Volume 120, Issue 4

26 January 2018

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A polystyrene particle in an acoustic trap that can levitate objects larger than the sound's wavelength. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics.

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Acoustic Virtual Vortices with Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum for Trapping of Mie Particles
Asier Marzo, Mihai Caleap, and Bruce W. Drinkwater
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044301 (2018)

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Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocities Using Metal-Poor Stars

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Mariangela Lisanti, Piero Madau, and Lina Necib

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 041102 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Numerical simulations indicate that the speed of dark matter in the Milky Way could be found by measuring the speeds of the Galaxy’s oldest stars.

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Coulomb-Driven Relativistic Electron Beam Compression

Chao Lu, Tao Jiang, Shengguang Liu, Rui Wang, Lingrong Zhao, Pengfei Zhu, Dao Xiang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044801 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

A new technique uses electric repulsion to compress electron beams that probe molecular processes.

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Measurement of the Casimir Force between Two Spheres

Joseph L. Garrett, David A. T. Somers, and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040401 (2018) - Published 23 January, 2018

Researchers use an atomic force microscope to measure the Casimir force between two spheres, paving the way for studying the force acting between objects of any shape.

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Acoustic Virtual Vortices with Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum for Trapping of Mie Particles

Asier Marzo, Mihai Caleap, and Bruce W. Drinkwater

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044301 (2018) - Published 22 January, 2018

A new acoustic trap combines two vortex-shaped sound waves to trap objects up to 4 times larger than is possible with existing traps.

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Metasurface for Water-to-Air Sound Transmission

Eun Bok, Jong Jin Park, Haejin Choi, Chung Kyu Han, Oliver B. Wright, and Sam H. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044302 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

A structured membrane enhances sound transmission across a water-air boundary, allowing underwater sounds to be heard in the air above.

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Violation of Bell’s Inequality Using Continuous Variable Measurements

Oliver Thearle, Jiri Janousek, Seiji Armstrong, Sara Hosseini, Melanie Schünemann (Mraz), Syed Assad, Thomas Symul, Matthew R. James, Elanor Huntington, Timothy C. Ralph, and Ping Koy Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040406 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Bell inequalities are shown experimentally to be violated in a continuous variable system, potentially providing an alternate avenue for device-independent tests of quantum protocols.

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Nonreciprocal Localization of Photons

Hamidreza Ramezani, Pankaj K. Jha, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043901 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

A proposed approach to control a light beam uses the defects in a photonic crystal.

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Optical Time Reversal from Time-Dependent Epsilon-Near-Zero Media

Stefano Vezzoli, Vincenzo Bruno, Clayton DeVault, Thomas Roger, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Marcello Ferrera, Matteo Clerici, Audrius Dubietis, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043902 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Oscillating polarization is induced by femtosecond laser-pulse driving of aluminum-doped zinc-oxide thin films, creating a medium with features that oscillate in time.

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Yielding and Flow of Soft-Jammed Systems in Elongation

X. Zhang, O. Fadoul, E. Lorenceau, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 048001 (2018) - Published 23 January, 2018

A new technique for measuring the elongation flow of a material shows that the normal stress in soft-jammed materials exceeds that indicated by theory.

LETTERS

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

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Measurement of the Casimir Force between Two Spheres

Joseph L. Garrett, David A. T. Somers, and Jeremy N. Munday

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040401 (2018) - Published 23 January, 2018

Researchers use an atomic force microscope to measure the Casimir force between two spheres, paving the way for studying the force acting between objects of any shape.

Relating Out-of-Time-Order Correlations to Entanglement via Multiple-Quantum Coherences

Martin Gärttner, Philipp Hauke, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040402 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Mutual Unbiasedness in Coarse-Grained Continuous Variables

Daniel S. Tasca, Piero Sánchez, Stephen P. Walborn, and Łukasz Rudnicki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040403 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Discrete Time-Crystalline Order in Cavity and Circuit QED Systems

Zongping Gong, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040404 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Operational Markov Condition for Quantum Processes

Felix A. Pollock, César Rodríguez-Rosario, Thomas Frauenheim, Mauro Paternostro, and Kavan Modi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040405 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

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Violation of Bell’s Inequality Using Continuous Variable Measurements

Oliver Thearle, Jiri Janousek, Seiji Armstrong, Sara Hosseini, Melanie Schünemann (Mraz), Syed Assad, Thomas Symul, Matthew R. James, Elanor Huntington, Timothy C. Ralph, and Ping Koy Lam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040406 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Bell inequalities are shown experimentally to be violated in a continuous variable system, potentially providing an alternate avenue for device-independent tests of quantum protocols.

