Volume 116, Issue 20

20 May 2016

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Monte Carlo simulation showing order- disorder phase transition in BaTiO₃ induced by local symmetry-breaking distortions. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Emergence of Long-Range Order in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ from Local Symmetry-Breaking Distortions
M. S. Senn, D. A. Keen, T. C. A. Lucas, J. A. Hriljac, and A. L. Goodwin
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 207602 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Floquet Engineering of Correlated Tunneling in the Bose-Hubbard Model with Ultracold Atoms

F. Meinert, M. J. Mark, K. Lauber, A. J. Daley, and H.-C. Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205301 (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

The tunneling rate for cold atoms in an optical lattice can be made to depend on whether a neighboring site is occupied—a behavior that may reflect the tunneling in complex materials.

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Calculation of Projected Bond-Orientational Order Parameters to Quantify Local Symmetries from Transmission Diffraction Data

A. C. Y. Liu, R. F. Tabor, L. Bourgeois, M. D. de Jonge, S. T. Mudie, and T. C. Petersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205501 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

The local structure of glasses and other disordered materials could be extracted from diffraction patterns, according to a proposal for a new technique.

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Stick-Slip Motion of the Wigner Solid on Liquid Helium

David G. Rees, Niyaz R. Beysengulov, Juhn-Jong Lin, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 206801 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

An electron crystal sliding on liquid helium exhibits a qualitatively new type of stick-slip motion, resulting from the coupling of the electrons to a quantum field.

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Hiding in Plain View: Colloidal Self-Assembly from Polydisperse Populations

Bernard Cabane, Joaquim Li, Franck Artzner, Robert Botet, Christophe Labbez, Guillaume Bareigts, Michael Sztucki, and Lucas Goehring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 208001 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

A suspension containing particles with wide-ranging diameters can crystallize into multiple ordered structures.

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Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?

Simeon Bird, Ilias Cholis, Julian B. Muñoz, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Marc Kamionkowski, Ely D. Kovetz, Alvise Raccanelli, and Adam G. Riess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 201301 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

A theoretical analysis examines the possibility that the black holes detected by LIGO serve as dark matter.

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Quantum Thermal Transistor

Karl Joulain, Jérémie Drevillon, Younès Ezzahri, and Jose Ordonez-Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 200601 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Thermal flow between two quantum systems can be controlled by the presence of a third. The current can be modulated, amplified and switched off, creating a quantum thermal transistor.

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Signature of Wave Chaos in Spectral Characteristics of Microcavity Lasers

Satoshi Sunada, Susumu Shinohara, Takehiro Fukushima, and Takahisa Harayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203903 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Single wavelength spectra are demonstrated for 2D micro-cavity lasers with fully chaotic cavities.

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High Power Dynamic Polarization Control Using Plasma Photonics

D. Turnbull, P. Michel, T. Chapman, E. Tubman, B. B. Pollock, C. Y. Chen, C. Goyon, J. S. Ross, L. Divol, N. Woolsey, and J. D. Moody

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205001 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

The polarization of an intense laser beam has been directly controlled by mixing it with a second laser beam in a plasma.

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Demonstration of Coherent Terahertz Transition Radiation from Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions

Guo-Qian Liao, Yu-Tong Li, Yi-Hang Zhang, Hao Liu, Xu-Lei Ge, Su Yang, Wen-Qing Wei, Xiao-Hui Yuan, Yan-Qing Deng, Bao-Jun Zhu, Zhe Zhang, Wei-Min Wang, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Li-Ming Chen, Xin Lu, Jing-Long Ma, Xuan Wang, and Jie Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205003 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

High power terahertz radiation can be produced by irradiating a solid target with intense laser pulses.

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Creation of an Ultracold Gas of Ground-State Dipolar ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{87}{Rb}$ Molecules

Mingyang Guo, Bing Zhu, Bo Lu, Xin Ye, Fudong Wang, Romain Vexiau, Nadia Bouloufa-Maafa, Goulven Quéméner, Olivier Dulieu, and Dajun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205303 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

A new bosonic species of ultracold alkali heteromolecule with a considerable electric dipole moment has been cooled to its vibrational ground state.

