Volume 120, Issue 6

9 February 2018

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On the Cover

Steps in the production of a strongly interacting homogeneous 2D Fermi gas in a box potential. Colors represent density from 0 (dark blue) to 10 μm^-2. Selected as an Editors' Suggestion.

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Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Fermi Gases
Klaus Hueck, Niclas Luick, Lennart Sobirey, Jonas Siegl, Thomas Lompe, and Henning Moritz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060402 (2018)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: The Making of PRL: Mission, Material, Method

Hugues Chaté and Reinhardt Schuhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060001 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Beyond the Required LISA Free-Fall Performance: New LISA Pathfinder Results down to $20 μ Hz$

M. Armano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061101 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

The final results from LISA Pathfinder show that the satellite’s technology meets the requirements for space-based gravitational-wave detection.

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Search for Dark Photons Produced in 13 TeV $p p$ Collisions

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061801 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

A search for dark photons at the LHC comes up empty but puts new constraints on the strength of the hypothetical particles’ coupling to electromagnetic fields.

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Observation of Photonic Topological Valley Hall Edge States

Jiho Noh, Sheng Huang, Kevin P. Chen, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063902 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

An optical version of a topological insulator exhibits edge states that could be used to reduce scattering losses in optical waveguides.

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Microscopic Engine Powered by Critical Demixing

Falko Schmidt, Alessandro Magazzù, Agnese Callegari, Luca Biancofiore, Frank Cichos, and Giovanni Volpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068004 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

A micrometer-sized sphere trapped by optical tweezers in a liquid, under the right conditions, orbits rapidly around the laser beam—creating a potential micromixing device.

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Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Fermi Gases

Klaus Hueck, Niclas Luick, Lennart Sobirey, Jonas Siegl, Thomas Lompe, and Henning Moritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060402 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

A homogeneous ultracold 2D Fermi gas is trapped in a box potential, which has advantages over harmonically trapped ones for probing strongly interacting systems.

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Measurement of Spectral Functions of Ultracold Atoms in Disordered Potentials

Valentin V. Volchkov, Michael Pasek, Vincent Denechaud, Musawwadah Mukhtar, Alain Aspect, Dominique Delande, and Vincent Josse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060404 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

The first direct measurements of the spectral functions of ultracold atoms in a disordered potential could enable future exploration of the critical regime around the Anderson transition.

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Coherent Bichromatic Force Deflection of Molecules

Ivan Kozyryev, Louis Baum, Leland Aldridge, Phelan Yu, Edward E. Eyler, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063205 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Optical pulses from bichromatic lasers are used to control the temperature and motion of strontium monohydroxide molecules, a step towards trapping molecules.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Selective Solvent-Induced Stabilization of Polar Oxide Surfaces in an Electrochemical Environment

Su-Hyun Yoo, Mira Todorova, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066101 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

Density functional theory explains why certain oxide surface structures form at a solid-liquid interface, but not under vacuum.

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Machine Learning Topological Invariants with Neural Networks

Pengfei Zhang, Huitao Shen, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066401 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Machine learning trains neural networks to distinguish between different phases in topological band insulators.

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Fibonacci Topological Superconductor

Yichen Hu and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066801 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

A Fibonacci topological superconductor could be realized in a system of interacting Majorana fermions.

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Ultrashort Nucleic Acid Duplexes Exhibit Long Wormlike Chain Behavior with Force-Dependent Edge Effects

Kevin D. Whitley, Matthew J. Comstock, and Yann R. Chemla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068102 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

High-precision single-molecule experiments reveal the elastic nature of ultrashort nuclei acid duplexes, indicating that long-polymer models are valid for describing such systems.

LETTERS

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

Dynamical Disentangling and Cooling of Atoms in Bilayer Optical Lattices

A. Kantian, S. Langer, and A. J. Daley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060401 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

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Two-Dimensional Homogeneous Fermi Gases

Klaus Hueck, Niclas Luick, Lennart Sobirey, Jonas Siegl, Thomas Lompe, and Henning Moritz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060402 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

A homogeneous ultracold 2D Fermi gas is trapped in a box potential, which has advantages over harmonically trapped ones for probing strongly interacting systems.

