Volume 122, Issue 4

1 February 2019

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On the Cover

Two different (1+1)-dimensional KPZ growth models, adopting flat and curved geometries, meet each other at a single common point.

From the article:

Competing Universalities in Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Growth Models
Abbas Ali Saberi, Hor Dashti-Naserabadi, and Joachim Krug
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040605 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Juggling with Light

Albert J. Bae, Dag Hanstorp, and Kelken Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043902 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

A pair of microscopic liquid droplets suspended by a laser beam can execute a surprisingly stable “juggling” pattern for up to 30 minutes.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Landauer’s Erasure Principle in a Squeezed Thermal Memory

Jan Klaers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040602 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

A future computer might reduce heat production by timing operations to match naturally occurring temperature swings within the device.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Matter-Wave Diffraction from a Periodic Array of Half Planes

Ju Hyeon Lee, Lee Yeong Kim, Yun-Tae Kim, Chang Young Lee, Wieland Schöllkopf, and Bum Suk Zhao (조범석)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040401 (2019) - Published 31 January, 2019

Reflection and diffraction of He atoms and D $_{2}$ molecules change to edge diffraction behavior as the grating becomes thinner, an effect also seen in radio wave scattering in dense areas and quantum billiards.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Towards Understanding the Origin of Cosmic-Ray Positrons

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041102 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Measurements of cosmic-ray positrons up to a TeV are consistent with a new source of high energy positrons with a characteristic energy cutoff.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multidimensional Atom Optics and Interferometry

B. Barrett, P. Cheiney, B. Battelier, F. Napolitano, and P. Bouyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043604 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

A theoretical proposal for making inertial measurements along more than one dimension with a single atom interferometer could significantly reduce the complexity of a 6 degree-of-freedom inertial system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Doping-Induced Second-Harmonic Generation in Centrosymmetric Graphene from Quadrupole Response

Yu Zhang, Di Huang, Yuwei Shan, Tao Jiang, Zhihong Zhang, Kaihui Liu, Lei Shi, Jinluo Cheng, John E. Sipe, Wei-Tao Liu, and Shiwei Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047401 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

A monolayer of graphene yields strong second-harmonic generation when electrically doped and excited at oblique incidence.

LETTERS

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Matter-Wave Diffraction from a Periodic Array of Half Planes

Ju Hyeon Lee, Lee Yeong Kim, Yun-Tae Kim, Chang Young Lee, Wieland Schöllkopf, and Bum Suk Zhao (조범석)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040401 (2019) - Published 31 January, 2019

Fluctuation-Induced Quantum Zeno Effect

Heinrich Fröml, Alessio Chiocchetta, Corinna Kollath, and Sebastian Diehl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040402 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Strong Quantum Nonlocality without Entanglement

Saronath Halder, Manik Banik, Sristy Agrawal, and Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040403 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Out-of-Time-Ordered-Correlator Quasiprobabilities Robustly Witness Scrambling

José Raúl González Alonso, Nicole Yunger Halpern, and Justin Dressel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040404 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Designer Spatial Control of Interactions in Ultracold Gases

N. Arunkumar, A. Jagannathan, and J. E. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040405 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Dynamical Critical Behavior of an Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensate Phase Transition

Yiping Chen, Munekazu Horikoshi, Kosuke Yoshioka, and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040406 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Wave Packet Spreading with Disordered Nonlinear Discrete-Time Quantum Walks

Ihor Vakulchyk, Mikhail V. Fistul, and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040501 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Ancilla-Free Quantum Error Correction Codes for Quantum Metrology

David Layden, Sisi Zhou, Paola Cappellaro, and Liang Jiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040502 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Nonclassicality as a Quantifiable Resource for Quantum Metrology

Hyukjoon Kwon, Kok Chuan Tan, Tyler Volkoff, and Hyunseok Jeong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040503 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Quantum Machine Learning in Feature Hilbert Spaces

Maria Schuld and Nathan Killoran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040504 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Analytically Solvable Renormalization Group for the Many-Body Localization Transition

Anna Goremykina, Romain Vasseur, and Maksym Serbyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040601 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Landauer’s Erasure Principle in a Squeezed Thermal Memory

Jan Klaers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040602 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

A future computer might reduce heat production by timing operations to match naturally occurring temperature swings within the device.

