Volume 121, Issue 26

28 December 2018

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On the Cover

A spontaneously formed nanotent by a four-layer MoS₂. Selected for Editors' Suggestions.

From the article:

Interface-Governed Deformation of Nanobubbles and Nanotents Formed by Two-Dimensional Materials
Zhaohe Dai, Yuan Hou, Daniel A. Sanchez, Guorui Wang, Christopher J. Brennan, Zhong Zhang, Luqi Liu, and Nanshu Lu
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266101 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Evidence for $\cos 2 β > 0$ and Resolution of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Quark-Mixing Unitarity Triangle Ambiguity

I. Adachi et al. (BABAR Collaboration, Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261801 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Two bottom-quark-factory experiments combine their data to largely resolve an ambiguity in a key $C P$ -violation mixing angle.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predictive Simulations of Ionization Energies of Solvated Halide Ions with Relativistic Embedded Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster Theory

Yassine Bouchafra, Avijit Shee, Florent Réal, Valérie Vallet, and André Severo Pereira Gomes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266001 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Molecular dynamics combined with relativistic electronic structure methods leads to a new benchmark for calculating solvation structures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interface-Governed Deformation of Nanobubbles and Nanotents Formed by Two-Dimensional Materials

Zhaohe Dai, Yuan Hou, Daniel A. Sanchez, Guorui Wang, Christopher J. Brennan, Zhong Zhang, Luqi Liu, and Nanshu Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266101 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

The height and radius of bubble and tent shapes formed in graphene and MoS $_{2}$ provide estimates of strain distribution in these 2D materials.

LETTERS

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

Measuring the Single-Particle Density Matrix for Fermions and Hard-Core Bosons in an Optical Lattice

Luis A. Peña Ardila, Markus Heyl, and André Eckardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 260401 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Supersymmetric Polarization Anomaly in Photonic Discrete-Time Quantum Walks

Sonja Barkhofen, Lennart Lorz, Thomas Nitsche, Christine Silberhorn, and Henning Schomerus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 260501 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Neural Network Renormalization Group

Shuo-Hui Li and Lei Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 260601 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Matrix Product States for Quantum Stochastic Modeling

Chengran Yang, Felix C. Binder, Varun Narasimhachar, and Mile Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 260602 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Test of the Equivalence Principle with Chiral Masses Using a Rotating Torsion Pendulum

Lin Zhu, Qi Liu, Hui-Hui Zhao, Qi-Long Gong, Shan-Qing Yang, Pengshun Luo, Cheng-Gang Shao, Qing-Lan Wang, Liang-Cheng Tu, and Jun Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261101 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Emergent de Sitter Cosmology from Decaying Anti–de Sitter Space

Souvik Banerjee, Ulf Danielsson, Giuseppe Dibitetto, Suvendu Giri, and Marjorie Schillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261301 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Piezoelectrically Tuned Multimode Cavity Search for Axion Dark Matter

C. Boutan et al. (ADMX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261302 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Holographic Collisions across a Phase Transition

Maximilian Attems, Yago Bea, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, Miquel Triana, and Miguel Zilhão

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261601 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Axial Ward Identity and the Schwinger Mechanism: Applications to the Real-Time Chiral Magnetic Effect and Condensates

Patrick Copinger, Kenji Fukushima, and Shi Pu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261602 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Evidence for $\cos 2 β > 0$ and Resolution of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa Quark-Mixing Unitarity Triangle Ambiguity

I. Adachi et al. (BABAR Collaboration, Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261801 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Two bottom-quark-factory experiments combine their data to largely resolve an ambiguity in a key $C P$ -violation mixing angle.

