Volume 120, Issue 16

20 April 2018

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Schematic view of the octahedral spherical hohlraum energetics experiment showing the main detectors used in the experiment at the SGIII Laser Facility.

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First Octahedral Spherical Hohlraum Energetics Experiment at the SGIII Laser Facility
Wen Yi Huo et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 165001 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth Mechanism and Origin of High $s p^{3}$ Content in Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon

Miguel A. Caro, Volker L. Deringer, Jari Koskinen, Tomi Laurila, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 166101 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Machine-learning-based molecular dynamics simulations explain the growth mechanism of diamond-like amorphous carbon films.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Squeezing Enhances Quantum Synchronization

Sameer Sonar, Michal Hajdušek, Manas Mukherjee, Rosario Fazio, Vlatko Vedral, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Leong-Chuan Kwek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163601 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Quantum squeezing is predicted to help overcome the high levels of intrinsic noise for synchronizing harmonic oscillators in the quantum regime, allowing the behavior to be experimentally observed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unexpected Phenomenology in Particle-Based Ice Absent in Magnetic Spin Ice

Cristiano Nisoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167205 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

A unified framework is derived for describing the glassiness of both particle-based ices and spin ices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital State Manipulation of a Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Using a Mechanical Resonator

H. Y. Chen, E. R. MacQuarrie, and G. D. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167401 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Phonon-induced Rabi splitting of the orbital states of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center is experimentally demonstrated.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transition from Propagating Polariton Solitons to a Standing Wave Condensate Induced by Interactions

M. Sich, J. K. Chana, O. A. Egorov, H. Sigurdsson, I. A. Shelykh, D. V. Skryabin, P. M. Walker, E. Clarke, B. Royall, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167402 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

A self-organization transition of polariton wavepackets from a bright solitonic state to an exciton-polariton condensate is predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Glass of Interacting Bosons with Off-Diagonal Disorder

A. M. Piekarska and T. K. Kopeć

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160401 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Scissors Mode of Dipolar Quantum Droplets of Dysprosium Atoms

Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Matthias Wenzel, Fabian Böttcher, Tim Langen, Mathieu Isoard, Sandro Stringari, and Tilman Pfau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160402 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Dirac Equation in ( $1 + 1$ )-Dimensional Curved Spacetime and the Multiphoton Quantum Rabi Model

J. S. Pedernales, M. Beau, S. M. Pittman, I. L. Egusquiza, L. Lamata, E. Solano, and A. del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160403 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Single-Particle Mobility Edge in a One-Dimensional Quasiperiodic Optical Lattice

Henrik P. Lüschen, Sebastian Scherg, Thomas Kohlert, Michael Schreiber, Pranjal Bordia, Xiao Li, S. Das Sarma, and Immanuel Bloch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160404 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

Residual and Destroyed Accessible Information after Measurements

Rui Han, Gerd Leuchs, and Markus Grassl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160501 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Qudit-Basis Universal Quantum Computation Using $χ^{(2)}$ Interactions

Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Isaac L. Chuang, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160502 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Quantum and Private Capacities of Low-Noise Channels

Felix Leditzky, Debbie Leung, and Graeme Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 160503 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Beyond Positivity Bounds and the Fate of Massive Gravity

Brando Bellazzini, Francesco Riva, Javi Serra, and Francesco Sgarlata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 161101 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

First Higher-Multipole Model of Gravitational Waves from Spinning and Coalescing Black-Hole Binaries

Lionel London, Sebastian Khan, Edward Fauchon-Jones, Cecilio García, Mark Hannam, Sascha Husa, Xisco Jiménez-Forteza, Chinmay Kalaghatgi, Frank Ohme, and Francesco Pannarale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 161102 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Cluster Adjacency Properties of Scattering Amplitudes in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

James Drummond, Jack Foster, and Ömer Gürdoğan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 161601 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Improved Limits on Spin-Mass Interactions

Junyi Lee, Attaallah Almasi, and Michael Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 161801 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to $τ ν$ in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 161802 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Next-to-Leading-Order QCD Corrections to Higgs Boson Plus Jet Production with Full Top-Quark Mass Dependence

S. P. Jones, M. Kerner, and G. Luisoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 162001 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Electric Conductivity of Hot and Dense Quark Matter in a Magnetic Field with Landau Level Resummation via Kinetic Equations

