Volume 120, Issue 8

23 February 2018

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Randomly packed assemblies of granular chains indented by a cylindrical probe in a flexible container (left). Photographs of final states of granular chains after removal of the container (right; number of beads per chain increases from middle top to bottom right in a И direction). Selected for a Focus story in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Emergent Strain Stiffening in Interlocked Granular Chains
Denis Dumont, Maurine Houze, Paul Rambach, Thomas Salez, Sylvain Patinet, and Pascal Damman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 088001 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Experimental Test of the Differential Fluctuation Theorem and a Generalized Jarzynski Equality for Arbitrary Initial States

Thai M. Hoang, Rui Pan, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang, H. T. Quan, and Tongcang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080602 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Motion measurements of a nanosized bead—held aloft in an optical trap—confirm thermodynamic theories that describe fluctuations of microscopic objects.

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Dark State Optical Lattice with a Subwavelength Spatial Structure

Y. Wang (王扬), S. Subhankar, P. Bienias, M. Łącki, T-C. Tsui (崔子俊), M. A. Baranov, A. V. Gorshkov, P. Zoller, J. V. Porto, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083601 (2018) - Published 20 February, 2018

Lasers trap cold atoms in a lattice of potential barriers much narrower than the lasers’ wavelength.

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Emergent Strain Stiffening in Interlocked Granular Chains

Denis Dumont, Maurine Houze, Paul Rambach, Thomas Salez, Sylvain Patinet, and Pascal Damman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 088001 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Chains of metallic beads act a lot like polymer molecules, even though real polymers are in constant motion.

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Restart Could Optimize the Probability of Success in a Bernoulli Trial

Sergey Belan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080601 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

Starting over can increase the chances of reaching a desired outcome among many possibilities, as demonstrated by a new statistical analysis.

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Probing Planckian Corrections at the Horizon Scale with LISA Binaries

Andrea Maselli, Paolo Pani, Vitor Cardoso, Tiziano Abdelsalhin, Leonardo Gualtieri, and Valeria Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 081101 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

A theoretical analysis suggests that the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA may be able to distinguish between black holes and exotic compact objects.

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Blue-Detuned Magneto-Optical Trap

K. N. Jarvis, J. A. Devlin, T. E. Wall, B. E. Sauer, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083201 (2018) - Published 20 February, 2018

Using blue-detuned light from atomic transitions, rather than the normal red-detuned light, enables a million-fold increase in the phase-space density of a magnetooptical trap.

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Atom Pairing in Optical Superlattices

J. Kangara, Chingyun Cheng, S. Pegahan, I. Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083203 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

Atom pairs with two types of symmetries coexist in optical lattices with double well potentials. This system could be used to probe the elementary pairing of atomic states.

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Temperature-Induced Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells

A. M. Kadykov, S. S. Krishtopenko, B. Jouault, W. Desrat, W. Knap, S. Ruffenach, C. Consejo, J. Torres, S. V. Morozov, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretskii, and F. Teppe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086401 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

The visualization of the Landau levels in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells at different temperatures allows the exploration of the phase diagram as a function of magnetic field and temperature.

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All-Electrical Determination of Crystal Orientation in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Materials

Lintao Peng, Spencer A. Wells, Christopher R. Ryder, Mark C. Hersam, and Matthew Grayson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086801 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

The crystal axes of an arbitrarily-shaped, exfoliated semiconductor flake are determined via resistivity measurements.

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Fractal Folding and Medium Viscoelasticity Contribute Jointly to Chromosome Dynamics

K. E. Polovnikov, M. Gherardi, M. Cosentino-Lagomarsino, and M. V. Tamm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 088101 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

The impact of folds in a chromosome on its local dynamics is investigated with a model that accounts for fractal packing.

LETTERS

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

Generalized Probabilistic Description of Noninteracting Identical Particles

Marcin Karczewski, Marcin Markiewicz, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, and Paweł Kurzyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080401 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Multiparameter Estimation in Networked Quantum Sensors

Timothy J. Proctor, Paul A. Knott, and Jacob A. Dunningham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080501 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

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Restart Could Optimize the Probability of Success in a Bernoulli Trial

Sergey Belan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080601 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

Starting over can increase the chances of reaching a desired outcome among many possibilities, as demonstrated by a new statistical analysis.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Test of the Differential Fluctuation Theorem and a Generalized Jarzynski Equality for Arbitrary Initial States

Thai M. Hoang, Rui Pan, Jonghoon Ahn, Jaehoon Bang, H. T. Quan, and Tongcang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080602 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Motion measurements of a nanosized bead—held aloft in an optical trap—confirm thermodynamic theories that describe fluctuations of microscopic objects.

