Volume 122, Issue 1

11 January 2019

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Snapshot of two spiral curtains formed at a downward-facing free surface of a horizontal liquid film. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and a Synopsis in Physics.

From the article:

Inwardly Rotating Spirals in a Nonoscillatory Medium
Harunori N. Yoshikawa, Christian Mathis, Shu Satoh, and Yuji Tasaka
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014502 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of Acoustic Chern Insulators

Yujiang Ding, Yugui Peng, Yifan Zhu, Xudong Fan, Jing Yang, Bin Liang, Xuefeng Zhu, Xiangang Wan, and Jianchun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014302 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

An array of air channels behaves as an “acoustic Chern insulator” in which sound waves travel only around the edges and only in one direction.

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Inwardly Rotating Spirals in a Nonoscillatory Medium

Harunori N. Yoshikawa, Christian Mathis, Shu Satoh, and Yuji Tasaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014502 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Liquid falling from a horizontal film displays an intriguing pattern of inwardly rotating spirals.

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Generation of High-Power, Reversed-Cherenkov Wakefield Radiation in a Metamaterial Structure

Xueying Lu, Michael A. Shapiro, Ivan Mastovsky, Richard J. Temkin, Manoel Conde, John G. Power, Jiahang Shao, Eric E. Wisniewski, and Chunguang Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014801 (2019) - Published 7 January, 2019

An experiment reveals the potential of custom-engineered metamaterials to yield higher accelerating gradients than current particle accelerator technology allows.

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Failure of Conductance Quantization in Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators due to Nonmagnetic Impurities

Pietro Novelli, Fabio Taddei, Andre K. Geim, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016601 (2019) - Published 2 January, 2019

Theorists predict that backscattering of electrons by nonmagnetic impurities can disrupt current flow in a 2D topological insulator, in agreement with experiments.

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High-Frequency Mechanical Properties of Tumors Measured by Brillouin Light Scattering

Jérémie Margueritat, Angélique Virgone-Carlotta, Sylvain Monnier, Hélène Delanoë-Ayari, Hichem C. Mertani, Alice Berthelot, Quentin Martinet, Xavier Dagany, Charlotte Rivière, Jean-Paul Rieu, and Thomas Dehoux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 018101 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

A new experiment uses a light probe to measure the mechanical response of a tumor, which provides information about its anatomy and the efficacy of therapeutic agents.

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Shooting Rubber Bands: Two Self-Similar Retractions for a Stretched Elastic Wedge

Alexandros T. Oratis and James C. Bird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014102 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Videos of a moving rubber band show that the band takes on previously unpredicted wavy shapes when it is shot through the air.

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Observation of Stimulated Hawking Radiation in an Optical Analogue

Jonathan Drori, Yuval Rosenberg, David Bermudez, Yaron Silberberg, and Ulf Leonhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010404 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

An optical analogue of stimulated Hawking radiation is observed in nonlinear fiber optics used as a laboratory analogue of black holes.

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Photon-Mediated Spin-Exchange Dynamics of Spin-1 Atoms

Emily J. Davis, Gregory Bentsen, Lukas Homeier, Tracy Li, and Monika H. Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010405 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Spin dynamics induced by nonlocal interactions are imaged for the first time in a system of cold atoms trapped in an optical cavity.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Difficult is it to Prepare a Quantum State?

Davide Girolami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010505 (2019) - Published 11 January, 2019

A key computational resource to prepare a quantum system in a target state, an important subroutine of quantum information protocols, is identified and quantified.

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Temperature Rise Associated with Adiabatic Shear Band: Causality Clarified

Yazhou Guo, Qichao Ruan, Shengxin Zhu, Q. Wei, Haosen Chen, Jianan Lu, Bo Hu, Xihui Wu, Yulong Li, and Daining Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015503 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

High speed photography and thermometry answer whether shear bands, the localized deformation of metals under extreme strain, are caused by heat or cause heat themselves.

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Phonon Spectroscopy at Atomic Resolution

F. S. Hage, D. M. Kepaptsoglou, Q. M. Ramasse, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016103 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Phonon spectroscopy at atomic resolution is demonstrated with scanning transmission electron microscopy.

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Interplay between Adsorbates and Polarons: CO on Rutile ${TiO}_{2} (110)$

Michele Reticcioli, Igor Sokolović, Michael Schmid, Ulrike Diebold, Martin Setvin, and Cesare Franchini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016805 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

By taking into account interactions with polarons, ambiguities in previous studies of adsorbed carbon monoxide can be resolved.

