Volume 120, Issue 26

29 June 2018

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On the Cover

Simulation snapshots showing the propagation of weakly coupled chemomechanical waves traveling on cube- and prism-shaped active deformable surfaces.

From the article:

Geometry of Wave Propagation on Active Deformable Surfaces
Pearson W. Miller, Norbert Stoop, and Jörn Dunkel
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268001 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Ray Systems in Granular Cratering

Tapan Sabuwala, Christian Butcher, Gustavo Gioia, and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264501 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

A classroom demo of a marble falling into flour helps researchers realize the conditions needed to replicate the ray patterns that form around lunar craters.

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Negative Hydration Expansion in ${ZrW}_{2} O_{8}$ : Microscopic Mechanism, Spaghetti Dynamics, and Negative Thermal Expansion

Mia Baise, Phillip M. Maffettone, Fabien Trousselet, Nicholas P. Funnell, François-Xavier Coudert, and Andrew L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265501 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

The mechanisms by which a material contracts on heating and on absorbing water turn out to be intimately connected.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

High-Power Femtosecond Soft X Rays from Fresh-Slice Multistage Free-Electron Lasers

Alberto A. Lutman, Marc W. Guetg, Timothy J. Maxwell, James P. MacArthur, Yuantao Ding, Claudio Emma, Jacek Krzywinski, Agostino Marinelli, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264801 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

A new x-ray free-electron-laser configuration emits soft x-ray pulses with record-breaking energies.

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18-Qubit Entanglement with Six Photons’ Three Degrees of Freedom

Xi-Lin Wang, Yi-Han Luo, He-Liang Huang, Ming-Cheng Chen, Zu-En Su, Chang Liu, Chao Chen, Wei Li, Yu-Qiang Fang, Xiao Jiang, Jun Zhang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260502 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

An 18-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entangled state is created by using three degrees of freedom—path, polarization, and orbital angular momentum—of six photons.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Salt-induced Long-to-Short Range Orientational Transition in Water

Julien Duboisset and Pierre-François Brevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263001 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

The configuration of water molecules in an aqueous solution transitions from a long-range 3D stacked pattern to a short-range 2D radial pattern when salt is added.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology of Disconnected Elementary Band Representations

Jennifer Cano, Barry Bradlyn, Zhijun Wang, L. Elcoro, M. G. Vergniory, C. Felser, M. I. Aroyo, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266401 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

A new topological invariant—a movable but unremovable Dirac cone—is identified by considering symmorphic and non-symmorphic space groups of gapped elementary band representations.

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Dynamic Control of the Coupling between Dark and Bright Excitons with Vibrational Strain

Ryuichi Ohta, Hajime Okamoto, Takehiko Tawara, Hideki Gotoh, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267401 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Strain-controlled coupling between dark and bright bound excitons may enable on-chip exciton-based memory and circuitry.

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Water-Compression Gating of Nanopore Transport

James Wilson and Aleksei Aksimentiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268101 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

The transport of DNA through a nanopore could be stopped by creating a sharp electric gradient across the pore, which generates a hydrostatic force that repels the biomolecule.

LETTERS

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

Maximal Randomness Generation from Steering Inequality Violations Using Qudits

Paul Skrzypczyk and Daniel Cavalcanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260401 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Measuring the Winding Number in a Large-Scale Chiral Quantum Walk

Xiao-Ye Xu, Qin-Qin Wang, Wei-Wei Pan, Kai Sun, Jin-Shi Xu, Geng Chen, Jian-Shun Tang, Ming Gong, Yong-Jian Han, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260501 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

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18-Qubit Entanglement with Six Photons’ Three Degrees of Freedom

Xi-Lin Wang, Yi-Han Luo, He-Liang Huang, Ming-Cheng Chen, Zu-En Su, Chang Liu, Chao Chen, Wei Li, Yu-Qiang Fang, Xiao Jiang, Jun Zhang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260502 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

An 18-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger entangled state is created by using three degrees of freedom—path, polarization, and orbital angular momentum—of six photons.

