Volume 121, Issue 3

20 July 2018

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Cartoon of the second-harmonic field generated from a bound state in the continuum in a subwavelength dielectric nanoparticle.

From the article:

Giant Nonlinear Response at the Nanoscale Driven by Bound States in the Continuum
Luca Carletti, Kirill Koshelev, Costantino De Angelis, and Yuri Kivshar
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033903 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strain-Tunable GaAs Quantum Dot: A Nearly Dephasing-Free Source of Entangled Photon Pairs on Demand

Daniel Huber, Marcus Reindl, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, Christian Schimpf, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Huiying Huang, Giovanni Piredda, Johannes Edlinger, Armando Rastelli, and Rinaldo Trotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033902 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Quantum dots that emit entangled photon pairs on demand could be used in quantum communication networks.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Eigenvector Continuation with Subspace Learning

Dillon Frame, Rongzheng He, Ilse Ipsen, Daniel Lee, Dean Lee, and Ermal Rrapaj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 032501 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

A new computational method tackles many-body quantum calculations that have defied a suite of existing approaches.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

GHz Rotation of an Optically Trapped Nanoparticle in Vacuum

René Reimann, Michael Doderer, Erik Hebestreit, Rozenn Diehl, Martin Frimmer, Dominik Windey, Felix Tebbenjohanns, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033602 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Two teams report spinning nanoscale particles at more than 60 billion rpm, the fastest rotation of any object, with the potential to probe the quantum vacuum.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optically Levitated Nanodumbbell Torsion Balance and GHz Nanomechanical Rotor

Jonghoon Ahn, Zhujing Xu, Jaehoon Bang, Yu-Hao Deng, Thai M. Hoang, Qinkai Han, Ren-Min Ma, and Tongcang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033603 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Two teams report spinning nanoscale particles at more than 60 billion rpm, the fastest rotation of any object, with the potential to probe the quantum vacuum.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room for New Physics in the Rayleigh-Jeans Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Alfredo Urbano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 031103 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

New physics models that produce abundant low-energy photons could explain the EDGES observation by positing that CMB photons are warmer than expected.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable High-Resolution Macroscopic Self-Engineered Geometric Phase Optical Elements

Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033901 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

A q-plate, which converts spin angular momentum of light to orbital angular moment, is tuned via a combination of static magnetic field and a quasistatic electric field.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Holography in a Graphene Flake with an Irregular Boundary

Anffany Chen, R. Ilan, F. de Juan, D. I. Pikulin, and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036403 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Under a strong magnetic field, a holographic image of a black hole may be realized in a flake of graphene.

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Realization of a Valley Superlattice

M. A. Mueed, Md. Shafayat Hossain, I. Jo, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036802 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Strain in a semiconductor quantum well spatially modulates the electron population, leading to a valley superlattice.

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Topologically Protected Landau Level in the Vortex Lattice of a Weyl Superconductor

M. J. Pacholski, C. W. J. Beenakker, and İ. Adagideli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037701 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

In a Weyl superconductor, Landau levels and a vortex lattice may coexist.

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Water-Mediated Protein-Protein Interactions at High Pressures are Controlled by a Deep-Sea Osmolyte

Karin Julius, Jonathan Weine, Melanie Berghaus, Nico König, Mimi Gao, Jan Latarius, Michael Paulus, Martin A. Schroer, Metin Tolan, and Roland Winter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 038101 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

The osmolyte compound TMAO keeps proteins from clumping and unfolding at high pressures, allowing creatures to live in a deep-sea environment.

