Volume 116, Issue 12

25 March 2016

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Dried marks of whisky droplets on glass. Left: Macallan; illuminated with orange-colored flashlight. Right: Glenlivet, with fluorescent polystyrene particles added. Suggested for a Synopsis in Physics and an Editors’ Suggestion.

From the article:

Controlled Uniform Coating from the Interplay of Marangoni Flows and Surface-Adsorbed Macromolecules
Hyoungsoo Kim, François Boulogne, Eujin Um, Ian Jacobi, Ernie Button, and Howard A. Stone
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 124501 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detecting the Disruption of Dark-Matter Halos with Stellar Streams

Jo Bovy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121301 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Streaming threads of stars orbiting galaxies could be used to detect clumps of dark matter predicted to make up dark matter halos.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Induced Fission of ${}^{240}{Pu}$ within a Real-Time Microscopic Framework

Aurel Bulgac, Piotr Magierski, Kenneth J. Roche, and Ionel Stetcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122504 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

Nuclear fission simulations show that the evolution of a splitting plutonium nucleus may be slower than previously thought.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlled Uniform Coating from the Interplay of Marangoni Flows and Surface-Adsorbed Macromolecules

Hyoungsoo Kim, François Boulogne, Eujin Um, Ian Jacobi, Ernie Button, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 124501 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

As a whisky drop dries, a combination of molecules in the liquid ensure a spatially uniform deposition—a finding that could inspire coating technologies.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Schrödinger Approach to Mean Field Games

Igor Swiecicki, Thierry Gobron, and Denis Ullmo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128701 (2016) - Published 23 March, 2016

Models that treat economic and biological behavior in terms of game-play resemble quantum mechanics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Operational Resource Theory of Coherence

Andreas Winter and Dong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120404 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

A new framework describes quantum coherence in terms of resources, coherence distillation, and coherence cost, which account for the conversions between various coherent states.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Streaming Velocities and the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale

Jonathan A. Blazek, Joseph E. McEwen, and Christopher M. Hirata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121303 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

New calculations suggest that the relative velocity of baryons with respect to dark matter in galaxies may affect how baryonic matter clusters in the universe.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermally Induced Graphene Rotation on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Duoming Wang, Guorui Chen, Chaokai Li, Meng Cheng, Wei Yang, Shuang Wu, Guibai Xie, Jing Zhang, Jing Zhao, Xiaobo Lu, Peng Chen, Guole Wang, Jianling Meng, Jian Tang, Rong Yang, Congli He, Donghua Liu, Dongxia Shi, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ji Feng, Yuanbo Zhang, and Guangyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126101 (2016) - Published 23 March, 2016

Flakes of graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride surface rotate into one of two possible orientations when annealed.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charge Puddles in Graphene near the Dirac Point

S. Samaddar, I. Yudhistira, S. Adam, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126804 (2016) - Published 23 March, 2016

In graphene, doping inhomogeneities – charge puddles – grow remarkably in both size and amplitude as the charge carrier density vanishes.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unconventional Superconductivity in the Layered Iron Germanide ${YFe}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$

Jiasheng Chen, Konstantin Semeniuk, Zhuo Feng, Pascal Reiss, Philip Brown, Yang Zou, Peter W. Logg, Giulio I. Lampronti, and F. Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127001 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Experimental evidence is presented for a bulk superconducting transition in YFe $_{2}$ Ge $_{2}$ obtained using a new generation of high quality samples.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Loop-Nodal and Point-Nodal Semimetals in Three-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattices

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127202 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

3D honeycomb-type lattices have been designed with semimetal and flat-band electronic properties.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Linking Individual and Collective Behavior in Adaptive Social Networks

Flávio L. Pinheiro, Francisco C. Santos, and Jorge M. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128702 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

The local interactions of individuals in a network is connected to the global network dynamics using the Prisoner’s Dilemma game theory model.

LETTERS

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

Rigorous Bound on Energy Absorption and Generic Relaxation in Periodically Driven Quantum Systems

Takashi Mori, Tomotaka Kuwahara, and Keiji Saito

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120401 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Exact Closed Master Equation for Gaussian Non-Markovian Dynamics

L. Ferialdi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120402 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Fulde-Ferrell Superfluids without Spin Imbalance in Driven Optical Lattices

Zhen Zheng, Chunlei Qu, Xubo Zou, and Chuanwei Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120403 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Operational Resource Theory of Coherence

Andreas Winter and Dong Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120404 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

A new framework describes quantum coherence in terms of resources, coherence distillation, and coherence cost, which account for the conversions between various coherent states.

