Volume 120, Issue 3

19 January 2018

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Illustration of the low-Earth-orbit satellite Micius and three ground stations located in Xinglong and Nanshan (China) and Graz (Austria), which function as a satellite-relayed intercontinental decoy-state quantum key distribution network. Selected for a Focus story in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Satellite-Relayed Intercontinental Quantum Network
Sheng-Kai Liao et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030501 (2018)

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Satellite-Relayed Intercontinental Quantum Network

Sheng-Kai Liao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030501 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

China and Austria used a satellite link to exchange quantum encrypted data for images and a video stream, a first step toward a secure “quantum internet.”

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Quasinormal Modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship

Vitor Cardoso, João L. Costa, Kyriakos Destounis, Peter Hintz, and Aron Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031103 (2018) - Published 17 January, 2018

A numerical analysis of perturbations of a charged black hole suggests that the usual predictability of the laws of physics can fail in general relativity.

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${}^{3}{He} − {}^{129}{Xe}$ Comagnetometery using ${}^{87}{Rb}$ Detection and Decoupling

M. E. Limes, D. Sheng, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033401 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

An enhanced version of a magnetometer based on atomic spins could be used to search for theoretically predicted exotic fields with ultrahigh sensitivity.

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Realization of an Electrically Tunable Narrow-Bandwidth Atomically Thin Mirror Using Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$

Patrick Back, Sina Zeytinoglu, Aroosa Ijaz, Martin Kroner, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037401 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Researchers designed an atomically thin mirror with electronically switchable reflectivity that could be useful in optoelectronic circuits.

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Large Excitonic Reflectivity of Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$ Encapsulated in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Giovanni Scuri, You Zhou, Alexander A. High, Dominik S. Wild, Chi Shu, Kristiaan De Greve, Luis A. Jauregui, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hongkun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037402 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Researchers designed an atomically thin mirror with electronically switchable reflectivity that could be useful in optoelectronic circuits.

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Many-Body Localization Dynamics from Gauge Invariance

Marlon Brenes, Marcello Dalmonte, Markus Heyl, and Antonello Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030601 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Numerical simulations show that lattice gauge theories can exhibit many-body localization dynamics, even in the absence of disorder.

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Superconductivity in Pristine $2 H_{a} − {MoS}_{2}$ at Ultrahigh Pressure

Zhenhua Chi, Xuliang Chen, Fei Yen, Feng Peng, Yonghui Zhou, Jinlong Zhu, Yijin Zhang, Xiaodi Liu, Chuanlong Lin, Shengqi Chu, Yanchun Li, Jinggeng Zhao, Tomoko Kagayama, Yanming Ma, and Zhaorong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037002 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Superconductivity emerges in the transition metal dichalcogenide 2 $H$ $_{a}$ -MoS $_{2}$ at 3 K and 90 GPa. Above 120 GPa, the critical temperature is 12 K.

LETTERS

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

Experimental High-Dimensional Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Qiang Zeng, Bo Wang, Pengyun Li, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030401 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Nonperturbative Treatment of non-Markovian Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems

D. Tamascelli, A. Smirne, S. F. Huelga, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030402 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Simulating Open Quantum Systems with Hamiltonian Ensembles and the Nonclassicality of the Dynamics

Hong-Bin Chen, Clemens Gneiting, Ping-Yuan Lo, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030403 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Universally Fisher-Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements

Huangjun Zhu and Masahito Hayashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030404 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

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Satellite-Relayed Intercontinental Quantum Network

Sheng-Kai Liao et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030501 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

China and Austria used a satellite link to exchange quantum encrypted data for images and a video stream, a first step toward a secure “quantum internet.”

Electro-Optic Frequency Beam Splitters and Tritters for High-Fidelity Photonic Quantum Information Processing

Hsuan-Hao Lu, Joseph M. Lukens, Nicholas A. Peters, Ogaga D. Odele, Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner, and Pavel Lougovski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030502 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Long-Range Big Quantum-Data Transmission

M. Zwerger, A. Pirker, V. Dunjko, H. J. Briegel, and W. Dür

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030503 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

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Many-Body Localization Dynamics from Gauge Invariance

Marlon Brenes, Marcello Dalmonte, Markus Heyl, and Antonello Scardicchio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 030601 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Numerical simulations show that lattice gauge theories can exhibit many-body localization dynamics, even in the absence of disorder.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Evaluation of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field Strength Using the Cosmic-Ray Shadow of the Sun

M. Amenomori et al. (The Tibet ASγ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031101 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Neutron-Star Radius from a Population of Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Sukanta Bose, Kabir Chakravarti, Luciano Rezzolla, B. S. Sathyaprakash, and Kentaro Takami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031102 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

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Quasinormal Modes and Strong Cosmic Censorship

Vitor Cardoso, João L. Costa, Kyriakos Destounis, Peter Hintz, and Aron Jansen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031103 (2018) - Published 17 January, 2018

A numerical analysis of perturbations of a charged black hole suggests that the usual predictability of the laws of physics can fail in general relativity.

