Volume 116, Issue 2

15 January 2016

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Simulated frictional packings of polydisperse disks decompose into rigid clusters (black, purple, and green) and regions of floppy bonds (gray).

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Rigid Cluster Decomposition Reveals Criticality in Frictional Jamming
Silke Henkes, David A. Quint, Yaouen Fily, and J. M. Schwarz
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 028301 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar

Xing Ding, Yu He, Z.-C. Duan, Niels Gregersen, M.-C. Chen, S. Unsleber, S. Maier, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020401 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

A quantum dot embedded in a micropillar is an efficient source of pure and indistinguishable single photons

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Observation of a Single-Beam Gradient Force Acoustical Trap for Elastic Particles: Acoustical Tweezers

Diego Baresch, Jean-Louis Thomas, and Régis Marchiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 024301 (2016) - Published 11 January, 2016

Using new techniques for shaping sound waves from a single source, researchers have made acoustic tweezers that move particles around in three dimensions.

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Zero-Area Single-Photon Pulses

L. S. Costanzo, A. S. Coelho, D. Pellegrino, M. S. Mendes, L. Acioli, K. N. Cassemiro, D. Felinto, A. Zavatta, and M. Bellini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023602 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

Broadband single-photon pulses can have a strong, if transient, interaction with an atomic medium.

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Bumblebee Flight in Heavy Turbulence

T. Engels, D. Kolomenskiy, K. Schneider, F.-O. Lehmann, and J. Sesterhenn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 028103 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

A simulation of a flying bee shows that insects don’t expend extra energy to maintain lift in turbulent air flow.

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Generation of Phase-Locked Pulses from a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

David Gauthier, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Giovanni De Ninno, Enrico Allaria, Paolo Cinquegrana, Miltcho Bojanov Danailov, Alexander Demidovich, Eugenio Ferrari, and Luca Giannessi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 024801 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

Frequency domain interferometry is used to generate two sequential phase-locked pulses from a free-electron laser in the X-ray to UV domain.

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Anomalous Depletion of Pore-Confined Carbon Dioxide upon Cooling below the Bulk Triple Point: An In Situ Neutron Diffraction Study

K. L. Stefanopoulos, F. K. Katsaros, Th. A. Steriotis, A. A. Sapalidis, M. Thommes, D. T. Bowron, and T. G. A. Youngs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025502 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

Neutron scattering experiments indicate that CO $_{2}$ confined in nanopores does not freeze when cooled below the triple point but instead vacates the pores and solidifies in the bulk. Upon reheating the CO $_{2}$ refills the nanopores.

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Mechanisms of Heat Transfer in Porous Crystals Containing Adsorbed Gases: Applications to Metal-Organic Frameworks

Hasan Babaei and Christopher E. Wilmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025902 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Porous crystals are better heat conductors when they have adsorbed less gas, due to reduced phonon scattering at the gas-solid interface.

LETTERS

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

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On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar

Xing Ding, Yu He, Z.-C. Duan, Niels Gregersen, M.-C. Chen, S. Unsleber, S. Maier, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020401 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

A quantum dot embedded in a micropillar is an efficient source of pure and indistinguishable single photons

Measuring and Suppressing Quantum State Leakage in a Superconducting Qubit

Zijun Chen, Julian Kelly, Chris Quintana, R. Barends, B. Campbell, Yu Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, A. G. Fowler, E. Lucero, E. Jeffrey, A. Megrant, J. Mutus, M. Neeley, C. Neill, P. J. J. O’Malley, P. Roushan, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. C. White, A. N. Korotkov, and John M. Martinis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020501 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

Renormalizing Entanglement Distillation

Stephan Waeldchen, Janina Gertis, Earl T. Campbell, and Jens Eisert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020502 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Quantifying Non-Markovianity with Temporal Steering

Shin-Liang Chen, Neill Lambert, Che-Ming Li, Adam Miranowicz, Yueh-Nan Chen, and Franco Nori

