Volume 120, Issue 17

27 April 2018

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Boiling of water on (left) a superhydrophobic surface where a vapor layer sits between the fluid and the surface and (right) a superhydrophobic surface where the liquid infiltrates the surface texture.

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Enabling Highly Effective Boiling from Superhydrophobic Surfaces
Taylor P. Allred, Justin A. Weibel, and Suresh V. Garimella
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 174501 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Neutron Skins and Neutron Stars in the Multimessenger Era

F. J. Fattoyev, J. Piekarewicz, and C. J. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 172702 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Analyses of the gravitational waves from the neutron star merger observed by LIGO and Virgo improve models describing the dense nuclear matter inside a neutron star.

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Gravitational-Wave Constraints on the Neutron-Star-Matter Equation of State

Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 172703 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Analyses of the gravitational waves from the neutron star merger observed by LIGO and Virgo improve models describing the dense nuclear matter inside a neutron star.

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Precision Measurement of Phonon-Polaritonic Near-Field Energy Transfer between Macroscale Planar Structures Under Large Thermal Gradients

Mohammad Ghashami, Hongyao Geng, Taehoon Kim, Nicholas Iacopino, Sung Kwon Cho, and Keunhan Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175901 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

The thermal radiation transfer between two quartz plates separated by a 200-nm gap is 45 times greater than predicted by conventional laws for blackbodies.

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Strongly Enhanced Tunneling at Total Charge Neutrality in Double-Bilayer Graphene- ${WSe}_{2}$ Heterostructures

G. William Burg, Nitin Prasad, Kyounghwan Kim, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Allan H. MacDonald, Leonard F. Register, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177702 (2018) - Published 23 April, 2018

Experiments suggest that a stable condensate of electron-hole pairs can be obtained without applying a large magnetic field, simplifying future applications based on this unusual pairing phenomenon.

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Inertial Movements of the Iris as the Origin of Postsaccadic Oscillations

S. Bouzat, M. L. Freije, A. L. Frapiccini, and G. Gasaneo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 178101 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

A model that describes eye behavior during and after a sudden gaze shift could help improve the interpretation of eye motion measurements for cognitive tests and eye-tracking studies.

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Measurement of the Ratio of the $B^{0} \to D^{* -} τ^{+} ν_{τ}$ and $B^{0} \to D^{* -} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ Branching Fractions Using Three-Prong $τ$ -Lepton Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171802 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Measurements of the ratio of tau leptons to muons in semileptonic decays of bottom mesons are just 1.1σ above the Standard Model prediction.

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

Observation of Spin Superfluidity in a Bose Gas Mixture

Eleonora Fava, Tom Bienaimé, Carmelo Mordini, Giacomo Colzi, Chunlei Qu, Sandro Stringari, Giacomo Lamporesi, and Gabriele Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 170401 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

Estimating Coherence Measures from Limited Experimental Data Available

Da-Jian Zhang, C. L. Liu, Xiao-Dong Yu, and D. M. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 170501 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

Optimal Verification of Entangled States with Local Measurements

Sam Pallister, Noah Linden, and Ashley Montanaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 170502 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

Latent Computational Complexity of Symmetry-Protected Topological Order with Fractional Symmetry

Jacob Miller and Akimasa Miyake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 170503 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Single-Atom Heat Machines Enabled by Energy Quantization

David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Alexei Bylinskii, Dorian Gangloff, Rajibul Islam, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, and Vladan Vuletic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 170601 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Scalar Hairy Black Holes in Four Dimensions are Unstable

Bogdan Ganchev and Jorge E. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171101 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gauged Supergravities and Spontaneous Supersymmetry Breaking from the Double Copy Construction

M. Chiodaroli, M. Günaydin, H. Johansson, and R. Roiban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171601 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Holographic Phonons

Lasma Alberte, Martin Ammon, Amadeo Jiménez-Alba, Matteo Baggioli, and Oriol Pujolàs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171602 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

dc Resistivity of Quantum Critical, Charge Density Wave States from Gauge-Gravity Duality

Andrea Amoretti, Daniel Areán, Blaise Goutéraux, and Daniele Musso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171603 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Proton Decay into Charged Leptons

Thomas Hambye and Julian Heeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171801 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

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Measurement of the Ratio of the $B^{0} \to D^{* -} τ^{+} ν_{τ}$ and $B^{0} \to D^{* -} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ Branching Fractions Using Three-Prong $τ$ -Lepton Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171802 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Measurements of the ratio of tau leptons to muons in semileptonic decays of bottom mesons are just 1.1σ above the Standard Model prediction.

$Z$ Boson Decay into Light and Darkness

M. Fabbrichesi, E. Gabrielli, and B. Mele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 171803 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Excitation of the Isovector Spin Monopole Resonance via the Exothermic ${}^{90}{Zr} ({}^{12}N, {}^{12}C)$ Reaction at $175 MeV / u$

S. Noji et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 172501 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

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Neutron Skins and Neutron Stars in the Multimessenger Era

F. J. Fattoyev, J. Piekarewicz, and C. J. Horowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 172702 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Analyses of the gravitational waves from the neutron star merger observed by LIGO and Virgo improve models describing the dense nuclear matter inside a neutron star.