Correlated Dynamics in a Synthetic Lattice of Momentum States

Fangzhao Alex An, Eric J. Meier, Jackson Ang’ong’a, and Bryce Gadway

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040407 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Post hoc Verification of Quantum Computation

Joseph F. Fitzsimons, Michal Hajdušek, and Tomoyuki Morimae

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040501 (2018) - Published 22 January, 2018

First Detected Arrival of a Quantum Walker on an Infinite Line

Felix Thiel, Eli Barkai, and David A. Kessler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040502 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Signal Tracking Beyond the Time Resolution of an Atomic Sensor by Kalman Filtering

Ricardo Jiménez-Martínez, Jan Kołodyński, Charikleia Troullinou, Vito Giovanni Lucivero, Jia Kong, and Morgan W. Mitchell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040503 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Identification of Majorana Modes in Interacting Systems by Local Integrals of Motion

Andrzej Więckowski, Maciej M. Maśka, and Marcin Mierzejewski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040504 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Stroboscopic Qubit Measurement with Squeezed Illumination

A. Eddins, S. Schreppler, D. M. Toyli, L. S. Martin, S. Hacohen-Gourgy, L. C. G. Govia, H. Ribeiro, A. A. Clerk, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040505 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Decondensation in Nonequilibrium Photonic Condensates: When Less Is More

Henry J. Hesten, Robert A. Nyman, and Florian Mintert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040601 (2018) - Published 23 January, 2018

Quantum Fluctuation Theorems, Contextuality, and Work Quasiprobabilities

Matteo Lostaglio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040602 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Generalized Arcsine Laws for Fractional Brownian Motion

Tridib Sadhu, Mathieu Delorme, and Kay Jörg Wiese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040603 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Viscous Dissipation and Heat Conduction in Binary Neutron-Star Mergers

Mark G. Alford, Luke Bovard, Matthias Hanauske, Luciano Rezzolla, and Kai Schwenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 041101 (2018) - Published 23 January, 2018

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Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocities Using Metal-Poor Stars

Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman, Mariangela Lisanti, Piero Madau, and Lina Necib

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 041102 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Numerical simulations indicate that the speed of dark matter in the Milky Way could be found by measuring the speeds of the Galaxy’s oldest stars.

Cosmic-Ray Lithium Production at the Nova Eruptions Followed by a Type Ia Supernova

Norita Kawanaka and Shohei Yanagita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 041103 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Detecting Lorentz Violations with Gravitational Waves From Black Hole Binaries

Thomas P. Sotiriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 041104 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Combined Forward-Backward Asymmetry Measurements in Top-Antitop Quark Production at the Tevatron

T. Aaltonen et al. (CDF Collaboration, D0 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 042001 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Multiparticle Collectivity from Initial State Correlations in High Energy Proton-Nucleus Collisions

Kevin Dusling, Mark Mace, and Raju Venugopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 042002 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Accelerating Science with Generative Adversarial Networks: An Application to 3D Particle Showers in Multilayer Calorimeters

Michela Paganini, Luke de Oliveira, and Benjamin Nachman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 042003 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Determination of the Spin-Rotation Fine Structure of ${He}_{2}^{+}$

Paul Jansen, Luca Semeria, and Frédéric Merkt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043001 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Energy- and Momentum-Resolved Photoelectron Spin Polarization in Multiphoton Ionization of Xe by Circularly Polarized Fields

Ming-Ming Liu, Yun Shao, Meng Han, Peipei Ge, Yongkai Deng, Chengyin Wu, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043201 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Spin and Angular Momentum in Strong-Field Ionization