Kenji Fukushima and Yoshimasa Hidaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 162301 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Fission of Polyanionic Metal Clusters

S. König, A. Jankowski, G. Marx, L. Schweikhard, and M. Wolfram

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163001 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Relativistic and QED Effects in the Fundamental Vibration of $T_{2}$

T. Madhu Trivikram, M. Schlösser, W. Ubachs, and E. J. Salumbides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163002 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Magnetic Trapping and Coherent Control of Laser-Cooled Molecules

H. J. Williams, L. Caldwell, N. J. Fitch, S. Truppe, J. Rodewald, E. A. Hinds, B. E. Sauer, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163201 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Hyperfine-Structure-Induced Depolarization of Impulsively Aligned $I_{2}$ Molecules

Esben F. Thomas, Anders A. Søndergaard, Benjamin Shepperson, Niels E. Henriksen, and Henrik Stapelfeldt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163202 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Squeezing Enhances Quantum Synchronization

Sameer Sonar, Michal Hajdušek, Manas Mukherjee, Rosario Fazio, Vlatko Vedral, Sai Vinjanampathy, and Leong-Chuan Kwek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163601 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Quantum squeezing is predicted to help overcome the high levels of intrinsic noise for synchronizing harmonic oscillators in the quantum regime, allowing the behavior to be experimentally observed.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Airy Wave Packets Accelerating in Space-Time

H. Esat Kondakci and Ayman F. Abouraddy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163901 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Hyperchaotic Dynamics for Light Polarization in a Laser Diode

Cristian Bonatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163902 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Creating Complex Optical Longitudinal Polarization Structures

F. Maucher, S. Skupin, S. A. Gardiner, and I. G. Hughes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 163903 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Incomplete Thermalization from Trap-Induced Integrability Breaking: Lessons from Classical Hard Rods

Xiangyu Cao, Vir B. Bulchandani, and Joel E. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 164101 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Dynamics of Radially Expanding Liquid Sheets

Nayanika Majumdar and Mahesh S. Tirumkudulu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 164501 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Surface Nanobubbles Are Stabilized by Hydrophobic Attraction

Beng Hau Tan (陈明豪), Hongjie An (安红杰), and Claus-Dieter Ohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 164502 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

Anomalous Chained Turbulence in Actively Driven Flows on Spheres

Oscar Mickelin, Jonasz Słomka, Keaton J. Burns, Daniel Lecoanet, Geoffrey M. Vasil, Luiz M. Faria, and Jörn Dunkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 164503 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Characterization of Electron-Beam-Driven Wakefield Modes in a Dielectric-Woodpile Cartesian Symmetric Structure

P. D. Hoang, G. Andonian, I. Gadjev, B. Naranjo, Y. Sakai, N. Sudar, O. Williams, M. Fedurin, K. Kusche, C. Swinson, P. Zhang, and J. B. Rosenzweig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 164801 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

First Octahedral Spherical Hohlraum Energetics Experiment at the SGIII Laser Facility

Wen Yi Huo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 165001 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Phase Diagram of Dense $H_{2} − He$ Mixtures: Evidence for Strong Chemical Association, Miscibility, and Structural Change

Jinhyuk Lim and Choong-Shik Yoo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 165301 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

Spectrum of Elementary Excitations in Galilean-Invariant Integrable Models

Aleksandra Petković and Zoran Ristivojevic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 165302 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Phase Diagram of Kob-Andersen-Type Binary Lennard-Jones Mixtures

Ulf R. Pedersen, Thomas B. Schrøder, and Jeppe C. Dyre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 165501 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Nucleation- and Emergence-Limited Growth of Ice from Pores

James M. Campbell and Hugo K. Christenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 165701 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Growth Mechanism and Origin of High $s p^{3}$ Content in Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon

Miguel A. Caro, Volker L. Deringer, Jari Koskinen, Tomi Laurila, and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 166101 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Machine-learning-based molecular dynamics simulations explain the growth mechanism of diamond-like amorphous carbon films.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ultrafast Doublon Dynamics in Photoexcited $1 T$ - ${TaS}_{2}$

M. Ligges, I. Avigo, D. Golež, H. U. R. Strand, Y. Beyazit, K. Hanff, F. Diekmann, L. Stojchevska, M. Kalläne, P. Zhou, K. Rossnagel, M. Eckstein, P. Werner, and U. Bovensiepen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 166401 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Nonlocal and Nonadiabatic Effects in the Charge-Density Response of Solids: A Time-Dependent Density-Functional Approach

