Volume 116, Issue 18

6 May 2016

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Time-averaged image of a sequence of frames that show streaming 70 μ m beads in a microfluidic cavity with a vibrating silicon chip. The collective rotation of the beads shows a faradolelike motion. The mean bead trajectory is overlaid; color indicates orthoradial velocity. Selected for an Editors' Suggestion and for a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Chladni Patterns in a Liquid at Microscale
Gaël Vuillermet, Pierre-Yves Gires, Fabrice Casset, and Cédric Poulain
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 184501 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Conical Diffraction and Composite Lieb Bosons in Photonic Lattices

Falko Diebel, Daniel Leykam, Sebastian Kroesen, Cornelia Denz, and Anton S. Desyatnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183902 (2016) - Published 4 May, 2016

An array of optical waveguides bestows light waves with three spin-like states, which are observable in cone- and vortex-shaped diffraction patterns.

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Chladni Patterns in a Liquid at Microscale

Gaël Vuillermet, Pierre-Yves Gires, Fabrice Casset, and Cédric Poulain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 184501 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

A thin vibrating plate can organize microscopic particles within a liquid into different patterns, an effect like that observed in 18th century studies of musical instruments.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Enhanced Multi-MeV Photon Emission by a Laser-Driven Electron Beam in a Self-Generated Magnetic Field

D. J. Stark, T. Toncian, and A. V. Arefiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185003 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Computer simulations show that blasting plastic with strong laser pulses could produce gamma rays with unprecedented intensity, good for fundamental physics experiments and possibly cancer treatments.

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First Evidence of Shape Coexistence in the ${}^{78}{Ni}$ Region: Intruder $0_{2}^{+}$ State in ${}^{80}{Ge}$

A. Gottardo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 182501 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Two different experiments observe nuclei with excited nuclear states that differ in shape from their ground states, so called shape coexistence. These nuclei lie close to the neutron-rich doubly-magic $^{78}$ Ni region of the nuclear chart.

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Isomer Shift and Magnetic Moment of the Long-Lived $1 / 2^{+}$ Isomer in ${}_{30}^{79}{Zn}_{49}$ : Signature of Shape Coexistence near ${}^{78}{Ni}$

X. F. Yang, C. Wraith, L. Xie, C. Babcock, J. Billowes, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, B. Cheal, K. T. Flanagan, R. F. Garcia Ruiz, W. Gins, C. Gorges, L. K. Grob, H. Heylen, S. Kaufmann, M. Kowalska, J. Kraemer, S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, J. Papuga, R. Sánchez, and D. T. Yordanov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 182502 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

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Anticorrelated Emission of High Harmonics and Fast Electron Beams From Plasma Mirrors

Maïmouna Bocoum, Maxence Thévenet, Frederik Böhle, Benoît Beaurepaire, Aline Vernier, Aurélie Jullien, Jérôme Faure, and Rodrigo Lopez-Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185001 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Tuning a plasma on the nanoscale level can transform a plasma mirror from an extreme ultraviolet emitter to an efficient electron accelerator.

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Double Dirac Semimetals in Three Dimensions

Benjamin J. Wieder, Youngkuk Kim, A. M. Rappe, and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186402 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

A search of the 230 crystallographic symmetry groups find seven that can host double Dirac points. These materials have the same transport properties as single Dirac semimetals, but possess an eight-fold degeneracy which can be tuned into either a topological or a trivial insulator by applying strain in different directions.

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Phonon-Assisted Resonant Tunneling of Electrons in Graphene–Boron Nitride Transistors

E. E. Vdovin, A. Mishchenko, M. T. Greenaway, M. J. Zhu, D. Ghazaryan, A. Misra, Y. Cao, S. V. Morozov, O. Makarovsky, T. M. Fromhold, A. Patanè, G. J. Slotman, M. I. Katsnelson, A. K. Geim, K. S. Novoselov, and L. Eaves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186603 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Sharp resonance peaks in electrical conductance identify the energies and nature of the emitted phonons in graphene-based transistors.

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Anomalous Interlayer Transport of Quantum Hall Bilayers in the Strongly Josephson-Coupled Regime

Ding Zhang, Werner Dietsche, and Klaus von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186801 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Reducing the thickness of the interlayer barrier in a quantum Hall bilayer and tweaking an in-plane magnetic field provides unexpected control over domain formation.

