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Simulated electron localization function of oganesson, the heaviest discovered element. Nonrelativistic calculation (left) shows pronounced electronic shell structure, Dirac-Hartree-Fock calculation (right) shows significant smearing. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and for a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Electron and Nucleon Localization Functions of Oganesson: Approaching the Thomas-Fermi Limit
Paul Jerabek, Bastian Schuetrumpf, Peter Schwerdtfeger, and Witold Nazarewicz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053001 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

Electron and Nucleon Localization Functions of Oganesson: Approaching the Thomas-Fermi Limit

Paul Jerabek, Bastian Schuetrumpf, Peter Schwerdtfeger, and Witold Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053001 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

Calculations of the structure in oganesson—the element with the highest atomic number—reveal a uniform, gas-like distribution of its electrons and nucleons.

Direct Characterization of Ultrafast Energy-Time Entangled Photon Pairs

Jean-Philippe W. MacLean, John M. Donohue, and Kevin J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053601 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

A new detection system directly observes a type of entanglement in which a photon’s energy is correlated with the time its partner is detected.

Mapping Thermal Expansion Coefficients in Freestanding 2D Materials at the Nanometer Scale

Xuan Hu, Poya Yasaei, Jacob Jokisaari, Serdar Öğüt, Amin Salehi-Khojin, and Robert F. Klie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 055902 (2018) - Published 2 February, 2018

Electron microscopy can produce nanometer-scale maps of the thermal expansion of 2D materials, which may be important for the development of nanoelectronic devices.

Soft yet Sharp Interfaces in a Vertex Model of Confluent Tissue

Daniel M. Sussman, J. M. Schwarz, M. Cristina Marchetti, and M. Lisa Manning

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 058001 (2018) - Published 29 January, 2018

A model for cellular populations incorporates neighbor-specific interactions to explain sharp boundaries observed around tissues.

Collapsed Dark Matter Structures

Matthew R. Buckley and Anthony DiFranzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 051102 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

A new model introduces a charge for dark matter, which would allow it to radiate energy and form compact objects such as dark stars or dark galaxies.

Vibrational Energy Redistribution in a Gas-Surface Encounter: State-to-State Scattering of CH4 from Ni(111)

Jörn Werdecker, Maarten E. van Reijzen, Bo-Jung Chen, and Rainer D. Beck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053402 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

A highly efficient mechanism for vibrational energy redistribution during surface scattering of methane molecules is observed using a new laser tagging technique.

Spacecraft Observations of Oblique Electron Beams Breaking the Frozen-In Law During Asymmetric Reconnection

J. Egedal, A. Le, W. Daughton, B. Wetherton, P. A. Cassak, J. L. Burch, B. Lavraud, J. Dorelli, D. J. Gershman, and L. A. Avanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 055101 (2018) - Published 29 January, 2018

Insights into the electron dynamics close to the reconnection point in collisionless plasmas are obtained by comparing MMS spacecraft data with numerical simulations of the Earth’s magnetopause.

Realization of the Axion Insulator State in Quantum Anomalous Hall Sandwich Heterostructures

Di Xiao, Jue Jiang, Jae-Ho Shin, Wenbo Wang, Fei Wang, Yi-Fan Zhao, Chaoxing Liu, Weida Wu, Moses H. W. Chan, Nitin Samarth, and Cui-Zu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 056801 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

The topological magnetoelectric effect is observed in a heterostructure of magnetic and nonmagnetic topological insulators.

Polaron Polaritons in the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Regimes

Sylvain Ravets, Patrick Knüppel, Stefan Faelt, Ovidiu Cotlet, Martin Kroner, Werner Wegscheider, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 057401 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

Quantum Hall polaritons in the strong coupling regime are studied experimentally in GaAs. These polaritons are expected to be useful in implementing a photonic quantum simulator.

