Volume 121, Issue 7

17 August 2018

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Aharonov-Bohm caging for light in a periodically modulated photonic lattice.

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Experimental Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Cages in Photonic Lattices
Sebabrata Mukherjee, Marco Di Liberto, Patrik Öhberg, Robert R. Thomson, and Nathan Goldman
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075502 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Quantum Walk in Momentum Space with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Siamak Dadras, Alexander Gresch, Caspar Groiseau, Sandro Wimberger, and Gil S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070402 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

By manipulating the momenta of ultracold atoms, researchers demonstrate a quantum walk—a potential ingredient for quantum search algorithms.

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In Situ Observations of Preferential Pickup Ion Heating at an Interplanetary Shock

E. J. Zirnstein, D. J. McComas, R. Kumar, H. A. Elliott, J. R. Szalay, C. B. Olkin, J. Spencer, S. A. Stern, and L. A. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075102 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Measurements made by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show that shockwaves in the solar wind transfer significant energy to ionized interstellar atoms, confirming a decades-old prediction.

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Electrical Control of the Zeeman Spin Splitting in Two-Dimensional Hole Systems

E. Marcellina, A. Srinivasan, D. S. Miserev, A. F. Croxall, D. A. Ritchie, I. Farrer, O. P. Sushkov, Dimitrie Culcer, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077701 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Using a new “all-electric” technique, researchers triple the energy gap between the two spin states of holes in a 2D quantum well.

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Hexapartite Entanglement in an above-Threshold Optical Parametric Oscillator

F. A. S. Barbosa, A. S. Coelho, L. F. Muñoz-Martínez, L. Ortiz-Gutiérrez, A. S. Villar, P. Nussenzveig, and M. Martinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073601 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Researchers have entangled six modes of a laser cavity—a record number for such a device.

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Two-Dimensional Solar Wind Speeds from 6 to 26 Solar Radii in Solar Cycle 24 by Using Fourier Filtering

Il-Hyun Cho, Yong-Jae Moon, Valery M. Nakariakov, Su-Chan Bong, Jin-Yi Lee, Donguk Song, Harim Lee, and Kyung-Suk Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075101 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Maps of solar wind velocities derived from satellite images of the Sun’s corona could help researchers improve solar wind models.

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Renormalization Group in Field Theories with Quantum Quenched Disorder

Vladimir Narovlansky and Ofer Aharony

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071601 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Renormalization group analysis is applied to uncover several general features of quantum field theories with disorder, including the existence of a new critical exponent.

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Revealing the Nature of the Ultrafast Magnetic Phase Transition in Ni by Correlating Extreme Ultraviolet Magneto-Optic and Photoemission Spectroscopies

Wenjing You, Phoebe Tengdin, Cong Chen, Xun Shi, Dmitriy Zusin, Yingchao Zhang, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Mark Keller, Peter M. Oppeneer, Henry Kapteyn, Zhensheng Tao, and Margaret Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077204 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

The combination of two different ultrafast spectroscopic techniques shows that laser-induced demagnetization is a genuine magnetic phase transition.

LETTERS

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

Steady-State Coherences by Composite System-Bath Interactions

Giacomo Guarnieri, Michal Kolář, and Radim Filip

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070401 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

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Quantum Walk in Momentum Space with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Siamak Dadras, Alexander Gresch, Caspar Groiseau, Sandro Wimberger, and Gil S. Summy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070402 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

By manipulating the momenta of ultracold atoms, researchers demonstrate a quantum walk—a potential ingredient for quantum search algorithms.

Robust Spin Squeezing via Photon-Mediated Interactions on an Optical Clock Transition

Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R. K. Cline, James K. Thompson, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070403 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

Probabilistic Distillation of Quantum Coherence

Kun Fang, Xin Wang, Ludovico Lami, Bartosz Regula, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070404 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Speed Limit for Classical Stochastic Processes

Naoto Shiraishi, Ken Funo, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 070601 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Sub-GeV Dark Matter Shining at Future MeV $γ$ -Ray Telescopes

Francesco D’Eramo and Stefano Profumo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071101 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Testing Gravitational Memory Generation with Compact Binary Mergers

Huan Yang and Denis Martynov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071102 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Excitation of an Atom by a Uniformly Accelerated Mirror through Virtual Transitions

Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Jonathan S. Ben-Benjamin, Stephen A. Fulling, and Don N. Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071301 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Renormalization Group in Field Theories with Quantum Quenched Disorder

Vladimir Narovlansky and Ofer Aharony

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071601 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Renormalization group analysis is applied to uncover several general features of quantum field theories with disorder, including the existence of a new critical exponent.

