfaces

Hanne S. Antila and Erik Luijten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135501 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Atomic Dynamics in Simple Liquid: de Gennes Narrowing Revisited

Bin Wu, Takuya Iwashita, and Takeshi Egami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135502 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Unsupervised Calculation of Free Energy Barriers in Large Crystalline Systems

Thomas D. Swinburne and Mihai-Cosmin Marinica

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135503 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

Anti-Aging in Ultrastable Metallic Glasses

Martin Lüttich, Valentina M. Giordano, Sylvie Le Floch, Eloi Pineda, Federico Zontone, Yuansu Luo, Konrad Samwer, and Beatrice Ruta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135504 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Modified Kelvin Equations for Capillary Condensation in Narrow and Wide Grooves

Alexandr Malijevský and Andrew O. Parry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135701 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

In situ X-Ray Diffraction of Shock-Compressed Fused Silica

Sally June Tracy, Stefan J. Turneaure, and Thomas S. Duffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 135702 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

The rapid compression of silica to pressures of 36 gigapascals and higher transforms it from an amorphous material to a tetragonal crystal.

Associating Imidazoles: Elucidating the Correlation between the Static Dielectric Permittivity and Proton Conductivity

Tyler Cosby, Zachariah Vicars, Maximilian Heres, and Joshua Sangoro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 136001 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

First-Principles Study of Charge Diffusion between Proximate Solid-State Qubits and Its Implications on Sensor Applications

Jyh-Pin Chou, Zoltán Bodrog, and Adam Gali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 136401 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Charge-Spin Correlation in van der Waals Antiferromagnet ${NiPS}_{3}$

So Yeun Kim, Tae Yun Kim, Luke J. Sandilands, Soobin Sinn, Min-Cheol Lee, Jaeseok Son, Sungmin Lee, Ki-Young Choi, Wondong Kim, Byeong-Gyu Park, C. Jeon, Hyeong-Do Kim, Cheol-Hwan Park, Je-Geun Park, S. J. Moon, and T. W. Noh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 136402 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Alloy Engineering of Topological Semimetal Phase Transition in ${MgTa}_{2 - x} {Nb}_{x} N_{3}$

Huaqing Huang, Kyung-Hwan Jin, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 136403 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Local Real-Space View of the Achiral $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$ $2 \times 2 \times 2$ Charge Density Wave

B. Hildebrand, T. Jaouen, M.-L. Mottas, G. Monney, C. Barreteau, E. Giannini, D. R. Bowler, and P. Aebi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 136404 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Competing Charge Density Waves Probed by Nonlinear Transport and Noise in the Second and Third Landau Levels

K. Bennaceur, C. Lupien, B. Reulet, G. Gervais, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 136801 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Neutron Spin Resonance in the 112-Type Iron-Based Superconductor

Tao Xie, Dongliang Gong, Haranath Ghosh, Abyay Ghosh, Minoru Soda, Takatsugu Masuda, Shinichi Itoh, Frédéric Bourdarot, Louis-Pierre Regnault, Sergey Danilkin, Shiliang Li, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137001 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Dipolar Spin Ice States with a Fast Monopole Hopping Rate in ${CdEr}_{2} X_{4}$ ( $X = Se$ , S)

Shang Gao, O. Zaharko, V. Tsurkan, L. Prodan, E. Riordan, J. Lago, B. Fåk, A. R. Wildes, M. M. Koza, C. Ritter, P. Fouquet, L. Keller, E. Canévet, M. Medarde, J. Blomgren, C. Johansson, S. R. Giblin, S. Vrtnik, J. Luzar, A. Loidl, Ch. Rüegg, and T. Fennell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137201 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Superchiral Light Generation on Degenerate Achiral Surfaces

Abraham Vázquez-Guardado and Debashis Chanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137601 (2018) - Published 28 March, 2018

Defect-Induced Hedgehog Polarization States in Multiferroics

Linze Li, Xiaoxing Cheng, Jacob R. Jokisaari, Peng Gao, Jason Britson, Carolina Adamo, Colin Heikes, Darrell G. Schlom, Long-Qing Chen, and Xiaoqing Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137602 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Current Flow in the Bubble and Stripe Phases

B. Friess, V. Umansky, K. von Klitzing, and J. H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137603 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Spin Amplification Using a Beam Splitter

Chengyu Yan, Sanjeev Kumar, Kalarikad Thomas, Patrick See, Ian Farrer, David Ritchie, Jonathan Griffiths, Geraint Jones, and Michael Pepper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137701 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Spin-transistor action without spin-orbit interaction increases the range of spintronic materials beyond those with a large spin-orbit coupling.

Electrical Spin Driving by $g$ -Matrix Modulation in Spin-Orbit Qubits

Alessandro Crippa, Romain Maurand, Léo Bourdet, Dharmraj Kotekar-Patil, Anthony Amisse, Xavier Jehl, Marc Sanquer, Romain Laviéville, Heorhii Bohuslavskyi, Louis Hutin, Sylvain Barraud, Maud Vinet, Yann-Michel Niquet, and Silvano De Franceschi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 137702 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

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

Controlled Viscosity in Dense Granular Materials

A. Gnoli, L. de Arcangelis, F. Giacco, E. Lippiello, M. Pica Ciamarra, A. Puglisi, and A. Sarracino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138001 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Edge-Induced Shear Banding in Entangled Polymeric Fluids

Ewan J. Hemingway and Suzanne M. Fielding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138002 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

Small disturbances at the air-fluid interface of entangled polymeric fluids can produce strong apparent banding that invades deep into the bulk.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanistic Insights into Human Brain Impact Dynamics through Modal Analysis

Kaveh Laksari, Mehmet Kurt, Hessam Babaee, Svein Kleiven, and David Camarillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138101 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

A numerical study suggests that head impacts primarily induce a few low-frequency vibrations in brain tissue, a finding that could inform the design of sports helmets.

Hydro-osmotic Instabilities in Active Membrane Tubes

Sami C. Al-Izzi, George Rowlands, Pierre Sens, and Matthew S. Turner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138102 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Derivation of the Boltzmann Equation for Financial Brownian Motion: Direct Observation of the Collective Motion of High-Frequency Traders

Kiyoshi Kanazawa, Takumi Sueshige, Hideki Takayasu, and Misako Takayasu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138301 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Using data on the activity of individual financial traders, researchers have devised a microscopic financial model that can explain macroscopic market trends.

Solvable Model for Dynamic Mass Transport in Disordered Geophysical Media

M. Marder, Behzad Eftekhari, and Tadeusz W. Patzek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 138302 (2018) - Published 29 March, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Fully Differential Vector-Boson-Fusion Higgs Production at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 082002 (2015)]

Matteo Cacciari, Frédéric A. Dreyer, Alexander Karlberg, Gavin P. Salam, and Giulia Zanderighi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 139901 (2018) - Published 27 March, 2018

Publisher’s Note: 94 $β$ -Decay Half-Lives of Neutron-Rich ${}_{55}{Cs}$ to ${}_{67}{Ho}$ : Experimental Feedback and Evaluation of the $r$ -Process Rare-Earth Peak Formation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 072701 (2017)]

J. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 139902 (2018) - Published 30 March, 2018