Volume 120, Issue 7

16 February 2018

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Photographs of a thin elastic rod surrounded by soft hydrogel beads. The three images show different bead packing fractions.

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Elastogranular Mechanics: Buckling, Jamming, and Structure Formation
David J. Schunter, Jr., Martin Brandenbourger, Sophia Perriseau, and Douglas P. Holmes
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 078002 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6–56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071801 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

The IceCube mission in the ice of Antarctica has measured neutrino oscillations at energies higher than any previous observation.

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Light-Mediated Collective Atomic Motion in an Optical Lattice Coupled to a Membrane

Aline Vochezer, Tobias Kampschulte, Klemens Hammerer, and Philipp Treutlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073602 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

By coupling atoms in an optical lattice to a thin elastic membrane, researchers have demonstrated a dynamic instability that is evidence of collective atomic motion.

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Self-Aligned Acoustofluidic Particle Focusing and Patterning in Microfluidic Channels from Channel-Based Acoustic Waveguides

David J. Collins, Richard O’Rorke, Citsabehsan Devendran, Zhichao Ma, Jongyoon Han, Adrian Neild, and Ye Ai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074502 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Acoustic waves guided by the channels of a microfluidic device can precisely manipulate microscopic particles suspended in the liquid flowing through the device.

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Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Upgraded EXO-200 Detector

J. B. Albert et al. (EXO-200 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 072701 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

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Observation of Hopping and Blockade of Bosons in a Trapped Ion Spin Chain

S. Debnath, N. M. Linke, S.-T. Wang, C. Figgatt, K. A. Landsman, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073001 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

A programmable trapped-ion quantum computer performs a quantum simulation of a bosonic system.

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Stimulated Brillouin Cavity Optomechanics in Liquid Droplets

A. Giorgini, S. Avino, P. Malara, P. De Natale, M. Yannai, T. Carmon, and G. Gagliardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073902 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Exciting the mechanical whispering-gallery mode vibrations of a microdroplet with a laser beam amplifies surface-acoustic vibrations at hypersonic frequencies.

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Cluster-Based Haldane State in an Edge-Shared Tetrahedral Spin-Cluster Chain: Fedotovite $K_{2} {Cu}_{3} O ({SO}_{4})_{3}$

M. Fujihala, T. Sugimoto, T. Tohyama, S. Mitsuda, R. A. Mole, D. H. Yu, S. Yano, Y. Inagaki, H. Morodomi, T. Kawae, H. Sagayama, R. Kumai, Y. Murakami, K. Tomiyasu, A. Matsuo, and K. Kindo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 077201 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

A functional design for the cluster-based $S$ =1 Haldane state is proposed and confirmed experimentally in an edge-shared tetrahedral spin-cluster chain system.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Speed Limits across the Quantum-to-Classical Transition

B. Shanahan, A. Chenu, N. Margolus, and A. del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070401 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

Quantum Speed Limit is Not Quantum

Manaka Okuyama and Masayuki Ohzeki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070402 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

One-Shot Coherence Dilution

Qi Zhao, Yunchao Liu, Xiao Yuan, Eric Chitambar, and Xiongfeng Ma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070403 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Exploring Localization in Nuclear Spin Chains

Ken Xuan Wei, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, and Paola Cappellaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070501 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

Unbinding Transition of Probes in Single-File Systems

Olivier Bénichou, Vincent Démery, and Alexis Poncet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070601 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Logarithmically Slow Relaxation in Quasiperiodically Driven Random Spin Chains

Philipp T. Dumitrescu, Romain Vasseur, and Andrew C. Potter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070602 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Quantum Quenches and Relaxation Dynamics in the Thermodynamic Limit

Krishnanand Mallayya and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 070603 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Sound Shell Model for Acoustic Gravitational Wave Production at a First-Order Phase Transition in the Early Universe

Mark Hindmarsh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071301 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bare Quantum Null Energy Condition

Zicao Fu and Donald Marolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071601 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

Quenching the Chiral Magnetic Effect via the Gravitational Anomaly and Holography

Karl Landsteiner, Esperanza Lopez, and Guillermo Milans del Bosch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071602 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Kaluza-Klein Monopoles and their Zero Modes

Csaba Csáki, Yuri Shirman, John Terning, and Michael Waterbury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071603 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Between Symmetry and Duality in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories

Shlomo S. Razamat, Orr Sela, and Gabi Zafrir

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071604 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Hagedorn Temperature of ${AdS}_{5} / {CFT}_{4}$ via Integrability

Troels Harmark and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071605 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

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Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations at 6–56 GeV with IceCube DeepCore

M. G. Aartsen et al. (IceCube Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071801 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

The IceCube mission in the ice of Antarctica has measured neutrino oscillations at energies higher than any previous observation.

