Volume 122, Issue 3

25 January 2019

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Visualization of the current sheet at the base of a simulated black-hole plasma jet: horizon (black disk) and positron density (colored background). Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

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First-Principles Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Jet Launching
Kyle Parfrey, Alexander Philippov, and Benoît Cerutti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035101 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Using Polarons for sub-nK Quantum Nondemolition Thermometry in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Mohammad Mehboudi, Aniello Lampo, Christos Charalambous, Luis A. Correa, Miguel Ángel García-March, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 030403 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

A proposed nondestructive method for measuring the temperature of an ultracold atomic gas could do so in a way that is more accurate than other possible techniques.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Jet Launching

Kyle Parfrey, Alexander Philippov, and Benoît Cerutti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035101 (2019) - Published 23 January, 2019

Simulations of the environment around a spinning black hole give new insight into the formation of luminous jets seen from Earth.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Protocol Dependence and State Variables in the Force-Moment Ensemble

Ephraim S. Bililign, Jonathan E. Kollmer, and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 038001 (2019) - Published 23 January, 2019

Experiments with a granular system have confirmed a temperature-like variable that could lead to an equation of state for this class of materials

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Nanomolding of Crystalline Metals: The Smaller the Easier

Ze Liu, Guoxing Han, Sungwoo Sohn, Naijia Liu, and Jan Schroers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036101 (2019) - Published 22 January, 2019

Molding crystalline metals like silver into nanopillar structures is both possible and easier to achieve for narrower pillars, in contrast with other materials.

LETTERS

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

Glassy Properties of Anderson Localization: Pinning, Avalanches, and Chaos

G. Lemarié

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 030401 (2019) - Published 22 January, 2019

Interaction of Mechanical Oscillators Mediated by the Exchange of Virtual Photon Pairs

Omar Di Stefano, Alessio Settineri, Vincenzo Macrì, Alessandro Ridolfo, Roberto Stassi, Anton Frisk Kockum, Salvatore Savasta, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 030402 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Using Polarons for sub-nK Quantum Nondemolition Thermometry in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Mohammad Mehboudi, Aniello Lampo, Christos Charalambous, Luis A. Correa, Miguel Ángel García-March, and Maciej Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 030403 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

A proposed nondestructive method for measuring the temperature of an ultracold atomic gas could do so in a way that is more accurate than other possible techniques.

Trapped Ion Quantum Information Processing with Squeezed Phonons

Wenchao Ge, Brian C. Sawyer, Joseph W. Britton, Kurt Jacobs, John J. Bollinger, and Michael Foss-Feig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 030501 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Bounded Collection of Feynman Integral Calabi-Yau Geometries

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Andrew J. McLeod, Matt von Hippel, and Matthias Wilhelm

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 031601 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Tunable Plasma-Based Energy Dechirper

R. D’Arcy et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 034801 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Observations of Multiple Nuclear Reaction Histories and Fuel-Ion Species Dynamics in Shock-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion Implosions

H. Sio et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035001 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

Stellarators Resist Turbulent Transport on the Electron Larmor Scale

G. G. Plunk, P. Xanthopoulos, G. M. Weir, S. A. Bozhenkov, A. Dinklage, G. Fuchert, J. Geiger, M. Hirsch, U. Hoefel, M. Jakubowski, A. Langenberg, N. Pablant, E. Pasch, T. Stange, D. Zhang, and the W7-X Team

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035002 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First-Principles Plasma Simulations of Black-Hole Jet Launching

Kyle Parfrey, Alexander Philippov, and Benoît Cerutti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035101 (2019) - Published 23 January, 2019

Simulations of the environment around a spinning black hole give new insight into the formation of luminous jets seen from Earth.

Turbulence-Driven Ion Beams in the Magnetospheric Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability

Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Filomena Catapano, Alessandro Retinò, Olivier Le Contel, Denise Perrone, Owen W. Roberts, Jesse T. Coburn, Vincenzo Panebianco, Francesco Valentini, Silvia Perri, Antonella Greco, Francesco Malara, Vincenzo Carbone, Pierluigi Veltri, Oreste Pezzi, Federico Fraternale, Francesca Di Mare, Raffaele Marino, Barbara Giles, Thomas E. Moore, Christopher T. Russell, Roy B. Torbert, Jim L. Burch, and Yuri V. Khotyaintsev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035102 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Critical Analysis of an FeP Empirical Potential Employed to Study the Fracture of Metallic Glasses

Yezeng He, Peng Yi, and Michael L. Falk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 035501 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

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Nanomolding of Crystalline Metals: The Smaller the Easier

Ze Liu, Guoxing Han, Sungwoo Sohn, Naijia Liu, and Jan Schroers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036101 (2019) - Published 22 January, 2019

