Volume 120, Issue 2

12 January 2018

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On the Cover

Cartoon showing three ultracold atoms with unequal masses recombining into a shallow dimer plus a recoiling atom via a metastable Efimov trimer state.

From the article:

Ultracold Heteronuclear Three-Body Systems: How Diabaticity Limits the Universality of Recombination into Shallow Dimers
P. Giannakeas and Chris H. Greene
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 023401 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of New Properties of Secondary Cosmic Rays Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 021101 (2018) - Published 11 January, 2018

New data from the International Space Station shed light on how secondary cosmic rays propagate through space.

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Soft X-Ray Second Harmonic Generation as an Interfacial Probe

R. K. Lam et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 023901 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

A new spectroscopy technique employs x rays from a free electron laser to measure the properties of interfaces that may be hidden within a material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Defect in the Joint Spectrum of Hydrogen due to Monodromy

Holger R. Dullin and Holger Waalkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020507 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

The joint spectrum of the three commuting operators associated with the description of the hydrogen atom in prolate spheroidal coordinates is shown to have a defect.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Control and Reproducibility of Non-Neutral Plasmas

M. Ahmadi et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025001 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

A dramatic improvement in the control and reproducibility of non-neutral plasmas is achieved by combining two plasma producing techniques.

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Inner Phases of Colloidal Hexagonal Spin Ice

A. Libál, C. Nisoli, C. J. O. Reichhardt, and C. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 027204 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

A particle-based artificial spin ice is theoretically controlled by global topological ordering and exhibits types of frustrated phases absent in a magnetic artificial spin ice.

LETTERS

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

Light-Cone and Diffusive Propagation of Correlations in a Many-Body Dissipative System

Jean-Sébastien Bernier, Ryan Tan, Lars Bonnes, Chu Guo, Dario Poletti, and Corinna Kollath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020401 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Robust 2-Qubit Gates in a Linear Ion Crystal Using a Frequency-Modulated Driving Force

Pak Hong Leung, Kevin A. Landsman, Caroline Figgatt, Norbert M. Linke, Christopher Monroe, and Kenneth R. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020501 (2018) - Published 9 January, 2018

Quantum Transduction with Adaptive Control

Mengzhen Zhang, Chang-Ling Zou, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020502 (2018) - Published 9 January, 2018

Imaging Correlations in Heterodyne Spectra for Quantum Displacement Sensing

A. Pontin, J. E. Lang, A. Chowdhury, P. Vezio, F. Marino, B. Morana, E. Serra, F. Marin, and T. S. Monteiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020503 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Towards Device-Independent Information Processing on General Quantum Networks

Ciarán M. Lee and Matty J. Hoban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020504 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Incoherent Qubit Control Using the Quantum Zeno Effect

S. Hacohen-Gourgy, L. P. García-Pintos, L. S. Martin, J. Dressel, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020505 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Quantum States with a Positive Partial Transpose are Useful for Metrology

Géza Tóth and Tamás Vértesi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020506 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Defect in the Joint Spectrum of Hydrogen due to Monodromy

Holger R. Dullin and Holger Waalkens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020507 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

The joint spectrum of the three commuting operators associated with the description of the hydrogen atom in prolate spheroidal coordinates is shown to have a defect.

Lossless Brownian Information Engine

Govind Paneru, Dong Yun Lee, Tsvi Tlusty, and Hyuk Kyu Pak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 020601 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of New Properties of Secondary Cosmic Rays Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 021101 (2018) - Published 11 January, 2018

New data from the International Space Station shed light on how secondary cosmic rays propagate through space.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Displacement Operators and Constraints on Boundary Central Charges

Christopher Herzog, Kuo-Wei Huang, and Kristan Jensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 021601 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

Thermal Dark Matter Below a MeV

Asher Berlin and Nikita Blinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 021801 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

Nuclear Dependence of the Transverse-Single-Spin Asymmetry for Forward Neutron Production in Polarized $p + A$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

C. Aidala et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 022001 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

Spin Dependence of $η$ Meson Production in Proton-Proton Collisions Close to Threshold

P. Adlarson et al. (WASA-at-COSY Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 022002 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

Exploring Partonic Structure of Hadrons Using ab initio Lattice QCD Calculations

Yan-Qing Ma and Jian-Wei Qiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 022003 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Exploring Zeptosecond Quantum Equilibration Dynamics: From Deep-Inelastic to Fusion-Fission Outcomes in ${}^{58}{Ni} + {}^{60}{Ni}$ Reactions

E. Williams, K. Sekizawa, D. J. Hinde, C. Simenel, M. Dasgupta, I. P. Carter, K. J. Cook, D. Y. Jeung, S. D. McNeil, C. S. Palshetkar, D. C. Rafferty, K. Ramachandran, and A. Wakhle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 022501 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

