Volume 116, Issue 19

13 May 2016

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Electronic transmission through a ferroelectric tunnel junction with a semiconducting electrode. The colors represent the transmission distribution in the two-dimensional Brillouin zone of the junction.

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Enhanced Tunneling Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions due to the Reversible Metallization of the Barrier
Xiaohui Liu, J. D. Burton, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197602 (2016)

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Precessing Ferromagnetic Needle Magnetometer

Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190801 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

A tiny, needle-shaped ferromagnet could form a magnetic sensor far better than the current best instruments, according to theory.

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New Limits on Extragalactic Magnetic Fields from Rotation Measures

M. S. Pshirkov, P. G. Tinyakov, and F. R. Urban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191302 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

An analysis of the polarized emission from some 3000 distant radio sources places a stringent upper limit on the strength of the cosmological magnetic field.

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Helicobacter pylori Couples Motility and Diffusion to Actively Create a Heterogeneous Complex Medium in Gastric Mucus

Seyed Amir Mirbagheri and Henry Chien Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 198101 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Researchers calculate the size of a low-resistance buffer zone created by microbial organisms as they swim through the mucus lining of the stomach.

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Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?

Adam R. Brown, Daniel A. Roberts, Leonard Susskind, Brian Swingle, and Ying Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191301 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Theoretical results suggest a precise speed limit on the growth of complexity in quantum gravity, set by fundamental laws and saturated by black holes.

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Measurement of the Difference of Time-Integrated $C P$ Asymmetries in $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}$ and $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191601 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

The LHCb collaboration has made the most precise measurement of a time-integrated $C P$ asymmetry in the charm sector to date. The results show no evidence for $C P$ violation in $D$ mesons, in contrast to the group’s previous results.

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Discovery of an Unconventional Charge Density Wave at the Surface of $K_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$

Daixiang Mou, A. Sapkota, H.-H. Kung, Viktor Krapivin, Yun Wu, A. Kreyssig, Xingjiang Zhou, A. I. Goldman, G. Blumberg, Rebecca Flint, and Adam Kaminski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196401 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

The charge density wave transition seen in purple bronze most likely arises from electron-electron interactions.

LETTERS

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

Entanglement Entropy across the Superfluid-Insulator Transition: A Signature of Bosonic Criticality

Irénée Frérot and Tommaso Roscilde

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190401 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Resource-Efficient Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Witness

E. Verbanis, A. Martin, D. Rosset, C. C. W. Lim, R. T. Thew, and H. Zbinden

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190501 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Demonstration of Light-Matter Micro-Macro Quantum Correlations

Alexey Tiranov, Jonathan Lavoie, Peter C. Strassmann, Nicolas Sangouard, Mikael Afzelius, Félix Bussières, and Nicolas Gisin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190502 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Maxwell Demon Dynamics: Deterministic Chaos, the Szilard Map, and the Intelligence of Thermodynamic Systems

Alexander B. Boyd and James P. Crutchfield

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190601 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

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Precessing Ferromagnetic Needle Magnetometer

Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Dmitry Budker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190801 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

A tiny, needle-shaped ferromagnet could form a magnetic sensor far better than the current best instruments, according to theory.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Holographic Complexity Equals Bulk Action?

Adam R. Brown, Daniel A. Roberts, Leonard Susskind, Brian Swingle, and Ying Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191301 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Theoretical results suggest a precise speed limit on the growth of complexity in quantum gravity, set by fundamental laws and saturated by black holes.

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New Limits on Extragalactic Magnetic Fields from Rotation Measures

M. S. Pshirkov, P. G. Tinyakov, and F. R. Urban

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191302 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

An analysis of the polarized emission from some 3000 distant radio sources places a stringent upper limit on the strength of the cosmological magnetic field.