Molding crystalline metals like silver into nanopillar structures is both possible and easier to achieve for narrower pillars, in contrast with other materials.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin-Polarization Control Driven by a Rashba-Type Effect Breaking the Mirror Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Dual Topological Insulators

Carlos Mera Acosta and Adalberto Fazzio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036401 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

Quantum Oscillations of the Positive Longitudinal Magnetoconductivity: A Fingerprint for Identifying Weyl Semimetals

Ming-Xun Deng, G. Y. Qi, R. Ma, R. Shen, Rui-Qiang Wang, L. Sheng, and D. Y. Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036601 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Observation of an Odd-Integer Quantum Hall Effect from Topological Surface States in ${Cd}_{3} {As}_{2}$

Ben-Chuan Lin, Shuo Wang, Steffen Wiedmann, Jian-Ming Lu, Wen-Zhuang Zheng, Dapeng Yu, and Zhi-Min Liao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036602 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

Bimodal Phase Diagram of the Superfluid Density in ${LaAlO}_{3} / SrTi O_{3}$ Revealed by an Interfacial Waveguide Resonator

Nicola Manca, Daniel Bothner, Ana M. R. V. L. Monteiro, Dejan Davidovikj, Yildiz G. Sağlam, Mark Jenkins, Marc Gabay, Gary A. Steele, and Andrea D. Caviglia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036801 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Mottness collapse without metallization in the domain wall of the triangular-lattice Mott insulator $1 T - {TaS}_{2}$

Jan Skolimowski, Yaroslav Gerasimenko, and Rok Žitko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 036802 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

Unconventional Antiferromagnetic Quantum Critical Point in $Ba ({Fe}_{0.97} {Cr}_{0.03})_{2} ({As}_{1 - x} P_{x})_{2}$

Wenliang Zhang, Yuan Wei, Tao Xie, Zhaoyu Liu, Dongliang Gong, Xiaoyan Ma, Ding Hu, Petr Čermák, Astrid Schneidewind, Gregory Tucker, Siqin Meng, Zita Huesges, Zhilun Lu, Jianming Song, Wei Luo, Liangcai Xu, Zengwei Zhu, Xunqing Yin, Hai-Feng Li, Yi-feng Yang, Huiqian Luo, and Shiliang Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 037001 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Proposal for Measuring Magnetism with Patterned Apertures in a Transmission Electron Microscope

Devendra Negi, Jakob Spiegelberg, Shunsuke Muto, Thomas Thersleff, Masahiro Ohtsuka, Linus Schönström, Kazuyoshi Tatsumi, and Ján Rusz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 037201 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

Electric Field Control of Spins in Molecular Magnets

Junjie Liu, Jakub Mrozek, William K. Myers, Grigore A. Timco, Richard E. P. Winpenny, Benjamin Kintzel, Winfried Plass, and Arzhang Ardavan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 037202 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

Spin-Wave Amplification and Lasing Driven by Inhomogeneous Spin-Transfer Torques

R. J. Doornenbal, A. Roldán-Molina, A. S. Nunez, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 037203 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019

Ferroelectric Control of Interface Spin Filtering in Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions

J. Tornos, F. Gallego, S. Valencia, Y. H. Liu, V. Rouco, V. Lauter, R. Abrudan, C. Luo, H. Ryll, Q. Wang, D. Hernandez-Martin, G. Orfila, M. Cabero, F. Cuellar, D. Arias, F. J. Mompean, M. Garcia-Hernandez, F. Radu, T. R. Charlton, A. Rivera-Calzada, Z. Sefrioui, S. G. E. te Velthuis, C. Leon, and J. Santamaria

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 037601 (2019) - Published 22 January, 2019

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

Extensional Strain Hardening in Highly Entangled Molecular Bottlebrushes

Carlos R. López-Barrón and Maksim E. Shivokhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 037801 (2019) - Published 24 January, 2019

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Protocol Dependence and State Variables in the Force-Moment Ensemble

Ephraim S. Bililign, Jonathan E. Kollmer, and Karen E. Daniels

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 038001 (2019) - Published 23 January, 2019

Experiments with a granular system have confirmed a temperature-like variable that could lead to an equation of state for this class of materials

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Anomalous Conductances in an Ultracold Quantum Wire [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 255302 (2016)]

M. Kanász-Nagy, L. Glazman, T. Esslinger, and E. A. Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 039901 (2019) - Published 23 January, 2019

Publisher’s Note: Realizing and Detecting a Topological Insulator in the AIII Symmetry Class [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 115301 (2017)]

Carlos G. Velasco and Belen Paredes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 039902 (2019) - Published 25 January, 2019