First Measurement of the $g$ Factor in the Chiral Band: The Case of the ${}^{128}{Cs}$ Isomeric State

E. Grodner, J. Srebrny, Ch. Droste, L. Próchniak, S. G. Rohoziński, M. Kowalczyk, M. Ionescu-Bujor, C. A. Ur, K. Starosta, T. Ahn, M. Kisieliński, T. Marchlewski, S. Aydin, F. Recchia, G. Georgiev, R. Lozeva, E. Fiori, M. Zielińska, Q. B. Chen, S. Q. Zhang, L. F. Yu, P. W. Zhao, and J. Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 022502 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Analysis of the Daya Bay Reactor Antineutrino Flux Changes with Fuel Burnup

A. C. Hayes, Gerard Jungman, E. A. McCutchan, A. A. Sonzogni, G. T. Garvey, and X. B. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 022503 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measuring Anomalous Heating in a Planar Ion Trap with Variable Ion-Surface Separation

Ivan A. Boldin, Alexander Kraft, and Christof Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 023201 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Ultracold Heteronuclear Three-Body Systems: How Diabaticity Limits the Universality of Recombination into Shallow Dimers

P. Giannakeas and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 023401 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Quantum-Limited Directional Amplifiers with Optomechanics

Daniel Malz, László D. Tóth, Nathan R. Bernier, Alexey K. Feofanov, Tobias J. Kippenberg, and Andreas Nunnenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 023601 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Soft X-Ray Second Harmonic Generation as an Interfacial Probe

R. K. Lam et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 023901 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

A new spectroscopy technique employs x rays from a free electron laser to measure the properties of interfaces that may be hidden within a material.

Chaotic Properties of a Turbulent Isotropic Fluid

Arjun Berera and Richard D. J. G. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 024101 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Model-Free Prediction of Large Spatiotemporally Chaotic Systems from Data: A Reservoir Computing Approach

Jaideep Pathak, Brian Hunt, Michelle Girvan, Zhixin Lu, and Edward Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 024102 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Space-Group Symmetries Generate Chaotic Fluid Advection in Crystalline Granular Media

R. Turuban, D. R. Lester, T. Le Borgne, and Y. Méheust

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 024501 (2018) - Published 9 January, 2018

Nonlinear Large Scale Flow in a Precessing Cylinder and Its Ability To Drive Dynamo Action

André Giesecke, Tobias Vogt, Thomas Gundrum, and Frank Stefani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 024502 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Raman Amplification with a Flying Focus

D. Turnbull, S. Bucht, A. Davies, D. Haberberger, T. Kessler, J. L. Shaw, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 024801 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Control and Reproducibility of Non-Neutral Plasmas

M. Ahmadi et al. (ALPHA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025001 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

A dramatic improvement in the control and reproducibility of non-neutral plasmas is achieved by combining two plasma producing techniques.

Measurement of Preheat Due to Nonlocal Electron Transport in Warm Dense Matter

K. Falk, M. Holec, C. J. Fontes, C. L. Fryer, C. W. Greeff, H. M. Johns, D. S. Montgomery, D. W. Schmidt, and M. Šmíd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025002 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Spectrum Estimation of Density Operators with Alkaline-Earth Atoms

Michael E. Beverland, Jeongwan Haah, Gorjan Alagic, Gretchen K. Campbell, Ana Maria Rey, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025301 (2018) - Published 9 January, 2018

Connecting Dissipation and Phase Slips in a Josephson Junction between Fermionic Superfluids

A. Burchianti, F. Scazza, A. Amico, G. Valtolina, J. A. Seman, C. Fort, M. Zaccanti, M. Inguscio, and G. Roati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025302 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Phase Diagram of Hydrogen and a Hydrogen-Helium Mixture at Planetary Conditions by Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Guglielmo Mazzola, Ravit Helled, and Sandro Sorella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025701 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Direct Measurement of the Surface Energy of Bimetallic Nanoparticles: Evidence of Vegard’s Rulelike Dependence

Adrian Chmielewski, Jaysen Nelayah, Hakim Amara, Jérôme Creuze, Damien Alloyeau, Guillaume Wang, and Christian Ricolleau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 025901 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Electrostatically Tunable Adhesion in a High Speed Sliding Interface

Sukumar Rajauria, Oscar Ruiz, Sripathi V. Canchi, Erhard Schreck, and Qing Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026101 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

On-the-Fly Machine Learning of Atomic Potential in Density Functional Theory Structure Optimization

T. L. Jacobsen, M. S. Jørgensen, and B. Hammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026102 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

First-Principles Prediction of New Electrides with Nontrivial Band Topology Based on One-Dimensional Building Blocks

