Volume 121, Issue 10

7 September 2018

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A 180^o-rotated distribution of orbital planes of objects orbiting around a supermassive black hole as a function of object mass.

From the article:

Black Hole Disks in Galactic Nuclei
Ákos Szölgyén and Bence Kocsis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101101 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Concentrators for Water Waves

Chunyang Li, Lin Xu, Lili Zhu, Siyuan Zou, Qing Huo Liu, Zhenyu Wang, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 104501 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

A new structure concentrates water wave motion and could lead to improved techniques for harvesting this renewable energy resource.

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Imaging the Zigzag Wigner Crystal in Confinement-Tunable Quantum Wires

Sheng-Chin Ho, Heng-Jian Chang, Chia-Hua Chang, Shun-Tsung Lo, Graham Creeth, Sanjeev Kumar, Ian Farrer, David Ritchie, Jonathan Griffiths, Geraint Jones, Michael Pepper, and Tse-Ming Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106801 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Using a nanowire with controllable width, researchers have created a type of Wigner crystal in which electrons form an ordered zigzag pattern.

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Intrinsic Pink-Noise Multidecadal Global Climate Dynamics Mode

Woosok Moon, Sahil Agarwal, and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 108701 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Temperatures on Earth’s surface exhibit “pink noise”—a finding that could explain the global warming hiatus of the first decade of this century.

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Conclusive Experimental Demonstration of One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Nora Tischler, Farzad Ghafari, Travis J. Baker, Sergei Slussarenko, Raj B. Patel, Morgan M. Weston, Sabine Wollmann, Lynden K. Shalm, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, H. Chau Nguyen, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 100401 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

A new photon source is used to realize one-way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering free from restrictions on the type of allowed measurements and on assumptions about the quantum state.

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Measurement of the Dynamical Structure Factor of a 1D Interacting Fermi Gas

T. L. Yang, P. Grišins, Y. T. Chang, Z. H. Zhao, C. Y. Shih, T. Giamarchi, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103001 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Bragg spectroscopy on a one-dimensional interacting Fermi gas reveals a dynamic response in good agreement with Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory.

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Dirac-Weyl Semimetal: Coexistence of Dirac and Weyl Fermions in Polar Hexagonal $A B C$ Crystals

Heng Gao, Youngkuk Kim, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele, Andrew M. Rappe, and Wei Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106404 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

The simultaneous appearance of Dirac and Weyl fermions is predicted to occur in momentum space in a noncentrosymmetric material.

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Noise-Induced Backscattering in a Quantum Spin Hall Edge

Jukka I. Väyrynen, Dmitry I. Pikulin, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106601 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

The observed imperfect conductance quantization in 2D topological insulators may be due to time-dependent electronic noise from charge puddles.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conclusive Experimental Demonstration of One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 100401 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

A new photon source is used to realize one-way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering free from restrictions on the type of allowed measurements and on assumptions about the quantum state.

Experimental Observation of Topologically Protected Bound States with Vanishing Chern Numbers in a Two-Dimensional Quantum Walk

Bo Wang, Tian Chen, and Xiangdong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 100501 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Observation of Topologically Protected Edge States in a Photonic Two-Dimensional Quantum Walk

Chao Chen, Xing Ding, Jian Qin, Yu He, Yi-Han Luo, Ming-Cheng Chen, Chang Liu, Xi-Lin Wang, Wei-Jun Zhang, Hao Li, Li-Xing You, Zhen Wang, Da-Wei Wang, Barry C. Sanders, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 100502 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Violation of the Harris-Barghathi-Vojta Criterion

Manuel Schrauth, Jefferson S. E. Portela, and Florian Goth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 100601 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Black Hole Disks in Galactic Nuclei

Ákos Szölgyén and Bence Kocsis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101101 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Spontaneous Scalarization of Charged Black Holes

Carlos A. R. Herdeiro, Eugen Radu, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, and José A. Font

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101102 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

Primordial Non-Gaussianities and Zero-Bias Tracers of the Large-Scale Structure

Emanuele Castorina, Yu Feng, Uroš Seljak, and Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101301 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Loops in Anti–de Sitter Space

Igor Bertan and Ivo Sachs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101601 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Vacuum Selection from Cosmology on Networks of String Geometries

Jonathan Carifio, William J. Cunningham, James Halverson, Dmitri Krioukov, Cody Long, and Brent D. Nelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101602 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Analytic Two-Loop Higgs Amplitudes in Effective Field Theory and the Maximal Transcendentality Principle

