Volume 120, Issue 23

8 June 2018

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On the Cover

Far-field distribution of the magnetic field strength for a magnetic-line-source-excited five-layered subwavelength cylinder.

From the article:

Highly Subwavelength, Superdirective Cylindrical Nanoantenna
Samel Arslanagić and Richard W. Ziolkowski
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237401 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Toward Scalable Boson Sampling with Photon Loss

Hui Wang, Wei Li, Xiao Jiang, Y.-M. He, Y.-H. Li, X. Ding, M.-C. Chen, J. Qin, C.-Z. Peng, C. Schneider, M. Kamp, W.-J. Zhang, H. Li, L.-X. You, Z. Wang, J. P. Dowling, S. Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230502 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

A photon-based method for demonstrating the advantage of quantum over classical machines can handle photon loss, facilitating experiments.

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Observation of $t \bar{t} H$ Production

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231801 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

A proton collision experiment at CERN provides a new handle on the Higgs boson’s interaction with the heaviest of the quarks.

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Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy

S. Raeder et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232503 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

A laser-based technique provides the most precise measurements to date of nuclear properties for an element above atomic number 100.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Robustness of Light-Transport Processes to Bending Deformations in Graded-Index Multimode Waveguides

Dirk E. Boonzajer Flaes, Jan Stopka, Sergey Turtaev, Johannes F. de Boer, Tomáš Tyc, and Tomáš Čižmár

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233901 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Bending an optical fiber can distort light traveling through it, but such a distortion can be mitigated in fibers with a smoothly varying refractive-index profile.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Masking Quantum Information is Impossible

Kavan Modi, Arun Kumar Pati, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230501 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Theorists predict that quantum information can’t be securely “locked” in a vault.

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Stimulated Axion Decay in Superradiant Clouds around Primordial Black Holes

João G. Rosa and Thomas W. Kephart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231102 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

A theoretical computation suggests that superradiant axion clouds around hypothesized spinning primordial black holes may make the black holes function as lasers.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for a Hypothetical 16.7 MeV Gauge Boson and Dark Photons in the NA64 Experiment at CERN

D. Banerjee et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231802 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Data from a search for a hypothetical light boson that couples to electrons rules out about half the parameter space for explanations for an anomaly observed in excited $^{8}$ Be decays.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Result on the Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay of ${}^{82}{Se}$ with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232502 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

The CUPID-0 experiment improves the half-life limit of the $^{82}$ Se neutrinoless double beta decay by almost an order of magnitude.

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Two-Color Pump-Probe Measurement of Photonic Quantum Correlations Mediated by a Single Phonon

Mitchell D. Anderson, Santiago Tarrago Velez, Kilian Seibold, Hugo Flayac, Vincenzo Savona, Nicolas Sangouard, and Christophe Galland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233601 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

A new time-resolved Raman spectroscopy method gives access to the quantum nature of Raman-active phonon modes and measures the creation and annihilation of a highly-non-classical single-phonon Fock state.

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Néel Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Antiferromagnetic Resonance in ${Mn}_{2} Au$ Probed by Time-Domain THz Spectroscopy

N. Bhattacharjee, A. A. Sapozhnik, S. Yu. Bodnar, V. Yu. Grigorev, S. Y. Agustsson, J. Cao, D. Dominko, M. Obergfell, O. Gomonay, J. Sinova, M. Kläui, H.-J. Elmers, M. Jourdan, and J. Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237201 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

The excitation of an antiferromagnetic resonance in metallic Mn $_{2}$ Au with THz pulses exceeds excitations found in antiferromagnetic insulators by three orders of magnitude.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cold Active Motion: How Time-Independent Disorder Affects the Motion of Self-Propelled Agents

Fernando Peruani and Igor S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 238101 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Quenched disorder induces nontrivial dynamic phases in “cold” active matter, where external fluctuations are absent, that are not seen in “hot” active matter systems.

LETTERS

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

Tuning the Dipole-Dipole Interaction in a Quantum Gas with a Rotating Magnetic Field

Yijun Tang, Wil Kao, Kuan-Yu Li, and Benjamin L. Lev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230401 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

Strong Unitary and Overlap Uncertainty Relations: Theory and Experiment

Kok-Wei Bong, Nora Tischler, Raj B. Patel, Sabine Wollmann, Geoff J. Pryde, and Michael J. W. Hall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230402 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Time-of-Flight Measurements as a Possible Method to Observe Anyonic Statistics

R. O. Umucalılar, E. Macaluso, T. Comparin, and I. Carusotto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230403 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Nonconservative Forces via Quantum Reservoir Engineering

Shanon L. Vuglar, Dmitry V. Zhdanov, Renan Cabrera, Tamar Seideman, Christopher Jarzynski, and Denys I. Bondar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230404 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Simulation of Non-Abelian Braiding in Majorana Time Crystals

Raditya Weda Bomantara and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230405 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Mesoscopic Dynamical Differences from Quantum State Preparation in a Bose-Hubbard Trimer

M. K. Olsen, T. W. Neely, and A. S. Bradley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230406 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

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Masking Quantum Information is Impossible

Kavan Modi, Arun Kumar Pati, Aditi Sen(De), and Ujjwal Sen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230501 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Theorists predict that quantum information can’t be securely “locked” in a vault.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Toward Scalable Boson Sampling with Photon Loss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230502 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

A photon-based method for demonstrating the advantage of quantum over classical machines can handle photon loss, facilitating experiments.

