Volume 120, Issue 14

6 April 2018

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Temperature-field distribution in a two-dimensional simulation of a highly turbulent fluid. High (low) temperatures are in red (blue).

From the article:

Transition to the Ultimate Regime in Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
Xiaojue Zhu, Varghese Mathai, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144502 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141802 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Neutrinos in a beam have a wide range of energies, but a new trick allowed researchers to isolate fixed-energy neutrinos, which can improve the precision in future experiments.

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Measurement of the Splitting Function in $p p$ and Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142302 (2018) - Published 3 April, 2018

The structure of jets emerging from high-energy collisions of lead ions may provide a new way to study the quark-gluon plasma created in those same collisions.

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Coherently Enhanced Wireless Power Transfer

Alex Krasnok, Denis G. Baranov, Andrey Generalov, Sergey Li, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143901 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

A technique involving wave interference may improve the practicality of charging a phone wirelessly at some distance from the power source.

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Simple Rules Govern the Patterns of Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds

Predrag Popović, B. B. Cael, Mary Silber, and Dorian S. Abbot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 148701 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

A geometric model of meltwater ponds may help predict how the polar ice caps might evolve under future climate changes.

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Quantum Steering Beyond Instrumental Causal Networks

R. V. Nery, M. M. Taddei, R. Chaves, and L. Aolita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140408 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Theoretical work on classical-quantum causal networks and experiments on entangled photons demonstrate that quantum steering is a stronger form of nonlocality than previously thought.

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Matching Matched Filtering with Deep Networks for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

Hunter Gabbard, Michael Williams, Fergus Hayes, and Chris Messenger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141103 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Machine learning may improve the efficiency of the computational methods used to extract gravitational wave signals from data pipelines.

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Demonstration of a Sensitive Method to Measure Nuclear-Spin-Dependent Parity Violation

Emine Altuntaş, Jeffrey Ammon, Sidney B. Cahn, and David DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142501 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

A method for measuring nuclear spin dependent parity violation that uses diatomic molecules shows an unprecedented sensitivity to parity violation in nuclei with a nonzero spin.

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Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface

Xiaojing Fu, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144501 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

A model for gas-liquid-hydrate systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium shows that aqueous methane concentration determines the growth direction of hydrates on interfaces. The finding could explain why some hydrate-coated gas bubbles collapse due to hydrate formation.

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Extreme Field Sensitivity of Magnetic Tunneling in Fe-Doped ${Li}_{3} N$

M. Fix, J. H. Atkinson, P. C. Canfield, E. del Barco, and A. Jesche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147202 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Control of a single atom spin—the chemically smallest version of a single bit—through resonant quantum tunneling is realized in a iron-doped lithium nitride system.

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Positron-Induced Luminescence

E. V. Stenson, U. Hergenhahn, M. R. Stoneking, and T. Sunn Pedersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147401 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

For energies up to 5 keV, positrons incident on a phosphor screen produce significantly more luminescence than electrons.

LETTERS

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

Time Crystal Platform: From Quasicrystal Structures in Time to Systems with Exotic Interactions

Krzysztof Giergiel, Artur Miroszewski, and Krzysztof Sacha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140401 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

Computationally Efficient Nonlinear Bell Inequalities for Quantum Networks

Ming-Xing Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140402 (2018) - Published 3 April, 2018

Searching for Supersolidity in Ultracold Atomic Bose Condensates with Rashba Spin-Orbit Coupling

Renyuan Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140403 (2018) - Published 3 April, 2018

Decoherence-Free Interaction between Giant Atoms in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics

Anton Frisk Kockum, Göran Johansson, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140404 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Bell Test over Extremely High-Loss Channels: Towards Distributing Entangled Photon Pairs between Earth and the Moon

Yuan Cao, Yu-Huai Li, Wen-Jie Zou, Zheng-Ping Li, Qi Shen, Sheng-Kai Liao, Ji-Gang Ren, Juan Yin, Yu-Ao Chen, Cheng-Zhi Peng, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140405 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Bell Inequality, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering, and Quantum Metrology with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Tomasz Wasak and Jan Chwedeńczuk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140406 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Noninvasive Quantum Measurement of Arbitrary Operator Order by Engineered Non-Markovian Detectors

Johannes Bülte, Adam Bednorz, Christoph Bruder, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140407 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

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Quantum Steering Beyond Instrumental Causal Networks

R. V. Nery, M. M. Taddei, R. Chaves, and L. Aolita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140408 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Theoretical work on classical-quantum causal networks and experiments on entangled photons demonstrate that quantum steering is a stronger form of nonlocality than previously thought.