LETTERS

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

Experiment Investigating the Connection between Weak Values and Contextuality

F. Piacentini, A. Avella, M. P. Levi, R. Lussana, F. Villa, A. Tosi, F. Zappa, M. Gramegna, G. Brida, I. P. Degiovanni, and M. Genovese

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 180401 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Fisher-Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements for Pure States

Nan Li, Christopher Ferrie, Jonathan A. Gross, Amir Kalev, and Carlton M. Caves

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 180402 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

High-Fidelity Resonator-Induced Phase Gate with Single-Mode Squeezing

Shruti Puri and Alexandre Blais

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 180501 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Effects of Neutron-Star Dynamic Tides on Gravitational Waveforms within the Effective-One-Body Approach

Tanja Hinderer, Andrea Taracchini, Francois Foucart, Alessandra Buonanno, Jan Steinhoff, Matthew Duez, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Kenta Hotokezaka, Koutarou Kyutoku, Masaru Shibata, and Cory W. Carpenter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 181101 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Exact Mass-Coupling Relation for the Homogeneous Sine-Gordon Model

Zoltán Bajnok, János Balog, Katsushi Ito, Yuji Satoh, and Gábor Zsolt Tóth

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 181601 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Higher Spin Interactions from Conformal Field Theory: The Complete Cubic Couplings

Charlotte Sleight and Massimo Taronna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 181602 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Measurement of Muon Antineutrino Oscillations with an Accelerator-Produced Off-Axis Beam

K. Abe et al. (T2K Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 181801 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Nuclear Physics

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

First Evidence of Shape Coexistence in the ${}^{78}{Ni}$ Region: Intruder $0_{2}^{+}$ State in ${}^{80}{Ge}$

A. Gottardo et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 182501 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Isomer Shift and Magnetic Moment of the Long-Lived $1 / 2^{+}$ Isomer in ${}_{30}^{79}{Zn}_{49}$ : Signature of Shape Coexistence near ${}^{78}{Ni}$

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 182502 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Adiabatic Field-Free Alignment of Asymmetric Top Molecules with an Optical Centrifuge

A. Korobenko and V. Milner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183001 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Visibility of Young’s Interference Fringes: Scattered Light from Small Ion Crystals

Sebastian Wolf, Julian Wechs, Joachim von Zanthier, and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183002 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Continuous Cold-Atom Inertial Sensor with $1 nrad / \sec$ Rotation Stability

I. Dutta, D. Savoie, B. Fang, B. Venon, C. L. Garrido Alzar, R. Geiger, and A. Landragin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183003 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Optical Resonance Shifts in the Fluorescence of Thermal and Cold Atomic Gases

S. D. Jenkins, J. Ruostekoski, J. Javanainen, R. Bourgain, S. Jennewein, Y. R. P. Sortais, and A. Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183601 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Ultrafast Optimal Sideband Cooling under Non-Markovian Evolution

Johan F. Triana, Andrés F. Estrada, and Leonardo A. Pachón

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183602 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Geometric Parametric Instability Induced by the Periodic Spatial Self-Imaging of Multimode Waves

Katarzyna Krupa, Alessandro Tonello, Alain Barthélémy, Vincent Couderc, Badr Mohamed Shalaby, Abdelkrim Bendahmane, Guy Millot, and Stefan Wabnitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183901 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Conical Diffraction and Composite Lieb Bosons in Photonic Lattices

Falko Diebel, Daniel Leykam, Sebastian Kroesen, Cornelia Denz, and Anton S. Desyatnikov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183902 (2016) - Published 4 May, 2016

An array of optical waveguides bestows light waves with three spin-like states, which are observable in cone- and vortex-shaped diffraction patterns.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Chladni Patterns in a Liquid at Microscale

Gaël Vuillermet, Pierre-Yves Gires, Fabrice Casset, and Cédric Poulain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 184501 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

A thin vibrating plate can organize microscopic particles within a liquid into different patterns, an effect like that observed in 18th century studies of musical instruments.