LETTERS

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

Integrable Quantum Dynamics of Open Collective Spin Models

Pedro Ribeiro and Tomaž Prosen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010401 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Transport in Floquet-Bloch Bands

C. J. Fujiwara, Kevin Singh, Zachary A. Geiger, Ruwan Senaratne, Shankari V. Rajagopal, Mikhail Lipatov, and David M. Weld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010402 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Strong Quantum Darwinism and Strong Independence are Equivalent to Spectrum Broadcast Structure

Thao P. Le and Alexandra Olaya-Castro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010403 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Stimulated Hawking Radiation in an Optical Analogue

Jonathan Drori, Yuval Rosenberg, David Bermudez, Yaron Silberberg, and Ulf Leonhardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010404 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

An optical analogue of stimulated Hawking radiation is observed in nonlinear fiber optics used as a laboratory analogue of black holes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Photon-Mediated Spin-Exchange Dynamics of Spin-1 Atoms

Emily J. Davis, Gregory Bentsen, Lukas Homeier, Tracy Li, and Monika H. Schleier-Smith

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010405 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Spin dynamics induced by nonlocal interactions are imaged for the first time in a system of cold atoms trapped in an optical cavity.

Interacting Hofstadter Interface

Bernhard Irsigler, Jun-Hui Zheng, and Walter Hofstetter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010406 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Modulated Continuous Wave Control for Energy-Efficient Electron-Nuclear Spin Coupling

J. Casanova, E. Torrontegui, M. B. Plenio, J. J. García-Ripoll, and E. Solano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010407 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Uniaxial Dynamical Decoupling for an Open Quantum System

Qi Yao, Jun Zhang, Xiao-Feng Yi, Li You, and Wenxian Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010408 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Simulation and Manipulation of Tunable Weyl-Semimetal Bands Using Superconducting Quantum Circuits

Xinsheng Tan, Y. X. Zhao, Qiang Liu, Guangming Xue, Hai-Feng Yu, Z. D. Wang, and Yang Yu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010501 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

State Exchange with Quantum Side Information

Yonghae Lee, Ryuji Takagi, Hayata Yamasaki, Gerardo Adesso, and Soojoon Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010502 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Experimental Realization of Robust Geometric Quantum Gates with Solid-State Spins

Y.-Y. Huang, Y.-K. Wu, F. Wang, P.-Y. Hou, W.-B. Wang, W.-G. Zhang, W.-Q. Lian, Y.-Q. Liu, H.-Y. Wang, H.-Y. Zhang, L. He, X.-Y. Chang, Y. Xu, and L.-M. Duan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010503 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Nanowire Superinductance Fluxonium Qubit

T. M. Hazard, A. Gyenis, A. Di Paolo, A. T. Asfaw, S. A. Lyon, A. Blais, and A. A. Houck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010504 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

How Difficult is it to Prepare a Quantum State?

Davide Girolami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010505 (2019) - Published 11 January, 2019

A key computational resource to prepare a quantum system in a target state, an important subroutine of quantum information protocols, is identified and quantified.

From Non-Normalizable Boltzmann-Gibbs Statistics to Infinite-Ergodic Theory

Erez Aghion, David A. Kessler, and Eli Barkai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010601 (2019) - Published 3 January, 2019

Asymptotic Prethermalization in Periodically Driven Classical Spin Chains

Owen Howell, Phillip Weinberg, Dries Sels, Anatoli Polkovnikov, and Marin Bukov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 010602 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

High-Accuracy Mass, Spin, and Recoil Predictions of Generic Black-Hole Merger Remnants

Vijay Varma, Davide Gerosa, Leo C. Stein, François Hébert, and Hao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011101 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Combined Search for a Lorentz-Violating Force in Short-Range Gravity Varying as the Inverse Sixth Power of Distance

Cheng-Gang Shao, Ya-Fen Chen, Yu-Jie Tan, Shan-Qing Yang, Jun Luo, Michael Edmund Tobar, J. C. Long, E. Weisman, and V. Alan Kostelecký

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011102 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Parametrizing Theories of Gravity on Large and Small Scales in Cosmology

Timothy Clifton and Viraj A. A. Sanghai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011301 (2019) - Published 2 January, 2019

Stability of de Sitter Spacetime against Infrared Quantum Scalar Field Fluctuations

