Volume 121, Issue 14

5 October 2018

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Band structure of biased tiny-angle twisted bilayer graphene in the pseudo Landau level regime.

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Electrically Tunable Gauge Fields in Tiny-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Aline Ramires and Jose L. Lado
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 146801 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Limits on Stellar-Mass Compact Objects as Dark Matter from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae

Miguel Zumalacárregui and Uroš Seljak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 141101 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

A search for lensing of supernovae by black holes comes up empty, leading researchers to conclude that black holes cannot account for all dark matter.

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Crossover from the Ultracold to the Quasiclassical Regime in State-Selected Photodissociation

S. S. Kondov, C.-H. Lee, M. McDonald, B. H. McGuyer, I. Majewska, R. Moszynski, and T. Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143401 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Experiments track a simple molecule dissociating to find when the reaction can be described with a quantum model and when a semiclassical one will do.

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Surface Fluctuations and Coalescence of Nucleolar Droplets in the Human Cell Nucleus

Christina M. Caragine, Shannon C. Haley, and Alexandra Zidovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 148101 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

A noninvasive method measures the viscosity in a cell nucleus by observing the movement and fusion of cellular components.

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Sound Propagation in a Uniform Superfluid Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, É. Le Cerf, M. Aidelsburger, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145301 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Experiments and simulations indicate that collisionless interactions among atoms in a 2D Bose gas can transmit sound waves.

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Collisionless Sound in a Uniform Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

Miki Ota, Fabrizio Larcher, Franco Dalfovo, Lev Pitaevskii, Nick P. Proukakis, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145302 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Experiments and simulations indicate that collisionless interactions among atoms in a 2D Bose gas can transmit sound waves.

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Ultrahigh-Precision Measurement of the $n = 2$ Triplet $P$ Fine Structure of Atomic Helium Using Frequency-Offset Separated Oscillatory Fields

K. Kato, T. D. G. Skinner, and E. A. Hessels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143002 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Use of a new frequency-offset separated-oscillatory-fields technique to measure the 2 $^{3}$ P $_{2}$ →2 $^{3}$ P $_{1}$ interval in helium allows greatly increased precision of fine-structure measurements.

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Berry Phase and Model Wave Function in the Half-Filled Landau Level

Scott D. Geraedts, Jie Wang, E. H. Rezayi, and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147202 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

A generalization of the single-particle Berry phase to the manybody context provides an effective description of the half-filled Landau level.

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Pomeranchuk Instability of Composite Fermi Liquids

Kyungmin Lee, Junping Shao, Eun-Ah Kim, F. D. M. Haldane, and Edward H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147601 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

A theoretical analysis suggests that the Pomeranchuk instability may explain the presence of nematicity in excited Landau levels.

LETTERS

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

Experimental Study of Nonclassical Teleportation Beyond Average Fidelity

Gonzalo Carvacho, Francesco Andreoli, Luca Santodonato, Marco Bentivegna, Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Paul Skrzypczyk, Ivan Šupić, Daniel Cavalcanti, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 140501 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Many-Body Delocalization as a Quantum Avalanche

Thimothée Thiery, François Huveneers, Markus Müller, and Wojciech De Roeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 140601 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Quantum Symmetry from Enhanced Sampling Methods

J. Runeson, M. Nava, and M. Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 140602 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Concentration-of-Measure Theory for Structures and Fluctuations of Waves

Ping Fang, Liyi Zhao, and Chushun Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 140603 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Topological Phase Transition and $Z_{2}$ Index for $S = 1$ Quantum Spin Chains

Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 140604 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Limits on Stellar-Mass Compact Objects as Dark Matter from Gravitational Lensing of Type Ia Supernovae

Miguel Zumalacárregui and Uroš Seljak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 141101 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

A search for lensing of supernovae by black holes comes up empty, leading researchers to conclude that black holes cannot account for all dark matter.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Line Defects and Radiation in $N = 2$ Conformal Theories

Lorenzo Bianchi, Madalena Lemos, and Marco Meineri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 141601 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Observation of the $Z \to ψ ℓ^{+} ℓ^{-}$ Decay in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 141801 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Search for Pair-Produced Resonances Each Decaying into at Least Four Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 141802 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Planar Double Box Integral for Top Pair Production with a Closed Top Loop to all orders in the Dimensional Regularization Parameter

Luise Adams, Ekta Chaubey, and Stefan Weinzierl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 142001 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Dynamics of Vortices in Chiral Media: The Chiral Propulsion Effect

Yuji Hirono, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, and Andrey V. Sadofyev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 142301 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

First Accurate Normalization of the $β$ -delayed $α$ Decay of ${}^{16}N$ and Implications for the ${}^{12}C (α, γ) {}^{16}O$ Astrophysical Reaction Rate

