Volume 116, Issue 25

24 June 2016

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(Top left) Equilibrium position of a cubic particle adsorbed at a fluid-fluid interface. The blue grid shows the interface shape. (Top right) Contour plot of the interface where red is high and blue is low. (Bottom) Hexagonal and honeycomb lattices formed by cubes interacting via dipole-dipole (left) and tripole-tripole (right) interactions. Selected for an Editors’ Suggestion.

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Self-Assembly of Cubes into 2D Hexagonal and Honeycomb Lattices by Hexapolar Capillary Interactions
Giuseppe Soligno, Marjolein Dijkstra, and René van Roij
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 258001 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Departures from the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertston-Walker Cosmological Model in an Inhomogeneous Universe: A Numerical Examination

John T. Giblin, Jr., James B. Mertens, and Glenn D. Starkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251301 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Cosmologists have begun using fully relativistic models to understand the effects of inhomogeneous matter distribution on the evolution of the Universe.

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Effects of Nonlinear Inhomogeneity on the Cosmic Expansion with Numerical Relativity

Eloisa Bentivegna and Marco Bruni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251302 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Cosmologists have begun using fully relativistic models to understand the effects of inhomogeneous matter distribution on the evolution of the Universe.

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Prediction and Control of Slip-Free Rotation States in Sphere Assemblies

D. V. Stäger, N. A. M. Araújo, and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 254301 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Spinning a few spheres among a large collection of them can lead to a predictable state where each sphere rotates in synch with the others.

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Structural and Electronic Properties of Germanene on ${MoS}_{2}$

L. Zhang, P. Bampoulis, A. N. Rudenko, Q. Yao, A. van Houselt, B. Poelsema, M. I. Katsnelson, and H. J. W. Zandvliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256804 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Germanene—the germanium analog of graphene—can remain a topological insulator when placed on a molybdenum disulfide substrate.

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$Z_{2}$ Invariance of Germanene on ${MoS}_{2}$ from First Principles

Taher Amlaki, Menno Bokdam, and Paul J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256805 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Germanene—the germanium analog of graphene—can remain a topological insulator when placed on a molybdenum disulfide substrate.

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Persistent Superfluid Flow Arising from the He-McKellar-Wilkens Effect in Molecular Dipolar Condensates

A. A. Wood, B. H. J. McKellar, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250403 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

A new technique is proposed that would allow persistent flows to be generated in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a toroidal trap.

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Surface Temperature Dependence of Hydrogen Ortho-Para Conversion on Amorphous Solid Water

Hirokazu Ueta, Naoki Watanabe, Tetsuya Hama, and Akira Kouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253201 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

The reaction that transforms ortho hydrogen molecules (parallel spins) into para hydrogen (anti-parallel spins) accelerates at low temperatures. This finding may be relevant to the ortho-para ratio in low temperature cosmic dust.

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Self-Assembly of Cubes into 2D Hexagonal and Honeycomb Lattices by Hexapolar Capillary Interactions

Giuseppe Soligno, Marjolein Dijkstra, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 258001 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Capillary forces drive the self-assembly of cube-shaped colloids at fluid-fluid interfaces.

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Role of the Membrane for Mechanosensing by Tethered Channels

Benedikt Sabass and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 258101 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

A tiny conical deformation in a channel embedded in a lipid membrane can give rise to a significant energy release when the channel opens.

LETTERS

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

Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems

Vedika Khemani, Achilleas Lazarides, Roderich Moessner, and S. L. Sondhi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250401 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Cooperative Shielding in Many-Body Systems with Long-Range Interaction

Lea F. Santos, Fausto Borgonovi, and Giuseppe Luca Celardo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250402 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

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Persistent Superfluid Flow Arising from the He-McKellar-Wilkens Effect in Molecular Dipolar Condensates

A. A. Wood, B. H. J. McKellar, and A. M. Martin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250403 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

A new technique is proposed that would allow persistent flows to be generated in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a toroidal trap.

