Volume 116, Issue 17

29 April 2016

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Schematic illustration of the trajectory of a point particle through a wormhole. The red curve depicts the radial trajectory and the black curve denotes the wormhole’s throat. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and for a Synopsis in Physics.

From the article:

Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon?
Vitor Cardoso, Edgardo Franzin, and Paolo Pani
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 171101 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon?

Vitor Cardoso, Edgardo Franzin, and Paolo Pani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 171101 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Recently detected gravitational waves might not be a signature of black holes but of other massive objects that lack an event horizon.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equation of State of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Eugenio Cocchi, Luke A. Miller, Jan H. Drewes, Marco Koschorreck, Daniel Pertot, Ferdinand Brennecke, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 175301 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

The engineered simplicity of a cold-atom system described by the 2D Fermi-Hubbard model allows for a precision test of the model’s equation of state.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Enhancement of the Index of Refraction in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. C. Bons, R. de Haas, D. de Jong, A. Groot, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 173602 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

The index of refraction in a gas of bosons is enhanced relative to its value in a classical gas, a predicted quantum effect that has now been observed in ultracold sodium atoms.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Long-Range Elliptic Azimuthal Anisotropies in $\sqrt{s} = 13$ and 2.76 TeV $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 172301 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Proton-proton collisions at the highest available LHC energy produce strongly correlated particles that are reminiscent of those seen in similar collisions with protons and lead.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Symmetry Guide to Ferroaxial Transitions

J. Hlinka, J. Privratska, P. Ondrejkovic, and V. Janovec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 177602 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

A theoretical database is presented of the 212 distinct types of symmetry reductions that could occur for a symmetry-breaking structural phase transition, revealing 124 symmetry reductions that are ferroaxial.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Active Curved Polymers Form Vortex Patterns on Membranes

Jonas Denk, Lorenz Huber, Emanuel Reithmann, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 178301 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Active self-propelled particles moving along chiral paths self-organize into vortex structures.

LETTERS

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

Emergence of Fractional Statistics for Tracer Particles in a Laughlin Liquid

Douglas Lundholm and Nicolas Rougerie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 170401 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Quantum Statistical Mechanical Derivation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics: A Hybrid Setting Approach

Hal Tasaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 170402 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Achievable Polarization for Heat-Bath Algorithmic Cooling

Nayeli Azucena Rodríguez-Briones and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 170501 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness

Fernando G. S. L. Brandão, Aram W. Harrow, and Michał Horodecki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 170502 (2016) - Published 29 April, 2016

Optimal Stochastic Restart Renders Fluctuations in First Passage Times Universal

Shlomi Reuveni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 170601 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon?

Vitor Cardoso, Edgardo Franzin, and Paolo Pani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 171101 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Recently detected gravitational waves might not be a signature of black holes but of other massive objects that lack an event horizon.

Signatures of the Primordial Universe from Its Emptiness: Measurement of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations from Minima of the Density Field

Francisco-Shu Kitaura, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Yu Liang, Cheng Zhao, Charling Tao, Sergio Rodríguez-Torres, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Héctor Gil-Marín, Jean-Paul Kneib, Cameron McBride, Will J. Percival, Ashley J. Ross, Ariel G. Sánchez, Jeremy Tinker, Rita Tojeiro, Mariana Vargas-Magana, and Gong-Bo Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 171301 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Residual Local Supersymmetry and the Soft Gravitino

Steven G. Avery and Burkhard U. W. Schwab

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 171601 (2016) - Published 26 April, 2016

Lattice Computation of the Nucleon Scalar Quark Contents at the Physical Point

S. Durr, Z. Fodor, C. Hoelbling, S. D. Katz, S. Krieg, L. Lellouch, T. Lippert, T. Metivet, A. Portelli, K. K. Szabo, C. Torrero, B. C. Toth, and L. Varnhorst (Budapest-Marseille-Wuppertal Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 172001 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of Long-Range Elliptic Azimuthal Anisotropies in $\sqrt{s} = 13$ and 2.76 TeV $p p$ Collisions with the ATLAS Detector

G. Aad et al. (ATLAS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 172301 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Proton-proton collisions at the highest available LHC energy produce strongly correlated particles that are reminiscent of those seen in similar collisions with protons and lead.