Dynamics of Finite-Temperature Conformal Field Theories from Operator Product Expansion Inversion Formulas

Anastasios C. Petkou and Andreas Stergiou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071602 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Traintracks through Calabi-Yau Manifolds: Scattering Amplitudes beyond Elliptic Polylogarithms

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Yang-Hui He, Andrew J. McLeod, Matt von Hippel, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071603 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

First Results from the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search with Argon at SNOLAB

P.-A. Amaudruz et al. (DEAP-3600 Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 071801 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Weak Decay of Magnetized Pions

G. S. Bali, B. B. Brandt, G. Endrődi, and B. Gläßle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 072001 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Observation of a New $Ξ_{b}^{-}$ Resonance

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 072002 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Three-Loop Quark Jet Function

Robin Brüser, Ze Long Liu, and Maximilian Stahlhofen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 072003 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Correlations imposed by the unitary limit between few-nucleon systems, nuclear matter, and neutron stars

A. Kievsky, M. Viviani, D. Logoteta, I. Bombaci, and L. Girlanda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 072701 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonadiabatic Relativistic Correction to the Dissociation Energy of $H_{2}$ , $D_{2}$ , and HD

Mariusz Puchalski, Anna Spyszkiewicz, Jacek Komasa, and Krzysztof Pachucki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073001 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Energy Transfer into Molecular Vibrations and Rotations by Recoil in Inner-Shell Photoemission

E. Kukk, T. D. Thomas, D. Céolin, S. Granroth, O. Travnikova, M. Berholts, T. Marchenko, R. Guillemin, L. Journel, I. Ismail, R. Püttner, M. N. Piancastelli, K. Ueda, and M. Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073002 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Theory of Molecular Vibrational Zeeman Effects as Measured with Circular Dichroism

Timothy A. Keiderling and Petr Bouř

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073201 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Observation of Quantum Interference and Coherent Control in a Photochemical Reaction

David B. Blasing, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, Yangqian Yan, Sourav Dutta, Chuan-Hsun Li, Qi Zhou, and Yong P. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073202 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

Heteronuclear Limit of Strong-Field Ionization: Fragmentation of ${HeH}^{+}$ by Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Philipp Wustelt, Florian Oppermann, Lun Yue, Max Möller, Thomas Stöhlker, Manfred Lein, Stefanie Gräfe, Gerhard G. Paulus, and A. Max Sayler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073203 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

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Hexapartite Entanglement in an above-Threshold Optical Parametric Oscillator

F. A. S. Barbosa, A. S. Coelho, L. F. Muñoz-Martínez, L. Ortiz-Gutiérrez, A. S. Villar, P. Nussenzveig, and M. Martinelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073601 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Researchers have entangled six modes of a laser cavity—a record number for such a device.

Frozen Condition of Quantum Coherence for Atoms on a Stationary Trajectory

Anwei Zhang, Keye Zhang, Lan Zhou, and Weiping Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073602 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Observation of Extra Photon Recoil in a Distorted Optical Field

Satyanarayana Bade, Lionel Djadaojee, Manuel Andia, Pierre Cladé, and Saïda Guellati-Khelifa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073603 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

Long-Range Interactions and Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Gases through Optical Feedback

Yong-Chang Zhang, Valentin Walther, and Thomas Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073604 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Incident Direction Independent Wave Propagation and Unidirectional Lasing

L. Jin and Z. Song

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 073901 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Resonance Eigenfunction Hypothesis for Chaotic Systems

Konstantin Clauß, Martin J. Körber, Arnd Bäcker, and Roland Ketzmerick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 074101 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Orbital Angular Momentum Transfer to Stably Trapped Elastic Particles in Acoustical Vortex Beams

Diego Baresch, Jean-Louis Thomas, and Régis Marchiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 074301 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Reversible Self-Assembly (fcc-bct) Crystallization of Confined Granular Spheres via a Shear Dimensionality Mechanism

D. A. Morales-Barrera, G. Rodríguez-Gattorno, and O. Carvente

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 074302 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

$γ$ -Ray Beams with Large Orbital Angular Momentum via Nonlinear Compton Scattering with Radiation Reaction

Yue-Yue Chen, Jian-Xing Li, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 074801 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Energy-Chirp Compensation in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator

