Volume 121, Issue 20

16 November 2018

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On the Cover

STM image (left) of chlorobenzene molecules (ellipsoidal protrusions) on ice nanoparticles supported on a pristine Cu surface; (right) water and halobenzene molecules appear as blue to white protrusions before (top) and after (bottom) excitation. Solid (dashed) arrows point to adsorbed (dissociated) molecules.

From the article:

Microscopic Insight into Electron-Induced Dissociation of Aromatic Molecules on Ice
Philipp Auburger, Ishita Kemeny, Cord Bertram, Manuel Ligges, Michel Bockstedte, Uwe Bovensiepen, and Karina Morgenstern
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206001 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Fine-Scale Droplet Clustering in Atmospheric Clouds: 3D Radial Distribution Function from Airborne Digital Holography

Michael L. Larsen, Raymond A. Shaw, Alexander B. Kostinski, and Susanne Glienke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 204501 (2018) - Published 12 November, 2018

An imaging probe on an airplane observes the clustering of water droplets in clouds, confirming a predicted effect that is correlated with rainfall.

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Coherent Electron Trajectory Control in Graphene

Christian Heide, Takuya Higuchi, Heiko B. Weber, and Peter Hommelhoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 207401 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Orthogonally polarized laser pulses produce a controllable, variable current whose direction can be reversed in less than a femtosecond.

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Impact-Induced Energy Transfer and Dissipation in Granular Clusters under Microgravity Conditions

Hiroaki Katsuragi and Jürgen Blum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 208001 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Astrophysicists dropped beads onto clumps of dust to better understand how planets coalesce from particulates.

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Optimal Noise-Canceling Networks

Henrik Ronellenfitsch, Jörn Dunkel, and Michael Wilczek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 208301 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

The structure of a network, such as an electricity grid, can be optimized to reduce the effects of fluctuations in the network’s inputs.

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Biosurfactants Change the Thinning of Contaminated Bubbles at Bacteria-Laden Water Interfaces

S. Poulain and L. Bourouiba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 204502 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Bacteria in solution secrete surfactants capable of thinning bubble walls, making for smaller bubbles, increasing the contamination probability.

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Applicability of the Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed Density Functional to Transition-Metal Magnetism

Yuhao Fu and David J. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 207201 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Strongly constrained and appropriately normed density functional theory, an important technique for calculating the properties of materials, falls short when considering magnetic properties.

LETTERS

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

Cooling a Bose Gas by Three-Body Losses

Max Schemmer and Isabelle Bouchoule

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 200401 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Degradability of Fermionic Gaussian Channels

Eliška Greplová and Géza Giedke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 200501 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Polarization Entanglement by Time-Reversed Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference

Yuanyuan Chen, Sebastian Ecker, Sören Wengerowsky, Lukas Bulla, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Fabian Steinlechner, and Rupert Ursin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 200502 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

High-Dimensional Entanglement in States with Positive Partial Transposition

Marcus Huber, Ludovico Lami, Cécilia Lancien, and Alexander Müller-Hermes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 200503 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Universal Statistics of Topological Defects Formed in a Quantum Phase Transition

Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 200601 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Entanglement Hamiltonian of Interacting Fermionic Models

Francesco Parisen Toldin and Fakher F. Assaad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 200602 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Loops Rescue the No-Boundary Proposal

Martin Bojowald and Suddhasattwa Brahma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 201301 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Cosmic QCD Epoch at Nonvanishing Lepton Asymmetry

Mandy M. Wygas, Isabel M. Oldengott, Dietrich Bödeker, and Dominik J. Schwarz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 201302 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Primordial Anisotropies in the Gravitational Wave Background from Cosmological Phase Transitions

Michael Geller, Anson Hook, Raman Sundrum, and Yuhsin Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 201303 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nonperturbative Renormalization of Operators in Near-Conformal Systems Using Gradient Flows

Andrea Carosso, Anna Hasenfratz, and Ethan T. Neil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 201601 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Small Magnetic Charges and Monopoles in Nonassociative Quantum Mechanics

Martin Bojowald, Suddhasattwa Brahma, Umut Büyükçam, Jonathan Guglielmon, and Martijn van Kuppeveld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 201602 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Measurement of Reactor Antineutrino Oscillation Amplitude and Frequency at RENO

G. Bak et al. (RENO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 201801 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

New Predictions for $Λ_{b} \to Λ_{c}$ Semileptonic Decays and Tests of Heavy Quark Symmetry

Florian U. Bernlochner, Zoltan Ligeti, Dean J. Robinson, and William L. Sutcliffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202001 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Precise Predictions of Charmed-Bottom Hadrons from Lattice QCD

Nilmani Mathur, M. Padmanath, and Sourav Mondal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202002 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Novel $| V_{u s} |$ Determination Using Inclusive Strange $τ$ Decay and Lattice Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Functions

Peter Boyle, Renwick James Hudspith, Taku Izubuchi, Andreas Jüttner, Christoph Lehner, Randy Lewis, Kim Maltman, Hiroshi Ohki, Antonin Portelli, and Matthew Spraggs (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202003 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Elliptic Flow in Ultrarelativistic Collisions with Polarized Deuterons

Piotr Bożek and Wojciech Broniowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202301 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order Pressure of Cold Quark Matter: Leading Logarithm

Tyler Gorda, Aleksi Kurkela, Paul Romatschke, Saga Säppi, and Aleksi Vuorinen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 202701 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Non-Hermitian Kondo Effect in Ultracold Alkaline-Earth Atoms

Masaya Nakagawa, Norio Kawakami, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 203001 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Charge Migration in Propiolic Acid: A Full Quantum Dynamical Study

