Volume 120, Issue 21

25 May 2018

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Two stages of cooling of a gas of rod-shaped grains in microgravity.

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Free Cooling of a Granular Gas of Rodlike Particles in Microgravity
Kirsten Harth, Torsten Trittel, Sandra Wegner, and Ralf Stannarius
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 214301 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Cloud Quantum Computing of an Atomic Nucleus

E. F. Dumitrescu, A. J. McCaskey, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, T. D. Morris, T. Papenbrock, R. C. Pooser, D. J. Dean, and P. Lougovski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210501 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Researchers perform a quantum computation of the binding energy of the deuteron using a web connection to remote quantum devices.

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Single-Atom Demonstration of the Quantum Landauer Principle

L. L. Yan, T. P. Xiong, K. Rehan, F. Zhou, D. F. Liang, L. Chen, J. Q. Zhang, W. L. Yang, Z. H. Ma, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210601 (2018) - Published 21 May, 2018

A fundamental limit on the heat produced when erasing a bit of information has been confirmed in a fully quantum system.

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Final Results of the OPERA Experiment on $ν_{τ}$ Appearance in the CNGS Neutrino Beam

N. Agafonova et al. (OPERA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211801 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

The final analysis of data collected by the OPERA experiment improves the precision of measurements of neutrinos oscillating between muon and tau flavors.

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Observation and Uses of Position-Space Bloch Oscillations in an Ultracold Gas

Zachary A. Geiger, Kurt M. Fujiwara, Kevin Singh, Ruwan Senaratne, Shankari V. Rajagopal, Mikhail Lipatov, Toshihiko Shimasaki, Rodislav Driben, Vladimir V. Konotop, Torsten Meier, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213201 (2018) - Published 24 May, 2018

Bloch oscillations—first predicted to occur for electrons in a crystal—have been observed in an optical lattice containing ultracold atoms.

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Sounds of Failure: Passive Acoustic Measurements of Excited Vibrational Modes

Theodore A. Brzinski, III and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 218003 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Distinctive sounds emanate from a material when it is stressed by an outside force and close to slipping—an effect that could lead to warnings of imminent material failure.

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QCD Axion Dark Matter with a Small Decay Constant

Raymond T. Co, Lawrence J. Hall, and Keisuke Harigaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211602 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

A proposed new cosmological production mechanism for QCD axion dark matter that involves parametric resonance in field oscillation predicts larger axion masses than the conventional misalignment mechanism.

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Phonon Networks with Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Waveguides

M.-A. Lemonde, S. Meesala, A. Sipahigil, M. J. A. Schuetz, M. D. Lukin, M. Loncar, and P. Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213603 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

A quantum network model connects spins in silicon-vacancy centers in diamond with phonon interactions in a 1D waveguide.

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Observation of a Time Quasicrystal and Its Transition to a Superfluid Time Crystal

S. Autti, V. B. Eltsov, and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215301 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

A time quasicrystal phase emerges in a magnon Bose-Einstein condensate under periodic driving and transforms to a time crystal when the driving is switched off.

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Proposed Spontaneous Generation of Magnetic Fields by Curved Layers of a Chiral Superconductor

T. Kvorning, T. H. Hansson, A. Quelle, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217002 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

The emergence of a magnetic field when the material is bent is predicted to be a signature for chiral superconductivity.

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Better Than Counting: Density Profiles from Force Sampling

Daniel de las Heras and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 218001 (2018) - Published 24 May, 2018

A new approach to calculate one-body density profiles of nonuniform systems uses local force density distributions rather than spatial distributions to achieve improved statistical accuracy.

LETTERS

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

Signatures of Indistinguishability in Bosonic Many-Body Dynamics

Tobias Brünner, Gabriel Dufour, Alberto Rodríguez, and Andreas Buchleitner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210401 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Nonclassicality of the Harmonic-Oscillator Coherent State Persisting up to the Macroscopic Domain

S. Bose, D. Home, and S. Mal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210402 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

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Cloud Quantum Computing of an Atomic Nucleus

E. F. Dumitrescu, A. J. McCaskey, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, T. D. Morris, T. Papenbrock, R. C. Pooser, D. J. Dean, and P. Lougovski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210501 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Researchers perform a quantum computation of the binding energy of the deuteron using a web connection to remote quantum devices.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Single-Atom Demonstration of the Quantum Landauer Principle

L. L. Yan, T. P. Xiong, K. Rehan, F. Zhou, D. F. Liang, L. Chen, J. Q. Zhang, W. L. Yang, Z. H. Ma, and M. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210601 (2018) - Published 21 May, 2018

A fundamental limit on the heat produced when erasing a bit of information has been confirmed in a fully quantum system.