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Gravitational-Wave Constraints on the Neutron-Star-Matter Equation of State

Eemeli Annala, Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 172703 (2018) - Published 25 April, 2018

Analyses of the gravitational waves from the neutron star merger observed by LIGO and Virgo improve models describing the dense nuclear matter inside a neutron star.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Two Clock Transitions in Neutral Yb for the Highest Sensitivity to Variations of the Fine-Structure Constant

Marianna S. Safronova, Sergey G. Porsev, Christian Sanner, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 173001 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Relaxation to a Phase-Locked Equilibrium State in a One-Dimensional Bosonic Josephson Junction

Marine Pigneur, Tarik Berrada, Marie Bonneau, Thorsten Schumm, Eugene Demler, and Jörg Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 173601 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Evidence of a Critical Phase Transition in Purely Temporal Dynamics with Long-Delayed Feedback

Marco Faggian, Francesco Ginelli, Francesco Marino, and Giovanni Giacomelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 173901 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Enabling Highly Effective Boiling from Superhydrophobic Surfaces

Taylor P. Allred, Justin A. Weibel, and Suresh V. Garimella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 174501 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Chirping and Sudden Excitation of Energetic-Particle-Driven Geodesic Acoustic Modes in a Large Helical Device Experiment

Hao Wang (王灏), Yasushi Todo (藤堂泰), Takeshi Ido (井戸毅), and Yasuhiro Suzuki (鈴木康浩)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175001 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Nonlinear Electromagnetic Stabilization of Plasma Microturbulence

G. G. Whelan, M. J. Pueschel, and P. W. Terry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175002 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Elastic Backbone Defines a New Transition in the Percolation Model

Cesar I. N. Sampaio Filho, José S. Andrade, Jr., Hans J. Herrmann, and André A. Moreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175701 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

Quasiperiodic Quantum Ising Transitions in 1D

P. J. D. Crowley, A. Chandran, and C. R. Laumann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175702 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

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Precision Measurement of Phonon-Polaritonic Near-Field Energy Transfer between Macroscale Planar Structures Under Large Thermal Gradients

Mohammad Ghashami, Hongyao Geng, Taehoon Kim, Nicholas Iacopino, Sung Kwon Cho, and Keunhan Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175901 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

The thermal radiation transfer between two quartz plates separated by a 200-nm gap is 45 times greater than predicted by conventional laws for blackbodies.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Discriminative Cooperative Networks for Detecting Phase Transitions

Ye-Hua Liu and Evert P. L. van Nieuwenburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 176401 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Universal Broadening of the Light Cone in Low-Temperature Transport

Bruno Bertini, Lorenzo Piroli, and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 176801 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

Spin Hall and Spin Swapping Torques in Diffusive Ferromagnets

Christian Ortiz Pauyac, Mairbek Chshiev, Aurelien Manchon, and Sergey A. Nikolaev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 176802 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Generalized One-Band Model Based on Zhang-Rice Singlets for Tetragonal CuO

I. J. Hamad, L. O. Manuel, and A. A. Aligia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177001 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Mechanism for Unconventional Superconductivity in the Hole-Doped Rashba-Hubbard Model

Andrés Greco and Andreas P. Schnyder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177002 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Anomalous Change in the de Haas–van Alphen Oscillations of ${CeCoIn}_{5}$ at Ultralow Temperatures

Hiroaki Shishido, Shogo Yamada, Kaori Sugii, Masaaki Shimozawa, Youichi Yanase, and Minoru Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177201 (2018) - Published 26 April, 2018

Magnon Spin Hall Magnetoresistance of a Gapped Quantum Paramagnet

Camilo Ulloa and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177202 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

Magnetic Excitations across the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Pyrochlore Iridate ${Eu}_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Sae Hwan Chun, Bo Yuan, Diego Casa, Jungho Kim, Chang-Yong Kim, Zhaoming Tian, Yang Qiu, Satoru Nakatsuji, and Young-June Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177203 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

High-Harmonic Generation in Solids with and without Topological Edge States

Dieter Bauer and Kenneth K. Hansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177401 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

Topological Defects with Distinct Dipole Configurations in ${PbTiO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Multilayer Films

Lu Lu, Yousra Nahas, Ming Liu, Hongchu Du, Zhijun Jiang, Shengping Ren, Dawei Wang, Lei Jin, Sergei Prokhorenko, Chun-Lin Jia, and Laurent Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177601 (2018) - Published 23 April, 2018

Evidence from Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations of Large-Gap Superfluidity and BCS-BEC Crossover in Double Electron-Hole Layers

Pablo López Ríos, Andrea Perali, Richard J. Needs, and David Neilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177701 (2018) - Published 23 April, 2018

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Strongly Enhanced Tunneling at Total Charge Neutrality in Double-Bilayer Graphene- ${WSe}_{2}$ Heterostructures

G. William Burg, Nitin Prasad, Kyounghwan Kim, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Allan H. MacDonald, Leonard F. Register, and Emanuel Tutuc

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177702 (2018) - Published 23 April, 2018

Experiments suggest that a stable condensate of electron-hole pairs can be obtained without applying a large magnetic field, simplifying future applications based on this unusual pairing phenomenon.

Thermoelectric Power Factor Limit of a 1D Nanowire

I-Ju Chen, Adam Burke, Artis Svilans, Heiner Linke, and Claes Thelander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177703 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

$π$ and $4 π$ Josephson Effects Mediated by a Dirac Semimetal

W. Yu, W. Pan, D. L. Medlin, M. A. Rodriguez, S. R. Lee, Zhi-qiang Bao, and F. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177704 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

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

Hard Competition: Stabilizing the Elusive Biaxial Nematic Phase in Suspensions of Colloidal Particles with Extreme Lengths

Simone Dussi, Nikos Tasios, Tara Drwenski, René van Roij, and Marjolein Dijkstra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 177801 (2018) - Published 24 April, 2018

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Inertial Movements of the Iris as the Origin of Postsaccadic Oscillations

S. Bouzat, M. L. Freije, A. L. Frapiccini, and G. Gasaneo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 178101 (2018) - Published 27 April, 2018

A model that describes eye behavior during and after a sudden gaze shift could help improve the interpretation of eye motion measurements for cognitive tests and eye-tracking studies.