Classical Physics and the Bounds of Quantum Correlations

Diego Frustaglia, José P. Baltanás, María C. Velázquez-Ahumada, Armando Fernández-Prieto, Aintzane Lujambio, Vicente Losada, Manuel J. Freire, and Adán Cabello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250404 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Improved Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits Dominated by Clifford Gates

Sergey Bravyi and David Gosset

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250501 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Majorana Positivity and the Fermion Sign Problem of Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations

Z. C. Wei, Congjun Wu, Yi Li, Shiwei Zhang, and T. Xiang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 250601 (2016) - Published 23 June, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Departures from the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertston-Walker Cosmological Model in an Inhomogeneous Universe: A Numerical Examination

John T. Giblin, Jr., James B. Mertens, and Glenn D. Starkman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251301 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Cosmologists have begun using fully relativistic models to understand the effects of inhomogeneous matter distribution on the evolution of the Universe.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effects of Nonlinear Inhomogeneity on the Cosmic Expansion with Numerical Relativity

Eloisa Bentivegna and Marco Bruni

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251302 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Cosmologists have begun using fully relativistic models to understand the effects of inhomogeneous matter distribution on the evolution of the Universe.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Three-Dimensional Extended Bargmann Supergravity

Eric Bergshoeff and Jan Rosseel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251601 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Shape Dependence of Holographic Rényi Entropy in Conformal Field Theories

Xi Dong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251602 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Lepton Flavor and Nonuniversality from Minimal Composite Higgs Setups

Adrián Carmona and Florian Goertz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251801 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Observation of $h_{c}$ Radiative Decay $h_{c} \to γ η^{'}$ and Evidence for $h_{c} \to γ η$

M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251802 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Proposed Inclusive Dark Photon Search at LHCb

Philip Ilten, Yotam Soreq, Jesse Thaler, Mike Williams, and Wei Xue

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 251803 (2016) - Published 23 June, 2016

Direct Evaluation of the Quark Content of Nucleons from Lattice QCD at the Physical Point

A. Abdel-Rehim, C. Alexandrou, M. Constantinou, K. Hadjiyiannakou, K. Jansen, Ch. Kallidonis, G. Koutsou, and A. Vaquero Avilés-Casco

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 252001 (2016) - Published 23 June, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Event-by-Event $Hydrodynamics + Jet$ Energy Loss: A Solution to the $R_{A A} \otimes v_{2}$ Puzzle

Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Barbara Betz, Jorge Noronha, and Miklos Gyulassy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 252301 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Surface Temperature Dependence of Hydrogen Ortho-Para Conversion on Amorphous Solid Water

Hirokazu Ueta, Naoki Watanabe, Tetsuya Hama, and Akira Kouchi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253201 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Kinematics of Eley-Rideal Reactions at Hyperthermal Energies

Yunxi Yao and Konstantinos P. Giapis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253202 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Interference at the Single Photon Level Along Satellite-Ground Channels

Giuseppe Vallone, Daniele Dequal, Marco Tomasin, Francesco Vedovato, Matteo Schiavon, Vincenza Luceri, Giuseppe Bianco, and Paolo Villoresi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253601 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Spatiotemporal Coherent Control of Light through a Multiple Scattering Medium with the Multispectral Transmission Matrix

Mickael Mounaix, Daria Andreoli, Hugo Defienne, Giorgio Volpe, Ori Katz, Samuel Grésillon, and Sylvain Gigan

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253901 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Reflective Spin-Orbit Geometric Phase from Chiral Anisotropic Optical Media

Mushegh Rafayelyan, Georgiy Tkachenko, and Etienne Brasselet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253902 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Polychromatic Optical Vortex Generation from Patterned Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Junji Kobashi, Hiroyuki Yoshida, and Masanori Ozaki

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253903 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Localized Surface Plasmons Selectively Coupled to Resonant Light in Tubular Microcavities

Yin Yin, Shilong Li, Stefan Böttner, Feifei Yuan, Silvia Giudicatti, Ehsan Saei Ghareh Naz, Libo Ma, and Oliver G. Schmidt

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 253904 (2016) - Published 23 June, 2016

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Prediction and Control of Slip-Free Rotation States in Sphere Assemblies

D. V. Stäger, N. A. M. Araújo, and H. J. Herrmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 254301 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Spinning a few spheres among a large collection of them can lead to a predictable state where each sphere rotates in synch with the others.

