Volume 120, Issue 15

13 April 2018

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Top and side views of the atomic structures of (left) a sodium-silicon clathrate and (right) the same clathrate after the sodium atoms are removed. The yellow and green circles correspond to the silicon and sodium atoms respectively. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Superconducting Open-Framework Allotrope of Silicon at Ambient Pressure
Ha-Jun Sung, W. H. Han, In-Ho Lee, and K. J. Chang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 157001 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

N. Du et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 151301 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

A search for dark matter axions with unprecedented sensitivity tests a previously inaccessible parameter range for these hypothetical particles.

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Electronic Spectrum of Twisted Graphene Layers under Heterostrain

Loïc Huder, Alexandre Artaud, Toai Le Quang, Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Aloysius G. M. Jansen, Gérard Lapertot, Claude Chapelier, and Vincent T. Renard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156405 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

The electrical properties of a graphene bilayer can be tuned by stretching and rotating one of the bilayer’s sheets.

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Diversity, Stability, and Reproducibility in Stochastically Assembled Microbial Ecosystems

Akshit Goyal and Sergei Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 158102 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

A mathematical model that focuses on the molecular resources required by bacteria explains why such a large number of species arises in one place and can live together harmoniously.

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Absolute Scale Quantitative Off-Axis Electron Holography at Atomic Resolution

Florian Winkler, Juri Barthel, Amir H. Tavabi, Sven Borghardt, Beata E. Kardynal, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156101 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

A new analysis technique allows researchers to extract atomic-resolution holographic images of materials using a transmission electron microscope.

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Test One to Test Many: A Unified Approach to Quantum Benchmarks

Ge Bai and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150502 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

The performance of a quantum device for an infinite set of inputs could be evaluated by preparing a single entangled state and performing a single measurement on the output.

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Structure of the Lightest Tin Isotopes

T. D. Morris, J. Simonis, S. R. Stroberg, C. Stumpf, G. Hagen, J. D. Holt, G. R. Jansen, T. Papenbrock, R. Roth, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152503 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Ab-inito calculations of $^{100}$ Sn with $N$ = $Z$ = $50$ predict it to be doubly magic.

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Strong Neutron Pairing in $core + 4 n$ Nuclei

A. Revel et al. ( $R^{3} B$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152504 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

The largest neutron-neutron correlation strength is measured in the valence neutrons of $^{18}$ C.

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Data-Driven Learning of Total and Local Energies in Elemental Boron

Volker L. Deringer, Chris J. Pickard, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156001 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

A machine learning method is presented for constructing the interatomic potential of boron starting from just a single-point density functional theory computation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconducting Open-Framework Allotrope of Silicon at Ambient Pressure

Ha-Jun Sung, W. H. Han, In-Ho Lee, and K. J. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 157001 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

First-principles calculations predict that pure, metallic, superconducting Si allotropes could form at ambient pressures.

LETTERS

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

Tunable, Flexible, and Efficient Optimization of Control Pulses for Practical Qubits

Shai Machnes, Elie Assémat, David Tannor, and Frank K. Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150401 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Parametrization and Optimization of Gaussian Non-Markovian Unravelings for Open Quantum Dynamics

Nina Megier, Walter T. Strunz, Carlos Viviescas, and Kimmo Luoma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150402 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

High-Density Quantum Sensing with Dissipative First Order Transitions

Meghana Raghunandan, Jörg Wrachtrup, and Hendrik Weimer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150501 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Test One to Test Many: A Unified Approach to Quantum Benchmarks

Ge Bai and Giulio Chiribella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150502 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

The performance of a quantum device for an infinite set of inputs could be evaluated by preparing a single entangled state and performing a single measurement on the output.

Demonstration of Protection of a Superconducting Qubit from Energy Decay

Yen-Hsiang Lin, Long B. Nguyen, Nicholas Grabon, Jonathan San Miguel, Natalia Pankratova, and Vladimir E. Manucharyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150503 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Realization of a $Λ$ System with Metastable States of a Capacitively Shunted Fluxonium

N. Earnest, S. Chakram, Y. Lu, N. Irons, R. K. Naik, N. Leung, L. Ocola, D. A. Czaplewski, B. Baker, Jay Lawrence, Jens Koch, and D. I. Schuster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150504 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Topological Floquet-Thouless Energy Pump

Michael H. Kolodrubetz, Frederik Nathan, Snir Gazit, Takahiro Morimoto, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150601 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

Clock–Work Trade-Off Relation for Coherence in Quantum Thermodynamics

Hyukjoon Kwon, Hyunseok Jeong, David Jennings, Benjamin Yadin, and M. S. Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150602 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Eigenstate Thermalization for Degenerate Observables

Fabio Anza, Christian Gogolin, and Marcus Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 150603 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Dense Star Clusters: Highly Eccentric, Highly Spinning, and Repeated Binary Black Hole Mergers

