Volume 116, Issue 13

1 April 2016

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Atomic positions obtained by density functional calculations overlaid on an image created by a scanning tunneling microscope of D₂O-covered step edges on Pt(553).

From the article:

Double-Stranded Water on Stepped Platinum Surfaces
Manuel J. Kolb, Rachael G. Farber, Jonathan Derouin, Cansin Badan, Federico Calle-Vallejo, Ludo B. F. Juurlink, Daniel R. Killelea, and Marc T. M. Koper
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136101 (2016)

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GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131102 (2016) - Published 31 March, 2016

Assuming LIGO’s recently detected black hole merger is not unusual, researchers revised upward their estimate of the strength of the background noise coming from distant mergers across the Universe.

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Millisecond Photon Lifetime in a Slow-Light Microcavity

V. Huet, A. Rasoloniaina, P. Guillemé, P. Rochard, P. Féron, M. Mortier, A. Levenson, K. Bencheikh, A. Yacomotti, and Y. Dumeige

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133902 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

Introducing a slow-light medium into an optical microresonator extends the lifetime of a photon circulating in the device by several orders of magnitude.

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Electron Phase Shift at the Zero-Bias Anomaly of Quantum Point Contacts

B. Brun, F. Martins, S. Faniel, B. Hackens, A. Cavanna, C. Ulysse, A. Ouerghi, U. Gennser, D. Mailly, P. Simon, S. Huant, V. Bayot, M. Sanquer, and H. Sellier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136801 (2016) - Published 28 March, 2016

Using a scanning gate microscope, researchers have shown that electron waves scattered from a quantum point contact carry the imprint of interactions with localized electron spins.

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Topological Mechanics of Origami and Kirigami

Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Bin Liu, Arthur A. Evans, Jayson Paulose, Itai Cohen, Vincenzo Vitelli, and C. D. Santangelo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135501 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Origami formed by folding and cutting a material can feature well-defined, tunable mechanical properties.

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GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131103 (2016) - Published 31 March, 2016

The experimental requirements that had to be met by the Advanced LIGO detectors in order to detect the gravitational wave event GW150914, and how this was achieved are detailed.

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Measurement of the Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry in $p^{↑} + p \to W^{\pm} / Z^{0}$ at RHIC

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132301 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

The STAR collaboration at RHIC has measured a spin asymmetry in weak boson production that can put constraints on the distribution of quarks and gluons in a transversely polarized proton.

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Mechanical Weyl Modes in Topological Maxwell Lattices

D. Zeb Rocklin, Bryan Gin–ge Chen, Martin Falk, Vincenzo Vitelli, and T. C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135503 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Two-dimensional mechanical lattices support topologically protected bulk zero modes analogous to the electronic modes of Weyl semimetals.

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Sparse Cyclic Excitations Explain the Low Ionic Conductivity of Stoichiometric ${Li}_{7} {La}_{3} {Zr}_{2} O_{12}$

Mario Burbano, Dany Carlier, Florent Boucher, Benjamin J. Morgan, and Mathieu Salanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135901 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Molecular dynamic simulation methods developed for glasses are used to study why the ionic conductivity of a Li-ion battery compound is different for the cubic and tetragonal phase of solid lithium-ion–electrolyte.

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Enhanced Thermoelectric Power in Graphene: Violation of the Mott Relation by Inelastic Scattering

Fereshte Ghahari, Hong-Yi Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Matthew S. Foster, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136802 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

In clean graphene, inelastic scattering processes cause the thermoelectric power at high temperature to exceed the value given by the traditional Mott relation.

LETTERS

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

Genuinely Multipartite Entangled Quantum States with Fully Local Hidden Variable Models and Hidden Multipartite Nonlocality

Joseph Bowles, Jérémie Francfort, Mathieu Fillettaz, Flavien Hirsch, and Nicolas Brunner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 130401 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Wigner Distribution of Twisted Photons

Mohammad Mirhosseini, Omar S. Magaña-Loaiza, Changchen Chen, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi Rafsanjani, and Robert W. Boyd

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 130402 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Diagnosing Topological Edge States via Entanglement Monogamy

K. Meichanetzidis, J. Eisert, M. Cirio, V. Lahtinen, and J. K. Pachos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 130501 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Three-Point Functions in $c \leq 1$ Liouville Theory and Conformal Loop Ensembles