Universal Imprints of a Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Higgs Boson

Da Liu, Ian Low, and Zhewei Yin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261802 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

New Experimental Limits on Exotic Spin-Spin-Velocity-Dependent Interactions by Using ${SmCo}_{5}$ Spin Sources

Wei Ji, Yao Chen, Changbo Fu, Ming Ding, Jiancheng Fang, Zhigang Xiao, Kai Wei, and Haiyang Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 261803 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Enhanced Electric Dipole Strength for the Weakly Bound States in ${}^{27}{Ne}$

C. Loelius, N. Kobayashi, H. Iwasaki, D. Bazin, J. Belarge, P. C. Bender, B. A. Brown, R. Elder, B. Elman, A. Gade, M. Grinder, S. Heil, A. Hufnagel, B. Longfellow, E. Lunderberg, M. Mathy, T. Otsuka, M. Petri, I. Syndikus, N. Tsunoda, D. Weisshaar, and K. Whitmore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 262501 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

First Observation of ${}^{20}B$ and ${}^{21}B$

S. Leblond et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 262502 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stable $p$ -Wave Resonant Two-Dimensional Fermi-Bose Dimers

B. Bazak and D. S. Petrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263001 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Superfluorescence, Free-Induction Decay, and Four-Wave Mixing: Propagation of Free-Electron Laser Pulses through a Dense Sample of Helium Ions

James R. Harries, Hiroshi Iwayama, Susumu Kuma, Masatomi Iizawa, Norihiro Suzuki, Yoshiro Azuma, Ichiro Inoue, Shigeki Owada, Tadashi Togashi, Kensuke Tono, Makina Yabashi, and Eiji Shigemasa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263201 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Operational Magic Intensity for Sr Optical Lattice Clocks

Ichiro Ushijima, Masao Takamoto, and Hidetoshi Katori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263202 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Slingshot Nonsequential Double Ionization as a Gate to Anticorrelated Two-Electron Escape

G. P. Katsoulis, A. Hadjipittas, B. Bergues, M. F. Kling, and A. Emmanouilidou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263203 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Time-Energy Entangled Photon Pairs from Doppler-Broadened Atomic Ensemble via Collective Two-Photon Coherence

Jiho Park, Taek Jeong, Heonoh Kim, and Han Seb Moon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263601 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Mitigating Mode-Matching Loss in Nonclassical Laser Interferometry

Sebastian Steinlechner, Niels-Ole Rohweder, Mikhail Korobko, Daniel Töyrä, Andreas Freise, and Roman Schnabel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263602 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Steady-State Generation of Wigner-Negative States in One-Dimensional Resonance Fluorescence

Fernando Quijandría, Ingrid Strandberg, and Göran Johansson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263603 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Zero-Index Bound States in the Continuum

Momchil Minkov, Ian A. D. Williamson, Meng Xiao, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263901 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Unconventional Flatband Line States in Photonic Lieb Lattices

Shiqi Xia, Ajith Ramachandran, Shiqiang Xia, Denghui Li, Xiuying Liu, Liqin Tang, Yi Hu, Daohong Song, Jingjun Xu, Daniel Leykam, Sergej Flach, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263902 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Space Group Theory of Photonic Bands

Haruki Watanabe and Ling Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 263903 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Exact Spectral Form Factor in a Minimal Model of Many-Body Quantum Chaos

Bruno Bertini, Pavel Kos, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 264101 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Nondegenerate Parametric Resonance in Large Ensembles of Coupled Micromechanical Cantilevers with Varying Natural Frequencies

Christopher B. Wallin, Roberto De Alba, Daron Westly, Glenn Holland, Scott Grutzik, Richard H. Rand, Alan T. Zehnder, Vladimir A. Aksyuk, Slava Krylov, and B. Robert Ilic

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 264301 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Steep Cliffs and Saturated Exponents in Three-Dimensional Scalar Turbulence

Kartik P. Iyer, Jörg Schumacher, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and P. K. Yeung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 264501 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Stable Particle Acceleration in Coaxial Plasma Channels

Alexander Pukhov and John P. Farmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 264801 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Suppression of Beam Hosing in Plasma Accelerators with Ion Motion

T. J. Mehrling, C. Benedetti, C. B. Schroeder, E. Esarey, and W. P. Leemans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 264802 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Kinetic Range Spectral Features of Cross Helicity Using the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft

Tulasi N. Parashar, Alexandros Chasapis, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Rohit Chhiber, W. H. Matthaeus, B. Maruca, M. A. Shay, J. L. Burch, T. E. Moore, B. L. Giles, D. J. Gershman, C. J. Pollock, R. B. Torbert, C. T. Russell, R. J. Strangeway, and Vadim Roytershteyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 265101 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Observation of a Dynamical Sliding Phase Superfluid with $P$ -Band Bosons

Linxiao Niu, Shengjie Jin, Xuzong Chen, Xiaopeng Li, and Xiaoji Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 265301 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Hierarchical Optimization: Fast and Robust Multiscale Stochastic Reconstructions with Rescaled Correlation Functions

Marina V. Karsanina and Kirill M. Gerke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 265501 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Silicon Liquid Structure and Crystal Nucleation from Ab Initio Deep Metadynamics

Luigi Bonati and Michele Parrinello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 265701 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Predictive Simulations of Ionization Energies of Solvated Halide Ions with Relativistic Embedded Equation of Motion Coupled Cluster Theory

Yassine Bouchafra, Avijit Shee, Florent Réal, Valérie Vallet, and André Severo Pereira Gomes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266001 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Molecular dynamics combined with relativistic electronic structure methods leads to a new benchmark for calculating solvation structures.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interface-Governed Deformation of Nanobubbles and Nanotents Formed by Two-Dimensional Materials

Zhaohe Dai, Yuan Hou, Daniel A. Sanchez, Guorui Wang, Christopher J. Brennan, Zhong Zhang, Luqi Liu, and Nanshu Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266101 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

The height and radius of bubble and tent shapes formed in graphene and MoS $_{2}$ provide estimates of strain distribution in these 2D materials.

Structure Retrieval at Atomic Resolution in the Presence of Multiple Scattering of the Electron Probe

H. G. Brown, Z. Chen, M. Weyland, C. Ophus, J. Ciston, L. J. Allen, and S. D. Findlay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266102 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Ultraflatbands and Shear Solitons in Moiré Patterns of Twisted Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Mit H. Naik and Manish Jain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266401 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Band Signatures for Strong Nonlinear Hall Effect in Bilayer ${WTe}_{2}$

Z. Z. Du, C. M. Wang, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266601 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

Resonant Second-Order Nonlinear Terahertz Response of Gallium Arsenide

Ahmed Ghalgaoui, Klaus Reimann, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser, Christos Flytzanis, and Klaus Biermann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266602 (2018) - Published 27 December, 2018

Pressure-Induced Electronic and Structural Phase Evolution in the van der Waals Compound ${FePS}_{3}$

C. R. S. Haines, M. J. Coak, A. R. Wildes, G. I. Lampronti, C. Liu, P. Nahai-Williamson, H. Hamidov, D. Daisenberger, and S. S. Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 266801 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Nonequilibrium Pair Breaking in $Ba ({Fe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x})_{2} {As}_{2}$ Superconductors: Evidence for Formation of a Photoinduced Excitonic State

X. Yang, L. Luo, M. Mootz, A. Patz, S. L. Bud’ko, P. C. Canfield, I. E. Perakis, and J. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 267001 (2018) - Published 26 December, 2018

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

Delays in Fitness Adjustment Can Lead to Coexistence of Hierarchically Interacting Species

Marianne Bauer and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 268101 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Assessing the Contribution of Active and Passive Stresses in C. elegans Elongation

Martine Ben Amar, Paul Qiuyang-Qu, Thanh Thi Kim Vuong-Brender, and Michel Labouesse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 268102 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

COMMENTS

Comment on “Revision of Bubble Bursting: Universal Scaling Laws of Top Jet Drop Size and Speed”

Jose Manuel Gordillo and Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 269401 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

Gañán-Calvo replies

Alfonso M. Gañán-Calvo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 269402 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Water-based Peeling of Thin Hydrophobic Films [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 154502 (2017)]

Sepideh Khodaparast, François Boulogne, Christophe Poulard, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 269901 (2018) - Published 28 December, 2018