Volume 122, Issue 23

14 June 2019

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On the Cover

Electron diffraction pattern of heat-treated silica-doped hafnia, one of the components of a multimaterial mirror coating proposed for the cryogenic Einstein Telescope. Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Mirror Coating Solution for the Cryogenic Einstein Telescope
Kieran Craig, Jessica Steinlechner, Peter G. Murray, Angus S. Bell, Imogen Birney, Karen Haughian, Jim Hough, Ian MacLaren, Steve Penn, Stuart Reid, Raymond Robie, Sheila Rowan, and Iain W. Martin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231102 (2019)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Avoid the Tragedy of the Commons

Reinhardt B. Schuhmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 230001 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mirror Coating Solution for the Cryogenic Einstein Telescope

Kieran Craig, Jessica Steinlechner, Peter G. Murray, Angus S. Bell, Imogen Birney, Karen Haughian, Jim Hough, Ian MacLaren, Steve Penn, Stuart Reid, Raymond Robie, Sheila Rowan, and Iain W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231102 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Gravitational-wave detectors may benefit from an alternative coating material that is less noisy at low temperatures than currently used materials.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Systematic Study of $L$ -Shell Opacity at Stellar Interior Temperatures

T. Nagayama, J. E. Bailey, G. P. Loisel, G. S. Dunham, G. A. Rochau, C. Blancard, J. Colgan, Ph. Cossé, G. Faussurier, C. J. Fontes, F. Gilleron, S. B. Hansen, C. A. Iglesias, I. E. Golovkin, D. P. Kilcrease, J. J. MacFarlane, R. C. Mancini, R. M. More, C. Orban, J.-C. Pain, M. E. Sherrill, and B. G. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 235001 (2019) - Published 10 June, 2019

Experiments that replicate conditions in the Sun’s interior have found that the light absorption by certain elements doesn’t match expectations, raising questions about the accuracy of solar models.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Terahertz Vortex Beam as a Spectroscopic Probe of Magnetic Excitations

A. A. Sirenko, P. Marsik, C. Bernhard, T. N. Stanislavchuk, V. Kiryukhin, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 237401 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

A light “corkscrew” is sensitive to the local magnetic field direction, so it can be used to probe magnetism in a material.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Supersymmetry

Georgios Katsianis, Ioannis Papadimitriou, Kostas Skenderis, and Marika Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231602 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

A theoretical analysis shows that that for certain classes of theories global supersymmetry may be violated upon quantization even when it is realized classically.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Temperature Conformal Field Theory Results for All Couplings: $O (N)$ Model in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231603 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

An analytic computation quantifies the notion that quantum field theories can lose degrees of freedom in the strongly coupled phase by showing that the entropy of O(N) model in d=2+1 decreases at strong coupling to 4/5 of its value in the weak coupling regime.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Insulators by Topology Optimization

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Fengwen Wang, and Ole Sigmund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 234502 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Topological insulators can be inversely designed top-down based on the global response goals without imposing explicit interfacial requirements.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fabrication of High-Temperature Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superconductors at the Interface of a Ferroelectric ${Ba}_{0.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {TiO}_{3}$ Film and an Insulating Parent Compound of ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$

Dmitrii P. Pavlov, Rustem R. Zagidullin, Vladimir M. Mukhortov, Viktor V. Kabanov, Tadashi Adachi, Takayuki Kawamata, Yoji Koike, and Rinat F. Mamin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 237001 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

The two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between a ferroelectric and its parent compound can be made to superconduct below 30K when the carrier concentration in the parent compound is increased.

LETTERS

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

Quantum Computation of Electronic Transitions Using a Variational Quantum Eigensolver

Robert M. Parrish, Edward G. Hohenstein, Peter L. McMahon, and Todd J. Martínez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 230401 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Dynamical Fractal in Quantum Gases with Discrete Scaling Symmetry

Chao Gao, Hui Zhai, and Zhe-Yu Shi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 230402 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Higher-Dimensional Quantum Hypergraph-Product Codes with Finite Rates

Weilei Zeng and Leonid P. Pryadko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 230501 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

Operationally Accessible Bounds on Fluctuations and Entropy Production in Periodically Driven Systems

Timur Koyuk and Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 230601 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

