Volume 122, Issue 17

3 May 2019

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Scanning tunneling microscopy image of the edge of a self-assembled tetracyanoquinodimethane island (lower half) on a Cu(111) surface (upper half). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Discrete Electronic Subbands due to Bragg Scattering at Molecular Edges
A. Martín-Jiménez, J. M. Gallego, R. Miranda, and R. Otero
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176801 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey

T. M. C. Abbott et al. (DES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 171301 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

The Dark Energy Survey has combined its analysis of four cosmological observables to constrain the properties of dark energy—paving the way for cosmological surveys that will run in the next decade.

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Discrete Electronic Subbands due to Bragg Scattering at Molecular Edges

A. Martín-Jiménez, J. M. Gallego, R. Miranda, and R. Otero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176801 (2019) - Published 30 April, 2019

A periodic structure deposited on copper produces an electron density pattern that could affect the chemical and physical properties of the surface.

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Observation of the Nuclear Barnett Effect

Mohsen Arabgol and Tycho Sleator

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 177202 (2019) - Published 2 May, 2019

Researchers demonstrate that they can magnetize hydrogen nuclei in water by rotating the liquid at high speeds.

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Conical Interfaces between Two Immiscible Fluids Induced by an Optical Laser Beam

A. Girot, J. Petit, R. Saiseau, T. Guérin, H. Chraibi, U. Delabre, and J. P. Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 174501 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

Researchers deform the interface between two immiscible liquids using a laser beam, creating a cone-shaped structure that can emit a fluid jet from its tip.

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Baryon-Number Violation by Two Units and the Deuteron Lifetime

F. Oosterhof, B. Long, J. de Vries, R. G. E. Timmermans, and U. van Kolck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 172501 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

An otherwise stable deuteron decays due to a neutron-to-antineutron transition that violates baryon number by two units, and results in antineutron-proton annihilation.

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2000-Times Repeated Imaging of Strontium Atoms in Clock-Magic Tweezer Arrays

Jacob P. Covey, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Alexandre Cooper, and Manuel Endres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173201 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

2000-times repeated high-fidelity low-loss imaging of a single alkaline earth atom has been demonstrated using magic wavelength optical tweezers.

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Observation of Weyl Nodes in Robust Type-II Weyl Semimetal ${WP}_{2}$

M.-Y. Yao, N. Xu, Q. S. Wu, G. Autès, N. Kumar, V. N. Strocov, N. C. Plumb, M. Radovic, O. V. Yazyev, C. Felser, J. Mesot, and M. Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176402 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals spin-orbit-split type-II Weyl points in the electronic structure of WP $_{2}$ .

LETTERS

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

Quantum Spin Dynamics in Fock Space Following Quenches: Caustics and Vortices

J. Mumford, E. Turner, D. W. L. Sprung, and D. H. J. O’Dell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 170402 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Observation of Many-Body Localization in a One-Dimensional System with a Single-Particle Mobility Edge

Thomas Kohlert, Sebastian Scherg, Xiao Li, Henrik P. Lüschen, Sankar Das Sarma, Immanuel Bloch, and Monika Aidelsburger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 170403 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Prescaling in a Far-from-Equilibrium Bose Gas

Christian-Marcel Schmied, Aleksandr N. Mikheev, and Thomas Gasenzer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 170404 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Demonstration of Controlled Quantum Teleportation for Discrete Variables on Linear Optical Devices

Artur Barasiński, Antonín Černoch, and Karel Lemr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 170501 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

Optimal Probabilistic Storage and Retrieval of Unitary Channels

Michal Sedlák, Alessandro Bisio, and Mário Ziman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 170502 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Cosmological Constraints from Multiple Probes in the Dark Energy Survey

T. M. C. Abbott et al. (DES Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 171301 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Kink-Kink and Kink-Antikink Interactions with Long-Range Tails

Ivan C. Christov, Robert J. Decker, A. Demirkaya, Vakhid A. Gani, P. G. Kevrekidis, Avinash Khare, and Avadh Saxena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 171601 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Novel Direct Detection Constraints on Light Dark Matter

Torsten Bringmann and Maxim Pospelov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 171801 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

