Volume 121, Issue 9

31 August 2018

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Large-scale STM image of a cleaved Fe₃Sn₂ surface with two different surface layers: Fe-Sn (yellow) and Sn (red). Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Flatbands and Emergent Ferromagnetic Ordering in ${Fe}_{3} {Sn}_{2}$ Kagome Lattices
Zhiyong Lin, Jin-Ho Choi, Qiang Zhang, Wei Qin, Seho Yi, Pengdong Wang, Lin Li, Yifan Wang, Hui Zhang, Zhe Sun, Laiming Wei, Shengbai Zhang, Tengfei Guo, Qingyou Lu, Jun-Hyung Cho, Changgan Zeng, and Zhenyu Zhang
Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096401 (2018)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tilted Electron Pulses

Dominik Ehberger, Andrey Ryabov, and Peter Baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 094801 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

By crossing an electron beam with a terahertz light pulse, researchers are able to generate a tilted electron bunch, which could provide improved temporal resolution to electron microscopy.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Indefinite Causal Order in a Quantum Switch

K. Goswami, C. Giarmatzi, M. Kewming, F. Costa, C. Branciard, J. Romero, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090503 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

A photonic quantum switch between a pair of operations is constructed such that the causal order of operations cannot be distinguished, even in principle.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modulation Instability Induced Frequency Comb Generation in a Continuously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator

S. Mosca, M. Parisi, I. Ricciardi, F. Leo, T. Hansson, M. Erkintalo, P. Maddaloni, P. De Natale, S. Wabnitz, and M. De Rosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093903 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Shining a laser on an optical parametric oscillator can extend the generation of optical frequency combs into the elusive mid-infrared region.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flatbands and Emergent Ferromagnetic Ordering in ${Fe}_{3} {Sn}_{2}$ Kagome Lattices

Zhiyong Lin, Jin-Ho Choi, Qiang Zhang, Wei Qin, Seho Yi, Pengdong Wang, Lin Li, Yifan Wang, Hui Zhang, Zhe Sun, Laiming Wei, Shengbai Zhang, Tengfei Guo, Qingyou Lu, Jun-Hyung Cho, Changgan Zeng, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096401 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Evidence for flat-band physics near the Fermi level is attributed to the local destructive interference of Bloch wave functions within a kagome lattice.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Full Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Disks: From Melting to Motility-Induced Phase Separation

Pasquale Digregorio, Demian Levis, Antonio Suma, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Giuseppe Gonnella, and Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 098003 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

The phase diagram of two-dimensional active Brownian hard disks shows that interactions between the particles are key to determining the melting behavior of this system.

LETTERS

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

Topology of One-Dimensional Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium

Max McGinley and Nigel R. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090401 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Strongly Correlated Bosons on a Dynamical Lattice

Daniel González-Cuadra, Przemysław R. Grzybowski, Alexandre Dauphin, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090402 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Monogamy of Particle Statistics in Tripartite Systems Simulating Bosons and Fermions

Marcin Karczewski, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, and Paweł Kurzyński

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090403 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Damping of Josephson Oscillations in Strongly Correlated One-Dimensional Atomic Gases

J. Polo, V. Ahufinger, F. W. J. Hekking, and A. Minguzzi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090404 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Quantum-Limited Time-Frequency Estimation through Mode-Selective Photon Measurement

J. M. Donohue, V. Ansari, J. Řeháček, Z. Hradil, B. Stoklasa, M. Paúr, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, and C. Silberhorn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090501 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Fluctuations of Energy-Relaxation Times in Superconducting Qubits

P. V. Klimov et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090502 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Indefinite Causal Order in a Quantum Switch

K. Goswami, C. Giarmatzi, M. Kewming, F. Costa, C. Branciard, J. Romero, and A. G. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090503 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

A photonic quantum switch between a pair of operations is constructed such that the causal order of operations cannot be distinguished, even in principle.

Arcsine Laws in Stochastic Thermodynamics

Andre C. Barato, Édgar Roldán, Ignacio A. Martínez, and Simone Pigolotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090601 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Anomalous Scaling of Dynamical Large Deviations

Daniel Nickelsen and Hugo Touchette

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090602 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Quasiparticles in Quantum Spin Chains with Long-Range Interactions

Laurens Vanderstraeten, Maarten Van Damme, Hans Peter Büchler, and Frank Verstraete

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 090603 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Effect of Cosmic Rays on the Evolution and Momentum Deposition of Supernova Remnants

Rebecca Diesing and Damiano Caprioli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091101 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Tidal Deformabilities and Radii of Neutron Stars from the Observation of GW170817

Soumi De, Daniel Finstad, James M. Lattimer, Duncan A. Brown, Edo Berger, and Christopher M. Biwer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091102 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Monodromy Inflation in the Strong Coupling Regime of the Effective Field Theory

Guido D’Amico, Nemanja Kaloper, and Albion Lawrence

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091301 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Elementary Particles and Fields