O. S. Kirsebom et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 142701 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Double Resonance Rotational Spectroscopy of Weakly Bound Ionic Complexes: The Case of Floppy ${CH}_{3}^{+} − He$

Matthias Töpfer, Thomas Salomon, Hiroshi Kohguchi, Otto Dopfer, Koichi M. T. Yamada, Stephan Schlemmer, and Oskar Asvany

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143001 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Ultrahigh-Precision Measurement of the $n = 2$ Triplet $P$ Fine Structure of Atomic Helium Using Frequency-Offset Separated Oscillatory Fields

K. Kato, T. D. G. Skinner, and E. A. Hessels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143002 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Quantum Interference of Glory Rescattering in Strong-Field Atomic Ionization

Q. Z. Xia, J. F. Tao, J. Cai, L. B. Fu, and J. Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143201 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

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Crossover from the Ultracold to the Quasiclassical Regime in State-Selected Photodissociation

S. S. Kondov, C.-H. Lee, M. McDonald, B. H. McGuyer, I. Majewska, R. Moszynski, and T. Zelevinsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143401 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Experiments track a simple molecule dissociating to find when the reaction can be described with a quantum model and when a semiclassical one will do.

Resonances and Dissociative Electron Attachment in HNCO

M. Zawadzki, M. Čížek, K. Houfek, R. Čurík, M. Ferus, S. Civiš, J. Kočišek, and J. Fedor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143402 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Strongly Correlated Photon Transport in Waveguide Quantum Electrodynamics with Weakly Coupled Emitters

Sahand Mahmoodian, Mantas Čepulkovskis, Sumanta Das, Peter Lodahl, Klemens Hammerer, and Anders S. Sørensen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143601 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Generation of a Cat State in an Optical Sideband

Takahiro Serikawa, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, Shuntaro Takeda, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Timothy C. Ralph, Elanor H. Huntington, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143602 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Subcycle Terahertz Nonlinear Optics

Xin Chai, Xavier Ropagnol, S. Mohsen Raeis-Zadeh, Matthew Reid, Safieddin Safavi-Naeini, and Tsuneyuki Ozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143901 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Wannier Representation of Intraband High-Order Harmonic Generation

F. Catoire, H. Bachau, Z. Wang, C. Blaga, P. Agostini, and L. F. DiMauro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 143902 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Cracks in Tension-Field Elastic Sheets

O. Mahmood, B. Audoly, and S. Roux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 144301 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Bubble Bursting: Universal Cavity and Jet Profiles

Ching-Yao Lai, Jens Eggers, and Luc Deike

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 144501 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ab Initio Studies on the Stopping Power of Warm Dense Matter with Time-Dependent Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory

Y. H. Ding, A. J. White, S. X. Hu, O. Certik, and L. A. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145001 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Magnetic Field Generation in Plasma Waves Driven by Copropagating Intense Twisted Lasers

Y. Shi (时银), J. Vieira, R. M. G. M. Trines, R. Bingham, B. F. Shen (沈百飞), and R. J. Kingham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145002 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

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Sound Propagation in a Uniform Superfluid Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

J. L. Ville, R. Saint-Jalm, É. Le Cerf, M. Aidelsburger, S. Nascimbène, J. Dalibard, and J. Beugnon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145301 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Experiments and simulations indicate that collisionless interactions among atoms in a 2D Bose gas can transmit sound waves.

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Collisionless Sound in a Uniform Two-Dimensional Bose Gas

Miki Ota, Fabrizio Larcher, Franco Dalfovo, Lev Pitaevskii, Nick P. Proukakis, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145302 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

Experiments and simulations indicate that collisionless interactions among atoms in a 2D Bose gas can transmit sound waves.

Diffusion in Mesoscopic Lattice Models of Amorphous Plasticity

Botond Tyukodi, Damien Vandembroucq, and Craig E Maloney

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145501 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Instabilities of High Speed Dislocations

J. Verschueren, B. Gurrutxaga-Lerma, D. S. Balint, A. P. Sutton, and D. Dini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145502 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

Higher Temperatures Yield Smaller Grains in a Thermally Stable Phase-Transforming Nanocrystalline Alloy

Dor Amram and Christopher A. Schuh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145503 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Grain Boundary Sliding and Amorphization are Responsible for the Reverse Hall-Petch Relation in Superhard Nanocrystalline Boron Carbide

Dezhou Guo, Shuangxi Song, Ruichun Luo, William A. Goddard, III, Mingwei Chen, Kolan Madhav Reddy, and Qi An

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145504 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Unambiguous Identification of Carbon Location on the N Site in Semi-insulating GaN