Quantum Metrology beyond the Classical Limit under the Effect of Dephasing

Yuichiro Matsuzaki, Simon Benjamin, Shojun Nakayama, Shiro Saito, and William J. Munro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 140501 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

MICROSCOPE Mission: First Constraints on the Violation of the Weak Equivalence Principle by a Light Scalar Dilaton

Joel Bergé, Philippe Brax, Gilles Métris, Martin Pernot-Borràs, Pierre Touboul, and Jean-Philippe Uzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141101 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

Prospects for Detecting Gravitational Waves at 5 Hz with Ground-Based Detectors

Hang Yu, Denis Martynov, Salvatore Vitale, Matthew Evans, David Shoemaker, Bryan Barr, Giles Hammond, Stefan Hild, James Hough, Sabina Huttner, Sheila Rowan, Borja Sorazu, Ludovico Carbone, Andreas Freise, Conor Mow-Lowry, Katherine L. Dooley, Paul Fulda, Hartmut Grote, and Daniel Sigg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141102 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

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Matching Matched Filtering with Deep Networks for Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

Hunter Gabbard, Michael Williams, Fergus Hayes, and Chris Messenger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141103 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Machine learning may improve the efficiency of the computational methods used to extract gravitational wave signals from data pipelines.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gravity and the Spin-2 Planar Schrödinger Equation

Eric A. Bergshoeff, Jan Rosseel, and Paul K. Townsend

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141601 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Scattering Amplitudes from Intersection Theory

Sebastian Mizera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141602 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Directly Detecting MeV-Scale Dark Matter Via Solar Reflection

Haipeng An, Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, and Adam Ritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141801 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

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First Measurement of Monoenergetic Muon Neutrino Charged Current Interactions

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141802 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Neutrinos in a beam have a wide range of energies, but a new trick allowed researchers to isolate fixed-energy neutrinos, which can improve the precision in future experiments.

No-Go Theorem for Nonstandard Explanations of the $τ \to K_{S} π ν_{τ}$ $C P$ Asymmetry

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Andreas Crivellin, and Martin Hoferichter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 141803 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Suppression of Excited $ϒ$ States Relative to the Ground State in Pb-Pb Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{NN} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142301 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

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Measurement of the Splitting Function in $p p$ and Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142302 (2018) - Published 3 April, 2018

The structure of jets emerging from high-energy collisions of lead ions may provide a new way to study the quark-gluon plasma created in those same collisions.

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Demonstration of a Sensitive Method to Measure Nuclear-Spin-Dependent Parity Violation

Emine Altuntaş, Jeffrey Ammon, Sidney B. Cahn, and David DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142501 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

A method for measuring nuclear spin dependent parity violation that uses diatomic molecules shows an unprecedented sensitivity to parity violation in nuclei with a nonzero spin.

Double Gamow-Teller Transitions and its Relation to Neutrinoless $β β$ Decay

Noritaka Shimizu, Javier Menéndez, and Kentaro Yako

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 142502 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Deep Potential Molecular Dynamics: A Scalable Model with the Accuracy of Quantum Mechanics

Linfeng Zhang, Jiequn Han, Han Wang, Roberto Car, and Weinan E

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143001 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Rotational Energy as Mass in ${H_{3}}^{+}$ and Lower Limits on the Atomic Masses of D and ${}^{3}{He}$

J. A. Smith, S. Hamzeloui, D. J. Fink, and E. G. Myers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143002 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Time-Dependent Wave Packet Dynamics Calculations of Cross Sections for Ultracold Scattering of Molecules

Jiayu Huang, Shu Liu, Dong H. Zhang, and Roman V. Krems

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143401 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Localized Magnetic Moments with Tunable Spin Exchange in a Gas of Ultracold Fermions

L. Riegger, N. Darkwah Oppong, M. Höfer, D. R. Fernandes, I. Bloch, and S. Fölling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143601 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Coherently Enhanced Wireless Power Transfer

Alex Krasnok, Denis G. Baranov, Andrey Generalov, Sergey Li, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 143901 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

A technique involving wave interference may improve the practicality of charging a phone wirelessly at some distance from the power source.