Atypicality of Most Few-Body Observables

Ryusuke Hamazaki and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 080603 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Probing Planckian Corrections at the Horizon Scale with LISA Binaries

Andrea Maselli, Paolo Pani, Vitor Cardoso, Tiziano Abdelsalhin, Leonardo Gualtieri, and Valeria Ferrari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 081101 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

A theoretical analysis suggests that the future space-based gravitational wave detector LISA may be able to distinguish between black holes and exotic compact objects.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonunitary Lagrangians and Unitary Non-Lagrangian Conformal Field Theories

Matthew Buican and Zoltan Laczko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 081601 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Observation of Electroweak Production of Same-Sign $W$ Boson Pairs in the Two Jet and Two Same-Sign Lepton Final State in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 081801 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Color Superconductivity and Charge Neutrality in Yukawa Theory

Mark G. Alford, Kamal Pangeni, and Andreas Windisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 082701 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling in HD, HT, and DT

Mariusz Puchalski, Jacek Komasa, and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083001 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Blue-Detuned Magneto-Optical Trap

K. N. Jarvis, J. A. Devlin, T. E. Wall, B. E. Sauer, and M. R. Tarbutt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083201 (2018) - Published 20 February, 2018

Using blue-detuned light from atomic transitions, rather than the normal red-detuned light, enables a million-fold increase in the phase-space density of a magnetooptical trap.

Optical Lattice Clocks with Weakly Bound Molecules

Mateusz Borkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083202 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

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Atom Pairing in Optical Superlattices

J. Kangara, Chingyun Cheng, S. Pegahan, I. Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083203 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

Atom pairs with two types of symmetries coexist in optical lattices with double well potentials. This system could be used to probe the elementary pairing of atomic states.

Orienting Asymmetric Molecules by Laser Fields with Twisted Polarization

E. Gershnabel and I. Sh. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083204 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Near-Resonant Raman Amplification in the Rotational Quantum Wave Packets of Nitrogen Molecular Ions Generated by Strong Field Ionization

Zhaoxiang Liu, Jinping Yao, Jinming Chen, Bo Xu, Wei Chu, and Ya Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083205 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Creation of Rydberg Polarons in a Bose Gas

F. Camargo, R. Schmidt, J. D. Whalen, R. Ding, G. Woehl, Jr., S. Yoshida, J. Burgdörfer, F. B. Dunning, H. R. Sadeghpour, E. Demler, and T. C. Killian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083401 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Dark State Optical Lattice with a Subwavelength Spatial Structure

Y. Wang (王扬), S. Subhankar, P. Bienias, M. Łącki, T-C. Tsui (崔子俊), M. A. Baranov, A. V. Gorshkov, P. Zoller, J. V. Porto, and S. L. Rolston

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083601 (2018) - Published 20 February, 2018

Lasers trap cold atoms in a lattice of potential barriers much narrower than the lasers’ wavelength.

Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with Nested Polariton States

Junling Long, H. S. Ku, Xian Wu, Xiu Gu, Russell E. Lake, Mustafa Bal, Yu-xi Liu, and David P. Pappas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083602 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Experimental Fock-State Superradiance

L. Ortiz-Gutiérrez, L. F. Muñoz-Martínez, D. F. Barros, J. E. O. Morales, R. S. N. Moreira, N. D. Alves, A. F. G. Tieco, P. L. Saldanha, and D. Felinto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 083603 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Robustness of Synchrony in Complex Networks and Generalized Kirchhoff Indices

M. Tyloo, T. Coletta, and Ph. Jacquod

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 084101 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Laminar Chaos

David Müller, Andreas Otto, and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 084102 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Forced Wetting Transition and Bubble Pinch-Off in a Capillary Tube

Benzhong Zhao, Amir Alizadeh Pahlavan, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, and Ruben Juanes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 084501 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

First Observation of Cross-Beam Energy Transfer Mitigation for Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions Using Wavelength Detuning at the National Ignition Facility

J. A. Marozas, M. Hohenberger, M. J. Rosenberg, D. Turnbull, T. J. B. Collins, P. B. Radha, P. W. McKenty, J. D. Zuegel, F. J. Marshall, S. P. Regan, T. C. Sangster, W. Seka, E. M. Campbell, V. N. Goncharov, M. W. Bowers, J.-M. G. Di Nicola, G. Erbert, B. J. MacGowan, L. J. Pelz, and S. T. Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085001 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Realizing the Haldane Phase with Bosons in Optical Lattices