Non-Negligible Diffusio-Osmosis Inside an Ion Concentration Polarization Layer

Inhee Cho, Wonseok Kim, Junsuk Kim, Ho-Young Kim, Hyomin Lee, and Sung Jae Kim

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 254501 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Plasma and Beam Physics

Optical Shaping of X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers

A. Marinelli, R. Coffee, S. Vetter, P. Hering, G. N. West, S. Gilevich, A. A. Lutman, S. Li, T. Maxwell, J. Galayda, A. Fry, and Z. Huang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 254801 (2016) - Published 23 June, 2016

Experimental Demonstration of the Collisionless Plasmoid Instability below the Ion Kinetic Scale during Magnetic Reconnection

J. Olson, J. Egedal, S. Greess, R. Myers, M. Clark, D. Endrizzi, K. Flanagan, J. Milhone, E. Peterson, J. Wallace, D. Weisberg, and C. B. Forest

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 255001 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Experimental Observation and Computational Analysis of Striations in Electronegative Capacitively Coupled Radio-Frequency Plasmas

Yong-Xin Liu, Edmund Schüngel, Ihor Korolov, Zoltán Donkó, You-Nian Wang, and Julian Schulze

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 255002 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Low Fuel Convergence Path to Direct-Drive Fusion Ignition

Kim Molvig, Mark J. Schmitt, B. J. Albright, E. S. Dodd, N. M. Hoffman, G. H. McCall, and S. D. Ramsey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 255003 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Constraining Solar Wind Heating Processes by Kinetic Properties of Heavy Ions

Patrick J. Tracy, Justin C. Kasper, Jim M. Raines, Paul Shearer, Jason A. Gilbert, and Thomas H. Zurbuchen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 255101 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Optical Properties of Fluid Hydrogen at the Transition to a Conducting State

R. Stewart McWilliams, D. Allen Dalton, Mohammad F. Mahmood, and Alexander F. Goncharov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 255501 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Transport Properties of Metallic Ruthenates: A $DFT + DMFT$ Investigation

Xiaoyu Deng, Kristjan Haule, and Gabriel Kotliar

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256401 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Photoinduced Demagnetization and Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Ferromagnetic Insulating ${BaFeO}_{3}$ Thin Films

T. Tsuyama, S. Chakraverty, S. Macke, N. Pontius, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, H. Y. Hwang, Y. Tokura, and H. Wadati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256402 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Spontaneous Spin Textures in Multiorbital Mott Systems

J. Kuneš and D. Geffroy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256403 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Predicted Quantum Topological Hall Effect and Noncoplanar Antiferromagnetism in $K_{0.5} {RhO}_{2}$

Jian Zhou, Qi-Feng Liang, Hongming Weng, Y. B. Chen, Shu-Hua Yao, Yan-Feng Chen, Jinming Dong, and Guang-Yu Guo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256601 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Spectroscopy and Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas on Ultrathin Helium Films on Cu(111)

N. Armbrust, J. Güdde, U. Höfer, S. Kossler, and P. Feulner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256801 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Observation of the D’yakonov-Perel’ Spin Relaxation in Single-Crystalline Pt Thin Films

Jeongchun Ryu, Makoto Kohda, and Junsaku Nitta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256802 (2016) - Published 22 June, 2016

Devil’s Staircase Phase Diagram of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in the Thin-Torus Limit

Pietro Rotondo, Luca Guido Molinari, Piergiorgio Ratti, and Marco Gherardi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256803 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

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Structural and Electronic Properties of Germanene on ${MoS}_{2}$

L. Zhang, P. Bampoulis, A. N. Rudenko, Q. Yao, A. van Houselt, B. Poelsema, M. I. Katsnelson, and H. J. W. Zandvliet

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256804 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Germanene—the germanium analog of graphene—can remain a topological insulator when placed on a molybdenum disulfide substrate.