Standard Model Fermions and Infinite-Dimensional $R$ Symmetries

Krzysztof A. Meissner and Hermann Nicolai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091601 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Measurement of Angular and $C P$ Asymmetries in $D^{0} \to π^{+} π^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ and $D^{0} \to K^{+} K^{-} μ^{+} μ^{-}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091801 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction in the Sub-meV Range of Axion Mass with a Spin-Exchange Relaxation-Free Magnetometer

Young Jin Kim, Ping-Han Chu, and Igor Savukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 091802 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Measurement of the Soft-Drop Jet Mass in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

M. Aaboud et al. (The ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 092001 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Observation of the $χ_{b 1} (3 P)$ and $χ_{b 2} (3 P)$ and Measurement of their Masses

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 092002 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Measurement of the $Ω_{c}^{0}$ Baryon Lifetime

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 092003 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Nuclear Physics

Center of Mass Motion of Short-Range Correlated Nucleon Pairs studied via the $A (e, e^{'} p p)$ Reaction

E. O. Cohen et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 092501 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Spatial-Translation-Induced Discrete Time Crystals

Kaoru Mizuta, Kazuaki Takasan, Masaya Nakagawa, and Norio Kawakami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093001 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Laser-Based Metastable Krypton Generation

M. A. Dakka, G. Tsiminis, R. D. Glover, C. Perrella, J. Moffatt, N. A. Spooner, R. T. Sang, P. S. Light, and A. N. Luiten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093201 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Rotation-Symmetry-Enforced Coupling of Spin and Angular Momentum for $p$ -Orbital Bosons

Yongqiang Li, Jianmin Yuan, Andreas Hemmerich, and Xiaopeng Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093401 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

High-Sensitivity rf Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas

Constantine Shkedrov, Yanay Florshaim, Gal Ness, Andrey Gandman, and Yoav Sagi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093402 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Localization Transition for Light Scattering by Cold Atoms in an External Magnetic Field

S. E. Skipetrov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093601 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Realization of a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas of Dipolar Atoms

S. Baier, D. Petter, J. H. Becher, A. Patscheider, G. Natale, L. Chomaz, M. J. Mark, and F. Ferlaino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093602 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Hectometer Revivals of Quantum Interference

Markus Rambach, W. Y. Sarah Lau, Simon Laibacher, Vincenzo Tamma, Andrew G. White, and Till J. Weinhold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093603 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Topological Waveguiding near an Exceptional Point: Defect-Immune, Slow-Light, and Loss-Immune Propagation

S. Ali Hassani Gangaraj and Francesco Monticone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093901 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Twin-Image-Free Holography: A Compressive Sensing Approach

Wenhui Zhang, Liangcai Cao, David J. Brady, Hua Zhang, Ji Cang, Hao Zhang, and Guofan Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093902 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modulation Instability Induced Frequency Comb Generation in a Continuously Pumped Optical Parametric Oscillator

S. Mosca, M. Parisi, I. Ricciardi, F. Leo, T. Hansson, M. Erkintalo, P. Maddaloni, P. De Natale, S. Wabnitz, and M. De Rosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 093903 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Shining a laser on an optical parametric oscillator can extend the generation of optical frequency combs into the elusive mid-infrared region.

Edge Modes and Asymmetric Wave Transport in Topological Lattices: Experimental Characterization at Finite Frequencies

Jihong Ma, Di Zhou, Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao, and Stefano Gonella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 094301 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Equilibrium Shapes and Their Stability for Liquid Films in Fast Flows

Likhit Ganedi, Anand U. Oza, Michael Shelley, and Leif Ristroph

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 094501 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Tilted Electron Pulses

Dominik Ehberger, Andrey Ryabov, and Peter Baum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 094801 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

By crossing an electron beam with a terahertz light pulse, researchers are able to generate a tilted electron bunch, which could provide improved temporal resolution to electron microscopy.

Biermann-Battery-Mediated Magnetic Reconnection in 3D Colliding Plasmas

J. Matteucci, W. Fox, A. Bhattacharjee, D. B. Schaeffer, C. Moissard, K. Germaschewski, G. Fiksel, and S. X. Hu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 095001 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Developing an Experimental Basis for Understanding Transport in NIF Hohlraum Plasmas

M. A. Barrios, J. D. Moody, L. J. Suter, M. Sherlock, H. Chen, W. Farmer, J. Jaquez, O. Jones, R. L. Kauffman, J. D. Kilkenny, J. Kroll, O. L. Landen, D. A. Liedahl, S. A. Maclaren, N. B. Meezan, A. Nikroo, M. B. Schneider, D. B. Thorn, K. Widmann, and G. Pérez-Callejo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 095002 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Relaxation and Metastability of Lattice Bosons with Cavity-Induced Long-Range Interactions

Benjamin Blaß, Heiko Rieger, Gergő Roósz, and Ferenc Iglói

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 095301 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Dynamical Critical Exponents in Driven-Dissipative Quantum Systems

P. Comaron, G. Dagvadorj, A. Zamora, I. Carusotto, N. P. Proukakis, and M. H. Szymańska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 095302 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Magnetosensitivity in Dipolarly Coupled Three-Spin Systems

Robert H. Keens, Salil Bedkihal, and Daniel R. Kattnig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096001 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Cavity Formation in Confined Growing Crystals

Felix Kohler, Luca Gagliardi, Olivier Pierre-Louis, and Dag Kristian Dysthe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096101 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Flatbands and Emergent Ferromagnetic Ordering in ${Fe}_{3} {Sn}_{2}$ Kagome Lattices

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096401 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Evidence for flat-band physics near the Fermi level is attributed to the local destructive interference of Bloch wave functions within a kagome lattice.