Periodic Orbits, Entanglement, and Quantum Many-Body Scars in Constrained Models: Matrix Product State Approach

Wen Wei Ho, Soonwon Choi, Hannes Pichler, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040603 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Orthogonality Catastrophe in Dissipative Quantum Many-Body Systems

F. Tonielli, R. Fazio, S. Diehl, and J. Marino

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040604 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Competing Universalities in Kardar-Parisi-Zhang Growth Models

Abbas Ali Saberi, Hor Dashti-Naserabadi, and Joachim Krug

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040605 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Stark Many-Body Localization

M. Schulz, C. A. Hooley, R. Moessner, and F. Pollmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040606 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Destabilization of Local Minima in Analog Spin Systems by Correction of Amplitude Heterogeneity

Timothée Leleu, Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Peter L. McMahon, and Kazuyuki Aihara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 040607 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Extracting the Energy-Dependent Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section above 10 TeV Using IceCube Showers

Mauricio Bustamante and Amy Connolly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041101 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Towards Understanding the Origin of Cosmic-Ray Positrons

M. Aguilar et al. (AMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041102 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Measurements of cosmic-ray positrons up to a TeV are consistent with a new source of high energy positrons with a characteristic energy cutoff.

Gravitational-Wave Fringes at LIGO: Detecting Compact Dark Matter by Gravitational Lensing

Sunghoon Jung and Chang Sub Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041103 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Voyager 1 $e^{\pm}$ Further Constrain Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter

Mathieu Boudaud and Marco Cirelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041104 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Dark Matter Interactions, Helium, and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Roland de Putter, Olivier Doré, Jérôme Gleyzes, Daniel Green, and Joel Meyers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041301 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

First Detection of Scale-Dependent Linear Halo Bias in $N$ -Body Simulations with Massive Neutrinos

Chi-Ting Chiang, Marilena LoVerde, and Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041302 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Integrable Coupled $σ$ Models

F. Delduc, S. Lacroix, M. Magro, and B. Vicedo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041601 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

Holographic Rényi Entropy at High Energy Density

Xi Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041602 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Constraints on Hidden Photons Produced in Nuclear Reactors

Mikhail Danilov, Sergey Demidov, and Dmitry Gorbunov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041801 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Unrestored Electroweak Symmetry

Patrick Meade and Harikrishnan Ramani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041802 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Production and Hadronic Decays of Higgs Bosons in Heavy-Ion Collisions

Edmond L. Berger, Jun Gao, Adil Jueid, and Hao Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 041803 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Observation of Transverse $Λ / \bar{Λ}$ Hyperon Polarization in $e^{+} e^{-}$ Annihilation at Belle

Y. Guan et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 042001 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Determination of the Pole Position of the Lightest Hybrid Meson Candidate

A. Rodas, A. Pilloni, M. Albaladejo, C. Fernández-Ramírez, A. Jackura, V. Mathieu, M. Mikhasenko, J. Nys, V. Pauk, B. Ketzer, and A. P. Szczepaniak (Joint Physics Analysis Center)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 042002 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Nuclear Physics

Chiral Interactions up to Next-to-Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order and Nuclear Saturation

C. Drischler, K. Hebeler, and A. Schwenk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 042501 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

Large Impact of the Decay of Niobium Isomers on the Reactor ${\bar{ν}}_{e}$ Summation Calculations

V. Guadilla et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 042502 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Puzzle of Complete Fusion Suppression in Weakly Bound Nuclei: A Trojan Horse Effect?