Qingjun Jin and Gang Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101603 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Canceling the $U (1)$ Anomaly in the $S$ Matrix of $N = 4$ Supergravity

Zvi Bern, Julio Parra-Martinez, and Radu Roiban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101604 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Directly Detecting Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Electrons from Nuclear Scattering

Matthew J. Dolan, Felix Kahlhoefer, and Christopher McCabe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 101801 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Nuclear Physics

From Calcium to Cadmium: Testing the Pairing Functional through Charge Radii Measurements of ${}^{100 − 130}{Cd}$

M. Hammen, W. Nörtershäuser, D. L. Balabanski, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, I. Budinčević, B. Cheal, K. T. Flanagan, N. Frömmgen, G. Georgiev, Ch. Geppert, M. Kowalska, K. Kreim, A. Krieger, W. Nazarewicz, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, J. Papuga, P.-G. Reinhard, M. M. Rajabali, S. Schmidt, and D. T. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 102501 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Resolving the $Λ$ Hypernuclear Overbinding Problem in Pionless Effective Field Theory

L. Contessi, N. Barnea, and A. Gal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 102502 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Short-Lived Radioisotope ${}^{98}{Tc}$ Synthesized by the Supernova Neutrino Process

Takehito Hayakawa, Heamin Ko, Myung-Ki Cheoun, Motohiko Kusakabe, Toshitaka Kajino, Mark D. Usang, Satoshi Chiba, Ko Nakamura, Alexey Tolstov, Ken’ichi Nomoto, Masa-aki Hashimoto, Masaomi Ono, Toshihiko Kawano, and Grant J. Mathews

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 102701 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Measurement of the Dynamical Structure Factor of a 1D Interacting Fermi Gas

T. L. Yang, P. Grišins, Y. T. Chang, Z. H. Zhao, C. Y. Shih, T. Giamarchi, and R. G. Hulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103001 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Bragg spectroscopy on a one-dimensional interacting Fermi gas reveals a dynamic response in good agreement with Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory.

Control of $H_{2}$ Dissociative Ionization in the Nonlinear Regime Using Vacuum Ultraviolet Free-Electron Laser Pulses

F. Holzmeier, R. Y. Bello, M. Hervé, A. Achner, T. M. Baumann, M. Meyer, P. Finetti, M. Di Fraia, D. Gauthier, E. Roussel, O. Plekan, R. Richter, K. C. Prince, C. Callegari, H. Bachau, A. Palacios, F. Martín, and D. Dowek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103002 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Attosecond Time Delay of Retrapped Resonant Ionization

Xiaohong Song, Guangluo Shi, Guojun Zhang, Jingwen Xu, Cheng Lin, Jing Chen, and Weifeng Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103201 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Observation of Three-Body Correlations for Photons Coupled to a Rydberg Superatom

Nina Stiesdal, Jan Kumlin, Kevin Kleinbeck, Philipp Lunt, Christoph Braun, Asaf Paris-Mandoki, Christoph Tresp, Hans Peter Büchler, and Sebastian Hofferberth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103601 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Unconditional Steady-State Entanglement in Macroscopic Hybrid Systems by Coherent Noise Cancellation

Xinyao Huang, Emil Zeuthen, Denis V. Vasilyev, Qiongyi He, Klemens Hammerer, and Eugene S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103602 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Tunable Orbital Angular Momentum Radiation from Angular-Momentum-Biased Microcavities

Adam Mock, Dimitrios Sounas, and Andrea Alù

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103901 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Violating the Energy-Momentum Proportionality of Photonic Crystals in the Low-Frequency Limit

Michael J. A. Smith and Parry Y. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103902 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Clusters of Cavity Solitons Bounded by Conical Radiation

Carles Milián, Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Dmitry V. Skryabin, and Lluis Torner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 103903 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Peregrine Solitons Beyond the Threefold Limit and Their Two-Soliton Interactions

Shihua Chen, Yanlin Ye, Jose M. Soto-Crespo, Philippe Grelu, and Fabio Baronio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 104101 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Experimental Observation of Current Reversal in a Rocking Brownian Motor

Christian Schwemmer, Stefan Fringes, Urs Duerig, Yu Kyoung Ryu, and Armin W. Knoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 104102 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

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Concentrators for Water Waves

Chunyang Li, Lin Xu, Lili Zhu, Siyuan Zou, Qing Huo Liu, Zhenyu Wang, and Huanyang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 104501 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

A new structure concentrates water wave motion and could lead to improved techniques for harvesting this renewable energy resource.

