Volume 121, Issue 21

23 November 2018

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Scanning electron micrograph of a hollow rim formed in water drop evaporation on a single crystalline NaCl substrate.

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Hollow Rims from Water Drop Evaporation on Salt Substrates
Alexandra Mailleur, Christophe Pirat, Olivier Pierre-Louis, and Jean Colombani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 214501 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Proton Mass Decomposition from the QCD Energy Momentum Tensor

Yi-Bo Yang, Jian Liang, Yu-Jiang Bi, Ying Chen, Terrence Draper, Keh-Fei Liu, and Zhaofeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 212001 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

A calculation determines four distinct contributions to the proton mass, more than 90% of which arises entirely from the dynamics of quarks and gluons.

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Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium Atoms

A. Trautmann, P. Ilzhöfer, G. Durastante, C. Politi, M. Sohmen, M. J. Mark, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213601 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

A condensate mixing two species of strongly magnetic atoms provides a new experimental window into many-body phenomena.

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Nonequilibrium Energetics of Molecular Motor Kinesin

Takayuki Ariga, Michio Tomishige, and Daisuke Mizuno

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 218101 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

A detailed study of kinesin—a molecular motor responsible for transporting cellular cargo—shows that it loses 80% of input energy to heat.

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Circumventing Magnetostatic Reciprocity: A Diode for Magnetic Fields

J. Prat-Camps, P. Maurer, G. Kirchmair, and O. Romero-Isart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213903 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Researchers have created a material that acts as a magnetic diode, transferring magnetism from one object to another but not the other way around.

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Missing Satellites Problem: Completeness Corrections to the Number of Satellite Galaxies in the Milky Way are Consistent with Cold Dark Matter Predictions

Stacy Y. Kim, Annika H. G. Peter, and Jonathan R. Hargis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211302 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

An analytic correction to the detection efficiency of observed satellite populations in the Milky Way is consistent with cold dark matter predictions.

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Combination of the Searches for Pair-Produced Vectorlike Partners of the Third-Generation Quarks at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211801 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Seven analyses are combined to put the strongest constraints yet on third-generation vectorlike quarks, which arise in models where the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Nambu–Goldstone boson.

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Photonic Topological Insulating Phase Induced Solely by Gain and Loss

Kenta Takata and Masaya Notomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213902 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

By simply tuning gain and loss, it’s possible to create and control band gap and edge states in a gapless and topologically trivial one-dimensional resonator array.

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Globulelike Conformation and Enhanced Diffusion of Active Polymers

Valentino Bianco, Emanuele Locatelli, and Paolo Malgaretti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 217802 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Brownian dynamics simulations on active polymers show that both conformation and diffusion are strongly affected by monomer activity, particularly when the direction of monomer movement is aligned with the polymer backbone.

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Scaling Laws for Light Absorption Enhancement Due to Nonrefractory Coating of Atmospheric Black Carbon Aerosol

Rajan K. Chakrabarty and William R. Heinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 218701 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

Identification of a universal power law-expression for mass-absorption cross-sections and mixing ratios of atmospheric black carbon provides a quantitative estimate of the enhancement of atmospheric light absorption.

LETTERS

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

Observation of Floquet Raman Transition in a Driven Solid-State Spin System

Zijun Shu, Yu Liu, Qingyun Cao, Pengcheng Yang, Shaoliang Zhang, Martin B. Plenio, Fedor Jelezko, and Jianming Cai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 210501 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

Chaos Signatures in the Short and Long Time Behavior of the Out-of-Time Ordered Correlator

Ignacio García-Mata, Marcos Saraceno, Rodolfo A. Jalabert, Augusto J. Roncaglia, and Diego A. Wisniacki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 210601 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Entropy Inflection and Invisible Low-Energy States: Defensive Alliance Example

Yi-Zhi Xu, Chi Ho Yeung, Hai-Jun Zhou, and David Saad

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 210602 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Detailed Fluctuation Relation for Arbitrary Measurement and Feedback Schemes

Patrick P. Potts and Peter Samuelsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 210603 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Decoding the Apparent Horizon: Coarse-Grained Holographic Entropy

Netta Engelhardt and Aron C. Wall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211301 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

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Missing Satellites Problem: Completeness Corrections to the Number of Satellite Galaxies in the Milky Way are Consistent with Cold Dark Matter Predictions

Stacy Y. Kim, Annika H. G. Peter, and Jonathan R. Hargis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211302 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

An analytic correction to the detection efficiency of observed satellite populations in the Milky Way is consistent with cold dark matter predictions.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Gravity as Gauge Theory Squared: A Ghost Story

A. Anastasiou, L. Borsten, M. J. Duff, S. Nagy, and M. Zoccali

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211601 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

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Combination of the Searches for Pair-Produced Vectorlike Partners of the Third-Generation Quarks at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211801 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Seven analyses are combined to put the strongest constraints yet on third-generation vectorlike quarks, which arise in models where the Higgs boson is a pseudo-Nambu–Goldstone boson.

Disentangling Genuine from Matter-Induced $C P$ Violation in Neutrino Oscillations

José Bernabéu and Alejandro Segarra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 211802 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

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Proton Mass Decomposition from the QCD Energy Momentum Tensor

Yi-Bo Yang, Jian Liang, Yu-Jiang Bi, Ying Chen, Terrence Draper, Keh-Fei Liu, and Zhaofeng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 212001 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

A calculation determines four distinct contributions to the proton mass, more than 90% of which arises entirely from the dynamics of quarks and gluons.

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Centrality-Dependent Acoplanarity for Muon Pairs Produced via Two-Photon Scattering in $Pb + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 212301 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nuclear Charge Radii of ${}^{229}{Th}$ from Isotope and Isomer Shifts

M. S. Safronova, S. G. Porsev, M. G. Kozlov, J. Thielking, M. V. Okhapkin, P. Głowacki, D. M. Meier, and E. Peik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213001 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

3D Magneto-Optical Trap of Yttrium Monoxide

Alejandra L. Collopy, Shiqian Ding, Yewei Wu, Ian A. Finneran, Loïc Anderegg, Benjamin L. Augenbraun, John M. Doyle, and Jun Ye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213201 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

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Dipolar Quantum Mixtures of Erbium and Dysprosium Atoms

A. Trautmann, P. Ilzhöfer, G. Durastante, C. Politi, M. Sohmen, M. J. Mark, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213601 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

A condensate mixing two species of strongly magnetic atoms provides a new experimental window into many-body phenomena.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Multispectral Management of the Photon Orbital Angular Momentum

Mikaël Ghadimi Nassiri and Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213901 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

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Photonic Topological Insulating Phase Induced Solely by Gain and Loss

Kenta Takata and Masaya Notomi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213902 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

By simply tuning gain and loss, it’s possible to create and control band gap and edge states in a gapless and topologically trivial one-dimensional resonator array.

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