Volume 120, Issue 25

22 June 2018

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Double-well potential in two dimensions, plotted as a heat map. The wells are marked by green dashed circles and three examples of paths between them are shown (black, gray and white lines).

From the article:

Nested Transition Path Sampling
Peter G. Bolhuis and Gábor Csányi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 250601 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Active Growth and Pattern Formation in Membrane-Protein Systems

F. Cagnetta, M. R. Evans, and D. Marenduzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 258001 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

A new statistical model predicts the evolving shape of a cellular membrane by accounting for the active feedback between the membrane and attached proteins.

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Interacting Cracks Obey a Multiscale Attractive to Repulsive Transition

Marie-Émeline Schwaab, Thierry Biben, Stéphane Santucci, Anthony Gravouil, and Loïc Vanel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 255501 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

A theoretical study of crack propagation provides an explanation for the observed repulsion between certain pairs of cracks on collision courses.

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Emergent Failures and Cascades in Power Grids: A Statistical Physics Perspective

Tommaso Nesti, Alessandro Zocca, and Bert Zwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 258301 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Line failures can emerge and propagate in power grids because of varying power injections such as those from wind and solar plants.

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Direct Observation of Composite Fermions and Their Fully-Spin-Polarized Fermi Sea near $ν = 5 / 2$

Md. Shafayat Hossain, Meng K. Ma, M. A. Mueed, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 256601 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Probing the Fermi sea and wave vector of composite fermions address whether they are present, and spin-polarized, in a particular fractional Hall state that is of relevance to topological quantum computing.

LETTERS

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

Characterization of Topological States via Dual Multipartite Entanglement

Yu-Ran Zhang, Yu Zeng, Heng Fan, J. Q. You, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 250501 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Nested Transition Path Sampling

Peter G. Bolhuis and Gábor Csányi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 250601 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Work Storage in States of Apparent Negative Thermodynamic Temperature

Henning Struchtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 250602 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Vortical Amplification of the Magnetic Field at an Inward Shock of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

F. Fraschetti, S. Katsuda, T. Sato, J. R. Jokipii, and J. Giacalone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 251101 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Detecting Cosmic Reionization Using the Bispectrum Phase

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan, Chris L. Carilli, and Bojan Nikolic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 251301 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gauge Fixing the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

Andreas Helset, Michael Paraskevas, and Michael Trott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 251801 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Accessing Quark Helicity through Dihadron Studies

Hrayr H. Matevosyan, Aram Kotzinian, and Anthony W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 252001 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Long-Term Monitoring of the Internal Energy Distribution of Isolated Cluster Systems

Christian Breitenfeldt, Klaus Blaum, Sebastian George, Jürgen Göck, Gregorio Guzmán-Ramírez, Jonas Karthein, Thomas Kolling, Michael Lange, Sebastian Menk, Christian Meyer, Jennifer Mohrbach, Gereon Niedner-Schatteburg, Dirk Schwalm, Lutz Schweikhard, and Andreas Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253001 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Suppressed Solitonic Cascade in Spin-Imbalanced Superfluid Fermi Gas

Gabriel Wlazłowski, Kazuyuki Sekizawa, Maciej Marchwiany, and Piotr Magierski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253002 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Rotational Spectroscopy of a Triatomic Molecular Anion

Olga Lakhmanskaya, Malcolm Simpson, Simon Murauer, Markus Nötzold, Eric Endres, Viatcheslav Kokoouline, and Roland Wester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253003 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Role of the Transition Dipole Amplitude and Phase on the Generation of Odd and Even High-Order Harmonics in Crystals

Shicheng Jiang, Jigen Chen, Hui Wei, Chao Yu, Ruifeng Lu, and C. D. Lin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253201 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Direct Frequency-Comb-Driven Raman Transitions in the Terahertz Range

C. Solaro, S. Meyer, K. Fisher, M. V. DePalatis, and M. Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253601 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

Nonclassical Light from Large Ensembles of Trapped Ions

P. Obšil, L. Lachman, T. Pham, A. Lešundák, V. Hucl, M. Čížek, J. Hrabina, O. Číp, L. Slodička, and R. Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253602 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Retrieving the Size of Deep-Subwavelength Objects via Tunable Optical Spin-Orbit Coupling

Zheng Xi and H. P. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253901 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

Visualizing Mie Resonances in Low-Index Dielectric Nanoparticles

Jing Zhou, Ashwin Panday, Yuntao Xu, Xi Chen, Long Chen, Chengang Ji, and L. Jay Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 253902 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Shape Control for Experimental Continuation

Robin M. Neville, Rainer M. J. Groh, Alberto Pirrera, and Mark Schenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 254101 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Maximum Willis Coupling in Acoustic Scatterers

Li Quan, Younes Ra’di, Dimitrios L. Sounas, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 254301 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Observation of Laser Power Amplification in a Self-Injecting Laser Wakefield Accelerator