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Emergence of Long-Range Order in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ from Local Symmetry-Breaking Distortions

M. S. Senn, D. A. Keen, T. C. A. Lucas, J. A. Hriljac, and A. L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 207602 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Ferroelectric phase transitions in BaTiO $_{3}$ arise from an order-disorder transition with correlated disorder leading to the development of long-range crystallographic order in the material.

LETTERS

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

Probabilistically Perfect Cloning of Two Pure States: Geometric Approach

V. Yerokhin, A. Shehu, E. Feldman, E. Bagan, and J. A. Bergou

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 200401 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Geometrical Pumping with a Bose-Einstein Condensate

H.-I Lu, M. Schemmer, L. M. Aycock, D. Genkina, S. Sugawa, and I. B. Spielman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 200402 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Derandomizing Quantum Circuits with Measurement-Based Unitary Designs

Peter S. Turner and Damian Markham

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 200501 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Thermal Transistor

Karl Joulain, Jérémie Drevillon, Younès Ezzahri, and Jose Ordonez-Miranda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 200601 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Thermal flow between two quantum systems can be controlled by the presence of a third. The current can be modulated, amplified and switched off, creating a quantum thermal transistor.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Entanglement Equilibrium and the Einstein Equation

Ted Jacobson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 201101 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

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Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?

Simeon Bird, Ilias Cholis, Julian B. Muñoz, Yacine Ali-Haïmoud, Marc Kamionkowski, Ely D. Kovetz, Alvise Raccanelli, and Adam G. Riess

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 201301 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

A theoretical analysis examines the possibility that the black holes detected by LIGO serve as dark matter.

Large-Scale Distribution of Total Mass versus Luminous Matter from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: First Search in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey Data Release 10

M. T. Soumagnac, R. Barkana, C. G. Sabiu, A. Loeb, A. J. Ross, F. B. Abdalla, S. T. Balan, and O. Lahav

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 201302 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Elementary Particles and Fields

Double Copies of Fermions as Matter that Interacts Only Gravitationally

Leonardo de la Cruz, Alexander Kniss, and Stefan Weinzierl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 201601 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Resummed Differential Cross Sections for Top-Quark Pairs at the LHC

Benjamin D. Pecjak, Darren J. Scott, Xing Wang, and Li Lin Yang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 202001 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Probing the Small- $x$ Gluon Tomography in Correlated Hard Diffractive Dijet Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering

Yoshitaka Hatta, Bo-Wen Xiao, and Feng Yuan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 202301 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Enhanced Ionization of Embedded Clusters by Electron-Transfer-Mediated Decay in Helium Nanodroplets

A. C. LaForge, V. Stumpf, K. Gokhberg, J. von Vangerow, F. Stienkemeier, N. V. Kryzhevoi, P. O’Keeffe, A. Ciavardini, S. R. Krishnan, M. Coreno, K. C. Prince, R. Richter, R. Moshammer, T. Pfeifer, L. S. Cederbaum, and M. Mudrich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203001 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Carrier-Envelope-Phase Characterization for an Isolated Attosecond Pulse by Angular Streaking

Pei-Lun He, Camilo Ruiz, and Feng He

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203601 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Anomalous Diffusion of Dissipative Solitons in the Cubic-Quintic Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation in Two Spatial Dimensions

Jaime Cisternas, Orazio Descalzi, Tony Albers, and Günter Radons

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203901 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

Exceptional Contours and Band Structure Design in Parity-Time Symmetric Photonic Crystals

Alexander Cerjan, Aaswath Raman, and Shanhui Fan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203902 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

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Signature of Wave Chaos in Spectral Characteristics of Microcavity Lasers

Satoshi Sunada, Susumu Shinohara, Takehiro Fukushima, and Takahisa Harayama

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 203903 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Single wavelength spectra are demonstrated for 2D micro-cavity lasers with fully chaotic cavities.