Yacine Ikhlef, Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, and Hubert Saleur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 130601 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

New Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law at the Submillimeter Range with Dual Modulation and Compensation

Wen-Hai Tan, Shan-Qing Yang, Cheng-Gang Shao, Jia Li, An-Bin Du, Bi-Fu Zhan, Qing-Lan Wang, Peng-Shun Luo, Liang-Cheng Tu, and Jun Luo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131101 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

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GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131102 (2016) - Published 31 March, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131103 (2016) - Published 31 March, 2016

The experimental requirements that had to be met by the Advanced LIGO detectors in order to detect the gravitational wave event GW150914, and how this was achieved are detailed.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Quantum Electrodynamics in $d = 3$ from the $ε$ Expansion

Lorenzo Di Pietro, Zohar Komargodski, Itamar Shamir, and Emmanuel Stamou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131601 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

New Physics Opportunities in the Boosted Di-Higgs-Boson Plus Missing Transverse Energy Signature

Zhaofeng Kang, P. Ko, and Jinmian Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 131801 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Complex Path Integrals and Saddles in Two-Dimensional Gauge Theory

P. V. Buividovich, Gerald V. Dunne, and S. N. Valgushev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132001 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Nuclear Physics

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Measurement of the Transverse Single-Spin Asymmetry in $p^{↑} + p \to W^{\pm} / Z^{0}$ at RHIC

L. Adamczyk et al. (STAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132301 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

The STAR collaboration at RHIC has measured a spin asymmetry in weak boson production that can put constraints on the distribution of quarks and gluons in a transversely polarized proton.

Anisotropic Flow of Charged Particles in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

J. Adam et al. (The ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132302 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Investigating the Pygmy Dipole Resonance Using $β$ Decay

M. Scheck, S. Mishev, V. Yu. Ponomarev, R. Chapman, L. P. Gaffney, E. T. Gregor, N. Pietralla, P. Spagnoletti, D. Savran, and G. S. Simpson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132501 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Effects of Fission Yield Data in the Calculation of Antineutrino Spectra for ${}^{235}U (n, fission)$ at Thermal and Fast Neutron Energies

A. A. Sonzogni, E. A. McCutchan, T. D. Johnson, and P. Dimitriou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132502 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Direct Measurement of the Astrophysical ${}^{38}K (p, γ) {}^{39}{Ca}$ Reaction and Its Influence on the Production of Nuclides toward the End Point of Nova Nucleosynthesis

G. Lotay, G. Christian, C. Ruiz, C. Akers, D. S. Burke, W. N. Catford, A. A. Chen, D. Connolly, B. Davids, J. Fallis, U. Hager, D. A. Hutcheon, A. Mahl, A. Rojas, and X. Sun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 132701 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Probing Molecular Dynamics by Laser-Induced Backscattering Holography

Marko Haertelt, Xue-Bin Bian, Michael Spanner, André Staudte, and Paul B. Corkum

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133001 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Electric Field Cancellation on Quartz by Rb Adsorbate-Induced Negative Electron Affinity

J. A. Sedlacek, E. Kim, S. T. Rittenhouse, P. F. Weck, H. R. Sadeghpour, and J. P. Shaffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133201 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Local Sampling of the Wigner Function at Telecom Wavelength with Loss-Tolerant Detection of Photon Statistics

G. Harder, Ch. Silberhorn, J. Rehacek, Z. Hradil, L. Motka, B. Stoklasa, and L. L. Sánchez-Soto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133601 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Dynamics of Localized Structures in Systems with Broken Parity Symmetry

J. Javaloyes, P. Camelin, M. Marconi, and M. Giudici

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133901 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

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Millisecond Photon Lifetime in a Slow-Light Microcavity

V. Huet, A. Rasoloniaina, P. Guillemé, P. Rochard, P. Féron, M. Mortier, A. Levenson, K. Bencheikh, A. Yacomotti, and Y. Dumeige

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133902 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

Introducing a slow-light medium into an optical microresonator extends the lifetime of a photon circulating in the device by several orders of magnitude.