M. J. V. Streeter, S. Kneip, M. S. Bloom, R. A. Bendoyro, O. Chekhlov, A. E. Dangor, A. Döpp, C. J. Hooker, J. Holloway, J. Jiang, N. C. Lopes, H. Nakamura, P. A. Norreys, C. A. J. Palmer, P. P. Rajeev, J. Schreiber, D. R. Symes, M. Wing, S. P. D. Mangles, and Z. Najmudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 254801 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

High-Brilliance Betatron $γ$ -Ray Source Powered by Laser-Accelerated Electrons

J. Ferri, S. Corde, A. Döpp, A. Lifschitz, A. Doche, C. Thaury, K. Ta Phuoc, B. Mahieu, I. A. Andriyash, V. Malka, and X. Davoine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 254802 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Interacting Cracks Obey a Multiscale Attractive to Repulsive Transition

Marie-Émeline Schwaab, Thierry Biben, Stéphane Santucci, Anthony Gravouil, and Loïc Vanel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 255501 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

A theoretical study of crack propagation provides an explanation for the observed repulsion between certain pairs of cracks on collision courses.

Structure and Metallicity of Phase V of Hydrogen

Bartomeu Monserrat, Neil D. Drummond, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Ross T. Howie, Pablo López Ríos, Eugene Gregoryanz, Chris J. Pickard, and Richard J. Needs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 255701 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Rich Ground-State Chemical Ordering in Nanoparticles: Exact Solution of a Model for Ag-Au Clusters

Peter Mahler Larsen, Karsten Wedel Jacobsen, and Jakob Schiøtz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 256101 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Observation of Composite Fermions and Their Fully-Spin-Polarized Fermi Sea near $ν = 5 / 2$

Md. Shafayat Hossain, Meng K. Ma, M. A. Mueed, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 256601 (2018) - Published 20 June, 2018

Electronic Structure of Ce-Doped and -Undoped ${Nd}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$ Superconducting Thin Films Studied by Hard X-Ray Photoemission and Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy

M. Horio, Y. Krockenberger, K. Yamamoto, Y. Yokoyama, K. Takubo, Y. Hirata, S. Sakamoto, K. Koshiishi, A. Yasui, E. Ikenaga, S. Shin, H. Yamamoto, H. Wadati, and A. Fujimori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257001 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Evidence for Ferromagnetic Clusters in the Colossal-Magnetoresistance Material ${EuB}_{6}$

Merlin Pohlit, Sahana Rößler, Yuzo Ohno, Hideo Ohno, Stephan von Molnár, Zachary Fisk, Jens Müller, and Steffen Wirth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257201 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

Evolution of Magneto-Orbital order Upon $B$ -Site Electron Doping in ${Na}_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {Mn}_{7} O_{12}$ Quadruple Perovskite Manganites

R. D. Johnson, F. Mezzadri, P. Manuel, D. D. Khalyavin, E. Gilioli, and P. G. Radaelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257202 (2018) - Published 19 June, 2018

Magnon Straintronics: Reconfigurable Spin-Wave Routing in Strain-Controlled Bilateral Magnetic Stripes

A. V. Sadovnikov, A. A. Grachev, S. E. Sheshukova, Yu. P. Sharaevskii, A. A. Serdobintsev, D. M. Mitin, and S. A. Nikitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257203 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Machine Learning Out-of-Equilibrium Phases of Matter

Jordan Venderley, Vedika Khemani, and Eun-Ah Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257204 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Spin Fluctuations Drive the Inverse Magnetocaloric Effect in ${Mn}_{5} {Si}_{3}$

N. Biniskos, K. Schmalzl, S. Raymond, S. Petit, P. Steffens, J. Persson, and T. Brückel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257205 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Magnetic-Field-Induced Kondo Metal Realized in ${YbB}_{12}$

Taku T. Terashima, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Akihiko Ikeda, Akihiro Kondo, Koichi Kindo, and Fumitoshi Iga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257206 (2018) - Published 22 June, 2018

Phonon Decoherence of Quantum Dots in Photonic Structures: Broadening of the Zero-Phonon Line and the Role of Dimensionality

P. Tighineanu, C. L. Dreeßen, C. Flindt, P. Lodahl, and A. S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257401 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

Fano Interference between Bulk and Surface States of a Dirac Semimetal ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$ Nanowire

Shuo Wang, Ben-Chuan Lin, Wen-Zhuang Zheng, Dapeng Yu, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 257701 (2018) - Published 21 June, 2018

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

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Active Growth and Pattern Formation in Membrane-Protein Systems

F. Cagnetta, M. R. Evans, and D. Marenduzzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 258001 (2018) - Published 18 June, 2018

A new statistical model predicts the evolving shape of a cellular membrane by accounting for the active feedback between the membrane and attached proteins.