Volume 121, Issue 12

21 September 2018

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Event in the CMS detector. A Higgs boson candidate is produced in association with a Z boson and they decay, respectively, into a pair of bottom-quark jets (blue) and electrons (red). Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and for a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks
A. M. Sirunyan et al. (CMS Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121801 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121801 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Two CERN experiments have observed the most probable decay channel of the Higgs boson—a milestone in the pursuit to confirm whether this remarkable particle behaves as physicists expect.

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Observation of Spin-Valley-Coupling-Induced Large Spin-Lifetime Anisotropy in Bilayer Graphene

Johannes Christian Leutenantsmeyer, Josep Ingla-Aynés, Jaroslav Fabian, and Bart J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127702 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Two groups have shown they can create long-lived, polarized spin currents in bilayer graphene.

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Strong and Tunable Spin-Lifetime Anisotropy in Dual-Gated Bilayer Graphene

Jinsong Xu, Tiancong Zhu, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Yuan-Ming Lu, and Roland K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127703 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Two groups have shown they can create long-lived, polarized spin currents in bilayer graphene.

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Periodic Motion of Sedimenting Flexible Knots

Magdalena Gruziel, Krishnan Thyagarajan, Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Stasiak, Maria L. Ekiel-Jeżewska, and Piotr Szymczak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127801 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

A knotted loop of metal beads—mimicking a knotted molecule—organizes into a flat horizontal ring when drifting down through a viscous fluid.

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Keldysh-Rutherford Model for the Attoclock

Alexander W. Bray, Sebastian Eckart, and Anatoli S. Kheifets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123201 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Results from a controversial photoelectron tunneling-time experiment in an attosecond clock are explained by the Keldysh-Rutherford model.

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Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Spin Bott Index in a Quasicrystal Lattice

Huaqing Huang and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126401 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

A proposed realization of the quantum spin Hall state in quasicrystals would extend electronic topology beyond crystals to aperiodic and amorphous systems.

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Fragile Topology and Wannier Obstructions

Hoi Chun Po, Haruki Watanabe, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126402 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Distinguishing between fragile and stable scenarios is central to a proper diagnosis of topological band insulators.

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Fractional Excitonic Insulator

Yichen Hu, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126601 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

A correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit the fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field.

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Binary Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling and Electron-Hole Asymmetry

Jian Gou, Bingyu Xia, Hang Li, Xuguang Wang, Longjuan Kong, Peng Cheng, Hui Li, Weifeng Zhang, Tian Qian, Hong Ding, Yong Xu, Wenhui Duan, Kehui Wu, and Lan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126801 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

A honeycomb structure of Bi and Sn atoms on a Si substrate has a pronounced electron-hole asymmetry, providing a platform to explore applications in nanodevices.

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Energy Storage via Topological Spin Textures

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Jiang Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127701 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Topological spin textures are proposed as an energy-storage concept, utilizing the free energy associated with metastable magnetic configurations.

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Microscopic Origin of Frictional Rheology in Dense Suspensions: Correlations in Force Space

Jetin E. Thomas, Kabir Ramola, Abhinendra Singh, Romain Mari, Jeffrey F. Morris, and Bulbul Chakraborty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 128002 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

A statistical framework based on correlations in space representing forces describes the rheology of dense, non-Brownian suspensions.

LETTERS

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

Anomalous Breaking of Scale Invariance in a Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas

M. Holten, L. Bayha, A. C. Klein, P. A. Murthy, P. M. Preiss, and S. Jochim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120401 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Quantum Anomaly and 2D-3D Crossover in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases

T. Peppler, P. Dyke, M. Zamorano, I. Herrera, S. Hoinka, and C. J. Vale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120402 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Quantum Spin Dynamics in a Normal Bose Gas with Spin-Orbit Coupling

Wai Ho Tang and Shizhong Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120403 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Cycling Tames Power Fluctuations near Optimum Efficiency

Viktor Holubec and Artem Ryabov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120601 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Optimal Work Extraction and Thermodynamics of Quantum Measurements and Correlations

Gonzalo Manzano, Francesco Plastina, and Roberta Zambrini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120602 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Discontinuous Phase Transitions in Nonlocal Schloegl Models for Autocatalysis: Loss and Reemergence of a Nonequilibrium Gibbs Phase Rule

Da-Jiang Liu, Chi-Jen Wang, and James W. Evans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 120603 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

21-cm Fluctuations from Charged Dark Matter

Julian B. Muñoz, Cora Dvorkin, and Abraham Loeb

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121301 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Strongly Coupled Anisotropic Gauge Theories and Holography

Dimitrios Giataganas, Umut Gürsoy, and Juan F. Pedraza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121601 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Complexity Growth Rate in Lovelock Gravity

Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar, and Hugo Marrochio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121602 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Dual Conformal Structure Beyond the Planar Limit

Zvi Bern, Michael Enciso, Chia-Hsien Shen, and Mao Zeng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121603 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

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Observation of Higgs Boson Decay to Bottom Quarks

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121801 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Two CERN experiments have observed the most probable decay channel of the Higgs boson—a milestone in the pursuit to confirm whether this remarkable particle behaves as physicists expect.