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020503 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

First and Second Law of Thermodynamics at Strong Coupling

Udo Seifert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020601 (2016) - Published 12 January, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Analytic Solution of the Boltzmann Equation in an Expanding System

D. Bazow, G. S. Denicol, U. Heinz, M. Martinez, and J. Noronha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 022301 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Spectroscopic Quadrupole Moments in ${}^{96, 98}{Sr}$ : Evidence for Shape Coexistence in Neutron-Rich Strontium Isotopes at $N = 60$

E. Clément et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 022701 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Ionization of Atoms by Slow Heavy Particles, Including Dark Matter

B. M. Roberts, V. V. Flambaum, and G. F. Gribakin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023201 (2016) - Published 12 January, 2016

Cavity-Free Scheme for Nondestructive Detection of a Single Optical Photon

Keyu Xia (夏可宇), Mattias Johnsson, Peter L. Knight, and Jason Twamley

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023601 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

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Zero-Area Single-Photon Pulses

L. S. Costanzo, A. S. Coelho, D. Pellegrino, M. S. Mendes, L. Acioli, K. N. Cassemiro, D. Felinto, A. Zavatta, and M. Bellini

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023602 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

Broadband single-photon pulses can have a strong, if transient, interaction with an atomic medium.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spectral Properties of Dirac Billiards at the van Hove Singularities

B. Dietz, T. Klaus, M. Miski-Oglu, A. Richter, M. Wunderle, and C. Bouazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 023901 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

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Observation of a Single-Beam Gradient Force Acoustical Trap for Elastic Particles: Acoustical Tweezers

Diego Baresch, Jean-Louis Thomas, and Régis Marchiano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 024301 (2016) - Published 11 January, 2016

Using new techniques for shaping sound waves from a single source, researchers have made acoustic tweezers that move particles around in three dimensions.

Prandtl-Number Dependence of Heat Transport in Laminar Horizontal Convection

Olga Shishkina and Sebastian Wagner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 024302 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Consistent Hydrodynamics for Phase Field Crystals

V. Heinonen, C. V. Achim, J. M. Kosterlitz, See-Chen Ying, J. Lowengrub, and T. Ala-Nissila

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 024303 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

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Generation of Phase-Locked Pulses from a Seeded Free-Electron Laser

David Gauthier, Primož Rebernik Ribič, Giovanni De Ninno, Enrico Allaria, Paolo Cinquegrana, Miltcho Bojanov Danailov, Alexander Demidovich, Eugenio Ferrari, and Luca Giannessi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 024801 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

Frequency domain interferometry is used to generate two sequential phase-locked pulses from a free-electron laser in the X-ray to UV domain.

Thermodynamic Study on Plasma Expansion along a Divergent Magnetic Field

Yunchao Zhang, Christine Charles, and Rod Boswell

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025001 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Universal Coarsening Dynamics of a Quenched Ferromagnetic Spin-1 Condensate

Lewis A. Williamson and P. B. Blakie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025301 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

Two Dimensional Ice from First Principles: Structures and Phase Transitions

Ji Chen, Georg Schusteritsch, Chris J. Pickard, Christoph G. Salzmann, and Angelos Michaelides

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025501 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

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Anomalous Depletion of Pore-Confined Carbon Dioxide upon Cooling below the Bulk Triple Point: An In Situ Neutron Diffraction Study

K. L. Stefanopoulos, F. K. Katsaros, Th. A. Steriotis, A. A. Sapalidis, M. Thommes, D. T. Bowron, and T. G. A. Youngs

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025502 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

Ab initio Prediction of Martensitic and Intermartensitic Phase Boundaries in Ni-Mn-Ga

B. Dutta, A. Çakır, C. Giacobbe, A. Al-Zubi, T. Hickel, M. Acet, and J. Neugebauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025503 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Hybrid Percolation Transition in Cluster Merging Processes: Continuously Varying Exponents

