Volume 122, Issue 7

22 February 2019

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On the Cover

Quark and gluon shear forces inside the proton. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Pressure Distribution and Shear Forces inside the Proton
P. E. Shanahan and W. Detmold
Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072003 (2019)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Measurement Cooling

Lorenzo Buffoni, Andrea Solfanelli, Paola Verrucchi, Alessandro Cuccoli, and Michele Campisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070603 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

A proposed noise-tolerant approach to quantum refrigeration eliminates the need for feedback control by exploiting the invasiveness of quantum measurements.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Chiral Fermions with a Large Topological Charge and Associated Fermi-Arc Surface States in CoSi

Daichi Takane, Zhiwei Wang, Seigo Souma, Kosuke Nakayama, Takechika Nakamura, Hikaru Oinuma, Yuki Nakata, Hideaki Iwasawa, Cephise Cacho, Timur Kim, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Takashi Takahashi, Yoichi Ando, and Takafumi Sato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076402 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Photoemission spectroscopy provides the first experimental evidence of spin-1 chiral fermions and double Weyl fermions.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Demonstration of Displacement Sensing of a mg-Scale Pendulum for mm- and mg-Scale Gravity Measurements

Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Seth B. Cataño-Lopez, Masakazu Sugawara, Seiya Suzuki, Naofumi Abe, Kentaro Komori, Yuta Michimura, Yoichi Aso, and Keiichi Edamatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071101 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Researchers demonstrate a key element of a proposed scheme for determining the gravitational pull of an object with a mass of just 100 milligrams.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wettability-Independent Droplet Transport by Bendotaxis

Alexander T. Bradley, Finn Box, Ian J. Hewitt, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 074503 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

A drop of liquid can pull itself along a narrow channel by causing the channel walls to flex.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Relating Hadronic $C P$ Violation to Higher-Twist Distributions

Chien-Yeah Seng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072001 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

A theoretical analysis indicates that nucleon distribution functions carry information about charge and parity violation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure Distribution and Shear Forces inside the Proton

P. E. Shanahan and W. Detmold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072003 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

The distribution of pressure and shear forces within the proton are determined using lattice QCD computations for the first time.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Distinguishing Nonlinear Terahertz Excitation Pathways with Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy

Courtney L. Johnson, Brittany E. Knighton, and Jeremy A. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 073901 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

This first example of 2D-THz vibrational spectroscopy shows that 2D spectroscopy is needed to distinguish a dominant energy-flow pathway when nonlinearly exciting CdWO $_{4}$ with intense THz radiation.

LETTERS

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

Reduced Quantum Anomaly in a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Superfluid: Significance of the Confinement-Induced Effective Range of Interactions

Hui Hu, Brendan C. Mulkerin, Umberto Toniolo, Lianyi He, and Xia-Ji Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070401 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Experimental Validation of Quantum Steering Ellipsoids and Tests of Volume Monogamy Relations

Chao Zhang, Shuming Cheng, Li Li, Qiu-Yue Liang, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Michael J. W. Hall, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070402 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Enabling Computation of Correlation Bounds for Finite-Dimensional Quantum Systems via Symmetrization

Armin Tavakoli, Denis Rosset, and Marc-Olivier Renou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070501 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Tensor Network Annealing Algorithm for Two-Dimensional Thermal States

A. Kshetrimayum, M. Rizzi, J. Eisert, and R. Orús

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070502 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Eigenstate Thermalization, Random Matrix Theory, and Behemoths

Ivan M. Khaymovich, Masudul Haque, and Paul A. McClarty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070601 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Tunable Mass Separation via Negative Mobility

A. Słapik, J. Łuczka, P. Hänggi, and J. Spiechowicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070602 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Measurement Cooling

Lorenzo Buffoni, Andrea Solfanelli, Paola Verrucchi, Alessandro Cuccoli, and Michele Campisi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 070603 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

A proposed noise-tolerant approach to quantum refrigeration eliminates the need for feedback control by exploiting the invasiveness of quantum measurements.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Demonstration of Displacement Sensing of a mg-Scale Pendulum for mm- and mg-Scale Gravity Measurements

Nobuyuki Matsumoto, Seth B. Cataño-Lopez, Masakazu Sugawara, Seiya Suzuki, Naofumi Abe, Kentaro Komori, Yuta Michimura, Yoichi Aso, and Keiichi Edamatsu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071101 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Researchers demonstrate a key element of a proposed scheme for determining the gravitational pull of an object with a mass of just 100 milligrams.

Gravitational Waves from Compact Dark Objects in Neutron Stars

C. J. Horowitz and Sanjay Reddy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071102 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

Velocity Dependence from Resonant Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Xiaoyong Chu, Camilo Garcia-Cely, and Hitoshi Murayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071103 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

First Results on the Scalar WIMP-Pion Coupling, Using the XENON1T Experiment

E. Aprile et al. (XENON Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071301 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scattering Amplitudes from Soft Theorems and Infrared Behavior

Laurentiu Rodina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071601 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Universality of Squashed-Sphere Partition Functions

Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar, and Robert B. Mann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071602 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Millicharged Particles in Neutrino Experiments

Gabriel Magill, Ryan Plestid, Maxim Pospelov, and Yu-Dai Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071801 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Determination of the Pseudoscalar Decay Constant $f_{D_{s}^{+}}$ via $D_{s}^{+} \to μ^{+} ν_{μ}$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 071802 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Relating Hadronic $C P$ Violation to Higher-Twist Distributions

Chien-Yeah Seng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072001 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

A theoretical analysis indicates that nucleon distribution functions carry information about charge and parity violation.