LETTERS

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

Anisotropic Superfluid Behavior of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

Matthias Wenzel, Fabian Böttcher, Jan-Niklas Schmidt, Michael Eisenmann, Tim Langen, Tilman Pfau, and Igor Ferrier-Barbut

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030401 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

Observation of Density-Dependent Gauge Fields in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Based on Micromotion Control in a Shaken Two-Dimensional Lattice

Logan W. Clark, Brandon M. Anderson, Lei Feng, Anita Gaj, K. Levin, and Cheng Chin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030402 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Finite-Temperature Disordered Bosons in Two Dimensions

G. Bertoli, V. P. Michal, B. L. Altshuler, and G. V. Shlyapnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030403 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Chiral Supersolid in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bose Gases with Soft-Core Long-Range Interactions

Wei Han, Xiao-Fei Zhang, Deng-Shan Wang, Hai-Feng Jiang, Wei Zhang, and Shou-Gang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030404 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Platform for Measurements of the Casimir Force between Two Superconductors

R. A. Norte, M. Forsch, A. Wallucks, I. Marinković, and S. Gröblacher

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030405 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Dynamical Phase Transitions in Sampling Complexity

Abhinav Deshpande, Bill Fefferman, Minh C. Tran, Michael Foss-Feig, and Alexey V. Gorshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030501 (2018) - Published 19 July, 2018

Demonstration of Topological Robustness of Anyonic Braiding Statistics with a Superconducting Quantum Circuit

Chao Song, Da Xu, Pengfei Zhang, Jianwen Wang, Qiujiang Guo, Wuxin Liu, Kai Xu, Hui Deng, Keqiang Huang, Dongning Zheng, Shi-Biao Zheng, H. Wang, Xiaobo Zhu, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030502 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Using Gaussian Boson Sampling to Find Dense Subgraphs

Juan Miguel Arrazola and Thomas R. Bromley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030503 (2018) - Published 19 July, 2018

Measurement Quench in Many-Body Systems

Abolfazl Bayat, Bedoor Alkurtass, Pasquale Sodano, Henrik Johannesson, and Sougato Bose

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030601 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Anomalous Thermalization in Quantum Collective Models

Armando Relaño

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030602 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Multicritical Edge Statistics for the Momenta of Fermions in Nonharmonic Traps

Pierre Le Doussal, Satya N. Majumdar, and Grégory Schehr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030603 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Information Gain and Loss for a Quantum Maxwell’s Demon

M. Naghiloo, J. J. Alonso, A. Romito, E. Lutz, and K. W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030604 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

Stochastic Thermodynamic Interpretation of Information Geometry

Sosuke Ito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030605 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Integrable Trotterization: Local Conservation Laws and Boundary Driving

Matthieu Vanicat, Lenart Zadnik, and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 030606 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Overcoming the Standard Quantum Limit in Gravitational Wave Detectors Using Spin Systems with a Negative Effective Mass

F. Ya. Khalili and E. S. Polzik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 031101 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Late-Time Magnetogenesis Driven by Axionlike Particle Dark Matter and a Dark Photon

Kiwoon Choi, Hyungjin Kim, and Toyokazu Sekiguchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 031102 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Room for New Physics in the Rayleigh-Jeans Tail of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Maxim Pospelov, Josef Pradler, Joshua T. Ruderman, and Alfredo Urbano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 031103 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

New physics models that produce abundant low-energy photons could explain the EDGES observation by positing that CMB photons are warmer than expected.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Quantum Chiral Higher Spin Gravity

Evgeny Skvortsov, Tung Tran, and Mirian Tsulaia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 031601 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Search for $B^{-} \to μ^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{μ}$ Decays at the Belle Experiment

A. Sibidanov et al. (The Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 031801 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Beam Energy Dependence of Jet-Quenching Effects in $Au + Au$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 7.7$ , 11.5, 14.5, 19.6, 27, 39, and 62.4 GeV

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 032301 (2018) - Published 19 July, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Eigenvector Continuation with Subspace Learning

Dillon Frame, Rongzheng He, Ilse Ipsen, Daniel Lee, Dean Lee, and Ermal Rrapaj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 032501 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

A new computational method tackles many-body quantum calculations that have defied a suite of existing approaches.

