Volume 116, Issue 22

3 June 2016

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On the Cover

In standard optical imaging (top), a principal lens serves to focus the object onto a sensor. In plenoptic imaging (bottom), the lens focuses the object onto an array of microlenses, each of which maps out the main lens onto a macropixel of the sensor, thus preserving directional information.

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Correlation Plenoptic Imaging
Milena D’Angelo, Francesco V. Pepe, Augusto Garuccio, and Giuliano Scarcelli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 223602 (2016)

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Tests of General Relativity with GW150914

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221101 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

The gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO detectors shows no deviation from what general relativity predicts.

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Drexhage’s Experiment for Sound

Lutz Langguth, Romain Fleury, Andrea Alù, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 224301 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

A reflective surface can distort the acoustics of a sounded gong, an effect that might be used to demonstrate cavity quantum electrodynamics in the classroom.

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Coherent Microwave Control of Ultracold ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{40}K$ Molecules

Sebastian A. Will, Jee Woo Park, Zoe Z. Yan, Huanqian Loh, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225306 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Riding the coattails of cold atomic physics, researchers have demonstrated the ability to steer cold molecules into desired quantum states.

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Subfemtonewton Force Spectroscopy at the Thermal Limit in Liquids

Lulu Liu, Simon Kheifets, Vincent Ginis, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 228001 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

A new technique builds on previous ones to detect forces in the femtonewton range in water, despite the constant jiggling of water molecules.

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Optimized Multi-Ion Cavity Coupling

Stephen Begley, Markus Vogt, Gurpreet Kaur Gulati, Hiroki Takahashi, and Matthias Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 223001 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Five trapped ions have been coupled to a high finesse optical cavity in a fully deterministic way.

LETTERS

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

Mean Field Analysis of Quantum Annealing Correction

Shunji Matsuura, Hidetoshi Nishimori, Tameem Albash, and Daniel A. Lidar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 220501 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

Mesoscopic Superposition States Generated by Synthetic Spin-Orbit Interaction in Fock-State Lattices

Da-Wei Wang, Han Cai, Ren-Bao Liu, and Marlan O. Scully

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 220502 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Power-Efficiency-Dissipation Relations in Linear Thermodynamics

Karel Proesmans, Bart Cleuren, and Christian Van den Broeck

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 220601 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Tests of General Relativity with GW150914

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221101 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

The gravitational wave signal observed by the LIGO detectors shows no deviation from what general relativity predicts.

Stronger Limits on Hypothetical Yukawa Interactions in the 30–8000 nm Range

Y.-J. Chen, W. K. Tham, D. E. Krause, D. López, E. Fischbach, and R. S. Decca

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221102 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Critical Collapse of Rotating Radiation Fluids

Thomas W. Baumgarte and Carsten Gundlach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221103 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Litmus Test for Cosmic Hemispherical Asymmetry in the Cosmic Microwave Background $B$ -Mode Polarization

Suvodip Mukherjee and Tarun Souradeep

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221301 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

Elastically Decoupling Dark Matter

Eric Kuflik, Maxim Perelstein, Nicolas Rey-Le Lorier, and Yu-Dai Tsai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221302 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

de Sitter Vacua from an Anomalous Gauge Symmetry

Wilfried Buchmuller, Markus Dierigl, Fabian Ruehle, and Julian Schweizer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221303 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Measurement of an Excess in the Yield of $J / ψ$ at Very Low $p_{T}$ in Pb–Pb Collisions at ${\sqrt{s}}_{N N} = 2.76 TeV$

J. Adam et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 222301 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Centrality Dependence of the Charged-Particle Multiplicity Density at Midrapidity in Pb-Pb Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$

J. Adam et al. (ALICE Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 222302 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Optimized Multi-Ion Cavity Coupling

Stephen Begley, Markus Vogt, Gurpreet Kaur Gulati, Hiroki Takahashi, and Matthias Keller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 223001 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Five trapped ions have been coupled to a high finesse optical cavity in a fully deterministic way.

Cavity Optomagnonics with Spin-Orbit Coupled Photons

A. Osada, R. Hisatomi, A. Noguchi, Y. Tabuchi, R. Yamazaki, K. Usami, M. Sadgrove, R. Yalla, M. Nomura, and Y. Nakamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 223601 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Correlation Plenoptic Imaging

Milena D’Angelo, Francesco V. Pepe, Augusto Garuccio, and Giuliano Scarcelli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 223602 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Drexhage’s Experiment for Sound

Lutz Langguth, Romain Fleury, Andrea Alù, and A. Femius Koenderink

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 224301 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

A reflective surface can distort the acoustics of a sounded gong, an effect that might be used to demonstrate cavity quantum electrodynamics in the classroom.