Y. S. Cho, J. S. Lee, H. J. Herrmann, and B. Kahng

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025701 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Universal Behavior of Dielectric Responses of Glass Formers: Role of Dipole-Dipole Interactions

M. Paluch, J. Knapik, Z. Wojnarowska, A. Grzybowski, and K. L. Ngai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025702 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Self-Diffusion in Amorphous Silicon

Florian Strauß, Lars Dörrer, Thomas Geue, Jochen Stahn, Alexandros Koutsioubas, Stefan Mattauch, and Harald Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025901 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mechanisms of Heat Transfer in Porous Crystals Containing Adsorbed Gases: Applications to Metal-Organic Frameworks

Hasan Babaei and Christopher E. Wilmer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 025902 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Porous crystals are better heat conductors when they have adsorbed less gas, due to reduced phonon scattering at the gas-solid interface.

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Self-Interfering Wave Packets

David Colas and Fabrice P. Laussy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026401 (2016) - Published 13 January, 2016

Universal Finite-Size Scaling around Topological Quantum Phase Transitions

Tobias Gulden, Michael Janas, Yuting Wang, and Alex Kamenev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026402 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

Universality in Higher Order Spin Noise Spectroscopy

Fuxiang Li and N. A. Sinitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026601 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Renormalization in Periodically Driven Quantum Dots

A. K. Eissing, V. Meden, and D. M. Kennes

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026801 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

Carbon Tetragons as Definitive Spin Switches in Narrow Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons

Ping Cui, Qiang Zhang, Hongbin Zhu, Xiaoxia Li, Weiyi Wang, Qunxiang Li, Changgan Zeng, and Zhenyu Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026802 (2016) - Published 14 January, 2016

SU(3) Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in SnTe

Xiao Li (李潇), Fan Zhang, and A. H. MacDonald

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026803 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Phase Separation from Electron Confinement at Oxide Interfaces

N. Scopigno, D. Bucheli, S. Caprara, J. Biscaras, N. Bergeal, J. Lesueur, and M. Grilli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026804 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

When Chiral Photons Meet Chiral Fermions: Photoinduced Anomalous Hall Effects in Weyl Semimetals

Ching-Kit Chan, Patrick A. Lee, Kenneth S. Burch, Jung Hoon Han, and Ying Ran

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 026805 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Spin Manipulation by Creation of Single-Molecule Radical Cations

Sujoy Karan, Na Li, Yajie Zhang, Yang He, I-Po Hong, Huanjun Song, Jing-Tao Lü, Yongfeng Wang, Lianmao Peng, Kai Wu, Georg S. Michelitsch, Reinhard J. Maurer, Katharina Diller, Karsten Reuter, Alexander Weismann, and Richard Berndt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 027201 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Localization from Superselection Rules in Translationally Invariant Systems

Isaac H. Kim and Jeongwan Haah

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 027202 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Efficiency Drop in Green $InGaN / GaN$ Light Emitting Diodes: The Role of Random Alloy Fluctuations

Matthias Auf der Maur, Alessandro Pecchia, Gabriele Penazzi, Walter Rodrigues, and Aldo Di Carlo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 027401 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Unique Piezoelectric Properties of the Monoclinic Phase in $Pb (Zr, Ti) O_{3}$ Ceramics: Large Lattice Strain and Negligible Domain Switching

Longlong Fan, Jun Chen, Yang Ren, Zhao Pan, Linxing Zhang, and Xianran Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 027601 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016

Direct Observation of Electrostatically Driven Band Gap Renormalization in a Degenerate Perovskite Transparent Conducting Oxide

Z. Lebens-Higgins, D. O. Scanlon, H. Paik, S. Sallis, Y. Nie, M. Uchida, N. F. Quackenbush, M. J. Wahila, G. E. Sterbinsky, Dario A. Arena, J. C. Woicik, D. G. Schlom, and L. F. J. Piper

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 027602 (2016) - Published 15 January, 2016