Exact Fluctuations of Nonequilibrium Steady States from Approximate Auxiliary Dynamics

Ushnish Ray, Garnet Kin-Lic Chan, and David T. Limmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210602 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Floquet Supersymmetry

Thomas Iadecola and Timothy H. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210603 (2018) - Published 24 May, 2018

Fast Preparation of Critical Ground States Using Superluminal Fronts

Kartiek Agarwal, R. N. Bhatt, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 210604 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Stellar Wakes from Dark Matter Subhalos

Malte Buschmann, Joachim Kopp, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Chih-Liang Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211101 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Unifying Type-II Strings by Exceptional Groups

Alex S. Arvanitakis and Chris D. A. Blair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211601 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

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QCD Axion Dark Matter with a Small Decay Constant

Raymond T. Co, Lawrence J. Hall, and Keisuke Harigaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211602 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

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Final Results of the OPERA Experiment on $ν_{τ}$ Appearance in the CNGS Neutrino Beam

N. Agafonova et al. (OPERA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211801 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

The final analysis of data collected by the OPERA experiment improves the precision of measurements of neutrinos oscillating between muon and tau flavors.

Search for the Decay of the Higgs Boson to Charm Quarks with the ATLAS Experiment

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211802 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Asymptotically Free Natural Supersymmetric Twin Higgs Model

Marcin Badziak and Keisuke Harigaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211803 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

First Limit on the Direct Detection of Lightly Ionizing Particles for Electric Charge as Low as $e / 1000$ with the Majorana Demonstrator

S. I. Alvis et al. (Majorana Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 211804 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Most Strange Dibaryon from Lattice QCD

Shinya Gongyo, Kenji Sasaki, Sinya Aoki, Takumi Doi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, Yoichi Ikeda, Takashi Inoue, Takumi Iritani, Noriyoshi Ishii, Takaya Miyamoto, and Hidekatsu Nemura (HAL QCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 212001 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Novel $Δ J = 1$ Sequence in ${}^{78}{Ge}$ : Possible Evidence for Triaxiality

A. M. Forney, W. B. Walters, C. J. Chiara, R. V. F. Janssens, A. D. Ayangeakaa, J. Sethi, J. Harker, M. Alcorta, M. P. Carpenter, G. Gürdal, C. R. Hoffman, B. P. Kay, F. G. Kondev, T. Lauritsen, C. J. Lister, E. A. McCutchan, A. M. Rogers, D. Seweryniak, I. Stefanescu, and S. Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 212501 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Puzzling Two-Proton Decay of ${}^{67}{Kr}$

S. M. Wang (王思敏) and W. Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 212502 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Observation and Uses of Position-Space Bloch Oscillations in an Ultracold Gas

Zachary A. Geiger, Kurt M. Fujiwara, Kevin Singh, Ruwan Senaratne, Shankari V. Rajagopal, Mikhail Lipatov, Toshihiko Shimasaki, Rodislav Driben, Vladimir V. Konotop, Torsten Meier, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213201 (2018) - Published 24 May, 2018

Bloch oscillations—first predicted to occur for electrons in a crystal—have been observed in an optical lattice containing ultracold atoms.

Tomography and Purification of the Temporal-Mode Structure of Quantum Light

Vahid Ansari, John M. Donohue, Markus Allgaier, Linda Sansoni, Benjamin Brecht, Jonathan Roslund, Nicolas Treps, Georg Harder, and Christine Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213601 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Passive On-Chip Superconducting Circulator Using a Ring of Tunnel Junctions

Clemens Müller, Shengwei Guan, Nicolas Vogt, Jared H. Cole, and Thomas M. Stace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213602 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

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Phonon Networks with Silicon-Vacancy Centers in Diamond Waveguides

M.-A. Lemonde, S. Meesala, A. Sipahigil, M. J. A. Schuetz, M. D. Lukin, M. Loncar, and P. Rabl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213603 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

