Volume 116, Issue 23

10 June 2016

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Core instrument of the LISA Pathfinder in-flight experiment. The golden cubes depict test masses that are maintained in near-perfect free fall. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion and a Viewpoint in Physics.

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Sub-Femto- $g$ Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results
M. Armano et al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231101 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sub-Femto- $g$ Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results

M. Armano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231101 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

The first results from the LISA Pathfinder mission demonstrate that two test masses can be put in free fall with a relative acceleration sufficiently free of noise to meet the requirements needed for space-based gravitational-wave detection.

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Soft Hair on Black Holes

Stephen W. Hawking, Malcolm J. Perry, and Andrew Strominger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231301 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

A black hole may carry “soft hair,” low-energy quantum excitations that release information when the black hole evaporates.

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Cavity-Controlled Chemistry in Molecular Ensembles

Felipe Herrera and Frank C. Spano

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 238301 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

The quantized electromagnetic field in a cavity can be used to accelerate the dynamics of electron transfer in molecular reactions.

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Nonlocal Drag of Magnons in a Ferromagnetic Bilayer

Tianyu Liu, G. Vignale, and Michael E. Flatté

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 237202 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Quantized spin waves known as magnons could experience a drag-like phenomenon in two spatially separated ferromagnetic layers.

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Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Repetitive Quantum Error Correction

Thomas Unden, Priya Balasubramanian, Daniel Louzon, Yuval Vinkler, Martin B. Plenio, Matthew Markham, Daniel Twitchen, Alastair Stacey, Igor Lovchinsky, Alexander O. Sushkov, Mikhail D. Lukin, Alex Retzker, Boris Naydenov, Liam P. McGuinness, and Fedor Jelezko

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230502 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Quantum error detection and mitigation is experimentally realized using long-lived nuclear spin to correct multiple phase errors on a sensitive electron spin in diamond.

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Prospects for Multiband Gravitational-Wave Astronomy after GW150914

Alberto Sesana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231102 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Rates of black hole merger formations inferred from the recent detection of gravitational waves suggest that a future space based facility like eLISA can efficiently inform LIGO and other facilitates about locations of potential black hole mergers weeks in advance.

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Coherent Scattering of Near-Resonant Light by a Dense Microscopic Cold Atomic Cloud

S. Jennewein, M. Besbes, N. J. Schilder, S. D. Jenkins, C. Sauvan, J. Ruostekoski, J.-J. Greffet, Y. R. P. Sortais, and A. Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233601 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

The coherent scattering of light by a dense, cold atomic cloud roughly a wavelength in size cannot be explained by a number of standard models.

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Pulsating Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Three-Dimensional Flux-Rope Interactions

W. Gekelman, T. De Haas, W. Daughton, B. Van Compernolle, T. Intrator, and S. Vincena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235101 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

A real-time 3D map of all magnetic and electric field lines from a laboratory magnetic reconnection experiment has been created.

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Observation of 2D Fermionic Mott Insulators of ${}^{40}K$ with Single-Site Resolution

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Katherine R. Lawrence, Melih Okan, Hao Zhang, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235301 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

The Mott-insulating, band-insulting, and metallic states of the 2D Hubbard model can be created in an ultracold gas of $^{40}$ K trapped in an optical lattice.

LETTERS

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

Path-Integral Monte Carlo Determination of the Fourth-Order Virial Coefficient for a Unitary Two-Component Fermi Gas with Zero-Range Interactions

Yangqian Yan and D. Blume

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230401 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Algorithmic Pseudorandomness in Quantum Setups

Ariel Bendersky, Gonzalo de la Torre, Gabriel Senno, Santiago Figueira, and Antonio Acín

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230402 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Verifying the Quantumness of Bipartite Correlations

Claudio Carmeli, Teiko Heinosaari, Antti Karlsson, Jussi Schultz, and Alessandro Toigo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230403 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Mean-Field Dynamics and Fisher Information in Matter Wave Interferometry

Simon A. Haine

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230404 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Tomography is Necessary for Universal Entanglement Detection with Single-Copy Observables

Dawei Lu, Tao Xin, Nengkun Yu, Zhengfeng Ji, Jianxin Chen, Guilu Long, Jonathan Baugh, Xinhua Peng, Bei Zeng, and Raymond Laflamme

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230501 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Quantum Metrology Enhanced by Repetitive Quantum Error Correction

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230502 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Quantum error detection and mitigation is experimentally realized using long-lived nuclear spin to correct multiple phase errors on a sensitive electron spin in diamond.