Jin Lei and Antonio M. Moro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 042503 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measurement of Ultralow Heating Rates of a Single Antiproton in a Cryogenic Penning Trap

M. J. Borchert, P. E. Blessing, J. A. Devlin, J. A. Harrington, T. Higuchi, J. Morgner, C. Smorra, E. Wursten, M. Bohman, M. Wiesinger, A. Mooser, K. Blaum, Y. Matsuda, C. Ospelkaus, W. Quint, J. Walz, Y. Yamazaki, and S. Ulmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043201 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

Quantum Rabi Model with Two-Photon Relaxation

Moein Malekakhlagh and Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043601 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

Fluorescence Spectrum and Thermalization in a Driven Coupled Cavity Array

Dainius Kilda and Jonathan Keeling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043602 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Probing Quantum Thermalization of a Disordered Dipolar Spin Ensemble with Discrete Time-Crystalline Order

Joonhee Choi, Hengyun Zhou, Soonwon Choi, Renate Landig, Wen Wei Ho, Junichi Isoya, Fedor Jelezko, Shinobu Onoda, Hitoshi Sumiya, Dmitry A. Abanin, and Mikhail D. Lukin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043603 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Multidimensional Atom Optics and Interferometry

B. Barrett, P. Cheiney, B. Battelier, F. Napolitano, and P. Bouyer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043604 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Nondegenerate Solitons in Manakov System

S. Stalin, R. Ramakrishnan, M. Senthilvelan, and M. Lakshmanan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043901 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Juggling with Light

Albert J. Bae, Dag Hanstorp, and Kelken Chang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043902 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

A pair of microscopic liquid droplets suspended by a laser beam can execute a surprisingly stable “juggling” pattern for up to 30 minutes.

Anderson Photon-Phonon Colocalization in Certain Random Superlattices

G. Arregui, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres, and P. D. García

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 043903 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Anomalous Collisions of Elastic Vector Solitons in Mechanical Metamaterials

Bolei Deng, Vincent Tournat, Pai Wang, and Katia Bertoldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 044101 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Quantum Turbulent Structure in Light

Samuel N. Alperin, Abigail L. Grotelueschen, and Mark E. Siemens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 044301 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Plasma and Beam Physics

Passive Ballistic Microbunching of Nonultrarelativistic Electron Bunches Using Electromagnetic Wakefields in Dielectric-Lined Waveguides

F. Lemery, P. Piot, G. Amatuni, P. Boonpornprasert, Y. Chen, J. Good, B. Grigoryan, M. Groß, M. Krasilinikov, O. Lishilin, G. Loisch, A. Oppelt, S. Philipp, H. Qian, Y. Renier, F. Stephan, and I. Zagorodnov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 044801 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Effects of a Preembedded Axial Magnetic Field on the Current Distribution in a $Z$ -Pinch Implosion

D. Mikitchuk, M. Cvejić, R. Doron, E. Kroupp, C. Stollberg, Y. Maron, A. L. Velikovich, N. D. Ouart, J. L. Giuliani, T. A. Mehlhorn, E. P. Yu, and A. Fruchtman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 045001 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Unified View of Nonlinear Wave Structures Associated with Whistler-Mode Chorus

Xin An, Jinxing Li, Jacob Bortnik, Viktor Decyk, Craig Kletzing, and George Hospodarsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 045101 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Exotic Vortex Lattices in Binary Repulsive Superfluids

Luca Mingarelli and Ryan Barnett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 045301 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Direct Transfer of Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum onto a Nonresonantly Excited Polariton Superfluid

Min-Sik Kwon, Byoung Yong Oh, Su-Hyun Gong, Je-Hyung Kim, Hang Kyu Kang, Sooseok Kang, Jin Dong Song, Hyoungsoon Choi, and Yong-Hoon Cho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 045302 (2019) - Published 31 January, 2019

Supersonic Screw Dislocations Gliding at the Shear Wave Speed

Shenyou Peng, Yujie Wei, Zhaohui Jin, and Wei Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 045501 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Energy-Ratio-Based Measure of Elastic Anisotropy

Yaopeng Fang, Yongqing Wang, Haroon Imtiaz, Bin Liu, and Huajian Gao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 045502 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskites as Promising Substrates for Pt Single-Atom Catalysts

Qiang Fu and Claudia Draxl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 046101 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Role of Electric Fields on Enhanced Electron Correlation in Surface-Doped FeSe

