Volume 121, Issue 24

14 December 2018

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Model of a branched microbial active carpet of tailed swimmers (black). Red and blue show nutrient flow towards and away from the swimmers, respectively.

From the article:

Nutrient Transport Driven by Microbial Active Carpets
Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, Andreas Kaiser, and Hartmut Löwen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248101 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Transfiguration of Kruskal Black Holes

Abhay Ashtekar, Javier Olmedo, and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241301 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Loop quantum gravity—a theory that extends general relativity by quantizing spacetime—predicts that black holes evolve into white holes.

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Imaging the Local Charge Environment of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

T. Mittiga, S. Hsieh, C. Zu, B. Kobrin, F. Machado, P. Bhattacharyya, N. Z. Rui, A. Jarmola, S. Choi, D. Budker, and N. Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246402 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are found to be more affected by local charge than expected, which has implications for the use of the defects as quantum sensors.

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Droplets Capped with an Elastic Film Can Be Round, Elliptical, or Nearly Square

Rafael D. Schulman and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248004 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Researchers can change the shape of a liquid drop by placing it between two stretched elastic films, allowing the drop to be used as a tiny adjustable lens.

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Density Waves and Jet Emission Asymmetry in Bose Fireworks

Han Fu, Lei Feng, Brandon M. Anderson, Logan W. Clark, Jiazhong Hu, Jeffery W. Andrade, Cheng Chin, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243001 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

By switching a magnetic field’s direction up and down, researchers interfered matter waves to produce density ripples that led to firework-like jets.

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Efficient Nonthermal Particle Acceleration by the Kink Instability in Relativistic Jets

E. P. Alves, J. Zrake, and F. Fiuza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 245101 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Large-scale simulations suggest a mechanism by which supermassive black holes could accelerate particles to ultrahigh energies and thus be a source for mysterious cosmic rays.

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First Observation of $P$ -odd $γ$ Asymmetry in Polarized Neutron Capture on Hydrogen

D. Blyth et al. (NPDGamma Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242002 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Measurement of a parity-odd asymmetry in the photons emitted from the capture of polarized neutrons on protons provides a first measurement of a weak-interaction term in the nucleon-nucleon potential.

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Intrinsic Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect with In-Plane Magnetization: Searching Rule and Material Prediction

Zhao Liu, Gan Zhao, Bing Liu, Z. F. Wang, Jinlong Yang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246401 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Unlike existing studies, a general rule is introduced to search for the quantum anomalous Hall effect with in-plane magnetization in a real material (LaCl).

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Energy Fluctuations in Slowly Sheared Granular Materials

Jie Zheng, Aile Sun, Yujie Wang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248001 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

A “temperature” is measured for a disordered array of disks under a shearing force.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Non-Markovian Processes Break Conditional Past-Future Independence

Adrián A. Budini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 240401 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Experimentally Robust Self-testing for Bipartite and Tripartite Entangled States

Wen-Hao Zhang, Geng Chen, Xing-Xiang Peng, Xiang-Jun Ye, Peng Yin, Ya Xiao, Zhi-Bo Hou, Ze-Di Cheng, Yu-Chun Wu, Jin-Shi Xu, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 240402 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Dynamical Critical Scaling of Long-Range Interacting Quantum Magnets

Nicolò Defenu, Tilman Enss, Michael Kastner, and Giovanna Morigi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 240403 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

High-Fidelity Single-Qubit Gates on Neutral Atoms in a Two-Dimensional Magic-Intensity Optical Dipole Trap Array

Cheng Sheng, Xiaodong He, Peng Xu, Ruijun Guo, Kunpeng Wang, Zongyuan Xiong, Min Liu, Jin Wang, and Mingsheng Zhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 240501 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Multiple Singularities of the Equilibrium Free Energy in a One-Dimensional Model of Soft Rods

Sushant Saryal, Juliane U. Klamser, Tridib Sadhu, and Deepak Dhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 240601 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Defining the Work Done on an Electromagnetic Field

A. E. Allahverdyan and D. Karakhanyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 240602 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky through its Angular Power Spectrum

M. Ackermann et al. (Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241101 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Radio Signals from Axion Dark Matter Conversion in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Anson Hook, Yonatan Kahn, Benjamin R. Safdi, and Zhiquan Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241102 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

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Quantum Transfiguration of Kruskal Black Holes

Abhay Ashtekar, Javier Olmedo, and Parampreet Singh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241301 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Loop quantum gravity—a theory that extends general relativity by quantizing spacetime—predicts that black holes evolve into white holes.