Acoustothermal Atomization of Water Nanofilms

Rohit Pillai, Matthew K. Borg, and Jason M. Reese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 104502 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Electron Trapping from Interactions between Laser-Driven Relativistic Plasma Waves

Grigory Golovin, Wenchao Yan, Ji Luo, Colton Fruhling, Dan Haden, Baozhen Zhao, Cheng Liu, Min Chen, Shouyuan Chen, Ping Zhang, Sudeep Banerjee, and Donald Umstadter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 104801 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Antisite Pairs Suppress the Thermal Conductivity of BAs

Qiang Zheng, Carlos A. Polanco, Mao-Hua Du, Lucas R. Lindsay, Miaofang Chi, Jiaqiang Yan, and Brian C. Sales

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 105901 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Uncovering the Mechanism of the Impurity-Selective Mott Transition in Paramagnetic $V_{2} O_{3}$

Frank Lechermann, Noam Bernstein, I. I. Mazin, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106401 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Conversion Rules for Weyl Points and Nodal Lines in Topological Media

Xiao-Qi Sun, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Tomáš Bzdušek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106402 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

Band Topology and Linking Structure of Nodal Line Semimetals with $Z_{2}$ Monopole Charges

Junyeong Ahn, Dongwook Kim, Youngkuk Kim, and Bohm-Jung Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106403 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

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Dirac-Weyl Semimetal: Coexistence of Dirac and Weyl Fermions in Polar Hexagonal $A B C$ Crystals

Heng Gao, Youngkuk Kim, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, C. L. Kane, E. J. Mele, Andrew M. Rappe, and Wei Ren

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106404 (2018) - Published 5 September, 2018

The simultaneous appearance of Dirac and Weyl fermions is predicted to occur in momentum space in a noncentrosymmetric material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Noise-Induced Backscattering in a Quantum Spin Hall Edge

Jukka I. Väyrynen, Dmitry I. Pikulin, and Jason Alicea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106601 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

The observed imperfect conductance quantization in 2D topological insulators may be due to time-dependent electronic noise from charge puddles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Imaging the Zigzag Wigner Crystal in Confinement-Tunable Quantum Wires

Sheng-Chin Ho, Heng-Jian Chang, Chia-Hua Chang, Shun-Tsung Lo, Graham Creeth, Sanjeev Kumar, Ian Farrer, David Ritchie, Jonathan Griffiths, Geraint Jones, Michael Pepper, and Tse-Ming Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106801 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Using a nanowire with controllable width, researchers have created a type of Wigner crystal in which electrons form an ordered zigzag pattern.

Disorder-Driven Transition from $s_{\pm}$ to $s_{+ +}$ Superconducting Order Parameter in Proton Irradiated $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Rh}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$ Single Crystals

G. Ghigo, D. Torsello, G. A. Ummarino, L. Gozzelino, M. A. Tanatar, R. Prozorov, and P. C. Canfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107001 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Floquet Engineering of Multiorbital Mott Insulators: Applications to Orthorhombic Titanates

Jianpeng Liu, Kasra Hejazi, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107201 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Critical Level Crossings and Gapless Spin Liquid in the Square-Lattice Spin- $1 / 2$ $J_{1} - J_{2}$ Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Ling Wang and Anders W. Sandvik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107202 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Vesignieite: An $S = \frac{1}{2}$ Kagome Antiferromagnet with Dominant Third-Neighbor Exchange

D. Boldrin, B. Fåk, E. Canévet, J. Ollivier, H. C. Walker, P. Manuel, D. D. Khalyavin, and A. S. Wills

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107203 (2018) - Published 6 September, 2018

Spontaneous Exact Spin-Wave Fractals in Magnonic Crystals

Daniel Richardson, Boris A. Kalinikos, Lincoln D. Carr, and Mingzhong Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 107204 (2018) - Published 7 September, 2018

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

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Intrinsic Pink-Noise Multidecadal Global Climate Dynamics Mode

Woosok Moon, Sahil Agarwal, and J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 108701 (2018) - Published 4 September, 2018

Temperatures on Earth’s surface exhibit “pink noise”—a finding that could explain the global warming hiatus of the first decade of this century.