Certifying an Irreducible 1024-Dimensional Photonic State Using Refined Dimension Witnesses

Edgar A. Aguilar, Máté Farkas, Daniel Martínez, Matías Alvarado, Jaime Cariñe, Guilherme B. Xavier, Johanna F. Barra, Gustavo Cañas, Marcin Pawłowski, and Gustavo Lima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230503 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Experimental Demonstration of Observability and Operability of Robustness of Coherence

Wenqiang Zheng, Zhihao Ma, Hengyan Wang, Shao-Ming Fei, and Xinhua Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230504 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Dynamical Typicality Approach to Eigenstate Thermalization

Peter Reimann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230601 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

First Predictions of the Angular Power Spectrum of the Astrophysical Gravitational Wave Background

Giulia Cusin, Irina Dvorkin, Cyril Pitrou, and Jean-Philippe Uzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231101 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Stimulated Axion Decay in Superradiant Clouds around Primordial Black Holes

João G. Rosa and Thomas W. Kephart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231102 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

A theoretical computation suggests that superradiant axion clouds around hypothesized spinning primordial black holes may make the black holes function as lasers.

Massive Vector Fields in Rotating Black-Hole Spacetimes: Separability and Quasinormal Modes

Valeri P. Frolov, Pavel Krtouš, David Kubizňák, and Jorge E. Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231103 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Black Hole Scrambling from Hydrodynamics

Sašo Grozdanov, Koenraad Schalm, and Vincenzo Scopelliti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231601 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Locality and Unitarity of Scattering Amplitudes from Singularities and Gauge Invariance

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Laurentiu Rodina, and Jaroslav Trnka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231602 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

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Observation of $t \bar{t} H$ Production

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231801 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

A proton collision experiment at CERN provides a new handle on the Higgs boson’s interaction with the heaviest of the quarks.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for a Hypothetical 16.7 MeV Gauge Boson and Dark Photons in the NA64 Experiment at CERN

D. Banerjee et al. (NA64 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 231802 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Data from a search for a hypothetical light boson that couples to electrons rules out about half the parameter space for explanations for an anomaly observed in excited $^{8}$ Be decays.

Vacuumlike Jet Fragmentation in a Dense QCD Medium

P. Caucal, E. Iancu, A. H. Mueller, and G. Soyez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232001 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Probing the Time Structure of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Top Quarks

Liliana Apolinário, José Guilherme Milhano, Gavin P. Salam, and Carlos A. Salgado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232301 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Precision Mass Measurements of ${}^{58 - 63}{Cr}$ : Nuclear Collectivity Towards the $N = 40$ Island of Inversion

M. Mougeot, D. Atanasov, K. Blaum, K. Chrysalidis, T. Day Goodacre, D. Fedorov, V. Fedosseev, S. George, F. Herfurth, J. D. Holt, D. Lunney, V. Manea, B. Marsh, D. Neidherr, M. Rosenbusch, S. Rothe, L. Schweikhard, A. Schwenk, C. Seiffert, J. Simonis, S. R. Stroberg, A. Welker, F. Wienholtz, R. N. Wolf, and K. Zuber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232501 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Result on the Neutrinoless Double- $β$ Decay of ${}^{82}{Se}$ with CUPID-0

O. Azzolini et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232502 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

The CUPID-0 experiment improves the half-life limit of the $^{82}$ Se neutrinoless double beta decay by almost an order of magnitude.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Probing Sizes and Shapes of Nobelium Isotopes by Laser Spectroscopy

S. Raeder et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 232503 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

A laser-based technique provides the most precise measurements to date of nuclear properties for an element above atomic number 100.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Selectivity of Electronic Coherence and Attosecond Ionization Delays in Strong-Field Double Ionization

Yuki Kobayashi, Maurizio Reduzzi, Kristina F. Chang, Henry Timmers, Daniel M. Neumark, and Stephen R. Leone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233201 (2018) - Published 4 June, 2018

Imprints of the Molecular Electronic Structure in the Photoelectron Spectra of Strong-Field Ionized Asymmetric Triatomic Model Molecules

Matthias Paul, Lun Yue, and Stefanie Gräfe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233202 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Frequency-Comb Based Double-Quantum Two-Dimensional Spectrum Identifies Collective Hyperfine Resonances in Atomic Vapor Induced by Dipole-Dipole Interactions

Bachana Lomsadze and Steven T. Cundiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233401 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Two-Color Pump-Probe Measurement of Photonic Quantum Correlations Mediated by a Single Phonon

Mitchell D. Anderson, Santiago Tarrago Velez, Kilian Seibold, Hugo Flayac, Vincenzo Savona, Nicolas Sangouard, and Christophe Galland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233601 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Measuring Geometric Phase without Interferometry

T. Malhotra, R. Gutiérrez-Cuevas, J. Hassett, M. R. Dennis, A. N. Vamivakas, and M. A. Alonso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233602 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Robustness of Light-Transport Processes to Bending Deformations in Graded-Index Multimode Waveguides

Dirk E. Boonzajer Flaes, Jan Stopka, Sergey Turtaev, Johannes F. de Boer, Tomáš Tyc, and Tomáš Čižmár

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 233901 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Bending an optical fiber can distort light traveling through it, but such a distortion can be mitigated in fibers with a smoothly varying refractive-index profile.