Universal First-Passage-Time Distribution of Non-Gaussian Currents

Shilpi Singh, Paul Menczel, Dmitry S. Golubev, Ivan M. Khaymovich, Joonas T. Peltonen, Christian Flindt, Keiji Saito, Édgar Roldán, and Jukka P. Pekola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 230602 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Holographic Signatures of Critical Collapse

Paul M. Chesler and Benson Way

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231101 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mirror Coating Solution for the Cryogenic Einstein Telescope

Kieran Craig, Jessica Steinlechner, Peter G. Murray, Angus S. Bell, Imogen Birney, Karen Haughian, Jim Hough, Ian MacLaren, Steve Penn, Stuart Reid, Raymond Robie, Sheila Rowan, and Iain W. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231102 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Gravitational-wave detectors may benefit from an alternative coating material that is less noisy at low temperatures than currently used materials.

Cosmic Censorship Upheld in Spheroidal Collapse of Collisionless Matter

William E. East

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231103 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Constraints on Axionlike Dark Matter with Masses Down to $10^{- 23} eV / c^{2}$

W. A. Terrano, E. G. Adelberger, C. A. Hagedorn, and B. R. Heckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231301 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Quantum Computation as Gravity

Paweł Caputa and Javier M. Magan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231302 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Determinant Formula for the Octagon Form Factor in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Ivan Kostov, Valentina B. Petkova, and Didina Serban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231601 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Supersymmetry

Georgios Katsianis, Ioannis Papadimitriou, Kostas Skenderis, and Marika Taylor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231602 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

A theoretical analysis shows that that for certain classes of theories global supersymmetry may be violated upon quantization even when it is realized classically.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Finite-Temperature Conformal Field Theory Results for All Couplings: $O (N)$ Model in $2 + 1$ Dimensions

Paul Romatschke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231603 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Combination of Searches for Invisible Higgs Boson Decays with the ATLAS Experiment

M. Aaboud et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231801 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Measurement of the Mass Difference Between Neutral Charm-Meson Eigenstates

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231802 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Extracting the Top-Quark Width from Nonresonant Production

Christian Herwig, Tomáš Ježo, and Benjamin Nachman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 231803 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Observation of an Excited $B_{c}^{+}$ State

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232001 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

Study of $e^{+} e^{-} \to γ ω J / ψ$ and Observation of $X (3872) \to ω J / ψ$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232002 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Fuel-Composition Dependent Reactor Antineutrino Yield at RENO

G. Bak et al. (RENO Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232501 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Direct Comparison between Bayesian and Frequentist Uncertainty Quantification for Nuclear Reactions

G. B. King, A. E. Lovell, L. Neufcourt, and F. M. Nunes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232502 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Mechanisms Suppressing Superheavy Element Yields in Cold Fusion Reactions

K. Banerjee, D. J. Hinde, M. Dasgupta, E. C. Simpson, D. Y. Jeung, C. Simenel, B. M. A. Swinton-Bland, E. Williams, I. P. Carter, K. J. Cook, H. M. David, Ch. E. Düllmann, J. Khuyagbaatar, B. Kindler, B. Lommel, E. Prasad, C. Sengupta, J. F. Smith, K. Vo-Phuoc, J. Walshe, and A. Yakushev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232503 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Constraining the Neutron Star Compactness: Extraction of the ${}^{23}{Al} (p, γ)$ Reaction Rate for the $r p$ Process

C. Wolf et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 232701 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Molecular Auger Interferometry

M. A. Khokhlova, B. Cooper, K. Ueda, K. C. Prince, P. Kolorenč, M. Yu. Ivanov, and V. Averbukh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233001 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

Pair Creation with Strong Laser Fields, Compton Scale X Rays, and Heavy Nuclei

B. Hafizi, D. F. Gordon, and D. Kaganovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233201 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Engineering Excited-State Interactions at Ultracold Temperatures

Michael Mills, Prateek Puri, Ming Li, Steven J. Schowalter, Alexander Dunning, Christian Schneider, Svetlana Kotochigova, and Eric R. Hudson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233401 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Higher-Order Quantum Ghost Imaging with Ultracold Atoms

S. S. Hodgman, W. Bu, S. B. Mann, R. I. Khakimov, and A. G. Truscott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233601 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Continuous Real-Time Tracking of a Quantum Phase Below the Standard Quantum Limit

Athreya Shankar, Graham P. Greve, Baochen Wu, James K. Thompson, and Murray Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233602 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Electrically Driven Single-Photon Superradiance from Molecular Chains in a Plasmonic Nanocavity