Universal Quantum Magnetometry with Spin States at Equilibrium

Filippo Troiani and Matteo G. A. Paris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260503 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Distinguishing Coherent and Thermal Photon Noise in a Circuit Quantum Electrodynamical System

Fei Yan, Dan Campbell, Philip Krantz, Morten Kjaergaard, David Kim, Jonilyn L. Yoder, David Hover, Adam Sears, Andrew J. Kerman, Terry P. Orlando, Simon Gustavsson, and William D. Oliver

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260504 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Efficient Quantum Measurement Engines

Cyril Elouard and Andrew N. Jordan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260601 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Solvation in Space-time: Pretransition Effects in Trajectory Space

Shachi Katira, Juan P. Garrahan, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 260602 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Compact Object Mergers Driven by Gas Fallback

Hiromichi Tagawa, Takayuki R. Saitoh, and Bence Kocsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261101 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Extended Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani et al. (CALET Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261102 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

New Constraints on Radii and Tidal Deformabilities of Neutron Stars from GW170817

Elias R. Most, Lukas R. Weih, Luciano Rezzolla, and Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261103 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Radial Acceleration Relation of $Λ CDM$ Satellite Galaxies

Enrico Garaldi, Emilio Romano-Díaz, Cristiano Porciani, and Marcel S. Pawlowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261301 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

What Spatial Geometries do ( $2 + 1$ )-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory Vacua Prefer?

Sebastian Fischetti, Lucas Wallis, and Toby Wiseman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261601 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Vector Effective Field Theories from Soft Limits

Clifford Cheung, Karol Kampf, Jiri Novotny, Chia-Hsien Shen, Jaroslav Trnka, and Congkao Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261602 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Amplitude Analysis of the Decay ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to K_{S}^{0} π^{+} π^{-}$ and First Observation of the $C P$ Asymmetry in ${\bar{B}}^{0} \to K^{*} (892)^{-} π^{+}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261801 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Solving the Hierarchy Problem Discretely

Anson Hook

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261802 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Astrophobic Axions

Luca Di Luzio, Federico Mescia, Enrico Nardi, Paolo Panci, and Robert Ziegler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261803 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Soft-Photon Corrections to $\bar{B} \to D τ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{τ}$ Relative to $\bar{B} \to D μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ}$

Stefan de Boer, Teppei Kitahara, and Ivan Nišandžić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 261804 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Precision Mass Measurements on Neutron-Rich Rare-Earth Isotopes at JYFLTRAP: Reduced Neutron Pairing and Implications for $r$ -Process Calculations

M. Vilen, J. M. Kelly, A. Kankainen, M. Brodeur, A. Aprahamian, L. Canete, T. Eronen, A. Jokinen, T. Kuta, I. D. Moore, M. R. Mumpower, D. A. Nesterenko, H. Penttilä, I. Pohjalainen, W. S. Porter, S. Rinta-Antila, R. Surman, A. Voss, and J. Äystö

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 262701 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Neodymium and Samarium Isotopes and Their Role in Understanding Rare-Earth Peak Formation

R. Orford, N. Vassh, J. A. Clark, G. C. McLaughlin, M. R. Mumpower, G. Savard, R. Surman, A. Aprahamian, F. Buchinger, M. T. Burkey, D. A. Gorelov, T. Y. Hirsh, J. W. Klimes, G. E. Morgan, A. Nystrom, and K. S. Sharma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 262702 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Salt-induced Long-to-Short Range Orientational Transition in Water

Julien Duboisset and Pierre-François Brevet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263001 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

The configuration of water molecules in an aqueous solution transitions from a long-range 3D stacked pattern to a short-range 2D radial pattern when salt is added.