G. Moreau and J. Serreau

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011302 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Spectrum of Majorana Quantum Mechanics with $O (4)^{3}$ Symmetry

Kiryl Pakrouski, Igor R. Klebanov, Fedor Popov, and Grigory Tarnopolsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011601 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Search for a Light $C P$ -odd Higgs Boson and Low-Mass Dark Matter at the Belle Experiment

I. S. Seong et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011801 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Measurement of the Charm-Mixing Parameter $y_{C P}$

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011802 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Search for Dark Matter Particles Produced in Association with a Top Quark Pair at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011803 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Study of the $D^{0} \to K^{-} μ^{+} ν_{μ}$ Dynamics and Test of Lepton Flavor Universality with $D^{0} \to K^{-} ℓ^{+} ν_{ℓ}$ Decays

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011804 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Importance of Loop Effects in Explaining the Accumulated Evidence for New Physics in $B$ Decays with a Vector Leptoquark

Andreas Crivellin, Christoph Greub, Francesco Saturnino, and Dario Müller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 011805 (2019) - Published 11 January, 2019

Observation of Two Resonances in the $Λ_{b}^{0} π^{\pm}$ Systems and Precise Measurement of $Σ_{b}^{\pm}$ and $Σ_{b}^{* \pm}$ Properties

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 012001 (2019) - Published 11 January, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Diverging Exchange Force and Form of the Exact Density Matrix Functional

Christian Schilling and Rolf Schilling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013001 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Discovery of New Lines in the $R 9$ Multiplet of the $2 v_{3}$ Band of ${}^{12}{C H}_{4}$

H. Lin, L. Yang, X. J. Feng, and J. T. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013002 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Universal Description of the Attoclock with Two-Color Corotating Circular Fields

Peipei Ge, Meng Han, Yongkai Deng, Qihuang Gong, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013201 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Significant Enhancement of $N_{2}^{+}$ Lasing by Polarization-Modulated Ultrashort Laser Pulses

Helong Li, Mengyao Hou, Hongwei Zang, Yao Fu, Erik Lötstedt, Toshiaki Ando, Atsushi Iwasaki, Kaoru Yamanouchi, and Huailiang Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013202 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Accurate in situ Measurement of Ellipticity Based on Subcycle Ionization Dynamics

Chuncheng Wang, Xiaokai Li, Xiang-Ru Xiao, Yizhang Yang, Sizuo Luo, Xitao Yu, Xinpeng Xu, Liang-You Peng, Qihuang Gong, and Dajun Ding

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013203 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Quantum Control of Photoelectron Circular Dichroism

R. Esteban Goetz, Christiane P. Koch, and Loren Greenman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013204 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Selective Decoupling and Hamiltonian Engineering in Dipolar Spin Networks

A. Ajoy, U. Bissbort, D. Poletti, and P. Cappellaro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013205 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Tailored Single-Atom Collisions at Ultralow Energies

Felix Schmidt, Daniel Mayer, Quentin Bouton, Daniel Adam, Tobias Lausch, Jens Nettersheim, Eberhard Tiemann, and Artur Widera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013401 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Energy-Dependent Three-Body Loss in 1D Bose Gases

Laura A. Zundel, Joshua M. Wilson, Neel Malvania, Lin Xia, Jean-Felix Riou, and David S. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013402 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Tunable Two-Photon Quantum Interference of Structured Light

Vincenzo D’Ambrosio, Gonzalo Carvacho, Iris Agresti, Lorenzo Marrucci, and Fabio Sciarrino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013601 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Probing the State of a Mechanical Oscillator with an Ultrastrongly Coupled Quantum Emitter

Cyril Elouard, Benjamin Besga, and Alexia Auffèves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013602 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Lasing at $K$ Points of a Honeycomb Plasmonic Lattice

R. Guo, M. Nečada, T. K. Hakala, A. I. Väkeväinen, and P. Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013901 (2019) - Published 2 January, 2019

Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Wenle Weng, Erwan Lucas, Grigory Lihachev, Valery E. Lobanov, Hairun Guo, Michael L. Gorodetsky, and Tobias J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013902 (2019) - Published 3 January, 2019

Parity-Induced Thermalization Gap in Disordered Ring Lattices

Yao Wang, Jun Gao, Xiao-Ling Pang, Zhi-Qiang Jiao, Hao Tang, Yuan Chen, Lu-Feng Qiao, Zhen-Wei Gao, Jian-Peng Dou, Ai-Lin Yang, and Xian-Min Jin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013903 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Nonlinear Coupling of Linearly Uncoupled Resonators