D. Trabert, A. Hartung, S. Eckart, F. Trinter, A. Kalinin, M. Schöffler, L. Ph. H. Schmidt, T. Jahnke, M. Kunitski, and R. Dörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043202 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Two-Loop Binding Corrections to the Electron Gyromagnetic Factor

Andrzej Czarnecki, Matthew Dowling, Jan Piclum, and Robert Szafron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043203 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Deep-Ultraviolet Frequency Metrology of $H_{2}$ for Tests of Molecular Quantum Theory

R. K. Altmann, L. S. Dreissen, E. J. Salumbides, W. Ubachs, and K. S. E. Eikema

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043204 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Cooling Dynamics of a Single Trapped Ion via Elastic Collisions with Small-Mass Atoms

Shinsuke Haze, Mizuki Sasakawa, Ryoichi Saito, Ryosuke Nakai, and Takashi Mukaiyama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043401 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Continuous-Variable Triple-Photon States Quantum Entanglement

E. A. Rojas González, A. Borne, B. Boulanger, J. A. Levenson, and K. Bencheikh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043601 (2018) - Published 22 January, 2018

Proposal for a Quantum Test of the Weak Equivalence Principle with Entangled Atomic Species

Remi Geiger and Michael Trupke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043602 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nonreciprocal Localization of Photons

Hamidreza Ramezani, Pankaj K. Jha, Yuan Wang, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043901 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

A proposed approach to control a light beam uses the defects in a photonic crystal.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Time Reversal from Time-Dependent Epsilon-Near-Zero Media

Stefano Vezzoli, Vincenzo Bruno, Clayton DeVault, Thomas Roger, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Marcello Ferrera, Matteo Clerici, Audrius Dubietis, and Daniele Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 043902 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Oscillating polarization is induced by femtosecond laser-pulse driving of aluminum-doped zinc-oxide thin films, creating a medium with features that oscillate in time.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Acoustic Virtual Vortices with Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum for Trapping of Mie Particles

Asier Marzo, Mihai Caleap, and Bruce W. Drinkwater

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044301 (2018) - Published 22 January, 2018

A new acoustic trap combines two vortex-shaped sound waves to trap objects up to 4 times larger than is possible with existing traps.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Metasurface for Water-to-Air Sound Transmission

Eun Bok, Jong Jin Park, Haejin Choi, Chung Kyu Han, Oliver B. Wright, and Sam H. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044302 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

A structured membrane enhances sound transmission across a water-air boundary, allowing underwater sounds to be heard in the air above.

Controlling Heat Transport and Flow Structures in Thermal Turbulence Using Ratchet Surfaces

Hechuan Jiang, Xiaojue Zhu, Varghese Mathai, Roberto Verzicco, Detlef Lohse, and Chao Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044501 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Coulomb-Driven Relativistic Electron Beam Compression

Chao Lu, Tao Jiang, Shengguang Liu, Rui Wang, Lingrong Zhao, Pengfei Zhu, Dao Xiang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044801 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

A new technique uses electric repulsion to compress electron beams that probe molecular processes.

Higher-Dimensional Caustics in Nonlinear Compton Scattering

Vasily Yu. Kharin, Daniel Seipt, and Sergey G. Rykovanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 044802 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Adiabatic Expansion of Electron Gas in a Magnetic Nozzle

Kazunori Takahashi, Christine Charles, Rod Boswell, and Akira Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 045001 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Quantification of Turbulent Driving Forces for the Geodesic Acoustic Mode in the JFT-2M Tokamak

T. Kobayashi, M. Sasaki, T. Ido, K. Kamiya, Y. Miura, Y. Nagashima, K. Ida, S. Inagaki, A. Fujisawa, S.-I. Itoh, and K. Itoh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 045002 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Soliton Gases and Generalized Hydrodynamics

Benjamin Doyon, Takato Yoshimura, and Jean-Sébastien Caux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 045301 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Realizing Fulde-Ferrell Superfluids via a Dark-State Control of Feshbach Resonances

Lianyi He, Hui Hu, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 045302 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Ultimate Confinement of Phonon Propagation in Silicon Nanocrystalline Structure