Parton Distribution Functions from a Light Front Hamiltonian and QCD Evolution for Light Mesons

Jiangshan Lan, Chandan Mondal, Shaoyang Jia, Xingbo Zhao, and James P. Vary (BLFQ Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 172001 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Harmonics in Small and Large Collision Systems at RHIC Top Energies

J. Adam et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 172301 (2019) - Published 30 April, 2019

Elliptic Flow of Heavy Quarkonia in $p A$ Collisions

Cheng Zhang, Cyrille Marquet, Guang-You Qin, Shu-Yi Wei, and Bo-Wen Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 172302 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Baryon-Number Violation by Two Units and the Deuteron Lifetime

F. Oosterhof, B. Long, J. de Vries, R. G. E. Timmermans, and U. van Kolck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 172501 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

An otherwise stable deuteron decays due to a neutron-to-antineutron transition that violates baryon number by two units, and results in antineutron-proton annihilation.

Direct Observation of Proton-Neutron Short-Range Correlation Dominance in Heavy Nuclei

M. Duer et al. (CLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 172502 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Flemish Strings of Magnetic Solitons and a Nonthermal Fixed Point in a One-Dimensional Antiferromagnetic Spin-1 Bose Gas

Kazuya Fujimoto, Ryusuke Hamazaki, and Masahito Ueda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173001 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

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2000-Times Repeated Imaging of Strontium Atoms in Clock-Magic Tweezer Arrays

Jacob P. Covey, Ivaylo S. Madjarov, Alexandre Cooper, and Manuel Endres

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173201 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

2000-times repeated high-fidelity low-loss imaging of a single alkaline earth atom has been demonstrated using magic wavelength optical tweezers.

Highly Efficient Detection and Separation of Chiral Molecules through Shortcuts to Adiabaticity

Nikolay V. Vitanov and Michael Drewsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173202 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Exact Quantum Many-Body Scar States in the Rydberg-Blockaded Atom Chain

Cheng-Ju Lin and Olexei I. Motrunich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173401 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

Enhanced Magnetic Sensitivity with Non-Gaussian Quantum Fluctuations

Alexandre Evrard, Vasiliy Makhalov, Thomas Chalopin, Leonid A. Sidorenkov, Jean Dalibard, Raphael Lopes, and Sylvain Nascimbene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173601 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

Near-Unity Indistinguishability Single Photon Source for Large-Scale Integrated Quantum Optics

Łukasz Dusanowski, Soon-Hong Kwon, Christian Schneider, and Sven Höfling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173602 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Tunable Photon Statistics Exploiting the Fano Effect in a Waveguide

A. P. Foster, D. Hallett, I. V. Iorsh, S. J. Sheldon, M. R. Godsland, B. Royall, E. Clarke, I. A. Shelykh, A. M. Fox, M. S. Skolnick, I. E. Itskevich, and L. R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173603 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Anomalous $π$ Modes in Photonic Floquet Engineering

Qingqing Cheng, Yiming Pan, Huaiqiang Wang, Chaoshi Zhang, Dong Yu, Avi Gover, Haijun Zhang, Tao Li, Lei Zhou, and Shining Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173901 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Anisotropy and Controllable Band Structure in Suprawavelength Polaritonic Metasurfaces

K. Chevrier, J. M. Benoit, C. Symonds, S. K. Saikin, J. Yuen-Zhou, and J. Bellessa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173902 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Broadband Quasi-Phase-Matched Harmonic Generation in an On-Chip Monocrystalline Lithium Niobate Microdisk Resonator

Jintian Lin, Ni Yao, Zhenzhong Hao, Jianhao Zhang, Wenbo Mao, Min Wang, Wei Chu, Rongbo Wu, Zhiwei Fang, Lingling Qiao, Wei Fang, Fang Bo, and Ya Cheng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173903 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Anomalous Diffusion in Random Dynamical Systems

Yuzuru Sato and Rainer Klages

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 174101 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

Excitable Wave Patterns in Temporal Systems with Two Long Delays and their Observation in a Semiconductor Laser Experiment

Francesco Marino and Giovanni Giacomelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 174102 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

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Conical Interfaces between Two Immiscible Fluids Induced by an Optical Laser Beam

A. Girot, J. Petit, R. Saiseau, T. Guérin, H. Chraibi, U. Delabre, and J. P. Delville

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 174501 (2019) - Published 1 May, 2019

Researchers deform the interface between two immiscible liquids using a laser beam, creating a cone-shaped structure that can emit a fluid jet from its tip.