Changwon Park, Sung Wng Kim, and Mina Yoon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026401 (2018) - Published 8 January, 2018

Topological Nodal-Net Semimetal in a Graphene Network Structure

Jian-Tao Wang, Simin Nie, Hongming Weng, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026402 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Longitudinal Negative Magnetoresistance and Magnetotransport Phenomena in Conventional and Topological Conductors

A. V. Andreev and B. Z. Spivak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026601 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Higher-Order Topological Insulators and Semimetals on the Breathing Kagome and Pyrochlore Lattices

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026801 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Edge Modes and Nonlocal Conductance in Graphene Superlattices

Rory Brown, Niels R. Walet, and Francisco Guinea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 026802 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Evidence for Spin Singlet Pairing with Strong Uniaxial Anisotropy in ${URu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

T. Hattori, H. Sakai, Y. Tokunaga, S. Kambe, T. D. Matsuda, and Y. Haga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 027001 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Voltage Control of Rare-Earth Magnetic Moments at the Magnetic-Insulator–Metal Interface

Alejandro O. Leon, Adam B. Cahaya, and Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 027201 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Electromagnon with Sensitive Terahertz Magnetochromism in a Room-Temperature Magnetoelectric Hexaferrite

Sae Hwan Chun, Kwang Woo Shin, Hyung Joon Kim, Seonghoon Jung, Jaehun Park, Young-Mi Bahk, Hyeong-Ryeol Park, Jisoo Kyoung, Da-Hye Choi, Dai-Sik Kim, Gun-Sik Park, J. F. Mitchell, and Kee Hoon Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 027202 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Switching of Magnons by Electric and Magnetic Fields in Multiferroic Borates

A. M. Kuzmenko, D. Szaller, Th. Kain, V. Dziom, L. Weymann, A. Shuvaev, Anna Pimenov, A. A. Mukhin, V. Yu. Ivanov, I. A. Gudim, L. N. Bezmaternykh, and A. Pimenov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 027203 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inner Phases of Colloidal Hexagonal Spin Ice

A. Libál, C. Nisoli, C. J. O. Reichhardt, and C. Reichhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 027204 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

A particle-based artificial spin ice is theoretically controlled by global topological ordering and exhibits types of frustrated phases absent in a magnetic artificial spin ice.

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

Velocity Gradient Power Functional for Brownian Dynamics

Daniel de las Heras and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028001 (2018) - Published 9 January, 2018

Unraveling the Role of Order-to-Disorder Transition in Shear Thickening Suspensions

Jonghun Lee, Zhang Jiang, Jin Wang, Alec R. Sandy, Suresh Narayanan, and Xiao-Min Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028002 (2018) - Published 9 January, 2018

Sign Switch of Gaussian Bending Modulus for Microemulsions: A Self-Consistent Field Analysis Exploring Scale Invariant Curvature Energies

Ramanathan Varadharajan and Frans A. M. Leermakers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028003 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Mean-Field Scenario for the Athermal Creep Dynamics of Yield-Stress Fluids

Chen Liu, Kirsten Martens, and Jean-Louis Barrat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028004 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Surfactant Variations in Porous Media Localize Capillary Instabilities during Haines Jumps

Yaniv Edery, Steffen Berg, and David Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028005 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Stable Liquid Jets Bouncing off Soft Gels

Dan Daniel, Xi Yao, and Joanna Aizenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028006 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

Mean-Potential Law in Evolutionary Games

Paweł Nałęcz-Jawecki and Jacek Miękisz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 028101 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Criticality in Resonant Andreev Conduction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 116802 (2017)]

M. Pustilnik, B. van Heck, R. M. Lutchyn, and L. I. Glazman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 029901 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Erratum: Measurement of Body-Centered-Cubic Aluminum at 475 GPa [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 175702 (2017)]

D. N. Polsin, D. E. Fratanduono, J. R. Rygg, A. Lazicki, R. F. Smith, J. H. Eggert, M. C. Gregor, B. H. Henderson, J. A. Delettrez, R. G. Kraus, P. M. Celliers, F. Coppari, D. C. Swift, C. A. McCoy, C. T. Seagle, J.-P. Davis, S. J. Burns, G. W. Collins, and T. R. Boehly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 029902 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Publisher’s Note: Measurement of Singly Cabibbo Suppressed Decays $Λ_{c}^{+} \to p π^{+} π^{-}$ and $Λ_{c}^{+} \to p K^{+} K^{-}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 232002 (2016)]

M. Ablikim et al. and BESIII Collaboration

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 029903 (2018) - Published 10 January, 2018

Erratum: Optimal Continuous Variable Quantum Teleportation with Limited Resources [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 120503 (2017)]

Pietro Liuzzo-Scorpo, Andrea Mari, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 029904 (2018) - Published 12 January, 2018