Volume 121, Issue 23

7 December 2018

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Illustration of the release of two Galileo satellites and a launch module. The satellites were subsequently used for tests of gravitational redshift. Selected for Editors' Suggestions and a Synopsis in Physics. Illustration from ESA.

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Test of the Gravitational Redshift with Galileo Satellites in an Eccentric Orbit
Sven Herrmann, Felix Finke, Martin Lülf, Olga Kichakova, Dirk Puetzfeld, Daniela Knickmann, Meike List, Benny Rievers, Gabriele Giorgi, Christoph Günther, Hansjörg Dittus, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, Florian Dilssner, Francisco Gonzalez, Erik Schönemann, Javier Ventura-Traveset, and Claus Lämmerzahl .
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231102 (2018)

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Gravitational Redshift Test Using Eccentric Galileo Satellites
P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset, and P. Wolf
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231101 (2018)

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gravitational Redshift Test Using Eccentric Galileo Satellites

P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset, and P. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231101 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Two satellites erroneously placed in elliptical orbits have been used to test general relativity with unprecedented precision.

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Test of the Gravitational Redshift with Galileo Satellites in an Eccentric Orbit

Sven Herrmann, Felix Finke, Martin Lülf, Olga Kichakova, Dirk Puetzfeld, Daniela Knickmann, Meike List, Benny Rievers, Gabriele Giorgi, Christoph Günther, Hansjörg Dittus, Roberto Prieto-Cerdeira, Florian Dilssner, Francisco Gonzalez, Erik Schönemann, Javier Ventura-Traveset, and Claus Lämmerzahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231102 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Two satellites erroneously placed in elliptical orbits have been used to test general relativity with unprecedented precision.

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Skyrmions and Clustering in Light Nuclei

Carlos Naya and Paul Sutcliffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 232002 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Theorists extend a nearly six-decades-old model for the atomic nucleus and use it to predict shape effects that the traditional model misses.

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Mapping Twisted Light into and out of a Photonic Chip

Yuan Chen, Jun Gao, Zhi-Qiang Jiao, Ke Sun, Wei-Guan Shen, Lu-Feng Qiao, Hao Tang, Xiao-Feng Lin, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 233602 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Light waves capable of storing fragile quantum information can propagate through a photonic chip waveguide and potentially be used for on-chip computation.

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Variational Principle for Mass Transport

Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235901 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

A new theory provides a way to compare the accuracy of different mass-transport calculations, which are widely used to evaluate the performance of materials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Confinement of Positrons Exceeding 1 s in a Supported Magnetic Dipole Trap

J. Horn-Stanja, S. Nißl, U. Hergenhahn, T. Sunn Pedersen, H. Saitoh, E. V. Stenson, M. Dickmann, C. Hugenschmidt, M. Singer, M. R. Stoneking, and J. R. Danielson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235003 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Applying a repulsive electrostatic bias to the edge of a magnetic trap suppresses particle losses and confines a low-energy positron cloud for more than one second.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lossless Positron Injection into a Magnetic Dipole Trap

E. V. Stenson, S. Nißl, U. Hergenhahn, J. Horn-Stanja, M. Singer, H. Saitoh, T. Sunn Pedersen, J. R. Danielson, M. R. Stoneking, M. Dickmann, and C. Hugenschmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235005 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Applying a repulsive electrostatic bias to the edge of a magnetic trap suppresses particle losses and confines a low-energy positron cloud for more than one second.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermopower-Based Hot Electron Thermometry of Helium Surface States at 1.6 K

Ethan I. Kleinbaum and Stephen A. Lyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 236801 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

New thermometry technique probes the temperature of surface state electrons above superfluid helium despite the absence of a detailed understanding of the electron interactions.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Advantage from Sequential-Transformation Contextuality

Shane Mansfield and Elham Kashefi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 230401 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Conformal Data and Renormalization Group Flow in Critical Quantum Spin Chains Using Periodic Uniform Matrix Product States

Yijian Zou, Ashley Milsted, and Guifre Vidal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 230402 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Direct Reconstruction of the Quantum Density Matrix by Strong Measurements

Luca Calderaro, Giulio Foletto, Daniele Dequal, Paolo Villoresi, and Giuseppe Vallone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 230501 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Diffusing up the Hill: Dynamics and Equipartition in Highly Unstable Systems

