Volume 116, Issue 24

17 June 2016

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Compact localized state dynamics in a diamondlike network that results from the subtle interplay of Bloch oscillations in applied magnetic and electric fields and Landau-Zener tunneling.

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Landau-Zener Bloch Oscillations with Perturbed Flat Bands
Ramaz Khomeriki and Sergej Flach
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 245301 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

LIGO has detected a second burst of gravitational waves from merging black holes, suggesting that such detections will soon become routine and part of a new kind of astronomy.

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Time Dependence of the Electron and Positron Components of the Cosmic Radiation Measured by the PAMELA Experiment between July 2006 and December 2015

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241105 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Discrepancies in the positron content of cosmic rays measured at different times are explained by the periodic reversal of the solar magnetic field’s direction.

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Experimental Neutron Capture Rate Constraint Far from Stability

S. N. Liddick, A. Spyrou, B. P. Crider, F. Naqvi, A. C. Larsen, M. Guttormsen, M. Mumpower, R. Surman, G. Perdikakis, D. L. Bleuel, A. Couture, L. Crespo Campo, A. C. Dombos, R. Lewis, S. Mosby, S. Nikas, C. J. Prokop, T. Renstrom, B. Rubio, S. Siem, and S. J. Quinn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 242502 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Experiments place tighter bounds on neutron capture rates that play an important role in the production of heavy elements in the Universe.

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Direct Measurement of Photon Recoil from a Levitated Nanoparticle

Vijay Jain, Jan Gieseler, Clemens Moritz, Christoph Dellago, Romain Quidant, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 243601 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Force sensors levitated by light have reached the quantum regime, in which their sensitivity is limited by the momentum kicks of individual photons.

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Precision Measurement of the Radiative $β$ Decay of the Free Neutron

M. J. Bales, R. Alarcon, C. D. Bass, E. J. Beise, H. Breuer, J. Byrne, T. E. Chupp, K. J. Coakley, R. L. Cooper, M. S. Dewey, S. Gardner, T. R. Gentile, D. He, H. P. Mumm, J. S. Nico, B. O’Neill, A. K. Thompson, and F. E. Wietfeldt (RDK II Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 242501 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

A high-precision measurement of the photons emitted by neutron decays brings researchers closer to a new test of the standard model.

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Ultrasensitive Magnetometer using a Single Atom

I. Baumgart, J.-M. Cai, A. Retzker, M. B. Plenio, and Ch. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240801 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

A single confined atom can sense alternating magnetic fields at the standard quantum limit with nanometer resolution.

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Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

The LIGO and Virgo collaborations determine the properties and location of the black-hole-binary merger that was the source of their detection of gravitational waves.

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Resonant Rydberg Dressing of Alkaline-Earth Atoms via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

C. Gaul, B. J. DeSalvo, J. A. Aman, F. B. Dunning, T. C. Killian, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 243001 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

A finite-range atomic interaction can be generated via resonant two-photon excitation in a cold gas of Strontium atoms.

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Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction as a Consequence of a Doppler Shift due to Spin-Orbit-Induced Intrinsic Spin Current

Toru Kikuchi, Takashi Koretsune, Ryotaro Arita, and Gen Tatara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 247201 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

A spin current can induce an antisymmetric interaction between the magnetic moments of magnetic materials that are distinguishable from their mirror images.

LETTERS

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

Natural Framework for Device-Independent Quantification of Quantum Steerability, Measurement Incompatibility, and Self-Testing

Shin-Liang Chen, Costantino Budroni, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Yueh-Nan Chen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240401 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Hubbard Model for Atomic Impurities Bound by the Vortex Lattice of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate

T. H. Johnson, Y. Yuan, W. Bao, S. R. Clark, C. Foot, and D. Jaksch

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240402 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Energy Exchange in Driven Open Quantum Systems at Strong Coupling

