Volume 120, Issue 9

2 March 2018

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Dissipation of surface kinetic energy in a turbulent numerical simulation of the global ocean. Colors indicate high (red) to low (blue) dissipation on a logarithmic scale. Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Log-Normal Turbulence Dissipation in Global Ocean Models
Brodie Pearson and Baylor Fox-Kemper
Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 094501 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Log-Normal Turbulence Dissipation in Global Ocean Models

Brodie Pearson and Baylor Fox-Kemper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 094501 (2018) - Published 26 February, 2018

A large-scale model of ocean dynamics finds intermittent behavior that may have implications for how the ocean’s energy budget is assessed.

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Magnon Valve Effect between Two Magnetic Insulators

H. Wu, L. Huang, C. Fang, B. S. Yang, C. H. Wan, G. Q. Yu, J. F. Feng, H. X. Wei, and X. F. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097205 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Three new transistors for spin-based currents may lead to a new type of circuitry that is faster and more efficient than traditional electronics.

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Microwave Detection of Electron-Phonon Interactions in a Cavity-Coupled Double Quantum Dot

T. R. Hartke, Y.-Y. Liu, M. J. Gullans, and J. R. Petta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097701 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Researchers use a cavity-coupled double quantum dot to study electron-phonon interactions in a nanowire.

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Spin-Current-Controlled Modulation of the Magnon Spin Conductance in a Three-Terminal Magnon Transistor

L. J. Cornelissen, J. Liu, B. J. van Wees, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097702 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Three new transistors for spin-based currents may lead to a new type of circuitry that is faster and more efficient than traditional electronics.

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Near- and Extended-Edge X-Ray-Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy Using Ultrafast Coherent High-Order Harmonic Supercontinua

Dimitar Popmintchev, Benjamin R. Galloway, Ming-Chang Chen, Franklin Dollar, Christopher A. Mancuso, Amelia Hankla, Luis Miaja-Avila, Galen O’Neil, Justin M. Shaw, Guangyu Fan, Skirmantas Ališauskas, Giedrius Andriukaitis, Tadas Balčiunas, Oliver D. Mücke, Audrius Pugzlys, Andrius Baltuška, Henry C. Kapteyn, Tenio Popmintchev, and Margaret M. Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093002 (2018) - Published 1 March, 2018

A laser-based setup can be used to perform x-ray spectroscopy with a precision rivaling that of experiments at large-scale synchrotron facilities.

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GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 091101 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

The contribution of binary neutron star mergers to the energy density of the gravitational wave stochastic background is estimated from the first direct observation of such events.

LETTERS

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

Noisy Spins and the Richardson-Gaudin Model

Daniel A. Rowlands and Austen Lamacraft

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 090401 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Intrinsic Orbital Angular Momentum States of Neutrons

Ronald L. Cappelletti, Terrence Jach, and John Vinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 090402 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Quantitative Tomography for Continuous Variable Quantum Systems

Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Luke C. G. Govia, and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 090501 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Thermodynamic Bounds on Precision in Ballistic Multiterminal Transport

Kay Brandner, Taro Hanazato, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 090601 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 091101 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

The contribution of binary neutron star mergers to the energy density of the gravitational wave stochastic background is estimated from the first direct observation of such events.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Modular Berry Connection for Entangled Subregions in $AdS / CFT$

Bartłomiej Czech, Lampros Lamprou, Samuel McCandlish, and James Sully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 091601 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Probing New Long-Range Interactions by Isotope Shift Spectroscopy

Julian C. Berengut, Dmitry Budker, Cédric Delaunay, Victor V. Flambaum, Claudia Frugiuele, Elina Fuchs, Christophe Grojean, Roni Harnik, Roee Ozeri, Gilad Perez, and Yotam Soreq

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 091801 (2018) - Published 26 February, 2018

Absolute Lower Bound on the Bounce Action

Ryosuke Sato and Masahiro Takimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 091802 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

First Look at Two-Loop Five-Gluon Scattering in QCD

Simon Badger, Christian Brønnum-Hansen, Heribertus Bayu Hartanto, and Tiziano Peraro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 092001 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Correlated Azimuthal Anisotropy Fourier Harmonics in $p p$ and $p + Pb$ Collisions at the LHC

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 092301 (2018) - Published 26 February, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

New Nuclear Magnetic Moment of ${}^{209}{Bi}$ : Resolving the Bismuth Hyperfine Puzzle

Leonid V. Skripnikov, Stefan Schmidt, Johannes Ullmann, Christopher Geppert, Florian Kraus, Benjamin Kresse, Wilfried Nörtershäuser, Alexei F. Privalov, Benjamin Scheibe, Vladimir M. Shabaev, Michael Vogel, and Andrey V. Volotka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093001 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

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Near- and Extended-Edge X-Ray-Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy Using Ultrafast Coherent High-Order Harmonic Supercontinua

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093002 (2018) - Published 1 March, 2018

A laser-based setup can be used to perform x-ray spectroscopy with a precision rivaling that of experiments at large-scale synchrotron facilities.