Magnetooptics of Exciton Rydberg States in a Monolayer Semiconductor

A. V. Stier, N. P. Wilson, K. A. Velizhanin, J. Kono, X. Xu, and S. A. Crooker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 057405 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

Magnetic-field-dependent magnetoabsorption measurements of Rydberg excitons in a monolayer dichalcogenide semiconductor allow benchmarking of theories of the nonhydrogenic Coulomb potential believed to describe atomically thin materials.

Stochastic Model of Vesicular Sorting in Cellular Organelles

Quentin Vagne and Pierre Sens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 058102 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

The sorting of membrane components via vesicles into well-defined compartments—a key process within cells—is predicted to depend both on vesicle budding and fusing times.

LETTERS

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

Multispeed Prethermalization in Quantum Spin Models with Power-Law Decaying Interactions

Irénée Frérot, Piero Naldesi, and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050401 (2018) - Published 29 January, 2018

Duality Games and Operational Duality Relations

Emilio Bagan, John Calsamiglia, János A. Bergou, and Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050402 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

Generalized Hardy’s Paradox

Shu-Han Jiang, Zhen-Peng Xu, Hong-Yi Su, Arun Kumar Pati, and Jing-Ling Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050403 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

Hyper- and hybrid nonlocality

Yanna Li, Manuel Gessner, Weidong Li, and Augusto Smerzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050404 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

Bose Polarons at Finite Temperature and Strong Coupling

Nils-Eric Guenther, Pietro Massignan, Maciej Lewenstein, and Georg M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050405 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

Rényi Entropies from Random Quenches in Atomic Hubbard and Spin Models

A. Elben, B. Vermersch, M. Dalmonte, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050406 (2018) - Published 2 February, 2018

Knowledge-Concealing Evidencing of Knowledge About a Quantum State

Emily Adlam and Adrian Kent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050501 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

Quantum Linear System Algorithm for Dense Matrices

Leonard Wossnig, Zhikuan Zhao, and Anupam Prakash

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050502 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

Error-Transparent Quantum Gates for Small Logical Qubit Architectures

Eliot Kapit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050503 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

Distillation with Sublogarithmic Overhead

Matthew B. Hastings and Jeongwan Haah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050504 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

Ultrahigh Error Threshold for Surface Codes with Biased Noise

David K. Tuckett, Stephen D. Bartlett, and Steven T. Flammia

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Convex Optimization over Classes of Multiparticle Entanglement

Jiangwei Shang and Otfried Gühne

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Emulating Many-Body Localization with a Superconducting Quantum Processor

Kai Xu, Jin-Jun Chen, Yu Zeng, Yu-Ran Zhang, Chao Song, Wuxin Liu, Qiujiang Guo, Pengfei Zhang, Da Xu, Hui Deng, Keqiang Huang, H. Wang, Xiaobo Zhu, Dongning Zheng, and Heng Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 050507 (2018) - Published 2 February, 2018

Comparing Optical Oscillators across the Air to Milliradians in Phase and 1017 in Frequency

Laura C. Sinclair, Hugo Bergeron, William C. Swann, Esther Baumann, Jean-Daniel Deschênes, and Nathan R. Newbury

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Gravitation and Astrophysics

Testing General Relativity with the Reflection Spectrum of the Supermassive Black Hole in 1H0707-495

Zheng Cao, Sourabh Nampalliwar, Cosimo Bambi, Thomas Dauser, and Javier A. García

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Collapsed Dark Matter Structures

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A new model introduces a charge for dark matter, which would allow it to radiate energy and form compact objects such as dark stars or dark galaxies.