Young Woo Choi and Hyoung Joon Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 046401 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Unpaired Weyl Nodes from Long-Ranged Interactions: Fate of Quantum Anomalies

Tobias Meng and Jan Carl Budich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 046402 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Resonance Microwave Measurements of an Intrinsic Spin-Orbit Coupling Gap in Graphene: A Possible Indication of a Topological State

J. Sichau, M. Prada, T. Anlauf, T. J. Lyon, B. Bosnjak, L. Tiemann, and R. H. Blick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 046403 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Melting of the Vortex Lattice through Intermediate Hexatic Fluid in an $a − MoGe$ Thin Film

Indranil Roy, Surajit Dutta, Aditya N. Roy Choudhury, Somak Basistha, Ilaria Maccari, Soumyajit Mandal, John Jesudasan, Vivas Bagwe, Claudio Castellani, Lara Benfatto, and Pratap Raychaudhuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047001 (2019) - Published 30 January, 2019

Tuning of Magnetic Activity in Spin-Filter Josephson Junctions Towards Spin-Triplet Transport

R. Caruso, D. Massarotti, G. Campagnano, A. Pal, H. G. Ahmad, P. Lucignano, M. Eschrig, M. G. Blamire, and F. Tafuri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047002 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Anomalous Low-Temperature Enhancement of Supercurrent in Topological-Insulator Nanoribbon Josephson Junctions: Evidence for Low-Energy Andreev Bound States

Morteza Kayyalha, Mehdi Kargarian, Aleksandr Kazakov, Ireneusz Miotkowski, Victor M. Galitski, Victor M. Yakovenko, Leonid P. Rokhinson, and Yong P. Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047003 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Spin Fluctuations in ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ from Polarized Neutron Scattering: Implications for Superconductivity

P. Steffens, Y. Sidis, J. Kulda, Z. Q. Mao, Y. Maeno, I. I. Mazin, and M. Braden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047004 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Bond-Disordered Spin Liquid and the Honeycomb Iridate $H_{3} {LiIr}_{2} O_{6}$ : Abundant Low-Energy Density of States from Random Majorana Hopping

Johannes Knolle, Roderich Moessner, and Natalia B. Perkins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047202 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Direct Observation of Anapoles by Neutron Diffraction

S. W. Lovesey, T. Chatterji, A. Stunault, D. D. Khalyavin, and G. van der Laan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047203 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

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Doping-Induced Second-Harmonic Generation in Centrosymmetric Graphene from Quadrupole Response

Yu Zhang, Di Huang, Yuwei Shan, Tao Jiang, Zhihong Zhang, Kaihui Liu, Lei Shi, Jinluo Cheng, John E. Sipe, Wei-Tao Liu, and Shiwei Wu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047401 (2019) - Published 28 January, 2019

A monolayer of graphene yields strong second-harmonic generation when electrically doped and excited at oblique incidence.

Polaritonic Cross Feshbach Resonance

M. Navadeh-Toupchi, N. Takemura, M. D. Anderson, D. Y. Oberli, and M. T. Portella-Oberli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047402 (2019) - Published 31 January, 2019

Tracking Dark Excitons with Exciton Polaritons in Semiconductor Microcavities

D. Schmidt, B. Berger, M. Kahlert, M. Bayer, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, E. S. Sedov, A. V. Kavokin, and M. Aßmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047403 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Racemic Amino Acid Piezoelectric Transducer

Sarah Guerin, Joseph O’Donnell, Ehtsham U. Haq, Cian McKeown, Christophe Silien, Fernando M. F. Rhen, Tewfik Soulimane, Syed A. M. Tofail, and Damien Thompson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047701 (2019) - Published 29 January, 2019

Extractable Work, the Role of Correlations, and Asymptotic Freedom in Quantum Batteries

Gian Marcello Andolina, Maximilian Keck, Andrea Mari, Michele Campisi, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marco Polini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 047702 (2019) - Published 1 February, 2019

Volume 122, Issue 4

On the Cover

From the article:

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