Inclusive Search for a Highly Boosted Higgs Boson Decaying to a Bottom Quark-Antiquark Pair

A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 071802 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

First Lattice Calculation of the QED Corrections to Leptonic Decay Rates

D. Giusti, V. Lubicz, C. Tarantino, G. Martinelli, C. T. Sachrajda, F. Sanfilippo, S. Simula, and N. Tantalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 072001 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Dissecting the Hadronic Contributions to $(g - 2)_{μ}$ by Schwinger’s Sum Rule

Franziska Hagelstein and Vladimir Pascalutsa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 072002 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Average CsI Neutron Density Distribution from COHERENT Data

M. Cadeddu, C. Giunti, Y. F. Li, and Y. Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 072501 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

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Search for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay with the Upgraded EXO-200 Detector

J. B. Albert et al. (EXO-200 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 072701 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Four experiments have demonstrated new levels of sensitivity to neutrinoless double-beta decay, a process whose existence would prove that neutrinos are their own antiparticles.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Hopping and Blockade of Bosons in a Trapped Ion Spin Chain

S. Debnath, N. M. Linke, S.-T. Wang, C. Figgatt, K. A. Landsman, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073001 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

A programmable trapped-ion quantum computer performs a quantum simulation of a bosonic system.

Unconventional Universality Class of One-Dimensional Isolated Coarsening Dynamics in a Spinor Bose Gas

Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073002 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Particle-Hole Character of the Higgs and Goldstone Modes in Strongly Interacting Lattice Bosons

M. Di Liberto, A. Recati, N. Trivedi, I. Carusotto, and C. Menotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073201 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Attoclock Photoelectron Interferometry with Two-Color Corotating Circular Fields to Probe the Phase and the Amplitude of Emitting Wave Packets

Meng Han, Peipei Ge, Yun Shao, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073202 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Normal-Mode Splitting in a Weakly Coupled Optomechanical System

Massimiliano Rossi, Nenad Kralj, Stefano Zippilli, Riccardo Natali, Antonio Borrielli, Gregory Pandraud, Enrico Serra, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, and David Vitali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073601 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

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Light-Mediated Collective Atomic Motion in an Optical Lattice Coupled to a Membrane

Aline Vochezer, Tobias Kampschulte, Klemens Hammerer, and Philipp Treutlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073602 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

By coupling atoms in an optical lattice to a thin elastic membrane, researchers have demonstrated a dynamic instability that is evidence of collective atomic motion.

Slowing Quantum Decoherence by Squeezing in Phase Space

H. Le Jeannic, A. Cavaillès, K. Huang, R. Filip, and J. Laurat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073603 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Mutual Information between Reflected and Transmitted Speckle Images

N. Fayard, A. Goetschy, R. Pierrat, and R. Carminati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073901 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

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Stimulated Brillouin Cavity Optomechanics in Liquid Droplets

A. Giorgini, S. Avino, P. Malara, P. De Natale, M. Yannai, T. Carmon, and G. Gagliardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 073902 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Exciting the mechanical whispering-gallery mode vibrations of a microdroplet with a laser beam amplifies surface-acoustic vibrations at hypersonic frequencies.

Impulsively Induced Jets from Viscoelastic Films for High-Resolution Printing

Emre Turkoz, Antonio Perazzo, Hyoungsoo Kim, Howard A. Stone, and Craig B. Arnold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074501 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

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Self-Aligned Acoustofluidic Particle Focusing and Patterning in Microfluidic Channels from Channel-Based Acoustic Waveguides

David J. Collins, Richard O’Rorke, Citsabehsan Devendran, Zhichao Ma, Jongyoon Han, Adrian Neild, and Ye Ai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074502 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Acoustic waves guided by the channels of a microfluidic device can precisely manipulate microscopic particles suspended in the liquid flowing through the device.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Enhanced Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration by Superponderomotive Electrons Generated from Near-Critical-Density Plasma

J. H. Bin, M. Yeung, Z. Gong, H. Y. Wang, C. Kreuzer, M. L. Zhou, M. J. V. Streeter, P. S. Foster, S. Cousens, B. Dromey, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, M. Zepf, and J. Schreiber

