Volume 120, Issue 20

18 May 2018

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A simulation snapshot of a colloidal gel. Selected for a Focus in Physics.

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Strand Plasticity Governs Fatigue in Colloidal Gels
Jan Maarten van Doorn, Joanne E. Verweij, Joris Sprakel, and Jasper van der Gucht
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208005 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Search for $γ$ -Ray Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Inner Galactic Halo from 10 Years of Observations with H.E.S.S.

H. Abdallah et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201101 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

A search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation comes up empty while improving constraints on parameters of candidate dark matter particles known as WIMPs.

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New Leading Contribution to Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Wouter Dekens, Jordy de Vries, Michael L. Graesser, Emanuele Mereghetti, Saori Pastore, and Ubirajara van Kolck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202001 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

The inclusion of short-range interactions in models of neutrinoless double-beta decay could impact the interpretation of experimental searches for the elusive decay.

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Chiral Domain Structure in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − A$ Studied by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

J. Kasai, Y. Okamoto, K. Nishioka, T. Takagi, and Y. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205301 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

An MRI imaging technique reveals a structure of domains with different chirality in a slab of superfluid helium-3.

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Strand Plasticity Governs Fatigue in Colloidal Gels

Jan Maarten van Doorn, Joanne E. Verweij, Joris Sprakel, and Jasper van der Gucht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208005 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Soft materials like gels and creams exhibit fatigue resulting from the stretching of their constituent fibers, according to experiments and simulations.

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Deterministic Remote Entanglement of Superconducting Circuits through Microwave Two-Photon Transitions

P. Campagne-Ibarcq, E. Zalys-Geller, A. Narla, S. Shankar, P. Reinhold, L. Burkhart, C. Axline, W. Pfaff, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200501 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Two superconducting transmon qubits one meter apart are deterministically entangled by transferring a microwave photon between them.

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Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201102 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Data from Advanced LIGO place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the gravitational wave stochastic background.

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Infinite Set of Soft Theorems in Gauge-Gravity Theories as Ward-Takahashi Identities

Yuta Hamada and Gary Shiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201601 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Ward-Takahashi identities of large gauge transformations are used to uncover a new infinite set of constraints on the soft behavior of gauge boson and graviton scattering amplitudes.

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Lattice Supersymmetry and Order-Disorder Coexistence in the Tricritical Ising Model

Edward O’Brien and Paul Fendley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206403 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Analytical conformal field theory and numerical density matrix renormalization group methods are combined to create a model of a quantum spin chain or Majorana chain that exhibits a tricritical Ising point.

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Exciton Diffusion and Halo Effects in Monolayer Semiconductors

Marvin Kulig, Jonas Zipfel, Philipp Nagler, Sofia Blanter, Christian Schüller, Tobias Korn, Nicola Paradiso, Mikhail M. Glazov, and Alexey Chernikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207401 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Photoluminescence experiments in the ultra-low density limit of an individual exciton reveal an enhanced exciton diffusion effect in atomically thin WS $_{2}$ monolayers.

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Viscotaxis: Microswimmer Navigation in Viscosity Gradients

Benno Liebchen, Paul Monderkamp, Borge ten Hagen, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208002 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

The dynamic body shape changes exhibited by two types of swimming bacteria may help in preventing them from drifting to low viscosity regions, where swimming is harder.

LETTERS

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

Dynamical Violation of Scale Invariance and the Dilaton in a Cold Fermi Gas

Gordon W. Semenoff and Fei Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200401 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Almost-Quantum Correlations Violate the No-Restriction Hypothesis

Ana Belén Sainz, Yelena Guryanova, Antonio Acín, and Miguel Navascués

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200402 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

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Deterministic Remote Entanglement of Superconducting Circuits through Microwave Two-Photon Transitions

P. Campagne-Ibarcq, E. Zalys-Geller, A. Narla, S. Shankar, P. Reinhold, L. Burkhart, C. Axline, W. Pfaff, L. Frunzio, R. J. Schoelkopf, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200501 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Two superconducting transmon qubits one meter apart are deterministically entangled by transferring a microwave photon between them.

