Volume 116, Issue 11

18 March 2016

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Nuclear levels of ⁷⁸Br measured at iThemba LABS, South Africa. New levels and transition energies (in keV) are marked in red.

From the article:

Evidence for Octupole Correlations in Multiple Chiral Doublet Bands
C. Liu (刘晨) et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112501 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Reduced Sensitivity to Charge Noise in Semiconductor Spin Qubits via Symmetric Operation

M. D. Reed, B. M. Maune, R. W. Andrews, M. G. Borselli, K. Eng, M. P. Jura, A. A. Kiselev, T. D. Ladd, S. T. Merkel, I. Milosavljevic, E. J. Pritchett, M. T. Rakher, R. S. Ross, A. E. Schmitz, A. Smith, J. A. Wright, M. F. Gyure, and A. T. Hunter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110402 (2016) - Published 16 March, 2016

A new way to control the coupling of spins between adjacent quantum dots produces qubits that are less susceptible to electronic noise.

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Noise Suppression Using Symmetric Exchange Gates in Spin Qubits

Frederico Martins, Filip K. Malinowski, Peter D. Nissen, Edwin Barnes, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116801 (2016) - Published 16 March, 2016

A new way to control the coupling of spins between adjacent quantum dots produces qubits that are less susceptible to electronic noise.

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Dynamic Stratification in Drying Films of Colloidal Mixtures

Andrea Fortini, Ignacio Martín-Fabiani, Jennifer Lesage De La Haye, Pierre-Yves Dugas, Muriel Lansalot, Franck D’Agosto, Elodie Bourgeat-Lami, Joseph L. Keddie, and Richard P. Sear

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 118301 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Small particles suspended in a liquid separate out by size as the liquid evaporates, an effect that could lead to techniques for making layered structures.

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Direct Evidence of Octupole Deformation in Neutron-Rich ${}^{144}{Ba}$

B. Bucher et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112503 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Experiments confirm that the barium-144 nucleus is pear shaped and hint that this asymmetry is more pronounced than previously thought.

LETTERS

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

Correlations of the Time Dependent Signal and the State of a Continuously Monitored Quantum System

N. Foroozani, M. Naghiloo, D. Tan, K. Mølmer, and K. W. Murch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110401 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

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Reduced Sensitivity to Charge Noise in Semiconductor Spin Qubits via Symmetric Operation

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110402 (2016) - Published 16 March, 2016

A new way to control the coupling of spins between adjacent quantum dots produces qubits that are less susceptible to electronic noise.

Creating a Superposition of Unknown Quantum States

Michał Oszmaniec, Andrzej Grudka, Michał Horodecki, and Antoni Wójcik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110403 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Weak Values from Displacement Currents in Multiterminal Electron Devices

D. Marian, N. Zanghì, and X. Oriols

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110404 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Universal Continuous-Variable State Orthogonalizer and Qubit Generator

Antonio S. Coelho, Luca S. Costanzo, Alessandro Zavatta, Catherine Hughes, M. S. Kim, and Marco Bellini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110501 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Theory of Casimir Forces without the Proximity-Force Approximation

Luciano C. Lapas, Agustín Pérez-Madrid, and J. Miguel Rubí

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 110601 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Unitary Limit of Two-Nucleon Interactions in Strong Magnetic Fields

William Detmold, Kostas Orginos, Assumpta Parreño, Martin J. Savage, Brian C. Tiburzi, Silas R. Beane, and Emmanuel Chang (NPLQCD Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112301 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Beam Energy Dependence of the Third Harmonic of Azimuthal Correlations in $Au + Au$ Collisions at RHIC

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112302 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Evidence for Octupole Correlations in Multiple Chiral Doublet Bands

C. Liu (刘晨) et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112501 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Large-Scale Shell-Model Analysis of the Neutrinoless $β β$ Decay of ${}^{48}{Ca}$

Y. Iwata, N. Shimizu, T. Otsuka, Y. Utsuno, J. Menéndez, M. Honma, and T. Abe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112502 (2016) - Published 15 March, 2016

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Direct Evidence of Octupole Deformation in Neutron-Rich ${}^{144}{Ba}$

B. Bucher et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 112503 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Experiments confirm that the barium-144 nucleus is pear shaped and hint that this asymmetry is more pronounced than previously thought.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Anomalous Broadening in Driven Dissipative Rydberg Systems

E. A. Goldschmidt, T. Boulier, R. C. Brown, S. B. Koller, J. T. Young, A. V. Gorshkov, S. L. Rolston, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113001 (2016) - Published 16 March, 2016

Photodissociation of an Internally Cold Beam of ${CH}^{+}$ Ions in a Cryogenic Storage Ring

A. P. O’Connor et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113002 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Low Temperature Kinetics of the First Steps of Water Cluster Formation

J. Bourgalais, V. Roussel, M. Capron, A. Benidar, A. W. Jasper, S. J. Klippenstein, L. Biennier, and S. D. Le Picard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113401 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Ground State Electroluminescence

Mauro Cirio, Simone De Liberato, Neill Lambert, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 113601 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Tweezers for Chimeras in Small Networks

Iryna Omelchenko, Oleh E. Omel’chenko, Anna Zakharova, Matthias Wolfrum, and Eckehard Schöll