Relaxation to Negative Temperatures in Double Domain Systems

Yusuke Hama, William J. Munro, and Kae Nemoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060403 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

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Measurement of Spectral Functions of Ultracold Atoms in Disordered Potentials

Valentin V. Volchkov, Michael Pasek, Vincent Denechaud, Musawwadah Mukhtar, Alain Aspect, Dominique Delande, and Vincent Josse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060404 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

The first direct measurements of the spectral functions of ultracold atoms in a disordered potential could enable future exploration of the critical regime around the Anderson transition.

Low-Field Nuclear Polarization Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamonds

Y. Hovav, B. Naydenov, F. Jelezko, and N. Bar-Gill

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060405 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Experimental Investigation of Spectra of Dynamical Maps and their Relation to non-Markovianity

Shang Yu, Yi-Tao Wang, Zhi-Jin Ke, Wei Liu, Yu Meng, Zhi-Peng Li, Wen-Hao Zhang, Geng Chen, Jian-Shun Tang, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060406 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Superfluid-Quasicrystal in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Junpeng Hou, Haiping Hu, Kuei Sun, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060407 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Contact Theory for Spin-Orbit-Coupled Fermi Gases

Shi-Guo Peng, Cai-Xia Zhang, Shina Tan, and Kaijun Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060408 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Tightening Quantum Speed Limits for Almost All States

Francesco Campaioli, Felix A. Pollock, Felix C. Binder, and Kavan Modi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060409 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Generalized Grover’s Algorithm for Multiple Phase Inversion States

Tim Byrnes, Gary Forster, and Louis Tessler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060501 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

Characterizing Genuine Multilevel Entanglement

Tristan Kraft, Christina Ritz, Nicolas Brunner, Marcus Huber, and Otfried Gühne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060502 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Two-Way Communication with a Single Quantum Particle

Flavio Del Santo and Borivoje Dakić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060503 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Manipulating the Flow of Thermal Noise in Quantum Devices

Shabir Barzanjeh, Matteo Aquilina, and André Xuereb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060601 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

Nonequilibrium Steady State Generated by a Moving Defect: The Supersonic Threshold

Alvise Bastianello and Andrea De Luca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 060602 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Beyond the Required LISA Free-Fall Performance: New LISA Pathfinder Results down to $20 μ Hz$

M. Armano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061101 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

The final results from LISA Pathfinder show that the satellite’s technology meets the requirements for space-based gravitational-wave detection.

Stellar Equilibrium in Semiclassical Gravity

Raúl Carballo-Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061102 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

X-Ray Lines from Dark Matter Annihilation at the keV Scale

Vedran Brdar, Joachim Kopp, Jia Liu, and Xiao-Ping Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061301 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Stringent Constraints on Fundamental Constant Evolution Using Conjugate 18 cm Satellite OH Lines

Nissim Kanekar, Tapasi Ghosh, and Jayaram N. Chengalur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061302 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Ward Identity and Scattering Amplitudes for Nonlinear Sigma Models

Ian Low and Zhewei Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061601 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Phase Diagram of Planar Matrix Quantum Mechanics, Tensor, and Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models

Tatsuo Azeyanagi, Frank Ferrari, and Fidel I. Schaposnik Massolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061602 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Conformal Dimensions via Large Charge Expansion

Debasish Banerjee, Shailesh Chandrasekharan, and Domenico Orlando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061603 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

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Search for Dark Photons Produced in 13 TeV $p p$ Collisions

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061801 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

A search for dark photons at the LHC comes up empty but puts new constraints on the strength of the hypothetical particles’ coupling to electromagnetic fields.

