Volume 116, Issue 16

22 April 2016

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Numerical simulations showing the spatial structure of the dynamo magnetic field generated for a fluid astrophysical object. The colored sphere indicates the amplitude of the radial magnetic field at the surface of the core-mantle boundary. The lines indicate the magnetic field in the insulating mantle and outside of the astrophysical object.

From the article:

Fluctuations of Electrical Conductivity: A New Source for Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
F. Pétrélis, A. Alexakis, and C. Gissinger
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161102 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Observation of Genuine One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Sabine Wollmann, Nathan Walk, Adam J. Bennet, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160403 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Experiments provide evidence for one-way quantum steering—an effect by which distant entangled systems can influence one another in a directional way.

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Experimental Quantification of Asymmetric Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Kai Sun, Xiang-Jun Ye, Jin-Shi Xu, Xiao-Ye Xu, Jian-Shun Tang, Yu-Chun Wu, Jing-Ling Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160404 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Experiments provide evidence for one-way quantum steering—an effect by which distant entangled systems can influence one another in a directional way.

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Single Quantum Level Electron Turnstile

D. M. T. van Zanten, D. M. Basko, I. M. Khaymovich, J. P. Pekola, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166801 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

A combination of a quantum dot and superconducting leads works as an electron turnstile, letting only one electron pass at a time through a single level in the dot.

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Quantum Tunneling of Water in Beryl: A New State of the Water Molecule

Alexander I. Kolesnikov, George F. Reiter, Narayani Choudhury, Timothy R. Prisk, Eugene Mamontov, Andrey Podlesnyak, George Ehlers, Andrew G. Seel, David J. Wesolowski, and Lawrence M. Anovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167802 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Water molecules confined in nanochannels exhibit tunneling behavior that smears out the positions of the hydrogen atoms into a pair of corrugated rings.

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Magnetic Solitons in a Binary Bose-Einstein Condensate

Chunlei Qu, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160402 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

An analytic solution for a moving magnetic soliton in a spinor condensate shows that the width and velocity of these solitons are directly linked to the spin healing length and the spin sound velocity of the condensate.

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Search for Spectral Irregularities due to Photon–Axionlike-Particle Oscillations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ajello et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161101 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Observations of gamma rays from the Perseus galaxy by the Fermi Large Area Telescope provide strong limits on the mass of axion-like dark matter particles.

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Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX Data

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161301 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Data from the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment sets new limits on the scattering of weakly interacting massive particles by searching for their recoil signature from xenon nuclei.

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Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161302 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Data from the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment sets new limits on the scattering of weakly interacting massive particles by searching for their recoil signature from xenon nuclei.

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Reduced Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of ${}^{199}{Hg}$

B. Graner, Y. Chen ((陳宜)), E. G. Lindahl, and B. R. Heckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161601 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

A factor of four improvement on the maximum value for the permanent electric dipole moment of mercury atoms places new limits on a number of $C P$ -violating observables.

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Radio Frequency Tunable Oscillator Device Based on a ${SmB}_{6}$ Microcrystal

Alex Stern, Dmitry K. Efimkin, Victor Galitski, Zachary Fisk, and Jing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166603 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

A conduction channel that is electrically and thermally connected to a semiconductor could be made into a tunable oscillator.

LETTERS

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

Dynamics of a Many-Body-Localized System Coupled to a Bath

Mark H Fischer, Mykola Maksymenko, and Ehud Altman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160401 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

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Magnetic Solitons in a Binary Bose-Einstein Condensate

Chunlei Qu, Lev P. Pitaevskii, and Sandro Stringari

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160402 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

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Observation of Genuine One-Way Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Sabine Wollmann, Nathan Walk, Adam J. Bennet, Howard M. Wiseman, and Geoff J. Pryde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160403 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Experiments provide evidence for one-way quantum steering—an effect by which distant entangled systems can influence one another in a directional way.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Experimental Quantification of Asymmetric Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering

Kai Sun, Xiang-Jun Ye, Jin-Shi Xu, Xiao-Ye Xu, Jian-Shun Tang, Yu-Chun Wu, Jing-Ling Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, and Guang-Can Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160404 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Experiments provide evidence for one-way quantum steering—an effect by which distant entangled systems can influence one another in a directional way.