Victor Despré, Nikolay V. Golubev, and Alexander I. Kuleff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 203002 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Deformation of Atomic $p_{\pm}$ Orbitals in Strong Elliptically Polarized Laser Fields: Ionization Time Drifts and Spatial Photoelectron Separation

Kunlong Liu, Hongcheng Ni, Klaus Renziehausen, Jan-Michael Rost, and Ingo Barth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 203201 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Near-Threshold Cross Sections for Electron and Positron Impact Ionization of Atomic Hydrogen

I. Bray, A. W. Bray, D. V. Fursa, and A. S. Kadyrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 203401 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Magnon-Photon-Phonon Entanglement in Cavity Magnomechanics

Jie Li, Shi-Yao Zhu, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 203601 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Cavity-Free Optical Isolators and Circulators Using a Chiral Cross-Kerr Nonlinearity

Keyu Xia, Franco Nori, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 203602 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Beyond the Bode-Fano Bound: Wideband Impedance Matching for Short Pulses Using Temporal Switching of Transmission-Line Parameters

Amir Shlivinski and Yakir Hadad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 204301 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

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Fine-Scale Droplet Clustering in Atmospheric Clouds: 3D Radial Distribution Function from Airborne Digital Holography

Michael L. Larsen, Raymond A. Shaw, Alexander B. Kostinski, and Susanne Glienke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 204501 (2018) - Published 12 November, 2018

An imaging probe on an airplane observes the clustering of water droplets in clouds, confirming a predicted effect that is correlated with rainfall.

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Biosurfactants Change the Thinning of Contaminated Bubbles at Bacteria-Laden Water Interfaces

S. Poulain and L. Bourouiba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 204502 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Bacteria in solution secrete surfactants capable of thinning bubble walls, making for smaller bubbles, increasing the contamination probability.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ideal Glass States Are Not Purely Vibrational: Insight from Randomly Pinned Glasses

Misaki Ozawa, Atsushi Ikeda, Kunimasa Miyazaki, and Walter Kob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 205501 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Piezoelectric Mimicry of Flexoelectricity

Amir Abdollahi, Fabián Vásquez-Sancho, and Gustau Catalan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 205502 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Scale-Free Modeling of Coupled Evolution of Discrete Dislocation Bands and Multivariant Martensitic Microstructure

Valery I. Levitas, S. Ehsan Esfahani, and Iman Ghamarian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 205701 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Microscopic Insight into Electron-Induced Dissociation of Aromatic Molecules on Ice

Philipp Auburger, Ishita Kemeny, Cord Bertram, Manuel Ligges, Michel Bockstedte, Uwe Bovensiepen, and Karina Morgenstern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206001 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Hydrophobic Surface Enhances Electrostatic Interaction in Water

Takato Sato, Tohru Sasaki, Jun Ohnuki, Koji Umezawa, and Mitsunori Takano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206002 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Water Dissociation and Hydroxyl Ordering on Anatase ${TiO}_{2} (001) − (1 \times 4)$

Igor Beinik, Albert Bruix, Zheshen Li, Kræn C. Adamsen, Stig Koust, Bjørk Hammer, Stefan Wendt, and Jeppe V. Lauritsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206003 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Kinetic Stabilization of 1D Surface States near Twin Boundaries in Noncentrosymmetric BiPd

Chi Ming Yim, Christopher Trainer, Ana Maldonado, Bernd Braunecker, Alexander Yaresko, Darren C. Peets, and Peter Wahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206401 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Evidence for a Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge Density Wave in CuTe by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

Kenan Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Haoxiong Zhang, Ke Deng, Mingzhe Yan, Wei Yao, Mingtian Zheng, Eike F. Schwier, Kenya Shimada, Jonathan D. Denlinger, Yang Wu, Wenhui Duan, and Shuyun Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206402 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Universal Properties of Many-Body Localization Transitions in Quasiperiodic Systems

Shi-Xin Zhang and Hong Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206601 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Thermoelectric Characterization of the Kondo Resonance in Nanowire Quantum Dots

Artis Svilans, Martin Josefsson, Adam M. Burke, Sofia Fahlvik, Claes Thelander, Heiner Linke, and Martin Leijnse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 206801 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Evidence of Incoherent Carriers Associated with Resonant Impurity Levels and Their Influence on Superconductivity in the Anomalous Superconductor ${Pb}_{1 - x} {Tl}_{x} Te$

P. Giraldo-Gallo, P. Walmsley, B. Sangiorgio, S. C. Riggs, R. D. McDonald, L. Buchauer, B. Fauqué, Chang Liu, N. A. Spaldin, A. Kaminski, K. Behnia, and I. R. Fisher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 207001 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Negative Thermal Magnetoresistivity as a Signature of a Chiral Anomaly in Weyl Superconductors

Takuro Kobayashi, Taiki Matsushita, Takeshi Mizushima, Atsushi Tsuruta, and Satoshi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 207002 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Discrete Superconducting Phases in FeSe-Derived Superconductors

T. P. Ying, M. X. Wang, X. X. Wu, Z. Y. Zhao, Z. Z. Zhang, B. Q. Song, Y. C. Li, B. Lei, Q. Li, Y. Yu, E. J. Cheng, Z. H. An, Y. Zhang, X. Y. Jia, W. Yang, X. H. Chen, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 207003 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

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Applicability of the Strongly Constrained and Appropriately Normed Density Functional to Transition-Metal Magnetism

Yuhao Fu and David J. Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 207201 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Strongly constrained and appropriately normed density functional theory, an important technique for calculating the properties of materials, falls short when considering magnetic properties.