Elementary Particles and Fields

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Measurement of the Difference of Time-Integrated $C P$ Asymmetries in $D^{0} \to K^{-} K^{+}$ and $D^{0} \to π^{-} π^{+}$ Decays

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191601 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Perturbation Theory at Eight Loops: Novel Structures and the Breakdown of Manifest Conformality in $N = 4$ Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Jacob L. Bourjaily, Paul Heslop, and Vuong-Viet Tran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 191602 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Effective Field Theory for Jet Processes

Thomas Becher, Matthias Neubert, Lorena Rothen, and Ding Yu Shao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 192001 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Unified Description of Electron-Nucleus Scattering within the Spectral Function Formalism

Noemi Rocco, Alessandro Lovato, and Omar Benhar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 192501 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Steering Proton Migration in Hydrocarbons Using Intense Few-Cycle Laser Fields

M. Kübel, R. Siemering, C. Burger, Nora G. Kling, H. Li, A. S. Alnaser, B. Bergues, S. Zherebtsov, A. M. Azzeer, I. Ben-Itzhak, R. Moshammer, R. de Vivie-Riedle, and M. F. Kling

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 193001 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Angle-Resolved Auger Spectroscopy as a Sensitive Access to Vibronic Coupling

A. Knie, M. Patanen, A. Hans, I. D. Petrov, J. D. Bozek, A. Ehresmann, and Ph. V. Demekhin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 193002 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Energy Scaling of Cold Atom-Atom-Ion Three-Body Recombination

Artjom Krükow, Amir Mohammadi, Arne Härter, Johannes Hecker Denschlag, Jesús Pérez-Ríos, and Chris H. Greene

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 193201 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Anderson Mobility Gap Probed by Dynamic Coherent Backscattering

L. A. Cobus, S. E. Skipetrov, A. Aubry, B. A. van Tiggelen, A. Derode, and J. H. Page

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 193901 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Slippery but Tough: The Rapid Fracture of Lubricated Frictional Interfaces

E. Bayart, I. Svetlizky, and J. Fineberg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 194301 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Coupling between Buoyancy Forces and Electroconvective Instability near Ion-Selective Surfaces

Elif Karatay, Mathias Bækbo Andersen, Matthias Wessling, and Ali Mani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 194501 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Transition from Beam-Target to Thermonuclear Fusion in High-Current Deuterium $Z$ -Pinch Simulations

Dustin T. Offermann, Dale R. Welch, Dave V. Rose, Carsten Thoma, Robert E. Clark, Chris B. Mostrom, Andrea E. W. Schmidt, and Anthony J. Link

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 195001 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Observation of an Alfvén Wave Parametric Instability in a Laboratory Plasma

S. Dorfman and T. A. Carter

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 195002 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Body-Centered Orthorhombic $C_{16}$ : A Novel Topological Node-Line Semimetal

Jian-Tao Wang, Hongming Weng, Simin Nie, Zhong Fang, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, and Changfeng Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 195501 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

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Discovery of an Unconventional Charge Density Wave at the Surface of $K_{0.9} {Mo}_{6} O_{17}$

Daixiang Mou, A. Sapkota, H.-H. Kung, Viktor Krapivin, Yun Wu, A. Kreyssig, Xingjiang Zhou, A. I. Goldman, G. Blumberg, Rebecca Flint, and Adam Kaminski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196401 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

The charge density wave transition seen in purple bronze most likely arises from electron-electron interactions.

Ultrafast and Gigantic Spin Injection in Semiconductors

M. Battiato and K. Held

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196601 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Giant Room Temperature Interface Spin Hall and Inverse Spin Hall Effects

Lei Wang, R. J. H. Wesselink, Yi Liu, Zhe Yuan, Ke Xia, and Paul J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196602 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Correlated Coulomb Drag in Capacitively Coupled Quantum-Dot Structures

Kristen Kaasbjerg and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196801 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Current-Controlled Spin Precession of Quasistationary Electrons in a Cubic Spin-Orbit Field

P. Altmann, F. G. G. Hernandez, G. J. Ferreira, M. Kohda, C. Reichl, W. Wegscheider, and G. Salis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196802 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Quantum Diffusion on Molecular Tubes: Universal Scaling of the 1D to 2D Transition

Chern Chuang, Chee Kong Lee, Jeremy M. Moix, Jasper Knoester, and Jianshu Cao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196803 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Three-particle correlation from a Many-Body Perspective: Trions in a Carbon Nanotube

Thorsten Deilmann, Matthias Drüppel, and Michael Rohlfing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 196804 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Unconventional High-Energy-State Contribution to the Cooper Pairing in the Underdoped Copper-Oxide Superconductor ${HgBa}_{2} {Ca}_{2} {Cu}_{3} O_{8 + δ}$