Invisible Neutrino Decay Could Resolve IceCube’s Track and Cascade Tension

Peter B. Denton and Irene Tamborra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 121802 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Keldysh-Rutherford Model for the Attoclock

Alexander W. Bray, Sebastian Eckart, and Anatoli S. Kheifets

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123201 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Results from a controversial photoelectron tunneling-time experiment in an attosecond clock are explained by the Keldysh-Rutherford model.

Role of Radial Charges on the Angular Momentum of Electromagnetic Fields: Spin- $3 / 2$ Light

O. El Gawhary, T. Van Mechelen, and H. P. Urbach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123202 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

Nonreciprocity Realized with Quantum Nonlinearity

Andrés Rosario Hamann, Clemens Müller, Markus Jerger, Maximilian Zanner, Joshua Combes, Mikhail Pletyukhov, Martin Weides, Thomas M. Stace, and Arkady Fedorov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123601 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Painting Nonclassical States of Spin or Motion with Shaped Single Photons

Emily J. Davis, Zhaoyou Wang, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, and Monika H. Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123602 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

High-Fidelity Control and Entanglement of Rydberg-Atom Qubits

Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Ahmed Omran, Hannes Bernien, Sylvain Schwartz, Alexander S. Zibrov, Manuel Endres, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123603 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Hybrid Systems for the Generation of Nonclassical Mechanical States via Quadratic Interactions

Carlos Sánchez Muñoz, Antonio Lara, Jorge Puebla, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123604 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Deterministic Free-Space Source of Single Photons Using Rydberg Atoms

David Petrosyan and Klaus Mølmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123605 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Quantum Nonlinear Optics in Atomically Thin Materials

Dominik S. Wild, Ephraim Shahmoon, Susanne F. Yelin, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 123606 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Many-Body Quantum Interference and the Saturation of Out-of-Time-Order Correlators

Josef Rammensee, Juan Diego Urbina, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 124101 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Simultaneous Observation of a Topological Edge State and Exceptional Point in an Open and Non-Hermitian Acoustic System

Weiwei Zhu, Xinsheng Fang, Dongting Li, Yong Sun, Yong Li, Yun Jing, and Hong Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 124501 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Tumbling of Inertial Fibers in Turbulence

S. Bounoua, G. Bouchet, and G. Verhille

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 124502 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Effects of Polarization on Particle-Laden Flows

Jari Kolehmainen, Ali Ozel, Yile Gu, Troy Shinbrot, and Sankaran Sundaresan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 124503 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Enhancing the Radiation Resistance of Undulator Permanent Magnets by Tilting the Easy Axis of Magnetization

Teruhiko Bizen, Ryota Kinjo, and Takashi Tanaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 124801 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Observation of Nonlocal Heat Flux Using Thomson Scattering

R. J. Henchen, M. Sherlock, W. Rozmus, J. Katz, D. Cao, J. P. Palastro, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 125001 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Avalanche Behavior in Creep Failure of Disordered Materials

D. F. Castellanos and M. Zaiser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 125501 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Direct Measurement of Anharmonic Decay Channels of a Coherent Phonon

Samuel W. Teitelbaum, Thomas Henighan, Yijing Huang, Hanzhe Liu, Mason P. Jiang, Diling Zhu, Matthieu Chollet, Takahiro Sato, Éamonn D. Murray, Stephen Fahy, Shane O’Mahony, Trevor P. Bailey, Ctirad Uher, Mariano Trigo, and David A. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 125901 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Anomalous Phonon Lifetime Shortening in Paramagnetic CrN Caused by Spin-Lattice Coupling: A Combined Spin and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study

Irina Stockem, Anders Bergman, Albert Glensk, Tilmann Hickel, Fritz Körmann, Blazej Grabowski, Jörg Neugebauer, and Björn Alling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 125902 (2018) - Published 21 September, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Spin Bott Index in a Quasicrystal Lattice

Huaqing Huang and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126401 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

A proposed realization of the quantum spin Hall state in quasicrystals would extend electronic topology beyond crystals to aperiodic and amorphous systems.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fragile Topology and Wannier Obstructions

Hoi Chun Po, Haruki Watanabe, and Ashvin Vishwanath

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126402 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Distinguishing between fragile and stable scenarios is central to a proper diagnosis of topological band insulators.

