Volume 121, Issue 1

6 July 2018

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High-resolution images of multicrystalline silicon showing the faceted structure of the grain boundary, with the highlighted area showing the location and distribution of impurities. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Strain-Induced Asymmetric Line Segregation at Faceted Si Grain Boundaries
Christian H. Liebscher, Andreas Stoffers, Masud Alam, Liverios Lymperakis, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Baptiste Gault, Jörg Neugebauer, Gerhard Dehm, Christina Scheu, and Dierk Raabe
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015702 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Baryon–Dark-Matter Scattering with the Cosmic Dawn 21-cm Signal

Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, and Aviad Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011101 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Recent observations of hydrogen absorption that occurred when the first stars turned on may give insights into the nature of dark matter, new analyses show.

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Severely Constraining Dark-Matter Interpretations of the 21-cm Anomaly

Asher Berlin, Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, and Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011102 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Recent observations of hydrogen absorption that occurred when the first stars turned on may give insights into the nature of dark matter, new analyses show.

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Bounds on Dark-Matter Annihilations from 21-cm Data

Guido D’Amico, Paolo Panci, and Alessandro Strumia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011103 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Recent observations of hydrogen absorption that occurred when the first stars turned on may give insights into the nature of dark matter, new analyses show.

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Collective Spin Modes of a Trapped Quantum Ferrofluid

S. Lepoutre, L. Gabardos, K. Kechadi, P. Pedri, O. Gorceix, E. Maréchal, L. Vernac, and B. Laburthe-Tolra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013201 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Researchers have spotted a never-before-seen collective spin oscillation in a Bose-Einstein condensate of chromium atoms.

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Dissociation Energy of the Hydrogen Molecule at $10^{- 9}$ Accuracy

C.-F. Cheng, J. Hussels, M. Niu, H. L. Bethlem, K. S. E. Eikema, E. J. Salumbides, W. Ubachs, M. Beyer, N. Hölsch, J. A. Agner, F. Merkt, L.-G. Tao, S.-M. Hu, and Ch. Jungen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013001 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

A precision measurement of the energy needed to break molecular hydrogen apart disagrees with recent calculations.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strain-Induced Asymmetric Line Segregation at Faceted Si Grain Boundaries

Christian H. Liebscher, Andreas Stoffers, Masud Alam, Liverios Lymperakis, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Baptiste Gault, Jörg Neugebauer, Gerhard Dehm, Christina Scheu, and Dierk Raabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015702 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Simulations and high-resolution imaging show that segregation of solutes in silicon occurs at facet junctions and not at grain boundary planes, contrary to the common view of impurity behavior.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring the Local Velocity along Transition Paths during the Folding of Single Biological Molecules

Krishna Neupane, Noel Q. Hoffer, and M. T. Woodside

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 018102 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Measurements of the transition path velocity of a folding DNA hairpin using optical tweezers indicate that barrier re-crossing reduces overall transition rates by several orders of magnitude.

LETTERS

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

One-Shot Coherence Distillation

Bartosz Regula, Kun Fang, Xin Wang, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 010401 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Quantum Limitation to the Coherent Emission of Accelerated Charges

A. Angioi and A. Di Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 010402 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Quantum Algorithm for Spectral Measurement with a Lower Gate Count

David Poulin, Alexei Kitaev, Damian S. Steiger, Matthew B. Hastings, and Matthias Troyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 010501 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Unfolding Hidden Barriers by Active Enhanced Sampling

Jing Zhang and Ming Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 010601 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraining Baryon–Dark-Matter Scattering with the Cosmic Dawn 21-cm Signal

Anastasia Fialkov, Rennan Barkana, and Aviad Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011101 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Recent observations of hydrogen absorption that occurred when the first stars turned on may give insights into the nature of dark matter, new analyses show.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Severely Constraining Dark-Matter Interpretations of the 21-cm Anomaly

Asher Berlin, Dan Hooper, Gordan Krnjaic, and Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011102 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Recent observations of hydrogen absorption that occurred when the first stars turned on may give insights into the nature of dark matter, new analyses show.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Bounds on Dark-Matter Annihilations from 21-cm Data

Guido D’Amico, Paolo Panci, and Alessandro Strumia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011103 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Recent observations of hydrogen absorption that occurred when the first stars turned on may give insights into the nature of dark matter, new analyses show.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Double-Copy Structure of One-Loop Open-String Amplitudes

Carlos R. Mafra and Oliver Schlotterer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011601 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

$B$ Meson Anomalies in a Pati-Salam Model within the Randall-Sundrum Background

Monika Blanke and Andreas Crivellin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 011801 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Lifetime Measurements and Triple Coexisting Band Structure in ${}^{43}S$

T. Mijatović, N. Kobayashi, H. Iwasaki, D. Bazin, J. Belarge, P. C. Bender, B. A. Brown, A. Dewald, R. Elder, B. Elman, A. Gade, M. Grinder, T. Haylett, S. Heil, C. Loelius, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, M. Mathy, K. Whitmore, and D. Weisshaar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 012501 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Dissociation Energy of the Hydrogen Molecule at $10^{- 9}$ Accuracy

C.-F. Cheng, J. Hussels, M. Niu, H. L. Bethlem, K. S. E. Eikema, E. J. Salumbides, W. Ubachs, M. Beyer, N. Hölsch, J. A. Agner, F. Merkt, L.-G. Tao, S.-M. Hu, and Ch. Jungen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013001 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

A precision measurement of the energy needed to break molecular hydrogen apart disagrees with recent calculations.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Collective Spin Modes of a Trapped Quantum Ferrofluid

S. Lepoutre, L. Gabardos, K. Kechadi, P. Pedri, O. Gorceix, E. Maréchal, L. Vernac, and B. Laburthe-Tolra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013201 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Researchers have spotted a never-before-seen collective spin oscillation in a Bose-Einstein condensate of chromium atoms.