Defects at the Nanoscale Impact Contact Line Motion at all Scales

Hugo Perrin, Romain Lhermerout, Kristina Davitt, Etienne Rolley, and Bruno Andreotti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 184502 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Tunable High-Intensity Electron Bunch Train Production Based on Nonlinear Longitudinal Space Charge Oscillation

Zhen Zhang, Lixin Yan, Yingchao Du, Zheng Zhou, Xiaolu Su, Lianmin Zheng, Dong Wang, Qili Tian, Wei Wang, Jiaru Shi, Huaibi Chen, Wenhui Huang, Wei Gai, and Chuanxiang Tang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 184801 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anticorrelated Emission of High Harmonics and Fast Electron Beams From Plasma Mirrors

Maïmouna Bocoum, Maxence Thévenet, Frederik Böhle, Benoît Beaurepaire, Aline Vernier, Aurélie Jullien, Jérôme Faure, and Rodrigo Lopez-Martens

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185001 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Tuning a plasma on the nanoscale level can transform a plasma mirror from an extreme ultraviolet emitter to an efficient electron accelerator.

Internal Transport Barrier Broadening through Subdominant Mode Stabilization in Reversed Field Pinch Plasmas

R. Lorenzini, F. Auriemma, A. Fassina, E. Martines, D. Terranova, and F. Sattin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185002 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

Enhanced Multi-MeV Photon Emission by a Laser-Driven Electron Beam in a Self-Generated Magnetic Field

D. J. Stark, T. Toncian, and A. V. Arefiev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185003 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Collisional Dynamics of Half-Quantum Vortices in a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Sang Won Seo, Woo Jin Kwon, Seji Kang, and Y. Shin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185301 (2016) - Published 6 May, 2016

Lattice Dynamics of EuO: Evidence for Giant Spin-Phonon Coupling

R. Pradip, P. Piekarz, A. Bosak, D. G. Merkel, O. Waller, A. Seiler, A. I. Chumakov, R. Rüffer, A. M. Oleś, K. Parlinski, M. Krisch, T. Baumbach, and S. Stankov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185501 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Anomalous Wien Effects in Supercooled Ionic Liquids

L. N. Patro, O. Burghaus, and B. Roling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 185901 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Spontaneous Charge Carrier Localization in Extended One-Dimensional Systems

Vojtěch Vlček, Helen R. Eisenberg, Gerd Steinle-Neumann, Daniel Neuhauser, Eran Rabani, and Roi Baer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186401 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Double Dirac Semimetals in Three Dimensions

Benjamin J. Wieder, Youngkuk Kim, A. M. Rappe, and C. L. Kane

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186402 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Enhancement of Thermally Injected Spin Current through an Antiferromagnetic Insulator

Weiwei Lin, Kai Chen, Shufeng Zhang, and C. L. Chien

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186601 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Electron Interference in Ballistic Graphene Nanoconstrictions

Jens Baringhaus, Mikkel Settnes, Johannes Aprojanz, Stephen R. Power, Antti-Pekka Jauho, and Christoph Tegenkamp

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186602 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Phonon-Assisted Resonant Tunneling of Electrons in Graphene–Boron Nitride Transistors

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186603 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Sharp resonance peaks in electrical conductance identify the energies and nature of the emitted phonons in graphene-based transistors.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Anomalous Interlayer Transport of Quantum Hall Bilayers in the Strongly Josephson-Coupled Regime

Ding Zhang, Werner Dietsche, and Klaus von Klitzing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 186801 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Reducing the thickness of the interlayer barrier in a quantum Hall bilayer and tweaking an in-plane magnetic field provides unexpected control over domain formation.

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

COMMENTS

Comment on “Anomalous Discontinuity at the Percolation Critical Point of Active Gels”

Gunnar Pruessner and Chiu Fan Lee

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 189801 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

Sheinman, Sharma, and MacKintosh Reply:

M. Sheinman, A. Sharma, and F. C. MacKintosh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 189802 (2016) - Published 5 May, 2016

ERRATA

Publisher’s Note: Haldane-Hubbard Mott insulator: From Tetrahedral Spin Crystal to Chiral Spin Liquid [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 137202 (2016)]

Ciarán Hickey, Lukasz Cincio, Zlatko Papić, and Arun Paramekanti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 189901 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Erratum: Signatures for Wigner Crystal Formation in the Chemical Potential of a Two-Dimensional Electron System [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 076804 (2014)]

Ding Zhang, Xuting Huang, Werner Dietsche, Klaus von Klitzing, and Jurgen H. Smet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 189902 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016

Erratum: Analytic Form of the Two-Loop Planar Five-Gluon All-Plus-Helicity Amplitude in QCD [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 062001 (2016)]

T. Gehrmann, J. M. Henn, and N. A. Lo Presti

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 189903 (2016) - Published 2 May, 2016