Volume 116, Issue 3

22 January 2016

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On the Cover

Self-assembly of magnetic colloids on a honeycomb lattice of triangular shaped minima of a magnetic substrate. (Top) Direction of the applied magnetic field. (Middle) Microscopy images of the structures that form. (Bottom) Energy landscape of the system.

From the article:

Geometric Frustration of Colloidal Dimers on a Honeycomb Magnetic Lattice
Pietro Tierno
Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 038303 (2016)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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Dark Matter Velocity Spectroscopy

Eric G. Speckhard, Kenny C. Y. Ng, John F. Beacom, and Ranjan Laha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031301 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Whether mysterious high-energy photon emissions from our Galaxy come from dark matter or a more mundane source might be resolved by detecting their Doppler shifts along different lines-of-sight.

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Anomalously Soft Non-Euclidean Springs

Ido Levin and Eran Sharon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 035502 (2016) - Published 20 January, 2016

Materials that naturally curl up into complex shapes might be used to make springs with unusual mechanical properties.

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Colloidal Swarms Can Settle Faster than Isolated Particles: Enhanced Sedimentation near Phase Separation

Enrico Lattuada, Stefano Buzzaccaro, and Roberto Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 038301 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

A concentrated suspension of particles can fall through a fluid faster than a single particle.

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Testing General Relativity with the Shadow Size of Sgr $A^{*}$

Tim Johannsen, Avery E. Broderick, Philipp M. Plewa, Sotiris Chatzopoulos, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Frank Eisenhauer, Vincent L. Fish, Reinhard Genzel, Ortwin Gerhard, and Michael D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031101 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Deviations in the shadow of our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole could reveal violations of general relativity.

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Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band

P. A. R. Ade et al. (Keck Array and BICEP2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031302 (2016) - Published 20 January, 2016

New measurements of B modes in the cosmic microwave background from BICEP2 and the Keck Array provide the strongest constraints yet on gravitational waves from inflation.

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Inflatable Dark Matter

Hooman Davoudiasl, Dan Hooper, and Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031303 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

The overabundance of dark matter predicted by many otherwise well-motivated models could be remedied if the universe underwent a period of late-time inflation.

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Ionization Avalanching in Clusters Ignited by Extreme-Ultraviolet Driven Seed Electrons

Bernd Schütte, Mathias Arbeiter, Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Arnaud Rouzée, and Thomas Fennel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033001 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Nano-fireworks can be ignited by an invisible extreme-ultraviolet light flash. The extreme-ultraviolet pulse generates a few seed electrons, which are then multiplied in an ionization avalanche induced by heating from a near-infrared laser pulse.

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Walk-Off-Induced Modulation Instability, Temporal Pattern Formation, and Frequency Comb Generation in Cavity-Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation

F. Leo, T. Hansson, I. Ricciardi, M. De Rosa, S. Coen, S. Wabnitz, and M. Erkintalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033901 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

A theoretical framework to model quadratically nonlinear resonators reveals a new type of modular instability that triggers the formation of optical frequency combs.

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Long-Range Plasmon-Assisted Energy Transfer between Fluorescent Emitters

D. Bouchet, D. Cao, R. Carminati, Y. De Wilde, and V. Krachmalnicoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037401 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

The range of energies that can be transferred between two molecules can be increased by a factor of almost one thousand using a simple silver mirror.

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Unexpected Molecular Weight Effect in Polymer Nanocomposites

Shiwang Cheng, Adam P. Holt, Huiqun Wang, Fei Fan, Vera Bocharova, Halie Martin, Thusitha Etampawala, B. Tyler White, Tomonori Saito, Nam-Goo Kang, Mark D. Dadmun, Jimmy W. Mays, and Alexei P. Sokolov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 038302 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

The thickness of the interfacial layer between a nanoparticle and surrounding polymer matrix is experimentally shown to decrease in thickness as the chain length of the polymer increases, contrasting theoretical predictions.

LETTERS

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

Random Free Fermions: An Analytical Example of Eigenstate Thermalization

Javier M. Magán

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 030401 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Cooling of a One-Dimensional Bose Gas

B. Rauer, P. Grišins, I. E. Mazets, T. Schweigler, W. Rohringer, R. Geiger, T. Langen, and J. Schmiedmayer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 030402 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Dissipative Remote-State Preparation in an Interacting Medium

Marko Žnidarič

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 030403 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Quantum Enhanced Estimation of a Multidimensional Field

Tillmann Baumgratz and Animesh Datta

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 030801 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

Gravitation and Astrophysics

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Testing General Relativity with the Shadow Size of Sgr $A^{*}$

Tim Johannsen, Avery E. Broderick, Philipp M. Plewa, Sotiris Chatzopoulos, Sheperd S. Doeleman, Frank Eisenhauer, Vincent L. Fish, Reinhard Genzel, Ortwin Gerhard, and Michael D. Johnson

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031101 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Deviations in the shadow of our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole could reveal violations of general relativity.