Matteo Carrega, Paolo Solinas, Maura Sassetti, and Ulrich Weiss

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240403 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Towards a Theory of Metastability in Open Quantum Dynamics

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Mădălin Guţă, Igor Lesanovsky, and Juan P. Garrahan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240404 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Entanglement and Coherence in Quantum State Merging

A. Streltsov, E. Chitambar, S. Rana, M. N. Bera, A. Winter, and M. Lewenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240405 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Entropic Nonsignaling Correlations

Rafael Chaves and Costantino Budroni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240501 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Observation of Quantum Fingerprinting Beating the Classical Limit

Jian-Yu Guan, Feihu Xu, Hua-Lei Yin, Yuan Li, Wei-Jun Zhang, Si-Jing Chen, Xiao-Yan Yang, Li Li, Li-Xing You, Teng-Yun Chen, Zhen Wang, Qiang Zhang, and Jian-Wei Pan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240502 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Stabilizing Entanglement via Symmetry-Selective Bath Engineering in Superconducting Qubits

M. E. Kimchi-Schwartz, L. Martin, E. Flurin, C. Aron, M. Kulkarni, H. E. Tureci, and I. Siddiqi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240503 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Self-Organized Bistability Associated with First-Order Phase Transitions

Serena di Santo, Raffaella Burioni, Alessandro Vezzani, and Miguel A. Muñoz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240601 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Nonequilibrium Tuning of the Thermal Casimir Effect

David S. Dean, Bing-Sui Lu, A. C. Maggs, and Rudolf Podgornik

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240602 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Le Chatelier Principle for Out-of-Equilibrium and Boundary-Driven Systems: Application to Dynamical Phase Transitions

O. Shpielberg and E. Akkermans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240603 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

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Ultrasensitive Magnetometer using a Single Atom

I. Baumgart, J.-M. Cai, A. Retzker, M. B. Plenio, and Ch. Wunderlich

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 240801 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

A single confined atom can sense alternating magnetic fields at the standard quantum limit with nanometer resolution.

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Measurement of the Radiation Energy in the Radio Signal of Extensive Air Showers as a Universal Estimator of Cosmic-Ray Energy

A. Aab et al. (Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241101 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

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Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

The LIGO and Virgo collaborations determine the properties and location of the black-hole-binary merger that was the source of their detection of gravitational waves.

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GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

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

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

LIGO has detected a second burst of gravitational waves from merging black holes, suggesting that such detections will soon become routine and part of a new kind of astronomy.

Theory-Agnostic Constraints on Black-Hole Dipole Radiation with Multiband Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics

Enrico Barausse, Nicolás Yunes, and Katie Chamberlain

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241104 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

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Time Dependence of the Electron and Positron Components of the Cosmic Radiation Measured by the PAMELA Experiment between July 2006 and December 2015

O. Adriani et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241105 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Discrepancies in the positron content of cosmic rays measured at different times are explained by the periodic reversal of the solar magnetic field’s direction.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Search for Violations of Lorentz Invariance and $C P T$ Symmetry in $B_{(s)}^{0}$ Mixing

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241601 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

First Observation of $D^{0} - {\bar{D}}^{0}$ Oscillations in $D^{0} \to K^{+} π^{-} π^{+} π^{-}$ Decays and Measurement of the Associated Coherence Parameters

R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241801 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Higgs Transverse-Momentum Resummation in Direct Space

Pier Francesco Monni, Emanuele Re, and Paolo Torrielli

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 242001 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Nuclear Physics

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Precision Measurement of the Radiative $β$ Decay of the Free Neutron

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 242501 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

A high-precision measurement of the photons emitted by neutron decays brings researchers closer to a new test of the standard model.

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Experimental Neutron Capture Rate Constraint Far from Stability

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 242502 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Experiments place tighter bounds on neutron capture rates that play an important role in the production of heavy elements in the Universe.