Results from the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search Experiment at Soudan

R. Agnese et al. (SuperCDMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 061802 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Beam-Energy Dependence of Directed Flow of $Λ$ , $\bar{Λ}$ , $K^{\pm}$ , $K_{s}^{0}$ , and $ϕ$ in $Au + Au$ Collisions

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 062301 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Measurements of Multiparticle Correlations in $d + Au$ Collisions at 200, 62.4, 39, and 19.6 GeV and $p + Au$ Collisions at 200 GeV and Implications for Collective Behavior

C. Aidala et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 062302 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Measurement of the $Q^{2}$ Dependence of the Deuteron Spin Structure Function $g_{1}$ and its Moments at Low $Q^{2}$ with CLAS

K. P. Adhikari et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 062501 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Precision Measurement of the $β$ Asymmetry in Spin-Polarized ${}^{37}K$ Decay

B. Fenker, A. Gorelov, D. Melconian, J. A. Behr, M. Anholm, D. Ashery, R. S. Behling, I. Cohen, I. Craiciu, G. Gwinner, J. McNeil, M. Mehlman, K. Olchanski, P. D. Shidling, S. Smale, and C. L. Warner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 062502 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Dawning of the $N = 32$ Shell Closure Seen through Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Titanium Isotopes

E. Leistenschneider et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 062503 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spin-Orbit-Coupled Interferometry with Ring-Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. L. Helm, T. P. Billam, A. Rakonjac, S. L. Cornish, and S. A. Gardiner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063201 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Three-Component Soliton States in Spinor $F = 1$ Bose-Einstein Condensates

T. M. Bersano, V. Gokhroo, M. A. Khamehchi, J. D’Ambroise, D. J. Frantzeskakis, P. Engels, and P. G. Kevrekidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063202 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Symmetry-Breaking Assisted Landau-Zener Transitions in Rydberg Atoms

S. S. Zhang, W. Gao, H. Cheng, L. You, and H. P. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063203 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Multipolar Polarizabilities and Hyperpolarizabilities in the Sr Optical Lattice Clock

S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, U. I. Safronova, and M. G. Kozlov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063204 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Bichromatic Force Deflection of Molecules

Ivan Kozyryev, Louis Baum, Leland Aldridge, Phelan Yu, Edward E. Eyler, and John M. Doyle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063205 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Optical pulses from bichromatic lasers are used to control the temperature and motion of strontium monohydroxide molecules, a step towards trapping molecules.

Relaxation of an Isolated Dipolar-Interacting Rydberg Quantum Spin System

A. Piñeiro Orioli, A. Signoles, H. Wildhagen, G. Günter, J. Berges, S. Whitlock, and M. Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063601 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Two-Photon Infrared Resonance Can Enhance Coherent Raman Scattering

Andrew J. Traverso, Brett Hokr, Zhenhuan Yi, Luqi Yuan, Shoichi Yamaguchi, Marlan O. Scully, and Vladislav V. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063602 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Reflective Amplification without Population Inversion from a Strongly Driven Superconducting Qubit

P. Y. Wen, A. F. Kockum, H. Ian, J. C. Chen, F. Nori, and I.-C. Hoi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063603 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Steady State Entanglement beyond Thermal Limits

F. Tacchino, A. Auffèves, M. F. Santos, and D. Gerace

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063604 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Nonequilibrium Quantum Phase Transition in a Hybrid Atom-Optomechanical System

Niklas Mann, M. Reza Bakhtiari, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063605 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Turbulence-Free Double-slit Interferometer

Thomas A. Smith and Yanhua Shih

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063606 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Incomplete Detection of Nonclassical Phase-Space Distributions

M. Bohmann, J. Tiedau, T. Bartley, J. Sperling, C. Silberhorn, and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063607 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Significant Enhancement of Near-Field Electromagnetic Heat Transfer in a Multilayer Structure through Multiple Surface-States Coupling

Hideo Iizuka and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063901 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Photonic Topological Valley Hall Edge States

Jiho Noh, Sheng Huang, Kevin P. Chen, and Mikael C. Rechtsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 063902 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

An optical version of a topological insulator exhibits edge states that could be used to reduce scattering losses in optical waveguides.