Martin Panholzer, Matteo Gatti, and Lucia Reining

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 166402 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Controlling the Local Electronic Properties of Si(553)-Au through Hydrogen Doping

C. Hogan, E. Speiser, S. Chandola, S. Suchkova, J. Aulbach, J. Schäfer, S. Meyer, R. Claessen, and N. Esser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 166801 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Influence of Magnetic Ordering between Cr Adatoms on the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov States of the $β − {Bi}_{2} Pd$ Superconductor

Deung-Jang Choi, Carlos García Fernández, Edwin Herrera, Carmen Rubio-Verdú, Miguel M. Ugeda, Isabel Guillamón, Hermann Suderow, José Ignacio Pascual, and Nicolás Lorente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167001 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Absence of Cyclotron Resonance in the Anomalous Metallic Phase in ${InO}_{x}$

Youcheng Wang, I. Tamir, D. Shahar, and N. P. Armitage

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167002 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Highly Efficient Spin-to-Charge Current Conversion in Strained HgTe Surface States Protected by a HgCdTe Layer

P. Noel, C. Thomas, Y. Fu, L. Vila, B. Haas, P-H. Jouneau, S. Gambarelli, T. Meunier, P. Ballet, and J. P. Attané

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167201 (2018) - Published 16 April, 2018

Dynamics of Topological Excitations in a Model Quantum Spin Ice

Chun-Jiong Huang, Youjin Deng, Yuan Wan, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167202 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Exploration of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Behavior in a Magnetic System

Jeramy Lewis, Robert E. Camley, and Nicholas R. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167203 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Quantification of Magnetic Surface and Edge States in an FeGe Nanostripe by Off-Axis Electron Holography

Dongsheng Song, Zi-An Li, Jan Caron, András Kovács, Huanfang Tian, Chiming Jin, Haifeng Du, Mingliang Tian, Jianqi Li, Jing Zhu, and Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167204 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unexpected Phenomenology in Particle-Based Ice Absent in Magnetic Spin Ice

Cristiano Nisoli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167205 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

A unified framework is derived for describing the glassiness of both particle-based ices and spin ices.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Orbital State Manipulation of a Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Using a Mechanical Resonator

H. Y. Chen, E. R. MacQuarrie, and G. D. Fuchs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167401 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

Phonon-induced Rabi splitting of the orbital states of a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center is experimentally demonstrated.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Transition from Propagating Polariton Solitons to a Standing Wave Condensate Induced by Interactions

M. Sich, J. K. Chana, O. A. Egorov, H. Sigurdsson, I. A. Shelykh, D. V. Skryabin, P. M. Walker, E. Clarke, B. Royall, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167402 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018

A self-organization transition of polariton wavepackets from a bright solitonic state to an exciton-polariton condensate is predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally.

Dynamic Displacement Disorder of Cubic ${BaTiO}_{3}$

M. Paściak, T. R. Welberry, J. Kulda, S. Leoni, and J. Hlinka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167601 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

Linear Hyperfine Tuning of Donor Spins in Silicon Using Hydrostatic Strain

J. Mansir, P. Conti, Z. Zeng, J. J. Pla, P. Bertet, M. W. Swift, C. G. Van de Walle, M. L. W. Thewalt, B. Sklenard, Y. M. Niquet, and J. J. L. Morton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 167701 (2018) - Published 20 April, 2018

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

Low Dose X-Ray Speckle Visibility Spectroscopy Reveals Nanoscale Dynamics in Radiation Sensitive Ionic Liquids

Jan Verwohlt, Mario Reiser, Lisa Randolph, Aleksandar Matic, Luis Aguilera Medina, Anders Madsen, Michael Sprung, Alexey Zozulya, and Christian Gutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 168001 (2018) - Published 17 April, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Minkowski Flux Vacua of Type II Supergravities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 011603 (2017)]

David Andriot, Johan Blåbäck, and Thomas Van Riet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 169901 (2018) - Published 18 April, 2018

Publisher’s Note: Theory of Light Emission from Quantum Noise in Plasmonic Contacts: Above-Threshold Emission from Higher-Order Electron-Plasmon Scattering [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 126803 (2015)]

Kristen Kaasbjerg and Abraham Nitzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 169902 (2018) - Published 19 April, 2018