Impossibility of Classically Simulating One-Clean-Qubit Model with Multiplicative Error

Keisuke Fujii, Hirotada Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Morimae, Harumichi Nishimura, Shuhei Tamate, and Seiichiro Tani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200502 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Topological Qubits from Valence Bond Solids

Dong-Sheng Wang, Ian Affleck, and Robert Raussendorf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200503 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Bounds on Energy Absorption and Prethermalization in Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

Wen Wei Ho, Ivan Protopopov, and Dmitry A. Abanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200601 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Symmetry-Resolved Entanglement in Many-Body Systems

Moshe Goldstein and Eran Sela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200602 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Perfect Diode in Quantum Spin Chains

Vinitha Balachandran, Giuliano Benenti, Emmanuel Pereira, Giulio Casati, and Dario Poletti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200603 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Numerical Large Deviation Analysis of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis

Toru Yoshizawa, Eiki Iyoda, and Takahiro Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200604 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Universality of Critically Pinned Interfaces in Two-Dimensional Isotropic Random Media

Peter Grassberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200605 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Nonequilibrium Fluctuations and Enhanced Diffusion of a Driven Particle in a Dense Environment

Pierre Illien, Olivier Bénichou, Gleb Oshanin, Alessandro Sarracino, and Raphaël Voituriez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200606 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Replica Resummation of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Series

Szabolcs Vajna, Katja Klobas, Tomaž Prosen, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 200607 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Search for $γ$ -Ray Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Inner Galactic Halo from 10 Years of Observations with H.E.S.S.

H. Abdallah et al. (H.E.S.S. Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201101 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

A search for gamma rays from dark matter annihilation comes up empty while improving constraints on parameters of candidate dark matter particles known as WIMPs.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201102 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Data from Advanced LIGO place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the gravitational wave stochastic background.

Static Orbits in Rotating Spacetimes

Lucas G. Collodel, Burkhard Kleihaus, and Jutta Kunz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201103 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

New Class of Quasinormal Modes of Neutron Stars in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Raissa F. P. Mendes and Néstor Ortiz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201104 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Infinite Set of Soft Theorems in Gauge-Gravity Theories as Ward-Takahashi Identities

Yuta Hamada and Gary Shiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201601 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Ward-Takahashi identities of large gauge transformations are used to uncover a new infinite set of constraints on the soft behavior of gauge boson and graviton scattering amplitudes.

Higher Curvature Gravity from Entanglement in Conformal Field Theories

Felix M. Haehl, Eliot Hijano, Onkar Parrikar, and Charles Rabideau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201602 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Exact Solution of a Strongly Coupled Gauge Theory in $0 + 1$ Dimensions

Chethan Krishnan and K. V. Pavan Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201603 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Chaotic Strings in $AdS / CFT$

Jan de Boer, Eva Llabrés, Juan F. Pedraza, and David Vegh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201604 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Search for Narrow Resonances in the $b$ -Tagged Dijet Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 201801 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

New Leading Contribution to Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay

Vincenzo Cirigliano, Wouter Dekens, Jordy de Vries, Michael L. Graesser, Emanuele Mereghetti, Saori Pastore, and Ubirajara van Kolck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202001 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

The inclusion of short-range interactions in models of neutrinoless double-beta decay could impact the interpretation of experimental searches for the elusive decay.

Neutron Lifetime and Axial Coupling Connection

Andrzej Czarnecki, William J. Marciano, and Alberto Sirlin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202002 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Double Resummation for Higgs Production

Marco Bonvini and Simone Marzani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202003 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Differential Cross Section and Photon-Beam Asymmetry for the $\vec{γ} p \to π^{-} Δ^{+ +} (1232)$ Reaction at Forward $π^{-}$ Angles for $E_{γ} = 1.5 - 2.95 GeV$

H. Kohri et al. (LEPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202004 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Search for the $X (5568)$ State Decaying into $B_{s}^{0} π^{\pm}$ in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202005 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Search for the Exotic Meson $X (5568)$ with the Collider Detector at Fermilab

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202006 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Search for a Structure in the $B_{s}^{0} π^{\pm}$ Invariant Mass Spectrum with the ATLAS Experiment

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202007 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of Prompt $D^{0}$ Meson Azimuthal Anisotropy in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202301 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Nuclear Symmetry Energy and the Breaking of the Isospin Symmetry: How Do They Reconcile with Each Other?

