Volume 116, Issue 10

11 March 2016

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On the Cover

Buckling-induced crystalline surface patterns on a thin film adhered to a soft core (top) and dual hexagonal Voronoi tesselations (bottom) for different surface geometries: sphere (left), ellipsoid (center), torus (right).

From the article:

Curvature-Controlled Defect Localization in Elastic Surface Crystals
Francisco López Jiménez, Norbert Stoop, Romain Lagrange, Jörn Dunkel, and Pedro M. Reis
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 104301 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modeling Repeatedly Flaring $δ$ Sunspots

Piyali Chatterjee, Viggo Hansteen, and Mats Carlsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101101 (2016) - Published 7 March, 2016

Simulations show for the first time how the magnetic fields that produce solar flares can extend out of the Sun by acquiring a twist.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Planckian Interacting Massive Particles as Dark Matter

Mathias Garny, McCullen Sandora, and Martin S. Sloth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101302 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

A theoretical investigation of super-heavy dark matter particles finds that their existence might be discerned in the cosmic microwave background.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Shape-Shifting Droplet Networks

T. Zhang, Duanduan Wan, J. M. Schwarz, and M. J. Bowick

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 108301 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Sheets of liquid droplets can spontaneously and reversibly change their shape.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Conductivity of Topological Surface States with Emergent Supersymmetry

William Witczak-Krempa and Joseph Maciejko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100402 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

Theoretical predictions suggest that experiments on topological insulators could provide the first evidence of supersymmetry.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatial Search by Quantum Walk is Optimal for Almost all Graphs

Shantanav Chakraborty, Leonardo Novo, Andris Ambainis, and Yasser Omar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100501 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

The continuous time quantum walk algorithm for searching a network is optimal for nearly all graphs.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isospin Mixing Reveals ${}^{30}P (p, γ) {}^{31}S$ Resonance Influencing Nova Nucleosynthesis

M. B. Bennett, C. Wrede, B. A. Brown, S. N. Liddick, D. Pérez-Loureiro, D. W. Bardayan, A. A. Chen, K. A. Chipps, C. Fry, B. E. Glassman, C. Langer, N. R. Larson, E. I. McNeice, Z. Meisel, W. Ong, P. D. O’Malley, S. D. Pain, C. J. Prokop, H. Schatz, S. B. Schwartz, S. Suchyta, P. Thompson, M. Walters, and X. Xu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 102502 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

A short-lived nuclear state that boosts the destruction rate of phosphorus-30 via proton capture has been discovered. This nuclear reaction is critical to determining the origins of microscopic rocks found inside of meteorites that predate our solar system.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Integrable Turbulence and Rogue Waves: Breathers or Solitons?

J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Devine, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103901 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Numerical simulations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation demonstrate how rogue waves form for different levels of initial random noise.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sudden Viscous Dissipation of Compressing Turbulence

Seth Davidovits and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105004 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

Turbulent kinetic energy, amplified by compression, can be rapidly converted to thermal energy enabling fast plasma ignition, according to theoretical predictions.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopic Evidence of the Aharonov-Casher Effect in a Cooper Pair Box

M. T. Bell, W. Zhang, L. B. Ioffe, and M. E. Gershenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 107002 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Direct evidence of the Aharonov–Casher effect, in which a magnetic dipole acquires a phase in an electric field, has been observed in a superconducting circuit.

LETTERS

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

Multiparticle Correlations in Mesoscopic Scattering: Boson Sampling, Birthday Paradox, and Hong-Ou-Mandel Profiles

Juan-Diego Urbina, Jack Kuipers, Sho Matsumoto, Quirin Hummel, and Klaus Richter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100401 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Optical Conductivity of Topological Surface States with Emergent Supersymmetry

William Witczak-Krempa and Joseph Maciejko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100402 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

Theoretical predictions suggest that experiments on topological insulators could provide the first evidence of supersymmetry.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spatial Search by Quantum Walk is Optimal for Almost all Graphs

Shantanav Chakraborty, Leonardo Novo, Andris Ambainis, and Yasser Omar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100501 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

The continuous time quantum walk algorithm for searching a network is optimal for nearly all graphs.

Fundamental Asymmetry in Quenches Between Integrable and Nonintegrable Systems

Marcos Rigol

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100601 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

$g$ Factor of Light Ions for an Improved Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant

V. A. Yerokhin, E. Berseneva, Z. Harman, I. I. Tupitsyn, and C. H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100801 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Metrology with Unknown Detectors

Matteo Altorio, Marco G. Genoni, Fabrizia Somma, and Marco Barbieri

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100802 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Can Anomalous Amplification be Attained without Postselection?