Shan Wu, Xuelin Yang, Haishan Zhang, Lin Shi, Qing Zhang, Qiuyu Shang, Zeming Qi, Yue Xu, Jie Zhang, Ning Tang, Xinqiang Wang, Weikun Ge, Ke Xu, and Bo Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145505 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Longitudinal Optical Phonons Modified by Organic Molecular Cation Motions in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskites

Masaya Nagai, Takuya Tomioka, Masaaki Ashida, Mizuki Hoyano, Ryo Akashi, Yasuhiro Yamada, Tomoko Aharen, and Yoshihiko Kanemitsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145506 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Nonequilibrium Solute Capture in Passivating Oxide Films

Xiao-xiang Yu, Ahmet Gulec, Quentin Sherman, Katie Lutton Cwalina, John R. Scully, John H. Perepezko, Peter W. Voorhees, and Laurence D. Marks

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 145701 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Hollow Electron Ptychographic Diffractive Imaging

Biying Song, Zhiyuan Ding, Christopher S. Allen, Hidetaka Sawada, Fucai Zhang, Xiaoqing Pan, Jamie Warner, Angus I. Kirkland, and Peng Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 146101 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Tunable Semiconductors: Control over Carrier States and Excitations in Layered Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites

Chi Liu, William Huhn, Ke-Zhao Du, Alvaro Vazquez-Mayagoitia, David Dirkes, Wei You, Yosuke Kanai, David B. Mitzi, and Volker Blum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 146401 (2018) - Published 4 October, 2018

Electrically Tunable Gauge Fields in Tiny-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Aline Ramires and Jose L. Lado

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 146801 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Oxygen Electromigration and Energy Band Reconstruction Induced by Electrolyte Field Effect at Oxide Interfaces

S. W. Zeng, X. M. Yin, T. S. Herng, K. Han, Z. Huang, L. C. Zhang, C. J. Li, W. X. Zhou, D. Y. Wan, P. Yang, J. Ding, A. T. S. Wee, J. M. D. Coey, T. Venkatesan, A. Rusydi, and A. Ariando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 146802 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Quantization of the Thermal Hall Conductivity at Small Hall Angles

Mengxing Ye, Gábor B. Halász, Lucile Savary, and Leon Balents

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147201 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Berry Phase and Model Wave Function in the Half-Filled Landau Level

Scott D. Geraedts, Jie Wang, E. H. Rezayi, and F. D. M. Haldane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147202 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

A generalization of the single-particle Berry phase to the manybody context provides an effective description of the half-filled Landau level.

Modification of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-Interaction-Stabilized Domain Wall Chirality by Driving Currents

G. V. Karnad, F. Freimuth, E. Martinez, R. Lo Conte, G. Gubbiotti, T. Schulz, S. Senz, B. Ocker, Y. Mokrousov, and M. Kläui

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147203 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

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Pomeranchuk Instability of Composite Fermi Liquids

Kyungmin Lee, Junping Shao, Eun-Ah Kim, F. D. M. Haldane, and Edward H. Rezayi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147601 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

A theoretical analysis suggests that the Pomeranchuk instability may explain the presence of nematicity in excited Landau levels.

Long-Range Entanglement near a Kondo-Destruction Quantum Critical Point

Christopher Wagner, Tathagata Chowdhury, J. H. Pixley, and Kevin Ingersent

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147602 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

Selective-Area-Grown Semiconductor-Superconductor Hybrids: A Basis for Topological Networks

S. Vaitiekėnas, A. M. Whiticar, M.-T. Deng, F. Krizek, J. E. Sestoft, C. J. Palmstrøm, S. Marti-Sanchez, J. Arbiol, P. Krogstrup, L. Casparis, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 147701 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018

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

Active DNA Olympic Hydrogels Driven by Topoisomerase Activity

Brad A. Krajina, Audrey Zhu, Sarah C. Heilshorn, and Andrew J. Spakowitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 148001 (2018) - Published 1 October, 2018

Rheology of Inelastic Hard Spheres at Finite Density and Shear Rate

W. Till Kranz, Fabian Frahsa, Annette Zippelius, Matthias Fuchs, and Matthias Sperl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 148002 (2018) - Published 2 October, 2018

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Surface Fluctuations and Coalescence of Nucleolar Droplets in the Human Cell Nucleus

Christina M. Caragine, Shannon C. Haley, and Alexandra Zidovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 148101 (2018) - Published 5 October, 2018

A noninvasive method measures the viscosity in a cell nucleus by observing the movement and fusion of cellular components.

ERRATA

Erratum: Gravitational Smoothing of Kinks on Cosmic String Loops [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 051301 (2017)]

Jeremy M. Wachter and Ken D. Olum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 149901 (2018) - Published 3 October, 2018