Carl L. Rodriguez, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Sourav Chatterjee, and Frederic A. Rasio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 151101 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

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Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

N. Du et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 151301 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

A search for dark matter axions with unprecedented sensitivity tests a previously inaccessible parameter range for these hypothetical particles.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Strong-Isospin-Breaking Correction to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment from Lattice QCD at the Physical Point

B. Chakraborty, C. T. H. Davies, C. DeTar, A. X. El-Khadra, E. Gámiz, Steven Gottlieb, D. Hatton, J. Koponen, A. S. Kronfeld, J. Laiho, G. P. Lepage, Yuzhi Liu, P. B. Mackenzie, C. McNeile, E. T. Neil, J. N. Simone, R. Sugar, D. Toussaint, R. S. Van de Water, and A. Vaquero (Fermilab Lattice, HPQCD, and MILC Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152001 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Scalar, Axial, and Tensor Interactions of Light Nuclei from Lattice QCD

Emmanuel Chang, Zohreh Davoudi, William Detmold, Arjun S. Gambhir, Kostas Orginos, Martin J. Savage, Phiala E. Shanahan, Michael L. Wagman, and Frank Winter (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152002 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Nuclear Physics

First Direct Mass Measurements of Nuclides around $Z = 100$ with a Multireflection Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrograph

Y. Ito et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152501 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

First Monte Carlo Global Analysis of Nucleon Transversity with Lattice QCD Constraints

H.-W. Lin, W. Melnitchouk, A. Prokudin, N. Sato, and H. Shows, III (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152502 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Structure of the Lightest Tin Isotopes

T. D. Morris, J. Simonis, S. R. Stroberg, C. Stumpf, G. Hagen, J. D. Holt, G. R. Jansen, T. Papenbrock, R. Roth, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152503 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Ab-inito calculations of $^{100}$ Sn with $N$ = $Z$ = $50$ predict it to be doubly magic.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong Neutron Pairing in $core + 4 n$ Nuclei

A. Revel et al. ( $R^{3} B$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152504 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

The largest neutron-neutron correlation strength is measured in the valence neutrons of $^{18}$ C.

Spectroscopy of Pionic Atoms in ${}^{122}{Sn} (d, {}^{3}{He})$ Reaction and Angular Dependence of the Formation Cross Sections

T. Nishi et al. (piAF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 152505 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Toward a Determination of the Proton-Electron Mass Ratio from the Lamb-Dip Measurement of HD

L.-G. Tao, A.-W. Liu, K. Pachucki, J. Komasa, Y. R. Sun, J. Wang, and S.-M. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 153001 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Sub-Doppler Frequency Metrology in HD for Tests of Fundamental Physics

F. M. J. Cozijn, P. Dupré, E. J. Salumbides, K. S. E. Eikema, and W. Ubachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 153002 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Rydberg Molecules for Ion-Atom Scattering in the Ultracold Regime

T. Schmid, C. Veit, N. Zuber, R. Löw, T. Pfau, M. Tarana, and M. Tomza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 153401 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Frequency Combs in a Lumped-Element Josephson-Junction Circuit

Saeed Khan and Hakan E. Türeci

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 153601 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Ultrastrong Coupling Few-Photon Scattering Theory

Tao Shi, Yue Chang, and Juan José García-Ripoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 153602 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Multistage Coupling of Laser-Wakefield Accelerators with Curved Plasma Channels

J. Luo, M. Chen, W. Y. Wu, S. M. Weng, Z. M. Sheng, C. B. Schroeder, D. A. Jaroszynski, E. Esarey, W. P. Leemans, W. B. Mori, and J. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 154801 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

Observation of Poincaré-Andronov-Hopf Bifurcation in Cyclotron Maser Emission from a Magnetic Plasma Trap

A. G. Shalashov, E. D. Gospodchikov, I. V. Izotov, D. A. Mansfeld, V. A. Skalyga, and O. Tarvainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 155001 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

First Direct Observation of Runaway-Electron-Driven Whistler Waves in Tokamaks

D. A. Spong, W. W. Heidbrink, C. Paz-Soldan, X. D. Du, K. E. Thome, M. A. Van Zeeland, C. Collins, A. Lvovskiy, R. A. Moyer, M. E. Austin, D. P. Brennan, C. Liu, E. F. Jaeger, and C. Lau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 155002 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Three-Dimensional Coupled Dynamics of the Two-Fluid Model in Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$ : Deformed Velocity Profile of Normal Fluid in Thermal Counterflow

Satoshi Yui, Makoto Tsubota, and Hiromichi Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 155301 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Multiscale Relaxation Dynamics in Ultrathin Metallic Glass-Forming Films

Q. L. Bi, Y. J. Lü, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 155501 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Data-Driven Learning of Total and Local Energies in Elemental Boron

