Volume 116, Issue 15

15 April 2016

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On the Cover

Development of a Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the interface between (top) silicon oil and a denser water-ethanol solution (blue) and (bottom) an elastoplastic solid concentrated emulsion (white), and a denser salt solution.

From the article:

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Elastoplastic Solids: A Local Catastrophic Process
I. Maimouni, J. Goyon, E. Lac, T. Pringuey, J. Boujlel, X. Chateau, and P. Coussot
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 154502 (2016)

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

Editorial: Theorists React to the CERN 750 GeV Diphoton Data

Robert Garisto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150001 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Editorial: Climate Science: An Invitation for Physicists

J. S. Wettlaufer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150002 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

John Wettlaufer discusses the opportunities open to physicists in climate science research.

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Interstellar ${}^{60}{Fe}$ on the Surface of the Moon

L. Fimiani, D. L. Cook, T. Faestermann, J. M. Gómez-Guzmán, K. Hain, G. Herzog, K. Knie, G. Korschinek, P. Ludwig, J. Park, R. C. Reedy, and G. Rugel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151104 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

Lunar soil samples reveal an unusually high level of radioactive iron, which suggests a supernova in our vicinity within the last few million years.

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Resolving the Extragalactic $γ$ -Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151105 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Researchers estimate that blazars produce 86% of the extragalactic gamma-ray background.

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First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in NOvA

P. Adamson et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151806 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

The first results from the NOvA experiment set new constraints on charge-parity violation in neutrinos and on the ordering of neutrino masses.

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Observation of Double-Dome Superconductivity in Potassium-Doped FeSe Thin Films

Can-Li Song, Hui-Min Zhang, Yong Zhong, Xiao-Peng Hu, Shuai-Hua Ji, Lili Wang, Ke He, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 157001 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Iron selenide films peppered with potassium atoms exhibit a high-temperature superconducting phase that emerges separately from a low-temperature superconducting phase.

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Footprints of New Strong Dynamics via Anomaly and the 750 GeV Diphoton

Yuichiro Nakai, Ryosuke Sato, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151802 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

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Pseudoscalar Decaying Only via Loops as an Explanation for the 750 GeV Diphoton Excess

Gang Li, Ying-nan Mao, Yi-Lei Tang, Chen Zhang, Yang Zhou, and Shou-hua Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151803 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

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750 GeV Diphoton Excess from the Goldstino Superpartner

Christoffer Petersson and Riccardo Torre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151804 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

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750 GeV Diphoton Excess May Not Imply a 750 GeV Resonance

Won Sang Cho, Doojin Kim, Kyoungchul Kong, Sung Hak Lim, Konstantin T. Matchev, Jong-Chul Park, and Myeonghun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151805 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

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Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence

Carmine Napoli, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Cianciaruso, Marco Piani, Nathaniel Johnston, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150502 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

A general method for quantifying the amount of coherence in a quantum system is proposed.

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Supercooling of Atoms in an Optical Resonator

Minghui Xu, Simon B. Jäger, S. Schütz, J. Cooper, Giovanna Morigi, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 153002 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

A proposal to cool a cavity of atoms by mechanically coupling the atoms to the cavity could provide an enhanced cooling rate and lower temperatures than conventional laser cooling methods.

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Spontaneous Polarization and Bulk Photovoltaic Effect Driven by Polar Discontinuity in ${LaFeO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterojunctions

M. Nakamura, F. Kagawa, T. Tanigaki, H. S. Park, T. Matsuda, D. Shindo, Y. Tokura, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 156801 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Nonpolar LaFeO $_{3}$ thin films spontaneously polarize when grown on SrTiO $_{3}$ substrates. This polarization induces anomalous photovoltaic properties, distinct from conventional $p$ - $n$ junctions.

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Magnetic Ground States of the Rare-Earth Tripod Kagome Lattice ${Mg}_{2} {RE}_{3} {Sb}_{3} O_{14}$ ( $RE = Gd, Dy, Er$ )

Z. L. Dun, J. Trinh, K. Li, M. Lee, K. W. Chen, R. Baumbach, Y. F. Hu, Y. X. Wang, E. S. Choi, B. S. Shastry, A. P. Ramirez, and H. D. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 157201 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

A new family of compounds with a frustrated spin structure has been discovered. These materials feature kagome networks of rare-earth ions created via the ordered substitution of non-magnetic magnesium atoms in the 3D pyrochlore crystal structure.

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Universality and Scaling in a Charge Two-Channel Kondo Device

A. K. Mitchell, L. A. Landau, L. Fritz, and E. Sela

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 157202 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

A two-channel Kondo model solved using the numerical renormalization group reproduces the temperature dependence of the conductance measured in recent experiments on Kondo nanostructures. This suggests that charge-Kondo devices constitute perfect quantum simulations of models exhibiting quantum criticality.