Sound of Dark Matter: Searching for Light Scalars with Resonant-Mass Detectors

Asimina Arvanitaki, Savas Dimopoulos, and Ken Van Tilburg

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031102 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

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Dark Matter Velocity Spectroscopy

Eric G. Speckhard, Kenny C. Y. Ng, John F. Beacom, and Ranjan Laha

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031301 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Whether mysterious high-energy photon emissions from our Galaxy come from dark matter or a more mundane source might be resolved by detecting their Doppler shifts along different lines-of-sight.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Improved Constraints on Cosmology and Foregrounds from BICEP2 and Keck Array Cosmic Microwave Background Data with Inclusion of 95 GHz Band

P. A. R. Ade et al. (Keck Array and BICEP2 Collaborations)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031302 (2016) - Published 20 January, 2016

New measurements of B modes in the cosmic microwave background from BICEP2 and the Keck Array provide the strongest constraints yet on gravitational waves from inflation.

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Inflatable Dark Matter

Hooman Davoudiasl, Dan Hooper, and Samuel D. McDermott

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031303 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

The overabundance of dark matter predicted by many otherwise well-motivated models could be remedied if the universe underwent a period of late-time inflation.

Elementary Particles and Fields

Scale-Invariant Resummed Perturbation at Finite Temperatures

Jean-Loïc Kneur and Marcus B. Pinto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031601 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Magnetic Corrections to the Soft Photon Theorem

Andrew Strominger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 031602 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

Nuclear Physics

Study of $B$ Meson Production in $p + Pb$ Collisions at $\sqrt{s_{N N}} = 5.02 TeV$ Using Exclusive Hadronic Decays

V. Khachatryan et al. (CMS Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 032301 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Simple Nuclear Structure in ${}^{111 - 129}{Cd}$ from Atomic Isomer Shifts

D. T. Yordanov, D. L. Balabanski, M. L. Bissell, K. Blaum, I. Budinčević, B. Cheal, K. Flanagan, N. Frömmgen, G. Georgiev, Ch. Geppert, M. Hammen, M. Kowalska, K. Kreim, A. Krieger, J. Meng, R. Neugart, G. Neyens, W. Nörtershäuser, M. M. Rajabali, J. Papuga, S. Schmidt, and P. W. Zhao

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 032501 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Relativistic and Nuclear Medium Effects on the Coulomb Sum Rule

Ian C. Cloët, Wolfgang Bentz, and Anthony W. Thomas

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 032701 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

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Ionization Avalanching in Clusters Ignited by Extreme-Ultraviolet Driven Seed Electrons

Bernd Schütte, Mathias Arbeiter, Alexandre Mermillod-Blondin, Marc J. J. Vrakking, Arnaud Rouzée, and Thomas Fennel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033001 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Phase-Stable Free-Space Optical Lattices for Trapped Ions

C. T. Schmiegelow, H. Kaufmann, T. Ruster, J. Schulz, V. Kaushal, M. Hettrich, F. Schmidt-Kaler, and U. G. Poschinger

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033002 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

Entanglement and Bell Correlation in Electron-Exchange Collisions

K. Blum and B. Lohmann

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033201 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

Positronium Confinement in Small Cavities: A Two-Particle Model for the Lowering of Contact Density

G. Marlotti Tanzi, F. Castelli, and G. Consolati

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033401 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Exploring Dephasing of a Solid-State Quantum Emitter via Time- and Temperature-Dependent Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiments

A. Thoma, P. Schnauber, M. Gschrey, M. Seifried, J. Wolters, J.-H. Schulze, A. Strittmatter, S. Rodt, A. Carmele, A. Knorr, T. Heindel, and S. Reitzenstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033601 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Partially Nondestructive Continuous Detection of Individual Traveling Optical Photons

Mahdi Hosseini, Kristin M. Beck, Yiheng Duan, Wenlan Chen, and Vladan Vuletić

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033602 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Suppressing Spectral Diffusion of Emitted Photons with Optical Pulses

H. F. Fotso, A. E. Feiguin, D. D. Awschalom, and V. V. Dobrovitski

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033603 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Phase Coherence of a Photon Bose-Einstein Condensate Coupled to a Reservoir

Julian Schmitt, Tobias Damm, David Dung, Christian Wahl, Frank Vewinger, Jan Klaers, and Martin Weitz

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033604 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

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Walk-Off-Induced Modulation Instability, Temporal Pattern Formation, and Frequency Comb Generation in Cavity-Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation

F. Leo, T. Hansson, I. Ricciardi, M. De Rosa, S. Coen, S. Wabnitz, and M. Erkintalo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033901 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

A theoretical framework to model quadratically nonlinear resonators reveals a new type of modular instability that triggers the formation of optical frequency combs.