Measurement of Long-Range Near-Side Two-Particle Angular Correlations in $p p$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 13 TeV$

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 172302 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

High-Precision Half-Life Measurements for the Superallowed $β^{+}$ Emitter ${}^{10}C$ : Implications for Weak Scalar Currents

M. R. Dunlop et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 172501 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Near-Forward Rescattering Photoelectron Holography in Strong-Field Ionization: Extraction of the Phase of the Scattering Amplitude

Yueming Zhou, Oleg I. Tolstikhin, and Toru Morishita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 173001 (2016) - Published 26 April, 2016

Experimental Demonstration of the Effectiveness of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency for Enhancing Cross-Phase Modulation in the Short-Pulse Regime

Greg Dmochowski, Amir Feizpour, Matin Hallaji, Chao Zhuang, Alex Hayat, and Aephraim M. Steinberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 173002 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

Double Bragg Interferometry

H. Ahlers, H. Müntinga, A. Wenzlawski, M. Krutzik, G. Tackmann, S. Abend, N. Gaaloul, E. Giese, A. Roura, R. Kuhl, C. Lämmerzahl, A. Peters, P. Windpassinger, K. Sengstock, W. P. Schleich, W. Ertmer, and E. M. Rasel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 173601 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Quantum Enhancement of the Index of Refraction in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

P. C. Bons, R. de Haas, D. de Jong, A. Groot, and P. van der Straten

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 173602 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

The index of refraction in a gas of bosons is enhanced relative to its value in a classical gas, a predicted quantum effect that has now been observed in ultracold sodium atoms.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Optical Kerr Spatiotemporal Dark-Lump Dynamics of Hydrodynamic Origin

Fabio Baronio, Stefan Wabnitz, and Yuji Kodama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 173901 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Acoustic Measurement of Surface Wave Damping by a Meniscus

Guillaume Michel, François Pétrélis, and Stéphan Fauve

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 174301 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Observation of Dispersive Shock Waves, Solitons, and Their Interactions in Viscous Fluid Conduits

Michelle D. Maiden, Nicholas K. Lowman, Dalton V. Anderson, Marika E. Schubert, and Mark A. Hoefer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 174501 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Vortex Dynamics and Shear-Layer Instability in High-Intensity Cyclotrons

Antoine J. Cerfon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 174801 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

High Confinement Mode and Edge Localized Mode Characteristics in a Near-Unity Aspect Ratio Tokamak

K. E. Thome, M. W. Bongard, J. L. Barr, G. M. Bodner, M. G. Burke, R. J. Fonck, D. M. Kriete, J. M. Perry, and D. J. Schlossberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 175001 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Equation of State of the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model

Eugenio Cocchi, Luke A. Miller, Jan H. Drewes, Marco Koschorreck, Daniel Pertot, Ferdinand Brennecke, and Michael Köhl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 175301 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

The engineered simplicity of a cold-atom system described by the 2D Fermi-Hubbard model allows for a precision test of the model’s equation of state.

Memory Effect Manifested by a Boson Peak in Metallic Glass

P. Luo, Y. Z. Li, H. Y. Bai, P. Wen, and W. H. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 175901 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

Interlayer Exchange Coupling: A General Scheme Turning Chiral Magnets into Magnetic Multilayers Carrying Atomic-Scale Skyrmions

Ashis Kumar Nandy, Nikolai S. Kiselev, and Stefan Blügel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 177202 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Symmetry Guide to Ferroaxial Transitions

J. Hlinka, J. Privratska, P. Ondrejkovic, and V. Janovec

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 177602 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Untangling Knots Via Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics of Vortex Strings

Fabian Maucher and Paul Sutcliffe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 178101 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Active Curved Polymers Form Vortex Patterns on Membranes

Jonas Denk, Lorenz Huber, Emanuel Reithmann, and Erwin Frey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 178301 (2016) - Published 25 April, 2016

Active self-propelled particles moving along chiral paths self-organize into vortex structures.

Geometrical Performance of Self-Phoretic Colloids and Microswimmers

Amir Nourhani and Paul E. Lammert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 178302 (2016) - Published 27 April, 2016

COMMENTS

Comment on “Constant Stress and Pressure Rheology of Colloidal Suspensions”

A. Ikeda, L. Berthier, and P. Sollich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 179801 (2016) - Published 26 April, 2016

Wang and Brady Reply:

M. Wang and J. F. Brady

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 179802 (2016) - Published 26 April, 2016

ERRATA

Erratum: Quantum Criticality in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Itinerant Antiferromagnets [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 186405 (2015)]

C. M. Varma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 179901 (2016) - Published 28 April, 2016

Volume 116, Issue 17

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

COMMENTS

ERRATA