Volume 121, Issue 15

12 October 2018

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On the Cover

Graphene-based interferometer to control topological valley currents. Electrons (red and green dots) travel the domain walls (yellow lines) in directions indicated by the purple arrows. The magnetic field points up (gray arrows).

From the article:

Manipulation and Characterization of the Valley-Polarized Topological Kink States in Graphene-Based Interferometers
Shu-guang Cheng, Haiwen Liu, Hua Jiang, Qing-Feng Sun, and X. C. Xie
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 156801 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiphysics of Prionlike Diseases: Progression and Atrophy

Johannes Weickenmeier, Ellen Kuhl, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 158101 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Computer simulations of the diffusion and aggregation of harmful proteins in the brain reproduce the pattern of damage seen in several neurodegenerative diseases.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

First Monte Carlo Global QCD Analysis of Pion Parton Distributions

P. C. Barry, N. Sato, W. Melnitchouk, and Chueng-Ryong Ji (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 152001 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

Teaser: A combined analysis of collider data finds that the gluon contribution to the pion is three times larger than earlier estimates.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mass Difference for Charged Quarks from Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity

Astrid Eichhorn and Aaron Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 151302 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

The hypothesized asymptotic safe behavior of gravity may be used to retrodict top and bottom quark masses by tracking the effect of quantum gravity fluctuations on matter fields.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanosecond Freezing of Water at High Pressures: Nucleation and Growth near the Metastability Limit

Philip C. Myint, Alexander A. Chernov, Babak Sadigh, Lorin X. Benedict, Burl M. Hall, Sebastien Hamel, and Jonathan L. Belof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 155701 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

A classical theory explains the nucleation and growth of ice VII under shockwave conditions.

LETTERS

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

Highly Controllable and Robust 2D Spin-Orbit Coupling for Quantum Gases

Wei Sun, Bao-Zong Wang, Xiao-Tian Xu, Chang-Rui Yi, Long Zhang, Zhan Wu, Youjin Deng, Xiong-Jun Liu, Shuai Chen, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150401 (2018) - Published 9 October, 2018

Randomness Extraction from Bell Violation with Continuous Parametric Down-Conversion

Lijiong Shen, Jianwei Lee, Le Phuc Thinh, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Alessandro Cerè, Antia Lamas-Linares, Adriana Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Valerio Scarani, and Christian Kurtsiefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150402 (2018) - Published 9 October, 2018

Realization of a Cross-Linked Chiral Ladder with Neutral Fermions in a 1D Optical Lattice by Orbital-Momentum Coupling

Jin Hyoun Kang, Jeong Ho Han, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150403 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Rényi Generalization of the Accessible Entanglement Entropy

Hatem Barghathi, C. M. Herdman, and Adrian Del Maestro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150501 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Quantum Secret Sharing Among Four Players Using Multipartite Bound Entanglement of an Optical Field

Yaoyao Zhou, Juan Yu, Zhihui Yan, Xiaojun Jia, Jing Zhang, Changde Xie, and Kunchi Peng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150502 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Machine-Learning-Assisted Many-Body Entanglement Measurement

Johnnie Gray, Leonardo Banchi, Abolfazl Bayat, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150503 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

High-Dimensional Quantum Communication Complexity beyond Strategies Based on Bell’s Theorem

Daniel Martínez, Armin Tavakoli, Mauricio Casanova, Gustavo Cañas, Breno Marques, and Gustavo Lima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150504 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Exact Persistence Exponent for the $2 D$ -Diffusion Equation and Related Kac Polynomials

Mihail Poplavskyi and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 150601 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Kinetic Regime

D. G. Levkov, A. G. Panin, and I. I. Tkachev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 151301 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mass Difference for Charged Quarks from Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity

Astrid Eichhorn and Aaron Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 151302 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

The hypothesized asymptotic safe behavior of gravity may be used to retrodict top and bottom quark masses by tracking the effect of quantum gravity fluctuations on matter fields.

Elementary Particles and Fields

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

First Monte Carlo Global QCD Analysis of Pion Parton Distributions

P. C. Barry, N. Sato, W. Melnitchouk, and Chueng-Ryong Ji (Jefferson Lab Angular Momentum (JAM) Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 152001 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

Teaser: A combined analysis of collider data finds that the gluon contribution to the pion is three times larger than earlier estimates.