Many-Body Quantum Chaos and Entanglement in a Quantum Ratchet

Marc Andrew Valdez, Gavriil Shchedrin, Martin Heimsoth, Charles E. Creffield, Fernando Sols, and Lincoln D. Carr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 234101 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Ternary Free-Energy Entropic Lattice Boltzmann Model with a High Density Ratio

M. Wöhrwag, C. Semprebon, A. Mazloomi Moqaddam, I. Karlin, and H. Kusumaatmaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 234501 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Self-Bound Quantum Droplets of Atomic Mixtures in Free Space

G. Semeghini, G. Ferioli, L. Masi, C. Mazzinghi, L. Wolswijk, F. Minardi, M. Modugno, G. Modugno, M. Inguscio, and M. Fattori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 235301 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Yang Monopoles and Emergent Three-Dimensional Topological Defects in Interacting Bosons

Yangqian Yan and Qi Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 235302 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Engineering Surface Critical Behavior of ( $2 + 1$ )-Dimensional O(3) Quantum Critical Points

Chengxiang Ding, Long Zhang, and Wenan Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 235701 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Phonon Lifetime Observation in Epitaxial ScN Film with Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Spectroscopy

H. Uchiyama, Y. Oshima, R. Patterson, S. Iwamoto, J. Shiomi, and K. Shimamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 235901 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Dephasing Catastrophe in $4 - ε$ Dimensions: A Possible Instability of the Ergodic (Many-Body-Delocalized) Phase

Yunxiang Liao and Matthew S. Foster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 236601 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Cavity-Mediated Coherent Coupling between Distant Quantum Dots

Giorgio Nicolí, Michael Sven Ferguson, Clemens Rössler, Alexander Wolfertz, Gianni Blatter, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Christian Reichl, Werner Wegscheider, and Oded Zilberberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 236801 (2018) - Published 7 June, 2018

Theory of Liquid Film Growth and Wetting Instabilities on Graphene

Sanghita Sengupta, Nathan S. Nichols, Adrian Del Maestro, and Valeri N. Kotov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 236802 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

Electron Phonon Coupling versus Photoelectron Energy Loss at the Origin of Replica Bands in Photoemission of FeSe on ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Fengmiao Li and George A. Sawatzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237001 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Single-Gap Superconductivity and Dome of Superfluid Density in Nb-Doped ${SrTi O}_{3}$

Markus Thiemann, Manfred H. Beutel, Martin Dressel, Nicholas R. Lee-Hone, David M. Broun, Evangelos Fillis-Tsirakis, Hans Boschker, Jochen Mannhart, and Marc Scheffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237002 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Néel Spin-Orbit Torque Driven Antiferromagnetic Resonance in ${Mn}_{2} Au$ Probed by Time-Domain THz Spectroscopy

N. Bhattacharjee, A. A. Sapozhnik, S. Yu. Bodnar, V. Yu. Grigorev, S. Y. Agustsson, J. Cao, D. Dominko, M. Obergfell, O. Gomonay, J. Sinova, M. Kläui, H.-J. Elmers, M. Jourdan, and J. Demsar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237201 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

The excitation of an antiferromagnetic resonance in metallic Mn $_{2}$ Au with THz pulses exceeds excitations found in antiferromagnetic insulators by three orders of magnitude.

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

Dynamic Morphologies and Stability of Droplet Interface Bilayers

Benjamin Guiselin, Jack O. Law, Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, and Halim Kusumaatmaja

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 238001 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Cold Active Motion: How Time-Independent Disorder Affects the Motion of Self-Propelled Agents

Fernando Peruani and Igor S. Aranson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 238101 (2018) - Published 6 June, 2018

Quenched disorder induces nontrivial dynamic phases in “cold” active matter, where external fluctuations are absent, that are not seen in “hot” active matter systems.

Tuning Spatial Profiles of Selection Pressure to Modulate the Evolution of Drug Resistance

Maxwell G. De Jong and Kevin B. Wood

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 238102 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Three New Low-Energy Resonances in the ${}^{22}{Ne} (p, γ) {}^{23}{Na}$ Reaction [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 252501 (2015)]

F. Cavanna et al. (The LUNA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 239901 (2018) - Published 5 June, 2018

Erratum: Search for $C P$ Violation in Positronium Decay [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 083401 (2010)]

T. Yamazaki, T. Namba, S. Asai, and T. Kobayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 239902 (2018) - Published 8 June, 2018