Magnetic Trapping of an Ultracold Gas of Polar Molecules

D. J. McCarron, M. H. Steinecker, Y. Zhu, and D. DeMille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013202 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Bipolarons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

A. Camacho-Guardian, L. A. Peña Ardila, T. Pohl, and G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013401 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Emergent Universal Dynamics for an Atomic Cloud Coupled to an Optical Waveguide

Jan Kumlin, Sebastian Hofferberth, and Hans Peter Büchler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 013601 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Parametric Instability Driven by Weakly Trapped Particles in Nonlinear Plasma Waves

Daniel H. E. Dubin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015001 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Helium-Iron Compounds at Terapascal Pressures

Bartomeu Monserrat, Miguel Martinez-Canales, Richard J. Needs, and Chris J. Pickard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015301 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Probing Quantum Turbulence in ${}^{4}{He}$ by Quantum Evaporation Measurements

Ivan Amelio, Davide Emilio Galli, and Luciano Reatto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015302 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Chiral Orbital Magnetism of $p$ -Orbital Bosons in Optical Lattices

Bo Liu, Peng Zhang, Hong Gao, and Fuli Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015303 (2018) - Published 5 July, 2018

Cooperative Gas Adsorption without a Phase Transition in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Joyjit Kundu, Jürgen F. Stilck, Jung-Hoon Lee, Jeffrey B. Neaton, David Prendergast, and Stephen Whitelam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015701 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strain-Induced Asymmetric Line Segregation at Faceted Si Grain Boundaries

Christian H. Liebscher, Andreas Stoffers, Masud Alam, Liverios Lymperakis, Oana Cojocaru-Mirédin, Baptiste Gault, Jörg Neugebauer, Gerhard Dehm, Christina Scheu, and Dierk Raabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 015702 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Simulations and high-resolution imaging show that segregation of solutes in silicon occurs at facet junctions and not at grain boundary planes, contrary to the common view of impurity behavior.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

How a dc Electric Field Drives Mott Insulators Out of Equilibrium

P. Diener, E. Janod, B. Corraze, M. Querré, C. Adda, M. Guilloux-Viry, S. Cordier, A. Camjayi, M. Rozenberg, M. P. Besland, and L. Cario

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 016601 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Detecting Equilibrium and Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in Ising Chains via Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators

Markus Heyl, Frank Pollmann, and Balázs Dóra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 016801 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Critical Percolation without Fine-Tuning on the Surface of a Topological Superconductor

Sayed Ali Akbar Ghorashi, Yunxiang Liao, and Matthew S. Foster

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 016802 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Topological Order Generated by a Random Field in a 2D Exchange Model

E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 017201 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Intrinsic Spin-Orbit Torque Arising from the Berry Curvature in a Metallic-Magnet/Cu-Oxide Interface

Tenghua Gao, Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Hongyu An, Akira Musha, Yuito Kageyama, Ji Shi, and Kazuya Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 017202 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Enhanced Absorption by Linewidth Narrowing in Optically Excited Type-II Semiconductor Heterostructures

M. Stein, C. Lammers, M. J. Drexler, C. Fuchs, W. Stolz, and M. Koch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 017401 (2018) - Published 2 July, 2018

Phonon Influence on Bulk Photovoltaic Effect in the Ferroelectric Semiconductor GeTe

Shi-Jing Gong, Fan Zheng, and Andrew M. Rappe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 017402 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

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

Active Suspensions have Nonmonotonic Flow Curves and Multiple Mechanical Equilibria

Aurore Loisy, Jens Eggers, and Tanniemola B. Liverpool

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 018001 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

Translational and Rotational Dynamical Heterogeneities in Granular Systems

Binquan Kou, Yixin Cao, Jindong Li, Chengjie Xia, Zhifeng Li, Haipeng Dong, Ang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Walter Kob, and Yujie Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 018002 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Enhancing Cancer Cell Collective Motion and Speeding up Confluent Endothelial Dynamics through Cancer Cell Invasion and Aggregation

Hsiang-Ying Chen, Yi-Teng Hsiao, Shu-Chen Liu, Tien Hsu, Wei-Yen Woon, and Lin I

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 018101 (2018) - Published 3 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Measuring the Local Velocity along Transition Paths during the Folding of Single Biological Molecules

Krishna Neupane, Noel Q. Hoffer, and M. T. Woodside

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 018102 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018

Measurements of the transition path velocity of a folding DNA hairpin using optical tweezers indicate that barrier re-crossing reduces overall transition rates by several orders of magnitude.

ERRATA

Erratum: Topological Magnon Bands and Unconventional Superconductivity in Pyrochlore Iridate Thin Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 177201 (2017)]

Pontus Laurell and Gregory A. Fiete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 019901 (2018) - Published 6 July, 2018