Junjun Xu, Qiang Gu, and Erich J. Mueller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085301 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

New Structured Laves Phase in the Mg-In-Ca System with Nontranslational Symmetry and Two Unit Cells

Hongbo Xie, Hucheng Pan, Yuping Ren, Liqing Wang, Yufeng He, Xixi Qi, and Gaowu Qin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085701 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

First-Order Interfacial Transformations with a Critical Point: Breaking the Symmetry at a Symmetric Tilt Grain Boundary

Shengfeng Yang, Naixie Zhou, Hui Zheng, Shyue Ping Ong, and Jian Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085702 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Overcoming the Time Limitation in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Crystal Nucleation: A Persistent-Embryo Approach

Yang Sun, Huajing Song, Feng Zhang, Lin Yang, Zhuo Ye, Mikhail I. Mendelev, Cai-Zhuang Wang, and Kai-Ming Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085703 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Damage in a Thin Metal Film by High-Power Terahertz Radiation

M. B. Agranat, O. V. Chefonov, A. V. Ovchinnikov, S. I. Ashitkov, V. E. Fortov, and P. S. Kondratenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085704 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Johari-Goldstein Relaxation Far Below $T_{g}$ : Experimental Evidence for the Gardner Transition in Structural Glasses?

K. Geirhos, P. Lunkenheimer, and A. Loidl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 085705 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Traditional Semiconductors in the Two-Dimensional Limit

Michael C. Lucking, Weiyu Xie, Duk-Hyun Choe, Damien West, Toh-Ming Lu, and S. B. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086101 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Temperature-Induced Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells

A. M. Kadykov, S. S. Krishtopenko, B. Jouault, W. Desrat, W. Knap, S. Ruffenach, C. Consejo, J. Torres, S. V. Morozov, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretskii, and F. Teppe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086401 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

The visualization of the Landau levels in HgTe/CdTe quantum wells at different temperatures allows the exploration of the phase diagram as a function of magnetic field and temperature.

Experimental Determination of the Topological Phase Diagram in Cerium Monopnictides

Kenta Kuroda, M. Ochi, H. S. Suzuki, M. Hirayama, M. Nakayama, R. Noguchi, C. Bareille, S. Akebi, S. Kunisada, T. Muro, M. D. Watson, H. Kitazawa, Y. Haga, T. K. Kim, M. Hoesch, S. Shin, R. Arita, and Takeshi Kondo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086402 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

Inner Nonlinear Waves and Inelastic Light Scattering of Fractional Quantum Hall States as Evidence of the Gravitational Anomaly

P. Wiegmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086601 (2018) - Published 20 February, 2018

Effect of Charge Localization on the Effective Hyperfine Interaction in Organic Semiconducting Polymers

Rugang Geng, Ram C. Subedi, Hoang M. Luong, Minh T. Pham, Weichuan Huang, Xiaoguang Li, Kunlun Hong, Ming Shao, Kai Xiao, Lawrence A. Hornak, and Tho D. Nguyen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086602 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

Antichiral Edge States in a Modified Haldane Nanoribbon

E. Colomés and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086603 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018

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All-Electrical Determination of Crystal Orientation in Anisotropic Two-Dimensional Materials

Lintao Peng, Spencer A. Wells, Christopher R. Ryder, Mark C. Hersam, and Matthew Grayson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086801 (2018) - Published 21 February, 2018

The crystal axes of an arbitrarily-shaped, exfoliated semiconductor flake are determined via resistivity measurements.

Magnetic and Nematic Orders of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at Oxide (111) Surfaces and Interfaces

Nazim Boudjada, Gideon Wachtel, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 086802 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Intrinsic Charge Dynamics in High- $T_{c}$ $A FeAs (O, F)$ Superconductors

A. Charnukha, D. Pröpper, N. D. Zhigadlo, M. Naito, M. Schmidt, Zhe Wang, J. Deisenhofer, A. Loidl, B. Keimer, A. V. Boris, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 087001 (2018) - Published 23 February, 2018

Spin-Glass Ground State in a Triangular-Lattice Compound ${YbZnGaO}_{4}$

Zhen Ma, Jinghui Wang, Zhao-Yang Dong, Jun Zhang, Shichao Li, Shu-Han Zheng, Yunjie Yu, Wei Wang, Liqiang Che, Kejing Ran, Song Bao, Zhengwei Cai, P. Čermák, A. Schneidewind, S. Yano, J. S. Gardner, Xin Lu, Shun-Li Yu, Jun-Ming Liu, Shiyan Li, Jian-Xin Li, and Jinsheng Wen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 087201 (2018) - Published 22 February, 2018