Volume 121, Issue 22

30 November 2018

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Sample configuration of 100 randomly oriented icosahedra for the study of percolation through voids. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Percolation through Voids around Randomly Oriented Polyhedra and Axially Symmetric Grains
D. J. Priour, Jr. and N. J. McGuigan
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225701 (2018)

EDITORIALS, ESSAYS, and ANNOUNCEMENTS

Essay: Half a Century of the Standard Model

Steven Weinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220001 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optomechanical Bell Test

Igor Marinković, Andreas Wallucks, Ralf Riedinger, Sungkun Hong, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Simon Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220404 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated two cornerstones of quantum physics—entanglement and Bell inequality violations—with two macroscopic mechanical resonators.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Significant Excess of Electronlike Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221801 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Confirming previous controversial results, the MiniBooNE experiment detects a signal that is incompatible with neutrino oscillations involving just the three known flavors of neutrinos.

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First Direct Measurements of Superheavy-Element Mass Numbers

J. M. Gates, G. K. Pang, J. L. Pore, K. E. Gregorich, J. T. Kwarsick, G. Savard, N. E. Esker, M. Kireeff Covo, M. J. Mogannam, J. C. Batchelder, D. L. Bleuel, R. M. Clark, H. L. Crawford, P. Fallon, K. K. Hubbard, A. M. Hurst, I. T. Kolaja, A. O. Macchiavelli, C. Morse, R. Orford, L. Phair, and M. A. Stoyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 222501 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

A new measurement technique directly determines the masses of two superheavy isotopes, providing confirmation that previous indirect measurements were correct.

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Limits on Supernova-Associated ${}^{60}{Fe} / {}^{26}{Al}$ Nucleosynthesis Ratios from Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Deep-Sea Sediments

Jenny Feige, Anton Wallner, Randolf Altmeyer, L. Keith Fifield, Robin Golser, Silke Merchel, Georg Rugel, Peter Steier, Stephen G. Tims, and Stella Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221103 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Using accelerator mass spectrometry to measure the $^{2}$ $^{6}$ Al content of deep-sea sediments, a limit is established on $^{6}$ $^{0}$ Fe/ $^{2}$ $^{6}$ Al nucleosynthesis ratios from recent and local supernova events.

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Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using $P l a n c k$ , WMAP, and New BICEP2/ $K e c k$ Observations through the 2015 Season

P. A. R. Ade et al. (Keck Array and bicep2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221301 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

An analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array have put the strongest constraints to date on primordial gravitational waves.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Percolation through Voids around Randomly Oriented Polyhedra and Axially Symmetric Grains

D. J. Priour, Jr. and N. J. McGuigan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225701 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Percolation thresholds for randomly oriented interpenetrating polyhedra were calculated for each of the five Platonic solids, from tetrahedra to icosahedra, and it was determined that only for cubic grains does orientational disorder affect the percolation threshold.

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Enhanced Interactions between Dipolar Polaritons

Emre Togan, Hyang-Tag Lim, Stefan Faelt, Werner Wegscheider, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 227402 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

The observation of increased interaction strength between dipolar polaritons in a semiconductor cavity with coupled quantum wells makes polaritonic devices a more realistic prospect.

LETTERS

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

Entanglement as the Symmetric Portion of Correlated Coherence

Kok Chuan Tan and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220401 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Tan’s Contact for Trapped Lieb-Liniger Bosons at Finite Temperature

Hepeng Yao, David Clément, Anna Minguzzi, Patrizia Vignolo, and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220402 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Universal Dissipationless Dynamics in Gaussian Continuous-Variable Open Systems

Han-Jie Zhu, Guo-Feng Zhang, Lin Zhuang, and Wu-Ming Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220403 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optomechanical Bell Test

Igor Marinković, Andreas Wallucks, Ralf Riedinger, Sungkun Hong, Markus Aspelmeyer, and Simon Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220404 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated two cornerstones of quantum physics—entanglement and Bell inequality violations—with two macroscopic mechanical resonators.