Julián Martínez-Rincón, Wei-Tao Liu, Gerardo I. Viza, and John C. Howell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 100803 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Modeling Repeatedly Flaring $δ$ Sunspots

Piyali Chatterjee, Viggo Hansteen, and Mats Carlsson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101101 (2016) - Published 7 March, 2016

Simulations show for the first time how the magnetic fields that produce solar flares can extend out of the Sun by acquiring a twist.

Detectability of Gravitational Waves from High-Redshift Binaries

Pablo A. Rosado, Paul D. Lasky, Eric Thrane, Xingjiang Zhu, Ilya Mandel, and Alberto Sesana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101102 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

One-Shot Decoupling and Page Curves from a Dynamical Model for Black Hole Evaporation

Kamil Brádler and Christoph Adami

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101301 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Planckian Interacting Massive Particles as Dark Matter

Mathias Garny, McCullen Sandora, and Martin S. Sloth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101302 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

A theoretical investigation of super-heavy dark matter particles finds that their existence might be discerned in the cosmic microwave background.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the $Z Z$ Production Cross Section in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$ with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 101801 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Implication of the Proton-Deuteron Radiative Capture for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

L. E. Marcucci, G. Mangano, A. Kievsky, and M. Viviani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 102501 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isospin Mixing Reveals ${}^{30}P (p, γ) {}^{31}S$ Resonance Influencing Nova Nucleosynthesis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 102502 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Nucleus ${}^{26}O$ : A Barely Unbound System beyond the Drip Line

Y. Kondo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 102503 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Ions: Study of the Auger Decay of the $4 d \to n f$ ( $n = 4, 5$ ) Resonances in ${Xe}^{5 +}$ Ion

J.-M. Bizau, D. Cubaynes, S. Guilbaud, F. Penent, P. Lablanquie, L. Andric, J. Palaudoux, M. M. Al Shorman, and C. Blancard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103001 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Coherent Control of the Optical Absorption in a Plasmonic Lattice Coupled to a Luminescent Layer

Giuseppe Pirruccio, Mohammad Ramezani, Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez, and Jaime Gómez Rivas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103002 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Dynamical Two-Mode Squeezing of Thermal Fluctuations in a Cavity Optomechanical System

A. Pontin, M. Bonaldi, A. Borrielli, L. Marconi, F. Marino, G. Pandraud, G. A. Prodi, P. M. Sarro, E. Serra, and F. Marin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103601 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Enhanced Optical Cross Section via Collective Coupling of Atomic Dipoles in a 2D Array

Robert J. Bettles, Simon A. Gardiner, and Charles S. Adams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103602 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Integrable Turbulence and Rogue Waves: Breathers or Solitons?

J. M. Soto-Crespo, N. Devine, and N. Akhmediev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103901 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Numerical simulations of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation demonstrate how rogue waves form for different levels of initial random noise.

Raman Self-Frequency Shift of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in an Optical Microresonator

Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Arne Kordts, Victor Brasch, Martin H. P. Pfeiffer, Michail Zervas, Michael Geiselmann, and Tobias J. Kippenberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 103902 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

Optimal Extraction of Collective Oscillations from Unreliable Measurements

Justus T. C. Schwabedal and Holger Kantz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 104101 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Curvature-Controlled Defect Localization in Elastic Surface Crystals

Francisco López Jiménez, Norbert Stoop, Romain Lagrange, Jörn Dunkel, and Pedro M. Reis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 104301 (2016) - Published 7 March, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

$X$ -Point Effect on Plasma Blob Dynamics

F. Avino, A. Fasoli, I. Furno, P. Ricci, and C. Theiler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105001 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Direct Evidence of the Transition from Weak to Strong Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

Romain Meyrand, Sébastien Galtier, and Khurom H. Kiyani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105002 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Magnetic Reconnection Onset via Disruption of a Forming Current Sheet by the Tearing Instability

D. A. Uzdensky and N. F. Loureiro

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105003 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sudden Viscous Dissipation of Compressing Turbulence

Seth Davidovits and Nathaniel J. Fisch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105004 (2016) - Published 11 March, 2016

Turbulent kinetic energy, amplified by compression, can be rapidly converted to thermal energy enabling fast plasma ignition, according to theoretical predictions.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Practical Entanglement Estimation for Spin-System Quantum Simulators