Strong-Field Fourier Transform Vibrational Spectroscopy of $D_{2}^{+}$ Using Few-Cycle Near-Infrared Laser Pulses

Toshiaki Ando, Atsushi Iwasaki, and Kaoru Yamanouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263002 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Precision Measurement of the First Ionization Potential of Nobelium

P. Chhetri et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263003 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Experimental Demonstration of Shaken-Lattice Interferometry

C. A. Weidner and Dana Z. Anderson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263201 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Self-Adapted Floquet Dynamics of Ultracold Bosons in a Cavity

Xi-Wang Luo and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263202 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Control of Harmonic Generation by the Time Delay Between Two-Color, Bicircular Few-Cycle Mid-IR Laser Pulses

M. V. Frolov, N. L. Manakov, A. A. Minina, N. V. Vvedenskii, A. A. Silaev, M. Yu. Ivanov, and Anthony F. Starace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263203 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Revealing the Behavior of Photons in a Birefringent Interferometer

Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Shi-Kai Liu, Shi-Long Liu, Yin-Hai Li, Yan Li, Chen Yang, Zhao-Huai Xu, Guang-Can Guo, and Bao-Sen Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263601 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Silicon-Based Optical Mirror Coatings for Ultrahigh Precision Metrology and Sensing

J. Steinlechner, I. W. Martin, A. S. Bell, J. Hough, M. Fletcher, P. G. Murray, R. Robie, S. Rowan, and R. Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263602 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

First Evidence of Purely Extreme-Ultraviolet Four-Wave Mixing

L. Foglia, F. Capotondi, R. Mincigrucci, D. Naumenko, E. Pedersoli, A. Simoncig, G. Kurdi, A. Calvi, M. Manfredda, L. Raimondi, N. Mahne, M. Zangrando, C. Masciovecchio, and F. Bencivenga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 263901 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Dynamics of Noisy Oscillator Populations beyond the Ott-Antonsen Ansatz

Irina V. Tyulkina, Denis S. Goldobin, Lyudmila S. Klimenko, and Arkady Pikovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264101 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Volcano Transition in a Solvable Model of Frustrated Oscillators

Bertrand Ottino-Löffler and Steven H. Strogatz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264102 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Stability Analysis of an Array of Magnets: When Will It Jump?

Nicolas Taberlet, Jérémy Ferrand, and Nicolas Plihon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264301 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ray Systems in Granular Cratering

Tapan Sabuwala, Christian Butcher, Gustavo Gioia, and Pinaki Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264501 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

A classroom demo of a marble falling into flour helps researchers realize the conditions needed to replicate the ray patterns that form around lunar craters.

Flow-Induced Surface Charge Heterogeneity in Electrokinetics due to Stern-Layer Conductance Coupled to Reaction Kinetics

B. L. Werkhoven, J. C. Everts, S. Samin, and R. van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264502 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

High-Power Femtosecond Soft X Rays from Fresh-Slice Multistage Free-Electron Lasers

Alberto A. Lutman, Marc W. Guetg, Timothy J. Maxwell, James P. MacArthur, Yuantao Ding, Claudio Emma, Jacek Krzywinski, Agostino Marinelli, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264801 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

A new x-ray free-electron-laser configuration emits soft x-ray pulses with record-breaking energies.

Dispersion-Based Fresh-Slice Scheme for Free-Electron Lasers

Marc W. Guetg, Alberto A. Lutman, Yuantao Ding, Timothy J. Maxwell, and Zhirong Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264802 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Extreme Ultraviolet Beam Enhancement by Relativistic Surface Plasmons

G. Cantono, L. Fedeli, A. Sgattoni, A. Denoeud, L. Chopineau, F. Réau, T. Ceccotti, and A. Macchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264803 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

High Spin-Flip Efficiency at 255 GeV for Polarized Protons in a Ring With Two Full Siberian Snakes

H. Huang, J. Kewisch, C. Liu, A. Marusic, W. Meng, F. Méot, P. Oddo, V. Ptitsyn, V. Ranjbar, and T. Roser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 264804 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Role of Kinetic Instability in Runaway-Electron Avalanches and Elevated Critical Electric Fields

Chang Liu, Eero Hirvijoki, Guo-Yong Fu, Dylan P. Brennan, Amitava Bhattacharjee, and Carlos Paz-Soldan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265001 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Negative Hydration Expansion in ${ZrW}_{2} O_{8}$ : Microscopic Mechanism, Spaghetti Dynamics, and Negative Thermal Expansion

Mia Baise, Phillip M. Maffettone, Fabien Trousselet, Nicholas P. Funnell, François-Xavier Coudert, and Andrew L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265501 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

The mechanisms by which a material contracts on heating and on absorbing water turn out to be intimately connected.