B. Loret, S. Sakai, Y. Gallais, M. Cazayous, M.-A. Méasson, A. Forget, D. Colson, M. Civelli, and A. Sacuto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197001 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Coexistence of Midgap Antiferromagnetic and Mott States in Undoped, Hole- and Electron-Doped Ambipolar Cuprates

Xinmao Yin, Shengwei Zeng, Tanmoy Das, G. Baskaran, Teguh Citra Asmara, Iman Santoso, Xiaojiang Yu, Caozheng Diao, Ping Yang, Mark B. H. Breese, T. Venkatesan, Hsin Lin, Ariando, and Andrivo Rusydi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197002 (2016) - Published 12 May, 2016

Strain Control of Fermiology and Many-Body Interactions in Two-Dimensional Ruthenates

B. Burganov, C. Adamo, A. Mulder, M. Uchida, P. D. C. King, J. W. Harter, D. E. Shai, A. S. Gibbs, A. P. Mackenzie, R. Uecker, M. Bruetzam, M. R. Beasley, C. J. Fennie, D. G. Schlom, and K. M. Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197003 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Transition from Sign-Reversed to Sign-Preserved Cooper-Pairing Symmetry in Sulfur-Doped Iron Selenide Superconductors

Qisi Wang, J. T. Park, Yu Feng, Yao Shen, Yiqing Hao, Bingying Pan, J. W. Lynn, A. Ivanov, Songxue Chi, M. Matsuda, Huibo Cao, R. J. Birgeneau, D. V. Efremov, and Jun Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197004 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016

Topological Aspects of Symmetry Breaking in Triangular-Lattice Ising Antiferromagnets

Andrew Smerald, Sergey Korshunov, and Frédéric Mila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197201 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Dipolar Antiferromagnets

P. Babkevich, M. Jeong, Y. Matsumoto, I. Kovacevic, A. Finco, R. Toft-Petersen, C. Ritter, M. Månsson, S. Nakatsuji, and H. M. Rønnow

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197202 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Space Group Symmetry Fractionalization in a Chiral Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnet

Michael P. Zaletel, Zhenyue Zhu, Yuan-Ming Lu, Ashvin Vishwanath, and Steven R. White

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197203 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Verification of Anderson Superexchange in MnO via Magnetic Pair Distribution Function Analysis and ab initio Theory

Benjamin A. Frandsen, Michela Brunelli, Katharine Page, Yasutomo J. Uemura, Julie B. Staunton, and Simon J. L. Billinge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197204 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Strong-Field Resonant Dynamics in Semiconductors

Michael S. Wismer, Stanislav Yu. Kruchinin, Marcelo Ciappina, Mark I. Stockman, and Vladislav S. Yakovlev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197401 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Stopping Narrow-Band X-Ray Pulses in Nuclear Media

Xiangjin Kong and Adriana Pálffy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197402 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

One- and Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy with a Diamond Quantum Sensor

J. M. Boss, K. Chang, J. Armijo, K. Cujia, T. Rosskopf, J. R. Maze, and C. L. Degen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197601 (2016) - Published 9 May, 2016

Enhanced Tunneling Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions due to the Reversible Metallization of the Barrier

Xiaohui Liu, J. D. Burton, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197602 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

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

Complex Contact-Based Dynamics of Microsphere Monolayers Revealed by Resonant Attenuation of Surface Acoustic Waves

M. Hiraiwa, M. Abi Ghanem, S. P. Wallen, A. Khanolkar, A. A. Maznev, and N. Boechler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 198001 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

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Helicobacter pylori Couples Motility and Diffusion to Actively Create a Heterogeneous Complex Medium in Gastric Mucus

Seyed Amir Mirbagheri and Henry Chien Fu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 198101 (2016) - Published 10 May, 2016

Researchers calculate the size of a low-resistance buffer zone created by microbial organisms as they swim through the mucus lining of the stomach.

ERRATA

Erratum: Spin Chirality Tuning and Topological Semimetals in Strained ${HgTe}_{x} S_{1 - x}$ [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 236805 (2015)]

Tomáš Rauch, Steven Achilles, Jürgen Henk, and Ingrid Mertig

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 199901 (2016) - Published 11 May, 2016

Publisher’s Note: Observation of Geometric Parametric Instability Induced by the Periodic Spatial Self-Imaging of Multimode Waves [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 183901 (2016)]

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 199902 (2016) - Published 13 May, 2016