Speeding up Adiabatic Quantum State Transfer by Using Dressed States

Alexandre Baksic, Hugo Ribeiro, and Aashish A. Clerk

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230503 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Genetic Algorithms for Digital Quantum Simulations

U. Las Heras, U. Alvarez-Rodriguez, E. Solano, and M. Sanz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 230504 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Sub-Femto- $g$ Free Fall for Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatories: LISA Pathfinder Results

M. Armano et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231101 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Prospects for Multiband Gravitational-Wave Astronomy after GW150914

Alberto Sesana

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231102 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Soft Hair on Black Holes

Stephen W. Hawking, Malcolm J. Perry, and Andrew Strominger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231301 (2016) - Published 6 June, 2016

A black hole may carry “soft hair,” low-energy quantum excitations that release information when the black hole evaporates.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measuring the Diphoton Coupling of a 750 GeV Resonance

S. Fichet, G. von Gersdorff, and C. Royon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231801 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Interference Effect between $ϕ$ and $Λ (1520)$ Production Channels in the $γ p \to K^{+} K^{-} p$ Reaction near Threshold

S. Y. Ryu et al. (LEPS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 232001 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Calculation of the Hadronic Vacuum Polarization Disconnected Contribution to the Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment

T. Blum, P. A. Boyle, T. Izubuchi, L. Jin, A. Jüttner, C. Lehner, K. Maltman, M. Marinkovic, A. Portelli, and M. Spraggs (RBC and UKQCD Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 232002 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Thermal Density Functional Theory: Time-Dependent Linear Response and Approximate Functionals from the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem

Aurora Pribram-Jones, Paul E. Grabowski, and Kieron Burke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233001 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Buffer-Gas Cooling of a Single Ion in a Multipole Radio Frequency Trap Beyond the Critical Mass Ratio

Bastian Höltkemeier, Pascal Weckesser, Henry López-Carrera, and Matthias Weidemüller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233003 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Complete Solution of Electronic Excitation and Ionization in Electron-Hydrogen Molecule Scattering

Mark C. Zammit, Jeremy S. Savage, Dmitry V. Fursa, and Igor Bray

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233201 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Coherent Scattering of Near-Resonant Light by a Dense Microscopic Cold Atomic Cloud

S. Jennewein, M. Besbes, N. J. Schilder, S. D. Jenkins, C. Sauvan, J. Ruostekoski, J.-J. Greffet, Y. R. P. Sortais, and A. Browaeys

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233601 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

The coherent scattering of light by a dense, cold atomic cloud roughly a wavelength in size cannot be explained by a number of standard models.

Real-Time Quadrature Measurement of a Single-Photon Wave Packet with Continuous Temporal-Mode Matching

Hisashi Ogawa, Hideaki Ohdan, Kazunori Miyata, Masahiro Taguchi, Kenzo Makino, Hidehiro Yonezawa, Jun-ichi Yoshikawa, and Akira Furusawa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233602 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Tunneling Time and Weak Measurement in Strong Field Ionization

Tomáš Zimmermann, Siddhartha Mishra, Brent R. Doran, Daniel F. Gordon, and Alexandra S. Landsman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233603 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Dissipative Optomechanical Preparation of Macroscopic Quantum Superposition States

M. Abdi, P. Degenfeld-Schonburg, M. Sameti, C. Navarrete-Benlloch, and M. J. Hartmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233604 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Enhanced Nonlinear Refractive Index in $ε$ -Near-Zero Materials

L. Caspani, R. P. M. Kaipurath, M. Clerici, M. Ferrera, T. Roger, J. Kim, N. Kinsey, M. Pietrzyk, A. Di Falco, V. M. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, and D. Faccio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233901 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Defect-Assisted Hard-X-Ray Microscopy with Capillary Optics

Paweł Korecki, Katarzyna M. Sowa, Benedykt R. Jany, and Franciszek Krok

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 233902 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Deterministic Single-Phonon Source Triggered by a Single Photon

Immo Söllner, Leonardo Midolo, and Peter Lodahl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 234301 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Nonlinear Stability and Saturation of Ballooning Modes in Tokamaks

