Volume 120, Issue 22

1 June 2018

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On the Cover

Schematic diagram of an attosecond nanoplasmonic imaging setup with spatiotemporal resolution. Red, IR laser pulse; violet, attosecond XUV pulse; blue sphere, electron; silver, detector.

From the article:

Imaging Plasmonic Fields with Atomic Spatiotemporal Resolution
Jianxiong Li, Erfan Saydanzad, and Uwe Thumm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223903 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonmonotonic Aging and Memory in a Frictional Interface

Sam Dillavou and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 224101 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Experiments show that the friction between two surfaces depends on their history of contact and that this “memory” is reminiscent of the behavior of glasses.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting with Electrons in Super-Kamiokande

C. Kachulis et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221301 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

A search for high-energy elastically scattered electrons pointing back to the Galactic center or to the Sun provides bounds on boosted dark matter.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is Self-Interacting Dark Matter Undergoing Dark Fusion?

Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221806 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

The possibility of self-interacting dark matter undergoing fusion may resolve some of the small-scale structure problems seen in the cold collisionless dark matter paradigm.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation of a Spin Texture in a Quantum Gas Coupled to a Cavity

M. Landini, N. Dogra, K. Kroeger, L. Hruby, T. Donner, and T. Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223602 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

An experiment on a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity demonstrates that polarization effects drive the competition between magnetically-ordered and density-ordered phases in the system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ionization Waves of Arbitrary Velocity

D. Turnbull, P. Franke, J. Katz, J. P. Palastro, I. A. Begishev, R. Boni, J. Bromage, A. L. Milder, J. L. Shaw, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225001 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Using a dynamic laser focus, a gas-plasma boundary can be made to propagate at any velocity, either up or down the laser axis.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Two-Dimensional Ferroelectricity with Dipole Locking

Jun Xiao, Hanyu Zhu, Ying Wang, Wei Feng, Yunxia Hu, Arvind Dasgupta, Yimo Han, Yuan Wang, David A. Muller, Lane W. Martin, PingAn Hu, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227601 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Two-dimensional out-of-plane ferroelectric ordering is experimentally demonstrated in an atomically thin crystal.

LETTERS

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

Scaling Trapped Ion Quantum Computers Using Fast Gates and Microtraps

Alexander K. Ratcliffe, Richard L. Taylor, Joseph J. Hope, and André R. R. Carvalho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220501 (2018) - Published 29 May, 2018

Efficient Classical Algorithm for Boson Sampling with Partially Distinguishable Photons

J. J. Renema, A. Menssen, W. R. Clements, G. Triginer, W. S. Kolthammer, and I. A. Walmsley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220502 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Controlling Qubit Networks in Polynomial Time

Christian Arenz and Herschel Rabitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220503 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Majorana-Based Fermionic Quantum Computation

T. E. O’Brien, P. Rożek, and A. R. Akhmerov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220504 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Parameter Estimation with Almost No Public Communication for Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Cosmo Lupo, Carlo Ottaviani, Panagiotis Papanastasiou, and Stefano Pirandola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220505 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Selective Transient Cooling by Impulse Perturbations in a Simple Toy Model

Michele Fabrizio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220601 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Heating in Integrable Time-Periodic Systems

Takashi Ishii, Tomotaka Kuwahara, Takashi Mori, and Naomichi Hatano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220602 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Energy Current Cumulants in One-Dimensional Systems in Equilibrium

Abhishek Dhar, Keiji Saito, and Anjan Roy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220603 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Simple and Accurate Method for Central Spin Problems

Lachlan P. Lindoy and David E. Manolopoulos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220604 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Impact of the Injection Protocol on an Impurity’s Stationary State

Oleksandr Gamayun, Oleg Lychkovskiy, Evgeni Burovski, Matthew Malcomson, Vadim V. Cheianov, and Mikhail B. Zvonarev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 220605 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Convective Excitation of Inertial Modes in Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Roberto De Pietri, Alessandra Feo, José A. Font, Frank Löffler, Francesco Maione, Michele Pasquali, and Nikolaos Stergioulas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221101 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Dark Matter Equation of State through Cosmic History

Michael Kopp, Constantinos Skordis, Daniel B Thomas, and Stéphane Ilić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221102 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Boosted Dark Matter Interacting with Electrons in Super-Kamiokande

C. Kachulis et al. (Super-Kamiokande Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221301 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

A search for high-energy elastically scattered electrons pointing back to the Galactic center or to the Sun provides bounds on boosted dark matter.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Cubic Interactions of Massless Bosonic Fields in Three Dimensions

Karapet Mkrtchyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221601 (2018) - Published 29 May, 2018

One-Loop Test of Quantum Black Holes in anti–de Sitter Space

James T. Liu, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas, Vimal Rathee, and Wenli Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221602 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Search for Heavy Neutral Leptons in Events with Three Charged Leptons in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221801 (2018) - Published 29 May, 2018

Exponential Hierarchies from Anderson Localization in Theory Space

Nathaniel Craig and Dave Sutherland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221802 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Evidence for the Rare Decay $Σ^{+} \to p μ^{+} μ^{-}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221803 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Lepton Flavor Violation Induced by a Neutral Scalar at Future Lepton Colliders

P. S. Bhupal Dev, Rabindra N. Mohapatra, and Yongchao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221804 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Antineutrino Charged-Current Reactions on Hydrocarbon with Low Momentum Transfer

R. Gran et al. (MINERvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221805 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is Self-Interacting Dark Matter Undergoing Dark Fusion?

Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 221806 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

The possibility of self-interacting dark matter undergoing fusion may resolve some of the small-scale structure problems seen in the cold collisionless dark matter paradigm.

Quark Matter May Not Be Strange

Bob Holdom, Jing Ren, and Chen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 222001 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Role of Grain Boundaries under Long-Time Radiation

Yichao Zhu, Jing Luo, Xu Guo, Yang Xiang, and Stephen Jonathan Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 222501 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Accurate Determination of the Dynamical Polarizability of Dysprosium

C. Ravensbergen, V. Corre, E. Soave, M. Kreyer, S. Tzanova, E. Kirilov, and R. Grimm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223001 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Double Molecular Photoswitch Driven by Light and Collisions

James N. Bull, Michael S. Scholz, Eduardo Carrascosa, Gabriel da Silva, and Evan J. Bieske

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223002 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Radiation-Induced Chemical Dynamics in Ar Clusters Exposed to Strong X-Ray Pulses

Yoshiaki Kumagai et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223201 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Probing Long-Range Neutrino-Mediated Forces with Atomic and Nuclear Spectroscopy

Yevgeny V. Stadnik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223202 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Scaling Law of High Harmonic Generation in the Framework of Photon Channels

Liang Li, Pengfei Lan, Lixin He, Xiaosong Zhu, Jing Chen, and Peixiang Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223203 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Timing Recollision in Nonsequential Double Ionization by Intense Elliptically Polarized Laser Pulses

H. Kang, K. Henrichs, M. Kunitski, Y. Wang, X. Hao, K. Fehre, A. Czasch, S. Eckart, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, M. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, X. Liu, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223204 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Microscopic Nanomechanical Dissipation in Gallium Arsenide Resonators

M. Hamoumi, P. E. Allain, W. Hease, E. Gil-Santos, L. Morgenroth, B. Gérard, A. Lemaître, G. Leo, and I. Favero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223601 (2018) - Published 29 May, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Formation of a Spin Texture in a Quantum Gas Coupled to a Cavity

M. Landini, N. Dogra, K. Kroeger, L. Hruby, T. Donner, and T. Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223602 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

An experiment on a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical cavity demonstrates that polarization effects drive the competition between magnetically-ordered and density-ordered phases in the system.

Quantum Regime of a Two-Dimensional Phonon Cavity

Aleksey N. Bolgar, Julia I. Zotova, Daniil D. Kirichenko, Ilia S. Besedin, Aleksander V. Semenov, Rais S. Shaikhaidarov, and Oleg V. Astafiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223603 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Three-Dimensional Measurement of the Helicity-Dependent Forces on a Mie Particle

Lulu Liu, Andrea Di Donato, Vincent Ginis, Simon Kheifets, Arman Amirzhan, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223901 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Element Selectivity in Second-Harmonic Generation of ${GaFeO}_{3}$ by a Soft-X-Ray Free-Electron Laser

Sh. Yamamoto, T. Omi, H. Akai, Y. Kubota, Y. Takahashi, Y. Suzuki, Y. Hirata, K. Yamamoto, R. Yukawa, K. Horiba, H. Yumoto, T. Koyama, H. Ohashi, S. Owada, K. Tono, M. Yabashi, E. Shigemasa, S. Yamamoto, M. Kotsugi, H. Wadati, H. Kumigashira, T. Arima, S. Shin, and I. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223902 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Imaging Plasmonic Fields with Atomic Spatiotemporal Resolution

Jianxiong Li, Erfan Saydanzad, and Uwe Thumm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 223903 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonmonotonic Aging and Memory in a Frictional Interface

Sam Dillavou and Shmuel M. Rubinstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 224101 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Experiments show that the friction between two surfaces depends on their history of contact and that this “memory” is reminiscent of the behavior of glasses.

Phase Domain Walls in Weakly Nonlinear Deep Water Surface Gravity Waves

F. Tsitoura, U. Gietz, A. Chabchoub, and N. Hoffmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 224102 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Evaporation-Triggered Segregation of Sessile Binary Droplets

Yaxing Li, Pengyu Lv, Christian Diddens, Huanshu Tan, Herman Wijshoff, Michel Versluis, and Detlef Lohse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 224501 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Inverse and Direct Energy Cascades in Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence at Low Magnetic Reynolds Number

Nathaniel T. Baker, Alban Pothérat, Laurent Davoust, and François Debray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 224502 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ionization Waves of Arbitrary Velocity

D. Turnbull, P. Franke, J. Katz, J. P. Palastro, I. A. Begishev, R. Boni, J. Bromage, A. L. Milder, J. L. Shaw, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225001 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Using a dynamic laser focus, a gas-plasma boundary can be made to propagate at any velocity, either up or down the laser axis.