Experimental Test of Heisenberg’s Measurement Uncertainty Relation Based on Statistical Distances

Wenchao Ma, Zhihao Ma, Hengyan Wang, Zhihua Chen, Ying Liu, Fei Kong, Zhaokai Li, Xinhua Peng, Mingjun Shi, Fazhan Shi, Shao-Ming Fei, and Jiangfeng Du

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160405 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Relations between Coherence and Path Information

Emilio Bagan, János A. Bergou, Seth S. Cottrell, and Mark Hillery

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160406 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Converting Coherence to Quantum Correlations

Jiajun Ma, Benjamin Yadin, Davide Girolami, Vlatko Vedral, and Mile Gu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160407 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Geometric Heat Engines Featuring Power that Grows with Efficiency

O. Raz, Y. Subaşı, and R. Pugatch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 160601 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Search for Spectral Irregularities due to Photon–Axionlike-Particle Oscillations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ajello et al. (The Fermi-LAT Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161101 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Observations of gamma rays from the Perseus galaxy by the Fermi Large Area Telescope provide strong limits on the mass of axion-like dark matter particles.

Fluctuations of Electrical Conductivity: A New Source for Astrophysical Magnetic Fields

F. Pétrélis, A. Alexakis, and C. Gissinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161102 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Limits on Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles from Reanalysis of 2013 LUX Data

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161301 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Data from the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment sets new limits on the scattering of weakly interacting massive particles by searching for their recoil signature from xenon nuclei.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Results on the Spin-Dependent Scattering of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles on Nucleons from the Run 3 Data of the LUX Experiment

D. S. Akerib et al. (LUX Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161302 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Data from the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment sets new limits on the scattering of weakly interacting massive particles by searching for their recoil signature from xenon nuclei.

Testing Quantum Gravity Induced Nonlocality via Optomechanical Quantum Oscillators

Alessio Belenchia, Dionigi M. T. Benincasa, Stefano Liberati, Francesco Marin, Francesco Marino, and Antonello Ortolan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161303 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Naked Black Hole Firewalls

Pisin Chen, Yen Chin Ong, Don N. Page, Misao Sasaki, and Dong-han Yeom

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161304 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Reduced Limit on the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of ${}^{199}{Hg}$

B. Graner, Y. Chen ((陳宜)), E. G. Lindahl, and B. R. Heckel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161601 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

A factor of four improvement on the maximum value for the permanent electric dipole moment of mercury atoms places new limits on a number of $C P$ -violating observables.

Observation of the Decay $B_{s}^{0} \to K^{0} {\bar{K}}^{0}$

B. Pal et al. (Belle Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161801 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Observation of $B_{s}^{0} \to {\bar{D}}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ and Evidence for $B_{s}^{0} \to {\bar{D}}^{*}^{0} K_{S}^{0}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161802 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Electroweak Corrections to $p p \to μ^{+} μ^{-} e^{+} e^{-} + X$ at the LHC: A Higgs Boson Background Study

B. Biedermann, A. Denner, S. Dittmaier, L. Hofer, and B. Jäger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161803 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Axion Dark Matter Coupling to Resonant Photons via Magnetic Field

Ben T. McAllister, Stephen R. Parker, and Michael E. Tobar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 161804 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte Carlo Mass

Jan Kieseler, Katerina Lipka, and Sven-Olaf Moch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 162001 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Single Top Production at Next-to-Leading Order in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory

Cen Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 162002 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Nuclear Physics

New Isotopes and Proton Emitters–Crossing the Drip Line in the Vicinity of ${}^{100}{Sn}$

I. Čeliković et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 162501 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Room Temperature Chiral Discrimination in Paramagnetic NMR Spectroscopy

Alessandro Soncini and Simone Calvello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163001 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Imaging Electronic Excitation of NO by Ultrafast Laser Tunneling Ionization

Tomoyuki Endo, Akitaka Matsuda, Mizuho Fushitani, Tomokazu Yasuike, Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Toru Morishita, and Akiyoshi Hishikawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163002 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Direct Imaging of Transient Fano Resonances in $N_{2}$ Using Time-, Energy-, and Angular-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Martin Eckstein, Chung-Hsin Yang, Fabio Frassetto, Luca Poletto, Giuseppe Sansone, Marc J. J. Vrakking, and Oleg Kornilov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163003 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Phase Structure of Strong-Field Tunneling Wave Packets from Molecules

Ming-Ming Liu, Min Li, Chengyin Wu, Qihuang Gong, André Staudte, and Yunquan Liu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163004 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Random-Defect Laser: Manipulating Lossy Two-Level Systems to Produce a Circuit with Coherent Gain

Yaniv J. Rosen, Moe S. Khalil, Alexander L. Burin, and Kevin D. Osborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163601 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Macroscopic Quantum Superposition in Cavity Optomechanics

Jie-Qiao Liao and Lin Tian

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163602 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Unbalanced Homodyne Correlation Measurements

B. Kühn and W. Vogel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163603 (2016) - Published 19 April, 2016

Single-Photon Superradiance from a Quantum Dot

Petru Tighineanu, Raphaël S. Daveau, Tau B. Lehmann, Harvey E. Beere, David A. Ritchie, Peter Lodahl, and Søren Stobbe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163604 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Topological Optical Waveguiding in Silicon and the Transition between Topological and Trivial Defect States