C. J. Ham, S. C. Cowley, G. Brochard, and H. R. Wilson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235001 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Experimental Evidence of the Collective Brillouin Scattering of Multiple Laser Beams Sharing Acoustic Waves

C. Neuville, V. Tassin, D. Pesme, M.-C. Monteil, P.-E. Masson-Laborde, C. Baccou, P. Fremerye, F. Philippe, P. Seytor, D. Teychenné, W. Seka, J. Katz, R. Bahr, and S. Depierreux

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235002 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Large Enhancement in High-Energy Photoionization of Fe XVII and Missing Continuum Plasma Opacity

Sultana N. Nahar and Anil K. Pradhan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235003 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Pulsating Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Three-Dimensional Flux-Rope Interactions

W. Gekelman, T. De Haas, W. Daughton, B. Van Compernolle, T. Intrator, and S. Vincena

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235101 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

A real-time 3D map of all magnetic and electric field lines from a laboratory magnetic reconnection experiment has been created.

Magnetospheric Multiscale Satellites Observations of Parallel Electric Fields Associated with Magnetic Reconnection

R. E. Ergun et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235102 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Observation of 2D Fermionic Mott Insulators of ${}^{40}K$ with Single-Site Resolution

Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Katherine R. Lawrence, Melih Okan, Hao Zhang, and Martin W. Zwierlein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235301 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

The Mott-insulating, band-insulting, and metallic states of the 2D Hubbard model can be created in an ultracold gas of $^{40}$ K trapped in an optical lattice.

Bistability in a Driven-Dissipative Superfluid

Ralf Labouvie, Bodhaditya Santra, Simon Heun, and Herwig Ott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235302 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Pinning Susceptibility: The Effect of Dilute, Quenched Disorder on Jamming

Amy L. Graves, Samer Nashed, Elliot Padgett, Carl P. Goodrich, Andrea J. Liu, and James P. Sethna

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 235501 (2016) - Published 10 June, 2016

Diffusion Barriers Block Defect Occupation on Reduced ${CeO}_{2} (111)$

P. G. Lustemberg, Y. Pan, B.-J. Shaw, D. Grinter, Chi Pang, G. Thornton, Rubén Pérez, M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano, and N. Nilius

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 236101 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Magnetic Breakdown and Klein Tunneling in a Type-II Weyl Semimetal

T. E. O’Brien, M. Diez, and C. W. J. Beenakker

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 236401 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Merging Features from Green’s Functions and Time Dependent Density Functional Theory: A Route to the Description of Correlated Materials out of Equilibrium?

M. Hopjan, D. Karlsson, S. Ydman, C. Verdozzi, and C.-O. Almbladh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 236402 (2016) - Published 9 June, 2016

Direct Measurement of the Electron Energy Relaxation Dynamics in Metallic Wires

Edouard Pinsolle, Alexandre Rousseau, Christian Lupien, and Bertrand Reulet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 236601 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Magnetic-Phase Dependence of the Spin Carrier Mean Free Path in Graphene Nanoribbons

Jing Li, Yann-Michel Niquet, and Christophe Delerue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 236602 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Evidence for Eight-Node Mixed-Symmetry Superconductivity in a Correlated Organic Metal

Daniel Guterding, Sandra Diehl, Michaela Altmeyer, Torsten Methfessel, Ulrich Tutsch, Harald Schubert, Michael Lang, Jens Müller, Michael Huth, Harald O. Jeschke, Roser Valentí, Martin Jourdan, and Hans-Joachim Elmers

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 237001 (2016) - Published 7 June, 2016

Semiclassical Quantization of Spinning Quasiparticles in Ballistic Josephson Junctions

François Konschelle, F. Sebastián Bergeret, and Ilya V. Tokatly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 237002 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016

Strain-Driven Approach to Quantum Criticality in $A {Fe}_{2} {As}_{2}$ with $A = K$ , Rb, and Cs

Felix Eilers, Kai Grube, Diego A. Zocco, Thomas Wolf, Michael Merz, Peter Schweiss, Rolf Heid, Robert Eder, Rong Yu, Jian-Xin Zhu, Qimiao Si, Takasada Shibauchi, and Hilbert v. Löhneysen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 237003 (2016) - Published 8 June, 2016