Coherent Microwave-to-Optical Conversion via Six-Wave Mixing in Rydberg Atoms

Jingshan Han, Thibault Vogt, Christian Gross, Dieter Jaksch, Martin Kiffner, and Wenhui Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093201 (2018) - Published 1 March, 2018

Exponentially Enhanced Light-Matter Interaction, Cooperativities, and Steady-State Entanglement Using Parametric Amplification

Wei Qin, Adam Miranowicz, Peng-Bo Li, Xin-You Lü, J. Q. You, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093601 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Enhancing Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics via Antisqueezing: Synthetic Ultrastrong Coupling

C. Leroux, L. C. G. Govia, and A. A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093602 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Defect States Emerging from a Non-Hermitian Flatband of Photonic Zero Modes

Bingkun Qi, Lingxuan Zhang, and Li Ge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093901 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Pair of Exceptional Points in a Microdisk Cavity under an Extremely Weak Deformation

Chang-Hwan Yi, Julius Kullig, and Jan Wiersig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 093902 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Terminal Transient Phase of Chaotic Transients

Thomas Lilienkamp and Ulrich Parlitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 094101 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

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Log-Normal Turbulence Dissipation in Global Ocean Models

Brodie Pearson and Baylor Fox-Kemper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 094501 (2018) - Published 26 February, 2018

A large-scale model of ocean dynamics finds intermittent behavior that may have implications for how the ocean’s energy budget is assessed.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Meter-Scale Terahertz-Driven Acceleration of a Relativistic Beam

E. Curry, S. Fabbri, J. Maxson, P. Musumeci, and A. Gover

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 094801 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Experimental Observation of “Shadowing” in Optical Transition Radiation

R. Kieffer, M. Bergamaschi, E. Bravin, W. Farabolini, P. Karataev, T. Lefevre, and S. Mazzoni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 094802 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Highly Resolved Measurements of a Developing Strong Collisional Plasma Shock

Hans G. Rinderknecht, H.-S. Park, J. S. Ross, P. A. Amendt, D. P. Higginson, S. C. Wilks, D. Haberberger, J. Katz, D. H. Froula, N. M. Hoffman, G. Kagan, B. D. Keenan, and E. L. Vold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 095001 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Temperature Measurement by a Nanoscale Electron Probe Using Energy Gain and Loss Spectroscopy

Juan Carlos Idrobo, Andrew R. Lupini, Tianli Feng, Raymond R. Unocic, Franklin S. Walden, Daniel S. Gardiner, Tracy C. Lovejoy, Niklas Dellby, Sokrates T. Pantelides, and Ondrej L. Krivanek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 095901 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Synthesis of Xenon and Iron-Nickel Intermetallic Compounds at Earth’s Core Thermodynamic Conditions

Elissaios Stavrou, Yansun Yao, Alexander F. Goncharov, Sergey S. Lobanov, Joseph M. Zaug, Hanyu Liu, Eran Greenberg, and Vitali B. Prakapenka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096001 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Light-Activated Gigahertz Ferroelectric Domain Dynamics

Hirofumi Akamatsu, Yakun Yuan, Vladimir A. Stoica, Greg Stone, Tiannan Yang, Zijian Hong, Shiming Lei, Yi Zhu, Ryan C. Haislmaier, John W. Freeland, Long-Qing Chen, Haidan Wen, and Venkatraman Gopalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096101 (2018) - Published 26 February, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Space-Time Crystal and Space-Time Group

Shenglong Xu and Congjun Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096401 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Universal Relation among the Many-Body Chern Number, Rotation Symmetry, and Filling

Akishi Matsugatani, Yuri Ishiguro, Ken Shiozaki, and Haruki Watanabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096601 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Negative Longitudinal Magnetoresistance in the Density Wave Phase of $Y_{2} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

Abhishek Juyal, Amit Agarwal, and Soumik Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096801 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Tunable Lifshitz Transitions and Multiband Transport in Tetralayer Graphene

Yanmeng Shi, Shi Che, Kuan Zhou, Supeng Ge, Ziqi Pi, Timothy Espiritu, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Yafis Barlas, Roger Lake, and Chun Ning Lau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 096802 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Antiferromagnetic Order in Epitaxial FeSe Films on ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Y. Zhou, L. Miao, P. Wang, F. F. Zhu, W. X. Jiang, S. W. Jiang, Y. Zhang, B. Lei, X. H. Chen, H. F. Ding, Hao Zheng, W. T. Zhang, Jin-feng Jia, Dong Qian, and D. Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097001 (2018) - Published 27 February, 2018

Multi- $q$ Mesoscale Magnetism in ${CeAuSb}_{2}$

Guy G. Marcus, Dae-Jeong Kim, Jacob A. Tutmaher, Jose A. Rodriguez-Rivera, Jonas Okkels Birk, Christof Niedermeyer, Hannoh Lee, Zachary Fisk, and Collin L. Broholm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097201 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Calculating the Magnetic Anisotropy of Rare-Earth–Transition-Metal Ferrimagnets

Christopher E. Patrick, Santosh Kumar, Geetha Balakrishnan, Rachel S. Edwards, Martin R. Lees, Leon Petit, and Julie B. Staunton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097202 (2018) - Published 28 February, 2018

Strong Enhancement of the Spin Hall Effect by Spin Fluctuations near the Curie Point of ${Fe}_{x} {Pt}_{1 - x}$ Alloys

Yongxi Ou, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097203 (2018) - Published 1 March, 2018

Cluster-Glass Phase in Pyrochlore $X Y$ Antiferromagnets with Quenched Disorder

Eric C. Andrade, José A. Hoyos, Stephan Rachel, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097204 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

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Magnon Valve Effect between Two Magnetic Insulators

H. Wu, L. Huang, C. Fang, B. S. Yang, C. H. Wan, G. Q. Yu, J. F. Feng, H. X. Wei, and X. F. Han

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097205 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

Three new transistors for spin-based currents may lead to a new type of circuitry that is faster and more efficient than traditional electronics.

Exciton Polaritons in a Two-Dimensional Lieb Lattice with Spin-Orbit Coupling

C. E. Whittaker, E. Cancellieri, P. M. Walker, D. R. Gulevich, H. Schomerus, D. Vaitiekus, B. Royall, D. M. Whittaker, E. Clarke, I. V. Iorsh, I. A. Shelykh, M. S. Skolnick, and D. N. Krizhanovskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 097401 (2018) - Published 2 March, 2018

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