First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031104 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Gravitational Waves from Oscillons with Cuspy Potentials

Jing Liu, Zong-Kuan Guo, Rong-Gen Cai, and Gary Shiu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031301 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Einstein Equations from Varying Complexity

Bartłomiej Czech

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 031601 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Pion Condensation by Rotation in a Magnetic Field

Yizhuang Liu and Ismail Zahed

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 032001 (2018) - Published 17 January, 2018

Nuclear Physics

High-Precision Mass Measurement of ${}^{56}{Cu}$ and the Redirection of the $r p$ -Process Flow

A. A. Valverde, M. Brodeur, G. Bollen, M. Eibach, K. Gulyuz, A. Hamaker, C. Izzo, W.-J. Ong, D. Puentes, M. Redshaw, R. Ringle, R. Sandler, S. Schwarz, C. S. Sumithrarachchi, J. Surbrook, A. C. C. Villari, and I. T. Yandow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 032701 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Control of Ultracold Photodissociation with Magnetic Fields

M. McDonald, I. Majewska, C.-H. Lee, S. S. Kondov, B. H. McGuyer, R. Moszynski, and T. Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033201 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Suppression of the Nonlinear Zeeman Effect and Heading Error in Earth-Field-Range Alkali-Vapor Magnetometers

Guzhi Bao, Arne Wickenbrock, Simon Rochester, Weiping Zhang, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033202 (2018) - Published 17 January, 2018

Electron Dynamics Driven by Light-Pulse Derivatives

Qi-Cheng Ning, Ulf Saalmann, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033203 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Machine Learning Based Localization and Classification with Atomic Magnetometers

Cameron Deans, Lewis D. Griffin, Luca Marmugi, and Ferruccio Renzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033204 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

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${}^{3}{He} − {}^{129}{Xe}$ Comagnetometery using ${}^{87}{Rb}$ Detection and Decoupling

M. E. Limes, D. Sheng, and M. V. Romalis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033401 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

An enhanced version of a magnetometer based on atomic spins could be used to search for theoretically predicted exotic fields with ultrahigh sensitivity.

Cold Collisions in a Molecular Synchrotron

Aernout P. P. van der Poel, Peter C. Zieger, Sebastiaan Y. T. van de Meerakker, Jérôme Loreau, Ad van der Avoird, and Hendrick L. Bethlem

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033402 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Squeezing on Momentum States for Atom Interferometry

Leonardo Salvi, Nicola Poli, Vladan Vuletić, and Guglielmo M. Tino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033601 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Cooperative Effects in Closely Packed Quantum Emitters with Collective Dephasing

B. Prasanna Venkatesh, M. L. Juan, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033602 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Polariton Chimeras: Bose-Einstein Condensates with Intrinsic Chaoticity and Spontaneous Long-Range Ordering

S. S. Gavrilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033901 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Ultimate Absorption in Light Scattering by a Finite Obstacle

Andrey E. Miroshnichenko and Michael I. Tribelsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033902 (2018) - Published 17 January, 2018

Superresolution Microscopy of Single Rare-Earth Emitters in YAG and $H 3$ Centers in Diamond

R. Kolesov, S. Lasse, C. Rothfuchs, A. D. Wieck, K. Xia, T. Kornher, and J. Wrachtrup

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 033903 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Covariant Structure of Models of Geophysical Fluid Motion

Thomas Dubos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 034501 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Ion Transport and Precipitation Kinetics as Key Aspects of Stress Generation on Pore Walls Induced by Salt Crystallization

A. Naillon, P. Joseph, and M. Prat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 034502 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Critical Bursts in Filtration

Filippo Bianchi, Marcel Thielmann, Lucilla de Arcangelis, and Hans Jürgen Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 034503 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Vortex Thermometry for Turbulent Two-Dimensional Fluids

Andrew J. Groszek, Matthew J. Davis, David M. Paganin, Kristian Helmerson, and Tapio P. Simula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 034504 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Discrete Self-Similarity in Interfacial Hydrodynamics and the Formation of Iterated Structures

Michael C. Dallaston, Marco A. Fontelos, Dmitri Tseluiko, and Serafim Kalliadasis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 034505 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Suppression of Electron Thermal Conduction by Whistler Turbulence in a Sustained Thermal Gradient