Optical Addressing of Pulses in a Semiconductor-Based Figure-of-Eight Fiber Laser

D. Chaparro and Salvador Balle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 064101 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Experimental Investigations on Microshock Waves and Contact Surfaces

Yun Kai, Walter Garen, and Ulrich Teubner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 064501 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Mapping the Damping Dynamics of Mega-Ampere Electron Pulses Inside a Solid

Moniruzzaman Shaikh, Amit D. Lad, Gabriele Birindelli, Kevin Pepitone, Jagannath Jha, Deep Sarkar, Sheroy Tata, Gourab Chatterjee, Indranuj Dey, Kamalesh Jana, Prashant K. Singh, Vladimir T. Tikhonchuk, P. P. Rajeev, and G. Ravindra Kumar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 065001 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Generation of Few- and Subcycle Radiation in Midinfrared-to-Deep-Ultraviolet Range During Plasma Production by Multicolor Femtosecond Pulses

V. A. Kostin and N. V. Vvedenskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 065002 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Chiral Modes at Exceptional Points in Exciton-Polariton Quantum Fluids

T. Gao, G. Li, E. Estrecho, T. C. H. Liew, D. Comber-Todd, A. Nalitov, M. Steger, K. West, L. Pfeiffer, D. W. Snoke, A. V. Kavokin, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 065301 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Strong Cosserat Elasticity in a Transversely Isotropic Polymer Lattice

Z. Rueger and R. S. Lakes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 065501 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Selective Solvent-Induced Stabilization of Polar Oxide Surfaces in an Electrochemical Environment

Su-Hyun Yoo, Mira Todorova, and Jörg Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066101 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

Density functional theory explains why certain oxide surface structures form at a solid-liquid interface, but not under vacuum.

Symmetry Breaking in Photonic Crystals: On-Demand Dispersion from Flatband to Dirac Cones

H. S. Nguyen, F. Dubois, T. Deschamps, S. Cueff, A. Pardon, J.-L. Leclercq, C. Seassal, X. Letartre, and P. Viktorovitch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066102 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Machine Learning Topological Invariants with Neural Networks

Pengfei Zhang, Huitao Shen, and Hui Zhai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066401 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Machine learning trains neural networks to distinguish between different phases in topological band insulators.

Strongly Interaction-Enhanced Valley Magnetic Response in Monolayer ${WSe}_{2}$

Zefang Wang, Kin Fai Mak, and Jie Shan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066402 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Band Dependent Interlayer $f$ -Electron Hybridization in ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

Q. Y. Chen, D. F. Xu, X. H. Niu, R. Peng, H. C. Xu, C. H. P. Wen, X. Liu, L. Shu, S. Y. Tan, X. C. Lai, Y. J. Zhang, H. Lee, V. N. Strocov, F. Bisti, P. Dudin, J.-X. Zhu, H. Q. Yuan, S. Kirchner, and D. L. Feng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066403 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fibonacci Topological Superconductor

Yichen Hu and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 066801 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

A Fibonacci topological superconductor could be realized in a system of interacting Majorana fermions.

Phase-Sensitive Evidence for the Sign-Reversal $s_{\pm}$ Symmetry of the Order Parameter in an Iron-Pnictide Superconductor Using $Nb / {Ba}_{1 - x} {Na}_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ Josephson Junctions

A. A. Kalenyuk, A. Pagliero, E. A. Borodianskyi, A. A. Kordyuk, and V. M. Krasnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067001 (2018) - Published 6 February, 2018

Correlation-Driven Lifshitz Transition at the Emergence of the Pseudogap Phase in the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Helena Bragança, Shiro Sakai, M. C. O. Aguiar, and Marcello Civelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067002 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Topological Nodal Cooper Pairing in Doped Weyl Metals