FEATURED IN PHYSICS

$Z_{2}$ Invariance of Germanene on ${MoS}_{2}$ from First Principles

Taher Amlaki, Menno Bokdam, and Paul J. Kelly

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 256805 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Germanene—the germanium analog of graphene—can remain a topological insulator when placed on a molybdenum disulfide substrate.

General Conditions for Proximity-Induced Odd-Frequency Superconductivity in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems

Christopher Triola, Driss M. Badiane, Alexander V. Balatsky, and E. Rossi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257001 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Aperiodic Weak Topological Superconductors

I. C. Fulga, D. I. Pikulin, and T. A. Loring

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257002 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Majorana Zero Mode Detected with Spin Selective Andreev Reflection in the Vortex of a Topological Superconductor

Hao-Hua Sun, Kai-Wen Zhang, Lun-Hui Hu, Chuang Li, Guan-Yong Wang, Hai-Yang Ma, Zhu-An Xu, Chun-Lei Gao, Dan-Dan Guan, Yao-Yi Li, Canhua Liu, Dong Qian, Yi Zhou, Liang Fu, Shao-Chun Li, Fu-Chun Zhang, and Jin-Feng Jia

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257003 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Spin-Lattice-Coupled Order in Heisenberg Antiferromagnets on the Pyrochlore Lattice

Kazushi Aoyama and Hikaru Kawamura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257201 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Itinerant and Localized Magnetization Dynamics in Antiferromagnetic Ho

L. Rettig, C. Dornes, N. Thielemann-Kühn, N. Pontius, H. Zabel, D. L. Schlagel, T. A. Lograsso, M. Chollet, A. Robert, M. Sikorski, S. Song, J. M. Glownia, C. Schüßler-Langeheine, S. L. Johnson, and U. Staub

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257202 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Emergent Interacting Spin Islands in a Depleted Strong-Leg Heisenberg Ladder

D. Schmidiger, K. Yu. Povarov, S. Galeski, N. Reynolds, R. Bewley, T. Guidi, J. Ollivier, and A. Zheludev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257203 (2016) - Published 21 June, 2016

Anisotropic Exchange within Decoupled Tetrahedra in the Quantum Breathing Pyrochlore ${Ba}_{3} {Yb}_{2} {Zn}_{5} O_{11}$

J. G. Rau, L. S. Wu, A. F. May, L. Poudel, B. Winn, V. O. Garlea, A. Huq, P. Whitfield, A. E. Taylor, M. D. Lumsden, M. J. P. Gingras, and A. D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257204 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Unconventional Superfluidity in Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

Chen Sun, Thomas Nattermann, and Valery L. Pokrovsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257205 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Screening Nuclear Field Fluctuations in Quantum Dots for Indistinguishable Photon Generation

R. N. E. Malein, T. S. Santana, J. M. Zajac, A. C. Dada, E. M. Gauger, P. M. Petroff, J. Y. Lim, J. D. Song, and B. D. Gerardot

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257401 (2016) - Published 24 June, 2016

Local Electrical Imaging of Tetragonal Domains and Field-Induced Ferroelectric Twin Walls in Conducting ${SrTiO}_{3}$

H. J. Harsan Ma, S. Scharinger, S. W. Zeng, D. Kohlberger, M. Lange, A. Stöhr, X. Renshaw Wang, T. Venkatesan, R. Kleiner, J. F. Scott, J. M. D. Coey, D. Koelle, and Ariando

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 257601 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

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

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Self-Assembly of Cubes into 2D Hexagonal and Honeycomb Lattices by Hexapolar Capillary Interactions

Giuseppe Soligno, Marjolein Dijkstra, and René van Roij

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 258001 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

Capillary forces drive the self-assembly of cube-shaped colloids at fluid-fluid interfaces.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Role of the Membrane for Mechanosensing by Tethered Channels

Benedikt Sabass and Howard A. Stone

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 258101 (2016) - Published 20 June, 2016

A tiny conical deformation in a channel embedded in a lipid membrane can give rise to a significant energy release when the channel opens.