Yang Luo, Gong Chen, Yang Zhang, Li Zhang, Yunjie Yu, Fanfang Kong, Xiaojun Tian, Yao Zhang, Chongxin Shan, Yi Luo, Jinlong Yang, Vahid Sandoghdar, Zhenchao Dong, and J. G. Hou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233901 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Direct Observation of Corner States in Second-Order Topological Photonic Crystal Slabs

Xiao-Dong Chen, Wei-Min Deng, Fu-Long Shi, Fu-Li Zhao, Min Chen, and Jian-Wen Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233902 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Visualization of Higher-Order Topological Insulating Phases in Two-Dimensional Dielectric Photonic Crystals

Bi-Ye Xie, Guang-Xu Su, Hong-Fei Wang, Hai Su, Xiao-Peng Shen, Peng Zhan, Ming-Hui Lu, Zhen-Lin Wang, and Yan-Feng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233903 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect of Light in Bloch-Wave Modulated Photonic Crystals

Kejie Fang and Yunkai Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233904 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Particlelike Behavior of Topological Defects in Linear Wave Packets in Photonic Graphene

Zhaoyang Zhang, Feng Li, G. Malpuech, Yiqi Zhang, O. Bleu, S. Koniakhin, Changbiao Li, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, and D. D. Solnyshkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 233905 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Marangoni Flow in Freely Suspended Liquid Films

T. Trittel, K. Harth, C. Klopp, and R. Stannarius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 234501 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological Insulators by Topology Optimization

Rasmus E. Christiansen, Fengwen Wang, and Ole Sigmund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 234502 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Topological insulators can be inversely designed top-down based on the global response goals without imposing explicit interfacial requirements.

Plasma and Beam Physics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Systematic Study of $L$ -Shell Opacity at Stellar Interior Temperatures

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 235001 (2019) - Published 10 June, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Bosonic Superfluid on the Lowest Landau Level

Sergej Moroz and Dam Thanh Son

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 235301 (2019) - Published 11 June, 2019

Mixed-Order Symmetry-Breaking Quantum Phase Transition Far from Equilibrium

T. O. Puel, Stefano Chesi, S. Kirchner, and P. Ribeiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 235701 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Second-Order Topological Superconductors with Mixed Pairing

Xiaoyu Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 236401 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Half-Excitonic Insulator: A Single-Spin Bose-Einstein Condensate

Zeyu Jiang, Yuanchang Li, Wenhui Duan, and Shengbai Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 236402 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Continuous-Variable Entanglement Test in Driven Quantum Contacts

Hongxin Zhan, Mihajlo Vanević, and Wolfgang Belzig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 236801 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

Superconducting Correlations Out of Repulsive Interactions on a Fractional Quantum Hall Edge

Jukka I. Väyrynen, Moshe Goldstein, and Yuval Gefen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 236802 (2019) - Published 13 June, 2019

Braiding of Majorana Fermions in a Cavity

Mircea Trif and Pascal Simon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 236803 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Fabrication of High-Temperature Quasi-Two-Dimensional Superconductors at the Interface of a Ferroelectric ${Ba}_{0.8} {Sr}_{0.2} {TiO}_{3}$ Film and an Insulating Parent Compound of ${La}_{2} {CuO}_{4}$

Dmitrii P. Pavlov, Rustem R. Zagidullin, Vladimir M. Mukhortov, Viktor V. Kabanov, Tadashi Adachi, Takayuki Kawamata, Yoji Koike, and Rinat F. Mamin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 237001 (2019) - Published 14 June, 2019

Quantification of Mixed Bloch-Néel Topological Spin Textures Stabilized by the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in $Co / Pd$ Multilayers

Joseph A. Garlow, Shawn D. Pollard, Marco Beleggia, Tanmay Dutta, Hyunsoo Yang, and Yimei Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 237201 (2019) - Published 10 June, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Terahertz Vortex Beam as a Spectroscopic Probe of Magnetic Excitations

A. A. Sirenko, P. Marsik, C. Bernhard, T. N. Stanislavchuk, V. Kiryukhin, and S.-W. Cheong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 237401 (2019) - Published 12 June, 2019

A light “corkscrew” is sensitive to the local magnetic field direction, so it can be used to probe magnetism in a material.

Volume 122, Issue 23

On the Cover

From the article:

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Elementary Particles and Fields

Nuclear Physics

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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