X. Roca-Maza, G. Colò, and H. Sagawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 202501 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Relativistic Normal Coupled-Cluster Theory for Accurate Determination of Electric Dipole Moments of Atoms: First Application to the ${}^{199}{Hg}$ Atom

B. K. Sahoo and B. P. Das

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203001 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Long-Distance Single Photon Transmission from a Trapped Ion via Quantum Frequency Conversion

Thomas Walker, Koichiro Miyanishi, Rikizo Ikuta, Hiroki Takahashi, Samir Vartabi Kashanian, Yoshiaki Tsujimoto, Kazuhiro Hayasaka, Takashi Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Imoto, and Matthias Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203601 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Itinerant Microwave Photon Detector

Baptiste Royer, Arne L. Grimsmo, Alexandre Choquette-Poitevin, and Alexandre Blais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203602 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Observation of Squeezed Light in the $2 μ m$ Region

Georgia L. Mansell, Terry G. McRae, Paul A. Altin, Min Jet Yap, Robert L. Ward, Bram J. J. Slagmolen, Daniel A. Shaddock, and David E. McClelland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203603 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

General Model of Photon-Pair Detection with an Image Sensor

Hugo Defienne, Matthew Reichert, and Jason W. Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203604 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Design of Transverse Spinning of Light with Globally Unique Handedness

Xianji Piao, Sunkyu Yu, and Namkyoo Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203901 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

All-Optical Control of Linear and Nonlinear Energy Transfer via the Zeno Effect

Xiang Guo, Chang-Ling Zou, Liang Jiang, and Hong X. Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203902 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Enhanced Third-Order Optical Nonlinearity Driven by Surface-Plasmon Field Gradients

Vasily Kravtsov, Sultan AlMutairi, Ronald Ulbricht, A. Ryan Kutayiah, Alexey Belyanin, and Markus B. Raschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203903 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Transmission Nonreciprocity in a Mutually Coupled Circulating Structure

Bing He, Liu Yang, Xiaoshun Jiang, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 203904 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Nonreciprocal Linear Transmission of Sound in a Viscous Environment with Broken $P$ Symmetry

E. Walker, A. Neogi, A. Bozhko, Yu. Zubov, J. Arriaga, H. Heo, J. Ju, and A. A. Krokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 204501 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Regimes of Coriolis-Centrifugal Convection

Susanne Horn and Jonathan M. Aurnou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 204502 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Universal Rim Thickness in Unsteady Sheet Fragmentation

Y. Wang, R. Dandekar, N. Bustos, S. Poulain, and L. Bourouiba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 204503 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Exact Solutions for Nonlinear Development of a Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability for the Counterflow of Superfluid and Normal Components of Helium II

Pavel M. Lushnikov and Nikolay M. Zubarev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 204504 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Turbulence Statistics in a Two-Dimensional Vortex Condensate

Anna Frishman and Corentin Herbert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 204505 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Dual Ion Species Plasma Expansion from Isotopically Layered Cryogenic Targets

G. G. Scott et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 204801 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Tracing the Pathway from Drift-Wave Turbulence with Broken Symmetry to the Production of Sheared Axial Mean Flow

R. Hong, J. C. Li, S. Chakraborty Thakur, R. Hajjar, P. H. Diamond, and G. R. Tynan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205001 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

First-Principles Estimation of Electronic Temperature from X-Ray Thomson Scattering Spectrum of Isochorically Heated Warm Dense Matter

Chongjie Mo, Zhenguo Fu, Wei Kang, Ping Zhang, and X. T. He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205002 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Kinematic Mechanism of Plasma Electron Hole Transverse Instability

I. H. Hutchinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205101 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Majority of Solar Wind Intervals Support Ion-Driven Instabilities

K. G. Klein, B. L. Alterman, M. L. Stevens, D. Vech, and J. C. Kasper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205102 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Chiral Domain Structure in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − A$ Studied by Magnetic Resonance Imaging

J. Kasai, Y. Okamoto, K. Nishioka, T. Takagi, and Y. Sasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205301 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

An MRI imaging technique reveals a structure of domains with different chirality in a slab of superfluid helium-3.