Plasma and Beam Physics

Structure of a Magnetic Flux Annihilation Layer Formed by the Collision of Supersonic, Magnetized Plasma Flows

L. G. Suttle, J. D. Hare, S. V. Lebedev, G. F. Swadling, G. C. Burdiak, A. Ciardi, J. P. Chittenden, N. F. Loureiro, N. Niasse, F. Suzuki-Vidal, J. Wu, Q. Yang, T. Clayson, A. Frank, T. S. Robinson, R. A. Smith, and N. Stuart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225001 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Transient Plasma Photonic Crystals for High-Power Lasers

G. Lehmann and K. H. Spatschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225002 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Non-Markovian Quantum Friction of Bright Solitons in Superfluids

Dmitry K. Efimkin, Johannes Hofmann, and Victor Galitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225301 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Separation of Time Scales in a Quantum Newton’s Cradle

R. van den Berg, B. Wouters, S. Eliëns, J. De Nardis, R. M. Konik, and J.-S. Caux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225302 (2016) - Published 1 June, 2016

Hidden String Order in a Hole Superconductor with Extended Correlated Hopping

Ravindra W. Chhajlany, Przemysław R. Grzybowski, Julia Stasińska, Maciej Lewenstein, and Omjyoti Dutta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225303 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Inflationary Quasiparticle Creation and Thermalization Dynamics in Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates

Anna Posazhennikova, Mauricio Trujillo-Martinez, and Johann Kroha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225304 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Topological Phase Transitions in the Repulsively Interacting Haldane-Hubbard Model

Tuomas I. Vanhala, Topi Siro, Long Liang, Matthias Troyer, Ari Harju, and Päivi Törmä

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225305 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

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Coherent Microwave Control of Ultracold ${}^{23}{Na} {}^{40}K$ Molecules

Sebastian A. Will, Jee Woo Park, Zoe Z. Yan, Huanqian Loh, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225306 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Riding the coattails of cold atomic physics, researchers have demonstrated the ability to steer cold molecules into desired quantum states.

Novel Cross-Slip Mechanism of Pyramidal Screw Dislocations in Magnesium

Mitsuhiro Itakura, Hideo Kaburaki, Masatake Yamaguchi, and Tomohito Tsuru

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225501 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Crossover from Classical to Quantum Kibble-Zurek Scaling

Pietro Silvi, Giovanna Morigi, Tommaso Calarco, and Simone Montangero

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225701 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Thermoelectricity in Confined Liquid Electrolytes

Mathias Dietzel and Steffen Hardt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 225901 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Insulating Nature of Strongly Correlated Massless Dirac Fermions in an Organic Crystal

Dong Liu, Kyohei Ishikawa, Ryosuke Takehara, Kazuya Miyagawa, Masafumi Tamura, and Kazushi Kanoda

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 226401 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Multiple Metamagnetic Quantum Criticality in ${Sr}_{3} {Ru}_{2} O_{7}$

Y. Tokiwa, M. Mchalwat, R. S. Perry, and P. Gegenwart

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 226402 (2016) - Published 31 May, 2016

Ideal Weyl Semimetals in the Chalcopyrites ${CuTlSe}_{2}$ , ${AgTlTe}_{2}$ , ${AuTlTe}_{2}$ , and ${ZnPbAs}_{2}$

Jiawei Ruan, Shao-Kai Jian, Dongqin Zhang, Hong Yao, Haijun Zhang, Shou-Cheng Zhang, and Dingyu Xing

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 226801 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Sign-Reversing Orbital Polarization in the Nematic Phase of FeSe due to the $C_{2}$ Symmetry Breaking in the Self-Energy

Seiichiro Onari, Youichi Yamakawa, and Hiroshi Kontani

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 227001 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Phase Transitions in Disordered Systems: The Example of the Random-Field Ising Model in Four Dimensions

Nikolaos G. Fytas, Víctor Martín-Mayor, Marco Picco, and Nicolas Sourlas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 227201 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

Photon-Assisted Shot Noise in Graphene in the Terahertz Range

F. D. Parmentier, L. N. Serkovic-Loli, P. Roulleau, and D. C. Glattli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 227401 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Unveiling the Room-Temperature Magnetoelectricity of Troilite FeS

Fabio Ricci and Eric Bousquet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 227601 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

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

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Subfemtonewton Force Spectroscopy at the Thermal Limit in Liquids

Lulu Liu, Simon Kheifets, Vincent Ginis, and Federico Capasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 228001 (2016) - Published 3 June, 2016

A new technique builds on previous ones to detect forces in the femtonewton range in water, despite the constant jiggling of water molecules.

Reduction in Tension and Stiffening of Lipid Membranes in an Electric Field Revealed by X-Ray Scattering

Arnaud Hemmerle, Giovanna Fragneto, Jean Daillant, and Thierry Charitat

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 228101 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

Enhanced Detectability of Community Structure in Multilayer Networks through Layer Aggregation

Dane Taylor, Saray Shai, Natalie Stanley, and Peter J. Mucha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 228301 (2016) - Published 2 June, 2016

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On the Cover

From the article:

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

LETTERS

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

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics

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