M. Menotti, B. Morrison, K. Tan, Z. Vernon, J. E. Sipe, and M. Liscidini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013904 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Interplay of Polarization and Time-Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Synchronously Pumped Ring Resonators

François Copie, Michael T. M. Woodley, Leonardo Del Bino, Jonathan M. Silver, Shuangyou Zhang, and Pascal Del’Haye

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 013905 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Cluster Synchronization in Multilayer Networks: A Fully Analog Experiment with $L C$ Oscillators with Physically Dissimilar Coupling

Karen A. Blaha, Ke Huang, Fabio Della Rossa, Louis Pecora, Mani Hossein-Zadeh, and Francesco Sorrentino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014101 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Shooting Rubber Bands: Two Self-Similar Retractions for a Stretched Elastic Wedge

Alexandros T. Oratis and James C. Bird

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014102 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Videos of a moving rubber band show that the band takes on previously unpredicted wavy shapes when it is shot through the air.

Extreme Decoherence and Quantum Chaos

Zhenyu Xu, Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Aurélia Chenu, and Adolfo del Campo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014103 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Topological Fano Resonances

Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad and Romain Fleury

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014301 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Demonstration of Acoustic Chern Insulators

Yujiang Ding, Yugui Peng, Yifan Zhu, Xudong Fan, Jing Yang, Bin Liang, Xuefeng Zhu, Xiangang Wan, and Jianchun Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014302 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

An array of air channels behaves as an “acoustic Chern insulator” in which sound waves travel only around the edges and only in one direction.

Ejecta, Corolla, and Splashes from Drop Impacts on Viscous Fluids

Florence Marcotte, Guy-Jean Michon, Thomas Séon, and Christophe Josserand

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014501 (2019) - Published 3 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inwardly Rotating Spirals in a Nonoscillatory Medium

Harunori N. Yoshikawa, Christian Mathis, Shu Satoh, and Yuji Tasaka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014502 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Liquid falling from a horizontal film displays an intriguing pattern of inwardly rotating spirals.

Temperature Fluctuation Profiles in Turbulent Thermal Convection: A Logarithmic Dependence versus a Power-Law Dependence

Yu-Hao He (何宇昊) and Ke-Qing Xia (夏克青)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014503 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Generation of High-Power, Reversed-Cherenkov Wakefield Radiation in a Metamaterial Structure

Xueying Lu, Michael A. Shapiro, Ivan Mastovsky, Richard J. Temkin, Manoel Conde, John G. Power, Jiahang Shao, Eric E. Wisniewski, and Chunguang Jing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014801 (2019) - Published 7 January, 2019

An experiment reveals the potential of custom-engineered metamaterials to yield higher accelerating gradients than current particle accelerator technology allows.

Creation of Electron-Positron Pairs in Photon-Photon Collisions Driven by 10-PW Laser Pulses

J. Q. Yu, H. Y. Lu, T. Takahashi, R. H. Hu, Z. Gong, W. J. Ma, Y. S. Huang, C. E. Chen, and X. Q. Yan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014802 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Laser Acceleration of Highly Energetic Carbon Ions Using a Double-Layer Target Composed of Slightly Underdense Plasma and Ultrathin Foil

W. J. Ma, I Jong Kim, J. Q. Yu, Il Woo Choi, P. K. Singh, Hwang Woon Lee, Jae Hee Sung, Seong Ku Lee, C. Lin, Q. Liao, J. G. Zhu, H. Y. Lu, B. Liu, H. Y. Wang, R. F. Xu, X. T. He, J. E. Chen, M. Zepf, J. Schreiber, X. Q. Yan, and Chang Hee Nam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014803 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Quasimonoenergetic Proton Bunch Acceleration Driven by Hemispherically Converging Collisionless Shock in a Hydrogen Cluster Coupled with Relativistically Induced Transparency

Ryutaro Matsui, Yuji Fukuda, and Yasuaki Kishimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 014804 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Extremely Low Electron-ion Temperature Relaxation Rates in Warm Dense Hydrogen: Interplay between Quantum Electrons and Coupled Ions

Qian Ma, Jiayu Dai, Dongdong Kang, M. S. Murillo, Yong Hou, Zengxiu Zhao, and Jianmin Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015001 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Experimental Validation of Low- $Z$ Ion-Stopping Formalisms around the Bragg Peak in High-Energy-Density Plasmas