Martin Šiler, Luca Ornigotti, Oto Brzobohatý, Petr Jákl, Artem Ryabov, Viktor Holubec, Pavel Zemánek, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 230601 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Superdiffusion in One-Dimensional Quantum Lattice Models

Enej Ilievski, Jacopo De Nardis, Marko Medenjak, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 230602 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Quantum-Limited Loss Sensing: Multiparameter Estimation and Bures Distance between Loss Channels

Ranjith Nair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 230801 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Gravitational Redshift Test Using Eccentric Galileo Satellites

P. Delva, N. Puchades, E. Schönemann, F. Dilssner, C. Courde, S. Bertone, F. Gonzalez, A. Hees, Ch. Le Poncin-Lafitte, F. Meynadier, R. Prieto-Cerdeira, B. Sohet, J. Ventura-Traveset, and P. Wolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231101 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Two satellites erroneously placed in elliptical orbits have been used to test general relativity with unprecedented precision.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Test of the Gravitational Redshift with Galileo Satellites in an Eccentric Orbit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231102 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Two satellites erroneously placed in elliptical orbits have been used to test general relativity with unprecedented precision.

Search for Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231103 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Exact Black Holes in Quadratic Gravity with any Cosmological Constant

R. Švarc, J. Podolský, V. Pravda, and A. Pravdová

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231104 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Molecular Ionization Rates and Ultracompact Dark Matter Minihalos

Joseph Silk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231105 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Why Might the Standard Large $N$ Analysis Fail in the $O (N)$ Model: The Role of Cusps in Fixed Point Potentials

Shunsuke Yabunaka and Bertrand Delamotte

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231601 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Handling Handles: Nonplanar Integrability in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Till Bargheer, João Caetano, Thiago Fleury, Shota Komatsu, and Pedro Vieira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231602 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Trigonometric Parity for Composite Higgs Models

Csaba Csáki, Teng Ma, and Jing Shu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 231801 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Observation of $ϒ (2 S) \to γ η_{b} (1 S)$ Decay

B. G. Fulsom et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 232001 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Skyrmions and Clustering in Light Nuclei

Carlos Naya and Paul Sutcliffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 232002 (2018) - Published 6 December, 2018

Theorists extend a nearly six-decades-old model for the atomic nucleus and use it to predict shape effects that the traditional model misses.

Nuclear Physics

Correlating Schiff Moments in the Light Actinides with Octupole Moments

Jacek Dobaczewski, Jonathan Engel, Markus Kortelainen, and Pierre Becker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 232501 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Time-Stretched Spectroscopy by the Quantum Zeno Effect: The Case of Auger Decay

E. Viñas Boström, M. Gisselbrecht, T. Brage, C.-O. Almbladh, A. Mikkelsen, and C. Verdozzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 233201 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Adaptive Quantum Optics with Spatially Entangled Photon Pairs

Hugo Defienne, Matthew Reichert, and Jason W. Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 233601 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

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Mapping Twisted Light into and out of a Photonic Chip

Yuan Chen, Jun Gao, Zhi-Qiang Jiao, Ke Sun, Wei-Guan Shen, Lu-Feng Qiao, Hao Tang, Xiao-Feng Lin, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 233602 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Light waves capable of storing fragile quantum information can propagate through a photonic chip waveguide and potentially be used for on-chip computation.

Floquet Dynamics in Driven Fermi-Hubbard Systems

Michael Messer, Kilian Sandholzer, Frederik Görg, Joaquín Minguzzi, Rémi Desbuquois, and Tilman Esslinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 233603 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Self-Induced Diffusion in Disordered Nonlinear Photonic Media

Yonatan Sharabi, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Yoav Sagi, Gadi Eisenstein, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 233901 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Echo Spectroscopy in Multilevel Quantum-Mechanical Rotors

Dina Rosenberg, Ran Damari, and Sharly Fleischer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 234101 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Elastic Waves in Curved Space: Mimicking a Wormhole

Jian Zhu, Yongquan Liu, Zixian Liang, Tianning Chen, and Jensen Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 234301 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Unstable Slip Pulses and Earthquake Nucleation as a Nonequilibrium First-Order Phase Transition

Efim A. Brener, Michael Aldam, Fabian Barras, Jean-François Molinari, and Eran Bouchbinder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 234302 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Direct Observation of Nonlinear Coupling between Pedestal Modes Leading to the Onset of Edge Localized Modes

