Volume 120, Issue 19

11 May 2018

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Image of Vero cells using a new technique, nonlinear focal modulation microscopy, which has a spatial resolution of ∼60 nm.

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Nonlinear Focal Modulation Microscopy
Guangyuan Zhao, Cheng Zheng, Cuifang Kuang, Renjie Zhou, Mohammad M. Kabir, Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr., Wensheng Wang, Liang Xu, Haifeng Li, Peng Xiu, and Xu Liu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193901 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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New General Relativistic Contribution to Mercury’s Perihelion Advance

Clifford M. Will

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191101 (2018) - Published 8 May, 2018

Mercury’s orbital ellipse is predicted to shift an additional 1° every two billion years as a result of previously unaccounted for effects of general relativity.

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Dark Matter Interpretation of the Neutron Decay Anomaly

Bartosz Fornal and Benjamín Grinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191801 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

The occasional decay of neutrons into dark matter particles could solve a long-standing discrepancy in neutron decay experiments.

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Fracton-Elasticity Duality

Michael Pretko and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 195301 (2018) - Published 7 May, 2018

A newly discovered duality shows that crystalline defects exhibit the behavior of exotic theoretical particles known as fractons.

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Model of Collective Fish Behavior with Hydrodynamic Interactions

Audrey Filella, François Nadal, Clément Sire, Eva Kanso, and Christophe Eloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 198101 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Simulations of fish schools that include fluid dynamics in addition to the usual coordination of individuals lead to faster swimmers and reveal a new collective swimming mode.

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Ionic Impurity in a Bose-Einstein Condensate at Submicrokelvin Temperatures

K. S. Kleinbach, F. Engel, T. Dieterle, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193401 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

A giant Rydberg atom enveloping thousands of ordinary atoms could be used to study ion-atom interactions at ultralow temperatures.

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Signatures of a Nonthermal Metastable State in Copropagating Quantum Hall Edge Channels

Kosuke Itoh, Ryo Nakazawa, Tomoaki Ota, Masayuki Hashisaka, Koji Muraki, and Toshimasa Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197701 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

The integrability of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid is tested experimentally in a system with copropagating quantum Hall edge channels.

LETTERS

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

Causal Modeling the Delayed-Choice Experiment

Rafael Chaves, Gabriela Barreto Lemos, and Jacques Pienaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 190401 (2018) - Published 7 May, 2018

Integrable Time-Dependent Quantum Hamiltonians

Nikolai A. Sinitsyn, Emil A. Yuzbashyan, Vladimir Y. Chernyak, Aniket Patra, and Chen Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 190402 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Fidelity Witnesses for Fermionic Quantum Simulations

M. Gluza, M. Kliesch, J. Eisert, and L. Aolita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 190501 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Exact Local Correlations and Full Counting Statistics for Arbitrary States of the One-Dimensional Interacting Bose Gas

Alvise Bastianello, Lorenzo Piroli, and Pasquale Calabrese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 190601 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Universal Trade-Off between Power, Efficiency, and Constancy in Steady-State Heat Engines

Patrick Pietzonka and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 190602 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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New General Relativistic Contribution to Mercury’s Perihelion Advance

Clifford M. Will

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191101 (2018) - Published 8 May, 2018

Mercury’s orbital ellipse is predicted to shift an additional 1° every two billion years as a result of previously unaccounted for effects of general relativity.

Constraints on the Primordial Black Hole Abundance from the First Advanced LIGO Observation Run Using the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

Sai Wang, Yi-Fan Wang, Qing-Guo Huang, and Tjonnie G. F. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191102 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

LISA Sources in Milky Way Globular Clusters

Kyle Kremer, Sourav Chatterjee, Katelyn Breivik, Carl L. Rodriguez, Shane L. Larson, and Frederic A. Rasio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191103 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Observable Windows for the QCD Axion Through the Number of Relativistic Species

Ricardo Z. Ferreira and Alessio Notari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191301 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Dark Matter Interpretation of the Neutron Decay Anomaly

Bartosz Fornal and Benjamín Grinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 191801 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

The occasional decay of neutrons into dark matter particles could solve a long-standing discrepancy in neutron decay experiments.