J. A. Frenje, R. Florido, R. Mancini, T. Nagayama, P. E. Grabowski, H. Rinderknecht, H. Sio, A. Zylstra, M. Gatu Johnson, C. K. Li, F. H. Séguin, R. D. Petrasso, V. Yu Glebov, and S. P. Regan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015002 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Thermionic Cooling of the Target Plasma to a Sub-eV Temperature

M. D. Campanell and G. R. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015003 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Kinetic Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Plasmas

J. Jara-Almonte, H. Ji, J. Yoo, M. Yamada, W. Fox, and W. Daughton

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015101 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Structural Parameter of Orientational Order to Predict the Boson Vibrational Anomaly in Glasses

J. Yang, Yun-Jiang Wang, E. Ma, A. Zaccone, L. H. Dai, and M. Q. Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015501 (2019) - Published 4 January, 2019

Compressive Failure as a Critical Transition: Experimental Evidence and Mapping onto the Universality Class of Depinning

Chi-Cong Vu, David Amitrano, Olivier Plé, and Jérôme Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015502 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Temperature Rise Associated with Adiabatic Shear Band: Causality Clarified

Yazhou Guo, Qichao Ruan, Shengxin Zhu, Q. Wei, Haosen Chen, Jianan Lu, Bo Hu, Xihui Wu, Yulong Li, and Daining Fang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015503 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

High speed photography and thermometry answer whether shear bands, the localized deformation of metals under extreme strain, are caused by heat or cause heat themselves.

Discrete Time Crystals in the Absence of Manifest Symmetries or Disorder in Open Quantum Systems

F. M. Gambetta, F. Carollo, M. Marcuzzi, J. P. Garrahan, and I. Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015701 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Disorder-Induced Phase Transitions in the Transmission of Dielectric Metasurfaces

A. Rahimzadegan, D. Arslan, R. N. S. Suryadharma, S. Fasold, M. Falkner, T. Pertsch, I. Staude, and C. Rockstuhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015702 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Quantum Paraelastic Two-Dimensional Materials

Tyler B. Bishop, Erin E. Farmer, Afsana Sharmin, Alejandro Pacheco-Sanjuan, Pierre Darancet, and Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 015703 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Investigation of Temperature and Feature Size Effects on Deformation of Metals by Superplastic Nanomolding

Ze Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016101 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Intertwined Solitons and Impurities in a Quasi-One-Dimensional Charge-Density-Wave System: $In / Si (111)$

Geunseop Lee, Hyungjoon Shim, Jung-Min Hyun, and Hanchul Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016102 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon Spectroscopy at Atomic Resolution

F. S. Hage, D. M. Kepaptsoglou, Q. M. Ramasse, and L. J. Allen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016103 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Phonon spectroscopy at atomic resolution is demonstrated with scanning transmission electron microscopy.

Ring Statistics in 2D Silica: Effective Temperatures in Equilibrium

Projesh Kumar Roy and Andreas Heuer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016104 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Gate-Tunable Topological Flat Bands in Trilayer Graphene Boron-Nitride Moiré Superlattices

Bheema Lingam Chittari, Guorui Chen, Yuanbo Zhang, Feng Wang, and Jeil Jung

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016401 (2019) - Published 3 January, 2019

Enhanced Hybridization Sets the Stage for Electronic Nematicity in ${CeRhIn}_{5}$

P. F. S. Rosa, S. M. Thomas, F. F. Balakirev, E. D. Bauer, R. M. Fernandes, J. D. Thompson, F. Ronning, and M. Jaime

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016402 (2019) - Published 8 January, 2019

Topological Landscape of Competing Charge Density Waves in $2 H − {NbSe}_{2}$

Gyeongcheol Gye, Eunseok Oh, and Han Woong Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016403 (2019) - Published 9 January, 2019

Hybridization-Switching Induced Mott Transition in $A B O_{3}$ Perovskites

Atanu Paul, Anamitra Mukherjee, Indra Dasgupta, Arun Paramekanti, and Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016404 (2019) - Published 10 January, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Failure of Conductance Quantization in Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators due to Nonmagnetic Impurities

Pietro Novelli, Fabio Taddei, Andre K. Geim, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 016601 (2019) - Published 2 January, 2019

Theorists predict that backscattering of electrons by nonmagnetic impurities can disrupt current flow in a 2D topological insulator, in agreement with experiments.