Nonlinear Network Description for Many-Body Quantum Systems in Continuous Space

Michele Ruggeri, Saverio Moroni, and Markus Holzmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205302 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Spiral-Based Phononic Plates: From Wave Beaming to Topological Insulators

André Foehr, Osama R. Bilal, Sebastian D. Huber, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205501 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Distortion of Local Atomic Structures in Amorphous Ge-Sb-Te Phase Change Materials

A. Hirata, T. Ichitsubo, P. F. Guan, T. Fujita, and M. W. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 205502 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Controlling Nanoantenna Polarizability through Backaction via a Single Cavity Mode

Freek Ruesink, Hugo M. Doeleman, Ewold Verhagen, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206101 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Bulk Fermi Surfaces of the Dirac Type-II Semimetallic Candidates $M {Al}_{3}$ (Where $M = V$ , Nb, and Ta)

K.-W. Chen, X. Lian, Y. Lai, N. Aryal, Y.-C. Chiu, W. Lan, D. Graf, E. Manousakis, R. E. Baumbach, and L. Balicas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206401 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Tensile-Strain-Dependent Spin States in Epitaxial ${LaCoO}_{3}$ Thin Films

Y. Yokoyama, Y. Yamasaki, M. Taguchi, Y. Hirata, K. Takubo, J. Miyawaki, Y. Harada, D. Asakura, J. Fujioka, M. Nakamura, H. Daimon, M. Kawasaki, Y. Tokura, and H. Wadati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206402 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lattice Supersymmetry and Order-Disorder Coexistence in the Tricritical Ising Model

Edward O’Brien and Paul Fendley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206403 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Generation of a Nernst Current from the Conformal Anomaly in Dirac and Weyl Semimetals

M. N. Chernodub, Alberto Cortijo, and María A. H. Vozmediano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206601 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Molecular Model of a Quantum Dot Beyond the Constant Interaction Approximation

Ruslan Temirov, Matthew F. B. Green, Niklas Friedrich, Philipp Leinen, Taner Esat, Pawel Chmielniak, Sidra Sarwar, Jeff Rawson, Paul Kögerler, Christian Wagner, Michael Rohlfing, and F. Stefan Tautz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 206801 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Field-Free Nucleation of Antivortices and Giant Vortices in Nonsuperconducting Materials

Morten Amundsen, Jabir Ali Ouassou, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207001 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Competition of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and Higher-Order Exchange Interactions in $Rh / Fe$ Atomic Bilayers on Ir(111)

Niklas Romming, Henning Pralow, André Kubetzka, Markus Hoffmann, Stephan von Malottki, Sebastian Meyer, Bertrand Dupé, Roland Wiesendanger, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Stefan Heinze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207201 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Magnetic Ground State Stabilized by Three-Site Interactions: $Fe / Rh (111)$

Andreas Krönlein, Martin Schmitt, Markus Hoffmann, Jeannette Kemmer, Nicolai Seubert, Matthias Vogt, Julia Küspert, Markus Böhme, Bandar Alonazi, Jens Kügel, Hamad A. Albrithen, Matthias Bode, Gustav Bihlmayer, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207202 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Topography of Spin Liquids on a Triangular Lattice

Zhenyue Zhu, P. A. Maksimov, Steven R. White, and A. L. Chernyshev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207203 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Antidamping-Torque-Induced Switching in Biaxial Antiferromagnetic Insulators

X. Z. Chen, R. Zarzuela, J. Zhang, C. Song, X. F. Zhou, G. Y. Shi, F. Li, H. A. Zhou, W. J. Jiang, F. Pan, and Y. Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207204 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Quantum Criticality of an Ising-like Spin- $1 / 2$ Antiferromagnetic Chain in a Transverse Magnetic Field

Zhe Wang, T. Lorenz, D. I. Gorbunov, P. T. Cong, Y. Kohama, S. Niesen, O. Breunig, J. Engelmayer, A. Herman, Jianda Wu, K. Kindo, J. Wosnitza, S. Zherlitsyn, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207205 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Nontrivial Nature and Penetration Depth of Topological Surface States in ${SmB}_{6}$ Thin Films