Solitonic Dispersive Hydrodynamics: Theory and Observation

Michelle D. Maiden, Dalton V. Anderson, Nevil A. Franco, Gennady A. El, and Mark A. Hoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144101 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

Double Scaling in the Relaxation Time in the $β$ -Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou Model

Yuri V. Lvov and Miguel Onorato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144301 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

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Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Hydrate Growth on a Gas-Liquid Interface

Xiaojing Fu, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144501 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

Transition to the Ultimate Regime in Two-Dimensional Rayleigh-Bénard Convection

Xiaojue Zhu, Varghese Mathai, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Roberto Verzicco, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144502 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Terahertz Pulse Generation in Underdense Relativistic Plasmas: From Photoionization-Induced Radiation to Coherent Transition Radiation

J. Déchard, A. Debayle, X. Davoine, L. Gremillet, and L. Bergé

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144801 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Observation of the Self-Modulation Instability via Time-Resolved Measurements

M. Gross, J. Engel, J. Good, H. Huck, I. Isaev, G. Koss, M. Krasilnikov, O. Lishilin, G. Loisch, Y. Renier, T. Rublack, F. Stephan, R. Brinkmann, A. Martinez de la Ossa, J. Osterhoff, D. Malyutin, D. Richter, T. Mehrling, M. Khojoyan, C. B. Schroeder, and F. Grüner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 144802 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Crystal Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for an Accurate and Interpretable Prediction of Material Properties

Tian Xie and Jeffrey C. Grossman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 145301 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Densification of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Accompanied by Droplet Formation When Passing the Widom Line

Vitaliy Pipich and Dietmar Schwahn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 145701 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Phase Transitions in Zinc-Blende Semimetals Driven Exclusively by Electronic Temperature

Egor Trushin and Andreas Görling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 146401 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Topological Band Theory for Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

Huitao Shen, Bo Zhen, and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 146402 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Surface and 3D Quantum Hall Effects from Engineering of Exceptional Points in Nodal-Line Semimetals

Rafael A. Molina and José González

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 146601 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Rules for Phase Shifts of Quantum Oscillations in Topological Nodal-Line Semimetals

Cequn Li, C. M. Wang, Bo Wan, Xiangang Wan, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 146602 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Detecting Kondo Entanglement by Electron Conductance

Gwangsu Yoo, S.-S. B. Lee, and H.-S. Sim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 146801 (2018) - Published 3 April, 2018

Nonlocality, Correlations, and Magnetotransport in a Spatially Modulated Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

O. E. Raichev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 146802 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

One-Dimensional Nature of Superconductivity at the ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interface

Yun-Yi Pai, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Anil Annadi, Guanglei Cheng, Shicheng Lu, Michelle Tomczyk, Mengchen Huang, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin, and Jeremy Levy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147001 (2018) - Published 6 April, 2018

Kondo Impurities Coupled to a Helical Luttinger Liquid: RKKY-Kondo Physics Revisited

Oleg M. Yevtushenko and Vladimir I. Yudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147201 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

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Extreme Field Sensitivity of Magnetic Tunneling in Fe-Doped ${Li}_{3} N$

M. Fix, J. H. Atkinson, P. C. Canfield, E. del Barco, and A. Jesche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147202 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

Control of a single atom spin—the chemically smallest version of a single bit—through resonant quantum tunneling is realized in a iron-doped lithium nitride system.

Magnetic Field Control of Cycloidal Domains and Electric Polarization in Multiferroic ${BiFeO}_{3}$

S. Bordács, D. G. Farkas, J. S. White, R. Cubitt, L. DeBeer-Schmitt, T. Ito, and I. Kézsmárki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147203 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Field-Driven Quantum Criticality in the Spinel Magnet ${ZnCr}_{2} {Se}_{4}$

C. C. Gu, Z. Y. Zhao, X. L. Chen, M. Lee, E. S. Choi, Y. Y. Han, L. S. Ling, L. Pi, Y. H. Zhang, G. Chen, Z. R. Yang, H. D. Zhou, and X. F. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147204 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

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Positron-Induced Luminescence

E. V. Stenson, U. Hergenhahn, M. R. Stoneking, and T. Sunn Pedersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147401 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

For energies up to 5 keV, positrons incident on a phosphor screen produce significantly more luminescence than electrons.

Prediction of Intrinsic Ferromagnetic Ferroelectricity in a Transition-Metal Halide Monolayer

Chengxi Huang, Yongping Du, Haiping Wu, Hongjun Xiang, Kaiming Deng, and Erjun Kan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 147601 (2018) - Published 2 April, 2018

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

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Simple Rules Govern the Patterns of Arctic Sea Ice Melt Ponds

Predrag Popović, B. B. Cael, Mary Silber, and Dorian S. Abbot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 148701 (2018) - Published 4 April, 2018

A geometric model of meltwater ponds may help predict how the polar ice caps might evolve under future climate changes.

COMMENTS

Comment on “Experimental Evidence for Sign Reversal of the Hall Coefficient in Three-Dimensional Metamaterials”

Josef Oswald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 149701 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018

Kern, Kadic, and Wegener Reply:

Christian Kern, Muamer Kadic, and Martin Wegener

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 149702 (2018) - Published 5 April, 2018