Neutron Skin Effects in Mirror Energy Differences: The Case of ${}^{23}{Mg} − {}^{23}{Na}$

A. Boso et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 032502 (2018) - Published 19 July, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Multiphoton Interference in the Spectral Domain by Direct Heralding of Frequency Superposition States

Bryn A. Bell and Benjamin J. Eggleton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033601 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

GHz Rotation of an Optically Trapped Nanoparticle in Vacuum

René Reimann, Michael Doderer, Erik Hebestreit, Rozenn Diehl, Martin Frimmer, Dominik Windey, Felix Tebbenjohanns, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033602 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Two teams report spinning nanoscale particles at more than 60 billion rpm, the fastest rotation of any object, with the potential to probe the quantum vacuum.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Optically Levitated Nanodumbbell Torsion Balance and GHz Nanomechanical Rotor

Jonghoon Ahn, Zhujing Xu, Jaehoon Bang, Yu-Hao Deng, Thai M. Hoang, Qinkai Han, Ren-Min Ma, and Tongcang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033603 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Two teams report spinning nanoscale particles at more than 60 billion rpm, the fastest rotation of any object, with the potential to probe the quantum vacuum.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tunable High-Resolution Macroscopic Self-Engineered Geometric Phase Optical Elements

Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033901 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

A q-plate, which converts spin angular momentum of light to orbital angular moment, is tuned via a combination of static magnetic field and a quasistatic electric field.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Strain-Tunable GaAs Quantum Dot: A Nearly Dephasing-Free Source of Entangled Photon Pairs on Demand

Daniel Huber, Marcus Reindl, Saimon Filipe Covre da Silva, Christian Schimpf, Javier Martín-Sánchez, Huiying Huang, Giovanni Piredda, Johannes Edlinger, Armando Rastelli, and Rinaldo Trotta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033902 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Quantum dots that emit entangled photon pairs on demand could be used in quantum communication networks.

Giant Nonlinear Response at the Nanoscale Driven by Bound States in the Continuum

Luca Carletti, Kirill Koshelev, Costantino De Angelis, and Yuri Kivshar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033903 (2018) - Published 19 July, 2018

Observation of Valley Landau-Zener-Bloch Oscillations and Pseudospin Imbalance in Photonic Graphene

Yong Sun, Daniel Leykam, Stephen Nenni, Daohong Song, Hong Chen, Y. D. Chong, and Zhigang Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 033904 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Spatiotemporal Organization of Correlated Local Activity within Global Avalanches in Slowly Driven Interfaces

Ramon Planet, Juan M. López, Stéphane Santucci, and Jordi Ortín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 034101 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

Measurements of the Canonical Helicity of a Gyrating Kink

Jens von der Linden, Jason Sears, Thomas Intrator, and Setthivoine You

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 035001 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Boundary Time Crystals

F. Iemini, A. Russomanno, J. Keeling, M. Schirò, M. Dalmonte, and R. Fazio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 035301 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Observation of Double Weyl Phonons in Parity-Breaking FeSi

H. Miao, T. T. Zhang, L. Wang, D. Meyers, A. H. Said, Y. L. Wang, Y. G. Shi, H. M. Weng, Z. Fang, and M. P. M. Dean

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 035302 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Nature of the Debye-Process in Monohydroxy Alcohols: 5-Methyl-2-Hexanol Investigated by Depolarized Light Scattering and Dielectric Spectroscopy

Jan Gabriel, Florian Pabst, Andreas Helbling, Till Böhmer, and Thomas Blochowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 035501 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Measurement of Mechanical Deformations Induced by Enhanced Electromagnetic Stress on a Parallel Metallic-Plate System

M. Wang, S. Wang, Q. Zhang, C. T. Chan, and H. B. Chan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 035502 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Realistic Floquet Semimetal with Exotic Topological Linkages between Arbitrarily Many Nodal Loops

Linhu Li, Ching Hua Lee, and Jiangbin Gong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036401 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Universal Fluctuations of Floquet Topological Invariants at Low Frequencies

M. Rodriguez-Vega and B. Seradjeh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036402 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Holography in a Graphene Flake with an Irregular Boundary

Anffany Chen, R. Ilan, F. de Juan, D. I. Pikulin, and M. Franz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036403 (2018) - Published 18 July, 2018

Under a strong magnetic field, a holographic image of a black hole may be realized in a flake of graphene.