Nuclear Physics

Quasifree (p, 2p) Reactions on Oxygen Isotopes: Observation of Isospin Independence of the Reduced Single-Particle Strength

L. Atar et al. (R^{3}B Collaboration)

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Emergence of Clusters: Halos, Efimov States, and Experimental Signals

D. Hove, E. Garrido, P. Sarriguren, D. V. Fedorov, H. O. U. Fynbo, A. S. Jensen, and N. T. Zinner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 052502 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

Light-Nuclei Spectra from Chiral Dynamics

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 052503 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

Tailoring Laser-Generated Plasmas for Efficient Nuclear Excitation by Electron Capture

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 052504 (2018) - Published 2 February, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Electron and Nucleon Localization Functions of Oganesson: Approaching the Thomas-Fermi Limit

Paul Jerabek, Bastian Schuetrumpf, Peter Schwerdtfeger, and Witold Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053001 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

Calculations of the structure in oganesson—the element with the highest atomic number—reveal a uniform, gas-like distribution of its electrons and nucleons.

Electron Wave Propagation near a Potential Ridge

Hubert Klar

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Vibrational Energy Redistribution in a Gas-Surface Encounter: State-to-State Scattering of CH4 from Ni(111)

Jörn Werdecker, Maarten E. van Reijzen, Bo-Jung Chen, and Rainer D. Beck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053402 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

A highly efficient mechanism for vibrational energy redistribution during surface scattering of methane molecules is observed using a new laser tagging technique.

Direct Characterization of Ultrafast Energy-Time Entangled Photon Pairs

Jean-Philippe W. MacLean, John M. Donohue, and Kevin J. Resch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053601 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

A new detection system directly observes a type of entanglement in which a photon’s energy is correlated with the time its partner is detected.

Autobalanced Ramsey Spectroscopy

Christian Sanner, Nils Huntemann, Richard Lange, Christian Tamm, and Ekkehard Peik

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All-Optical Control of the Silicon-Vacancy Spin in Diamond at Millikelvin Temperatures

Jonas N. Becker, Benjamin Pingault, David Groß, Mustafa Gündoğan, Nadezhda Kukharchyk, Matthew Markham, Andrew Edmonds, Mete Atatüre, Pavel Bushev, and Christoph Becher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 053603 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

All-Optical Stern-Gerlach Effect

Aviv Karnieli and Ady Arie

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Stimulated Raman Scattering Imposes Fundamental Limits to the Duration and Bandwidth of Temporal Cavity Solitons

Yadong Wang, Miles Anderson, Stéphane Coen, Stuart G. Murdoch, and Miro Erkintalo

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Quasi-Phase-Matched Supercontinuum Generation in Photonic Waveguides

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Temporal Simultons in Optical Parametric Oscillators

Marc Jankowski, Alireza Marandi, C. R. Phillips, Ryan Hamerly, Kirk A. Ingold, Robert L. Byer, and M. M. Fejer

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Acoustic Streaming and Its Suppression in Inhomogeneous Fluids

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Laws of Resistance in Transitional Pipe Flows

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Alon Nissan and Brian Berkowitz

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Plasma and Beam Physics

Origins and Scaling of Hot-Electron Preheat in Ignition-Scale Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments

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Clocking Femtosecond Collisional Dynamics via Resonant X-Ray Spectroscopy

Q. Y. van den Berg, E. V. Fernandez-Tello, T. Burian, J. Chalupský, H.-K Chung, O. Ciricosta, G. L. Dakovski, V. Hájková, P. Hollebon, L. Juha, J. Krzywinski, R. W. Lee, M. P. Minitti, T. R. Preston, A. G. de la Varga, V. Vozda, U. Zastrau, J. S. Wark, P. Velarde, and S. M. Vinko

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Spacecraft Observations of Oblique Electron Beams Breaking the Frozen-In Law During Asymmetric Reconnection

J. Egedal, A. Le, W. Daughton, B. Wetherton, P. A. Cassak, J. L. Burch, B. Lavraud, J. Dorelli, D. J. Gershman, and L. A. Avanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 055101 (2018) - Published 29 January, 2018

Insights into the electron dynamics close to the reconnection point in collisionless plasmas are obtained by comparing MMS spacecraft data with numerical simulations of the Earth’s magnetopause.

Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Earth’s Magnetosheath: Estimation of the Energy Cascade Rate Using in situ Spacecraft Data

L. Z. Hadid, F. Sahraoui, S. Galtier, and S. Y. Huang

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Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Nonequilibrium Precondensation of Classical Waves in Two Dimensions Propagating through Atomic Vapors

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Organic Glasses with Tunable Liquid-Crystalline Order

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Nucleation in Sheared Granular Matter

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Ultrafast Electric Field Pulse Control of Giant Temperature Change in Ferroelectrics

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Mapping Thermal Expansion Coefficients in Freestanding 2D Materials at the Nanometer Scale

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 055902 (2018) - Published 2 February, 2018

Electron microscopy can produce nanometer-scale maps of the thermal expansion of 2D materials, which may be important for the development of nanoelectronic devices.

Dual-Sided Adsorption: Devil’s Staircase of Coverage Fractions

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Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonmonotonic Classical Magnetoconductivity of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in a Disordered Array of Obstacles

N. H. Siboni, J. Schluck, K. Pierz, H. W. Schumacher, D. Kazazis, J. Horbach, and T. Heinzel

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Realization of the Axion Insulator State in Quantum Anomalous Hall Sandwich Heterostructures

Di Xiao, Jue Jiang, Jae-Ho Shin, Wenbo Wang, Fei Wang, Yi-Fan Zhao, Chaoxing Liu, Weida Wu, Moses H. W. Chan, Nitin Samarth, and Cui-Zu Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 056801 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

The topological magnetoelectric effect is observed in a heterostructure of magnetic and nonmagnetic topological insulators.

Topology and Edge Modes in Quantum Critical Chains

Ruben Verresen, Nick G. Jones, and Frank Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 057001 (2018) - Published 31 January, 2018

Unconventional Superconductivity in Luttinger Semimetals: Theory of Complex Tensor Order and the Emergence of the Uniaxial Nematic State

Igor Boettcher and Igor F. Herbut

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Quantum Spin Liquids in Frustrated Spin-1 Diamond Antiferromagnets

Finn Lasse Buessen, Max Hering, Johannes Reuther, and Simon Trebst

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Bistability of Cavity Magnon Polaritons

Yi-Pu Wang, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Dengke Zhang, Tie-Fu Li, C.-M. Hu, and J. Q. You

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Polaron Polaritons in the Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Regimes

Sylvain Ravets, Patrick Knüppel, Stefan Faelt, Ovidiu Cotlet, Martin Kroner, Werner Wegscheider, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 057401 (2018) - Published 30 January, 2018

Quantum Hall polaritons in the strong coupling regime are studied experimentally in GaAs. These polaritons are expected to be useful in implementing a photonic quantum simulator.

Strong Electron-Phonon and Band Structure Effects in the Optical Properties of High Pressure Metallic Hydrogen

Miguel Borinaga, Julen Ibañez-Azpiroz, Aitor Bergara, and Ion Errea

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Multiloop Functional Renormalization Group That Sums Up All Parquet Diagrams

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Near-Band-Edge Optical Responses of CH3NH3PbCl3 Single Crystals: Photon Recycling of Excitonic Luminescence

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 057405 (2018) - Published 1 February, 2018

Magnetic-field-dependent magnetoabsorption measurements of Rydberg excitons in a monolayer dichalcogenide semiconductor allow benchmarking of theories of the nonhydrogenic Coulomb potential believed to describe atomically thin materials.

Gate-Controlled Transmission of Quantum Hall Edge States in Bilayer Graphene

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

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Generic Long-Range Interactions Between Passive Bodies in an Active Fluid

Yongjoo Baek, Alexandre P. Solon, Xinpeng Xu, Nikolai Nikola, and Yariv Kafri

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Unfair and Anomalous Evolutionary Dynamics from Fluctuating Payoffs

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Stochastic Model of Vesicular Sorting in Cellular Organelles

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The sorting of membrane components via vesicles into well-defined compartments—a key process within cells—is predicted to depend both on vesicle budding and fusing times.

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