Dependence of Perpendicular Viscosity on Magnetic Fluctuations in a Stochastic Topology

R. Fridström, B. E. Chapman, A. F. Almagri, L. Frassinetti, P. R. Brunsell, T. Nishizawa, and J. S. Sarff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225002 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Electron Bulk Acceleration and Thermalization at Earth’s Quasiperpendicular Bow Shock

L.-J. Chen et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225101 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Optical Bistability under Nonresonant Excitation in Spinor Polariton Condensates

L. Pickup, K. Kalinin, A. Askitopoulos, Z. Hatzopoulos, P. G. Savvidis, N. G. Berloff, and P. G. Lagoudakis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225301 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Gardner Transition in Physical Dimensions

C. L. Hicks, M. J. Wheatley, M. J. Godfrey, and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225501 (2018) - Published 29 May, 2018

Neural Network Approach for Characterizing Structural Transformations by X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

Janis Timoshenko, Andris Anspoks, Arturs Cintins, Alexei Kuzmin, Juris Purans, and Anatoly I. Frenkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225502 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Hydrogen Diffusion and Trapping in $α$ -Iron: The Role of Quantum and Anharmonic Fluctuations

Bingqing Cheng, Anthony T. Paxton, and Michele Ceriotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225901 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Self-Diffusion in Amorphous Silicon by Local Bond Rearrangements

J. Kirschbaum, T. Teuber, A. Donner, M. Radek, D. Bougeard, R. Böttger, J. Lundsgaard Hansen, A. Nylandsted Larsen, M. Posselt, and H. Bracht

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 225902 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Theoretical Prediction of Thermal Polarization

P. Wirnsberger, C. Dellago, D. Frenkel, and A. Reinhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 226001 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Bending Rigidity of 2D Silica

C. Büchner, S. D. Eder, T. Nesse, D. Kuhness, P. Schlexer, G. Pacchioni, J. R. Manson, M. Heyde, B. Holst, and H.-J. Freund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 226101 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Kelvin-Mach Wake in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Sea

Eugene B. Kolomeisky and Joseph P. Straley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 226801 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Universal Quantum Noise in Adiabatic Pumping

Yaroslav Herasymenko, Kyrylo Snizhko, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 226802 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018

Tunable Quantum Spin Liquidity in the $1 / 6$ th-Filled Breathing Kagome Lattice

A. Akbari-Sharbaf, R. Sinclair, A. Verrier, D. Ziat, H. D. Zhou, X. F. Sun, and J. A. Quilliam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227201 (2018) - Published 29 May, 2018

Direct Observation of Twisted Surface skyrmions in Bulk Crystals

S. L. Zhang, G. van der Laan, W. W. Wang, A. A. Haghighirad, and T. Hesjedal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227202 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Evolution of the Magnetic Excitations in ${NaOsO}_{3}$ through its Metal-Insulator Transition

J. G. Vale, S. Calder, C. Donnerer, D. Pincini, Y. G. Shi, Y. Tsujimoto, K. Yamaura, M. Moretti Sala, J. van den Brink, A. D. Christianson, and D. F. McMorrow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227203 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Velocity Enhancement by Synchronization of Magnetic Domain Walls

Aleš Hrabec, Viola Křižáková, Stefania Pizzini, João Sampaio, André Thiaville, Stanislas Rohart, and Jan Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227204 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Conformational Dynamics Guides Coherent Exciton Migration in Conjugated Polymer Materials: First-Principles Quantum Dynamical Study

Robert Binder, David Lauvergnat, and Irene Burghardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227401 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Intrinsic Two-Dimensional Ferroelectricity with Dipole Locking

Jun Xiao, Hanyu Zhu, Ying Wang, Wei Feng, Yunxia Hu, Arvind Dasgupta, Yimo Han, Yuan Wang, David A. Muller, Lane W. Martin, PingAn Hu, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227601 (2018) - Published 31 May, 2018

Two-dimensional out-of-plane ferroelectric ordering is experimentally demonstrated in an atomically thin crystal.

Cavity Quantum Acoustic Device in the Multimode Strong Coupling Regime

Bradley A. Moores, Lucas R. Sletten, Jeremie J. Viennot, and K. W. Lehnert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227701 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

Realizing a Circuit Analog of an Optomechanical System with Longitudinally Coupled Superconducting Resonators

C. Eichler and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 227702 (2018) - Published 30 May, 2018

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Symmetry-Breaking Supercollisions in Landau-Quantized Graphene [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 067405 (2017)]

Florian Wendler, Martin Mittendorff, Jacob C. König-Otto, Samuel Brem, Claire Berger, Walter A. de Heer, Roman Böttger, Harald Schneider, Manfred Helm, Stephan Winnerl, and Ermin Malic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 229901 (2018) - Published 1 June, 2018