Anomalous Edge State in a Non-Hermitian Lattice

Tony E. Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 133903 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Local Flow Field and Slip Length of Superhydrophobic Surfaces

David Schäffel, Kaloian Koynov, Doris Vollmer, Hans-Jürgen Butt, and Clarissa Schönecker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 134501 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Standing Helicon Wave Induced by a Rapidly Bent Magnetic Field in Plasmas

Kazunori Takahashi, Sho Takayama, Atsushi Komuro, and Akira Ando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135001 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Self-Regulated Plasma Heat Flux Mitigation Due to Liquid Sn Vapor Shielding

G. G. van Eden, T. W. Morgan, D. U. B. Aussems, M. A. van den Berg, K. Bystrov, and M. C. M. van de Sanden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135002 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Ultracold Nonreactive Molecules in an Optical Lattice: Connecting Chemistry to Many-Body Physics

Andris Doçaj, Michael L. Wall, Rick Mukherjee, and Kaden R. A. Hazzard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135301 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

One-Dimensional Liquid ${}^{4}{He}$ : Dynamical Properties beyond Luttinger-Liquid Theory

G. Bertaina, M. Motta, M. Rossi, E. Vitali, and D. E. Galli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135302 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Superglass Phase of Interaction-Blockaded Gases on a Triangular Lattice

Adriano Angelone, Fabio Mezzacapo, and Guido Pupillo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135303 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

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Topological Mechanics of Origami and Kirigami

Bryan Gin-ge Chen, Bin Liu, Arthur A. Evans, Jayson Paulose, Itai Cohen, Vincenzo Vitelli, and C. D. Santangelo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135501 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Origami formed by folding and cutting a material can feature well-defined, tunable mechanical properties.

Stress Induced Branching of Growing Crystals on Curved Surfaces

Christian Köhler, Rainer Backofen, and Axel Voigt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135502 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanical Weyl Modes in Topological Maxwell Lattices

D. Zeb Rocklin, Bryan Gin–ge Chen, Martin Falk, Vincenzo Vitelli, and T. C. Lubensky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135503 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

Two-dimensional mechanical lattices support topologically protected bulk zero modes analogous to the electronic modes of Weyl semimetals.

Mechanism of Radiation Damage Reduction in Equiatomic Multicomponent Single Phase Alloys

F. Granberg, K. Nordlund, Mohammad W. Ullah, K. Jin, C. Lu, H. Bei, L. M. Wang, F. Djurabekova, W. J. Weber, and Y. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135504 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

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Sparse Cyclic Excitations Explain the Low Ionic Conductivity of Stoichiometric ${Li}_{7} {La}_{3} {Zr}_{2} O_{12}$

Mario Burbano, Dany Carlier, Florent Boucher, Benjamin J. Morgan, and Mathieu Salanne

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 135901 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Double-Stranded Water on Stepped Platinum Surfaces

Manuel J. Kolb, Rachael G. Farber, Jonathan Derouin, Cansin Badan, Federico Calle-Vallejo, Ludo B. F. Juurlink, Daniel R. Killelea, and Marc T. M. Koper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136101 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Two-Magnon Raman Scattering and Pseudospin-Lattice Interactions in ${Sr}_{2} {IrO}_{4}$ and ${Sr}_{3} {Ir}_{2} O_{7}$

H. Gretarsson, N. H. Sung, M. Höppner, B. J. Kim, B. Keimer, and M. Le Tacon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136401 (2016) - Published 30 March, 2016

Nonlocal Anomalous Hall Effect

Steven S.-L. Zhang and Giovanni Vignale

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136601 (2016) - Published 1 April, 2016

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Electron Phase Shift at the Zero-Bias Anomaly of Quantum Point Contacts

B. Brun, F. Martins, S. Faniel, B. Hackens, A. Cavanna, C. Ulysse, A. Ouerghi, U. Gennser, D. Mailly, P. Simon, S. Huant, V. Bayot, M. Sanquer, and H. Sellier

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136801 (2016) - Published 28 March, 2016

Using a scanning gate microscope, researchers have shown that electron waves scattered from a quantum point contact carry the imprint of interactions with localized electron spins.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Enhanced Thermoelectric Power in Graphene: Violation of the Mott Relation by Inelastic Scattering

Fereshte Ghahari, Hong-Yi Xie, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Matthew S. Foster, and Philip Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 136802 (2016) - Published 29 March, 2016

In clean graphene, inelastic scattering processes cause the thermoelectric power at high temperature to exceed the value given by the traditional Mott relation.

Volume 116, Issue 13

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, and Interdisciplinary Physics