Unveiling Temporal Correlations Characteristic of a Phase Transition in the Output Intensity of a Fiber Laser

A. Aragoneses, L. Carpi, N. Tarasov, D. V. Churkin, M. C. Torrent, C. Masoller, and S. K. Turitsyn

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 033902 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling in an Optical Lattice Clock

Michael L. Wall, Andrew P. Koller, Shuming Li, Xibo Zhang, Nigel R. Cooper, Jun Ye, and Ana Maria Rey

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 035301 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Acoustic Emission from Breaking a Bamboo Chopstick

Sun-Ting Tsai, Li-Min Wang, Panpan Huang, Zhengning Yang, Chin-De Chang, and Tzay-Ming Hong

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 035501 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

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Anomalously Soft Non-Euclidean Springs

Ido Levin and Eran Sharon

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 035502 (2016) - Published 20 January, 2016

Materials that naturally curl up into complex shapes might be used to make springs with unusual mechanical properties.

Collective Atomic Displacements during Complex Phase Boundary Migration in Solid-Solid Phase Transformations

Juliana Duncan, Ari Harjunmaa, Rye Terrell, Ralf Drautz, Graeme Henkelman, and Jutta Rogal

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 035701 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Random Field Driven Spatial Complexity at the Mott Transition in ${VO}_{2}$

Shuo Liu, B. Phillabaum, E. W. Carlson, K. A. Dahmen, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja, M. M. Qazilbash, and D. N. Basov

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 036401 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Unraveling Photoinduced Spin Dynamics in the Topological Insulator ${Bi}_{2} {Se}_{3}$

M. C. Wang, S. Qiao, Z. Jiang, S. N. Luo, and J. Qi

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 036601 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Voltage Quench Dynamics of a Kondo System

Andrey E. Antipov, Qiaoyuan Dong, and Emanuel Gull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 036801 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Narrow-Line Single-Molecule Transducer between Electronic Circuits and Surface Plasmons

Michael C. Chong, Gaël Reecht, Hervé Bulou, Alex Boeglin, Fabrice Scheurer, Fabrice Mathevet, and Guillaume Schull

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 036802 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

Anomalous Quasiparticle Symmetries and Non-Abelian Defects on Symmetrically Gapped Surfaces of Weak Topological Insulators

David F. Mross, Andrew Essin, Jason Alicea, and Ady Stern

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 036803 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Effect of Impurities on the Josephson Current through Helical Metals: Exploiting a Neutrino Paradigm

Pouyan Ghaemi and V. P. Nair

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037001 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

Orbital Glass State of the Nearly Metallic Spinel Cobalt Vanadate

R. Koborinai, S. E. Dissanayake, M. Reehuis, M. Matsuda, T. Kajita, H. Kuwahara, S.-H. Lee, and T. Katsufuji

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037201 (2016) - Published 19 January, 2016

Field-Induced Lifshitz Transition without Metamagnetism in ${CeIrIn}_{5}$

D. Aoki, G. Seyfarth, A. Pourret, A. Gourgout, A. McCollam, J. A. N. Bruin, Y. Krupko, and I. Sheikin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037202 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Quantum Stoner-Wohlfarth Model

Takuya Hatomura, Bernard Barbara, and Seiji Miyashita

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037203 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

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Long-Range Plasmon-Assisted Energy Transfer between Fluorescent Emitters

D. Bouchet, D. Cao, R. Carminati, Y. De Wilde, and V. Krachmalnicoff

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037401 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

The range of energies that can be transferred between two molecules can be increased by a factor of almost one thousand using a simple silver mirror.

Electronic Enhancement of the Exciton Coherence Time in Charged Quantum Dots

G. Moody, C. McDonald, A. Feldman, T. Harvey, R. P. Mirin, and K. L. Silverman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 037402 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, and Interdisciplinary Physics

Hamiltonian Dynamics of Protein Filament Formation

Thomas C. T. Michaels, Samuel I. A. Cohen, Michele Vendruscolo, Christopher M. Dobson, and Tuomas P. J. Knowles

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 038101 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

Motility of Colonial Choanoflagellates and the Statistics of Aggregate Random Walkers

Julius B. Kirkegaard, Alan O. Marron, and Raymond E. Goldstein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 038102 (2016) - Published 22 January, 2016

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Colloidal Swarms Can Settle Faster than Isolated Particles: Enhanced Sedimentation near Phase Separation

Enrico Lattuada, Stefano Buzzaccaro, and Roberto Piazza

Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 038301 (2016) - Published 21 January, 2016

A concentrated suspension of particles can fall through a fluid faster than a single particle.

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