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 114101 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Bright X-Ray Source from a Laser-Driven Microplasma Waveguide

Longqing Yi, Alexander Pukhov, Phuc Luu-Thanh, and Baifei Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115001 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Phase Separation of Binary Charged Particle Systems with Small Size Disparities using a Dusty Plasma

Carsten Killer, Tim Bockwoldt, Stefan Schütt, Michael Himpel, André Melzer, and Alexander Piel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115002 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Unified Concept of Effective One Component Plasma for Hot Dense Plasmas

Jean Clérouin, Philippe Arnault, Christopher Ticknor, Joel D. Kress, and Lee A. Collins

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115003 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

X-ray Thomson Scattering in Warm Dense Matter without the Chihara Decomposition

A. D. Baczewski, L. Shulenburger, M. P. Desjarlais, S. B. Hansen, and R. J. Magyar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115004 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Model-Independent Determination of the Shear Viscosity of a Trapped Unitary Fermi gas: Application to High-Temperature Data

M. Bluhm and T. Schäfer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115301 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Decoupling Nonclassical Nonlinear Behavior of Elastic Wave Types

Marcel C. Remillieux, Robert A. Guyer, Cédric Payan, and T. J. Ulrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115501 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Role of Fourier Modes in Finite-Size Scaling above the Upper Critical Dimension

Emilio Flores-Sola, Bertrand Berche, Ralph Kenna, and Martin Weigel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 115701 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Coherent Chromatic Effect in the Transmission Electron Microscope

Rolf Erni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116101 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Electronic Structure of ${YbB}_{6}$ : Is it a Topological Insulator or Not?

Chang-Jong Kang, J. D. Denlinger, J. W. Allen, Chul-Hee Min, F. Reinert, B. Y. Kang, B. K. Cho, J.-S. Kang, J. H. Shim, and B. I. Min

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116401 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

Injection of Orbital Angular Momentum and Storage of Quantized Vortices in Polariton Superfluids

T. Boulier, E. Cancellieri, N. D. Sangouard, Q. Glorieux, A. V. Kavokin, D. M. Whittaker, E. Giacobino, and A. Bramati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116402 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Correlation-Driven Insulator-Metal Transition in Near-Ideal Vanadium Dioxide Films

A. X. Gray, J. Jeong, N. P. Aetukuri, P. Granitzka, Z. Chen, R. Kukreja, D. Higley, T. Chase, A. H. Reid, H. Ohldag, M. A. Marcus, A. Scholl, A. T. Young, A. Doran, C. A. Jenkins, P. Shafer, E. Arenholz, M. G. Samant, S. S. P. Parkin, and H. A. Dürr

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116403 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Variable-Range Hopping through Marginally Localized Phonons

Sumilan Banerjee and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116601 (2016) - Published 17 March, 2016

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Noise Suppression Using Symmetric Exchange Gates in Spin Qubits

Frederico Martins, Filip K. Malinowski, Peter D. Nissen, Edwin Barnes, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Charles M. Marcus, and Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116801 (2016) - Published 16 March, 2016

A new way to control the coupling of spins between adjacent quantum dots produces qubits that are less susceptible to electronic noise.

$p$ -State Luminescence in CdSe Nanoplatelets: Role of Lateral Confinement and a Longitudinal Optical Phonon Bottleneck

Alexander W. Achtstein, Riccardo Scott, Sebastian Kickhöfel, Stefan T. Jagsch, Sotirios Christodoulou, Guillaume H. V. Bertrand, Anatol V. Prudnikau, Artsiom Antanovich, Mikhail Artemyev, Iwan Moreels, Andrei Schliwa, and Ulrike Woggon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116802 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Coulomb Interaction Effect in Weyl Fermions with Tilted Energy Dispersion in Two Dimensions

Hiroki Isobe and Naoto Nagaosa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 116803 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Two-Fluid Theory for Spin Superfluidity in Magnetic Insulators

B. Flebus, S. A. Bender, Y. Tserkovnyak, and R. A. Duine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 117201 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Strain-Engineered Multiferroicity in $P n m a$ ${NaMnF}_{3}$ Fluoroperovskite

A. C. Garcia-Castro, A. H. Romero, and E. Bousquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 117202 (2016) - Published 14 March, 2016

Tuning Photoluminescence Response by Electric Field in Electrically Soft Ferroelectrics

Dipak Kumar Khatua, Abhijeet Kalaskar, and Rajeev Ranjan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 117601 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Wave-Number-Dependent Gilbert Damping in Metallic Ferromagnets

Y. Li and W. E. Bailey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 117602 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Frustration and Self-Ordering of Topological Defects in Ferroelectrics

Y. Nahas, S. Prokhorenko, and L. Bellaiche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 117603 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

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

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Dynamic Stratification in Drying Films of Colloidal Mixtures

Andrea Fortini, Ignacio Martín-Fabiani, Jennifer Lesage De La Haye, Pierre-Yves Dugas, Muriel Lansalot, Franck D’Agosto, Elodie Bourgeat-Lami, Joseph L. Keddie, and Richard P. Sear

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 118301 (2016) - Published 18 March, 2016

Small particles suspended in a liquid separate out by size as the liquid evaporates, an effect that could lead to techniques for making layered structures.