A quantum network model connects spins in silicon-vacancy centers in diamond with phonon interactions in a 1D waveguide.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Two-Photon Rabi Splitting in a Coupled System of a Nanocavity and Exciton Complexes

Chenjiang Qian, Shiyao Wu, Feilong Song, Kai Peng, Xin Xie, Jingnan Yang, Shan Xiao, Matthew J. Steer, Iain G. Thayne, Chengchun Tang, Zhanchun Zuo, Kuijuan Jin, Changzhi Gu, and Xiulai Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213901 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Self-Induced Faraday Instability Laser

A. M. Perego, S. V. Smirnov, K. Staliunas, D. V. Churkin, and S. Wabnitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213902 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Mapping of Polychromatic Light

Mushegh Rafayelyan and Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 213903 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Symmetries of Chimera States

Felix P. Kemeth, Sindre W. Haugland, and Katharina Krischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 214101 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Free Cooling of a Granular Gas of Rodlike Particles in Microgravity

Kirsten Harth, Torsten Trittel, Sandra Wegner, and Ralf Stannarius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 214301 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Flow Topology Transition via Global Bifurcation in Thermally Driven Turbulence

Yi-Chao Xie, Guang-Yu Ding, and Ke-Qing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 214501 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Breath Figures under Electrowetting: Electrically Controlled Evolution of Drop Condensation Patterns

Davood Baratian, Ranabir Dey, Harmen Hoek, Dirk van den Ende, and Frieder Mugele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 214502 (2018) - Published 24 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Observation of a Time Quasicrystal and Its Transition to a Superfluid Time Crystal

S. Autti, V. B. Eltsov, and G. E. Volovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215301 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

A time quasicrystal phase emerges in a magnon Bose-Einstein condensate under periodic driving and transforms to a time crystal when the driving is switched off.

Size-Tuned Plastic Flow Localization in Irradiated Materials at the Submicron Scale

Yinan Cui, Giacomo Po, and Nasr Ghoniem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215501 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Curvature Elasticity of the Electric Double Layer

Guilherme Volpe Bossa, Bjorn K. Berntson, and Sylvio May

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215502 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Pattern Transitions in a Soft Cylindrical Shell

Yifan Yang, Hui-Hui Dai, Fan Xu, and Michel Potier-Ferry

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215503 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Graphitization of Glassy Carbon after Compression at Room Temperature

T. B. Shiell, D. G. McCulloch, D. R. McKenzie, M. R. Field, B. Haberl, R. Boehler, B. A. Cook, C. de Tomas, I. Suarez-Martinez, N. A. Marks, and J. E. Bradby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215701 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Chiral Tricritical Point: A New Universality Class in Dirac Systems

Shuai Yin, Shao-Kai Jian, and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215702 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Continuous Sound Velocity Measurements along the Shock Hugoniot Curve of Quartz

Mu Li, Shuai Zhang, Hongping Zhang, Gongmu Zhang, Feng Wang, Jianheng Zhao, Chengwei Sun, and Raymond Jeanloz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 215703 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Evidence for Reduced Hydrogen-Bond Cooperativity in Ionic Solvation Shells from Isotope-Dependent Dielectric Relaxation

Roberto Cota, Niklas Ottosson, Huib J. Bakker, and Sander Woutersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 216001 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Deterministic Role of Collision Cascade Density in Radiation Defect Dynamics in Si

J. B. Wallace, L. B. Bayu Aji, L. Shao, and S. O. Kucheyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 216101 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Excitonic Instability and Pseudogap Formation in Nodal Line Semimetal ZrSiS

A. N. Rudenko, E. A. Stepanov, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 216401 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Magnetotransport Properties of Graphene Nanoribbons with Zigzag Edges

Shuang Wu, Bing Liu, Cheng Shen, Si Li, Xiaochun Huang, Xiaobo Lu, Peng Chen, Guole Wang, Duoming Wang, Mengzhou Liao, Jing Zhang, Tingting Zhang, Shuopei Wang, Wei Yang, Rong Yang, Dongxia Shi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Yugui Yao, Weihua Wang, and Guangyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 216601 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Localization Counteracts Decoherence in Noisy Floquet Topological Chains

M.-T. Rieder, L. M. Sieberer, M. H. Fischer, and I. C. Fulga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 216801 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Gap Symmetry of the Heavy Fermion Superconductor ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ at Ambient Pressure

Yu Li, Min Liu, Zhaoming Fu, Xiangrong Chen, Fan Yang, and Yi-feng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217001 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

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Proposed Spontaneous Generation of Magnetic Fields by Curved Layers of a Chiral Superconductor

T. Kvorning, T. H. Hansson, A. Quelle, and C. Morais Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217002 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

The emergence of a magnetic field when the material is bent is predicted to be a signature for chiral superconductivity.