First Extraction of Transversity from a Global Analysis of Electron-Proton and Proton-Proton Data

Marco Radici and Alessandro Bacchetta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 192001 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Large Directed Flow of Open Charm Mesons Probes the Three-Dimensional Distribution of Matter in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Sandeep Chatterjee and Piotr Bożek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 192301 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Ionic Impurity in a Bose-Einstein Condensate at Submicrokelvin Temperatures

K. S. Kleinbach, F. Engel, T. Dieterle, R. Löw, T. Pfau, and F. Meinert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193401 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

A giant Rydberg atom enveloping thousands of ordinary atoms could be used to study ion-atom interactions at ultralow temperatures.

Three-Body Recombination near a Narrow Feshbach Resonance in ${}^{6}{Li}$

Jiaming Li, Ji Liu, Le Luo, and Bo Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193402 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Experimental Observation of One-Dimensional Superradiance Lattices in Ultracold Atoms

Liangchao Chen, Pengjun Wang, Zengming Meng, Lianghui Huang, Han Cai, Da-Wei Wang, Shi-Yao Zhu, and Jing Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193601 (2018) - Published 8 May, 2018

Measurement-Based Entanglement of Noninteracting Bosonic Atoms

Brian J. Lester, Yiheng Lin, Mark O. Brown, Adam M. Kaufman, Randall J. Ball, Emanuel Knill, Ana M. Rey, and Cindy A. Regal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193602 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Interference of Single Photons Emitted by Entangled Atoms in Free Space

G. Araneda, D. B. Higginbottom, L. Slodička, Y. Colombe, and R. Blatt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193603 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nonlinear Focal Modulation Microscopy

Guangyuan Zhao, Cheng Zheng, Cuifang Kuang, Renjie Zhou, Mohammad M. Kabir, Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr., Wensheng Wang, Liang Xu, Haifeng Li, Peng Xiu, and Xu Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193901 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

Bohmian Photonics for Independent Control of the Phase and Amplitude of Waves

Sunkyu Yu, Xianji Piao, and Namkyoo Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193902 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

Broadband Control of Topological Nodes in Electromagnetic Fields

Alex Y. Song, Peter B. Catrysse, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193903 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Spiral Transformation for High-Resolution and Efficient Sorting of Optical Vortex Modes

Yuanhui Wen, Ioannis Chremmos, Yujie Chen, Jiangbo Zhu, Yanfeng Zhang, and Siyuan Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 193904 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Demonstration of Dispersive Rarefaction Shocks in Hollow Elliptical Cylinder Chains

H. Kim, E. Kim, C. Chong, P. G. Kevrekidis, and J. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 194101 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Pearling Instabilities of a Viscoelastic Thread

A. Deblais, K. P. Velikov, and D. Bonn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 194501 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Experimental Evidence of Kinetic Effects in Indirect-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Hohlraums

L. Q. Shan et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 195001 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Electrostatic Steepening of Whistler Waves

I. Y. Vasko, O. V. Agapitov, F. S. Mozer, J. W. Bonnell, A. V. Artemyev, V. V. Krasnoselskikh, and Y. Tong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 195101 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Fracton-Elasticity Duality

Michael Pretko and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 195301 (2018) - Published 7 May, 2018

A newly discovered duality shows that crystalline defects exhibit the behavior of exotic theoretical particles known as fractons.

Fast Rotational Diffusion of Water Molecules in a 2D Hydrogen Bond Network at Cryogenic Temperatures

T. R. Prisk, C. Hoffmann, A. I. Kolesnikov, E. Mamontov, A. A. Podlesnyak, X. Wang, P. R. C. Kent, and L. M. Anovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 196001 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

Uncovering the Connection Between Low-Frequency Dynamics and Phase Transformation Phenomena in Molecular Solids

Michael T. Ruggiero, Wei Zhang, Andrew D. Bond, Daniel M. Mittleman, and J. Axel Zeitler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 196002 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Possibility of Flat-Band Ferromagnetism in Hole-Doped Pyrochlore Oxides ${Sn}_{2} {Nb}_{2} O_{7}$ and ${Sn}_{2} {Ta}_{2} O_{7}$

I. Hase, T. Yanagisawa, Y. Aiura, and K. Kawashima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 196401 (2018) - Published 7 May, 2018

Chiral Spin Texture in the Charge-Density-Wave Phase of the Correlated Metallic $Pb / Si (111)$ Monolayer

C. Tresca, C. Brun, T. Bilgeri, G. Menard, V. Cherkez, R. Federicci, D. Longo, F. Debontridder, M. D’angelo, D. Roditchev, G. Profeta, M. Calandra, and T. Cren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 196402 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Out-of-Bounds Hydrodynamics in Anisotropic Dirac Fluids