Dissipation Bounds All Steady-State Current Fluctuations

Todd R. Gingrich, Jordan M. Horowitz, Nikolay Perunov, and Jeremy L. England

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120601 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Ultimate Precision Limits for Noisy Frequency Estimation

Andrea Smirne, Jan Kołodyński, Susana F. Huelga, and Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 120801 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Impact of Nuclear Mass Uncertainties on the $r$ Process

D. Martin, A. Arcones, W. Nazarewicz, and E. Olsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121101 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Detecting the Disruption of Dark-Matter Halos with Stellar Streams

Jo Bovy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121301 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Streaming threads of stars orbiting galaxies could be used to detect clumps of dark matter predicted to make up dark matter halos.

Anisotropies of Gravitational-Wave Standard Sirens as a New Cosmological Probe without Redshift Information

Toshiya Namikawa, Atsushi Nishizawa, and Atsushi Taruya

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121302 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Streaming Velocities and the Baryon Acoustic Oscillation Scale

Jonathan A. Blazek, Joseph E. McEwen, and Christopher M. Hirata

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 121303 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

New calculations suggest that the relative velocity of baryons with respect to dark matter in galaxies may affect how baryonic matter clusters in the universe.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Single Spin Asymmetries from a Single Wilson Loop

Daniël Boer, Miguel G. Echevarria, Piet J. Mulders, and Jian Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122001 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Centrality-Dependent Modification of Jet-Production Rates in Deuteron-Gold Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 200 GeV$

A. Adare et al. (PHENIX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122301 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

No-Drag Frame for Anomalous Chiral Fluid

Mikhail A. Stephanov and Ho-Ung Yee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122302 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Ab initio Calculations of Charge Symmetry Breaking in the $A = 4$ Hypernuclei

Daniel Gazda and Avraham Gal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122501 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Direct Lifetime Measurements of the Excited States in ${}^{72}{Ni}$

K. Kolos, D. Miller, R. Grzywacz, H. Iwasaki, M. Al-Shudifat, D. Bazin, C. R. Bingham, T. Braunroth, G. Cerizza, A. Gade, A. Lemasson, S. N. Liddick, M. Madurga, C. Morse, M. Portillo, M. M. Rajabali, F. Recchia, L. L. Riedinger, P. Voss, W. B. Walters, D. Weisshaar, K. Whitmore, K. Wimmer, and J. A. Tostevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122502 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Neutron Capture and the Antineutrino Yield from Nuclear Reactors

Patrick Huber and Patrick Jaffke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122503 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Induced Fission of ${}^{240}{Pu}$ within a Real-Time Microscopic Framework

Aurel Bulgac, Piotr Magierski, Kenneth J. Roche, and Ionel Stetcu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 122504 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

Nuclear fission simulations show that the evolution of a splitting plutonium nucleus may be slower than previously thought.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Bicircular High-Harmonic Spectroscopy Reveals Dynamical Symmetries of Atoms and Molecules

Denitsa Baykusheva, Md Sabbir Ahsan, Nan Lin, and Hans Jakob Wörner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 123001 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Universality of Generalized Bunching and Efficient Assessment of Boson Sampling

V. S. Shchesnovich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 123601 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Strong-Field Photoionization as Excited-State Tunneling

E. E. Serebryannikov and A. M. Zheltikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 123901 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Controlled Uniform Coating from the Interplay of Marangoni Flows and Surface-Adsorbed Macromolecules

Hyoungsoo Kim, François Boulogne, Eujin Um, Ian Jacobi, Ernie Button, and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 124501 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

As a whisky drop dries, a combination of molecules in the liquid ensure a spatially uniform deposition—a finding that could inspire coating technologies.

Single-Particle Motion and Vortex Stretching in Three-Dimensional Turbulent Flows

Alain Pumir, Haitao Xu, Eberhard Bodenschatz, and Rainer Grauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 124502 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Physics of Phase Space Matching for Staging Plasma and Traditional Accelerator Components Using Longitudinally Tailored Plasma Profiles

X. L. Xu, J. F. Hua, Y. P. Wu, C. J. Zhang, F. Li, Y. Wan, C.-H. Pai, W. Lu, W. An, P. Yu, M. J. Hogan, C. Joshi, and W. B. Mori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 124801 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Interparticle Attraction in 2D Complex Plasmas

Roman Kompaneets, Gregor E. Morfill, and Alexei V. Ivlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 125001 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Observational Test for a Random Sweeping Model in Solar Wind Turbulence

C. Perschke, Y. Narita, U. Motschmann, and K. H. Glassmeier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 125101 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Schrieffer-Wolff Transformation for Periodically Driven Systems: Strongly Correlated Systems with Artificial Gauge Fields

Marin Bukov, Michael Kolodrubetz, and Anatoli Polkovnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 125301 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Tunable Liquid-Liquid Critical Point in an Ionic Model of Silica