Light-Induced Coherence in an Atom-Cavity System

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220405 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Tailoring Non-Gaussian Continuous-Variable Graph States

Mattia Walschaers, Supratik Sarkar, Valentina Parigi, and Nicolas Treps

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220501 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Demonstration of Fidelity Improvement Using Dynamical Decoupling with Superconducting Qubits

Bibek Pokharel, Namit Anand, Benjamin Fortman, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220502 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

From Linear to Nonlinear Responses of Thermal Pure Quantum States

Hiroyuki Endo, Chisa Hotta, and Akira Shimizu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220601 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Volume Law and Quantum Criticality in the Entanglement Entropy of Excited Eigenstates of the Quantum Ising Model

Lev Vidmar, Lucas Hackl, Eugenio Bianchi, and Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 220602 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Gravitational Rainbows: LIGO and Dark Energy at its Cutoff

Claudia de Rham and Scott Melville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221101 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

NonPrimordial Solar Mass Black Holes

Chris Kouvaris, Peter Tinyakov, and Michel H. G. Tytgat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221102 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Limits on Supernova-Associated ${}^{60}{Fe} / {}^{26}{Al}$ Nucleosynthesis Ratios from Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Measurements of Deep-Sea Sediments

Jenny Feige, Anton Wallner, Randolf Altmeyer, L. Keith Fifield, Robin Golser, Silke Merchel, Georg Rugel, Peter Steier, Stephen G. Tims, and Stella Winkler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221103 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Implications of Dedicated Seismometer Measurements on Newtonian-Noise Cancellation for Advanced LIGO

M. W. Coughlin, J. Harms, J. Driggers, D. J. McManus, N. Mukund, M. P. Ross, B. J. J. Slagmolen, and K. Venkateswara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221104 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Constraints on Primordial Gravitational Waves Using $P l a n c k$ , WMAP, and New BICEP2/ $K e c k$ Observations through the 2015 Season

P. A. R. Ade et al. (Keck Array and bicep2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221301 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

An analysis of all data taken by the BICEP2/Keck Array have put the strongest constraints to date on primordial gravitational waves.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Symmetry Breaking and Lattice Kirigami

Eduardo V. Castro, Antonino Flachi, Pedro Ribeiro, and Vincenzo Vitagliano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221601 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Significant Excess of Electronlike Events in the MiniBooNE Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiment

A. A. Aguilar-Arevalo et al. (MiniBooNE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221801 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Confirming previous controversial results, the MiniBooNE experiment detects a signal that is incompatible with neutrino oscillations involving just the three known flavors of neutrinos.

Evidence for the Associated Production of a Single Top Quark and a Photon in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221802 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Searching for Higgs Decays to as Many as 8 Leptons

Eder Izaguirre and Daniel Stolarski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 221803 (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

Measurement of Antiproton Production in $p − He$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 110 GeV$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 222001 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Pseudorapidity Dependence of Particle Production and Elliptic Flow in Asymmetric Nuclear Collisions of $p + Al$ , $p + Au$ , $d + Au$ , and ${}^{3}{He} + Au$ at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 222301 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Direct Measurements of Superheavy-Element Mass Numbers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 222501 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

A new measurement technique directly determines the masses of two superheavy isotopes, providing confirmation that previous indirect measurements were correct.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ultrafast Intermolecular Energy Transfer from Vibrations to Electronic Motion

Lorenz S. Cederbaum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 223001 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Quantum Simulation of the Universal Features of the Polyakov Loop

Jin Zhang, J. Unmuth-Yockey, J. Zeiher, A. Bazavov, S.-W. Tsai, and Y. Meurice

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 223201 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Pinning Transition of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Ring Resonators

S. C. Schuster, P. Wolf, D. Schmidt, S. Slama, and C. Zimmermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 223601 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Buoyancy-Driven Flow through a Bed of Solid Particles Produces a New Form of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence

G. Sardina, L. Brandt, G. Boffetta, and A. Mazzino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 224501 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Field-Enhanced Superconductivity in High-Frequency Niobium Accelerating Cavities

M. Martinello, M. Checchin, A. Romanenko, A. Grassellino, S. Aderhold, S. K. Chandrasekeran, O. Melnychuk, S. Posen, and D. A. Sergatskov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 224801 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Suppression of Tearing Modes by Radio Frequency Current Condensation