LETTERS

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

No Fine Theorem for Macrorealism: Limitations of the Leggett-Garg Inequality

Lucas Clemente and Johannes Kofler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150401 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Hardware-Efficient and Fully Autonomous Quantum Error Correction in Superconducting Circuits

Eliot Kapit

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150501 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence

Carmine Napoli, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Cianciaruso, Marco Piani, Nathaniel Johnston, and Gerardo Adesso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150502 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

A general method for quantifying the amount of coherence in a quantum system is proposed.

Qubit Noise Spectroscopy for Non-Gaussian Dephasing Environments

Leigh M. Norris, Gerardo A. Paz-Silva, and Lorenza Viola

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150503 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Distribution of Quantum Coherence in Multipartite Systems

Chandrashekar Radhakrishnan, Manikandan Parthasarathy, Segar Jambulingam, and Tim Byrnes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150504 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Gatemon Benchmarking and Two-Qubit Operations

L. Casparis, T. W. Larsen, M. S. Olsen, F. Kuemmeth, P. Krogstrup, J. Nygård, K. D. Petersson, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 150505 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Testing the Equivalence Principle and Lorentz Invariance with PeV Neutrinos from Blazar Flares

Zi-Yi Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu, and Xiang-Yu Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151101 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Circular Polarizations of Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae: A Clear Indication of Rapid Rotation

Kazuhiro Hayama, Takami Kuroda, Ko Nakamura, and Shoichi Yamada

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151102 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

White Dwarf Critical Tests for Modified Gravity

Rajeev Kumar Jain, Chris Kouvaris, and Niklas Grønlund Nielsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151103 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

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Interstellar ${}^{60}{Fe}$ on the Surface of the Moon

L. Fimiani, D. L. Cook, T. Faestermann, J. M. Gómez-Guzmán, K. Hain, G. Herzog, K. Knie, G. Korschinek, P. Ludwig, J. Park, R. C. Reedy, and G. Rugel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151104 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

Lunar soil samples reveal an unusually high level of radioactive iron, which suggests a supernova in our vicinity within the last few million years.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Resolving the Extragalactic $γ$ -Ray Background above 50 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151105 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Researchers estimate that blazars produce 86% of the extragalactic gamma-ray background.

Quantum Gravitational Force Between Polarizable Objects

L. H. Ford, Mark P. Hertzberg, and J. Karouby

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151301 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Probing the Dark Sector with Dark Matter Bound States

Haipeng An, Bertrand Echenard, Maxim Pospelov, and Yue Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151801 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

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Footprints of New Strong Dynamics via Anomaly and the 750 GeV Diphoton

Yuichiro Nakai, Ryosuke Sato, and Kohsaku Tobioka

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151802 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Pseudoscalar Decaying Only via Loops as an Explanation for the 750 GeV Diphoton Excess

Gang Li, Ying-nan Mao, Yi-Lei Tang, Chen Zhang, Yang Zhou, and Shou-hua Zhu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151803 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

750 GeV Diphoton Excess from the Goldstino Superpartner

Christoffer Petersson and Riccardo Torre

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151804 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

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750 GeV Diphoton Excess May Not Imply a 750 GeV Resonance

Won Sang Cho, Doojin Kim, Kyoungchul Kong, Sung Hak Lim, Konstantin T. Matchev, Jong-Chul Park, and Myeonghun Park

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151805 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Theorists try to explain data from the LHC that could be hinting at the existence of new particles.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Measurement of Electron Neutrino Appearance in NOvA

P. Adamson et al. (NOvA Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 151806 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

The first results from the NOvA experiment set new constraints on charge-parity violation in neutrinos and on the ordering of neutrino masses.

$Z$ -Boson Production in Association with a Jet at Next-To-Next-To-Leading Order in Perturbative QCD

Radja Boughezal, John Campbell, R. Keith Ellis, Christfried Focke, Walter Giele, Xiaohui Liu, and Frank Petriello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 152001 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Static Response of Neutron Matter

Mateusz Buraczynski and Alexandros Gezerlis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 152501 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Pairing Nambu-Goldstone Modes within Nuclear Density Functional Theory

Nobuo Hinohara and Witold Nazarewicz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 152502 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Stark Interference of Electric and Magnetic Dipole Transitions in the $A - X$ Band of OH

H. Christian Schewe, Dongdong Zhang, Gerard Meijer, Robert W. Field, Boris G. Sartakov, Gerrit C. Groenenboom, Ad van der Avoird, and Nicolas Vanhaecke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 153001 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Supercooling of Atoms in an Optical Resonator

Minghui Xu, Simon B. Jäger, S. Schütz, J. Cooper, Giovanna Morigi, and M. J. Holland

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 153002 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

A proposal to cool a cavity of atoms by mechanically coupling the atoms to the cavity could provide an enhanced cooling rate and lower temperatures than conventional laser cooling methods.