Yi Li and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067003 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

Multiplet of Skyrmion States on a Curvilinear Defect: Reconfigurable Skyrmion Lattices

Volodymyr P. Kravchuk, Denis D. Sheka, Attila Kákay, Oleksii M. Volkov, Ulrich K. Rößler, Jeroen van den Brink, Denys Makarov, and Yuri Gaididei

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067201 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Ultralow-Temperature Thermal Conductivity of the Kitaev Honeycomb Magnet $α − {RuCl}_{3}$ across the Field-Induced Phase Transition

Y. J. Yu, Y. Xu, K. J. Ran, J. M. Ni, Y. Y. Huang, J. H. Wang, J. S. Wen, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067202 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Field-induced States and Excitations in the Quasicritical Spin- $1 / 2$ Chain Linarite

Eron Cemal, Mechthild Enderle, Reinhard K. Kremer, Björn Fåk, Eric Ressouche, Jon P. Goff, Mariya V. Gvozdikova, Mike E. Zhitomirsky, and Tim Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067203 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Evidence for Dyakonov-Perel-like Spin Relaxation in Pt

Ryan Freeman, Andrei Zholud, Zhiling Dun, Haidong Zhou, and Sergei Urazhdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067204 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

What is the Right Theory for Anderson Localization of Light? An Experimental Test

Walter Schirmacher, Behnam Abaie, Arash Mafi, Giancarlo Ruocco, and Marco Leonetti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067401 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Nearly Diffraction-Free Nonlinear Imaging of Irregularly Distributed Ferroelectric Domains

Rong-Er Lu, Rui-zhi Zhao, Xia Feng, Bo Yang, Xu-Hao Hong, Chao Zhang, Yi-Qiang Qin, and Yong-Yuan Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067601 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

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

Quantized Self-Assembly of Discotic Rings in a Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanopores

Kathrin Sentker, Arne W. Zantop, Milena Lippmann, Tommy Hofmann, Oliver H. Seeck, Andriy V. Kityk, Arda Yildirim, Andreas Schönhals, Marco G. Mazza, and Patrick Huber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067801 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Polymer Semiflexibility Induces Nonuniversal Phase Transitions in Diblock Copolymers

Shifan Mao, Quinn MacPherson, and Andrew J. Spakowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 067802 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

Topology Counts: Force Distributions in Circular Spring Networks

Knut M. Heidemann, Andrew O. Sageman-Furnas, Abhinav Sharma, Florian Rehfeldt, Christoph F. Schmidt, and Max Wardetzky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068001 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

Curvature-Guided Motility of Microalgae in Geometric Confinement

Tanya Ostapenko, Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl, Thomas J. Böddeker, Christian Titus Kreis, Jan Cammann, Marco G. Mazza, and Oliver Bäumchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068002 (2018) - Published 7 February, 2018

Topological Edge Floppy Modes in Disordered Fiber Networks

Di Zhou, Leyou Zhang, and Xiaoming Mao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068003 (2018) - Published 8 February, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Microscopic Engine Powered by Critical Demixing

Falko Schmidt, Alessandro Magazzù, Agnese Callegari, Luca Biancofiore, Frank Cichos, and Giovanni Volpe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068004 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

A micrometer-sized sphere trapped by optical tweezers in a liquid, under the right conditions, orbits rapidly around the laser beam—creating a potential micromixing device.

Topology, Geometry, and Mechanics of $Z$ -Plasty

Elisabetta A. Matsumoto, Haiyi Liang, and L. Mahadevan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068101 (2018) - Published 5 February, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrashort Nucleic Acid Duplexes Exhibit Long Wormlike Chain Behavior with Force-Dependent Edge Effects

Kevin D. Whitley, Matthew J. Comstock, and Yann R. Chemla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 068102 (2018) - Published 9 February, 2018

High-precision single-molecule experiments reveal the elastic nature of ultrashort nuclei acid duplexes, indicating that long-polymer models are valid for describing such systems.