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Resonant Rydberg Dressing of Alkaline-Earth Atoms via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

C. Gaul, B. J. DeSalvo, J. A. Aman, F. B. Dunning, T. C. Killian, and T. Pohl

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 243001 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

A finite-range atomic interaction can be generated via resonant two-photon excitation in a cold gas of Strontium atoms.

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EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Direct Measurement of Photon Recoil from a Levitated Nanoparticle

Vijay Jain, Jan Gieseler, Clemens Moritz, Christoph Dellago, Romain Quidant, and Lukas Novotny

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 243601 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Force sensors levitated by light have reached the quantum regime, in which their sensitivity is limited by the momentum kicks of individual photons.

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Experimental Measurement of the Second-Order Coherence of Supercontinuum

Mikko Närhi, Jari Turunen, Ari T. Friberg, and Goëry Genty

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 243901 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Unidirectional Transition Waves in Bistable Lattices

Neel Nadkarni, Andres F. Arrieta, Christopher Chong, Dennis M. Kochmann, and Chiara Daraio

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 244501 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Ensemble Space-Time Correlation of Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind

W. H. Matthaeus, J. M. Weygand, and S. Dasso

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 245101 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Landau-Zener Bloch Oscillations with Perturbed Flat Bands

Ramaz Khomeriki and Sergej Flach

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 245301 (2016) - Published 15 June, 2016

Statistical Nature of Atomic Disorder in Irradiated Crystals

A. Boulle and A. Debelle

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 245501 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Atomic-Scale Variations of the Mechanical Response of 2D Materials Detected by Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy

B. de la Torre, M. Ellner, P. Pou, N. Nicoara, Rubén Pérez, and J. M. Gómez-Rodríguez

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 245502 (2016) - Published 16 June, 2016

Absorbing State Phase Transition with Competing Quantum and Classical Fluctuations

Matteo Marcuzzi, Michael Buchhold, Sebastian Diehl, and Igor Lesanovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 245701 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Unscrambling Mixed Elements using High Angle Annular Dark Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Karel H. W. van den Bos, Annick De Backer, Gerardo T. Martinez, Naomi Winckelmans, Sara Bals, Peter D. Nellist, and Sandra Van Aert

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 246101 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Intrinsic Charge Carrier Mobility in Single-Layer Black Phosphorus

A. N. Rudenko, S. Brener, and M. I. Katsnelson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 246401 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Strong and Coherent Coupling between Localized and Propagating Phonon Polaritons

Christopher R. Gubbin, Francesco Martini, Alberto Politi, Stefan A. Maier, and Simone De Liberato

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 246402 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Bulk Fermi Surface of Charge-Neutral Excitations in ${SmB}_{6}$ or Not: A Heat-Transport Study

Y. Xu, S. Cui, J. K. Dong, D. Zhao, T. Wu, X. H. Chen, Kai Sun, Hong Yao, and S. Y. Li

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 246403 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

Charge-Insensitive Single-Atom Spin-Orbit Qubit in Silicon

Joe Salfi, Jan A. Mol, Dimitrie Culcer, and Sven Rogge

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 246801 (2016) - Published 14 June, 2016

Orbital Selective Spin Excitations and their Impact on Superconductivity of ${LiFe}_{1 - x} {Co}_{x} As$

Yu Li, Zhiping Yin, Xiancheng Wang, David W. Tam, D. L. Abernathy, A. Podlesnyak, Chenglin Zhang, Meng Wang, Lingyi Xing, Changqing Jin, Kristjan Haule, Gabriel Kotliar, Thomas A. Maier, and Pengcheng Dai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 247001 (2016) - Published 17 June, 2016

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Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction as a Consequence of a Doppler Shift due to Spin-Orbit-Induced Intrinsic Spin Current

Toru Kikuchi, Takashi Koretsune, Ryotaro Arita, and Gen Tatara

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 247201 (2016) - Published 13 June, 2016

A spin current can induce an antisymmetric interaction between the magnetic moments of magnetic materials that are distinguishable from their mirror images.