Recurrent Delocalization and Quasiequilibration of Photons in Coupled Systems in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Myung-Joong Hwang, M. S. Kim, and Mahn-Soo Choi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 153601 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Quasimomentum-Space Image for Ultrafast Melting of Silicon

Tobias Zier, Eeuwe S. Zijlstra, and Martin E. Garcia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 153901 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Intrinsic Negative Mass from Nonlinearity

F. Di Mei, P. Caramazza, D. Pierangeli, G. Di Domenico, H. Ilan, A. J. Agranat, P. Di Porto, and E. DelRe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 153902 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

Scaling Behavior for Ionic Transport and its Fluctuations in Individual Carbon Nanotubes

Eleonora Secchi, Antoine Niguès, Laetitia Jubin, Alessandro Siria, and Lydéric Bocquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 154501 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in Elastoplastic Solids: A Local Catastrophic Process

I. Maimouni, J. Goyon, E. Lac, T. Pringuey, J. Boujlel, X. Chateau, and P. Coussot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 154502 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Generation of Superponderomotive Electrons in Multipicosecond Interactions of Kilojoule Laser Beams with Solid-Density Plasmas

A. Sorokovikova, A. V. Arefiev, C. McGuffey, B. Qiao, A. P. L. Robinson, M. S. Wei, H. S. McLean, and F. N. Beg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 155001 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Two-Plasmon Decay Mitigation in Direct-Drive Inertial-Confinement-Fusion Experiments Using Multilayer Targets

R. K. Follett, J. A. Delettrez, D. H. Edgell, V. N. Goncharov, R. J. Henchen, J. Katz, D. T. Michel, J. F. Myatt, J. Shaw, A. A. Solodov, C. Stoeckl, B. Yaakobi, and D. H. Froula

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 155002 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Quantum Kibble-Zurek Mechanism in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate

M. Anquez, B. A. Robbins, H. M Bharath, M. Boguslawski, T. M. Hoang, and M. S. Chapman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 155301 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

Few-Body Precursor of the Higgs Mode in a Fermi Gas

J. Bjerlin, S. M. Reimann, and G. M. Bruun

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 155302 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Pressure-Resistant Intermediate Valence in the Kondo Insulator ${SmB}_{6}$

Nicholas P. Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, Paul Chow, Yuming Xiao, Chris A. Marianetti, Corwin H. Booth, and Jason R. Jeffries

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 156401 (2016) - Published 13 April, 2016

Unified Theory of $P T$ and $C P$ Invariant Topological Metals and Nodal Superconductors

Y. X. Zhao, Andreas P. Schnyder, and Z. D. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 156402 (2016) - Published 14 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Spontaneous Polarization and Bulk Photovoltaic Effect Driven by Polar Discontinuity in ${LaFeO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ Heterojunctions

M. Nakamura, F. Kagawa, T. Tanigaki, H. S. Park, T. Matsuda, D. Shindo, Y. Tokura, and M. Kawasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 156801 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Current Correlations from a Mesoscopic Anyon Collider

Bernd Rosenow, Ivan P. Levkivskyi, and Bertrand I. Halperin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 156802 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Macroscopic Degeneracy of Zero-Mode Rotating Surface States in 3D Dirac and Weyl Semimetals under Radiation

José González and Rafael A. Molina

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 156803 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Double-Dome Superconductivity in Potassium-Doped FeSe Thin Films

Can-Li Song, Hui-Min Zhang, Yong Zhong, Xiao-Peng Hu, Shuai-Hua Ji, Lili Wang, Ke He, Xu-Cun Ma, and Qi-Kun Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 157001 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Iron selenide films peppered with potassium atoms exhibit a high-temperature superconducting phase that emerges separately from a low-temperature superconducting phase.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetic Ground States of the Rare-Earth Tripod Kagome Lattice ${Mg}_{2} {RE}_{3} {Sb}_{3} O_{14}$ ( $RE = Gd, Dy, Er$ )

Z. L. Dun, J. Trinh, K. Li, M. Lee, K. W. Chen, R. Baumbach, Y. F. Hu, Y. X. Wang, E. S. Choi, B. S. Shastry, A. P. Ramirez, and H. D. Zhou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 157201 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Cluster Morphology-Polymer Dynamics Correlations in Sulfonated Polystyrene Melts: Computational Study

Anupriya Agrawal, Dvora Perahia, and Gary S. Grest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 158001 (2016) - Published 11 April, 2016

Homologous Pairing between Long DNA Double Helices

Alexey K. Mazur

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 158101 (2016) - Published 12 April, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Pressure-Induced Mott Transition Followed by a 24-K Superconducting Phase in ${BaFe}_{2} S_{3}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 246402 (2015)]

Touru Yamauchi, Yasuyuki Hirata, Yutaka Ueda, and Kenya Ohgushi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 159901 (2016) - Published 15 April, 2016

Volume 116, Issue 15

On the Cover

From the article:

EDITORIALS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

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

COMMENTS

ERRATA