Femtosecond X-Ray Diffraction Studies of the Reversal of the Microstructural Effects of Plastic Deformation during Shock Release of Tantalum

M. Sliwa, D. McGonegle, C. Wehrenberg, C. A. Bolme, P. G. Heighway, A. Higginbotham, A. Lazicki, H. J. Lee, B. Nagler, H. S. Park, R. E. Rudd, M. J. Suggit, D. Swift, F. Tavella, L. Zepeda-Ruiz, B. A. Remington, and J. S. Wark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265502 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Twinning and Dislocation Evolution during Shock Compression and Release of Single Crystals: Real-Time X-Ray Diffraction

Stefan J. Turneaure, P. Renganathan, J. M. Winey, and Y. M. Gupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265503 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Delayed Onset of Nonthermal Melting in Single-Crystal Silicon Pumped with Hard X Rays

T. Pardini, J. Alameda, A. Aquila, S. Boutet, T. Decker, A. E. Gleason, S. Guillet, P. Hamilton, M. Hayes, R. Hill, J. Koglin, B. Kozioziemski, J. Robinson, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, R. Soufli, and S. P. Hau-Riege

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265701 (2018) - Published 25 June, 2018

Pressure-Induced Sublattice Disordering in ${SnO}_{2}$ : Invasive Selective Percolation

Helainne T. Girao, Patrick Hermet, Bruno Masenelli, Julien Haines, Patrice Mélinon, and Denis Machon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 265702 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

Spin-Isomer Conversion of Water at Room Temperature and Quantum-Rotor-Induced Nuclear Polarization in the Water-Endofullerene $H_{2} O @ C_{60}$

Benno Meier, Karel Kouřil, Christian Bengs, Hana Kouřilová, Timothy C. Barker, Stuart J. Elliott, Shamim Alom, Richard J. Whitby, and Malcolm H. Levitt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266001 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topology of Disconnected Elementary Band Representations

Jennifer Cano, Barry Bradlyn, Zhijun Wang, L. Elcoro, M. G. Vergniory, C. Felser, M. I. Aroyo, and B. Andrei Bernevig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266401 (2018) - Published 27 June, 2018

A new topological invariant—a movable but unremovable Dirac cone—is identified by considering symmorphic and non-symmorphic space groups of gapped elementary band representations.

Externally Controlled Magnetism and Band Gap in Twisted Bilayer Graphene

A. O. Sboychakov, A. V. Rozhkov, A. L. Rakhmanov, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266402 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Effect of Magnetization on the Tunneling Anomaly in Compressible Quantum Hall States

Debanjan Chowdhury, Brian Skinner, and Patrick A. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266601 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Spin Accumulation and Dynamics in Inversion-Symmetric van der Waals Crystals

M. H. D. Guimarães and B. Koopmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266801 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Observation of Out-of-Plane Spin Texture in a ${SrTiO}_{3} (111)$ Two-Dimensional Electron Gas

Pan He, S. McKeown Walker, Steven S.-L. Zhang, F. Y. Bruno, M. S. Bahramy, Jong Min Lee, Rajagopalan Ramaswamy, Kaiming Cai, Olle Heinonen, Giovanni Vignale, F. Baumberger, and Hyunsoo Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 266802 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Superconductivity in FeSe: The Role of Nematic Order

Jian Kang, Rafael M. Fernandes, and Andrey Chubukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267001 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Parity-Controlled $2 π$ Josephson Effect Mediated by Majorana Kramers Pairs