A. Döpp, C. Thaury, E. Guillaume, F. Massimo, A. Lifschitz, I. Andriyash, J.-P. Goddet, A. Tazfi, K. Ta Phuoc, and V. Malka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 074802 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

$E \times B$ Flux Driven Detachment Bifurcation in the DIII-D Tokamak

A. E. Jaervinen, S. L. Allen, D. Eldon, M. E. Fenstermacher, M. Groth, D. N. Hill, A. W. Leonard, A. G. McLean, G. D. Porter, T. D. Rognlien, C. M. Samuell, and H. Q. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075001 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Interatomic Potential in the Nonequilibrium Warm Dense Matter Regime

Z. Chen, M. Mo, L. Soulard, V. Recoules, P. Hering, Y. Y. Tsui, S. H. Glenzer, and A. Ng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075002 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Thermoacoustic Instability in Two-Dimensional Fluid Complex Plasmas

Nikita P. Kryuchkov, Egor V. Yakovlev, Evgeny A. Gorbunov, Lenaic Couëdel, Andrey M. Lipaev, and Stanislav O. Yurchenko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075003 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

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Two-Dimensional Solar Wind Speeds from 6 to 26 Solar Radii in Solar Cycle 24 by Using Fourier Filtering

Il-Hyun Cho, Yong-Jae Moon, Valery M. Nakariakov, Su-Chan Bong, Jin-Yi Lee, Donguk Song, Harim Lee, and Kyung-Suk Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075101 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Maps of solar wind velocities derived from satellite images of the Sun’s corona could help researchers improve solar wind models.

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In Situ Observations of Preferential Pickup Ion Heating at an Interplanetary Shock

E. J. Zirnstein, D. J. McComas, R. Kumar, H. A. Elliott, J. R. Szalay, C. B. Olkin, J. Spencer, S. A. Stern, and L. A. Young

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075102 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Measurements made by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show that shockwaves in the solar wind transfer significant energy to ionized interstellar atoms, confirming a decades-old prediction.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Screening Lengths in Ionic Fluids

Fabian Coupette, Alpha A. Lee, and Andreas Härtel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075501 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Experimental Observation of Aharonov-Bohm Cages in Photonic Lattices

Sebabrata Mukherjee, Marco Di Liberto, Patrik Öhberg, Robert R. Thomson, and Nathan Goldman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075502 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

Absence of Hyperuniformity in Amorphous Hard-Sphere Packings of Nonvanishing Complexity

M. J. Godfrey and M. A. Moore

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 075503 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Unusual Proton Transfer Kinetics in Water at the Temperature of Maximum Density

Emilia V. Silletta, Mark E. Tuckerman, and Alexej Jerschow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 076001 (2018) - Published 13 August, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Influence of Spin-Orbit Coupling in Iron-Based Superconductors

R. P. Day, G. Levy, M. Michiardi, B. Zwartsenberg, M. Zonno, F. Ji, E. Razzoli, F. Boschini, S. Chi, R. Liang, P. K. Das, I. Vobornik, J. Fujii, W. N. Hardy, D. A. Bonn, I. S. Elfimov, and A. Damascelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 076401 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Scattering Approach to Anderson Localization

A. Ossipov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 076601 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Spin Lifetime and Charge Noise in Hot Silicon Quantum Dot Qubits

L. Petit, J. M. Boter, H. G. J. Eenink, G. Droulers, M. L. V. Tagliaferri, R. Li, D. P. Franke, K. J. Singh, J. S. Clarke, R. N. Schouten, V. V. Dobrovitski, L. M. K. Vandersypen, and M. Veldhorst

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 076801 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Central Charge of Periodically Driven Critical Kitaev Chains

Daniel Yates, Yonah Lemonik, and Aditi Mitra

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 076802 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Collapse of Critical Nematic Fluctuations in FeSe under Pressure

Pierre Massat, Yundi Quan, Romain Grasset, Marie-Aude Méasson, Maximilien Cazayous, Alain Sacuto, Sandra Karlsson, Pierre Strobel, Pierre Toulemonde, Zhiping Yin, and Yann Gallais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077001 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Temperature Controlled Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Instability in Superconductor-Ferromagnet Hybrids

S. V. Mironov, D. Yu. Vodolazov, Y. Yerin, A. V. Samokhvalov, A. S. Mel’nikov, and A. Buzdin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077002 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Magnetic Exchange Fields and Domain Wall Superconductivity at an All-Oxide Superconductor-Ferromagnet Insulator Interface