Tao Liu, Yufan Li, Lei Gu, Junjia Ding, Houchen Chang, P. A. Praveen Janantha, Boris Kalinikos, Valentyn Novosad, Axel Hoffmann, Ruqian Wu, C. L. Chien, and Mingzhong Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207206 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Control of Terahertz Emission by Ultrafast Spin-Charge Current Conversion at Rashba Interfaces

Matthias B. Jungfleisch, Qi Zhang, Wei Zhang, John E. Pearson, Richard D. Schaller, Haidan Wen, and Axel Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207207 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Exciton Diffusion and Halo Effects in Monolayer Semiconductors

Marvin Kulig, Jonas Zipfel, Philipp Nagler, Sofia Blanter, Christian Schüller, Tobias Korn, Nicola Paradiso, Mikhail M. Glazov, and Alexey Chernikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207401 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Photoluminescence experiments in the ultra-low density limit of an individual exciton reveal an enhanced exciton diffusion effect in atomically thin WS $_{2}$ monolayers.

Nonequilibrium Phase Precursors during a Photoexcited Insulator-to-Metal Transition in $V_{2} O_{3}$

Andrej Singer, Juan Gabriel Ramirez, Ilya Valmianski, Devin Cela, Nelson Hua, Roopali Kukreja, James Wingert, Olesya Kovalchuk, James M. Glownia, Marcin Sikorski, Matthieu Chollet, Martin Holt, Ivan K. Schuller, and Oleg G. Shpyrko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207601 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018

Mechanisms of Pyroelectricity in Three- and Two-Dimensional Materials

Jian Liu and Sokrates T. Pantelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207602 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

Stabilization of Polar Nanoregions in Pb-free Ferroelectrics

A. Pramanick, W. Dmowski, T. Egami, A. Setiadi Budisuharto, F. Weyland, N. Novak, A. D. Christianson, J. M. Borreguero, D. L. Abernathy, and M. R. V. Jørgensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207603 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Weyl Semimetal to Metal Phase Transitions Driven by Quasiperiodic Potentials

J. H. Pixley, Justin H. Wilson, David A. Huse, and Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207604 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana Interferometry of a Single Hole

Alex Bogan, Sergei Studenikin, Marek Korkusinski, Louis Gaudreau, Piotr Zawadzki, Andy S. Sachrajda, Lisa Tracy, John Reno, and Terry Hargett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207701 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

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

Structural Studies of Three-Arm Star Block Copolymers Exposed to Extreme Stretch Suggests a Persistent Polymer Tube

Kell Mortensen, Anine L. Borger, Jacob J. K. Kirkensgaard, Christopher J. Garvey, Kristoffer Almdal, Andriy Dorokhin, Qian Huang, and Ole Hassager

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 207801 (2018) - Published 16 May, 2018

Spontaneously Flowing Crystal of Self-Propelled Particles

Guillaume Briand, Michael Schindler, and Olivier Dauchot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208001 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Viscotaxis: Microswimmer Navigation in Viscosity Gradients

Benno Liebchen, Paul Monderkamp, Borge ten Hagen, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208002 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

The dynamic body shape changes exhibited by two types of swimming bacteria may help in preventing them from drifting to low viscosity regions, where swimming is harder.

Colloidal Particle Adsorption at Water-Water Interfaces with Ultralow Interfacial Tension

Louis Keal, Carlos E. Colosqui, R. Hans Tromp, and Cécile Monteux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208003 (2018) - Published 15 May, 2018

Microscopic Origins of Shear Jamming for 2D Frictional Grains

Dong Wang, Jie Ren, Joshua A. Dijksman, Hu Zheng, and Robert P. Behringer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208004 (2018) - Published 17 May, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Strand Plasticity Governs Fatigue in Colloidal Gels

Jan Maarten van Doorn, Joanne E. Verweij, Joris Sprakel, and Jasper van der Gucht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208005 (2018) - Published 18 May, 2018

Soft materials like gels and creams exhibit fatigue resulting from the stretching of their constituent fibers, according to experiments and simulations.

ERRATA

Erratum: Guiding Spin Spirals by Local Uniaxial Strain Relief [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 017201 (2016)]

Pin-Jui Hsu, Aurore Finco, Lorenz Schmidt, André Kubetzka, Kirsten von Bergmann, and Roland Wiesendanger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 209901 (2018) - Published 14 May, 2018