Constantin Schrade and Liang Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267002 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Odd and Even Modes of Neutron Spin Resonance in the Bilayer Iron-Based Superconductor ${CaKFe}_{4} {As}_{4}$

Tao Xie, Yuan Wei, Dongliang Gong, Tom Fennell, Uwe Stuhr, Ryoichi Kajimoto, Kazuhiko Ikeuchi, Shiliang Li, Jiangping Hu, and Huiqian Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267003 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Quantum Hall Effect with Composites of Magnetic Flux Tubes and Charged Particles

Marija Todorić, Dario Jukić, Danko Radić, Marin Soljačić, and Hrvoje Buljan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267201 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Unexpected Intermediate State Photoinduced in the Metal-Insulator Transition of Submicrometer Phase-Separated Manganites

Hanxuan Lin, Hao Liu, Lingfang Lin, Shuai Dong, Hongyan Chen, Yu Bai, Tian Miao, Yang Yu, Weichao Yu, Jing Tang, Yinyan Zhu, Yunfang Kou, Jiebin Niu, Zhaohua Cheng, Jiang Xiao, Wenbin Wang, Elbio Dagotto, Lifeng Yin, and Jian Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267202 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

Aging Rate of Spin Glasses from Simulations Matches Experiments

M. Baity-Jesi, E. Calore, A. Cruz, L. A. Fernandez, J. M. Gil-Narvion, A. Gordillo-Guerrero, D. Iñiguez, A. Maiorano, E. Marinari, V. Martin-Mayor, J. Moreno-Gordo, A. Muñoz-Sudupe, D. Navarro, G. Parisi, S. Perez-Gaviro, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, J. J. Ruiz-Lorenzo, S. F. Schifano, B. Seoane, A. Tarancon, R. Tripiccione, and D. Yllanes (Janus Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267203 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dynamic Control of the Coupling between Dark and Bright Excitons with Vibrational Strain

Ryuichi Ohta, Hajime Okamoto, Takehiko Tawara, Hideki Gotoh, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267401 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Strain-controlled coupling between dark and bright bound excitons may enable on-chip exciton-based memory and circuitry.

Atomic-Scale Measurement of Flexoelectric Polarization at ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Dislocations

Peng Gao, Shuzhen Yang, Ryo Ishikawa, Ning Li, Bin Feng, Akihito Kumamoto, Naoya Shibata, Pu Yu, and Yuichi Ikuhara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267601 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

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

Dynamically Heterogeneous Relaxation of Entangled Polymer Chains

Yuecheng Zhou and Charles M. Schroeder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 267801 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

Geometry of Wave Propagation on Active Deformable Surfaces

Pearson W. Miller, Norbert Stoop, and Jörn Dunkel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268001 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Crack Initiation in Viscoelastic Materials

Yuval Mulla, Giorgio Oliveri, Johannes T. B. Overvelde, and Gijsje H. Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268002 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Exact Hydrodynamic Description of Active Lattice Gases

Mourtaza Kourbane-Houssene, Clément Erignoux, Thierry Bodineau, and Julien Tailleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268003 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

Active Atoms and Interstitials in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals

Kilian Dietrich, Giovanni Volpe, Muhammad Nasruddin Sulaiman, Damian Renggli, Ivo Buttinoni, and Lucio Isa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268004 (2018) - Published 29 June, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Water-Compression Gating of Nanopore Transport

James Wilson and Aleksei Aksimentiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 268101 (2018) - Published 26 June, 2018

The transport of DNA through a nanopore could be stopped by creating a sharp electric gradient across the pore, which generates a hydrostatic force that repels the biomolecule.

ERRATA

Erratum: Ultrafast Spin-State Dynamics in Transition-Metal Complexes Triggered by Soft-X-Ray Light [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 023001 (2017)]

Huihui Wang, Sergey I. Bokarev, Saadullah G. Aziz, and Oliver Kühn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 269901 (2018) - Published 28 June, 2018