Lagrangian Cosmological Perturbation Theory at Shell Crossing

Shohei Saga, Atsushi Taruya, and Stéphane Colombi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241302 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Dark Neutrino Portal to Explain MiniBooNE Excess

Enrico Bertuzzo, Sudip Jana, Pedro A. N. Machado, and Renata Zukanovich Funchal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241801 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Search for Leptoquarks Coupled to Third-Generation Quarks in Proton-Proton Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241802 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Anomaly Detection for Resonant New Physics with Machine Learning

Jack Collins, Kiel Howe, and Benjamin Nachman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241803 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Reduced Hadronic Uncertainty in the Determination of $V_{u d}$

Chien-Yeah Seng, Mikhail Gorchtein, Hiren H. Patel, and Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241804 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Measurement of the Electron Antineutrino Oscillation with 1958 Days of Operation at Daya Bay

D. Adey et al. (The Daya Bay Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 241805 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Gluon Quasi-Parton-Distribution Functions from Lattice QCD

Zhou-You Fan, Yi-Bo Yang, Adam Anthony, Huey-Wen Lin, and Keh-Fei Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242001 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

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First Observation of $P$ -odd $γ$ Asymmetry in Polarized Neutron Capture on Hydrogen

D. Blyth et al. (NPDGamma Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242002 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Proton Isovector Helicity Distribution on the Lattice at Physical Pion Mass

Huey-Wen Lin, Jiunn-Wei Chen, Xiangdong Ji, Luchang Jin, Ruizi Li, Yu-Sheng Liu, Yi-Bo Yang, Jian-Hui Zhang, and Yong Zhao ( ${LP}^{3}$ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242003 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Observation of Medium-Induced Modifications of Jet Fragmentation in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV$ Using Isolated Photon-Tagged Jets

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242301 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Dominance of Tensor Correlations in High-Momentum Nucleon Pairs Studied by $(p, p d)$ Reaction

S. Terashima et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 242501 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Density Waves and Jet Emission Asymmetry in Bose Fireworks

Han Fu, Lei Feng, Brandon M. Anderson, Logan W. Clark, Jiazhong Hu, Jeffery W. Andrade, Cheng Chin, and K. Levin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243001 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

By switching a magnetic field’s direction up and down, researchers interfered matter waves to produce density ripples that led to firework-like jets.

Breakdown of the Spectator Concept in Low-Electron-Energy Resonant Decay Processes

A. Mhamdi, J. Rist, D. Aslitürk, M. Weller, N. Melzer, D. Trabert, M. Kircher, I. Vela-Pérez, J. Siebert, S. Eckart, S. Grundmann, G. Kastirke, M. Waitz, A. Khan, M. S. Schöffler, F. Trinter, R. Dörner, T. Jahnke, and Ph. V. Demekhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243002 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Impurity-Induced Multibody Resonances in a Bose Gas

Zhe-Yu Shi, Shuhei M. Yoshida, Meera M. Parish, and Jesper Levinsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243401 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Rotational Alignment Decay and Decoherence of Molecular Superrotors

Benjamin A. Stickler, Farhad Taher Ghahramani, and Klaus Hornberger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243402 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Revealing Hidden Quantum Correlations in an Electromechanical Measurement

C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi, E. Damskägg, G. S. Paraoanu, F. Massel, and M. A. Sillanpää

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243601 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Near-Field and Far-Field Thermal Emission of an Individual Patch Nanoantenna

Claire Li, Valentina Krachmalnicoff, Patrick Bouchon, Julien Jaeck, Nathalie Bardou, Riad Haïdar, and Yannick De Wilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243901 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Low Photon Count Phase Retrieval Using Deep Learning

Alexandre Goy, Kwabena Arthur, Shuai Li, and George Barbastathis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243902 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Weak Measurement of Elliptical Dipole Moments by $C$ -Point Splitting

Sergey Nechayev, Martin Neugebauer, Martin Vorndran, Gerd Leuchs, and Peter Banzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243903 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Nonlinear Emission of Molecular Ensembles Strongly Coupled to Plasmonic Lattices with Structural Imperfections

Mohammad Ramezani, Quynh Le-Van, Alexei Halpin, and Jaime Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 243904 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Breaking the Symmetry of Momentum Conservation Using Evanescent Acoustic Fields

Michael Mazilu, Andriejus Demčenko, Rab Wilson, Julien Reboud, and Jonathan M. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 244301 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Bifurcation Generated Mechanical Frequency Comb

David A. Czaplewski, Changyao Chen, Daniel Lopez, Oriel Shoshani, Axel M. Eriksson, Scott Strachan, and Steven W. Shaw

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 244302 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Preferential Sampling of Elastic Chains in Turbulent Flows

Jason R. Picardo, Dario Vincenzi, Nairita Pal, and Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 244501 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Efficient Nonthermal Particle Acceleration by the Kink Instability in Relativistic Jets

E. P. Alves, J. Zrake, and F. Fiuza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 245101 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Large-scale simulations suggest a mechanism by which supermassive black holes could accelerate particles to ultrahigh energies and thus be a source for mysterious cosmic rays.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Liquid Structure of Shock-Compressed Hydrocarbons at Megabar Pressures

N. J. Hartley, J. Vorberger, T. Döppner, T. Cowan, R. W. Falcone, L. B. Fletcher, S. Frydrych, E. Galtier, E. J. Gamboa, D. O. Gericke, S. H. Glenzer, E. Granados, M. J. MacDonald, A. J. MacKinnon, E. E. McBride, I. Nam, P. Neumayer, A. Pak, K. Rohatsch, A. M. Saunders, A. K. Schuster, P. Sun, T. van Driel, and D. Kraus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 245501 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Machine Learning Many-Body Localization: Search for the Elusive Nonergodic Metal