Induction Mapping of the 3D-Modulated Spin Texture of Skyrmions in Thin Helimagnets

S. Schneider, D. Wolf, M. J. Stolt, S. Jin, D. Pohl, B. Rellinghaus, M. Schmidt, B. Büchner, S. T. B. Goennenwein, K. Nielsch, and A. Lubk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217201 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Strong Interlayer Magnon-Magnon Coupling in Magnetic Metal-Insulator Hybrid Nanostructures

Jilei Chen, Chuanpu Liu, Tao Liu, Yang Xiao, Ke Xia, Gerrit E. W. Bauer, Mingzhong Wu, and Haiming Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217202 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Ultrafast Light Switching of Ferromagnetism in EuSe

A. B. Henriques, X. Gratens, P. A. Usachev, V. A. Chitta, and G. Springholz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217203 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Direct Observation of Zhang-Li Torque Expansion of Magnetic Droplet Solitons

Sunjae Chung, Q. Tuan Le, Martina Ahlberg, Ahmad A. Awad, Markus Weigand, Iuliia Bykova, Roman Khymyn, Mykola Dvornik, Hamid Mazraati, Afshin Houshang, Sheng Jiang, T. N. Anh Nguyen, Eberhard Goering, Gisela Schütz, Joachim Gräfe, and Johan Åkerman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217204 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

Unusual Thermal Hall Effect in a Kitaev Spin Liquid Candidate $α − {RuCl}_{3}$

Y. Kasahara, K. Sugii, T. Ohnishi, M. Shimozawa, M. Yamashita, N. Kurita, H. Tanaka, J. Nasu, Y. Motome, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217205 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Edge Singularities and Quasilong-Range Order in Nonequilibrium Steady States

Jacopo De Nardis and Miłosz Panfil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217206 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Visualization of a Unidirectional Electromagnetic Waveguide Using Topological Photonic Crystals Made of Dielectric Materials

Yuting Yang, Yun Fei Xu, Tao Xu, Hai-Xiao Wang, Jian-Hua Jiang, Xiao Hu, and Zhi Hong Hang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217401 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

Low-Temperature Dielectric Anisotropy Driven by an Antiferroelectric Mode in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Blai Casals, Andrea Schiaffino, Arianna Casiraghi, Sampo J. Hämäläinen, Diego López González, Sebastiaan van Dijken, Massimiliano Stengel, and Gervasi Herranz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 217601 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Better Than Counting: Density Profiles from Force Sampling

Daniel de las Heras and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 218001 (2018) - Published 24 May, 2018

A new approach to calculate one-body density profiles of nonuniform systems uses local force density distributions rather than spatial distributions to achieve improved statistical accuracy.

Simultaneous Control of Multispecies Particle Transport and Segregation in Driven Lattices

Aritra K. Mukhopadhyay, Benno Liebchen, and Peter Schmelcher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 218002 (2018) - Published 23 May, 2018

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Sounds of Failure: Passive Acoustic Measurements of Excited Vibrational Modes

Theodore A. Brzinski, III and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 218003 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Distinctive sounds emanate from a material when it is stressed by an outside force and close to slipping—an effect that could lead to warnings of imminent material failure.

Environmental Noise Could Promote Stochastic Local Stability of Behavioral Diversity Evolution

Xiu-Deng Zheng, Cong Li, Sabin Lessard, and Yi Tao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 218101 (2018) - Published 22 May, 2018

COMMENTS

Comment on “Emergence and Evolution of the $k$ Gap in Spectra of Liquid and Supercritical States”

T. Bryk, I. Mryglod, G. Ruocco, and T. Scopigno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 219601 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

Yang et al. Reply:

C. Yang, M. T. Dove, V. V. Brazhkin, and K. Trachenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 219602 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Gravitational Waves from Oscillons after Inflation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 011303 (2017)]

Stefan Antusch, Francesco Cefalà, and Stefano Orani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 219901 (2018) - Published 25 May, 2018