Plasma and Beam Physics

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High Power Dynamic Polarization Control Using Plasma Photonics

D. Turnbull, P. Michel, T. Chapman, E. Tubman, B. B. Pollock, C. Y. Chen, C. Goyon, J. S. Ross, L. Divol, N. Woolsey, and J. D. Moody

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205001 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

The polarization of an intense laser beam has been directly controlled by mixing it with a second laser beam in a plasma.

Maximum Proton Energy above 85 MeV from the Relativistic Interaction of Laser Pulses with Micrometer Thick ${CH}_{2}$ Targets

F. Wagner, O. Deppert, C. Brabetz, P. Fiala, A. Kleinschmidt, P. Poth, V. A. Schanz, A. Tebartz, B. Zielbauer, M. Roth, T. Stöhlker, and V. Bagnoud

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205002 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

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Demonstration of Coherent Terahertz Transition Radiation from Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205003 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

High power terahertz radiation can be produced by irradiating a solid target with intense laser pulses.

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Floquet Engineering of Correlated Tunneling in the Bose-Hubbard Model with Ultracold Atoms

F. Meinert, M. J. Mark, K. Lauber, A. J. Daley, and H.-C. Nägerl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205301 (2016) - Published 17 May, 2016

The tunneling rate for cold atoms in an optical lattice can be made to depend on whether a neighboring site is occupied—a behavior that may reflect the tunneling in complex materials.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Creation of an Ultracold Gas of Ground-State Dipolar ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{87}{Rb}$ Molecules

Mingyang Guo, Bing Zhu, Bo Lu, Xin Ye, Fudong Wang, Romain Vexiau, Nadia Bouloufa-Maafa, Goulven Quéméner, Olivier Dulieu, and Dajun Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205303 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

A new bosonic species of ultracold alkali heteromolecule with a considerable electric dipole moment has been cooled to its vibrational ground state.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Calculation of Projected Bond-Orientational Order Parameters to Quantify Local Symmetries from Transmission Diffraction Data

A. C. Y. Liu, R. F. Tabor, L. Bourgeois, M. D. de Jonge, S. T. Mudie, and T. C. Petersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205501 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

The local structure of glasses and other disordered materials could be extracted from diffraction patterns, according to a proposal for a new technique.

Emergence of Chirality from Isotropic Interactions of Three Length Scales

S. K. Mkhonta, K. R. Elder, and Zhi-Feng Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 205502 (2016) - Published 18 May, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Tuning the Magnetic Quantum Criticality of Artificial Kondo Superlattices ${CeRhIn}_{5} / {YbRhIn}_{5}$

T. Ishii, R. Toda, Y. Hanaoka, Y. Tokiwa, M. Shimozawa, Y. Kasahara, R. Endo, T. Terashima, A. H. Nevidomskyy, T. Shibauchi, and Y. Matsuda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 206401 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

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Stick-Slip Motion of the Wigner Solid on Liquid Helium

David G. Rees, Niyaz R. Beysengulov, Juhn-Jong Lin, and Kimitoshi Kono

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 206801 (2016) - Published 16 May, 2016

An electron crystal sliding on liquid helium exhibits a qualitatively new type of stick-slip motion, resulting from the coupling of the electrons to a quantum field.

Tunable Bloch Wave Resonances and Bloch Gaps in Uniform Materials with Reconfigurable Boundary Profiles

Victor A. Pogrebnyak and Edward P. Furlani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 206802 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Multiferroic Two-Dimensional Materials

L. Seixas, A. S. Rodin, A. Carvalho, and A. H. Castro Neto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 206803 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Parity-Time Synthetic Phononic Media

J. Christensen, M. Willatzen, V. R. Velasco, and M.-H. Lu

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 207601 (2016) - Published 19 May, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Emergence of Long-Range Order in ${BaTiO}_{3}$ from Local Symmetry-Breaking Distortions

M. S. Senn, D. A. Keen, T. C. A. Lucas, J. A. Hriljac, and A. L. Goodwin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 207602 (2016) - Published 20 May, 2016

Ferroelectric phase transitions in BaTiO $_{3}$ arise from an order-disorder transition with correlated disorder leading to the development of long-range crystallographic order in the material.