A. Diallo, J. Dominski, K. Barada, M. Knolker, G. J. Kramer, and G. McKee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235001 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Favorable Collisional Demixing of Ash and Fuel in Magnetized Inertial Fusion

Ian E. Ochs and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235002 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Confinement of Positrons Exceeding 1 s in a Supported Magnetic Dipole Trap

J. Horn-Stanja, S. Nißl, U. Hergenhahn, T. Sunn Pedersen, H. Saitoh, E. V. Stenson, M. Dickmann, C. Hugenschmidt, M. Singer, M. R. Stoneking, and J. R. Danielson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235003 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Applying a repulsive electrostatic bias to the edge of a magnetic trap suppresses particle losses and confines a low-energy positron cloud for more than one second.

Trapped Particle Effects in the Parametric Instability of Near-Acoustic Plasma Waves

M. Affolter, F. Anderegg, D. H. E. Dubin, F. Valentini, and C. F. Driscoll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235004 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Lossless Positron Injection into a Magnetic Dipole Trap

E. V. Stenson, S. Nißl, U. Hergenhahn, J. Horn-Stanja, M. Singer, H. Saitoh, T. Sunn Pedersen, J. R. Danielson, M. R. Stoneking, M. Dickmann, and C. Hugenschmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235005 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

Applying a repulsive electrostatic bias to the edge of a magnetic trap suppresses particle losses and confines a low-energy positron cloud for more than one second.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Symmetry-Enriched Fracton Phases from Supersolid Duality

Michael Pretko and Leo Radzihovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235301 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Simulating Ising and $n$ -State Planar Potts Models and External Fields with Nonequilibrium Condensates

Kirill P. Kalinin and Natalia G. Berloff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235302 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Depinning Dynamics of Crack Fronts

Julien Chopin, Aditya Bhaskar, Atharv Jog, and Laurent Ponson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235501 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Glasslike Dynamics of Polar Domain Walls in Cryogenic ${SrTiO}_{3}$

David Pesquera, Michael A. Carpenter, and Ekhard K. H. Salje

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235701 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Bose Condensation of Long-Living Direct Excitons in an Off-Resonant Cavity

N. S. Voronova, I. L. Kurbakov, and Yu. E. Lozovik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235702 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

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Variational Principle for Mass Transport

Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 235901 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

A new theory provides a way to compare the accuracy of different mass-transport calculations, which are widely used to evaluate the performance of materials.

Quantum-to-Classical Transition of Proton Transfer in Potential-Induced Dioxygen Reduction

Ken Sakaushi, Andrey Lyalin, Tetsuya Taketsugu, and Kohei Uosaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 236001 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model with Quadratic Perturbations: The Route to a Non-Fermi Liquid

A. V. Lunkin, K. S. Tikhonov, and M. V. Feigel’man

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 236601 (2018) - Published 3 December, 2018

Prospects for the Detection of Electronic Preturbulence in Graphene

A. Gabbana, M. Polini, S. Succi, R. Tripiccione, and F. M. D. Pellegrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 236602 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermopower-Based Hot Electron Thermometry of Helium Surface States at 1.6 K

Ethan I. Kleinbaum and Stephen A. Lyon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 236801 (2018) - Published 5 December, 2018

New thermometry technique probes the temperature of surface state electrons above superfluid helium despite the absence of a detailed understanding of the electron interactions.

Decoupling Carrier Concentration and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Oxide Heterostructures Observed with Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering

D. Meyers, Ken Nakatsukasa, Sai Mu, Lin Hao, Junyi Yang, Yue Cao, G. Fabbris, Hu Miao, J. Pelliciari, D. McNally, M. Dantz, E. Paris, E. Karapetrova, Yongseong Choi, D. Haskel, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, Thorsten Schmitt, Tom Berlijn, S. Johnston, Jian Liu, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 236802 (2018) - Published 7 December, 2018

Strong Correlation between Ferromagnetic Superconductivity and Pressure-enhanced Ferromagnetic Fluctuations in ${UGe}_{2}$

Naoyuki Tateiwa, Yoshinori Haga, and Etsuji Yamamoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 237001 (2018) - Published 4 December, 2018

Volume 121, Issue 23

On the Cover

From the article:

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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