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074801 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018

Explaining Cold-Pulse Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas Using Local Turbulent Transport Models

P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, A. E. White, N. T. Howard, B. A. Grierson, G. M. Staebler, J. E. Rice, X. Yuan, N. M. Cao, A. J. Creely, M. J. Greenwald, A. E. Hubbard, J. W. Hughes, J. H. Irby, and F. Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 075001 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Evidence for Secondary Flux Rope Generated by the Electron Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in a Magnetic Reconnection Diffusion Region

Z. H. Zhong, R. X. Tang, M. Zhou, X. H. Deng, Y. Pang, W. R. Paterson, B. L. Giles, J. L. Burch, R. B. Tobert, R. E. Ergun, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, and P.-A. Lindquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 075101 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Effect of Magnetic Boundary Conditions on Superfluid ${}^{3}{He}$ in Nematic Aerogel

V. V. Dmitriev, A. A. Soldatov, and A. N. Yudin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 075301 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Hydrodynamic Heat Transport Regime in Bismuth: A Theoretical Viewpoint

Maxime Markov, Jelena Sjakste, Giuliana Barbarino, Giorgia Fugallo, Lorenzo Paulatto, Michele Lazzeri, Francesco Mauri, and Nathalie Vast

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 075901 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

Suppressing Ice Nucleation of Supercooled Condensate with Biphilic Topography

Youmin Hou, Miao Yu, Yuhe Shang, Peng Zhou, Ruyuan Song, Xiaonan Xu, Xuemei Chen, Zuankai Wang, and Shuhuai Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 075902 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

Two-Dimensional Wetting of a Stepped Copper Surface

C. Lin, N. Avidor, G. Corem, O. Godsi, G. Alexandrowicz, G. R. Darling, and A. Hodgson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 076101 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Nonempirical Semilocal Free-Energy Density Functional for Matter under Extreme Conditions

Valentin V. Karasiev, James W. Dufty, and S. B. Trickey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 076401 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

Photoexcitation Cascade and Quantum-Relativistic Jets in Graphene

Cyprian Lewandowski and L. S. Levitov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 076601 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

Resistivity in the Vicinity of a van Hove Singularity: ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ under Uniaxial Pressure

M. E. Barber, A. S. Gibbs, Y. Maeno, A. P. Mackenzie, and C. W. Hicks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 076602 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

Shubnikov–de Haas–like Quantum Oscillations in Artificial One-Dimensional ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Electron Channels

Guanglei Cheng, Anil Annadi, Shicheng Lu, Hyungwoo Lee, Jung-Woo Lee, Mengchen Huang, Chang-Beom Eom, Patrick Irvin, and Jeremy Levy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 076801 (2018) - Published 14 February, 2018

Influence of Relativistic Effects on the Contact Formation of Transition Metals

M. R. Calvo, C. Sabater, W. Dednam, E. B. Lombardi, M. J. Caturla, and C. Untiedt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 076802 (2018) - Published 16 February, 2018

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Cluster-Based Haldane State in an Edge-Shared Tetrahedral Spin-Cluster Chain: Fedotovite $K_{2} {Cu}_{3} O ({SO}_{4})_{3}$

M. Fujihala, T. Sugimoto, T. Tohyama, S. Mitsuda, R. A. Mole, D. H. Yu, S. Yano, Y. Inagaki, H. Morodomi, T. Kawae, H. Sagayama, R. Kumai, Y. Murakami, K. Tomiyasu, A. Matsuo, and K. Kindo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 077201 (2018) - Published 12 February, 2018

A functional design for the cluster-based $S$ =1 Haldane state is proposed and confirmed experimentally in an edge-shared tetrahedral spin-cluster chain system.

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

Illustrating the Molecular Origin of Mechanical Stress in Ductile Deformation of Polymer Glasses

Xiaoxiao Li, Jianning Liu, Zhuonan Liu, Mesfin Tsige, and Shi-Qing Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 077801 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

Crowding of Interacting Fluid Particles in Porous Media through Molecular Dynamics: Breakdown of Universality for Soft Interactions

Simon K. Schnyder and Jürgen Horbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 078001 (2018) - Published 13 February, 2018

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Transport Signatures of the Hall Viscosity [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 226602 (2017)]

Luca V. Delacrétaz and Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 079901 (2018) - Published 15 February, 2018