Takafumi Oyake, Lei Feng, Takuma Shiga, Masayuki Isogawa, Yoshiaki Nakamura, and Junichiro Shiomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 045901 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Anion Order and Spontaneous Polarization in ${LaTiO}_{2} N$ Oxynitride Thin Films

Nathalie Vonrüti and Ulrich Aschauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 046001 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Exactly Solvable BCS-Hubbard Model in Arbitrary Dimensions

Zewei Chen, Xiaohui Li, and Tai Kai Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 046401 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Superior Valley Polarization and Coherence of $2 s$ Excitons in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Shao-Yu Chen, Thomas Goldstein, Jiayue Tong, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, and Jun Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 046402 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Simultaneous Conduction and Valence Band Quantization in Ultrashallow High-Density Doping Profiles in Semiconductors

F. Mazzola, J. W. Wells, A. C. Pakpour-Tabrizi, R. B. Jackman, B. Thiagarajan, Ph. Hofmann, and J. A. Miwa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 046403 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Chiral Response of Twisted Bilayer Graphene

T. Stauber, T. Low, and G. Gómez-Santos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 046801 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Circular-Polarization-Dependent Study of Microwave-Induced Conductivity Oscillations in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas on Liquid Helium

A. A. Zadorozhko, Yu. P. Monarkha, and D. Konstantinov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 046802 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Unidirectional Spin-Wave-Propagation-Induced Seebeck Voltage in a PEDOT:PSS/YIG Bilayer

P. Wang, L. F. Zhou, S. W. Jiang, Z. Z. Luan, D. J. Shu, H. F. Ding, and D. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047201 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Many-Particle Effects in the Cyclotron Resonance of Encapsulated Monolayer Graphene

B. Jordan Russell, Boyi Zhou, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and Erik A. Henriksen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047401 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Experimental Study of the Exciton Gas-Liquid Transition in Coupled Quantum Wells

Subhradeep Misra, Michael Stern, Arjun Joshua, Vladimir Umansky, and Israel Bar-Joseph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047402 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

Evidence of an Improper Displacive Phase Transition in ${Cd}_{2} {Re}_{2} O_{7}$ via Time-Resolved Coherent Phonon Spectroscopy

J. W. Harter, D. M. Kennes, H. Chu, A. de la Torre, Z. Y. Zhao, J.-Q. Yan, D. G. Mandrus, A. J. Millis, and D. Hsieh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047601 (2018) - Published 24 January, 2018

Effective Landau Level Diagram of Bilayer Graphene

Jing Li, Yevhen Tupikov, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, and Jun Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047701 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

$h / e$ Superconducting Quantum Interference through Trivial Edge States in InAs

Folkert K. de Vries, Tom Timmerman, Viacheslav P. Ostroukh, Jasper van Veen, Arjan J. A. Beukman, Fanming Qu, Michael Wimmer, Binh-Minh Nguyen, Andrey A. Kiselev, Wei Yi, Marko Sokolich, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 047702 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Yielding and Flow of Soft-Jammed Systems in Elongation

X. Zhang, O. Fadoul, E. Lorenceau, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 048001 (2018) - Published 23 January, 2018

A new technique for measuring the elongation flow of a material shows that the normal stress in soft-jammed materials exceeds that indicated by theory.

ERRATA

Erratum: Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations of a Tunnel Junction Driven by a Quantum Circuit [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 126801 (2015)]

O. Parlavecchio, C. Altimiras, J.-R. Souquet, P. Simon, I. Safi, P. Joyez, D. Vion, P. Roche, D. Esteve, and F. Portier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 049901 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Erratum: Spin-Dependent Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particle–Nucleon Cross Section Limits from First Data of PandaX-II Experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 071301 (2017)]

Changbo Fu and PandaX-II Collaboration

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 049902 (2018) - Published 25 January, 2018

Erratum: Emergence of Correlated Optics in One-Dimensional Waveguides for Classical and Quantum Atomic Gases [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 143602 (2016)]

Janne Ruostekoski and Juha Javanainen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 049903 (2018) - Published 26 January, 2018