Erik Lascaris

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 125701 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Thermally Induced Graphene Rotation on Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126101 (2016) - Published 23 March, 2016

Flakes of graphene on a hexagonal boron nitride surface rotate into one of two possible orientations when annealed.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spin Torque Study of the Spin Hall Conductivity and Spin Diffusion Length in Platinum Thin Films with Varying Resistivity

Minh-Hai Nguyen, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126601 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Enhancement Mechanism of the Electron $g$ Factor in Quantum Point Contacts

Grégoire Vionnet and Oleg P. Sushkov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126801 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Boundary Effective Action for Quantum Hall States

Andrey Gromov, Kristan Jensen, and Alexander G. Abanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126802 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Time-of-Flight Measurements of Single-Electron Wave Packets in Quantum Hall Edge States

M. Kataoka, N. Johnson, C. Emary, P. See, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, M. Pepper, and T. J. B. M. Janssen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126803 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Charge Puddles in Graphene near the Dirac Point

S. Samaddar, I. Yudhistira, S. Adam, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126804 (2016) - Published 23 March, 2016

In graphene, doping inhomogeneities – charge puddles – grow remarkably in both size and amplitude as the charge carrier density vanishes.

Structural and Electronic Properties of Nitrogen-Doped Graphene

J. Sforzini, P. Hapala, M. Franke, G. van Straaten, A. Stöhr, S. Link, S. Soubatch, P. Jelínek, T.-L. Lee, U. Starke, M. Švec, F. C. Bocquet, and F. S. Tautz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 126805 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Unconventional Superconductivity in the Layered Iron Germanide ${YFe}_{2} {Ge}_{2}$

Jiasheng Chen, Konstantin Semeniuk, Zhuo Feng, Pascal Reiss, Philip Brown, Yang Zou, Peter W. Logg, Giulio I. Lampronti, and F. Malte Grosche

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127001 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Experimental evidence is presented for a bulk superconducting transition in YFe $_{2}$ Ge $_{2}$ obtained using a new generation of high quality samples.

Anisotropic Paramagnetic Meissner Effect by Spin-Orbit Coupling

Camilla Espedal, Takehito Yokoyama, and Jacob Linder

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127002 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

Topological Effects on Quantum Phase Slips in Superfluid Spin Transport

Se Kwon Kim and Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127201 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Loop-Nodal and Point-Nodal Semimetals in Three-Dimensional Honeycomb Lattices

Motohiko Ezawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127202 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

3D honeycomb-type lattices have been designed with semimetal and flat-band electronic properties.

Elastic Scattering of Electron Vortex Beams in Magnetic Matter

Alexander Edström, Axel Lubk, and Ján Rusz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127203 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Raman Tensor Formalism for Optically Anisotropic Crystals

Christian Kranert, Chris Sturm, Rüdiger Schmidt-Grund, and Marius Grundmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127401 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Optical Coherence in Atomic-Monolayer Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides Limited by Electron-Phonon Interactions

P. Dey, J. Paul, Z. Wang, C. E. Stevens, C. Liu, A. H. Romero, J. Shan, D. J. Hilton, and D. Karaiskaj

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127402 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016

Topological Point Defects in Relaxor Ferroelectrics

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 127601 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Sensitivity of Granular Force Chain Orientation to Disorder-Induced Metastable Relaxation

N. Iikawa, M. M. Bandi, and H. Katsuragi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128001 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

First-Passage Time to Clear the Way for Receptor-Ligand Binding in a Crowded Environment

Jay Newby and Jun Allard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128101 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Signaling Delays Preclude Defects in Lateral Inhibition Patterning

David S. Glass, Xiaofan Jin, and Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128102 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

Knots as a Topological Order Parameter for Semiflexible Polymers

Martin Marenz and Wolfhard Janke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128301 (2016) - Published 21 March, 2016

Coalescence In Draining Foams Made of Very Small Bubbles

Zenaida Briceño-Ahumada, Wiebke Drenckhan, and Dominique Langevin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128302 (2016) - Published 22 March, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Schrödinger Approach to Mean Field Games

Igor Swiecicki, Thierry Gobron, and Denis Ullmo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128701 (2016) - Published 23 March, 2016

Models that treat economic and biological behavior in terms of game-play resemble quantum mechanics.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Linking Individual and Collective Behavior in Adaptive Social Networks

Flávio L. Pinheiro, Francisco C. Santos, and Jorge M. Pacheco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 128702 (2016) - Published 24 March, 2016

The local interactions of individuals in a network is connected to the global network dynamics using the Prisoner’s Dilemma game theory model.

ERRATA

Erratum: Observing Light-by-Light Scattering at the Large Hadron Collider [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 080405 (2013)]

David d’Enterria and Gustavo G. da Silveira

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 129901 (2016) - Published 25 March, 2016