Julia M. Link, Boris N. Narozhny, Egor I. Kiselev, and Jörg Schmalian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 196801 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Quantitative Characterization of the Nanoscale Local Lattice Strain Induced by Sr Dopants in ${La}_{1.92} {Sr}_{0.08} {CuO}_{4}$

J. Q. Lin, X. Liu, E. Blackburn, S. Wakimoto, H. Ding, Z. Islam, and S. K. Sinha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197001 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Ferromagnetism and Charge Order from a Frozen Electron Configuration in Strained Epitaxial ${LaCoO}_{3}$

G. E. Sterbinsky, R. Nanguneri, J. X. Ma, J. Shi, E. Karapetrova, J. C. Woicik, H. Park, J.-W. Kim, and P. J. Ryan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197201 (2018) - Published 8 May, 2018

Theory of the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Rashba Antiferromagnets

Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Ivan A. Ado, Rembert A. Duine, Mikhail Titov, and Arne Brataas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197202 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Interaction of Individual Skyrmions in a Nanostructured Cubic Chiral Magnet

Haifeng Du, Xuebing Zhao, Filipp N. Rybakov, Aleksandr B. Borisov, Shasha Wang, Jin Tang, Chiming Jin, Chao Wang, Wensheng Wei, Nikolai S. Kiselev, Yuheng Zhang, Renchao Che, Stefan Blügel, and Mingliang Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197203 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Selective Optical Addressing of Nuclear Spins through Superhyperfine Interaction in Rare-Earth Doped Solids

B. Car, L. Veissier, A. Louchet-Chauvet, J.-L. Le Gouët, and T. Chanelière

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197401 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Do Optomechanical Metasurfaces Run Out of Time?

Sophie Viaene, Vincent Ginis, Jan Danckaert, and Philippe Tassin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197402 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Resonant Thermalization of Periodically Driven Strongly Correlated Electrons

Francesco Peronaci, Marco Schiró, and Olivier Parcollet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197601 (2018) - Published 8 May, 2018

Cooperative Couplings between Octahedral Rotations and Ferroelectricity in Perovskites and Related Materials

Teng Gu, Timothy Scarbrough, Yurong Yang, Jorge Íñiguez, L. Bellaiche, and H. J. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197602 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

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Signatures of a Nonthermal Metastable State in Copropagating Quantum Hall Edge Channels

Kosuke Itoh, Ryo Nakazawa, Tomoaki Ota, Masayuki Hashisaka, Koji Muraki, and Toshimasa Fujisawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 197701 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

The integrability of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid is tested experimentally in a system with copropagating quantum Hall edge channels.

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

Elastohydrodynamic Lift at a Soft Wall

H. Davies-Strickleton, Delphine Débarre, Nouha El Amri, Claude Verdier, Ralf P. Richter, and Lionel Bureau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 198001 (2018) - Published 9 May, 2018

Trap Model for Clogging and Unclogging in Granular Hopper Flows

Alexandre Nicolas, Ángel Garcimartín, and Iker Zuriguel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 198002 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Kinematic Model of Transient Shape-Induced Anisotropy in Dense Granular Flow

B. Nadler, F. Guillard, and I. Einav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 198003 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

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Model of Collective Fish Behavior with Hydrodynamic Interactions

Audrey Filella, François Nadal, Clément Sire, Eva Kanso, and Christophe Eloy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 198101 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Simulations of fish schools that include fluid dynamics in addition to the usual coordination of individuals lead to faster swimmers and reveal a new collective swimming mode.

ERRATA

Erratum: Dynamical Reduction of the Dimensionality of Exchange Interactions and the “Spin-Liquid” Phase of $κ$ - $(BEDT − TTF)_{2} X$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 087204 (2017)]

B. J. Powell, E. P. Kenny, and J. Merino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 199901 (2018) - Published 10 May, 2018

Erratum: Macroscopic Polarization from Antiferrodistortive Cycloids in Ferroelastic ${SrTiO}_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 137601 (2017)]

Andrea Schiaffino and Massimiliano Stengel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 199902 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018

Erratum: Observation of Sequential $ϒ$ Suppression in PbPb Collisions [Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 222301 (2012)]

S. Chatrchyan (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 199903 (2018) - Published 11 May, 2018