A. H. Reiman and N. J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225001 (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Critical Vortex Shedding in a Strongly Interacting Fermionic Superfluid

Jee Woo Park, Bumsuk Ko, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225301 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Controlled Ordering of Topological Charges in an Exciton-Polariton Chain

T. Gao, O. A. Egorov, E. Estrecho, K. Winkler, M. Kamp, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. G. Truscott, and E. A. Ostrovskaya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225302 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Antiferromagnetic Spin Correlation of $SU (N)$ Fermi Gas in an Optical Superlattice

Hideki Ozawa, Shintaro Taie, Yosuke Takasu, and Yoshiro Takahashi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225303 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Mass Flow through Solid ${}^{3}{He}$ in the bcc Phase

Zhi Gang Cheng and John Beamish

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225304 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Percolation through Voids around Randomly Oriented Polyhedra and Axially Symmetric Grains

D. J. Priour, Jr. and N. J. McGuigan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225701 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Phase Stability of Dynamically Disordered Solids from First Principles

Johan Klarbring and Sergei I. Simak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225702 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Venture into Water’s No Man’s Land: Structural Transformations of Solid $H_{2} O$ under Rapid Compression and Decompression

Chuanlong Lin, Jesse S. Smith, Xuqiang Liu, John S. Tse, and Wenge Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 225703 (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

Controlled Fragmentation of Single Molecules with Atomic Force Microscopy by Employing Doubly Charged States

Shadi Fatayer, Nikolaj Moll, Sara Collazos, Dolores Pérez, Enrique Guitián, Diego Peña, Leo Gross, and Gerhard Meyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226101 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Unexpectedly High Salt Accumulation inside Carbon Nanotubes Soaked in Dilute Salt Solutions

Xueliang Wang, Guosheng Shi, Shanshan Liang, Jian Liu, Deyuan Li, Gang Fang, Renduo Liu, Long Yan, and Haiping Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226102 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Hourglass Dirac Semimetal in the Nonpolar Phase of ${Ag}_{2} {BiO}_{3}$

Bahadur Singh, Barun Ghosh, Chenliang Su, Hsin Lin, Amit Agarwal, and Arun Bansil

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226401 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Jahn-Teller Splitting in Single Adsorbed Molecules Revealed by Isospin-Flip Excitations

Jens Kügel, Pin-Jui Hsu, Markus Böhme, Kathrin Schneider, Jacob Senkpiel, David Serrate, Matthias Bode, and Nicolás Lorente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226402 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Two-Particle Collisional Coordinate Shifts and Hydrodynamic Anomalous Hall Effect in Systems without Lorentz Invariance

D. A. Pesin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226601 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Reproduction of the Charge Density Wave Phase Diagram in $1 T − {TiSe}_{2}$ Exposes its Excitonic Character

Chuan Chen, Bahadur Singh, Hsin Lin, and Vitor M. Pereira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226602 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Electron-Phonon Scattering in the Presence of Soft Modes and Electron Mobility in ${SrTiO}_{3}$ Perovskite from First Principles

Jin-Jian Zhou, Olle Hellman, and Marco Bernardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 226603 (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Interactions between Dipolar Polaritons

Emre Togan, Hyang-Tag Lim, Stefan Faelt, Werner Wegscheider, and Atac Imamoglu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 227402 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

The observation of increased interaction strength between dipolar polaritons in a semiconductor cavity with coupled quantum wells makes polaritonic devices a more realistic prospect.

Probing the Combined Electromagnetic Local Density of Optical States with Quantum Emitters Supporting Strong Electric and Magnetic Transitions

Dongfang Li, Sinan Karaveli, Sébastien Cueff, Wenhao Li, and Rashid Zia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 227403 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Vortex Multistability and Bessel Vortices in Polariton Condensates

Xuekai Ma and Stefan Schumacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 227404 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Ultrathin Films of Superconducting Metals as a Platform for Topological Superconductivity

Chao Lei, Hua Chen, and Allan H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 227701 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Observation of $D^{0}$ Meson Nuclear Modifications in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 142301 (2014)]

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 229901 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018