Andrea Blanco-Redondo, Imanol Andonegui, Matthew J. Collins, Gal Harari, Yaakov Lumer, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Benjamin J. Eggleton, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163901 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Self-Organization of Light in Optical Media with Competing Nonlinearities

F. Maucher, T. Pohl, S. Skupin, and W. Krolikowski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163902 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Harvesting, Coupling, and Control of Single-Exciton Coherences in Photonic Waveguide Antennas

Q. Mermillod, T. Jakubczyk, V. Delmonte, A. Delga, E. Peinke, J.-M. Gérard, J. Claudon, and J. Kasprzak

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 163903 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Green’s Function Retrieval and Marchenko Imaging in a Dissipative Acoustic Medium

Evert Slob

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 164301 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Intertwined Multiple Spiral Fracture in Perforated Sheets

Juan-Francisco Fuentealba, Eugenio Hamm, and Benoît Roman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 165501 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

Coherence-Driven Topological Transition in Quantum Metamaterials

Pankaj K. Jha, Michael Mrejen, Jeongmin Kim, Chihhui Wu, Yuan Wang, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, and Xiang Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 165502 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Nature of Asymmetry in the Vibrational Line Shape of Single-Molecule Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectroscopy with the STM

Chen Xu (徐晨), Chi-lun Chiang (蔣季倫), Zhumin Han (韩竹敏), and W. Ho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166101 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Gate-Tunable Spin-Charge Conversion and the Role of Spin-Orbit Interaction in Graphene

S. Dushenko, H. Ago, K. Kawahara, T. Tsuda, S. Kuwabata, T. Takenobu, T. Shinjo, Y. Ando, and M. Shiraishi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166102 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Fingerprints of Majorana Bound States in Aharonov-Bohm Geometry

Krashna Mohan Tripathi, Sourin Das, and Sumathi Rao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166401 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Torsional Chiral Magnetic Effect in a Weyl Semimetal with a Topological Defect

Hiroaki Sumiyoshi and Satoshi Fujimoto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166601 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Unconventional dc Transport in Rashba Electron Gases

Valentina Brosco, Lara Benfatto, Emmanuele Cappelluti, and Claudio Grimaldi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166602 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Radio Frequency Tunable Oscillator Device Based on a ${SmB}_{6}$ Microcrystal

Alex Stern, Dmitry K. Efimkin, Victor Galitski, Zachary Fisk, and Jing Xia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166603 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

A conduction channel that is electrically and thermally connected to a semiconductor could be made into a tunable oscillator.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Single Quantum Level Electron Turnstile

D. M. T. van Zanten, D. M. Basko, I. M. Khaymovich, J. P. Pekola, H. Courtois, and C. B. Winkelmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166801 (2016) - Published 20 April, 2016

A combination of a quantum dot and superconducting leads works as an electron turnstile, letting only one electron pass at a time through a single level in the dot.

Probing Quantum Capacitance in a 3D Topological Insulator

D. A. Kozlov, D. Bauer, J. Ziegler, R. Fischer, M. L. Savchenko, Z. D. Kvon, N. N. Mikhailov, S. A. Dvoretsky, and D. Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 166802 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Magnetic Fluctuations in Pair-Density-Wave Superconductors

Morten H. Christensen, Henrik Jacobsen, Thomas A. Maier, and Brian M. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167001 (2016) - Published 18 April, 2016

Projected Dipole Moments of Individual Two-Level Defects Extracted Using Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

B. Sarabi, A. N. Ramanayaka, A. L. Burin, F. C. Wellstood, and K. D. Osborn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167002 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Landau Levels of Majorana Fermions in a Spin Liquid

Stephan Rachel, Lars Fritz, and Matthias Vojta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167201 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

Spinon Walk in Quantum Spin Ice

Yuan Wan, Juan Carrasquilla, and Roger G. Melko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167202 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Anisotropic de Gennes Narrowing in Confined Fluids

Kim Nygård, Johan Buitenhuis, Matias Kagias, Konstantins Jefimovs, Federico Zontone, and Yuriy Chushkin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167801 (2016) - Published 21 April, 2016

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Quantum Tunneling of Water in Beryl: A New State of the Water Molecule

Alexander I. Kolesnikov, George F. Reiter, Narayani Choudhury, Timothy R. Prisk, Eugene Mamontov, Andrey Podlesnyak, George Ehlers, Andrew G. Seel, David J. Wesolowski, and Lawrence M. Anovitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 167802 (2016) - Published 22 April, 2016

Water molecules confined in nanochannels exhibit tunneling behavior that smears out the positions of the hydrogen atoms into a pair of corrugated rings.