G. T. Roberg-Clark, J. F. Drake, C. S. Reynolds, and M. Swisdak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 035101 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Thermal Decoherence of a Nonequilibrium Polariton Fluid

Sebastian Klembt, Petr Stepanov, Thorsten Klein, Anna Minguzzi, and Maxime Richard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 035301 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

First Observation of Bright Solitons in Bulk Superfluid ${}^{4}{He}$

Francesco Ancilotto, David Levy, Jessica Pimentel, and Jussi Eloranta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 035302 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Anomalous Features in the Potential Energy Landscape of a Waterlike Monatomic Model with Liquid and Glass Polymorphism

Gang Sun, Limei Xu, and Nicolas Giovambattista

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 035701 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Structuring of Fluid Adlayers upon Ongoing Unimolecular Adsorption

C. Schaefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 036001 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Symmetry-Adapted Machine Learning for Tensorial Properties of Atomistic Systems

Andrea Grisafi, David M. Wilkins, Gábor Csányi, and Michele Ceriotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 036002 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Microscopic Theory of Surface Topological Order for Topological Crystalline Superconductors

Meng Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 036801 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Surface-Induced Near-Field Scaling in the Knudsen Layer of a Rarefied Gas

R. R. Gazizulin, O. Maillet, X. Zhou, A. Maldonado Cid, O. Bourgeois, and E. Collin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 036802 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Dimensionality Driven Enhancement of Ferromagnetic Superconductivity in URhGe

Daniel Braithwaite, Dai Aoki, Jean-Pascal Brison, Jacques Flouquet, Georg Knebel, Ai Nakamura, and Alexandre Pourret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037001 (2018) - Published 17 January, 2018

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Superconductivity in Pristine $2 H_{a} − {MoS}_{2}$ at Ultrahigh Pressure

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037002 (2018) - Published 16 January, 2018

Superconductivity emerges in the transition metal dichalcogenide 2 $H$ $_{a}$ -MoS $_{2}$ at 3 K and 90 GPa. Above 120 GPa, the critical temperature is 12 K.

Distinct Nature of Static and Dynamic Magnetic Stripes in Cuprate Superconductors

H. Jacobsen, S. L. Holm, M.-E. Lăcătuşu, A. T. Rømer, M. Bertelsen, M. Boehm, R. Toft-Petersen, J.-C. Grivel, S. B. Emery, L. Udby, B. O. Wells, and K. Lefmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037003 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Microwave Properties of Superconductors Close to the Superconductor-Insulator Transition

M. V. Feigel’man and L. B. Ioffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037004 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Spin Current Noise of the Spin Seebeck Effect and Spin Pumping

M. Matsuo, Y. Ohnuma, T. Kato, and S. Maekawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037201 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Chirality in Magnetic Multilayers Probed by the Symmetry and the Amplitude of Dichroism in X-Ray Resonant Magnetic Scattering

Jean-Yves Chauleau, William Legrand, Nicolas Reyren, Davide Maccariello, Sophie Collin, Horia Popescu, Karim Bouzehouane, Vincent Cros, Nicolas Jaouen, and Albert Fert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037202 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Low-Field Bi-Skyrmion Formation in a Noncentrosymmetric Chimney Ladder Ferromagnet

R. Takagi, X. Z. Yu, J. S. White, K. Shibata, Y. Kaneko, G. Tatara, H. M. Rønnow, Y. Tokura, and S. Seki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037203 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Spinon Magnetic Resonance of Quantum Spin Liquids

Zhu-Xi Luo, Ethan Lake, Jia-Wei Mei, and Oleg A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037204 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

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Realization of an Electrically Tunable Narrow-Bandwidth Atomically Thin Mirror Using Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$

Patrick Back, Sina Zeytinoglu, Aroosa Ijaz, Martin Kroner, and Atac Imamoğlu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037401 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Researchers designed an atomically thin mirror with electronically switchable reflectivity that could be useful in optoelectronic circuits.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Large Excitonic Reflectivity of Monolayer ${MoSe}_{2}$ Encapsulated in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Giovanni Scuri, You Zhou, Alexander A. High, Dominik S. Wild, Chi Shu, Kristiaan De Greve, Luis A. Jauregui, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Hongkun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 037402 (2018) - Published 18 January, 2018

Researchers designed an atomically thin mirror with electronically switchable reflectivity that could be useful in optoelectronic circuits.

ERRATA

Erratum: Wald Entropy for Ghost-Free, Infinite Derivative Theories of Gravity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 201101 (2015)]

Aindriú Conroy, Anupam Mazumdar, and Ali Teimouri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 039901 (2018) - Published 19 January, 2018

Volume 120, Issue 3

On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

COMMENTS

ERRATA