Continuum Charge Excitations in High-Valence Transition-Metal Oxides Revealed by Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

Atsushi Hariki, Mathias Winder, and Jan Kuneš

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126403 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fractional Excitonic Insulator

Yichen Hu, Jörn W. F. Venderbos, and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126601 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

A correlated fluid of electrons and holes can exhibit the fractional quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Binary Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattice with Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling and Electron-Hole Asymmetry

Jian Gou, Bingyu Xia, Hang Li, Xuguang Wang, Longjuan Kong, Peng Cheng, Hui Li, Weifeng Zhang, Tian Qian, Hong Ding, Yong Xu, Wenhui Duan, Kehui Wu, and Lan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126801 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

A honeycomb structure of Bi and Sn atoms on a Si substrate has a pronounced electron-hole asymmetry, providing a platform to explore applications in nanodevices.

Anomalous Hall Effect in 2D Dirac Materials

Manuel Offidani and Aires Ferreira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126802 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Stability of Periodically Driven Topological Phases against Disorder

Oles Shtanko and Ramis Movassagh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 126803 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Spectral Evidence for Emergent Order in ${Ba}_{1 - x} {Na}_{x} {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$

M. Yi, A. Frano, D. H. Lu, Y. He, Meng Wang, B. A. Frandsen, A. F. Kemper, R. Yu, Q. Si, L. Wang, M. He, F. Hardy, P. Schweiss, P. Adelmann, T. Wolf, M. Hashimoto, S.-K. Mo, Z. Hussain, M. Le Tacon, A. E. Böhmer, D.-H. Lee, Z.-X. Shen, C. Meingast, and R. J. Birgeneau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127001 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Unconventional Multiband Superconductivity in Bulk ${SrTiO}_{3}$ and ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Interfaces

Thaís V. Trevisan, Michael Schütt, and Rafael M. Fernandes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127002 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Thermal Critical Points and Quantum Critical End Point in the Frustrated Bilayer Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

J. Stapmanns, P. Corboz, F. Mila, A. Honecker, B. Normand, and S. Wessel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127201 (2018) - Published 17 September, 2018

Hyperbolic Dispersion Arising from Anisotropic Excitons in Two-Dimensional Perovskites

Peijun Guo, Wei Huang, Constantinos C. Stoumpos, Lingling Mao, Jue Gong, Li Zeng, Benjamin T. Diroll, Yi Xia, Xuedan Ma, David J. Gosztola, Tao Xu, John B. Ketterson, Michael J. Bedzyk, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, and Richard D. Schaller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127401 (2018) - Published 19 September, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Storage via Topological Spin Textures

Yaroslav Tserkovnyak and Jiang Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127701 (2018) - Published 18 September, 2018

Topological spin textures are proposed as an energy-storage concept, utilizing the free energy associated with metastable magnetic configurations.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Spin-Valley-Coupling-Induced Large Spin-Lifetime Anisotropy in Bilayer Graphene

Johannes Christian Leutenantsmeyer, Josep Ingla-Aynés, Jaroslav Fabian, and Bart J. van Wees

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127702 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Two groups have shown they can create long-lived, polarized spin currents in bilayer graphene.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strong and Tunable Spin-Lifetime Anisotropy in Dual-Gated Bilayer Graphene

Jinsong Xu, Tiancong Zhu, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Yuan-Ming Lu, and Roland K. Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127703 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Two groups have shown they can create long-lived, polarized spin currents in bilayer graphene.

Interaction-Driven Giant Orbital Magnetic Moments in Carbon Nanotubes

Joshua O. Island, Marvin Ostermann, Lee Aspitarte, Ethan D. Minot, Daniele Varsano, Elisa Molinari, Massimo Rontani, and Gary A. Steele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127704 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018

Mirage Andreev Spectra Generated by Mesoscopic Leads in Nanowire Quantum Dots

Z. Su, A. Zarassi, J.-F. Hsu, P. San-Jose, E. Prada, R. Aguado, E. J. H. Lee, S. Gazibegovic, R. L. M. Op het Veld, D. Car, S. R. Plissard, M. Hocevar, M. Pendharkar, J. S. Lee, J. A. Logan, C. J. Palmstrøm, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, and S. M. Frolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 127705 (2018) - Published 20 September, 2018