Multiband Mechanism for the Sign Reversal of Coulomb Drag Observed in Double Bilayer Graphene Heterostructures

M. Zarenia, A. R. Hamilton, F. M. Peeters, and D. Neilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036601 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

Forbidden Backscattering and Resistance Dip in the Quantum Limit as a Signature for Topological Insulators

Yiyuan Chen, Hai-Zhou Lu, and X. C. Xie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036602 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Many-Body Dynamics and Gap Opening in Interacting Periodically Driven Systems

Ervand Kandelaki and Mark S. Rudner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036801 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Realization of a Valley Superlattice

M. A. Mueed, Md. Shafayat Hossain, I. Jo, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, K. W. Baldwin, and M. Shayegan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 036802 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Strain in a semiconductor quantum well spatially modulates the electron population, leading to a valley superlattice.

Onset of a Two-Dimensional Superconducting Phase in a Topological-Insulator–Normal-Metal ${Bi}_{1 - x} {Sb}_{x} / Pt$ Junction Fabricated by Ion-Beam Techniques

Dong-Xia Qu, Nick E. Teslich, Zurong Dai, George F. Chapline, Thomas Schenkel, Sean R. Durham, and Jonathan Dubois

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037001 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Two-Dimensional Topological Superconductivity with Antiferromagnetic Insulators

J. L. Lado and M. Sigrist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037002 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018

From Ising Resonant Fluctuations to Static Uniaxial Order in Antiferromagnetic and Weakly Superconducting $CeCo ({In}_{1 - x} {Hg}_{x})_{5} (x = 0.01)$

C. Stock, J. A. Rodriguez-Rivera, K. Schmalzl, F. Demmel, D. K. Singh, F. Ronning, J. D. Thompson, and E. D. Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037003 (2018) - Published 19 July, 2018

Pressure-Induced Superconductivity in Elemental Ytterbium Metal

J. Song, G. Fabbris, W. Bi, D. Haskel, and J. S. Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037004 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Spin-to-Charge Conversion in Bi Films and $Bi / Ag$ Bilayers

Di Yue, Weiwei Lin, Jiajia Li, Xiaofeng Jin, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037201 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Spin-Torque-Biased Magnetic Strip: Nonequilibrium Phase Diagram and Relation to Long Josephson Junctions

Daniel Hill, Se Kwon Kim, and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037202 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

Instabilities of a U(1) Quantum Spin Liquid in Disordered Non-Kramers Pyrochlores

Owen Benton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037203 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Effective Heisenberg Model and Exchange Interaction for Strongly Correlated Systems

E. A. Stepanov, S. Brener, F. Krien, M. Harland, A. I. Lichtenstein, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037204 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Spin-Orbit Coupling and Magnetic Anisotropy in Iron-Based Superconductors

Daniel D. Scherer and Brian M. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037205 (2018) - Published 20 July, 2018

Electrical Tuning of Nonlinearities in Exciton-Polariton Condensates

S. I. Tsintzos, A. Tzimis, G. Stavrinidis, A. Trifonov, Z. Hatzopoulos, J. J. Baumberg, H. Ohadi, and P. G. Savvidis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037401 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topologically Protected Landau Level in the Vortex Lattice of a Weyl Superconductor

M. J. Pacholski, C. W. J. Beenakker, and İ. Adagideli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037701 (2018) - Published 16 July, 2018

In a Weyl superconductor, Landau levels and a vortex lattice may coexist.

Topologically Protected Helical States in Minimally Twisted Bilayer Graphene

Shengqiang Huang, Kyounghwan Kim, Dmitry K. Efimkin, Timothy Lovorn, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Allan H. MacDonald, Emanuel Tutuc, and Brian J. LeRoy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 037702 (2018) - Published 17 July, 2018