Volker L. Deringer, Chris J. Pickard, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156001 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

A machine learning method is presented for constructing the interatomic potential of boron starting from just a single-point density functional theory computation.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Absolute Scale Quantitative Off-Axis Electron Holography at Atomic Resolution

Florian Winkler, Juri Barthel, Amir H. Tavabi, Sven Borghardt, Beata E. Kardynal, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156101 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

A new analysis technique allows researchers to extract atomic-resolution holographic images of materials using a transmission electron microscope.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fermiology and Superconductivity of Topological Surface States in ${PdTe}_{2}$

O. J. Clark, M. J. Neat, K. Okawa, L. Bawden, I. Marković, F. Mazzola, J. Feng, V. Sunko, J. M. Riley, W. Meevasana, J. Fujii, I. Vobornik, T. K. Kim, M. Hoesch, T. Sasagawa, P. Wahl, M. S. Bahramy, and P. D. C. King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156401 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Protected Pseudohelical Edge States in $Z_{2}$ -Trivial Proximitized Graphene

Tobias Frank, Petra Högl, Martin Gmitra, Denis Kochan, and Jaroslav Fabian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156402 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Band Structure of the IV-VI Black Phosphorus Analog and Thermoelectric SnSe

I. Pletikosić, F. von Rohr, P. Pervan, P. K. Das, I. Vobornik, R. J. Cava, and T. Valla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156403 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

Three-Dimensional Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior from One-Dimensional Quantum Critical Local Moments

Laura Classen, Igor Zaliznyak, and Alexei M. Tsvelik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156404 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

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Electronic Spectrum of Twisted Graphene Layers under Heterostrain

Loïc Huder, Alexandre Artaud, Toai Le Quang, Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Aloysius G. M. Jansen, Gérard Lapertot, Claude Chapelier, and Vincent T. Renard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156405 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

The electrical properties of a graphene bilayer can be tuned by stretching and rotating one of the bilayer’s sheets.

Light-Induced Type-II Band Inversion and Quantum Anomalous Hall State in Monolayer FeSe

Z. F. Wang, Zhao Liu, Jinlong Yang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156406 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Global Anomaly Detection in Two-Dimensional Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases

Nick Bultinck, Robijn Vanhove, Jutho Haegeman, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156601 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

Collective Dynamics and Strong Pinning near the Onset of Charge Order in ${La}_{1.48} {Nd}_{0.4} {Sr}_{0.12} {CuO}_{4}$

P. G. Baity, T. Sasagawa, and Dragana Popović

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156602 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

Disentangled Cooperative Orderings in Artificial Rare-Earth Nickelates

S. Middey, D. Meyers, M. Kareev, Yanwei Cao, X. Liu, P. Shafer, J. W. Freeland, J.-W. Kim, P. J. Ryan, and J. Chakhalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156801 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

Crystalline Symmetry-Protected Majorana Mode in Number-Conserving Dirac Semimetal Nanowires

Rui-Xing Zhang and Chao-Xing Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156802 (2018) - Published 10 April, 2018

Wave-Function Hybridization in Yu-Shiba-Rusinov Dimers

Michael Ruby, Benjamin W. Heinrich, Yang Peng, Felix von Oppen, and Katharina J. Franke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156803 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

Electron-Mediated Phonon-Phonon Coupling Drives the Vibrational Relaxation of CO on Cu(100)

D. Novko, M. Alducin, and J. I. Juaristi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 156804 (2018) - Published 12 April, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Superconducting Open-Framework Allotrope of Silicon at Ambient Pressure

Ha-Jun Sung, W. H. Han, In-Ho Lee, and K. J. Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 157001 (2018) - Published 11 April, 2018

First-principles calculations predict that pure, metallic, superconducting Si allotropes could form at ambient pressures.

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

Why Clothes Don’t Fall Apart: Tension Transmission in Staple Yarns

Patrick B. Warren, Robin C. Ball, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 158001 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Selection Dynamics in Transient Compartmentalization

Alex Blokhuis, David Lacoste, Philippe Nghe, and Luca Peliti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 158101 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018

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Diversity, Stability, and Reproducibility in Stochastically Assembled Microbial Ecosystems

Akshit Goyal and Sergei Maslov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 158102 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

A mathematical model that focuses on the molecular resources required by bacteria explains why such a large number of species arises in one place and can live together harmoniously.

Elasticity in Physically Cross-Linked Amyloid Fibril Networks

Yiping Cao, Sreenath Bolisetty, Jozef Adamcik, and Raffaele Mezzenga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 158103 (2018) - Published 13 April, 2018

Hopping in the Crowd to Unveil Network Topology

Malbor Asllani, Timoteo Carletti, Francesca Di Patti, Duccio Fanelli, and Francesco Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 158301 (2018) - Published 9 April, 2018