O. Marty, M. Cramer, and M. B. Plenio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105301 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Mesoscopic Rydberg Impurity in an Atomic Quantum Gas

Richard Schmidt, H. R. Sadeghpour, and E. Demler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105302 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Efficient Ab initio Modeling of Random Multicomponent Alloys

Chao Jiang and Blas P. Uberuaga

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 105501 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Engineered Unique Elastic Modes at a ${BaTiO}_{3} / (2 \times 1) − Ge (001)$ Interface

D. P. Kumah, M. Dogan, J. H. Ngai, D. Qiu, Z. Zhang, D. Su, E. D. Specht, S. Ismail-Beigi, C. H. Ahn, and F. J. Walker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106101 (2016) - Published 7 March, 2016

Step Coalescence by Collective Motion at an Incommensurate Grain Boundary

M. L. Bowers, C. Ophus, A. Gautam, F. Lançon, and U. Dahmen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106102 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

$β$ -NMR Investigation of the Depth-Dependent Magnetic Properties of an Antiferromagnetic Surface

D. L. Cortie, T. Buck, M. H. Dehn, V. L. Karner, R. F. Kiefl, C. D. P. Levy, R. M. L. McFadden, G. D. Morris, I. McKenzie, M. R. Pearson, X. L. Wang, and W. A. MacFarlane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106103 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Jahn-Teller Effect in Systems with Strong On-Site Spin-Orbit Coupling

Ekaterina M. Plotnikova, Maria Daghofer, Jeroen van den Brink, and Krzysztof Wohlfeld

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106401 (2016) - Published 7 March, 2016

Fermi Surface of ${Sr}_{2} {RuO}_{4}$ : Spin-Orbit and Anisotropic Coulomb Interaction Effects

Guoren Zhang, Evgeny Gorelov, Esmaeel Sarvestani, and Eva Pavarini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106402 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Tunable Magnetic Alignment between Trapped Exciton-Polariton Condensates

H. Ohadi, Y. del Valle-Inclan Redondo, A. Dreismann, Y. G. Rubo, F. Pinsker, S. I. Tsintzos, Z. Hatzopoulos, P. G. Savvidis, and J. J. Baumberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106403 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

Carrier Multiplication in a Single Semiconductor Nanocrystal

Fengrui Hu, Bihu Lv, Chunyang Yin, Chunfeng Zhang, Xiaoyong Wang, Brahim Lounis, and Min Xiao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106404 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Tunable Splitting of the Ground-State Degeneracy in Quasi-One-Dimensional Parafermion Systems

Chun Chen and F. J. Burnell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106405 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Spin Manipulation in Graphene by Chemically Induced Pseudospin Polarization

Dinh Van Tuan and Stephan Roche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106601 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Disorder-Induced Stabilization of the Quantum Hall Ferromagnet

B. A. Piot, W. Desrat, D. K. Maude, D. Kazazis, A. Cavanna, and U. Gennser

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106801 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Robust Phonon-Plasmon Coupling in Quasifreestanding Graphene on Silicon Carbide

R. J. Koch, S. Fryska, M. Ostler, M. Endlich, F. Speck, T. Hänsel, J. A. Schaefer, and Th. Seyller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106802 (2016) - Published 9 March, 2016

Nanoantenna for Electrical Generation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons

Florian Bigourdan, Jean-Paul Hugonin, Francois Marquier, Christophe Sauvan, and Jean-Jacques Greffet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 106803 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Ultrafast Dynamics Evidence of High Temperature Superconductivity in Single Unit Cell FeSe on ${SrTiO}_{3}$

Y. C. Tian, W. H. Zhang, F. S. Li, Y. L. Wu, Q. Wu, F. Sun, G. Y. Zhou, Lili Wang, Xucun Ma, Qi-Kun Xue, and Jimin Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 107001 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spectroscopic Evidence of the Aharonov-Casher Effect in a Cooper Pair Box

M. T. Bell, W. Zhang, L. B. Ioffe, and M. E. Gershenson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 107002 (2016) - Published 10 March, 2016

Direct evidence of the Aharonov–Casher effect, in which a magnetic dipole acquires a phase in an electric field, has been observed in a superconducting circuit.

Exchange-Driven Spin Relaxation in Ferromagnet-Oxide-Semiconductor Heterostructures

Yu-Sheng Ou, Yi-Hsin Chiu, N. J. Harmon, Patrick Odenthal, Matthew Sheffield, Michael Chilcote, R. K. Kawakami, M. E. Flatté, and E. Johnston-Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 107201 (2016) - Published 8 March, 2016