Probing the Quantum Interference between Singly and Doubly Resonant Top-Quark Production in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 152002 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Dynamical Control of Order in a Cavity-BEC System

Jayson G. Cosme, Christoph Georges, Andreas Hemmerich, and Ludwig Mathey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153001 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018

${}^{129}{Xe}$ -Rb Spin-Exchange Optical Pumping with High Photon Efficiency

G. Norquay, G. J. Collier, M. Rao, N. J. Stewart, and J. M. Wild

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153201 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Self-Calibrating Vector Atomic Magnetometry through Microwave Polarization Reconstruction

T. Thiele, Y. Lin, M. O. Brown, and C. A. Regal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153202 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Adiabatic Passage to the Continuum: Controlling Ionization with Chirped Laser Pulses

Ulf Saalmann, Sajal Kumar Giri, and Jan M. Rost

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153203 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018

Weak-Field Coherent Control of Molecular Photofragment State Distributions

A. García-Vela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153204 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018

Nonreciprocal Photon Blockade

Ran Huang, Adam Miranowicz, Jie-Qiao Liao, Franco Nori, and Hui Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 153601 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Stretching and Buckling of Small Elastic Fibers in Turbulence

Sofía Allende, Christophe Henry, and Jérémie Bec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 154501 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Controlling the Self-Injection Threshold in Laser Wakefield Accelerators

S. Kuschel, M. B. Schwab, M. Yeung, D. Hollatz, A. Seidel, W. Ziegler, A. Sävert, M. C. Kaluza, and M. Zepf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 154801 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nanosecond Freezing of Water at High Pressures: Nucleation and Growth near the Metastability Limit

Philip C. Myint, Alexander A. Chernov, Babak Sadigh, Lorin X. Benedict, Burl M. Hall, Sebastien Hamel, and Jonathan L. Belof

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 155701 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

A classical theory explains the nucleation and growth of ice VII under shockwave conditions.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Resolved Electronic Response to the Phase Transition in ${MoTe}_{2}$

Andrew P. Weber, Philipp Rüßmann, Nan Xu, Stefan Muff, Mauro Fanciulli, Arnaud Magrez, Philippe Bugnon, Helmuth Berger, Nicholas C. Plumb, Ming Shi, Stefan Blügel, Phivos Mavropoulos, and J. Hugo Dil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 156401 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018

Manipulation and Characterization of the Valley-Polarized Topological Kink States in Graphene-Based Interferometers

Shu-guang Cheng, Haiwen Liu, Hua Jiang, Qing-Feng Sun, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 156801 (2018) - Published 8 October, 2018

Tuning the Two-Electron Hybridization and Spin States in Parallel-Coupled InAs Quantum Dots

Malin Nilsson, Florinda Viñas Boström, Sebastian Lehmann, Kimberly A. Dick, Martin Leijnse, and Claes Thelander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 156802 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Apical Charge Flux-Modulated In-Plane Transport Properties of Cuprate Superconductors

Sooran Kim, Xi Chen, William Fitzhugh, and Xin Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 157001 (2018) - Published 9 October, 2018

Possible Three-Dimensional Nematic Odd-Parity Superconductivity in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$

Wen Huang and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 157002 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Superconductivity without Inversion and Time-Reversal Symmetries

Mark H. Fischer, Manfred Sigrist, and Daniel F. Agterberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 157003 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Evidence for the Presence of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov State in ${CeCu}_{2} {Si}_{2}$ Revealed Using ${}^{63}{Cu}$ NMR

Shunsaku Kitagawa, Genki Nakamine, Kenji Ishida, H. S. Jeevan, C. Geibel, and F. Steglich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 157004 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

From Birefringent Electrons to a Marginal or Non-Fermi Liquid of Relativistic Spin- $1 / 2$ Fermions: An Emergent Superuniversality

Bitan Roy, Malcolm P. Kennett, Kun Yang, and Vladimir Juričić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 157602 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Hot Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles in Transmon Qubits

K. Serniak, M. Hays, G. de Lange, S. Diamond, S. Shankar, L. D. Burkhart, L. Frunzio, M. Houzet, and M. H. Devoret

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 157701 (2018) - Published 10 October, 2018

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

Photothermocapillary Oscillators

Adam W. Hauser, Subramanian Sundaram, and Ryan C. Hayward

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 158001 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multiphysics of Prionlike Diseases: Progression and Atrophy

Johannes Weickenmeier, Ellen Kuhl, and Alain Goriely

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 158101 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

Computer simulations of the diffusion and aggregation of harmful proteins in the brain reproduce the pattern of damage seen in several neurodegenerative diseases.

Positioning of Particles in Active Droplets

David Zwicker, Johannes Baumgart, Stefanie Redemann, Thomas Müller-Reichert, Anthony A. Hyman, and Frank Jülicher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 158102 (2018) - Published 12 October, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Persistence-Driven Durotaxis: Generic, Directed Motility in Rigidity Gradients [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 078103 (2017)]

Elizaveta A. Novikova, Matthew Raab, Dennis E. Discher, and Cornelis Storm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 159901 (2018) - Published 11 October, 2018