Thermal Conductivity and Electrical Resistivity of Solid Iron at Earth’s Core Conditions from First Principles

Junqing Xu, Peng Zhang, K. Haule, Jan Minar, Sebastian Wimmer, Hubert Ebert, and R. E. Cohen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096601 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Thermally Driven Out-of-Equilibrium Two-Impurity Kondo System

Miguel A. Sierra, Rosa López, and Jong Soo Lim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096801 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Topological Transitions Induced by Antiferromagnetism in a Thin-Film Topological Insulator

Qing Lin He, Gen Yin, Luyan Yu, Alexander J. Grutter, Lei Pan, Chui-Zhen Chen, Xiaoyu Che, Guoqiang Yu, Bin Zhang, Qiming Shao, Alexander L. Stern, Brian Casas, Jing Xia, Xiaodong Han, Brian J. Kirby, Roger K. Lake, K. T. Law, and Kang L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096802 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Majorana Corner Modes in a High-Temperature Platform

Zhongbo Yan, Fei Song, and Zhong Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 096803 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Effects of Lifshitz Transitions in Ferromagnetic Superconductors: The Case of URhGe

Yury Sherkunov, Andrey V. Chubukov, and Joseph J. Betouras

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097001 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Emergent $SU (4)$ Symmetry in $α − {ZrCl}_{3}$ and Crystalline Spin-Orbital Liquids

Masahiko G. Yamada, Masaki Oshikawa, and George Jackeli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097201 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Monopole-Induced Emergent Electric Fields in Ferromagnetic Nanowires

Michalis Charilaou, Hans-Benjamin Braun, and Jörg F. Löffler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097202 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Spin Thermal Hall Conductivity of a Kagome Antiferromagnet

Hayato Doki, Masatoshi Akazawa, Hyun-Yong Lee, Jung Hoon Han, Kaori Sugii, Masaaki Shimozawa, Naoki Kawashima, Migaku Oda, Hiroyuki Yoshida, and Minoru Yamashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097203 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Theory of the Topological Spin Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic Skyrmions: Impact on Current-Induced Motion

C. A. Akosa, O. A. Tretiakov, G. Tatara, and A. Manchon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097204 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Rydberg Excitons in the Presence of an Ultralow-Density Electron-Hole Plasma

J. Heckötter, M. Freitag, D. Fröhlich, M. Aßmann, M. Bayer, P. Grünwald, F. Schöne, D. Semkat, H. Stolz, and S. Scheel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097401 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

Ultrafast Modification of Hubbard $U$ in a Strongly Correlated Material: Ab initio High-Harmonic Generation in NiO

Nicolas Tancogne-Dejean, Michael A. Sentef, and Angel Rubio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097402 (2018) - Published 30 August, 2018

Weak-link Josephson Junctions Made from Topological Crystalline Insulators

R. A. Snyder, C. J. Trimble, C. C. Rong, P. A. Folkes, P. J. Taylor, and J. R. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097701 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

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

Elementary Edge and Screw Dislocations Visualized at the Lattice Periodicity Level in the Smectic Phase of Colloidal Rods

Andrii Repula and Eric Grelet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 097801 (2018) - Published 27 August, 2018

Structural Nonequilibrium Forces in Driven Colloidal Systems

Nex C. X. Stuhlmüller, Tobias Eckert, Daniel de las Heras, and Matthias Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 098002 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Full Phase Diagram of Active Brownian Disks: From Melting to Motility-Induced Phase Separation

Pasquale Digregorio, Demian Levis, Antonio Suma, Leticia F. Cugliandolo, Giuseppe Gonnella, and Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 098003 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

The phase diagram of two-dimensional active Brownian hard disks shows that interactions between the particles are key to determining the melting behavior of this system.

Frequency- and Amplitude-Dependent Microbial Population Dynamics during Cycles of Feast and Famine

Jason Merritt and Seppe Kuehn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 098101 (2018) - Published 28 August, 2018

Characterizing the Analogy Between Hyperbolic Embedding and Community Structure of Complex Networks

Ali Faqeeh, Saeed Osat, and Filippo Radicchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 098301 (2018) - Published 29 August, 2018

ERRATA

Erratum: Prediction for a Four-Neutron Resonance [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 182502 (2016)]

A. M. Shirokov, G. Papadimitriou, A. I. Mazur, I. A. Mazur, R. Roth, and J. P. Vary

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 099901 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018

Erratum: Persistence of the $Z = 28$ Shell Gap Around ${}^{78}{Ni}$ : First Spectroscopy of ${}^{79}{Cu}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 192501 (2017)]

L. Olivier et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 099902 (2018) - Published 31 August, 2018