Yi-Ting Hsu, Xiao Li, Dong-Ling Deng, and S. Das Sarma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 245701 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Orientational Distribution of Free O-H Groups of Interfacial Water is Exponential

Shumei Sun, Fujie Tang, Sho Imoto, Daniel R. Moberg, Tatsuhiko Ohto, Francesco Paesani, Mischa Bonn, Ellen H. G. Backus, and Yuki Nagata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246101 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Measurement of the Curvature-Dependent Surface Tension in Nucleating Colloidal Liquids

V. D. Nguyen, F. C. Schoemaker, E. M. Blokhuis, and P. Schall

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246102 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Intrinsic Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect with In-Plane Magnetization: Searching Rule and Material Prediction

Zhao Liu, Gan Zhao, Bing Liu, Z. F. Wang, Jinlong Yang, and Feng Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246401 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Unlike existing studies, a general rule is introduced to search for the quantum anomalous Hall effect with in-plane magnetization in a real material (LaCl).

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Imaging the Local Charge Environment of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

T. Mittiga, S. Hsieh, C. Zu, B. Kobrin, F. Machado, P. Bhattacharyya, N. Z. Rui, A. Jarmola, S. Choi, D. Budker, and N. Y. Yao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246402 (2018) - Published 12 December, 2018

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond are found to be more affected by local charge than expected, which has implications for the use of the defects as quantum sensors.

Strongly Enhanced Berry Dipole at Topological Phase Transitions in BiTeI

Jorge I. Facio, Dmitri Efremov, Klaus Koepernik, Jhih-Shih You, Inti Sodemann, and Jeroen van den Brink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246403 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Spin-Mechanical Coupling of an InAs Quantum Dot Embedded in a Mechanical Resonator

S. G. Carter, A. S. Bracker, G. W. Bryant, M. Kim, C. S. Kim, M. K. Zalalutdinov, M. K. Yakes, C. Czarnocki, J. Casara, M. Scheibner, and D. Gammon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246801 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Novel Modal Approximation Scheme for Plasmonic Transmission Problems

Gerhard Unger, Andreas Trügler, and Ulrich Hohenester

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246802 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Light Bipolarons Stabilized by Peierls Electron-Phonon Coupling

John Sous, Monodeep Chakraborty, Roman V. Krems, and Mona Berciu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247001 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

$z = 2$ Quantum Critical Dynamics in a Spin Ladder

D. Blosser, V. K. Bhartiya, D. J. Voneshen, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247201 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Role of Hydrogen in the Spin-Orbital-Entangled Quantum Liquid Candidate $H_{3} {LiIr}_{2} O_{6}$

Ying Li, Stephen M. Winter, and Roser Valentí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247202 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Interactions and Magnetotransport through Spin-Valley Coupled Landau Levels in Monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Riccardo Pisoni, Andor Kormányos, Matthew Brooks, Zijin Lei, Patrick Back, Marius Eich, Hiske Overweg, Yongjin Lee, Peter Rickhaus, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Atac Imamoglu, Guido Burkard, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247701 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Spin Splitting Induced in a Superconductor by an Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Akashdeep Kamra, Ali Rezaei, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247702 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Enhanced Shot Noise of Multiple Andreev Reflections in a Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot in SU(2) and SU(4) Kondo regimes

Tokuro Hata, Raphaëlle Delagrange, Tomonori Arakawa, Sanghyun Lee, Richard Deblock, Hélène Bouchiat, Kensuke Kobayashi, and Meydi Ferrier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247703 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

Electron-Transfer-Induced Thermal and Thermoelectric Rectification

Galen T. Craven, Dahai He, and Abraham Nitzan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 247704 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Energy Fluctuations in Slowly Sheared Granular Materials

Jie Zheng, Aile Sun, Yujie Wang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248001 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

A “temperature” is measured for a disordered array of disks under a shearing force.

Swarming in the Dirt: Ordered Flocks with Quenched Disorder

John Toner, Nicholas Guttenberg, and Yuhai Tu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248002 (2018) - Published 10 December, 2018

Jamming of Deformable Polygons

Arman Boromand, Alexandra Signoriello, Fangfu Ye, Corey S. O’Hern, and Mark D. Shattuck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248003 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

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Droplets Capped with an Elastic Film Can Be Round, Elliptical, or Nearly Square

Rafael D. Schulman and Kari Dalnoki-Veress

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248004 (2018) - Published 13 December, 2018

Researchers can change the shape of a liquid drop by placing it between two stretched elastic films, allowing the drop to be used as a tiny adjustable lens.

Nutrient Transport Driven by Microbial Active Carpets

Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Francisca Guzmán-Lastra, Andreas Kaiser, and Hartmut Löwen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 248101 (2018) - Published 11 December, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Highly Subwavelength, Superdirective Cylindrical Nanoantenna [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 237401 (2018)]

Samel Arslanagić and Richard W. Ziolkowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 249901 (2018) - Published 14 December, 2018