Dynamics of the Vortex-Particle Complexes Bound to the Free Surface of Superfluid Helium

P. Moroshkin, P. Leiderer, K. Kono, S. Inui, and M. Tsubota

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 174502 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

$q$ -Independent Slow Dynamics in Atomic and Molecular Systems

Philip H. Handle, Lorenzo Rovigatti, and Francesco Sciortino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 175501 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Role of Noether’s Theorem at the Deconfined Quantum Critical Point

Nvsen Ma, Yi-Zhuang You, and Zi Yang Meng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 175701 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Melting Line of Graphite

A. M. Kondratyev and A. D. Rakhel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 175702 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Discharge of the Nanopore Confinement Effect on the Glass Transition Dynamics via Viscous Flow

K. Adrjanowicz and M. Paluch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176101 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Gapless Coulomb State Emerging from a Self-Dual Topological Tensor-Network State

Guo-Yi Zhu and Guang-Ming Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176401 (2019) - Published 30 April, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Weyl Nodes in Robust Type-II Weyl Semimetal ${WP}_{2}$

M.-Y. Yao, N. Xu, Q. S. Wu, G. Autès, N. Kumar, V. N. Strocov, N. C. Plumb, M. Radovic, O. V. Yazyev, C. Felser, J. Mesot, and M. Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176402 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy reveals spin-orbit-split type-II Weyl points in the electronic structure of WP $_{2}$ .

Mode-Selective Coupling of Coherent Phonons to the Bi2212 Electronic Band Structure

S.-L. Yang, J. A. Sobota, Y. He, D. Leuenberger, H. Soifer, H. Eisaki, P. S. Kirchmann, and Z.-X. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176403 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Discrete Electronic Subbands due to Bragg Scattering at Molecular Edges

A. Martín-Jiménez, J. M. Gallego, R. Miranda, and R. Otero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176801 (2019) - Published 30 April, 2019

A periodic structure deposited on copper produces an electron density pattern that could affect the chemical and physical properties of the surface.

Coupling between Rydberg States and Landau Levels of Electrons Trapped on Liquid Helium

K. M. Yunusova, D. Konstantinov, H. Bouchiat, and A. D. Chepelianskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 176802 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Nontrivial Triplon Topology and Triplon Liquid in Kitaev-Heisenberg-type Excitonic Magnets

Pavel S. Anisimov, Friedemann Aust, Giniyat Khaliullin, and Maria Daghofer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 177201 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Observation of the Nuclear Barnett Effect

Mohsen Arabgol and Tycho Sleator

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 177202 (2019) - Published 2 May, 2019

Researchers demonstrate that they can magnetize hydrogen nuclei in water by rotating the liquid at high speeds.

Spin-Triplet-Mediated Up-Conversion and Crossover Behavior in Single-Molecule Electroluminescence

Gong Chen, Yang Luo, Hongying Gao, Jun Jiang, Yunjie Yu, Li Zhang, Yang Zhang, Xiaoguang Li, Zhenyu Zhang, and Zhenchao Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 177401 (2019) - Published 3 May, 2019

Emergent Vibronic Excitations in the Magnetodielectric Regime of ${Ce}_{2} O_{3}$

A. Sethi, J. E. Slimak, T. Kolodiazhnyi, and S. L. Cooper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 177601 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019

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

ERRATA

Erratum: Structural and Valence Changes of Europium Hydride Induced by Application of High-Pressure $H_{2}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 025501 (2011)]

T. Matsuoka, H. Fujihisa, N. Hirao, Y. Ohishi, T. Mitsui, R. Masuda, M. Seto, Y. Yoda, K. Shimizu, A. Machida, and K. Aoki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 179901 (2019) - Published 29 April, 2019