S. Komori, A. Di Bernardo, A. I. Buzdin, M. G. Blamire, and J. W. A. Robinson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077003 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Three-Dimensional Fermi Surface of Overdoped La-Based Cuprates

M. Horio et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077004 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Dynamical Signature of Symmetry Fractionalization in Frustrated Magnets

Guang-Yu Sun, Yan-Cheng Wang, Chen Fang, Yang Qi, Meng Cheng, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077201 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Diagnosing Fractionalization from the Spin Dynamics of $Z_{2}$ Spin Liquids on the Kagome Lattice by Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Jonas Becker and Stefan Wessel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077202 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

From Kinetic Instability to Bose-Einstein Condensation and Magnon Supercurrents

Alexander J. E. Kreil, Dmytro A. Bozhko, Halyna Yu. Musiienko-Shmarova, Vitaliy I. Vasyuchka, Victor S. L’vov, Anna Pomyalov, Burkard Hillebrands, and Alexander A. Serga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077203 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Revealing the Nature of the Ultrafast Magnetic Phase Transition in Ni by Correlating Extreme Ultraviolet Magneto-Optic and Photoemission Spectroscopies

Wenjing You, Phoebe Tengdin, Cong Chen, Xun Shi, Dmitriy Zusin, Yingchao Zhang, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Mark Keller, Peter M. Oppeneer, Henry Kapteyn, Zhensheng Tao, and Margaret Murnane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077204 (2018) - Published 16 August, 2018

The combination of two different ultrafast spectroscopic techniques shows that laser-induced demagnetization is a genuine magnetic phase transition.

Distinctive Picosecond Spin Polarization Dynamics in Bulk Half Metals

M. Battiato, J. Minár, W. Wang, W. Ndiaye, M. C. Richter, O. Heckmann, J.-M. Mariot, F. Parmigiani, K. Hricovini, and C. Cacho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077205 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Single-Site Non-Fermi-Liquid Behaviors in a Diluted $4 f^{2}$ System $Y_{1 - x} \Pr_{x} {Ir}_{2} {Zn}_{20}$

Y. Yamane, T. Onimaru, K. Wakiya, K. T. Matsumoto, K. Umeo, and T. Takabatake

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077206 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electrical Control of the Zeeman Spin Splitting in Two-Dimensional Hole Systems

E. Marcellina, A. Srinivasan, D. S. Miserev, A. F. Croxall, D. A. Ritchie, I. Farrer, O. P. Sushkov, Dimitrie Culcer, and A. R. Hamilton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 077701 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Using a new “all-electric” technique, researchers triple the energy gap between the two spin states of holes in a 2D quantum well.

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

Probing the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Catalytic Janus Particles with Single-Particle Tracking and Differential Dynamic Microscopy

Christina Kurzthaler, Clémence Devailly, Jochen Arlt, Thomas Franosch, Wilson C. K. Poon, Vincent A. Martinez, and Aidan T. Brown

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 078001 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Order-Disorder Structural Transitions in Mazes Built by Evaporating Drops

P. Panizza, H. Algaba, M. Postic, G. Raffy, L. Courbin, and F. Artzner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 078002 (2018) - Published 15 August, 2018

Memory-Induced Transition from a Persistent Random Walk to Circular Motion for Achiral Microswimmers

N Narinder, Clemens Bechinger, and Juan Ruben Gomez-Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 078003 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

Robustness of Clocks to Input Noise

Michele Monti, David K. Lubensky, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 078101 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Tank Circuit for Ultrafast Single-Particle Detection in Micropores

Abhishek Bhat, Paul V. Gwozdz, Arjun Seshadri, Marcel Hoeft, and Robert H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 078102 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Rotationally Cold ${OH}^{-}$ Ions in the Cryogenic Electrostatic Ion-Beam Storage Ring DESIREE [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 073001 (2017)]

H. T. Schmidt, G. Eklund, K. C. Chartkunchand, E. K. Anderson, M. Kamińska, N. de Ruette, R. D. Thomas, M. K. Kristiansson, M. Gatchell, P. Reinhed, S. Rosén, A. Simonsson, A. Källberg, P. Löfgren, S. Mannervik, H. Zettergren, and H. Cederquist

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 079901 (2018) - Published 14 August, 2018

Erratum: Off-Shell Higgs Probe of Naturalness [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 111801 (2018)]

Dorival Gonçalves, Tao Han, and Satyanarayan Mukhopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 079902 (2018) - Published 17 August, 2018