Search for a Stable Six-Quark State at BABAR

J. P. Lees et al. (BaBar Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072002 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pressure Distribution and Shear Forces inside the Proton

P. E. Shanahan and W. Detmold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072003 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

The distribution of pressure and shear forces within the proton are determined using lattice QCD computations for the first time.

Nuclear Physics

Azimuthal Anisotropy of Heavy-Flavor Decay Electrons in $p$ -Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

S. Acharya et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072301 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Observation of $Ξ (1620)^{0}$ and Evidence for $Ξ (1690)^{0}$ in $Ξ_{c}^{+} \to Ξ^{-} π^{+} π^{+}$ Decays

M. Sumihama et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072501 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

How Robust is the $N = 34$ Subshell Closure? First Spectroscopy of ${}^{52}{Ar}$

H. N. Liu et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072502 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

Preequilibrium Asymmetries in the ${}^{239}{Pu} (n, f)$ Prompt Fission Neutron Spectrum

K. J. Kelly, T. Kawano, J. M. O’Donnell, J. A. Gomez, M. Devlin, D. Neudecker, P. Talou, A. E. Lovell, M. C. White, R. C. Haight, T. N. Taddeucci, S. M. Mosby, H. Y. Lee, C. Y. Wu, R. Henderson, J. Henderson, and M. Q. Buckner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 072503 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Terahertz-Field-Induced Time Shifts in Atomic Photoemission

Georg Schmid, Kirsten Schnorr, Sven Augustin, Severin Meister, Hannes Lindenblatt, Florian Trost, Yifan Liu, Nikola Stojanovic, Alaa Al-Shemmary, Torsten Golz, Rolf Treusch, Michael Gensch, Matthias Kübel, Lutz Foucar, Artem Rudenko, Joachim Ullrich, Claus Dieter Schröter, Thomas Pfeifer, and Robert Moshammer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 073001 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Dipole-Supported Electronic Resonances Mediate Electron-Induced Amide Bond Cleavage

Zhou Li, Michal Ryszka, M. Michele Dawley, Ian Carmichael, Ksenia B. Bravaya, and Sylwia Ptasińska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 073002 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

Electronic Coherence in Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering from Molecular Wave Packets

Mats Simmermacher, Niels E. Henriksen, Klaus B. Møller, Andrés Moreno Carrascosa, and Adam Kirrander

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 073003 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Exciting a Bound State in the Continuum through Multiphoton Scattering Plus Delayed Quantum Feedback

Giuseppe Calajó, Yao-Lung L. Fang (方耀龍), Harold U. Baranger, and Francesco Ciccarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 073601 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Distinguishing Nonlinear Terahertz Excitation Pathways with Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy

Courtney L. Johnson, Brittany E. Knighton, and Jeremy A. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 073901 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

Motion of Viscous Droplets in Rough Confinement: Paradoxical Lubrication

Ludovic Keiser, Armelle Keiser, Manon L’Estimé, José Bico, and Étienne Reyssat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 074501 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Rare Event Algorithm Links Transitions in Turbulent Flows with Activated Nucleations

Freddy Bouchet, Joran Rolland, and Eric Simonnet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 074502 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Wettability-Independent Droplet Transport by Bendotaxis

Alexander T. Bradley, Finn Box, Ian J. Hewitt, and Dominic Vella

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 074503 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

A drop of liquid can pull itself along a narrow channel by causing the channel walls to flex.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Determining Metastable Ion Lifetime and History through Wave-Particle Interaction

F. Chu and F. Skiff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 075001 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Subatomic Channeling and Helicon-Type Beams in ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Jong Seok Jeong, Hosup Song, Jacob T. Held, and K. Andre Mkhoyan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 075501 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Nonbasal Slip Systems Enable a Strong and Ductile Hexagonal-Close-Packed High-Entropy Phase

Yeqiang Bu, Zhiming Li, Jiabin Liu, Hongtao Wang, Dierk Raabe, and Wei Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 075502 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Phonon Collapse and Second-Order Phase Transition in Thermoelectric SnSe

Unai Aseginolaza, Raffaello Bianco, Lorenzo Monacelli, Lorenzo Paulatto, Matteo Calandra, Francesco Mauri, Aitor Bergara, and Ion Errea

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 075901 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

Identifying and Mitigating Charge Instabilities in Shallow Diamond Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers

Dolev Bluvstein, Zhiran Zhang, and Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076101 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

Negative Friction Coefficients in Superlubric Graphite–Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterojunctions

Davide Mandelli, Wengen Ouyang, Oded Hod, and Michael Urbakh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076102 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Revealing the Nature of Antiferroquadrupolar Ordering in Cerium Hexaboride: ${CeB}_{6}$

C. K. Barman, Prashant Singh, Duane D. Johnson, and Aftab Alam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076401 (2019) - Published 19 February, 2019

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Chiral Fermions with a Large Topological Charge and Associated Fermi-Arc Surface States in CoSi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076402 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Photoemission spectroscopy provides the first experimental evidence of spin-1 chiral fermions and double Weyl fermions.

Chiral Topological Elasticity and Fracton Order

Andrey Gromov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076403 (2019) - Published 20 February, 2019

Orbital- and $k_{z}$ -Selective Hybridization of Se $4 p$ and Ti $3 d$ States in the Charge Density Wave Phase of ${TiSe}_{2}$

Matthew D. Watson, Oliver J. Clark, Federico Mazzola, Igor Marković, Veronika Sunko, Timur K. Kim, Kai Rossnagel, and Philip D. C. King

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 076404 (2019) - Published 22 February, 2019

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

Cooperativity during Melting and Molecular Exchange in Micelles with Crystalline Cores

Nico König, Lutz Willner, Vitaliy Pipich, Thomas Zinn, and Reidar Lund

Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 078001 (2019) - Published 21 February, 2019